Look. The machines are a minor cog in the big wheel.
No one really wanted Hillary or Obama - no one really wants McCain.
In an unrigged process there'd e at least 4 parties... The machines are EXACTLY the Red-Herring used to throw SMART PEOPLE off the trail of the subversion of democratic principles.
Pelosi is writing a bill to fund a war with less than 18% support by the US population, as they are foreclosed, and will soon be starving to death in bread-lines.
...every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the whole picture....Did you, for example, ever know a single fact about Joe Biden's health care plan? Anything at all? But let me guess, you know Barack Obama's bowling score. We are choosing a president, the next leader of the free world. We are not buying soap, and we are not choosing a court clerk with primarily administrative duties.
What's more, the news media cut candidates like Joe Biden out of the process even before they got started. Just to be clear: I'm not talking about my husband. I'm referring to other worthy Democratic contenders. Few people even had the chance to find out about Joe Biden's health care plan before he was literally forced from the race by the news blackout that depressed his poll numbers, which in turn depressed his fund-raising.
And it's not as if people didn't want this information. In focus groups that I attended or followed after debates, Joe Biden would regularly be the object of praise and interest: "I want to know more about Senator Biden," participants would say.
But it was not to be. Indeed, the Biden campaign was covered more for its missteps than anything else. Chris Dodd, also a serious candidate with a distinguished record, received much the same treatment. I suspect that there was more coverage of the burglary at his campaign office in Hartford than of any other single event during his run other than his entering and leaving the campaign.
Who is responsible for the veil of silence over Senator Biden? Or Senator Dodd? Or Gov. Tom Vilsack? Or Senator Sam Brownback on the Republican side?
The decision was probably made by the same people who decided that Fred Thompson was a serious candidate... The Media of the Banana Republic at work. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company that runs these "parties" to its own ends.
At least "In Soviet Russia" you knew the papers were all lies. Here, the papers lie down - just where they're told to.
Jus' sayin' that the national scale of Canada is geographically similar to the US, while population and demographically similar to... I dunno. New Zealand?
These machines are intended and designed to prop-up the parlour-game of democratic basis for American government. They are not meant to "work". They are meant to reduce the definition of "democracy" to merely "voting" for the general public - and then to manage that vote. If they decrease the confidence of a certain segment of the public in the whole process, then they are also serving their secondary purpose: The devolution of the US to Banana Republic status.
The coup was completed in 2000. The dramatic operations began 40 years earlier, but it took awhile.
You don't see this. You think you still live in the same country that you were born in, that you attended Elementary School in, that you call the same name.
But it just isn't true. Visitors to your country get it in a very short time - but most of them clamp their mouths shut - it is quickly apparent that Americans are uncomprehending.
This isn't just Republicans. Sure - the Republican leaders are the sharp and shiny spear-tip, slicing the American side. The Democrats are just as on board - the solid wooden shaft, following this through the body. The elite of these - Cheney's and Pelosi's - will keep their mansions and their millions, their holidays in Vail and Sun Valley.
They will never join the people who "voted". That would be to join Dr. King, or Mel Carnahan.
It's Dick Cheney's world, were just living on it - til' he needs to wipe us off.
Microsoft is just another example of the American disease that typifies their culture. By culture, I refer to something that can be grown, in a petrie dish. The American metaphor is that of the cancer, metastatic, it devours everything it can - demolishing its own food supply. Microsoft represents the apotheosis of this "culture" in commerce - as the Rep/Dem political duopoly of endless war represents this in the sphere of political relations.
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Build it and you'll wind up bought-off or dead.
Look. The machines are a minor cog in the big wheel.
No one really wanted Hillary or Obama - no one really wants McCain.
In an unrigged process there'd e at least 4 parties... The machines are EXACTLY the Red-Herring used to throw SMART PEOPLE off the trail of the subversion of democratic principles.
Pelosi is writing a bill to fund a war with less than 18% support by the US population, as they are foreclosed, and will soon be starving to death in bread-lines.
Good job, Special Operations Command!
Do you know any? I mean first-hand, personaly?
Keep on dreaming. They have been trying in Palestine for 40 years.
...every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the whole picture.What's more, the news media cut candidates like Joe Biden out of the process even before they got started. Just to be clear: I'm not talking about my husband. I'm referring to other worthy Democratic contenders. Few people even had the chance to find out about Joe Biden's health care plan before he was literally forced from the race by the news blackout that depressed his poll numbers, which in turn depressed his fund-raising.
And it's not as if people didn't want this information. In focus groups that I attended or followed after debates, Joe Biden would regularly be the object of praise and interest: "I want to know more about Senator Biden," participants would say.
But it was not to be. Indeed, the Biden campaign was covered more for its missteps than anything else. Chris Dodd, also a serious candidate with a distinguished record, received much the same treatment. I suspect that there was more coverage of the burglary at his campaign office in Hartford than of any other single event during his run other than his entering and leaving the campaign.
Who is responsible for the veil of silence over Senator Biden? Or Senator Dodd? Or Gov. Tom Vilsack? Or Senator Sam Brownback on the Republican side?
The decision was probably made by the same people who decided that Fred Thompson was a serious candidate... The Media of the Banana Republic at work. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company that runs these "parties" to its own ends.
At least "In Soviet Russia" you knew the papers were all lies. Here, the papers lie down - just where they're told to.
Bet he could enjoy his soft-boiled egg all day long!
No...
Jus' sayin' that the national scale of Canada is geographically similar to the US, while population and demographically similar to... I dunno. New Zealand?
Yes.
A national election in Canada is about the scale of a county election in Los Angeles.
As they used to say...
Look.
These machines are intended and designed to prop-up the parlour-game of democratic basis for American government. They are not meant to "work". They are meant to reduce the definition of "democracy" to merely "voting" for the general public - and then to manage that vote. If they decrease the confidence of a certain segment of the public in the whole process, then they are also serving their secondary purpose: The devolution of the US to Banana Republic status.
The coup was completed in 2000. The dramatic operations began 40 years earlier, but it took awhile.
You don't see this. You think you still live in the same country that you were born in, that you attended Elementary School in, that you call the same name.
But it just isn't true. Visitors to your country get it in a very short time - but most of them clamp their mouths shut - it is quickly apparent that Americans are uncomprehending.
This isn't just Republicans. Sure - the Republican leaders are the sharp and shiny spear-tip, slicing the American side. The Democrats are just as on board - the solid wooden shaft, following this through the body. The elite of these - Cheney's and Pelosi's - will keep their mansions and their millions, their holidays in Vail and Sun Valley.
They will never join the people who "voted". That would be to join Dr. King, or Mel Carnahan.
Just wait 'til he writes his own filesystem... Then, Melinda watch out!
If only they could agree on who "They" were. :-)
Heck, with some old sid packaging contibutions, I am a "They".
Don't f*ck with Deb. You'll bring down six or seven other distros downstream.
Reiser fsck YOU!
Don't tell them you're sane/ They'll laugh and put you to sleep
Don't tell them you're sane/ But you are...
FSCK!?
Does that mean I have to re-format ext3, and restore from backup?
"Look ma! No Hans!"
No. The Pearl.
To keep Ballmer from tossing chairs at Andrew!
C'mon people! Get your game in gear, and triple this figure!
The amateur who says "vertical space matters" to developers, never ran a comparison diff on his code.
Side by side, my friend. Side by side.
It seems so much... cooler, now that it is a weapon!
:-(
Too bad it can't obliterate assholes who want to lock us all up.
I preferred the "risky" world we lived in in the 90's. Life was worth the hazard.
More people STILL die on freeways than any "terrorist" action, but cars are still legal, and I can't bring shampoo on the plane.
Get used to it.
It's Dick Cheney's world, were just living on it - til' he needs to wipe us off.
Microsoft is just another example of the American disease that typifies their culture. By culture, I refer to something that can be grown, in a petrie dish. The American metaphor is that of the cancer, metastatic, it devours everything it can - demolishing its own food supply. Microsoft represents the apotheosis of this "culture" in commerce - as the Rep/Dem political duopoly of endless war represents this in the sphere of political relations.
Vote, little people! Vote! Ha hah ha!
I say "Fraud"
Let's call the whole thing off.
"Reform"
NewSpeak alert.