Too funny... it melted down after one reply posted:-)
What we need is a network of servers that mirrors websites as soon as they are mentioned in a slashdot article. It should not be very difficult... existing caching proxy web server software and a bit of scripting. Or perhaps some sort of p2p file sharing could play a role. Something to think about at least.
Of course, google cache might already have a copy also.
Once again (like in the second debate), Kerry passed up a huge opportunity to expose Bush's horrible record on the environment. Good grief, just do a google search on the keywords President Bush Environment. The only results that have anything positive to say are the Bush campaign web site and whitehouse.gov. He has rolled back water and air quality standards, gutted the the EPA and placed former industry lobbyists in key positions, and allowed loggin in the national wilderness preserve.
Last night I was talking to a friend who spent years working with the Sierra Club to create the national wilderness preserve. Over the course of several years, they accumulated an uprecedented number of signatures and small private citizen donations (primarily through knocking on doors), to create the wilderness preserve. It was an amazing example of grass roots activism done in the name of public good.
Bush wiped it out in his first two weeks in office.
The Commission on Presidential Debates isn't a governmental entity--it's a private corporation. Why doesn't Badnarik, as a "libertarian", respect their property rights?
As a private corporation (even a non-profit one) doesn't civil law provide a better avenue of attack? Perhaps pissed off third party voters (and other interested americans) should join in a class action lawsuit claiming that the commission has acted against the public good by restricting the public political discourse.
Then what do you think it was? Do you really want us to think that the Government that has the technology to put a cruise missile into your bedroom window couldn't come up with a small enough receiver that wouldn't show up on a tv camera in the small of your back?
Speculation is that it is an induction amplifier allowing him to use an earpiece without a wire. Those are necessarily larger than one with a wire.
As opposed to Kerry, who blatantly produced a crib sheet and pen from his pocket at the debate - a clear violation of the rules.
Close examination of the Fox video feed clearly shows that it was only a pen that Kerry removed from his pocket. No crib sheet has ever been demonstrated. The pen was still against the rules, but it did not really effect the outcome of the debate. Bush wearing an audio transmitter, on the other hand, would be a *big deal* if true.
In other news, indymedia.org was the first to break 'promptergate', and then shortly after that they were raided by the FCC and FBI. Coincidence? Probably... but it does make for some fun conspiracy theories. Personally, I think Bush is receiving secret transmissions from space aliens.:)
Check out this article at Salon.com that suggests Bush was wearing an audio receiver at the first debate (a clear violation of the rules if true). The web site Is Bush Wired also discusses it and includes more evidence from previous Bush speaking events. In a couple of cases, the audio of the voice prompter feeding him the answers has been picked up and accidently transmitted as part of the live news broadcast.
Flame me for being off topic if you wish, but we are talking about the presidency and hacking, so I feel this is relevant. Check out this article at Salon.com that suggests Bush was wearing an audio receiver at the first debate (a clear violation of the rules if true). The web site Is Bush Wired also discusses it and includes more evidence from previous Bush speaking events. In a couple of cases, the audio of the voice prompter feeding him the answers has been picked up and accidently transmitted as part of the live news broadcast.
So what are the chances that the democrats will attempt to intercept the broadcast and use it to their advantage during tonights debate? Hacking the Presidency indeed!
SDL is not an OpenGL replacement, though it can be used very well in conjunction with OpenGL to handle game controllers, multithreading, sound, etc. in a crossplatfrom way. Basically all the stuff iD is using DirectX for. As some people have mentioned (including me) this adds an extra level of abstraction that could slightly impact performance, but there would be a gain in how quickly games are released to multiple platforms. Personally I think the performance impact would be negligable, as the really heavy lifting occurs in the 3D rendering, which is already pure OpenGL anyway. Controller input and sound is going to be mostly I/O bound and have no appreciable impact on performance.
Oh, and it does bare repeating that OpenAL is probably the good way to go for high end cross-platform 3D sound support, though I haven't used it myself so I can't speak from experience.
id has always had a healthy NIH (not invented here) syndrome that they learned from mess with the original Doom sound library they used. The thing never quite worked right, and caused no end of troubles. Even though SDL is open source, id has their own debugged code laying around that has been used for years that does the same thing-there really is no gain for them to throw out code they know and trust for someone else's work.
I assumed it was something along those lines, as ID actually has a longer history than SDL. The nice thing about SDL, however, is that the Windows version acts as an abstraction layer to the very same DirectX calls they are probably using anyway. They could take some of the programming effort they are currently spending on their own code base and use it to improve SDL and probably be much farther ahead in time-to-market terms.
I've tried out SDL a few times, and although I've found it pretty workable, when you bring multithreading in it has troubles, especially if you don't want to render in your main thread.
I've been using SDL for quite a while now, and I am very impressed with speed of improvement and current level of quality. I originally had some stability problems with OpenGL/SDL integration, but those appear to be completely fixed now. I have not run into the multithreading issues you describe, but then I tend to do all my rendering in one thread just as a matter of good game design (using other threads for sim and net code).
id have ALWAYS used OpenGL for the graphics rendering. But they use DirectX for sound on windows, which is what will take time to convert to *nix..
I've heard this said before and wondered why they don't use a combination of SDL/Alsa/OpenGL to keep it cross platform. I've been doing that and have a single code base that compiles to Linux, Windows, and Mac with no nasty piles of #ifdef'ed code.
You are so farking out of date, it's sad. Try looking at the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the subject. Joe Wilson didn't even have access to the documents he claimed were forged. Also, his wife had recommended him for the job, and that Joe's little quasi-investigation actually raised suspicions about Iraq and Niger. (Nigerian officials said that Iraq had come looking to do business in the country. Niger's #1 export is Uranium. Their #2 export is cattle.)
I have read the report (at least the parts publicly released) and I am suprised you would try to use them to defend the administration, since it basically reinforces the assertion that there was no real evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As long as we are using editorials as hard news, try this this oppinion piece from the editor of The Nation It goes into great depth analysing the report and the spin placed on it. You might also try this article at Salon.com. The part that is most illuminating is that fact that those excerpts of the report that some consider contradicting Wilson were actually addendums to the original report added by several Republican committee members AFTER the uranium contraversy broke. The rest of the report backs up Wilson's version. Can we say partisan politics?
Nevermind that Valerie Plame, it has been discovered, was not undercover, and no law may have been broken by telling Bob Novak that she worked at the CIA.
Plame may not have been deployed at that exact moment, but her role as a CIA agent was not public knowlege, she had been deployed in the past and could have been in the future. Let me remind you that a special procecutor has been assigned to investigate this debacle, and even the President has been deposed over it. This is not something that would have been done if Plame had been just some low level functionary with no undercover role.
Do you have any more shrilled loony left propaganda to spread on/.? Times like these with so many geeks falling for conspiracies and out right lies, makes it so hard to be identified as a geek in public.
Interesting that the evidence you point to is a short oppinion post that simply references an op ed piece. That oppionion editorial is long on accusations and short on proof. I did a quick Google Search and turned up numereous REAL article (with there sources properly referenced) that back up Wilson's story. Furthermore, I even found an article here that describes the attempts by the conservative political machine (using letters to the editor and op ed pieces) to discredit him.
Also, all the attempts to cast doubt on Wilson do not change the fact that the uranium proof documents WERE forged, and the administration DID know that. Those fact are not in dispute. The attempts to discredit Wilson is just an effort to distract from that.
Seems like much ado about nothing, right? But this is the cornerstone of the Administration's belief that Saddam was trying to acquire nuclear weapons. These tubes were the only hard evidence they had going for them.
Bush also claimed that Sadam was trying to buy uranium from Africa, even though the administration knew there was no evidence of that. And the scandal goes even deeper than that. When the man they assigned to investigate the uranium rumors (retired ambassador Joseph Wilson) revealed the truth (that the evidence was forged), the administration retaliated against him by revealing to the world that his wife was a CIA agent (thus placing her life in danger and risking American security).
And before you discount this as liberal spin, the reported who outed Wilson's wife is Robert Novak, a well known conservative reporter, and he has confirmed that his sources were a pair of senior whitehouse staff member. This assertion is backed up by additional investigation from the Washington Post. A special investigator has been appointed, and even the President has been questioned. The rumors abound now that the two staff member have already been identified (the names have even been leaked), but the Bush administration has put pressure on the FBI to hold off on the arrests until after the election.
Of course there is no proof that Bush himself ordered the retaliation against Wilson, or that he even knew about it, and in fact I believe it very possible that he did not. The evidence so far indicates a couple of staffers reporting directly to Vice President Cheney. It is entirely possible that Cheney took this action upon himself without consulting with the President. Either way, a couple of alarming things remain: The administration used the uranium evidence to support their case for the Iraq war even though they had been told the evidence was bunk. Furthermore, senior staffmembers in the whitehouse broke the cover of an undercover CIA agent (an agent involved in the hunt for weapons of mass distruction no less)... a treasonous act by any measure.
I LOVE this whole energy subject, too much fun, too many places joe backyard tinkerer can have fun and do useful projects!
Agreed, this is a fun topic that is also very important for the future of our country. I live in an old commercial building (a retired funeral home) with a very large flat roof. At 8700 square feet inside, it costs a lot to heat the place. I am considering some sort of homemade solar heat collector to help out, even though that will cut into the minature golf course I had planned.:)
I am happy to see that wind power is catching on more and more. Economies of scale from increased popularity are even making it more cost effective. Now I would like to see another great alternative become equally popular... recycling of agricultural waste. By extracting oil, methane, and alcohol from agro waste it is projected we could replace the majority of our oil imports. This is from a domestic source that is currently being thrown away, it plugs relatively easily into our current petroleum based infrastructure, and reduces global warming by staying within the atmospheric carbon cycle rather than liberating more petroleum from deep underground.
I know of at least one farm here in Wisconsin that captures methane from its slurry tanks and uses it to generate electricity. It generates enough to power the farm and still sell back to the power grid, and the manure is still usuable as fertalizer when done. Then there is also that Butterball turkey plant that is recycling turkey offal into oil, turning the previous cost of disposal into a profit center instead.
As a nation, why are we not doing more of this? It makes both fiscal and environmental sense, and could substantially reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
No candidate can accept a contribution from someone who is not eligible to vote for that candidate. It is already illegal for corporations to make political donations. The individuals running or working for the corporation can, but they must make those donations from their personal funds.
I am more concerned by the level to which misinformation and spin has weakened our democracy. I am not sure how we can curtail the 30 second attack ads without stepping on first amendment issues, but there is no doubt that money and marketing have taken precedence over meaningful discussion of the issues. I had high hopes for the McCain/Feingold capaign finance reform bill, but I was evidently niave. Anyone out there have ideas on how to fix the current broken system.
The attractive thing about runoff elections is they make it more viable to have more than two parties. Unfortanetly, the two major parties have stacked things to make it difficult for a viable third party to establish itself.
It looks to me like the real problem these people had was a crappy ISP and a lack of Linux skills within their own organization. I also do not remember Oracle being available on Linux 9 years ago, so I have doubts about the accuracy of the entire article.
I find it interesting that citizens with criminal records support candidates like Kerry. I also find interesting the extent to which Trial Lawyers perfer Kerry over Bush.
The criminal record thing is not overly suprising. It is likely that people with criminal records occupy the lower income strata of society which more likely to vote democratic.
I had not seen the trial lawyer bit before. Thanks for the info. I wonder to what extent it is really the impact of Edwards on the ticket. Personally, I find it amusing that the Bush campaign is trying to make an issue out of Edwards being a trial lawyer. Yup, everyone hates lawyers... except when that lawyer is looking out for *your* rights of course.:)
I find it interesting that voters with passports support John Kerry over George Bush (58% Kerry, 35% Bush according to a Zogby poll). Perhaps this represents something similar to the international poll numbers; the more global your perspective, the more likely you are to think Bush is screwing things up. Anecdotal evidence collected from my foreign friends seems to support this idea.
I've decided to run a very informal and unscientific survey as to the reasons that Bush's supporters continue to stick with him. Please share your reasons by following up to this message or send email to feedback@aliensforbush.comNo joke... I'm really trying to make sure I hear all the oppinions and stay informed.
Pretty much right on. I know a lot of people who are voting for Kerry because they don't like Bush, and don't think he's done a good enough job to stay in office. I haven't talked to a lot of people who are not ardent Democrats who think Kerry is a great alternative. His biggest asset is not being Bush.
There was a great Onion headline a while back that said 'Kerry Unveils One Point Plan for a Better America' and it showed a picter of Bush with a circle and slash over it. Priceless.
Yes, it is rather interesting that Cheney used to be the CEO of Halliburton, a company now being investigated for fraud during the period he ran it... the same company that has recently landed multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts with the military for work in Iraq, contracts that the military is now reexamining because of fraud and overbilling. It does make you wonder what sort of back room deals Cheney has with the company and what arrangements he has made for when he leaves politics.
All those secret meetings with Enron while crafting our countries energy policy might also give one pause.
Of course I don't particularly trust Bill Gates either, but I don't really worry much that he will run for President. In some respects, going from head of Microsoft to President of the United States would be a step down for him.
Slashdot Mirror
Too funny ... it melted down after one reply posted :-)
What we need is a network of servers that mirrors websites as soon as they are mentioned in a slashdot article. It should not be very difficult... existing caching proxy web server software and a bit of scripting. Or perhaps some sort of p2p file sharing could play a role. Something to think about at least.
Of course, google cache might already have a copy also.
Once again (like in the second debate), Kerry passed up a huge opportunity to expose Bush's horrible record on the environment. Good grief, just do a google search on the keywords President Bush Environment. The only results that have anything positive to say are the Bush campaign web site and whitehouse.gov. He has rolled back water and air quality standards, gutted the the EPA and placed former industry lobbyists in key positions, and allowed loggin in the national wilderness preserve.
Last night I was talking to a friend who spent years working with the Sierra Club to create the national wilderness preserve. Over the course of several years, they accumulated an uprecedented number of signatures and small private citizen donations (primarily through knocking on doors), to create the wilderness preserve. It was an amazing example of grass roots activism done in the name of public good.
Bush wiped it out in his first two weeks in office.
The Commission on Presidential Debates isn't a governmental entity--it's a private corporation. Why doesn't Badnarik, as a "libertarian", respect their property rights?
As a private corporation (even a non-profit one) doesn't civil law provide a better avenue of attack? Perhaps pissed off third party voters (and other interested americans) should join in a class action lawsuit claiming that the commission has acted against the public good by restricting the public political discourse.
Then what do you think it was? Do you really want us to think that the Government that has the technology to put a cruise missile into your bedroom window couldn't come up with a small enough receiver that wouldn't show up on a tv camera in the small of your back?
Speculation is that it is an induction amplifier allowing him to use an earpiece without a wire. Those are necessarily larger than one with a wire.
As opposed to Kerry, who blatantly produced a crib sheet and pen from his pocket at the debate - a clear violation of the rules.
:)
Close examination of the Fox video feed clearly shows that it was only a pen that Kerry removed from his pocket. No crib sheet has ever been demonstrated. The pen was still against the rules, but it did not really effect the outcome of the debate. Bush wearing an audio transmitter, on the other hand, would be a *big deal* if true.
In other news, indymedia.org was the first to break 'promptergate', and then shortly after that they were raided by the FCC and FBI. Coincidence? Probably... but it does make for some fun conspiracy theories. Personally, I think Bush is receiving secret transmissions from space aliens.
Check out this article at Salon.com that suggests Bush was wearing an audio receiver at the first debate (a clear violation of the rules if true). The web site Is Bush Wired also discusses it and includes more evidence from previous Bush speaking events. In a couple of cases, the audio of the voice prompter feeding him the answers has been picked up and accidently transmitted as part of the live news broadcast.
Flame me for being off topic if you wish, but we are talking about the presidency and hacking, so I feel this is relevant. Check out this article at Salon.com that suggests Bush was wearing an audio receiver at the first debate (a clear violation of the rules if true). The web site Is Bush Wired also discusses it and includes more evidence from previous Bush speaking events. In a couple of cases, the audio of the voice prompter feeding him the answers has been picked up and accidently transmitted as part of the live news broadcast.
So what are the chances that the democrats will attempt to intercept the broadcast and use it to their advantage during tonights debate? Hacking the Presidency indeed!
ID uses OpenGL.
SDL is not an OpenGL replacement, though it can be used very well in conjunction with OpenGL to handle game controllers, multithreading, sound, etc. in a crossplatfrom way. Basically all the stuff iD is using DirectX for. As some people have mentioned (including me) this adds an extra level of abstraction that could slightly impact performance, but there would be a gain in how quickly games are released to multiple platforms. Personally I think the performance impact would be negligable, as the really heavy lifting occurs in the 3D rendering, which is already pure OpenGL anyway. Controller input and sound is going to be mostly I/O bound and have no appreciable impact on performance.
Oh, and it does bare repeating that OpenAL is probably the good way to go for high end cross-platform 3D sound support, though I haven't used it myself so I can't speak from experience.
id has always had a healthy NIH (not invented here) syndrome that they learned from mess with the original Doom sound library they used. The thing never quite worked right, and caused no end of troubles. Even though SDL is open source, id has their own debugged code laying around that has been used for years that does the same thing-there really is no gain for them to throw out code they know and trust for someone else's work.
I assumed it was something along those lines, as ID actually has a longer history than SDL. The nice thing about SDL, however, is that the Windows version acts as an abstraction layer to the very same DirectX calls they are probably using anyway. They could take some of the programming effort they are currently spending on their own code base and use it to improve SDL and probably be much farther ahead in time-to-market terms.
I've tried out SDL a few times, and although I've found it pretty workable, when you bring multithreading in it has troubles, especially if you don't want to render in your main thread.
I've been using SDL for quite a while now, and I am very impressed with speed of improvement and current level of quality. I originally had some stability problems with OpenGL/SDL integration, but those appear to be completely fixed now. I have not run into the multithreading issues you describe, but then I tend to do all my rendering in one thread just as a matter of good game design (using other threads for sim and net code).
I think you mean OpenAL instead of Alsa
Aside from that, I agree with you wholeheartily
Exactly. Thanks for the correction.
id have ALWAYS used OpenGL for the graphics rendering. But they use DirectX for sound on windows, which is what will take time to convert to *nix..
I've heard this said before and wondered why they don't use a combination of SDL/Alsa/OpenGL to keep it cross platform. I've been doing that and have a single code base that compiles to Linux, Windows, and Mac with no nasty piles of #ifdef'ed code.
You are so farking out of date, it's sad. Try looking at the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the subject. Joe Wilson didn't even have access to the documents he claimed were forged. Also, his wife had recommended him for the job, and that Joe's little quasi-investigation actually raised suspicions about Iraq and Niger. (Nigerian officials said that Iraq had come looking to do business in the country. Niger's #1 export is Uranium. Their #2 export is cattle.)
I have read the report (at least the parts publicly released) and I am suprised you would try to use them to defend the administration, since it basically reinforces the assertion that there was no real evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As long as we are using editorials as hard news, try this this oppinion piece from the editor of The Nation It goes into great depth analysing the report and the spin placed on it. You might also try this article at Salon.com. The part that is most illuminating is that fact that those excerpts of the report that some consider contradicting Wilson were actually addendums to the original report added by several Republican committee members AFTER the uranium contraversy broke. The rest of the report backs up Wilson's version. Can we say partisan politics?
Nevermind that Valerie Plame, it has been discovered, was not undercover, and no law may have been broken by telling Bob Novak that she worked at the CIA.
Plame may not have been deployed at that exact moment, but her role as a CIA agent was not public knowlege, she had been deployed in the past and could have been in the future. Let me remind you that a special procecutor has been assigned to investigate this debacle, and even the President has been deposed over it. This is not something that would have been done if Plame had been just some low level functionary with no undercover role.
Do you have any more shrilled loony left propaganda to spread on /.? Times like these with so many geeks falling for conspiracies and out right lies, makes it so hard to be identified as a geek in public.
Interesting that the evidence you point to is a short oppinion post that simply references an op ed piece. That oppionion editorial is long on accusations and short on proof. I did a quick Google Search and turned up numereous REAL article (with there sources properly referenced) that back up Wilson's story. Furthermore, I even found an article here that describes the attempts by the conservative political machine (using letters to the editor and op ed pieces) to discredit him.
Also, all the attempts to cast doubt on Wilson do not change the fact that the uranium proof documents WERE forged, and the administration DID know that. Those fact are not in dispute. The attempts to discredit Wilson is just an effort to distract from that.
Seems like much ado about nothing, right? But this is the cornerstone of the Administration's belief that Saddam was trying to acquire nuclear weapons. These tubes were the only hard evidence they had going for them.
Bush also claimed that Sadam was trying to buy uranium from Africa, even though the administration knew there was no evidence of that. And the scandal goes even deeper than that. When the man they assigned to investigate the uranium rumors (retired ambassador Joseph Wilson) revealed the truth (that the evidence was forged), the administration retaliated against him by revealing to the world that his wife was a CIA agent (thus placing her life in danger and risking American security).
And before you discount this as liberal spin, the reported who outed Wilson's wife is Robert Novak, a well known conservative reporter, and he has confirmed that his sources were a pair of senior whitehouse staff member. This assertion is backed up by additional investigation from the Washington Post. A special investigator has been appointed, and even the President has been questioned. The rumors abound now that the two staff member have already been identified (the names have even been leaked), but the Bush administration has put pressure on the FBI to hold off on the arrests until after the election.
Of course there is no proof that Bush himself ordered the retaliation against Wilson, or that he even knew about it, and in fact I believe it very possible that he did not. The evidence so far indicates a couple of staffers reporting directly to Vice President Cheney. It is entirely possible that Cheney took this action upon himself without consulting with the President. Either way, a couple of alarming things remain: The administration used the uranium evidence to support their case for the Iraq war even though they had been told the evidence was bunk. Furthermore, senior staffmembers in the whitehouse broke the cover of an undercover CIA agent (an agent involved in the hunt for weapons of mass distruction no less)... a treasonous act by any measure.
I LOVE this whole energy subject, too much fun, too many places joe backyard tinkerer can have fun and do useful projects!
:)
Agreed, this is a fun topic that is also very important for the future of our country. I live in an old commercial building (a retired funeral home) with a very large flat roof. At 8700 square feet inside, it costs a lot to heat the place. I am considering some sort of homemade solar heat collector to help out, even though that will cut into the minature golf course I had planned.
I am happy to see that wind power is catching on more and more. Economies of scale from increased popularity are even making it more cost effective. Now I would like to see another great alternative become equally popular... recycling of agricultural waste. By extracting oil, methane, and alcohol from agro waste it is projected we could replace the majority of our oil imports. This is from a domestic source that is currently being thrown away, it plugs relatively easily into our current petroleum based infrastructure, and reduces global warming by staying within the atmospheric carbon cycle rather than liberating more petroleum from deep underground.
I know of at least one farm here in Wisconsin that captures methane from its slurry tanks and uses it to generate electricity. It generates enough to power the farm and still sell back to the power grid, and the manure is still usuable as fertalizer when done. Then there is also that Butterball turkey plant that is recycling turkey offal into oil, turning the previous cost of disposal into a profit center instead.
As a nation, why are we not doing more of this? It makes both fiscal and environmental sense, and could substantially reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
No candidate can accept a contribution from someone who is not eligible to vote for that candidate.
It is already illegal for corporations to make political donations. The individuals running or working for the corporation can, but they must make those donations from their personal funds.
I am more concerned by the level to which misinformation and spin has weakened our democracy. I am not sure how we can curtail the 30 second attack ads without stepping on first amendment issues, but there is no doubt that money and marketing have taken precedence over meaningful discussion of the issues. I had high hopes for the McCain/Feingold capaign finance reform bill, but I was evidently niave. Anyone out there have ideas on how to fix the current broken system.
The attractive thing about runoff elections is they make it more viable to have more than two parties. Unfortanetly, the two major parties have stacked things to make it difficult for a viable third party to establish itself.
It looks to me like the real problem these people had was a crappy ISP and a lack of Linux skills within their own organization. I also do not remember Oracle being available on Linux 9 years ago, so I have doubts about the accuracy of the entire article.
I find it interesting that citizens with criminal records support candidates like Kerry. I also find interesting the extent to which Trial Lawyers perfer Kerry over Bush.
:)
The criminal record thing is not overly suprising. It is likely that people with criminal records occupy the lower income strata of society which more likely to vote democratic.
I had not seen the trial lawyer bit before. Thanks for the info. I wonder to what extent it is really the impact of Edwards on the ticket. Personally, I find it amusing that the Bush campaign is trying to make an issue out of Edwards being a trial lawyer. Yup, everyone hates lawyers... except when that lawyer is looking out for *your* rights of course.
I find it interesting that voters with passports support John Kerry over George Bush (58% Kerry, 35% Bush according to a Zogby poll). Perhaps this represents something similar to the international poll numbers; the more global your perspective, the more likely you are to think Bush is screwing things up. Anecdotal evidence collected from my foreign friends seems to support this idea.
I've decided to run a very informal and unscientific survey as to the reasons that Bush's supporters continue to stick with him. Please share your reasons by following up to this message or send email to feedback@aliensforbush.comNo joke... I'm really trying to make sure I hear all the oppinions and stay informed.
Pretty much right on. I know a lot of people who are voting for Kerry because they don't like Bush, and don't think he's done a good enough job to stay in office. I haven't talked to a lot of people who are not ardent Democrats who think Kerry is a great alternative. His biggest asset is not being Bush.
There was a great Onion headline a while back that said 'Kerry Unveils One Point Plan for a Better America' and it showed a picter of Bush with a circle and slash over it. Priceless.
Yeah, see how effective it is for Cheney?
Yes, it is rather interesting that Cheney used to be the CEO of Halliburton, a company now being investigated for fraud during the period he ran it... the same company that has recently landed multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts with the military for work in Iraq, contracts that the military is now reexamining because of fraud and overbilling. It does make you wonder what sort of back room deals Cheney has with the company and what arrangements he has made for when he leaves politics.
All those secret meetings with Enron while crafting our countries energy policy might also give one pause.
Of course I don't particularly trust Bill Gates either, but I don't really worry much that he will run for President. In some respects, going from head of Microsoft to President of the United States would be a step down for him.