Just like to say that I read your reply and find it informative. Thanks for taking the time. Nonetheless, I find it highly unlikely that Bush won this election fair and square, and with the tendency among Republicans to accept criminality when it is one of their own who is the criminal I am at the very least extremely skeptical of the election results.
Something I'd like to see is a way to securely store data on the iPod. Your password would be analogous to a padlock: 24L-13R-78L. This would make perfect use of the scroll wheel, and there are times when I need access to data that I would prefer to be secured.
I don't know how difficult this would be to pull off from a security perspective. I suspect there are third party tools out there, but I'd like to see this integrated with the iPod's software itself.
Right, because we have a vast fleet of military spaceships, and it's not like anybody could ever put a commercial satelite into orbit from a French-owned island near the Equator.
Of course none of that is true. But the Pentagon has the best means of accomplishing those things -- budgetary and expertise -- and they don't want any new kids on the block messing with their potential superiority. Further, they have repeatedly exhibited their hostility towards private space ventures, and with this administration's exclusive reliance upon Rumsfeld, I hold little to no hope that the good guys will come out on top.
Unless the public gets all in an uproar about this, I don't see this as happening. It could potential interfere with the US military's superiority in this field, and what the Pentagon wants, it gets. They have far, far, FAR more money available in their PR budget than private entrepreneurs (either individually or collectively) ever will, and the result will most likely be determined accordingly.
NOTE: The following is word-of-mouth, and its trustworthiness should be taken into account thereby.
On Friday I received a phone call from a good friend who works at CBS -
I've known her for years and she is a Producer for some of the news
programs, one well known one in particular. She tipped me off that the
news media is in a "lock-down" and that there is to be no no TV coverage of
the real problems with voting on Nov. 2nd. She said similar "lock-down
orders" had come down last year after the invasion of Iraq, but this is far
worse - far scarier. She said the majority of their journalists at CBS and
elsewhere in NYC are pretty horrified - every one is worried about their
jobs and retribution Dan Rather style or worse. My source said they've
also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time but she was
pissed and her journalistic and moral integrity as what she considers to be
a gov't watchdog requires her to speak out, while be it covert and she
therefore asked me to "spread" the word...She said that journalism and the
truth is at stake. She said another friend of hers, a producer at MSNBC,
said that an anchor by the name of Keith Olbermann had brought it up on his
show on Friday eve and the axe came down. He's atleast fighting back and
talking about it on his "Blog", but she said that people there are worried
that he's going to be fired by higher ups. She said at this point the only
way that the "real news" was going to be if the people started talking about
it and made a big enough stink about it to our elected officials, the FEC,
and "noise" to the international media, that our own media won't have any
choice but to cover it. (Yes, this is really happening in the good ole'
supposed "democratic" free press of the US of A). The only place you'll see
this talked about right now is on the internet and on AirAmericaRadio.
Everyone - this is serious....I can't emphasize it any more than saying if
there was ever a time to speak up and take action it is NOW. If you are
concerned about the future of our country and feel helpless, here's your
opportunity to take action. Imagine if you saw a loved one drowning -
what do you do? Well, our country's democracy is drowning and she needs us.
Please, find 20-30 minutes today to call and/or email the following list of
people and agencies and tell them that you are outraged and concerned about
the possibility of election fraud and votes not having been counted properly
in your state and others that may have altered the outcome of the election.
Mention that you are aware of reports from counties around the country (in
particular OH and Florida) that reported the following a) More votes
recorded than there are voters in counties using electronic voting machines
b) that not all military, provisional and absentee ballots have been
counted. Let them know you consider this to be serious violations of your
rights as a citizen under the "HAVA - Help America Vote Act" and that you
want them to undertake an investigation.
People and Agencies to Contact regarding this matter:
1) Your two Senators & elected Representative - here is the main switchboard
number for the House and Senate:
202-224-3121
2) Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader:
202-225-4965
3) These members are allegedl/reportedly looking into the issue - urge them
to introduce a bill to investigate voter fraud:
Rep. Henry Waxman of CA - 202-225-3976
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of OH - 202-225-7032
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of OH - 202-225-5871
Rep. Tim Ryan of OH - 202-225-5261
4) Democratic & Republican Members of the House Judiciary Committee:
Rep. Robert Wexler of FL - 202-225-3001
Rep. Maxine Waters of CA - 202-225-2201
Rep. Chabot of OH (R)- 202-225-2216
Rep. King of IA (R)- 202-225-4426
5) Democrat & Republican Members (call both) of the Senate Judiciary
Committee:
Sen. Patrick Leahy of VT - 202-224-4242
Sen. Ted Kennedy of MA - 202-224-4543
Sen. Joe Biden of DE - 202-224-5042
Sen
I hope the religious right would pass a law banning sex outside of a marriage and the liberal left ban guns and knives...If such bills become law, and people actually experience the gross crassness of the consequences of these bills, maybe that would help to change the public consciousness to be more aware of corruption in the government and that the government does not serve their interests.
Which is exactly why they don't pass such bills. Instead, they "frog boil", or capitalize on the shock from events like 9/11 to ramrod through bills that would otherwise be considered abhorant to a more rationally thinking populous.
The senators will incite such action.
I don't think so. They know exactly how far they can push, and they push no further. That is, until next time...
Because some people realize that without ensuring the votes are properly counted today that there is no way they can win tomorrow. Doing this is a smart thing, and the right thing.
Truth is often indeed subjective, but the mere existence of a differing opinion doesn't automatically make that opinion valuable or credible.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I carouse about in orgiastic delight! You speak TRUTH, my brother, a truth that those who disdain intellectualism and science itself have used to their advantage for many years now! A balanced report on global warming is not presenting whether or not it is occuring, but the degree and rapidity of it. A balanced report on evolution is not between Richard Dawkins and Mullah James Dobson. It's between Dawkins and Gould.
Siddhartha Buddha, man, I think what you said should be emblazoned upon the forehead of every journalist on the planet.
And then we should have Rupert Murdoch drawn and quartered, set fire to the Fox News building, and then have a BBQ of Rush Limbaugh. But that's just me.
Why would Google do any of those things? WA never made a dime for AOL, and in that respect was a poor investment. I'd say the same thing if Google were to do what you suggested. Unless they can make money off of it, it wouldn't be worth their time.
iTunes is overrated in my opinion; its interface is too simple and doesn't give you the same kind of power that Winamp 5 does.
After initially trying WA5 when it was first released, I wound up going to iTunes and haven't been able to find any reasons to prefer WA to iTunes. Why has your experience been different? What can you do with WA5 that you can't with iTunes?
The only problem with changing the electoral system is that there is never any groundswell of support for such an idea. Who is going to implement it, the Republicans? They're control the entire federal government, and have learned how to game the current system to their advantage. Changing that would risk their power base.
This is not going to happen without widespread and energetic grassroots support and, in the case of Diebold and other unverifiable voting systems, possibly bloodshed. Neither seems likely when "The OC" is on TV tonight.
It wasn't false, you fascist bootlick. Everything in that piece was true with the rather large exception of the documents in question. Bush did go AWOL, it was documented, and no one who had first hand knowledge of the case denied any of it. One forged document does not discount the mounds of surrounding evidence, both circumstantial and personal, and no amount of GOP radio propaganda can change that.
You worship an aristocrat who went AWOL. You are a dumbass.
Since the explosives were not at that location when the troops arrived, a year and a half ago, calling it the Administrations fault they are gone is a lie.
Ooooh good wittle monkey. How does Sean Hannity's cock taste today, hmm? Salty with a touch of wickedness?
Here's the deal, bootlick: there is video of US troops with the explosives. Video. K? At Al-Qaqaa, with IAEA restraints on it, shortly after the war was over. I know, I know, this is going to go straight into your patented GOP Filter and come out the other side with some sort of lame ass excuse that, of course, makes your fascist god come out smelling like roses, but right thinking people aren't buying that shit for a New York minute, mmmk? So please, go back to getting ass fucked by the GOP all you want, but just don't insult people's intelligence with your lies.
The role of the media is to influence elections. Was what they (didn't, mind you) report untrue? *Should* it be taken into consideration when judging the candidates? Yes, and yes.
Propaganda is reporting only those things which are detrimental to the other side and positive for "your" side. CBS, like most supposedly "liberal" news organizations, has done its fair share of both. Just because it reports something that is critical of the GOP does not make it biased. NOT reporting the same thing does.
Who gives a fuck if they approve or not? They weren't gods, they were freaking MEN, and men who lived some 200 years ago. Don't get me wrong: I love the founders of this country, and named two of my sons after them (Thomas and Benjamin), but I'm not so worshipful of them that I let them dictate what I think is the best course for government.
Oh and I've also actually *read* their works, and realize that they are not the free market fundamentalists that libertarians like to fantisize them as having been. Hell, one of the first things the first Congress did, at the urging of Jefferson, was to pass a big whopping estate tax bill so that we wouldn't have an entrenched aristocracy.
Don't do it. One of the things that confers legitimacy upon a president is not just winning the electoral vote, but also the popular vote. Bush lost a lot of his legitimacy because of that. If Kerry wins both the electoral *and* the popular vote, it will take a tool the GOP would otherwise be able to use against him.
That, and as other people have mentioned: Badnarik is a pretty whacky dude. And I personally find libertarians to be largely utopian idealists, similar in that respect to communists. They talk a good theory, but when reality comes crashing down it falls apart.
Look, don't get me wrong, I think Bush is a crap president (you haven't really had a good one since, well, probably FD Rooseveldt, some might argue Kennedy or Reagan, but hey that's the joy of debate). I also think that Kerry will probably make a better one, but the information available to predict electorate behaviour all seems to suggest a Republican win.
I'd argue that Clinton was a great president in every measurable way, and frequently in immesurable ones. You look at the economic and social statistics coming out of the Clinton years and you can't help but be impressed. Detractors try and chalk 100% of the economic prosperity up to the tech bubble, but I think that is only a part of the story. Poverty was down, welfare recidivism was down, environmental regulations were streamlined and made more effective, the US was respected, so forth and so on.
BTW: At the time I write this message it looks like Kerry will win. Early voting in three swing states show a whopping 9 point advantage for Kerry. If this pattern holds -- and I don't think it's too difficult to say that it will -- then Kerry should have no problems winning.
Assuming, of course, that Diebold, et al, doesn't undermine the democracy.
Destroy the fucking things. They're a blatant means for whoever, Republicans in this case, to disenfranchise millions of voters and skew the election. Break them. Make them not work. Refuse to use them, kick out the plug, tip it over. Take a big magnet to them, sledgehammer, shotgun, whatever.
Untold numbers of our ancestors have DIED to bring us the right to vote. Such measures as I am suggesting here are no more out of bounds than is locking away a violent criminal.
Take them down. Justice demands it. I paid for it with my tax dollars, and I do NOT care.
Hahahahaahaha! The conservaclones on the radio have built freaking CAREERS out of whining! You can't turn on Limbaugh, Hannity, or any of the other GOP propagandists and go 10 minutes without them bitching about "liberal bias" or "liberal media" or blah blah blah. Don't even try. You're fooling NO ONE.
we do useless stuff like support charities,
I just got done running a marathon where I raised over $3000 dollars to fight blood borne cancers. What'd you do, toad?
create enterprises that keep people employed
Is THAT what you call setting up offshore loopholes and encouraging businesses to outsource jobs? Wow, I thought that was INCREASING unemployment. But I have to admit I'm not up on my GOPSpeak.
and fight to keep this country one where you can say: Bush is an evil fuck" in public without fear of jail.
HAhahahahaaha you really don't have a fucking clue in the world, do you? BUSH is the one that is having people arrested because they wear the wrong T-Shirt at (or even NEAR) his rallies. BUSH is the one with "Free Speech Zones" those Orwellian named zones miles away from the event. BUSH is the one who has arrested quite literally HUNDREDS of people simply because they do not have the same beliefs as him. Kerry ACTUALLY believes in free speech, and lets those who oppose him HAVE a voice at his rallies.
But no, go on worshipping your fascist god. Your job is to support him no matter what the evidence is, right? I mean, it's just FINE for Bush to arrest people at those events, cuz... Well, I'm sure you'll come up with something. You're the immoral bootlick. *I* can't think of a good reason for it.
Actually, as wars go, it was brilliantly executed, with a minimal loss of life and has a chance of success. Wars do take longer than a football game or world series to decide.
Let me ask you a question, although I'm sure it's going to go right into the partisan machinations inside your head and come out pro-Bush no matter what: Can you think of a single war in history where a foreign invading force was able to defeat a guerilla insurgency? Just wondering.
Oh, and we have at least 100,000 Iraqi dead, mostly women and children, over 1,000 American soldiers, and you call that "minimal"? When you meet your maker, I think you're going to be unpleasantly surprised, toad.
Sure- if you count the DOW hitting 10,000 while the soup kitchens get overcrowded as a BOOM.
What are you talking about? Poverty went down massively under the Clinton administration. In 1999 the poverty rate was 11.9%, the lowest rate since 1979, child porverty went down by amazing amounts, median incomes were up, unemployment was down, and more people had health care than ever before.
No matter how you measure it, the Clinton years were great for Americans of all income levels. This was due to a combination of sound fiscal policy (not ideological: libertarian, Marxist, or trickle-down) and economic conditions. But they fed off of the other.
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Just like to say that I read your reply and find it informative. Thanks for taking the time. Nonetheless, I find it highly unlikely that Bush won this election fair and square, and with the tendency among Republicans to accept criminality when it is one of their own who is the criminal I am at the very least extremely skeptical of the election results.
I don't know how difficult this would be to pull off from a security perspective. I suspect there are third party tools out there, but I'd like to see this integrated with the iPod's software itself.
Right, because we have a vast fleet of military spaceships, and it's not like anybody could ever put a commercial satelite into orbit from a French-owned island near the Equator.
Of course none of that is true. But the Pentagon has the best means of accomplishing those things -- budgetary and expertise -- and they don't want any new kids on the block messing with their potential superiority. Further, they have repeatedly exhibited their hostility towards private space ventures, and with this administration's exclusive reliance upon Rumsfeld, I hold little to no hope that the good guys will come out on top.
Unless the public gets all in an uproar about this, I don't see this as happening. It could potential interfere with the US military's superiority in this field, and what the Pentagon wants, it gets. They have far, far, FAR more money available in their PR budget than private entrepreneurs (either individually or collectively) ever will, and the result will most likely be determined accordingly.
I hope the religious right would pass a law banning sex outside of a marriage and the liberal left ban guns and knives...If such bills become law, and people actually experience the gross crassness of the consequences of these bills, maybe that would help to change the public consciousness to be more aware of corruption in the government and that the government does not serve their interests.
Which is exactly why they don't pass such bills. Instead, they "frog boil", or capitalize on the shock from events like 9/11 to ramrod through bills that would otherwise be considered abhorant to a more rationally thinking populous.
The senators will incite such action.
I don't think so. They know exactly how far they can push, and they push no further. That is, until next time...
Thanks for saying that. It needs to be said, and often.
Because some people realize that without ensuring the votes are properly counted today that there is no way they can win tomorrow. Doing this is a smart thing, and the right thing.
Truth is often indeed subjective, but the mere existence of a differing opinion doesn't automatically make that opinion valuable or credible.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I carouse about in orgiastic delight! You speak TRUTH, my brother, a truth that those who disdain intellectualism and science itself have used to their advantage for many years now! A balanced report on global warming is not presenting whether or not it is occuring, but the degree and rapidity of it. A balanced report on evolution is not between Richard Dawkins and Mullah James Dobson. It's between Dawkins and Gould.
Siddhartha Buddha, man, I think what you said should be emblazoned upon the forehead of every journalist on the planet.
And then we should have Rupert Murdoch drawn and quartered, set fire to the Fox News building, and then have a BBQ of Rush Limbaugh. But that's just me.
Open sourcing it would be much better.
iTunes is overrated in my opinion; its interface is too simple and doesn't give you the same kind of power that Winamp 5 does.
After initially trying WA5 when it was first released, I wound up going to iTunes and haven't been able to find any reasons to prefer WA to iTunes. Why has your experience been different? What can you do with WA5 that you can't with iTunes?
However, I have to say that I'm skeptical about dividing music players into "good guy/bad guy" camps. Seems silly and oversimplified.
This is not going to happen without widespread and energetic grassroots support and, in the case of Diebold and other unverifiable voting systems, possibly bloodshed. Neither seems likely when "The OC" is on TV tonight.
You worship an aristocrat who went AWOL. You are a dumbass.
Since the explosives were not at that location when the troops arrived, a year and a half ago, calling it the Administrations fault they are gone is a lie.
Ooooh good wittle monkey. How does Sean Hannity's cock taste today, hmm? Salty with a touch of wickedness?
Here's the deal, bootlick: there is video of US troops with the explosives. Video. K? At Al-Qaqaa, with IAEA restraints on it, shortly after the war was over. I know, I know, this is going to go straight into your patented GOP Filter and come out the other side with some sort of lame ass excuse that, of course, makes your fascist god come out smelling like roses, but right thinking people aren't buying that shit for a New York minute, mmmk? So please, go back to getting ass fucked by the GOP all you want, but just don't insult people's intelligence with your lies.
Propaganda is reporting only those things which are detrimental to the other side and positive for "your" side. CBS, like most supposedly "liberal" news organizations, has done its fair share of both. Just because it reports something that is critical of the GOP does not make it biased. NOT reporting the same thing does.
They got punked, owned up to it, and apologized. What the hell were they supposed to do? Suck George Bush's pecker?
Somehow, I don't think they would approve......
Who gives a fuck if they approve or not? They weren't gods, they were freaking MEN, and men who lived some 200 years ago. Don't get me wrong: I love the founders of this country, and named two of my sons after them (Thomas and Benjamin), but I'm not so worshipful of them that I let them dictate what I think is the best course for government.
Oh and I've also actually *read* their works, and realize that they are not the free market fundamentalists that libertarians like to fantisize them as having been. Hell, one of the first things the first Congress did, at the urging of Jefferson, was to pass a big whopping estate tax bill so that we wouldn't have an entrenched aristocracy.
So I've decided to vote Libertarian.
Don't do it. One of the things that confers legitimacy upon a president is not just winning the electoral vote, but also the popular vote. Bush lost a lot of his legitimacy because of that. If Kerry wins both the electoral *and* the popular vote, it will take a tool the GOP would otherwise be able to use against him.
That, and as other people have mentioned: Badnarik is a pretty whacky dude. And I personally find libertarians to be largely utopian idealists, similar in that respect to communists. They talk a good theory, but when reality comes crashing down it falls apart.
Yup, things are looking good for the good guys.
And thank you, I do realize how painful that would be.
Look, don't get me wrong, I think Bush is a crap president (you haven't really had a good one since, well, probably FD Rooseveldt, some might argue Kennedy or Reagan, but hey that's the joy of debate). I also think that Kerry will probably make a better one, but the information available to predict electorate behaviour all seems to suggest a Republican win.
I'd argue that Clinton was a great president in every measurable way, and frequently in immesurable ones. You look at the economic and social statistics coming out of the Clinton years and you can't help but be impressed. Detractors try and chalk 100% of the economic prosperity up to the tech bubble, but I think that is only a part of the story. Poverty was down, welfare recidivism was down, environmental regulations were streamlined and made more effective, the US was respected, so forth and so on.
BTW: At the time I write this message it looks like Kerry will win. Early voting in three swing states show a whopping 9 point advantage for Kerry. If this pattern holds -- and I don't think it's too difficult to say that it will -- then Kerry should have no problems winning.
Assuming, of course, that Diebold, et al, doesn't undermine the democracy.
Destroy the fucking things. They're a blatant means for whoever, Republicans in this case, to disenfranchise millions of voters and skew the election. Break them. Make them not work. Refuse to use them, kick out the plug, tip it over. Take a big magnet to them, sledgehammer, shotgun, whatever.
Untold numbers of our ancestors have DIED to bring us the right to vote. Such measures as I am suggesting here are no more out of bounds than is locking away a violent criminal.
Take them down. Justice demands it. I paid for it with my tax dollars, and I do NOT care.
We don't whine,
Hahahahaahaha! The conservaclones on the radio have built freaking CAREERS out of whining! You can't turn on Limbaugh, Hannity, or any of the other GOP propagandists and go 10 minutes without them bitching about "liberal bias" or "liberal media" or blah blah blah. Don't even try. You're fooling NO ONE.
we do useless stuff like support charities,
I just got done running a marathon where I raised over $3000 dollars to fight blood borne cancers. What'd you do, toad?
create enterprises that keep people employed
Is THAT what you call setting up offshore loopholes and encouraging businesses to outsource jobs? Wow, I thought that was INCREASING unemployment. But I have to admit I'm not up on my GOPSpeak.
and fight to keep this country one where you can say: Bush is an evil fuck" in public without fear of jail.
HAhahahahaaha you really don't have a fucking clue in the world, do you? BUSH is the one that is having people arrested because they wear the wrong T-Shirt at (or even NEAR) his rallies. BUSH is the one with "Free Speech Zones" those Orwellian named zones miles away from the event. BUSH is the one who has arrested quite literally HUNDREDS of people simply because they do not have the same beliefs as him. Kerry ACTUALLY believes in free speech, and lets those who oppose him HAVE a voice at his rallies.
But no, go on worshipping your fascist god. Your job is to support him no matter what the evidence is, right? I mean, it's just FINE for Bush to arrest people at those events, cuz... Well, I'm sure you'll come up with something. You're the immoral bootlick. *I* can't think of a good reason for it.
Actually, as wars go, it was brilliantly executed, with a minimal loss of life and has a chance of success. Wars do take longer than a football game or world series to decide.
Let me ask you a question, although I'm sure it's going to go right into the partisan machinations inside your head and come out pro-Bush no matter what: Can you think of a single war in history where a foreign invading force was able to defeat a guerilla insurgency? Just wondering.
Oh, and we have at least 100,000 Iraqi dead, mostly women and children, over 1,000 American soldiers, and you call that "minimal"? When you meet your maker, I think you're going to be unpleasantly surprised, toad.
Sure- if you count the DOW hitting 10,000 while the soup kitchens get overcrowded as a BOOM.
What are you talking about? Poverty went down massively under the Clinton administration. In 1999 the poverty rate was 11.9%, the lowest rate since 1979, child porverty went down by amazing amounts, median incomes were up, unemployment was down, and more people had health care than ever before.
No matter how you measure it, the Clinton years were great for Americans of all income levels. This was due to a combination of sound fiscal policy (not ideological: libertarian, Marxist, or trickle-down) and economic conditions. But they fed off of the other.