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Topic: Current Events |
6:59 pm EST, Nov 7, 2006 |
Reasons to vote: 1) Iraq 2) Fear is not motive, it's a flavor enhancer (and now trans-fat free). 3) Your [I Voted] sticker is your ticket into my kegger. 4) Yelling at FNC doesn't actually accomplish anything. 5) Everytime a vote is supressed Lee Atwater eats another baby. 6) Democracy is only for the people that show up. 7) The time spent in the voting booth will be time not spend huffing glue. 8) All your base. 9) You goto vote w/ the electorate you have, not the electorate you want. 10) Everyone that doesn't vote gets a dick cheney facial. Vote! |
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Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 |
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Topic: Current Events |
5:51 pm EDT, Oct 29, 2004 |
] Important Senate news today. Several new polls there have ] changed the outlook. Just going by the spreadsheet (i.e., ] the current poll numbers), the Senate will be split 50-50 ] as a result of a new poll in Oklahoma that now puts Brad ] Carson ahead of Tom Coburn (the former obstretrician who ] has admitted to performing abortions but now says ] abortionists should be executed). In addition, the ] spreadsheet says the Republicans will win the Louisiana ] seat, but since no Republican has ever been elected to ] the Senate by the people of Louisiana since direct ] elections of senators began in 1914, my best guess at ] this point is that the Democrats will actually have a ] majority in the Senate (counting Jeffords as a Democrat). ] This scenario was unthinkable 6 months ago. This is the slickest electoral college map site. Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 |
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RE: John Stewart Crossfire Torrent |
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Topic: Current Events |
10:42 pm EDT, Oct 18, 2004 |
k wrote: ] Suprnova torrent of Stewart on crossfire. Currently very ] fast... ] ] [ I'm gonna recommend this again because it's so damn good. ] ] "It's not so much that your show is bad, as much as that it's ] *hurting america*." -k] I read the transcript before I saw the footage. I did not get a sense of the hostility in the air. I would have loved to see Stewart strangle that republican fuck with his bow tie. Did you see his hands at the end? He wanted to, bad. RE: John Stewart Crossfire Torrent |
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'I thought the whole country was a free speech zone.' |
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Topic: Current Events |
10:55 am EDT, Oct 17, 2003 |
] "He pointed out a relatively remote baseball diamond that ] was enclosed in a chain-link fence," Neel recalled in an ] interview with Salon. "I could see these people behind ] the fence, with their faces up against it, and their ] hands on the wire." (The ACLU posted photos of the ] demonstrators and supporters at that event on its Web ] site.) "It looked more like a concentration camp than a ] free speech area to me, so I said, 'I'm not going in ] there. I thought the whole country was a free speech ] area.'" The detective asked Neel, 66, to go to the area ] six or eight times, and when he politely refused, he ] handcuffed and arrested the retired steelworker on a ] charge of disorderly conduct. When Neel's sister argued ] against his arrest, she was cuffed and hauled off as ] well. The two spent the president's visit in a firehouse ] that was serving as Secret Service and police ] headquarters for the event. ] ] It appears that the Neels' experience is not unique. Late ] last month, on Sept. 23, the American Civil Liberties ] Union filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Philadelphia ] against the Secret Service, alleging that the agency, a ] unit of the new Homeland Security Department charged with ] protecting the president, vice president and other key ] government officials, instituted a policy in the months ] even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of instructing ] local police to cordon off protesters from the president ] and Vice President Dick Cheney. Plaintiffs include the ] National Organization for Women, ACORN, USA Action and ] United for Justice, and groups and individuals who have ] been penned up during presidential visits, or arrested ] for refusing to go into a "free speech area," in places ] ranging from California to New Mexico, Missouri, ] Connecticut, New Jersey, South Carolina and elsewhere in ] Pennsylvania. 'I thought the whole country was a free speech zone.' |
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