] To put it bluntly, Americans have chosen to return a man
] to the White House who has supervised the killing of more
] civilians than Slobodan Milosevic. We have signed onto a
] President who sanctions torture, who wantonly rejects any
] international treaty--Kyoto, the ABM and the
] International Criminal Court--that doesn%u2019t suit his
] messianic agenda. Who truly believes %u201CGod
] Almighty%u201D is on his side.
]
]
] America, in short, has become a criminal nation, and it
] must be stopped. (Yes, there are many other criminal
] nations, but aside from Israel how many even have the
] pretense of democracy? Russia? The Sudan? China? India is
] perhaps one; and given its sordid occupation of Kashmir
] it shouldn%u2019t surprise that a US-India-Israel axis of
] occupation and Islamophobia is one of the most prominent
] features of the world%u2019s geo-strategic post-9/11
] landscape.)

[ From Mark Levine, courtesy of Juan Cole. He's more emphatic than i would be. Bush isn't an international war criminal, though it's not an impossibility either. -k]

Informed Comment : 11/01/2004 - 11/30/2004

] The Moose pledges to be ever vigilant for hubristic
] Elephant droppings - today's winner - that debonair
] apologist for the comfortable Grover Norquist -
]
]
] ""Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable
] in their minority status, they will have no problem
] socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell
] you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant,
] but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and
] sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go
] around peeing on the furniture and such."

[ What a lovely man, that Grover. -k]

Hubris Watch

] The election was a victory for George Bush and Rovianism,
] a victory for Grover Norquist. It was also a victory for
] Osama Bin Laden. I don't believe for a moment Bin Laden
] was trying to sway voters to Kerry with his taped
] address. This was the outcome he wanted, a gift from us
] to him: an unapologetic Christian Crusader in the White
] House whose reelection giving lie to the notion that Abu
] Ghraib was an aberration and that the deaths of thousands
] of Iraqi civilians weigh upon America's conscience. This
] morning America could not look more like a grinning
] aggressor to the Arab world, an aggressor with fresh
] marching orders.

James Wolcott: Anyone Know How to Make a Noose?

] I want to tell you how much Japanese business man is
] tired.
]
]
] I have experience to work in other countries. So I know
] how hard Japanese business man work comparing with
] American people, Chinese people and Thailand people.
]
]
] I never say that all foreign people is lazy. But I never
] hesitate to say that Jap is fucking hard worker.

[ I can't tell if this is a hoax, but i doubt it. Let me register my opposition to corporate enslavement now, ok? -k]

MasaManiA : Japanese salarymen passed out all over the place

According to British web analysis firm CacheLogic, BitTorrent accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the traffic on the Internet -- more than all other peer-to-peer programs combined -- and dwarfs mainstream traffic like web pages.

"I don't think Hollywood is willing to let it slide, but whether they're able to (stop it) is another matter," Bram Cohen, the programmer who created BitTorrent, told Reuters.

!!!

File-Sharing Thrives Under Radar

] MR. RUSSERT: The last time you were on in January of '01
] after the president had been elected, we had this
] exchange. Let me show it to you:
]
] (Videotape, January 21, 2001):
]
] MR. RUSSERT: You're heading over to the national
] cathedral for a prayer service with our new president.
] What are you gonna pray for?
]
] MR. ROVE: Wisdom and patience. Humility. That's
] important, I think, for people who come here to realize
] that we are here for only a time and we have an
] obligation of service and we need to keep things in
] perspective.
]
] (End videotape)
]
] MR. RUSSERT: Wisdom, patience, and humility, the
] watchwords for the second term?
]
] MR. ROVE: Yes. Those that the Gods destroy they first
] make prideful. So, absolutely.

Interesting reading, and gives me more hope about the next few years. :)

[ Really? It did? Scared the fuck out of me, to be perfectly honest.

For Karl Rove to be talking about the "coarseness" of our society is as painful an irony as has ever, EVER been committed to the public record. It defies reason, in much the same way that 52% of the nation does. -k]

MSNBC - Rove tells conservatives to chill out

] We as a nation are living beyond our means. The federal
] government is in debt. Most state and local governments
] are in debt (their form of deficit spending is to issue
] bonds). Most assuredly the American consumer is
] dangerously in debt. And, finally, the American dollar is
] losing its purchasing power steadily and daily. Remember,
] debt is the promise of future income to pay for today's
] consumption. Nobody is guaranteed a future, much less
] future income.

[ Yeah, we're all in rough shape. For myself, I've made it my goal to get out of debt, ideally in under a year. I'm about 24k in, which isn't so bad compared to many, but i feel like i'd be a lot happier if i didn't have this shit to think about. If only the government was as simple. -k]

A Storm Is Coming by Charley Reese

[ Do it. Outsource yourself. ;) -k]

Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose

] The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is creating a
] trustworthy, cost effective, voter verifiable voting
] system using open source software components on industry
] standard computers.. A primary element of this Open
] Voting system is the use of software through which the
] voter creates a printed paper ballot containing his or
] her choices.

[ For those who haven't seen it. One suggestion for voting system reform. -k]

The Open Voting Consortium

...It ran out of memory. The actual memory limit quoted by the maker was NOT what it was.
Electronic voting.
Are there any questions?

Computer loses 4500 votes