Come on baby, hit the trifecta for daddy
Kerry won. DeLay busted. And the Astros are tied for the wild-card slot, with three HOME games against weak-sister Colorado Rockies left (the Cubs face Atlanta, and the Giants face the LA Dodgers)....
View ArticleAttention: Real World Doesn't Stop for Debate!
Regardless of who won the presidential debate last night, it's clear that the people of Iraq are coming out on the losing end this morning.CNN reports that three dozen Iraqi children (think: an entire...
View ArticleYour Revolution is Over! The Cubs Lost! Condolences!
Continuing my campaign for getting troll-banned by Markos, the Cubs Fan in Chief, I thought I'd break from debate-mania to share baseball news:"On paper, we're much better than the Astros, than the...
View ArticleMajor League Dick versus Johnny Sunshine: A Preview
Here are a few thoughts about the upcoming (Tuesday night) vice-presidential debates between our man John Edwards and Vice President Dick Cheney.
View ArticleIt was hard for Jimmy Carter, too...
For reasons detailed by kid oakland, Bush's "hard work" message isn't going to work. Here's empirical proof, if you need it: Jimmy Carter tried this message at about this same time in 1980. And we all...
View ArticleFmr. Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.)
Dale Bumpers gave a speech today at the University of Houston law center. He had a little trouble sticking to his prepared remarks about legal ethics. He appeared to be quite upset, mentioning in...
View ArticleThe War "Flip-Flop": How Cheney Does It
It took me a while to figure this out, but the more I listen to Dick Cheney (in reviewing the debate), I think it's clear how he gets away with claiming that Kerry "flip-flopped" on Iraq. The trick is...
View ArticleScientific American article on DREs
For the pocket protector-types out there in Kossackstan, Ted Selker of the CalTech-MIT Voting Technology Project has an article in the October issue of Scientific American on the new voting machines.
View ArticleWhoa Doc, This is Heavy
Michael J. Fox shoots TV ad for John Kerry: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041007/ap_en_tv/people_michael_j__fox_7 AP - NEW YORK - Actor Michael J. Fox is returning to TV -- in a...
View ArticleHillary: Bill thinks Kerry won
Senator Clinton is on CNN/Larry King right now spinning for Kerry. She says Bill is happy right now. I mean, if the Big Dog says it, it must be true. (At least regarding debate ability)
View ArticleI can vote! Yippee!
I hate 30-day voter registration laws, like the one we have here in Texas. I filled out a registration card and returned it to a deputy registrar... who bless his heart apparently lost it, or gave it...
View ArticleEh. Looks Like I Won't Be Joining the NRA This Year, Either.
ABC News: National Rifle Association endorses Bush. It's too bad that the NRA always seems to put right-wing ideology ahead of the public interest. True, Kerry shot himself in the foot (with these...
View ArticleO'Reilly complaint must be fakes!
Atrios has two small clips of the sexual harassment complaint against Bill O'Reilly. But there is something important that I want to call to your attention: IT USES A PROPORTIONALLY-SPACED FONT!...
View ArticleMy Budget Man Can Beat Up Your Budget Man
George W. Bush is desperate to paint John Kerry as a free spending bleeding-heart liberal. It might not be such a hard task if the facts actually favored that interpretation. Bush repeatedly cites an...
View ArticleTruly, the weirdest Flash cartoon ever
Warning: Not exactly for children. I was forwarded this link by an acquaintance of mine. It's highly disturbing, but I think there is a nugget of truth. After the last three debates, I think it's clear...
View ArticleATTN: Patriotic Physicists!
Inspired, in equal parts, by Shetterly and Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys"... I urge all patriot physicists, engineers, and mathematicians to begin work on a time machine instantly, which will allow...
View ArticleHome Run Biggio!
Astros Up 1 - 0 in top of the first on the Cardinals in Game 7. It's good to see Craig Biggio's drought come to an end. Especially on his first at bat. Good drama. OK, no more diaries for me until the...
View ArticleMorrison ad runs during NLCS
Talk about your perfect timing. Richard Morrison's positive, upbeat ad just run on Houston FOX affiliate KRIV, which is showing the Astros/Cards game. With DeLay stuck at 42 in the most recent poll,...
View ArticleThe Final Stretch: The Lies Come Harder and Heavier
Looking down the last 50 entries, I don't see this addressed in diaries. Team Bush is rolling out one of its most sinister ads yet, according to the AP. The ad repeats the lie that Kerry wanted to cut...
View ArticleHouston Chronicle Endorses Bush
Not really surprising, given that every other major paper that has endorsed has endorsed Bush, but the Chronicle did endorse quite a few Democrats this year (including Richard Morrison). On the other...
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The Liberal Media Tries, Fails To Tell Us Something
Logging on this morning, I was greeted with the following news headlines: Now, a reasonable person, having read and understood all three of these news items, might conclude that they are all in fact...
View ArticleOn the Road in NM
I'd like to see a compendium of what bloggers are doing on the ground. As for me, I'm in Las Cruces NM. The campaign here is well organized, and we're giving it the old college try. Did blockwalking...
View ArticleTake Back America, One Precinct At A Time
I'm going to name what I think is the one thing that goes the farthest in explaining our inability to succeed: We are a populist movement without a people. Sure, we've still got activists who will show...
View Article2006, not 2008, my droogs and brothers
Let's keep our eyes on the prize. The 2006 midterms are coming up in 23 months. We need to begin looking hard for candidates for EVERY congressional district - all 435 - and senate seat that will be...
View ArticleOregonians
I spent a few minutes reading the biographies of our Democratic governors (http://www.democraticgovernors.org/governors/index.html). Conventional wisdom is that we need to run a governor in 2008....
View ArticleStop Making Sense
It's fashionable among us liberals to quote Eleanor Roosevelt and to light a candle rather than curse the darkness and blah blah blah. It's time to stop kidding ourselves. I beseech our leaders in...
View ArticleCNN: Bush, Clinton condoned Iraqi oil smuggling
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/02/iraq.oil.smuggle/index.html Both the Clinton and Bush administrations were well aware that Iraq was illegally exporting "hot oil", and tolerated it for...
View ArticleBase Instincts (or, Gimme Some Candy!)
I'd like to make a comparison, briefly, between the Democrats.org team site and the GOP.com team site. The most obvious difference, the one that stands right out, is that the GOP site makes it...
View ArticleWe're getting played
I've been, like many Americans, following the Schiav-o-rama now for the last few days. Regardless of your viewpoint, it's a passionate debate that involves contentious ethical and legal issues. In...
View ArticleAs Schiav-o-rama continues, Bush pushes privatization
CNN and Gallup have a new poll out showing support for Social Security privatization continues to fall despite the media's focus on Schiav-o-rama:In the CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey of 909 adult...
View ArticleWill Schiav-o-rama hurt the GOP's fundraising?
My impression from speaking with my parents (both doctors), is that they are decidely not pleased with Schiav-o-rama. Oh, yeah, they're both Bush voters (my stepmother insists on calling herself an...
View ArticleTom Friedman is SHOCKED
I would very much like to commend Tom Friedman for using his column this week to speak out on the need for a real alternative energy policy. That said, I have to condemn him for being such a silly person.
View ArticleExit polls, fraud, etc.
I am, like a lot of Kossacks, kind of getting tired of repeatedly being barraged by exposure to the US Count Votes article claiming that a non-fraudulent explanation for the discrepancy between exit...
View ArticleWe few, we happy few, we band of brothers
For those of you who are trivia buffs, I just realized that St. Crispin's Day (October 25 on the Julian calendar) fell this year on Election Day (November 7 on the Gregorian calendar). (See this...
View ArticleCraig Thomas diagnosed with leukemia
CNN is reporting that Senator Craig Thomas (R-WY) has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
View ArticleAGS: Dungeons and Dragons for Poli-Sci Majors
If one has a compelling message and a powerful vision, one can build an e-empire on the Internet. Kos did it. Atrios did it. But even without such niceties as "reasonableness" or "sanity", one can...
View Article"You Don't Owe the Clintons Anything"
At the community Obama Rally in Galveston, Texas on Thursday, Houston City Councilman Ron Green pleaded with Galveston Democrats who might be on the fence, saying words to the effect of "You Don't Owe...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for 2012
Markusd just posted a diary about Republicans voting in the Texas primary. Markusd, of course, is entitled to be offended by Republicans "crossing over"; cross-over voting in our open primary has been...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Foreign Agent?
America has been threatened many times by the horrible British. They raped our women and took our guns away. They put tacks in our tea. They burnt down the White House. They gave us the Spice...
View ArticleThe New "New Politics": Why Obama Needs to Go on the Offensive Now
Like millions of Americans, I am drawn to Senator BarackObama's message of hope, progress, and an end to the cynical "Old Politics." And, like most Democrats, I am not keen on negative campaigning --...
View ArticleQuestion: Whatever happened to Demzilla, etc.?
Howdy.As you all may remember, there was an effort about four or five years ago to greatly improve the Democratic Party's voter contact / fundraising lists.I've seen what the Texas Democratic Party...
View ArticleWhat if it works?
The latest news, as you may know, in the on-going saga of Florida and Michigan is that the states are considering holding snap mail-in primaries:Democratic leaders in the two states are considering a...
View ArticleThe Real Winner in Pennsylvania Tonight: Me!
I would like to thank my friend (possibly plural, but probably singular) who apparently cast a write-in vote for me in today's Pennsylvania Republican Primary.You know, I may have been outspent by at...
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BREAKING: OBAMA WINS GUAM
Hillary Clinton was right. It took a village!The Dededo Village, the most populous village in Guam, has finally reported. 509 for Clinton, 313 for Obama. This results in a win for Obama of exactly...
View ArticleHillary's Latest E-mail
I get e-mails. I hope this dispenses with any notion that Hillary is going quietly into the night.SUBJECT: Here's WhyFROM: info@hillaryclinton.comDATE: Today, 12:12 p.m.
View ArticleSince 1848!
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stated in her West Virginia victory speech last night that no Democrat since 1916 had ever won the White House without West Virginia. The implication, of course, is that...
View ArticleOur Made-For-TV Brain Trust (plagiarizing secretyidentityx)
Secretidentityx suggested an out-of-the-box convention approach which I think bears repeating and polishing.While I disagree with his suggestion of having former White House Press Secretary Scott...
View ArticleTime For Another Blogger Ethics Panel...
Doubtless most of you have already seen Dave Weigel's take-down of the Very Serious Larry Johnson, proprietor and agent provacateur of the anti-Obama hate site No Quarter.As a former...
View ArticleFDR vetted a former Ag Sec, Republican for Veep; why can't Obama?
Much sturm and drang on the Interwebs today about reported rumors that Barack Obama's Veepsquad have started vetting former Bush Administration Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman as a potential running...
View ArticleSarah Palin is kind of a big deal
We've already heard about Sarah Palin, secret grandmother; Sarah Palin, secret Bridge-to-Nowhere builder; Sarah Palin, secret expert on Russia; and Sarah Palin, secret mooseketeer.But it seems that...
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