I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Let's Roll!
Let me begin by offering some innovative, topical costume ideas for Halloween:
http://www.thestranger.com/curre...nt/
special.html
GOTV, bitches.
F the chimp.
Does aWol want four more years to find OBL, his great white whale?
Go down with the ship, already, Georgie!
Was helping out the Kerry campaign stop in Iowa. We did get around 3,000 people in freezing cold weather (howling winds). But when Kerry took the stage the sun broke through the clouds and started warming us all up. Overheard campaign staffers saying at the end of the day that things they were hearing from around the country make them cautiously optimistic about Tuesday. I was working as a driver for some of the VIPs at the rally. After being there today I feel better and more confident since I saw the staffers reflecting that confidence. By the way turnout wasn't greater for 3 reasons...
1. Very little advanced notice about the appearence appeared in the media here.
2. It was F******* cold today.
3. Both our universities in the state were playing football games at the same time as the rally.
Again overall the feeling at the even was one of confidence after surviving the Osama tape and the media's spin on how it might help Bush.
What's the show to watch tomorrow morning?
Eminem. Live tonight. SNL. "Mosh". Be there.
Nov 2 - End of an error
Was helping out the Kerry campaign stop in Iowa. We did get around 3,000 people in freezing cold weather (howling winds). But when Kerry took the stage the sun broke through the clouds and started warming us all up. Overheard campaign staffers saying at the end of the day that things they were hearing from around the country make them cautiously optimistic about Tuesday. I was working as a driver for some of the VIPs at the rally. After being there today I feel better and more confident since I saw the staffers reflecting that confidence. By the way turnout wasn't greater for 3 reasons...
1. Very little advanced notice about the appearence appeared in the media here.
2. It was F******* cold today.
3. Both our universities in the state were playing football games at the same time as the rally.
Again overall the feeling at the even was one of confidence after surviving the Osama tape and the media's spin on how it might help Bush.
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off to tune into SNL. It will be the first time in years i've actually gone out of my way to watch it. do you think Eminem will be lip-syncing?
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ah ha ha
The queen thinks chimpy is a punk ass chump!
That just made my night. 
drina: "an end of an error" Well said...
jeff, no.
I'm not much for rap, but I think the kid is brilliant.
I hope he makes a fucking trillion dollars off of Mosh.
I was just visiting Free Republic and a sidebar article said "Bush campaign calls Bin Laden tape a "little gift". When I clicked on the link, the page
said "this thread has been pulled".
Now, earlier at Eschaton, some thought the Bushies should be taken to task for just that remark.
Sounds like some backpedaling going on...
Who woulda ever thunk that eminem and cronkite would be singing the same tune...?!
MSNBC has an interesting show about Kerry on now. But I have to switch to watch SNL!
I'll certainly admit to being stressed out over next Tuesday. I've supported Kerry since the primaries, and I really look forward to a Kerry inauguration.
In case anyone else is stressed out, I'm trying to introduce the concept of a silent open thread. If you're interested, here it is.
Kim
(aka, alt hippo)
Sounds like the freepers haven't gotten the word from Unka Karl yet on how they should react to the OBL tape.
In my homepage is a URL to the LA Times interactive flash Electoral college map.
You can click on the various states choosing it for Kerry, the chimp or leaving it neutral.
If you just go by the states that are either leaning Kerry or chimpy and leaving the even states alone Kerry is up 285 to 219 in the EC.
Check it out!
Does a silent blog thread render the virtual unreal?
The best hiphop's always been political.
At least mnm seems to locate the source of his alienation in the proper spheres if influence. I dont know: does he do endorsements?
There's a Star Trek episode in which a transporter malfunction separates Kirk into two versions of himself. One is a thoughtful and caring but indecisive Kirk, and the other is an aggressive raging lunatic. The lunatic Kirk behaves in ways that are harmful to himself and others, and alternates between evil scheming and wild flailing to get what he wants. The lunatic is grotesque, but the reasoning sensible Kirk needs that part of himself to be effective. After about fifty minutes the sensible Kirk and the crew capture the maniac, use the transporter to re-merge them and put the lunatic back in his place, and all is well again.
Today's Republican party is the lunatic Kirk. Unfortunately, they're in charge. But not much longer, we know.
Did anyone see the movie with Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel where she urinates on herself? (Don't remember the name)
I can't help but remember that scene everytime I see her now.
And no, I'm not neccesarily into golden showers.
State of Education
In truth, I hate to bore people with the details of the current state of education. But Mrs. DWD was encouraging me to turn off the computer when the other thread had a discussion going. I had a few thoughts. (if they are interesting or helpful, I can do more.)
Education is a frigging mess at this juncture. The No Child Left Behind Act should be retitled, "There are no schools that will be recognized for doing a good job" act. Honestly, requiring an improvement every year is unrealistic. The main reason is that if a school (or teacher) is doing a decent job: raising the scores is nigh unto impossible. If a majority of your students are performing to their potentional, how are we supposed to get more?
We do not teach children to think, we teach them to do tests. Our curriculum is dedicated to improving test scores with the individual be damned.
The presence of the multinational publishing companies in education is a damned shame. The reader we are currently using(Scholastic) is the WORST reading book I have ever seen. Of the five hundred pages of the book, less than 10% contains "good" stuff for the kids to read.
And on and on
I mean, what IS an empty thread?
Michael Moore was on Al Franken Friday and going on about how the gop have really gotten all the fundis registered, they were well-organized, and they were well-funded. I am cautiously optimistic about Kerry's chances on Tuesday and frankly I wish that Moore would stfu. Why he is doing this downer thing on Franken I have no idea but didn't he announce just last week that things were going very well?
I'm the real chimp shady.
I'm the real slim chimpy.
Thanks a million Punkrazz
And all volunteers. I'm a reporter. I cannot. I so motherfucking want to (just in case you wodner what reporters with ethics do.
Hopeless nerd
...No offense, but well chosen nom de plum dude.
Did anyone see the movie with Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel where she urinates on herself? (Don't remember the name)
Holy Smoke.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0144715/
I am optimistic because of what happened yesterday at the college homecoming parade. The local Democrats were attacked by young repub fascists screaming obscenities and hurling water balloons. When the going gets rough, the losers get nasty.
And we're not immune from typos.
Sinclair stations aired Stolen Honor today, Saturday 10/30/2004.
It was the entire film of Stolen Honor, not the edited version shown last week.
Anyone else heard about this?
President-elect Kerry, bitches.
Well at the Kerry event in Iowa the only Rethug I saw was some scruffy looking man dressed as Uncle Sam (bad plastic costume and silly beard) who was holding a sign "Support Our Persident" (that's right he couldn't spell).
WA 8th in danger --> Dave Ross, a moderate and a superb communicator who's a CSPAN wonk, is now running behind rightwing Dave Reichert, King County Sheriff (Green River task force), for GOP Jennifer Dunn's retired seat.
Dave was a Howard Dean delegate (Dean PAC) at the county caucus. He badly needs our last-minute help.
Dave has in-depth political experience as someone who has debated members of Islamic Jihad, questioned a Tblisi warlord, facilitated dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis and covered the war in Iraq live from Baghdad.
http://www.daveross2004.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...10/30/115344/
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"Well at the Kerry event in Iowa the only Rethug I saw was some scruffy looking man dressed as Uncle Sam (bad plastic costume and silly beard) who was holding a sign "Support Our Persident" (that's right he couldn't spell)."
Bush himself?
DWD:
I don't mean to quibble, but the state of schooling' and of schools is un many ways deplorable. Don't use that to indict the process of education which many teachers accomplish daily in spite of the state of the schools.
To understand the state of schools and schooling, you have to imagine the system in which the symptoms you describe make sense. The emphasis on testing has been debated and deplored by teachers for decades. The attachment to testing is ideological, and is founded on the same literalism which underwrites the claims about the inerrancy of Scripture. The nostrums of Accountability are just the imposition of accountancy to Fundamentalist doctrinal certainty in the guise of measurement. High stakes testing is the institutionalized persona of Calvinist predestination. Higher standards always means more people excluded from the social benefits which on average, more education confers. The students at greatest risk in this system are the same children who have always been a risk in thsi system. testing just gives the system the "objective"e vidence it needs to encat the self-fulfilling prophesies.
This aint new information. But it has been systematically trivialized when it was not ignored for 20 to 30 years at least.
Did you get a good look, is what I'm asking.
i got dem fumble thumb blues t'nite, momma...
AndrewBB, I'm in the same boat. Tuesday's going to be a 16-hour day at least, but concentrating on that will get me through the day.
Meanwhile, my wife's crossing over to Missouri to GOTV.
SNL animated bit on McCain right on.
HIT THIS POLL .. it needs help (we can't let FOX win):
http://tv.yahoo.com
(scroll down -- left column)
Question: Which is your most trusted source for TV news?
3050 votes since Oct 29 2004
NBC 12% 377 votes
CNN 18% 548 votes
CBS 4% 134 votes
ABC 8% 248 votes
Fox News 26% 803 votes
MSNBC 4% 130 votes
The Daily Show 13% 396 votes
Anything outside the American media 14% 414 votes
McCain cartoon. All better now. Unbelievable
McCain is a douchebag. I have proof.
Josh has new poll numbers up...good stuff:
Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll, just released, shows Kerry 48%, Bush 45%.
Star Tribune Minnesota Poll, just released, shows Kerry 49%, Bush 41%.
Now I know why I don't ever watch SNL. It completely sucks ass.
Hurry up and put Eminem on.
C-Span right now: Oxford Union Debate
Debate
U.S. Presidential Elections
Oxford Union Society
Oxford (United Kingdom)
ID: 184237 - 10/28/2004 - 1:42 - $24.95
Dreyfuss, Richard, Actor
Trimble, David, Member, House of Commons, Ulster Dem. Unionist, United Kingdom, Upper Bann
The proposition "This House would reelect George W. Bush" was debated at the Oxford Union
in Oxford, England on the Thursday evening before the U.S. presidential election. Four
main speakers argued for the president's reelection, including David Trimble, a member of
the British Parliament. An equal number argued against, including actor Richard Dreyfuss,
a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Students also participated. The vote on
the proposition following the debate: yes 75, no 277.
hope some kind soul out there has the tivo running, and got the mccain thing and soon to be on mnm...sadly, no saturday night live here in japan on sunday afternoon...
Mosh.
interesting: Transcript of Greenberg, Devine, Donilon, Lockhart Call (1/2)
"Punk bush"
Heh.
HIT THIS POLL .. it needs help (we can't let FOX win):
http://tv.yahoo.com
(scroll down -- left column)
Question: Which is your most trusted source for TV news?
3050 votes since Oct 29 2004
NBC 12% 377 votes
CNN 18% 548 votes
CBS 4% 134 votes
ABC 8% 248 votes
Fox News 26% 803 votes
MSNBC 4% 130 votes
The Daily Show 13% 396 votes
Anything outside the American media 14% 414 votes
Listen, everyone:
We're days before the elections, OK. There is definely a republican slant in the cable news outlets, and even the network news. It's going to be like that right up to, and including, election day. It'll also be like that if this election is close, and things trail on after Nov 2.
The reason that this is so is because these station don't want the slightest stink of a bias against the president. So, they will naturally be biased favorably towards him. They do this because the right raises a stink to high heaven every time bad news that harms Bush comes down the pike. Look what happened to Rather with the Bush AWOL deal. I've barely heard a peep about any Iraq casualties on the news in the past few weeks. Most polls numbers that are shown have Bush up by a few points.
I think most people can discern the bias themselves. If you don't like it, then turn it off. If you can't stand it, then email them, call them, write them, take some action. Don't lose your head over it. Try to do something where you can make the most difference, and that's on the local level. Write to your local papers, and local TV stations.
Anyway, it's probably immaterial to the outcome of this election by now. There are lots of other factors in play.
60 MInutes is going to do a barnburner of a story on Al QaQaa 10/31:
FOCUS: Iraq Explosives Story Detonates Under Bush Campaign
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/...4/
103104V.shtml
HIT THIS POLL .. it needs help (we can't let FOX win):
http://tv.yahoo.com
(scroll down -- left column)
Question: Which is your most trusted source for TV news?
3050 votes since Oct 29 2004
NBC 12% 377 votes
CNN 18% 548 votes
CBS 4% 134 votes
ABC 8% 248 votes
Fox News 26% 803 votes
MSNBC 4% 130 votes
The Daily Show 13% 396 votes
Anything outside the American media 14% 414 votes
There mere fact that the Daily Show has 13 percent is pretty damn riveting.
oh this is cool...michael moore is paying for 1200 cameramen to cover polling places in swing states were voter intimidation is expected.
Up to 14% now!
And it doesn't surprise me that Faux leads. There are a lot of freepers and Little Green Raelians that can't deal with a reality-based community.
After Kerry hands the neo-Birchers their ass on Tuesday, the question will be what the Republican party does to purge itself of these hate and fear mongers.
Ok, at first i wasn't scared, but then i read it in Newsweek, and so now I am really scared. Because I thought it was just us folks on the internets who were parnoid.
Kerry in a landslide. All over Texas there are record turnouts. No one knows what to make of it, but I think it means: we win. Love to all.
Billmon!
Was I sleeping when he came back?
rococco
The turnouts are one of the basic reasons that win or lose, I keep saying they do not have long. Eyes are open, ears are listening.
The stories I am reading on voter suppression also tell me that the Republicans may not have long to continue this charade.
Wait till the voters begin to realize that the Republicans are basically attempting to shut down the ability of people to actually vote, not simply by suppression, but by gumming the works up so badly it cannot work. They can pull all the technicals they want, in the long run, Bad Faith becomes very telling.
SNL isn't on out here on the west coast, don't divulge too much!
There are hundreds of good reasons to vote for John Kerry, but here's mine
Thanks to everyone that hangs out around here for paying attention to what's been happening in this country for the past two years. Let's take it back on Tuesday!
Japanese hostage beheaded.
Reuters has the story here.
Yes, Kathy. Did you see the new ads Michael Moore is premiering tomorrow? They're deadly.
(Are there 2 versions of this thread? When I reopen the window after posting I can't find certain posts (even with search). When I reopen later, they're back.)
West Coasters: prepare yourself for a killer Smigel cartoon starring John McCain.
AP breaking news
THE TARGET: Muthanna desert complex where a bunker sealed by U.N. monitors held old chemical weapons.
WHO DID IT: Looters unleashed last year by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
WHAT WAS LOOTED: All U.N.-sealed Muthanna structures were broken into. If the so-called Bunker 2 was breached and looted, it would be the second recent case of restricted weapons at risk of falling into militants' hands.
Muthanna Chemical Weapons facility.
Why isn't Rummy taking more heat over this?
Though I certainly don't mind if Georgy takes all the blame.
As far as the Daily Show as a source of new goes, who else showed Joe Biden looking like he was going to jump the table and start whaling on Ashcroft? On "real" news shows, you'd be lucky to hear a complete sentence as uttered. Daily Show ran what felt like at least thirty seconds of it.
Fake news? Strictly speaking, I guess that's true. And one of the last places to get truth these days. Not to mention a good laugh.
Somewhere Mark Twain is watching the Daily Show -- and probably thinking "I wish I'd said that" from time to time. Or maybe he and Abraham Lincoln are elbowing each other in the ribs and saying "Ha ha -- good one!"
Maybe....
I just hit the Yahoo survey, and the Daily Show was the only choice it gave me. PBS wasn't offered as an option.
My daily news comes from the dead tree L.A. Times and the web, not the TV. The BBC & CNN International aren't available on the tube, and I can read faster than I can listen, which makes me some sort of textual deviate, I suppose.
Camille Paglia is a cunt.
(see Salon interview)
Salon gives way too much space to losers.
Soooooooooo, all he preznit's pungent pundits don't think, with bin laden dressed like the leader of a county, lookin cleaner than the board of health and in the pink of health, healthier than the preznit himself, issuing thoughts and edicts, that there's going to be an attack? What if this is a warning that this fool is going to launch an attack and the jackazz presznit is missing it?
Peace
Jazzy
OT but an interesting extra vote for Kerry: every saturday i take a 22 year old to breakfast at a local diner. he is mildly mentally retarded. today i picked him up at his dad and mom's house for breakfast and after he got in the car he announced to me that he is probably going to vote for kerry. his dad has given big bucks to bush and the rethuglican party so i was rather shocked.
evidently he has heard enough of my comments about bush in discussions with the other regulars at the diner, and he told me people where he works talk about bush and kerry, and he has decided to vote differently from his dad - who he adores.
it put a big smile on my face today!
Umm, I'm not sure if bragging about how retarded people are on board with Kerry is the best tactic ...
SNL, hell. Check out the Friedman presidential "endorsement" in the NYT. (Just out as of now)
Texan Embsd by Bush
That's a beautiful story! Your sweet breakfast companion must really trust and respect your opinions... so wonderful that he's standing on his own and voting his conscience.
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Now Now -
"Retarded People" still have brains and hearts. They think and eat breakfast just like the rest of us. They might be a little bit slower than some, but they have real feelings and thoughts and are very capable in what they do. They just do it in a different rhythm and time.
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And by the way, Texan Embsd by Bush made me cry with his story. It is really touching and important. This one vote by this one mildly retarded young man symbolizes a whole hell of a lot about this election.
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All over Texas there are record turnouts. No one knows what to make of it, but I think it means: we win. Love to all.
Hey roccoco,
In the Kos prediction contest, I predicted that the biggest surprise state would be Texas, where Kerry will get within 7 points. Thanks for making me feel $100 richer already
Jenny: thanks! however, it is "her story." i hope his dad does not put a stop to our breakfasts.
Texan -
You're welcome. I hope her dad allows her to vote for whom she chooses. It's important. I think he will, since he obviously entrusts you with her care during your time together and probably knows your political leanings. And clearly he's encouraging her independence and showing his love by giving her some "free time"...
It would be a heartbreak if he squelched her right to vote her conscience... You sound like a great person, by the way. Keep up the wonderful work!
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As far as I know, there has never been a Presidential election with significantly higher turnout vs. the Presidential election before it that did not result in change of political party in the White House. If there are any uber-junkies out there who know otherwise, speak up, but I think this argues that only massive fraud can save Bush, and I'm cautiously optimistic that the Republicans are not quite operationally capable of massive fraud.
Four hurricanes this season. Today Miami, Florida State, and Florida all lost their football games. I suspect that is even rarer than the four hurricanes. If these aren't enough signs for the folk in Florida that they better get it right this time I don't think they are paying attention to the Almighty!
http://web.amnesty.org/library/
I...ENGAMR511472004 This is why we need Bush out. This is VERY IMPORTANT
I predicted that the biggest surprise state would be Texas, where Kerry will get within 7 points.
If Kerry gets to within 7 points in Texas, Delay gets exterminated.
Susan,
RE:
"Question: Which is your most trusted source for TV news? "
Wow. THEY DIDN'T EVEN MENTION PBS!!
Assholes.
U.S. Extends Iraq Tours for 6,500 Troops
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army has extended by two months the Iraq tours of about 6,500 soldiers, citing a need for experienced troops through the Iraqi elections scheduled for late January. About 3,500 soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, and 3,000 from the 1st Infantry Division headquarters will remain in Iraq two months longer than planned, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said Saturday
West Virginia and Arkansas will be surprise wins for Kerry. Maybe VA.
Local West Virginian newspapers are headlining stories of a scandal where a politician spent state lotto money on placards advertising for Bush. From the editorial pages, I can tell you people are pissed at the republicans in this state.
Red turns Blue
A lot of Marines took it hard today.
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A Poem That I Wrote In A High Fever
You who are lengthening your lives
with the best doctors and the best medicines
remember those who are shortening their lives
with the wars
that you in your long lives are not
preventing.
You who are again screwing
the younger generations
and winking at each other
the winking of your eyelids
is like the chill of the swinging shutters
in an empty house.
-- Yehuda Amichai
(Translated from the Hebrew, by Leon Wieseltier.)
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Have any of you checked TalkingPoints lately? He's got some encouraging poll #'s, plus check this link.
www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=761
If this is true- (and I think it is, Josh is generally right + it corrollates w/ what I remember from Paul O'Neill's book) then war crimes are too good for this group.
This is horrible news. Bush has returned to his original "October Surprise".
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/me...main/
index.html
U.S. forces launch new assaults in Falluja - CNN
Bush / Rove will do anything to win the Oval Office.
The Bushies are taking on the Baathists/Sunnis.
This has been planned for this weekend, probably for months. That's why the British Black Watch units were moved from Basra to Baghdad, to free U.S. troops to do this.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, no fool, most likely has already left the city if he, indeed, was even there.
This is going to be horrifically bloody. Scores, if not hundreds of Americans may die in this one.
Pray.
Maureen Dowd can be a fickle bitch, and I'll never forgive her for her treatment of Al Gore in 2000, but for the moment, I HEART MoDo.
She just called Dick Cheney "demented"! How truuuly delightful!
Maureen Dowd is kind of hot though.
Over 230 coalition soldiers killed by IEDs. The first IED death was reported by the DoD on Aug 18, 2003. How many of these IEDs were built from explosives taken from Al Qaqaa? Were IEDs even more deadly because our troops weren't prepared for small roadside bombs made of high explosive?
Hello, I am danny, ph.d. student at Southern Illinois
University, studying mass communication. I am
conducting an online survey about media use and
motivations during this year’s presidential election.
Please click on the below URL address and take a few
minutes for me. If not working, please copy the
address and put it to URL
I really appreciate your help. Thanks.
http://lawson-
hall.lawson.siu.ed...d=1098244717062
Keep the MO going our way
Vote in the poll!
Quentin Compson is probably long gone, but the poem at 1:56AM gave me chills. Thanks
meme, Virginia is closer than anybody knows. I went grocery shopping yesterday, and the lot was filled with Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers. I kept running into others inside the store wearing Kerry buttons. I took those opportunities to remind people to vote for James Socas for congress, and people promised to, but I had trouble getting away. People wanted to stand there in the middle of Wegman's and tell me every horrible thing Bush has done, as if I didn't already know.
I really think it's going to be closer than anybody thinks.
from the poll it would seem that early birds are for kerry
Mr. Bill, where did you get that Cronkite quote? I cannot find it anywhere, either by following the link or through Google.
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