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Is this the surprise Karl's been hinting at? Major assault on Fallujah commenced on the eve of the election? The Guardian seems to think it's begun. Put American troops in harm's way, get everyone rah-rahing for the leadership in a time of crisis, etc.? The timing stinks.
Florida update: mrs. fingers and I will be travelling to Fort Lauderdale tomorrow with (at last count) 95 other confirmed volunteers to get out the vote in Broward County. Some reports project our group's final number at over 120 (various stragglers and plus-one's).
Related note: if Florida stays disputed... have a nice November in NYC, I'll see you at Xmas!
cheers!
one finger victory salute (to america.)
the path to florida
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
family fortune
the new yorker chooses
the comics reporter
"Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail."
-- scott mcconnell / american conservative magazine
changes in military law
Alex, maybe you are working for the wrong arm of the government...
Bird traffic controller
The Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem is no ordinary twitcher. An expert in bird migration patterns across the Middle East, he has turned his passion into a small industry responsible for saving the Israeli air force more than half a billion dollars in hardware - and, no doubt, the lives of several pilots. Fred Pearce hears how he has even turned migrating birds into unlikely emissaries for peace.
Addendum to a post on my page (see indented text):
Atrios thinks William Gibson is a "techno-conservatarian," or their patron saint, and that it's somehow weirdly out of character that he'd contribute to Media Matters for America. Guess he hasn't read much Gibson--maybe he's confusing him with Jerry Pournelle?
UPDATE: Gibson replied:
The puzzling thing about this for me being: Do I have a hundred thousand politically conservative fans, and if so, *can't they read*? Most likely Atrios is referring to that sub-species of tragic mouthbreather so mesmerized by my effortless proliferation of imaginary Starck-slick gizmos that he never even notices the characterization, let alone the socio-political implications. I have always found those guys, like the ones who ask if I've read Ayn Rand, to be a distinct minority.
the office bbc tonight
list of songs whose title appears more than 20 times in the lyrics
NYC to Fort Lauderdale Update:
We now have 50+ folks flying to Ft. Lauderdale to work for ACT at election time.
Flights are $129 R/T and hotel rooms are $99.
Anyone who's interested in joining, email us at
nyc2fla2004@excite.com
Broward County, baby!!!!
William Gibson started blogging again. He's mad about Bush and the war.
anybody try google desktop? pretty cool search tool for your harddrive. welcome, google overlords!
im sending this out to all my digmedtre friends. respek
Here's the clip of Bush "freaking on Charlie Gibson," as trios puts it. It's Windows Media Player, unfortunately. It's pretty unbelievable--the Dems should run it over and over. Oh, well, it looks like the site is overrun. trios is the kiss of death.
Billmon returned from the dead and posted something in the wee hours about how the Dems should make more of Bush's anger issues. Now he's pulled the post. I know he's well liked around here, but he's such a sulking primadonna. "How dare you love me?"
not nearly as funny as rodney but just as dead.
if anyone's interested in going to florida for the election (to bring elderly kerry voters to the polls in Ft. lauderdale), i'm organizing a trip. email me. we're having an event monday night, the details of which are below:
NYC to FLA
Mon Oct 11, 6:30PM
274 W. 12th St, #5 (w4th)
nbutterworth - at - mac.com
just in case you havent seen the George W Bush drunk at an August 29th 1992 Lubbock wedding video
give the man some respect.
on the outside chance anyone missed : NYT How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence
By DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH
2nd annual black label bike kill