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03 November 2004 ~ 0 Comments

“It’s Your Fault”

From author John Shirley’s site If you just accepted Diebolt’s rigged voting machines, then it’s your fault we’re heading into an Ashcroftian  fascist state. If you –like too many people in New Mexico–just accepted the Republicans’ blocking of the registration of Hispanic voters, widely reported in NM, then it’s your fault that the poor will [...]

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30 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

Some Thoughts on the OBL Tape

William Gibson thinks OBL would prefer to see Bush re-elected and that his new tape was a clever attempt at helping that happen: I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that OBL fears Kerry any more than Bush. But Kerry can only comprise an unknown, and why allow the other team to introduce an [...]

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29 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

Internet Vets for Truth

For the one or two people in the US that still need to be informed that Bush is pretty much a dangerous bozo, the Internet Vets for Truth give you tons of material as torrents and quicktime movies for consumption. This is a good central place with a bevy of clips from miscellaneous sources including [...]

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28 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

Ouch, Caught Lying Again

Barrels inside the Al-Qaqaa facility appear on videotape shot by ABC television affiliate KSTP of St. Paul, Minn., which had a crew embedded with the 101st Airborne Division when it passed through Al-Qaqaa on April 18, 2003 — nine days after Baghdad fell.

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28 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

More Kerry Stuff

Here’s a bit of an interesting quote from today’s AP article about the campaigning.  Kerry said: "About a year ago, when things weren’t going so well in my campaign, somebody called a radio talk show and they said, thinking they were just cutting me right to the quick, they said ‘John Kerry won’t be the [...]

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