I kept refreshing the news sites last night, certain that there would be some irregularity in the voting process that would install McCain as president in defiance of the national will. After I finally went to sleep, I actually had a nightmare about it.
So far, though, things are going pretty well.
I can’t help but be [...]
Today is the day. Go get out there and make your voice heard and all that. Then I can stop thinking about politics until the next election begins in another 2.5 years.
I voted for Obama. (Not today. Earlier. Absentee ballot.) I think you should too. Even if you disagree, though, vote. I’d rather live in [...]
I know I stole it directly from BoingBoing, but this is too funny not to repost.
It looks like he agrees that a bailout would have been a bad idea.
The House of Representatives voted down the proposed bailout today. This I approve! There was substantial opposition to the bill among just about everybody I know, and it’s good to see politicians obeying the will of the people every once in a while.
I can’t rule out the possibility that a bailout of some kind is [...]
I have to admit, I was more impressed with McCain than I had expected to be. He definitely has a clear vision of what he believes is best for the nation. It seems hard to argue that if he is elected, he would continue the same type of aggressively stupid leadership that Bush pioneered.
Luckily, Obama [...]
Definition of Posse Comitatus:
The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services from exercising nominally state law enforcement police or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property.
However, the Army Times reports:
The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in [...]
7e11 dollars. When the most convenient notation for a figure is the scientific, you’re talking about either a whole lot or a tiny amount. The exponent here is positive, so we know that it’s a ton, but trying to imagine that sum in terms of money just boggles the mind. It is too much money [...]
Kadath points out:
What is this picture that McCain spoke in front of, before the entire nation, at the RNC? Astute observers figured it out relatively quickly; it is Walter Reed…
middle school.
Every once in a while I see yet another story about American authorities doing something clearly contrary to the ideals of the nation. At this point, all I can summon is a kind of tired rage that these things happen and nobody seems to care. Bush wants the US to remain on a war footing [...]