I've been suprised at how little concern there's been about Abu Ghraib -- and I think liberals are as guilty as conservatives when it comes to downplaying the significance that America is torturing people. That's a big deal, (1) because it's immoral and (2) because it's a huge fscking recruitment poster for al-Qaeda. I see people justifying the torture by
Hey, I think we finally have a Kerry majority at JoeUser.
Yeah, pretty much. It's Friday night, I'm in the middle of New York City, and I'm writing comments on an internet forum.
Heh. Are we the only three people reading the forum right now?
I think I've read that the US passed China, last year, to claim the highest incarceration rate in the world. How depressing is that? On the other hand, it looks like my homestate, California, is about to vote to weaken its three strikes law, which puts a tremendous number of people in prison -- for decades -- for minor nonviolent crimes.
Yes, Electoral-Vote is a good site. You'll see they actually predict the outcome of the race here , using the assumption that undecided will favor Kerry as they've favored the challenger in nearly all presidential elections (where the were an incumbent). These electoral vote counts can change a lot day to day, so I wouldn't take them very seriously. Try not to get too excited
Has anyone seen "The American President"? I've heard there's a character just like Dick Cheney, played by Richard Dreyfus. God, I just noticed they've both got the same first name!
http://2.004k.com/national is a great site for keeping up on the various polls. This link points to the national polls, but you'll see they also have lots of state ones. http://realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_hth.html is also good, but be aware they tend to the Likely Voter numbers, not the Registered Voter numbers, and that's statistically controversial, for reasons I won't go into he
Hilarious. I give you a list of mostly governors and senators, and you comeback with... a mayor? A Member of the House? Oh yeah, that's really impressive. Maybe you can find some Democratic DMV guys who are voting for Bush, or a librarian. All you got is Zell Miller. Anyway, none of this would matter except the underlying cause, which is that Bush is appealing to his conservative base, while Kerry is appealing to moderate swing vo
Great post, Bungy32. I agree with some of the others that much more prominent parts of the bible, even ignored by evangelicals, so it's not enough to use the biblical argument against homosexuality. Not to mention that Old Testament has all these random rules regarding what materials your clothes can be made out of, and similar crap, which is given the same priority as the prohibition on homosexuality. Mrs blogic thinks we're moving
"Ender's Game" is good. I read it a long time ago, but it made an impression. I think it's a little overrated, but very entertaining. I'd talk more about the moral dilemma of the book, but you should read at least the next book in the series for that. What is that, "Xenocide"? You know what's weird? Orson Scott Card is supporting Bush. Card is a huge booster of the war in Iraq. Honestly, after reading EG, and it's sequels, that makes no
Cake makes your upper lip stretchy? Huh? Um, no political dreams, no. I think Mrs blogic may have dreamed that Kerry won. More accurately, she dreamed that she fell asleep early on election night, and when she woke up the next day, I told her Kerry had won. Maybe I had some dishonest scheme in the dream. I don't know, you'd have to ask her. She has some really weird dreams. Back in 2002, there was a Republican commercial where t
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Yeah, there's been buzz about this for the last week. Of course, Democrats also use some dirty tricks, but I don't think they're doing anything this ambitious. Where is everyone tonight? JU is dead. Friday night. Man, I need to get a life. :-/
Hi Dr., You're absolutely right. Sorry, that was due to editing changes, without looking at what was above the text I was changing. Thanks for pointing it out.
You can see the story here . Ex-governor Ventura was joined in his endorsement by Agnus, another independent governor from the late 1990s - early 2000s. A few prominent Republicans who've endorsed Kerry:<b
Hi CraigAlan, I liked your post. I think there's a fair amount of anger on both sides of the politcial aisle right now. During the 1990s, I know Republicans really didn't like Clinton. Some Democrats weren't thrilled with him either, but I've never seen the intensity of dislike that I saw from the Republican back then. Democrats never responded to Reagan that way; and while I realize that some of the Republican will probably argue that's be
Good piece, stevendedalus, I think Bush is making a huge mistake not putting more focus on resolving the Israel-Palestine issue. While Americans believe that Iraq is central to the War Against Terrorism, I think the Israel-Palestine situation has far more serious long term consequences than Iraq ever did. We're creating generations of Arabs who identify the United States with the occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. I s
I'll miss your posts, Sandy.
Oh, it was no problem. I rarely have a problem with a coversation going in a new direction.
Hi Mitch21, I think you're taking the topic more seriously than we were. "yet Bush is still ahead in the election, which matters more?" As I said, I think this discussion is a light one. But according to the national polls coming out right now, Kerry and Bush are basically tied, and the electoral vote count sit
Last week, we had some discussion regarding Senator Kerry, his Catholicism, and whether American catholics would support him. Yesterday, two polls came out showing that Catholics favor Kerry over Bush , at least for now. I've left the second ABC poll out of these snippets, but its results are similar
I haven't read the links yet -- I promise I will soon -- but unless you can show me Kerry's sister when as his representative, I'm not sure I'm going to buy the argument that he supported this party. Nor am I convinced that supporting a candidate implies that you support everything that candidate believes. Bush support Arnold Schwarzenegger, but obviously doesn't support all of AS views. Regarding Kerry's sister, what little I know about her
Yeah, I was reading through Free Republic today, and even they don't want to get near Keyes with a ten foot pole.
Well, in fairness, I think most of these people have -- through simple osmosis -- learned more about the two candidates than they probably knew about what they were signing. There's a lot of economic theory about how it may be possible for uninformed actors to make "good" decisions -- that is, the decisions they would have made had they been fully informed. Interesting stuff. Still, it's just the image of these slackers, who probably
Sorry, I don't have any brilliant commentary on this. It was in the liberal New York Observer , and made me laugh. A lot. We’re all God’s children. And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she was. She’s being who she was b