I was thinking of writing a diary on how Democratic candidates should be out in force asking their constituents to vote via the absentee ballot method - thus producing a paper trail. I decided to do some research, to find out first whether or not this was already happening.

Lookie what I found:

(imagine that deep-voiced movie trailer guy talking here:)
In a time...
Where students...
Couldn't take the lies anymore....

Bill Kristol gets beaten about the head and ears in the U of Texas auditorium.

This is the BEST thing I think I've ever seen.

Here you have it - Saudi Arabia, "best friend" country of the Bush family has called a war-criminal a war-criminal:
Saudi Arabia declares the Jewish State guilty of war crimes.

This afternoon, while waiting in line at the post office, I became a stupid moron.  I have no excuse.  I simply clammed up.  Today, I was Part of the Problem.

I had five packages and was already feeling like an asshole due to the long time it was going to take me at the kiosk.  But my packages were nothing compared to what was about to transpire.  A little old lady behind me, wearing a neon pink jacket and a red visor over her frizzy, bottle-blond hair took a shining to me, as it were.

We exchanged pleasantries and I was lulled into a kind of small talk stupor.  You know how that goes... automatic pilot.  Heat, humidity, bargain shopping.  She told me that she had moved to my small city from a large, urban center called Brampton.  Oh yes, good.  Do you like it here?  Yes!  "Brampton is unliveable anymore."  she croaked.
"Oh I hear it's getting very overpopulated." I replied.  And I wasn't lying - I had literally just heard that the day before.  But that's not what she meant.

5.  You don't have anyone tied up in your house or car.
4.  You have never cut letters out of a newspaper or magazine and glued them into sentences on another sheet of paper.
3.  No one has paid you any ransom money - or even REFUSED to pay you ransom money.
2.  All of your friends and family are with you voluntarily
and...
the
number
one
sign
that
you
AREN'T a KIDNAPPER:
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War is CERTAINLY not about the moral high ground.  It's only about moeny and power.

Wanna know how I know that?

I know that because men can destroy families by either raping, molesting, or beating the people in them and there's no war cry from ANY political party about getting serious enough to stop them. I know that because predators keep getting caught, put in jail for a couple of months, and let out again to reoffend. I know that because, as a person with a calculator, I can see that housing an inmate isn't as profitable as bombing the shit out of a place that has coveted natural resources to exploit.

Just a funny little tid-bit perhaps to brighten your evening.

I just did a search for anti-Bush and anti-repulican on ebay.  I got 108 results for Anti-Bush and 0 for anti-Gore.  I got 8 results for anti-republican and only 3 for anti-democrat.

I'm thinking of making a Bush bashing t-shirt myself, and was sussing out the market. umm.. here it is:

Try as I might, I cannot divorce God.  

I know, I know.  That's so unfashionable.  Especially around here.  We're "progressives" and progressives don't do the faith thing.  It's right in the Ten Commandments of Progressiveness, right?

1.  Thou shalt never vote Republican.
2.  Thou shalt not mix Church and State.
etc...

I know this is risky..

Why oh why do the police have to act like hard-ons ready to explode at the slightest stroking of their 'terrorism muscle?"

According to this Guardian Story they've shot a guy in the UK for no reason.  This is what you get for ramping up racism - fear mongering and itchy trigger fingers on the part of the people with the weapons.  Sure, sure, the police have apologized - but it's lame.  (Ahem, at least it's better than pretending that it didn't happen à la Haditha but it's an underhanded apology at best.  Here's what the Assistant police commissioner Andy Hayman had to say.  See if you can spot the idiocy:

more after the jump

This could happen to any one of us, folks, and that's what makes it so chilling.

I'll keep this short and sweet because I don't know a lot about it yet.  I also have to do everything possible to conceal identities but I'm going to use the male pronoun for ease of reading.

Feel free to read more:

I've often wondered why the Republicans are so hell bent on keeping homosexuality a 'dirty sin' and gay people subjugated, hated and without any rights.

I used to believe it was in order to woo the bible-thumpers, who we are told are an enormous, wealthy group who love to vote.  And that might be true.  But recently, I think I've found another reason for their all out war on homosexuals.  A reason that would explain why even Republicans who are gay themselves are invested in denigrating lesbians and, in particular, gay men.

I think it's the trump card, played to keep the other members in line... follow me into some odd territory:

I am about to write an "angry" diary entry.
I don't like to do it, but I must.

As D-Kos is covering here and likely all over the place elsewhere.. we have 'left tin-foil hat territory' and appear to have a true "blue" republican sex-scandal in the form of lobbyists supplying elected representatives with hookers in exchange for favourale votes.

Why does this 'revelation' make me so grit-spittin' mad?  Here's why:

Bloomberg.com has a piece called Democrats beat Republicans in 2005 Fund-Raising on Wall Street.  If you read it, you will note that the margin of 'victory' for the Dems is only 1%.  Not much to crow about.  

What's interesting is why Wall Street is still so tentative about where to throw their money.  More after the jump...

In America, the world is told, you make your own luck.  Anything is possible.  From the ashes of your former life - your war-torn home country perhaps, or from a desperately poor childhood - you can rise like a phoenix and become the next Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey.

And if you are very, very lucky (as in super-jackpot lottery winner type lucky) that is still true.  It's true in Canada, too.  And in England.  And in Egypt.  And in Denmark.  I could continue the list, but you get the picture.

Now.. on a related point (you'll see how in a moment..) there is nothing more dangerous than an opponent who has nothing to lose.

How do these things fit together?  Follow me.

Why has Harper attacked freedom of the press?  His party has issued a gag order and supposedly HE HIMSELF gets to vet every piece of info out of his Cabinet ministers' mouths.

And why now?  Could it be because NorthCom is due to come into full effect in May, 2006?  There is virtually no reportage on this subject, which could be of vital importance to our future.  Now is the time to stand up for Canada.. stand against this imbecile!

You'd think that living in Canada where we aren't living with terror alerts, filtered media cheerleading and the fear of being labeled unpatriotic for speaking out against unsound policy, that the people I know and love would not fall victim to the US government's propaganda.  It isn't so.

The fear-mongering of the US administration has found its way north of the American-Canadian border and my relationship with one half of my parental unit is the latest victim of liberal-bashing.

My mother disowned me today.  I'm 35.  I didn't think that could happen at my age.

Yeah... is it just me, or does it seem awfully strange that a guy who was allegedly Saddam's #2 in the Air Force is laughing it up about WMD on the Daily Show?

Is this some new level of callousness or do all ex-military find their former jobs for dictatorial murderers to be funny and marketable, and do they usually act kind of flippant about what they know, if they believe that what they know is of earth-shattering consequence?

Something was off there.  Or maybe I'm too far down the rabbit hole.

Jismism is a movement that aims to rid the world of abortions once and for all!  It takes the onus off women (who have royally screwed up their reproductive freedoms) and places it where it belongs:  on the stronger sex.  I'm talking about the men, the dudes, the hombres.

Jismism is a movement against non-reproductive ejaculation, which only men can control.  Women have proven that they can NOT be trusted with the enormous responsibility of reproductive counter-measures.  None of our attempts to get them to stay unpregnant - condoms, pills, copper thingies, abstinence education, social ostracism, the refusal to fund day-care, non-payment of child support  - none of them have been dumbed down enough for them to finally get it right.

Think about it - by outlawing ejaculation except in cases of intended pregnancy there would be no need for evil RU486 pills, no forced child-support payments, no baby-killing doctors... doesn't it sound good?

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Life begins BEFORE ejaculation !!