Don't feel like voting today?
Listen to this: What's in a Number - 2006 Edition, from This American Life.
Listen to what's happened in Iraq. Listen to how our troops handle civilian deaths. It's not their fault they're in this situation.
Go vote—it's a matter of accountability.
Tomorrow is election day in the United States.
If you do not vote tomorrow, you are not participating in the choosing of your leaders and therefore are not influencing the direction in which your country goes. That means that you can neither take pleasure in your country's actions nor deplore them, because you didn't choose or oppose them.
So if you don't vote, you don't have a voice.
Eight days until the election—it's time YOU get involved.
- Head over to CallForChange.com. MoveOn.org provides potential voters and you call to encourage them to vote (they did this right—easy-to-use web page for getting numbers and recording responses and no crazy time/quota commitments).
- Sign up for Skype. It calls from any computer to any land line in the US for free (I have a cell phone and this is a better way to call without killing minutes).
DO IT NOW, lest people forget pedophile cover-ups, secret detention camps, legalized torture, and thousands of dead servicemen.
You guys are KILLING me here!
OK, you've got the Republicans on the run. They're imploding and you didn't have to say a damn thing (which is a good thing, since opening your mouth is usually just a prelude to you sticking your foot in it).
NOW is your chance to go on the offensive and an unfashionable twerp named Kim Jong Il just gave you your issue: North Korea just got the bomb.
The Republicans, so bloated with power, so obsessed with Iraq, so __ with __, turned a blind eye to North Korea and now they have the bomb. A part of the mother fucking Axis of Evil has the mother fucking bomb!
C'mon Dems, STICK IT TO THE 'PUBS ALREADY! Security has always been one of the 'Pub's main bags and here they've done gone let a despot develop his own toy bomb!
Their moral pillar has been knocked out from underneath them with the whole Foley scandal—nail the security one and they'll topple faster than a jenga tower at a sorority mixer!
What on god's green earth are you freakin' waiting for!
UPDATE: Just to make it easier for you, here's the timeline that shows how the Republicans let North Korea join the Nuclear Club: thinkprogress.org.
That new Dashcode application from Apple sure looks cool:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/dashboard.html
I sure like that Podcast template, and the Workflow Steps feature... clever stuff!
;-)
CNN states "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday urged the Cuban people not to flee the island for Florida because of political uncertainty."
What political uncertainty? There's no crisis in Cuba. Sure, power has transferred to Raul Castro, but all reports point to this being a non-event.
It's like in Wag the Dog (paraphrased): "This has nothing to do with prematurely activating the B3 bomber to deal with the crisis in Albania" (when there is no B3 bomber and everything's quiet in Albania).
By saying just the right thing, the State Department has just created political uncertainty in Cuba, even though there was none before.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
I have officially found the worst song of 2006. I'd post it here for you to listen to, but I don't want to pay the 99¢ for the song to give record companies and the artist the allusion that I'm supporting them with this one.
Heck, iTunes's 30 second preview is all that you really need, anyhow.
Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, in the category of just plain bad song, I humbly present submit
Fergie's London Bridge. From the horrible beat to the assinine lyrics, this song has absolutely nothing.
