Off the reservation
 

No really. I want to invite SS and they won't let me.

James Fallows on the debates
 

Tempting, but no. I'll leave that viewing style to the talking heads on the postgame shows.

Off the reservation
 

Sexist fucks.

Off the reservation
 

So you believe you and SS are of about the same intelligence? I think I agree with that.

Off the reservation
 

So does Mensa! That's the reason they let us in. I feel like we're going in circles.

Off the reservation
 

You're in MENSA alright. But you're going to be right the fuck back out if you put water in my JW Black/rock (not rocks) again.

Snagged from practice area listserv
 

In ACLU Case, Federal Court Strikes Down Patriot Act Surveillance Power As Unconstitutional


September 29, 2004




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Censorship And Secrecy May Potentially Be Turned On Ourselves As A Weapon Of Self-Destruction," Court Says

NEW YORK - Saying that "democracy abhors undue secrecy," a federal court today struck down an entire Patriot Act provision that gives the government unchecked authority to issue "National Security Letters" to obtain sensitive customer records from Internet Service Providers and other businesses without judicial oversight. The court also found a broad gag provision in the law to be an "unconstitutional prior restraint" on free speech.

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/Safe...ID=16603&c=282

The court's decision is at:

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/Safe...ID=16596&c=262

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Wow. I like looking at the redacted documents. I particularly like that the gov't demanded that a quote from a published SCOTUS case be redacted. Not the cite, just the quote.

This spells doom . . .

Why? At the moment it shows GWB getting two percent more than he got in 2000. (Implicitly, anyway -- I doubt that there were many black Nader supporters.)

They need a "Disenfranchise Spokesman"

The article where that quote came from illustrates the shamelessness of the Democratic party.

First, The Democrats run ads saying that Bush wants blacks to stay home on election day.

The Republicans say, no actually we want them to come and vote for us because the Democrats are slaughtering their people (abortion), oppressing them into perpetual poverty (race-concious programs) etc. etc.

The Democrats come back and scream like little girls that the Republicans are race-baiting.

Would any Democrat like to defend this charge, or will somebody please stand up and admit that you have taken this voting bloc for granted?

I would love just for GWB to invite local blacks leaders over for a saturday morning chat now and again. Not Jesse and his extortion crew, but school principals, popular preachers, local politicians etc. I don't care if it never changed one person's mind... but its embarrasing at the national level that the Republicans don't even try. Getting 25 or 30% of the black vote (i.e., middle class, conservatives, suburbanites) would be a no brainer if the Republicans would just feel comfortable reaching out without looking guilty.

But hey, anyone want to argue that its really the Right that race baits?

If anyone ever runs against Lantos,
 

please give me one good reason that I shouldn't donate to his (Lantos') campaigns (he's a Democrat).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...stan_vote_nato

Tom Lantos, CA Democrat calls our European and NATO allies freeloaders, hypocrites, ingrates etc etc etc.

The thing is, he's right. Ironic how Kerry is going to argue tomorrow night that we need to get their approval.

For those of you on the Right side of center, I absolutely guarantee that you will enjoy reading the article. The guy basically just jumped up into my favorite Democrats list in 1 day.

Hello

Bill Kristol must read my rants
 

See, now I would argue that it's much worse to flip-flop on the results. But then, I think all this flip-flop talk is just so much horseshit anyway.

things proven today
 

Oh, you mean, he is actually following through on one of Clinton's initiatives? There must have been a slip-up somewhere.