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MoveOn.org wants me to post this, and I needed something to push that other Libertarian post off the front page, so here you go:

1. The polls may be wrong. This is an unprecedented election. No one knows
how racism may affect what voters tell pollsters–or what they do in the
voting booth. And the polls are narrowing anyway. In the last few days,
John McCain has gained ground in most national polls, as his campaign has
gone even more negative.

2. Dirty tricks. Republicans are already illegally purging voters from the
rolls in some states. They’re whipping up hysteria over ACORN to justify
more challenges to new voters. Misleading flyers about the voting process
have started appearing in black neighborhoods. And of course, many
counties still use unsecure voting machines.

3. October surprise. In politics, 15 days is a long time. The next McCain
smear could dominate the news for a week. There could be a crisis with
Iran, or Bin Laden could release another tape, or worse.

4. Those who forget history… In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote after
trailing by seven points in the final days of the race. In 1980, Reagan
was eight points down in the polls in late October and came back to win.
Races can shift–fast!

5. Landslide. Even with Barack Obama in the White House, passing universal
health care and a new clean-energy policy is going to be hard. Insurance,
drug and oil companies will fight us every step of the way. We need the
kind of landslide that will give Barack a huge mandate.

Propz to Porkchop

Twist and Shout is selling keychains that have clocks counting down the days, minutes, and seconds left for the Bush Administration. These are also available online at backwardsbush.com.

Get yours today!

See the RudePundit almost have an aneurysm.

With linkage to these accounts of the clusterfuck in Iraq.

Check out his Web-π.0-enabled site while you’re at it.

Looks like plucky online retailer amazon.com (anyone heard of these guys before?) will offer DRM-free downloads of music from 12,000 record labels. Did you even know there were 12,000 record labels left in the world? I thought the big three had bought everyone out.

At any rate, it looks like our boycott worked! Nice job, everyone!

*Previous Mission Accomplished


What wrong that needs righting will we unleash our terrible power onto next?

The Onion has a list of the 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will up at their avclub.com site.

The Only Real Difference between Bush and Hitler is not one of them, but it is mentioned parenthetically under item number 7:

Vonnegut (who often said “The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected” [emphasis added]) was righteously skeptical about war, having famously survived the only one worth fighting in his lifetime. And it’s never been more true: Left or right, Christian or Muslim, those convinced they’re doing violence in service of a higher power and against an irretrievably inhuman enemy are the most dangerous creatures of all.

Go now and read the rest of the article!

And, like, hell-oooooo peeples, the Real Reason Littleton Sucks is because all suburbs suck. Like, holy hell, Batman, at what point does redundancy equal prison and/or death, when gas hits $4.00/gallon?!? Shaaaa - get a clue already!

Oh man, we are so unpopular. How unpopular are we? Our most popular article as estimated by the number of internet strangers making comments is Littleton, CO Sucks. This page comes up as the 77th result if you search for the words “littleton,” “CO,” and “sucks” at google. We didn’t even crack the top 1000 at yahoo.

That is pretty weak, people, but it is the best we’ve got. I propose that set a goal for ourselves of being the number 1 search result at google when people search for “littleton,” “CO,” and “sucks” by the end of the year. We can do it people. It’s all about the attitude.

So the next time you post something here about whatever it is that got your panties in a bunch, make sure to add a second post about out least favorite suburb, Littleton, CO.

Make sure to use the Littleton, CO Sucks category.

More propz to Ross, diggin’ up the gems:
Read all about Fascist America over at the Guardian. (posted overseas so the Bush Gestapo can’t censor it…yet)
Near-random selection from the article:

9. Dissent equals treason

Cast dissent as “treason” and criticism as “espionage’. Every closing society does this, just as it elaborates laws that increasingly criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand the definition of “spy” and “traitor”. When Bill Keller, the publisher of the New York Times, ran the Lichtblau/Risen stories, Bush called the Times’ leaking of classified information “disgraceful”, while Republicans in Congress called for Keller to be charged with treason, and rightwing commentators and news outlets kept up the “treason” drumbeat. Some commentators, as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is execution.

Here’s another picture of Undead Robot Hitler for ya:

We’ve conquered coffee. Let’s move on to bagels, shall we?

In 1996, I was working for a little software concern down in Greenwood Village. I was a greenhorn consultant sharing an office with an honest-to-God, type-A-personality, New York Jew. For the sake of argument, let’s say his name was Woody. Being a Midwestern boy, this was my first exposure on a daily basis to an New Yorker, let alone a guy so stereotypical he had to be made up.

Woody was a project manager. He had two principal clients in the financial services industry which happened to be bitter rivals. Woody has this charming habit of having long conference calls with them, naturally on speaker phone, during which he would pace the office or bounce a racquetball against the wall or both. More often than not, he’d play them off of each other. “Barco just bought our MegaFop software,” he’d tell the guy from Jarco. “Jarco’s going live next week,” he’d tell the guy from Barco. The usual response from either of these guys was usually some form of malevolent hate which Woody seemed to thrive on even while shrugging it off. “Cut the bullshit,” they’d demand as Woody bounced the racquetball. Good times.

One day I brought in to work a bagel from the local chain bagel place — the one that makes somewhat doughy bagels under the marketing guise of being run by a couple of neighborhood Jewish guys straight out of Hell’s Kitchen. You don’t get cream cheese on your bagel there, you get a “shmear.” You get the idea. Anyway, I bring this thing into work, Woody sees it, and begins to lecture me on what is and what is not a bagel. My over sized, doughy bagel from the local chain bagels place was apparently not a bagel. A true bagel, I was informed, can only be formed in the sanctity of the rarefied New York air, and only then in the morning, preferably before or just at dawn. And furthermore, chocolate, asiago cheese, and (Heaven forbid) cinnamon, have no business anywhere near a real bagel.

My curiosity about these mystical “O”-shaped chunks of paradise at this point was defeated by my growing annoyance with Woody’s insistence that everything outside of his beloved city was crap. In addition to the bagels being utter refuse, I was further informed that it was impossible to get decent Chinese food in Denver, the sushi was inedible, there was nothing to do downtown, and people here don’t know how to dress. Why are people from the biggest city in the country so small-minded? It’s a scientific mystery.

At any rate, my breakfast being criticized, fairly or not, I became annoyed. So I recommended to Woody that if he really wanted one of his incredible bagels, perhaps he should find his way back to New York. Why not right now?

Naturally this only endeared me to him. Maybe he liked my chutzpah, I don’t know. But he laughed in that “you’re OK, kid,” way that some people can, and left for a meeting.

Years later I traveled to New York and tried one of those mystical bagels. Woody was right. The ones we get out here are crap.