Wingnut e-mail watch: Clunker Cash edition

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 8:15 PM PDT

2009/09/11 · 20:15

I just got this e-mail from my pet wingnut:

Keep your eyes peeled for our ever vigilant media to jump on this one – yeah, right.

I guess I must be on the wrong page...

A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons a year of gasoline.

A vehicle at 25 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year.

So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.

Follow below the jump for the rest, and the analysis.

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 10:36 PM PDT

2009/04/23 · 22:36

That is all. Thank you.

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Friday March 20, 2009 · 5:05 PM PDT

2009/03/20 · 17:05

Going back many years has been the dispute between those who believe that black box voting machines were actively being hacked, and those who believe that while it was possible, it had no real effect. Well, the results are in:
http://www.bradblog.com/...

A cross-partisan conspiracy has been uncovered going back to 2002. Insider election officials did indeed do the thing we computer experts all feared all along. On non-verifiable machines, they exploited a small user-interface feature to miseducate voters about how to use the machine. They convinced people that they had in fact already voted, when instead they left the voting booth with the machine in a state that it would be easy to change the votes and then finally confirm it. In this way, they actually changed the results of local elections for pay. The corruption came from officials on both sides of the aisle.

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 8:39 AM PST

2009/02/16 · 08:39

Harper's has the story about a former Gitmo guard who tells all about the early days of Guantanamo, when guards with little training were turned loose for revenge on the newly captured alleged terrorists. This story focuses on the use of rape by instrumentality which was routinely performed for no particular security purpose, but rather to sexually humiliate the prisoners. Keeping in mind that this was just weeks after 9/11, revenge and torture seem to have been carried out indiscriminately. However, tellingly, when the Bush administration was working on criminal law as it applies to contractors, they were vehement in their resistance to criminalizing rape by instrumentality, implying that it was known to them and ongoing.

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Thursday March 27, 2008 · 4:23 PM PDT

2008/03/27 · 16:23

Many here and elsewhere are concerned about the rift being created in the Democratic party, and are asking for Hillary to step down. Some are even asking for Obama to step aside, but there is little logic to support that. I just got through reading this diary about a Hillary supporter and it got me thinking. We the people have made our choice, and we the people don't have to wait for everyone else to figure it out.
More below the jump.

Poll

89 votes Show Results

Who's with me?

89 votes Vote Now!

Who's with me?

We're the cool kids.

82 votes

Hillary's cool, she still has a shot.

5 votes

Drink the kool-aid, vote McBain

2 votes

Dramatic Texas precinct report (caucus last night)

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 9:50 AM PST

2008/03/05 · 09:50

This is a report of a particularly dramatic caucus in Texas. I must say that everything went quite smoothly in spite of the chaos and 300 people showing up in a small elementary school cafeteria. This is compared to about 20 people showing up for the Republican caucus, in a red suburban district in Texas. The full story is below the jump.

(Note that this is a repost. In the chaos last night this lasted about five minutes before it scrolled off, and it was not appropriately titled.)

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Tuesday March 04, 2008 · 8:20 PM PST

2008/03/04 · 20:20

This an example of how a single person's vote can count, and on top of that, how I contributed in unique ways to the campaign and the party, even though I only got started today at 6:30 p.m.

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Saturday February 23, 2008 · 12:12 PM PST

2008/02/23 · 12:12

I have said it here before, but I will give my background just for those who don't know. I voted for GWB the first time around, thinking he would be the education president. Not that it mattered, his carrying Texas was a foregone conclusion. In fact, I live in Collin, one of the reddedst counties in Texas, where the only real conversation was during the Republican Primaries, about whether McCain or Bush would be the ~~president~~ nominee. Anyway, after Saddam failed to gas our troops, I figured out it was all a lie. Not only were there no nukes, there weren't even minor WMD like gas or biological. So in 2004 I voted Kerry. Fast forward to the present.

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Friday January 11, 2008 · 4:14 PM PST

2008/01/11 · 16:14

I have come clean in the past, and I will again here out myself: I used to vote Republican. At least once in my life, I even voted the straight freakin' ticket. I am pretty much their target demographic from the 90's. I'm well off, middle-aged, stock investor, worked for start-ups and started my own business in the past; wife owns her own business, Texan, Christian, etc. My representative Sam Johnson was a former POW who made it a point to be involved in the reddest of red districts where I live, and generally voted the way I would have on issues I agreed with. I donated to his campaign fund, but I don't think I ever wrote him a letter.

I voted for G. W. Bush in 2000, and was quite happy to see him win after a long, drawn-out battle in Florida. I was also happy to see him strike Iraq with shock and awe when I heard that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons and was working with the terrorists to provide them eventually with Nuclear weapons that he was surely building.

I promise this gets better below...

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Thursday November 08, 2007 · 10:33 AM PST

2007/11/08 · 10:33

Many people, today most of them either Republican or non-political, argue that since they have nothing to hide, there is no problem with government surveillance of all of their phone calls, e-mails, etc. In the future, however, it may be us making this same bad argument in a few years under a Democratic president.
Daniel Solove, a professor at George Washington University Law School, has written an essay about this argument and why it is flawed. His essay also addresses the question of what exactly we mean by privacy, and what are the problems associated with it. This essay stemmed from a blog post where he asked the question as to counter arguments to this defense.

Make the jump for more.

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Thursday June 21, 2007 · 3:19 PM PDT

2007/06/21 · 15:19

The CIA has released a huge document sometimes referred to as the "family jewels" detailing 25 years of violation of the CIA charter, in which they spied on journalists and anti-war protesters and plotted assassinations and experimented on humans.
From the article

Gen. Hayden called today's release "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency."

See you after the break:

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Thursday March 29, 2007 · 2:44 PM PDT

2007/03/29 · 14:44

Welcome to part XIII of the Live Blog on the Senate hearing on the Dismissal of the US Attorneys.

This is post-blog now. Pictures are OK.

Don't forget to unrec previous liveblog diaries and rec this one.

dday has a great diary about Sen. Whitehouse, check it out.

Call Schumer's office as recommended here by Scout Finch.

Nice summary here by cfaller96. Read More

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Wingnut e-mail watch: Clunker Cash edition

Torture is illegal even if it works.

Election fraud believers were right all along

New Guard Testimony, Rape by instrumentality routine at Gitmo

I'm calling it for Obama - time to heal the divide (Updated)

Dramatic Texas precinct report (caucus last night)

My Vote Counted

Texas early voting report [Collin County edition]

I told a pollster the truth

Nothing to hide: a flawed argument exposed

CIA admits to spying on left in Nixon years

LiveBlog Wrap-up Party XIII: Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys