Uh oh. More than just DTS problems in CA?

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Tuesday February 05, 2008 · 5:18 PM PST

2008/02/05 · 17:18

I'm a registered Dem and went to vote today in CA. I'd seen the Courage Campaign awareness efforts and dday's posts alerting us that Decline to State (DTS) voters to the fact that they had to specifically request a Democratic ballot in order to vote in the primary.

I thought that as a registered Democrat, my ballot wouldn't feature that line.

After they handed me my ballot, I was directed to go to one of the polling booths marked "DEM". I was surprised to see that I had to ink that spot on the ballot as well.

Okay, I thought: it seemed like the ballots were the same but maybe the instruction booklet was different? But I was voting in a DEM booth (the instruction booklets are attached to the booth).

Strange.

But okay, right? So everyone has to fill in the dot for Democrat. The only way registered Dems aren't caught in this trap as well is that the scanner will catch it.

The scanners will catch that, right?

I don't think so.

[over the flip]

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Saturday November 17, 2007 · 3:30 PM PST

2007/11/17 · 15:30

EDIT: All speeches are over, and John Edwards will be in the press tent for media availability shortly. I (hekebolos posting the update here) intend to get clarification from him about mountaintop removal.

update: I didn't get a chance to ask the question. He only took three.

This is a follow-up to hekebolos' diary on the FP below. At this point, Kucinich is responding to questions, and is talking about people who are resistant to change in Washington. Resistance is generally from the interest groups who want to build new coal facilities, nuclear plants, and who want to get oil and fight wars to keep it. But under my administration, that power will be broken, and we can return to government controlled by the people. The question is whether you want people there who will take a stand. We can either have courage and do it, or keep drifting along and getting reports like we are from the IPCC about gases growing, sea levels rising, catastrophic changes in our weather patterns.

We have the power in our hands to change our destiny.

vernonlee

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Tuesday August 07, 2007 · 3:33 PM PDT

2007/08/07 · 15:33

Cruising The Nation, I ran across this quick hit from Katrina vanden Heuvel:

When asked by George Stephanopoulos in the Sunday Republican debate to list his mistakes, Rudy Giuliani replied, "George, your father is a priest. I can explain it to your father, not to you."

To think how hard JFK had to work to convince the American people that as President, he would answer to the Constitution, not the Pope.

But let's treat Giuliani's answer with all due seriousness:

vernonlee

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 9:52 AM PDT

2007/08/06 · 09:52

This year at YearlyKos, I found:

a Presidential debate with an air of collaborative project between the candidates, moderators and audience.
the gap between those in the MSM who get the blogosphere and those who don't continues to widen.
that Drinking Liberally is as committed as ever to organized deployment of alcohol.
that Chris Dodd rocks the house.

Unfortunately, I also lost something: a YearlyKos bag.

vernonlee

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Wednesday July 04, 2007 · 11:21 AM PDT

2007/07/04 · 11:21

Here's a friendly message I got this AM from SoCal Grassroots (over the flip):

vernonlee

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Monday July 02, 2007 · 3:41 PM PDT

2007/07/02 · 15:41

Of all the mendacious arguments Libby defenders make, the one I loathe the most is the glib assertion that notwithstanding the clear fact that Libby lied to the FBI and grand jury (obstruction of justice almost never makes it into this argument), there was no 'underlying crime.'

Now that Libby's sentence has been commuted, I'm sure we'll hear the old reliable Douchebags of Liberty trot it out again.

Just for kicks, why is this argument such patent nonsense?

vernonlee

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Wednesday March 21, 2007 · 9:46 AM PDT

2007/03/21 · 09:46

Joe Conason writes in Salon,

Whatever else Bill Clinton is or was or someday may become, he will forever remain the favorite scapegoat for Republicans in trouble. When they're caught, they always point at him -- just as they are doing now in the midst of the scandal over the political dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys and growing demands for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for his role in the matter.

I've been thinking that this propensity on the right to bleat "What about Clinton!" has risen to the level of an axiom.

Poll

26 votes Show Results

Republicans are least likely to blame Clinton for:

26 votes Vote Now!

Republicans are least likely to blame Clinton for:

increased economic opportunity

2 votes

the budget surplus

3 votes

America's global reputation

0 votes

the quiet and successful pursuit of terrorist threats

1 vote

reducing the size of government bureaucracy while making it run better

1 vote

we haven't seen it yet, but when we do, you'll need to bring some warm clothes

19 votes

What's That Going to Cost Me?

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Tuesday March 20, 2007 · 7:13 AM PDT

2007/03/20 · 07:13

The most commonly used figure for the total taxpayers will pay for the S&L bailout is $4.1 trillion. That amounts to about $3000 per taxpayer.

I wonder how much we taxpayers will end up paying per person for the following current obligations?

vernonlee

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Monday February 26, 2007 · 4:26 PM PST

2007/02/26 · 16:26

I've completely escaped the social networking wave. Friendster, facebook and myspace are an exotic alternate universe to me.

I have a hard time convincing myself that anyone my age (mid-30s) has anything to do with them. I've heard the rumors of people like me posting profiles and collecting friends on these sites but have yet to actually visit any one of them to verify the story.

I've been heretofore happily unencumbered by knowledge of this world. (I will have to delve into said alternate universe for work, however.)

So, it was with the curiosity of an anthropologist hiding in the bushes in Samoa that I read in today's NYT, "Too Few Friends? A Web Site Lets You Buy Some (and They're Hot):

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80 votes Show Results

Do you have a profile on a social network site?

80 votes Vote Now!

Do you have a profile on a social network site?

Yes - several sites

4 votes

Yes - one site

12 votes

51 votes

Does sockpuppetry count?

3 votes

Pie

10 votes

Secretary Rice: As the Hamster Wheel Turns

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Sunday February 25, 2007 · 12:47 PM PST

2007/02/25 · 12:47

Rice was on This Week with George Stephanopoulos today and, as is characteristic of her television appearances these past few years, is attempting to soften her brittle demeanor. She still projects an unpleasantly prickly personality, however.

Once I finished watching the interview with Stephanopoulos, I rewound it and replayed it at Tivo's 2x speed. When images fly by at such a rapid rate, gestures and facial expressions are magnified. For example, when Rice answered a question about the contretemps between Cheney and Pelosi this week, she couldn't help shaking her head back and forth "No" as she spoke, clearly negating her nice-nice words.

vernonlee

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Friday February 23, 2007 · 3:38 PM PST

2007/02/23 · 15:38

In his regular Salon feature "Ask the Pilot," Patrick Smith takes on the concept of passengers' bill of rights legislation, an idea with renewed momentum after JetBlue and Delta's recent debacles.

Essentially forcing passengers to stay on a plane sitting on the runway for ten hours is utterly ridiculous, Smith agrees, but wonders whether market solutions aren't preferable to government intrusion in the form of legislation.

His argument thus:

[over the flip; cross-posted]

vernonlee

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Tuesday February 20, 2007 · 7:04 PM PST

2007/02/20 · 19:04

Tony Snow responded to White House press corps questions about the four-alarm-fire conditions in Building 18, an annex to Walter Reed Hospital, where our recuperating soldiers endure unclean, unsanitary conditions of nightmarish dimensions.

Here Snowjob doesn't just have his usual skin in the game. His entire naked self is all in.

cross-posted at vernonlee

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