China, China, China!

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Sunday November 21, 2004 · 12:36 PM PST

2004/11/21 · 12:36

Forgive me the pop geopolitics and the sweeping, metaphysical observation. But I believe there is some validity in this type of thinking...

Anyway, I had a thought today (perhaps not all that original) while reading a book about China's economy:

Perhaps much of the horrible aspects of the Bush presidency can be seen as a reaction and response to the rise of China. Read More

Why is Sinclair Stock STILL Down?

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 12:19 PM PST

2004/11/19 · 12:19

The Sinclair boycott was one of the great blog triumphs of the fall campaign. The company was going to do a hatchet job on Kerry, blogs instantly mobilized, and the company backed off (somewhat) in the face of a sliding stock price.

But here we are several weeks after an election which their candidate won and Sinclair is trading around 20% below its pre-boycott levels. (SBGI is at $6.76 a share, vs $8 per share in early September).

There is no longer an active boycott against Sinclair advertisers and I believe ad sales have returned to pre-scandal levels. So why then has the stock not rebounded?

grushka

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Tuesday November 09, 2004 · 11:45 AM PST

2004/11/09 · 11:45

My family has a loud-mouthed, wealthy republican friend, who has sent some republican "thought pieces" to our general email list. The usual bullshit.

Anyway, he's a big war supoorter, which got me to thinking: why not start a movement to have people give up something they love to show sympathy with our troops.

In this guy's case, it would be golf. Nothing I'd like more than to at least implant a measure of guilt in his mind everytime he hits the links. I mean, there's nothing more sickening than a pro-war loud-mouth who is willing to sacrifice precisely NOTHING while poor kids - on both sides - die. And die for him, I might add, to continue to extract wealth from this country, and for him to feel a vague "safety" by Saddam's removal. Read More

Opt Out of America

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Monday November 08, 2004 · 6:47 AM PST

2004/11/08 · 06:47

I certainly am. Not a Sinclair-style targeted boycott, but a general opting out of the American.

No Hollywood movies. No cable. I don't drive, but if I did, it would be a very old used car. Very few new clothes - and none from chains. No eating at chain stores of any kind. As few household products from large companies as possible.

Only extremely progressive magazines - no mainstream newspapers, either. No more New York Times.

No medications. Of course, I'm young and have no prescriptions, but I'm increasingly skeptical of the pharma industry's products, across the board.

Any other suggestions? I want this election to mark a change, where a substantial portion of America said "no" in a fundamental way, in addition to the more specific forms of protest we will be developing over time.

What say ye, Kosites?

The New Strategy: Strengthen Europe

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 9:29 AM PST

2004/11/05 · 09:29

so they can be a counterweight to an increasingly insane United States.

I have NO idea how to win over these red states. I truly believe these people cannot be reached. religion ends all debate, all discussion. And that is why the power structures validate it so.

There used to be at least a few layers between the evangelical, apocalyptic crowd and the policy makers, even under Reagan (yeah, I know, Reagan believed in that stuff). Now, there is no barrier. We will have the neocons running the CIA, DIA, Pentagon, NSC. Read More

Time to Prune my Friend Lists

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 8:02 AM PST

2004/11/05 · 08:02

I'm going through email, going through the cell phone... and I'm junking my Bush "friends."

It's not a spite thing. It's more than that. I detect in these people something that repels me. A latent white male fascism that I had always laughed off or chalked up to maleness. I mean, I have an aggressive, obnoxious, pointlessly destructive male side, too. But I don't elevate it to the sphere of polics. Read More

Republican Non Proliferation Record is Satanic

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 9:36 AM PDT

2004/10/25 · 09:36

The Republicans whom Americans trust to keep them safe has a nearly insane record on non proliferation. However flawed some of these treaties were, it is totally to our advantage to maintain them.

WE are the ones with the most to lose from a global nuclear arms race. These treaties were working exceptionally well, despite a case like Pakistan. Because Reagan allowed Pakistan to acquire nuclear capabilities in order for them to allow us to use the country as a staging post for Afghanistan operations after the Soviet invasion. Read More

What have you learned through this whole process?

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Sunday October 24, 2004 · 6:05 AM PDT

2004/10/24 · 06:05

I mean personally, politically, metaphysically? I have learned so much about myself over the past year. I learned the power of action. Which is to give myself props in some ways, but to castigate myself in other ways. I have always been a liberal. But I was not a fighting liberal. Now I am, and I feel as though the world has shifted - in a tiny, yet cosmic way - because I have become an actor. Read More

Editorial Lauding Implantable Chips

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Thursday October 21, 2004 · 12:40 PM PDT

2004/10/21 · 12:40

This week's Barron's has an editorial which goes ga ga for the VeriChip, an implantable subcutaneous electronic chip manufactured by Applied Digital Solutions.

First, the article has an unbearably smug tone. It begins with an obligatory reference to the X-Files (as if to call opponents of total surveillance conspiracy nuts) and then takes a swipe at anyone who is nervous about this kind of product: Read More

Fun with ANAGRAMS!!

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Wednesday October 20, 2004 · 2:31 PM PDT

2004/10/20 · 14:31

George W Bush:

BE EGG RUSH OW
HEBREW GOG US
BEG HUGER SOW
BEG HUGE ROWS
BEG SURGE HOW
BEG WORSE UGH
BEG WE GO RUSH
BUGGERS HE OW
BUGGERS WE OH
REBS WE HUG GO
RUBES EGG WHO
BREWS HUGE GO
BREWS EGO HUG
WEBS GORE HUG
WEB URGES HOG
BUG EGO SHREW
BUSH EGO GREW
SOB HUGE GREW

Take "ABC's The Note" OFF the Blogroll

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Monday October 18, 2004 · 11:19 AM PDT

2004/10/18 · 11:19

Are you KIDDING ME? This is SCLM at its worst, hiding behind a pseudo-fair snarky tone. Take it off the Kos list of approved blogs NOW!

Here's today's headlines from The Note:

By nearly every credible indication available, President Bush seems to have moved, post-debates, into a small but potentially meaningful lead over Senator Kerry.
Senator Kerry has begun to make false negative attacks against President Bush a much more central part of his campaign than before, moving toward parity with the president on this front.

Those are the "Whats." The "Whys" are a little harder to unearth.

As for the polling that shows the president ahead, here is what the Chattering Class believes about it:

A. Because the polls moved slightly in Bush's favor after the debates, there must be a reason, and the only two reasons they have been able to come up with are (i) the Mary Cheney remark; and/or (ii) the nation, having considered the totality of the debate round robin, decided it wanted a steady, likeable leader -- rather than a voluble debating champion -- to be the honcho of the free world.

We have no idea if those are the reasons, but that's the best anyone has offered that has smacked against our ears.

Rove has NOTHING!

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Monday October 18, 2004 · 8:34 AM PDT

2004/10/18 · 08:34

Really, I have been scared of the dark genius of this portly, bald bastard too long.

His genius is nothing more than giving the far right everything they want, and counting on the media to go along. Some genius.

As far as election strategy, his sole tactic of destroy Kerry + 9/11 - which, admittedly, is all they could possibly run on- is not working.

His strategy to steal the election is just as base: throw out democratic registrations, keep blacks from the polls, etc, may be too gross this time.

These guys are so eminently beatable. And we're doing it.

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