Errol Morris' People in the Middle for Obama

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 12:00 PM PDT

2008/10/28 · 12:00

Director Errol Morris, who has several amazing documentaries to his credit (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Fog Of War; the current Standard Operating Procedure) worked with members of the advertising and production industry to create peopleinthemiddleforobama.org -- a collection of videos presenting people who consider themselves in the 'middle', and are supporting Barack Obama for President.

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 7:37 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 19:37

Now, you don't [say you're going to attack]. You don't say that out loud. If you have to do things, you have to do things, and you work with the Pakistani government.
- John McCain, Presidential Debate 9/26/08

That's some Straight Talk (tm) right there. John McCain lives in a binary world; there is good and evil, black and white, things you do and don't do. It's the driving force behind his campaign: John McCain has the experience to act correctly. Especially when it comes to military matters. From a family of admirals and having served himself, McCain knows about correct military procedure.

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Monday June 30, 2008 · 10:12 PM PDT

2008/06/30 · 22:12

In those heady (for fans of totalitarianism, anyway) days after 9/11, one of the Homeland Security programs being floated was recruiting postal carriers, utility workers and the like to become citizen snoops, ferreting out activity that could be related to terrorism. It was roundly criticized and was cancelled almost as quickly as it was announced.

Except it wasn't.

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Tuesday January 22, 2008 · 7:36 PM PST

2008/01/22 · 19:36

Oh, not me. This isn't a GBCW diary. I'm not going anywhere. I just wanted to say goodbye to all the people who are currently sure they're not voting for Hillary Clinton if she's the nominee--or even worse, voting for McCain.

Or, hilariously, Bloomberg.

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Tuesday November 27, 2007 · 10:04 PM PST

2007/11/27 · 22:04

So, having read about Mitt Romney's bigoted remarks about the possibility of appointing a Muslim to his cabinet, I was led to the original op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor penned by a Mansour Ijaz.

"Gee," I thought, "that name sounds familiar. Could it be the same Mansour Ijaz that claimed to have negotiated the arrest of bin Laden only to be rebuffed by the Clinton administration--otherwise known as Wingnut Conspiracy Theory #43?

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Friday October 26, 2007 · 8:06 AM PDT

2007/10/26 · 08:06

For those of you who know the sad story of Genarlow Wilson, he has been freed by the Georgia Supreme Court:

The Georgia Supreme Court on Friday ordered that Genarlow Wilson be released from prison in a 4-3 decision, ruling that his sentence for a teen sex conviction was cruel and unusual punishment.

For those of you who don't, the background and why "kind of" after the flip.

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Thursday August 16, 2007 · 9:53 PM PDT

2007/08/16 · 21:53

'Cause Diebold Election Systems doesn't exist anymore.

Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Premier Election Systems.

Diebold Election Systems to Become Premier Election Solutions

ALLEN, Texas, Aug 16, 2007 PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX -- In conjunction with the announcement today by Diebold, Incorporated, to create a more independent structure for its elections systems subsidiary, Diebold Election Systems is changing its name to Premier Election Solutions.

Story

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Monday May 29, 2006 · 9:08 AM PDT

2006/05/29 · 09:08

From Newsday:

Newsday has learned that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently called a top-secret meeting of the four major pro sports commissioners at the Waldorf, and apparently it wasn't merely to campaign to join their ranks as Paul Tagliabue's replacement.

It's gotta be a joke, right? Some sports page snarkery?

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Net Neutrality: Where are the sites?

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Saturday May 13, 2006 · 7:48 PM PDT

2006/05/13 · 19:48

This thought just struck me as I was watching something that was, admittedly, a frivolous waste of time.

Where are the sites?

Where are the sites in this Net Neutrality battle? Yes, blogs are doing their part. But if I was in a position to make things happen at something like YouTube, or photobucket, or eBay for that matter, I'd order that a link to savetheinternet.com be placed on every page.

Maybe the really popular commercial sites are thinking that they have the edge, and the killing off of net neutrality will suffocate all of their smaller, less financed competition. But if you look long term, every business, large or small, benefits by the internet as it is. Why agree to permanently increasing your overhead?

Maybe that paragraph only explains why I'm not in a position to make things happen. But I'm honestly surprised that with all the money flowing into K Street that companies like Google have remained silent.

The Star Spangled Banner en Espanol

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Thursday April 27, 2006 · 5:52 PM PDT

2006/04/27 · 17:52

Disclaimer: I know the 'n' should have a squiggly over it, but special characters in html confuse and frighten me.

Tonight's ABC Nightly News aired a story entitled "Spanish 'Star Spangled Banner' - Touting the American Dream or Offensive Rewrite?" (read it here)

It made me both proud and ashamed to be an American.

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On shotgun pellets, 78 y/o Republicans and Abu Ghraib

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Tuesday February 14, 2006 · 2:47 PM PST

2006/02/14 · 14:47

This isn't any attempt to create a new theory about Yosemite Dick, but recent statements like:

[Armstrong] told reporters that the small shotgun pellets "broke the skin" and that the blast "knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."

and this, from a story about tonight's Australian news program's showing of more photos from the Abu Ghraib abattoir:

Some of the photos are similar to those published in 2004, others are different. They include photographs of six corpses, although the circumstances of their deaths are not clear. There are also pictures of what appear to be burns and wounds from shotgun pellets.

it's impossible to ignore the lack of humanity and compassion that seems to bind the Right together, no matter whom the victim is.

The Lost Al Gore Documentary

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Saturday February 11, 2006 · 12:59 PM PST

2006/02/11 · 12:59

Q: Everyone who's seen this movie thinks it humanizes Gore in precisely the way he needed to be humanized. He got tagged as being cold and robotic, and this film shows him to be warm, very genuine, passionate even. There are a lot of people who think that if this had been shown on primetime, it could have really made a difference in the election.
SJ: I wonder. I don't know, really. I like Harold and Maude.

I heard about director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) shooting some footage of Gore, but I never knew what happened to it until yesterday's trip to the bookstore.

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Errol Morris' People in the Middle for Obama

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The Spies Among Us

Bye.

Oh, that Mansour Ijaz...

Genarlow Wilson freed, kind of

Forget Diebold

Condi thinks the NHL is the answer to everything

Net Neutrality: Where are the sites?

The Star Spangled Banner en Espanol

On shotgun pellets, 78 y/o Republicans and Abu Ghraib

The Lost Al Gore Documentary