The nine lives of Pam Roach

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Tuesday April 10, 2012 · 12:24 AM PDT

2012/04/10 · 00:24

Here in Washington we have a total whack-job Republican state senator, Pam Roach, who is so far beyond the pale of acceptable behavior that she was sanctioned even by her fellow Republicans for her harassment and intimidation of staff: no contact with Senate Republican caucus staff; could not speak to Senate attorneys. Why is she still in office?

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Sunday November 08, 2009 · 2:43 AM PST

2009/11/08 · 02:43

I tried, but couldn't stay away. I visited Freeperville to see what that had to say about the loss that was handed to them today. It would be an understatement to say they were unhappy. (God, the schadenfreude!)

All joy aside, there is, however a disturbing undercurrent of threatened violence. Comments like:

Their victory will be short lived. Step 1 for the civil war.

Civil disobedience will begin soon.

I will dream tonight, of heads on pikes

More quotes below.

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 10:18 PM PDT

2008/10/08 · 22:18

Someone has already diaried about some religious nut who felt he had been called by God to deliver a personal message to Sarah Palin. What's truly disturbing is that the religious nutjobs at the FreeRepublic have picked it up and are just eating it up like it's the Second Coming of Lord Jesus himself.

It would be funny if it weren't so dangerous that these people are voting for president of the United States based on such a pathetic delusion.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 12:15 AM PDT

2007/08/14 · 00:15

Oops, my mistake. Actually, it was in 1994 that Dick Cheney presciently predicted, apparently in an interview with the American Enterprise Institute, that the US invading Iraq would involve the US in a quagmire. Overthrowing Saddam Hussein wouldn't be worth the loss in American lives, he wisely observes. Link to video below the fold.

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Tuesday April 03, 2007 · 2:09 PM PDT

2007/04/03 · 14:09

The iPod that the Information Policy Action committee (iPac) sent John Kerry, jam-packed with public domain and Creative Commons material, and which he refused, is being auctioned on eBay.

This post over on BoingBoing.net describes this as a public shaming and dunking, because though he turned down a $325 iPod, Kerry did accept $3.6 million from the entertainment industry.

Now with 18 times more filth...

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Wednesday March 28, 2007 · 5:14 PM PDT

2007/03/28 · 17:14

Mona Charen blogging at NRO Corner reports that an informal survey found that liberal websites contain 18 times as many of George Carlin's 7 dirty words as right-wing sites. She draws the conclusion that:

...the explosion of vulgarity, cruelty, and viciousness that the Web is mostly a phenomenon of the left.

Which is, of course, a total fucking non-sequiter. You only have to visit a few of the most popular wingnut sites to find plenty of hateful speech, racism, and war-mongering couched in family-safe language.

Jumping to this conclusion, Charen just totally ignores the Grand Canyon-sized cultural divide between the right and the left. The right, to a large extent, has no problems with violence on TV, in the movies, and even in real-life (as long as it's committed against non-white, non-Christians) but slip a nip at half-time and it's a sign of the end of the world.

Cliff May: rose-colored glasses or wool-covered eyes?

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Sunday July 03, 2005 · 3:43 PM PDT

2005/07/03 · 15:43

NRO contributor and neocon Cliff May has written a Scripps-Howard column that attempts to refute the case that Iraq has proven to be a boon for the terrorists. But while clever, he is being obtuse when he writes:

There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber.

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Saturday May 14, 2005 · 2:37 PM PDT

2005/05/14 · 14:37

Election Law Blog has a pointer to a paper by two economists, Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes?", which comes to the conclusion that the adoption of new touchscreen voting technology does indeed affect voting, but the effect was not enough to change the results of the presidential election.

The message that needs to be emphasized is that it potentially could have changed the outcome, especially and easily, in counties with large Hispanic populations in swing states. Read More

Bittorrents--fastest way to share

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Friday October 29, 2004 · 2:25 AM PDT

2004/10/29 · 02:25

Lots of video and audio files are available online nowadays. If you missed Jon Stewart on Crossfire, yesterday's Daily Show, Ashlee Simpson on SNL, Triumph in Spin Alley: Poop Valhalla, the latest episode of Lost or the entire first season of Deep Space Nine, you can download them--and lots of other really cool stuff--from cyberspace using Bittorrent.

Unfortunately, downloading bittorrents is a little more complicated than simply downloading a file directly from a server. You need extra software to do it. But as this diary attempts to explain, it's all really pretty simple and worth the effort. Read More

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The nine lives of Pam Roach

The freepers rant

Freepers believe Sarah has been sent by God

Breaking news: Cheney calls Iraq quagmire!

Buy Kerry's iPod!

Now with 18 times more filth...

Cliff May: rose-colored glasses or wool-covered eyes?

Voting Technology affects outcome

Bittorrents--fastest way to share