The script is changing

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Wednesday May 12, 2004 · 12:35 PM PDT

2004/05/12 · 12:35

Comments like Inhofe's and Rush's haven't been flying so apparently the word is out to try and distance the establishment from these comments. Check out Kathleen Parker's column. What's especially interesting is that she's making a point of linking the right wing "hysteria" with left wing critiques of the administration. Put the two next to each other long enough and you can maybe confuse a few swing voters.

But in any event the change of script is a good thing, regardless of politics. I would hate to think that "they deserved it" would become the official line.

The new Miami

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Wednesday May 12, 2004 · 7:29 AM PDT

2004/05/12 · 07:29

It looks like, a bit under the radar, the Vietnamese community in Orange County is beginning to start really flexing its muscle a la the Cuban expatriots of southern Florida. Two notable stories in today's L.A. Times:

To Vietnamese Communists, From Garden Grove: Stay Away "To the delight of observing crowds, council members easily pass a resolution voicing opposition to visits by Hanoi delegations."

Neighboring Westminster (home of the school board members who jeopardized state funding by insisting on adhering to their religious beliefs about gays and transsexuals not only in the face of state law, but also in the face of widespread opposition from the voters of Westminster) also is considering a similar resolution, but has postponed the vote. Meanwhile just north of Garden Grove...

College Defuses Flag Protest The headline and summary sentence hardly do justice to what actually happened: CalState Fullerton, faced with the prospect of protests by anti-communist Vietnamese, decided against their plan to fly the flags of the homelands of graduating students at graduation.

In a couple earlier stories (sorry, I didn't keep the links) there were stories in which a leader of the Vietnamese community boasted that they were able to swing the upcoming election courtesy of 10,000 votes which would be determined by what was in the Vietnamese media, plus another which, interestingly, stated that one Vietnamese politician became a Republican because he figured that's the party he belonged in because he was from the Republic of Vietnam (perhaps a signal to the Rs currently in office that they should shape up or face being shipped out).

Definitely a situation worth watching...

Abu Ghraib was very predictable

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Monday May 03, 2004 · 7:18 PM PDT

2004/05/03 · 19:18

Anyone who's ever taken an introductory psych class (and stayed awake through the lectures) should know about the Stanford Prison experiment perhaps the second most infamous psychology experiment (after Milgram's obedience experiment). Read More

Does the Daily Show staff read dKos?

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Tuesday February 10, 2004 · 1:07 AM PST

2004/02/10 · 01:07

It sure seems like it: They did a bit on the MTP Bush interview drinking game.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/2/8/16424/49356

Peace activists targetted by feds

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Thursday February 05, 2004 · 1:15 AM PST

2004/02/05 · 01:15

I've just been forwarded an e-mail alerting us to a group of Iowa peace activists who are being targetted by the Feds.

Yesterday, February 3, Detective Jeff Warford of the Polk County Sheriff's Office-FBI-Joint Terrorism Task Force came to Catholic Peace Ministy's office here in Des Moines with a supoena for me to testify before a Federal Grand Jury next Tuesday, February 10. Mr. Warford also served papers on Elton Davis at the Catholic Worker House and Patti McKee, who was coordinator of Iowa Peace Network until last month.

The Grand Jury process is shrouded in secrecy. We do not know who or what the object of this investigation may be, beyond "possible violations of federal criminal law in the Southern District of Iowa."

Read the rest for the full story and contact info for the Catholic Peace Ministry in Des Moines Read More

Donate to your favorite candidate via amazon.com

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Saturday January 24, 2004 · 4:14 AM PST

2004/01/24 · 04:14

Amazon.com
has launched a new one-stop shop for donating to presidential candidates. It's kind of interesting in that their only criteria are having an FEC-listed campaign committee and a minimum of $5000 raised/spent.

My first question of course, was, "what does amazon" get for this? It turns out that while they are charging their regular amazon payments fees, they will donate the aggregate that they've collected to Kids Voting USA.

You're almost certainly better off contributing directly to the campaign of your choice (since their credit card fees will be lower than the amazon payments fee, and if you really want to make every penny count, a check sent through the mail is the best way yet), but it's interesting if only because it includes a number of the fringe candidates. Not all candidates have contribution buttons yet either (all the majors are there with the exceptions of Bush and Lieberman).

I think the most notable part of this is that it will broaden exposure of the candidates to many people who might not view regular news sources, but are frequent amazon visitors (I've met more than a few people who make daily amazon visits!). Plus amazon gets the free publicity from the inevitable feature stories about the experiment and bloggers like me adding their comments.

Colin Quinn is a moron

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Tuesday January 20, 2004 · 1:32 AM PST

2004/01/20 · 01:32

He had a pre-recorded bumper for his show on during the final commercial break for The Daily Show, surrounded by cardboard cutouts of Kerry, Edwards, Gephardt and Dean. Anyone can win, he said. But not you, you moron, he said pushing over Edward's cutout. Who's the moron now, fatboy?

The final Steven Colbert clip was priceless. But now, I must change the channel. Never could warm to Quinn's show

The power of the daily show

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Wednesday December 17, 2003 · 1:18 AM PST

2003/12/17 · 01:18

So they have a segment about a bunch of idiots who think that celebrities are anti-patriotic for criticizing our leadership (but of course, criticizing Clinton was perfectly allowable). Amusingly enough, by the time the segment was up, the site had crashed. Apparently I'm not the only Daily Show viewer with a laptop.

Me, I'm going to make a point of seeing every movie that the people on the list make. Actually, most of the people on the list are my favorite actors (Martin Sheen tops the list).

Here are some of the quotes from Ed Asner that have PABAAH up in arms:

I feel that George Bush's actions are desecrating the America that I grew up in and believed in. He is making us an imperialist government. He is choosing to replace heads of state and government he doesn't like."

"I think that the idea of Iraq being a nuclear threat is poppycock, and if they are a nuclear threat then they'd have to borrow atomic bombs from Israel."

Pretty ballsy putting that second one on the list. As it turns out Iraq was not and is not a nuclear threat.

I think I'm going to go see Elf now.

Anti-bush speech

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Thursday December 04, 2003 · 2:18 AM PST

2003/12/04 · 02:18

For my teacher education program I've been required to take a course in public speaking (sigh... the fact that I'm an award-winning debater, have given presentations at numerous conferences, been teaching for years counts for nothing, but that's a whole other issue). So the final speech of the year is supposed to be a "persuasive" speech. My topic will be why Bush must go.

I'd love references for detailed info particularly on the budget. It'd be great to be able to do things like point out how fast the economy would have to grow to pay for the Bush tax cuts and how that compares to historical growth rates.

November is magic bullet month

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Thursday November 20, 2003 · 3:34 AM PST

2003/11/20 · 03:34

Buried deeply in the Chicago Tribune (subscription required) was an article on a mysterious projectile which took out an Abrams tank:

Army munitions experts at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Mich., are investigating a mysterious new weapon that fires a projectile the size of a pencil eraser that was used by Iraqi insurgents to knock out an M1 Abrams main battle tank in Baghdad.

The yellow metal round penetrated the tank's armored skirting and hull, tore through a gunner's seat back and flak jacket and then took out vital equipment, disabling the tank before burying itself in the opposite wall in a hole nearly two inches deep.

A bit more research on the net (using the search "projectile abrams tank") turned up only a little more information. Apparently this is one of those things the people in Washington want to keep quite.

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