Archive | July, 2006
Diebold voting machines? Sucktastic…
There has been a lot of joking and innuendo about Diebold voting machines and certainly many critics have imagined that the ways that an election could be stolen by hacking the voting machines. I have always thought that electronic voting, although holding a great amount of potential, is absolutely worthless without some kind of paper [...]
Continue reading...The myth of “Mr. Gore goes to Washington”
31. July 2006
Okay, I’ll admit it. I am taken by advocate Al Gore. Listening to Al Gore as he warns of the gloom and doom of global warming, I wonder where this guy was in 2000 when pundits were on good days saying he was cold and wooden and on bad days, were accusing him of stretching [...]
Continue reading...The End Times Are Nigh: The Missoulian Editorial Gets Something Absolutely Right
30. July 2006
Unlike the Helena IR’s editors, who could only bring themselves to say that some people were upset with Senator Burns’ inane remarks, the Missoulian editorial nails it: Burns’ remarks were characteristic of the kind of know-nothing blather you sometimes hear from the local malcontent in a bar or coffee shop. In this case, Burns claimed to [...]
Continue reading...Intelligent Discontent crashes Tester event…
28. July 2006
Okay, so we were invited along with the rest of the public, so I guess that we didn’t exactly crash it, but Don and I attended one of Tester’s events in Boulder today, and I have to say that it seemed like a big hit. Despite the awful heat, there was a crowd of around [...]
Continue reading...An Honest Defense of Burns
28. July 2006
One brave (and lonely) soul defended Senator Burns in a comment about the Burns fire story at the Gazette. What struck me was just true the defense was, at least in part: I personally have family members that have worked on forest fires and there is alot of wasteful spending and excessive down times. Burns sees [...]
Continue reading...Conrad Burns To Solve Iraq Stalemate
28. July 2006
Senator Conrad Burns announced today that, after having effectively dealt with the wildfires in the West, he intended to to go Iraq this weekend, find the massive WMDs there, kill every terrorist, and rule over a stable democratic government, all before heading to a lobbyist funded dinner in Washington, D.C. Asked how he could accomplish a [...]
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