Bush's Hometown Paper Endorses Kerry

The Lone Star Iconoclast, the local paper in Crawford, TX, has endorsed John Kerry for president.

CBS Didn't Just Fuck Up... They Really Fucked Up

MSNBC reports,

In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bush’s National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same “60 Minutes” broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger.

The journalistic juggling at CBS provides an ironic counterpoint to the furor over apparently bogus documents involving Bush’s National Guard service. One unexpected consequence of the network’s decision was to wipe out a chance—at least for the moment—for greater public scrutiny of a more consequential forgery that played a role in building the Bush administration’s case to invade Iraq.

Full story.

Ridge's Blatant War Profiteering

CQ reports,

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge had investments last year in a number of companies with contracts with his department and others who want to profit from homeland security, a new list of his assets shows.

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Google News Stonewalling Independent Media

In the world of online news publishing, syndication is one of the most important ways of reaching a large audience, and of all the news syndication services on the internet, perhaps none are more prominent than Google News. Launched in September of 2002, Google News promised to be an impartial provider of diverse news stories from across the globe. By compiling news stories "solely by computer algorithms" and "without human intervention", Google News was touted as an inclusive and unbiased source of news. The only catch is that Google News only syndicates news stories from certain websites and which websites make the cut are determined by human choice. Over the years it has become evident that this choice is not impartial, but rather subject to politics and the whims of public opinion. By offering a revolving door of tenuous and inconsistent excuses, Google News has effectively worked to stonewall left-leaning independent media sources from syndication. The following three stories offer stark examples of this problem.

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Towards a non-violent society...

...a position paper on anarchism, social change and Food Not Bombs.

Finding Justice with Arundhati Roy

"Arundhati Roy discusses her role as writer and activist, the importance of non-violent dissent, and the potential for finding justice in the world."

Your Chance To Be Swiftboat Kerry

A new flashy videogame allows players to "be" John Kerry and pilot his now notorious Vietnam swiftboat. Somehow I think it'd be more appealing as a corny flash game.

NYPD Up To Same Old Tricks

Perhaps feeling a bit cocky after their free reign of tyranny at the RNC two short weeks ago, the NYPD have gunned down yet another unarmed man.

GOP: Democrats Hate God & Love Fags

The Moonies report,

The Republican National Committee says it mailed fliers to voters in two states suggesting liberals want to ban the Bible, the New York Times reported.

The mailings include images of a Bible labeled "banned" and of a gay marriage proposal labeled "allowed." A mailing to Arkansas residents warns: "This will be Arkansas if you don't vote." A similar mailing was sent to West Virginians.

Er, shouldn't that be illegal? As Aphid noted in a conversation, it's not even like it's a shady 527 org. It's the fricking leading political party. Need they stoop this low to win an election?

Diebold Machines Hacked By Apes!

Their bandwidth has reached its limit, but of course, that figures considering Black Box Voting has a video of a chimp hacking one of Diebold's voting machines. The fair and balanced Fox reports.

Please, no more. Rip Johnny Rip

Please, no more dead. Anywhere. johnny, you will be missed. let the world hear another true 16th note. in succession. in revolution. now is a time to be sedated, and we are all punk rockers now. goh damn, this has been a bad year.... i wanna... oh man no... hell.... i can't... damn, Snafu, everyone, just can't keep it together.... not another Ramone..... after all this shit..... another true 16th note, an Em, at a fast rytm, forever, to you johnny, we all wanna be...

Make the pledge

Votergasm wants you to promise only to bone a voter on election night.

Feeling A little better,...

In the 3-day rolling average poll, Rasmussen now has Kerry and Bush exactly tied at 47.3% each nationally, with Kerry 1.2% ahead in the battleground states. If we compare this to the 3-day rolling average poll published Aug. 30, Bush is at exactly the same level he was then and Kerry is 0.9% higher. From these data, it appears that the postconvention bounce is already played out. In short, all the hand-wringing and cheering based on the Time and Newsweek polls was a bit premature. If you are a Democrat, you can stop crying in your beer; if you are a Republican, carefully try to pour the champagne back into the bottle. It is still very close.

(c/o a friends away message)

But then again, we have gotten to 1001, zero funerals attended, grounds for impeachment????? Abuse the service, and didn't show up to begin with. Why do people stand up for this man, this maggot. If you tolerate this, your children will be next........