links and thoughts
now playing: dan fogelberg, "hearts and crafts"
i'm going to record that song myself very, very soon.
today, lane at eat your vegetables has a link to a great NYT editorial from larry david (creator of seinfeld) called are you undecided? or not?
"....You may be fooling everyone else with your little "undecided" act, but you're not fooling me. You know perfectly well whom you're voting for. The only reason you say you're undecided is that it's a cheap ploy to get attention. How do I know? Because I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I set the template, baby, and you're not passing the smell test.
...Anyone who can't make up his or her mind at this point in the campaign should forget about the election entirely, buy a pint of ice cream and get into bed."
read here.
most of you will be aware of this already, but it would appear that nader is off the florida ballot again...as of today, anyway.
johnathan weiler at the gadflyer has a pretty good bead on what dubya really stands for.
how's this for a flip-flop?
"...While he claimed during the 2000 campaign that, as CEO of Halliburton, he had "imposed a 'firm policy' against trading with Iraq," confidential UN records show that, from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that sold more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was in charge. Halliburton acquired its interest in both firms while Cheney was at the helm, and continued doing business through them until just months before Cheney was named George W. Bush's running mate.
Perhaps even more troubling, at the same time Cheney was doing business with Iraq, he launched a public broadside against sanctions laws designed to cut off funds to regimes like Iran, which the State Department listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. In 1998, Cheney traveled to Kuala Lumpur to attack his own country's terrorism policies for being too strict. Under the headline, "Former US Defence Secretary Says Iran-Libya Sanctions Act 'Wrong,'" the Malaysian News Agency reported that Cheney "hit out at his government" and said sanctions on terrorist countries were "ineffective, did not provide the desired results and [were] a bad policy."
also, if you haven't seen it yet today - whatever lead bush had coming of of HateFest'04 has vanished for the time being.
sat down today and read through a bunch of my recent posts and realized that i've discussed nothing but politics here for quite some time...i'm not sure how that's playing among those of you who stop by here occasionally - but i do have some other things on my mind that i'll hopefully find time to commit to cyberpaper at some point in the not-too-distant future. work has its foot pretty firmly on my throat at the moment, though....
i'm going to record that song myself very, very soon.
today, lane at eat your vegetables has a link to a great NYT editorial from larry david (creator of seinfeld) called are you undecided? or not?
"....You may be fooling everyone else with your little "undecided" act, but you're not fooling me. You know perfectly well whom you're voting for. The only reason you say you're undecided is that it's a cheap ploy to get attention. How do I know? Because I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I set the template, baby, and you're not passing the smell test.
...Anyone who can't make up his or her mind at this point in the campaign should forget about the election entirely, buy a pint of ice cream and get into bed."
read here.
most of you will be aware of this already, but it would appear that nader is off the florida ballot again...as of today, anyway.
johnathan weiler at the gadflyer has a pretty good bead on what dubya really stands for.
how's this for a flip-flop?
"...While he claimed during the 2000 campaign that, as CEO of Halliburton, he had "imposed a 'firm policy' against trading with Iraq," confidential UN records show that, from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that sold more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was in charge. Halliburton acquired its interest in both firms while Cheney was at the helm, and continued doing business through them until just months before Cheney was named George W. Bush's running mate.
Perhaps even more troubling, at the same time Cheney was doing business with Iraq, he launched a public broadside against sanctions laws designed to cut off funds to regimes like Iran, which the State Department listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. In 1998, Cheney traveled to Kuala Lumpur to attack his own country's terrorism policies for being too strict. Under the headline, "Former US Defence Secretary Says Iran-Libya Sanctions Act 'Wrong,'" the Malaysian News Agency reported that Cheney "hit out at his government" and said sanctions on terrorist countries were "ineffective, did not provide the desired results and [were] a bad policy."
also, if you haven't seen it yet today - whatever lead bush had coming of of HateFest'04 has vanished for the time being.
sat down today and read through a bunch of my recent posts and realized that i've discussed nothing but politics here for quite some time...i'm not sure how that's playing among those of you who stop by here occasionally - but i do have some other things on my mind that i'll hopefully find time to commit to cyberpaper at some point in the not-too-distant future. work has its foot pretty firmly on my throat at the moment, though....
posted by tom at 15:08
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