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I'm out of all this until Tuesday. I've got a bunch of reading and I've run out of energy to keep fighting this fight. Good luck to everyone on Tuesday. Vote Stenholm....

I really dig how well Tim Russert leads "Meet the Press". It's one of my favorite shows to watch, as it usually is pretty clear and concise. It also seems like Russert is one of the few journalists who isn't afraid of his guests. Today, Fmr. Senator Bob Kerrey and Rudy "Whore of the GOP" Guiliani were on the show. Kerrey hits the nail on the head, before Guiliani continues slutting himself out to George Bush. MR. RUSSERT:  You said he supported the war, and yet, he was very critical...

Question 1. When asked in March 2002 why he rarely mentioned Osama bin Laden anymore, which three of these statements did Mr. Bush make? a) Osama who? b) I know he is on the run. c) I truly am not that concerned about him. d) He's just another one of the dead-enders. e) We haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. 2. When Tom Brokaw asked Mr. Kerry about a report that Mr. Bush's I.Q. was higher than his,...

This election season, Washington Redskins cornerback Fred Smoot has a predicament faced by many NFL players: a Democrat's background and a Republican's income. "They turn Republican. I see it all the time," Smoot said. "It all goes back to changing your economic value." Smoot, a black from modest means in Mississippi, has decided to choose his roots over his pocketbook. He is supporting Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president. "When you go into a higher tax bracket, all of a sudden you don't want to vote for this candidate because...

Apparently, TypeKey is not working well on this site. I have no explanation as to why; i promise it's not an act of censorship. It's quite comical, because it won't even let me comment these last few days. I'm not sure of the cause, nor do I know why it's letting some people comment all the time, some people some of the time, and others not at all. I've changed a few settings, but I don't know it will do anything. So please try to comment on this post and...

When the talk turns to politics, everyone shuts up. Literally. The traffic this weblog has done in past two months (6000+ visits) has really astounded me. I guess it's because it's moved from fluff, into substance. However, this traffic doesn't associate with an increase in comments, which I thought was weird until I took a minute to realize what was being talked about. 20 days of October yielded 1900+ visitors, but only three dozen or so comments. Do you hate typekey that much? Or is it the politics? I'm...

*See update below! I think it's incredibly foolish to live in fear. It applies to so much of our lives, that it's hard to escape. Fear of death, rejection, the white man.. it's always going to be there. When done wrong, though, fear will live your life for you. I think the use of fear is my main beef with the Bush Administration. I can accept mistakes and problems. I know that Federal Government can not always be perfection. But the Administration's use of fear is what bothers me. Here's...

I'm glad these campaigns are almost over. It's tiring, even here in West Texas, to watch all the advertisements and stories about them. I can't imagine what it's like to live in Ohio, where something like 15,000 campaign commericals have aired this month. But there's two weeks left, and now is not the time to take a step back and fizzle. Now is the time to bring out the big guns. I'd kindly ask anyone that has participated in the political debate over the past few months, please, please,...

Here's two great reasons to become a cyclist... Will Ferrel & Robin Williams I can't imagine trying to stay in line at 20mph while these guys are cracking jokes and impressions....

I've officially lost my mind. I want to do this in a couple of summers....

Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio delivered one of the most impassioned, relevant floor speeches you'll ever see in the United States Congress. All persons 18-28 should give it a watch. It's only a couple of minutes Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio's Speech...

"We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War of Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over," Judge Gerald Tjoflat wrote for the three-member court. "September 11, 2001, already a day of immeasurable tragedy, cannot be the day liberty perished in this country." It's a good thing we have checks and balances or we'd all have to pass through a metal detector to leave our own houses....

This may only be interesting to Adam and Big Jer, but the NY Times has an interesting article about train safety... It is no mystery why, one spring day two years ago, an Amtrak passenger train jumped the tracks near Crescent City, Fla., and skidded to a stop on its side, killing 4 people and injuring 142. Investigators concluded that the track, owned by the big freight railroad CSX, had not been properly stabilized and that management's oversight of maintenance had been lax. But when millions of dollars in damage...

Spotted on the RoadBikeReview Forums.....

I've been accused of being biased and one-sided when it comes to reporting on the shady'ness of the particular political parties. But I must say, the GOP has this evil/satan thing down. An NBC affiliate is reporting that: Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash. Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or...

Everything George Bush said in the first debate, knocked down to one minute. Please Watch...

Page 99 of America: The Book has to be funniest thing I've seen in a while. "Dress the Supreme Court" Please go to Barnes and Nobles and see why....

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."...

As I mentioned several weeks ago, I've had a great deal of comment spam plaguing my blog in the past couple of months. It appeared to level off, and things were manageable, but in the past week, things have gotten significantly worse. It's gotten to the point where every time I sit down, I have to delete comment spam and approve valid comments. This wasn't a big deal until I was deleting 20-30 spam comments every couple of hours. I know that Movable Type 3.1 has a great plug-in to...

I really thought I'd heard every angle possible from the Bush/Cheney camp concerning the Iraq war. I thought they'd used up every single shred of evidence to build a patchwork quilt of bullshit. It's been effective so far, most Americans can't seem to realize that Iraq had no part in the "war on terror". Most American's also identify Saddam Hussein as the person behind the attacks, not Osama Bin Laden. It's pathetic that we're so lazy and ignorant to see through this mess. Today's whopper from Dick Cheney is a...

If you watch the Vice Presidential Debate tonight between John Edwards and Halliburton, remember this gem: "And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam Hussein worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait [in 1991], but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over...

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where the genius from Garden State comes from... Onto more important things: I really enjoy washing my car in those "pull your car into the stall and rent our water, hose, brush and vacuum" places. I don't know why, but there's something very cathartic about it. If you've never tried it, give it a try. I recommend going alone, cause if you go with someone else, you're gonna be all in your head if it's someone from the opposite sex about whether or not you should go for the "slow-motion...

I received the following email today: your so stupid. bush is the man. kerry flip flops and doesn't know anything. the convention wasn't all about september 11 like that video says. i watched the democrats convention. they did the same thing. It took a great deal of concentration not to explode into laughter at the ridiculous'ness of this email. It's maybe the most grammatically incorrect piece of email I've ever received, including spam. But to get to the point of the email (which he so aptly contradicted in the very...

i watched the entire democratic convention from start to finish. i archived most of the main speeches that i thought were good. i enjoyed it thoroughly. i sadly didn't watch the republican convention because i forgot to tell the tivo to record it. but luckily for you and me, someone has taken the time to summarize the events of that week. it's called "george bush: keeping america scared" and it's definitely worth the three minutes of your time. please do watch it. finally, i'd like to take a minute...

it's a good thing that domain names are now so cheap. http://www.youforgotpoland.com/...