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great womens ny marathon race today
drive small...the comfortable way
Help wanted, many positions available.
weirdness revisits little egg harbor (home of the floating stinky blob)
got spunk ?
anonym
this one takes the cake
voter suppression rap sheet
via tom paine
democrat heal thy self / w and the cuckoo clock
splitz from wonkette
Birdies All Atwitter #
6:50 p.m.
6 p.m. exit polls -- not internals.
K/B:
FL 51 49
NC 48 52
OH 51 49
Missouri 46 54
Ark 47 53
Mich 51 47
NM 50 49
LA 43 56
CO 48 51
AZ 45 55
Minn 54 44
Wisc 52 47
IA 49 49
the splitz from wonkette
Had to wait in line from 8:55 to 9:40 to vote today. Poll workers said "big turn out".
humpy
Is this the surprise Karl's been hinting at? Major assault on Fallujah commenced on the eve of the election? The Guardian seems to think it's begun. Put American troops in harm's way, get everyone rah-rahing for the leadership in a time of crisis, etc.? The timing stinks.
Florida update: mrs. fingers and I will be travelling to Fort Lauderdale tomorrow with (at last count) 95 other confirmed volunteers to get out the vote in Broward County. Some reports project our group's final number at over 120 (various stragglers and plus-one's).
Related note: if Florida stays disputed... have a nice November in NYC, I'll see you at Xmas!
cheers!
one finger victory salute (to america.)
the path to florida
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
family fortune
the new yorker chooses
the comics reporter
"Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail."
-- scott mcconnell / american conservative magazine