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Monthly Archives: August 2004
Republicans party, poor suffer
W’s economy has poverty rising, both in Florida and the rest of the nation. Meanwhile, our pResident continues to pursue policies which tend to pull people out of poverty by killing them. Either dead or poor, it doesn’t matter, because hungry, homeless, impoverished people don’t vote. More Floridians are living in poverty, and Escambia surpassed [...]
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Judge strikes anti-recount rule
A judge has overturned the state rule banning recounts of votes from touch screen machines. Now, the rule was universally derided by progressive types, but it had a sort of dark logic in that, in reality, there is nothing to recount in a touch screen machine. That’s the reason we need a paper trail. State [...]
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A much more believable Vietnam era memory surfaces
Via Talking Points Memo, here’s former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes on W’s National Guard appointment. Update – stupid mistakes fixed…
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Back soon…
In my alter-ego as a computer geek, I’m dealing with storm damage at several client offices. With any luck, I’ll catch up and start posting away later today.
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Troxler taps heels too
Uh, Howard, I appreciate where you’re coming from with this sentiment, but even if W mouthed the words, why on earth would you trust him to keep his empty pledges? I hereby promise to switch my voter registration from no-party to Republican, and to vote for President Bush’s re-election, if he will give a speech [...]
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Some useful information
Amid a lot of blather that we’ve already heard dozens of times this election cycle, stuff about how infallible touch screen machines are and how, in the event of a close race requiring a recount, workers will go back to the same machines that produced vote totals and get the same totals out again, there [...]
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W closes eyes and taps heels; Imaginary jobs increase
The Tampa Trib headline screams “Industries Report Lots Of New Jobs”! Hmmm, maybe I’m being too harsh on our pResident. Maybe the job picture is starting to turn around. Maybe the economy isn’t as bad as it seems… Since last fall, Pasco’s County’s industrial sector has added nearly 500 jobs with 200 more in the [...]
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250,000 in the streets