Politics
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Everything you can say about America is true
Vampire Candidate ‘Won’t Hide Evil Side’
Thursday, January 12, 2006MINNEAPOLIS One gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota is giving a whole new meaning to the “dark side” of politics. A man who calls himself a satanic priest plans to run for governor on a 13-point platform that includes the public impaling of terrorists at the state Capitol building.
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Including the impaling of terrorists, rapists, drug dealers and other criminals, Sharkey’s platform includes emphasis on education, tax breaks for farmers and better benefits for veterans.I think govenors have been hiding their evil sides for far too long, and I welcome his candor. Throw in his impalement policy and I think we have a winner. Sure, it didn’t work for Dole in 96, but America has changed since then.
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Abramoff
It’s odd to see who Jack Abramoff was actually representing. All of the big industries (construction, military, healthcare, unions) are absent. He represented the small fish on the great leviathan food chain, which makes me think that the big fish are so entwined with the existing legislators that they don’t need to lobby.
I predict that this will have no effect whatsoever on the party make-up of anything, even if people do go to jail. Sadly, no one will think of this as a good reason to resort to term limits either, which would help matters a lot.
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A blog for Dave
New Donkey, a Democratic blog that avoids most of the thing I dislike about democrats. It even reads a bit like it’s written by Dave Henson.
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Bandow
So it comes out last week that Cato Institute fellow Doug Bandow, was taking payola from Jack Abramoff to write favorable columns. It’s sad and annoying that this crap happened. I doubt he actually wrote anything he didn’t believe in, but who is to say now? From the few times I actually saw him in DC he seemed like a decent person (and very smart one), but who is to say now?
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It’s odd
During the Clinton 90s anger with Clinton and the status quo seemed to manifest itself as a general anti-government feeling, with the “party of limited government” Republicans being the mechanism for the anger. That and a lot of demographic changes anyway. Now it seems like all the dissatisfaction is specifically anti-Bush.
We really need term limits more than ever
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Dinosaur attack
In what I can only assume is an attempt to keep their names in the paper, both Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader have taken sides on the Terrell Owens affair.
The civil rights activist said the level of punishment could have been warranted if Owens had been caught shaving points, selling drugs, carrying a gun or fighting fans without sufficient restraint.
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Wednesday round up
- Torture Warrants – it deals with everything honestly I suppose.
- Google founders buy a private jet – and yet “We’ve worked very hard to make sure our [net] impact on the environment is positive”
- The gutlessness of the Republican party is amazing.
- Kinky!
- Topless protesters – though after a certain age one’s cause doesn’t really break even in effectiveness. The organization is called “Breasts not bombs” though I see no reason why we can’t have both.
- Ayn Rand’s cover illustrator is still alive and has some wonderful art on his site. I highly recommend it. His prints are exhorbitantly expensive sadly.
- Wonderful pulp art (the Shadow) from Micah Wright, who it would seem is a fraud in his other endeavors.
- Twinsparc has released SaySo.org
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But what about Biggie?
link via The Agitator, Cynthia McKinney brings America.… the
SEC. 4. TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR RECORDS COLLECTION AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES.
- (a) In General- (1) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Archives shall commence establishment of a collection of records to be known as the `Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Collection.’ In so doing, the Archivist shall ensure the physical integrity and original provenance of all records. The Collection shall consist of originals or record copies of all Government records relating to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur, which shall be transmitted to the National Archives in accordance with section 2107 of title 44, United States Code. The Archivist shall prepare and publish a subject guidebook and index to the collection, including the central directory described in paragraph (2)(B), which shall be available to the public and searchable electronically.
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SEC. 5. CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
- (a) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Archives shall appoint an independent Citizens Advisory Committee, subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C., App.), as defined in App. 2, from candidates solicited from and nominated not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act by non-governmental organizations from the Society of American Archivists, the National Bar Association, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc., and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, the civil rights, civil liberties, entertainment and African American community, which will consist of appointees–
- (1) who have not had any previous involvement with any official investigations into the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur,
- (2) who were never employed or engaged by any Federal, state or local intelligence or law enforcement agency which is covered in the scope of this Act’s search for records related to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur,
- (3) who shall be impartial private citizens, none of whom is presently employed by any branch of the Government, and
- (4) who shall be distinguished persons of high national professional reputation in their respective fields who are capable of exercising the independent and objective judgment necessary to the fulfillment of their role in ensuring and facilitating the review, transmission to the public, and public disclosure of records related to the life and death of Tupak Shakur,
- (A) who possess an appreciation of the value of such material to the public, scholars, and government, and
- (B) who include at least three scholars in current history, at least 3 members of the civil rights community, at least 3 experts on civil liberties, and at least one member of the immediate family of Tupac Amaru Shakur.
IIRC I think there is only one immediate member of Shakur’s family.
I think we saw the gutlessness of the Republicans with the failure of the Coburn amendment. If this makes it though Congress I suggest we hand the keys to the country to Walmart and call it a day.
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Zell
Zell Miller has a good idea from a (IMHO) a faulty premise in the AJC.
Why does everyone insists on thinking of the Plame affair as a grand epic?
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Before I forget to post about these
From an Agitator post about a senator naming a building after himself (much like Cynthia McKinney and Memorial Drive).
It’d be swell to see the GOP sweeped out 1994-like next year. Not that the Democrats would be any better — or worse. I’d just like to see the Republicans get smacked around a little for their arrogance. But it won’t happen. They’ve (a) passed incumbent-protecting McCain-Feingold, and (b) gerrymandered the bejesus out of the congressional map to make sure they’re immune from accountability.
He leaves out the Roe Effect but beyond that has it about right. When will people come around to term limits?
And infrared sniper detection is cool.
You would think that five nights of rioting in Paris would be bigger news, but you’re wrong. You would also think that people would bring up the fact that the rioting is happening in Algerian immigrant neighborhoods but it seems to be not that way.