"You know, back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true."
- James Carville
As you may have noticed, I changed the top quote because, well, you are never going to find a more candid explanation of why George Bush does what he does to us. The Carville quote will hereafter reside on the Archives page.
A special shout-out to Mooney for actually reading the random posts and for pointing me to America Coming Together. These are the guys who helped bring that Will Ferrell ad you may have heard of, and are sponsoring the Vote for Change tour, which is frankly good music working for a good cause. No Vegas dates yet, but it isn't like I've got the time right now anyway.
Kerry is coming to town tomorrow and I'll try to get home in time to catch that (seeing as he'll basically be next door at the Thomas & Mack Center). Bush is coming on Thursday, but he'll likely be spending time ducking questions concerning how Homeland Security "forgot" to warn Las Vegas that terrorists were casing our casinos. Refer back to the top quote. It starts making sense, no?
From the "That's no moon" Department comes Matok from the FES gaming club with this link. Yes, I'm an insufferable Star Wars fan and have even joined a club (which teams up with the FES sometimes) about four years back. Email me for more info - or just to point and laugh I guess.
Good lord we have a lot to cover. Let's keep it fun, shall we? We have Official British Jesters, German driving penalties, safe women drivers (no, I didn't stutter), overtime - the hard way, and our Olympic athletes - the hard way. Bad pun, I apologize.
The War on Terror takes a smile off the faces of travelling Britons and the election campaign makes Bush feed at the trough (thanks to Mooney for the link).
Our society took a few steps back with California leading the charge with inaccurate high school education materials; though, granted, it's not the state's fault. Texas follows with a story we touched on earlier. Instead of dealing with a racial slur, they chose to ignore the entire situation. Smart move, given the "sensitivity" usually shown about such things.
Wouldn't be right to not cover Slate articles cover the Bush as a preacher angle and the backlash of the rich and less fascist when it comes to those famous tax cuts. Gary Trudeau has joined in via the pages of Rolling Stone and through his comic, Doonesbury:
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