I've been sorting through my old political filter posts from 2004, looking at some of the posts I made immediately after Bush won re-election, and you guys SERIOUSLY I DON'T THINK I'LL MAKE IT if the Republicans win again in 2008. SERIOUSLY. For those of you who didn't know me 3 years ago, I basically fell the fuck apart after the election. I ( Read more... )

The anti-flag desecration amendment falls one vote short of the 2/3 majority of Senators required to send it to the states.

Whoever shall curb that infamous rash of recent flag-burning incidents now ( Read more... )

First, if you haven't read WaPo's review of Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine, you should. In amongst the sickening information that they tortured a mentally ill functionary in Al Qaeda to get (completely bogus) intel, there's the fact that Bush was warned in advance that the coalition didn't have the troops to capture Bin Laden when they had ( Read more... )

Robert F Kennedy thinks so, and so do I.
But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of- ( Read more... )

There are no outgoing links or footnotes to back any of these alleged facts up, but I'm reposting them just to see what everyone else thinks. ( 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the United States )