Got my absentee ballot earlier in the week, so tonight I voted. If you're in King County and want an idea of how to vote on the various positions and candidates, see The Stranger Election Control Board Endorsements. It gives a brief explanation of who they're endorsing and why. And if you don't care about the "why" and just care about the "who", ( Read more... )

700 Club's Robertson: "Islam is not a religion, it is a political system ... bent on world domination"

"It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world to their way of thinking(emphasis mine) And this differs from Robertson's brand of christian funny-mentalism how exactly ( Read more... )

I *really* need to stop reading the news headlines:
McCain: Roe v. Wade should be overturned

McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who ”strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench.”

WTF? Isn't that their fucking *job*? What if all the "christian" churches started strictly ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Daily KOs: George on George

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Is sometimes best served piping hot and shoved up the asses of fuckwads like Fred Phelps and his "God hates fags" crew. Video clip of a bunch of his thugs being "escorted" from a failed protest with a crowd that decided to fight back.

Why weren't there "hundreds of thousands" of people marching in the U.S. in 2004 (hell, or even 2000) when ballot counts were so fraught with errors and suspicious activity? This country has become so woefully complacent, it makes me ill.

Massive protest march demands recount in Mexican presidential race

Claiming fraud robbed him of the ( Read more... )