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Monthly Archives: November 2004
Recommended response to rock criticism
November 9, 2004 – 1:05 pm
Everything the human race has to overcome
November 8, 2004 – 9:14 pm
I’ve been meaning to dig this up, for everyone’s enjoyment:
A very short, clumsy precis of how things are supposed to work. We pay taxes. The government takes part in market activity. The taxes and emolument are paid into a common treasury, called the Treasury. The Treasury is used to pay for what people need. I [...]
On TV, part 1
November 8, 2004 – 8:57 pm
Seen on FOXNEWS (from memory, I think fairly accurate) - a member of our armed forces, saying:
They’ve been hittin’ us an hittin’ us and hidin’ out in this town for eight, maybe twelve months now, and they don’t know what’s comin’.
Hell’s comin’.
Rock on, soldier!
The Kingston Trio should sue for royalties…
November 8, 2004 – 7:24 pm
…and viewers of the page should sue for eye injury. WTF with the paragraph “highlighting”?
Anyhow, the T has more news on their stored value card project:
http://www.mbta.com/projects_underway/easyway.asp
Please save us from a future f***kup
November 7, 2004 – 1:43 am
While it (sadly) won’t happen, I want to see both sides come together and have next Congress’s HR1 be a bill to prohibit the use of paperless voting systems in elections for federal offices (no need to force stats to ban them — with them unable to be used in federal elections, no state will [...]
All quiet on the MetroWestern front…
November 6, 2004 – 9:15 pm
NATICK, Mass. (AP) A man walking his dog on Saturday near Natick High School found a large vintage mortar round lying among the leaves.
The man stumbled across the nearly 2-foot-long mortar at about 3:50 p.m. lying near the entrance to a well-traveled path. Walkers regularly stroll on the path, and students use it to [...]
If DU and IndyMedia says it, it’s got to be true!
November 6, 2004 – 9:10 pm
I see some of the tinfoil hat crowd is starting to surface locally (they’ve already surfaced non-locally) over the exit poll skew thing.
Let’s just hope the tinfoil hat crowd don’t end up with any meaningful say in the Democratic Party as it plans ahead, because if they do or if the Democrats fall into [...]
Maps
November 6, 2004 – 8:17 pm
Excellent maps from The Geomblog. The images below are hosted here, for two reasons: so I could edit the ugly black background out of the originals, and so we don’t /. the poor guy. ;-)
Click the images to see larger versions.
Winner take all ^.
Somewhat more nuanced ^.
(via RJK)
Putting some meaning back into the 5th Amendment
November 6, 2004 – 6:38 pm
Oregon voters passed an initiative that requires the government to compensate owners when new regulations reduce the value of their land or, if the government is unwilling to pay for the value it wants to destroy, requires the government to waive the regulations.
The DTs: The Drinking Game for the Whole Family
November 6, 2004 – 12:13 pm
In this fast paced game of family fun, you compete against the other players for limited caches of liquor, lest you go into withdrawal. If enough turns pass between belts, you lapse into tremors and hallucinate. Then the other players can “roll” you, stealing whatever resources you have to aid them in their [...]
Watch out, blue states…
November 5, 2004 – 12:45 pm
The invasion force is being put into place…
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/nyregion/05strafe.html
(thank God it was at night)
A bright spot in a dark election season
November 5, 2004 – 12:19 pm
From ABC News, among other places:
“Another divisive issue, reforming the complicated U.S. tax system, is “going to take a lot of legwork to get something ready for a legislative package. I fully understand that,” the president said. He has avoided specifics but has said ideas such as a national sales tax deserve study.” (emphasis mine)
This [...]
Mr! Tambourine! Man!
November 4, 2004 – 1:40 pm
I give you the Shat (reproduced in its entirety, Globe archives, silly corporation, etc., etc. - ok, mostly just to try out WP’s ‘more’ and ‘page’ features):
Shatner boldly goes back into the studio
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | November 3, 2004
There are certain artistic endeavors that shouldn’t work, but do, and we just [...]
Celebrity Death Match
November 4, 2004 – 12:38 pm
Please help support a constitutional amendment to allow naturalized citizens to run for president. And make it happen now.
That way we can have Arnie v. Oprah in 2008.
funny comment on the decisive ballot counting
November 3, 2004 – 3:01 pm
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/03/1637232&tid=103&tid=219
Crap.
I was looking forward to the recount-induced riots and looting…
I had my eye on this awesome 17″ flatscreen display down at Staples :(
Taking any opportunity to avoid election news
November 3, 2004 – 12:22 pm
Does anyone else see the irony here?
“http://tinyurl.com”
vs.
“http://makeashorterlink.com”
Call the EPA…
November 3, 2004 – 2:30 am
Mark Steyn:
1.20am EST THE FIRST FLIPPER
I’m in mourning: New Hampshire goes for Kerry.
Curse you, you Massachusetts transplants!
We’re leaking pollutants into neighboring states!
No, it isn’t very pretty
November 3, 2004 – 12:27 am
what a town without pity can do.
23rd Middlesex
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18 of 18 precincts — 100%
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Candidate Votes Pct.
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Jim Marzilli (Dem.) (i) 16,437 74%
Eric Steinhilber (Rep.) 4,329 [...]
Four more beers! Four more beers!
November 2, 2004 – 11:34 pm
Markets vs. voting. “…because there really is no comparison.” Excellent.