If you arrange the 7 Deadly Sins around a heptagon label them A-G, and connect each Sin to the others, you get 21 secondary sins. For instance Sloth + Pride = Slackers.
RE: Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail - New York Times
Topic: Miscellaneous
11:16 am EST, Feb 2, 2007
janelane wrote:
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb. 1 — Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.
AWESOME! Death to Diebold!
-janelane
/conspiracy hat ON
Wonder who will provide/run the counting machines?
/conspiracy hat OFF
If Florida still uses faulty data for scrubbing their voter roles, this new counting method is probably much ado about nothing. A good step for sure, I followed the Diebold machinations very closely back in the day, but I still think the best method of counting votes is by hand.
Here's my preferred method: After the votes are cast, have representatives from each party count all votes by hand. You can distribute the task across precincts to accomplish this. Party A counts all votes, Party B counts them, etc... At the end, you make sure every Party's tally equals that of the others. It doesn't? Recount. It does? Now you have a pretty good idea that everyone agrees with the count.
Acidus wrote: 1- I was on the high school swim team for 3 years, and went to the Georgia State swim meet for my junior year. I was supposed to go my senior year, but got kicked off. My crime? While doing a can-opener as my last dive for the last regular swim meet, I purposely mooned the entire crowd, included the superintendent for Cobb County Schools.
2- I've forgotten my mom's brithday on at least 3 different occasions. She's never been mad, just sad.
3- I was born in a hospital less than 2 miles from where I currently work.
4- My Brother has been around the world and climbed some of the tallest mountains. I've never left the western hemisphere and I've only been west of the Mississippi river 5 times, 3 of which were in the last year.
5- I have 2 Hillary Duff songs on an iPod playlist. I sing them when I drive.
Well, we have #3 in common :) I'm surprised you admitted to #5.
What are your 5 things?
Hmm... Never thought about it, but what the yell, this sounds fun!
1. I was raised in a Church of Christ until I was 20 years old. Rarely if ever missed a Sunday service.
2. I enjoyed swordfighting with PVC pipe swords "padded" with pipe insulation and duct tape during my high school years. We'd go nearly year-round every week, meeting up in a local park to wail on each other. We called it "The Guild." Amazed no one was ever seriously hurt.
3. I won a city wide art contest in high school and had a few pieces selected to show at Cheekwood here in Nashville. Never got my artwork back though, it disappeared. Grr... Should have taken pics.
4. I can place $2.50 of quarters in my nose, $1.25 in each nostril. How did I find this out? Boredom.
5. Astronomy was my first intellectual pursuit. My mom sold Worldbook Encyclopedia when I was learning to read and I cut my "teeth" on the Childcraft Space/Astronomy book. The first book I ever checked out of a library was an Astronomy book. When queried what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always, "An astronomer." When asked did I mean astronaut, I'd say, "No. An astronomer."
sarahflynn wrote: "If being well liked is more important than being yourself, then you will never say anything of value and you will never have true friends. If you don’t have the balls to be hated, then you don’t deserve to be loved"
I don't watch TV these days, but I occasionally see the fare that is passed off as programming if I'm at someone else's house. I imagine nothing like this is on the airwaves anymore. What with "24" and the glorification of torture, a character that says we should have "due process" probably wouldn't sell in today's popular culture.
State of the Union 2007 (via drudge) 0-day W4R3Z Y0
Topic: Miscellaneous
8:44 pm EST, Jan 23, 2007
Madam Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:
This rite of custom brings us together at a defining hour – when decisions are hard and courage is tested. We enter the year 2007 with large endeavors underway, and others that are ours to begin. In all of this, much is asked of us. We must have the will to face difficult challenges and determined enemies – and the wisdom to face them together.
Some in this Chamber are new to the House and Senate – and I congratulate the Democratic majority. Congress has changed, but our responsibilities have not. Each of us is guided by our own convictions – and to these we must stay faithful. Yet we are all held to the same standards, and called to serve the same good purposes: To extend this Nation’s prosperity ... to spend the people’s money wisely ... to solve problems, not leave them to future generations ... to guard America against all evil, and to keep faith with those we have sent forth to defend us.
We are not the first to come here with government divided and uncertainty in the air. Like many before us, we can work through our differences, and achieve big things for the American people. Our citizens don’t much care which side of the aisle we sit on – as long as we are willing to cross that aisle when there is work to be done. Our job is to make life better for our fellow Americans, and help them to build a future of hope and opportunity – and this is the business before us tonight.
A future of hope and opportunity begins with a growing economy – and that is what we have. We are now in the 41st month of uninterrupted job growth – in a recovery that has created 7.2 million new jobs ... so far. Unemployment is low, inflation is low, and wages are rising. This economy is on the move – and our job is to keep it that way, not with more government but with more enterprise.
Next week, I will deliver a full report on the state of our economy. Tonight, I want to discuss three economic reforms that deserve to be priorities for this Congress.
First, we must balance the federal budget. We can do so without raising taxes. What we need to do is impose spending discipline in Washington, D.C. We set a goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009 – and met that goal three years ahead of schedule. Now let us take the next step. In the coming weeks, I will submit a budget that eliminates the federal deficit within the next five years. I ask you to make the same commitment. Together, we can restrain the spending appetite of the federal government, and balance the federal budget.
Next, there is the matter of earmarks. These special interest items are often slipped into bills at the last hour – when not even C-SPAN is watching. In 2005 alone, the number of earmarks grew to over 13,000 and totaled nearly $18 billion. Even worse, over 90 percent of earmarks never make it to the floor of the House an... [ Read More (3.6k in body) ]
