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(OMG you are so young when compared to my old ass!)

Acidus turns 24 on Friday. Party time!

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Go Kerry, Go Kerry, uh huh, uh huh

Defense Minister Peter Struck said the German government welcomed Kerry's proposal to convene an international conference on Iraq including countries that opposed the war if he were to win next month's election.

Struck said it was "a very sensible proposal,"

Spank me, Vile. You goin' dressed as Superman in a wheelchair for Halloween this year? :P

Germany to Iraq if Kerry is elected

Am I missing something in that picture? Those look like high altitude cirrus clouds to me or ice crystals.
I don't see a single contrail.

:::conspiracy mode::: (You know what Art Bell says about contrails, don't you?)::::: :)

Decius wrote:
] Today's Astonomy Picture of the Day that shows plane
] contrails like scars across the SouthEast. NASA is running
] a count the contrails program for kids over the next two
] days.

RE: Boing Boing: airplane exhaust scars

Its just crap. They come in and subpeona Rackspace for the servers. Rackspace can't even tell the Independant Media why.

If it were not for the Independant Media's coverage of the NYC demonstrations during the Republican convention, I would still be believing that the mainstream media was more fair and balanced than some folks say.

The confiscation of the server has caused the Independant Media to no longer be available in places.

I wonder what would have happened if this had been CNN's hardware that was confiscated? Or Fox's?

They can come in and mirror a drive in no time to study. If they have to have the original they could at least leave a mirror. Why take the equipment? Is it OK for the FBI to take anyone's Internet business (data) away at a whim?

BTW, there is more detail on this at Cryptome.org. www.cryptome.org

FBI seizes Indymedia's Server from Rackspace

] (From the [Senate] diaries, Cheney presided over the Senate a
] grand total of two times the past four years -- just as
] many times as Edwards, who also did so twice. Slightly
] edited -- kos)
]
] "Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the
] president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the
] Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session."
]
] --Dick Cheney
]
] The extended entry has the presiding officers over the
] last four years for every Tuesday session.

Cheney Attendance at Senate

] Before this year [2003], Edwards missed just seven votes out of
] 1,307 in his first four years in office, Briggs said.
] During his five years in the Senate, Edwards voted 1,551
] times out of 1,626 roll-call votes, Briggs said, or 95.4
] percent.

Winston-Salem Journal | Edwards tops most hopefuls in Senate attendance record

Links have been discovered between senior American military officials and the failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea that has left Sir Mark Thatcher facing trial in South Africa.

....oil....the new Kuwait....

Pentagon link to Guinea coup plot

This is a great test. Where do you fall?
I'm clearly a left libertarian.

Where do you fall on the political compass?

] What did Dem presidential contender John Kerry take out
] of his jacket as he approached the stage [with his back
] to the auditorium's audience]?
]
] What did Kerry place on the podium?

From the people who brought you the CBS news document forgery scandal, here's Jacketgate. Kerry won the debate because he seemed more on message. He didn't flounder around much and he made points his opponent couldn't rebut. Having a cheat sheet when your opponent doesn't could easily produce this effect.

Neither Rathergate nor Swiftboatgate seemed very serious to me, but I must confess to their effect. If it turns out that Kerry did bring a cheat sheet, his campaign is toast.

The mainstream press hasn't picked this up, yet.... The NY Post is claiming that if you look at it from another camera angle its a pen. I never believe anything I read in the NY Post. So, where are the other camera angles? Lets have 'em out on the net!

U Turns out it WAS just a pen.

[ Also turns out, in the video, both men take something out and put it on the podium. So, whatever, mostly. Granted the rules state that no candidate was allowed to bring anything to the podium but seriously, what the fuck. If we can't trust the candidates not to hide some sort of magic crib sheet in their pen, then they shouldn't be there in the first place. It's a dumb rule. -k]

So what if they DID have a cheat sheet? I'd rather someone check the facts than blurt off something they weren't sure about.

Drudge is a nasty little conservative pigman.

DRUDGE REPORT 2004: Did Kerry Cheat?

I've always voted about a block from my house, along with my husband. This year, I've just been informed that I was moved to a new location. I have no idea where it is! My husband, however, who lives in the same house as I do, is getting to vote at his old location.

WTH is with that?

The only thing that has changed...is that THIS year...I'm a registered democrat. He's independant.

WTH is with keeping all the democrats voting in one place?

UPDATE- Both my husband and I called the office of voter registration. As it turns out, we both were indeed moved, but only I got a new card and notice. He should have got one too. SOOOOO...I feel a lot better now. It just didn't make any sense why to move ME and not him. My dad, a registered Republican, did not get a notice to change polling places either, but he should have as well.

Conspiracy minded? Yes, I admit it...conspiracies tend to exist when things just don't add up.