So, there's another popular governmental system beside communism and socialism where the government owns everything. All you need to create a new Fascist state is a charismatic leader (check), an established dogma (check), and a crisis to justify the sweeping changes to the established structures (check).

Hail Obama!


Amusingly, the first hit on Google for "Hitler acceptance speech" is this: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mostert/081106

So, California, Florida and Arizona are full of fail for passing constitutional restrictions on gay marriage. When will people learn that limiting the rights of citizens is not really a "best practice" for writing constitutions. The whole idea of a constitution is to limit the government and keep it from jumping up and down on your individual rights. Now California, Florida, Arizona, and Arkansas (each offended at the company of the others, I'm sure) have reached an all-time Orwellian high-point, where some animals (straight people) are just more equal that others (gays and lesbians). Well done.


Oh, and NaNoWriMo advice for the day: a word counter doesn't check your spelling, grammar, college reading level, or style. Git 'R Done.

This isn't cool. I don't care if it's Klansman or Black Panthers, you don't stand out front of a polling place intimidating voters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCeD1RcJjAg

Apparently the Obama-Biden campaign is afraid of TV interviews with hard questions, so they are taking their ball and going home:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/obama-campaign.html

Obama/Biden Campaign Squelching Inconvenient Political Speech.

Basically, this is double-talk by the Obama Campaign. The Kennedy Amendment would have re-defined "armor piercing" ammunition to include most commonly used hunting rounds. The same is true of the proposed expansions to the assault weapons bans. Sure, Obama isn't talking about an ammo tax now (clings to guns), but he certainly was before.

Nice to see that he's continuing his track record of protecting individual liberties.


Seriously, I can't believe they have stooped SO LOW as to threaten legal action against media outlets for political advertising. I think MoveOn.org would have reported it if the Republicans had sued them, so this looks to me like a brand-new tactic in the liberal playbook.

Students at an Oregon High School are being forced to shave their eyebrows off due to a concern that they are making eyebrow marks as gang symbols:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080429/D90BGIG00.html


Once again, we see personal liberty under attack for the benefit of so-called "school discipline." What kind of sense does this make? I can say that I'm in MS 13, everyone can know that I'm in MS 13, I can attend after school gang bangs with MS 13, but I can't shave my eyebrows to look like 1 and 3 in Roman Numerals? Does anyone really think that all of the window dressing in the public schools to keep of the appearance of safety and a happy violence free culture actually makes anyone safer?

Personally, I think this is just yet another step down the road to the complete national socialization of the public schools system: this is what you can wear, this is what you can say, this is how you can groom yourself, these are the surgeries you must have, this is what you must think... Long live the NEA! Heil Weaver?


I'm done trading liberty for security. The last thing I want to do is teach my kid to trade hers.

Chelsea had breakfast with a 21-year-old "super delegate" just recently:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4273078&page=1


But no, you can't use the word "pimped" without risking your career, at least if you're a journalist.

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Seriously, I would vote for Gumby, Mickey Mouse, or Christopher Dodd before I would vote for Hilary. It could get dicey though... Huckabee scares me a little, so a Clinton-Huckabee race doesn't make me very comfortable. I don't think that is a likely scenario, however, since she tanked.

I feel like a Democrat, though, in that I don't love any of "my" candidates, I hate the opposition more. I think it's a shame that pretty much every one of our candidates has some major flaw. I can't vote for Huckabee because of the creepy Nehemiah Scudder-style religious overtones, Romney did such a great job in MA (not!), etc... I think at this point I favor Ron Paul, but that's just because I haven't read enough about his yet. The reality is that he's probably unelectable because he's not mainstream-Republican enough.

Ah well. Off to work.

Sorry to keep spamming your friends page, but I thought this was an interesting story about how political staffers plant questions in the audience:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/13/clinton.planted/index.html

Pretty slick, especially if you think about the psychology of the situation.