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• Dan says:

  2008-10-16 at 8:44 am

  Also FYI the state­ment put out by the plan­e­tar­ium after the sec­ond debate said that they didn’t even end up get­ting the new pro­jec­tor; Obama had asked for money for it but didn’t get it.
• Murphyn says:

  2008-10-16 at 9:45 am

  teach the sci­en­tific method, log­i­cal rea­son­ing, and intel­lec­tual rigor as soon as pos­si­ble.
  A won­der­ful sum­ma­tion of what is miss­ing from the “teach for the test” type of school­ing. I think that those are dif­fi­cult to teach, though.
• marku says:

  2008-10-16 at 3:14 pm

  hmm,ha. looked in the cope-a-scope today and behold, now even the drive-by media is report­ing that: 11 states inves­ti­gat­ing voter reg­is­tra­tion fraud by acorn, more to come. also proof that labamba gave acorn 800 thou­sand for turn­ing out the vote, and did legal work for them. also his ayers sto­rys have fallen apart at the seams. what more will we find out about this lad?
• James Cape says:

  2008-10-16 at 5:55 pm

  marku:

  Don’t you get tired of being wrong?

  ACORN is required by law to turn in every voter reg­is­tra­tion card they receive. If they don’t, they have their abil­ity to con­duct voter reg­is­tra­tion dri­ves revoked by the government.

  They are required to turn in every­thing because of another set of prac­tices — like at my old uni­ver­sity, where the College Republicans were con­duct­ing a reg­is­tra­tion drive in 2004, and then throw­ing Democratic reg­is­tra­tions in the trash. This is hap­pen­ing again this year in Las Vegas, BTW.

  I’m fairly cer­tain you’d be scream­ing bloody mur­der in the other direc­tion if ACORN got to decide which voter reg­is­tra­tion cards they turned in and which ones they threw out.

  What “Ayers story”? The one where he worked on a char­ity with some­one that was a vio­lent ass­hole in the 1960s? Did he came back from Indonesia in order to join the Weather? What the fuck does Ayers have to do with anything?
• marku says:

  2008-10-17 at 4:55 am

  yoi, a lit­tle birdie just told me they were caught try­ing to intim­i­date tv sta­tions in w.pa. who were run­ning nra ads. thats not the way amer­ica works. but wait, now they have tried to silence radio talk show hosts right here in pitts­burgh. thats not the way amer­ica works. now we here that gov. swindell and murtha the blowhard have railed that we are all racists. thats not true. i voted for lynn swann for gov. yoi, now joe the plumbers are com­ing out of the wood­work. seems labam­bas tax plan will hit hard­est in the small busi­ness com­mu­nity. seems this lad just does not have it.
• James Cape says:

  2008-10-17 at 8:25 pm

  Wow, my very own troll. I feel loved.

  A lit­tle birdie just told me that most Republicans are alien­ated, clos­eted, dum­b­asses who try to mask their self-loathing through blind hatred, their emo­tional dis­con­nect from fel­low human beings through illit­er­ate xeno­pho­bia, and their poor edu­ca­tion through claims of vic­tim­iza­tion — because $DEITY knows that if there’s one group that suf­fers in America more than any other, it’s dum­b­assed, alien­ated, clos­eted white men.

  A lit­tle birdie told me, so it must be true.
• Sense Hofstede says:

  2008-10-18 at 5:19 am

  Another thing you should get rid of in your edu­ca­tion sys­tem is the oath to the flag of the US each morn­ing at school. Here we would call that indoc­tri­na­tion.
  I think it’s dan­ger­ous because you give a sig­nal to young peo­ple that the USA are some­thing divine and can’t fail, result­ing in the arro­gance the rest of the world now as to cope with. I’d also advise to teach a bit more about the rest of the world. I’ve heard of sol­diers in Iraq shoot­ing at someone’s legs because he didn’t do what the ordered him in English. They were con­vinced that every­one at the world could speak English.
  Please learn from crit­i­cism! It’s not that black-white as a lot of peo­ple seem to think; Bush was ter­ri­bly wrong with his ‘If you’re not with us, you’re against us’ statement.

  I have to say though that in Europe there seems to be an enor­mous ‘Obamania’. Not much peo­ple would vote for McCain here. I think there would be a seri­ous diplo­matic prob­lem with Europe when he would be cho­sen. Another thing is that a lot of peo­ple here seem to be con­vinced that Obama can’t lose. McCain is thought of so badly that they think the US Americans couldn’t be so stu­pid to elect him.

  I have to say that there are Europeans here who do sup­port McCain. Here in the Netherlands we have the polit­i­cal party VDD — nick­anamed ‘the lib­er­als’, although their major goal seems to improve the income of the rich­ests — where most of the peo­ple seem to sup­port McCain and the PVV of Geert Wilders, the cre­ator of the anti-islam movie ‘Fitna’ asked in the par­lia­ment ques­tions about the choice of the pub­lic broad­cast­ing com­pa­nies, which recieve gov­ern­ment fund­ings. He also seems to sup­port the old senator.
• James Cape says:

  2008-10-18 at 8:56 am

  I know the oath is pretty bad com­pared to the rest of the world, and has an even worse his­tory in a “nation­al­is­tic ass­holes think alike” sort of way. But you’ve got to remem­ber that Obama not wear­ing one of those lit­tle U.S. flag lapel-pins was con­sid­ered an issue worth bring­ing up in the Democratic debates.

  Hell, the ACLU has to sue in order to get the pledge changed to remove the “under God” bit added by Eisenhower after a ser­mon about how America is like Sparta. So it’s baby steps, start­ing from square neg­a­tive one.

  Bush has been ter­ri­bly wrong about just about every major deci­sion he’s made: stem cells, edu­ca­tion pol­icy, Iraq, Afghanistan, ter­ror­ism, law enforce­ment, intel­li­gence, Iran, North Korea, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, energy, emer­gency response, taxes, fis­cal pol­icy, and finan­cial regulation.

  Every sin­gle one of these issues has either blown up in a cat­a­strophic way or qui­etly failed at some point dur­ing his pres­i­dency. And I’d still put money down that two thirds of the peo­ple who voted for Bush in 2000 wouldn’t go back and change to Gore if they could. So vot­ing dumb — even in hind­sight — is some­thing of a tradition.

  My out-of-my-ass guess is that Obama will lose 4% from con­flicted racists who are search­ing for any excuse not to vote for the black guy and will find one by Nov. 4, and another 4% by fraud and voter sup­pres­sion. So unless he’s safely up by 8% going into the elec­tion he prob­a­bly will lose.

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