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Monday January 21, 2008 · 10:45 AM PST

2008/01/21 · 10:45

I'm breaking diary rules most likely, but it's in the interest of calling attention to and reminding others of a very interesting tool I used in 2004 -- Electoral-Vote.com.

The creator of this tool is a US citizen living outside of the country and a computer science prof, I believe. He uses his math savvy to "map" what he thinks is a compilation of US state vote polls in federal presidential elections. And he literally uses a US map to illustrate his outcomes.

At minimum his results have been interesting, and they have also been historically fairly accurate....although often disappointingly so.

More + Link after the fold.

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Tuesday July 31, 2007 · 5:30 PM PDT

2007/07/31 · 17:30

I saw on MSNBC that Guiliani is offering a new health insurance "plan"

Link

Paramount to his "plan" is to give families a $15,000 deduction for purchasing insurance in the private sector. In addition, he says that when so many people enter the market due to his wonderful plan, the insurance companies will lower their rates!

I laughed out loud, because I'd just been performing research on health insurance plans across the nation. Below the fold are some interesting bullet points I found that illustrate that Guiliani's "plan" is not very well "planned," aside from the instantly obvious fact that, for many of the uninsured, the $15,000 "deduction" along with other deductions, might place their income levels at less than 0! In addition, insurance companies don't magically lower their rates based on numbers of subscribers! LOL! So funny!

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Friday July 20, 2007 · 10:03 AM PDT

2007/07/20 · 10:03

Yes, the fact that Bush is having a colonoscopy is BREAKING news, while talk of vetoing health care legislation for children, wars that are failing, etc, are page 9.

Personally, I think, as usual, the Bush is administration is lying, so I've posted a poll pertaining to what they're really diong this Saturday.

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The alleged "colonoscopy" is really

85 votes Vote Now!

The alleged "colonoscopy" is really

A procedure to remove Bush's head from his hiney

29 votes

A procedure to remove McCain from Bush's hiney

7 votes

A procedure to remove Lieberman from Bush's hiney.

37 votes

Other (please post below).

12 votes

We won, but NOT because of the Iraq War

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 4:16 PM PST

2006/11/08 · 16:16

I am getting really tired of the media spinning that the Democrats won power because of the Iraq War. Iraq was only part of the picture.

Democrats WON because of corruption. The exit polls showed that corruption was the #1 deciding factor in voting.

Yes, Iraq, the needless war based on lies, was a wholly owned subsidiary of the big picture of corruption, but it was only part of the picture. The rest was...

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My letter to the Seattle Times in answer to their endorsement of Mike McGavick

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 11:46 AM PDT

2006/10/22 · 11:46

This morning the Seattle Times endorsed Mike McGavick for Washington U.S. Senator.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/...

It is no surprise, since Seattle Times is so obsessed with the repeal of the estate tax, that no ethical or moral principle would get in the way of doing anything they possibly can to ensure that "their candidates" achieve office. They claim that their endorsement is only partly due to the estate tax repeal possibility, but judging by their lobbying editorials this year, they definitely have their eye on that ball.

Anyway, I was mad, no PISSED and here's what I wrote this morning as a rebuttal to their crap. I'm posting it here, because it's highly unlikely that the "Times" will ever give audience to the dislike I have for them today.

My letter beneath the fold Read More

Clinton and George W. -- Lunchy?

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 4:31 PM PDT

2006/09/15 · 16:31

Since Clinton was generous enough to hold a lunch in Harlem to schmooze with bloggers, I thought I'd call attention to Froomkin's report of who else the Dawg has lunch with.

A link and a snippet of Froomkin below the fold: Read More

Arkin joins Olbermann in truthful Rummy trashing

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 12:30 PM PDT

2006/08/31 · 12:30

William Arkin of the Washington Post truthfully stabbed Rummy on his ridiculous comments from this week. I posted this information in open thread but nobody paid attention. I felt I needed to call better attention to his article so I'm posting it via a diary.

Here's a link to his editorial. Link

Arkin hits the mark directly here:

Either Rumsfeld has delivered one of the most important speeches of the modern era, or he's gone crazy.
I think the latter....<snip>

A sampling of some other of his truthful stabs are below the fold. Read More

Idiocracy escalates 'war on kleptocracy'

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 5:44 PM PDT

2006/08/10 · 17:44

I really am sorry for posting a few line diary, breaking all the rules, but I wanted people to see this and we don't have a current open thread.

Please, people, have you ever seen such an amazing display of cynical hubris in your entire life as this?" And no, this isn't the Onion, this is a REAL link from Yahoo!

Bush announces escalation in 'war on kleptocracy'

Someone needs to tell Bush that Kleptocracy starts at home.

Article excerpt posted below the fold Read More

No-drive Weekends

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Saturday April 29, 2006 · 8:27 AM PDT

2006/04/29 · 08:27

It's true that in many cities, our politicians have designed mass transit so that it's completely impractical for many of us. (Did they do this on purpose?) That means that many of us have to drive to work.

However, we do have the option of not driving on weekends. (more beneath the fold.) Read More

Frist Sold Hospital Shares Before Drop

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Tuesday September 20, 2005 · 8:55 PM PDT

2005/09/20 · 20:55

Martha had better schedule her class on "microwaving dandelions in jail". Looks like there'll soon be quite an audience for it!

From AP via Yahoo

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, sold all his stock in his family's hospital corporation about two weeks before it issued a disappointing earnings report and the price fell nearly 15 percent.

Frist held an undisclosed amount of stock in Hospital Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain. On June 13, he instructed the trustee managing the assets to sell his HCA shares and those of his wife and children, said Amy Call, a spokeswoman for Frist.

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Monday September 19, 2005 · 7:04 PM PDT

2005/09/19 · 19:04

From The Lexington Herald

Aren't we already donating to this charity?

New twist on Iraq aid: U.S. seeks donations

BY CAM SIMPSON, Chicago Tribune, Sep. 18, 2005

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - From the Indian Ocean tsunami to the church around the corner, Americans have shown time and again they are willing to open their pocketbooks for charity, for a total of about $250 billion last year alone.

But now, amid pleas for aid after Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration has launched an unusual effort to raise charitable contributions for another cause: the government's attempt to rebuild Iraq.

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 7:48 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 07:48

I'm once again going to break the one-line diary rule to post the Gallup Poll. Apparently Bush's response leads to no outrage from the public.

Gallup: Criticism, but little outrage, for Bush's and federal agencies' response to hurricane

What we're forgetting is that people who were abandoned in New Orleans were mostly brown and poor. Our public has shown time and again that they don't much care about people "like that".

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Guiliani's new health insurance "plan".

Breaking: Bush to have colonoscopy

We won, but NOT because of the Iraq War

My letter to the Seattle Times in answer to their endorsement of Mike McGavick

Clinton and George W. -- Lunchy?

Arkin joins Olbermann in truthful Rummy trashing

Idiocracy escalates 'war on kleptocracy'

No-drive Weekends

Frist Sold Hospital Shares Before Drop

OMG: Donate to US Government Iraq rebuilding??

Gallup: No outrage