The New York Times: Republicans Admit Mailing Campaign Literature Saying Liberals Will Ban the Bible.
As Mark A.R. Kleiman says, “If voters fail to become enraged at this sort of slime-mongering, Republicans may be emboldened to repeat it.”
Beware of outrage fatigue. Very very dangerous this time of year.
(On the other hand, there is a cheerful aspect to this. The more desperate and crazy the slime, the better the Democrats must be doing or why would the RNC/Bush crowd bother?)
From Slashdot:
Nasa has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allows you to zoom from planetary resolution down to where you can pick out individual streets. Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection and a decent graphics card. There's all sorts of interesting features, such as the ability to tilt your view for a flight-sim like experience and a data display feature that shows current natural disasters, political boundaries, weather patterns, and landmarks on the Earth's surface, all while providing a dynamic satellite's eye view of the planet.”
Of course it's already Slashdotted.1
1 A site is slashdotted when its server dies under the weight of the flash crowd suddenly and unexpectedly directed there due to a link on slashdot.
I have no idea if this story that Lt. GW Bush was grounded for cowardice is true. I have no idea how you would tell.
The story, unlike the one by Swift Boat Vets for Lies, has the merit of being consistent with much of the documentary evidence. (I would have expected to see something about this in the medical section of his file? Is this why he didn't report for they physical, because they planned psychological tests?) It may also explain why GW Bush has never produced his separation codes.
But there's no way to tell now, I'd wager.
One thing is for sure: even though it is more plausible than the Swift Vets' tall tale, this story will never get one one-hundreth of the media play.
Josh Marshall has the perfect summary of Iyad Allawi's “state” visit to the US.
Talking Points Memo: Here we have a US-installed foreign head of state, whose travel schedule is determined by the US State Department, visiting the US to buoy the president's election campaign and spouting demonstrable lies in order to support a retrospective rationale for war that the White House wants Americans to believe but lacks the gall to state explicitly.
(As someone said, Bush has a 100% approval rating among foreign leaders he appointed.)
GasPriceWatch is a great idea: harness the power of crowds to identify the cheapest gas station in an area. Help markets be more efficient! Strike back against temporary locational monopoly and impulse purchases! Make the oiloligopolists fight for your dollar!
GasPriceWatch claims 105,690 “Volunteer Price Spotters” who turn in 43,762 prices per weekly, covering 126,860 US Gas Stations.
But none, it seems, near where I live.
When things go wrong with university computing, we don't exactly get full disclosure. More often than not, it's hide the fact, pass the buck, issue turgid self-exonerations later.
Here's how my commercial host deals with issues:
We experienced a brief period of downtime around 4:30pm this afternoon. The problem was caused by a misconfiguration on one of our routers that subsequently required us to reload our main switch as well, and caused some other sporadic outages for approximately the last half hour. While there was intermittent downtime with our private network, access to your websites was largely unaffected with some people seeing more of an effect than others. We're currently in the process of kicking the responsible parties in the butt and working on preventing such problems in the future.
Happy DreamHost NetNotWorking Team!
It's a bit flippant but I'll take it over denial and obfuscation any day.
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