Blog Master G

As I’ve mentioned in the past, my MBNA card was due to be cancelled out of principle. Now there’s even more reason to do so. The Center for Public Integrity: “A small number of donations by employees of the credit card giant MBNA Corp. last month was enough to unseat Enron as President George W. […]

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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” – Theodore Roosevelt Dan writes about some of his experiences walking around protest zones in NYC: “I could […]

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Good news from MoveOn.org‘s latest email: Here’s why the hype that Bush is winning doesn’t stand up to scrutiny: * Nation-wide polls don’t matter. This election will be decided in the 20 or so states that aren’t firmly in Bush’s camp. So while most national polls–which include voters in Texas and California–show a dead heat […]

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Who’s the flip-flopper now, Bush? Bush Recants, Says Terror War Will Be Won (AP): “President Bush said repeatedly on Tuesday that the United States will win its war against terrorism, trying to contain political damage from the doubt he expressed a day earlier. “‘We may never sit down at a peace table, but make no […]

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Daily Kos: “Okay, this is just a tiny story, but worthy of repeating. I magically found myself with an RNC Guest Pass today (moohoohoohaahaa), and so I made my way toward the Garden, herded along with many, many, hot, pissed-off New Yorkers. Eventually, security stripped away layers of the great unwashed, leaving me strolling along […]

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The best and worst of tonight’s RNC: The best: John McCain referring to Michael Moore as a “disingenuous filmmaker” and the crowd errupting in boos as Moore himself smiles, laughs, and chants (in response to the monotonous “four more years”), “two more months.” Yes, the man with arguably the biggest balls in America was in […]

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In honor of the start of the Republican National Convention, which officially kicked off today, I present to you the average IQ and 2000 presidential election votes by state according to the Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices:

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Again demonstrating his mastery of the English language, Bush today declared the war in Iraq a “catastrophic success.” Huh? That’s like saying, “We rescued the decapitated man just in time!” The Australian: “GEORGE W. Bush has admitted the US failed to plan for a speedy victory in Iraq, describing the sudden collapse of Saddam Hussein’s […]

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This is awesome. And apparently I’m only two degrees from one of the climbers who got arrested for this: Gabe -> Dan -> climber Plaza Hotel, New York City August 26, 2004

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Extended and poignant excerpts from Where Is The Shame? (New York Times): “In what is surely the most important election of the last half-century, we seem trapped in the politics of the madhouse. What is incredible is that these attacks on men who served not just honorably, but heroically, are coming from a hawkish party […]

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