Stricter laws should be maintained so that Electors vote by the way of their state's popular vote I never said the system should be abolished. If you feel there need to be stricter laws to split the electoral votes along popular vote percentages, well, that's a way to perhaps fix what I consider to be
See therein lies the problem. Up until Gore lost in 2000 the system was fine with "everybody". Since 2000 now it's somehow in need of being fixed? No, that's not true. I wrote my first article against the Electoral College in 1992, after reading about the election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel
If Kerry wins, Bush supporters will say..."oh well, thats too bad, we're just gonna have to sit back, hope for the best, and try again in 2008." mm hmm That's why the right went after Clinton so hard in the 90's. Because they weren't upset a bit about losing the White House. Whitewater, "travelgate,"
If only 538 more Floridians had voted for Al Gore in 2000, we wouldn't be in Iraq. Well, I don't like "if only." But I do think it's important to remember that Gore won the overall popular vote yet still lost the election. Sure, it's not the first time that something like that has happened, but it's
Fire Hazard Bush Leaves Nuclear Plants at Risk by Anne-Marie Cusac On June 16, the commission charged with investigating the events of September 11 announced that Al Qaeda's early attack plans had included "unidentified nuclear power plants." You might think the Bush Administration would respond by doing all it could to prevent a terrorist-triggered disaster at these plants. Think again. The Bush Admini
We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk? by Garrison Keillor / In These Times Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street busines
Neither is income tax for that matter. Actually, with the creation of the 16th ammendment, income taxes became constitutional. You might feel that it goes against what the founders and framers wanted, but because it is part of the constitution, it is, therefore, constitutional. You can't say "the cons
Republicans have done good things for the environment in the past -- it was Nixon who created the EPA. I think the current generation of Reagan/Bush Republicans have been rather soft on the enviroment -- but then again, I think Bill Clinton was too soft on enviromental policy, too. I'm probably considered to be to the far left on environmental issues -- I'd be a "Green" I suppose if I had to pick a party to register in (they don't make you pick one h
Bush is smart in one area: smear politics. There, I will agree, the man is a genius. Other than that, he is a fakkin' moron.
posted originally to The Brouhaha http://www.brouhaha.blog-city.com I'm an avid reader of Thomas Sowell. I think it's because, deep down, I'm really a raging masochist. For those of you who don't know Sowell, he's a columnist, an author, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a right-wing nut-job. Not necessarily in th
I'd come up short you don't get to the top ten Yeah, I think you'd come up short. That's why you have to delete. You don't have any valid response.<
While it's nice of you to explain the "rules" of JU to me, it's not necessary at this point. Thank you, though. Oh, poor baby. I don't really care if you visit my blog in the future. Oh, yeah, here's a link <a href="http://www.brouhaha.bl
I am sorry I once referred to you as a "resident conservative." Your posts are kick ass.
PATRIOT FLAMETHROWER >> I would like to talk to you. E-mail me, eh? [email protected] . I think we can shake these people up from right to left, yeah? Let's hurt them where they live...
This was a good post in general, but might I suggest you find another way to get your message across without running down other people? Look, I'm the one he called "misguided" et al., and I'm not offended on bit. He plays it harsh, so what? I like that game. Let's expose the soft underbelly of the bu
You deleted the Patriot Flamethrower? I'm forced not to take anything you say seriously ever again. The Patriot and I are opposites on the spectrum, but I'll be damned if I EVER tell him he can't respond to one of my posts like he wants. I don't like posters who make themselves the gods of deciding what opinions get out and what opinions don't. Understand that people WILL disagree with you, call you names, say things about you that you do
No, don't stick in there. I'm glad you traded your game back in so I don't have to read your whiny posts anymore. It's a fun game, no game is perfect, you should design your own damn game if none of these other efforts satisfy you. Cheers.
Another interesting angle to this whole story is the number of CBS affiliates who either bumped the program to late-night or experienced mysterious "technical difficulties" during the hour. Like WYOU, Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania CBS affiliate WYOU experienced "technical difficulties" for the duration of the latest 60 Minutes program -- a program which was to reveal what a lot of us already knew -- that George Bush got special treatment to get in
Craig Unger has written a nice article for the Guardian talking about the "Bush Strong on Terrorism" myth. Link
Yup, a whole lot of people screwed up on this one, Democrats and Republicans both. I won't say any of it's lies even without citations because I've read most of those quotes. The lefties get as hungry to beat up on folks as the righties do. I think most Dem's were pissed at Clinton for lying under oath and getting impeached because it meant they couldn't have a war of THEIR devising. Now a lot of Dems hate what they would have loved had it been a C
Yeah I posted this in another thread -- got a lot of flack from folks who say I shouldn't judge the workings of the army.
1: Liberal (100%) 2: New Labour (74%) 3: Anarcho-syndicalist (73%) 4: Totalitarian (66%) 5: Libertarian (45%) 6: Traditional Societies (45%) 7: Authoritarian (38%) 8: Conservative (15%) *laugh* Not surprising at all. Let's get high.
Actually, it would be the University of Texas LONGHORNS sign. I don't think Texas A&M fans would like it much that you attribute the "Hook 'Em Horns" sign to their beloved Aggies. *laugh* Those two posts were in jest, however, in the spirit of the thread.
Kerry he is just a tree hugger Yeah, I'll be damned if I care about the only planet we can live on. Bush would take out the drug smugglers
the economy is doing well Well, for some folks, I suppose the economy is doing well. Unfortunately, I'm not a wealthy GOP donor so this doesn't apply to me. He won't ge