October 30, 2004
2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes:
Run from the touch-screen voting machine, the arrested protestor, and more!
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Washington Dog Phones 911 for Fallen Owner:
Faith is trained to summon help by pushing a speed-dial button on the phone with her nose after taking the receiver off the hook, said her owner Leana Beasley, 45, who suffers grand mal seizures.
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October 29, 2004
Download "Fahrenheit 9/11":
It's free! It may also be legal. Maybe not.
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October 27, 2004
Mac OS X rootkit surfaces:
One of the first pieces of malicious code targeting Apple's Mac OS X operating system has been discovered.
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iPod Photo:
And don't forget the
U2 Special Edition iPod, either.
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October 25, 2004
Former wokers dispute Bush's role in Project P.U.L.L.:
"George had to sign in and out - I remember his signature was a hurried cursive - but he wasn't an employee. He was not a volunteer either," she said. "John said he had to keep track of George's hours because George had to put in a lot of hours because he was in trouble."
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October 24, 2004
What do the Critics Say?
Metacritic.com, for more movie and music reviews than you can shake a stick at.
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October 20, 2004
Photographer angers Scalia at D.C. event
"That's enough," Scalia snapped at a photographer for The Associated Press, Manuel Balce Ceneta, who was shooting pictures of another panelist, former FBI Director Louis Freeh.
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Band of Citizens:
If you are feeling increasingly concerned with the direction this country is heading, you are not alone.
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October 17, 2004
The President Vanishes:
[Bush] makes bad jokes, cackles at them in the manner of a cinematic serial killer and has lacked the warmth that he not only once had but that I thought would compensate for a disastrous presidency and give him a second -- God help us -- term. In short, he could take over the Bates Motel in an instant.
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Without A Doubt:
'This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them. . . .
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October 16, 2004
Conference Bike:
Look! A bicylce built for
seven!
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October 14, 2004
Hard-Working George:
A one-minute synopsis of GW's debate rhetoric.
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09:09 AM
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October 13, 2004
Cognitive Deficits? Pre-senile Dementia?
A comparison of Bush's speaking skills ten years ago and today.
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11:34 PM
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Operation Truth:
Operation Truth is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the troops who have experienced them first-hand.
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John Eisenhower: Why I will vote for John Kerry:
The fact is that today’s “Republican” Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar.
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02:56 PM
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Climate fear as carbon levels soar:
An unexplained and unprecedented rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere two years running has raised fears that the world may be on the brink of runaway global warming.
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02:07 PM
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Daily Reasons to Dispatch Bush:
DAY 133: President Bush and his appointees have repeatedly taken credit for programs that the administration has attempted to eliminate or sharply reduce.
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October 12, 2004
FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers:
"And even if there were something far more serious involved than just a couple of photos, the procedure ought to send shivers down the spine of every publishing organisation on the Internet."
More here and here.
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What Bush said last Friday:
If elected to another term, I promise that I will nominate Supreme Court Justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade.
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06:29 AM
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It Can happen here:
That is, once created, it can be replicated.
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Bush campaign accuses AFL-CIO of vandalism:
In a letter to the president of the AFL-CIO, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot cited injuries and damages at an office in Orlando, Fla., and disruptions in Michigan.
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October 11, 2004
Hamdi Returns to Saudi Arabia:
Facing no criminal charges in the United States, Hamdi was barred from seeing an attorney until after two years in captivity and kept in solitary confinement.
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Taking Metro Happily Ever After:
Hours after Peter Buryk married Melissa Ehret yesterday, he lifted his bride, resplendent in billowing white satin, and carried her into a Metro car at Grosvenor-Strathmore Station.
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October 10, 2004
Bush Resume
So you really want to rehire this guy?
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10:20 AM
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Bitter Taste of Metro Arrest Lingers:
The 45-year-old federal scientist handcuffed and jailed for chewing a PayDay candy bar in a Metro station appeared in court yesterday and said her case hasn't stopped Transit Police from making controversial arrests.
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October 09, 2004
October 08, 2004
Ignorance Isn't Strength:
In the world according to the Bush administration, our leaders are infallible, and their policies always succeed. If the facts don't fit that assumption, they just deny the facts.
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Shatner punks birthplace of Captain Kirk:
In a move that echoes Ashton Kutcher's Punk'd, William Shatner has revealed that his movie Invasion Iowa is actually a reality-television prank.
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2face
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October 07, 2004
Michael Moore's Leters from Iraq:
It's hard listening to my platoon sergeant saying, "If you decide you want to kill a civilian that looks threatening, shoot him. I'd rather fill out paperwork than get one of my soldiers killed by some raghead."
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October 06, 2004
Labor Organizers Call Bush's Threat to Workers 'Unprecedented':
“He’s trying to undo the New Deal,” said Robert Kraig, state political director for SEIU Wisconsin. “It’s insane.”
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Back-room dealing a Capitol trend:
“There is no legislative process anymore,” said Fred Wertheimer, the legendary open-government activist who has been monitoring Congress since 1963. “Bills are decided in advance of going to the floor.”
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WSJ Reporter on Iraq:
If under Saddam [Iraq] was a “potential” threat, under the Americans it has been transformed to imminent and active threat, a foreign policy failure bound to haunt the United States for decades to come.
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October 05, 2004
Debate Desperation:
A great video of Bush's greatest hits (er, misses) from Debate One. (Downloadable versions
here.)
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Presidential Debate Bingo!
This bingo card has pictures! I'm sure you could use it for the Veep debate, too.
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Top 10 Secrets they don't want you to know about the debates:
(8.) The "independent and non-partisan" Commission on Presidential Debates is neither independent nor non-partisan.
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October 04, 2004
Presidential Debate Analysis:
A simple way to identify repeated statements is to count the number of times a particular noun phrase is metioned.
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Do They Just Make This Stuff Up?
Three articles make it hard not to conclude the Bush administration just makes stuff up about Iraq as they go along:
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Keeping America Scared
Short Quicktime movie summarizing the Republican campaign strategy as they presented it at their convention last month.
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October 03, 2004
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