It should be noted

That i am in a much more optimistic mood this morning.

That is all.

Note to Democrats

drinking does not take the pain away.

just thought you should know (and i should be reminded later when i look back at this in a non-drunken state).

Voted!

I never got my absentee ballot, but my polling place is located conveniently across the street, so i went and filled out a provisional ballot. And i was on the register rolls there, so im confident my vote will be counted. (But this isn't really a swing state, so its not actually going to count).

Creativity, Liberal Style

A funny song, on a funny vid. The film segues are very nice. Click here to see Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis.

Only the part where he's Jesus is it offensive. And that's because the beard sucks.

BREAKING NEWS!

Sportscenter has predicted that with 0% of precincts reporting, Kerry will win the white house. They have called it for Kerry.

You heard it here first.

The Draft

From a Dailykos Diary:

This may come as a shock to the Pentagon chief, but most of the rumors have arisen from actions within the Bush administration, which has studied how to expand draft registration to include women, target some civilian work specialties for special attention by the draft and extend the required draft registration age from 25 years old to 34 years.

Is Bush, if re-elected, going to instate the draft? I don't know. But i do know that his policies lend towards needing a large army, and currently our armed forces are overstretched right now, and, in fact, we need more in Iraq as it is. Kerry will try (much more successfully than Bush) to include the rest of the world in this, particularly the French Army, which we need, because they are set up to fight a guerilla war (a function of their history of colonialism). This will ease the strains on our army, whereas Bush's approach of alienating the rest of the world and pre-empting whoever we determine to be a threat will likely increase them.

October, it's over

And the final couple of days are at hand. An encouraging note from Josh Marshall.

We've also got Bin-Laden's "little gift", the Al Qaqaa ammo, which, of course, nobody CARES about now. This whole thing is evidence, to me, tht the media has a bias - towards SUCKINESS. Not leaning right or left, just lazy. Then, there's the great 'Battle Election 2004' going on over at Iron Blog. Both sides have been good, plenty of snark to go around, but i think (or am very biased towards) that the Iron Blogger Democrat is winning, but im already in agreance with him, which means im going to tend to ignore the points against him. Check it out and decide for yourself. An interesting post by Robert Farley of Lawyers, Guns and Money on the results of the Bush Doctrine. Farley is a smart guy, too. Teaches a mean Military Intervention 428.

What else?

Oh, yeah, Football. My Hawks are looking a little shaky, but are up at the half 14- 7, my fantasy football team is looking terrible and the Pats look like they are going to actually lose. Boston can't have TOO many wins - the Red Sox and Kerry will be enough, thank you.

Oh, and Green Bay beat the Redskins, which means, evidently, that republicans are all going to forget to vote. Or something. I'm not sure what the cause and effect of this theory is, frankly.

But good news is good news.

One more reason not to go to Wal-Mart

From Yahoo News:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, is not selling comedian George Carlin's best-selling new book, "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops," in its stores because its cover makes fun of the "Last Supper," a spokesman for Carlin said on Thursday.

Just like with the FCC and it's rules on media consolidation, this is a great example of why market diversity is necessary, not only for capitalism, but for the flow of information. Plus, Carlin rocks:

[George Carlin] said he thought the title would offend everyone.

I'm now planning on buying the book.

The Red Sox ... win?!?

Im going to miss America's most lovable team-that-can't-win-it-all. The curse was a part of baseball, and a part of America. Something seems fundamentally wrong now, that the curse has been broken and the ever-underdog Red Sox are now World Champions.

Perhaps it is a metaphor for America - the little country that could, that started in revolution and who, with an isolationist perspective, kept out of world affairs until recently. Now we find ourselves at the top of the game, the world champions, and we are a little unsure of how to deal with it.

Yes, the Red Sox as Champions is going to take some getting used to; the whole mentality of baseball will be different. If we can no longer can we count on them to choke at the last minute, how can we expect the sun to come up each morning or the moon to shine each night (a blood moon on the night the Red Sox win the world series is a doubly bad omen - i HOPE the sun rises tomorrow...)

At any rate, Boston deserves a championship; they've been waiting a long time. I imagine this year's postseason will be remembered for as long as baseball is played, and each player will be deified in Boston. Damon, Ortiz, Schilling, Pedro, Arroyo, Manny, and the rest will forever have a place in Boston lore as the team for which next year was now.

It's October. Surprise!

Only i dont think this was something planned by the Bush Administration. From the Independent in the UK.

Secret plans for the war in Iraq were passed to British Army chiefs by US defence planners five months before the invasion was launched, a court martial heard yesterday.

The revelation strengthened suspicions that Tony Blair gave his agreement to President George Bush to go to war while the diplomatic efforts to force Saddam Hussein to comply with UN resolutions were continuing.

Now, the administration (if this gets splashed in the news) will try to put this off as mere contingency planning, but i think we all know that Bush was gonna get his war on, whether Saddam disarmed or not. The more this gets noticed, the worse Bush looks.

Lt Col Warren said US planners had passed on dates for which the invasion was planned.

that doesn't sound like a 'last resort' to me.

More Blogging

Hopefully. I think i found out the reason i haven't really been blogging: im not exposed to the raw news enough. I always get it from other blogs, so i always feel like im just parroting other's opinions, which although that seems to be one of the main functions of the blogosphere, i don't like to do it. So i've installed an iframe of This in my home page. It's pretty handy to have, although i made it small so its hard to read. Anyhow, after reading this article about the counting of election, i was disappointed to discover no mention of Katherine Harris or Jeb Bush. But seriously, its good news in a place that hasn't had much. It's just a shame that Bush uses it to justify his actions. Hopefully these elections will bring a little sanity to a place where the drug trade and warlords flourish. Is the viral democracy theory legitimate? I dont think so. But if we are going to be installing them, we might as well get them right. Right?