Political Response

People who vote without educating themselves on the candidates are scary, no matter who they are blindly voting for… but between Bush’s continued non-support of rebuilding new york, his abysmal education policies that ‘leave behind’ all but the wealthiest districts, and force teachers to educate toward aptitude tests dictated by the state rather than truly educating children to think for themselves, to his backward closed minded and currently unconstitutional proposal to exclude a signifant proportion of people from being able to express their love for each other, to his constant reposturing about the mistakes made in Iraq, a war that lacked actual cause that was never shared with the American people, and that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks (where’s Osama Bin Laden), and his cabinet’s ridiculous infringements on civil liberties.

I’d rather take my chances with someone who’s educational policies are not so test-oriented and who admits that the government shanghaied us in the Iraq war for their own gains than have four more years of this almost police state.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

I am, as always, open to educated counter-arguments

j

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Sue’s in town, so I’m taking the whole week off of work. Well, that and there isn’t gonna be anyone at work, so…

We might go see Garden State again… Also here are some other movies I’m looking forward to:

Natalie Portman (again) in Closer
The “existential comedy” I <3 Huckabees
The decidecly Mamet-esque The Last Shot
The CTHD rip-off Hero. Just kidding about that last part.
The CGInime of Appleseed
Here’s some other stuff I’ve had sitting in my queue:

- Engadget explains why Sony Electronics is bass-ackward (no comment)
- In music news, the creators of one of my favorite songs of last year All Of Me Watashi-Wa have apparently broken up.
- The very cool new video from Soulwax for Any Minute Now
- An interesting NPR piece on radio stations jumping formats to something cooler
- The UK is just so cool with their britcoms and their Noah’s Ark of DNA.
- What must be my favorite grouphug.us post ever. Hey kids, when you get bored at work, go through random postings and see if you can guess which of your coworkers wrote them!
- Gadget of the Week: Type in a phrase, and musical artists will free shell account?
- More than meets the eye hits the big screen
- Errrr yeah, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday as well, Luke Skywalker
- You can take Britney out of the swamp, but…
…And last but not least, the story of the IMDB. Anyone else remember www.msstate.edu/Movies/? Damn, I’m old.

In case you didn’t already know, George Dubya Don’t Play. (originally via in8.com which appears to no longer exist.)
If that doesn’t get your goat (whatever that means), you can watch the new mediocre Prodigy video, a part of the new mediocre Prodigy record, other than that track that rips “Thriller”

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