Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 280 Bush 258
From: http://www.electoral-vote.com/
"Here is an excellent website about electronic voting. It is maintained by Ronald L. Rivest, a professor at M.I.T. and one of the world's foremost authorities on computer security. It has dozens of links to articles, some of them are technical (what is actually wrong with the voting machines and how they could be manipulated), but many of them are popular articles for laymen and politicians, editorials, etc. If these machines fail (or are hacked) in November, as they have been many times in the past, they are going to be to 2004 as the pregnant chads were to 2000, except that recounts are not possible with them because there is no paper trail. California has banned some of the worst ones, but Ohio and other states are still planning to use them. You would think that a country that can send men to the moon could at least build a voting machine that worked."
Here's a really good article on Kerry's service in Vietnam. It shows the grays of what was going on for Kerry. And while Kerry did this W and Cheney and Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld were doing their best to avoid service. Bastards!
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I have no objection to any person who tried to avoid duty in Vietnam: it was a very sensible thing to do. Even people who went to Canada (and I would have supported my brother's going to Canada, and I said so, if he had gotten called up) were given amnesty.
People that avoided service acted rationally.
That does not detract in any way from the risk and adventure of those that went, performed nobley, and actually fucking survived and came home in one piece (we note several democratic congressmen and senators who did come back but left their limbs).
Some men have gone to war fully knowing the risk and in disagreement with the cause, but aware that their future public career would be in jeopardy had they NOT performed. Bush's performance is the most unseemly: dumbass McCain suggests that Bush "served nobly" in the reserve in the same sentence as noting that Kerry "served nobly" in the field: THAT comparison, that statement of equality, my friend, is obscene. And McCain OWNS that one all by himself.
As to getting to the Moon vs Forming a just society, obiously the latter is more difficult when all things are considered as the latter is not yet done. QED.
Here is, alas, another well reasoned comment on an issue, this one, electronic voting.
Electronic voting simply does not work. That need's to be translated into something simple: "Electronic voting is a hacked video game. Happily, you won't be giving it any important information, like your credit card, you'll only be voting for Bush. Oh, not everyone. Just enough."
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