“The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States” (Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104 [2000]).
Fairvote.org has info on the national movement to end the electoral college system.
for ikoi
Everyone I know who watches Adult Swim will hate me for this, but they just played the dog episode of Futurama…you know the one I’m talking about…and I thought I’d post the lyrics for that song. This link goes to the original song, and here:
If it takes forever I will wait for you
For a thousand summers I will wait for you
‘Till you’re back beside me, ’till I’m holding you
‘Till I hear you sigh here in my armsAnywhere you wander, anywhere you go
Every day remember how I love you so
In your heart believe what in my heart I know
That forever more I’ll wait for youThe clock will tick away the hours one by one
And then the time will come when all the waiting’s done
The time when you return and find me here and run
Straight to my waiting armsIf it takes forever I will wait for you
For a thousand summers I will wait for you
‘Till you’re here beside me, ’till I’m holding you
And forever more sharing your loveAnd forever more I’ll wait for you
I don’t know the artist, or the album, or anything. I looked and then got bored with looking. New another episode of Futurama is on, so fuck that.
John came by on saturday, and we went an got food at la tapatia. they sat us outside next to a bus stop. there were buses coming and going while we were enjoyin our meal. hmph
we went and got some beers and john noticed that in front of the customer service desk at vons (i’ll go to the union shop near my house til they strike) had a sign indicating it was for blind people, and lost his nut giggling. that was the funniest thing he ever did see
we played darts til like midnight and desi went to sleep. then we watched an ep of survivorman. he gets scared by a moose, and eats some snails. also, naked
I know you’ll all think I’m nuts but I love this cartoon and the theme as well. It’s just awesome. I transcribed the lyrics myself. 
SHIN CHAN!
Ending themeWoke up late this morning
clouds were really rolling
frogs and dogs were raining from the skyeverything seems awkward to me
nothing’s just as it should be
if this keeps up i surely won’t get byand then i close my eyes and try to smile
i know things are bad and getting worse
but after all this i can rest a while
and then i’ll party party!Party party!
Join us join us!
Party party!
Join us join us!
Party party!
Join us join us!
Shake your tail and you can
Party party!
Join us join us!
Party party!
Join us join us!
Party party!
Join us join us!
Shake your blues away!Yo, reggae vacation mon!
this party’s shakin’ and it aint just shakin’ me
i see you smilin’ grinnin’ ear to ear
sing the song and you should really sing it clear
just sing along with us!Party party!
Join us join us!
Party party!
Join us join us!
Party party!
Join us join us!
Shake your tail and you can
Party party!
Party party!
Party party!
Here is the adultswim.com page for Shin Chan, and at the right side under extras you can click “Party, Party, Join Us, Join Us” and listen to the song, as well as view the end titles. There’s at least one episode up for grabs as well.
Mary Ann Akers at WaPo joins the echo chamber, notable for its low entry requirements. This post at firedoglake was the catalyst for the fact-free nature of Akers’ stenography.
Greg Palast was on Randi Rhodes the other day. He should seriously have his own show. He’s got a great manic energy, and he talks exactly how he writes, at least on the air. I don’t know if he talks that way in daily life, but I’d like to think that he does. That would rock. Here’s a couple grafs on the “voter fraud” the GOP tried (is still trying) to push:
There was a multi-state con in operation. But what was it? Each of these bogus claims of voter fraud was attached to a sales pitch for a state law to tighten voter ID requirements — to prevent these ne’er-do-wells from voting twice. In Arizona, one crack-pot Republican legislator, the Hon. Russell Pearce, claimed he had evidence that five million Mexicans had illegally crossed the border to vote.
The point: Rove knew that a “challenge” operation by the Republican Party, run from his office, knocked out 300,000 voters — mainly poor ones, voters of color. His crew wanted to hike that higher.
The notable thing about this crime of voter identity theft is that it doesn’t happen. You are more likely to encounter ballot boxes that spontaneously combust. I found cases of voters struck by lightening — but out of 120 million votes cast, I couldn’t find a dozen criminal cases of a bandit stealing someone’s identity to vote.
Here’s a hint: if the GOP is talking about something, anything, assume the opposite is true. Like, if a GOP politician says “I am completely opposed to eating little children in salsa” start checking his garbage can for tiny fingerbones with the remnants of jabaneros on them. Bush is the master of this, “Mission Accomplished” “Healthy Forests” “No Child Left Behind” are just a few, and just big block-letter ones. I’m sure that’s how things are in his head anyways. Go read Greg’s bit, he’s awesome.
I think this was used in a VW commercial or something. There’s a car commercial out there that has Galaxie 500 in it as well, so that wouldn’t surprise me.
Iron and Wine
“Such Great Heights”
Such Great Heights Single(Note: I know this is a Postal Service song, but Iron and Wine’s version is so freakin good I couldn’t stay away from it. If you love the PS’s version, give this one a listen.)
I am thinking it’s a sign
that the freckles in our eyes
are mirror images
and when we kiss they’re perfectly aligned.And I have to speculate
that God Himself did make
us into corresponding shapes
like puzzle pieces from the clay.And true it may seem like a stretch
but it’s thoughts like this that catch
my troubled head when you’re away
and when I am missing you to death.And when you are out there on the road
for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home.they will see us waving from such great heights
‘come down now’ they’ll say
but everything looks perfect from far away
‘come down now’ but we’ll stayI tried my best to leave
this all on your machine
but the persistent beat
it sounded thin upon the sending.and that frankly will not fly
you’ll hear the shrillest highs
and lowest lows with the windows down
and this is guiding you home.they will see us waving from such great heights
‘come down now’ they’ll say
but everything looks perfect from far away
‘come down now’ but we’ll staythey will see us waving from such great heights
‘come down now’ they’ll say
but everything looks perfect from far away
‘come down now’ but we’ll staythey will see us waving from such great heights
‘come down now’ they’ll say
but everything looks perfect from far away
‘come down now’ but we’ll stay
Youtube fanvid. Not totally terrible.
listening to the anger in pat tillman’s brother’s voice yesterday, and his mom, and jessica lynch’s sadness, as they testified to congress about the complete lies the US Army and other government arms had made up about them and their family memebers, was hard. i felt sadness about the garbage being done in our name, and fear at the depth of corruption that seems to be pervading every aspect of our shared experience called government, and anger at the people who would do this kind of contemptible thing. the anger is getting stronger, but dragging the sadness along behind it. the fear has wandered off.
see for yourself…
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: GOP corruption, cronyism, and incompetence led us here. and i’m not saying that as hyperbole, it’s simple fact. if anyone wants leave me a comment and i’ll get you posts explaining all of it. or just look for yourselves. i don’t have time this morning to do a long blag post, but it’s not like it’s been hidden. as greenwald said, they tillmans have been complaining vocally, and to the (complicit) media for years. so has jessica lynch. all the other GOP scum have been flaunting their garbage in the broad daylight (with some Dem scum). so it’s not hidden. if you’re still thinking “the GOP can be saved”, you’re a self-delusional idiot.
INDK
All 41
Kill WhiteyReady to
Fight for you
Got your back
Pickin up the slack
Ready to go into the line of fire
Ready to set myself on fire
Ready to do anything
Possession of friends is a precious thing
If you’re slippin, fallin down
We’ll be the ground
We’re not going on without you
There’s no way
We’ll pay your way
We’re going the long haul to the end
We’re all for friends
We’re crossing the finish line in victory
This one’s from me
Now you know
You don’t stand alone
I’m for you
I’m always true
I wouldn’t trade our friendship for another chance
I wouldn’t trade our friendship for a chill romance
I wouldn’t change a thing in all the times gone by
Wouldn’t hesitate to take a bullet and die
He did send an MP3 tho.
westboro baptist church, which claims to speak for god, plans to protest the funerals of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. They claim to speak for God. Can you support this god?
WBC to Preach at Funerals of Virginia Tech Dead
WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror — yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is ‘horrified’ by it all. You know nothing of horror — yet. Your true horror is coming. “They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads” (Eze. 7:18).Why did this happen, you ask? It’s simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was terror. Then, the LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants.
This is the face of god-worship taken to a logical extreme. this is the face of the crusades, and the inquisition, and every holy fuckwit who thought that he could HURT someone into being what HE thought was right. this is religion. so look on it. when the fallen students who did nothing other than attend their classes are laid to rest, a few dozen assholes under the banner of god will heckle and scream at their parents and loved ones gathered to grieve. Is this what you think of when you ponder religion? it should be, because it is the face of it. so don’t shrink away. if you’re really religious, or spiritual, or whatever halfwit fucking bullshit you invent to justify your prostrating to some made-up invisible shithead, then this is your spokesperson, in the form of the westboro baptist church.
i recommend that anyone in the area of any of these protests (while 33 funerals of individuals who attended a large university might be hard to completely canvas) come out and let WBC know what they think, of their protests, of their bullshit, of their bile-filled hate. let them know loudly and assertively. because there’s one thing over the top of their god-fellating, and that’s HUMANITY. and the fucking shit-eating asshole Fred Phelps of the WBC has today forsaken his membership card in the club called HUMANITY, in favor of his jesus-fucking. he should be treated as such.