Musings on "getting out the vote"

Several weeks ago, a couple of MoveOn droids showed up at my door to "take a survey". I told them that yes, I was a registered republican, and that yes, I was voting for Kerry, so fuck off. Last week, while I was away, they came back to "check that [my wife] was still planning to vote for Kerr

Re: This Memorable Day

At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: >Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >>> >>No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. > >And it's not even orig

RE: Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy

"That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy." Come on! The bar slut has pas

Re: This Memorable Day

Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >> >No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English,

Re: This Memorable Day

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl __ ICBM: 48.

This Memorable Day

The Wall Street Journal November 2, 2004 COMMENTARY This Memorable Day By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON November 2, 2004; Page A22 In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single presiden

Re: This Memorable Day

At 10:31 AM -0500 11/2/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >The Persian deaths numbered in the hundreds >of thousands. The Greeks died in the low hundreds. More recently, and closer to Hanson's point in the article, both of Lincoln's elections were very close. But, after Lincoln's second inauguration, Grant

RE: Musings on "getting out the vote"

And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang and Kodos. So far, the only things Kerry seems to have promised is that he'd be better at doing all the crazy shit Bush has dove into. So when they ask me (at the corner of Wall and Broadway), "Are you a John Kerry Suppo

Re: This Memorable Day

And an admirable role model for the Simian's memory: An avenging rebel terrorist shot Abe, not Grant, who suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, after lollygagging in the animal-beshat White House, lost that, took up liquor, became a helpless drunk, friends caretook his inept pickled carca

Re: This Memorable Day

At 11:58 AM -0800 11/2/04, John Young wrote: >Grant, who >suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, Actually, he "suicided" himself with cigars, having died of throat cancer... ;-) Seriously, any future crypto-anarchy / anarcho-capitalist society is probably not going to succeed unless it can

Florida 2.0

At the moment, the (no paper backup) touch-screen machines in Florida aren't matching their manual voter counts. In the meantime Ohio has the highest punch-card voting machine count in the country. Are we having fun yet? Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Unde

Re: This Memorable Day

"R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: >>Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >>>No cypherpunks conten