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Posted in Politics on Jun 8th, 2008
There is one essential right you have as a member of a jury that the judge will likely not instruct you on, as a matter of fact, he will likely be upset it comes up. The jury can acquit a defendant if they feel the instructions given to it by the judge were wrong, or […]
Posted in Politics on Jun 1st, 2008
Canada is cracking down on copyright violations. If you have content the border guards so much as suspect of content on your iPod, laptop, cell phone, etc violating copyright, they can destroy it. The Yahoo! news story that reports this, seems to indicate that the whole iPod or Laptop itself will be destroyed, not […]
Posted in Politics on Apr 29th, 2008
I have been an opponent of putting a windfall tax on oil companies, particularly in light of the fact that on profit per dollar basis, drug companies and banks make more than twice the profits of oil companies. However, in light of the current economic crisis, and the fact that they have risen diesel so […]
Posted in Politics on Apr 20th, 2008
It’s 4/20, the traditional day that those who smoke marijuana celebrate.
And while I may not do drugs myself, it is the perfect occasion to rail against America’s unjust and hypocritical war on drugs.
Actually, skip the rail, as I have already covered my thoughts and opinions on this stupid drug war of ours a ton of […]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Mar 8th, 2008
Contrary to what you may have heard reported by the mass media, Ron Paul has not officially dropped out of the race. Rather he is moving onto the next phase, which is rather vague. I for one sincerely hope he is going to make a go for it as a Libertarian candidate again, the Republican […]
Posted in Politics on Mar 8th, 2008
I saw this the other day, but I’ll just make a quick comment. Bush is going to veto a bill that would ban waterboarding, because torture, he says, is essential the security of the United States. The bill would limit the CIA to the same interrogation techniques the Army is, which itself somehow didn’t get […]
Posted in Politics on Mar 5th, 2008
Clinton won both Ohio and Texas. To be fair, she was expected to win both by a large margin, and her margin in Texas wasn’t much and the caucus isn’t counted far enough yet to see how delegates are distributed. None of the news organizations seem to agree on exactly how the counts are distributed, […]
Posted in Politics on Mar 2nd, 2008
I saw a comment from the Clinton camp the other day that if Obama doesn’t sweep all four states on the 4th by a large margin, than he in fact lost. Odd spin on the facts since prior to her statement, I was under the impression that Texas and Ohio were guaranteed wins for her, […]
Posted in Politics on Feb 25th, 2008
Sara and I went to the Obama rally Saturday. The doors were scheduled to open at 4 pm and the event was scheduled to start at 5:30 pm. At 12:30 Sara called to see when they thought we should be there, they said the line was already around the block so we head out and […]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Feb 20th, 2008
Ron Paul did respectably well Tuesday, however, due to the asinine way the Republican’s assign the winner take all delegates, his delegate count didn’t go up. I really don’t understand why anyone votes for McCain. Even Republican’s hate Bush, and McCain is basically another Bush, perhaps even worse. My shit could win the general election […]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Feb 12th, 2008
I think it is telling when the “better educated” people, as the media polls call them, favor Obama and the “less educated” people prefer Clinton. That should speak volumes as to whom the Democrats should elect. Obviously the “educated” people know who is the better choice.
If we get Obama vs McCain, I will vote for […]
Posted in Politics on Feb 11th, 2008
I find it amusing that the Democrats, at least the big state ones, pushed to change the Federal elections from Electoral College to a pure Popular Vote, and yet for their primaries, they have Superdelegates to avoid having to end up with the popular vote, or as they say to balance it out. As I […]
Posted in Politics on Feb 5th, 2008
Hillary has been complaining, and I have seen her supporters echoing her, that Obama doesn’t support Universal Health Care. Umm… notice to the idiots who parrot her, yes he does. His plan is Universal Health Care. His plan, offers health care to everyone who wants it, and mandates coverage for children. Everyone can be covered, […]
Posted in Politics on Jan 26th, 2008
I very seldom vote Democrat, however, if I were to vote for any Democrat this election cycle it would be Obama. He may be an evil CFR member, but I find his positions on several key issue far better than any of the other Democrat candidates, especially health care, and we know he’ll pull troops […]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Jan 20th, 2008
Ron Paul came in a strong second in Nevada and beat Giuliani in South Carolina… though Paul beating Giuliani is nothing new, the only time he hasn’t was in New Hampshire. Nevada and South Carolina proves a certain point about the Ron Paul base. Despite the fact he gets lower scores in polls, his real […]
I saw a report that said that Antidepressants may not be as effective as popularly thought. Worse, the studies that prove certain drugs are ineffective are very seldom published in medical journals and literature. This is above and beyond the known side effects of antidepressants, such as them actually increasing the suicide rate among teens, […]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Jan 16th, 2008
Ron Paul placed fourth in Michigan far beating out Giuliani and Thompson, of course Giuliani continues to focus on Florida. Romney’s win doesn’t count for too much since the Republican’s cut Michigan’s delegates in half for moving the primary too early.
Meanwhile on the Democrat side, Clinton won, though she and Kucinich were about the only […]
Posted in Politics on Jan 14th, 2008
It is still early in the primary season, but I’ll lay out my official election predictions, as they stand right now.
On the Democrat side, which is an easier one to predict, I’ll lay best odds on an Obama/Edwards ticket with an eventual win as the Republican’s will not put up somebody who can beat any […]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Jan 8th, 2008
Ron Paul so far in the New Hampshire primaries is second. Two hamlets voted last night, McCain received 10 votes, Mike Huckabee 5, Ron Paul 4, Romney 3 and Rudy Giuliani 1. Of course the big news is that Obama crushed everyone on the Dem side with 16 votes, Clinton 3, John Edwards 3 and […]
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