It looks like Clinton is winning in Texas, probably thanks to crossover republicans. Stupid dangle states. Please stop it! I know souring elections makes you feel important, but everybody knows that you're just the lampreys of America.
Kendrak raised a good point in the comment the other day: Senator Feinstein has a history of bad votes, and it should be no surprise that she supported the ridiculous unconstitutional wiretapping bill. But I've still voted for Feinstein in the past! I guess I'm an enabler. Realistically, though, what else was I going to do? The race hasn't been close in this state for a long time, so it doesn't matter much.
However, a few elections ago I realized that I can give money to candidates in states where the vote *is* close. Coincidentally, one of the candidates I did give money to in the last election was Darcy Burner, and she just released this video on the wiretapping vote:
Rock on, Burner! She just guaranteed I'll give her money this cycle, too.
Screaming and crying, George W. Bush was escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that he must serve out his entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than on his Texas ranch.
"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Bush, who violated his parole in a corruption case. "Mom!" he called out to his mother, Barbara Bush, in the audience.
Bush, who was brought to court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, came into the courtroom disheveled and weeping, hair askew, wearing a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks.
He cried throughout the hearing, his body shook constantly and he dabbed at his eyes. Several times he turned to his parents, seated behind him in the courtroom, and mouthed, "I love you."
Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by the morning's developments. He said he had left the courthouse Thursday night having signed an order for Bush to appear for the hearing.
When he got in his car early Friday, he said, he heard a radio report that he had approved Bush's participation in the hearing by telephone, but he had not.
"I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions," he said of the decision to release Bush from jail after three days.
"At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to his home in Crawford," Sauer said.
I used to read Instapundit as a way to take the pulse of the right-hand side of the political spectrum. While I usually didn't agree with author Glenn Reynolds, I at least felt he was presenting an honest defense of his conservative viewpoint. But over the past few years, he's slowly become a predictable megaphone for the right-wing talking point of the day, punctuated by the occasional smarmy "heh" or "indeed" comment.
AAA has a sketchy agenda that I wasn't completely aware of. Weird. So consider this an open letter to AAA: I like your "come fix my car when its broke" policies, but your anti-environment policy, not so much.
When Bush won in 2004, I told a few close friends that there was a single small, silver lining: Had he lost, Bush would have been canonized by the right. But having won, Bush's mistakes would catch up to him, and he would go down in history as the worst president ever. The Washington Post recently published five op-eds asking this very question. I love the fact that in a sort of reverse Stephen Colbert moment, the consensus is somewhere between "Yes, worst ever" and "No, just fifth worst".
I'm pretty angry right now. Okay, okay, so I was reading comments on a website that's bad for my health. (I won't name names, but it rhymes with flearepublic) I ran across another uninformed, poorly reasoned, and hateful "California sucks" screed. So, as an antidote, I post James Wolcott's "Red State Babylon". From that link:
If the blue states are sinkholes of moral decay, as right-wing pundits insist, how come red states lead the nation in violent crime, divorce, illegitimacy, and incarceration, among other evils?
I keep seeing ads for "A Glenn Beck Special, Exposed: The Extreme Agenda" all over the blogosphere. I think it's about Islamic extremism. Here's what I just submitted to CNN.com's feedback form:
