.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Barack O’ Lantern, originally uploaded by Aidenag. My largest pumpkin carving endeavor ever. I took the… Read More ›
elections
“best argument against democracy is 5 min conversation with the averag VOTER sa winston churchil who was aktualy not bad and looking at colection of numskuls oiks roters bulies and cads of st custards he may hav a point.” ~ Nigel Molesworth esq, the goriller of 3b
Where would your eight homes be?
Saw this meme over at Cara’s and as she doesn’t tag people, I’m just taking it. For those who have not been paying obsessive attention to the US election details, it’s a reference to how many homes the McCains own… Read More ›
Election Watch: only two weeks to go for the presidential poll!
Photo of the Week: the McCain funnyface. Video of the Week: Palin on Saturday Night Live. Canadian election: Stephen Harper is PM again New Zealand election: still got 2 and a half weeks of campaigning to go, with their polling… Read More ›
Rudd’s rattling Turnbull
Kevin Rudd’s popularity has increased, with the latest Nielsen poll indicating that his handling of the global financial crisis (GFC) wins especially high approval, putting his personal approval rating at a personal best of 71%. Labor as a whole is… Read More ›
Weekend election speculation
Open thread – just to keep the other open thread from being overwhelmed. It’s normally OK to discuss some political news stories on the Otterday open thread, but the election stuff tends to drown out everything else if we’re not… Read More ›
Third Debate Thoughts, and Video of McCain’s air-scarequotes “health of the mother”
My first impression thoughts of the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, mostly grabbed from my twitter feed: – McCain choked on addressing Obama as “Senator Obama” at the opening, unless there was a glitch in the… Read More ›
As the US election campaign descends farther and farther into black farce
Jesus’ General makes the appropriate accompanying video: Passionately Credulous Bigots For McCain (We’ll Believe Anything) So, is anything marginally more sensible happening in the election campaigns in NZ or Canada?
Quick Hit: Weekend Election Watch
Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light sums up how frothingly the extreme right wing blogosphere is reacting to the polls for the McCain campaign: The Corner goes round the bend Meanwhile, as I say, The Corner and its cronies continue… Read More ›
Punishing the poor
More fuckwittery from the Bush administration regarding reproductive health aid to Africa. In some parts of Africa, a woman now has a 1-in-10 risk of dying in childbirth. The idea that U.S. policy may increase that toll is infuriating. via… Read More ›
Nuance for Dummies
The wingnuts continue to wag fingers at feminists for not supporting Gov. Palin’s election campaign. The way these loopers misrepresent feminist positions would be comical if it wasn’t so agenda driven. Jim Quinn (paraphrased): feminists simply can’t stand that Palin… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 