The sleazy politicians; the lying pundits; the greedy corporate execs, with their blatant disregard for employees and customers alike; the corporate bots that are charged with providing customer service; even the guy down the street that lets his Rotweiler take a dump on your sidewalk and doesn't clean it up-- a lot of people have a lot of reasons to be ashamed.  

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Biased MSNBC election coverage!

The election graphic displayed on MSNBC CLEARLY displays the elephant in front of the donkey!  The donkey is, in plain language, partially BLOCKED by the elephant!  You can see, by photo enhancement below, that the donkey's forelegs are obscured by the elephant's torso:

I don't mind at all getting live phone calls in support of candidates at this time of year... the taped "robo-calls" on the other hand have got to go.  As if a taped robo-call is not annoying enough in itself, many of these messages are actually designed to annoy and are meant to mislead the recipient into thinking that a candidate's opponent is responsible for the call.

I got one of these calls and the part of the call that indicated who paid for the call was muffled and unintelligible.

The Washington Post weighs in on robo-calls in tomorrow's edition.

Here's two of the companies who are making millions of these calls (and reaping the profits):

http://www.flsconnect.com/
http://www.conquestgroup.com/

Lets hope these companies don't earn a dime doing this in 2008.

Which country is the worst greenhouse gas polluter in the world?  Well, the obvious guess is the US-- and it is, in sheer amounts... but PER CAPITA, it's NOT the US!  It's those dirty Aussies! HA! 

Perhaps they too have a federal energy policy that ends up giving tax credits for new vehicles that get 18MPG while eliminating the credit on vehicles that get 55MPG.

We can't possibly outlaw this practice, since banning it would clearly violate our First Amendment right to free speech.  gimme a break :-{

...and the other 85% of us swearing, shouting, crying or hitting something in frustration.

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”
-- NY Times

So let me get this straight: We outsourced the search for Iraqi WMDs to right-wing bloggers and inadvertently published a detailed guide to build an atomic bomb onto the internet in full view of any terrorist who cared to look.

A used pipe machine tool vendor gets frivolous....

How come the Republicans can work up outrage over a misstatement by a Democrat but can't work up the same outrage over things that really matter?

Obviously, cell phone manufacturers don't....