meta-roj

for some reason, i feel compelled to pat myself on the back a little this morning, so, via barry we get a link to an editorial by paul krugman about the dishonesty thing.

i just want to point backwards for a moment – here – which was a brief (and admittedly obscure) comment on the “terrorist impact” of the madrid bombings and several other things going on in the world. it’s a general observation, and i honestly [heh] do hope politicians buy this clue sometime. so far, they’re banking on stupid. i was watching for a while, and i had hoped that a glimmer of political honesty would catch fire, but it fizzled.

ok, that’s enough self-referential links for now. back to work.

just a brief note (time flies):

Moulton woman says she lost job for sporting Kerry sticker on car [decatur daily, decatur, alabama, september 12, 2004]

“We were going back to work from break, and my manager told me that Phil said to remove the sticker off my car or I was fired,” she said. “I told him that Phil couldn’t tell me who to vote for. He said, ‘Go tell him.’ “

[nothing quite like three layers of quotes]

so, a nod to lynne gobbell of decatur alabama for standing up for her opinions, and a little space in my corner of the web for her former employer:

EnviroMate Insulation
13855 Court Street
Moulton, Alabama 35650
800.339.3531

i hope this gets picked up.

blues

new york, new york

take the journal to your local polling place and be an election judge or just an observer. this election counts, so make sure the votes do.

just to put this on the record as the spinning gets going….

vice president dick cheney, september 8, 2004, des moines iowa

It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today on November 2nd we make the right choice, ’cause if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we’ll get hit again, that we’ll be hit in a way that’ll be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we’ll fall back into the pre-9/11 mindset, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we’re not really at war.

vice president dick cheney, september 10, cincinnati enquirer

I did not say if Kerry is elected, we will be hit by a terrorist attack

i suppose this means that the “wrong choice” on september 2 was ralph nader? or maybe it was to supersize the fries? so many choices… i need to know which ones are going to cause terrorist attacks, dick.

would like to buy the world a coke

“In a real sense we are all sacrificed on the bloody altar of a tyrannical technology”

strings

one of nine old men