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can you hold your breath for two weeks? how ’bout a month?

already, technical difficulties reported in florida (server down), and lawsuits are flying, but (in some places, at least) you can now start casting your ballot and it might even get counted.

Wise Confuse-us say erection that last whole month keep hurting for years

Without a Doubt [new york times, october 17, 2004. registration blah]

The nation’s founders, smarting still from the punitive pieties of Europe’s state religions, were adamant about erecting a wall between organized religion and political authority. But suddenly, that seems like a long time ago. George W. Bush — both captive and creator of this moment — has steadily, inexorably, changed the office itself. He has created the faith-based presidency.

better to read the whole thing. drop by bugmenot for registration, but read it. seriously.

the elder republicans are stepping up, if slowly…

Ex-Security Adviser Rips Bush Diplomacy [ap via abc, oct 16, 2004]

The national security adviser under the first President Bush says the current president acted contemptuously toward NATO and Europe after Sept. 11 and is trying to cooperate now out of desperation to “rescue a failing venture” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Brent Scowcroft, a mentor to the current national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, also said in an interview published in England that Bush is inordinately influenced by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

the original article was published on october 14 in the financial times, but that’s locked up behind a registration process.

they’ll spam and they’ll quote out of context and they’ll even use names without permission. but the current of deceit runs even deeper in this little river in southeast asia….

a washington animal has the latest.

and, by the way, they still haven’t paid for their ads in my space.

who wants some dishoom?