Congrats Ellie!
I think.
I can’t decide whether I should be more agitated by the fact that Ellie only won by 200 votes (and Gary lost!), or the fear that I will again wake up to the sound of calm, confused voices on the clock radio telling me the shit has hit the fan. Going to ‘DefCon Orange’ was just what I needed. Don’t you feel safe?
The Chapel Hill News lets you compare Orange County’s votes to the entire State.
Vote for Ellie!
Five days until the election when we can hopefully be rid of Howard Lee. Howard has dutifully represented the rich and powerful of Chapel Hill and the UNC System in the N.C. General Assembly, and now that we only have one Senate seat, it’s time for him to go! Here is is some reading material to get you motivated.
Please vote in the primary September 10!
You do not have to be registered as a democrat to vote in this primary. Remember you can also vote in advance at your leisure at Carrboro Town Hall or the UNC Planetarium thanks to “one-stop voting.”
This is an easy way to make your community a better place for current and future generations. There is no excuse for not doing your part.
I’m baaack.
And I’ll start posting updates again soon. Here are the photos from our trip.
Hey if anyone’s reading this, you might care to know that I am out of town. I’m in New York now, and heading to London, England tomorrow with Giles and Suzie. If anyone cares, we’ll post updates here.
Fun
Let’s take a break from being pissed-off at the world today and enjoy ourselves.
Makes me wanna spit
Arianna Huffington nails Dick Cheney to the wall at Alternet. Her commentary is especially interesting since she used to be a promminent right-winger – she knows of whence she speaks.
These wobbly spin doctors’ task was, admittedly, made much harder by the fact that on the same day these tax dodge disclosures came to light, President Bush had spoken out with his usual Dudley Do-Right forthrightness against the very same practice. “We ought to look at people who are trying to avoid U.S. taxes as a problem,” he said. Indeed we ought. So why don’t we?
Let’s start by looking at the problem of the vice president and Halliburton. During the number two’s time as the company’s number one, the number of Halliburton subsidiaries registered in tax-friendly locations ballooned from nine in 1995 to 44 in 1999. The result? A dramatic drop in Halliburton’s federal taxes, which fell from $302 million in 1998 to less than zero — to wit, an $85 million rebate — in 1999.
At the same time they were hard at work stiffing U.S. taxpayers, Cheney and Halliburton were happily feasting at the public trough — the company received $2.3 billion in government contracts and another $1.5 billion in government financing and loan guarantees.
Uh, it’s called a DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED GOVERNMENT
Florida’s Secretary of State Katherine Harris doesn’t get it. She filed to run for congress without resigning her post, in direct violation of Florida law. “Ms. Harris, whose office enforces state elections law, said she did not realize that the law applied to her…” (N.Y.Times) Of course we shouldn’t be surprised, this is the same woman who contorted election laws two years ago to assist the presidential appointment of her pal George W. Bush.
Butt outta my network, corporate hacks
Congress wants to give media conglomerates the right to “disable, block or otherwise impair” public peer-to-peer networks, and also to search the hard drives of users and fine them $50 for each offending file. (MCNBC) North Carolina’s own Rep. Howard Coble is a sponsor of the bill, please let him know what you think. You can send a free fax to congress at VoiceofWebcasters.org.
Jesse logic
Women’s rights = “radical abortion agenda.” It works for Bush!
The Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee, over the objections of the Bush administration, approved an international treaty today that is intended to eliminate discrimination against women. The vote set up a politically divisive floor fight pitting women’s rights groups against religious and social conservatives…
Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, who is recovering from heart surgery and was not present today, accused the compliance committee in a letter of having a “radical agenda.”
“There can be no doubt that CEDAW supporters are attempting to use this treaty to advance a radical abortion agenda,” Mr. Helms wrote. (N.Y.Times)
Drugs, not dog food
This web site will send an actual dog biscuit to President Bush for every signature collected on their petition advocating for prescription drug coverage for the elderly.