Phil Wolff: shrubbery
The hillarious antics of Dubya and his gang.
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- Who is writing Arnold's lines?
I saw the So,
- Arnold doesn't want to raise taxes,
- blames bad record keeping for Davis' bad decisions,
- but will somehow get us out of debt,
- get good information by using an outside auditor (Andersen?),
- cut waste but not services,
- and will balance the budget.
I'm concerned about what he defines as waste. We're already cutting off clinical services to mental patients.
He will also make decisions. That's what he said. He will listen to everyone then he, and he alone, will make the decision. (Has he ever worked with a legislature?) Schultz then gets up and says, yep, he saw Arnie listen, think, and make decisions.
Arnie also says only millionaires can represent the people, because they don't have to raise campaign money.
Asked what he'll cut, even an example of a program that should be cut, he said that decision will have to wait until after he is governor. After all, he's not a typical politician.Riiiight.
Fri, 22 Aug 2003 03:31:44 GMT - Will Durst joins Correspondences.org.
Funny as hell. Dark as rye. Recalling Slappy. The teflon goose. The Verge of Worst. The Rainbow Menace.
Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:19:59 GMT - Blackout in New York. Pataki and Bloomberg Recalls Launched.
Just making that up.
Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:00:55 GMT - Nick Denton: How to beat Bush.
via rc3, I agree with Nick Denton's analysis on How to beat Bush:
The Democratic candidate for president should appropriate the traditional Republican values of limited government, individual liberty, and fiscal responsibility.
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:50:34 GMT - Should Dean endorse Bustamante for Governor?
The Dean campaign should back Cruz Bustamante for California Governor.
- Party solidarity. Supporting the Democratic slate (No Recall + Bustamante) will improve the chances for California to vote blue in 2004. Remember, this is the state that brought you Nixon and Reagan. Defend your strongholds.
- Dean has the one team that can deliver. Dean has the only functional democratic grass roots organization in the state. Local groups are already walking precincts to register voters for 2004. But the California race is in 7 weeks, not enough time for Davis or Bustamante to raise their own money or build their own supporters.
- It will sharpen the Dean organization. This sprint can be a laboratory for every campaigning idea the Dean team can dream up. Think of it as an out of town tryout, a chance to work out bugs in the system.
When use get power, you get more. I've been going to Dean meetups for a while and this would absolutely galvanize the diehards and rally the undecideds.
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:15:01 GMT - Where the Mind is Without Fear
Poetry for a Monday morn arriving on a sea of public anxiety, despair, frustration and rejection.
Where the Mind is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.— Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:15:47 GMT - Mediacrit writ Nasty.
Media Whores Online. Media criticism with a vigorous, active voice. Left of center.
Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:59:24 GMT - Recall marketing.
For about $12,000 you can run a 4" x 5" ad in the business section of the San Jose Mercury News every day for a month, reaching about going to 350,000 households each day, perhaps being read by the same 1.3 million people (9.2 cents per thousand). Or, for about $6,500, you can run a larger ad that goes to 20 million households (3.3 cpm). That's right: advertise yourself in the upcoming recall election. Run on the "Better Tantric Sex" slate or the "A vote for me is a vote for the crunchiest chicken wings in Alameda county" platform.
We're talking recall marketing folks. The opportunity of a lifetime. Your name in every registered household. We'll even throw in a head shot. Postage paid.
Just be sure to register Republican. You don't want your brand associate with Davis, after all.
I'll be glad to help you set up your campaign weblog. "Write me" or leave a comment.
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:25:34 GMT - Bush responds to Dean with Dubya's Dayly Diary.
LiveJournal, eat your heart out.
July 22, 2003
Dear Diary -- Good news! Saddam Hussein's evil sons are maybe probably dead. Karl was busy tryin ta create a WMD distraction, but they saved us the trouble.
Everyone's real excited about the new write to President Bush email system. I'm not sure why -- it's not like anyone ever reads that stuff. Public email is almost as boring as intelligence reports.
Strictly parody, by Maeleine Kane. You gotta like your politics left of center to find it funny.
I like the idea of elected officials blogging their days. Even if only to annotate their calendars. Transparency is hard, and mostly sterile. Blogging would open up an elected official's office, values, and issues with a human voice.
Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:55:09 GMT - What do these facts mean to you? What will you do?
Professor Elizabeth Lane Lawley's mamamusings:Twenty-two percent of children in the United States live in poverty.
The top 20% income bracket in the US makes 49.6% of the total income, while the bottom 20% makes 3.6% of the total income.
Fewer than 6% of the RIT freshman class are women.
These are hard numbers.
To me, they tell a story of a nation that is unfair. 1 in 5 children are going to bed hungry, arriving at school hungry. If there is a class war, the poor are losing. And the only legal path to upward economic mobility, education, is failing more people.
The American Dream, hope itself, denied.
So I'm sad. Frustrated. And angry.
I want my President to share my feelings. I want all my elected officials to know and understand the reality behind those numbers. I want them to sweat bullets every day that these numbers don't improve.
Argue over methods. But I'm pretty sure more tax breaks for the richest, public school funding cuts, teaching to the test, increased censorship, and prison build-outs are not part of the solution.
Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:04:22 GMT - John Edwards for the middle class.
John Edwards gives great speeches. Like this one on how Shrub is the anti-Robin Hood, robbing the working poor. Facts, figures, and and emotional appeals to boot.
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Wed, 09 Jul 2003 03:02:29 GMT - Blogging as Free Speech.
The first freedom, the one that ensures others, is speech.
Tolerance of the contrary voice, of dissent from within.
Knowing you can speak your mind without repercussion, however distasteful to others, lets you censor yourself less.
The soap box. The broad sheet. The pamphlet. Weblogs are in this tradition.
The power of the press has never been more available to the citizens of any nation. For the past 500 years, if you wanted to spread your ideas beyond the reach of your voice, you needed serious money. Capital to commission the construction of a printing press, to buy paper, to pay type setters, to pay for distribution. Blogging collapses all of that, putting the power of personal publishing within reach of the poor, the homeless, and the ordinary netizen. If you are connected to the Internet, blogging is nearly free.
This is not universal. Anonymity is popular among Persian bloggers. The People's Republic of China blocked Blogspot. Industry critics use pseudonyms. Offline consequences are real.
Yet people write to the web as citizens. Citizens of the world. Of their nations. Of their neighborhoods.
So, let me ask you...
Of what do you blog?
Do you comment on your elected officials' behavior? On your civil servants'?
Do you point to injustice and call for reform?
Do you cite abuse of power, and call for redress?
Do you witness calamities, small or large, and mobilize help?
Do you organize your neighbors to participate in local government?
Do you rally behind a political candidate?
Do you learn about issues from people close to the ground?
Do you find yourself thinking like a journalist, protecting sources, checking your facts, putting yourself where you can report to your readers?
The Fourth Estate, a free press, gets that name as the fourth institution in the balance of government powers. As the tools of reportage become democratized, a Fifth Estate has emerged. Letters to the Editor run wild. Citizen journalists. The peoples' voices.
One of the things I value as an American citizen is that free speech, constitutionally protected, enables change. We occassionally run off course as a nation, but discourse, frank and uncomfortable, lets us find out way home.
Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:30:20 GMT 
Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:51:35 GMT- Welfare Legislation Approved by House.
The House approved Republican welfare legislation today requiring more single mothers to work and providing hundreds of millions of dollars to promote marriage. Take mothers from their children, don't fund day care, defund training and education for social mobility. And assume bad times only strike once in a life time.
The radical right continues to get paid. More "shrubbery".
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:36:47 GMT - Jobless man: 9-11 was our 1929.
Sandwiched between a rock and a hard place
Jobless man sees plight as sign of the times
San Francisco Chronicle
Feb 2 2003 5:52AM ET"I really believe we're heading into another worldwide Great Depression, and I don't see anything being done to change that direction," says Weiss. "Sept. 11 was our 1929."
"When I was a kid, the old-timers said they survived because people helped each other. We're going to have to learn to do that again."
The Bush Depression.
Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:07:45 GMT
