The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

Man sets himself on fire on Kennedy
Drivers watched as he dies near 'Flame' sculpture

November 4, 2006
BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff Reporter
As horrified Friday-morning commuters watched, a man apparently doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire along the Kennedy Expy. near a 25-foot-tall Loop sculpture titled "Flame of the Millennium."
A homemade sign was found near his charred body that read, "Thou Shalt Not Kill," said State Police Lt. Lincoln Hampton. Police are reviewing a videotape that also was found near the body.

The death of the man, whose identity has not been released, was being treated as a suicide, authorities said.

Witnesses told police they saw the man ignite himself just before 7 a.m. near the southbound Kennedy's Ohio Street exit, Hampton said.

The Chicago Fire Department was called to the scene to help extinguish the fire, which was set at the base of the seven-ton sculpture along the Kennedy.

An Illinois Department of Transportation worker was among those to witness the incident, according to a preliminary report.

A can of clear liquid smelling like gasoline also was recovered, the report said.

i'm hearing it's malachi ritscher, who ran savage sound. this is really sad and fucked up.

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KY polls are officially closed, and I'm outta here, first to drink, then, later, to watch Apocalypse Now for the first time.

-- reporting by Daniel Patrick Sheehan and Wendy Solomon, The Morning Call

ha i like this guy

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Britney Spears performs during the second show of her "Onyx Hotel Tour' in this March 3, 2004 file photo taken at Glendale Arena in Glendale, Ariz. A Los Angeles court spokeswoman says Spears has filed for divorce Tuersday, Nov.7, 2006, from rapper-dancer Kevin Federline, citing irreconcilable differences. See full image

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Britney Spears filed for divorced Tuesday from Kevin Federline, officials said.

The Los Angeles County Superior Court filing cites "irreconcilable differences," said court spokeswoman Kathy Roberts.

Spears, 24, married rapper Kevin Federline, 28, in 2004. They have a 1-year-old son, Sean Preston, and an infant son who was born Sept. 12. The couple have not confirmed the infant's name, which is reportedly Jayden James.

xpost: allentown & environs are HARDCORE redneck, exactly the type of place where santorum would do at least OK -- so maybe he ISN'T so paranoid after all.

-- deej.. (clublonel...) (webmail), November 7th, 2006. (deej..)

out of all the races, if Democrats lose one, I'd most like it to be TN-Sen. face it, Ford is an asshole. he's better than Corker, that's for damn sure, but I won't be shedding any tears for his loss.

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This afternoon, RNC chairman Ken Mehlman's office released a transcript of Mehlman's appearance on The Rush Limbaugh Show this morning, where he suggested that the Democrats might be stealing the election. "One thing I can tell you is this is part of the Democratic playbook," Mehlman said. "And in fact, if you look Rush, at the whole country, we're seeing more problems on behalf of Democrats than any of the alleged problems on behalf of Republicans."

This early foreshadowing underlines my most lousy thought: That in the light of a dem win, the GOp will declare the election invalid.

Project much?

If they're that desperate to shoot themselves in the foot...

Should the GOP hold (I still don't rule it out), then I will avoid political blogs for the most part for a few days. (Did that after 2004, helped my sanity.) Should they lose, another matter entirely.

VA no winner can be projected

not video, but some of the most informed radio converage you're likely to find- of course with some emphasis on northern california politics (links to sister stations in LA, houston, washington, new york, fresno):pacifica's KPFA radio berkeley

i was hoping alameda county would have some of the sequoia touch screen voting machines that you can supposedly hack, but instead i got a ball point pen and a piece of paper to feed to the sequioa reader.

LOL - CNN's banner reads "CNN projects Vermont independent Bernie Sanders -- who says he will caucus with Democrats -- will win Senate seat, and Republican Richard Lugar re-elected in Indiana." Pretty far out on that limb there!

MT: 53-46 Dem

Wish there was a better name for it, tho. "wardialing"? "voicemail droids gone amuck"?