The Official U.S. Election Eve Catch-All Thread for November 1st, 2004

So I Googled. In so many areas the man has a brilliant record, and in exposing Iran-Contra and in busting BCCI he's done the kind of defender-of-the-people work that drives the military-industrial complex and their Republican fuckbuddies NUTS. He's been pissing them off since he came back from Vietnam, for all the right reasons: for being scholarly, persistent, intelligent and also in making the more patrician amongst Republicans, esp. Bush, look like lazy, patronising, self-serving assholes given exactly the same advantages and opportunities Kerry used to serve others first. This is consistent and maybe people will be interested in knowledge and increasing their attention spans generally as a result of all this focus and a better example set by Kerry as President.

Plus, *someone* was gonna marry the crazy rich lady. Whatever she can dish out, I'm sure he can take it.

In Finland, everyone has one official place of residence, which is registered in the population register. Of course you can reside somewhere else too, but that one place is where you vote. This is rather handy when it comes to the communal election, so you can't vote for the communal council in the commune you have your summer cottage in.

registration requires a signature, so you'd have to copy pretty well.

Okay, I guess the Finnish lawmakers have never thought that someone giving his or her ID to someone else to use it for voting purposes would be a big enough problem.

Admittedly, he hasn't done much overtly in the Senate, from a bill-writing and -haggling standpoint. Part of this has to do with not stepping on Ted's toes. Part of it may well have to do with trying to reduce his attackability in a Presidential run.

-- LE CHUCK!™ (Le-Chuc...), November 1st, 2004.

This made me die laughing for some (obvious) reason.

I'm pretty sure that Kerry's ability to credit Americans with the ability to do a fraction of the research he does all the time is no stretch to anyone who has done their own bloody homework. Which is most of us, Yalies included.

and by "hiding behind the couch", i mean, of course, playing "Baldur's Gate 2" all day and listening to the BBC broadcasting out of Powell's Bookstore...

i sincerely hope so. I could use a little Weathermen-type excitement.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, November 1, 2004 7:16 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Roger, it looks like you got your wish.