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MickC @ December 30, 2004 # One Comment
The following Associated Press story is offered without comment save for this one by Obi-wan Kenobi: “The Force will be with you — always.”
Warning from Oregon man sends thousands fleeing in India
PORTLAND, Ore. An Oregon man confirms that his company warned India that a new earthquake could bring more destruction across Asia.
An Indian government minister [...]
MickC @ December 30, 2004 # One Comment
In the most expensive presidential contest in the nation’s history, John F. Kerry and his Democratic supporters nearly matched President Bush and the Republicans, who outspent them by just $60 million, $1.14 billion to $1.08 billion.
MickC @ December 30, 2004 # One Comment
After almost a full year of living under the foresight of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, a survey by MX Logic cleverly declares that Can-Spam didn’t.
According to MX Logic’s home page, 83.06% of all email transiting cyberspace now is spam. That’s a lot of spam to clog [...]
MickC @ December 29, 2004 # 2 Comments
Get to know me very well and you will learn that my favorite shows on television are Stargate and Law & Order (in their various respective incarnations).
Thus, it is with sadness that I tell you that Lenny Briscoe’s shield is being retired from the show. Jerry Orbach, 69 years old and a twelve year [...]
MickC @ December 27, 2004 # One Comment
I’ve created a few images over the past few weeks. Some of them are even appearing to be popular enough that people want to use them.
I haven’t marked the Spirt of America images with my URL because those I do want to be widely distributed and the cause is good enough that I don’t [...]
MickC @ December 24, 2004 # 5 Comments
In 1948 Lyndon Baines Johnson’s political career was revived by a “lost” ballot box which put him 58 votes over popular Governor Coke Stevenson in that year’s Senate race. The Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for uncovering how “vote brokers” employed by candidate Xavier Suarez stole a mayoral election by tampering [...]
MickC @ December 22, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to a typographical error and other miscues, the following is the current break down for electorial college votes, by Candidate, as received by the National Archives:
George W. Bush - 230
John Kerry - 48
John F. Kerry - 110
John L. Kerry - 31
John Edwards - 1
It’s easy to combine John Kerry and John F. Kerry, so [...]
MickC @ December 21, 2004 # 5 Comments
This past election cycle really saw the web log (or “blog”) come into its own. Blogs now apparently have the power to make and break election candidates and drive stories on their own.
President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign was saved by bloggers finding the holes in the CBS “false but accurate” manufactured memoranda supposedly [...]
MickC @ December 17, 2004 # 6 Comments
Here’s more good news out of Iraq. Yesterday, the General in Charge of Coalition forces, Gen. George W. Casey, Jr, USA, gave a rare news conference. Here’s a pretty large segment of what he had to say. (All emphasis is mine.)
First of all, the insurgency that we’re fighting is not 10 feet [...]
MickC @ December 17, 2004 # 3 Comments
The Mustang, Oklahoma school district just lost a bond election. The school district had asked for bonds totaling around $10.4 million (plus another $500,000 in bonds for transportation) and things were looking good for passage. Then it happened.
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