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Imagine, for a moment if California’s legislators and Governor hadn’t bought in to the mania that suggested holding our primary in February, with 20 other big states, and instead kept it in June like God intended.
Imagine the mania that’d be the Democratic Primary right now as California’s voters would literally decide between Clinton and Obama. Imagine the shenanigans, the tricks, the events, the huge voter turnout, and the like. Imagine how fun/infuriating/exciting the season would be. California’s issues would be front and center, and we’d have candidates criss-crossing the state talking to voters – instead of just using LA and SF as a big ATM machine for junk mail in other states’ contests.
Instead we have Maximum Leader Daly’s penny-candy shenanigans and a handful of state legislative primaries. Oh and some lame-ass ballot measures.
Big whoop.

So it appears that at the same hotel where the DNC Rules Committee was making decisions accompanied by the collective primal screams of bitter Clinton supporters, upset that the DNC was upholding rules, um, Hillary Clinton fully approved of, a young couple was having their wedding reception in the same hotel.
They took it all in stride and actually kinda had fun with it. Now, I’d sooner have my wedding reception in Hell than anywhere near a crowd of insane politicos of any stripe. But what caught my eye about this story was the fact that the young couple went to their hotel room, to be greeted by like, a ton of free food and champagne – courtesy of Howard Dean and the DNC, who appreciated their not calling the Riot Squad on the whole kit and kaboodle.
Sometimes Democrats can be classy, even when some aren’t. Progressives, take notes and learn – being nice has its advantages over dogmatic speeches and the Middle Finger Salute sometimes!

In the last few days before the Big Election, anyone like me who was foolish enough to put their email address on their voter registration form is getting all sorts of nonsense in their email in-box. I’d mentioned before this is not such a brilliant idea.
Interestingly enough, however, Big Evil Lennar corporation, which is spending a pile of cash to get that silly Prop. G passed, uses a company that voluntarily complies with the CAN SPAM law even though it doesn’t apply to political communications.
On the other side, I’m getting tons of spam from Cindy Sheehan (!), the No on G/Yes on F campaign, and the Chris Daly group trying to take over the DCCC, and it doesn’t even try to be CAN SPAM compliant. (And God help you if you dare say something to these paragons of virtue – they’re liable to rip your head off for daring to suggest they’re anything less than angels.)
Funny, that.

No on 98 = Linux World

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In these final days before the election, I’m sure all kinds of shenanigan-bombs are going to be dropped, esp. in the District 3 Senate race.

Meanwhile, I , a regular voter, have seen virtually NOTHING in my mailbox, aside from these pieces…funny thing, I couldn’t tell the No on 98 piece and the Linux World pieces from each other, and when I went to pick up one, I had the other and didn’t realize it at first.

It’s really funny how California moved their primary way back to February, to be more “relevant” and oddly enough, if they’d just kept it in June we’d be seeing Hillary and Barry all over the state and turnout would be huge.

Instead….meh.

Carry on.

email survey

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Today I received the same voter survey (from “votersurvey.org” oddly enough) asking me a few questions on the June election. It’s not entirely clear if this is an actual survey, or a push poll (doesn’t seem like it) or why I’d get the same questions 3 times in a week…

Found on StumbleUpon, images of Our President in ads all around the world.
This is what people think of us around the world. Sure we can take the macho think tank “screw ’em all” attitude, but in an era of a declining dollar, recession and the like, we may wannab worried about the rest of ’em saying “screw you” back.