Oh, what a night!
What a night! The Democrats have done very well in the House (at this point gaining 24 seats), and the Senate is down to three seats with a 49-48 split so far. The GOP...
Category: Politics
Today is THE Day – Go Vote!
As many others are posting on their blogs get out and vote today! If you live in Frisco, you can find your polling place information here.
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
Here is a good spot by Keith Olbermann (Oct. 25) discussing the recent uproar over the attack by Rush Limbaugh over Michael J. Fox’s advert for a Senatorial candidate in Missouri. And here is...
Google Does Elections
Thank the heavens for Lifehacker! Today I was browsing though some posts on Lifehacker and found out that Google Earth have created a Election 2006 overlay. This shows a graphical overlay of where the...
Jon Stewart Comment
I thought this little comment from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on President Bush’s 9/11 speech was amusing. Basically the president’s speech was a performance that was as redundant as it was perfunctory....
Ney Windfall?
This is old news, but earlier today, Republican Representative Bob Ney announced he would not be seeking re-election for his congressional seat. Most are speculating that this decision was due to his alleged involvement...
Texas GOP Appeals To Scalia
We need to watch how this story develops. Update: I guess we didn’t have to wait long. Scalia rejected the request from Texas Republicans. (Source: New York Times)
Blog Surfing
Earlier this week while looking at other people’s blogs, I found this link (courtesy of danah @ apophenia). It provides an insight to how different drugs affect our behaviours and our abilities to function,...
House Protections
Thanks to danah over at apophenia, I discovered that the Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA pass the US House today by a vote of 410-15. According to a ZDNet article, the bill was...
FMA Fails House Vote
Following the rejection of the FMA in the U.S. Senate last month, the U.S. House followed in their decision to reject writing discrimination into the Constitution by a vote of 236-187 (see story).
