On the way out do run a few errands, Erci and I noticed this odd bumper sticker on a fairly new Nissan Maxima driven by a young woman along U.S. route 50 in Chantilly, VA. Someone had clearly either taped over or blackened out the McCain portion of this McCain/Palin bumper sticker. I am left […]
Tagged 2008 election, bumper stickersGrumble, the fact that modern day and currently patched Solaris 10 does not support the -maxdepth option in it’s included find command is a real pain. So I spent this morning grabbing the findutils package, which meant grabbing the libintl package (it is one of several dependencies) and checking to make sure our already installed […]
Tagged server, systems administration, UNIXI was myself following the extremely close race in Alaska and found it quite odd that so far there are only about 210,000 votes total for both senate candidates in Alaska; and while looking at close congressional races I found most of them have had around 300,000 votes cast… At first I chalked it up […]
Tagged 2008 election, verified voting, votingI wish I’d come up with something this funny, but this is being shared around right now:
Tagged humorOne of the more frequent excuses I hear from citizens who choose not to vote is that their vote will not matter. Well, if yesterday’s election proved something, it is that that excuse is completely invalid. As it approaches a full day after polls closed we still have: no clear winner of the races for […]
Tagged 2008 election, elections, votingArrived just before 6 am and parking lot is over full (to the point it is a minor safety hazard) and there is a long line. Line was entirely indoors by 7:15am, but the steady trickle of voters is still impressive in this very rural precinct. Beth Roemmelt and I are greeting voters as they […]
Tagged 2008 electionJust a reminder. I could not sleep last night because I was so excited.
Tagged 2008 electionI keep getting libelous emails from anonymous (cowardly) lie-spreaders trying to stir up fear and uncertainty about Senator Obama. They seem to have a few common themes, but here is one that really annoys me because they are destroying an ally… I am talking about the “Obama is a baby-killer” myth. Barack Obama has made […]
Tagged 2008 election, abortion, PoliticsThe reason to vote for Obama, he says: “I will open the doors to government and ask you to be involved in your own democracy again.” If you have not seen his ~28 minute spot yet, you should. Even if you don’t plan to vote for Obama, the spot points out the things our government […]
Tagged 2008 election, American dream, democracy, PoliticsThis looks like fun! For those without embedded Flash ability: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzNl6NKAG0 Hat tip to Johnny Hunter.
Tagged cats, cute videos, Fun