David Allen Kelly | kellydallen

Probably the last post I’ll make on the subject of the election, Boing Boing has an excellent thread of comments including this one from Billy Hayes:

Bush likes to use old Texas sayings a lot. I have one for him. In Texas there is a saying that goes, ‘Give em enough rope and they will hang themselves.’ Well, I guess the Republicans have all the rope they need.

From author John Shirley’s site

If you just accepted Diebolt’s rigged voting machines, then it’s your fault we’re heading into an Ashcroftian  fascist state.

If you –like too many people in New Mexico–just accepted the Republicans’ blocking of the registration of Hispanic voters, widely reported in NM, then it’s your fault that the poor will be increasingly enslaved and disenfranchised in the next four years.

If you just shrugged and let the election happen, it’s your fault we’re going to choke on environmental toxins in the next four years.

If you’re in Big Media and you’re pretending that nothing sketchy, nothing shady went on in this Presidential race… if you turned your back on the evidence–if you ignored the ACLU lawsuits, if you didn’t report, on CNN and Fox and NBC and ABC and CBS on the evidence of voter fraud by the Republicans in Florida and Ohio, thus giving no support to calls to investigate–then it’s your fault, too, that we’re going to lose thousands more American soldiers in an incompetently run war in Iraq, and it’s your fault that tens of thousands of civilians will die in the crossfire.

If you voted for Ralph Nader, it’s your fault that the minimum wage will not pass, and that OSHA safety standards will deteriorate for American workers; it’s your fault, ironically, that automobile companies will not be held to safer standards in manufacture, and more people will die in accidents; it’s your fault the forests will be clear cut and the parks will turn into oil fields.

If you didn’t push for Kerry then it’s your fault that the wealthy will get tax breaks while the Middle Class pays more; it’s your fault that multinational corporations will get tax loopholes, and it’s your fault we’ll be stuck paying high prices for oil because there’s no real effort for an energy alternative; and it’s your fault that gays and women will be disempowered.

If you voted for George Bush then it’s your own fault  you don’t have health care; it’s your own fault global warming continues unabated, wrecking the world for your grandchildren; it’s your own fault that terrorism will only get worse, because Bush will feed those fires; it’s your fault that a fanatic religious cult will finish taking over the White House; it’s your own fault that you’re going to lose your civil liberties.

And you will get the theocracy, the thinly-disguisted dictatorship, the poisoned environment, that you deserve.

William Gibson thinks OBL would prefer to see Bush re-elected and that his new tape was a clever attempt at helping that happen:

I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that OBL fears Kerry any more than Bush. But Kerry can only comprise an unknown, and why allow the other team to introduce an unknown when your familiar power-symbiote has always proven so wonderously adept at doing everything you’d most want him to do?

OBL today is probably a very satisfied, very optimistic man, and if he can skew the last-minute dynamic of the election in Bush’s favor, he’ll have cause to be all the more satisfied.

For the one or two people in the US that still need to be informed that Bush is pretty much a dangerous bozo, the Internet Vets for Truth give you tons of material as torrents and quicktime movies for consumption.

This is a good central place with a bevy of clips from miscellaneous sources including some from "Going Upriver", Eminem’s incredibly wicked "Mosh" video, and Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire.  The Eminem "Mosh" video is one of the most heavy-hitting, pull-no-punches videos I have seen in a long time, maybe ever.

Barrels inside the Al-Qaqaa facility appear on videotape shot by ABC television affiliate KSTP of St. Paul, Minn., which had a crew embedded with the 101st Airborne Division when it passed through Al-Qaqaa on April 18, 2003 — nine days after Baghdad fell.

Here’s a bit of an interesting quote from today’s AP article about the campaigning.  Kerry said:

"About a year ago, when things weren’t going so well in my campaign, somebody called a radio talk show and they said, thinking they were just cutting me right to the quick, they said ‘John Kerry won’t be the president until the Red Sox win.’ Well, we’re on our way."

From the BBC:

The international exclusion zone around georgewbush.com was spotted by net monitoring firm Netcraft which keeps an eye on traffic patterns across many different sites.

Netcraft said that since the early hours of 25 October attempts to view the site through its monitoring stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney failed.

By contrast Netcraft’s four monitoring stations in the US managed to view the site with no problems.

Odd.