I was on a political forum recently, and this quiz caught my eye. I know that quite a few little quizzes have been posted to the forums and in a lot of blogs, but given a lot of the discussions I've seen here, it seemed very appropriate. Are you a Neoconservative? My results said that I could be categorized as being one of many: Liberals… Are wary of American arrogance and hypocrisy Trace much of today's anti-American hatred to previous US foreign policies. Believe politi...
Someone sent me an interesting ad/movie today. Now, as you all know, I'm nota big fan of Bush, and I've rather enjoyed watching the Daily Show catch membersof his administration in lies and misrepresentations. The RNC-Bush/Cheney havebasically done that very same thing to Kerry about the Iraq War while I don'tlike who made it, it was admittedly well done, starting with his statements at the DNC that he would never mislead the country into war. It then goes through in order a number of stateme...
I think the hunt for terrorists is getting a little too partisan now. I mean,I support going after terrorists, but if you go after everyone who holds adissenting view under increased scrutiny, well, then things are just going tostart turning to anarchy. And the first step in this slow decent into madnessoccurred a few weeks ago when Ted Kennedy became a suspected terrorist in theeyes the Department of Homeland Security. Who would have thought that Ted Kennedy of all people was a suspectedt...
Well, in these times of equal time for candidates, it wouldn't be fair to just make jokes at Bush's expense , so here is a short list of Kerry jokes from the Nightly talk shows, culled from the files of about.com "We make jokes about it but the truth is this presidential election really offers us a choice of two well-informed, opposing positions on every issue. OK, they both belong to John Kerry, but they're still there." —Jay Leno "John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out...
There have been a lot of really good zingers against Bush in the past 4 years, and I thought it might be a good time to do a little bit of a list with the help of about.com! Here we go... "According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'" —David Letterman "George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller "Bush is sm...
The following question was asked today on the Internet Movie Database: We're resurrecting one of our favorite polls from last year: You're making the road trip back to college. Which summer movie character do you least want calling "shotgun"? These were the choices Hitman Vincent (Collateral) Senator Eleanor Shaw (The Manchurian Candidate) Noah Percy, Village Idiot (The Village) Handsy Doc Ock (Spider-Man 2) Misfit Napoleon Dynamite (Napoleon Dynamite) Shapeshifting Prof...
A very brief quiz to play around with. When I was looking at some of the other quizzes out there, the World's Smallest Political quiz kept coming up. Of course, it took me 4 or 5 more days to actually give it a shot. Anyway, on to my results: According to your answers, your political philosophy is: left-liberal Left-Liberal Left-Liberals generally embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but support central decision-making in economics. They want the government to help the d...
On the island of Hong Kong, when you have a normal election, well, things move in the same way that they do in other democratic countries. But when there is a tie... well, that is when the real fun starts. In the event of a tie, instead of having a runoff election, the two tied candidates do something I thought was relegated to Shirley Jackson short stories and high school raffles.... they pick numbered Ping Pong balls from a bag... with the high ball winning the election. I guess they ra...
Al Franken has recently proposed a different way for individuals to vent their dislike of Bush in a relatively safe and harmless way. He has suggested that citizens who want to voice their disapproval of the current president to open their windows as he approaches the podium to accept the nomination and shout 'Fuggedaboudit!' or whatever term of negation is popular in your region of the country.... and unlike a lot of the other protest techniques that are being advocated by some groups that a...
I was at another forum when someone mentioned this flash game called Battle for the Presidency in passing, and boy, is it good bipartisan fun. Basically, you set up your own candidates(in the guise of Kerry or Bush), and then you just watch them debate against other candidates that other people have made, using the abilities you have given them. You don't have direct control over how the debate is going to play out... And they do use all the dirty tricks too... some of them are hilari...
After reading about some of the new Presidential candidates that people wanted to square off against in the Political Machine, it got me to thinking about who I would put on my ideal historical ticket. There were so many men and women of quality when I first started thinking about it that the decision of who exactly I was looking for in a candidate seem was an difficult task indeed. Then I thought about other world leaders who may have been a good part of a ticket. So in that spirit, in ad...
I was just reading daily comics on Yahoo! and I came across a brilliant bit of political commentary on John Kerry from BC of all places. I love seeing both sides get whammied by comedy....
Greywar wrote anarticle about a movie called Brainwashing 101 , about the biasesdeveloping on American college campuses, and after watching the movie, I wasreminded of my own time in college when I was getting my history degree. Eventhen I was seeing a shift... though not so much in campus politics.... but inwhat was "important" in my field. When I started, the first year courses were pretty much all Generalhistory-type courses, and as your progressed, you would get more and more targe...
Depending on your point of view the dynamic duo behind South Park and Team America were either striking yet another blow for voter apathy, or a step in the right direction for producing informed voters in a recent interview when the pair told uninformed and undecided voters to stay home. "Stay home, it doesn't matter who you're gonna vote for. If you really don't know who you're gonna vote for, or are uninformed, or haven't really thought about it? Just stay home." Matt Stone remarked in ...
I was just reading a story on Yahoo! News, as I am apt to do, and I just had to share it with you all. Dick Cheney made a booboo in last night's debate, an error that sent people not towards evidence that he believed refuted Edwards' Halliburton claims, but to an anti-Bush site that featured an article by George Soros instead. Now, that's comical. Not laugh out loud, movie funny, but it did put a smile on this liberal's face. Now, trust me, I've been there. I've typed .com when I knew it ...