The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex

Is that supposed to have some information on the map? All I'm seeing is the standard map of the United States. No highlighted points of interest (at the national level or zoomed in local).

If you pinpoint a location, it gives you voter information. Like how long you have left to register etc.

ETA: What GD said.

[Alex]

It isn't doing that for me. When I put in a location it just zooms to that location like the normal map.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

It isn't doing that for me. When I put in a location it just zooms to that location like the normal map.

The info isn't on the map, it's on the left under the search box.

[Alex]

Yes, and that remains empty.

I found a blog talking about it with a screenshot. None of that is showing for me for some reason. Oh well. I'm already registered and permanent absentee so it would just be curiosity anyway.

Checked in both IE and FF.

[Strangler Lewis]

But it won't let me vote. Oh, Ashton, how could you?

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I would bet The Putin is somewhat like the Antler Dance.




Was I really smoking that much pot in 1976?

Was that Paul Shaeffer on the keyboards??

[bewitched]

I couldn't decide whether to put this here or in the YouTube thread but it is about voting.

So I give you, Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama.

[innerSpaceman]

Why the Financial Crisis might be the last straw with the American People:

Originally Posted by Time

First the Bush Administration: Trust us! We'll end gridlock in Washington. We have surpluses as far as the eye can see. We'll find the weapons of mass destruction; we'll be welcomed as liberators; the insurgency is in its last throes. We don't torture. Nobody thought the levees would break; FEMA is doing a heckuva job; we'll do what it takes to rebuild. The economy is fundamentally strong, and more tax cuts will make it stronger. And we can save Social Security by letting you invest your benefits in the market.

Then the Democrats: Trust us! Now that we've taken back Congress, Washington is going to change. We'll end the war, get the lobbyists out of the back rooms, show the country we know how to govern.

Get out your fiddle, Mr. Nero.

[wendybeth]

Here's another nail in the coffin- you know this is going on all over Wall Street, but this one is so blatant it defies logic:

Lehman's Executives Bankruptcy Binge


I hope they can file criminal charges.

[JWBear]

Disgusting.

Someone once told me, in all sincerity, that unregulated and uncontrolled capitalism is the best way to keep business executives honest and accountable. I hope his words don’t choke him to badly on the way down.