From Yahoo News: In Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wagner Markues, 54, also preferred Kerry and wondered why the race was so close.
“We don’t understand America now,” he said. “Are they getting different news than us about the scandals in the Iraqi prisons, and the children and civilians who are getting killed?”
Just linking to this for future reference. Toronto, of course, is in Ontario, where same-sex couples have marriage equality.
Also, Information about winter in Toronto.
Lots of ice skating.
2014 Update: we got married in Toronto on June 4, 2008.
There are at least 3 supreme court justices retiring, and depending on Chief Justice Rehnquist’s health, it could be 4. The justices that have spoken of retirement are Stevens, O’Connor, and Ginsburg. Bush will appoint all four and the chief justice. And this will lead to a majority of conservatives in the bench, 7/2. Chief Justice Scalia, anyone?
And meet your new SC justices: Ted Olson, Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen. How do you like the new guys deciding the next 20 years of American law?
Say goodbye to Affirmative Action, Roe v. Wade, minimum wage, Social Security, Miranda Rights, separation of church & state, funding for science, and condoms. Say hello to Patriot Act II, mandatory prayer in schools, social services provided by Evangelical churches, “creation science” in the curriculum, and the Ten Commandments in the courts.
And say goodbye to any rights for me. There will be a constitutional amendment taking away marriage rights — but it will also disallow any legal arrangement that is meant to imitate a marriage, which means my will won’t be valid, nor will any power of attorney I set up, nor any health or insurance benefits. There is now nothing I can do to protect my family. I’m screwed.
This is the second Indiana election where she’s screwed the pooch. Damn.
I went to vote before work today. I wore my black hoodie, but I doubt that meant anything to anyone there. I was voter #94 in my district. Usually I’m #13 or so. So good turn out. We had both Democrat and Republican observers in our district — we’ve never had a Republican before. And there was a W-2004 sticker on a voter car in the parking lot, which is a bit discouraging. But I’m sure all will go well. We have the scan-tron voting system with a paper ballot that gets sucked into the machine. I wasn’t sure which way to put it in, but it ticked me off as a voter, so I assume I did it correctly. Apparently they’ll spit it out if you do it the wrong way.
I just mailed out my CDs for my CD club (wherein we burn and share a theme CD of cool songs) and then I found this most excellent mp3 that would have fit perfectly on my “I’m sorry my President is an Idiot; I didn’t vote for him” CD.
Damn it.
In an attempt to discourage black voters from voting Democrat on Sunday, Republicans dressed up as “gay” and “abortion rights” advocates and held provocative signs outside polling places as black voters went to the polls after Church this Sunday.
Read more about other Republican voter suppression tactics here:
REPUBLICAN PARTY DECEIVING VOTERS IN WEST VIRGINIA
GOP demands IDs of 37,000 in Milwaukee
Daily Kos’s Big List of GOP Voter Suppression Attempts
And on the bright side, a court decided in Ohio that people attempting to intimidate voters into not voting by challenging their status is unconstitutional.
As usual, the Democratic Underground does a phenomenal job distilling Republican boneheadedness down to the key facts.
This week, there’s a whole lot of boneheadedness to cover.