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Sleazy Politics Backfire On Bush
Saturday, July 03, 2004

And they thought they had the Baptists wrapped around Bush's little finger.
The Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative denomination closely aligned with President Bush, said it was offended by the Bush-Cheney campaign's effort to use church rosters for campaign purposes.

"I'm appalled that the Bush-Cheney campaign would intrude on a local congregation in this way," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

"The bottom line is, when a church does it, it's nonpartisan and appropriate. When a campaign does it, it's partisan and inappropriate," he said. "I suspect that this will rub a lot of pastors' fur the wrong way."

The Bush campaign defended a memo in which it sought to mobilize church members by providing church directories to the campaign, arranging for pastors to hold voter-registration drives, and talking to various religious groups about the campaign.
Specifically...
One section of the document lists 22 "coalition coordinator" duties and lays out a timeline for various activities targeting religious voters. By July 31, for example, the coordinator is to:

* Send your church directory to your state Bush-Cheney '04 headquarters or give to a BC04 field representative.

* Identify another conservative church in your community who we can organize for Bush.

* Recruit 5 people in your church to help with the voter registration project.

* Talk to your pastor about holding a citizenship Sunday and voter registration drive.
God help those congregations who lose their tax exempt status over this. Not that it would bother me one bit. Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel said, "People of faith have a right to take part in the political process, and we're reaching out to every supporter of President Bush to become involved in the campaign." Apparently, Richard Land thinks the Bush-Cheney camp is willing to sell them down the river.

7/03/2004 12:07:00 AM
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Windows On Madison, New York City
Friday, July 02, 2004

I must admit that I have a love affair with window displays. Especially if I use black and white as my photographic medium. Ever since my very first photography class at CSUN where one of my "projects" was to shoot window displays, I've been fascintated with this particular subject matter. Maybe it's the drone like figures who really have nothing to say when you take their pictures. If they did have something to say, what would it be? Maybe it's the issue of capturing a moment with photography but for this particular subject the moment itself is non-existent because it's always there? Maybe it's the beauty of the clothing or the items on display? Could it be that with some of these shots, my self portrait as a ghastly figure is somewhat visible? What is it?

I'm also very personal with my photography in that I hardly show my work. I have dozens of slides, 35mm negatives that I keep that only a handful of people have seen the contact sheets for. It's weird in a way that I'm so personal about it. Anyway, since I've indulged in the new digital world, it's easier for me to share. Also, going digital makes photography more disposable in that it's so easy. That may or may not be a good thing but in any case enjoy my work.








7/02/2004 11:42:00 AM
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The Nader Debate
Thursday, July 01, 2004

Actually, it's the Nader-Dean debate. Catch it on NPR July 9th. Maybe Dean will knock some sense into his misguided adversary.

7/01/2004 10:21:00 PM
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Florida Ineligible Voters List NOW Available For Scrutiny

This is another victory for democracy. Florida may not be as much the "cake-walk" some scheming wingnuts thought she would be. It will be a tight race I'm sure, but thank goodness we have judges like Nikki Clark to stand in the way of those attempting to manipulate the voting process.
A state court judge in Florida ordered Thursday that the board of elections immediately release a list of nearly 50,000 suspected felons to CNN and other news organizations that last month sued the state for access to copies of the list.

The list is used to determine who will be eligible to vote in November's presidential election in the state.

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In 2000, a similar list was the center of controversy when state officials acknowledged after the election that it contained thousands of names in error, thus barring eligible people from voting.

Many of the barred voters were African-Americans, who traditionally tend to vote Democratic.

Bush won the state by a 537-vote margin and, with it, the presidency.

The lawsuit, filed by CNN and joined by other news organizations, challenged a 2001 statute passed by the Republican-controlled legislature that limited the public's access to the list.

News organizations were allowed to inspect the list, but not make copies of it or take notes from it.
Praise from the ACLU:
"This is good news for voters because now these records will be open and available for public inspection to help protect the right of every eligible voter in Florida," said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida, which also joined the case. "Our interest in this case is to analyze the information on the list to prevent eligible voters from being wrongfully purged from the rolls."
Could anyone disagree with that? Only those who'd want to repeat the scandal in 2000.

7/01/2004 04:00:00 PM
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My Brush With Greatness...
Wednesday, June 30, 2004

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I was THIS close to obtaining that highly coveted wristband (above) thus securing my access to President Clinton and getting my book autographed (I swear I planned to keep it). It wasn't meant to be. Not when you show up at 3 A.M. and over a thousand sleeping people are already camped ahead of you. The S.J. Mercury Times has an article on my experience. I was among the many who returned my book by the way - an idea given to me, by the livid Paulon, who was pretty much crying bloody murder - but not out of anger at Barnes. I figured, I can probably get it cheaper on eBay (an UNSIGNED copy, of course). Maybe next time.

6/30/2004 04:58:00 PM
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Bill of Rights Kicks Bush's A$$

It's official. George W. Bush is not the dictator he thought the war on terror would make him to be. This is good news from, of all places, the Supreme Court. This is pretty much old news since this happened Monday. However, it bears mentioning. This is a victory for America.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the war on terrorism does not give the government a "blank check" to hold a U.S. citizen and foreign-born terror suspects in legal limbo, a forceful denunciation of Bush administration tactics since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Ruling in two cases, the high court refused to endorse a central claim of the White House: that the government has authority to seize and detain terrorism suspects and indefinitely deny access to courts or lawyers while interrogating them.

A state of war "is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in the most significant case of the day, a ruling that gives American-born detainee Yaser Esam Hamdi the right to fight his detention in a federal court.
Of the nine justices, only one thought that due process was a waste of ink, and it wasn't Scalia. It was that porn-addict Clarence Thomas (not that there's anything wrong with it).

6/30/2004 12:45:00 PM
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Super Human
Monday, June 28, 2004

I came across this story the other day. Could this be life imitating comics? Here's a real life X-man (or X-baby).

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles. Not yet 5, he can hold seven-pound weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size of other kids his age and half their body fat.

DNA testing showed why: The boy has a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth.

6/28/2004 12:55:00 PM
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Pride Weekend
Sunday, June 27, 2004

It was a global thing.

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Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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New York, NY

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San Francisco, CA

With Massachusetts leading the way in legaly recognizing gay marriage, I think there's much for all to celebrate.

6/27/2004 05:53:00 PM
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