And, on the topic of presidential elections
The elections in Ukraine have not got off to a good start.
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The elections in Ukraine have not got off to a good start.
An outstanding, thoughtful, right essay from Nicole-Anne Boyer at WorldChanging.
The NCDD has an overview here.
If President Bush wins, it will be interesting to see what happens to the nature of anti-Americanism in other parts of the world. At the moment, surveys are reporting that Americans themselves are not unpopular, although the present Administration is widely despised. How would that change if the Americans seemed to take the decision to approve of Bush, after all the (perceived) bad things he has done?
Hunter S Thompson makes the same point:
The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way. That is what this election is all about...
Martini Republic gives us a snapshot of the Second World War 1,138 days after Pearl Harbor, today being 1,138 days after 9/11.
Of course, the Poles, British, French and others had been fighting for some time before Pearl Harbor happened, but the point still applies. The territorial advance for this sort of war is not on the ground, but in the mind - and there it's looking a lot more like Dunkirk than the relief of Paris.
John Dean writes a sobering article from a lawyer's perspective on the likely legal wrangling that will follow next Tuesday's vote.
Here in the UK, we have Satanists, too.
My local team, Brighton and Hove Albion - strugglers in the second tier of football here in the UK - met the former giants Leeds United today. Leeds were relegated from the top flight last year, after a nail-biting ever-so-near-escape. Surely tiddlers like Brighton couldn't overcome the recently great Leeds?
Final score: Brighton & HA 1 - Leeds United 0
And it was an own goal, too. Ouch.
(Minutes from the No. 10 Lobby briefing of journalists)
"Asked if the Government remained committed to a draft Bill on [corporate manslaughter laws], the Prime Minister's Spokesperson said that it would be inappropriate to comment on the contents of the forthcoming Queen's Speech. Put to her that she had commented in detail on the Gambling Bill, the PMS pointed out that the Gambling Bill had been included in last year's Queen's Speech."
