Ryan Whaley blog

CBS has Bush's top "flip-flops"

Ashcroft says we should, though.

Shouldn't he get the hint after two judges have said that parts of the PATRIOT act are unconstitutional that maybe, just maybe, it is unconstitutional.

The meat of the most recent case is that the feds want to be able to go through your phone records and any information your ISP keeps on you and not allow them to disclose to the person being searched that anything took place.

The best quote is: "We will continue in the United States to use every tool we have in the Constitution to fight terrorism"
Even if we have to circumvent the Constitution we'll use it to fight terrorism. If you were using Constitution you wouldn't need the fucking PATRIOT act.

It's not what you think.

I won't spoil it for you, but I guess they were trying to be clever. Seems like an awful big delivery for one small but interesting package.

Blue states pay for the red statest to be so ... red.

I'm noticing a lot of these "coincidenses" lately. Time to bust out the calculator and see if I can find my own.

Ohio gets picky over paper stock

The rundown: Ohio is one of the big swing states, it could go either way in the elections. Almost all the swing states are seeing record numbers of newly regisetered voters. The vast majority of these new voters are registering as democrat. This big surge has also strained the supplies of elections officials, they are running out of paper to print the voter registration cards on. Since they can't get their usual paper they'd like to using a ligher stock paper.

The punchline: Ohio Secretary of State says no. Print it on this one kind of paper or else. This potentially means many, many missed votes for people who did everything they were told to do to excercise their right to vote.

It's just fucking paper people!

If you work at the UIHC you better take off those press-ons and throw on a fresh coat of polish.

That's right ladies (and gents), no more lee press-ons or chipped polish. I'm going to forcast a surge of salon bookings in the next few weeks due to the new policy.

At least this makes more sense than the "professional appearance" policy that gets enforced very selectively and affects people it really shouldn't. Event part-time students who have no direct or indirect patient contact are required to conform to this code.

Can't forget to post this:
Get your absentee ballot

Very, very, very important.

Also, The List of candidates on the ballot.
They should really make that a bit more accessible than it is, took me a while to find it.

Holy shit, John Kerry finally gets into the nitty gritty of what can seperate him from Bush. The Yin Blog has a good write-up of this with excerpts from the speech. Thank you Sen. Kerry, for finally doing something that will help you and not perpetuate these retarded debates over who-did-what in the 60's and 70's. I want to know what's going to happen now and in the future.

Hous of Reps. reveal utter lack of knowledge of Constitution

So what exactly was that whole rap about three braches of government about? Apparently the House thinks it's ok to piss all over the judicial branch by not allowing them to hear challenges to the constitutionality of the wording of the pledge of allegiance.

Now, I'm all for revising and reinterpretation of the laws to fit the times we live in. However, I think the idea of three seperate braches balancing each other in terms of power is a really good idea that is just as valid now as it was a couple of hundred years ago (and some change). Apparently, the House doesn't agree with me.

In case the House forgets how the government works, here's a nice little illustration:

Movie trailer for The Grudge

This looks a bit like The Ring but I won't go any farther than that since I know almost nothing about his movie. This, too, is an American remake of the very popular Asian movie Ju-on. On 10/22 we'll see it.

FDA Grants Fast Review of P&G Sex Drug

Good news for ladies looking for a good time. That is, if your guy likes all the extra hair. Maybe that's a selling point: grow hair and then get it grafted over to your husband and increase your sex drive all at the same time.

This modern world

Tom Tomorrow's job must have gotten about twenty times easier within the past four years. Don't get me wrong, the comic is still hilarious, but the things that he points out are blatantly obvious that the public shouldn't be made aware of them through a comic. The current regime really should get some sort of writing credit.

FYI: You'll have to do the advertisement click-through for a free daily salon pass in order to view the comic. Trust me, it's worth it.

Daily Reasons to Dispatch Bush

McSweeney's is a great place for creativity, information, and humor. They get a lot of great writers to post content on their site, not to mention their monthly "Believer" mag which, cover to cover, is a great read.

Now that's something I can get behind. I've seen too many old lady's computers turn into slow, toxin spewing nodes of evil.

I'll install it one of these days. When I do, though, I'll change the icon to something that's not quite so hideous.

Holy shit, the Shat's in town. And that's big news around here. Captain Kirk's birhplace got a visit from the man himself, T.J. Hooker. Danny Crane!

Yeah, that's it, I can't think of any more Shatner references.

To all the goon bloggers out there:

http://www.igniq.com/robs_blog/2004/06/gmail-tools-plugins.html

http://www.engadget.com/entry/7289743430796164/

Can't forget to check that out. Get it put on the PB.