Mike's Blog Round Up
The Moderate Voice thinks the death of the immigration bill spells the end of Bush's power and the monolithic Rove GOP machine.
Shadow of The Hegemon's Demosthenes on why Dick Cheney stinks like thousands of dead fish.
LastLeftB4Hooterville- "Why is Republican, partisan-owned proprietary software being used for public elections?"
Over at The Arms Control Wonk, they have an update on the My Plan, Your Plan poker game over US missile defense sites in Europe. The Russians are saying Bush has until Putin reaches Kennebunkport to make his mind up.
Zeno at Halfway There gets an invite to contribute to Bush's birthday present (and changes some links to protect
the innocent).
This is the last guest round-up by Cernig @ The Newshoggers. Thanks to everyone at C&L for making me feel so welcome. Simbaud from King of Zembla will be here all next week. Try the veal.
John Amato: Thanks so much Cernig for your help. MBR is an important part of C&L.
see we told you so! car bombs in england scottland and untill the elections in 08 car bombs every where but here! homeland security works see the republican sucking your rights away have made you safer , car bombs , 08 , arent we lucky that we have a repig government , lets elect another bunch of goons in 08!
ES&S appears to be another system using the JET ODBC driver. This is free Microsoft software that was never designed for use in such a critical situation as elections. (I should know, I wrote it.) The whole idea behind it was that people could prototype applications before transferring them to a real system such as SQL Server. The underlying Access database does not have the features of industrial databases, such as transaction logging and anything other than rudimentary security. The product was scrapped by Microsoft and has been replaced by a version of SQL Server that is desgined to be embedded in windows.
If this is still the underlying technology behind our elections, then we are screwed. There were a lot of technical issues that were not fixed (and because of the underlying design could not be fixed) to the level required for a professional database. In the end the attitude was "hey, it is free, what do you expect?" This is not to denigrate the hard work of the many professionals who worked to make the product useful, it is just that the product was initially designed in the dark ages of computers and networks. Unlike SQL Server, Jet/Access came out of the single user PC world. Good for a (very) small business, not so good for elections.
I was so happy to see the immigration bill had died for the second time. I knew right then and there that it was the death of the Bush presidency. And look back over his Presidency - what has he done great? You know we can look back at Nixon and see a lot of the good things he did, but with Bush it will be nothing but a legacy of corruption and failed war. I'm not just saying this as a liberal either. I bet you even conservatives are going to look back in disgust and hate themselves for ever supporting him.
*Breaking News*
There was an apparent terrorist attack at an airport in Scotland
tyree @ 1:
Appears it was timed to coincide with the departure of Tony Blair, and the entrance of new Prime Minister Gordon "Control Freak" Brown.
Glad to see dubyah's war of terror is working so swimmingly.
Dr. Matt @ 6:
Cheneys the Bigger Problem
Don't mess with Scotland.
It was not the death of the Immigration Bill that spelled the end of Bush's power. 'Twas the 2006 elections.
HTH!
My concern is that the more impotent Bush feels, the more likely he's going to bomb Iran.
"My concern is that the more impotent Bush feels, the more likely he’s going to bomb Iran."
My concern is that he will try to find a way to do it regardless of the fact that he is impotent. The writing has been on the wall for a while now. The only news person that has been covering this has been Sy Hersch, up until recently.
The Shadow of Hegemon's
Pardon moi
The Shadow of Hegemon's
The author uses vague sentences and doesn't backup the claims.
It makes me doubt the title. Is it really the Most?
budda @ 3:
This is, I think is an understandable quick reflex reaction. What I saw was five sub institutions running a charade on us. What now, has changed? Absolutely nothing. Bush has lost no more than he was holding before, Dem and Rep Senators played a shell game with the two votes -- sending all sides out making 5 headlines intead of one. The house, both parties knew the big boys were wasting ink and their 4th and 5th headline was going to page 19, below the fold.
Diffusion, political diffusion.
We all got suckered. They are all livin high on the hogs tonight that we are providing them.
They are smiling that smile that says we just robbed a bank, knowing that it is the piggy bank of America that they've robbed
You reap what you sow.
LGBN
I can't wait to see who Diebold is picking for our next president!
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