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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Getting in the Halloween mood

Here's some short zombie fiction stories from the Twilight Creations site, makers of the "Zombies!!!" board game.

Eat well.

(added later:)

One more thing to chew on:  George Romero is working on a follow-up to his other zombie movies, to come out next year.  It's called "Land of the Dead."  The plotline:  a few years have passed, and the living dead have taken over almost all of the Earth.  The surviving humans are in a walled-in city, desperately trying to survive each other as much as the zombies.  Meanwhile, the zombie threat, which had started fading as the zombies decomposed, is rising again as the zombies evolve into new threats...

Sounds like it could be good.

Posted at 09:13 am by brandonstarr
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Pat Robertson: I warned Bush about casualties in Iraq...

...Bush's response?  "There aren't going to be any." (CNN)
Wow!

Bush thought there weren't going to be any casualties--as though invading Iraq was going to be like invading Grenada.

This is an amazing article.  It's also full of irrationalist gems like this:

Jesus may have told Bush to invade Iraq, but God was giving warnings to Robertson:  "I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy."

Robertson also believes Bush is blessed by God:

"Even if he stumbles and messes up -- and he's had his share of stumbles and gaffes -- I just think God's blessing is on him," Robertson said.

Amazing.  Bush is a goofball, self-assured for no reason, mistaken oh so many times, and foolish, yet his irrationalist buddies think "God" has blessed him.

Posted at 08:06 am by brandonstarr
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
I can't say it any better...

...so I'll just direct you to LowRentRat's two entries for today, Tuesday, October 19, 2004
One is about Sinclair and its advertisers, the other about the judge basically saying "so what?" in regards to the thrown-out Democrat registration forms.

Both are must-read, with excellent links as follow-up/back-up.

Posted at 01:09 pm by brandonstarr
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Monday, October 18, 2004
Authoritarian supports Bush

"Democratically elected" leader Putin supports "democratically elected" Bush
Birds of a feather screw over their people together.

Putin, like so many idiots, seem to think the terrorists want Bush to lose.  This is, of course, false.  Al-Qaeda is already on record as thinking Bush is a fool and that Kerry would be a much more dangerous foe to them.  A lot of Bush's supporters choose to ignore this fact, as they ignore so many facts that fly in the face of what they fervently wish were true.

If you believe in fantasy right up until the moment of your death or the death of your first born, vote for Bush.  Osama'll thank you.
 

Posted at 09:01 am by brandonstarr
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Sunday, October 17, 2004
Gather together the voter fraud...
Bush Administration: torturers in two hemispheres

Torture:  it's not just throughout Iraq and Afghanistan--Guantanamo Cuba detainees heavily abused over long periods of time, guards and others charge

Be proud of your President...vote Kerry.

Posted at 12:52 pm by brandonstarr
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Saturday, October 16, 2004
30 years of Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons, the father of all role-playing games, turns 30

As a longtime gamer--though I haven't played a formal game in about ten years, as I wrote recently--I still respect the genre.

(Technically, D&D evolved out of an earlier tabletop wargaming game, but D&D was the first where characters, not armies, were the focus, and therefore was the first role-playing game.)

Posted at 08:47 pm by brandonstarr
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Federal appeals court: fear doesn't trump Constitution

Federal appeals court rules:  can't search protesters without some solid reason to suspect the protest has been targeted by terrorists

Or, as they put it:  "9/11/01...can't be the day liberty perished in this country."

Let's hope that Kerry wins so we don't get a Supreme Court even less well disposed towards civil liberties.

Posted at 05:56 pm by brandonstarr
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Ramadan starts, so does the violence

With beginning of Ramadan comes a dangerous irrational belief:  die fighting infidels during Ramadan, go to heaven

Hold on, folks.  It's going to be a bumpy month.

Meanwhile, a group of soldiers refused to go on a refuel/resupply mission, saying several of their trucks were too dangerous to drive and that they didn't have proper protection.

I don't know how to feel about that.  On one hand, I'm hard-pressed to say I'd be thrilled myself to go on a mission where I felt I was being set up for failure--and failure meaning death.  On the other hand, those supplies are needed by other soldiers, some of whom may meet their own brand of trouble without resupply.

What I'd really like to know is, why don't our soldiers have the equipment they need to succeed?  Why hasn't the Bush Administration gotten their act together, a year and a half after invading Iraq?  It's not like anyone--Congress, the media, anyone--has been stopping them.  Is it incompetence, or are they trying to drag out the war for their own purposes?

I remember an old bumper sticker that said, "It'll be a great day when our schools get all the money they need, and the Army has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."  Now that families are putting collections together to buy their soldiers body armor, it's safe to say it's not a great day when either group has to hold a bake sale.
 

Posted at 02:29 pm by brandonstarr
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Friday, October 15, 2004
Remember that voter fraud in Nevada...

...where a Republican-led firm tore up Democratic registration ballots?  (If not, it's just a few stories down.)

Well, a judge refused to reopen the registration so those folks could sign up for the vote.
Double yikes.

Posted at 07:26 pm by brandonstarr
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