Just another nerd.
Some folks have seen fit to set these pictures to music resulting what Glenn Reynolds calls Kerry/Edwards slash movies such as this.
And why the hell not. If Bill Clinton could take the title as the first black president, who’s to stop Kerry from claiming the mantle as the first gay president (well, depending on which side of the gay marriage debate he’s on this week).
Dave Winer claims,
Key point about the Senate report on the CIA. They should disclose that they did a deal with the White House that the investigation would not look at them. In other words, everything they’re saying about the CIA probably fully applies to the President. If so, then the solution is clear, vote him out of office in November
This is simply not true. As the New York Times notes, the deal between Senate Democrats and Republicans simply puts the investigation of the White House into a later stage of the investigation,
Under a deal reached this year between Republicans and Democrats, the Bush administration’s role will not be addressed until the Senate Intelligence Committee completes a further stage of its inquiry, but probably not until after the November election. As a result, said the officials, both Democratic and Republican, the committee’s initial, unanimous report will focus solely on misjudgments by intelligence agencies, not the White House, in the assessments about Iraq, illicit weapons and Al Qaeda that the administration used as a rationale for the war.
Source:
Senate Iraq Report Said to Skirt White House Use of Intelligence. Douglas Jehl, New York Times, July 8, 2004.
California Secretary of Education Richard Riordan told a little girl that her name, Isis, meant “stupid dirty girl.” Idiot. He should be fired or quit.
The fascinating thing is that at least one Democrat in Calfornia was preparing a protest against Riordan — until he found out that the little girl in question was white rather than black,
Democratic state Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, who had scheduled a protest by civil rights organizations, canceled the demonstration after an apparent mix-up over the girl’s racial background.
Dymally was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News Thursday saying the child was “a little African-American girl. Would he (Riordan) have done that to a white girl?”
The girl is white, with blonde hair.
Dymally did not return telephone calls. His office issued a statement Wednesday calling Riordan’s remarks to the girl “outrageous and irresponsible,” then issued another statement Thursday saying, “To err is human; to forgive is divine.”
“Race is not a factor in this issue,” Dymally said in Thursday’s statement, adding that Riordan had apologized a second time. “It is time for us to move on.”
No wonder California’s so screwed up with people like these representing them.
Source:
California education chief calls preschooler ‘stupid dirty girl’. Associated Press, July 9, 2004.