The Tsunami Watch - a New Zealand Perspective

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Thursday May 04, 2006 · 3:13 PM PDT

2006/05/04 · 15:13

Fortunately, there turned out not to be a tsunami as a result of the Tonga earthquake (alright, a little one in Niue and Pago Pago). But there was a tsunami warning, and I bet you're dying to know what one sounds like. Read More

MN-03: Is Wilde in?

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Wednesday April 26, 2006 · 9:41 PM PDT

2006/04/26 · 21:41

I don't live in Minnesota any more, but I still try and keep abreast of what's going on there. When I last checked, Jim Ramstad, Republican incumbent since 1990, had no opponent. I can understand why it would be hard to find a candidate. In 2004 Deb Watts only got 35% of the vote.

Today I checked the MN-03 page at the Fifty State Page, and saw that Wendy Wilde is listed as his opponent.

I really liked Wendy's show on the Air America affiliate AM 950, but apparently she is no longer on. Is this due to a run for Congress? Wendy's website merely says she is "exploring" a run.

Does anyone in the Twin Cities have any more information?

Senator Dayton on censure

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Sunday April 02, 2006 · 12:48 PM PDT

2006/04/02 · 12:48

I got an email back from Mark Dayton, soon-to-be former senator from Minnesota. He's against censure.

As far as I can tell, his position because presidents break the law more often than Congress censures them, censure is an inappropriately strong response to a law-breaking president.

Text of Senator Dayton's letter after the break. Read More

American Family Association are traitors!

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Thursday March 23, 2006 · 6:01 PM PST

2006/03/23 · 18:01

So the AFA are calling for a travel boycott of Australia because of a couple of mild swear words in a tourist ad. They appear to have forgotten that Australia has the 3rd largest military force in Iraq (4th if you count private contractors as a block).

Is this how we treat our allies? Will Dubya be complaining, as he did over the Dubai Ports World brouhaha, that if we don't reward our allies they may turn against us?

Do members of the AFA ever travel abroad, anyway? Travel is supposed to broaden the mind, and there's not much evidence of that.

RedState.org and the DailyKos DNS hijack

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Friday March 18, 2005 · 1:39 PM PST

2005/03/18 · 13:39

I love Google Mail, a.k.a. GMail. I was reading an email thread between me and a friend about a website I'd just set up, and up pops a link to this thread over at RedState.org.

Now this website is nothing to do with politics, it's actually all to do with Star Wars.

I don't know if I got the redstate.org link just because the email thread was about DNS problems, or if Google is perusing the rest of my emails and figuring out I like politics, too. I thought it was interesting, either way.

What should I do with $603?

Rupert

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Friday February 11, 2005 · 8:03 AM PST

2005/02/11 · 08:03

I have a very good job, and make more than the limit for social security contributions. Judiciously studying my W2 leads me to believe that if there were no cap on social security taxes, I would have paid an extra $603. I'm inclined to do something productive with that money.

You may only vote in this poll if you promise not to tell my wife.

My Senate letters

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Thursday January 20, 2005 · 5:47 PM PST

2005/01/20 · 17:47

To Mark Dayton:

Please do not condone torture by voting to confirm Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney General.
I understand that the President is traditionally accorded substantial leeway in selecting his cabinet. I do not believe that leeway extends to allowing the President to appoint an Attorney General who appears to believe that the President has the authority to order torture, and more generally to act without regard to United States law and international treaties ratified by Congress.
We are losing the battle for hearts and minds in the Islamic world. It does not help us to appoint to cabinet rank a man who, even if he did not directly order it, declared the legality of the Abu Ghraib atrocities.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to supporting you in your re-election campain next year.

Letter to Norm Coleman is after the break. Read More

F*ck the South

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 1:07 PM PST

2004/11/04 · 13:07

Lincoln was a Republican, and thus he got it wrong. He should have let the South secede. They'd be an eastern Mexico. Miami would be like Cancun, but with hurricanes.

I drew a new flag. Removed from the stars: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Removed from the stripes: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia

The electoral college would be 260 for Kerry, 159 for Bush. Except Bush would have had to run from his native state, rather than from Texas, so maybe he'd have taken Connecticut.
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Presidential elections and the World Series

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Thursday October 28, 2004 · 8:36 AM PDT

2004/10/28 · 08:36

Hypothesis: When a candidate for President or Vice-President is from the same state as a team in the World series, their performances are correlated.

I don't remember enough statistics to give this a confidence level, but the raw numbers show that this hypothesis is correct 80% of the time. Read More

I called Tom Delay

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Wednesday October 27, 2004 · 12:43 PM PDT

2004/10/27 · 12:43

According to the first person I spoke to, DailyKos is a terrible liberal site (I knew that) and someone posted here once saying it was OK to behead hostages because they were mercenaries (I didn't know that, and suspect something has been taken a leeeetle out of context).

I'm waiting for a call back with more clarification on how that translates into raising money for insurgents. I will post details when I get them.

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