Jim Manis on Most Anything

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Monday, July 21, 2008

Republican Strategy for 2008:

New voting equipment in a minimum of eleven states is expected to confuse and frustrate at least half of the voters. Election officials are expecting half of the voters to be new to the process and easily turned away. There should be long lines, difficulties in verifying authenticity of registration and out right confusion about how to use the new technology. (See The New York Times story.)

Republicans learned in 2000 and had their findings reaffirmed in 2004 that the country will not seriously object to having elections stolen.

Today in History: The Sword Cuts Both Ways

On this date in 1925, John T. Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. What is generally overlooked is that the textbook he was using also promoted racism and the eugenics nonsense espoused by the Nazi party in Germany.

The Dude had no idea what gasoline costs, but "It's a myth to think I don't know what's going on. It's a myth to think that I'm not aware that there's opinions that don't agree with mine, because I'm fully aware of that." — George W. Bush, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

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