"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

Bring The War Home San Francisco

Saw a lot of these stencils on my way to getting a bike tube. People aught to do a little more research on their sloganeering. "Bring the War Home" is catchy, yes, but the Weather Underground (who's slogan is was) isn't really a model organization.

Beyond which, organizing a campaign of wheatpasting and political theater in San Fran Fucking Cisco to stop the war seems a little less than pragmatic.

As my man Mark likes to say, "I'm in the business of getting shit done."

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Firefox Goes 1.0 -- Download it Now

Firefox is the community-built web browser from the Mozilla foundation. You want it. It's fast, renders pages beautifully, is insanely standards-compliant, and it doesn't feed into any organization's potential (or active) plans to dominate the world wide web.

The internet was meant to be Free, but it only remains so as long as we make it that way. Firefox performs as well (or better) than any other browser I've used, and growing the userbase makes a strong case for Open standards, Public code, and a Free internet.

These things are all very important as we move forward into the information age. If you don't think the net is going to change human life as much as the steam engine, think again, and then think about what that will mean if a single corporation (or oligopoly syndicate) is allowed to dictate the terms.

Dig this kind of shit? Be an evangelist.

If you're already a Firefox user (as I've been for the past several months), upgrade today. If you use Safari, IE, or Netscape seriously give it a shot. It's stable, pretty, and fast. Try it out for two weeks and see if you don't love it. Strike a blow for a free web and get a better browser at the same time. You've got nothing to loose but your chains!

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Firefox Goes 1.0 -- Download it Now

Firefox is the community-built web browser from the Mozilla foundation. You want it. It's fast, renders pages beautifully, is insanely standards-compliant, and it doesn't feed into any organization's potential (or active) plans to dominate the world wide web.

The internet was meant to be Free, but it only remains so as long as we make it that way. Firefox performs as well (or better) than any other browser I've used, and growing the userbase makes a strong case for Open standards, Public code, and a Free internet.

These things are all very important as we move forward into the information age. If you don't think the net is going to change human life as much as the steam engine, think again, and then think about what that will mean if a single corporation (or oligopoly syndicate) is allowed to dictate the terms.

Dig this kind of shit? Be an evangelist.

If you're already a Firefox user (as I've been for the past several months), upgrade today. If you use Safari, IE, or Netscape seriously give it a shot. It's stable, pretty, and fast. Try it out for two weeks and see if you don't love it. Strike a blow for a free web and get a better browser at the same time. You've got nothing to loose but your chains!

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Bombshell?

Did Bush use his power as Governor of Texas to cut a backroom deal covering up the truth about his National Guard service? Still Unreported: The Pay-off in Bush Air Guard Fix

Greg Palast is a BBC journalist, and a fairly good one. Whether he can get any traction in the American Newsmedia is an open question.

The story breaks down like this:

  • 1968: then Lt. Governer Barnes pulled some strings to get Bush into the cushy (and hostility-free) Texas Air National Guard (TANG)
  • 1994 Bush became Governor in a close race, in which he'd explicitly denied having strings pulled to get into the TANG
  • Barnes, at this time, is a corporate lobbiest who's working for GTech, which is running the Texas Lottery
  • GTech is under investigation from the FBI for corruption and in danger of loosing its lucrative contract
  • Bush spoke to the head of the lottery commission and the commission reversed itself, giving GTech a no-bid contract.
  • Barnes got $23 million for landing the contract. Bush was able to "put to rest" any questions about his TANG service.

are a changin'. Barnes is singing like a canary to anyone who'll listen that he got Bush into the TANG, and Palast has memos from the Justice Department, so if enough people decide to pay attention here the truth will out.

And again, it's not the crime; it's the coverup.

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