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Convention Things

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To be precise, 1001 Things to Hate About the Convention.
There really are a 1001 of them ranging from the humorous to the serious and some that perhaps reflect positively about the convention.
And they are generally much more entertaining though I’m going to savor them a bit longer then PZ Meyers who says he has read them all.
Roxanne borrowed #17, Ayn Rand smiling up from hell, to headline a fine picture of these left behind children. I do doubt that Rand would be smiling about anything to do with the RNC convention, its candidates or their programs.

Helping w into the National Guard

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Ex Texas Lt Goveror Ben Barnes tells the story:

“I got a young man named George W. Bush into the Texas National Guard when I was lieutenant governor, and I’m not necessarily proud of that. But I did it. I got a lot of other people in the National Guard because I thought that was what people should do when you’re in office, and you help a lot of rich people.”
“And I walked to the Vietnam Memorial the other day,” Barnes continued, “and I looked at the names of the people that died in Vietnam, and I became more ashamed of myself than I have ever been, because it was the worst thing I ever did, was help a lot of wealthy supporters and a lot of people who had family names of importance get into the National Guard. And I’m very sorry about that, and I’m very ashamed, and I apologize to you as voters of Texas.”
There is apparently a video of Barnes making this statement at the austin4kerry but so far the site seems to be overloaded at the moment (20:22 UTC/GMT).
Update: PZ Meyers has put up a copy of the video.

Flip, Flop, I’m Taking a Bath

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w speaks and then reverses himself.
This story and variants started storming around the blogosphere while I was vacationing and I particularly like the combination of Atrios, Norbizness, Eugene Volokh, Julia, Ted Barlow and Arthur Silber all hammering away on the same issue.
You should heed Arthur’s warning:

Time for some people to wake up and face reality. Bush is absolutely no friend of freedom and liberty — either at home or abroad. And should he have a second term, the Constitution may be unrecognizable by the time he gets done.
Not that the Constitution is a perfect document…as written and interpreted it leads to today’s state of affairs.

It’s Your Money

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What are the odds that these folks (R) are being payed the same or less then the troops they have replaced?

Stretched thin by troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and security needs at home, the Army has resorted to hiring private security guards to help protect dozens of American military bases.
To date, more than 4,300 private security officers have been put to work at 50 Army installations in the United States, according to Army documents obtained by The Times.
I’ll bet this makes the personnel on these bases feel much more secure as well.
Oh, the process for awarding some major contacts for this service is pretty typical for the current administration.