The Aerie
Today's blog includes assigned reading. There will be a quiz.
A nice weekend just past. Saw too many movies. Saturday night I took daughter and younger son to see "Over the Hedge," which was just fine, very silly. It featured the unlikely pairing of William Shatner and Avril Lavigne voicing father and daughter possums.
Sunday our friend Debbie, who just got her Internet hooked up, suggested going to see "The DaVinci Code." Actress Audrey Tautou has threatened to quit acting reportedly due to the harsh criticism that the movie has been receiving. I thought the movie was just fine, and did a good job of capturing the flavor of the book. I think the some of the critics may be somewhat biased...
Between movies we visited the Lake Harriet Rose Garden after church. When we stopped for some bagels one of the women behind the counter at the Uptown Brueggers was one of the people at the downtown Brueggers that I visit regularly during the week. It was fun to be able to show off the family.
Aside from that I got a modest start on cleaning my office, and that's about it. Both Saturday and Sunday got eaten up pretty quickly. Hopefully I can get some more stuff accomplished during the week, although my experience is that I have the best intentions, but before I know it it's Saturday again.
Posted by Albatross at June 5, 2006 4:03 PM | TrackBack This guy really likes to overreach by saying such things as:
"Over the past decades, exit polling has evolved into an exact science. Indeed, among pollsters and statisticians, such surveys are thought to be the most reliable."
If it so exact, why do we even bother counting the votes?
And he seems to conveniently forget that the polling areas in the Miami area of Florida that were such a dispute in the 2000 election were all run by Democrats. I guess that he would have to admit that the DNC is just not as good at voting fraud. I guess they have lost their skills that they used so well in Chicago. Or perhaps the ability doesn't translate well over the Mason-Dixon Line. But that wouldn't explain his thesis on Ohio. Hmmm.
It wasn't RFKII who said that, actually, it was non-partisan prostitute toe-sucker and campaign advisor Dick Morris, as quoted here in Lawrence Lessig's blog shortly after the 2004 election
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002282.shtml
The concerns expressed in Rolling Stone aren't new, but their delay in reaching the mainstream media says more about conservative control of the MSM than it does about the validity of the concerns or their lack.
You can make all the snarky comments about Dems you want, but the Rolling Stone article has too many clear references and too much cited evidence to wholly dismiss.
Here is the first part of what looks like a very evenhanded review of the Rolling Stone article.
http://democracyguy.typepad.com/democracy_guy_grassroots_/2006/06/rolling_stones_.html
I think that as citizens of this nation we should be demanding oversight and verification of the electoral process, rather than dismissing concerns out of hand. I think loyalty to the nation and the Constitution outweigh partisan desires to view these concerns as mere sour grapes.
Dismiss them for now if you cannot bring yourself to question the status quo -- but keep your eyes open during the upcoming November elections.
Posted by: Albatross at June 6, 2006 9:33 PM