Burn a Flag a Day
It's amazing that while I'm sitting here trying to (in some sense) defend the Democratic party as the lesser of two evils, that one of its leaders is still spending a good deal of her time on a flag burning amendment. Luckily you can email Feinstein from the bottom of her statment. I can't believe she's spending so much time on this crap when there are so many important things that need to be done. It's infuriating.

My favorite part? Her "arugument" that prohibiting flag-burning won't start us (further) on the slippery slope of eroding civil rights and free speech:
I would like to assure those with reservations about amending the Constitution that the path we are taking is no slippery slope.

There will be no stampede of Constitutional Amendments that could erode our freedom of speech. There will be no litany of restrictions.
Well, you can't argue with that! Such reassurance! I feel Oh. So. Comforted. Right up there on the comfort level of relaxing once Bush Jr. told us "Mission Accomplished".

Update:
Given LML's comment, here's Feinstein's phone number:
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
And what the hell, Barbara Boxer's too:
(202) 224-3553

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Thief!
To those who go around saying, "Well, Bush Jr. did win hands down in 2004, whether the 2000 election was right or not..."

In what may be the single most astounding fact from the election, one in every four Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 showed up at the polls only to discover that they were not listed on the rolls, thanks to GOP efforts to stem the unprecedented flood of Democrats eager to cast ballots.(14) And that doesn?t even take into account the troubling evidence of outright fraud, which indicates that upwards of 80,000 votes for Kerry were counted instead for Bush. That alone is a swing of more than 160,000 votes -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.

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Please God in Heaven Let Bill Frist Win the Republican Nomination:
Because, really, how hard would it be to win against a guy who literally kills kittens:

"Desperate, obsessed with my work, I visited the various animal shelters in the Boston suburbs, collecting cats, taking them home, treating them as pets for a few days, then carting them off to the lab to die in the interests of science. And medicine. And health care. And treatment of disease. And my project.

"It was, of course, a heinous and dishonest thing to do, and I was totally schizoid about the entire matter. By day, I was little Billy Frist, the boy who lived on Bowling Avenue in Nashville and had decided to become a doctor because of his gentle father and a dog named Scratchy. By night, I was Dr. William Harrison Frist, future cardiothoracic surgeon, who was not going to let a few sentiments about cute, furry little creatures stand in the way of his career. In short, I was going a little crazy."

Or, short version: "Hi, I'm Bill Frist. I'm crazy, schizo, and I like to treat lab animals as pets before dissecting them. And I'd like to be your president."


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