>ravi:
>>http://www.nbcolympics.com/ is doing a poll on who
>>deserved the pair skating award (under "more coverage" >section to the
>>right), and after 180000-odd votes everyone (96%) they >say feels the
>>canadians should've won (which is not a defensible >position, but the
>
correction: thats "which is a defensible position".
>>response has certainly been all that you list above)...
>
> You'd have thought that Americans would have got the message about the
> relative importance of popular votes and judges with an agenda by now ....
>
yes indeed. i referred to the 2000 election in my previous post to the list... and at least that *is* supposed to be settled by popular vote and not a panel of judges, unlike an olympic event.
doug should enjoy this recent title on nbcolympics.com, sympathizing with canadian sale's losing gold in the controversial decision: "emotional moments: sale's silver tears". ;-)
> I dunno. I thought that this was one of the few times that "Fascism" has
> been used semi-correctly on this list.
on that note: http://cryptome.org/amer-demo-rip.htm
American Democracy: R.I.P The Emergence of the Fascist American Theocratic State By John Stanton and Wayne Madsen John Stanton is a Virginia-based writer on national security affairs and Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist who writes and comments frequently on civil liberties and human rights issues.
Historians will record that between November 2000 and February 2002, democracy—as envisioned by the creators of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution—effectively came to an end. As democracy died, the Fascist American Theocratic State ["The State"] was born. This new fascist era was designed and implemented primarily by Republican organizations and individuals who funded, supported and ultimately inserted George Bush II in office. Equally complicit in this atrocity was the Democratic Party, itself having become corrupt and beholden to its own interests. But the greatest tragedy in this horrific turn of events was that the public and media embraced fascism’s coming. It should be noted that the Green Party’s valiant efforts were too little, too late.
<and on it goes>
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--ravi