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Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader.

Nostradamus 1555 AD

Politics
	Speakers' Corner	Scripts of Roedy's soap box TV public service announcements on Speakers' Corner on the newVI TV Station. 2004-07-02
	George W.'s Resume Verbatim	The resume of job experinence and outstanding achievements of George W. Bush 2004-06-28
	Paul Martin	Paul Martin became Prime Minister of Canada in the first coup of a sitting prime minister in Canadian history. 2004-06-28
	Books	Books about George Bush Jr., 9-11 and the Iraq war. 2004-06-28
	BC Politics	In the Maritimes, politics is a disease, in Quebec a religion, in Ontario a business, on the Prairies a protest and in British Columbia entertainment. 2004-06-28
	WTO	The World Trade Organisation is bullying the governments of the world into dropping evironmental and labour protection legislation. 2004-06-28
	NAFTA	North American Free Trade Association, FTAA, Globalisation, Why are protesters so upset about it? 2004-06-28
	The Iraq War	The Iraq war is a $20 trillion oil heist disguised as a compassionate regime change. 2004-06-28
	George Bush and 911	Why I think Bush planned the 2001 September 11 World Trade attacks. This also covers some of his duplicity in the Afghanistan war and the Iraq war. 2004-06-28
	The Asbestos Connection	Why I think Senators Wellstone and Carhanan were murdered for their opposition to asbestos. 2004-06-28
	Bowling For Columbine	An exploration of the possible causes of gun violence in the USA. 2004-06-28
	One World	Autonomous nation states are outdated. We need to think of ourselves as citizens of planet earth. 2004-07-02
Free Trade	Free Trade	The pro and cons of free trade. 2004-06-28
	Why I don't Like George W. Bush	The reasons why it is important to ensure George W. Bush is not elected for a second term. 2004-06-28
	George W, Verbatim	The wit and wisdom of George W. Bush, verbatim. 2004-06-28
	Election Fairness	The close election magnified the inequities in the voting scheme. Fairness is important for both winner and loser. For political legitimacy, the winner needs to be perceived to have won squarely. My essay offers dozens of suggestions to make elections more fair. 2004-06-28
v.	Supreme Court Decision	A layman's guide to the supreme court decision in Bush v. Gore. 2004-06-28
	God Overrules the Supreme Court	Press release from St. Michael on God overruling the Supreme Court decision. 2004-06-28
	The Grinches Who Stole the Whitehouse	A takeoff on The Night Before Christmas about how five supreme court justices stole the election for Bush. 2004-06-28
	Erosion of Legitimacy	Bush's claim as the legitimate president has been whittled away bit by bit: Losing the popular vote. Lack of clear standards in what constitutes a valid ballot. Florida under and overvote unexamined. Two questionable political favours from his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida: K. Harris discarded some counts and Florida Legislature speaker Tom Feeney threatened to use an obscure constitutional provision to ignore the election results in determining the electoral college members. Rebublican canvassing officer Sandra Goard's criminal activity with absentee ballot applications. Republican Supreme Court Justice Scalia in his addendum to the stay order admitted prejudice as his reason for granting the stay that would be irreparably harmful to Gore if Gore prevailed. Perhaps, some day, the Surpreme Court will boggle all our minds by reversing itself, or by Scalia retroactively recusing himself, leaving a 4-4 supreme court stalemate, a sort of remnant chesire cat smile. This is not totally fanciful. Democrats claim Scalia publicly stated that he would quit if Gore were elected, because his chances for advancement to the top post would be nil. Wyth a stalemate, the state of the decision would go into limbo, until a new Supreme court justice could be sworn in, a moderate Republican, perhaps another Souter. By the time the new justice broke the tie, President Bush's term of office would be over, so it does not matter much politicially what he decided. The justices could then repair the legal damage they had done earlier in stopping the Florida legistlature from attempting to use that almost-never-used ignore-the-election clause in the constitution. Squirming about the pending Miami Herald Sunshine law full count. Bush is acting as if he too believes the count will not vindicate him.
	Feedback	Read feedback from readers of the elections essays. You can email me your thoughts on my essays via email. If you don't want your message and my reply publicly posted, please let me know. 2004-06-28

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