I didn’t watch any of the Republican convention. I was afraid it would be stroke inducing. Based on the news coverage, I think I made the right decision. How politicians (not just Republicans) mind you, can get away with making misleading statement after misleading statement is being me. Or, in other words, how the public fails to look beyond the sound-byte and hold politicians accountable for their words saddens me.

Some accounts of how we are being mislead:
Two perspectives…
Which is true?
GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions

Hee! Someone should have paid a bit more attention to the dogs in that third photo before putting that picture up on their website.

I went on a bit of a photo safari today. You can see the results in the gallery.

Hee!

Heh – must watch the “advertisement” at this site.

Wow, nothing like the right to freely assemble:

• Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement – Albuquerque Journal
• Lawyer Loses Bid for Open Cheney Rally – Albuquerque Journal
• Some Democrats seeking Cheney tickets had to sign oath – Casper Star-Tribune

I forgot to mention a kind of strange thing that happened last weekend. I had ordered pizza (yeah, nothing unusual about that). When the delivery guy first got there, he had the wrong kind of soda. I asked if he could bring me the right kind – they charge enough for soda, I wanted the right kind. It was a bit difficult to communicate this with him as we didn’t seem to have a language in common. He says he will be back in a few minutes and sure enough he was.

I got my soda and was in the middle of pouring myself a glass when I hear another knock on the door. It’s the delivery fellow. He seems rather panicked. He keeps saying, “Misses, fall, blood” and pointing to my left. I finally figure out that he’s pointing to my neighbor’s house. She’s an elderly woman who lives by herself so I run out to see what’s going on. She had fallen down and bloodied her elbow, but other than that was okay. I thought it was very nice of the delivery guy (who was already running late because of the soda thing) to take the time alert me to my neighbor’s predicament. He’d already pulled out of the driveway when he noticed her, so he had to stop the car, run up and check and her and then run over to my place again. Yes, it was the simply decent thing to do, but there seems to be such a lack of simple decency these days, I had to call his boss and commend him.

Okay, there might be plenty of negative things one could say about Kerry, but having Bush say that Kerry is a man of “few achievements” is laughable beyond belief. I’d take his list of “few achievements” compared to Bush’s any day. Or, as Joshua Micah Marshall says:

“I mean, even if you grant that Bush’s presidency has been a tenure of transcendent achievement (and it has undoubtedly been eventful), it’s a bit hard to get around the fact that even by his own account he spent his first five decades kicking back, living off family connections and playing solitaire.”

Woohoo! For people who care about compliant code, this is good news. (Yeah, don’t look at the code for this site, it’s ages old and I haven’t had time to update it. Hey, I could be a Microsoft employee!)

This is a great site for learning about color theory in a fun way. Oh, and the Kaleidoscope isn’t addictive at all. Nope, I didn’t just spend the last thirty minutes playing with it. (It was forty minutes.)