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Did Fahrenheit 9/11 actually hurt the Dems?

I know I'm about to stir up all kinds of s... stuff around here. I know that some of the people who hang out on this blog love Micheal Moore and others hate him and still others are saying "Micheal who?".

I happen to like Micheal Moore for what he is. He's a political & social P.T. Barnum, bent on giving us all a good show and selling us a ticket to see the magnificant Egress. While many of his beliefs are similiar to and reflect my own beliefs, I'm not sure if I like the way he's handling things.

And now that Electoral Vote has started a daily graph of the electoral vote, it's plain to see that Moore's latest movie, despite reports to the contrary, may have actually hurt the Democrats.

Take a look at the chart. Notice how the electoral college votes for Kerry drop just before the release of Fahrenheit 9/11 and didn't pick up until nearly a week later, the first of July, when they finally rebound enough to raise over 270, the amount of votes needed to become President.

Kerry has only dipped below the 270 mark three times, all within a 2 to 3 week span in June. It appears now that Moore actually may have slightly hurt Kerry's chances, at least temporarily. If the vote had happened on June 28th, Bush would have been in office another 4 years.

Now it turns out that one of the headlines that Moore used in F9/11 was a fake. The headline in question did appear in The Pantagraph, which is now seeking restitution of a dollar for his 'copy-editing'. The headline in question, which read "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election", did appear in the paper on December 5th as part of a letter from a reader. F9/11 stated that the headline was for a news piece in the December 19th edition of the Pantagraph.

In the movie, The Pantagraph page, as shown, was not how a real page from the newspaper would have looked. Moore's version had a different typeface and a different headline size from what The Pantagraph uses. The newspaper's name, however, appears in the correct font.

I am no fan of Bush, I think he's a liar. I can't stand lying at all, even the right reasons. So I guess from now on, I'm going to have to take everything Moore says with a really big grain of salt. Sorry guys, I know Moore is saying what we're thinking and what we want to hear. That's how Propaganda works. If someone is saying all the right things, it's even more reason to listen critically.

Ari Potter

Aisle 10: Crock Pots, Pressure Cookers, & Deities in Assorted Sizes

Walmart always an aisle stack of Bibles, including those Teen New Testaments, made to look like Tiger Beat or TeenPeople or whatever it is teenage girls read now to find out the latest dish about Orlando Bloom.

So Target needed to get in on the religion act. Of course, Target had to do it with more style. Now you can pick up your Kabbalah Red String at the same place you get your detergent and undies.

If it hasn't become obvious, Kabbalah may be the new Scientology. But at least Kabbalah is 'based' on some sort of actual mystic teachings that don't involve space aliens. Side note: Kabbalah's website is SO much cooler than Scientology's. I'm just saying.

Target link via BoingBoing (permalink here)

This Month's Pointless Stats Post

Number of Comments recieved from obvious teenage girls: 2
Number of Top 20 search terms related to Harry Potter in some way: 5 out of 20
Number of Top 20 search terms related to Lance Bass' messed up nose: 3 out of 20
Number of Hits from The Netherlands: 332
Ratio of Hits from Austrailia to Austria: 10 to 1
Bandwidth used in July 2004: 1.25 Gigs
Monthly Hits for July versus June: 50,000 to 17,000
Number of Kickass Bloggers who moved me from the links page to the Blogroll: 1.

Sexed Up Academies

I've been working on the Academies site for a while now, but one of the things that I remember and chuckle about is when D.I. said that I needed to remove the picture of a guy using a computer because he 'Looked like he'd never had sex.'

So someone took it upon themselves Sex Up The CPCC IT Academies. (Probably NSFW... unless the door's shut ^^)

Life: The RPG

<anvar> a life?

<anvar> i heard they were overrated ;)

<Punk-Kitty> Whats this 'Life' thing I keep hearing about?

<krzyk> massive multiplayer online rpg

<krzyk> not worth playing

<Aristan> the graphics are bad, the terrain seems to repeat an awful lot, there's no save points, getting healed is expensive as hell, everyone camps, and you're fucked if you need someone to cast Resurrection. The roll for that has worked ONCE and that was 2000 cycles ago.

Catwoman's a man, baby, yeah...

Via Defamer

Halle Berry's stunt double is a man, baby.

"But a lot of boys feasting their eyes on Halle's sexy costume are gonna flip when they realize they got steamy about a bloke in a girl's costume."

The money comes flooding Trickling in...

Thanks Marcio for my first dollar 67 cents! And screw you, Paypal!

Of course, you can still help.

I've finally gone an done it...

I've finally gone and done it.
I'm panhandling online.
But it's for an iBook.
Help Me Get an Apple iBook!

Anal Glaucoma.

I'm not going to school tomorrow because I've developed Anal Glaucoma.

I just can't see my ass in that place.

I hate Math.

I just totally failed my math test. It was the last one of the semester and since it wasn't above an 80, it doesn't count toward my final grade. If I'd made at least an 87 on it, I'd have made an A in the class.

Now I'll have to settle for a B.

Dammit, I hate math.

A juxtaposition from my final paper bibliography.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The Wizard of Oz.

I'm just saying.

Pip pip, cheerio...

Someone tell me why I've been listening to The Streets and Blur all morning, please.

Predicting the Internet's catastrophic collapse

Predicting the Internet's catastrophic collapse

Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet, which only just recently got this section here in InfoWorld, will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. Here's why there soon will be only World Wide Web ghost pages.

- Bob Metcalfe, developer of Ethernet.

(Via Metafilter)

When I said I liked comments, this isn't exactly what I meant...

Logged on this morning to make a little update and to mention the new layout of Malbela coming soon. I notice as I log in that comments had been pretty active overnight.

Except it wasn't you guys...

Oh how I hate Comment Spam. I went from 103 to 187 comments. Every single one spam.

For the time being, Comments are set to moderated. I'll approval all nonspam ones, just like I always do. I just don't have to time to delete 84 comments every day.

Thanks for understanding.

Oh... and this is what happens when you hotlink to an image on my site.

I'm just saying.

I wonder if he notices...

I wonder if Harold notices I stopped paying attention to him about 10 minutes ago.

Roar.

Mac Whoredom Example #88912

This afternoon I was cleaning the kitchen and watching the Powerpuff Girls as I did. It happened to be an episode I hadn't see before. This episode guest starred Phyllis Diller as Mask Scara, the Make Up Tychoon turned Evil Genius.

So... here's the mac whoredom:

As The Professor is in his lab using his supercomputer to come up with his plan, you know the one that involves creating a computer virus to access the communications network and embed itself in humans, causing them to cluck like a chicken and have an itchy rash (with or without excessive hair growth.)... you know... that one?

Well I noticed that The Professor was using OSX! I was like pointing it out to everyone in the house. Of course they don't know what OSX looks like. I'd really like to know what icons The Professor has on his Dock. I'm sure someone can get screenshots next time it's played and we can find out ^^

Yours,
the mac whore

Best. Review. Evar.

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To keep everyone busy...

Here's something to keep everyone busy as I work on the newest layout for Malbela, and the paper, and my co-op, and my english papers...

Some say that John Edwards built his career on 'Junk Science' while others proclaim that The Bush Administration has 'Junk Science' of it's own.

Who's right or is everyone in the wrong?

Discuss.

(Can anyone tell that I like the arguments in the comments almost as much as I like writing in my blog myself?)

Yes. That appears to be a pack of Cowgirl killers. Now where's the Mountain Dew?

Oh Britney... we can tell you're from the South. The new beau isn't a cousin is he?

Click Images to Enlarge. Pics via Stereogum

(By the way... those aren't Mukluks, are they?)

Someone left their hanger open...

Hmmm It looks like Kerry's VP was accidently announced. On a Aviation Message Board of all places.

John Kerry"s 757 was in hgr 4 pit tonight John Edwards vp decals were being put on engine cowlings and upper fuselage. :up:

Now will someone tell Edwards to change his website if it's true!

(Link via Metafilter)

Edit 8:08am: And I scooped MSNBC. Not that that's hard to do.

Poor Lance Bass...

Dear Lance,

Not only were you the 'Girlie' member of N'Sync (Hey, don't feel bad, Joey's the fat one and his name is actually FATONE! c'mon!), but now you've gone and gotten a nose more girlie than Jessica Simpson.

I've enclosed a couple of pictures, courtesy Awful Plastic Surgery, to show that we know. We know, man.

click to enlarge

P.S. - Guess it's a good thing only Justin has a career now.
P.P.S. - Why doesn't your website feature the new beak yet? Don't leave evidence up dude!