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An interesting tidbit of news, courtesy of Teagan Goddard's Political Wire:
Given the timing of this year's Republican National Convention- pushed into late August, there will be no Republican nominee on the cutoff date which Illinois has set- thus requiring special legislation or a court order to put Mr. Bush on the Illinois ballot.

Apparently, Illinois Senate Democrats have offerred a modification to the law which would allow Mr. Bush to appear on the ballot with a number of other changes to Illinois electoral law such as allowing for the registration of voters up to fourteen days before an elections, but Illinois Republicans have found the offer unacceptable, and will instead try to have their nominee placed on the ballot via court order.

Shame, isn't it? Couldn't we just put Nader on the Illinois ballot and leave the Chimperor off?

Gee, now there's a surprise

"It's quite clear to me that we do not have a coherent approach to this," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told an international security conference about America's long term strategy for fighting terrorism, the Chicago Sun Times reports.

Thanks for the breaking news, Rummy. You do realize, though, that you've probably just put your head on your boss' chopping block, don't you? I understand he views any deviation from official policy as a personal affront.

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Wow. One of my diary entries just got promoted to the front page at the Daily Kos. Nothing major, just citing some new polling from Washington on the presidential and senate races.

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The Stanley Cup, it would appear, is twenty minutes away from residing in Tampa Bay.

What a fitting way for the NHL to die.

I've managed to blow off the last few entries in the annual In Memoriam series, i know. Call it simply not caring any longer which set of multi-millionaire players wins sports' best known trophy for which multi-millionaire ownership group which continually whinges about losing money while continuing to pay ever increasing salaries and pricing the fans out of the game. Bugger the players, the owners, the league and the union. All the greedy bastards can go fuck right off. As much a fan of the game as i am, i don't expect to see a successful end to the Collective Bargaining Agreement in any way that will leave the league fundamentally intact. And the players can go off and play in the Russian, Swedish, Finnish, German etc. leagues and perhaps we'll see the international game.