Volume 2 Issue 141

October 7, 2003

One Down, Eight to Go

California Decides, the Democratic field thins, and decorative toilets

First a little operations note, there seems to have been some delay for some folks in the e-mail delivery of yesterday's posting, I myself didn't get it on my home e-mail until this morning. I think the problem was with hotmail rather than the site, but we'll see if it happens again today. Remember, you can always get all the Swamp goodness online at http://www.fromtheswamp.com !

The Final Day: Well, it's election day in California. For those of you wanting to keep track of who everyone is, here's a handy index of candidates. Of course, anyone who thinks that they'll go to bed tonight (especially here in the East!) or wake up tomorrow knowing the results are nuts -
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/recall/candidates/la-recall-candidates,1,1093905.htmlstory?coll=la-home-headlines

Look Who's Not Running for President: Bob Graham has finally ended his struggling campaign. In a final insult, his appearance on Larry King Live got second billing after 45 minutes on Sigfried and Roy. Regardless, we're back to 9... -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53478-2003Oct6.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/politics/campaigns/07GRAH. html?hp

Look Who's Running for President 2: Gen. Wesley Clark has finally registered as a Democrat -
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031006-101700-9310r.htm

Oklahoma Openings: Republican Senator Don Nickles announced today he will retire. With the Senate as close as it is, every open seat is important, plus in recent years the Democrats have made some pickups in Oklahoma -
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-Nickles-Senate.html?hp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55405-2003Oct7.html

Bad John Edwards Photo of the Day:

So I bet Bob Graham I could give the whole speech with chewing tobacco in my mouth...it's my new appeal to the NASCAR Dad's!

Undermining Security? The sabotage ring at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba gets bigger, as officials now say that translators may have falsely translated, screwing up hundreds of interrogations -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/politics/07GITM.html?hp=&a mp;pagewanted=all&position

More Lies from the Bushes: Recently Condi Rice and Rumsfeld went on about how the resistance in postwar Iraq was similar to that in postwar Germany. Um...sorry folks, it isn't -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2087768/

A Civilized Society: Apparently pets and animals have more protection when being euthanized then do people being executed by lethal injection -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/national/07LETH.html?pagew anted=all&position

New Bush Administration Education Strategy? A teacher in Morocco threw two children out the window when they wouldn't stop misbehaving -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/10/06/morocco.teacher.r eut/index.html

Liberating the Auto: Where do they find these people? A London man has taken to dressing up like a superhero and then cutting the "boots" off of people's ticketed cars. Guess it's better than David Blaine -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/international/europe/07LON D.html

Flush This! A Pittsburgh-area man is fighting with authorities over the toilets he keeps on his roof. Actually, he's planning to join them, as he's running for town council. Also, check out the BBC links to past stories on toilets on the right hand side... -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3170994.stm