Since this same problem was an issue in the 2000 Presidential election (partial recounts vs. state-wide recounts), it seems clear that the net "reform" of Florida election procedures has just made it easier to tamper with the vote and harder to prove tampering.
Not surprising, with the same blackguards in power for the original election hijack and the supposed reform. Disappointing, depressing, but ultimately not surprising.
Maybe it's just the rather plodding MIDI sequence (as ever-so-euphoniously rendered through the strangled-dwarf sound system of a TiBook, but the song is perhaps a few verses on the long side. One might perhaps select and rearrange these a bit if one performed them, privately or publically.
America might be a different place if children grew up singing the praises of some of the virtues articulated in America the Beautiful and not covered in the current anthem:
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
Long may you continue to find way to sing out about your love for your country, along with your belief in its continued possibility for improvement.
I'm confused by Mike Lucius's comment: it seems to parse out as, "Typical of Ellison to talk about 9/11 in a way that makes it all about him by responding to the invitation to go on national TV and talk about his personal response by refusing to do it."
Damn Harlan, anyway, for making it all about himself by responding to an invitation to contribute to a collection about the responses of people like him with something that says that he and his opinions are unimportant in this context.
He must have known that would get him favourable exposure in the New York Times. What a Machiavelli!
Honkers? Hunting for new farts amongst oldpharts?
Yhos,
With all due respect, while the first assertion from Prentis Riddle is an overstatement (Colin Brayton does not assert that the story is completely bogus) his main conclusion (that there are many more plausible explanations for an Islamic fundamentalist foundation being called "Foundation" in Latinized Arabic in the Western press than a fannish fondness for Asimov) is supported from Brayton's comments.
Using Occam's Razor for a guide, one would reasonably conclude that the assertion of an sf connection for the name of a terorrist group is bogus. The etymology Brayton presents is plausible and sufficient, and as noted by the Guardian article there is essentially no evidence to support the notion that the name of an Islamic terrorist organization was inspired by Asimov.
Thus, even though Colin Brayton never uses the world "bogus," it is reasonable for a person informed on the arguments to say that Brayton's explanation shows the Asimov-inspiration argument to be bogus. One could make a better case for the "Walt Disney Company Foundation" being inspired by Asimov, with Walt's cryopreservation and messages from his crypt being much closer parallels to Hari Seldon than bin Laden's (common for the century) distributing his sermons on videotape.
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