Nancy: The drug problems of Jeb's daughter are not relevant (not to mention petty). It's not like there's a lack of substantive grounds for criticizing the Bush clan.
You might reflect on the fact that Al Gore's kid has just been arrested for DUI, or the fact that numerous Kennedy offspring have gone through drug and alcohol rehab. On the other side, some people act as if W's daughters are the only college students in the history of the world to drink alcohol before they turned 21.
I'm no fan of Jeb, W, Gore, or the Kennedy family. I've been known to say harsh things about all of them from time to time. Criticize them for what they do in their public life, not for what they do in private, and certainly not for what their kids do (oh, yeah ... and I don't really care how many hummers Clinton was getting in the Oval Office, either. I just wish he'd had the guts to be honest about it).
To get (more or less) back on topic, computerized voting systems scare me shitless. It's too easy to put the records down the Memory Hole and "make it didn't happen". Imagine what Daley the First would've been with voting records that were just files on a hard disk.
Good point, Scott. I'm no fan of Bill's software or business practices, but he has, in fact, given a shitpot of money to charity.
The Gates Foundation is endowed to the tune of $24 billion. That's Real Money even for Gates. Certainly it isn't a "rounding error".
Bill Gates is a predatory businessman who's out to win on his chosen playing field at all costs. That doesn't mean that he has no social conscience outside of business, and it doesn't make him "dissipated".
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