~ regardless of my righteous bloviations on certain message boards, i do believe it is appropriate to use the term ‘stupid’ when describing political actions in this country. some days there are multiple occurrences that are so stupid that you don’t know which is the most stupid:

• ex-cat stevens, scribe of ‘wild world’, being deported from the united states because his last name is now ‘islam’. we seem to recall that the united states appealed to cat – along with cassius clay – back in 2001 and asked them to explain to muslims that they shouldn’t kill americans
• porter goss, the man who said, “I couldn’t get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified” has been confirmed to head the CIA by the u.s. senate. one can find the video of peter’s declaration on partisan michael moore’s site: page with .mov
• the pentagon has blocked access by foreign internet service providers to the website that was set up particularly to enable voting by civilian americans abroad – where foreign internet service providers are located.

~ the first two balance out, we suppose; as long as we are keeping threats like the ex-cat stevens out of the country, we can afford to have an incompetent man like porter goss head the c.i.a.

~ as to the third issue, our ex-pat readers may use myvotewillcount.com [w] in order to cast their ballots from agentina, angola, and the azores. then send us a postcard.

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