Published on February 14, 2008
in politics.
MoveOn.org has created a petition: They want the superdelegates in the Democratic primary to allow the voters to decide between Clinton and Obama, rather than the delegates deciding the election themselves. For every person that signs the petition, MoveOn will send an email to the superdelegates.
You’ve probably heard about the “superdelegates” who could end up deciding the Democratic nominee.
The superdelegates are under lots of pressure right now to come out for one candidate or the other. We urgently need to encourage them to let the voters decide between Clinton and Obama—and then to support the will of the people.
If we can reach 200,000 signatures, we’ll publish the petition as an ad in USA Today.
I signed. Will you?
I have a really cool idea that’s got so much potential: We totally need to begin making cars that can wirelessly communicate with each other. It’d be like a modern version of CB radio!
This idea has a lot of pretty interesting correlaries. Imagine the idea of Web 2.0 information sharing being carried over to the highway! It’d improve traffic safety, make road trips take less time, and reduce highway congestion. It would also create a very accurate database of information about traffic patterns, which could be made public domain so that highway departments would have a far easier time improving traffic flow.
Continue reading ‘Car communication’
I was talking to an old friend online today and he referred me to an online governmental document that disturbed me deeply. Take a look:
A joint resolution to repeal the 22nd amendment to the United States Constitution: “Article– The 22nd amendment to the Constitution of the United States is Repealed.”
Upon more research, I discovered that there are two such amendments floating around. Here’s the text of the other one. It’s almost exactly the same as the first, except that it’s proposed by a different legislator.
Aren’t they frightening-looking? Don’t worry, neither amendment has been ratified. However, they’ve been open for debate in the Senate since a long time (2003), and have just been sitting there, not really doing anything. Nobody’s been talking about talking about them, especially on the mainstream media, but oddly enough, they aren’t immediately getting tossed aside either.
Continue reading ‘Citizen legislators, not career politicians’
