An associate sends along this from Daily Kos:

Mysterious ad campaign: “DON’T VOTE”

by kos

Mon Oct 4th, 2004 at 06:15:45 GMT

This is weird.

A series of billboards around the Twin Cities that brazenly declare “DON’T VOTE” have angered civil rights activists.

Fifteen of the billboards have sprung up in Minneapolis, St. Paul and its suburbs in the last few days. Several are in areas with large minority populations, including the Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis, leading the NAACP and other groups to criticize even the suggestion that citizens shouldn’t exercise the right to vote […]

The billboards are owned by Clear Channel Communications Inc. Lee Ann Muller, the company’s general manager for outdoor advertising in Minnesota, wouldn’t say who is paying for the billboards, but said it’s a “teaser” campaign and its full meaning would become clear soon.

“I made the judgment call that the end of the

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368,000 feet straight to the bank. To the tune of $10 million.

A little while ago SpaceShipOne landed in Mojave, California. Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites has now won the Ansari X Prize, barely two months before the deadline. After more than forty years, manned spaceflight is no longer the sole province of major governments: anyone with a lil’ creativity and the backing of a few investors can now soar past the atmosphere.

Congrats to Rutan and his entire team! They not only achieved all the goals of the Ansari X Prize, they also shattered the high-altitude record for an airplane. Now to break the next flight barrier: when individuals can hack out their own spaceships in their garages. Maybe this guy’ll be the next pioneer....

Spent the past few days since Saturday morning out of town, which included spending part of the day yesterday at Paramount Carowinds on the NC/SC border near Charlotte. We rode just about all the big rides ‘cept the Vortex (the very first looping coaster that I ever rode) because it started raining. There’s one I WON’T be riding again anytime soon: the new Borg Assimilator. Sorta like the Superman coaster at Six Flags in Atlanta, but you tilt backward instead of forward. This thing is scary as hell. I think it almost gave Lisa’s Dad a cardiac infarction. Probably the first time in over ten years that something of Star Trek seriously frightened me.

And at the encouraging good word of a friend that I highly trust, I have started reading a new book: Black by Ted Dekker. I started reading the first 2 chapters Saturday night and had to ...

Antonin Scalia. Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Probably THE most powerful conservative-leaning jurist (along with Clarence Thomas) on the bench anywhere in America.

He said the following earlier this week while speaking at a forum at his alma mater, Harvard University:

“I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” Scalia said.

As noted by Vincent Bugliosi in his book Helter Skelter, encouraging orgies was one of the primary methods that Charles Manson used to re-program his disciples, even to the point that some of them would kill at his command. If I recall correctly, witness (and former Family member) Paul Watkins testified that Manson would get an orgy going and pass out LSD for everyone to use… except for Manson. He used a far less amount of acid so that he could maintain his faculties while controlling the ...

So, earlier tonight AMC was showing Escape from New York.

Then the tube was dominated by the Presidential Debate.

And now, right this moment, Turner South is running something I never thought that network would even know existed: Soylent Green.

There’s a pattern at work here, I’m sure of it…...

Oh geez… where to begin?

I logged into AOL Instant Messenger just before 9 p.m. EST and hooked up with my main man Kyle Williams, America’s youngest political pundit and columnist with World Net Daily. He’s also a really good friend and someone I can trust to lay out the truth, no matter how much I may not want to hear the truth sometimes. The kid’s got wisdom beyond his ears. He’s the coolest cat you can have in a virtual living room while playing armchair political analyst. We spent the better part of two hours doing a lot of play-by-play commentary on this thing.

Bottom line: Bush bombed. Bigtime.

There’s no way this can be spun into anything good: a pile of doggy-doo is STILL going to be a pile of doggy-doo regardless of how many times someone claims that it’s a gold nugget. Tonight’s debacle makes ...

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Hurricanes raging.

Volcanoes erupting.

Earthquakes trembling.

Tornadoes blowing.

Conflicts escalating.

Resources depleting.

Cultures stagnating.

And now… this. What may be the surest indication yet that the Four Horsemen are mounting their saddles:

Kevin Smith may be running Star Wars after George Lucas.

I’m gonna go get good and liquored up now.

(Actually, Smith would probably do a pretty good job at it… but don’t tell THAT to a lot of fans groaning at the prospect right now 🙂...

Volcanologists (scientists who study volcanos including taking samples from their craters and there’d better be some danger pay involved) are casting all eyes on Mount St. Helens this week. Seven days ago strong tremors started coming from the mountain: as of this writing there are now about three a minute. There’s also been a buildup of the lava dome, meaning that fresh magma is coming in from deep underground.

It now looks like there’s a 70% chance – up from 30% a few days ago – that Mount St. Helens is going to have an eruption in the next few days. Scientists are saying that it will be “a small one” but what that means exactly, I’m not sure. You can bet the good people of Washington State are praying (and we along with them) that whatever happens won’t be a repeat or worse of the May 18th, 1980 ...

Years ago for Christmas my sister gave me a cardboard stand-up of Princess Leia from Return Of The Jedi, wearing the infamous “metal bikini”. It soon found a place of honor in my bedroom at our apartment. The “slave metal bikini” seems to be most fanboys’ dream: I’ve a friend whose first glimpse of his future wife was when she was wearing one of these things (though he was in Stormtrooper armor at the time. And I heard this getup even made for an episode of Friends) but I never found it all that appealing or even attractive. The “simple, modest look” is what I’ve always gone for… though that didn’t stop my college buddies from coming over to oggle at the carboard idol of their dreams standing next to my closet. Some even tried to buy it. I wouldn’t sell because I love my sister and this ...