He’s gone. He’s resigned. Rummy has been “liberated”.
But that’s not enough. Bush needs liberation too!
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Author: Hafiz Noor Shams
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Proposition 2 has been passed by the people of Michigan; the proposal calls for the ban of affirmative action:
Michigan voters sent a clear message about affirmative action programs that offer preferences to women and minorities: It’s time for them to end.
An Election Day poll and hard voter numbers showed the controversial proposal winning by a wide margin.
Michigan now becomes the third state to outlaw the practice of giving preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes.
In the poll of 800 voters, the ban led 55% to 45%. In addition, with 49% of Michigan’s precincts reporting, the proposal was ahead 58% to 42%.
I’m a little bit disappointed because the proposition will directly affect my alma mater, adversely in my opinion. Nevertheless, it’s the right decision by Michiganders. I just hope that the University of Michigan will manage to maintain and improve its great holistic academic atmosphere without affirmative action.
Like me, a majority of students at the University oppose Proposition 2:
In the days leading up to the election, U-M students worked to mobilize voters against Proposal 2. According to Tuesday’s poll of voters conducted by Mitchell Research and Communications Inc. of East Lansing, voters under age 40 were the only group to oppose Proposal 2 in significant numbers.
You got that right: it were students that mobilized the voters. You could hardly see that in Malaysia.
For all of you in the North Campus, you wouldn’t find any more female students there in the near future. They will be an extinct species! You should all migrate to Central Campus before it’s too late.
As of 15:44 Malaysian time, the Democrats have gained the mandate to form the new majority power within the new House of Representatives:
Despite tight race, the Democrats are likely to take over the Senate too. Currently, official results for Montana and Virginia (the Virginia race is particularly close) have yet to be announced. Nonetheless, according to the tracker at the New York Times, Democratic Webb and Tester are leading the race and the finish line is just inches away, very much in sight. The Democratic Party need both of Webb and Tester to win in order to take control of the Congress.
How tight the two races are?
In Virginia currently, the difference between the leading Webb and the Republican incumbent is 7,546 votes. The standard deviation is about 619,890 votes. In Montana, the difference between the Democrat challenger and the Republican incumbent is 5691. The SD is around 60,513 votes.
This means, the difference between the two pairs of rivals, from statistical point of view, is very, very insignificant. That’s how close the contest is. Because of this, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if somebody would call for a recount soon after the official results are declared.
Whatever it might be, to the GOP, this is what I call karma. You ripe what you sow.
Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont suggested the introduction of Islamic law in the troubled south:
BANGKOK, Nov. 7 (Reuters) — Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, in another significant gesture to Muslim insurgents in the far south, said Tuesday that Islamic law should be given a bigger role there.
He also said the only condition his post-coup government would impose for talks with the insurgents was that there should be no discussion of separation.
Mr. Surayud told the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand that Shariah, or Islamic law, should be allowed in the area, where 80 percent of the people are ethnic Malay and Muslim.
Does the insurgency in southern Thailand revolve around Malay separatism/nationalism or the demand for Islamic law?
It might well be both but in my opinion, granting autonomy power to the Malay Thai states would be a better solution to a top down introduction of Islamic law by Bangkok.
[…] they do not respond to government campaigns and directives. So they have to be shot.
“I myself have killed, I would say, about 40,000 of them,” Mr. Lim said, working in spare time from his job as a Web site editor.
Alright. Alright. I quoted it out of context. It really was about crows culling. Still, it isn’t too different to Singaporean politics, is it?
Not to mention the barbaric act of killing itself…
OMG!
Well, folks, the darling of the libby-lib bloggers, Ned Lamont, just conceded, as some of you might have seen. We’re not surprised; he just never managed to successfully broaden his campaign beyond his one-issue battle over the Iraq war with Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic incumbent for 18 years who was forced to run as an independent by his primary loss to Mr. Lamont.
I had expected Lamont to win, especially when this midterm election has become the unofficial referendum for war. It’s odd to see a symbol of anti-war to lose out. Furthermore, this is probably a smack in the face for all Democrats in Connecticut.
For those that predicted Lamont to be the next President of the United States, you might want to rethink your prediction.
Regardless, as of 11:39 Malaysian time, the Democrats have captured three seats in the Senate and another five in the House. However, despite Lamont’s loss, everything seems to be going smoothly so far. If everything goes it is right now, the Greens will be coming to power. By proxy!
Despite the fact that I’m happy with the current result, I hope the pressure for protectionism in the US won’t be too great to resist.
Anyway, track the Senate, the House and the Governorship race at the NYT.
p/s – congratulations, Governor Granholm.