Usa on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/usa/ Recent content in Usa on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:26:06 +0000 Politics: A Review https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/07/09/politics-a-review/ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:26:06 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/07/09/politics-a-review/ <p>[caption id=&quot;&quot; align=&ldquo;aligncenter&rdquo; width=&ldquo;500&rdquo; caption=&ldquo;The Seat of Power&rdquo;] <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericsbinaryworld/673524201/" title="My first daylight pictures of the Whitehouse 2 by DJOtaku, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1161/673524201_eb589e61c8.jpg" alt="My first daylight pictures of the Whitehouse 2"></a>[/caption]</p> <p>The last time I really blogged about politics was back around the 2008 election.  Looking over my archives, I found that, by contrast, I blogged about politics quite a bit from 2007 and prior.  My heaviest political post density (for It&rsquo;s A Binary World 2.0) seems to be 2005-2006.  Why so much back then?  I think because I was already posting pretty regularly about politics and I was extremely frustrated over the second Bush term win.  I think <a href="https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2005/06/19/were-all-quite-mad-really/">this post</a> best sums up the despair I was feeling at the time.  It was very interesting to read this post with 4 years of hindsight.  First of all, this sentence:  &ldquo;There haven&rsquo;t been any abuses of power (that we know of) &hellip; &ldquo;.  Little did I know we&rsquo;d find out that December about the NSA&rsquo;s Warrentless Wiretapping which, I believe, would have heavily swung the elections in 2004.  ( <em>THANKS</em> New York Times!)  Second, this fraction of a paragraph:</p>

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