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South Park

South Park last night was hilarious. As with most episodes, they usually make fun of a current political or social situation. The current theme: Disaster, of course.

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More Heat for FEMA.gov

Most of my morning was spent going through the last 50 or so press releases we published, making sure they pass W3C validation. Beleive it or not, we here at the FEMA Web Team actually care if pages are accessible, validate, work in ALL browsers.. if we didnt, I wouldnt be here.

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Frightening Political Coincidence

This map was linked to in a post on IIDB. It compares the past 2004 electoral college votes to pre-Civil War positions on slavery. Pretty scary if you ask me.

The Day After..

I am very disappointed in the election. Some of my friends have gone on to write entries expressing their feelings about the election. Some rant about it on SILC. All and all, we as a country have lost and should prepare ourselves for another four years of a “terror”-driven war era. Continue Reading »

Daily Show Viewers Ace Political Quiz

Earlier this morning, Justin pointed me to a CNN article about Late-Night television viewers and their knowledge about politics. Of the three shows considered (hosted by Stewart, Letterman or Leno), viewers of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show scored the best.

Sixty percent of The Daily Show viewers who took the quiz answered all of the questions correctly. This is compared to forty-nine percent of the Leno and Letterman viewers and fourty-two to fourty percent who read the newspaper and watch network television four nights a week.

Stewart was also on the OReilly Factor earlier in September. OReilly had some interesting comments about Stewarts influence on the election which are included in the CNN article.

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