Ha ! You people don't have a clue.
I am a regular reader of the Register (unlike most newspapers, they have a good sense of humour). The Register is primarily concerned with reporting on technology...
(and all IT pros I know concur that they are quite good at that. They have no respect for anything corporate or government.. And I like that. They have no respect for the people either... the only thing they respect is sound engineering.. )
Most of their resident vultures (they call themselves vultures) - see, because by fairly reporting on technology and refusing to be swayed by offers of money they bite the hand that feeds them..
They also have no problems at all thinking that when a CEO of Diebold says he is
"committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president"... and Diebold designs a voting machine that leaves no paper trail, and can be reprogrammed (and results changed ) by anyone with a screwdriver and a flash memory card....
http://openvotingfoundation.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1
That there is *probably* a connection between those two bits of information.
But they also like to troll. They
troll a lot, and often very successfully, mainly because they firmly
believe that politicians are up to no good. Always have been, always will.
(That's what I believe too. Power corrupts.. and I don't think pretending to be Christian has any connection to one's morality or strength of character. Christians shouldn't lie.. and voila.. the gov't started a major war by lying about reasons for it.)
This irks someone who is both American and patriotic. Entertaining the notion that your nation is good, but politicos crooked is something most patriots* can't stomach! *most people also.
Red americans are known world-wide for their lack of humour and a total incomprehension for all things ironic. Might have something to do with bible reading.. or isolation. Can't blame them..
To me, it's merely funny seeing someone rail against things they misunderstood.
. I mean.. they are ok people, boring but often reasonable and nice.
Also, because you people live in America, with its bizzare two party system, you forget that if anyone disagrees with you.... that that doesn't make him a leftie.
- Register is mostly conservative, disdainful of Blair, ID cards, Wikipedia...
They also enjoy poking fun at anything controversial...
And here is an even better put down of 2004 election results :
From the eXile, a Moscow based magazine :
http://www.exile.ru/2004-November-13/moscow_babylon.html.html
more funny.. if you enjoy humour about nuclear weapons and mass gassings).
I don't recommend reading it without first drinking a beer. Relax is what you need.
I've been tracking the Left's reaction to Bush's horrifying election romp, and what's clear to me is that nothing has been learned. Nothing has been learned because no one on the Left is being honest. Their reactions range from bitching about the elections allegedly being stolen -- well duh! what'd you idiots expect from the Republicans?! -- to grotesque, clumsy soul-searching in the form of how Democrats need to get spiritual, get in touch with Middle American "values," or how the Democratic party either needs to move to the center, or the flip-side to this idiocy, move farther to the Left...that coastalites need start going to church more often in order to learn the ways of the savages, to be less secular-humanist, to shop less, to connect with Middle America, to understand Middle America, to allow Middle America to be Middle America, to suck Middle America's hemorrhoid-bejeweled ass and tickle Middle America's balls... What they don't have the guts to admit, once and for all, is that THE PROBLEM IS MIDDLE AMERICA. Stop blaming the victim, folks. The problem with the idiocy and lunacy are the idiots and lunatics, not their mugging victims.
http://www.exile.ru/2004-November-13/moscow_babylon.html.html
Those of you who finish reading it... well. You have a good stomach.
Imho, the writer ingested some illcit substance.. but maybe it was just his leftist weenie pretend rage..