Camejo endorses Nader

Green Party advocate Peter Camejo said yesterday that voters have no choice without a strong third party and urged a crowd gathered in the District to support Ralph Nader’s bid for the presidency.

<Camejo stated> that the agonizing of Democrats over Mr. Nader’s candidacy was tantamount to denying the people the right to vote.

There also is a movement to draft Mr. Camejo as the Green Party’s presidential candidate, although he has said he will not accept, in deference to Mr. Nader.

“For the Green Party not to help him and back his campaign would be a huge mistake,” he said.

The Green Party’s presidential candidate will be selected during a national convention in Milwaukee in late June. The party might opt to back Mr. Nader.

And in other Green news,

Matt Gonzalez won’t run for re-election

Supervisors’ president decides to leave board

Matt Gonzalez, president of the S.F. Board of Supervisors, and who nearly became mayor of that city, will not run for re-election and plans to return to private law practice.

Will he be gone from politics?

“I can assure you, Matt Gonzalez is still here, and he … will play a major role in the history of the Green Party and the history of California over the next 20 or 30 years,” said former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo. “We’ve only just begun to hear about Matt Gonzalez.”

However, this leaves a vacuum in S.F. progressive leadership, an odd move for someone who says he wants to build the same.

No Comments »

Zombies k.o. Jesus, get taken out by Scooby-Doo

So goes the moods of the movie ticket buying public, as the recent top grossing movies have been, in order, “The Passion of the Christ”, “Dawn of the Dead”, and Scooby-Doo 2″

However, what you might not know is, the ANSWER Coalition smacked down Scooby-Doo at the antiwar march and rally in Los Angeles on March 20.

ANSWER was granted the parade/street closure permit for the demo. However Disney, owners of Scooby-Doo, apparently were not pleased to learn this meant they could not get their permit for a Scooby-Doo 2 pre-opening party - which was to be held at exactly the same place and time as the antiwar rally.

Much gnashing of teeth ensued, Rumor has it an invitation was made to Scooby asking him to speak in support of Palestinians, which apparently - and tragically - was declined. Happily though, on the day of the event, peaceniks and Scooby fans co-existed peacefully on the same street, as Elvis impersonators wandered freely between both contingents. Hurray for Hollywood!

No Comments »

Making shit up, the saga continues!

From Kos

Boy, Rice keeps digging that hole deeper and deeper. NBC doesn’t even bother to couch its language diplomatically:

“Although Condoleezza Rice says she must refuse to testify in public because of executive privilege, congressional studies have found 20 cases in which White House advisers did so anyway. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.”

No Comments »

Windows annoyances: Reporting to Microsoft.

Here’s how to kill that annoying popup window that appears when something in XP crashes, asking you if you want to report this to Microsoft. Well, actually no, I don’t want to. Ever. And stop asking.

And if you also want this pointless nagware to go away.

Control Panel/System/Advanced tab/Error reporting/click “Disable error reporting”

It’s that easy!

No Comments »