Hail to the Chief
Well - for the next 3 years at least ...
October 28, 2005
Well - for the next 3 years at least ...
November 8, 2004
More Election Irregularity links
Here is a state-by-state list of irregularities http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp?offset=0&catid=&showall=&sort=
PST! There is more than just a few stories digging into the rumours of Election Fraud. Here is a huge list of Election Vote Irregularities courtesy of Shaula Evans She says: I just fell into a goldmine. Here are more links for whoever wants them:
- CIA-style hacking rigs election for Bush
- Black Box Voting calls it Fraud
- Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results
- The Greg Palast classic: An Election Spoiled
- Washington Dispatch: Vote Fraud in Ohio?
- Presidential votes mis-cast on machines across the country
- Reconciling voting machine and exit poll discrepancies
- Ohio Whitewash
- Institute for Public Accuracy on Ohio Elections
- software flaw found in Florida vote machines
- Florida numbers analysis (chart)
- exit poll chart via BOP reader alyosha (thanks, man)
- Stolen Election 2004
- Open Voting Consortium
- 4000 votes missing in Pennsylvania County
- Palm Beach county logs 88,000 more votes than voters
are you getting the picture yet...
- outrage in ohio
- Broward County Florida voting machines count backwards
- Diebold Pres Odell's 2003 promise to "deliver Ohio for Bush"
- Greg Palast: Kerry Won
- Diebold Machines yield fishy results
- Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Votes in Ohio
- More evidence of possible fraud in Darke County, Ohio
- Election Theft Bombshell: Major Security Breach
And finally, from the "We told you so" files, A technical look at how they can steal it
We wuz robbed!
Evidence mounts that the recent US Presidential Election was hacked (Thanks, Grant!)
All the time the Diebold machines were being moved into position for the eVote initiative - to "help" avoid the issues of the 2000 Presidential election, and these machines have no internal printer, there is no paper trail, no way to check if the vote you think you entered was actually recorded that way. Check the " eVoting Fraud" link in the links sidebar for more info.
Now another source arises with specifics on questionable number from the 2004 voting ... see http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4175 Also see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/ 2004/11/05/politics1149EST0515.DTL
Here are some charts that compare voter registrations with votes received in Florida.
There are ways to have accountability. You can have voting machines that when you vote they printout a receipt card that is human and machine readable - you can read it visually to confirm it recorded what you voted, then you slip it into a scanner device that reads it and does the tallying. The receipt cards never leave the poll, so they are there if a recount is needed.
November 3, 2004
Sick Puppy - 4 more years
Freaking unbelievable. All the folks that came out to vote, all the education about the corruption of Cheney and Bush's crazy ways - and the totals show a Bush win? I don't believe it.
John Perry Barlow has a great post, dealing with the realities of moving on through the aftermath a the election
October 27, 2004
Another Link page for Democracy
http://www.internetvetsfortruth.org/ Site with all the major informational videos in Apple Quicktime format -
Our goal is to present you with these clips to help you make an informed choice next Tuesday.
We hope you enjoy, and draw your own conclusions.
Please help spread the word. Tell a friend, a relative, a co-worker, or Ohio.
And to paraphrase Jon Stewart, please, please, please vote.
October 26, 2004
Campaign LIES
http://www.liegirls.com/quicktime.html These Girls pose a grave and gathering threat ...
On another tangent of humour, check out Sweet Livin' http://in8.com/sweetliving/Resources/sweetliving.mov
Take a bite outta ...
This is just too good to pass up.
(Village Voice cover by Alex Ross)
News Update Oct 30, 2004 - from "The Fix" column at salon.com -
Weird Halloween factoid (insert your own "bloodsucking politician" joke here): George W. Bush and John Kerry are ninth cousins twice removed and can each trace their lineage back to Vlad II Dracul, the 15th century Transylvanian warlord who inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (Ancestry.com, via
Rush and Molloy) .
October 23, 2004
Hunter S. Thompson: The 2004 Campaign!
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 2004
See the Rolling Stone website
The good Doctor is in prime form in this column ... such choice nuggets! Here's a few paragraphs of his current writing ...
The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way. That is what this election is all about. We are down to nut-cutting time, and millions of people are angry. They want a Regime Change.
Some people say that George Bush should be run down and sacrificed to the Rat gods. But not me. No. I say it would be a lot easier to just vote the bastard out of office on November 2nd.
October 4, 2004
Rove Reports
A recent article in the Nov 2004 Atlantic Monthly discusses Karl Rove's strategies and gives examples of last minute attacks he's used to snatch vitory from his opponents.
" If this year stays true to past form, the campaign will get nastier in the closing weeks, and without anyone's quite registering it, Rove will be right back in his element. "
September 10, 2004
Protest signs seen
Protest slogans seen at Deluth News tribune website (among other places)
"Draft the Bush daughters."
"Evict Bush from public housing."
"Fellow Christians, We Are Called to "Love Our Enemies" - Jesus Wasn't Kidding
"Halliburton thanks you for supporting the war."
"How Many Hijackers Came From Iraq?"
"If We're Spreading Democracy to Iraq, Let's Start With Florida"
"Remember when presidents were smart and bombs were dumb?"
"Sacrifice SUVs, not children."
"Stop mad cowboy disease."
"The Pro-Life President Can't Wait to Start Killing."
"Vote Bush off the island."
"W stands for Wrong."
"War begins with Dubya."
"War is not an energy policy."
September 8, 2004
Throw Zell Miller from the train ...
Point by point rebuttal on Zell Miller's rabid speech at the RNC - is this guy sane - or was it a carefully crafted attempt to garner sympathy for a bi-polar moment?
Also read Jimmy Carter's letter in response to the "speech" ... courtesy of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, by way of Grant
And to put it all in perspective, here is Zell Miller's speech FOR John Kerry, back in 2000
August 19, 2004
Seriously
Found via Shaula's weblog http://tsuredzuregusa.blogspot.com/
As she says ... best Campaign spot
Ever ...
http://www.n3t.net/humor/Seriously.mpg
Very funny, but if at work, use headphones ...
July 13, 2004
More from the Mumbo-Jumbo Whitehouse
Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move
The Jesus Landing Pad
by Rick Perlstein May 18th, 2004 10:00 AM
It was an e-mail we weren't meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that "the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level" this to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we're not supposed to know the National Security Council's top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.
But now we know.
"Everything that you're discussing is information you're not supposed to have," barked Pentecostal minister Robert G. Upton when asked about the off-the-record briefing his delegation received on March 25. Details of that meeting appear in a confidential memo signed by Upton and obtained by the (Village) Voice.
See the whole story at http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0420/perlstein.php
June 29, 2004
Love the country, keep an eye on the Government
We went to the Fine Arts Cinema in Fairfax yesterday and saw Fahrenheit 9/11. Its an important film - and I'd urge anyone who is curious to see it - but if you rather not spend money for a film, I found the following website to be an excellent parallel resource - it outlines and defines many of the points that Michael Moore makes in his movie, and has links to commentary by many folks (republican, democrats and others). Its a must read for all ...
Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
June 24, 2004
All politics are loco!
While in Colorado, Kerry made a quick stop in Aspen for a $500,000 fund-raiser at the home of Michael Goldberg, president of Miami-based airline leasing company Aerolease International. Kerry invited Aspen resident and writer Hunter S. Thompson to ride in his motorcade and brought three copies of Thompson's book about the 1972 presidential race, "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail" for autographs.
"Just to put your minds all at ease, I have four words for you that I know will relieve you greatly," Kerry told the fund-raiser. "How does this sound - Vice President Hunter Thompson."
From a Yahoo News Story
June 16, 2004
Suddenly, it all makes sense ... !
God may (also) be the reason Attorney General John Ashcroft, the administration's lightning rod because of his questionable actions that critics argue threaten freedoms granted by the Constitution, remains part of the power elite. West Wing staffers call Bush and Ashcroft "the Blues Brothers" because "they're on a mission from God."
See http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4636.shtml
Found on GMS Legion's LiveJournal - a link to this blog - http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/001713.html
June 13, 2004
Bush Seeks Papal Support
The New York Time carried a story about an report published Friday in the national Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper
Bush Asked for Vatican's Help on Political Issues, Report Says
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: June 13, 2004
On his recent trip to Rome, President Bush asked a top Vatican official to push American bishops to speak out more about political issues, including same-sex marriage, according to a report in the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper.
November 26, 2003
Psalm 2(00)3
I found it on The Right Christians web site - they said:
Making the rounds and courtesy of Democratic Veteran:
Psalm 2(00)3
Bush is my shepherd, I shall be in want.
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He restoreth my doubts about the Republican party.
He guideth me onto the paths of unemployment for the party's sake.
I do fear the evildoers, for thou talkst about them constantly.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy deficit spending,
They do discomfort me.
Thou anointeth me with never-ending debt,
And my savings and assets shall soon be gone.
Surely poverty and hard living shall follow me,
And my jobless children shall dwell in my basement forever.
October 30, 2003
Diebold Financing Republicans ...
There have been a huge number of news stories recently about the Diebold Voting Machine equipment. I read Salon reports on investigations by Beverly Harris alleging that Diebold voting systems use an unsecured Access database; which anyone can get to, change data, and erase logs. Diebold has been trying to censor her, as well as some other sites that were hosting some leaked Diebold memos. The materials were first obtained by Bev Harris, who is writing a book about modern-day ballot-tampering. According to published accounts, she found the materials on an unprotected Web site while doing a Google search. Links to those memos can be found here though Diebold is trying to censor the whole issue by issuing takedown requests to many of the site and claiming a violation of the DMCA !
April 21, 2003
Shocked, shocked! (links galore)
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword*
*See generally Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
This is truly a twisted link!
And Patty Elvis is a hoot!
And beware this shockwave animation, probably not safe for the conservative or those in Federal Offices ...
www.ericblumrich.com
April 9, 2003
The War Prayer - by Mark Twain [1904]
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
Sunday morning came--next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams--visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation
God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!
Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory--
An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and stood there waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"
The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside--which the startled minister did--and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:
"I come from the Throne--bearing a message from Almighty God!" The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import--that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of--except he pause and think.
"God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two--one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this--keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.
"You have heard your servant's prayer--the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it--that part which the pastor--and also you in your hearts--fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. the whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory--must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle--be Thou near them! With them--in spirit--we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause.) "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!"
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
April 4, 2003
Which America is this?
I'm getting truly confused. I read in CNN how "Dozens of fans walk out" of a Pearl Jam concert the other day when Eddie Vetter made some anti-Bush comments. Seems he took a rubber mask of Bush and jammed it down on a mic stand. He also said he supported the troops, they aren't the ones who set foreign policy ...
What is this binary attitude of folks that if you aren't wholly (blindly) for something, if you are the slightest bit critical, you are some kind of evil Satan.
I find it telling that in a concert event where, I would imagine, there are hundreds, if not thousands of fans, the story is about "dozens" who walked out offended. People - this is not a meaningful quantity!
Its like CNN is trying very hard to drum up excitement over nothing. Must have been a slow day for news ...
Click Pix to enlarge!
Note the bench mid-picture that is buried up to the seat!
Note the depth of the snow drifts by the cars