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GOP Dirty tricks

This Memo popped up over the last week and as you might have guessed, it's phoney!


The offical responce to the fraud can be found here
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GOP Dirty tricks

This Memo popped up over the last week and as you might have guessed, it's phoney!


The offical responce to the fraud can be found here
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Serious flaws found in Diebold machines

This might help choose our President!

Last month, U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski decided to try one of Maryland's new voting machines in Takoma Park. It was a brand-new Diebold AccuVote-TS. The state of Maryland has just spent $55 million for the ATM-like electronic voting devices to be used in the upcoming presidential election.




The AccuVote, acting just as a demonstration, offered two choices: "yes" and "no." Sen. Mikulski pressed "no." The machine registered "yes."




The cackling sound you heard was Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins. But, as Dr. Rubin will openly confess, it really wasn't funny.




One-third of voters in the November election will be using electronic voting machines, simple-minded computers that record and report votes. Dr. Rubin and many computer scientists see nothing less than a threat to American democracy in these machines. They are easy to tamper with, he believes, and that makes it possible to rig elections. Indeed, there already are conspiracy theories flying around the Internet of a conservative plot to steal the presidential election. (A number of Conservative groups are equally unhappy about the instruments.) In many cases they are set up to prevent recounts in case of disputes.




Plots to the contrary, after what happened in Florida in 2000 — and what is happening in Florida now — attention must be paid.

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Powell says we're losing the war

Ouch

Secretary of State Colin Powell has privately confided to friends in recent weeks that the Iraqi insurgents are winning the war, according to Newsweek. The insurgents have succeeded in infiltrating Iraqi forces "from top to bottom," a senior Iraqi official tells Newsweek in tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, "from decision making to the lower levels."




This is a particularly troubling development for the U.S. military, as it prepares to launch an all-out assault on the insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, since U.S. Marines were counting on the newly trained Iraqi forces to assist in the assault. Newsweek reports that "American military trainers have been frantically trying to assemble sufficient Iraqi troops" to fight alongside them and that they are "praying that the soldiers perform better than last April, when two battalions of poorly trained Iraqi Army soldiers refused to fight."



If the Fallujah offensive fails, Newsweek grimly predicts, "then the American president will find himself in a deepening quagmire on Inauguration Day."

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Republicans cheer for UBL

No shit, so putting it in perspective here are two Bush campainers actually excited that the guy who killed almost 3000 of our people is still releasing tapes!

These people are sick.

A senior GOP strategist added, "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush."

He called it "a little gift," saying it helps the President but doesn't guarantee his reelection.

Wrapping up a campaign shadowed by war and terrorism, President Bush (\ and Democratic Sen. John Kerry unabashedly sought political advantage Saturday from Osama bin Laden's re-emergence.


"It's very helpful to the president," contended Bush ally Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., although the president didn't mention the menacing new message from bin Laden at his first campaign stops on a four-state, 14-hour swing.

Click here and here for the full articles
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Bill Maher mocking Bush.

Enjoy

Bill Maher told his "Real Time" audience on HBO last night that he thinks he might have been in Hollywood too long, After seeing the video of Osama, who's been out of the public eye for two years, "My first reaction was, Wow, I think he's had some work done."




Maher said he believed the video would not shake the American people's resolve as they head toward the voting polls on Tuesday. "Osama does not pick our president," he boldly declared. "The Supreme Court does that."



But Osama really got in Bush's face, with the pet goat gloat and all that, said Maher. "And then to really stick the knife in, he drops in from absolutely nowhere that Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbo."



All in all, Bush had a really rough week, said Maher: "He couldn't even get the radio on his back to stop playing Ashlee Simpson."

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No Faith

I am not a trusting person, it's my nature.

I was raised by two cops and how they view the world. My parents filled my head with the stories behind the people put away and it was very scary. From the age of five every horrible story one of them heard or read in their file I was told, not matter the subject manner, rape and murder were common stories I heard growing up nothing was left out because they thought it was important I knew about these type of people. To be honest the things they taught me saved my life, don't trust anybody. Always look at the facts and never ignore the ones that don't fit your idea of the world, facts are facts.

That's why I cannot support George W. Bush.

As many of you know by now I was a Republican in 2000, I registered to vote in January of 1998 at the post office proudly filling out my voter registration as a Republican and even before then I was a staunch Republican. My friends got annoyed when I would mention Republican politics, even in my year book I have someone calling me cool because I listened to Rush LImbaugh. It wasn't until 1999 that I started to have doubts about the Republican party as a whole and I have El Rushbo to thank for that, you see I caught him saying something I knew was untrue. I figured he'd correct it the next day as he has been known to do and he didn't and he based a few of his rants on something I knew to be untrue, it was about George W. Bush and his Texas wonders. I wasn't very savvy internet wise in 1999 mainly because I didn't own a computer so all I had were newspapers so I researched this guy and why Rush Limbaugh said things I knew to be untrue. The Texas version of the No Child Left behind was a fiasco, even Republican papers were not kind to the fraud going on. I knew about this because I liked to read the papers, I had a little device that could open up newspapers stands so I could get a free copy, so I indulged. I knew from every source that it was a bad program and Rush Limbaugh ignored all of the missteps and the failings of this program and called it a success and the more I listened and learned more more I grew apart from the Republican party. in 1999 while Bush was running, I saw nothing great about the guy, his stances on the issues were not solid, they changed every couple of months and I knew he'd be the nominee simply because he looked like his dad. To me that isn't a reason to push this guy to be President. What pushed me over the edge in 2000 was what George Bush did to John McCain and no Republican called him out on the smear tactics of this guy. He ran ads and allowed whisper campaigns to besmirch his honorable man's record, pro cancer had a mongoloid baby, was insane and a KGB double agent all of this came from Bush camp and I knew it, I couldn't be an honest Person and vote for George Bush.


From even before he was the nominee of the Republican party in 2000 Bush has been a dishonest person, showing one side to the American people and another to his friends. To use he shows us his Compassionate Conservative mask while to his friends in big business, a self indulgent smirk with a wink and a nod. I decided to be the person my parents taught me to be and decide for myself, investigate and except the facts whatever they be. The fact is I was afraid of Gore more so then Bush because I couldn't see that big a difference between the two. I actually met him in Seattle earlier that year and he seemed like an OK guy, I shook his hand (the picture exists somewhere). So I leaned to Ralph Nader and really believed that he was the better moral choice between the men running and I really didn't care as long as I could sleep well at night. I will not nor will I ever apologize for my support of Ralph Nader in 2000 and to have it all over to do again, I'd make sure I was even more supportive however what happened next was a crime against the our democracy. I was over at someone's home on election day and while the chaos was in florida was happening, I was cheering because of the chaos. It was entertaining and I watched every last moment of coverage I could to see the fiasco happen before my eyes. Little did I know that it wasn't chads that were the causing problems. Machines didn't work in black counties, there was a voter purge of 93,000 legal voters from a list that everyone knew was 92% wrong and no one in the media told me that the protesters were Republicans posing as Floridians.

Looking back before 9/11 I was a different person, I was very hawkish but without solutions after the bombings stopped. I was very critical of Iraq, Iran, and Russia and to be honest Putin bothered me back then and that hasn't changed. I was at work on the phone providing technical support and I just went through two hours of massive tech crap, it wasn't an easy call they were rude and I laid into them the best way I could, as respectful as possible and it wasn't an easy task. They wanted to quit, I worked them through everything I could, ignoring their insults and actually got them to sign up for additional months. I could have and just wen to town on this person and made the bastard cry but instead I chose the smart path, I ignored the minor stuff and solved the bigger issue and because I wasn't an asshole I fixed and improved the situation. After that I pulled up something I wrote very hawkish and said this can never work, bombing will only make us feel like were doing something when it's only causing bigger problems. After 9/11 when we struck out at Afghanistan I knew this wouldn't solve the larger issue of terrorism. I asked my peers, what's the point if we're not supporting moderates in the middle east? So have we stopped all of the money flowing into the pockets of these bastards? All we got from Bush was they hate our freedom and bombs away. If dropping bombs solved problems the blitz would have ended all wars and I knew we needed to do more and Bush did nothing of the sort.

During 2002 I had a hard time going to Church, fitting in with people there spiritually. I read what the bible said and I saw what they professed. How can anyone be Christian and Republican is beyond me in that respect and I had problems. I asked people, as earnest as I can be "You know that Blueprints in Afghanistan was false, and yet you just mentioned it like it was true, why?" or anything pro-Bush he could do no wrong because to these people they equate Republicans to Christians, blindly. I have a hard time taking you serious if you discount facts because it doesn't fit your beliefs so I stopped going in early march and never looked back. The Bible teaches that you must have faith like a child because children believe without question it's not complex for them they do what's told and don't mind the consequences.

I have no faith, I have no belief, I am a Pragmatic Progressive. If something works I'm for it, if it doesn't find something that does. I admit I have been wrong in the past, I was totally against Needle Exchange programs until I saw the results and it showed I was wrong, people were healthier, living better and more people were breaking the habit. I have the facts, the numbers and they bear out. I cannot base my decisions on someone's interpretations of what the invisible cloud being said nor can I learn anything if I just subscribe to party line votes because WWJD in this situation. I believe in God however he nor any religious entity should be used as a prop or an excuse to do terrible things nor should it blind you so ideologically that you cannot see the forest for the trees. That's what I see in Bush voters, a blind child like faith and it bothers me that intelligent people just turn off when the facts don't fit their rhetoric. There is nothing you can say or do because their belief, their faith in Republicans and George Bush trumps reality.

I support John Kerry because we need science back, we need honest brokers, adults who know what they're doing. I am not a blind follower, I doubt that Kerry can turn around Iraq I doubt just reinstating the $200,000 and up tax rates will be enough to pay for his health care plan, especially when there are no big spending cuts in wasteful programs. John Kerry has not produced what I would personally like to have, allot of speculation is going on here and I worry about it. John Kerry has shown me he is willing to bend and back off of promises he made because he cannot live up to them. Many politicians promise everything under the moon and have you noticed Kerry has offered very little and many of his economic plans could work if done correctly, the rich pay their fair share and we pay down the debt. Kerry was the lead into the BCCI Scandal which proves to me beyond any doubt that John Kerry understand terrorism and how it works, Kerry's war wasn't on a noun like Bush's it brought to light dark American secrets that needed to be exposed and helped cripple terror cells and drug cartels, Bush cannot claim the same.

I don't hate America or think it's evil, people who use that argument against you are intellectually inferior to you and should not be taken seriously. As an American it's my duty to make sure the republic stays away from tyranny and illegality because if it hurts you it hurts me in the long run. Vietnam, Iran Contra and now Iraq are black eyes on the United States and only one group can at least fix some of the problems and that team is Kerry/ Edwards. We cannot privatize social security, we cannot establish a national sales tax and for my sake we cannot reinstate the draft (which by the way if Bush wins I'm signing up because the new draft will bar draftees from college loans or health care and I have a rather large skill set and I'm healthy so I'm prime rib)

I may not be a believer but I do from the evidence I see and I've read that John Kerry will be good for this country!




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No Faith

I am not a trusting person, it's my nature.

I was raised by two cops and how they view the world. My parents filled my head with the stories behind the people put away and it was very scary. From the age of five every horrible story one of them heard or read in their file I was told, not matter the subject manner, rape and murder were common stories I heard growing up nothing was left out because they thought it was important I knew about these type of people. To be honest the things they taught me saved my life, don't trust anybody. Always look at the facts and never ignore the ones that don't fit your idea of the world, facts are facts.

That's why I cannot support George W. Bush.

As many of you know by now I was a Republican in 2000, I registered to vote in January of 1998 at the post office proudly filling out my voter registration as a Republican and even before then I was a staunch Republican. My friends got annoyed when I would mention Republican politics, even in my year book I have someone calling me cool because I listened to Rush LImbaugh. It wasn't until 1999 that I started to have doubts about the Republican party as a whole and I have El Rushbo to thank for that, you see I caught him saying something I knew was untrue. I figured he'd correct it the next day as he has been known to do and he didn't and he based a few of his rants on something I knew to be untrue, it was about George W. Bush and his Texas wonders. I wasn't very savvy internet wise in 1999 mainly because I didn't own a computer so all I had were newspapers so I researched this guy and why Rush Limbaugh said things I knew to be untrue. The Texas version of the No Child Left behind was a fiasco, even Republican papers were not kind to the fraud going on. I knew about this because I liked to read the papers, I had a little device that could open up newspapers stands so I could get a free copy, so I indulged. I knew from every source that it was a bad program and Rush Limbaugh ignored all of the missteps and the failings of this program and called it a success and the more I listened and learned more more I grew apart from the Republican party. in 1999 while Bush was running, I saw nothing great about the guy, his stances on the issues were not solid, they changed every couple of months and I knew he'd be the nominee simply because he looked like his dad. To me that isn't a reason to push this guy to be President. What pushed me over the edge in 2000 was what George Bush did to John McCain and no Republican called him out on the smear tactics of this guy. He ran ads and allowed whisper campaigns to besmirch his honorable man's record, pro cancer had a mongoloid baby, was insane and a KGB double agent all of this came from Bush camp and I knew it, I couldn't be an honest Person and vote for George Bush.


From even before he was the nominee of the Republican party in 2000 Bush has been a dishonest person, showing one side to the American people and another to his friends. To use he shows us his Compassionate Conservative mask while to his friends in big business, a self indulgent smirk with a wink and a nod. I decided to be the person my parents taught me to be and decide for myself, investigate and except the facts whatever they be. The fact is I was afraid of Gore more so then Bush because I couldn't see that big a difference between the two. I actually met him in Seattle earlier that year and he seemed like an OK guy, I shook his hand (the picture exists somewhere). So I leaned to Ralph Nader and really believed that he was the better moral choice between the men running and I really didn't care as long as I could sleep well at night. I will not nor will I ever apologize for my support of Ralph Nader in 2000 and to have it all over to do again, I'd make sure I was even more supportive however what happened next was a crime against the our democracy. I was over at someone's home on election day and while the chaos was in florida was happening, I was cheering because of the chaos. It was entertaining and I watched every last moment of coverage I could to see the fiasco happen before my eyes. Little did I know that it wasn't chads that were the causing problems. Machines didn't work in black counties, there was a voter purge of 93,000 legal voters from a list that everyone knew was 92% wrong and no one in the media told me that the protesters were Republicans posing as Floridians.

Looking back before 9/11 I was a different person, I was very hawkish but without solutions after the bombings stopped. I was very critical of Iraq, Iran, and Russia and to be honest Putin bothered me back then and that hasn't changed. I was at work on the phone providing technical support and I just went through two hours of massive tech crap, it wasn't an easy call they were rude and I laid into them the best way I could, as respectful as possible and it wasn't an easy task. They wanted to quit, I worked them through everything I could, ignoring their insults and actually got them to sign up for additional months. I could have and just wen to town on this person and made the bastard cry but instead I chose the smart path, I ignored the minor stuff and solved the bigger issue and because I wasn't an asshole I fixed and improved the situation. After that I pulled up something I wrote very hawkish and said this can never work, bombing will only make us feel like were doing something when it's only causing bigger problems. After 9/11 when we struck out at Afghanistan I knew this wouldn't solve the larger issue of terrorism. I asked my peers, what's the point if we're not supporting moderates in the middle east? So have we stopped all of the money flowing into the pockets of these bastards? All we got from Bush was they hate our freedom and bombs away. If dropping bombs solved problems the blitz would have ended all wars and I knew we needed to do more and Bush did nothing of the sort.

During 2002 I had a hard time going to Church, fitting in with people there spiritually. I read what the bible said and I saw what they professed. How can anyone be Christian and Republican is beyond me in that respect and I had problems. I asked people, as earnest as I can be "You know that Blueprints in Afghanistan was false, and yet you just mentioned it like it was true, why?" or anything pro-Bush he could do no wrong because to these people they equate Republicans to Christians, blindly. I have a hard time taking you serious if you discount facts because it doesn't fit your beliefs so I stopped going in early march and never looked back. The Bible teaches that you must have faith like a child because children believe without question it's not complex for them they do what's told and don't mind the consequences.

I have no faith, I have no belief, I am a Pragmatic Progressive. If something works I'm for it, if it doesn't find something that does. I admit I have been wrong in the past, I was totally against Needle Exchange programs until I saw the results and it showed I was wrong, people were healthier, living better and more people were breaking the habit. I have the facts, the numbers and they bear out. I cannot base my decisions on someone's interpretations of what the invisible cloud being said nor can I learn anything if I just subscribe to party line votes because WWJD in this situation. I believe in God however he nor any religious entity should be used as a prop or an excuse to do terrible things nor should it blind you so ideologically that you cannot see the forest for the trees. That's what I see in Bush voters, a blind child like faith and it bothers me that intelligent people just turn off when the facts don't fit their rhetoric. There is nothing you can say or do because their belief, their faith in Republicans and George Bush trumps reality.

I support John Kerry because we need science back, we need honest brokers, adults who know what they're doing. I am not a blind follower, I doubt that Kerry can turn around Iraq I doubt just reinstating the $200,000 and up tax rates will be enough to pay for his health care plan, especially when there are no big spending cuts in wasteful programs. John Kerry has not produced what I would personally like to have, allot of speculation is going on here and I worry about it. John Kerry has shown me he is willing to bend and back off of promises he made because he cannot live up to them. Many politicians promise everything under the moon and have you noticed Kerry has offered very little and many of his economic plans could work if done correctly, the rich pay their fair share and we pay down the debt. Kerry was the lead into the BCCI Scandal which proves to me beyond any doubt that John Kerry understand terrorism and how it works, Kerry's war wasn't on a noun like Bush's it brought to light dark American secrets that needed to be exposed and helped cripple terror cells and drug cartels, Bush cannot claim the same.

I don't hate America or think it's evil, people who use that argument against you are intellectually inferior to you and should not be taken seriously. As an American it's my duty to make sure the republic stays away from tyranny and illegality because if it hurts you it hurts me in the long run. Vietnam, Iran Contra and now Iraq are black eyes on the United States and only one group can at least fix some of the problems and that team is Kerry/ Edwards. We cannot privatize social security, we cannot establish a national sales tax and for my sake we cannot reinstate the draft (which by the way if Bush wins I'm signing up because the new draft will bar draftees from college loans or health care and I have a rather large skill set and I'm healthy so I'm prime rib)

I may not be a believer but I do from the evidence I see and I've read that John Kerry will be good for this country!




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Gmail sign-ups

Alright I've got three G-mail sign ups I'm willing to give out, all I need is you to ask for them.

These things are going fast and selling on the internet for $100 so you know it's hot!

e-mail me at smaftymac at gmail dot com and I'll let you know if you've won!
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Krugman

Read

It's remarkable that the right-wingers who dominate cable news and talk radio are still complaining about a liberal stranglehold over the media. But, that absurdity aside, they're missing a crucial point: Al Qaqaa is hardly the only tale of incompetence and mendacity to break to the surface in the last few days. Here's a quick look at some of the others:

Letting Osama get away Just before the story about Al Qaqaa broke, the Bush-Cheney campaign was frantically trying to debunk John Kerry's statement that Mr. Bush let Osama bin Laden get away when he was cornered at Tora Bora. That getaway, Mr. Kerry asserts, was possible because the administration "outsourced" the job of closing off escape routes to local Afghan warlords.

In response, Gen. Tommy Franks claimed that we don't know that Osama was at Tora Bora, and, anyway, we didn't outsource the work of catching him. Dick Cheney called Mr. Kerry's claims "absolute garbage." But multiple reports from 2001 and early 2002 confirm Mr. Kerry's version. As Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert, writes, Mr. Kerry's charge is "an accurate reflection of the historical record."

Letting Zarqawi get away On Monday The Wall Street Journal confirmed an earlier report that in 2002 the military drew up plans for a strike on the base of the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an area of Iraq not under Saddam's control. But civilian officials vetoed the attack - probably because they thought it might undermine political support for the war against Saddam. So Mr. Zarqawi, like Osama, was given the chance to kill another day.

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Hannity lying about Al Qaqqa


Some pictures of one of those "looted before the war" explosives and the name of the facility the army was in.being filmed during the war.

Listen to Hannity LIE about the missing explosives. Here and Here

Did you hear that?

What proof did Sean Hannity have that the NY times story was false, what single shred of proof does he have to say the story is false?

The New York times stories were never debunked, the CBS story was NEVER debunked and NBC NEVER claimed they debunked the story. That is just another lie because the reality doesn't suit their rhetoric.

So I heard someone question the footage because there were no IAEA seals, so here is the pictures of the said IAEA seals.



Case closed, conversation over, game, set, match.

The explosives were there when the war started, the 101st opened the IAEA sealed bunkers and examined them, finding explosives and detonators with IAEA stickers on the side. There is nothing more to say about this except this is just another example of the incompetent Bush administration and their shills trying to pass the buck to someone else. This is dishonest on the part of Sean Hannity to say something he should have know to be untrue, last night did he admit that he was wrong or that he made false claims?

Hannity is a propagandist, pure and simple.
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black voter intimidation in Milwaukee

For ANYONE who's thinking about voting Republican this year



Are these the type of people you want to vote for?
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Pictures of the weapons in question STILL sealed when troops arrived!



Let's see what FOX and the GOP has to say about this.

Did the Russians spirit out the weapons or were our troops ordered to go to baghdad, to protect the oil and end up missing these weapons?

Well you guessed it the Bush/Cheney team sent out someone with many years of training and knowledge about the military;

Ruddy Gulliani.

So in his expert opinion about why those explosives are now missing in Iraq is "Blame the troops"

The president was cautious the president was prudent the president did what a commander in chief should do. No matter how you try to blame it on the president the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?

Well, again they weren't there to search for anything they were told nothing.

The "I didn't do it" Kid strikes again, Republicans your guy isn't tough or competent you like him because he clears brush from his ranch, you like him because he makes you feel like you're evaporating world isn't leaving you.

Kerry/Edwards 2004; at least we know they'll be honest with us when he screws up!


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The Theft of Florida

Thousands of absentee ballots are missing

Broward County's election office is resending about 76,000 absentee ballots to voters who say they asked for but still haven't received them, an ominous sign of voting problems just days before the nation again sets its eyes on Florida.



The elections office is still trying to discover why so many people haven't received the absentee ballots. But with so little time before Tuesday's election, officials will mail out replacements -- thousands of them -- today. The ballots will be shipped via overnight mail to people outside the county, said Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes.



Broward's mix-up is the most profound, but not the only, glitch in the absentee voter process across Florida. From teenagers away at school to homeowners away on travel, complaints are mounting that absentee ballots have somehow been lost between here and there. Voters in Palm Beach County have reported similar problems.



In Broward, the ballots will go to every voter who requested one but who has not yet returned the original ballot, Snipes said. More than 50,800 of the 127,320 people who asked for absentee ballots have returned them. The rest will get new ballots.



''We're going to give voters the benefit of the doubt,'' Snipes said. ``This isn't a blame game. What we're concentrating on is getting the ballots to the voter.''



The Florida Department of Law Enforcement -- at Snipes' request -- launched an investigation Tuesday, but found no evidence of criminal intent, said Paige Patterson-Hughes, spokeswoman for the agency's South Florida region.

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Troops not ordered to check for explosives

So that excuse Bush has been using is now MUTE!

The first U.S. military unit to reach the site in Iraq (news - web sites) where U.N. officials say 377 tons of high explosives are missing did not carry out a hunt for such material, the unit's commander said on Wednesday.



Col. Dave Perkins, then the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, said the immediate concern when his troops reached the Al Qaqaa site on April 3, 2003, was to defeat a couple of hundred Iraqi troops who were firing from the compound as the Americans surged toward Baghdad.



The missing explosives have become a key issue heading into Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, with President Bush (news - web sites)'s Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), saying the administration's failure to safeguard the material revealed the president's "incredible incompetence."



Bush said Kerry was a candidate who "jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts."



The Pentagon (news - web sites) arranged the media briefing as Bush tries to limit political damage from the issue.



The missing explosives had been monitored by inspectors from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) until the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

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Andrew Sullivan supports Kerry.

Well I am at a lost for words

The phrase "lesser of two evils" often comes up at this time every four years, but this November, I think, it's too cynical a formula. Neither George W. Bush nor John Kerry can be credibly described as "evils." They have their faults, some of which are glaring. They are both second-tier politicians, thrust into the spotlight at a time when we desperately need those in the first circle of talent and vision. But they are not evil. When the papers carry pictures of 50 Iraqi recruits gunned down in a serried row, as Stalin and Hitler did to their enemies, we need have no doubt where the true evil lies. The question before us, first and foremost, is which candidate is best suited to confront this evil in the next four years. In other words: Who is the lesser of two risks?




Any reelection starts with the incumbent. Bush has had some notable achievements. He was right to cut taxes as the economy headed toward recession; he was right to push for strong federal standards for education; he was right to respond to September 11 by deposing the Taliban; he was right to alert the world to the unknown dangers, in the age of Al Qaeda, of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. He is still right that democratization is the only ultimate security in an age of Jihadist terror. And when you see women bravely exercising their right to vote in Afghanistan, you are seeing something that would not have happened without our current president. That moral achievement can never be taken away from him.

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WWJD
In all of my attempts to be more "Christ-like" in my daily life, you know Carpentry, raising people from the dead and trying not to be a petulant asshole I always look for diffrent wau to be more "Christ-like". So maybe the 17 times I've read the bible I missed something, there was something I never thought of until our glorious leader showed me the true meaning of being a Christian.



Watch the video of our born again leader show us just how much Christ has effected his life!

Remember he has his finger on the button (no, not that one that's his victory salute finger.)
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RED SOCKS SWEEP THE WORLD SERIES!

YEAH!

The Bambino is a bitch, Boston is on top of the baseball world and the little pundit in me hopes another Bostonian hope wins too!
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Target blogging



Yes, I'm a very childish person!
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Reasons not to vote for Bush

Bush on Indian rights

Fake Medals


Sitting on his ass while we're under attack!



Please end the national nightmare and vote for common sense and reason Vote...

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Cuba moving away from the Dollar

Castro is trying to stick it to America.

Moving to wean its communist economic system from the U.S. currency, Cuba said that dollars will no longer be accepted at island businesses and stores in a dramatic change in how commercial transactions have been done here in more than a decade.


The resolution announced Monday by Cuba's Central Bank seemed aimed at finding new sources for foreign reserves and regain more control over its own economy as the U.S. government steps up efforts to prevent dollars from reaching the island as part of a strategy to undermine Fidel Castro (news - web sites)'s government.



Cuba's national currency, the peso, cannot be used with international partners.



"Beginning on November 8, the convertible peso will begin to circulate in substitution of the dollar throughout the national territory," Castro said in a written message read by his chief aide Carlos Valenciaga.



In his message, Castro asked Cubans to tell relatives living abroad to send them money in other foreign currencies, such as euros, British sterling or Swiss francs.



The move was likely to hurt mostly those Cubans who receive American dollars from relatives living in the United States.

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Red Socks 3-0

Hell yeah Boston!
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Caging

Have you ever wanted to see a secret document that will be used to supress black voters?

Click Here and Here - Excel needed

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

Election supervisor Ion Sancho believes some voters are being intimidated

Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".

It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.

An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day." [...]

In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans were using the lists or other means of intimidating voters, we filmed a private detective filming every "early voter" - the majority of whom are black - from behind a vehicle with blacked-out windows.

The private detective claimed not to know who was paying for his all-day services.

On the scene, Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate

Now you might be asking how could anyone get ahold of something like that?

Well thanks to the Parody site Georgewbush.org and some really stupid Republicans we have the smoking gun for voter intimidation AND about 40 on the list are servicemen.

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Free airtime for Republicans in Fresno

Apperently Valley Republicans are scared of losing!

Attempting to boost Republican Party prospects, the owner of a chain of Central Valley television and radio stations has donated $325,000 in air time for GOP candidates in many of the state's hottest legislative elections.



The contribution by Harry J. Pappas comes in the final days of campaigning, and those involved in the campaigns could not recall another instance in which a California media mogul donated time on public airwaves for advertisements to benefit one party over another.

Critics say the contribution is a clear attempt to sway close elections, is likely to raise new questions of media bias, and violates federal law requiring broadcasting companies to provide equal time to political candidates.

"They're the public's airwaves," said attorney Karen Getman, who represents the Assembly Democratic Caucus and formerly served as chairwoman of the state's Fair Political Practices Commission. "You're not free to give them to one side in a partisan debate."

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Responding to hate mail is always fun, I let some of it go by and just don't respond or I send them something mean, or funny but always snarky.

I get boat loads of hate mail and I read all of it, I never delete so sometimes they are long winded crap or they're just really short and snippy. I love Hate mail by the way, I LOVE IT!

The anger that comes my way because of the Hannity is a moron site is amazing and I can't help but chuckle at some of these douche bags and sometimes the sheer stupidity of these guys are GREAT self esteem boosters, ever worry about anything about yourself get some hate mail and see just how fucking cool you really are!
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Gross

Katherine Harris and the married fellow congressman Renzi are just shy of necking


eeeewwwwwww

Oh by the way, he's married I hope Miss.Renzi doesn't watch the video!
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Just Remember


Do you want to kill a kitten?
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Hawaii GOP candidate PRO death penalty for Gays

WTF?

Finberg was interviewed by Forrest Bradford, who has a show called Religious Phonies on local cable access channel AKAKU.

After explaining his creationist views of history's timeline, Finberg was asked: "If there was a law that supported the execution of people found guilty of performing homosexual acts, would you support that law?"

After stating "Unfortunately, nearly 300,000 Americans have suffered the death penalty as a result of homosexual activity," Finberg answered, "Yes, if it were the law of the land. Yes."

The video is hosted on a site exposing Republican Congressional candidate Mike Gabbard, who is challenging my congressman, Rep. Ed Case, for HI-02 (Rural Oahu and neighbor islands). Gabbard was endorsed by Finberg, who said they "share the same beliefs." Gabbard was a leading figure in the Hawaii constitutional amendment banning gay marriage

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Why FOX News gets all the interviews

Have you ever wondered why FOX News snags all the interviews with the President and Vice President, especially since they're the most secretive administration in history.

Look at the questions asked in recent interviews

"I've got 15 questions for you. If they're dumb, tell me they're dumb."





"Do you think that when he says these things, John Kerry, your opponent, you were in these three debates with him, do you think he knows he's not telling the truth?"





"In light of the CBS document fiasco, do you think you get a fair shake from the network news and the elite media like the New York Times?"





"A guy over at Newsweek said 80 percent in the elite media favors Kerry. That doesn't surprise you, does it?"





"And you're healthy?"





"What's Chirac's problem? He hasn't been a great ally to the U.S. since 9/11. He doesn't want NATO forces to protect elections in Afghanistan. Come on."





"Do you have any theory on why college professors, pinhead press people why they go into the liberal realm?"





"Has the press given [Kerry] a pass?"




*"Is it a reality that we could turn on our television sets one day -- Fox News Channel, I hope -- and find out that a nuclear weapon has gone off here?"




"You've said one of the things you were most unhappy about is this issue of the tone in Washington. Let me just run down a list of prominent Democrats for a second here, because I can't remember a time in my life where it's been this bad."





"You're the president of the United States. You're also leading troops in harm's way. This is the leader of the opposition party [criticizing you]. Does that bother you?"





"John Kerry has flipped-flopped his way into a dangerous position [regarding Iraq]. So my question is, If John Kerry were president would he make this country more vulnerable and more susceptible to terror attacks?"





"Now, all this was propaganda. All of this that you didn't ... They say you didn't register in Massachusetts [with the National Guard in 1973]. Is that bogus?"

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A Major Post-war bungle

Explosives that could trigger an atomic bomb go missing in Iraq, this is another big story about the botched Bush war plan.

The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.

The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year.

The White House said President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was informed within the past month that the explosives were missing. It is unclear whether President Bush was informed. American officials have never publicly announced the disappearance, but beginning last week they answered questions about it posed by The New York Times and the CBS News program "60 Minutes."

Administration officials said Sunday that the Iraq Survey Group, the C.I.A. task force that searched for unconventional weapons, has been ordered to investigate the disappearance of the explosives.

American weapons experts say their immediate concern is that the explosives could be used in major bombing attacks against American or Iraqi forces: the explosives, mainly HMX and RDX, could produce bombs strong enough to shatter airplanes or tear apart buildings.

The bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 used less than a pound of the same type of material, and larger amounts were apparently used in the bombing of a housing complex in November 2003 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the blasts in a Moscow apartment complex in September 1999 that killed nearly 300 people.

The explosives could also be used to trigger a nuclear weapon, which was why international nuclear inspectors had kept a watch on the material, and even sealed and locked some of it. The other components of an atom bomb - the design and the radioactive fuel - are more difficult to obtain. "This is a high explosives risk, but not necessarily a proliferation risk," one senior Bush administration official said.

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Did Kerry meet with ALL of the Un security council?

It's been a long October, apperently Mexico and Bulgaria disagree with a statement Kerry made a few months back.

U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
    An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred.


    At the second presidential debate earlier this month, Mr. Kerry said he was more attuned to international concerns on Iraq than President Bush, citing his meeting with the entire Security Council.
    "This president hasn't listened. I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them, to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable," Mr. Kerry said of the Iraqi dictator.
    Speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in December 2003, Mr. Kerry explained that he understood the "real readiness" of the United Nations to "take this seriously" because he met "with the entire Security Council, and we spent a couple of hours talking about what they saw as the path to a united front in order to be able to deal with Saddam Hussein."
    But of the five ambassadors on the Security Council in 2002 who were reached directly for comment, four said they had never met Mr. Kerry. The four also said that no one who worked for their countries' U.N. missions had met with Mr. Kerry either.
    The former ambassadors who said on the record they had never met Mr. Kerry included the representatives of Mexico, Colombia and Bulgaria. The ambassador of a fourth country gave a similar account on the condition that his country not be identified.

The problem is, once again he story isn't true he did meet with the security council the permanent members China, Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain. So thank you Washington Times for another BS article, good going guys!
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The bodies of more than 40 Iraqi army recruits have been found following an ambush near the Iranian border in the north-east of the country.

So Mr. Cheney are those death included as well?

Police said many of the soldiers had been shot in the head.

Hours later, a US diplomat was killed in a mortar attack at Camp Victory near Baghdad airport.

Ed Seitz, assistant regional security officer at the US embassy in Baghdad, is believed to be the first US diplomat killed during the current war.


A website often used by militants published a statement attributed to the group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in which it claimed to have carried out the army recruits massacre.

This was an execution. We found the dead lying face down by the roadside with a single bullet wound

Police said the bodies of the recruits - who were not armed - were found near the village of Mandali, south of Baquba.

"This was an execution. We found the dead lying face down by the roadside with a single bullet wound to the head," Iraqi national guard commander Ali al-Kaaki is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

A local police official said that all had their hands crossed behind their heads.

Interior Ministry spokesman Adnan Abdul Rahman said 37 bodies were found shot dead on the side of the road, while the bodies of 12 others were found in a burned bus.

There was confusion over the precise figures. The Iraqi National Guard said 48 troops and three drivers were killed.

They were shot execution style, 48 people were murdered by someone less than a foot away. We need to fix the problem over there, this bothers me it's worse then we think it is. Every sense I have is telling me this is bad and it's pointing to a larger trend growing. Unless they are stopped we haev a real problem over there and Bush just isn't the answer!
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Kerry's lying to *Negros?*

Read this funny para

Kerry is lying to Negroes about being disenfranchised in Florida.  You may recall that it was Democrats in West Palm Beach and other Dem strongholds in Florida who tried to steal the election in 2000 by having people stuff several blank ballots in the voting machine at the same time and punching the Democrat Party slate--giving rise to ''hanging'' and ''pregnant'' chads (partially punched out ballots).  If a single ballot is placed in a Vote-a-Matic machine, which is the proper and legal way to vote, it is virtually impossible to punch one's vote in such a way as to produce either a hanging or bulging chad; each punch is clean and complete, producing a perfectly punched-out hole. 

Too bad, the vote-a-matic is a disproven fraud, besides that c'mon Negros. Of course this doesn't make this person a racist, it sounds like he's just stuck in 1963.
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Why we dislike Sean Hannity

This site was made for all of you who are forced to watch or listen to Sean Hannity, a propagandist hack!

This site among countless others have exposed this guy to be a liar, you cannot say the things he does and be labeled anything else. I believe the only way to combat his propaganda is to bring it out into the light of day and expose it for the trash it is.

This is one of the reasons why we dislike Sean, a Recent interview of Sen. Landriue of shows what a dick he is!

What else do you expect from Sean Hannity?

You have the Number two guy in this administration, someone who obviously steers the policy in this administration and asks more like a Prime Minister than a Vice President. With the war in Iraq going south and an economy that's not as strong as they say it is, there's so much to work with you could have serious television. Instead we got a fluff piece for the Bush administration, did you learn anything except Republicans hate being reminded of Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter?

The good Senator had a point when she brought up that it was a propaganda piece and Sean could throw back were insults, "You're a terrible Senator" and his defense of his geisha like interview was they provide a "comfortable environment", so comfortable they can outright lie or just respond with faux outrage? What Depth or knowledge did we get from either interview?

The way Sean Treated a United States Senator on the show was appalling, she didn't drown a litter of kittens or do anything that deserved the bitter rhetoric she complained the interview was a softball and He just went nuts. Just like when he's on the radio show he interrupts and shouts people down; After the Senator complained of Sean's interruptions, interruptions like those of a petulant child and pointed out he didn't do that to the Vice President he responded: "Well you're not the vice president and I doubt you ever will be".

Do you need more proof that he's just a loud mouth who's hurting our discourse, his book Deliver us from Evil is was written in Bizarro world full of lies by omission or just outright nonsense and when exposed to his obvious lies he reacts like a little kid and just shouts over you like that makes him right or something. This is the guy who called the first debate for George Bush, did we see the same debate or did he have his GOP goggles on? He is a loud mouth propagandist who need to be called out for the countless lies he tells.

And that's why we're here, to make sure someone holds this guy accountable for you to see past the rhetoric and into the truth.
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Bunning's senate race in the air

For all of you who are not following the Senate race in Kentucky, the incumbant Senator Bunning has gone bat shit insane.

Enjoy some more of the fun from Kentucky

Bunning's remarks about the incident in Iraq come amid speculation by Democrats and others about his health following a series of comments and events in recent months.

Bunning, who turns 73 today, has asserted that he is in excellent mental and physical health, providing letters from two doctors as proof.

He said earlier this year that Mongiardo looked like one of Saddam Hussein's sons, a remark for which he apologized.

He said after his only debate with Mongiardo on Oct. 11 that the Democrat's backers bruised his wife at a political picnic.

He participated in the debate via satellite from Washington, where he said he was needed to cast votes in the Senate. His campaign admitted he had used a teleprompter to read his opening and closing statements

On Thursday, Bunning was asked at a news conference about the Army reservists in Iraq who refused to deliver fuel out of concerns that they were lightly armored and for other reasons. "I don't know anything about that," he replied.

"I don't watch the national news. And I don't read the paper. I haven't done that for the last six weeks. I watch Fox News to get my information," he said.

Bunning is a member of the Banking, Budget, Energy and Natural Resources, Finance, and Veterans Affairs committees.

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Jim Crowe in Ohio, 2004

3,600 poll watchers to monitor voters, who want to bet the number of black people who get the boot will be a bit large.

Republican Party officials in Ohio took formal steps yesterday to place thousands of recruits inside polling places on Election Day to challenge the qualifications of voters they suspect are not eligible to cast ballots.

Party officials say their effort is necessary to guard against fraud arising from aggressive moves by the Democrats to register tens of thousands of new voters in Ohio, seen as one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in the Nov. 2 elections.

Election officials in other swing states, from Arizona to Wisconsin and Florida, say they are bracing for similar efforts by Republicans to challenge new voters at polling places, reflecting months of disputes over voting procedures and the anticipation of an election as close as the one in 2000.

Ohio election officials said they had never seen so large a drive to prepare for Election Day challenges. They said they were scrambling yesterday to be ready for disruptions in the voting process as well as alarm and complaints among voters. Some officials said they worried that the challenges could discourage or even frighten others waiting to vote.

Ohio Democrats were struggling to match the Republicans' move, which had been rumored for weeks. Both parties had until 4 p.m. to register people they had recruited to monitor the election. Republicans said they had enlisted 3,600 by the deadline, many in heavily Democratic urban neighborhoods of Cleveland, Dayton and other cities. Each recruit was to be paid $100.

In Ohio among other states thousands of voters have registered Democratic to remove Bush from the white house, in turn Republicans only got few hundred to register, so they cry voter fraud.

They're stopping people from voting and if that doesn't work they stop them from being counted!

You need to get off of your ass today and make so calls, make a diffrence volunteer some time to get out the vote because we're in the last strech and we just can't let this kind of element run our country again.
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The American Conservative endorses Kerry

It isn't exactly a glowing one but he must really dislike Bush!

There is little in John Kerry’s persona or platform that appeals to conservatives. The flip-flopper charge—the centerpiece of the Republican campaign against Kerry—seems overdone, as Kerry’s contrasting votes are the sort of baggage any senator of long service is likely to pick up. (Bob Dole could tell you all about it.) But Kerry is plainly a conventional liberal and no candidate for a future edition of Profiles in Courage . In my view, he will always deserve censure for his vote in favor of the Iraq War in 2002.

But this election is not about John Kerry. If he were to win, his dearth of charisma would likely ensure him a single term. He would face challenges from within his own party and a thwarting of his most expensive initiatives by a Republican Congress. Much of his presidency would be absorbed by trying to clean up the mess left to him in Iraq. He would be constrained by the swollen deficits and a ripe target for the next Republican nominee.

It is, instead, an election about the presidency of George W. Bush. To the surprise of virtually everyone, Bush has turned into an important president, and in many ways the most radical America has had since the 19th century. Because he is the leader of America’s conservative party, he has become the Left’s perfect foil—its dream candidate. The libertarian writer Lew Rockwell has mischievously noted parallels between Bush and Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II: both gained office as a result of family connections, both initiated an unnecessary war that shattered their countries’ budgets. Lenin needed the calamitous reign of Nicholas II to create an opening for the Bolsheviks.

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Why Kerry understands the terror threat better than Bush.

Kerry has the knowledge and experience to combat terrorism and destroy it's life line: Money

One gets an eerie sense of déjà vu watching John Kerry battle the Bush clan. He’s done it once before, against the old man, President Bush’s father, though many voters have probably forgotten. That battle involved the first Bush administration’s attempt to put the lid on an investigation that connected a worldwide criminal bank to narco-traffickers, terrorists, and to Middle East money men who helped the Bush family make piles of cash. Those links connect to people now on the U.S. post-9/11 terrorist list.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kerry fought to expose an international criminal bank, BCCI — the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. The bank was run by a Pakistani, working with Persian Gulf managers who operated through a network of secret offshore centers to hide their operations from the world’s bank examiners. They weren’t, however, hidden from the CIA, which not only knew what the bank was doing, but used the bank to funnel cash through its Islamabad and other Pakistani branches to CIA client Osama bin Laden, part of the $2 billion Washington sent to the Afghani mujahideen . The operation gave bin Laden an education in black finance. CIA director William Casey himself met with BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi. The CIA also paid its own agents through the bank and used BCCI to fund black ops all over the world.

Kerry took on not only the Bush clan and its friends, but the CIA, and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. This is not irrelevant history, but important to examine, because it reveals a lot about Kerry and how he might respond to terrorism or other global criminal enterprises. Kerry’s record shows that he took on powerful political and bureaucratic interests, was a tenacious investigator, and savvy about international crime and money flows, which is crucial in the fight against terrorism.

Against the opposition of powerful Republicans and Democrats, and in light of a lack of cooperation from a very politicized Justice Department and stonewalling by the CIA, Kerry worked with investigators and ran Senate hearings that exposed the bank’s shadowy multi-billion-dollar scams and precipitated its end.

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The theft of Florida

More voter fraud

Pasco elections officials have a warning for the county's absentee voters: Don't give your ballot to a stranger claiming to be from the elections office.

They're not who they say they are.

"The people who are soliciting your ballots in this manner are not elections officials," Pasco Elections Supervisor Kurt Browning warned Thursday.

The warning came after a phone call from a west Pasco woman. Other Florida counties have gotten similar complaints.

"We've had a bunch of them - 100 at least," said Bob Sweat, elections supervisor for Manatee County. "It's probably going on all over the state of Florida."

The Pasco woman said someone came to her home to collect her absentee ballot earlier this week. She said she was led to believe they were from the elections office. The woman told the strangers she hadn't completed the ballot, but they took it anyway.

The deception is the latest sign of the lengths to which some partisans appear ready to go in this election. Elections officials worry there will be many more complaints of overly aggressive behavior in attempts to affect the outcome of the presidential race.

Browning's office had not yet received the woman's absentee ballot Thursday. Given the circumstances, Browning arranged to send her another.

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Reality Vs Fiction

There's a reason why news Ops like FOX News and talking heads are bad for America!

75% believe Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda.

74% believe Bush favors including labor and environmental standards in agreements on trade.

72% believe Iraq had WMD or a program to develop them.

72% believe Bush supports the treaty banning landmines.

69% believe Bush supports the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

61% believe if Bush knew there were no WMD he would not have gone to war.

60% believe most experts believe Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda.

58% believe the Duelfer report concluded that Iraq had either WMD or a major program to develop them.

57% believe that the majority of people in the world would prefer to see Bush reelected.

56% believe most experts think Iraq had WMD.

55% believe the 9/11 report concluded Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda.

51% believe Bush supports the Kyoto treaty.

20% believe Iraq was directly involved in 9/11.

This should be blasted on a commercial in swing states and how silly it is!
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Pentagon tried to spin the CIA on Iraq/Al-Qaida

Feith apperently lied to congress to push their Neo-Con agenda

As recently as January 2004, a top Defense Department official misrepresented to Congress the view of American intelligence agencies about the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, according to a new report by a Senate Democrat.

The report said a classified document prepared by Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, not only asserted that there were ties between the Baghdad government and the terrorist network, but also did not reflect accurately the intelligence agencies' assessment - even while claiming that it did.




In issuing the report, the senator, Carl M. Levin, the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said he would ask the panel to take "appropriate action'' against Mr. Feith. Senator Levin said Mr. Feith had repeatedly described the ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda as far more significant and extensive than the intelligence agencies had.

The broad outlines of Mr. Feith's efforts to promote the idea of such close links have been previously disclosed.

The view, a staple of the Bush administration's public statements before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, has since been discredited by the Sept. 11 commission, which concluded that Iraq and Al Qaeda had "no close collaborative relationship.''

The 46-page report by Senator Levin and the Democratic staff of the Armed Services Committee is the first to focus narrowly on the role played by Mr. Feith's office. Democrats had sought to include that line of inquiry in a report completed in June by the Senate Intelligence Committee, but Republicans on the panel postponed that phase of the study until after the presidential election.

In an interview, Mr. Levin said he had concluded that Mr. Feith had practiced "continuing deception of Congress.'' But he said he had no evidence that Mr. Feith's conduct had been illegal.

Mr. Levin began the inquiry in June 2003, after Republicans on the panel, led by Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, declined to take part. He said his findings were endorsed by other Democrats on the committee, but complained that the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency had declined to provide crucial documents.

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Krugman:Read


The coming Republican voting fraud

If the election were held today and the votes were counted fairly, Senator John Kerry would probably win. But the votes won't be counted fairly, and the disenfranchisement of minority voters may determine the outcome.

Recent national poll results range from a three-percentage-point Kerry lead in the A.P.-Ipsos poll released yesterday to an eight-point Bush lead in the Gallup poll. But if you line up the polls released this week from the most to the least favorable to President Bush, the polls in the middle show a tie at about 47 percent.

This is bad news for Mr. Bush because undecided voters usually break against the incumbent - not always, but we're talking about probabilities. Those middle-of-the-road polls also show Mr. Bush with job approval around 47 percent, putting him very much in the danger zone.

Electoral College projections based on state polls also show a dead heat. Projections assuming that undecided voters will break for the challenger in typical proportions give Mr. Kerry more than 300 electoral votes.

But if you get your political news from cable TV, you probably have a very different sense of where things stand. CNN, which co-sponsored that Gallup poll, rarely informs its viewers that other polls tell a very different story. The same is true of Fox News, which has its own very Bush-friendly poll. As a result, there is a widespread public impression that Mr. Bush holds a commanding lead.

By the way, why does the Gallup poll, which is influential because of its illustrious history, report a large Bush lead when many other polls show a dead heat? It's mostly because of how Gallup determines "likely voters": the poll shows only a three-point Bush lead among registered voters. And as the Democratic poll expert Ruy Teixeira points out (using data obtained by Steve Soto, a liberal blogger), Gallup's sample of supposedly likely voters contains a much smaller proportion of both minority and young voters than the actual proportions of these voters in the 2000 election.

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More Voting fraud in Florida

Students were duped into changing party affiliation

Students at UCF and two local community colleges claim they were duped into switching their party affiliations from Democrat to Republican, campus police officials said Tuesday.

Fewer than 10 students have filed reports with UCF police saying they were approached by a middle-aged couple in the student union who asked for support in changing child molestation laws. The students filled out a form that asked for personal information, and some time later they received a notice from the county election supervisor's office that their party affiliation had been changed, said Sgt. Troy Williamson, a spokesman for the UCF police.

Similar incidents have occurred at Valencia Community College in Orange County and Seminole Community College, Williamson said.


"They thought they were signing a petition to change child molestation laws," Williamson said. "They didn't realize they had changed their political party."

Is this how they grow the Republican party, by tricking them?
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Tenet calls Iraq war wrong

href="http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2004/10/21/news/
news1.txt">The 1000+ dead troops in Iraq could have used your help.

Although he emphasized that the Central Intelligence Agency boasts
"tremendously talented men and women," former CIA Director George Tenet
said it "did not live up to our expectations as professionals"
regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the search for
nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"We had inconsistent information, and we did not inform others in the
community of gaps in our intelligence," Tenet said. "The extraordinary
men and women who do magnificent work in the CIA are held accountable
every day for what they do, and as part of keeping our faith with the
American people, we will tell you when we're right or wrong."
Tenet called the war
on Iraq "wrong" in a speech Wednesday night to 2,000 members of The
Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at Lake Michigan College's
Mendel Center. He did not elaborate.

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Tenet calls Iraq war wrong

The 1000+ dead troops in Iraq could have used your help.

Although he emphasized that the Central Intelligence Agency boasts "tremendously talented men and women," former CIA Director George Tenet said it "did not live up to our expectations as professionals" regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the search for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"We had inconsistent information, and we did not inform others in the community of gaps in our intelligence," Tenet said. "The extraordinary men and women who do magnificent work in the CIA are held accountable every day for what they do, and as part of keeping our faith with the American people, we will tell you when we're right or wrong."
Tenet called the war on Iraq "wrong" in a speech Wednesday night to 2,000 members of The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center. He did not elaborate.

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Tenet calls Iraq war wrong

The 1000+ dead troops in Iraq could have used your help.

Although he emphasized that the Central Intelligence Agency boasts "tremendously talented men and women," former CIA Director George Tenet said it "did not live up to our expectations as professionals" regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the search for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"We had inconsistent information, and we did not inform others in the community of gaps in our intelligence," Tenet said. "The extraordinary men and women who do magnificent work in the CIA are held accountable every day for what they do, and as part of keeping our faith with the American people, we will tell you when we're right or wrong."
Tenet called the war on Iraq "wrong" in a speech Wednesday night to 2,000 members of The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center. He did not elaborate.

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Tenet calls Iraq war wrong

The 1000+ dead troops in Iraq could have used your help.

Although he emphasized that the Central Intelligence Agency boasts "tremendously talented men and women," former CIA Director George Tenet said it "did not live up to our expectations as professionals" regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the search for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"We had inconsistent information, and we did not inform others in the community of gaps in our intelligence," Tenet said. "The extraordinary men and women who do magnificent work in the CIA are held accountable every day for what they do, and as part of keeping our faith with the American people, we will tell you when we're right or wrong."
Tenet called the war on Iraq "wrong" in a speech Wednesday night to 2,000 members of The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center. He did not elaborate.

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Tenet calls Iraq war wrong

The 1000+ dead troops in Iraq could have used your help.

Although he emphasized that the Central Intelligence Agency boasts "tremendously talented men and women," former CIA Director George Tenet said it "did not live up to our expectations as professionals" regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the search for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"We had inconsistent information, and we did not inform others in the community of gaps in our intelligence," Tenet said. "The extraordinary men and women who do magnificent work in the CIA are held accountable every day for what they do, and as part of keeping our faith with the American people, we will tell you when we're right or wrong."
Tenet called the war on Iraq "wrong" in a speech Wednesday night to 2,000 members of The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center. He did not elaborate.

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Krugman:Read


The coming Republican voting fraud

If the election were held today and the votes were counted fairly, Senator John Kerry would probably win. But the votes won't be counted fairly, and the disenfranchisement of minority voters may determine the outcome.

Recent national poll results range from a three-percentage-point Kerry lead in the A.P.-Ipsos poll released yesterday to an eight-point Bush lead in the Gallup poll. But if you line up the polls released this week from the most to the least favorable to President Bush, the polls in the middle show a tie at about 47 percent.

This is bad news for Mr. Bush because undecided voters usually break against the incumbent - not always, but we're talking about probabilities. Those middle-of-the-road polls also show Mr. Bush with job approval around 47 percent, putting him very much in the danger zone.

Electoral College projections based on state polls also show a dead heat. Projections assuming that undecided voters will break for the challenger in typical proportions give Mr. Kerry more than 300 electoral votes.

But if you get your political news from cable TV, you probably have a very different sense of where things stand. CNN, which co-sponsored that Gallup poll, rarely informs its viewers that other polls tell a very different story. The same is true of Fox News, which has its own very Bush-friendly poll. As a result, there is a widespread public impression that Mr. Bush holds a commanding lead.

By the way, why does the Gallup poll, which is influential because of its illustrious history, report a large Bush lead when many other polls show a dead heat? It's mostly because of how Gallup determines "likely voters": the poll shows only a three-point Bush lead among registered voters. And as the Democratic poll expert Ruy Teixeira points out (using data obtained by Steve Soto, a liberal blogger), Gallup's sample of supposedly likely voters contains a much smaller proportion of both minority and young voters than the actual proportions of these voters in the 2000 election.

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The smearing of Pat Robertson

I personally think Pat is scum, he is a huckster and should have been thrown in jail years ago.

However the right-wing has used this guy for years and has been a big Republican fundraiser so when this kind of thing happens you jump on it!

Karen Huges and Scott McClellan Call Pat a liar!

Hughes: Judy, I cannot imagine that that conversation would ever take place. I've never heard the president say anything of the sort.... So I can't imagine whether he misunderstood, or what happened. But I'm certain that the president did not say that remark.

Woodruff: So Pat Robertson is lying or wrong or something?

Hughes: Well, again, Judy, I don't know. Perhaps he misunderstood.... It just doesn't sound consistent with the facts as I knew them at the time.

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White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, "Of course, the president never made such a comment."

So Robertson is a liar, he misunderstood the conversation.

However this isn't the only time he's made this claim

I felt very uneasy about [the war] from the very get-go. Whenever I heard about it, I knew it was going to be trouble. I warned the president. I only met with him once. I said, You better prepare the American people for some serious casualties. And he said, Oh, no, our troops are, you know, so well protected, we don't have to worry about that.

I hate to say this but it sounds like something Bush would say, this is just opinion of course. This sounds genuine, Bush is so out of touch of reality and so driven by "faith" he's blinded himself to the truth, surrounding him are yes men and policy pushers who in their own right are driven by faith and ideology make a dangerous team to be running a superpower.





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1.7 million vets without health care

makes me sick to think about it!

Nearly 1.7 million military veterans have no health insurance or access to government hospitals and clinics for veterans, according to a report Tuesday from a doctors' group that favors federally financed health care.

The number of uninsured veterans jumped by 235,000 since 2000, meaning they are losing health insurance at a faster rate than the general population, said Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates a universal national health insurance program. About 45 million Americans have no health insurance, including 5 million who lost coverage during the past four years, according to the Census Bureau.

"We're sending men and women off to war and yet the people who fought previous wars can't get the basic things they need to go on with their lives afterward," said Dr. David Himmelstein, a Harvard Medical School professor and an author of the study.

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DNC slams Cheney for getting a flu shot, Drudge slams Clinton for getting one

Didn't Bill Clinton just have a quadruple bypass surgery?

He just a major heart surgery and drudge is slamming him for getting a flu shot, what hypocrisy is there if he gets sick it can go to his heart and cause a massive heart attack. It's preventive medicine for a recovering patient and I agree Cheney probably needed to get one too and the DNC could have slammed him for almost anything but Drudge you're stupid!
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THE RED SOCKS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES

The Bambino can kiss my natural black ass!

Yeah finally a Yankees free world series!

Final score 10-3
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More Republican fraud

The Signs that read Kerry/Specter are fakes, thanks to Roger Stone.

The mystery of the John Kerry-Arlen Specter lawn signs in Northeast Philadelphia is solved.



They're indeed the work of national Republican consultant Roger Stone, who has worked with Specter in the past. Specter campaign manager Christopher Nicholas said yesterday that he called Stone last weekend and asked him to put an end to the campaign.



"I made the call Saturday morning," Nicholas said. "We asked him to stop and he agreed."



Nicholas said that Specter opposes independent advocacy organizations - so-called 527 groups - and that the campaign knew nothing of the controversial signs until it got calls from the media. Nicholas said he learned of Stone's involvement from the Daily News.



The signs appeared in Northeast Philadelphia about a week ago, apparently linking Specter, Pennsylvania's Republican incumbent U.S. senator, with Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee.



The signs read "Kerry & Specter for Working Families."



A notation on the signs said they were paid for by the Philadelphia Education Project, a political group registered three weeks ago to Carla Bartz, a woman associated with Republican attacks in a Florida election, and Gary Parenti, a Democratic operative from New York with ties to Stone.

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The hunt for UBL has gone cold

Way to get the bastard that killed almost 3000 people

United States forces hunting for Osama bin Laden say he appears to have relinquished day-to-day control over the al Qaeda terrorist group.

The top American commander in Afghanistan, Lieutenant General David Barno, has told a briefing at the Pentagon that there's NO indication that bin Laden is dead or seriously ill.

He also declined to repeat a prediction he made in January that bin Laden would be brought to justice by the end of the year, and conceded the US military did not know where he was.

"I don't see any indications that he is in day to day command and control, as it where, of the al-Qaeda organisation or the other terrorist groups that work with them. But certainly in the Afghanistan /Pakistan area. "

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Bush to Robertson: "We're not going to have any casualties

Is the President fucking retarded or so out of touch he's living off world?

Pat Robertson, an ardent Bush supporter, said he had that conversation with the president in Nashville, Tennessee, before the March 2003 invasion U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He described Bush in the meeting as "the most self-assured man I've ever met in my life."

"You remember Mark Twain said, 'He looks like a contented Christian with four aces.' I mean he was just sitting there like, 'I'm on top of the world,' " Robertson said on the CNN show, "Paula Zahn Now."

"And I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, 'Mr. President, you had better prepare the American people for casualties.' "

Robertson said the president then told him, "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."

The White House had no comment on Robertson's remarks.

Robertson, the televangelist who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, said he wishes Bush would admit to mistakes made.

"I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy," Robertson said. "I warned him about casualties."

More than 1,100 U.S. troops have died in Iraq and another 8,000 troops have been wounded in the ongoing campaign, with the casualty toll significantly increasing in the last six months as the insurgency there has deepened.

Asked why Bush has refused to admit to mistakes on Iraq, Robertson said, "I don't know this politics game. You know, you can never say you were wrong because the opposition grabs onto it: 'See, he admitted he screwed up.' "

Now assuming this is true and who am I to question Pat Robertson's word (even though he is a liar and a cheat) what in the world is in charge of the only Superpower on the planet?
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It's offical: Iran endorses Bush

Apperently being lumped into the Axis of Evil doesn't phase them!

The head of Iran's security council said Tuesday that the re-election of President Bush (news - web sites) was in Tehran's best interests, despite the administration's axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country's nuclear ambitions.


Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body.



"We haven't seen anything good from Democrats," Rowhani told state-run television in remarks that, for the first time in recent decades, saw Iran openly supporting one U.S. presidential candidate over another.



Though Iran generally does not publicly wade into U.S. presidential politics, it has a history of preferring Republicans over Democrats, who tend to press human rights issues.

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Canadians to Amerians: Get out of our Medicine cabinets

Americans need to find better ways than to just go through Canada, the Canadians want ot force us to.

Canadians must stop Americans from using Internet pharmacies to raid its medicine chest or face a drug shortage, a coalition of Canadian groups representing seniors, pharmacies and patients has warned.


The groups, claiming to represent 10 million Canadians, or about one-third the population, called on the Canadian government Monday to ban prescription drug exports.



They argue that Canada cannot afford to address U.S. drug shortages and soaring prescription costs with its own stock, which are often considerably cheaper for Americans because of government price controls.



An estimated 65 million Americans, most elderly, don't have drug coverage or can't afford drugs in the United States. Internet pharmacies and Canadian doctors willing to write prescriptions for Americans send an estimated $1 billion a year in Canadian drugs south of the border.



"It is completely untenable to think that Canada could supply their needs and our own for even one month, let along on an ongoing basis," said Louise Binder of the Canadian Treatment Action Council and Best Medicines Coalition.



Binder said she has heard that in Winnipeg, Manitoba, there is a shortage of desperately needed cancer drugs that are readily available to American consumers through Internet pharmacies based in Canada.



But Canada's health department insists Americans don't pose a threat to the country's drug supply. For example, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said Monday he believes Canada has a surplus of vaccine that could be provided to the United States, though probably not enough to meet the U.S. demand.

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Jeb and the purged voters

Jeb *again* scrubbed thousands of legal voters and hasn't restored the rights to the innocent from 2000.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ignored advice to throw out a flawed felon voter list before it went out to county election offices despite warnings from state officials, according to a report published Saturday.



In a May 4 e-mail obtained by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida Department of Law Enforcement computer expert Jeff Long informed his boss that a Department of State computer expert had told him "that yesterday they recommended to the Gov that they 'pull the plug'" on the voter database.



The e-mail said state election officials "weren't comfortable with the felon-matching program they've got," but added, "The Gov rejected their suggestion to pull the plug, so they're 'going live' with it this weekend."




Long, who was responsible for giving elections officials his department's felon database, confirmed the contents of the e-mail Friday to the Herald-Tribune. He said he didn't remember the specifics, but that Paul Craft, the Department of State's top computer expert, had told him about the meeting with Bush.




A software program matched data on felons with voter registration rolls to create the list of 48,000 names. Secretary of State Glenda Hood junked the database in July after acknowledging that 2,500 ex-felons on the list had had their voting rights restored.




Most were Democrats, and many were black. Hispanics, who often vote Republican in Florida, were almost entirely absent from the list due to a technical error.

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