Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote

Blackwell pulls a "Condi" and refuses to be interviewed by lawyers involved in the investigation.

The Fix is In

A nice summary of how little is known about the level of voting fraud went largely undetected in Florida.

Homeless shelters getting Iraq vets - (United Press International)

It's already happening. A troubling reprise of a disturbing development following the Vietnam War. Remarkably, this article is from the Washington Times. Must have slipped through the RW spinmeisters, who would have suggested that these vets were the special undercover agents working to identify potential threats amongst our nation's homeless.

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Rat Smelled, but does it matter?

This article in Zogby suggest some foul play. But what remains is the complete disinterest of the SCLM to act on the data in any fashion that produces something beyond a "scent" of fraud. We have find actual fraud, don't we??

Keep Hope Alive!

Greg Palast tells up to KERRY WON OHIO
JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS.

John Dean's Take on Understanding the 2004 Presidential Election

Denial of the facts, even those that are communicated and validated by the Bush Administration, is a standard behavior trait of the Bush supporter. So says John Dean in this piece from Findlaw.

"The caller had...told her friends that there was no connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq - and pointed out that Vice President Cheney had admitted as much in the Vice Presidential debate, and that the 9/11 Commission's report had so found. But her friends insisted there had indeed been such a relationship; that Cheney had misspoken, and she was wrong about the 9/11 Commission's report."

Our Anger will be met with Their Force

Tanks were deployed at an anti-war protest in Los Angeles earlier this week. This is the new reality that 59MM voted for last Tuesday.

The Guy Who Set the Bar Lower than the Geneva Convention

I'm already getting nauseous, and its only been a week.

It has always been my belief that Americans have a responsibility to set the bar higher in how we conduct ourselves around the world. Admittedly, this is a painfully naive belief on my part, especially with respect to the record of this administration. In the past, when we threw out the playbook, we would at least have the crisis of conscience to hide our efforts (not that I am forgiving that behaviour either). Not any more. We not only work to set the bar lower, we take pride in it, and nominate the guy primarily responsible for that strategy as the new The New York Times > Opinion > Attorney General

"The president is putting his own counsel, Alberto Gonzales, who wrote the famous memo defending torture, in charge of our civil liberties. Torture Guy, who blithely threw off 75 years of international law and set the stage for the grotesque abuses at Abu Ghraib and dubious detentions at Guantánamo, seems to have a good grasp of what's just. No doubt we'll soon learn what other protections, besides the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution, Mr. Gonzales finds "quaint'' and "obsolete.''

A Comprehensive List of Election Problems from Across the Country

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Voting Without the Facts

Bob Herbert gives a view of the uninformed masses and their patters of voiting without a view of the facts

I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election's outcome as values. A recent survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland found that nearly 70 percent of President Bush's supporters believe the U.S. has come up with "clear evidence" that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al Qaeda. A third of the president's supporters believe weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. And more than a third believe that a substantial majority of world opinion supported the U.S.-led invasion.

Kerry Won. Here are the Facts.

A redux of Greg Palast's post election day article breaking down the reality of a Kerry's "victory.".
"As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry."

Florida Data - Stunning Disparity Between Registered Party Numbers and Votes Cast

The table indicates that all the independents may have gone to Bush, PLUS there must have been a huge crossover of Democrats from Kerry to Bush - but only in counties that used computerized ballot scanners

Ashcroft, Evans to Leave Cabinet, Country in a Mess

Woops. I added that last part to the headline. Ashcroft's pact with the devil must have expired.

Shocking! Appalling! From the Bush Administration Even?!!

Sez the Times: A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base here as war criminals.

The Voting Weirdness Just Keeps Getting Weirder

This latest link from Eschaton paints a troubling picture of the happenings in Cuyahoga County. We've already determined that the improbable happened (more votes than registered voters). Now there seems to be an odd -- dare I say manipulated -- pattern in the results.

Why are all the overvotes in Bush's favor?

It's an Epidemic of Fraud

"Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals."

Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies from Consortiumnews.com

The arguments I am starting to see, are making more sense, and are taking aon a an air of more credible statistical analysis, including this one from Consortiumnews.com.


"Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered Republicans and in four counties, Bush more than tripled the number."

The Blue State Red State Reality

The fatigue around the supposed red state dominance is palpable in the news. Kevin does a nice job pulling together the reality that is the true story in this Washington Monthly snip. Also check out Talking Points Memo points to the alternative reality that the right is creating with Bush's win. This is it folks. If you're not with us, your a "God's people hater."

From the Smirking Chimp: The Vice President's Dream World

Key Reference to the article: Viewers wonder whether the vice president: "the vice president was watching the same war as the rest of the world. "

How Godly is George? Evidently Not Very

Although you can't listen too long before you hear wingnut in a swing state comment on how they share George's values, and admire his God-fearing nature, the hypocrisy nonetheless rings through, when you find that George doesn't make it to church very often.

Boston.com / News / Nation / Back-room dealing a Capitol trend

How things work now. Read. Weep for America. Boston.com / News / Nation / Back-room dealing a Capitol trend: "'The fix was in,' Leach said in an unusual rebuke of his GOP colleagues on the House floor. 'The power groups did not want this to happen. In my time in Congress, this is the greatest microcosm evidence of special-interest reasoning that does not even allow debate on this subject in an amendment on the House floor.'"

Readjusting my Tin foil hat: More proof of the grand conspiracty

Wired News: New 'Hiccup' for Florida Voters: "ALLAHASSEE, Florida � Touchscreen voting machines in 11 counties have a software flaw that could make manual recounts impossible in November's presidential election, state officials said.
A spokeswoman for the secretary of state called the problems 'minor technical hiccups' that can be resolved, but critics allege voting officials wrongly certified a voting system they knew had a bug."

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GOP apologizes over voting flier; glossy mailer warns against touch-screens

How unsurprising is this?

Telegraph | News | Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links

Telegraph | News | Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links
Yet another outrage. This one is simply puts into question the entire set of conclusions of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Yes, the CIA intel was suspect, but and at best, overblown by Tenet, but the ultimate burden of the bad intel was NOT the CIA; rather it was this rogue group within the CIA.

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