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McCain up in the Polls - Looks like Palin did the Job
09.08.08 (8:04 pm)   [edit]
What a tough time to be interested in politics. From one day to the next it is hard to say who will win.
 
Zogby Poll = McCain up by 4% = This sux = Palin caused this.
09.07.08 (6:58 pm)   [edit]
I want to complain about how the media is treating Obama unfairly. I think the polls are rigged now that McCain is taking a slight lead. Before when Obama was ahead I was fine with things.
 
Canada Says No - At least some do! LOL
12.13.04 (12:59 pm)   [edit]
Subject: Interesting article from a Canadian paper:

Stay home, you pathetic whining maggots
By Ian Robinson -- Calgary Sun, November 14, 2004
In the wake of the US presidential election -- in which I cheerfully took
a Sun assistant city editor, who figured Senator John Kerry couldn't
lose, for $10 (a quick pause to gloat here) Americans disenchanted with
President George W. Bush's re-election romp back into the White House,
continue to deluge the Canadian immigration website.
How anybody can be unhappy with the president's re-election is beyond me.
Bush has my admiration in no small part because he manages to
simultaneously annoy France and Germany, not to mention those renowned
deep, geopolitical thinkers, the Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteen, P-Diddy
or whatever he's calling himself now, Gwynneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck.
(Interesting note about France: America invades Iraq without UN approval
and America is portrayed as a barbarian striding across the world stage.
Recently, France essentially invaded the Ivory Coast to protect its
interests there ... without asking the UN squat. Just pointing out the
hypocrisy.)
Plus, let's face it: France deserves to be annoyed by as many people as
possible, as often as possible, if only for encouraging Jerry Lewis by
telling him that he was a genius.
Not to mention for exporting snotty wine culture across the Atlantic so
that otherwise reasonable North Americans have turned into cork-sniffing
oenephiles -- although the word sounds like an exotic perversion, it just
means wine-nerd -- who can actually say with a straight face: "This is a
full-bodied Cabernet, rich with a full body tasting of plum, blackberry
and leather cooked on an oak plank."
Anyway, the day after the U.S. election, 115,628 Americans checked out
the site and those numbers haven't fallen off very much.
Before the election, some US celebrities and numerous other Democrats
vowed that they'd move to Canada if Bush were re-elected.
I hope I'm not alone in gently suggesting to those considering coming to
Canada: Stay home, you pathetic whining maggots.
Particularly celebrities. Canada has suffered enough without having to
put up with any of the Baldwin brothers or -- heaven forbid------ Barbara
Streisand.
And frankly, I don't know if we can afford to feed Michael Moore.
Bad enough that Canada became a haven for the gutless wonders of the
1960s who fled the Vietnam draft. I sometimes think that the draft
dodgers welcomed by the Trudeau government were a political virus that
invaded our body politic, and we still suffer the lingering effects of
that illness.
Our nation's preposterous pacifism, belief in nonsense such as "soft
power" and fidelity to a morally bankrupt United Nations overrun with
tin-pot dictators and other left-wing idiocies, may well be traceable
back to the influx of thousands of the testosterone-challenged whose
allegiance to country was superceded by their allegiance to smoking dope
while trying to figure out the inner meaning of Beatles songs.
We have immigrants coming to this country who have been hunted from the
air by murderous Islamofascists in Sudan.
Some new Canadians survived the atrocities in Rwanda or old Europe's
final convulsions of genocide in the former Yugoslavia.
We have physicians from some parts of the world who are willing to throw
away their prestige and power in their homelands for the privilege of
driving a cab in Moose Jaw.
As a nation, we ought to welcome our share of people fleeing genuine
oppression, and those willing to gamble everything to secure a safe and
decent future for their families.
But welcome a bunch of spoiled brats willing to abandon their very nation
because they don't like the man elected to be their leader for the next
four years?
Geez, in my entire lifetime, there was maybe one prime minister I'd trust
to run a street-corner hot dog stand -- the rest of them weren't fit for
much more than compost -- but it never occurred to me to emigrate.
If we close our borders to anybody, it should be these fools. They'll be
easy to screen out.
They'll be the ones who are whining.
Andy Bowe
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"ODE TO THE LEFT BE-HEINZ"
12.01.04 (4:46 am)   [edit]
"Ode to the Left Be-Heinz"
by Tom Graffagnino


When polls were closed,
We all supposed
It couldn't be much closer!
Now Libs are torn,
Downcast...Forlorn,
And Soros is moroser!
The votes were cast,
And now at last
The counting could begin.
Monsieur LaMoore
Was very sure
His flick would do George in.
But now instead,
The states are Red,
And Hollywood is Blue.
Ben Affleck's mad,
Sarandon's sad,
And Whoopi's come unglued!
Begala whines,
The Left Be-Heinz,
"The Boss" just wonders..."HOW!?"
James Carville pouts,
O'Donnell shouts...
No time to Ketchup now!
The Kerry Crowd
Was brash and loud;
The cool and hip were pumped!
In Franken-Land
They took their stand...
"War Hero" John's been dumped.


At CBS?
Lord, what a mess!
Dan Rather wears a frown.
He's quite distressed...
Some say depressed.
Poor Dan,
He's goin' down.
There's "Hardball" Chris,
Who loved to kiss
The rear of liberal guests...
Convention night
Ol' Zell was right...
To that we may attest.
At CNN
It's sinkin' in...
Oh my! They're all in shock!
"Ohio's RED!"
John Kerry's Dead!"
"By George! We've been out-Foxed!"
 
CheckItOut/Flipsidedown/PatriotActs/CarteBlanche/Spymaster
11.06.04 (5:09 am)   [edit]

CheckItOut/Flipsidedown/P atriotActs/CarteBlanche/S pymaster


The extreme bloggers on the Kerry side of the equation must be in deep depression right now. I can sympathize with them since a Kerry win might have done the same to me. For some though, the election result must come especially hard. A few names come to mind.

Flipsidedown
CheckItOut
CarteBlanche
SpyMaster
PatriotActs


I notice that Flipsidedown is hard to find. He might be climbing a tower. He sent me a pre-election gloat tmail about the polls showing that Kerry was gaining momentum. In his self-satisfied way, he confirmed what I already knew. The extremists on the pro-Kerry side were deluding themselves into a great comedown.

For those of you who are in a very low place right now, here is a list of medications that might help.

Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Prozac
Celexa, Effexor, Luvox, Paxil


The kind of depression that will most likely benefit from treatment with medications is more than just "the blues." It's a condition that's prolonged, lasting 2 weeks or more, and interferes with a person's ability to carry on daily tasks and to enjoy activities that previously brought pleasure. The depressed person will seem sad, or "down," or may show a lack of interest in his surroundings. He may have trouble eating and lose weight (although some people eat more and gain weight when depressed). He may sleep too much or too little, have difficulty going to sleep, sleep restlessly, or awaken very early in the morning. He may speak of feeling guilty, worthless, or hopeless. He may complain that his thinking is slowed down. He may lack energy, feeling "everything's too much," or he might be agitated and jumpy. A person who is depressed may cry. He may think and talk about killing himself and may even make a suicide attempt.

Some people who are depressed have psychotic symptoms, such as delusions (false ideas) that are related to their depression. For instance, a psychotically depressed person might imagine that he is already dead, or "in hell in a country run by Bush," being punished, or that Bush is a Nazi, Fascist, Pig-Slime, Mass Murderer. Not everyone who is depressed has all these symptoms, but everyone who is depressed has at least some of them.

A depression can range in intensity from mild to severe. Antidepressants are used most widely for serious depressions, but they can also be helpful for some milder depressions. Antidepressants, although they are not "uppers" or stimulants, take away or reduce the symptoms of depression and help the depressed person feel the way he did before he became depressed. Antidepressants are also used for disorders characterized principally by anxiety. They can block the symptoms of panic, including rapid heartbeat, terror, dizziness, chest pains, nausea, and breathing problems. They can also be used to treat some phobias. Crazed blogging also is a symptom. See CheckItOut, PatriotActs, Flipsidedown, and CarteBlanche blogs.

Many of these symptoms accompany the type of personalities that post hate filled blogs so do not take this as a recommendation to take these medications. Please consult your physician. Especially you guys listed below.

Flipsidedown
CheckItOut
CarteBlanche
SpyMaster
PatriotActs
 
Where Have All the Crazies Gone? CheckItOut/Flipsidedown/PatriotActs/CarteBlanche/Spymaster
11.04.04 (8:59 am)   [edit]
Where Have All the Crazies Gone? CheckItOut/Flipsidedown/P atriotActs/CarteBlanche/S pymaster


The extreme bloggers on the Kerry side of the equation must be in deep depression right now. I can sympathize with them since a Kerry win might have done the same to me. For some though, the election result must come especially hard. A few names come to mind.

Flipsidedown
CheckItOut
CarteBlanche
SpyMaster
PatriotActs


I notice that Flipsidedown is hard to find. He might be climbing a tower. He sent me a pre-election gloat tmail about the polls showing that Kerry was gaining momentum. In his self-satisfied way, he confirmed what I already knew. The extremists on the pro-Kerry side were deluding themselves into a great comedown.

For those of you who are in a very low place right now, here is a list of medications that might help.

Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Prozac
Celexa, Effexor, Luvox, Paxil


The kind of depression that will most likely benefit from treatment with medications is more than just "the blues." It's a condition that's prolonged, lasting 2 weeks or more, and interferes with a person's ability to carry on daily tasks and to enjoy activities that previously brought pleasure. The depressed person will seem sad, or "down," or may show a lack of interest in his surroundings. He may have trouble eating and lose weight (although some people eat more and gain weight when depressed). He may sleep too much or too little, have difficulty going to sleep, sleep restlessly, or awaken very early in the morning. He may speak of feeling guilty, worthless, or hopeless. He may complain that his thinking is slowed down. He may lack energy, feeling "everything's too much," or he might be agitated and jumpy. A person who is depressed may cry. He may think and talk about killing himself and may even make a suicide attempt.

Some people who are depressed have psychotic symptoms, such as delusions (false ideas) that are related to their depression. For instance, a psychotically depressed person might imagine that he is already dead, or "in hell in a country run by Bush," being punished, or that Bush is a Nazi, Fascist, Pig-Slime, Mass Murderer. Not everyone who is depressed has all these symptoms, but everyone who is depressed has at least some of them.

A depression can range in intensity from mild to severe. Antidepressants are used most widely for serious depressions, but they can also be helpful for some milder depressions. Antidepressants, although they are not "uppers" or stimulants, take away or reduce the symptoms of depression and help the depressed person feel the way he did before he became depressed. Antidepressants are also used for disorders characterized principally by anxiety. They can block the symptoms of panic, including rapid heartbeat, terror, dizziness, chest pains, nausea, and breathing problems. They can also be used to treat some phobias. Crazed blogging also is a symptom. See CheckItOut, PatriotActs, Flipsidedown, and CarteBlanche blogs.

Many of these symptoms accompany the type of personalities that post hate filled blogs so do not take this as a recommendation to take these medications. Please consult your physician. Especially you guys listed below.

Flipsidedown
CheckItOut
CarteBlanche
SpyMaster
PatriotActs
 
Where Have All the Crazies Gone? CheckItOut/Flipsidedown/PatriotActs/CarteBlanche/Spymaster
11.04.04 (6:29 am)   [edit]
The extreme bloggers on the Kerry side of the equation must be in deep depression right now. I can sympathize with them since a Kerry win might have done the same to me. For some though, the election result must come especially hard. A few names come to mind.

Flipsidedown
CheckItOut
CarteBlanche
SpyMaster
PatriotActs


I notice that Flipsidedown is hard to find. He sent me a pre-election gloat tmail about the polls showing that Kerry was gaining momentum. In his self-satisfied way, he confirmed what I already knew. The extremists on the pro-Kerry side were deluding themselves into a great comedown.

For those of you who are in a very low place right now, here is a list of medications that might help.

Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Prozac
Celexa, Effexor, Luvox, Paxil


The kind of depression that will most likely benefit from treatment with medications is more than just "the blues." It's a condition that's prolonged, lasting 2 weeks or more, and interferes with a person's ability to carry on daily tasks and to enjoy activities that previously brought pleasure. The depressed person will seem sad, or "down," or may show a lack of interest in his surroundings. He may have trouble eating and lose weight (although some people eat more and gain weight when depressed). He may sleep too much or too little, have difficulty going to sleep, sleep restlessly, or awaken very early in the morning. He may speak of feeling guilty, worthless, or hopeless. He may complain that his thinking is slowed down. He may lack energy, feeling "everything's too much," or he might be agitated and jumpy. A person who is depressed may cry. He may think and talk about killing himself and may even make a suicide attempt.

Some people who are depressed have psychotic symptoms, such as delusions (false ideas) that are related to their depression. For instance, a psychotically depressed person might imagine that he is already dead, or "in hell in a country run by Bush," being punished, or that Bush is a Nazi, Fascist, Pig-Slime, Mass Murderer. Not everyone who is depressed has all these symptoms, but everyone who is depressed has at least some of them.

A depression can range in intensity from mild to severe. Antidepressants are used most widely for serious depressions, but they can also be helpful for some milder depressions. Antidepressants, although they are not "uppers" or stimulants, take away or reduce the symptoms of depression and help the depressed person feel the way he did before he became depressed. Antidepressants are also used for disorders characterized principally by anxiety. They can block the symptoms of panic, including rapid heartbeat, terror, dizziness, chest pains, nausea, and breathing problems. They can also be used to treat some phobias. Crazed blogging also is a symptom. See CheckItOut, PatriotActs, Flipsidedown, and CarteBlanche blogs.

Many of these symptoms accompany the type of personalities that post hate filled blogs so do not take this as a recommendation to take these medications. Please consult your physician. Especially you guys listed below.

Flipsidedown
CheckItOut
CarteBlanche
SpyMaster
PatriotActs




 
My Last Political Post Until After the Election
10.27.04 (8:45 pm)   [edit]
I think I got my point across to the Tbags on Tblog who post endless reams of
garbage and try to pass it off as discussion. There are few things more enjoyable
than throwing a wrench in the machinery of the propaganda bloggers supporting
Kerry. You guys are out of control. Sometimes it is downright funny as I wonder
what kind of brain creates such paranoia.

Here is the deal.

I am joining the voter pool set up by angiekruger. Yes, it is likely true that
she used the honeypot method to win me over. That can be taken two ways if you
know your Russian Spycraft or it could be the tbucks.
Regardless, she politely asked me to join and in my weakness I have sold out.

One of the rules is no more political posts until the election is over.

Now, one thing that bothered me is that so many anti-Bush bloggers will continue
on their merry way to smear their bile against Bush while I will not be here
to defend him. The more I thought about it, the more I realize that you guys
with your screaming-crazyman-Bush-i s-a-Nazi screeds are actually doing harm
to your boy Kerry.

Not many reasonable souls want to join the side or crazed lunatics.

So, considering all of these things, I will sign off as flipsidown and vote
this Tuesday.

I cast my vote for Bush.



 
ABC News Reports That Iraqis Overstated Lost Explosives
10.27.04 (7:05 pm)   [edit]
It looks like the NYT and CBS lied again. Here is something that more likely resembles the truth.


Oct. 27, 2004 — Iraqi officials may be overstating the amount of explosives reported to have disappeared from a weapons depot, documents obtained by ABC News show.


The Iraqi interim government has told the United States and international weapons inspectors that 377 tons of conventional explosives are missing from the Al-Qaqaa installation, which was supposed to be under U.S. military control.

But International Atomic Energy Agency documents obtained by ABC News and first reported on "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" indicate the amount of missing explosives may be substantially less than the Iraqis reported.

The information on which the Iraqi Science Ministry based an Oct. 10 memo in which it reported that 377 tons of RDX explosives were missing — presumably stolen due to a lack of security — was based on "declaration" from July 15, 2002. At that time, the Iraqis said there were 141 tons of RDX explosives at the facility.

But the confidential IAEA documents obtained by ABC News show that on Jan. 14, 2003, the agency's inspectors recorded that just over 3 tons of RDX was stored at the facility — a considerable discrepancy from what the Iraqis reported.

The IAEA documents could mean that 138 tons of explosives were removed from the facility long before the start of the United States launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in March 2003.

The missing explosives have become an issue in the presidential campaign. Sen. John Kerry has pointed to the disappearance as evidence of the Bush administration's poor handling of the war. The Bush camp has responded that more than a thousand times that amount of explosives or munitions have been recovered or destroyed in Iraq.

Another Concern

The IAEA documents from January 2003 found no discrepancy in the amount of the more dangerous HMX explosives thought to be stored at Al-Qaqaa, but they do raise another disturbing possibility.

The documents show IAEA inspectors looked at nine bunkers containing more than 194 tons of HMX at the facility. Although these bunkers were still under IAEA seal, the inspectors said the seals may be potentially ineffective because they had ventilation slats on the sides. These slats could be easily removed to remove the materials inside the bunkers without breaking the seals, the inspectors noted.

ABC News' Martha Raddatz filed this report for "World News Tonight." Luis Martinez contributed to this report.

 
Explosives Lost in Iraq Taken By Russians
10.27.04 (6:59 pm)   [edit]
I found this on DrudgReport. It seems as if the NYT and CBS just wanted to give Kerry something to work with for the last week before the election.

GERTZ // THURSDAY // WASH TIMES: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
 
Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms
10.27.04 (6:58 pm)   [edit]
Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms

By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.
John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units."
Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloguing the tons of conventional arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi weapons collaboration.
Most of Saddam's most powerful arms were systematically separated from other arms like mortars, bombs and rockets, and sent to Syria and Lebanon, and possibly to Iran, he said.
The Russian involvement in helping disperse Saddam's weapons, including some 380 tons of RDX and HMX is still being investigated, Mr. Shaw said.
The RDX and HMX, which are used to manufacture high-explosive and nuclear weapons, are probably of Russian origin, he said.
Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita could not be reached for comment.
The disappearance of the material was reported in a letter Oct. 10 from the Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Disclosure of the missing explosives Monday in a New York Times story was used by the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, who accused the Bush administration of failing to secure the material.
Al-Qaqaa, a known Iraqi weapons site, was monitored closely, Mr. Shaw said.
"That was such a pivotal location, Number 1, that the mere fact of [special explosives] disappearing was impossible," Mr. Shaw said. "And Number 2, if the stuff disappeared, it had to have gone before we got there."
The Pentagon disclosed yesterday that the Al-Qaqaa facility was defended by Fedayeen Saddam, Special Republican Guard and other Iraqi military units during the conflict. U.S. forces defeated the defenders around April 3 and found the gates to the facility open, the Pentagon said in a statement yesterday.
A military unit in charge of searching for weapons, the Army's 75th Exploitation Task Force, then inspected Al-Qaqaa on May 8, May 11 and May 27, 2003, and found no high explosives that had been monitored in the past by the IAEA.
The Pentagon said there was no evidence of large-scale movement of explosives from the facility after April 6.
"The movement of 377 tons of heavy ordnance would have required dozens of heavy trucks and equipment moving along the same roadways as U.S. combat divisions occupied continually for weeks prior to and subsequent to the 3rd Infantry Division's arrival at the facility," the statement said.
The statement also said that the material may have been removed from the site by Saddam's regime.
According to the Pentagon, U.N. arms inspectors sealed the explosives at Al-Qaqaa in January 2003 and revisited the site in March and noted that the seals were not broken.
It is not known if the inspectors saw the explosives in March. The U.N. team left the country before the U.S.-led invasion began March 20, 2003.
A second defense official said documents on the Russian support to Iraq reveal that Saddam's government paid the Kremlin for the special forces to provide security for Iraq's Russian arms and to conduct counterintelligence activities designed to prevent U.S. and Western intelligence services from learning about the arms pipeline through Syria.
The Russian arms-removal program was initiated after Yevgeny Primakov, the former Russian intelligence chief, could not convince Saddam to give in to U.S. and Western demands, this official said.
A small portion of Iraq's 650,000 tons to 1 million tons of conventional arms that were found after the war were looted after the U.S.-led invasion, Mr. Shaw said. Russia was Iraq's largest foreign supplier of weaponry, he said.
However, the most important and useful arms and explosives appear to have been separated and moved out as part of carefully designed program. "The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict," Mr. Shaw said.
The Russian forces were tasked with moving special arms out of the country.
Mr. Shaw said foreign intelligence officials believe the Russians worked with Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service to separate out special weapons, including high explosives and other arms and related technology, from standard conventional arms spread out in some 200 arms depots.
The Russian weapons were then sent out of the country to Syria, and possibly Lebanon in Russian trucks, Mr. Shaw said.
Mr. Shaw said he believes that the withdrawal of Russian-made weapons and explosives from Iraq was part of plan by Saddam to set up a "redoubt" in Syria that could be used as a base for launching pro-Saddam insurgency operations in Iraq.
The Russian units were dispatched beginning in January 2003 and by March had destroyed hundreds of pages of documents on Russian arms supplies to Iraq while dispersing arms to Syria, the second official said.
Besides their own weapons, the Russians were supplying Saddam with arms made in Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and other Eastern European nations, he said.
"Whatever was not buried was put on lorries and sent to the Syrian border," the defense official said.
Documents reviewed by the official included itineraries of military units involved in the truck shipments to Syria. The materials outlined in the documents included missile components, MiG jet parts, tank parts and chemicals used to make chemical weapons, the official said.
The director of the Iraqi government front company known as the Al Bashair Trading Co. fled to Syria, where he is in charge of monitoring arms holdings and funding Iraqi insurgent activities, the official said.
Also, an Arabic-language report obtained by U.S. intelligence disclosed the extent of Russian armaments. The 26-page report was written by Abdul Tawab Mullah al Huwaysh, Saddam's minister of military industrialization, who was captured by U.S. forces May 2, 2003.
The Russian "spetsnaz" or special-operations forces were under the GRU military intelligence service and organized large commercial truck convoys for the weapons removal, the official said.
Regarding the explosives, the new Iraqi government reported that 194.7 metric tons of HMX, or high-melting-point explosive, and 141.2 metric tons of RDX, or rapid-detonation explosive, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, were missing.
The material is used in nuclear weapons and also in making military "plastic" high explosive.
Defense officials said the Russians can provide information on what happened to the Iraqi weapons and explosives that were transported out of the country. Officials believe the Russians also can explain what happened to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.


 
Nuclear Safety Means Missile Defense
10.27.04 (7:50 am)   [edit]
If you want any protection against planned or errant nuclear missiles directed toward the USA, you want a missile defense.

John Kerry has promised to end our program on missile defense and previously he has voted against any program planned for missile defense including SDI dubbed star wars by the leftmedia.

Bush restarted the missile defense program after it sat in place for 8 years under Clinton.

Clinton stopped implementation of the missile defense program.

If you are against protecting yourself and your family against ballistic missiles vote for Kerry.

If you want protection from ballistic missiles vote for Bush.



 
Kerry 10,000 Lawyers Vote With Lawsuits
10.27.04 (3:49 am)   [edit]
Democrats have trained more than 10,000 lawyers for action, if needed, in Florida and other swing states. An estimated 2,000 Democratic attorneys are expected to be working in the Sunshine State on election issues. Republicans have not released their numbers but have said it will be enough to counter any legal moves by the Democrats.

"Last time, there was no preparation because there was no anticipation of what was going to happen," said Barry Richard, who argued Bush's case before the Florida Supreme Court in 2000 and is currently on standby as lead trial counsel if problems develop. "After learning the lesson of 2000, both sides have geared up early."

Stephen Zack, whose law partner David Boies argued Gore's case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, is the Kerry campaign's general counsel in Florida.

"We have enough lawyers to deal with any problems that come up, whether they happen in Key West or Pensacola," Zack said. "That should give comfort to the voters who get up on Election Day."

Democrats in Florida already are pursuing nine election-related lawsuits, accusing state election officials of conspiring to disenfranchise minority voters.
Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush's brother.
The suits say Republican officials refused to count provisional ballots, improperly disqualified incomplete voter registrations, established overly restrictive rules to disproportionately hurt minority voters and actively sought to disenfranchise blacks.
Matt Miller, a spokesman for the Kerry campaign, said Republicans are "trying to scare people away from the polls."
But Mrs. Hood's spokesman, Alia Faraj, described the lawsuits as politically motivated, saying they were eroding public confidence in the election process by challenging "every single law we are following."
 
Kerry Lawyers to Sue For Win - Better than Voting
10.27.04 (3:46 am)   [edit]
Democrats in Florida already are pursuing nine election-related lawsuits, accusing state election officials of conspiring to disenfranchise minority voters.
Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush's brother.
The suits say Republican officials refused to count provisional ballots, improperly disqualified incomplete voter registrations, established overly restrictive rules to disproportionately hurt minority voters and actively sought to disenfranchise blacks.
Matt Miller, a spokesman for the Kerry campaign, said Republicans are "trying to scare people away from the polls."
But Mrs. Hood's spokesman, Alia Faraj, described the lawsuits as politically motivated, saying they were eroding public confidence in the election process by challenging "every single law we are following."
 

Insurgents in Iraq Support Kerry
10.27.04 (3:39 am)   [edit]
Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S. insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear objective: The greater the violence, the greater the chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and the Americans will go home.
"If the U.S. Army suffered numerous humiliating losses, [Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John] Kerry would emerge as the superman of the American people," said Mohammad Amin Bashar, a leader of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line clerical group that vocally supports the resistance.
tierd of Tom?
Resistance leader Abu Jalal boasted that the mounting violence had already hurt Mr. Bush's chances.
"American elections and Iraq are linked tightly together," he told a Fallujah-based Iraqi reporter. "We've got to work to change the election, and we've done so. With our strikes, we've dragged Bush into the mud."
 
Some Kerry Bloggers live on Meth
10.26.04 (6:56 pm)   [edit]
Pick out the one blogger who dominates the blogger board. He must get the best stuff to keep him going like that. Too bad all the posts are nothing but Kerry Flack postings straight from the DNC. I think he is on the DNC payroll.

# No Occupation without representation - by: Genius

# Ohio Gov. Taft: Four Counties Have More Registrants than Eligible Voters - by: noguru

# Electoral Weapons of Mass Destruction - by: question

# MTV SHOWS ANTI_BUSH VIDEO BY EMINEM - by: flipsidedown

# Various Groups Work Towards Getting The Hip-Hop Vote To The Polls - by: flipsidedown

# Black Activists Backing Kerry Rally in N.Va. - by: flipsidedown

# Why Arab-Americans should vote for John Kerry - by: flipsidedown

# Get-out-the-vote drives seem to be working - by: flipsidedown

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Support for Kerry Strong
10.26.04 (6:35 pm)   [edit]
Among Terrorists:

Insurgent Abu Jalal: 'We've got to work to change the election, and we've done so. With our strikes, we've dragged Bush into the mud'...

 
Kerry - Met Madame Binh in Paris - Viet Cong
10.26.04 (5:50 am)   [edit]
One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.

Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides. But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh then promote her plan's demand for U.S. surrender.

"Whether he was consciously carrying out their direction or naively doing what they wanted, it amounted to the same thing -- he advanced their cause."
 
Kerry - The Communists Candidate
10.26.04 (5:48 am)   [edit]
One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.

Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides. But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh then promote her plan's demand for U.S. surrender.

"Whether he was consciously carrying out their direction or naively doing what they wanted, it amounted to the same thing -- he advanced their cause."
 
Kerry - The Viet Cong Candidate
10.26.04 (5:47 am)   [edit]
One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.

Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides. But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh then promote her plan's demand for U.S. surrender.

"Whether he was consciously carrying out their direction or naively doing what they wanted, it amounted to the same thing -- he advanced their cause."
 
Kerry Took Orders from Viet Cong and North Vietnamese
10.26.04 (5:46 am)   [edit]
One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.

Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides. But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh then promote her plan's demand for U.S. surrender.

"Whether he was consciously carrying out their direction or naively doing what they wanted, it amounted to the same thing -- he advanced their cause."
 
Pro Islam Flaks in Media Make Final Move For Kerry
10.26.04 (5:40 am)   [edit]

NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED...

The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.

[The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper could print. Executive producer Jeff Fager hoped to break the story during a high-impact election eve broadcast of 60 MINS on October 31.]

Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to "guard those stockpiles."

"This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration," Kerry said.

In an election week rush:

**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times

But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" title="http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" target="_blank"http://drudgereport.com/nbcw....
 
Pro Islam Kerry Flaks in Media Make Final Move For Kerry
10.26.04 (5:39 am)   [edit]

NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED...

The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.

[The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper could print. Executive producer Jeff Fager hoped to break the story during a high-impact election eve broadcast of 60 MINS on October 31.]

Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to "guard those stockpiles."

"This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration," Kerry said.

In an election week rush:

**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times

But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" title="http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" target="_blank"http://drudgereport.com/nbcw....
 
Dem Flaks in Media Make Final Move For Kerry
10.26.04 (5:38 am)   [edit]

NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED...

The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.

[The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper could print. Executive producer Jeff Fager hoped to break the story during a high-impact election eve broadcast of 60 MINS on October 31.]

Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to "guard those stockpiles."

"This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration," Kerry said.

In an election week rush:

**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times

But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" title="http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" target="_blank"http://drudgereport.com/nbcw....
 
New York Times Makes Final Move For Kerry
10.26.04 (4:21 am)   [edit]

NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED...

The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.

[The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper could print. Executive producer Jeff Fager hoped to break the story during a high-impact election eve broadcast of 60 MINS on October 31.]

Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to "guard those stockpiles."

"This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration," Kerry said.

In an election week rush:

**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times

But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" title="http://drudgereport.com/nbcw.htm" target="_blank"http://drudgereport.com/nbcw....