Wednesday, January 30, 2008

From the dept. of (sadly) funny b/c it's (bitterly) true

Submitted by dr on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:05pm.

Deep Thought

Maybe if Edwards had announced his exit from the race every week he would have gotten more media coverage.

-Atrios 13:55

Senator Feinstein,

Didn't You Vote To Approve This Guy ?

"I understand that you and some other members of the (Judiciary) Committee may feel that I should go further in my review, and answer questions concerning the legality of waterboarding under current law," Mukasey wrote to Leahy. "I understand the strong interest in this question, but I do not think it would be responsible for me, as attorney general, to provide an answer."

Didn't You Say This ?

"I do believe he will be a truly nonpolitical, nonpartisan attorney general; that he will make his views very clear; and that, once he has the opportunity to do the evaluation he believes he needs on waterboarding, he will be willing to come before the Judiciary Committee and express his views comprehensively and definitively," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, one of the six who voted with the majority for confirmation.

Praying For Your resignation !

Thank you,MMRules..A Democrat..

We Are Dreaming Along With You,Crank !

I Am Still Dreaming
new
Submitted by Crank Bait on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 10:11am.

I continue to hope that Edwards will remain on the outside, like Gore, to champion his effort to reform the influence of Big Money in political campaigns and lobby influence.

*******
Let us Not dream of greed and influence bought by monatary means..
Let us Dream for The Poor,The Middle Class and Real Political Election Reform ! :)


"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Friday, January 25, 2008

NH VIDEO: 'Shame of Custody' - Breakdown in Ballot Storage Procedures in New Hampshire Primary 'Recount'.

SoS Refuses to Given Reason for Failing to Secure Ballots in Vault; Counting Room With Ballots Sealed Only by Removable 'Post-It Note' as 'Security Seal'...
Blogged by Brad, from on the road...

Behold the "chain of custody" for the ballots in New Hampshire's ongoing Election Contest hand counts. The man seen in the still frame below, on the right, is NH Sec. of State Bill Gardner...

Con't-Link to Video

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Sad about Suzanne Pleshette



A Very Pretty and,funny woman..Looks abit like my late Wife in this picture......

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Hillary vs Obama



Thanks Lucille ! :)

Thursday, January 10, 2008

FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills !

Domestic Surveillance ! ?



By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 10, 2008; 5:49 PM

The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem paying its phone bills on time, according to audit results released today.

Telephone companies have repeatedly cut off FBI wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because of failures to pay telecommunication bills, the audit found.

The report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine also found that more than half of the nearly 1,000 telecommunications bills reviewed by investigators were not paid on time, including one invoice for $66,000 at one unidentified field office.

"Late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence," Fine wrote in a seven-page summary of the audit's findings.

The report identified one case in which an order obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- which covers clandestine wiretaps of terrorism and espionage suspects -- was halted because of "untimely payment."

The audit is the latest in a string of reports from Fine's office over the past seven years to detail chronic financial and inventory management problems at the bureau, including a persistent failure to account for hundreds of guns and laptop computers.

Con't-WaPo

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Full Metal Hack ! !



Glenn Beck,talking about his recent botched surgery (of which exactly he didn't divulge)(Hemorrhoids-Hee !), railing against the hospital where he was treated, (comparing his own plight with that of the soldiers at rat-infested Walter Reed Hospital) and how the mistrreatment and lack of compassion from hospital staff made him almost "full fledged suicidal." Vincent D'Onofrio pulled this act off better in that infamous bathroom scene from Full Metal Jacket.



Link-LTR

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Can You Count on Voting Machines? Hell No !

Faith Based Voting !

By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: January 6, 2008

iVotronic touchscreen voting machines in a warehouse in Pittsburgh.

Jane Platten gestured, bleary-eyed, into the secure room filled with voting machines. It was 3 a.m. on Nov. 7, and she had been working for 22 hours straight. “I guess we’ve seen how technology can affect an election,” she said. The electronic voting machines in Cleveland were causing trouble again.

For a while, it had looked as if things would go smoothly for the Board of Elections office in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. About 200,000 voters had trooped out on the first Tuesday in November for the lightly attended local elections, tapping their choices onto the county’s 5,729 touch-screen voting machines. The elections staff had collected electronic copies of the votes on memory cards and taken them to the main office, where dozens of workers inside a secure, glass-encased room fed them into the “GEMS server,” a gleaming silver Dell desktop computer that tallies the votes.

Then at 10 p.m., the server suddenly froze up and stopped counting votes. Cuyahoga County technicians clustered around the computer, debating what to do. A young, business-suited employee from Diebold — the company that makes the voting machines used in Cuyahoga — peered into the screen and pecked at the keyboard. No one could figure out what was wrong. So, like anyone faced with a misbehaving computer, they simply turned it off and on again. VoilĂ : It started working — until an hour later, when it crashed a second time. Again, they rebooted. By the wee hours, the server mystery still hadn’t been solved.

Worse was yet to come. When the votes were finally tallied the next day, 10 races were so close that they needed to be recounted. But when Platten went to retrieve paper copies of each vote — generated by the Diebold machines as they worked — she discovered that so many printers had jammed that 20 percent of the machines involved in the recounted races lacked paper copies of some of the votes. They weren’t lost, technically speaking; Platten could hit “print” and a machine would generate a replacement copy. But she had no way of proving that these replacements were, indeed, what the voters had voted. She could only hope the machines had worked correctly.

Con't-NYT 17 Page Article

Sunday -- Opus :)

You believe in God, but what about walrus angels?

Opus-Link


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Friday, January 4, 2008

Tweety was Snarky about Edwards..

What an Ass !




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Why I Won't Be Voting For A 3rd Party Candidate For President !

Or,a Rethug !




There's a Big possibility that the Next President will have to replace 2
Supreme Court Justices !!

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