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| They knew. | | Date Created: Sep 04, 2005, 10:34 PM |
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The Columbus group Christians for Life put out this picture. They say God was punishing Americans for abortions, that's why the radar looks like a fetus. A quote from Rev. Bill Shanks:
“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."
I suppose once everyone is dead, then sin will be eradicated. I guess God really hates poor, black people. Fucking nutjob.
But...
No one could say they didn't see it coming(1). They knew(2). They knew(3). They knew the levee would break(4). They knew and they didn't act(5) and cut the budget. The New Orleans fishbowl was one of the three biggest disasters predicted to hit the US, natural or domestic. Even Mr. Bill (6)knew. So why wasn't FEMA prepared for the hurricane? Maybe, it's boss was a talentless hack fired from a previous job (7)for mismanagement who had no disaster experience? FEMA's director also had no experience and was just a fundraiser for the president. FEMA botched it (8). But, then again, there's a disconnect (9)between reality and wishes. Belief always wins in the belief V. facts debate. So, they fucked up the evac.(10) They fucked up the evac (11). Even people away from the Big Easy were ignored (12). The dead will be bigger (13)than 9/11, but don't expect the President to shout remember 9/01 at every fundraiser. He's passing the buck. (14). He's shifting the blame , blame the poor (15). Of course, the rich got out (16). Halliburton cash in (17) on the perfect storm (18). Of course, the National Guard wasn't depleted (19) because of the botched war. It won't effect the elections in Iraq (20). This is a combat operation (21). Shoot to kill (22). Use sonic lasers (23). Ban the Red Cross (24). Ignore the other party (25). Create a Photo Op (26) that causes more harm (27) than good, all because of political pressure (28), not because it was the human thing to do. Aid was rejected (29) and the bodies were hidden (30).
I'm only stopping now because I put a limit of thirty links about this human castrophy behind this narural disaster. I could make 300 more. Easily, and that's without resorting to the disaster porn that runs on the cable news. Our president and much of the brains behind this relief effort needs to be fired. We are not a third world nation. Third world nations have better response times. When a vegatative white women was in a politically advantagous coma, Bush dumped his vacation to sign unconstitutional legislation. When 10,000 poor people are dying he's playing golf and having cake. The administration will try to spin, spin spin, but don't believe them.
Just remember this timeline (culled from various sources) of the hurricane. When you tell people to leave, you must help them with a method. I'll put some links in another post. Here's the timeline:
The Beginnings of Hurricane Katrina:
Hurricane Katrina hit Florida late Thursday, August 25th, as a Category 1 hurricane. 9 people were killed. The storm then moved into the Gulf of Mexico, where it gained momentum and power. Below is a timeline of events over the next few days as the Bush administration ignored one of the biggest natural disasters ever to strike the United States.
Saturday, August 27th
Forecasters are predicting that Hurricane Katrina will hit Louisiana and Mississipi early Monday – and that it probably would be a Category 3 or 4 storm. Gulf Coast communities began to ask their residents to evacuate. Meteorologist warn that Katrina has the potential to be a major hurricane.
Bush was at his vacation home in Crawford Texas – avoiding Cindy Sheehan and the dueling protests outside his ranch and delivered his weekly radio address – asking for patience in Iraq – and saying that it will take more time for U.S. troops to complete their work in Iraq.
5pm – Mayor Ray Nagin called for a voluntary evacuation of the city. Greyhound & Amtrak stop service in New Orleans late Saturday Night.
Sunday, August 28th
At 11am - Mayor Ray Nagin orders mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. Experts predict that Hurricane Katrina will hit the city with all the force and power of a Category 5 storm – and that 60-80% of the city’s homes will be destroyed.
"All indications are that this is absolutely worst-case scenario," Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, said Sunday afternoon.
Bush is still on vacation at his Crawford ranch. He holds a press conference in a helicopter hanger at his Crawford Texas Ranch – taking a moment to urge Gulf Coast residents to evacuate before hailing the Iraqi draft constitution an inspiring success.
Governors of Louisiana and Mississippi request additional security forces from the federal government.
Monday, August 29th
Katrina hit land at 6:10am.
The storm hammered the Gulf Coast with huge waves and tree-bending winds. Exploding transformers lit up the predawn sky in Mobile, Ala., while tree limbs littered roads and a blinding rain whipped up sand on the deserted beach of Gulfport, Miss.
Katrina's fury also was felt at the Louisiana Superdome, which became the shelter of last resort for the area's poor, homeless and frail.
Electrical power at the Superdome failed at 5:02 a.m., but the backup power runs only reduced lighting and cannot run the air conditioning.
Entire neighborhoods were submerged up to the roofs. Numerous people had to be rescued from rooftops and attics as the floodwaters rose higher and higher.
President Bush hits the road to promote prescription-drug plan to. His first stop is Arizona, where he eats birthday cake with Senator John McCain and talks to senior citizens in Phoenix at a golf resort.
In late afternoon, there are early reports of broken levees. The National Weather Service reported that a levee broke on the Industrial Canal near the St. Bernard-Orleans parish line.
President Bush travels to Southern California to talk to more seniors about changes to Medicare. He also plays golf. He spends the evening in San Diego to prepare for a Tuesday speech commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War Two.
Tuesday, August 30th
Breaches in at least two levees allowed water from Lake Pontchartrain to inundate sections of New Orleans. Officials planned to use helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags into the breach. Those helicopters were diverted to rescue missions.
An estimated 80 percent of New Orleans was under water, up to 20 feet deep in places, with miles and miles of homes swamped.
Unknown number of deaths.
Thousands remained in New Orleans Superdome, where storm ripped two holes in the vast roof; authorities forbid them to leave.
With a San Diego naval base and the USS Ronald Regan as a backdrop , the president made a speech to celebrate the anniversary of V-J day two weeks after the actual Aug. 14, 1945 anniversary. He compared WWII to Iraq and gave a fresh reason for American troops to continue fighting: protection of the Iraq's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorists. He spends 90 seconds of a 40 minute speech on Hurricane Katrina.
New Orleans Mayor, former Mayor, and Louisiana’s governor make continued appeals for Federal Aid.
Afterwards, President Bush plays a guitar presented to him by Country Singer Mark Wills, backstage following his visit to Naval Base Coronado, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. He then flies back to his vacation home in Crawford.
Wednesday August 31st
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says Hurricane Katrina probably killed thousands of people - an estimate that, if accurate, would make the storm the nation's deadliest natural disaster since at least the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Bodies are starting to pile up at the morgue in Mississippi's Harrison County, with 40 corpses having been brought there already. Authorities have said the final death toll in the county will end up well above 100.
Health and Human Services Department declares a public health emergency, sends medical supplies, hospital beds and public health officers.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco asks the White House to send more people to help with evacuations and rescues, thereby freeing up National Guardsmen to stop out-of-control looters.
President George W. Bush and his top advisers held a video conference on the Gulf Coast disaster. Most of the staff was still on vacation and away from Washington. Afterwards he flew back to Washington to coordinate the federal response
Bush cut short his working vacation in Texas by two days. Vice President Dick Cheney was still on vacation in Wyoming. White House chief of staff Andy Card was still in Maine
As Bush returns to Washington he does a flyover of devastated areas on Air Force One.
The President makes a recess appointment. RNC sends a desperate appeal to cut the estate tax. Hastert says it’s a bad idea to rebuild New Orleans.
More than 20 countries offer aid.
That evening Condi Rice goes to see Spamalot.
Thursday, September 1st
In the face of report after report that the levees were known to be vulnerable – Bush does an interview on Good Morning America and tells Diane Sawyer that no one expected the levees to break.
Looting, carjacking and other violence spread in the Gulf Coast region, with even rescuers being attacked.
The New Orleans mayor estimated the death toll in his city to be in the hundreds is not thousands. He pleaded for buses and supplies for survivors, saying, "This is a desperate SOS."
Half a day after the military began evacuating the Superdome, the arena held 10,000 more people than it did at dawn. Evacuees thinking it's the best place to get a ride out of town poured into the Superdome and swelled the crowd to about 30,000.
Frustration grew among the thousands still awaiting help at the New Orleans Convention Center, where bodies lie among the living. Earlier, helicopter transfers of the sick and injured at the Superdome were suspended amid security concerns.
Bush discusses relief efforts with Diane Sawyer – plans to tour area.
1pm - Condi Rice goes Shopping for Shoes on 5th Ave.
Dick Cheney is still on vacation.
By the end of the day, approximately 7400 National Guard troops were to be in Louisiana, up from 4700 that morning.
The Senate and House convenes to issue $10 billion aid package.
Dennis Hastert goes to a fundraiser in Indiana.
And where was FEMA?
Embarassing.
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| New JCD podcast | | Date Created: Aug 30, 2005, 10:06 PM |
 I have a new podcast.
It is here.
Today is my birthday.
I am old. |
| Herione Trip #1 | | Date Created: Aug 20, 2005, 07:01 PM |
 The random ramblings of a teenager, Zeb. This is a temporary place until I have a libsyn account. |
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| Super Mega Christian Store | | Date Created: Aug 04, 2005, 12:16 AM |
 My favorite paragraph from an article about Christian businesses in Salon:
Thus, for many born-again Christians, every action -- from prayer to wheel alignment -- is an opportunity to glorify God, perhaps even spread the Gospel. "I got saved at an Amway meeting, so the marketplace is where I invite Christ into my life," says Chuck Ripka, 46, co-founder of Riverview Community Bank in Otsego, Minn. ("We invited Jesus to be the CEO of our bank," he says, attributing the bank's "supernatural" growth -- from $5.5 million in start-up capital to $103 million in 27 months -- to divine intervention.) While the bank's name may sound generic (and the company Web site is "God"-free), the Ten Commandments banner in the foyer, the "God Bless You" sign at the tellers station, and the painting in the CEO's office of two businessmen shaking hands with Jesus, might tip customers off. "God has allowed us to be who we are: We're Christians and we're bankers, and we're allowed to mix the two. To me, it's seamless. We're a bank first, but in the midst of it all, when customers express their own needs, I am able to pray along with them," says Ripka, who customarily asks God's blessing for reporters at the end of interviews.
(You put that Jesus-Business-Deal painting in velvet and, no doubt, you'd have youself the touchstone icon for an emerging cult.)
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| Be a Patriot Pastor | | Date Created: Jun 02, 2005, 10:00 AM |
 For Preacherman,
From the guy who brought us the Ohio vote fraud in 2004, Ken Blackwell, comes the Ohio Restoration Project.
Be a Patriot Pastor!
You're either wth America or against God.
Here's some Highlights of this exciting, new political/marketing effort:
We will host seven Pastor Policy Briefings in the cities mentioned above from March through September.
Six weeks prior to the gathering, this will require a site inspection team of Pastor Russell and key leaders from the area. Marketing packets will be distributed through these meetings to ensure as many leaders as possible being in attendance at these Pastor Policy Briefings. All seven of these Policy Briefings will include informational packets on the Ohio for Jesus pastor's gathering in late October to early November in 2005.
We will encourage ministers across the state of Ohio to become Patriot Pastors. Patriot Pastors will be challenged to:
• Preach and inform their congregations on issues relevant to the Christian Community. These ministers of the Gospel who are needed to encourage their church families to be engaged in the culture as a light set on a hill that refuses to be hid.
• Help build a network of addresses and e-mails that will equip concerned Christians to become informed “Minutemen” of our day. Patriot Pastors will work towards adding 200 names to our statewide mailing and 100 e-mails. We presently have 60,000 names on our AFA Ohio mailing and 55,000 on other lists that have been made available. This does not include the 55,215 e-mailing addresses that we currently have. We would like to build that to a total of 300,000 on the mailing list and 100,000 e-mail addresses. In a single day, we could educate and mobilize hundreds of thousands who are able to pray at a moment's notice. A website could be developed helping thousands of families to have access to information that equips these folks to make a stand.
• Host nonpartisan voter registration drives in their churches. Patriot Pastors will work toward registering 300 new voters by April 2006. These can be solicited in nonpartisan registration drives in a variety of ways. There are 88 counties with more than 7,000 churches. If we could see 00,000 new registered voters involved in the process, this would be a serious step towards the “Stewardship of our Citizenship.”
• Include Voter Guides and inserts provided from Christian Coalition, American Family Association, and Center For Moral Clarity. Informed voters appreciate these tools in discovering where candidates stand on the issues. These Voter Guides are great tools to help engage their communities with conviction and confidence. These guides help clarify the positions of various candidates who, at times, would like to remain vague and noncommittal.
• Mobilize voter participation through transportation for the elderly, childcare for young families, congregational prayer meetings for elections, praying for those candidates requesting prayer, being involved and engaged as “salt and light” within the culture.
• Encourage their church families to participate in Pastor Policy Briefings and regional “God and Country Rallies” where the issues of the day are underscored and highlighted and the Judeo-Christian ethic is affirmed. Nationally known speakers Franklin Graham, Zell Miller, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, Bob McEwen, Pastor Lawrence White, Pastor Rod Parsley, Ambassador Alan Keyes, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Chuck Colson, Pat Robertson and Tony Perkins will be asked to participate.
• 6 - Ohio Patriot Pastors Gathering in mid-November at World Harvest Church with national Christian and Political leaders.
• On this morning we have invited James Dobson, Franklin Graham, Pastor Parsley, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, and Congressman Bob McEwen.
• We have invited 2,000+ Pastors and they will take with them Marketing Packets for the OHIO for JESUS Rally in late February to early March. (This still gives them enough time to go home and host Voter Registration days in March and April in time for the May primary.)
• The Ohio Patriot Pastors' Briefing will begin at 9:00 a.m. with two great speakers before lunch, lunch on the property, and two keynote speakers after lunch with the Main Voice being the last that will speak and encourage.
• 7 - OHIO for JESUS Rally in late February to early March we are planning on a Saturday early in the afternoon with two great speakers and a couple of key vocalists. Franklin Graham and Pastor Rod Parsley or Chuck Colson will join with Ohio in honoring James Dobson, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, Tony Perkins, and Phil Burress for their contribution to the Cause of Christ and their stand for Biblical marriage. This will be done in a 2-3 hour gathering.
• 25,000 people will to leave there:
• Informed
• Registered
• Involved
• Encouraging others to be involved
(Sorry for the weird HTML, I just copy and pasted.)
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| Real ID, Real BS | | Date Created: May 06, 2005, 04:46 PM |
Remember all that Republican yada-yada about more privacy, less gub'ment?
Well, another gigantic omnibus bill just passed in the House (omnibus means stuff can be sneaked in) and in it---
A National ID card.
Conspiracy fans ahoy.
In other news, the US was rated as the 24th freest press in the world. So it's no surprise we didn't hear about 'cause some bride went nuts and skipped town.
But at least next time she hops a bus, she'll have to have an eyeball scan and show ID.
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| Updated | | Date Created: May 05, 2005, 11:22 AM |
 Been away for a while.
i have a new job in Lincoln and I've moved down here.
Just updated to Tiger and testing out a few features.
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| Blog back | | Date Created: Feb 21, 2005, 11:03 PM |
I got the old blog mostly back.
Here's a song that mostly describes my relation to faith. More soul baring to come. Pain for your pleasure before the whole thing gets shut down.
Oh, I'm not unemployed anymore. Well, at least not to the governement. There's no more unemployment checks, the six months are up. They don't count you if you don't have a check coming and your old job's been refilled. Keeps those unemployment rates low.
Of course, I still haven't found work. But now, I'm another kind of statistic.
Oblivion ahoy. |
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| The Door | | Date Created: Jan 02, 2005, 01:46 PM |
 From The Door:
Dear President Bush,
Thanks for doing all you can to defend God's Law. I understand and agree with your proposed constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. Whenever one of these unbelievers tries to defend "his" or "her" homosexual lifestyle to me, I simply remind them that The Book of Leviticus brands it an abomination. God said it. I believe it. And that's it. End of conversation.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding a few other elements of God's Law:
· Leviticus says I can possess slaves, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. I don't understand. Why can't I own Canadians?
· I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus. Considering her like-new condition, what do you think would be a fair asking price?
· I know that I am not allowed contact with a woman who is menstruating because she is ceremonially unclean. The problem is how do I know if she is or isn't? Most women are offended when I ask.
· When I burn a sacrificial bull on our family altar, I know it creates an odor pleasing to the Lord, but my neighbors say it is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
· I have a neighbor who, in spite of the death penalty prescribed in Exodus, insists on working on the Sabbath. Am I obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
· I know Leviticus says that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but can I play football if I wear wool gloves?
· My aunt wears garments made of two kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). She also curses a lot. Do we really have to get the whole town together to stone her? Couldn't we just burn her to death at a private family affair?
Mr. President, I know you have studied Torah extensively and possess considerable expertise in these weightier matters of the law, so I am confident you can help me. And thanks again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging. |
| ipodderX | | Date Created: Dec 16, 2004, 04:54 PM |
 Playing around with the new ipod, I've just started listening to the new podcasting programs using ipodderX. All the Air America programing is there as well as a bunch of music shows. There's already almost 1,300 different shows to download and listen to and you don't need an ipod to do it. You can just listen on your computer. Of course this is another innovation driven by macs, but the PC's are catching up. Plus Qwest just upgraded my DSL to 1.5, so the downloading is painless and fast.
Anyway, I'm looking into posting on this ippoder network all my old radio shows, which you can get at gebryan.com, then making some new shows. I wonder about all the RIAA craziness and I've heard other copywrited music on some of the shows. I'll have to look into it, it does seem like a place the RIAA will go after.
Everybody can have their own radio show or talk show or whatever. I just haven't figured out the best way to post the shows. It's all RSS generated as well and uses that infrastructure. I do have enough space on my .mac to post a show at a time, but need to look into it. |
| New Catagory | | Date Created: Dec 15, 2004, 03:38 AM |
 I know I haven't posted a lot lately. I blame World of Warcraft. But I should start posting more stuff. I even added a category so the picture fits better. Oh, The pictures rotate. They'll be about 80. They come from Typo Generator.
Here's a cartoon from The Door.
And this is a new category, Media. I'll put, um, media here. Ok, so all the categories blur together. I've also added some other stuff. |
| Chr'mas came early | | Date Created: Dec 03, 2004, 12:04 AM |
 So I was in Sam's Club tonight doing some Christmas shopping. I have some credit there and saw ipods for a crazy low price. It's just a 20 gig ipod (I have approx. 110 gigs of music on my hard drive---all legal), but it came with all the stuff to hook it up as a car stereo and that's exactly what I needed to replace the crapped out CD player. The ipod was co-branded with HP, but is still an apple ipod.
Already on the internet, I've downloaded some extra programs to give that puppy more functionality. I can read e-mail, get directions, and have all my calendars all sync'ed up. I also downloaded a program to do some podcasting. Eventually, I can serve all my shows to other ipoders. I've already downloaded some other people's radio or pod shows. It's swell. There's a lot of interesting talent out there making radio shows just to do it.
Anyway, if you were thinking of getting me a Christmas present, there's no need. I know this sounds like a grinch, but cash would be fine. Just to help on the cost of this lust item. I know, I suck all the fun out of the gift-giving season, but come drive around with me and we'll listen to music.
Oh, and I picked up World of Warcraft. I haven't installed it yet, I'll do it in a few days after the weekend so the free trial lasts a bit longer. kel and I will have seperate accounts. He's getting it from his aunt for Christmas. (I know, we totally suck the surprise out of Christmas.)
And I swallowed a tooth. I was reading the WoW manual at KFC and yanked out one of those molded teeth the dentist put in two months ago and swallowed it. Didn't even realize it until I took a cold drink.
Also had some good ideas for other people's presents, but no buying yet.
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| SCLM | | Date Created: Dec 01, 2004, 12:45 AM |
 Here's another example of the liberal media stifling religion in America. Plastic has more on the story.
Wait, maybe this isn't the best example.
Hey, here's a completely unrelated game. Who's the boy in the picture and why is he in the news? |
| Starving the Beast Pt. 1 | | Date Created: Nov 18, 2004, 07:36 PM |
 From Tapped, but it's been reported many places:
NO FLAT TAX, BUT... All the world's been wondering what, exactly, the president had in mind when he claimed the election results were a mandate for a comprehensive tax reform plan he didn't bother to propose during the election election. Based on The Washington Post's account, it's pretty easy to see why he didn't campaign on the issue:
The Bush administration is eyeing an overhaul of the tax code that would drastically cut, if not eliminate, taxes on savings and investment, but it is unlikely to try to replace the existing tax code with a single flat income tax rate or a national sales tax, according to several sources familiar with ongoing tax deliberations. . . .
The changes are meant to be revenue-neutral. To pay for them, the administration is considering eliminating the deduction of state and local taxes on federal income tax returns and scrapping the business tax deduction for employer-provided health insurance, the advisers said. . . .
The administration will also push hard for large savings accounts that could shelter thousands of dollars of deposits each year from taxation on investment gains, according to White House economic advisers who have been involved with the planning. And any tax reform, according to Treasury Department officials, would likely eliminate the alternative minimum tax, a parallel income tax designed to ensure that the rich pay income taxes but one that increasingly ensnares the middle class.
I count three tax cuts for the wealthy here offset by two tax hikes on the middle class. One particularly cunning aspect of the plan is that once the estate tax elimination is fully phased in, if you happen to inherit a large fortune that provides enough income to live off of without working, you'll never need to pay any taxes at all. Note that if the problem with the Alternative Minimum Tax is that it was "designed to ensure that the rich pay income taxes but one that increasingly ensnares the middle class," the solution is to raise the threshold at which the AMT kicks in and index it to inflation so this doesn't happen again. Eliminating the AMT isn't a way to help the middle class, it's a way to undermine efforts to "ensure that the rich pay income taxes."
(Back to JCD)
...Eliminating the Business Tax credit for health insurance will only insure many will not get health coverage. Just in the last 5 years, my health insurance and lots of others I know has decreased in benefits while increasing in deductables. So, how much to buy into the new privatization? Do you have 30,000 laying around? Plus that state tax credit elimination hits the middle class the hardest.
Relieving taxes for wealth, increasing taxes for work, that's the new way.
Starving the Beast Pt. 2
I heard an interesting plan to get more bodies into the Army. It's not coming, but boy is it evil and ingenious. So tell the policy makers, Starving the Beast while the rich get richer is the new way to be fiscally irresponsible. (Hey, we just raised the debt ceiling again. We should have raised it in October, but the budget director admitted to fudging, er, lying, so it wouldn't come out before the election. Remember the 1990's when the Repubs threatened to shut down the government if the ceiling was raised? Oh, where are you Newt Gingrich? Save us from your party.)
Anyway, here's how we get more bodies into the Army.
Because of this crazy 1929-style debt problem, we gotta cut all student loans, aid and other monies for college and college bound students and even those already in college. However, we'll foot some of the bill or give the loan if you go into the military, full-time or reservist. It doesn't matter which, 40-50 percent of the troops now in Iraq are reservists.
So, the rich still get to get out of the draft, they can wholesale pay for college. The middle class is split, half don't go to college and the other half go into the military.
The poor, well, the poor still goes into the military.
Other bonuses, college enrollment is down, so there's less pointy-headed intellectual liberals hanging around influencing minds and writing pesky books. Community colleges, what Gee Dub said was the future for the working class, may actually go up some, so we'll never run out of underpaid refridgerator repairmen and plumbers.
And the gap between the rich and poor grows. NCLB.
See how financial irresponsibility can help?
Anyway, it's a theory. The world ain't gonna fight our fights anymore and recruitment is down. |
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| Everything I did, I did for the glory of God. | | Date Created: Nov 18, 2004, 05:15 PM |
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| ...And More 3 | | Date Created: Nov 18, 2004, 04:52 PM |
And more. (And more if you don't want to download the PDF's.) And more. And more. And more.
Continuing. |
| Easy Outrage | | Date Created: Nov 18, 2004, 02:18 PM |
 From the article Killing Kids:
Since 2000, only five countries have reportedly executed juvenile offenders: Congo, Iran, Pakistan, China and the United States. However, at present, all of these countries except the United States have now renounced the practice. Numerous international treaties prohibit the juvenile death penalty, the most notable being the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which only two countries, Somalia and, embarrassingly, the United States, refused to ratify. In fact, the prohibition is so well established that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ruled in Domingues v. Nevada that executing those who committed crimes while under the age of 18 is a violation of a jus cogens, a sort of universal human rights standard, making it akin to genocide, slavery and apartheid.
Kids can go to war at 18, but not drink. And, in America, children as young as 13 can be put to death. And we're not suppose to look at G. Dub's life before he was 40, pre born again? (Here's a hint, if all three of his DUI's were prosecuted and not covered up, under his Texas laws, he'd still be in prison.)
Then again, Governor Bush also executed the retarded. Of the 151 death row pleas, none received clemancy. It's also come out, via an Atlantic Monthly article, that our new Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used to prepare the clemancy pleas for Governor Bush. Often times, he'd prepare pleas (no more than a page, our Pres. doesn't do two pages) that left out any evidence or reference from the plantiff's side. Sometimes, evidence would come up proving the plantiff's innocence. The governor would spend no more than a half our on the pleas, on the day of the death.
But this article isn't really about the juvenille death penalty. It's about easy outrage. To me, the abortion issue is easy outrage. I'll explain in a second, but before we go on---
ABORTION IS MURDER. Let me repeat, Abortion is wrong.
'kay?
So, before we move on, I'm uninterested in that particular debate for this article. Put the baby fetus you bought from your anti abortion provider back in the jar. We agree, okay?
Why is abortion easy outrage? Well, it's easy to be outraged about it. They're innocent little babies. There are whole industries built around the anti abortion issue. People get elected or slandered depending on their relationship to this issue. Abortion, itself, is an institution. It's an institution of death.
But so is this juvenille death penalty. But so is the death penalty. But so is In Vitro Fertilization which creates those potentials of life, the stem cells. (And NO, abortion doesn't create stem cells.) But so is war.
The Pope came out unequivocally against Operation Iraqi Freedom. He said the war was unjust. That's George Bush's war. He started it. And yet, during the campaign season, Cardinals came out against John Kerry for the abortion issue. A vote for him is a sin. Eventhough, Kerry has said he thinks abortion is wrong, but his job as president was to be president for all the people in America from all ranges of the religious spectrum. However, no Cardinals said not to vote for Bush eventhough the war was unjust, according to the Pope.
Let's look to the future. Roe V. Wade is overturned. Abortion is 100 percent illegal. All the court battles have been fought and lost. Oh, how will James Dobson and other groups with 'family' in their name get their money? Where will the easy outrage go? Will homosexuality be banned? Many political/religious organizations (I'm not calling them churches) get their money from easy outrage.
So, will Republican voters drop off. So many of their policies do not benefit most Americans. Consider the following:
POVERTY: During the Clinton years, poverty fell by 25.2 percent. Poverty climbed steadily under President Bush, however. According to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, the number of Americans living in poverty has "risen ten percent since 2000." That means "nearly 36 million Americans, one in eight, now live in poverty and tens of millions are considered working poor."
WAGES: Wage growth has fallen dramatically over the past four years. In 2000, median weekly wages grew by 4.9 percent. This fell to a mere 2.0 percent in 2003, meaning that adjusted for inflation, "wages fell slightly in real terms in 2003 for the first time since 1996." For those who have found work, the recovery is of questionable value in an "upside down" economy where profits have soared yet families' benefits are nullified by the rapidly rising costs of housing, education, and medical care--- all of which jumped at double digit rates.
UNEMPLOYMENT: There are more people unable to find work than four years ago. In 2000, the unemployment rate was 4 percent. During his terms, President Clinton created 22.7 million jobs. Putting that in historical perspective, that's "the most created under any single president since the 1920s, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics." Under President Bush, 490,000 jobs disappeared, making him the first president since Herbert Hoover to have fewer available jobs at the end of his term than at the beginning.
DEFICITS: Under President Clinton, the U.S. government had "its first budget surpluses since 1969, and its largest surpluses on record." Not only was there a total budget surplus of $176 billion, the Clinton Treasury "actually paid off $362.5 billion of debt held by the public." President Bush reversed this trend, racking up a record $422 billion deficit. Instead of paying down the debt, the Bush Treasury has needed three debt ceiling increases over the past four years and is calling this week for a fourth. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, there's no end in sight; if President Bush succeeds in passing his 2005 budget---with the extension of his tax cuts---there will be $6.2 trillion in additional debt between now and 2014, nearly doubling our current debt ($7.38 trillion) for a total of $14.5 trillion.
ABORTION: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during the Clinton years, the abortion rate fell by about 27 percent. A new independent study by an ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary finds that today, "contrary to popular assumption, abortion has risen in the U.S. during George W. Bush's presidency."
OH, I also read that adoption rates have also dropped since 2000 after rising in the 1990's.
My point is that issues are related. How can the easy outrage of a 'culture of life' be a culture of life when the hard outrages of the 'culture of death' are also supported? Where in the Bible does it say some lives are more important than others? Where in the Bible are the rich more righteous than the poor? Why is it okay to kill innocent heathen babies in a war, to subject them to poverty, to turn them out to the cold, to declare them heathens without opportunity for salvation? But dammit, they'd better be born.
Why does Pro-Life really just mean Pro-Birth to so many?
Maybe I'm naive or stupid or misguided, and I can live with that, but supporting actions that kill does not support a culture of life. But easy outrage is so much more popular and financially beneficial than than facing a true culture of life and the hard outrages it contains.
Please tell me I'm wrong if it makes you feel better. Tell me that killing people and denying them their chance at salvation is okay. Tell me executing children, post birth, is fine. Be outraged at me. It's easy.
And, please, ignore the hard questions, the hard outrages.
It's easy.
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| Constitution Party | | Date Created: Nov 09, 2004, 06:17 PM |
| If moral values were so important to voters, how come the Constitution Party didn't sweep the election? |
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| War is the force that gives us meaning | | Date Created: Nov 08, 2004, 01:15 PM |
 Over the past few months, there's been a few questions forfront in my mind:
Do the ends justify the means?
Can you sin to justify or vindicate or right another sin?
How much evil can you do in the service of good? (Thanks, Season 5 of Angel!)
These are hard questions to answer, but they propel my political criticisms. I firmly believe, progressives and democrats fall on the wrong side of these questions as well. Everyone does. It's part of being human and, if you're Christian, original sin.
Why does my anger (and yes, righteous indignation) go toward conservatives? Mainly because conservatives wear God like an overcoat. From subtle to overt conotations, the Bush administration was hand-picked by God to run the nation. It's God's party. The democrats do not make this assertion, eventhough many people of faith voted for Kerry. Look at the kerfuffle (yes, I've wanted all day to use the word 'kerfuffle') about "Moral Values" being the highest-rated issue. And, yes, Kerry-voters did spit in the face of religious voters by discounting faith. I've heard many liberals throw invective at good people for their faith as I've heard conservatives also say liberals have no values or are all immoral.
This election was about voting in anger and voting in fear on both sides. I'm guilty of it. But anger and fear are the devil's weapons. But, to many, they are also God's weapons. Where's the line?
Bush-voters, Bush does not own faith. And those who proclaim righteousness and acting on word from God deserve and call for extra scrutiny from those who do not proclaim righteousness.
The questions I ask are questions everyone should ask of themselves. I don't claim to know the answers.
There's an article that does touch on some of my feelings as they relate to God and politics, No Longer a Christian. I don't agree with all of it, but with many parts of it. There's also many interesting theological links in the article as well.
I am no longer a Christian. I'm not sure if I ever was. I still believe in God. Even believing in a God feels like a triumph to me. I still besiege God for forgiveness and guidance. I hold no ill will toward most individual Christians. Most are good people trying to go God's work as they see it. I ask them only this, are you putting your faith in man to do God's work or are you looking to God? Are you ignoring parts of the Bible to justify other parts of the Bible?
No political organization, no nation, no body of men owns God.
Religous organizations are just as susceptable to corruption and "end justify the means" thinking as any other man-made organizations like political organizations.
Abraham Lincoln said, "I don't want God to be on my side. I want to be on God's side."
Amen.
And the Marines turn to God before bombing the hospital. |
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| ...And more 2. | | Date Created: Nov 06, 2004, 02:45 PM |
Wow. I didn't realize how many democrats switched their votes to Bush in that battle ground state of Florida. The switch is almost an exact opposite Democrat/Republican ratio in each of these cases. That's great for the president. These counties all used the optical scan ballots. Also what's great for the president, the suprising lack of third-party votes. And voter turnout for these counties were in the mid-70 percent range. There were a lot of new voters. Also, look here and see the sea change of heart for the registered democrats voting for the president. And NO registered Republican percentages changed for the negative.
Wow, that's great news for the president.
Adem help me out on the math. Let's look at one county and see if we can make the numbers add up. Holmes county has 72.70 percent Dem and 21.30 percent Repubs and 6 percent Ind registered voters before the election. They voted 21.81 percent for Kerry, 77.25 percent for Bush and this leaves .94 percent for other. The voter turnout was 75.6 percent.
Let's say ALL 24.4 percent of the voters who DIDN'T turn out were democrats. That puts the registered Dem numbers at 48.3 percent left to vote. Now, lets say 5.04 percentage points of the Ind. votes all went to Bush. None of them stayed home. The other .94 percent voted for Ind. candidates, none went to the Dems. That brings the registered Republican vote to 26.34 pre-election Registered voters. 48.3 plus 26.34 equals 74.64 of the vote. So, this means, if every Republican registered to vote and showed up and five-sixths of every Independent voted for Bush as ALL of them showed up as well, 25 percent of Demcorats switched their votes.
Once again, Adem. Help me out on the math. I think I screwed up. What percentage of democrats would have to have switched their votes if ALL republicans showed up and voted and five-sixths of Indies voted for Bush with all of the voters NOT showing up being registered democrats?
Update, Adem has crunched the numbers for Holmes county this way:
So, actually, in this senario, 65.86% of VOTING DEMOCRATS voted for Bush in that county.
Summary:
Breakdown of all registered voters:
72.20% Democrat
21.30% Republican
6% Independant
Breakdown of all who voted (assuming all 24.4% who didn't vote were Democrats):
63.89% were Democrats
28.17% were Republican
7.94% were Independants
Actual Votes:
21.81% for Kerry
77.25% for Bush
0.94% for Someone Else
Breakdown of voters by party (assuming all Independants who didn't vote for Someone Else voted for Bush):
Of all Democrats:
24.4% stayed home
42.08% voted for Bush
33.52% voted for Kerry
Of all Republicans:
100% voted for Bush
Of all Independants:
88.16% voted for Bush
11.84% voted for Someone Else
Thanks, Adem. Math for Democracy!
In any event, Holmes county, which just last week was Kerry country is overwhelmingly a Bush county today.
And that is good news for the president.
The good news keeps on coming. Every single county that used the optical scan machine saw Republican vote increases and significant numbers of Democrats voting for Bush. These kinds of gains weren't seen with other voting apparatus in Florida.
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| ...And more | | Date Created: Nov 06, 2004, 02:04 PM |
 My name is Geraldine Vaccaro. I was a certified Poll Watcher at Precincts 7070, 7072 and 7062, all located at the First Christian Church at 251 S. Congress Ave, West Palm Beach, FL 33409.
Almost immediately it became quite apparent that the poll workers had absolutely NO familiarity with the law. So most people that were initially not allowed to vote I took outside to the legal team and they sorted things out, so I would take people back in and inform the Clerk this is the way they are going to vote "according to LAW." Eventually the Clerk just looked at me and asked, "How are we going to handle this, and I would tell him what to do. It was completely and totally insane.
At about 9:30 AM one of the machines in precinct 7062 (the busiest) died and could not be fixed. The lines were tremendous.
The lawyers outside kept in constant touch with me and informed me that people had complained about votes for Kerry "flipping" to Bush and for me to please keep an eye out.
I immediately took this matter up with the Clerk and informed him that according to the Supervisor of Elections (Theres LePore) office they were aware of the problem because IT HAD HAPPENED IN THE PRIMARIES and that the Clerk needed to re-calibrate the machines and all would be well. Except that the Clerk had absolutely no clue how to calibrate the machine so nothing happened. In the meantime people waiting in line overheard the conversation and became quite angry and they started questioning me. While standing next to the Clerk I made the statement that I was NOT an election official but a Poll Watcher and that the only comment I could make was to suggest to them to make absolutely certain that whatever candidate they were voting for did indeed have the appropriate mark behind his name and if that were NOT the case they should immediately contact the poll officials or the Clerk.
Sure enough 3 times I personally watched a vote flip from Kerry to Bush, these voters asked for help and some needed to push Kerry's name repeatedly until it finally took.
All faulty machine numbers have been documented by me and the names, addresses and phone numbers of those voters as well.
None of the cell phones provided by the Supervisor of Elections to the poll workers worked, so they used MY cell phone, or I made the calls to headquarters. Truly amazing.
Last night I spoke to one of the "legal eagles" who worked outside the precincts. He told the following interesting story. He was asked to go with the Clerk to the canvassing board so he and his partner did. There they watched practically ALL provisional ballots summarily being dumped without checking anything. If they weren't in the computer they didn't exist. Many people had registered and were simply never entered into the computer. So no other avenue of registration was checked.
He subsequently told me that while flying back to New York yesterday morning there were about 30 other legal team members (all wearing the same caps). They shared stories with one another. ALL related vote flipping from Kerry to Bush, NONE encountered any flipping from Bush to Kerry. All had called the Supervisor of Elections office and were told the same story. We are aware of the problem. It happened during the primaries.
I would therefore not consider it unreasonable to conclude that this election was never meant to be won by anyone other than Bush. The machines were calibrated to every so often flip a vote towards Bush. Adding up these votes considering the number of precincts, in MY opinion cost Kerry the presidency.
This election was a hoax. All American voters who stood in line for HOURS to vote and did so for love of country were violated. Their voting was a mere tool to validate the illegal actions of a man who stole the election once and did so again 2 days ago. Kerry was NEVER supposed to win; NO ONE was, but Bush. They manipulated the system and they succeeded and America is rolling over and playing dead.
These were the same tactics Nazi Germany employed in the 1930s and which ultimately led to WW2. I survived Nazi occupation, so I should know. Whoever said that this could never happen here. IT IS.
Geraldine Vaccaro
West Palm Beach, FL |
| A Bitter Fruit | | Date Created: Nov 05, 2004, 11:56 AM |
| Intelligent Votes | | Date Created: Nov 05, 2004, 11:53 AM |
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And Ohio, Iowa and Nevada were close. There's a 28 IQ point difference between the smartest and dumbest state. Mississippi's new motto:
Mississippi: Can YOU spell it? |
| Kerry Won | | Date Created: Nov 04, 2004, 07:28 PM |
| Own It | | Date Created: Nov 04, 2004, 05:13 PM |
 For all the new Bush voters, the days of excuses are over. There is no Clinton. All branches of the government are fully in conservative hands. The excuses are gone. With your vote, Bush voters, you have legitimized the past four years. You have approved of the last four years. If Kerry was elected, he would also own this nation's problems.
President Bush talks a lot about personal responsibility and values and morality and this new ownership society. I agree. Time to act like an adult and stop whining, stop blaming, stop demonizing.
Because Bush voter, you own it:
YOU OWN IT.
5 trillion dollar debt. In 4 years, 10 trillion gone. We’re a debtor nation to China. The GNP to debt ratio so great that if we were Venisula, the IMF would dismantle us and sell us off to China. You own it.
1 million jobs lost. The last president not to create jobs in office was Hoover. Remember the Great Depression? You own it.
5 million people off health care and others have seen their premiums rise 20 percent--You own it.
Children’s poverty has risen the last three years--You own it.
300 percent rise in prescription drug costs--You own it.
Consistently voted the worst enviromental president in history by numerous groups--You own it.
Rejection of the Kyoto treaty--You own it.
Rejection of Cafe standards--You own it.
Just last week, the president voted in a 150 billion dollar tax give away to corporations--You own it.
No rise in the minimum wage. It’s been stuck at 5.65 for years. The president has no plans to raise the minimum wage--You own it.
The elimination of overtime for 8 million Americans--You own it.
The average job that is actually created pays 7,000 to 8,000 dollars less than the job lost--You own it.
If your job goes to India--You own it.
This president gave tax breaks to companies who outsourced jobs. The President encourages outsourcing--You own it.
Unemployment benefits for Americans have been reduced from 15 months to six months--You own it.
By 2012, by current tax cut rates, the top 1 percent will get 80 percent of the cuts. Right now, they get about 40 percent--You own it.
The loss of respect in the world--You own it. The world used to seperate the Bush Administration and it's citizens, no more--You own it.
Every foreign business deal lost because the world’s hatred of Bush has been transferred to Americans--You own it.
Violent crime is up the last three years after a decrease the previous 8 years---You own it.
First responders have been cut. Police and fire department have been cut. The COPS program which put 100,000 cops on the street is being dismantled as there are less police on the streets--You own it.
Yet, President Bush hasn’t vetoed one spending Bill that’s crossed his desk--You own it.
The largest single government agency, The Homeland Security Agency, created in Bush’s term--You own it.
The Patriot Act--You own it.
The Total Information Act--You own it.
The CIA failures of Pre 9/11--You own it.
All intellegent failures--You own it.
Single issue voters. The Abortion rates have gone up 4 percent the past three years after consistently dropping 50 PERCENT in the Clinton years--You own it.
Has any work been done to overturn Roe V. Wade? Nope--You own it.
The use of churches for purely political gain--You own it.
At the start of the Iraqi war, the State department estimated 2,000 insurgents in the country. Today they estimate 50,000 insurgents--You own it.
The Haliburton No-bid contracts--You own it.
The 18 billion that Haliburton just lost, oopsie--You own it.
Haliburton employees paid 2-3 times more than soldiers doing the same job--You own it.
The failure to plan the peace--You own it.
All the foreign troops now leaving Iraqi--You own it.
No new foreign troops coming in--You own it.
No Osama Ben Laden because he’s 'just not a concern'--You own it.
Over 1100 dead soldiers--You own it. Visit their funerals. The President’s only gone to one.
Over 8,000 wounded soldiers--You own it. The president has made only a few trips to visit wounded soldiers--You own it.
Veteran’s Benefits cuts--You own it.
Hazardous pay cuts for soldiers and soldier's families--You own it.
Troops using cardboard instead of armor becasue they don’t have the tools to get the job done--You own it.
The lies justifying the war--You own it.
The lies about the cost of medicare, the 2 trillion Social Security privatization plan, the swift boat ads, and well, everything from big to small--You own it.
The outing of a CIA operative, a treasonous act, by this administration--You own it.
The secrecy of this administration--You own it.
Only one question from reporters, a new mandate--You own it.
The fewest amount of press conferences in modern history--You own it.
More documents classified than any other administration--You own it.
New Free speech zones and loyalty oaths--You own it.
New house rules that let legislation be changed, after it’s passed, in private and just by House Republicans and lobbyists--You own it.
All the phony redistricting which ensures one party rule--You own it.
While the source of those CBS National Guard documents was phony, no one is denying the truth of their content--You Own it.
President Bush told his professional biographer in 1999 that he got out of Vietnam through his father and his father also got him illegally out of the Guard. Bush also said he planned to invade Iraq because he wanted to be a wartime president. Karen Hughes rewrote it. The lies persist and you own it.
And on and on. No more excuses, You own it.
His lies are now your lies.
Are these the moral values you uphold, well, --You own it.
His greed is your greed--You own it.
The partisanship before principals--You own it.
The guts before brains style of leadership--You own it.
Your willful ignorance if you didn’t delve into what this administration has been doing--You own it.
OK, Democrats
If you went along with any of these misguided plans and policies or kept quiet--You own it.
Not pressing the recount and voter fraud--You own it.
Your arrogance at those you perceive dumber than you--You own it.
Your lack of balls--You own it.
Letting Bush define you--You own it.
Working only off a negative and not a positive--You own it.
Have a clear plan and Own IT.
Sure, the Freepers and Dittoheads will pick apart a few points then declare victory. But, Bush voters you still own it. You still have the responsibility and the buck stops with you ON EVERY ISSUE. You beat all the boogeymen, so own your failings and fix them.
And non Bush voters, keep reminding them--They own it.
Truth and reponsibility are a morality issue. It's not all about men kissing.
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| It's a purple country | | Date Created: Nov 04, 2004, 03:59 PM |
 Preacherman has a electorial map showing the vast red heartland from the election. All those small town places that apparently all voted for Bush. This doesn't take into account all the minority democratic votes. The election did come out 51/49.
Boing Boing calls it a purple country. Take a look.
Also, on this so-called mandate. (Man Date, hee, hee. Man Date. Bush has a Man Date. His name is Steve.)
From Kos:
Bush's true "mandate"
by kos
A good diary over at MyDD:
This is the largest number of people who have ever voted AGAINST a president
---1% more than 50% is not a mandate but a bare, thin, majority.
--- At 80% approval after 9-11 and guaranteed a landslide election by prognosticators 2 years ago, only half the country supports him
--- A president who leads a divided country owes it to all Americans to lead fairly or have his party face the consequences begining in 2006. No one else is here to blame
And over at Another Liberal Blog, a look at the weakest incumbent reelection since, well, a long time.
---Assuming Bush gets New Mexico and Iowa, he will have gotten the lowest percentage of electoral votes (54%) of any incumbent running for reelection since Wilson. If those two states should swing Kerry's way (NM might), it'll be even lower.
---He will have won with the lowest percentage of the popular vote (51%) of any incumbent running for reelection since Truman (well, technically since Clinton, but he also ran against Perot, who was a more significant 3rd-party candidate than Thurmond and Wallace were in '48)
----He will have won by the lowest margin of the popular vote (3.5M) of any incumbent running for reelection since Truman (2.1M, and back then only 50M voted).
----He will have won the three states that put him over 270 (OH, NM and IA--assuming the last two go his way) by only 161,989 (not counting the provisional ballots, absentee, etc.).
Don't let them get away with calling this narrow victory any sort of mandate for their agenda.
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| Fuck. | | Date Created: Nov 03, 2004, 01:12 PM |
 Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
I know this is a childish reaction, but fuck.
Election morning, the exit polls in Ohio and Florida were showing Kerry up 10 percent or so over Bush. The pundits, by the next morning, were saying that the vote showed how wrong the exit polls were. They had a vested interest in this meme because of how badly they were burned by exit polls in 2000. However, what they aren't saying today is the the exit polls in the other 48 states were dead-on, only a percentage point or two off of the actual vote, while Ohio and Florida were way off, 10 percent. That kind of descrepancy should lead to an automatic investigation.
Election morning, on CNN, the blow-dried reporter was showing off the new scan computer ballots in Florida. The lady voted and took her print-out ballot to the scanner. But before she scanned it, she looked at the ballot, live on air. It was for Bush, the lady said she voted for Kerry. Must be a mistake. They voided the ballot and she voted again. Bush again. The reporter said, "Oh well, must be a tiny glitch" and she moved on to the glories of the new electronic voting.
The reporter didn't say, "Holy Fucking Christ. This looks at the very least like electronic voter fraud. Every Fucking vote should be counted and should be counted fucking right!"
She didn't say that. I give up.
An international voting monitor group says that the American Elections are run worse than many third-world countries.
Other groups say that if any other country carried our percentage of debt, the International Monetary Bank would have sold the country for scrap in the past three years. Our economy is worse than fucking Venisula and we voted the fucker back in.
The fucking pussy John Kerry just conceeded. I give up. It's been rigged from the beginning. They don't want every vote counted and counted correctly. Fuck them.
Black Box Voting is vying for a FOIA request for all the audit logs in the electronic machines in every county to compare with the final results. One-third of America voted on these electronic machines. One-third of America voted on a paperless, non-accountable system. A system that Black Box Voting showed could be hacked into in under 90 seconds, from any phone, by a monkey. Fuck. Diebold's leader, the manufacturer of the voting machines, promised the election to Bush. Fuck.
It's obvious there has been widespread voter fraud. The nationwide exit polls show that more women voted than men, 54 to 46 percent. And that women voted 52 to 48 percent for Kerry. How does this add up to a popular vote win for Bush?
Fuck the Republicans and fuck the Democrats. Tom Daschle's weak leadership deserves the boot.
And America has no excuse but to take the blame for this fucking administration. The world separated it's citizens from it's government the last four years. No more.
Every American soldier that dies---You fucking own it, Americans.
Every foreign business that stops doing business with us---You fucking own it, Americans.
The loss of respect in the world---You fucking own it, Americans.
A million jobs lost the last four years---You fucking own it, Americans.
The next terrrorist attack---You fucking own it, Americans.
A culture of fear---You fucking own it, Americans.
A culture of willful ignorance---You fucking own it, Americans.
No blame anywhere else, you fuckers.
The pollsters said that the nebulus 'moral values' was a main issue. Well, if lying is a moral value you're proud of---You fucking own it, Americans. Bush not only lied about the big stuff (justifications for going to war, 90 percent of what Kerry has said), but even tiny crap. Bush once said he fell off his bike and scraped his knee and said it was because of the rain, but the reporters and photographic evidence showed a clear day.
Phony fucking Christian fuckass.
I'm sorry that my son may be drafted in three years. I'm fucking pissed. Beyond the front page of the newspapers the past few weeks have been inklings from generals that the war in Iraq will be escalated and that we may have to go into Iran. Also, beyond the front page, draft boards nationwide are being beefed up and expanded.
This fucking administration has an unfettered agenda the next four years. The week before the election Bush even signed a billion dollar give-away to corporations. He doesn't care. And 52 percent of the fuckheads out there didn't know.
I'm hearing the liberals now talking about regrouping to fight. Fuck them, they're pussies who have allowed democracy to be compromised. They allowed redistricting to ensure Republican majorities. They only answer one lie in ten that the Republicans threw out. Fuck them.
Oh, and fuck you young voters, where the hell were you? Better get down to the Army recruiting center.
All these institutions are fuck-holes.
Political institutions that allow democracy to be stolen and exist to amass power against the overall good of the weakest in society.
Religious institutions and their adherence to politics and hatred and corruption and their turning away from God's word to get some government power. Morality begins with self-examination.
Journalists---corporate run whores.
The educational system that is moving away from teaching toward teaching to the test, that replaces critical thinking with jingoism. And fucking higher education, the true bastion of petty power grabs and insular thinking.
Fuck you.
Yesterday---and the last three years--- have taught me one thing, Dreams are for suckers. Helping society and your fellow man is for saps. God's on a coffee break. Gotta hold on to what I can, gotta get what I can, that's what people understand. Everyone else lies without impunity or consequence. They are rewarded for it. Ever seen a reality show? Why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't I shoot for the gutter?
Time to find some crap-ass paper hat job because everything else is either part of the problem or pointless. Three years ago, my diabetic medication, on insurance, was 25 bucks a month, usually less. Today, that same medication, on insurance, is 100 bucks a month. Without insurance, which is my future because I decided to help the last three years, my medication will run 300 bucks a month. Fucking health care.
I don't even want to work on my fucking novel.
I know resisting these negative impulses is the right thing to do. That and a buck wouldn't buy me a cup of coffee.
I prey God has mercy when he gets back.
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| GUIULTY! | | Date Created: Oct 28, 2004, 08:39 PM |
 A flyer being handed out in Milwaulkee.
Once again, The Onion also has the story. |
| Republicans for Truth | | Date Created: Oct 28, 2004, 08:14 PM |
 One of my complaints about Bush is his willingness to sacrifice the truth for other goals and to so easily lie about a wide variety of subjects that impact lives. I'm glad this Christian also picked up on this idea.
i think all the best and hardest hitting criticism of this administrations have come from disillusioned Republicans trying to live their ideal and seeing it failed in this administration. I think many liberals, not all, paint Republicans with the same brush stroke just as this administration paints those who disagree with them as unpatriotic.
So with that in mind, here's a list of great Republican web sites:
Republicans for Kerry
Another Republican for Kerry
Republicans Against Bush
Republican Switchers
Republicans 4 Kerry
Conservatives for Kerry
While these sites are for Kerry, I also think libertarians are also going to see a spike in votes at the expense of Bush.
I think this election can be good for Republicans if Bush wins or loses. If he loses, Republicans can regroup and refocus much the way Democrats have the last three years. Actually, the better outcome is if he wins. If moderate Republicans and just plained outraged Republicans may push for Impeachment. The grounds certianly are there. Lying about war. Lying about (fill in the blank). Damn, if we could only get a pretty chubby girl and a six pack alone with president. Actually, the best would be Democratic control of the House and Senate, then Shrub would have a lot of explaining to do. It'd be a full-on Clinton payback time.
So, why are Republicans mad at Bush? Mostly, he's a big spender and not physically responsible. He's anti-intellectual, an imperialist, a fake Christian, dishonest, secretive, against civil rights and liberties, the economy and jobs, not an enviromentialist, and on and on.
I've even read that the majority of people making over 10 million a year are against Bush. Apparently after you make more than 10 mil a year, you're making screw-you-taxes money. Your tax burden doesn't really influence your ability to live comfortably. They're voting against Bush because of this tanking economy.
Weird world.
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