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2009-01-18T05:46:00.000-05:00

We should fear that we don't live in a democracy a...

2008-10-06T14:13:00.000-04:00

We should fear that we don't live in a democracy any longer. The cyber security with current voting machines is in the bronze age and paid GOP computer hackers alter results going from polling stations to district offices which total the results. Also, GOP members in office are purging voters in VA, MO, and LA. Please see the videos and sites below, then call the Obama campaign to express your concern and voice your opinion (especially if you are a contributor like I am) and tell them you want something done about it.

Obama campaign number is 1-866-675-2008 and press option 6 to speak to a volunteer. They are answering the phone 7 days a week.

How the next election will be stolen:
markcrispinmiller DOT blogspot DOT com/2008/09/spoonamore-reveals-plan-to-steal-next.html

We need to take action:
verifiedvoting DOT org

The voter purging in Virginia (and in general):
www DOT brennancenter DOT org/content/resource/voter_purges

It is our responsibility to take action. Call someone, write someone, pass this along, talk about it, etc. We can't just sit idle and read about these things that are happening in our country and be passive.

We should fear that we don't live in a democracy a...

2008-10-06T14:11:00.000-04:00

We should fear that we don't live in a democracy any longer. The cyber security with current voting machines is in the bronze age and paid GOP computer hackers alter results going from polling stations to district offices which total the results. Also, GOP members in office are purging voters in VA, MO, and LA. Please see the videos and sites below, then call the Obama campaign to express your concern and voice your opinion (especially if you are a contributor like I am) and tell them you want something done about it.

Obama campaign number is 1-866-675-2008 and press option 6 to speak to a volunteer. They are answering the phone 7 days a week.

How the next election will be stolen:
http:// markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/09/spoonamore-reveals-plan-to-steal-next.html

We need to take action:
http:// www.verifiedvoting.org/

The voter purging in Virginia (and in general):
http:// www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voter_purges

It is our responsibility to take action. Call someone, write someone, pass this along, talk about it, etc. We can't just sit idle and read about these things that are happening in our country and be passive.

We should fear that we don't live in a democracy a...

2008-10-06T14:09:00.000-04:00

We should fear that we don't live in a democracy any longer. The cyber security with current voting machines is in the bronze age and paid GOP computer hackers alter results going from polling stations to district offices which total the results. Also, GOP members in office are purging voters in VA, MO, and LA. Please see the videos and sites below, then call the Obama campaign to express your concern and voice your opinion (especially if you are a contributor like I am) and tell them you want something done about it.

Obama campaign number is 1-866-675-2008 and press option 6 to speak to a volunteer. They are answering the phone 7 days a week.

How the next election will be stolen:
http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/09/spoonamore-reveals-plan-to-steal-next.html

We need to take action:
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

The voter purging in Virginia (and in general):
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voter_purges

It is our responsibility to take action. Call someone, write someone, pass this along, talk about it, etc. We can't just sit idle and read about these things that are happening in our country and be passive.

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2008-10-06T13:28:00.000-04:00

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We should fear that we don't live in a democracy a...

2008-10-06T13:27:00.000-04:00

We should fear that we don't live in a democracy any longer. The cyber security with current voting machines is in the bronze age and paid GOP computer hackers alter results going from polling stations to district offices which total the results. Also, GOP members in office are purging voters in VA, MO, and LA. Please see the videos and sites below, then call the Obama campaign to express your concern and voice your opinion (especially if you are a contributor like I am) and tell them you want something done about it.

Obama campaign number is 1-866-675-2008 and press option 6 to speak to a volunteer. They are answering the phone 7 days a week.

How the next election will be stolen:
http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/09/spoonamore-reveals-plan-to-steal-next.html

We need to take action:
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

The voter purging in Virginia (and in general):
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voter_purges

It is our responsibility to take action. Call someone, write someone, pass this along, talk about it, etc. We can't just sit idle and read about these things that are happening in our country and be passive.

Please act somehow in whatever way you are comfortable with doing. I hope these sites and videos educate you on what is really going on with the GOP and that we need to do something... anything, except sit idly behind our keyboards.

On a side note, it appears state employees will no...

2008-10-06T00:42:00.000-04:00

On a side note, it appears state employees will now testify in the Alaskan legislature sponsored Trooper-Gate inquiry.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/state_employees_will_honor_tro.php

"On the heels of the dismissal of the Alaska attorney general's suit to quash subpoenas issued in the legislature's Trooper-Gate investigation, seven subpoenaed state employees who had previously said they would not cooperate with the probe have now agreed to testify.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

"Despite my initial concerns about the subpoenas, we respect the court's decision to defer to the Legislature," [Alaska Attorney General Talis] Colberg said. "We are working with Senator Hollis French to arrange for the testimony of the seven state employee plaintiffs."

French has said they still expect the investigation's report to be completed by this Friday."

Is this another game-changer?

"you are a socialist who is not worth trying to co...

2008-10-05T23:57:00.000-04:00

"you are a socialist who is not worth trying to converse with.

"Bush policies" have led me from near bankruptcy to almost a six-figure income this year. Without a college degree."

That explains it and there is no need to say that you are uneducated. That was obvious from your incoherent rantings.

So you profited from some shameful Bush act, warmongering perhaps?

That doesn't make it right.

Of course you can't see that you needed Bush to help you, you couldn't make 6 figures on your own.

Obama will make it possible for everyone with brains and self-drive to be able to succeed. No wonder you oppose him.

I am not a socialist, nice try though. I am a capitalist that realizes that greed needs external control. The US economy is in the toilet and states that you would consider socialist(even though they aren't-morons like you don't understand what it means) are doing better than us.

Odd that.

"I was unclear. Even if you are a creationist, I d...

2008-10-05T23:50:00.000-04:00

"I was unclear. Even if you are a creationist, I do not see how the Big Bang would be inconsistent with that world view. I wanted someone to explain to me what/if the evangelical objection to the Big Bang theory is. Do you have insight on it?"

Apologies for misunderstanding you.

I have been trying to figure it out myself. Since neither theory says anything about the existence, or non-existence of God, I find it odd that some religious people get offended.

It should be obvious that God didn't snap his fingers and things magically appeared. Further, it should be obvious that the laws of physics and chemistry apply to a being that is part of the universe, even if our understanding may not be perfect.

The only thing that makes sense and is supported by empirical evidence. Those people who are religious and educated have no real issues with them. It is the uneducated, religious people who generally have the issue, because they don't fully understand them. There are certainly exceptions to both rules, although I suspect the educated people that rail against it are just kowtowing to the flat earth society for some odd reason.

The problem is that a minor, but very loud sector of Christianity(Dobson, Wildman, people like mule rider, etc although I don't think they are Christians in any sense) make waves about it and get all offended just to get offended. To this sector, outrage sells.

Oh, and as a side point, I do expect Obama to lose...

2008-10-05T23:47:00.000-04:00

Oh, and as a side point, I do expect Obama to lose West Virginia, but not because he lost it in the primary.

stop the stutterAbout West Virginia: I was making ...

2008-10-05T23:44:00.000-04:00

stop the stutter

About West Virginia: I was making a point, namely that a loss in the primary does not necessarily predict (or even presage) a loss in the general.

If Obama were having problems with Hillary's key demographics (women, older voters, middle-class WASPs), you might have a point, but frankly, everything has played out exactly as the "Obamacons" (or whatever the crap the people at Hillaryis44 were calling us) said it would: Clinton's supporters were disappointed, look at McCain, realized they disagreed with him on practically every issue, and decided to vote for their party's candidate (as us "Obamacons" would have had Clinton won the primary).

As for our different experiences, I've been blessed and grew up in an upper middle-class suburb, but after college I moved into the city and saw poverty firsthand. Yes, there are people making bad choices, but they are for the most part trying to do better for themselves with the limited resources they have available.

Senator Obama just wants to give them a little more; Senator McCain wants to give that money to rich people like the ones I remember growing up with. It's not that they're bad people, it's just that they don't need it as badly.

"Even the most poor and destitute Americans have c...

2008-10-05T23:26:00.000-04:00

"Even the most poor and destitute Americans have cell phones and nails painted and manicured."

I called the one of the men who live under the freeway underpass near my house on his cell phone yesterday but he did not answer. Do you know why he did not answer? Because he doesn't have a cell phone and his manicure looked terrible.

Your comment was very ignorant to the real suffering going on out there. I am sorry that you lack any empathy. It might make life easier, but it makes you worthless in my eyes and the eyes of many people who actually care about other people.

"I can think of another candidate that had a rough...

2008-10-05T23:21:00.000-04:00

"I can think of another candidate that had a rough primary there."

But which candidate needs WV?

I guess we just have to see what happens on November 4, won't we? How about you and I meet on this site on November 5 and if McCain wins I will freely admit that America clearly agrees with you, and if Obama wins, you have to admit that either Obama is not a socialist or that America wants to be socialist. Deal?

I've lived in rural Alaska for 26 years, and one o...

2008-10-05T23:16:00.000-04:00

I've lived in rural Alaska for 26 years, and one of the things the survey misses is that Alaska is 15% Alaska Native. They tend to vote Democratic, as does rural Alaska in general, Juneau and parts of Anchorage and even Fairbanks. While McCain/Palin will likely carry the state, and Palin is generating some enthusiasm just for being a homegirl, everyone I know was stunned by her selection and believes she's completely out of her league.

In the Alaska context, Palin is an urban politician, from an exurb of Anchorage. Except for the scenery, you could drop Anchorage (or Los Anchorage as we call it)and its burbs into any western state with weak zoning and they wouldn't be out of place.

One of the odder things about the Republican Palin madness is the "small town virtues" nonsense. I live in a small town, Dillingham, and I expect it to go for Obama by a modest margin. Alaska used to be a Democratic or Democratic leaning state, until the pipeline brought in lots of oil industry people.

By the way, we own guns because we hunt, and we hunt to put food in the freezer. Nothing odd or particularly Republican about that.

Don Young will likely lose to Berkowitz, but Stevens/Begich is a toss-up that probably will be decided by the outcome of his trial. I think Begich could win anyway, but if Steven is acquitted he would likely get a bump that would last through the election. I've heard a lot of people who would normally support Stevens who think he's just too old to be running again.

Palin's reputation is also tanking in Alaska, and I suspect she'll have real problems as Governor if she loses the national election. Troopergate is a big deal, and she's burned a lot of bridges with both sides of the aisle in the legislature. Yes, the last poll I saw had her with a 66% approval rating, but among people who actually pay attention to state politics its much lower than that.

"He has been on Oprah once or twice, slamming the ...

2008-10-05T23:15:00.000-04:00

"He has been on Oprah once or twice, slamming the vile Tipper Gore."

I almost voted Nader over Tipper, even though I was in a safe Gore state. I just thought Bush was too dangerous to take even the slightest chance. Sigh, talk about being proved right.

I am having trouble understanding morons like stop...

2008-10-05T23:13:00.000-04:00

I am having trouble understanding morons like stop the stutter who bleat on about lower taxes. We had a $500,000,000,000 deficit this year. That's a tax my 11 year old daughter will be paying off.

The conservative hero Milton Friedman wrote that increased debt is essentially an increase in taxes. And it is the most regressive tax of all -- on the unborn.

By the way, it was great seeing Mule Rider back here once again making an ass out of himself -- once again. Reminds me of a story about Harry Truman, when he tried to mount his horse and the horse tried to flick a horsefly and wound up with a hoof in one of the stirrups. Truman looked at the horse and said "If you want to get on I'll get off." Mule Rider is riding himself these days. An ass on an ass.

"What is to explain?Everything in the universe is ...

2008-10-05T23:08:00.001-04:00

"What is to explain?

Everything in the universe is expanding, with no evidence that it has ever been different. That leads logically to the big bang."

I was unclear. Even if you are a creationist, I do not see how the Big Bang would be inconsistent with that world view. I wanted someone to explain to me what/if the evangelical objection to the Big Bang theory is. Do you have insight on it?

For the record, I am definitely not a creationist, nor do I disagree with the Big Bang theory.

STS,the better question is do you? You don't know ...

2008-10-05T23:08:00.000-04:00

STS,

the better question is do you? You don't know shit about the real world. In the real world - which is to say, the world of housing projects, payday loans, minimum-wage jobs, and relatives who are dead, missing, or unwilling to help - you'd be bent over a trashcan while the locals fucked your pansy ass.

ialex,no, i do not live in your world of the daily...

2008-10-05T23:07:00.001-04:00

ialex,

no, i do not live in your world of the daily manufacured crisis.

Prepare to be SWIFTBOATED, libs!

2008-10-05T23:07:00.000-04:00

Prepare to be SWIFTBOATED, libs!

david,you are a socialist who is not worth trying ...

2008-10-05T23:06:00.001-04:00

david,

you are a socialist who is not worth trying to converse with.

"Bush policies" have led me from near bankruptcy to almost a six-figure income this year. Without a college degree.

david,are you serious?Even the most poor and desti...

2008-10-05T23:05:00.000-04:00

david,

are you serious?

Even the most poor and destitute Americans have cell phones and nails painted and manicured. Even those who are the biggest losers, have to work hard to avoid getting a job.

Just a question, do you live in the real world?

"I see many poor people that are poor because of t...

2008-10-05T23:04:00.000-04:00

"I see many poor people that are poor because of their own volition. They don't give two shits about saving."

How the hell can poor people save anything when the cost of living is skyrocketing in no small thanks to trickle down economics and the endless incompetence of the Bush administration.