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On Tuesday night, you will be told who the winner of the Pennsylvania Primary is. You will accept it. You will have no choice. No matter who the winner really is. Or isn't.
This Tuesday's crucial contest will be primarily run on 100% faith-based, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen or push-button) e-voting machines across the state. There will be no way to determine after the election whether the computers have accurately recorded, or not, the intent of those voters who voted on them. As VerifiedVoting.org summarizes the crucial contest, it "will be essentially unrecountable, unverifiable, and unauditable."
Most of the votes, more than 85%, will be cast on such DRE systems which do not provide so-called "Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails" (VVPATs), as their use has been found unconstitutional in the state, since its been determined, accurately, that ballot secrecy cannot be guaranteed when using such paper trail systems. Not that it matters.
With or without a so-called "paper trail" printer, all touch-screen/push-button/DRE voting machines are equally unverifiable and antithetical to American democracy. Period.
So, as with South Carolina's primary, so so long ago, and other states since, whatever the officials tell you at the end of the election is what you, and we, will have to accept. Whether votes are counted accurately is completely out of anyone's hands at this point. It's strictly Democracy of the Gods...
from Bradblog.com
If you were then to fill the pale with water.
If you then poured that water on my friends head.
I would use my pale full of water and pour it on your head.
But then again you have no pale or water.
But if you did have a pale.
And you could get some water.
And if you decided to use it to dampen a friend.
Then I would splash you good.
No I wouldn't.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_willie_h...
OLBERMANN: You mentioned the oil suppliers and obviously leads us into something else that really flew by during the debate that seemed awfully important. In that debate you were asked about a hypothetical Iranian attack on Israel and your hypothetical response as commander in chief and you said, let me read the quote exactly, "I think that we should be looking to create an umbrella of deterrence that goes much further than Israel. Of course I would make it clear to the Iranians that an attack on Israel would include massive retaliation from the United States but I would do the same with other countries in the region."
Can you clarify since there was no follow-up to that which hypothetical Middle East conflicts would incur massive retaliation by this country and what constitutes massive retaliation?
CLINTON: Well, what we were talking about was the potential for a nuclear attack by Iran. If Iran does achieve what appears to be its continuing goal of obtaining nuclear weapons and I think deterrence has not been effectively used in recent times. We used it very well during the Cold War when we had a bipolar world and what I think the president should do and what our policy should be is to make it very clear to the Iranians that they would be risking massive retaliation were they to launch a nuclear attack on Israel.
In addition, if Iran were to become a nuclear power it could set off an arms race that would be incredibly dangerous and destabilizing because the countries in the region are not going to want Iran to be the only nuclear power so I could imagine that they would be rushing to obtain nuclear weapons themselves. In order to forestall that, creating some kind of a security agreement where we said, no, you do not need to acquire nuclear weapons if you were the subject of an unprovoked nuclear attack by Iran, the United States and hopefully our NATO allies would respond to that as well.
It is a theory that some people have been looking at because there is a fear that if Iran, which I hope we can prevent, becoming a nuclear power, but if they were to become one some people worry that they are not deterrable, that they somehow have a different mindset and a worldview that might very well lead the leadership to be willing to become martyrs. I don't buy that but I think we have to test it and one of the ways of testing it is to make it very clear that we are not going to permit them if we can prevent it from them becoming a nuclear power but were they to become some their use of nuclear weapons against Israel would provoke a nuclear response from the United States which personally I believe would prevent it from happening and that we would try to help the other countries that might be intimidated and bulled into submission by Iran because they were a nuclear power, avoid that state by creating this new security umbrella.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17HHS1464906dm...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du...
Are Diebold machines being used in PA?
Meanwhile, Bush, Calderon & Harper giving a news conference; Bush trying to prop up NAFTA, the Colombia trade agreement, etc. and giving $550 million to Mexico for the "war on drugs" (most of which will probably go into the pockets of corrupt Mexican officials).
Waiting for them to drop the bomb on the North American Union any time...
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/7...
Part of Clinton's argument as to why she should be elected is that she apparently gained so much experience while being First Lady. Well, if she wants to have credit for the good things her husband did then she also has to deal with the bad. Seems to me like she might have some more explaining to do on this issue.
No doubt. I think we are only now finding out the extreme preferential treatment that old Slick Willie got from the press during the 90's. When he pushed through the anti-gay DOMA and DADT policies, the press was virtually silent. Similary when he got involved in funneling campaign money through the Chinese and Charlie Tree, he got away with another scandal. If you include the Iranian blueprint exchange and Clintons under the table dealings with criminal elements in the Palestinian organizations, it ads up to some pretty despicable dealings. If Obama gets a chance to clean up the outrageous amount of corruption in DC, maybe the Clintons will finally be investigated to the full extent of the law.
The one time she finally shows up on COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann she F**KsUP!
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But the singer himself is performing for ... Obama. Mellencamp is on the billing for an Obama appearance on Tuesday night in Evansville, Indiana, at Roberts Municipal Stadium, where the campaign hopes to be celebrating a better-than-expected performance in the Pennsylvania primary
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
:)
Granted Busboy. It was stupid.
Request an allowance.
How can NAFTA and CAFTA be called successes when those policies have resulted in millions of Mexicans and Central Americans fleeing their own homelands to come illegally into the US for work? One report said that 10% of Mexican nationals have crossed the border into the US because there are no jobs in Mexico. The kind of corporate industrial activity (including farming) that NAFTA and CAFTA encourages does nothing but kill entrepeneurship and small farming in Mexico.
Meanwhile, oil topped $120/bbl, now down to $119.67/bbl, gold rising, and the dollar falling.
Security assurances and security guarantees are a really arcane subject. There aren't that many people who really understand this in depth (and many who speak about it alot do not really understand it.) She's less than an inch deep on this, and got it really wrong.
The one thing that seems to be clearly in need of being nuked is the DNC for being the source for all this mess in the first place.
I am a female. As much as anyone else, I would like to see a female as president. But not a mentally-ill one.
Anyone who's still supporting HIllary at this point has a major problem. They are either a Republican at heart or have latent racist tendencies. There is no other explanation since Hillary's support has dwindled so significantly and with what remains, she has absolutely no statistical chance to win. So anyone supporting her is by definition really supporting McCain.
History surely does not support your position(s), and the retoric of Adminjhad is but retoric, a subject that he is an expert at. It is his whole and sole purpose in life to issue out landish states to see what you might do. Then he goes home and laughs his ass off at both your initial responce and follow-on actions. Get Serious here, the Ayatolla is in charge of Iran and the Israelie comments on the on-line internet donot suject that Israel wantsto understands its relatives, the Arabs, or the it even care to study them and learn something that may save the loss of lives in both countries. It appears to me, that with a War monger in the US Presidence, supporting a Terrorisdt country like Israel, can lead to no good end to the World community.
It would be much better route, in my opinion, to approach the would on a level field and not kill anyone or everyone because they willnot listen to you or agree with you on the subject at hand.
The other aspect of this discussion is the prtesence of Nuclear Weapons in Israel. Marachai Vanunu, an Israelie Nuclear work, decided to come clean of the Israel Nuclear Weapons Program to the BBC stating that they had over 200 weapons then. This weas October 1986.
lets escalate this 200 weapons forward to 2006 another 20 year period to the total number of 400 by ussing a simple forward escalation. Now, lets play get smart, and re-escalate these figures over taking into 30 year service losses, and adding back in the improvement in Techology, Manufacturing and Nuclear Materials provide to Israel by France, England, South africa (including seven(7) assembled Atomic weapons). All of these factors, couple by a Parnoid Israel leadership suggest the the number 400 was unrealist, in the real world. A much more ration set of number would in the range of 550-650 Plus + Israelie Held Nuclear Weapons in 2009. Read the Internet topic "Israelie Nuclear Weapons" for about a half day two open your eyes, and for a full for the "Truth" by reading between the line.
Tell me please, how is Israel not a Paroid State when even suggest that other state in the "Free World" outside of the US Dictator Ship won't listen to then and say bad thing about tem in Public? What a Laugh! Inclose, I would like to invite you to review the sounding defeat give to President G.W. Bush grab to Kill Saddam Hussan and steal their Oil. To add to the contempt displayed, the Iraqi Government awarded a 3.4 Billion Dollar Oil services contract to the PRC China and a TV Press guy threw his shoes at Bushes face during an interview. What a looser. I would that if Saddam Hussan were alive to day, he would take Presidence of the country of Iraq, that is how much hate Bush brought to the people killing Women and Children.
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The virtriol emanating from the Hillary camp has relegated her new foreign policy pronouncements regarding the formation of a nuclear umbrella over certain countries in the mideast to a footnote in today's news cycle.
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) said the bill he sponsored, House Bill 5036, the Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act, would help make the nation's elections more accurate and secure by helping states move to paper ballots over touch-screen electronic machines."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?...