Questions the Media Should Ask of All Elections Officials
A blogger who has been obsessively tracking the growing number of electronic voting horror stories around the country -- stories largely ignored by the national media -- offers an annotated...
BREAKING: SEC INVESTIGATION OF DIEBOLD UNDER WAY!
Blogged by Brad on 5/9/2006 @ 3:13pm PT...
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Announces 'Informal Inquiry' into Accounting Practices of ATM, E-Voting Giant!
Inquiry Comes on Heels of Recent Securities Fraud Class Action Litigation, Sharp Drop in Stock Value, Growing List of Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Company's Electronic Voting Machines...
Voting glitch said to be 'dangerous'
Article Last Updated: 05/10/2006 02:36:21 AM PDT
By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER
This is the cutest damn timewaster I've ever seen:
Mario - Live
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Fuck the Pentagon
The Spymaster Cracks the whip
How John Negroponte won control of the CIA, and what he plans next to consolidate rival agencies and his power
By MICHAEL DUFFY/WASHINGTON
Video :Gen. Michael Hayden refused to answer question about spying on political enemies at National Press Club.
Bugging the Democrats
By David Corn05/08/06
Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals
(recruiting autistic kids)
BY MICHELLE ROBERTS
c.2006 Newhouse News Service
Pentagon's intelligence authority widens: report
Fact Sheet Details Secretive Agency's Growth From Focus on Policy to Counterterrorism
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 19, 2005; A10
How do these debt numbers compare to military spending. In fiscal 2005 the military budget, including the separate appropriation for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, totals almost $500 billion or about $5,000 for each of the approximately 100 million US households.
How John Negroponte won control of the CIA, and what he plans next to consolidate rival agencies and his power
By MICHAEL DUFFY/WASHINGTON
Video :Gen. Michael Hayden refused to answer question about spying on political enemies at National Press Club.
Bugging the Democrats
By David Corn05/08/06
Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals
(recruiting autistic kids)
BY MICHELLE ROBERTS
c.2006 Newhouse News Service
Pentagon's intelligence authority widens: report
Fact Sheet Details Secretive Agency's Growth From Focus on Policy to Counterterrorism
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 19, 2005; A10
How do these debt numbers compare to military spending. In fiscal 2005 the military budget, including the separate appropriation for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, totals almost $500 billion or about $5,000 for each of the approximately 100 million US households.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Energy
Ted Kennedy's double hypocrisyThe Curse of the Mobile Phone Age:
Published on Sunday, May 7, 2006 by the Independent/UK
Electronic SmogAround your home there are countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer by Geoffrey Lean
Drug Sanity South of the Border/
By Margaret Dooley, AlterNet. Posted May 8, 2006.
Mexican farm workers in Canada are regulated and well paid windows audio file
THESE DAYS KPBS SAN DIEGO (2006-05-04)
Tom Fudge
At Least Strikers in America Don't Get Shot
check Canadian agriculture prices
peak oil and free energy
25 min.video from You Tube
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Who wants more immigration?
Got a "to-kill-ya" hangover from too much Cinco de Mayo partying?
Feeling a little queasy?
USDA says 156,235 pounds beef recalled for e-coli
Sat May 6, 2006 6:00 AM BST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday said that an Oklahoma-based company has voluntarily recalled 156,235 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
The company, Fadler, Southwest Food Distributors, LLC of Tulsa, has voluntarily recalled beef products produced on various dates between February 6 and May 3.
The problem was discovered through routine product testing on beef patty products that were distributed to retail establishments, restaurants and institutions in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, the USDA said.
E. coli is a potentially deadly bacterium that causes bloody diarrhea and dehydration, leaving the very young, seniors and those with compromised immune systems at the highest risk.
Beardstown plant to close Monday for immigration rallies
By LISA KERNEK
STAFF WRITER
Published Wednesday, April 26, 2006
BEARDSTOWN - The Cargill Meat Solutions pork-processing plant will close Monday to allow workers to take part in a national day of immigration-rights rallies...
Bush praises Mexican contribution to US society
Mercosur Saturday, 06 May
United States president George W. Bush said again that the problem of illegal immigration can only be solved through a combination of tighter border security and a guest-worker program, but also stressed that immigrants have a duty to integrate into American society...
Southwest Economy
Issue 1, January/February 2006
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
...The two economies are also linked by the flow of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and the remittances they send back home to their families. The approximately 10 million Mexican nationals who reside in the U.S. sent back an estimated $20 billion in 2005, an amount equivalent to 3 percent of Mexico’s GDP...
Dobbs: Radical groups taking control of immigrant movement
By Lou Dobbs CNN
Monday, May 1, 2006; Posted: 10:19 p.m. EDT (02:19 GMT)
..In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services....
A new Zogby poll of likely voters,
WASHINGTON (May 3, 2006) – using neutral language (see wording on following pages), finds that Americans prefer the House of Representatives’ enforcement-only bill by 2-1 over Senate proposals to legalize illegal immigrants and greatly increase legal immigration. The poll was conducted for the Center for Immigration Studies...
Feeling a little queasy?
USDA says 156,235 pounds beef recalled for e-coli
Sat May 6, 2006 6:00 AM BST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday said that an Oklahoma-based company has voluntarily recalled 156,235 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
The company, Fadler, Southwest Food Distributors, LLC of Tulsa, has voluntarily recalled beef products produced on various dates between February 6 and May 3.
The problem was discovered through routine product testing on beef patty products that were distributed to retail establishments, restaurants and institutions in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, the USDA said.
E. coli is a potentially deadly bacterium that causes bloody diarrhea and dehydration, leaving the very young, seniors and those with compromised immune systems at the highest risk.
Beardstown plant to close Monday for immigration rallies
By LISA KERNEK
STAFF WRITER
Published Wednesday, April 26, 2006
BEARDSTOWN - The Cargill Meat Solutions pork-processing plant will close Monday to allow workers to take part in a national day of immigration-rights rallies...
Bush praises Mexican contribution to US society
Mercosur Saturday, 06 May
United States president George W. Bush said again that the problem of illegal immigration can only be solved through a combination of tighter border security and a guest-worker program, but also stressed that immigrants have a duty to integrate into American society...
Southwest Economy
Issue 1, January/February 2006
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
...The two economies are also linked by the flow of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and the remittances they send back home to their families. The approximately 10 million Mexican nationals who reside in the U.S. sent back an estimated $20 billion in 2005, an amount equivalent to 3 percent of Mexico’s GDP...
Dobbs: Radical groups taking control of immigrant movement
By Lou Dobbs CNN
Monday, May 1, 2006; Posted: 10:19 p.m. EDT (02:19 GMT)
..In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services....
A new Zogby poll of likely voters,
WASHINGTON (May 3, 2006) – using neutral language (see wording on following pages), finds that Americans prefer the House of Representatives’ enforcement-only bill by 2-1 over Senate proposals to legalize illegal immigrants and greatly increase legal immigration. The poll was conducted for the Center for Immigration Studies...
Friday, May 05, 2006
Goss Was Told to Resign, Sources Say
Hookers involved in Goss resignation?
Posted by Evan Derkacz at 11:43 AM on May 5, 2006.
The Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq
Negroponte and Goss, both 1960 Yale graduates
"Bucky"
Sun Apr 17, 2005 17:23
Preznit Bunnypants really needs to talk to daddy, to learn how to do that pardon thing, you know?
Here's a fun little tip from Randi Rhodes: Go to Google, put asshole there in the search term place, and hit "I feel lucky." Turn the speakers on.
Hookers involved in Goss resignation?
Posted by Evan Derkacz at 11:43 AM on May 5, 2006.
The Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq
Negroponte and Goss, both 1960 Yale graduates
"Bucky"
Sun Apr 17, 2005 17:23
Preznit Bunnypants really needs to talk to daddy, to learn how to do that pardon thing, you know?
Here's a fun little tip from Randi Rhodes: Go to Google, put asshole there in the search term place, and hit "I feel lucky." Turn the speakers on.
Diebold makes me crabby
E-VOTE MELTDOWN: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!
Blogged by Brad on 5/2/2006 @ 11:32am PT...
Man Smashes Diebold Touch-Screen Voting System in Ohio!
Arrested at Polling Place During Today's Ohio Primary Election
I don't like the machines.
DIEBOLD DISASTER: Optical Scan Machines Fail in Michigan, Officials Forced to Hand-Count Ballots
Blogged by Brad on 5/3/2006 @ 7:18pm PT...
Voting Machine Printout Reports Zero Votes for Several Candidates, All Bond Measures Received Zero YES Votes...
Reasons for Problem 'Unknown', But Sound Remarkably Similar to Recent Leon County, FL Hack on Same Diebold Machines
Voting Machine Printout Reports Zero Votes for Several Candidates, All Bond Measures Received Zero YES Votes...
Reasons for Problem 'Unknown', But Sound Remarkably Similar to Recent Leon County, FL Hack on Same Diebold MachinesOur Electoral System Meltdown continues as more and more reports come in on epidemic Electronic Voting Machine failures around the country. It's neck and neck right now as Diebold and...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
"Representatives"
Have you ever surfed over to the thomas.loc.gov website to see what we pay our "represntatives" to vote on?
Here's a very brief example of a few decisions they may make for us.
Upcoming Votes
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act - H.R.4939
The Senate is scheduled to complete work on this $106 billion spending bill providing emergency funds for hurricane relief and military operations in Iraq.
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Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 - H.R.4975
The House is scheduled to vote this week on this lobbying reform bill.
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SAFE Port Act - H.R.4954
Go look at what they did yesterday and ask yourself how much of this crap affects you, or the majority of Americans? http://thomas.loc.gov/
A quick Google brought up only TPM Cafe reporting on "106 billion supplemental"
Mything the Point of "Freedom isn't Free"
By background N015E bio at TPM Cafe
When people start talking like that, I always check to make sure my wallet is safe. It's the kind of platitude people resort to so they can justify the sacrifices they ask others to make.
Let me give you an example. Right now the latest in a series of off-budget-down-payment-without-oversight-emergency- appropriation bills is heading for the Senate floor. The total bill is $106 Billion. This omnibus bill is for Iraq and Katrina relief...
Why is the MSM (mainstream media) so lousy at reporting things like this? I have my suspicions
Hmmm, 106 billion, looks like a lot, some is supposed to go to Katrina re-building, so why is Qatar being so generous?
And I saw a couple of proposals to stop the oil companies from price gouging, what's up with them?
Ain't fucking happening.
Update: U.S. House Passes Bill to Make Price Gouging a Crime (Update2)
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Well, let's see hmmmmm
"...The gouging bill is "pretty toothless,'' said James Lucier, a senior political analyst with Prudential Equity Group Inc. "It's all about posturing and political cover.''...
Here's a very brief example of a few decisions they may make for us.
Upcoming Votes
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act - H.R.4939
The Senate is scheduled to complete work on this $106 billion spending bill providing emergency funds for hurricane relief and military operations in Iraq.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 - H.R.4975
The House is scheduled to vote this week on this lobbying reform bill.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SAFE Port Act - H.R.4954
Go look at what they did yesterday and ask yourself how much of this crap affects you, or the majority of Americans? http://thomas.loc.gov/
A quick Google brought up only TPM Cafe reporting on "106 billion supplemental"
Mything the Point of "Freedom isn't Free"
By background N015E bio at TPM Cafe
When people start talking like that, I always check to make sure my wallet is safe. It's the kind of platitude people resort to so they can justify the sacrifices they ask others to make.
Let me give you an example. Right now the latest in a series of off-budget-down-payment-without-oversight-emergency- appropriation bills is heading for the Senate floor. The total bill is $106 Billion. This omnibus bill is for Iraq and Katrina relief...
Why is the MSM (mainstream media) so lousy at reporting things like this? I have my suspicions
Hmmm, 106 billion, looks like a lot, some is supposed to go to Katrina re-building, so why is Qatar being so generous?
And I saw a couple of proposals to stop the oil companies from price gouging, what's up with them?
Ain't fucking happening.
Update: U.S. House Passes Bill to Make Price Gouging a Crime (Update2)
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Well, let's see hmmmmm
"...The gouging bill is "pretty toothless,'' said James Lucier, a senior political analyst with Prudential Equity Group Inc. "It's all about posturing and political cover.''...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Blowholes and Blowback
400 Dead Dolphins Wash Up on African Beach
MSNBC News
Friday 28 April 2006
Underwater noise:Death knell of our oceans?
Linda Weilgart, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Dalhousie University 7 November 2005
U.S. Navy Sonar May Harm Killer Whales, Expert Says
John Pickrell for National Geographic News
March 31, 2004
Media Looks the Other Way: U.S. Military Largest Source of Toxic Waste
By Andrea Sutton Apr 1, 2004, 23:48
Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Foreign Policy
by Jon Baker
Update: Hmmmm, when I posted this morning, I had no idea that Chalmers Johnson would be writing for TomDispatch today. Weird, huh?
Monday, May 01, 2006
Anniversary
Remember this?
It was three years ago today.
(Hat tip to One Pissed Off Veteran )
Um.... Preznit Nails-on-the-chalkboard, Uh.. how's that mission going, again?
And via skippy, Mediabloodhound, and on to Media Matters (boy, that's hoppy, er I mean happy) an update on on how Kaydee giv us newz
Another immigration post
There is so much that I want to say about the immigration rallies. There are many people who immigrated legally who are not happy about this. My question is which came first, cheap labor, or employers who think they need to use it to compete?
And why aren't latino kids graduating ?
And if you want a better life, why do you have to be disruptive to get it?
Gearing Up, and Girding for, Protests
Around the U.S., cities brace for marches. In L.A., a huge crowd is expected along Wilshire.
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Arin Gencer, Times Staff Writers
May 1, 2006
Protests Disrupt California-Mexico Border Crossing
It's not only disposable labor that is being brought into this country illegally from Latin America.
La Sierra
talkback
The elites in North and South America probably don't have any real problems with immigration, legal or illegal, they are doing just fine. What about the rest of us?
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press Writer Mexican president urges prudence during immigration marches in his country, U.S.
hmmmmm, I wonder why?
Could it be that Mexico, India and the Philippines receive the most in remittances. More than 60 percent of the Latino population in the U.S. is of Mexican descent. About Mexico Dr. Ratha says, "Mexico received $17 billion last year and that was higher than their foreign direct investment. It was about the same size as their oil exports."
And why aren't latino kids graduating ?
And if you want a better life, why do you have to be disruptive to get it?
Gearing Up, and Girding for, Protests
Around the U.S., cities brace for marches. In L.A., a huge crowd is expected along Wilshire.
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Arin Gencer, Times Staff Writers
May 1, 2006
Protests Disrupt California-Mexico Border Crossing
It's not only disposable labor that is being brought into this country illegally from Latin America.
La Sierra
talkback
The elites in North and South America probably don't have any real problems with immigration, legal or illegal, they are doing just fine. What about the rest of us?
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press Writer Mexican president urges prudence during immigration marches in his country, U.S.
hmmmmm, I wonder why?
Could it be that Mexico, India and the Philippines receive the most in remittances. More than 60 percent of the Latino population in the U.S. is of Mexican descent. About Mexico Dr. Ratha says, "Mexico received $17 billion last year and that was higher than their foreign direct investment. It was about the same size as their oil exports."
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Love this book
I'm reading A People's History of Science, Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks" by Clifford D. Connor (C) 2005.
I love it. I don't know if you've noticed, but sometimes I really would like to punch the shit out of people who think that people who work with their hands are to be treated disrespectfully. People who won't clean their own houses, because they're too good for that make me sick. Architects who expect the carpenters to create miracles because they don't understand how building materials really work together make me sick. People who design crap that looks great on paper and have no clue that what they designed is really useless crap, and impossible to make, make me sick. Snotty, privelidged assholes who buy, or crony their way into positions of power, but have no experience with what real people go through on a daily basis....yep, you guessed it, MAKE ME SICK.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Kenny Boy
Accounting Questions Raise Lay's Hackles
Thursday, April 27, 2006
By KRISTEN HAYS
AP Business Writer
...but it took one of the most arcane allegations in his fraud and conspiracy trial to raise his ire again: An accusation that he tried to dodge accounting rules...
Yet he chastised the prosecutor during lengthy questioning on the accounting issue.
"I think it's a real waste of the jury's time. We've spent an hour on this,"
Lay's eyes narrowed as he said the prosecutor seemed to be suggesting to jurors that he broke the law.
"I was fully complying with all the existing regulations and requirements on my stock transactions," Lay said.
Some jurors rolled their eyes...
Hey Kenny Boy, ya think that those people who worked for 25 or 30 years and lost their pensions give one good goddamned flying fuck whether you are questioned for an hour? How about the years they wasted earning a pension they'll never get because of your company's fraudulent practices?
Here's my heroine again
I'm looking forward to seeing another Ken's shenanigans on NOW tonight.
This Week's Show: God’s Country?
Evangelical Christians have been preaching politics in Ohio ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial primaries and face accusations of using the church as a vehicle for political advocacy.
The accusations come from another group of religious leaders who have filed multiple complaints to the IRS against two so-called "mega-churches" in Ohio.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
By KRISTEN HAYS
AP Business Writer
...but it took one of the most arcane allegations in his fraud and conspiracy trial to raise his ire again: An accusation that he tried to dodge accounting rules...
Yet he chastised the prosecutor during lengthy questioning on the accounting issue.
"I think it's a real waste of the jury's time. We've spent an hour on this,"
Lay's eyes narrowed as he said the prosecutor seemed to be suggesting to jurors that he broke the law.
"I was fully complying with all the existing regulations and requirements on my stock transactions," Lay said.
Some jurors rolled their eyes...
Hey Kenny Boy, ya think that those people who worked for 25 or 30 years and lost their pensions give one good goddamned flying fuck whether you are questioned for an hour? How about the years they wasted earning a pension they'll never get because of your company's fraudulent practices?
Here's my heroine again
I'm looking forward to seeing another Ken's shenanigans on NOW tonight.
This Week's Show: God’s Country?
Evangelical Christians have been preaching politics in Ohio ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial primaries and face accusations of using the church as a vehicle for political advocacy.
The accusations come from another group of religious leaders who have filed multiple complaints to the IRS against two so-called "mega-churches" in Ohio.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Ugh
Can't think. Brain mush. Painted bathroom. Including prep, takes three days. More storage shelving than anyone needs in a bathroom. Like big bathroom except when it's time to paint. I have sore muscles in places I didn't know were muscles. I have bruises and goose-eggs I have no idea how I got.
Ugh....
Although, I did have plenty of time to think, and listen to AirAmericaRadio while I was bruising myself, becoming splattered with paint, and getting zooey from the fumes. I think I'm fucking pissed off that we are paying for record profits for the oil companies at the gas pumps. I also think these fuckers are setting up more advanced infrastructure in India and China, and we're about to get really screwed.
Ugh....
Although, I did have plenty of time to think, and listen to AirAmericaRadio while I was bruising myself, becoming splattered with paint, and getting zooey from the fumes. I think I'm fucking pissed off that we are paying for record profits for the oil companies at the gas pumps. I also think these fuckers are setting up more advanced infrastructure in India and China, and we're about to get really screwed.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Infrastructure unsustainable
I made my money, & I'm so outta here
Competition for energy resources is happening.
25 cos attend NELP VI road show in Dubai
Wednesday, 26 April , 2006, 07:50
New Delhi: The road show held in Dubai to project the investment opportunity offered by India for oil and gas exploration in 55 blocks under the sixth round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP VI) was attended by 25 organisations
China and Nigeria agree oil deal
China has secured four oil drilling licences from Nigeria as President Hu Jintao continues his week-long tour of Africa, his second in three years.
In exchange China will invest $4bn (£2.25bn) in oil and infrastructure projects in Nigeria.
In the heart of Pipelineistan
Mar 17, 2006
By Pepe Escobar
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Happy Happy Joy Joy
Blast at Egypt resort kills 23
Area was favorite of foreign tourists
By LAURA KING and HOSSAM HAMALAWY
Los Angeles Times
April 25. 2006 8:00AM
Suicide bomb attack on S.Lanka army chief, 8 dead
Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:46am ET
Tom Cruise thinks journos are an ‘unhappy’ lot!
Asian News International
Washington, April 25, 2006
Gee Tom, maybe that's because they're paying attention to more than their beautiful wife, and beautiful new baby and, go figure, they have more important public complaints than whether or not Brooke Shields took anti-depressants for a while.
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but you ain't all that and a bag of chips. You're kind of an asshole.
Area was favorite of foreign tourists
By LAURA KING and HOSSAM HAMALAWY
Los Angeles Times
April 25. 2006 8:00AM
Suicide bomb attack on S.Lanka army chief, 8 dead
Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:46am ET
Tom Cruise thinks journos are an ‘unhappy’ lot!
Asian News International
Washington, April 25, 2006
Gee Tom, maybe that's because they're paying attention to more than their beautiful wife, and beautiful new baby and, go figure, they have more important public complaints than whether or not Brooke Shields took anti-depressants for a while.
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but you ain't all that and a bag of chips. You're kind of an asshole.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Condi
"What do you mean I can't have my Ferragamo's!?"
Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
The Associated Press
Saturday, April 22, 2006; 12:59 AM
Friday, April 21, 2006
Long day
Oil breaks through record $75
Continued fears over Iran and Nigerian supplies, reports of gasoline shortage in the U.S. lead to 2 percent jump.
By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer
April 21, 2006: 4:26 PM EDT
From Getty via raw story a pic of Cheney napping
Oil just hit $75 a barrel and VP get-cher-gun is napping instead of talking to the guy who's currency is undervalued, and owns a big chunk of our debt.
Democrats: No Single Message Sums Us Up
Thursday, April 20, 2006
By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writer
And the e-voting lawsuits just keep coming.
Information via BradBlog
LATEST E-VOTE LAWSUIT: Oregon Sues ES&S for Breach of Contract!
2006 Election 'Train Wreck' Continues as Company Fails to Meet Obligations in Yet Another State
Complaint Latest in Growing String of Legal Battles, HAVA-Related E-Voting Meltdowns Around the Country...
In the latest amongst a spate of lawsuits being filed against Electronic Voting Machine Companies around the country, the Oregon Sec. of State has announced today that they have filed a complaint against Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) for breach of contract in failing to provide the state with disabled-accessible voting machines, as promised, in time to meet the January 1, 2006 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) deadline.The complaint, filed yesterday on behalf of the state of Oregon in Marion County Circuit Court, is summarized and linked in full, along with a statement from the SoS at the URL for this story posted below.
Amongst just some of the lawsuits and other legal proceedings now underway in light of HAVA implementation around the country (and, unfortunately, covered in full virtually exclusively by The BRAD BLOG)...
ALASKA: Democratic Party files suit against state to release Diebold voting data from 2004 Election.
CALIFORNIA: Voters file suit against SoS and Election Registrars to decertify Diebold machines.
FLORIDA: Leon County Supervisor of Elections begins legal action against Diebold for breach of contract after machines found to be hackable; Attorney General subpoenas Voting Machine companies in investigation of possible collusion.
ILLINOIS: Republicans ask for 20% recount after Sequoia machines fail in Cook County Primary Election; Democrat says he may file suit on behalf of both Republicans and Dems across state.
INDIANA: Sec. of State announces hearings, possible civil fines against ES&S.
MARYLAND: Republican Governor declares "no confidence" in paperless Diebold systems; Democratic-run House votes 137 to 0 to ban them.
NEW MEXICO: Voters file suit against state to decertify Sequoia machines; Legislation enacted outlawing paperless touch-screen systems.
NEW YORK: U.S. Dept. of Justice threatens state with lawsuit for HAVA non-compliance.
PENNSYLVANIA: Voters file suit against Allegheny County, PA and US Dept. of Justice in re: ES&S machines
TEXAS: Statewide Election Contest filed by Republican Supreme Court Justice after ES&S, Hart InterCivic machines failed across state in March 7th primary.
In addition to the state and county suits, a class action Securities Fraud complaint has been filed by shareholders against Diebold for, amongst other reasons, failing to disclose known problems with their electronic voting systems. Additional legal proceedings are currently in the works in several other states as well, The BRAD BLOG has learned, and so far we've only had two of 50 state primaries in 2006, the first year that HAVA kicks in in full...
COMPLETE STORY, FULL TEXT OF OREGON LAWSUIT:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002714.htm
I'm pooped, but Thank God for Brad Friedman, it's nice to know that someone else is collecting this information, and watching this train wreck.
(Matt Wuerker is brilliant, eh?)
Continued fears over Iran and Nigerian supplies, reports of gasoline shortage in the U.S. lead to 2 percent jump.
By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer
April 21, 2006: 4:26 PM EDT
From Getty via raw story a pic of Cheney napping
Oil just hit $75 a barrel and VP get-cher-gun is napping instead of talking to the guy who's currency is undervalued, and owns a big chunk of our debt.
Democrats: No Single Message Sums Us Up
Thursday, April 20, 2006
By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writer
And the e-voting lawsuits just keep coming.
Information via BradBlog
LATEST E-VOTE LAWSUIT: Oregon Sues ES&S for Breach of Contract!
2006 Election 'Train Wreck' Continues as Company Fails to Meet Obligations in Yet Another State
Complaint Latest in Growing String of Legal Battles, HAVA-Related E-Voting Meltdowns Around the Country...
In the latest amongst a spate of lawsuits being filed against Electronic Voting Machine Companies around the country, the Oregon Sec. of State has announced today that they have filed a complaint against Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) for breach of contract in failing to provide the state with disabled-accessible voting machines, as promised, in time to meet the January 1, 2006 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) deadline.The complaint, filed yesterday on behalf of the state of Oregon in Marion County Circuit Court, is summarized and linked in full, along with a statement from the SoS at the URL for this story posted below.
Amongst just some of the lawsuits and other legal proceedings now underway in light of HAVA implementation around the country (and, unfortunately, covered in full virtually exclusively by The BRAD BLOG)...
ALASKA: Democratic Party files suit against state to release Diebold voting data from 2004 Election.
CALIFORNIA: Voters file suit against SoS and Election Registrars to decertify Diebold machines.
FLORIDA: Leon County Supervisor of Elections begins legal action against Diebold for breach of contract after machines found to be hackable; Attorney General subpoenas Voting Machine companies in investigation of possible collusion.
ILLINOIS: Republicans ask for 20% recount after Sequoia machines fail in Cook County Primary Election; Democrat says he may file suit on behalf of both Republicans and Dems across state.
INDIANA: Sec. of State announces hearings, possible civil fines against ES&S.
MARYLAND: Republican Governor declares "no confidence" in paperless Diebold systems; Democratic-run House votes 137 to 0 to ban them.
NEW MEXICO: Voters file suit against state to decertify Sequoia machines; Legislation enacted outlawing paperless touch-screen systems.
NEW YORK: U.S. Dept. of Justice threatens state with lawsuit for HAVA non-compliance.
PENNSYLVANIA: Voters file suit against Allegheny County, PA and US Dept. of Justice in re: ES&S machines
TEXAS: Statewide Election Contest filed by Republican Supreme Court Justice after ES&S, Hart InterCivic machines failed across state in March 7th primary.
In addition to the state and county suits, a class action Securities Fraud complaint has been filed by shareholders against Diebold for, amongst other reasons, failing to disclose known problems with their electronic voting systems. Additional legal proceedings are currently in the works in several other states as well, The BRAD BLOG has learned, and so far we've only had two of 50 state primaries in 2006, the first year that HAVA kicks in in full...
COMPLETE STORY, FULL TEXT OF OREGON LAWSUIT:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002714.htm
I'm pooped, but Thank God for Brad Friedman, it's nice to know that someone else is collecting this information, and watching this train wreck.
(Matt Wuerker is brilliant, eh?)
Thursday, April 20, 2006
I love this song!!!!!!!
I'M THE DECIDER(Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo)
Where do they find these gems at Huffington Post?
Ok, I'm busted, I was always a really big Beatles fan. Too young, so everybody thought I was weird, but OK, weird has it's interesting moments. Unlike the egghead pictured, I'm harmless weird.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Scottiebot resigns
McClellan resigns as White House press secretary
Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:05am ET
Rove gives up White House policy role
Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:10am ET
Buh-bye Scott. Buh-bye Karl.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
What do these faces say to you?
I took Blondesense Liz's invitation to check out this picture. She called it a rip.
I'm still laughing.
What do these faces say to you?
Monday, April 17, 2006
Oil Rises to $70 a Barrel in New York on Iran Supply Concern
April 17 (Bloomberg)
-- Crude oil rose, touching $70 a barrel in New York for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, on concern the dispute over Iran's nuclear program may disrupt shipments.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President George W. Bush are playing hockey and they really should be playing chess.
Somehow I don't see that happening.
April 17 (Bloomberg)
-- Crude oil rose, touching $70 a barrel in New York for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, on concern the dispute over Iran's nuclear program may disrupt shipments.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President George W. Bush are playing hockey and they really should be playing chess.
Somehow I don't see that happening.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Pagan Roots
Funny, I don't remember learning about the pagan roots of the Easter Bunny in Sunday School. At least they didn't tell me Jesus hid the chocolate eggs, and jellybeans.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
I pray....that I never meet this woman
This woman...
PBS NOW show was too kind to Leslee Unruh
PBS NOW show was too kind to Leslee Unruh
pg. 74 "Unruh pleaded no contest to unlicensed adoption and foster care practices as part of a plea bargain in which nineteen charges, including four felonies, were dropped. The charges resulted from Unruh's promises to pay teenagers if they remained pregnant so she could put their babies up for adoption. Tim Wilka, one of the state's attorneys at the time, explained, "There were so many allegations about improper adoptions being made [against her] and how teenage girls were being pressured to give up their children" he says, governor George Mickelson called me and asked me to take the case." (footnote 64)
Needs to read this book
Interview with Author at Alternet
I wonder if Leslee Unruh knows what a "Pro-Life" Country is really like?
Morbo at The Carpetbagger Report says I have seen the future, and it is El Salvador
Friday, April 14, 2006
Fucktards
I saw V for Vendetta last night. It's possible that that is why I found the subject of these two articles so reprehensible.
Poll: 48% Back Military Action against Iran
By Doyle McManusTimes Staff Writer
Asked whether they would support military action if Iran continued to produce material that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, 48% of the poll's respondents, or almost half, said yes; 40% said no. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12725.htm
Fucktards.
Most Americans Believe Bush Administration is Still Saying Iraq Had Major WMD Program
4 in 10 Americans, 6 in 10 Republicans, Also Believe It Is True
Welcome to Murika, aka Fucktardica, or the Land run by Repugnant Thuglicans.
Holy Crapoli, nevermind what I say, do these people have any fucking idea what the professional military thinks?
Generals Clamor for Rumsfeld's Ouster Over Iraq War
By Steve Holland
Reuters
Thursday 13 April 2006
Poll: 48% Back Military Action against Iran
By Doyle McManusTimes Staff Writer
Asked whether they would support military action if Iran continued to produce material that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, 48% of the poll's respondents, or almost half, said yes; 40% said no. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12725.htm
Fucktards.
Most Americans Believe Bush Administration is Still Saying Iraq Had Major WMD Program
4 in 10 Americans, 6 in 10 Republicans, Also Believe It Is True
Welcome to Murika, aka Fucktardica, or the Land run by Repugnant Thuglicans.
Holy Crapoli, nevermind what I say, do these people have any fucking idea what the professional military thinks?
Generals Clamor for Rumsfeld's Ouster Over Iraq War
By Steve Holland
Reuters
Thursday 13 April 2006
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Deja vu
Undocumented Mexican migrants head to border in anticipation of legalization
April 12 2006
...The shelter's manager, Francisco Loureiro, said he hasn't seen such a spike in migration since 1986, when the United States approved legislation allowing 2.6 million undocumented migrants to get U.S. citizenship....
Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 10
ICE ARRESTS TWO SMUGGLERS, 146 ALIENS AT L.A. DROP HOUSES
...When agents arrived at the residence they found 88 smuggled aliens trapped inside the stiflingly hot home. The aliens told agents the smugglers locked them inside and fled after seeing media coverage about the discovery of the first drop house.
Agents say the house was teeming with roaches and rodents and the rooms were littered with dirty clothes, discarded food and human waste. The nationalities of the migrants in the second house were still being determined as Inside ICE went to press, but the majority were believed to be from Central and South America....
GOP uses Spanish language ads to blame Dems for draconian legislation
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 39 minutes ago
...Bush and Reid swapped charges as Republicans disclosed a Spanish-language radio advertising campaign designed to shoulder Democrats with the responsibility for legislation passed by the GOP-controlled House that would make illegal immigrants subject to felony charges.
The ads are scheduled to air in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada — states with large Hispanic populations....
I wish I could say I was surprised by all of this, but I'm not. (Sigh)
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Slaves
Last night I watched Frontline's the Tank Man and I'm not sure which one of these people
were speaking but one of them said something that I found profoundly disturbing. They said that the number of protests against the Chinese government are growing every year, by the tens of thousands. I want to check it again, and maybe I will stream it when it comes online Friday . They also interviewed some Chinese factory workers (under the watchful eye of some security aparratchik) who performed beautifully for the cameras.
Billmon has a great post on Why People Think the Economy Sucks here in this country.
And ( skippy, can I purty please borrow this?) the asspress say US trade deficit dropping, Chinese buy Boeing plane, everything gonna be A-OK.
Damn! What's that smell?
Yeah right. And bombing Iran will make that trip (in a V8 SUV) to Wal-Mart to buy that cheap Chinese made comforter/sheet set soooooo much easier, right?
Straits of Hormuz? Where's that?
Man, what is it with countries that have booming economies and their slave labor ?
Including us. Thinking about it over at Daily Kos I see.
were speaking but one of them said something that I found profoundly disturbing. They said that the number of protests against the Chinese government are growing every year, by the tens of thousands. I want to check it again, and maybe I will stream it when it comes online Friday . They also interviewed some Chinese factory workers (under the watchful eye of some security aparratchik) who performed beautifully for the cameras.
Billmon has a great post on Why People Think the Economy Sucks here in this country.
And ( skippy, can I purty please borrow this?) the asspress say US trade deficit dropping, Chinese buy Boeing plane, everything gonna be A-OK.
Damn! What's that smell?
Yeah right. And bombing Iran will make that trip (in a V8 SUV) to Wal-Mart to buy that cheap Chinese made comforter/sheet set soooooo much easier, right?
Straits of Hormuz? Where's that?
Man, what is it with countries that have booming economies and their slave labor ?
Including us. Thinking about it over at Daily Kos I see.
Disgusted
A hundred and twenty-six thousand votes counted and another ten thousand or so provisional and absentee still to be counted.
Out of three hundred fifty-three thousand registered voters in the 50th.
And the most you had to do was download a request for a permanent absentee ballot fill it out and stick it in the mail, wait for the ballot to arrive, fill it out and stick it in the mail.
Even with Dukie's criminal shenanigans only about 38% of registered voters in the district voted.
Democracy ain't worth 78 cents and a couple of trips to the mailbox?
Yeesh. This book should have helped me understand. Maybe I need to re-read it.
Maybe RJB of Words Have Power is right.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
50th district, please VOTE
If you live in the 50th Congressional District and have not voted yet, please go vote. Here is a quick link to find your polling station.
I am thrilled to say that I have arrived in blogtopia (they coined that phrase over there at skippy the bush kangaroo's place, you know)
Oh, and Scoobie's back and made me giggle this AM with his commentary on "Dukie."
Oh-My-God
Words Have Power cracks me up today too!
Wooooooo Hooooooo, it's looking like a beautiful day!!!!!
If you have ADD and were momentarily distracted by the giggles, here it is again:
If you live in the 50th Congressional District and have not voted yet, please go vote. Here is a quick link to find your polling station.
I am thrilled to say that I have arrived in blogtopia (they coined that phrase over there at skippy the bush kangaroo's place, you know)
Oh, and Scoobie's back and made me giggle this AM with his commentary on "Dukie."
Oh-My-God
Words Have Power cracks me up today too!
Wooooooo Hooooooo, it's looking like a beautiful day!!!!!
If you have ADD and were momentarily distracted by the giggles, here it is again:
If you live in the 50th Congressional District and have not voted yet, please go vote. Here is a quick link to find your polling station.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Feels like Monday
Yesterday I got this card in the mail. It made my day. 
The inside says "What is WRONG with these people?"
That said, go read Jim Kunstler.
The inside says "What is WRONG with these people?"
That said, go read Jim Kunstler.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Bbbbbbut, I thought....
US Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran
By Peter Baker, Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks
The Washington Post
Sunday 09 April 2006
Grading Our MBA President
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t Perspective
Sunday 09 April 2006
Anarchism and the Peak oil argument by Terry S Tuesday
Mar 21 2006, 3:14pm
elsewhere / environment / opinion/analysis
An anarchist analysis of what peak oil means for the fight for a free society
"The ideal setup by the Party was something huge, terrible, and
glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous
machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and
fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the
same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually
working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred
million people all with the same face."
George Orwell, from the book 1984
Creepy to read, but (thankfully) fictional because two thirds of the country disapproves of the GOP led Congress .
By Peter Baker, Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks
The Washington Post
Sunday 09 April 2006
Grading Our MBA President
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t Perspective
Sunday 09 April 2006
Anarchism and the Peak oil argument by Terry S Tuesday
Mar 21 2006, 3:14pm
elsewhere / environment / opinion/analysis
An anarchist analysis of what peak oil means for the fight for a free society
"The ideal setup by the Party was something huge, terrible, and
glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous
machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and
fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the
same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually
working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred
million people all with the same face."
George Orwell, from the book 1984
Creepy to read, but (thankfully) fictional because two thirds of the country disapproves of the GOP led Congress .
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