September 09, 2008
While We Were Being Distracted by Ms.Pee
While we were distracted by The New Revelations of Mrs. Pee (key word: oxycontin), Slick Dick slipped into Condi's pants, and bulldozed what little is left of her unspeakable legacy like it was a Palestinian settlement. Pardon the analogy.
We almost missed Greg Palast's contention that hackable Diebold machines are the least of our problems in November. From an interview with BuzzFlash:
Greg Palast:.....The prosecutor firings were 100% about influencing elections -- not about loyalty to Bush, which is what The New York Times wrote. .....When I say the 2008 race has already been stolen, about a million and a half voter registrations have been turned down. Even though there have been massive voter registration drives among Hispanics and African Americans, as the churches fill up the bucket, there’s a hole in the bucket where the registrations are being dumped.
It used to be that you signed your name -- bang, you got through, you’re registered. Not anymore. About 40% of the registrations are being rejected on the grounds that they don’t match citizenship files. Well, you know what? It ain’t the Soviet Union. We don’t have citizenship files in the United States. They don’t exist. They can’t exist under the law, which is the U.S. Constitution.
So how do you verify voters? Well, you don’t. About the only thing that could happen is if you require a passport -- and who has passports?
BuzzFlash: This is not conjecture on your part. You're very methodical.
Greg Palast: We've got the documents. We ain’t guessing. When I say they had caging lists targeting innocent black soldiers, I have the lists. I have the soldiers’ names. We spoke to their families. In fact, interestingly, "60 Minutes" came into our office and said, “My God, to prove what these caging lists are, you’re going to have to make hundreds of calls and spend hundreds of hours going through this stuff.” And we said, “Yeah, it’s reporting. Try it. It won’t hurt you.”
None of us here at Dakota are reassured just because the ethically challenged Department of Justice, lead by one of torture's greatest proponents, Michael Mukasey, is holding meetings on voting rights to appease the poor and liberal. Undoubtedly, we'll get this taken care of before November.
We haven't kept up with the latest polls. Suddenly the candidates are neck and neck. Naturally, the pollsters failed to tell us that all three polls were also conducted using a higher sampling of Republican voters than in July, raising a question of methodology....In a year in which Democrats have a lead of 11 million registered voters over Republicans, and have been adding to that advantage through a robust field operation, are pollsters over-sampling Republicans? "
And let's not forget the economy
Honestly, keeping track of Track is getting to be a full time job. Just ask his mother.
Photo note: Multiple representations of patriotism ( note cartoon characters on white flag) - "in and out" and the bonus "slippery slope" -- it ain't pretty, but it's a monumental metaphorophoto
Posted by Dakota at September 9, 2008 07:17 AM