Letters to the Editor
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ondelette
In a 5% survival scenario, the 5% will be determined by geography only. And the next question will be, "For how long?" At Hiroshima, people kept on dying for years.
Full scale nuclear war will bring civilization to an end.
When civilization collapses only the tough and the smart will survive, fallout patterns will determine a lot but not everything.
Hiroshima has been rebuilt, there is a marker at "ground zero".
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Why McCain?
<...we will be powerless to fight the media effort to put McCain in office. God help us if he cries on November 1st.>
I think this is an important observation - the press is giving McCain a pass just like they did for GW Bush. McCain's comments and behavior lately have been really erratic. He's had memory loss, bizarre 'bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran' moments and the 'I don't care if we stay in Iraq a 100 or 1000 years' He's 71 years old and may be in the first stages of senility. We don't need another Reagan who couldn't keep track of the corruption going on in his administration - and who are the people around McCain who keep propping him up? This continues to be really scary.
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Oops, this sounds familiar...
from: http://tinyurl.com/3butrv
Allegations of vote fraud in New Hampshire’s primary are growing. In what was advertised as a fair and open election in the Live Free or Die state, it appears that concerns of the fraud and data manipulation are viable.
The data from Diebold Accuvote optical scanner electronic voting machines is up to 5% points different than the hand-written ballots that were cast. Sutton Town has now reported an error in transposing votes and an employee of LHS Associates, whom counted 81% of the vote, has a criminal record.
Township clerk Jennifer Call of Sutton, New Hampshire has confirmed that ‘31' votes were in fact cast for Ron Paul in Sutton when ‘0' votes were initially reported. They claim that it was an error in transposing the data during transfer to the summary sheet. These 31 residents from Sutton can rest assured that their votes are NOW being counted. But what about the rest of the townships?
The results from the Diebold machines, easily hacked in the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, don’t add up. They claim that Ron Paul had over 2% fewer votes than the hand ballots suggest, and gave Giuliani a .5% boost for 4th place instead. The same ballot machines also show that Hillary faired 5% better than with the hand ballots, taking 1st away from Obama. See this site for more detailed analysis.
In another developing story, Bev Harris of Black Box Voting.org has confirmed that a key employee of LHS Associates, John Elder is a convicted felon with cocaine trafficking charges and election related complaints. LHS Associates holds the contract for programming all of the New Hampshire’s Diebold voting machines, which combined count 81 per cent of the vote.
“They are counting everything in public real nice, they fill out a form in public real nice and then they transfer it to another form and they call that a summary sheet and then that is the one they send in,” explained Harris.
Bev Harris said in reference to the Sutton fiasco:
“What happened is she said they did not transfer the number correctly and put zero instead of 31 - that is unacceptable as an answer.”
The cost of a hand re-count is estimated at $67,000. It is not known at this time whether the Paul or Obama campaigns will consider a re-count.
Could massive vote fraud have happened in this primary? It is not at all inconceivable to me that this election was hacked and that this happened. Why? I have always thought that the Rovian Forces, who have most certainly manipulated votes in past elections, want Hillary to be the Democratic presidential nominee and felt that if Obama won in both Iowa and in New Hampshire, the possible steamroller effect could have put that goal out of reach. Why would they want Hillary?
The press hates her, I think they know some terrible secret about her of the magnitude, for instance, that George Bush deserted when he was in the military during the Viet Nam War. He was running against a war hero (hence the complete destruction of Dan Rather and the founding of the 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth'). I think the ‘dirt’ probably has to do with Rose Lawfirm billing records when Hillary was working for Webster Hubbel (example from a Safire hit job in the New York Times from 1996: http://tinyurl.com/2ugh7r).
I think they most certainly feel that they could dredge up all the old dreck from the ‘90's and people will be so sick of her that they will vote for ABH (anyone but Hillary).
These people have stopped at nothing in the past and the Democrats have been supine nearly every time this has happened. The Rovian’s feel that American government, which they laughingly call 'a democracy' among themselves, is much too important to actually allow people to have control over with a fair vote.
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DCLaw1 and Anonymust (~so do others~) always 'hit' the hay early? They may live in the same barn?
I flopped early and barely...Pedinska's cats had to drag me.
This morn (no talk health, oats, or barley) I woke up as wet as a tit field mouse in summer's grass morn-dew. Achoo. cat allergy.
I tried to find the poem 'A beautiful Lady' and spent some time 'lost' ( it's a nice site ) on www.rossettirchive.org/exhibits/index.http:non-crap/great/
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It's Dante Gabriel Rossetti inspired. It won't hurt.
I need to see a dishwasher? Maybe I'll be a plumber.
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My whore-moans (blame Pedinska's old post comment) in the computer act dizzy today or something? It jiggles. [?].
I feel like a eel floating in a cow-milk-bowl of post toasties.
A trip to Wall Mart for free samples?
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for what it's worth...
...the nyt newsroom dowd spoke of and greenwald discussed is the WASHINGTON BUREAU office -- a well-cossetted embassy within the green zone of the beltway.
And the colleagues she alluded to in her smarmy backhanded way of defending herself ("see? it wasn't just ME who was wrong -- my colleagues here thought the same things!") were drawn from the handful of folks left behind in dc at a time when the political world is out of town.
that is, they are either the oldest of the capital guard or the newest, rawest recruits; in either case, folks who have been judged not up to the task of actually, you know, covering the campaign. (not that campaign coverage is any great shake. but still.) and yes, they perform for each other in that painful fraternal way, trying to come up with proof that they are world-weary and have seen it all. they also perform for the dowdster, knowing that a Pundit is in their midst. their comments prove just how tired and empty the groupthink is, not to mention how tough it is for office chatter, even newspaper office chatter, to be genuinely amusing. comedy is not pretty, after all.
none of this is to undercut any of glenn's insights or contentions. indeed, it merely supports his larger point that beltway journalism is a pack-based know-nothing enterprise. but don't confuse the dc crowd with the nyt headquarters in new york.