An ES&S Voting Machine Just Gave me $50,000!!!

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 10:27 PM PDT

2008/10/19 · 22:27

We've been warned not to be inflammatory on here. We've been warned not to delve too deep into tin-foil hat territory. I don't give a flying leap how pretty all the diaries look. I don't care about uniformity.

Will someone please show me ONE example of a voting machine switching a Republican vote to a Democratic vote? Just one. Please.

Then I will stop ranting. Then I will feel better.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 12:01 PM PDT

2008/09/01 · 12:01

cross-posted on my myspace page.

Though I struggled with insomnia as a kid, there have been only two places I have lived in my adult life where I have had major trouble sleeping. By trouble, I mean I sleepwalk. More accurately, I sleep-run.

The apartment I currently occupy has a few evil spirits/ghosts which scare the crap out of me and make me run away in my sleep. The main problem is that i sleep in a loft about 13 feet up that has a step-ladder for getting in and out. So sleep-running is quite dangerous.

About a week ago, a presence came into my room and threatened me, and in my haste to escape, I plummeted down the ladder and landed hard on my hip and elbow. The good part is that nothing is broken. I was saved by my ficus tree which I broke in half (poor tree -- it's gonna be okay), but I have some really crazy bruises that look like I've been beaten with a broom handle.

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Sunday August 24, 2008 · 9:45 PM PDT

2008/08/24 · 21:45

Are we insane? Have we lost our bearings completely???? Are we really going to be content with simply attacking John McCain, the person and defending Obama, the person?

It's not about why McCain is bad vs. why Obama is good. We keep fighting the battles on their terms. They attack Obama and we defend him. Then we complain to ourselves about how we're not being aggressive enough and we use all our firepower to attack McCain.

It's not about shooting McCain in the foot with a BB-gun, he can laugh this stuff off, man. It's about US vs. THEM, our party of saints, rebels, and great people vs. their party of oilmen, tragic psychopaths, and ruiners of entire branches of government. We must destroy their whole party. Their whole party, their whole set of ideas, all their actions are bad.

We have to tell the country this week why their ENTIRE PARTY is bad for America and why ours is good. They have run this country into the ground and we are busy talking about how many houses McCain has and whether or not he is an angry person.

Frankly, it comes down to one word: INCOMPETENCE.

If they can neglect drowning people, neglect soldiers, and we spend our time putting up pictures of house keys, then we deserve to lose.

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Friday April 18, 2008 · 10:18 AM PDT

2008/04/18 · 10:18

Just when did the flag pin become part of the required uniform for the President?

(Warning: Image heavy diary)

I have found myself wondering over the last few days about just when all this flag pin wearing began. Apparently, people have been wearing these pins since the Revolutionary War or something, but no matter how hard I look, i can't seem to find them in my history textbooks.

So I decided to do a bit of sleuthing myself, and see exactly what year the flag pin embedded itself in the lapel of the Commander-in-Chief of the good ol' U.S. of A.

Put on your American flag pants and cowboy hats and follow along, won't you?

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 10:16 AM PST

2008/02/07 · 10:16

"...in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Romney planned to say in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

In other words, only if the GOP is unified behind McCain, can they prevent the traitor Democtrats from surrendering to our "enemies." This is Romney's graceless, classless last pander to the conservatives who couldn't save his campaign. Conservative Political Action Conference members who listened to this probably gave him a standing o, who knows? i wouldn't set foot in that room if you paid me a wheelbarrow full of Euros.

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 8:55 AM PDT

2006/09/10 · 08:55

Perhaps it's the success of "An Inconvenient Truth." Perhaps it's being asked about it so many times that it's starting to seem like the thing to do. Perhaps it's just the revulsion toward what he's seeing happen in our nation. Whatever it is, Al Gore seemed to need to tell Australians that the internal gears are grinding a bit -- possibly toward a run for the White House in '08. Read More

Bush Administration phrases that drive us up the wall

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Friday March 31, 2006 · 3:26 PM PST

2006/03/31 · 15:26

It's amazing how much the President sets the tone for the nation. Carter's inclusiveness and moderation, Reagan's divisiveness on race relations and poverty, Clinton's blow-dried but open-minded demeanor; and G.W. Bush's macho behavior all rubbed off on the American public and our behavior and language. When the President disregards the poor and punishes those who stray from what is considered normal, people in positions of power treat those less fortunate with a certain condescension. When the President is warm and inclusive, and calls all Americans to sacrifice and serve, the weak often feel more empowered to challenge those above. It's amazing how much the language of our time will change depending on who is defining the terms of national discourse. Read More

The Beginning of the End In Iraq

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Wednesday February 22, 2006 · 8:40 AM PST

2006/02/22 · 08:40

A crucial development in Iraq's continuing and bloody civil war has virtually ended any hope for peace. When the Sunni insurgents in Sammara blew up the golden dome of one of Iraq's most famous Shiite religious shrines, they struck a death knell for peace in Iraq, and deepened the sense that Iraq has descended into utter chaos.

There are moments that don't seem any different from countless other moments in a bloody conflict -- the stories of bleeding children and dismembered hands seem mundane to the media when they are not American soldiers. This moment, however, seems to me to be the turning point in Sunni/Shiite disagreement over the future of Iraq. There is no turning back from this. Read More

How the West Will Be Won (WITH POLL)

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 12:47 PM PST

2005/12/22 · 12:47

I am a libertarian with a small "L". No, I am not a supporter of the US Libertarian Party or it's laissez-faire economic policies and flat-taxes. Nor do I have a NRA membership card. I am a registered Democrat who falls in the outerlying category of the Libertarian Socialist left.

Why should anyone care what my philosophies are? They probably shouldn't, but today I have a broader point to make rather than just wanting to get into a political theory discussion. I will spare you a forty paragraph analysis of myself and get to the point.

We Democrats have a huge opportunity here to bring a whole new group of voters into our big tent. They are the libertarian center.
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A Call to Service 2: First 38 spots to fill!

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Monday November 14, 2005 · 2:46 PM PST

2005/11/14 · 14:46

In American culture these days, the focus is on winning. Winning in sports, reality shows, the stock market, wars. Winners are celebrated and losers are shunned. In politics, if you lose, you can become a virtual pariah (think Dukakis - when was the last time he was at a democratic party event?). It is important to win, but as John Kerry proved with his 19-state campaign, focusing on the finish line without focusing on the path you use to get there can be a fatal mistake.

It is crucial that Democrats and progressives trapped in "red" districts feel that their voices are heard. To achieve that end, we MUST field candidates in all 435 congressional districts. We need a Dkos community effort to leave no district behind. Read More

A call to service: 70 slots available

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Friday November 11, 2005 · 1:02 PM PST

2005/11/11 · 13:02

(From the diaries -- kos)

Barry Welsh wrote this diary last night about this very subject. We have yet to field candidates in some 70 districts nationwide. Read More

Musings on the Marathon

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Sunday November 06, 2005 · 8:47 PM PST

2005/11/06 · 20:47

There is, perhaps, no event in my home city of New York that better represents the unbelievable spirit of human beings than the New York City Marathon. Each year, I am moved nearly to tears by the amazing stories and images that emerge from this day. Read More

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