Reps find "irregularities" in Wash. Likely to challenge.

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Tuesday January 04, 2005 · 3:08 PM PST

2005/01/04 · 15:08

So let them make a fuss. This is proving that they would certainly do a lot more if the presidency were on the line. Would they have trouble finding people to dispute results in the senate? I doubt it.

The likely occurance is that they'll wait til after Democrats don't dispute Ohio, then go ahead and dispute the governor's race.

Washington State Republican Party leaders say they've found 8400 more ballots cast than the number of voters registered in the state's five largest counties. State GOP Chairman Chris Vance says the mismatching numbers in King, Pierce, Snohomish, Clark and Kitsap are troubling.

Republican Dino Rossi won the first two counts in the governor's race, then lost a hand recount to Democrat Christine Gregoire by a mere 129 votes. Republicans are mulling a possible legal challenge to the election, and Vance says discrepancies like the ones they found so far are clear indications that things went wrong. County auditors have said it typically takes a while for election results to be reconciled with voter registration records.

Nothing important, just picking on Bush

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Monday January 03, 2005 · 7:11 PM PST

2005/01/03 · 19:11

To draw even greater amounts of private donations, I have asked two of America's most distinguished private citizens to head a nationwide charitable fundraising effort. Both men, both Presidents, know the great decency of our people. They bring tremendous leadership experience to this role, and they bring good hearts. I am grateful to the former Presidents, Clinton and Bush, for taking on this important responsibility and for serving our country once again.

hmmmm. They know the decency of the American people, bring tremendous leadership to the role, and bring good hearts.

He should have added, "Unlike me." link... http://www.mysan.de/international/article19208.html

New greenhouse-gas emissions from China, India, and the US will swamp cuts from the Kyoto treaty.

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Thursday December 23, 2004 · 6:43 PM PST

2004/12/23 · 18:43

This just makes me sick.

So much for Kyoto.

The official treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions hasn't gone into effect yet and already three countries are planning to build nearly 850 new coal-fired plants, which would pump up to five times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce.

The magnitude of that imbalance is staggering. Environmentalists have long called the treaty a symbolic rather than practical victory in the fight against global warming. But even many of them do not appear aware of the coming tidal wave of greenhouse-gas emissions by nations not under Kyoto restrictions.

By 2012, the plants in three key countries - China, India, and the United States - are expected to emit as much as an extra 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a Monitor analysis of power-plant construction data. In contrast, Kyoto countries by that year are supposed to have cut their CO2 emissions by some 483 million tons.

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Russia officially joins the ranks of the "Not Free" again.

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Wednesday December 22, 2004 · 10:12 PM PST

2004/12/22 · 22:12

While Bush stands by what he saw in Putin's eyes that day, everyone else sees freedom marching away from Russia.

If Putin exploited their terrorist attack why isn't the same said about Bush an 9-11? The politicization of law-enforcement and intimidation of the media sound familiar as well.

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are not free for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said Monday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.

``This setback for freedom represented the year's most important political trend,'' the U.S.-based non-governmental organization wrote in its annual study, Freedom in the World 2005.

Freedom House noted increased Kremlin control over national television and other media, limitations on local government, and parliamentary and presidential elections it said were neither free nor fair.

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THE CHILLING DAY BERNIE STALKED REGAN'S SON ON HIGHWAY: BIZ PAL

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Friday December 17, 2004 · 2:56 PM PST

2004/12/17 · 14:56

How did this guy make it through vetting?

Did they even try? Were they just THAT confident they could do whatever they wanted?

December 16, 2004 -- WAS Bernard Kerik a stalker? As the illicit romance between former top cop Kerik and publishing titan Judith Regan went down the drain in late 2002, the jilted Kerik snapped, according to people who knew them both.

He not only followed his ex-lover around town -- he seemed to be following her children, two business associates of Regan's told me yesterday.

One associate, who has not seen or spoken to Regan in a year and a half, said, "She had me in her office one day, raving about how he was stalking her." That was in late 2002, long before Kerik came this close to leading Homeland Security.

"He's insane!" Regan told the associate.

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Thursday December 16, 2004 · 5:15 AM PST

2004/12/16 · 05:15

It's pretty sad when people are so intolerant. I could see this happening anywhere in my state.

Politician Who Won't Say Pledge Of Allegiance May Be Recalled

DENVER -- A recall election is now set for an Estes Park, Colo., trustee who refuses to stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the Town Board meetings.

David Habecker sits while others stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

"I have not been standing for the Pledge of Allegiance due to a conflict I have with the wording of the pledge, specifically the words 'under God,'" Councilman David Habecker said.

Habecker said it's a violation of church and state to include the words in the pledge and for that reason, he won't stand.

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Sanctions Mean War

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Thursday December 16, 2004 · 5:14 AM PST

2004/12/16 · 05:14

Why isn't the right eating this stuff up? I can't remember why didn't GW actually do something about this country before this? Oh right...he went to war with a country with no real means to defend itself. What a pussy.

N Korea: 'Sanctions mean war'
15/12/2004 08:53 - (SA)

Seoul - North Korea warned on Wednesday that it would regard any sanctions imposed on it by Japan as a declaration of war and would hit back with an "effective physical" response.

It also aid it would reconsider its participation in six-nation talks aimed at ending the nuclear stand-off if a "provocative campaign" under way in Japan against the country continued, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.

The outburst came after Japan said it would halt aid shipments to the impoverished Stalinist state in a dispute over the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents during the Cold war.

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Planes into a NH nuke plant. More fear-mongering or reliable?

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Wednesday December 15, 2004 · 7:56 PM PST

2004/12/15 · 19:56

I grew up in Seabrook. My mother and sister live there. Why would the Iranians think about attacking us?

Is this another seed to help with an invasion of Iran? If so why is it not being covered?

WASHINGTON - A senior Republican congressman has been warning America's intelligence community for more than a year of an alleged Iranian plot to crash commercial airliners into a New Hampshire nuclear reactor.

Since February 2003, Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania has held a series of secret meetings in Paris with a former high-ranking official in the Shah's government who has correctly predicted, according to Mr. Weldon, a number of internal developments in Iran ranging from the regime's atomic weapons programs to its support for international terrorism, including Al Qaeda.

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Has Gallup really become a tool of the right?

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Tuesday December 14, 2004 · 9:17 PM PST

2004/12/14 · 21:17

I'm having a hard time finding other polls to compare. Are they trying to justify their samples before the election?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/newsroom/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000 736911

NEW YORK A new Gallup poll shows that the public values "values" less than November exit polls suggested, but another survey from the same outfit released today shows a historic surge in Republican party affiliation.

In Gallup's latest poll this month, those identifying themselves as Republicans jumped to 37% of the public, with Democrats now clearly trailing with 32%.

Democrats have long held more party members than Republicans. During the Clinton years, the bulge was about 5% to 6%. As recently as late-October of this year the Democratic edge was 37% to 34%.

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Monday December 13, 2004 · 5:33 PM PST

2004/12/13 · 17:33

Tonight Olbermann is covering the letter that Kerry will send to Ohio's election officials on Tuesday. He's leading into the story with a "Kerry sighting" and an "extra Bush electoral vote".

This is starting to get interesting. In the months leading up to the election I don't think that Kerry could have done anything to stop the fraud.

I think that he's proceeding cautiously and will show that he's got plenty of fight.

Terror Target List Way Behind and "A Joke"

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Thursday December 09, 2004 · 6:29 PM PST

2004/12/09 · 18:29

So they're slow in getting armor and compiling a legitimate terror watch list.
I've gotta know where those minigolf places are and never go there. I mean minigolf a target?

By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY

The Bush administration's effort to create a national database of potential terrorist targets such as dams, pipelines, chemical plants and skyscrapers is far behind schedule and may take years to finish.

Members of Congress who have seen parts of the classified list being created by the Department of Homeland Security say it's a haphazard compilation that includes water parks and miniature golf courses but omits some major sites in need of security.

"Their list is a joke," said Rep. Ernest Istook (news, bio, voting record), R-Okla., a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. He called it "an exercise in full employment for bureaucrats, rather than a realistic way to make the country safer."

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 3:18 PM PST

2004/12/08 · 15:18

Here it comes again...

Fresh Claims of Prisoner Abuse Cover-Up

By Mark Sage, PA, in New York

Fresh claims of a prisoner abuse cover-up in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay hit the US military today.

Intelligence officials who questioned harsh interrogation tactics in Iraq were threatened into silence by Special Forces soldiers, according to newly-obtained documents.

And FBI objections to questionable interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were dismissed by the Pentagon.

The new documents were released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained them under the Freedom of Information Act.

They are the latest piece of a jigsaw, which human rights campaigners say proves that the US had adopted a policy of abusing or torturing prisoners for information.

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