Some voting machines aren't count straight ticket votes properly.
Vote for each candidate separately instead of selecting the straight ticket choice.
More on straight-party vote miscounting here.
Here are the states that have straight-ticket voting options:
- Alabama
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Utah
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
"Obama is a Socialist," they cried!
Maybe you read the article about McCain and Palin accusing Obama of socialism.
Well, let's stand back and take a look at the situation more objectively:
1. We, the American taxpayer, just bailed out the Wall Street tycoons to the tune of $850 billion, which will probably end up being a whole lot more before it's all said and done.
2. The US government is buying banks to keep them from defaulting.
Now, if that isn't socialism for the RICH, then I don't know what is.
So if we are going to start pointing fingers at socialists, let us first point at the ones who took the first step: The US republican administration.
Now, frankly, if we are going to have socialism for the rich, I think it's about time we had socialism for the common folk, hard-working taxpayers like you and me. I mean, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, my Momma always said.....
So what do I think about Socialism? Hey, gimme some too!!!
Well, let's stand back and take a look at the situation more objectively:
1. We, the American taxpayer, just bailed out the Wall Street tycoons to the tune of $850 billion, which will probably end up being a whole lot more before it's all said and done.
2. The US government is buying banks to keep them from defaulting.
Now, if that isn't socialism for the RICH, then I don't know what is.
So if we are going to start pointing fingers at socialists, let us first point at the ones who took the first step: The US republican administration.
Now, frankly, if we are going to have socialism for the rich, I think it's about time we had socialism for the common folk, hard-working taxpayers like you and me. I mean, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, my Momma always said.....
So what do I think about Socialism? Hey, gimme some too!!!
Friday, October 24, 2008
The "Constitution-Free Zone"
And this is what it has come to: the bulk of the US population, nearly 200,000 million, live in a constitution-free zone where they can be harassed at will by Homeland Security.
Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders.
The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone. This is not just about the border: This " Constitution-Free Zone" includes most of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
All of the orange areas on this map are the constitution-free zone of the US. You can be stopped by Homeland Security for any reason within this zone, searched, questioned, and even body-cavity-searched without any recourse.
Feeling all warm and snugly about now?
OH, and you think it can't happen to YOU?
Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders.
The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone. This is not just about the border: This " Constitution-Free Zone" includes most of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
All of the orange areas on this map are the constitution-free zone of the US. You can be stopped by Homeland Security for any reason within this zone, searched, questioned, and even body-cavity-searched without any recourse.
Feeling all warm and snugly about now?
OH, and you think it can't happen to YOU?
Monday, October 20, 2008
Voter's Choice: Choose Wisely
I hear people say they can "relate" to McCain and Palin. They talk "ordinary" and seem like the kind of people you could get to know.
Now, while that's an admirable quality, is that really who you want running your country? Some good old boy or girl who might be nice and ordinary but might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer?
I believe we got that kind the last two times we voted for president, and what pray tell did it get us? In bankruptcy, debt up to our ears, tied up in a war we never should have started, and not any safer than we were when we started, possibly much less safer....
Personally, I'd rather have the Harvard graduate running my country...someone with brains and skill...someone who can speak with the upper crust of other countries and have them actually hear us instead of make fun of us...someone who's smart enough to know what he does NOT know and who finds the appropriate people to give him that missing information.
Yes, give me a man with a real brain and education, and oh yeah--make the vice president somebody who at least knows the political ropes and could run my country better than a cover girl from the backwoods, please!
Now, while that's an admirable quality, is that really who you want running your country? Some good old boy or girl who might be nice and ordinary but might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer?
I believe we got that kind the last two times we voted for president, and what pray tell did it get us? In bankruptcy, debt up to our ears, tied up in a war we never should have started, and not any safer than we were when we started, possibly much less safer....
Personally, I'd rather have the Harvard graduate running my country...someone with brains and skill...someone who can speak with the upper crust of other countries and have them actually hear us instead of make fun of us...someone who's smart enough to know what he does NOT know and who finds the appropriate people to give him that missing information.
Yes, give me a man with a real brain and education, and oh yeah--make the vice president somebody who at least knows the political ropes and could run my country better than a cover girl from the backwoods, please!
Bernanke backs Obama: Who'da thunk it?
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, citing a 'weak' outlook for the U.S. economy into next year, differed with the White House and endorsed consideration of a fiscal stimulus package.
Lawmakers "should consider including measures to help improve access to credit by consumers, homebuyers, businesses and other borrowers," Bernanke said in prepared testimony to the House Budget Committee. "Such actions might be particularly effective at promoting economic growth and job creation," he said, calling consideration of a stimulus "appropriate."
Lawmakers "should consider including measures to help improve access to credit by consumers, homebuyers, businesses and other borrowers," Bernanke said in prepared testimony to the House Budget Committee. "Such actions might be particularly effective at promoting economic growth and job creation," he said, calling consideration of a stimulus "appropriate."
You know you're short of money when.....
John McCain suggested that his Democratic rival Barack Obama’s record-shattering fundraising haul will lead to scandal in their presidential race and future races, and he hinted that there may already be funny business going on with Obama’s legions of small donors. ...
"We know that when you have unlimited amounts of money — in this case $200 million unreported — and there’s already been stories of people who have made small contributions multiple times and all that.
"I’m saying it’s laying a predicate for the future that can be very dangerous," McCain told host Chris Wallace in a live interview from Ohio on Sunday morning, blasting the Illinois senator for not voluntarily disclosing his small donors, as McCain has done.
"There’s $200 million of those campaign contributions — there’s no record. You can report online now. Two hundred million that we don’t know where it came from. Lot of strange things going on in this campaign. The American people should know where every penny came from," McCain said. "They know where every penny of my campaign contributions came from."
YES, Mr. McCain, there ARE some strange things going on in this campaign....
McCain camp hits up Russian envoy
October 20, 2008
On a day on which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis hinted that Obama was taking foreign money, the Russian Mission to the United Nations has released a standard-issue fundraising letter gone a bit astray: It was addressed to the Russian envoy to the U.N., Vitaly Churkin, at the mission's address, but without his title.
As the Russian newswire RIA-Novosti tells it:
Russia's permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.
"We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his presidential election campaign. In this respect we have to reiterate that neither Russia's permanent mission to the UN nor the Russian government or its officials finance political activities in foreign countries," the statement said.
"We know that when you have unlimited amounts of money — in this case $200 million unreported — and there’s already been stories of people who have made small contributions multiple times and all that.
"I’m saying it’s laying a predicate for the future that can be very dangerous," McCain told host Chris Wallace in a live interview from Ohio on Sunday morning, blasting the Illinois senator for not voluntarily disclosing his small donors, as McCain has done.
"There’s $200 million of those campaign contributions — there’s no record. You can report online now. Two hundred million that we don’t know where it came from. Lot of strange things going on in this campaign. The American people should know where every penny came from," McCain said. "They know where every penny of my campaign contributions came from."
YES, Mr. McCain, there ARE some strange things going on in this campaign....
McCain camp hits up Russian envoy
October 20, 2008
On a day on which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis hinted that Obama was taking foreign money, the Russian Mission to the United Nations has released a standard-issue fundraising letter gone a bit astray: It was addressed to the Russian envoy to the U.N., Vitaly Churkin, at the mission's address, but without his title.
As the Russian newswire RIA-Novosti tells it:
Russia's permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.
"We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his presidential election campaign. In this respect we have to reiterate that neither Russia's permanent mission to the UN nor the Russian government or its officials finance political activities in foreign countries," the statement said.
So you think everything is "under control"?
Banks borrow record $437.5 billion per day from Fed
17 Oct 2008 Financial institutions ran to their lender of last resort for record amounts of cash in the latest week, Federal Reserve data showed on Thursday. Banks and dealers' overall direct borrowings from the Fed averaged a record $437.53 billion per day in the week ended October 15, topping the previous week's $420.16 billion per day.
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Er..MM..Just how long do you think this can keep on going until the bottom falls out?
Karl Marx and the world financial crisis: Bernd Debusmann
Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:57pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Capitalism as we used to know it is on its deathbed. And those who predicted that the old brand, the unfettered, American-promoted system, was a danger to the world, are being vindicated. They include Karl Marx, whose thinking on banks seems oddly contemporary these days.
The credit crisis that began in August last year and turned into near-catastrophe this month is not over, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars that governments are spending to save banks in the United States and Europe from collapse and thereby prevent a global depression. But there is an emerging consensus that capitalism needs a 21st century overhaul, not just emergency rescues, to save it from itself.
When that will happen is not clear. "What we are seeing right now looks like a very slow train wreck," says James Boughton, the historian of the International Monetary Fund, or IMF.
17 Oct 2008 Financial institutions ran to their lender of last resort for record amounts of cash in the latest week, Federal Reserve data showed on Thursday. Banks and dealers' overall direct borrowings from the Fed averaged a record $437.53 billion per day in the week ended October 15, topping the previous week's $420.16 billion per day.
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Er..MM..Just how long do you think this can keep on going until the bottom falls out?
Karl Marx and the world financial crisis: Bernd Debusmann
Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:57pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Capitalism as we used to know it is on its deathbed. And those who predicted that the old brand, the unfettered, American-promoted system, was a danger to the world, are being vindicated. They include Karl Marx, whose thinking on banks seems oddly contemporary these days.
The credit crisis that began in August last year and turned into near-catastrophe this month is not over, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars that governments are spending to save banks in the United States and Europe from collapse and thereby prevent a global depression. But there is an emerging consensus that capitalism needs a 21st century overhaul, not just emergency rescues, to save it from itself.
When that will happen is not clear. "What we are seeing right now looks like a very slow train wreck," says James Boughton, the historian of the International Monetary Fund, or IMF.
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