lines in New York

Ha!

mmmmmm

Somebody made a telling comment about Manhattan last night on the Malloy show. If the elections get stolen, New Yorkers will order a bagel and a coffee and read the paper. Without Wall Street, Manhattan would be a wasteland. Rent is incredibly high there. Just like healthcare is too high everywhere, Why is that so?

or even third?

Great article by John Cusack who completely nailed the Republican greed machine. Remember folks, it was the Republicans who looted our treasury in the name of Holy Capitalism, wrapped in the flag of patriotism, singing jingoistic hymns until they were hoarse.

Call them out on their delusions and greed!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/no-currency-left-to-buy-t_b_14...

Who should be Led Zeppelin’s new lead singer?

Yoko Ono

election. The spread may not be enough, given the vote flipping. The senate will likely not reach 60...

Voting is busier than usual but lines are short and moving well.

lines were a little longer than normal but not bad.

My daughter voted for the first time, she turned 18 this year. I feel like I got to vote twice!

That's who I was thinking.. ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Begich
Franken
Merkley
Udall
Dole's opponent

Who else?

I hope that jerk Shay loses in CT? They nearly got him out last time.

because manufacturing left and all they have is finance or real estate and that greedy group.
Now the developers want to turn Manhattan into the Elite City No one Enters.

KC Bishop Finn: 'Vote Obama and go to hell' in violation of American Council of Bishops rules in FaithfulCitizenship.org
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Catholic Bishop: Voters Who Support Pro-Abortion Obama Put Salvation at Risk

by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, November 3, 2008

Kansas City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- In one of the most far-reaching statements about Catholics and the presidential election, Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City has urged Catholics not to vote for Barack Obama. Bishop Finn says Catholics who support him put their souls at risk by supporting Obama's "fanatical" stance on abortion.

The comments came in an interview with KCMO 710's Chris Stigall.

"There are Catholics listening to me right now who are thinking strongly or are convinced that they will vote for Barack Obama. What would you say to them?" Stigall asked the bishop.

"I would say, give consideration to your eternal salvation," Finn responded.

"To vote for a person who has a fanatical determination to not only support abortion as it is now but to remove all limitations on it through the Freedom of Choice Act and to extend it without any recourse -- throwing out all of the efforts of citizens over the last 35 years to place reasonable limits on abortion," Bishop Finn explained.

"By voting for a person who has expressed his determination to do this to Planned Parenthood and NARAL -- you make yourself a participant in the act of abortion and you mustn't do it because your eternal salvation is tied up with that important choice," Bishop Finn said.

Following his appearance on the radio program, Bishop Finn appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show on another station.

Gallagher asked: "In good conscience, how can a Catholic vote for Senator Obama?"

Finn replied, "I don't think any Catholic can in good conscience," he said. About Obama, Finn added, "In his brief career, he has collected a very consistent record of a kind of fanaticism for abortion."

Hear the full audio at http://www.youtube.com/v/rsQC64hsSxY&hl
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This story link was via the progressive independent National Catholic Reporter(the publication that conservative catholics hate), interesting stories there at:

http://ncronline3.org/drupal/

The small minority of the catholic uber right radical one issue voters are freaking out that polls of catholic voters show Obama with a lead among catholics. It is amazing that a very few bishops are violating their own election rules as put forth in The American Council Of Catholic Bishops document FaithfulCitizenship.org specifically saying:

Political Responsibility Guidelines to Keep in Mind during Election Season

Parishes and other IRS-designated section 501(c)(3) church organizations are prohibited from participating in political campaign activity. Thus, certain political activities that are entirely appropriate for individuals may not be undertaken by church organizations or their representatives.

Activities to Avoid

In order to avoid violating the political campaign activity prohibitions, parishes, other church organizations, and their representatives should remember these guidelines:

* Do not endorse or oppose candidates, political parties, or groups of candidates, or take any action that reasonably could be construed as endorsement or opposition…

-

New Jersey is a Blue State's Blue State.

"The era of market idolatry is over."

[...]

"As Bush leaves office, the real truth is this: the new economies of the world disprove everything he ever said. Apparently that doesn't matter.

Neoconservatives will lie in the weeds and gather forces, the same players in a revolving door. They want back in and if history has proved anything, worshiping the markets is not enough. We must actually kill to feed them.A horrible cross-pollination of fundamentalism, dementia and market fever has turned America into a willing enabler of corporate cannibalism. Nothing else to call it when murder is seen as a legitimate extension of economic policy."

[...]

The real challenge is to erase the delusion that greed equals freedom and prosperity, let alone the hideous lie that it somehow spreads justice.

[...]

I have a feeling Cusack may throw his hat in the ring some day....

just talked to an 82-yr-old in virginia who went to vote, but came home after the lines were too long. tried to give him the number for voting help, but he didn't want it. says he might not bother going back...

sam, the long lines make me very nervous. i remember feeling that it was a great thing in cincinnati in 2004, that it meant incredible voter turnout. it didn't. it meant not enough machines and voting problems all over the place. granted, it might mean something else in new york...

i'm off to bed. goodnight, blog. good luck today. i hope when i wake up it's to great news!

why is this so about Manhattan?
new
Submitted by nightbird on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 12:29pm.
because manufacturing left and all they have is finance or real estate and that greedy group.
Now the developers want to turn Manhattan into the Elite City No one Enters.
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The shit really got going in the late 1960s. Costly strikes...deregulation of real estate.

i don't know why his war.inc movie flopped. I thought it was good

The wrong voter registration books were sent to 3 different locations. Election workers didn't show up. Booth machines that didn't work...

http://www.kmbc.com/news/17884927/detail.html

It's a beautiful day and will be a beautiful night for an election celebration (or riot).

Personally, I want Palast and Brad Friedman to be proven wrong...I know they're both convinced they're going to steal it and i have to say, I find a some of what they've been saying to be alarmist bunk, tin-foil hat territory. They play a valuable role, but I have seen them become a little egomaniacal about it. Who knows, though, today might just be a vindication for all the work they've done.

I suspect Republicans will pull out all the stops, regardless of the overwhelming support and enthusiasm for Obama and his incredible campaign machine. I know they have all the machinery in place, but I also believe that if it looks ANYTHING like 2000 or 2004, Obama will fight that shit with all he has...he won't repeat Kerry's mistake after all of this work and with all of this support behind him and everything at stake...and, I think the media will back him and not McCain and there will be more coverage of the efforts to disenfranchise voters.

I, for one, am celebrating today, not biting my nails.

Warner - VA for sure
Shaheen - NH has a good shot
Martin - GA very possible upset.

I've never seen that happen before.

The election workers seemed to be very slow, deliberate, careful. They would not fill more than half the booths at a time.

I think that is part of the reason it took 1 1/2 hours to vote.

not bad where I am (Astoria) - small polling place. I saw people from my neighborhood and building - there was a crowd, more than I remember from before. Good mood. Short wait, too; the line moved crisply.

"thing I hate about election days is that reading around the internets you get lots of reports of voting problems, often with lots of exclamation points, by people who don't seem to be able distinguish between serious voter intimidation, general incompetence, and the to be expected occasional malfunctioning machine or whatever. Obviously our election system is completely stupid and in an ideal world we'd have only a small fraction of all of these problems, but not all of these problems are evidence of massive conspiracy.

...adding, voting issues are serious, but the inability to distinguish between the important and the not so important obscures what the real problems are."

Thanks Atrios

says free market dream is over. Hope he is right. But those bastards are powerful. They got many allies too. Crush neoliberalism!

i agree, 60th - especially the part greg palast put out yesterday on the malloy show, that Bill Richardson is disenfranchising the hispanic voters in New Mexico? doesn't make much sense to me.

Read 'em and weep... :-) for JOY!

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/04/content_10305243.htm

[Note: When you click on that link and the "Install Language Pack" box flies up, hit cancel 6 times and it will go away and let you read the article. Somebody is trying to block it]

i notice the story is from the Chinese press....

I did NOT notice that. Thank you for pointing that out.

So why wouldn't it be our front page news?

Weird...

Personally, I want Palast and Brad Friedman to be proven wrong...I know they're both convinced they're going to steal it and i have to say, I find a some of what they've been saying to be alarmist bunk, tin-foil hat territory.
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Votes do get scrubbed, mostly minority votes. That is Palast's bailiwick. Friedman is all about vote flipping by the rightwing. I used to think it was largely tinfoilism, but he does compile lots of evidence.
The consensus among the "hatters" seems to be that Obama's lead is too big to flip, but that several house and senate races are in danger of remaining Republican.

and can we please identify the state whose elections we're referring to so I can learn something?

dr wants me to take a ...what was it he said...luscious bite from the apple of knowledge or something.

Well...? Do your part! LOL

I would look more into the Richardson story. What does it mean? Perhaps Richardson is getting pressure from the law and order lobby--made up of Dems and Repos--to do something about the "illegal alien problem"

At 7 am on Election Day, there was already a line of almost
1000 students to vote at Penn State University, PA.

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I'm Joe the Plumber and my fifteen minutes of fame are almost up.

Greg Palast is an investigative reporter from the US whose stories are not picked up in the US so he works for the BBC...Brad Friedman has a blog (bradblog0 and covers elections, too.
Another name: Mark Crispin Miller
concerns this time: Colorado and New Mexico

In California there is no real line.
I think the optical scanner ballots filled out with a pen are probably the best, because an unlimited number of people can do those at the same time. We really have to get rid of these ridiculous voting machines.

35 Iraqis Killed, 33 Wounded

In Iraq, at least 35 Iraqis were killed and 33 more were wounded over the weekend. Two bombs exploded in a central Baghdad square Monday, killing six people and wounding 21 others. Meanwhile, an Iraqi parliamentarian said that women in MNF jails were detained when wanted male relatives were not locatable

Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion — nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget — to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastructure, energy and oil facilities.

Afghan officials say gunmen in Pakistan have kidnapped the brother of Afghanistan's finance minister. They say Zia ul-Haq Ahadi was abducted in the city of Peshawar on Friday.

but am so glad to see all these people here on the blog. New people posting...it's just great!

Happe Talk

i think it had something to do with native americans too, because of corporate interests, mining rights and such, implying that richardson is a corporate hog, could be, but i find it hard to believe that he would connive in vote rigging by making it hard for minorities to vote

of course, i too hope that all these vote stealing stories are proven to be overblown

whats it going to take to get these christofascists to crawl back under the rock they came out from under 8 years of bushtard? its time to hit them in their pocketbooks and take away their tax exemption since its predicated on not being involvled politically.

remember he called for contributions yesterday

on grittv right now
grittv.org

Reply to Greg Palast

September 20, 2005 By George Galloway

Until a couple of days ago I hadn't heard of Greg Palast in years, the man who claims to have been pursuing me with questions for two months. He has never phoned, written, emailed or made any other contact with me, which is curiously reminiscent of the behavior of the US Senate committee. Having now forced myself to look at his pernicious writing, it seems like the deranged ramblings you might expect to find pushed out from under the door of a locked ward. He claims to be a journalist. He clearly doesn't get much work.

Palast conflates meetings, truths and half-truths, statements taken out of context to produce a toxic smear which would be actionable in the country he claims to work in, my country. How many times do I have to respond to the ravings of guttersnipes? I met Saddam twice, the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld. The difference is that I wasn't trying to sell him weapons and guidance systems. The first, and infamous time, my words were taken out of context. The second, where Saddam revealed his favorite confectionery, I was trying to persuade him to let the weapons' inspectors back in. A vain mission, of course, as the US and UK had already decided to illegally go to war whatever he did.

The Mariam Appeal, which Palast drags in to allege I benefited financially from its work, was not a charity. It was a political campaign. Its primary function was not to provide medicines for Iraqi children, although we did, but to highlight the political conditions which were killing them. Sanctions! The largest donor was the ruler of the UAE (who gave approximately £500,000), followed by Fawaz Zureikat's £375,000, and then the now king of Saudi Arabia (a regime I loath) with £150,000. The donations of these three represented 99% of the campaign's total income. These donors were prominently identified at the time, there was no attempt to hide them, as this palooka claims. None of them have complained the money was ill-spent. Palast might take the view that finance should not be taken from such sources. Sorry, but needs must.

Among the works undertaken by the appeal was a daily newsletter on sanctions, a sanctions-busting flight into Baghdad, the Big Ben to Baghdad trip in a red London bus, countless meetings and conferences, posters and flyers, the projection of an anti-war slogan on the House of Commons, the first time that had ever been done -- and the facilitating of trips to Iraq by dozens of journalists, many of whom sat in on my meetings with Tariq Aziz. And virtually all of whom were conducted around Baghdad by Fawaz Zureikat, openly introduced as the Mariam Appeal's chairman, as well as a businessman trading with Iraq. We brought Mariam Hamza to Britain for treatment -- immodestly, but factually, I claim that we saved her life -- where she remained for half a year, sent back cured. I could go on and on but my enemies would surely claim I was blowing my own trumpet.

But what I will not tolerate -- and will sue in any territory where it is possible to do so -- is the lie that I personally benefited financially from the campaign. The Charity Commission inquiry Palast refers to was occasioned by a referral from Tony Blair's Attorney General. The commission are in possession of every receipt of funds and every cheque issues or bank transfer ever made. They satisfied that there was no malfeasance and closed the case without further action, no doubt to the disappointment of Mr Blair's Attorney General. Charities in Britain cannot campaign politically, which was the prime function of the appeal and in their judgment the commission said that the operation should have been split in two, one arm of which, the one which provided the physical aid, should have registered as a charity. Well, sorry, but that's poppycock.

The stumblebum then drags in Hitchens -- perhaps it's two bums finding mutual support -- a man I recently debated in New York. For what seems like the ten-thousandth time let me try to finally nail the canard that I benefited through the oil-for-food programme, an allegation at the time of writing which has netted me at least $4 million in libel damages and costs. Of course, when I talked with Tariq Aziz, I talked about the programme, but only in respect of the effects it was having on Iraq. I did not request or receive oil vouchers. I did not benefit financially. Not by one thin dime! I said voluntarily and on pain of prosecution under oath to the US Senate committee -- another body which doesn't let the facts get in the way of a good smear -- and I say it again. If I had been guilty of what Palast alleges I'd be sitting not in the House of Commons but a prison cell! Let that be an end to it because I'm sure the public is even more tired and bemused than I am.

Crawl back under your rock, Mr Palast!

George Galloway MP
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5357

Right now they're pushing for this Proposition A that would remove loss limits. It will actually aid and abet gamblers to dig themselves into deeper holes and is a terrible thing, an enabler for them, IMO. But, here you've got teachers on these commercials begging for this Proposition A so the schools can have more money.

IF churches had to PAY TAXES, they could be as politically involved (as they are) and not be waving a huge KMA at the Code of Federal Regulations (as they do) every time they open their mouths.

Hey, I am poor as they come, and I pay $1800 a year to my kids' school in taxes, regardless of whether they go there or to a private school. Every church should have to pay right along with me.

TYVM.

What happened to ToniD?

i find it hard to believe that he would connive in vote rigging by making it hard for minorities to vote,,,
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Maybe he was doing his job as governor. The law can be a stubborn bastard, you know.

Since I have not seen it anywhere but the have been several threads going so I could have missed it.

Mark Luther was Al Franken's high school friend who was the conservative. I found those exchanges a lot better than Hartmann's daily challenge. Luther had a Fiddle Camp at which another of Al's friends Andy Stein teaches. Andy was a charter member of Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen and moved on to Asleep at the Wheel and much more. He is a pretty regular on the Prairie Home Companion.

Since the purity patrol is ragging on Franken, calling him a 'carpet begger' is a little unfair. Al was raised in Minneapolis but after college pursued a career in entertainment and ended up in NYC. Go figure.

I would tend to believe Gram Parsons on the Country Honk story. He worshiped those guys (may have cost him his life) and when asked about their denials he just said that it was an honor just to have been associated with the Stones. Ry Cooder was not as forgiving.

Sitting in a bar, tippling a jar in Jackson/and on the street the summer sun
it shines

Cooder invented open g tunings?

I loved his work on "Memo From Turner".

She's a poll worker today!

~-~-~

You can learn early what early voters did
But the final count from polls will take hours and hours

County clerks will announce about half of their vote counts shortly after the polls close today.

But for the rest of the count, it's anyone's guess. Which means most Coloradans could be fast asleep before the final, unofficial results are in early Wednesday - if all goes well.

Election workers already have processed more than 1.3 million mail ballots and 365,000 votes cast at early voting sites statewide. That's about half of the state's registered voters.

~-~-~

I'm Joe the Plumber and I suck at life.

...we're all essetially orphans ALL DAY!

"No Expectations"

Under the influence of the great Robert Johnson, "No Expectations" became the band's signature soulful blues numbers. The return of the slide guitar was as welcome as it was unexpected. While recording Beggars Banquet, the Stones made a virtue of using guest musicians, including virtuoso guitarist Ry Cooder, then all but unknown to the public, and Dave Mason of Traffic. Both of them, as well as Brian Jones, recorded slide-guitar parts for "No Expectations," and nobody involved seems very clear on whose recording was used on the released version.

toni d is on poll duty, she's an election judge for her precinct, so she'll be hard at work today all day probably into late evening

"Factory Girl"

The most countrified number on Beggars Banquet introduces an instrument wholly new to the Stones' repertory, the mandolin, as played by Ry Cooder. By the time these sessions were done, Cooder had been offered the chance to join the group as Brian Jones's replacement. He turned it down, of course, preferring instead to make his way as a solo act in his own image.

There's also a country fiddle in here, courtesy of Lord knows who. Nicky Hopkins suggested it for flavor, and it works, giving the track the feel of an authentic folk song recorded in the field. As a piece of rural working-class sentiment, it was different for the Stones but still slotted in perfectly alongside the rural blues and urban blues/rock found elsewhere on the record.

Jane Hampsher, Phil Donahue

Get it here

I know you like that one. Ry was also on Gone Dead Train with Randy Newman that starts a great soundtrack album.

Don't forget Sister Morphine

"America the sponsor of destruction and wars," one of the banners read. 'Civilians killed'

Damascus says that eight civilians, including a number of children, were killed when US troops in helicopters crossed into eastern Syria last Sunday.

Thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets of the capital Damascus to protest against a US raid which killed eight people near the border with Iraq.

Riot police were deployed outside the US embassy as the demonstrators, mostly civil servants and students, gathered for the government-backed protest a few kilometres away.
...

McCain sued in VA for military absentee ballots to be counted so long as postmarked by 11-4 and received by 11-14.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_military_ballots_110308/

wassup? Watching now

but I guess I'd better get back to work. I'm not used to getting up at 5 a.m.

Ohhhhhh maybe some coffee...

Firstly, Keith Richards played extensively with Ry Cooder, and was taught his open-G guitar tuning (as used by John Lee Hooker), later admitting " I took Ry Cooder for all I could get ". Secondly, both Jagger and Richards befriended Gram Parsons, who introduced them to country music with which he had grown up. Music was not all the Stones and the independently wealthy Parsons had in common: "We liked drugs," Richards said later, "and we liked the finest quality."
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I walked in on a session that goddamned Keith Richards was playing my ideas back at me...Honky Tonk Women...

I am recalling a quote from an ancient Rolling Stone or Crawdaddy.

Send us your Victory Videos

http://www.maronvseder.tv/?p=368

Di-unt he?

One of my all time favorite movies.

Who is Palast, Who is Friedman,
new
Submitted by Annette on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 12:55pm.
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www.bradblog.com

www.gregpalast.com

Girl,you need to cut back on looking for nude pictures &

read these guys.. ;-)

Just kidding about the pictures,of course !

Mikey likey ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

hi ya Ott!

lots of tension and deservedly so this morning.

Hope for the best.

You're right, I gotta read more. :-)

Just trying to get some brownie points with the crazy country boy dr who's fishin' in 'laska.

Prolly won't work...but hey. Can't blame a girl for tryin'!

(thanks for the links)

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376

EXCLUSIVE: Obama/DNC Incident Report Database Reveals Startling, Wide-Spread Voting Machine Problems Across Nevada During Early Voting

Presidential Race Missing on Ballots; Machines Go Down; Votes Not Recorded; Printers Jam
Attorneys Decline to Take Action to Remove Machines From Service, Ensure Paper Ballots for Voters.

Wide-spread voting machine failures have been reported to the Obama/DNC election protection hotline in Nevada since early voting began more than a week ago in the state, The BRAD BLOG has learned. All voters who vote in person in the crucial battleground state are forced to cast their votes on 100% unverifiable Sequoia EDGE touch-screen voting machines with the VeriVote "paper trail" printer add-on.

Attorneys monitoring the incident reports coming in to the hotline have taken no action in regard to removing the failed machines from service, despite reports of the presidential race not appearing at all on some ballots; voters having problems selecting their preferred candidates; machines not starting up at all; "paper trail" printers jamming or running out of paper, and; a number of machines at a number of sites which refuse to work at all.

And this is just during early voting. A number of those startling reports are posted at the end of this article...

Democratic Officials Refuse to Impound Machines, Despite Myriad Failures...

Con't-Bradblog

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2008/09/08/the-end-of-neoliber...

Anything to help out a fellow perv ! ;-)

Wait..Aren't you a Sunday school teacher ?

Whatever they are putting in the water out there,I want some.. ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

the movie..."The Buena Vista Club." If you have never seen this movie, it was filmed in Cuba and featured many top notch Cuban musicians. Cooder interviewed them and played music with them and the movie is terrific.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09202008.html

outstanding movie.

Happe Talk

I live in a small, suburban town between Akron and Kent. I voted today with no wait. I walked in and voted right away. Then I drove into the city to check out a few precincts there.

Loooooooooong lines in Akron. Thousands of black voters in line. Ohio's major cities will turn out a huge vote for Obama today. For once, I think it might be able to overcome the goobers vote down state.

Thanks for providing that Galloway article..interesting...I have always enjoyed Galloway's debates, especially against fucking Cristopher Hitchens, who is just a obstinate slob...

I have no real opinion of Palast, I have read a lot of his writings and his site, as well and think he has brought a lot of things to light that weren't in the light before....but, I also see a trend in his writing that seems like journalistic reaching and very circumstantial..

The one thing I can't buy is that one fifth of ALL registered voters have already been purged from the voter rolls in Colorado

"In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color."

Palast and Robert Kennedy Jr. did a great and scary piece on this in Rolling Stone, but it is hard for me to swallow completely considering that that is an awfully large amount of people for a state to disenfranchise. Too large to not go unnoticed by all other journalists in this country and I find it specious that Palast and Brad Friedman from bradblog.com are seemingly purposefully ignored at many major progressive blogs.

Like I said, Palast does great work and I want him to keep doing it, but I find that it is having more and more of a self-serving tone to it, bradblog too.

Is Cooder's latest.

Depression era, Union Organizer, Woody Guthrie type tunes...dedicated Ry Cooder fans only.

Buddy the Red Cat for President....

something to factor in is that they know how many ballots were sent out. if the difference between the two candidates is greater than the number of ballots than counting them is a formality that does not effect the outcome.

this has been the case in ohio where provisional ballots were ignored in the past because they couldn't fill the gap between the candidates.

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination (1948).

1. wealth without work
2. pleasure without conscience
3. knowledge without character
4. commerce without morality
5. science without humanity
6. worship without sacrifice
7. politics without principle

This list was a result of Gandhi's search for the roots of violence. He called these acts of passive violence (greed, selfishness, hate, anger, etc.). Acts of passive violence generate anger in the victim, and since the victim has not learned how to use anger positively, the victim abuses anger and generates physical violence. He said that preventing these (blunders) is the best way to prevent oneself or one's society from reaching a point of violence.

http://www.thesocialreformer.com/

Happe Talk

I demand a RECOUNT!!!
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

hey, we're counting on northeast ohio to win this for obama. that plus my familys 2 votes :)

our turnout was reminiscent of 2004 although we have moved from the conservative burbs to the progressive urban area in the intervening time. i'm just hoping most of those people standing in line this morning are looking for the same change i'm looking for.

From the new blog...
Submitted by Alice on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:40pm.
Send us your Victory Videos

http://www.maronvseder.tv/?p=368

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But,I can copy & paste like a Mo Fo.. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

charged with yet?

its a given that scoooter pie will get his walking papers but can he pardon other individuals who haven't been charged and might not be charged till we have a new administration and congress?

Rove will be granted absolution too.

Some of the stuff that Friedman and Palast come up with seems incredible. But much turns out to be accurate. Ohio was crawling with fraud in '04. It was interesting that, although Nader had been barred from the ballot, his name was physically on the ballot and somehow Kerry votes were flipping to Nader (I think). Peter B Collins pointed this out to me in a private e-mail.

...has best coverage today...MSNBC is just largely intolerable bloviating....

CNN also has a voter irregularity problem hotline for people to call in with their issues and they have people following up on the calls, which is really just a great sign!

These nationwide ridiculously long lines and overwhelmed precincts are a fucking travesty...I mean, HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN ANTICIPATING THIS???!!!

If you ever meet ANYONE that calls this "the greatest democracy in the world", this is clear evidence of the facts not bearing out that mindset...

>>But,I can copy & paste like a Mo Fo.. :)

if you can make a video, you can also send them to Sam via email.

did you ever get your keyboard problem cleared up?
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

This book and the companion CD have info on thousands
of ballots,pictures of many actual,marked ballots.
Nader/Camejo were printed on all the ballots. I was
surprised to learn that David Cobb of Green Party was
not actually on the ballot, but got write in votes
that gave him standing to ask for recounts.

www.witnesstoacrime.com

best

pbc

>>MSNBC is just largely intolerable bloviating today ...

I can't expect any of the new networks having too much to say this early in the day.

"This just in: We are still waiting until after dinner for the results of this historic election. Stay tuned for 6 more hours of killing time until those results are in."
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

I download Keith and Rachel to my Ipod each and every day. I am a fan of bloviating, I guess.

No theft....PLEEEEEEEEEEEESE!

Did he get enough contributions to keep his show ?

Man..I hope so..He's good..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

from abc news:

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers.

Seriously.

Welcome to the South Side of Chicago.

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omg, the wingnuts were right :)

Nope,Chubbs..I'm lazy..

Remember,every "l" you see me blog is a copy & paste job..
Sucks !

I have never made a video..
If I had,I probaby would be wanted in a few states.. ;-)

That's a joke NSA man.. :)

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Ry Cooder’s I, Flathead, is the culmination of his ambitious and fascinating "California Trilogy," the last of three albums in which the singer and guitarist journeys through the real and imagined history of mid-20th century, multi-ethnic California, sampling the sounds of its barrios and byways, its nightclubs and honkytonks. He encounters the disenfranchised, the hopeful, the cheerfully strange and seriously nefarious, along with the occasional alien who races around in a souped-up flying saucer on the desert salt flats. On previous installments, Chávez Ravine (2005) and My Name Is Buddy (2007), learning the facts and stories behind Cooder’s songs made them even more compelling, whether it was the not-quite vanished legacy of the Chávez Ravine neighborhood of Los Angeles, bulldozed to make way for Dodger Stadium, or the allegorical, Bound For Glory-like adventures of Buddy Red Cat in a time of commie-baiting and union-busting. This time, however, no research is necessary: Cooder, a California native, has written a remarkable 104-page novella to accompany this disc, a surreally funny page-turner of a tale about itinerant musician Kash Buk and the various characters he meets in his travels out west, all of whom get to narrate parts of the story. If you mixed John Steinbeck with, say, Thomas Pynchon, and threw in a bit of Popular Mechanics for good measure, it might read something like the I, Flathead narrative.

Haven't heard it yet. My fellow Cooder fans say it is great.

We will be understanding... :)

the fun tunes they made with Ry Coodrer?

most digital cameras can take video.

not rocket surgery by any stretch of the imagination.
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Good idea ! :)

I'm a bit s1ow sometimes..

Cowa Bunga,it works ! ;)

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And i tip my hat to anyone who can stand watching that show. Those of you who do should earn combat pay.
Scarborough and Buchannon (sp?) were both arguing that this is the result of the repub party losing sight of the Reagan legacy, rather than it being the predicted RESULT of it. These douche bags can find an excuse for anything in their party.
Although i'm still fairly nervous that the election could be stolen again, right now i'm far more worried that Prop 8 will pass here in California. It just goes to show you, if it's not one thing it's another...

Women's hands 'harbour more bugs'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7705608.stm

Women have a greater range of different types of bacteria on the palms of their hands than men, US research suggests.

The study also found that human hands harbour far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously thought.

Using powerful gene sequencing techniques, researchers found a typical hand had roughly 150 different species of bacteria living on it.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study found bacteria types varied greatly between individuals.

The researchers, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, hope their work will help scientists to establish a "healthy baseline" of bacteria species on the human hand.

This could potentially help them to identify which species are linked to specific diseases.

Lead researcher Dr Noah Fierer said: "The sheer number of bacteria species detected on the hands of the study participants was a big surprise, and so was the greater diversity of bacteria we found on the hands of women."

The study detected and identified more than 4,700 different bacteria species across 102 human hands in the study.

However, only five species were shared among all 51 participants.

Even the right and left palms of the same individual shared an average of only 17% of the same bacteria types.

On average, women had 50% more bacterial species on their hands than men.
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Girls DO have cooties!!!

Took me 1 hour and 15 minutes. 10:45 to 12:00 noon.

Have any of you guys taken your camera to your polling place? I took mine and took photos outside the building standing in line and then inside in the gym crammed full of voters. A worker came over and said I could not take photos unless I was someone with the media whose credentials had been cleared. I asked them to show me where it said you were forbidden to take pictures. They didn't have anything in writing. So, they got on the phone and said an election judge would send out the police to arrest me unless I stopped taking photos. So, I stopped taking photos. Outside, the Obama worker called and and they said that was in fact the law. But, I can't find it anywhere. This is supposed to be America. No one is allowed inside with campaign stuff so there is no way to know how anybody was going to vote.

That will definitely be my next CD purchase.

His jacket booklets are starting to pile up on my reading list too. I still haven't read Buddy yet. :)

;-)

I'm so 1980's..

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another work around foor th`I' problem...

try substituting two `E's?

that way people weell just theenk you are a landscaper or sometheeng, Senor. ;)

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I was not trying to contradict you. Actually thanks for reminding me that Ry Cooder completist that I am I have not picked up the last two CDs.

Danger, I think you are thinking of the late Duane Allman or Eric Clapton on the Delaney and Bonnie thing. I was just watching some video this weekend.

Sorry, no.

I voted two weeks ago and my polling place was my mailbox.

Oregon rocks! We don't need no stinking security guards to guard (read: intimidate) our voters...

>>I don't have a camera

you can always draw lots of pictures and do the `flip animation' thing..?
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Women's hands 'harbour more
new
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 2:39pm
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;)

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Ry Cooder album out I haven't heard yet. Thanks bud. :)

Woke up this morning to the news that there was an attempted to break-in at more polling place that resulted in a police officer being grazed in the head by a bullet.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1108/566885.html

The news said that the best time to go vote is between 10am and 3pm. I figured I would wait till then especially with the incident that occurred.

When I got there the line was about sixty people deep outside the building with a line 30 deep inside the building hallway and 4 lines with 15-20 deep in the all purpose room. There were 14 voting machines. It took approximately 1.5-2 hours to vote, but people were exhilarated by the historical nature of this election.

In addition. there were two important questions. One was on allowing slots machines at primarily racing facilities; and the other to allow early voting in Maryland.

When I left the polling place the outside line was a little shorter, probably 40 outside. The streets are unusually busy with a festive ambience, or may be its the euphoria of seeing so many people voting, the likes I've never seen before in my voting experience.

LOL ! :)

That could happen..

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The lines are long and that is just plain wrong,it's like a poll tax, I mean who can give up so much time, but this year the stakes are high, the direction of our country for decades will be decided today, please vote.

Cartoons for the coming progressive age
www.whatnowtoons.com

Now

God, am I disillusioned and outraged.

All this time we've been told that boys are "made from snails and puppy dog tails".

Meanwhile, little girls evidently are made from filthy swarms of bacteria...

`Sugar and Spice', my ass!
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Keith and Rachel haven't been on yet, as far as I know...

:)

HeeHee..

Let it go,Chubbs.. ;)

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fantastic, such great debating skills and a way with words, also loved his scottish accent - kind of like a sophisticated malloy, if you can imagine such a thing, got really addicted to it for a while - i used to download the podcasts and listen in bed in the evenings, it did wonders for my insomnia; not sure why, but i found it comforting, his tirades against blair and bush and the neonazi xenophobes who called in to his show and he just destroyed their arguments with such gusto, it was something to behold

also a great defender of palestinian rights against israel's abuses

at some point i stopped listening because downloading the podcasts had become too much work, they had a funky website and a volunteer handling the technology, worse than the early maron seder stuff - i wonder if it got better now, should give it another try

>>Cartoons for the coming progressive age

I knew exactly who madethat at first glance!

I must say I admire you for sticking in there and following your dreams as far as cartooning is concerned.
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Duane Allman video is scarce. Bonnie looks like she's wearing an SLA disguise here.

http://www.georgegalloway.com/page.php?page=content/videoaudio.html

sugar and sp1ce and everyth1ng n1ce :)

what a disgrace. A terrorist who wanted to bomb the pentagon and kill americans and he's allowed to vote? What? So he's not a criminal? He wasn't convicted of anything?

Gee, does that mean maybe these assholes were lying about him?

sarah palin?

I made that a few months ago, but after overhearing another venomous "HUSSEIN!!" last night, i had to bring it out. Or maybe you're so cool you started a trend... ;-)

Ollie North and and Gordon (the original plumber) Liddy will be voting for? Or Chuck Colson?

That would make him ineligible to vote...?

I just finished my video for Sam.

high tech, lots of special effects. cost a bundle to produce, let me tell you.

took about 30 takes...I'd cough in one, forget what I was going to say in the next...that sort of thing.
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Liddy's situation depends on which state he lives in.

I believe laws/restrictions range from none to complete ineligibility.

He could afford to go anywhere, I'm sure he lives somewhere liberal.

a) because the ballot definition software is proprietary, the secretaries of state cannot certify that it does what it is intended to do (record voter's intent).

b) because the voting machine software is proprietary, the secretaries of state cannot certify that it does what it is intended to do (record voter's intent).

c) because the tabulator software is proprietary, the secretaries of state cannot certify that it does what it is intended to do (record voter's intent).

'live-fire' testing is not possible under the current circumstances, since the 'calibration/test' software is separate and also proprietary.

any one of a), b), or c) is sufficient to de-certify (or not certify in the first place) - but there's more:

because of a) or b) or c), there is no way to do a recount.
ever. even the Veri-Vote so-called 'paper-trail' is generated by the unverifiable software, so it is neither verifiable nor certifiable.

'lost' or 'spoiled' votes cannot be identified as such.

independent field-testing of machines running proprietary software routinely show error-rates (known input comparison to output) of 10%.

a return to paper ballots is the only solution; it would undoubtedly require each state to file lawsuits to recover costs from the voting machine vendors, and complicated by state-by-state HAVA-funding. Lawsuits against the EAC and FEC will also make this even more difficult.

An immediate 'fix' would be to open all voting software, firmware, and hardware to independent, public review; but this would not eliminate the problem.

The practical solution would modify the machines to generate a voter-verified ballot with a unique identifier number and barcode which the voter takes, verifies, and places into a secure ballot box.

The electronic data collected by the machine is used as a backup, or for 'instant polling' results; but only paper ballots are used for optical-scan or hand counting, certifiable votes.

I'm open to other suggestions.

Robert Townsend, Candidate for Nevada State Assembly, District 25.

is right. Cnn is best. have live video feed online,
plus interactive.

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1

have several live feeds to choose from
when go there asks to install addon for adobe.
does work well

Probably has regained that right by now. If you stay out of trouble for 5 years or so you can have your record expunged.
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that it takes 10 years to abandon property in this country, but it only takes 8 years to abandon your voter registration? That's right, apparently if you neglect to vote for 8 years, your registration will be dropped...

sad, ain't it?

Sorry, I tried to find a link that confirmed what she told me but I cannot.

anyone remember Bonnie on the sitcom Roseanne. She worked with Roseanne in the diner as a large busted waitress. She was dating David Crosby and they would have picnics and sing. She was amazing.....

Happe Talk

Into the Purple Valley?

know how. What do I do? m hussein happenow.

Happe Talk

Over the Rhine - If A Song Could Be President

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Fellow former Capricorn Records artist Martin Mull also was on Roseanne

yes annette it's kind of sad to think that someone wouldn't vote for 8 years, though i am sure they may have their reasons

or not...

>>tried to put Hussein in my nic too but I didn't know how.

Go to the `my account page', click the `edit' tab and make the changes.

don't forget to save the changes!
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Happe Talk

>>Is there a show this afternoon?

Yes. there is the normally scheduled show and the gala election night extravaganza!
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Not that familiar but have always like him before what little I knew.

And you have to have some kind of respect for a guy who has the ingenuity to use "guttersnipe" and "palooka" in the same letter.

All i did was create a new account with another email account. Kept the same login password so i can remember it.

from the Paradise and Lunch tour that has a few of the Purple Valley tracks...

Great stuff.

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/ry-cooder-concert/20052635-6179.ht...

should I sign out and then back in?

Happe Talk

I just contacted americablog and they thought the forbidding of photos might have been to avoid intimidation of voters who might be afraid of government reprisal. I guess the last 8 years and this election cycle has me on my last nerve!

what is Sam'semail address to send our video links?

was it sedervm@gmail.com, or what?

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the edit did not work

Sorry, I was thinking of the signature line...

I think you'll have to set up a new account, like Spunk-Hussein-Monkey said.
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another good one, "bush and blair are two cheeks of the same backside"

mvslive@gmail dot com

Happe Talk

but maybe i can get my kids to put on a puppet show.

him of anti-semitism for taking the side of muslim and palestinian causes

and he'll get them from there

I just want to tell you, you guys are in for such a treat!

my 35 second video is uploading now.

I watched it a couple times, and I have to tell you, I am startled my my cinematographical brilliance!!!

not only that, the viewers will get a glimpse of the opulent grandeur of my palatial estate.

lucky, lucky viewers!
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sedermvs - but i'm not sure whether he was talking about his new im or the email

>>Service Temporarily Unavailable
>>The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or >>capacity problems. Please try again later.
>>Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.maronvseder.tv Port 80

oh, for the love of god!
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Does it help "share" the bandwidth if I listen via Audio only? I don't know the technology details.

>>Service Temporarily Unavailable

>>Does it help the bandwidth if I listen via Audio only?

probably.

but you are right, the third time was the charm!
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very windy in NM

anyone know what cities McPalin is visiting in New Mexico today?

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

I'd prefer that since i don't watch but listen while i work anyway.

Just got my flu shot too. And the sun is back out. It's a good day...

Speaking of...

I remember that in _The Best Democracy Money Can Buy_ (?) that Palast said Richardson was capable of looking the other way for voter suppression in 04 because although "he had the right to call himself a Mexican-American," (almost a direct quote) he was also a "Citibank-American"(because his Anglo father was an executive for them in Mexico when he met R's mother). I hope there was more to it than that, but it did strike me as kind of a simpleminded explanation of the conduct, whether or not the allegations themselves were true.

I'm not dumping on Greg Palast generally at all. I don't know enough from independent sources to question his stuff on election fraud and it has always sounded plausible to me in general.

Other skepticism to be shared by more informed ppl than I?

>>Where's the "audio only" link?

I don't know if there is one.

I figgered you knew something I didn't.

I doubt if there is one, it would take a separate stream and judging by the problems they have/had with just the one...
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In the box on the upper left right below the main banner and logo.

The audio only link:

On MaronvSeder.tv, upper left side, under the Pages header.

Good God. 500%?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/12/biofuels.food

did you see Marc's face when the caller was talking about Palin? his eyes bugged out of his skull!
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Happe Talk

(go to jump six minutes. some of the funniest testimony audio you'll ever hear.)

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=42374

yep I just made a new account

my video is online!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRy58t8klr8

you can be the first to tell me what a genius I am!
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Geez...looks like the price of shit is going up...literally.

Kind of a weird place on "the apple" to start, Annette, but whatever does it for you. ;-)

Cute. ;-)

I was googling civil unrest, because apparently, all the major urban cities are prepared for it - and that's what I found. Mmmkay?

'nnette's tryin' here... :P

BTW, no civil unrest so far. :-) People waiting quietly in line, from what I can see.

Fernando from Texas on the show right now!

YAY!!!
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Happe Talk

?

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Jamesbennett

when I got back after lunch from door knocking to our Antrim County Dem office, Michael Moore was there just finishing up cheerleading. He's going around to all the offices here to cheer on the troops.

>>are they im-ing

no, Sam turned his IM off shortly after I asked about the email addy to send the videos.
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Great call-in Fernando!

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Sam's show will be a cooking show soon.

This war on clowns is killing.

marc before -- figured he got less traffic

but not today...

==
can't watch or listen, in the phone room - which is also my data entry room --which is next to the war room.

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

>>Sam's show will be a cooking show soon.

great. I LOVE `the angry chef'!
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it is so windy here today

If McCain plans to hald any outdoor rallies

the wind will surely disrupt them

heard he was coming to Albuquerque and maybe other cities (to the west) closer to where I am

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

optimism is in the air!

Mine is that prick Virgil Goode gets sandbagged by the Obamacons and has to find a new job...

CUBBY Bubba?

Is what I'm askin', not to be rude, but doing so anyway. ;-}

I suppose it may not be a yes or no thing...

Or maybe you don't know. I don't know whether or not most of my neighbors are divas, even if he really is your neighbor.

In fact I only have one on whom I would venture an opinion, and he would be a diva if it were possible for a long-retired former stevedore from the Bronx in his 90s to be a diva. But I don't think it is.

>>CUBBY Bubba?

What?

am I now Annette's drummer?

(mickey mouse show reference, for you youngsters)
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It you hit Virgil with sandbags he would go down so easy, the skinny little racist, ignorant prick.

(Legal Disclaimer: I have no plans to do this.)

wasn't that bad - everyone left about 1am

then after taking care of some last minute details for the big day I left the office about 8am to shower - change...

The First Americans around here that do not have cars will walk along the road and maybe someone will stop and pick them up. I'm driving down route 66 (literly,) see a woman and pull over. She asks how far I'm going and I say to the red roof inn. Then she says, "I'm going to vote for Obama" and I say, "I'll take you wherever you need to go."

: )

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

8 hits on my video!

man, this thing is going VIRAL!!!

maybe I should work on the outtakes and bloopers reel?

I'll be bigger than Joe the Plumber at this rate! ;)
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>>I left the office about 8am to shower - change...

change we can believe in! ;)
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I couldn't hear it yet.

at 2:25

BTW: TY RK!
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Annette the mouseketeer photo?
re -- annette b-day pic update
Submitted by jbenet on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 6:50am.
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>>CUBBY Bubba? What? am I
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 5:13pm.
What?

am I now Annette's drummer?

(mickey mouse show reference, for you youngsters)
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

Happe Talk

pretty cute too!

it would be nice to hear louisiana called for obama

or should i say cubby?

why did you cut it off so fast at the end?

>>go obam

I cut myself off...this is what happens when you use non-union help.

but the dozen and a half takes that ended up `on the cutting room floor'...painful.

not the sharp, crisp professionalism you'd expect.
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I didn't vote for Obama..

Wow..What a good post ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

via Wonkette

I did my part, now everyone with a digital camera, make your video!

It takes a while to upload them.

you only have 5 hours left!

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State elections officials have identified the person responsible for a phony election flier that told Republicans to vote on Tuesday and Democrats to vote a day later.

State Board of Elections Secretary Nancy Rodrigues said Monday the flier bearing the Virginia seal and the elections board logo was a joke that got out of control....

http://tinyurl.com/6o4fe4

--8 hits on my video! man,
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 5:19pm.

8 hits on my video!

man, this thing is going VIRAL!!!--

>>State Board of Elections Secretary Nancy Rodrigues said Monday the flier bearing the Virginia seal and the elections board logo was a joke that got out of control....

BULLSHIT!!!

the joke got out of control, was printed and then mailed to thousands of people...

right...

Even if her version of the story is true, she should be found criminally responsible.

kinda like the legal defense, `I didn't know the gun was loaded'...
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1. Ben Folds Five - Brick
2. Staind - Comfortably Numb
3. Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
4. Alice In Chains - Down A Hole
5. Radiohead - Creep
6. Pixies - Caribou
7. Soundgarden - Like Suicide
8. Pearl Jam - Oceans
9. Neil Young - Harvest Moon

From: http://infonistacrat.hometownproject.org/2008/10/05/acoustic-sunday/

67% Obama
33% McCain

premature, I kno...but fun anyway and the first reports of the day!! W00t!

http://scoreboard.dailykos.com/map/

http://www.m-1.us/Clare___The_Reasons_-_obama-over-the-rainbow.mp3

Aurgasm - Fukstronaut Mix (part 1) (47min):

1. Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo/Mad Decent Remix) Verve Remixed 4 (2008)
2. Kultiration - Ur Jord Om Gaia (2004)
3. Nitin Sawney - Shadowland (feat. Ojos de Brujo) Shadowland (2008)
4. David Holmes - Rodney Yates Let’s Get Killed 1997
5. Cinematic Orchestra - Flite Everyday (2002)
6. Da Cruz - Sarah Nova Estação (2007)
7. Lightning Head - NPG Afrobeat EP (2007)
8. TM Juke - Electric Chair (instrumental feat. Elmore Judd) Electric Chair EP (2008)
9. Hint - Snake Patrol At the Dance EP (2007)
10. Astrud Gilberto - Bim Bom (Psapp Remix) Verve Remixed 4 (2008)

brb
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He is the most down to earth person there is. He's from Flint. Anyway, he has organized a film fest here in Traverse City that has become in three years our best summer tourist attraction. This despite all types of abortive efforts to destroy it by Christo-fascists.
Btw he drives a highly used minivan.

What time is it?

That's mostly what I get from him.

In line with the first report:
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on.

Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday's first minutes. The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul. Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns' ballots but got no votes.

"I'm not going to say I wasn't surprised," said Obama supporter Tanner Nelson Tillotson, whose name was drawn from a bowl to make him Dixville Notch's first voter.

With 115 residents between them, Dixville Notch and Hart's Location get every eligible voter to the polls beginning at midnight on Election Day. Between them, the towns have been enjoying their first-vote status since 1948.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5grwUADvRzUMaEoHj9bHMtdylvOLAD9483U6G0
(Bush won here in '04.)

invocation at the innauguration? if so, then you know where i'm going with this. it seems like an appropriate gesture after the last 48 hours of attack and hate ads against obama.

So ghettodefender, is Mike a diva like some people say, or not?

Submitted by gloryoski on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 5:11pm.

Is what I'm askin', not to be rude, but doing so anyway. ;-}

I suppose it may not be a yes or no thing...

________________

How-do, glory:

Tho' you didn't axe me, I will offer my opinion, fwiw.

I is gotta hunnerd-year-old Victorian in downtown Tragic City, tho' I'ma presently working in Alaska. I is seen and met and spoke with Michael Moore onna casual basis on several occasions thru the years (mostly thru the TC Film Festival, tho' other occasions as well; Mike's gotta place on Torch Lake, if mem'ry serves), tho' I'm near-'bout certain Mike's got no clue who I am. (Why should he?)

That said, w/o fail, Mike has been funny, affable, patient, kind and open to myself and all those I've seen him interact with. Unfailingly so. Ever'one I know who's met him sez the same.

Now, perhaps he beats his dog in private 'n strangles kittens just for fun, but my sense is he's just what you see -- one hell of a nice guy and a true patriot.

It's a testament, in my mind, to the false equivalence memes that daily get pimped by the village idiots who run our moribund press corpse that Michael Moore is somehow portrayed as the equivalent of someone like Ann Coulter. (You know, b/c they're both so *extreme*. And *scary!*)

No. Man Coulter is a paid shill (operative) for any and all Republican disasters, no matter how counter-productive or self-defeating. Michael Moore is a kind-hearted progressive who isn't extreme in the slightest and puts the well-being of his fellow Americans first. Both have strong points of view, but one deals in bad faith, the other in good, imo.

But, I guess it's like Oscar Wilde observed many years ago (in paraphrase): “If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

An aside: Michael Moore, in addition to creating the TC Film Festival (w/a coupla locals), also renovated a (historic!) movie-house (sounds grander than it is, but it's still nice) called the State Theater in downtown Traverse City. What's innerestin' from them's what knows is this:

Tragic City is allus been run by Republicans, mostly of the Rockefeller or Bill Milliken variety. And like many communities, the downtown is allus struggling to figger out how to reclaim its former glory in commerce. Well, Michael Moore has gone a long ways towards rejuvenating Tragic City's downtown w/his work on the Film Festival and the State Theater and other initiatives.

So here's the upshot. There now exist a great many downtown Republicans who loathe and despise Michael Moore w/every fiber of their being, but, knowing where their bread gets buttered, now make a point of kissing his ass.

Not that Michael Moore encourages such ass-kissing. He doesn't, apparently. (Tho' I suspect he finds it somewhat amusing that the same sorts who used to call him a "traitor" are now kissing his ass. Hey, he's only human.)

But, evidently that psychic whiplash is just part 'n parcel of the kiss-up/kick-down mentality that frequently accompanies a Republican worldview.

That would be the ULTIMATE fuck you to the boneheads...

I would certainly get a chuckle out of it. :)

'Kay, but I'm still mad that on Halloween he didn't go on either Real Time or KO as Cindy McCain as he said he might, even though I begged him to do so.

dr

Submitted by gloryoski on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 6:20pm.

'Kay, but I'm still mad that on Halloween he didn't go on either Real Time or KO as Cindy McCain as he said he might, even though I begged him to do so.

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Evidently Michael Moore refuses to be yer monkey.

(Tho' that woulda been choice.)

Man that was cold.

i prefer to think of it as schadenfreude

Tucker?!

Submitted by gloryoski on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 6:25pm.

Man that was cold.

________________

Aaaargh!

Fuck.

Sorry. Warn't meant to be.

I reread it after posting, intuited (belated-like, goddammit!) how it coulda been taken wrong (i.e. like I were drawin' a comparison betwixt you two, when I were just tryin' to ID the moment in question), so went back and edited it ...

Too late.

No offense intended, glory. Just wanted to use the monkey line 'n got lost in the thickets of intent (mine) vs. perception (your'n).

found this over on breitbart. a few more like this and maybe the unwashed masses will finally get it:

twisty shits ain't they?

been around those backstabbers much of my life.

they're always convinced nobodies keeping track of their antics.

Tx.

Should be out fishin' today (fina-fucking-lly stoppt blowin' 40-knots-or-better ever'goddamn day 'n gotta good 5-day forecast), but I wanna see how things turns out today.

If omens 'n portents means anything, I'd like to thinks the first blue-bird day here in SE AK after a month-solid of rain 'n wind might bode well for an Obama rout.

Repudiation is what is wanted.

no biggie, the current has to settle down anyway. the down current side of the pinnacles will probably have some big feeders. watch yer gear!

us.

Good job ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Tim Robbins' Polling Place Nightmare: He's Turned Away!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/tim-robbins-polling-place_n_141...

i'm way too stressed; came home early because i couldn't get any work done anyway, couldn't concentrate. i feel like crying and throwing up at the same time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/the-most-accurate-electio_b_...

EXERPT:

"It's still illegal for United States citizens to wager on the presidential election; Betfair and Intrade try to bar American bettors. Several newer off-shore sites are more lenient, however.

Currently, Betfair lists Barack Obama as an overwhelming 1-7 favorite (paying $8 for a $7 winning bet). A John McCain win would pay $6.80 for every dollar bet.

"On Election Night I'll look at the movement on the betting sites to see what's going on," Strumpf says. "I watch CNN too, out of the corner of an eye, but it's not necessary."

..then a big gulp of wine

repeat until feeling of stress subsides..

of the victory party after victory is announced; something along the lines of that photo maggiesboy posted (or was it fernando) of a lampshade over his head, remember? for tomorrow's show, can't you come up with something that involves your cats? you're so creative

but the deep breath sounds like a good idea :)

there is no rule #2.

assuming an ice cold shot of stoly doesn't help, there's always nyquil.

ya,

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 6:44pm.

no biggie, the current has to settle down anyway. the down current side of the pinnacles will probably have some big feeders. watch yer gear!

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Funny you sez, Jim: Just hadda fella tell me on the sly 'bout that very phenomenon offa Cape Edgecombe on Kruzof Is.

The guys what's snuck out for day-trips during our trial of awful weather ain't done much. Purty slow fishin' for them's what's ventured out.

Me 'n a buddy been waitin' for a unrowdy forecast to make a trip north, mebbe Slocum Arm in Khaz Bay or round the corner of Peril Strait 'n to the south offa northern Baranof. Coupla hot springs further south, too.

Wanna go deer hunting and drag them trinkets thru the water 'n see what turns up, but it'll be nice to (hopefully) celebrate an Obama win.

Took a 10-hr. safety course from AMSEA (Alaska Marine Safety Education Assoc.). Showed footage of two largish vessels (hunnerd-footers) colliding at sea to illustrate just how quick a boat could sink. One vessel T-boned t'other (twere both steel). The T-boner reckoned it'd be a good ideer to pull his bow outta the T-bonee. The T-bonee could be heard wrenching steel -- it took on water inna gaping hole 'n sunk (and I mean gone) in less than 5 seconds. One poor sad-sack got caught inna hatch-door and the vessel pulled him under.

A curio aside, fwiw: It's a myth (as you prolly know, Jim) -- fostered primarily by the maudlin (imo) film Titanic, I reckon -- that a sinking vessel creates a vortex or "bubble" that'll drag you under. The rigging or lines can drag you under, or you can get trapped by all sorts of structures, but evidently there were a cook (if mem'ry serves) on the Titanic what was wearin' a Mae West 'n just kept climbing to the top of the sinkin' vessel (think it went bow-down, stern in the air) and when it went full-under, he never even got his head wet. Or so the story goes we was tolt at the AMSEA gatherin'. They just wanted to vividly reinforce the advice that it's best to stay w/the boat till she goes full-under.

put some classical music on, boy do i miss some blueroots radio... that used to be the perfect stress killer

the last rule is always see rule #1

Anyone close earlier?

EDIT

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUKTRE4A315420081104?virtua...

all over the country

Hold on to your pants folks.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616

I just made this recipe that Rachel Maddow posted yesterday, only with lime. Very yummy.

The Fix

Source: an American classic! courtesy of Josey Packard

Build in a tumbler:

1 teaspoon granulated sugar

1 teaspoon fresh-squeezed lemon juice

1 tablespoon water
mix that up til the sugar has started to dissolve

half-fill the glass with cracked ice, then add:

2 oz spirits (josey likes whisky)

fill the glass to the brim with more cracked ice
stir
garnish lavishly -- slice of lemon, slice of lime, berries, tropical fruits if you've got 'em.

Went out & voted this a.m.
Did NOT have a long wait in line
It was nice........

GO OBAMA/BIDEN

You are so freakin' ornery. :-)

I love it!!

But hey, it's 'updated.'

Where's the original?

Don't ferget, I gotcher ass shot :P (evil grin)

will help. Trust Dr. Kcin.

Cape Edgecombe on Kruzof Island

Named on May 2, 1778 by Cook for Mt. Edgecumbe.

http://www.captaincooksociety.com/ccsu4138.htm

But earlier in 1775, F.A. Maurelle and Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra named this point Cabo del Engano, meaning cape of deceit.

watcher six, probby a current and wind blow hole.

were having a OBAMAnous party tonoc to watch the results.

...squeeze the head off a live chicken.

did not vote. She is very well informed and very liberal and Ralph Nadery. She just thinks the whole system is corrupt and like a circus. It tested my therapist skills not to bite her little blond head off. I was good though. At least it was CA...nice and blue.

Happe Talk

..is it public domain yet?

sam mentioned indiana would be the first one to watch

huffington post has a good run down of what to do and where to go

post some pix of the party!

Odds are wayyyy good Obama and biden will win.

she had not gotten her drivers license. It has only been about 4 mos. since she moved there. Fuckin pot man....

Happe Talk

i am going with wagner

i know i know, but it's better suited to my state of mind, vivaldi is too happy, i'm not there yet;

...I want to d/l before I leave to go home from here...

>>Chubbs..Your up to 40 Hits !

and that doesn't even count the times I watched it!

>>
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

Vigo County’s election record cited by Karl Rove
Staff report
The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Karl Rove, the man credited with orchestrating President George W. Bush’s two successful campaigns for the presidency, reportedly singled out Vigo County as a place to watch tonight when election returns start coming in.

In response to a questioner on Fox News, Rove said he would be watching Indiana’s returns in general, and Vigo County’s in particular because of the western Indiana county’s unique record of picking presidential winners in all but two elections in the past 100-plus years.

Vigo County has not failed to vote for the eventual presidential winner since 1952, when Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson won a narrow victory here over Dwight D. Eisenhower.

http://www.tribstar.com/election2008/local_story_309172558.html?keyword=...

Marcia Coyle
The National Law Journal
November 4, 2008

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, seeking an explanation for the Army's decision to station what the ACLU believes is an active-duty military unit inside the United States.

The ACLU says this is the first-ever permanent deployment of an active-duty unit within the country. The deployment threatens "a significant erosion" of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, according to the civil rights organization, and raises critical questions "about the longstanding separation between civilian and military government within the United States -- a separation that dates to the Nation's founding."

In its FOIA request, the ACLU asked for records relating to the decision to deploy the unit, as well as documents concerning its purpose, including "contemplated functions; duties; surveillance activities; and relationship to existing civilian agencies or personnel or the National Guard."
...

probby be after midnight for her to check in.

Indiana
Kentucky

Closing in 20 minutes:
Virgina

was scrubbed ...but it is...

obama seems to be ahead in indiana, mccain up in kentucky

they are saying there is record turnout in the urban areas of philadelphia and pittsburgh and are attributing it to a last minute attack by the state republican party running a reverend wright ad backfiring.

link to our local nbc affiliate; this was taped and aired last friday.

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9276176&nav=menu113_2_8#poll77290

my opponent, cute as a button, has never faced serious opposition in her first two runs for office, and it shows, don't you think?

Cough up the link. Now, mister!!! (grr!!)

Heh! :-) Just kiddin'...but seriously...where is it?

mistyped the title
hot off the press

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJsghSMTiuY
=
rct
wanted to wish you the best earlier
so I saying it now.

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRy58t8klr8

>>chubbs, sam needs pictures of celebration

Yes, It seems like he changed his mid about what he wants. EVERYONE with a digital camera needs to contribute. Certainly not just me by any stretch of the imagination. There are LOTS of creative types here.

and you don't have to be creative. In many ways, Sam and the rest of us would rather see a real person's experience.

That said, I'll see what I can do.

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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

Assy District 25, that's you? Wow! Good luck, I'm pulling for you.
Great video, good cause too.

That video would scare the SHIT out of anyone who goes to church on Sunday, and they'd be running to vote for McCain...

Whose side you on anyway? LOL

Kidding...nice vid!

I was so off...

obama is winning new hampshire, how do they know?

>>Heh! :-) Just kiddin'...but seriously...where is it?

35 seconds of your life you'll never get back.

And I thank you for it.
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

:-)

...

>>That video would scare the SHIT out of anyone who goes to church on Sunday

I never really thought of that. Be sure you show it to your sister in law. ;)
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

hitting the streets again

2hrs. left

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

Kentucky called for McCain

Indiana

Closing in 20 minutes:
Kentucky
Virgina

I saw Kentucky pull almost even just before it was "called". McCain was up by 65% then 66% then 67%

drinking dancing celebrating, i thought they were broadcasting from new hampshire or something

turns out they're in rome, a bunch of american got together at some hotel and following the returns, the reporter is saying they're overwhelmingly rooting for obama

Yea, McShame

Chubby Bubba video is online!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRy58t8klr8

according to the italians

Virginia is OURS Hotlist
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/4/19319/9250/900/653033

you helped, and i thank you, too.

how are you doing?

have been falling for the last hour.

thats good. if its falling you should be shorting it.

seriously, the msm is having spasms trying to act authoritative on a small percentage of the vote.

Maria Elena

Your in Gallup NM..

Isn't that by Crazy Imus and his ranch for kids with cancer ?

I could be wrong..I haven't listened to his show in about 2 years..

Good job on your vid.. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

like Freddy Krueger on his base - Indiana

over here

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4034

its okay, you really are seeing triple on the home page. lets count it as a clean sheet blessing.

Wolf Blitzer talking to Jessica Yellin via hologram from Chicago...I'm not shitting you...Princess Leia style!

Check it out!

EVERYTHING is too early to call at this point. The talking heads just need to bloviate some more about blah blah blah and such for at least another hour.

It's going to be a tight race in a lotta places. Imagine being a pundit and thinking... oh. my. God. We can't just call Montana for McCain, or Indiana, or Virginia, or North Dakota, or Colorado, or New Mexico, or Nevada... what are we going to do?!?!?!

Pace yer drinking, everyone. It's gonna be a long night.

~-~-~

I'm Joe the Plumber and I suck at life.

doesn't it look great?