Well, it’s officially summer now, so I guess that means we’ll have to give up these cool 90+ degree days, and brace for a heat wave. Oh well, such is life. Otherwise, call and/or write AAR to see if Maron is on the air in your home town yet, and sign the petition to support progressive radio in Cincinnati. And if you know of any good parks within the vicinity of DC, let me know. I need a place to kill some time this weekend. Have a good one.
44
:fist:”In Unity There Is Strength”:fist:
… “Ni Neart Go Cur …” Book of Kells
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
:knit2:today is my last day on the thread for a while, and I just have one question for ya all before I go. What kind of lap top or note book should I get when I can afford it, in a month or so (Macs included)? I’m pretty much computer illiterate, so any suggegstions would be great. Oh, I’m kinda toasted right now.:40: Just thought I’d throw that down. Anyway…yeah, throw it down, sheeple.
Well, I think if everyone was unified we would be pretty weak.
Oh, hi, Druid! Having tea or anything? I’m just having some Ale and some rum :yuck:
travisdem_04 :alc: but sadly:?: just really tea:joe: although I contemplated making Margaritas
re #3 :rofl2::eek::omg::nod::omg::eek::rofl2:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
HEy, druid, have you met foggyblue yet? I mean, you live, like, right next door, right? You two should have a drinking liberally meeting or something.:cool:
I :love: a laptop. Gives one much freedom. (But hubby dropped and then got me this great desktop one. I only have had PC because at one time if one wrote it was the ONLY way, yet no longer.
BUT I am a Mac whore, although I NEVER had one :(, but when I have money I will get a Mac.
Toshiba is a GREAT Laptop (had one) but with compaq (which I have as a desktop) or HP one gets more “goodies” — but Toshiba is 😎 and reliable. 😉
Cool. Thanks. Maybe you could give a link or two to the computers that you thought were reliable? That way, I can jot that down and stuff.
It was 😎 for awhile when I had a Gateway Laptop — til hubby dropped on plane or put in plane storage or whatever 🙁
Funny you should mention Foggyblue (I also called one of my strays :billcat: FoggyMoon after her when I first talked with her. I have to CONTACT her but I am a bit “strange” since she asked to read a poem I had published re my full wolf, named Danu (all wolves and this hybrid’s first name is Danu) Epona. I was so embarressed since it was a very little thing not a long poem that I just feel shame. But recently since I have recently saw her name I figured that I should just “get out of my head” and fear and just contact her. 😉
Sure (re com links), but when I can I will go Mac 😀 looking up “links” now(ish)…
TravisDem_04, 😉
Apple
Compaq
Gateway
HP
HP
I hope everyone heard Kerry last night!
Oh, druid, I’m talkin’ about specific brands and models. I’m lost with those links:doh:
Read ya later, sheeple.:peace:
Travis I am calling Laptops as NOTEBOOKS — I had I think notebooks but I think laptops are the same(ish). I now have a DESKTOP. It use to be Desks had more “stuff”, but I think that 💡 has gone with the DoDo Bird.
My models are no longer since most Laps… were when I was in coastal mountains and they were going or have gone out-of-date then.
Is this what you meant? I am not computer literate, just close friends who were when in college. But our brains worked together re issues AND D&D. :banana:
Hey travis. My personal prefernce for a laptop is something small and light. You’d be surprised how much of a difference there is between three pounds and six pounds when you’re carrying it around. You can always get a fullsize keyboard and monitor to hook up to it for home.
I have a 12.1″ widescreen one – plenty good for watching DVD’s or TV on, and it has TV out in case you want to hook it up to a TV. It weighs about three pounds.
Look for the longest battery life you can afford, too. I got an extended-life battery with mine. I get about 5 hours.
You’ll want wireless, of course. 802.11 b/g is everywhere, but look for one that’s got a/b/g. 802.11n isn’t quite out yet, unfortunately. ANy laptop these days will come with at least a 100 Mbps Ethernet connection. Gigabit it becoming the new standard, and shouldn’t cost much more.
If you’re looking at a windows laptop, get a minimum of 512 MB RAM – I have a gig.
A lot depends on what you want to do. If you want to play all the newest bestest games (like Halflife2, Doom3 or Quake4), you’re going to need a pretty beefy machine with a high-end graphics chipset. If you just want to to web, e-mail, that kinda thing, then you won’t need as much.
The best advice is, if you think you’re computer illiterate, then start learning. Better to spend some time doing research. Go to stores that will let you play around with things – and then look for the best deal on the Internet.
Good luck with everything.
Duid – I hope you don’t mind, I cleaned up your links a bit so they didn’t extend off the page.
Wildfire season is upon us, I guess. Good thing the National Guard (and its equipment) are in Iraq, winning the hearts and minds. Good luck to everyone out west.
Travis PJ speaks the truth. I think you are also a gamer, and he has your answer. Peruse:!:
That’s why if one goes to the links they list with “stars” as to THE BEST computer, with different “goodie packs” at the Best Price. Great place to start looking. 😉
Then go play in a store. 😉
PJ, if alright with you, I am copying your computer info.
:omg:Republican Congress members claimed late today that evidence of weapons of mass destruction hidden by Saddam Hussein had at last been identified in Iraq.
Speaking at a late afternoon press conference, Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, spoke with Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. They claimed that 500 chemical weapons shells allegedly containing degraded sarin or mustard gas have been recovered by coalition forces since 2003, and that other filled and unfilled munitions have been found.
Santorum also attacked his “colleagues…on the other side of the aisle” for “repeatedly” claiming that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq.
more
http://tinyurl.com/j69ql
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The FOX news person of all people told them they had their H* up their a*:yuck::eek: 🙁
PJ, I am glad you cleaned it up.
Travis, the very best one I had was a Toshiba “Notebook”/Laptop. It no longer is listed :(.
:omg:U.S. Losing Its Middle Class Neighborhoods (There’s Your Bush Boom)
INDIANAPOLIS — Middle-class neighborhoods, long regarded as incubators for the American dream, are losing ground in cities across the country, shrinking at more than twice the rate of the middle class itself.
In their place, poor and rich neighborhoods are both on the rise, as cities and suburbs have become increasingly segregated by income, according to a Brookings Institution study released Thursday. It found that as a share of all urban and suburban neighborhoods, middle-income neighborhoods in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas have declined from 58 percent in 1970 to 41 percent in 2000.
Widening income inequality in the United States has been well documented in recent years, but the Brookings analysis of census data uncovered a much more accelerated decline in communities that house the middle class. It far outpaced the decline of seven percentage points between 1970 and 2000 in the proportion of middle-income families living in and around cities.
Middle-income neighborhoods — where families earn 80 to 120 percent of the local median income — have plunged by more than 20 percent as a share of all neighborhoods in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. They are down 10 percent in the Washington area.
http://tinyurl.com/za696
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We aren’t exactly losing neighborhoods its just that the weeds are taking over:yuck::eek::joe::omg:
Hey PJ Is the college dorm a middle class neighborhood ?
Hey, I get AAR coming out of my radio, and it’s Thom Hartmann? Is my clock off? Not that I mind, really (I don’t feel the animosity towards him that others do). But I think I’ll go back to the history chanel anyway.
Hey druid, copy away. It’s not like I wrote anything profound (or even new). By thw way, Travis, if you’ve got some money to spend, check out these.
I would call this areas a working class neighborhood.
:omg:GOP Halts Extension of Voting Rights Act
A House vote to renew the landmark 1965 law is held up by objections over federal oversight of nine states and ballots in foreign languages.
By Johanna Neuman, Times Staff Writer
June 22, 2006
WASHINGTON — The Voting Rights Act, which has protected minority voters from discrimination since its passage more than 40 years ago, appeared headed for an easy reaffirmation in the House on Wednesday — until conflicts old and new clouded its future.
Amid wide bipartisan support — the House Judiciary Committee approved the measure last month by a 33-1 vote — Republican leaders scheduled a floor debate, hoping to use the bill’s passage for an election-year outreach to minority voters. The landmark legislation is due to expire next year, and advocacy groups have been pressing for its renewal for another 25 years.
But in a private morning meeting, Republicans raised objections that forced House leaders to yank the bill from the floor.
One concern had its roots in the bill’s origins. The legislation requires nine states with a documented history of discrimination against black voters — such as poll taxes and literacy tests — to get Justice Department approval for their election laws.
Another objection, a spillover from the contentious debate on immigration, had to do with requirements in some states for ballots printed in several languages and the presence of interpreters at polling places where large numbers of citizens speak limited English
http://tinyurl.com/l39hv
:gate::omg::jason::fist:
Thom Hartman is actually an Illegal immigrant from Mexico and AAR will soon have him doing all their programs for one low price.:omg::roll::eek::joe:
Ah, that explains it. Well, they ought to give me a show – I work cheap. I can be the anchor for their Syracuse affiliate.
Hey, that electric car movie doesn’t start here in DC until July 21st, damnit. Just a couple blocks from where I work, though.
I’m watching the History Channel here. They’re talking about Ramses the Great. He fathered over 100 children. So why did they name a condom after him?
fred re #27 :nod: :rofl2:
pjsauter RE #28 :banana: re #29 :rofl2:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
Morning Evening :yinyang:
Am I too late to talk computers? APPLE! As a proud user since 1982, get a Mac. For beginners, it’s all there. For more sophisticated users, tweek it when you buy it (you can tweek more than many think).
My boss let me have a Mac in a 9 computer PC office. In the last 11 years, three times, the Mac was the only computer in the office that wasn’t dead for one reason or another.
When we got a new printer, everyone was passing around a disc and spending a lot of time installing the driver. I connected the Mac and hit ‘print’.
……..
When US troops don’t find who they’re looking for, they take who’s there; wives have been held until the husband turns himself in, a practice which Hollywood films stamped in the American mind as being a particular evil of the Nazis; it’s also collective punishment of civilians and is forbidden under the Geneva Convention.
:fustrate: Nicki, but when I say things like that to my Fox watching relatives they call me a kook! :doh:
Repugs=Nazis
Plot Summary for
Hangmen Also Die (1943)
On May 27, 1942 the Nazi Reichsprotector of Bohemia/Moravia, the “Hangman” Reinhard Heydrich, died from the bullets of unidentified resistance fighters. Hangmen Also Die is the story of Heydrich’s assassination in fictionalized form. It was Bertolt Brecht’s only relatively successful Hollywood project; the money he received allowed him to write “The Visions of Simone Marchand”, “Schwyk in the Second World War” and his adaptation of Webster’s “The Duchess of Malfi”. Hanns Eisler won an Academy Award for his musical score.
Summary written by J.Arnold Free
An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech “protector” Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he evades the widening Nazi dragnet, protected by his fellow Czechs even to the point of self-sacrifice. As the Czech people are put to the sword in increasing numbers in retaliation for the assassination and their refusal to give up the killer, a plan evolves to provide the Nazis with an “assassin” who is actually a Czech traitor.
King Kong Greetings. I lived near where Apple/Mac was made and have always :love: as #1 and waiting until oneday I, too, will have an Apple or Mac. 😉
If we could wave a magic wand what would be the first thing President Chomsky would do? “I would set up a War Crimes Tribunal for my own crimes, because if I take on that position [I would need] to deal with the institutional structure and the culture, the intellectual culture. The culture has to be cured.”
The clearly much-practised assistant has knocked three times now, but Chomsky moves on to the “Fissban” treaty, “which would place the production of fissile materials under some kind of international control, so that then anybody could get access to them for nuclear power but nobody could use them for nuclear weapons. Unless that treaty is passed, the species will almost certainly destroy itself.”
The US, he explains, is willing to have a treaty “as long as it’s not verifiable”. The matter came to a vote in a UN committee in November 2004 and the result was 147-1 in favour, with two abstentions, he says. “The one was, of course, the United States. The abstentions were Israel, which reflects that they have to vote for the US – and the other was Britain. So it’s more important [for the Blair government] to be a spear-carrier than to save the species from destruction.”
Get a MacMini and hook up your PC keyboard, mouse, and screen.
Revolutionary Prospects in Venezuela
My overall impression was that the Bolivarian revolution is still vague. It doesn’t have clearly enunciated feminist politics, anti-racist politics, or even anti-capitalist politics, though in all three cases the inclinations are incredibly humane and radical and are moving rapidly forward toward enunciating full aims and proposing immediate program in that light. Chavez appears to be a remarkable detonator of insights, himself moving leftward at a great pace. The Bolivarian revolution is most ideologically clear, which is ironic and a powerful testimony on his behalf, given Chavez’s military background, regarding political democracy and political participation where it seems to be already committed to a well conceived, compelling and innovative institutional vision that outstrips what any other revolutionary project since the Spanish anarchists has held forth.
The future is not certain. The Bolivarian revolution could still stall in social democracy. Co-management and not self management could lead that way. It could still stumble or even rush into typical old style “socialist” channels. Its market strategies and lack of clarity about class divisions based on divisions of labor, not property, push that way. There is always a danger of authoritarianism when a government is prodding a populace, of course. But the Bolivarian revolution could also, however, provide a remarkable model, both of a better world and of a very original way to arrive at that better world. Which of these results, or of others, happens, is largely going to be up to Chavez, the Bolivarian movements, and the Venezuelan people, though mass external support, not least to restrain U.S. aggressive inclinations before they can corrupt or destroy the experiment, are also profoundly needed.
I left Venezuela inspired and very hopeful. Venezuela looks to me like Uncle Sam’s worst nightmare. I was humbled by Bolivarian ingenuity and steadfastness and by my own continued citizenship in the world’s most rogue and brutal nation, against which I and other radicals have had such limited organizing success. Hopefully my country can follow Venezuela’s lead rather than crushing its aspirations. Hopefully, citizens in the U.S. can make that happen. Officials won’t, of course.
MICHAEL ALBERT
But how do you accomplish the necessary goal—of impeaching the whole lot of these monsters—in a climate of not-quite-yet but encroaching fascism everywhere you look in America? The mainstream media will naturally ignore this book. News anchors have their marching orders and they know what topics are off limits and even what wording should surround controversial issues. Academia becomes increasingly cowardly, hounded by well-funded fascist operatives who can call up and mobilize wealthy donors demanding censorship with great efficiency. Driving out the Bush regime will be a very difficult undertaking. Not a surgical operation on U.S. imperialism to be conducted by some politically transformed, enlightened Congress but a mass movement with bigger goals in mind than finding a president who will “help us take back our country” (p. xi).
Have we—most of us—ever really had a country to “take back,” though? Could we maybe, learning from the past, make a new one? While raising these questions, I recommend this book as a searing exposé of an administration that deserves whatever opposition and resistance it may encounter.
GARY LEUPP
:fire: keep the letters flowing!
which book is that, Nicki? (still having trouble with website) KK, I sent out about a dozen letters 🙂
ooops, today is Thursday, my bad! :omg:
King Kong, Incredible. THANK YOU:!:
wish I’d heard mr on iman early this a.m. – he evidently talked about these “wmd’s”
here’s the faux video with man on dog santorum:
and mr fish has his own interpretation of wmd’s!
Good morning everyone. Happy 44!
The question is, how did Imus respond to Rick Santorum? Did ask him pointed questions about these “weapons,” or did he just suck to him?
The Book:
The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky
Argggh I’m getting dizzy.
thank you for the name of the book.
vote santorum…:omg:
:alc::joe:
vote for this :fu:
Travisdem
I think you should get an iBook or a Macbook- whatever it is now.
When you get to Seattle maybe we could meetup at the Apple store.
Though I will be leaving Seattle for a week on Sunday.
I also saw signs up about grassroot.org or something- jobs 200-500 a week to drive out Bush- looks like the Dems are getting organized somewhat. Maybe. I thought of you. I have the phone number.
I also have an old ibook with a couple of issues here just sitting around- I could get it scrubbed and you could try it out.:knit:
I want to see the deleted comment :!::eek:
SJ, imus posed the question to mike and i don’t think imus defended santorum.
that’s good to know… I haven’t watched Imus in awhile, so I was just wondering
good morning :joe:
I like my Sony laptop. 🙂
G’Day, G’Night to One and All.
Farmerkat, Cheers with wawa (water):40:. No ravens talking back yet 😉
sbluefox hi. I was “closing down” home and was downstairs, to find out you were here. Rats (and I have rats:rofl2:). :doh:
Susan Joy :omg::fu::wink::fu::omg: Regarding your dreams in (:doh: Toon not tune. Brain and evidentally eyes have shut down) ToonTown 😮 may I not have any. :rofl2: :yawn:
“Who knows what Evil:evil: lurks behind the Mind of
Wo-man…”
Kristapea, and Wawa cheers to you, too :40: :wink::yawn:
…as I creep into the shadows of the day :yawn:
Again, G’Night, G’Day All :yawn:
gee, great air in atlanta. no wonder i can’t catch my breath today.
🙁 Wow, The Brin fire is burning up some of the best views we have here in Az. 😥 Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon. http://phoenix.cox.net/cci/home Photos in the “local News” box.
:banana::banana::banana::joe::joe::joe::banana::banana::banana:
GOOOOD morning etc. Santorum looks squirrely in excelsis.
This cold is a real pisser.
Any Seditionist in the Portland (OR) area, please join me to celebrate my birthday 5-7 pm Friday June 30 at diPrima Dolci 1936 N Killingsworth. If the weather is good we will be in the garden. Free orange cherry cake while it lasts.
Computers: I have had Macs since 1990 because I decided I didn’t want to fiddle. I now have the larger (6 lb) iBook which I love. BUT I don’t play games.
CIAO
I took the day off work to watch World Cup. Good news is I got to sleep in.
:banana:
Bad news is:
Ghana 2
USA 1
Italy and Ghana advance to the next round. Our guys come home.
If only the other Americans currently overseas could come home as easily.
If only the other Americans currently overseas could come home as easily.
Comment by Kevin M — June 22, 2006 @ 12:43 pm
The score is
Iraq 120,000
USA 2,500
The USA just doesn’t understand that it lost yet..
:-(:mad::yuck::barf:
Hey, Fred, I don’t like that analogy of the war dead as scores in a game. Not cool, man
Thanks for the computer advice everyone. I have to go pack and stuff, but I’ll be back later.:bow:
Hey Travis, not to put words in Fred’s mouth, but I doubt he meant it as a linear analogy, i.e. score = achievement. More like the huge score is why the USA “lost.”
Someone needs to hand Bush a red card. :mad::mad::mad:
i was in atlanta today! oh heres (or heres not because the stupid link thing didnt work) the laptop i got and uh im going to sleep now!:yawn:
p.s. Fuck bush
Hey Kevin:jesus:
I’m just now listening to the show. I have to plan my day so I get the outdoor stuff done early.
And Jane’s butt is looking much better and she is eating again. I didn’t even have to squeeze her gland. Thank GOD!
ok maybe here is the laptop i got?
And Jane’s butt is looking much better and she is eating again. I didn’t even have to squeeze her gland. Thank GOD!
Comment by Kristapea — June 22, 2006 @ 1:56 pm
Hey Krista. I’m hoping Jane is your dog. Otherwise, this converation would be something very different.
:rofl2:
Gotta go to the store. I should have gone before the game, when it wasn’t so hot outside. Oh well, that’s what I get for sleeping in.
Oh yeah, the dog.
st petersburg tomorrow!
In addtion to Kerry and Feingold, here’s who voted for setting a timetable for getting our troops out of Iraq.
Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), co-sponsor
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT)
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), co-sponsor
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
My senators, Schumer and Clinton, are not on the list.
i don’t see any rethugs listed either – what’s up with THAT 😉
seanie, you’re going down 75, not 85 right? I’m off of 85 south of town.
trav, happy travelling :gate:
mr said the wealthy folks and the best and the brightest fled iraq a long time ago. Now the middle class is leaving or has left. Pretty much if you have resources they have left or are leaving. (what about the poor folks who don’t have resources?? 😕 ) He said the place is going to end up in the :crap:. I’m hoping he’ll blog what happened today to their recent story idea on going out with the tribes.
so should we stay or should we go now?
Unbelieveable. Just got an e-mail from Hillary with the subject, “Time for a Change in Iraq.” It blathers on about how she stood up on the floor of the Senate “to talk about why it is time for a change in Iraq and to call on Republicans to stop playing partisan politics with the war while our troops are in harm’s way.”
Yeah, good for you Hillary. Stand up and talk. But when it comes time to vote, I guess we’ll be able to find you over there on the other side, with the Republicans and the Liebermans and Feinsteins and Bidens and Obamas.
Iraqi Troops Are Turning on Their American Counterparts
Friendly Fire Ambush
By MARJORIE COHN
Sergeant Patrick R. McCaffrey, Sr. and First Lieutenant Andre D. Tyson died on this day two years ago in Balad, Iraq. Back then, military officials reported that enemy insurgents ambushed them. The Army subsequently conducted an investigation and learned the men were targeted and killed by Iraqi troops they were training.
Although the Army completed its investigation on September 30, 2005, it failed to clarify the initial notification to the families for nine months. It took a May 22 letter from Senator Barbara Boxer’s office to force the Army to finally come clean.
A month before he died, Patrick told his father that Iraqi forces they were training had attacked his unit. When he filed a complaint with his chain of command, Patrick “was told to keep his mouth shut,” his mother said.
After Patrick died, his parents conducted their own investigations. The Army denied requests to see autopsy reports. The McCaffreys persisted. They talked to soldiers in their son’s unit and managed to learn what really happened.
Bob McCaffrey was informed by members of his son’s company that insurgents were offering Iraqi soldiers about $100 for each American they could kill. “Iraqi troops are turning on their American counterparts,” Bob said. “That puts a knock in the spin that the White House is trying to put on this story — how the Iraqis are being well trained and are getting ready to take over.”
mmm nuggets…
Hot Rocks!:omg:
that one is good too (Insert Rolling Stones tongue)
I once heard Little Steven say that his all time favorite album is Singles Collection: The London Years. The only song he does not like is “Come On,” the first song on the album.
More Hot Rocksis the one to get. A legal bootleg.I don’t have that one, but I’ve heard it. Pretty kewl
yeah that has some of the great early stuff (including “She’s a Rainbow :love:”
That’s so cool that Little Steven wrote back to you!
Are you listening to Palast? The BBC got by mistake plans by Bush to purge the votes of the military. To the BBC. Why are the Democrats not there? Do they not care? Palast had the answer last night on Malloy’s show.
Out in the Streets. Dems main concern is to keep the Corporations profitable.
He mentioned my name on the radio once. I did some reporting work for the show (unofficially). Where are the drive-in movies. Well, New Jersey’s are all blacked out; There are a handful left in Portland.
Is it hot in New York?
to purge the military votes? No, I just put the stream on. Is there a link to the story anywhere?
not a drive-in movie in sight. I haven’t seen one of those since I was a kid
Hot Rocks left out too many key songs.
Yeah…but it was a double album on vinyl, and I don’t think they released many triple albums in those days or boxed sets…they included the big radio hits. At least they put out More Hot Rocks
WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ — A new report released Thursday by Common Cause concludes that the push to use direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines was misguided, has resulted in serious security and reliability concerns, and should be reversed. The report also assesses states at greatest risk of having elections compromised due to problems with voting machines, presents information on voting systems used by each state and makes recommendations on safeguarding votes to citizens who must use a DRE in November.
“With nearly 40 percent of voters in 37 states expected cast ballots on DRE voting machines in less than five months, Congress needs to stop ignoring the problems and take action to assure that citizens votes are counted as cast,” said Common Cause President Chellie Pingree. “We need legislation passed that would mandate random manual election audits of voting machines and require voter-verified paper trails, and citizens need to come to the polls knowing how to safeguard their vote.”
The report, “Malfunction and Malfeasance: A Report on the Electronic Voting Machine Debacle,” finds that 17 states, including critical swing states such as Pennsylvania, are at “high” risk of having election results compromised due to problems with voting machines known as DREs. States designated as high risk because they use DREs with no paper backup are:
Twenty-three states are at mid-level risk of having election results compromised. Those states use a voter-verified paper trail, but do not conduct manual audits. Eleven states are at “low” risk for a compromised election because they require mandatory audits and use voting systems that have a voter verified paper ballot.
The report also presents information on voting systems used by each state, reviews the political circumstances that led to the popularity of electronic voting machines known as DREs, and details the security and reliability problems posed by DREs. It offers eight recommendations to Congress, states, and citizens on how to safeguard our voting.
To read the report and Common Cause’s recommendations for addressing the problems, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/q7l9z
and
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The report itself ( PDF file)
http://tinyurl.com/mhy45
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Hey Kat figure out some place to go too..
Canada seems to be going down the tubes too.
Mexico has no jobs
Maybe I will write the Venezuelan embassy..
:40::40: 🙁 :omg::mad:
Nothing from their first album. “She’s A Rainbow”! None of the classic R&B–“It’s All over Now”!
Looks like something worth reading, Fred. Can you fix the link, though? It doesn’t work. I know they just switched voting machines in New Jersey and I want to know what kind they are.
yeah 🙁 Well with the Rolling Stones it’s easy…just get everything they ever put out, and you’re safe 🙂 🙂 🙂
It was there former manager who was keen on releasing greatest hits albums. Repackaging of material. I like the Bob Dylan bootleg series concept.
that’s some great Bob Dylan material…
This is a link to Palast’s web site it looks like what Randi is talking to him about is still in the works.
http://tinyurl.com/rvku5
New Jersey is a Democratic Party stronghold. How could they let this sort of thing to go down? (How did New Mexico alllow,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
thanks Fred…
I don’t know, that’s what I’m wondering also. Just about everybody in my mom’s community votes Dem. I don’t know what happened over there.
The quote of the day
–Jack Cafferty “The dumb ones watched Fox.”
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
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DNC Memo: 24 Hours Of The Real Republican Agenda: A Triple Threat
http://tinyurl.com/pmoph
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“Senate Republicans Blocked Minimum Wage Increase. “Senate Republicans on Wednesday killed an effort to raise the minimum wage, but Democrats who backed the measure said they would try again, both in Congress and through ballot measures in several states. The federal minimum wage has been $5.15 an hour since 1997. On a procedural measure Wednesday, Senators voted 52 to 46 in favor of raising the wage to $7.25 in three steps, but 60 votes were needed to move the legislation forward… The federal minimum wage is the lowest it has been in more than 50 years relative to the cost of living, according to a study by the liberal Economic Policy Institute. The average full-time minimum wage worker earns $10,712 a year, about $900 more than the federal poverty level for one person and $2,500 less than the poverty level for a couple.”
Los Angeles Times: House GOP’s “Field Meetings” On Immigration Done For “Maximum Demogogic Effect In The Run-Up To The November Election.” “How can you tell when a governing party is running out of steam? When it controls all branches of government yet abandons even the pretense of addressing an issue most members claim is a ‘crisis.’ That’s what the GOP-led House did Tuesday in announcing that discussions over reconciling its enforcement-centric immigration bill with the Senate’s legalization-focused version will be pushed back to September at the earliest, and only after completing more hearings. Instead of naming negotiators and attempting in good faith to bridge the chasm between the bills, House leaders are busy naming locations for ‘field meetings’ that can deliver maximum demagogic effect in the run-up to the November election… Twelve years ago, Republicans were swept into Congress on a platform bursting with energy and ideas, with many measures enacted within the GOP’s first 100 days in power. If inaction and xenophobia are all the party has left, this could be its last 100 days.”
Congressional Republicans Block Renewal Of The Voting Rights Act. “House leaders abruptly canceled a vote to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act yesterday after rank-and-file Republicans revolted over provisions that require bilingual ballots in many places and continued federal oversight of voting practices in Southern states. The intensity of the complaints, raised in a closed meeting of GOP lawmakers, surprised Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and his lieutenants, who thought the path was clear to renew the act’s key provisions for 25 years. The act is widely considered a civil rights landmark that helped thousands of African Americans gain access to the ballot box. Its renewal seemed assured when House and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders embraced it in a May 2 kickoff on the Capitol steps.” ”
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Better stock up on wrist rockets and wine bottles
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New Jersey Drive-in OPEN!
Delsea Drive-In
2203 S Delsea Dr.
Vineland, NJ 08360
Phone: (856) 696-0011
Email: customerservice@delseadrive-in.net
URL: http://www.delseadrive-in.com/
Show times: check for show times
Express Code: njtdels
Delsea Drive-In Facts
Condition: reopened
Owner: 4 Ds LLC
Screens: 1 Season: unknown
Cars: 300 Sound: FM stereo
Features: indoor skateboard park and a 50s style restaurant PLANNED; intermission trailers
Notes: previous owners Budco, then AMC; screen 121 feet wide; PRICING: $6 adults, $3 children
Delsea Drive-In Time Line
1949 – opened
1987 – closed
2004 – open
February 9-24, 1967: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
May 16-21, 1967: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
June 9-13, 1967: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
July 2-22, 1967: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
August 10-September 7, 1967: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
October 2-23, 1967: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
Producers: The Rolling Stones
Chief engineer: Glyn Johns
Released: December 1967
Original label: London Records (Polygram)
Testing…. My keyboard was stuck. I somehow fixed it.:omg:
I have about a hour, so I thought I’d throw it down with ya all, if that’s ok?
keyboard stuckiness is an occupational hazard that I also struggle with from time to time ….dddddddd
Currently the temp. here in Anchortown is 51 degrees. That’s why I’m leaving!:nod:
Where the freak is Vineland, New Jersey?
Wanwenxia- I might try to be there!
I will just be heading back to Seattle about that time- I have recently heard about this bakery. Time for some meetups I say.
:cake::alc::knit:
Any Seditionist in the Portland (OR) area, please join me to celebrate my birthday 5-7 pm Friday June 30 at diPrima Dolci 1936 N Killingsworth. If the weather is good we will be in the garden. Free orange cherry cake while it lasts.
Computers: I have had Macs since 1990 because I decided I didn’t want to fiddle. I now have the larger (6 lb) iBook which I love. BUT I don’t play games.
CIAO
Comment by Wanwenxia — June 22, 2006 @ 12:25 pm
Hey Travis-
I am more than happy to help with any Mac issues- if you get a PC I am lost.
Does your friend have a wireless router in the house?
There are so many cafes to hook into.
The weather is a pleasant 65degrees. It could warm up-but it is very happy weather today.
I am just stopping home for a minute between appointments and errands.
Uh, no there isn’t a router in the house. In fact, there might be problems even finding a three prong plug-in.:lol: I don’t think the electrical system is up to NEC.
Um, I’ll just talk with the other guy and see what he wants to do, and then I’ll try and email the plan or something. Cool.
Oh, the weekend looks good, weather wise:cool:
The Mac will have an adapter that will go into any plug.:nixon:
Rhodes might have been in the airfarce but she doesn’t know her aircraft very well
AWACS AIRCRAFT
The aircraft has four flight crew (two pilots, navigator and flight engineer) and E3B and C aircraft have 18 AWACS officers and crew, the E-3A 13.
The basic E-3 aircraft is a militarized version of the Boeing 707-320B commercial jet airframe, distinguished by the addition of a large, rotating rotodome containing the main radar, identification friend or foe (IFF) and data-link fighter-control (TADIL-C) antennas.
The layout of the equipment in the fuselage is arranged in bays with areas allocated for communications, signal and data processing, command and control consoles, navigation and target identification systems. The signal and data processing is carried out on a high speed powerful IBM 4PiCC-1 computer. The aircraft is equipped with 14 command and control consoles fitted with high resolution colour displays supplied by Hazeltine.
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She said the AWACS aircraft was a 747… afraid not
The air force designator is a KC135.. Boeing built the 707 as a prototype for the KC135 contract with no commercial intent in mind. Douglas aircraft built the DC8.
:40: :-(:doh::fustrate::nixon::peace:
:billcat:this crazy cat’s gotta scat. Later, sheeple!
Greetings All
TravisDem_04 :gate: Be Well and Travel Well :gate:
with a great greet and meet with SBlueFox :banana:
IN SEATLE :banana:
I have been wurkin’ and lurkin’ and readin’ this blog (and checking computer info – THX PJ and TravisDem_04 for starting it all :wink:),
but forgot to sign in :omg:
st petersburg tomorrow!
Comment by SeanMS — June 22, 2006 @ 2:23 pm
Prepare to fry, dude. It’s been in the mid-90s most of the week, and when you factor in the humidity it’s pushing triple digits by mid-afternoon.
At least Vinoy Park is on the bay, so there should be at least some breeze coming off the water. Not that anyone will feel much of it with all those bodies packed in there.
If you run into Pete Shelley, tell him we want the Buzzcocks to come back for those of us who are too elderly to spend the day sweating in the pit. Jannus Landing or State Theatre would be most excellent.
:banana::banana::banana:
I’m pulling out my well-worn vinyl copy of Singles Going Steady tonight.
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wow, Randi Rhodes went off on the same topic, saying the EXACT same thing (that 42 is too old to start in the armed services) for just about an hour. I timed it. Not that she’s wrong, but once is enough, Randi, “over and over to propulgate the propaganda” is what Bush and Republicans do
I used to have Orgasm Adddict on vinyl. It might be in Portland somewhere.
Bulletin:
Washington, DC Chief of Police skinned alive!“I said the Chief of Police in Baghdad, not Washington, DC.”
:omg:
😉
:tongue:
:fu:i hate jannus landing! friggin pain in the ass place to get the truck into!
Sean, you have to ignore things like walls… :fire:
NickiRose, I am a literalist. Seriously? “Skinned alive:?:”, for I truly believe!
:fu: :evil:bush and 👿 bush/rethug administration and 👿 person(s) that “skinned alive” that police chief.:omg::growl: …:40:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
:bow: Travis, I wish I would have waited for at least an hour (which I usually do) for you so should have been first or at least do a tribute to you — but all I thought was Alpha and Omega.
🙁 … :doh: .. BE WELL
hey uh i must say ummmm that uh bush kills children! oh i was in a truckstop in missouri that i had forgotten about and i went in the stall to go poopy and i saw a message i wrote forever ago on the wall (IMPEACH NOW)and nobody had tried to scribble it out or anything! as a matter of fact there were two messages by it both supporting what i wrote at a back ass truck stop in missouri!
:banana:IMPEACH NOW!!!!!:banana: