autopensive (i love fucking with words. its fun.)

REVOTE EARLY. REVOTE OFTEN

* "In a $2.2 billion election, two relatively small expenditures by
Bush and his allies stand out for their impact: the $546,000 ad buy
by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the Bush campaign's $3.25
million contract with the firm TargetPoint Consulting."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35062-2004Dec29?language=printer

* " Following nearly two months of court fights and wrangling over
lost votes, the North Carolina Board of Elections on Wednesday
ordered a new statewide election for the closely contested race for
agriculture commissioner.
Republican Steve Troxler leads Democratic incumbent Britt Cobb by
2,287 votes in final results from the Nov. 2 election. That figure
was left in doubt by the discovery that an electronic voting
machine error in Carteret County eliminated 4,438 votes."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&u=/ap/20041229/ap_on_re_us/nc_voting_problems&printer=1

* "Two third-party presidential candidates asked a federal court Thursday to force a second recount of the Ohio vote, alleging county election boards altered votes and didn't follow proper procedures in the recount that ended this week." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=8&u=/ap/20041231/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_vote
* " Republican Dino Rossi on Wednesday urged his Democratic rival in the closest governor's race in state history to join him in calling for another vote. "The uncertainty surrounding this election process isn't just bad for you and me — it is bad for the entire state," Rossi said, reading from a letter he said he sent to Democrat Christine Gregoire. "People need to know for sure that the next governor actually won the election."... "A revote would be the best solution for the people of our state, and would give us a legitimate governorship,"" fucking awesome. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-washington30dec30,1,5759475.story

WARN
* "Because of continued violence in Iraq, it went largely unnoticed that the ACLU released documents suggesting that President Bush may have issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees." http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18304

* "They are the most despicable enemy I've ever seen," Abizaid told European and Arab leaders who gathered in Bahrain to talk about Persian Gulf security. "They operate from mosques, they behead people, they have killed far more Muslims than non-Muslims." mirror mirror on the wall... http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26054-2004Dec25?language=printer

* why are neocons turning on rummy? "Simple. They want someone else
to be blamed besides them for fouling up their marvelous plans and
schemes - someone who is a handy lightning rod and who is NOT a
card-carrying neo-conservative. So who better than Rumsfeld?"
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10521410.htm

KOSTYA TSUNAMI
* "United States President George Bush was tonight accused of trying to undermine the United Nations by setting up a rival coalition to coordinate relief following the Asian tsunami disaster.
Former International Development Secretary Clare Short said that role should be left to the UN.
“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN when it is the best system we have got and the one that needs building up,” she said... She said the US was “very bad at coordinating with anyone” and India had its own problems to deal with... “I don’t know what that is about but it sounds very much, I am afraid, like the US trying to have a separate operation and not work with the rest of the world through the UN system,” she added." http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3944374

* btw - another curious thing abuot 43 being awol re quakergate, fauxnews has done nearly zero coverage - cept for the model who got wet.

* the auto-pen is mightier than the auto-sword

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