jonjon

* scowcroft keeps getting on tv. if he gets sufficiently pissed he could make a mess. fingers x'd

* josh is all over the kerik thing of course - pick yer scandal www.talkingpointsmemo.com

* "Rumsfeld rambled his way into a line that will long stand as an emblem for the administration's casual attitude toward a war it had the freedom to wage on its own schedule. "As you know, you go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld said. "They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."" if only it were true that this response will linger as an emblem... how many times have they fucked up and we thought the same - only to find that each time it gets trumped by new and more egregious fukkups? and again. and again. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53776-2004Dec9?language=printer

* ftr "A leaked memo written by Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez in December 2003 informed top Army officials about a shortage of spare parts, lack of protective gear and poor readiness rates for Army weapons operating in Iraq. "I cannot continue to support sustained combat operations with (maintenance) rates this low," he wrote."
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vppay124081263dec12,0,1417569.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

* " some 5,000 American men and women have deserted the military since the war began... Some say they saw no link between the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the Iraq war" http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1102719011849&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes

* nice to see drkelly in the media again. some conspiratorial types (like the paramedics who found him) dont really believe the suicide story. fancy.

* http://savemerrychristmas.org/

* "A Zogby poll recently addressed the question of whether "problems" with vote counting affected the outcome. 42.5% replied that these concerns were either "very valid" or "somewhat valid." That's a high number, considering the dismissive coverage in the mainstream media"
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2004/12/omigod-vote-fraud.html

* ohio and blackwell is getting absurder. some recount stuff was going on and blackwell stepped in and announced that the voting records arent publicproperty and the people couldnt look at em. and took the records right out of their hands. and locked em down.

and then this "The records taken from Quinn and Roberson’s hands on Friday stood in an unlocked Board of Elections office Saturday morning, apparently overnight. Several observers arrived Saturday morning, noticing cars in the parking lot, and looked for officials in the office, but found nobody in the unlocked building. Law enforcement and media contacts had been alerted and were at the site before County officials arrived. Deputy Director of Elections Lynn McCoy arrived later and stated that all election records were still “locked down” and remained unavailable to the public. However, metal boxes with sealed locks had been stacked in the unlocked basement immediately accessible to the unlocked entrance. The Deputy Director would not confirm that these boxes contained original ballots."
http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/blackwells-locked-down-ohio-poll.html

* today of course is elector day. and the start of some of the recount.

* the curtis affadavit thingy is getting weirder
http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/e-tv-yang-attorneys-claim-no-wrong.html

* heres a cute one " One polling place in Howard County, Ohio, that was under court order to permit everyone in line to cast their vote sent them all home at midnight because the order applied only to Election Day itself." http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.election09dec09,0,3131082.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

* and "Finally, we deserve an investigation because there are so many of us. According to a post-election Harris Poll, 38 percent of Democrats and 37 percent of people who are not enrolled in either of the two major parties believe there were either "some" or "many" attempts at unlawful vote suppression.
The most conservative estimate would be 37 percent of the millions of Democrats who voted, or 18 million Americans. When the independents are added, the total is 30.3 million Americans who do not trust the legitimacy of our own presidential election."

* where the fuck is jonk? jone? anyone?

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