ah HAH.... the 2004 WAS stolen!

By late afternoon on November 2, 2004, nationally, all the exit polls showed John Kerry winning with 50.8% of the votes and showed George W Bush with 48.2%, meaning Kerry had a 2.6% lead over Bush. But when the vote counts came in at the end of election day, Bush had 50.9% of the votes, and Kerry had 48.1%, meaning Bush received 2.8% more votes than Kerry.

Ohio was the most important state to Bush. He could not win without it. He spent so much time in the state that people began to wonder whether he had left a forwarding address to Ohio. At his last campaign rally in the state, a mere 4 days before the election, Bush bestowed special praise on a husband and wife team who in hindsight, were more helpful to Bush than any other politicians in Ohio, as far as rigging the election....

--source

isn't that how concentraation camps were created?

A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled yesterday that the government has wide latitude under immigration law to detain noncitizens on the basis of religion, race or national origin, and to hold them indefinitely without explanation.

--story

they're going to get what they want no matter what

from TPM:

Remember John Pondexter's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program? The ill-conceived datamining effort is back, and worse than ever -- they've stripped privacy protections and abuse safeguards from the system, and opened it up to users from all over the intelligence community, according to a new report from National Journal.

how many people do you know

who can tell which season a particular versionof the song for gunsmoke was written for. i can tell you beginning, middle or latter part of it's life on tv. tvland plays gunsmoke daily, and recently they've dug up some episidoes i haven't seen before which is crazy since i watch gunsmoke every day, and on weekends all day sundays. to catch an episode i haven't seen already is a rarity.

my email to mediacom

I thought it was about time I sounded off to you folks at mediacom. My last three bills saw increases, for one thing or another, expiration of past offers, and likewise, and it has come time for me to ask you: why do you hate us so much? We are your loyal customers who have stuck with you for years when we could have chosen other, much cheaper services that have become available. I could choose 8mb/sec downloads from dsl, yet I remained with your pithy 3mb - in real life it's only 1.5mb.

Well, it's time to tell you, either cut me some slack or I'll take my business elsewhere. Enough is enough.

Letter Of The Day

The widows of our soldiers in Iraq should be just as eligible for millions of dollars as the widows of 9/11.
— Bob Martin, Ankeny.

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the reaction of the commander in chief?

"it's a number"

"It's a number." That's the reaction from White House press secretary Tony Snow to word that 2,500 American soldiers have died since the Iraq war began.

--story

bush now has the blood of 2500 people on his hands

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - U.S. military deaths in Iraq have now topped 2500, three years after the U.S.-led forces invaded the country and removed President Saddam Hussein the Pentagon announced Thursday.

--story and where is cnn?

Confidential Messaging Memo – Floor Debate on Iraq and the Global War on Terror

read the memo HERE.

it's interesting to see the comments made:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/14/boehner-memo

Editorial of the WeeQ

Detainees in Despair

I WAS released from the United States military's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in July 2004. As I was about to board a plane that would take me home to France, the last detainee I saw was a young Yemeni. He was overwhelmed by emotion.

--full story

Letter of the WeeQ

If the Republican Party and the Christian right do not loudly and repeatedly reject the venomous hatred and bigotry dripping from the fangs of Ann Coulter, they can be neither Christian nor right.
— William C. Green, Fort Madison.

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bwahahaha

Letter Of The Day

Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the last week of May that Iran does not pose an immediate nuclear threat. He cautioned that the world shouldn’t jump the gun with erroneous information, as he said the U.S.-led coalition did in Iraq in 2003. Nor should it push the country into retaliation as international sanctions did in North Korea.

The Bush administration will not be deterred by these facts. It is hellbent on pressing for U.N. sanctions for what Iran has not done — making enemies instead of friends is its strong point. This delusional administration is out of control.
— Frank P. Belcastro, Dubuque.

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this is how warped our government has become

when emails to leaders of agencies refer to the president as 'the leader'

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/06/09/email.pdf

Letter Of The Day

If a group of thugs targets Hispanics, African-Americans, gays, Jews or any other minority group, then their crime is considered especially egregious because its primary motivation is hate. It is a hate crime.

So what does that tell us about our president and the thugs in Congress who are pushing for a constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman?

The sole motivation is to deny gay Americans the same rights and privileges as held by heterosexual Americans.
— William C. Green, Fort Madison.

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