I will be working my way towards Nashville this week for the National Conference on Election Reform where I’ll be speaking at several of the seminars on a number of topics, being trailed by documentarians, and (hopefully!) speaking with a lot of media in order to continue to get the word out on all of the below (meaning, the last 5 or 6 months or more of reporting/crime-fighting here on BRAD BLOG!)
Thanks, in no small part, to your generous donations to BRAD BLOG, I’m able to afford to make what I think will be a very important trip!
Of course, if you’re in the vicinity, please come on by, say hello and join up for the 3-day conference! And, in case you need more of a reason than saying hello to me to show up, here’s another 5 Great Reasons to Come on Down!
Don’t know what kind of net access I’ll have on the road throughout this week and over the weekend during the conference, so for the moment, please assume I’ll be gone for the week, and therefore, I’m turning things over to Guest Bloggers Winter Patriot, Fin and Jaime to help keep things lively in my absense.
Be kind to them, and keeping making noise!
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi
The truth is fun and every vote is sacred.
Have a great time, Brad!
We’ll miss you, Brad. Be careful and enjoy a very fruitful week.
Stay away from Valdosta. Please.
BRAD!!
Do you know exactly what days you’ll be in Nashville?
What I mean is, where will you be Friday? I can’t attend the conference (and I’ll be in Alabama Saturday) but I’m thinking we might POSSIBLY be able to do a field trip Friday (have to check schedule).
Enjoy Nashville, it’s beautiful this time of year *s*
hope Rep. Conyers will be there.
Brad, if you don’t have time to kick some ass, at least take some names.
Hey Brad – safe journey. Kick some ass!!!
I’m bummed out because I’m only 3 hours from Nashville and I’m totally wrapped up this weekend. I so want to be there!
I posted some things the other day and I think it bears repeating at this time:
"I want to scream and shout. I want to find someone with a voice loud enough to be heard over the MSM to let the rest of the country know what is going on, those who don’t get the real story from the MSM…With all of our talent, is there a Michael Moore or an author or someone like a Whoopi Goldberg in our midst that can get the word out for us by going the talk show route – like Bill Maher, only more mainstream, not HBO which is not available to everyone? Can a bestseller be written about all of this – perhaps a mystery novel based on the truth – is there a Dan Brown out there – look at the success of the DaVinci Code amidst all the debates over what’s real in the book?"
Brad, at the conference, please try to seek out those who have a loud voice, louder than the MSM to spread the word. You’ll all be doing a fabulous job but the entire population has to hear this. If it takes books, magazines, movies, TV movies, etc. – there’s gotta be some people out there who can hit, and hit HARD, scream and SHOUT the truth at the general population. Those people will be there this weekend.
I know you will not let us all down – you can’t. You are one of the brightest lights trying to get the word out, but PLEASE take these thoughts with you and try to get a consortium of talents at the conference to overcome the MSM’s ignoring these issues!
If I could be there, I’d be looking for authors, moviemakers, anyone with a "big stick" who can tell the story with reason and logic so the vast majority of Americans learn about what is really going on.
And most of all, enjoy yourself. Tennessee is beautiful this time of year – and a lot greener than California – I’ve lived in both places and remember how I was struck with the beauty when I came back East after several years!
This blog is losing passion. There’s not much to comment or interact upon except Brad and his contributions; and he is in absentia until further notice.
The Lemme case has disappeared. Clint Curtis has long sunken over the horizon. Pedophilia seems a proven in certain rather delicately Bushian circles, but uninvestigated. And I am very, very tired of outrage that startles itself like a knee-jerk reflex and then subsides into soft "we’ll get back to you later" procrastination.
May we please have an Open Thread for the exploration of our timidity in dealing with rather outlandish evidence?
PLEASE?
I’m afraid you’re right, Peg C.
What can we do?
Teresa –
All we can do. Keep the questions open and questionable. I’m VERY ANGRY. I’m almost to the point of VIOLENCE. Where do we go from absolute proof of crime to prosecution?
Well, one thing to watch, and I think this is the most important thing that’s happened lately, is the judicial circus. Bush came up aginst the system last week and got slammed. If they fail to get control of the judiciary, then we are still in business. One of the judges called Bush’s emergency bill unconstitutional. That’s a big deal. I think the judges are enraged and will not let the takeover happen. With the help of the defeat of the filibuster ban. We have to be patient right now, but it looks like the criminals are being stopped.
Hi, Peg C – I know you won’t get violent, but I also know how you feel – feel like that myself sometimes. We just have to keep supporting people who are trying to accomplish what seems like "mission impossible", but which IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE. It’s only needs concentrated intelligence and action. We will wake up one morning to find the criminals have been exposed and are crumbling, just like the Berlin wall, South African apartheid, and other tragedies created by human beings at their worst. Then there will be future threats to deal with. But "goodness" is winning and will win. It just goes more slowly than we all would wish. Of course, you know all this. Just thought it might be good to hear it echoing and resonating (throughout the universe).
The filibuster ban, Terri Schiavo, etc are part of a overall strategy that goes beyond the few nutcase judges that Bush wants to re-ram down our throats.
The goal is to have a simple majority (50% + 1) of the Senate approve Bush’s future US Supreme Court nominees. Bush will likely get to appoint one or more SCOTUS justices, and what the GOP is doing now is trying to get that pesky filibuster rule out of the way BEFORE people relize what’s going on. (i.e. before one of the SCOTUS judges dies or becomes incapacitated).
Call your senators, whether R or D, and tell them DON’T FUCK WITH THE FILIBUSTER.
Senate switchboard:
202-224-3121
I, too, share your frustration, Peg. Clint Curtis/Ray Lemme, et al, should have been front page news by now. The fact that they are not is an illustration of how powerful the enemy within has become. It’s a serious, uphill battle. This fat, sloppy country doesn’t absorb anything that the television doesn’t tell them to. I keep coming back to the old saying, "You get the government you deserve".
If they manage to get rid of the filibuster, these same clowns will be desperately fighting to get it back again when the Democrats came back into power.
Some time ago, when I cancelled my cable and stopped watching TV, I noticed that W. Blitzer on CNN actually carried on his "interviews" as if he was totally bored and just going thru the motions – at least it certainly appeared like it to me. The whole charade seemed insincere and unimportant to him.
Maybe at some point soon, some of the "more intelligent(?)" media personnel will just become totally sick to death of themselves and having to look in the mirror each morning before toddling off to work read the lines provided to them by Bushco. – and ashamed of the corrupt use of themselves and television to mislead the American people. We can always hope…
Oh, Peg…You become disheartened so easily. All good things to those that wait…and make noise along the way.
We have a feeling there may be some new Clint Curtis news (amongst others) in the next few days. Let’s see if I’m able to blog it with all that will be going on this weekend!
Kes – Yes, I should be there by Friday! Find me! 🙂
Back offline for a while now I’m afraid…
Brad –
You ARE a dear…and you give me hope. Believe me, I am not lacking in either trust or faith, in people who are obviously "on the side of the angels."
Aw damn, not gonna make it to Nashville today – the last two and a half days of rain have put me behind in my work.
Sorry I missed you Brad, maybe next time…
PA decertifies touch screen machines!
http://www.philly.com/mld/phill...l/11344964.htm
I know, I know. Wrong thread but for everyone with teenage children look at this!
Peg sweetheart (#10),
It hasn’t gone away. Word is spreading. It’s just not happening fast enough for you, I think.
And what about the scandal in my country? Jeesh! Who do those Libs think they are, Bushco? Hope we have time to finish this provincial election before we start on the next federal.
Hello all,
I have been computerless for a few months & went through terrible bradblog withdrawal. I’m glad to see that you, at least, are still talking about Clint Curtis et al, though it is horribly disheartening to see how successfully election 2004 has been swept under the rug. Not a surprise, of course, but our government continues to grow more despicable by the day & I see few avenues for real change.
Hi, Joan. Good to see you back. Missed your lively posts. How’s that bike?
Re #26
Thanks for the hello, Teresa. I’ve sorely missed the intelligent discourse here.
I’ve been listening to Air America Radio alot, & a few things that I hear presumably good, intelligent people say repeatedly just make me crazy. One is "Well, you’ve got to give Bush credit for…" this or that "accomplishment", such as the Iraqi elections.
No! This is like having a teenager who never does his homework, then one day he does ALL his homework, woohoo! but he’s also just killed his entire family. Would you say "Well, you gotta give him credit for that homework though!"?
Another one is "We don’t have the votes to impeach. It would be pointless". Or "Impeachment would be too hard on the country".
NO to both of those, too!
The Republicans didn’t have the votes to convict Clinton, either. It didn’t stop them. It shouldn’t stop the Democrats. Clinton paid a price for that impeachment. It may have been an absurd travesty run by nutjobs, but it’s still a stain on his record, no pun intended!
As for "too hard on the country", that is ridiculous & even insulting. Our young men & women are dying in an illegitimate war, there are 9 billion dollars unaccounted for, our government routinely lies to us while decimating the environment & trying to take over the world, our healthcare sucks, our liberties are evaporating, the dollar is plummeting, our food is irradiated & genetically altered, our water has arsenic, our electoral system has been hacked, & Barbara Boxer is the only senator who actually has balls. But thank god Congress is holding hearings about baseball! Damn, that is a load off my mind.
Oh yeah…what bike??