i think you are right.

The Century of Self Part IV is now available for download
Little snippit,"The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them."
Good stuff

Our elections are a prime case where Low-Tech is superior to High-Tech. Sheila Parks' article (linked to above) "National: Hand Counted Paper Ballots In 2008" should be required reading to anyone concerned about the outcome of the last Presidential election and looking toward the coming 2006 -'08 elections.

To place our trust in private corporations owned by partisan Republicans, with systems unregulated by government and allowing for no oversight of the results, and then to expect an honest return has got to be the epitome of stupidity. Duh! Have I got a bridge to sell!

We thought folks would get a kick out of this; it's a little off-topic but it really makes you think.

An excerpt from a story today in the Washington Post concerning Bush's obvious lie that trailers were making WMDs in Iraq:

"The reporting I saw this morning was simply reckless and it was irresponsible," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "The lead in The Washington Post left this impression for the reader that the president was saying something he knew at the time not to be true. That is absolutely false, and it is irresponsible."

Press Secretary Ronald Zeigler in 1974 would say the following after the Post reported that a Nixon aide was tied to campaign funds:

"The report I saw in the Washington Post this morning is incorrect, has been so stated as incorrect, not only by me but by the individual (Sloan) for the secret Grand Jury."

Campaign Manager for Nixon Clark MacGregor also said, "Using innuendo, third-person here-say and unsubstantiated facts, the Washington Post has engaged in malicious tactics... they have already shown their support for the other ticket."

Now then, Nixon resigned, right?

Yeah, we thought so too.

Who would now believe Snottie Goebbels anyway?

He said the same thing about Scooter and Karl not leaking any information.

Anything they say ends up the opposite in a short amount of time.

They need to spend some time at Liars Anonymous.

I NEED A BABYSITTER TODAY.

I THINK I WILL CALL REP. JOHN CONYERS OFFICE AND SEE WHO I CAN ORDER TO COME TO MY HOUSE AND BABYSIT TODAY ON TAXPAYER TIME.

PAULA ZAHN REALLY NAILED THIS CROOK CONYERS LAST NIGHT!

Let's give Conyers a slap on the wrist for asking staff to babysit....and THEN let's give him the Medal of Honor for valiantly trying to save Democracy against all odds!

Ladies and Gentlemen, and children of all ages---
Please take note of this from the Toledo Blade.

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McCain to stump for Blackwell in Cleveland
Some see the duo as a potential national ticket in 2008

By JIM TANKERSLEY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER

Sen. John McCain brings his pre-official presidential campaign to Cleveland today to support gubernatorial hopeful Kenneth Blackwell, and forward-looking Republicans should snap a mental picture: They might be looking at their next national ticket.

Ditto for Democrats who flock to a New York fund-raiser with Sen. Hillary Clinton and Ohio Congressman Ted Strickland next month.

It’s early, yes. But political insiders across the country say electoral math and Ohio’s swing-state status could make the fall governor’s election a “play-in game” of sorts for the 2008 vice presidential tournament.

“Any governor of Ohio is automatically vice presidential or even higher material,” said Frank Donatelli, a Republican consultant in Washington and former political director for President Ronald Reagan, “just because Ohio is so important.”

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Mr. Blackwell is going to be "legitimized" and "annointed" by a mainstream Republican. I lost all respect for McCain some months ago, but this pitches him to new lows.

Have you seen the Rolling Stone article about Abramoff?

http://www.rollingstone....2375&has-player=true

Mr. Abramoff had his hands in Diebold voting!

From the article:

" He is even lurking in the background of the 2004 Ohio voting-irregularities scandal, having worked with the Diebold voting-machine company to defeat requirements for a paper trail in elections."

"Everyone sold themselves on the cheap. They apparently got Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), and many others in the House, to lie back and open their legs all the way for a few thousand dollars in campaign contributions. In the Third World, corrupt politicians at least get something for selling out the people --- boats, mansions, villas in the south of France. If you offered the lowest, most drunken ex-mobster in the Russian Duma $5,000, $10,000, $15,000 in soft money for his vote, he would laugh in your face; he might even be insulted enough to shoot you. But Jack Abramoff apparently got any number of congressmen to play ball for the same kind of money.

They paid journalists to change their opinions; as it turns out, the right to free speech is worth about $2,000 a column to America's journalists like Doug Bandow of Copley News Service. And now it comes out that Diebold, the notorious voting-machine company, paid some $275,000 to Abramoff's firm, Greenberg Traurig, with the apparent aim of keeping legislation requiring paper trails in the voting process from getting into the Help America Vote Act. Conveniently, Abramoff pal Bob Ney, one of the HAVA architects, blocked every attempt to put paper trails into law, even after the controversial electoral debacles of 2000 and 2004."