You have a right to make these requests, just like public TV or radio.

It is one of those things we all have to endure and it is not that bad at all.

I contribute as much here as I do to FSTV. And I give ZERO to the MSM.

Democracy fans,

The $25 I donate to Brad every month is the best money I spend.

Please give what you can!!!! This is our lifeline to real news and that thing once known as "journalism" --- now a dying art. So when you give to Brad, you are also preserving the culture and arts of our (possibly dying) civilization! Think of it that way. Besides, Brad needs stuff too, like books and DVD's and bandwith --- so please help out with whatever you can give. Even $5 per month will make you feel SO good. I am close to giving up my entire Dish TV set up because there is nothing really left in that sewage slew across the entire spectrum --- Even from the so called "left" where they are prohibited from breathing a word about the 9/11 and election scams.

Good reporting as usual, Brad! I will be at the Florida EI legislation conference in Deland this weekend and will get some video and a report to you next week asap! Our hero Ion Sancho will be there and I will try to get an interview.

Cheers my friend,

Ginny Ross
Portland, OR

Brad, you’re the best!! Thank you for coming to Arizona and helping us wakeup more sheepeople.

Thanks to bradblog keeping us all connected... we’re making it happen in Pima County!

PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2007 Tucson Weekly… Watchdogs worry that someone's been sneaking a peek at early-ballot results before Election Day ‘Peep Show' www.tucsonweekly.com/gba...rrents/Content?oid=92557

Much more is coming out very soon…

Brad,

Please write a book. You certainly have enough material.

I am the Voting Integrity Editor for OpEdNews and BradBlog is my premier resource for regular, up-to-date election news. I don't know what I'd do without it!

There are so many developments that the public simply wouldn't know about if it weren't for Brad's constant vigilance. While the corporate media has been asleep at the wheel, Brad has been racing around trying to fill the breach. Stories that are FINALLY breaking in the mainstream press have been covered by BradBlog, often literally for years.

Thanks, Brad! You efforts are SO appreciated.
Joan Brunwasser, OpEdNews

While the corporate media has been asleep at the wheel,

Joan --- I think it's more a matter of the news spokesmodels being bound and gagged in the trunk of the Hummers and Expeditions of their corporate paymasters if they try to do real reporting. "Sleep" is too benign a term for the media controllers, I'm afraid. But they can't get to our Brad! Hooray for that. So people, remember all that business about pledging our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor? Well this is where we are. It's that important. I still don't see a speck of adequate EI coverage out there, do you? Who among your friends knows about the Ohio irregularities, the Warren County terrorist scam or about the Tom Feeney scandal revealed by Clint Curtis? Would we know any of this without Brad (or without the amazing John Gideon with his daily reports)? So please don't take it for granted --- you will not find these stories in the Mind Scheme Media!

And thanks for what you are doing, too, Joan. Everyone go read OpEd News and hit their bat as well. Thanks.

Brad,
I've been sending a check each month via snail mail for over a year. It is not much, but what can be afforded from a blue-collar pension. What irks is when the checks are not cashed for months, if ever. (None have been returned as undeliverable.) I use snail-mail and checks because I am a septagenarian who doesn't take to routinely using a credit card online. Assuming that you are essentially a one person administration, I can understand problems with keeping up with the paper work. I'll keep sending checks, hoping that they get cashed and help pay some bills.

I appreciate and applaud your efforts in exposing the the corporate scams that are controlling our elections. I'll take some frustration with balancing my check book so long as you keep the pressure on those who are stealing our votes.

TomaHawk -

I get your checks every month! And, as mentioned previously via email, am extraordinarily grateful for them. Some months, I'll only receive your check and one or maybe two others. So I tend to wait until I've got more than one or two before sending them off to deposit (my bank is still in another city).

If that confused your checkbook, please accept my apology! I assure you it's not on purpose! I do, in fact, look much forward to your regular snail mailings and greatly appreciate them since I know it requires an extra mile each and every month. Bless you for that, amigo!

And yes, if only for folks like you --- who go so far out of your way to help keep up the support --- you can bet ("a thousand to one" ), I'll keep doing the best I can on this end!

I'm going in for a job interview tomorrow so instead of taking money out of my retirement account, I'll actually have an income if they hire me. When they say there's a penalty for early withdrawal, they're not kidding!

I decided not to accept unemployment insurance for the chance to harass the local government in peace, but the time has come for this "little person" to assist others in making money. Thank God I didn't get in an accident without health insurance. Not yet.

Money for Brad with 30% tacked on is still a bargain for the chance to vent about my #1 issue. As soon as I get my taxes paid off, there will be an increase in my monthly donation.

Brad
I'm a single mom getting ready to send my daughter to college. I am a small business owner, who sells fish from Alaska, competing with "the BIG BOYS." The inheritance from my Uncle goes to my 84 year old father, who I take care of, first. Although, he has agreed to invest it in a socially and environmentally conscious investment firm which will probably be Paxworld (unless somebody knows a better one.) I believe in God, but I don't go to church. I do however believe in tithing and believe your work is critical to saving our democracy so I send my money to you. It's not much , but comes with my best intention!
As always, THANKS for ALL YOU DO!

Thank You!!!
The check is in the smail.

Good Luck Larry!

i have a secret i want to share. i hate the lying murderous bushit administration and their anti-environmental plan to develope our national forests. The Tonga forest in Alaska is endangered again and you can read about at the WILDERNESS SOCIETY.

Before the Bushit administration took down the likes of World Trade Building #7 in New York 10 hours after the Twin Towers on 9/11/01, they stole Florida in the 2000 presidential election by Supreme Court Justices ruling that Bush's brother governor and hideous Secretary of State Catherine Harris could STOP THE RECOUNT. In other words, we don't really care about the will of the people, you all go ahead and make your brother president. Check iz en ze mail. The final actual vote count proved candidate Gore had more vote although this fact was overshadowed by the Bush/Cheney terrorist holiday known as 9/11. Everything these fcks have done be it destroy Constitution rights, attack a country based on lies, as well as conceal their anti-environmental movement of which over 250 environmental laws and standards were reversed have all been part of a power grab in the wake of 9/11. Not to leave out plans to delist the isolated population of Yellowstone brown bears next month because their numbers have increased in the park.

Nevermind the 57 major survival issues they now face were never addressed but developers can make million off the land and hunters have no problem killing the last of these icons outside the park. Nevermind that that the males are trying to get out because they do not want to be inbreds like the treasonous greedy bushit crime family. Lastly, nevermind the 212,000 people who voiced their opinion against removing the bear off the Federal Endangered Species Protection list compared to 989 in favor.

If i never spoke a word on this blog, i would still donate to the important jounalists/advocates for the free at:BRADBLOG>

Ze check iz en ze mail.

GBD
How do you save the environment when your sitting in front of a computer so much??

Go GORE!!

Do something real. We need another alarmist like we need Republicans.

Off the Grid: i'll tell you what? i stay informed on environmental issues and pass factual evidence and truthful information about the Bushit administration efforts to destroy the shit. I give to environmental groups as much as i can AND I write songs about the greedy mismanagement of the Bushit administration etc. i also testified at a hearing in Long Beach against the Navy performing deadly sonar experiments off the coast of California in whale habitat as well as against delisting the brown bear off the Federal Endangered Species Protection list last February in Boseman, Montana. Unfortunately, at this time without a degree in science or law, and the fact that i have no intention to be a political office holder, these are my limitation. I use my voice and i vote.

You might not be a fan of Al Gore and frankly i don't give a rat's ass but he has brought the HUMAN caused GWCC issue to the forefront. His film clearly illustrates and educates the viewer about the immediate and long term dangers. He is using his political clout to effect change.

So what are you doing about anything you frigin wanker? i recomend you sharpen your instinctual sheepskin senses so not to get wacked by your own pan. Personally i don't need a pan to wack you 1 to the head.

Sam, you're pissing me off the grid. We need that attitude like we need more war.

Long Live "The Brad Blog" . . .

You know Off The Grid, I find GBD's comments refreshing in this SCARED RABBITVILLE WE LIVE IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The effect you have in the real world is dynamic. Time spent not affecting people mano a mano, can be time wasted. Lots of time in some cases, I know I've wasted my share. It's my opinion.
I agree with GBD's facts and some of her opinions, the format is irritating. I think if someone has made it to the bradblog comments they are informed. I'll pay for my assumptions.

I apologize for the sarcasm.

"Brevity is the soul of wit"-- Bill Shakespeare

ps-Raw Story--get in, get out
pss-if I did anymore I'd be Amish
psss-I got my CODEPINK Shirt on

Don't sweat the small stuff!

Word.

Off the grid: 1st of all i am not a chick. 2ndly it is my experience that all people are not up to speed or on the same page of important information regarding Bush's anti-environmental work, the real 911 story, the state of US elections, and the fact the we are still in line to use electronic voting machines without a verifiable paper trail. Machines that can be corrupted and hacked 50 different ways and have become an effective tool to steal elections. Most Americans do not have a clue who Clint Curtis is? Or that Republican controlled San Diego ensured Brian Bilbray into the US House by swearing him in BEFORE ALL THE VOTES WERE EVEN COUNTED in the runoff election on machines that broke California state procedural laws. Dude - you might think you are all knowing however, more likely you are simply master of the obvious. Word up> Antagonize me and be prepared to receive posts with bear claws tearing across your face.

All the same, i thank the people who said something nice:) i don't want to fight with bradbloggers because this place should be a gathering of people who want our US Democracy to stay in the hands of "we the people." We might not all be like-minded individuals although we should be able to come together on issues of election transparency. We desperately need elected politicians who represent "our" interests as opposed to the interests of anti-environmental multi-national corporations and oil baron warmongers.

Vive Bradblog!

I don't have money, but you are still in the credits of my show.

GBD: I noticed this phrase in your recent post #21 that you used the phrase "electronic voting machines without a verifiable paper trail."

I would advise AGAINST this phrase because it implies that WITH a "verifiable paper trail" that electronic voting machines WOULD be OK.

In reality, there is NO context in which they are acceptible. I don't even trust them to accurately COUNT paper ballots, though, at least, with paper ballots you have a pretty straightforward mechanism for recounting.

Respectfully submitted.

CharlieL

SURE we believe there are no plans to attack Iran!

Ancient ,and this ...

An accident waiting to happen
By Linda S. Heard
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Feb 22, 2007, 00:48

mick

FREEdom isn't !

Comment #24 Thanks man.

Larry, you sound like me!!! It's hilarious how much alike we are!!! I'm going thru the no insurance thing right now, I've been thru the mill the last few years, but turning it around...fast! That's why I'm always ranting about health insurance and co-pays and deductibles. It's the #1 crisis to put people in the poor house. Why is health insurance tied to a job? Why do premiums keep going up? Co-pays, deductibles, and % coverage goes DOWN???

Oh, the war in Iraq is more important...spending a trillion THERE is more important. Actually, it goes from our pockets right to Bush & Cheney's buddies...it's documented, we all know it. The greatest scam ever...endless tax $$$ for Military Industrial Complex & Bush/Cheney's buddies.

This concludes my rant on health insurance...

Big Dan:

I went in for that interview and they have the exact same insurance and dental plan my old employer had. Is it all one big plan now, Aetna and Metlife?

I guess after Walmart gets their new bank going we can have Walmart health care.

I better shut up or they'll put me on a list. If I'm not already on one. The first question my interviewer asked me is "do you like Merle Haggard?" I thought I better not say "well I didn't like him when he put down potheads, but now that he thinks Bush is turning us into a dictatorship, I do".

Sure liked that interview Amy did with Hedges the other day!

Check out this Free Press article about Gore's less than stellular environmental record as VP. Based on this past evidence, does it make Gore a savior for our planet? Not based on the anti-environmental action of the Clinton-Gore years. A cruel wind was blowing over the Florida Everglades as Clinton was gettin..

Sorry here is the link:
http://www.freepress.org...ents/display/3/2007/2399

Brad,
I sent you a 50 cash (call me stupid if you want), with a brief note. hope you got it,
NJT

Brad,

Rarely do I encounter literary genius on the internet like yours....

George Bush is fond of saying: You're either with him or with the terrorists

But to quote Thomas Jefferson: "To criticize those in power is the highest form of patriotism."

You brave souls at Bradblog are the greatest patriots known to me.

Pac