Let's see...

We landed men on the moon and returned them safely to earth many times and yet we can't build computers which can tabulate voting results that can also be counted by human beings and have the two results match.

Businesses all across America require that their employees, (human resources), count thousands of inventory items that must match what the computer says is in that inventory, or they have to start over.

This procedure is apparently impossible when we vote.

Why is that!

Larry if it CAN be done and it ISN'T being done it means those doing it DON'T want it to be done.

We've got a huge fight going in Tennessee right now, y'all.
We passed the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act (after 3 years of agitation by a group called Gathering to Save Our Democracy), mandating paper ballots, in '08. Even though the legislation was sooo important that it passed nearly unanimously, it wasn't so important that it was implemented for the '08 election. So, despite our best efforts, the forces of darkness said that 7 months was too short a time to change from DREs to paper, and the bill was written to be in use by '10...
Several of us at the signing ceremony whispered about the possibility of the Repubs miraculously winning the legislature and then killing our bill. Wanna guess what happened? Every open seat in the General Assembly went to the Pubs! Even in an election that where the whole nation swung hard to the left! So they took over the legislature for the first time ever. And as soon as they appointed their Sec. of State, Tre Hargett, he supported a bill to get rid of the TVCA.
Since then we were saved by one lone courageous vote by a Repub senator, but Hargett plans to be back, though now he says he's all about paper ballots, just not till '12. That's after the important '10 gov's election, of course.
Because we can't afford paper. And there's no prob with our DREs, and the bill says we need 2005-certified by the FEC equipment (except, of course, it doesn't...), and it’ll cost too much, and and and…
Recently he said they’d still try to kill the TVCA as soon as they can. SOS Hargett's making no preps for paper in '10.
What can y'all at Bradblog do?
Know anybody in TN? Make 'em aware and tell 'em to hammer their state rep on this issue.

shw

BUY FORD!

The Anthrax Attacks along with the 9/11 attacks were what many consider to be an inside job. We have a lot of problems to tackle. The Monetary System dominated by the private Federal Reserve System, The Election Reforms necessary, and the corruption and false flag terror ploys by government. Keep spreading the word to intelligent and courageous people.

Yuh, Tennishoe is ground zero for the Republican Electronic Voting Network testing....coming soon to a state near you.

I quit buying Fords because I could never find a dealer that wasn't doing me a favor by selling me one or doing warranty work.
My asshole size increased by several centimeters every time I walked out of the place.

single payer health care See DemocracyNow this morning for Kucinich's amendment to get states to have "green light" on single payer for their state. www.democracynow.org (Open thread is daunting! Thinkin' thinkin')

Here's Lily Tomlin joining the fight for Single Payer:
http://www.californiaone...-history-of-health-care/

I guess California is going to need that Kucinich amendment if this thing goes through.

"What are you commenting on?"

"Whaddya got?"

:)

It wasn't a 'complaint' as much as a poorly worded request.

Thanks for the open thread though, I think its a good idea to periodically have these so people don't have to post off-topic in an unrelated thread if they come across something of interest which other Bradblog readers might like. I'll post something if I have time later today.

Larry #1 - because it's on purpose.

It would be interesting to find out just who these jewish americans were:

http://www.chris-floyd.c...k-military-dominion.html

What's up wit Spiro Palin?

Peter Schiff was right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

Peter Schiff is considering running for the US senate against Chris Dodd.
http://www.schiffforsenate.com/

California Bankrupt - Arnold aparently is passing the "peace pipe" around to get a budget. I think all of them are high on something.

President HooBama - Karl makes an interesting comparison between President Hoover and Obama.

"I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence."
- Herbert Hoover, December 1929

"I think that we have stepped back from the abyss. I think we've put out the fire" - Barack Obama 2009 on a PBS interview

Sun Java JDK / JRE XML Signature HMAC Truncation Spoofing - all browsers insecure No solution yet. Turn off Javascript or Uninstall it.

I might remind you I just lost everything recently--It will take me months to get back to where I was. Today, I have a different security strategy. Part of it is disk cloning (cloned disk sits on a shelf UNPLUGGED), part isolation VM's for different browsing threats Red, yellow, green, part dealing with USB devices (autoinsert madness), part password management, part firewall iptables tweeks. If you want to play the game, better be prepared for when the game takes aim at you and fires. ;o)

Oh and my favorite one...
Computerized Election Results With No Election From /. "authorities have seized 45 computers containing certified election results for a constitutional election that never happened."

Nice huh?

http://BlackBoxVoting.Org has a few "newish" articles up everyone here should be familiar with. Like an update on the ongoing nonsense up in Washington State, Opscan's, Voter Registration, and the relentless push for internet voting.

Of course you could always get your feathers ruffled at http://rawstory.com always some horrible thing going on there.

A nice little story/interview and ideas about rootkits up on tomshardware. (A great article to design some security strategies)
http://www.tomshardware....kowska-rootkit,2356.html

and finally for apology and respect to Agent 99..
Major Expose on Swine Flu by 60 Minutes and a must read for anyone else considering getting poked to protect yourself.

Big Dan #11:

Perish the thought!

Four Exit Poll Naysayer Myths

last night racheal on msnbc was cenored as she read the findings of the independant prosecutor in alaska concerning soon to be x gov palin...so was the reporter she was interviewing

it wasn't just a few words,it was most of that segment

Karen #18, yeah half that clip was digitally corrupted or something, I'd get one or two words, then miss then next five, etc. I figured it was my local cable company (which hardly has a stellar record of performance), but if that was going on in a widespread fashion....hmmmm.

MAIL-IN VOTING HELL IN SACRAMENTO!!!

http://www.bbvforums.org...32/80473.html?1248285937

What the fuck has Debra to say?

Who cares, they're fucking us.

Yeah we are doing a great job protecting the vote. I ain't mad at brad. But I ain't happy either. This is the time when we should be tearing them a new asshole, but instead they are tearing US one.

Make something of this thread!!!

Too much pressure, Phil.

Someone just turned me on to this great tool for making Dr. Bronner's label web pages readable!

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

OMG! It rocks!

Unfortunately it doesn't open up the commenting box, but it helps you read them... helps you read everything!

Or... here's one that just sent me off a cliff....

Matthews To GOP Rep. Advancing ‘Birther’ Myth: ‘You Are Feeding The Whacko Wing Of Your Party’

"“Was he born in this country?” Matthews asked again. “Yes, I believe so,” Campbell replied. “Ok, finally we’re making progress,” Matthews said. Watch it:

Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) was barraged by birthers at a local town hall meeting in Delaware recently and was forced to inform the crowd — much to their dismay — that Obama is indeed a natural born citizen."

http://thinkprogress.org.../matthews-birther-wacko/

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also debunked by jon stewart

watch the video, jump to the 2 minute mark...for total debunking!!

http://www.thedailyshow....uly-22-2009-kevin-nealon

slick, using CNN footage to debunk Lou Dobbs right-wing hogwash!

yes, that Jon Stewart, America's Most Trusted Newsman today!

http://www.huffingtonpos...oll-jon-st_n_242933.html

http://www.timepolls.com...ve/poll_results_417.html

dis @ #19... last night obama's press conference had a few "blanked out,corrupted,or censored" places too

Afganistan War Photos

Dignified Transfers of the Military Dead

from http://Cryptome.org

{Comment deleted. Phil, you know better than to make personal attacks against other commenters, in violation of our very few rules for commenting at BRAD BLOG. - BF}

3rd report in 3 days of "censorship,blackouts,whatever "@ msnbc

last night as david s(subbing for keith) was finishing show and introducing racheal the screen went black for about 2-3 mins

I would like to take this opportunity to respectfully suggest Bradblog lay off the Palin story, for twothree very good reasons:

1. OVER-EXPOSURE: I come to the BB to read stories that aren't being covered anywhere else, let alone everywhere else. Palin is now saturating me from the cover of every supermarket tabloid to the now shamefully impoverished WAPO op ed pages. I am soaking in her. (And my skin is starting to show signs of severe allergy.)

2. BAD STRATEGY: When we found legitimate proof of manipulated federal elections (sic. over and over again) did Rush, Hannity, or FOX spend all their energies and efforts reporting and refuting our facts? NO! They just ignored them completely, to great effect. A deft combination of mocking us OFF CAMERA (on blogs)and constantly re-enforcing the "liberal media" meme with their loudest megaphones successfully pushed the topic out off the PROGRESSIVE media's radar, as well.

No one would touch us. We were left to scrap it out amongst our (supposed) selves; to fight with Kos about this instead of fighting FOX about this.

The progressive news black out is THE ROOT CAUSE, as so many of us here have defined it, of the most frustrating, debilitating, soul-crushing part of this Herculean effort to expose secret vote counting by private, partisan corporations.
Why are we doing the opposite? Why are we amplifying the goddamned crazies? Seems self defeating...

3. 99's MENTAL HEALTH: I realize that Bradblog's comments tend to skyrocket when reporting about how this juicy bitch keeps getting slapped with more ethics complaints, I can't imagine what kind of chronic pain it gives one to try to moderate that shit. Really. That weekend was so crazy here I had to decompress by washing my brain.

While I have nothing but the best wishes for BB's Sponsors who need to know he has tons of eyes reading him (and he does, Sponsors, he does)-- we all --- oops --- I mean, anyone in their right mind knows that Sara Palin is unethical.

This is not news to Jeannie.
Or any BB reader, I surmise.
Must 99 pay the price?

Thank you for considering the above (intended as contructive) comments.

I love that I can do this here.

... and the above goes double for the way the corporate media is giving these unhinged, idiotic, ass-clown BIRTHERS so much room to crow on our publicly owned, national stage.

Phil whinning about his wheeties having been pissed on.

Karen seeing conspiracy in everything, oh my GOD, someone was censored: it was the lesbian?

meanwhile I want to tell everyone that no ones post is earthshattering , but if it gives u a hardon to write then ,keep fuckin posting your electrons are piling up at the end of the intertubes.

how can ya say it's a conspiracy when they do it right in front of us?

Thank you, Jeannie. We think we're so smart because we don't do the MSM's Britney/Paris/Brangelina axis here, but all this ado over the Piglips/O'Reilly/Coulter axis is almost literally as brain-numbing, synapse-hardening, and outright stupefying. It's all I can do to keep from ripping my hair out and smashing my monitor over that shit.