{"id":4029,"date":"2007-01-14T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2007-01-14T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T19:28:09","slug":"brad-blogs-last-week-in-review-1706-11306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"BRAD BLOG&#8217;s Last Week In Review 1\/7\/06 &#8211; 1\/13\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TheBradBlog_WeekinReview.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><i>Guest Blogged by Des<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY, January 7th&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3996\"><strong>BLOOD SURGE<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Congress Must Demand to Know the White House&#8217;s Estimated Body Count for Bush&#8217;s Double-Down Scheme in Iraq&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">(A)side from cutting off funding for the war, now or in the future, there is another option for the moment in answer to Bush&#8217;s predicted call for a &#8220;surge&#8221;: demand that the White House release their estimates of the number of casualties we will incur during such a &#8220;surge.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MONDAY, January 8th&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3999\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeekInReview_DebraBowen_VoterBillofRights.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3999\"><strong>BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Major E-Voting Critic, Attorney Named to Key Voting Systems Oversight Role by New CA Secretary of State!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Debra Bowen Appoints Lowell Finley of Election Integrity Watchdog Group VoterAction.org to Role of &#8216;Deputy SoS for Voting Systems Technology and Policy&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n[UPDATED] Critics of E-Voting Hail News as &#8216;Collosal Suprise,&#8217; Very Good for Voters, Very Bad for the Nation&#8217;s Electronic Voting Machine Companies&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>TUESDAY, January 9th&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4005\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: The EAC Now Admits &#8216;The Ciber Report&#8217; Does Exist After All<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Federal Commission Admits There is Paperwork on &#8216;Barred&#8217; Voting Machine Testing Lab, Will Release &#8216;When the Process is Complete&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\nLab Was Secretly Refused Credentials in July, State and Local Voting Officials Were Kept in Dark Throughout November Elections Until NYTimes&#8217; Revelations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeekInReview_ESS_Florida.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4008\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE FL-13 UPDATE: ES&#038;S Moves to Strike U.S. House Admin Committee Letter<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Voting Machine Company Claims Chairwoman&#8217;s Missive &#8216;An Attempt to Intimidate, Unduly Influence&#8217; Florida Court<\/em><br \/>\nPlaintiff Attorney Says Claim is &#8216;Remarkable,&#8217; &#8216;Takes a Lot of Chutzpah&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>WEDNESDAY, January 10th&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4002\"><strong>Update on Busby\/Bilbray CA50 Election Contest Appeal<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: Details of Attorney Oral Arguments Concerning Whether the U.S. Congress Can Overrule State Election Laws Simply by Swearing Someone In<\/em><br \/>\nAlso, Updates on Some of the Sad Players&#8230;Some Gone, Others (Hopefully) on Their Way Out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucomics.com\/tomtoles\/2004\/05\/11\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeekInReview_BushFinger.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4010\"><strong>ABC: Bush Gives Congress, American People, Democracy the Finger<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Begins Iraq Escalation Before Speech, Approval From Congress, in Wake of Opposition from Dems and Republicans Alike&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nPOST-SPEECH UPDATE: No Estimate Given for Change in Casualties in New Plan. Surprised?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>THURSDAY, January 11th&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4012\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeekInReview_CoulterAngry.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4012\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: NEW COULTER VOTER FRAUD DOCS &#8211; Police Report Says TWO Third Degree Felonies, One Misdemeanor May Have Been Committed by GOP Darling!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New Third Degree Felony for Fraudulently Registering Driver&#8217;s License Added to Previous Allegations of Voter Fraud!<\/em><br \/>\nBut Palm Beach Election Supervisor Having Trouble Finding Law Enforcement Agency to Bring Charges&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4020\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeekInReview_ChristineJennings.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4020\"><strong>Christine Jennings Admits She Should Have Listened to Election Integrity Advocates Earlier&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;Those people with the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections? I used to pat them on the back at Democratic meetings, but I had no idea. The vote is the great equalizer in this country &#8211; and when we&#8217;ve lost that, we&#8217;ve really lost something.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, January 12th&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4022\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeekInReview_CondiRice_011107.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4022\"><strong>White House Made No Casualty Estimates for &#8216;Surge&#8217; Plan According to Rice Admission!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Rightwing Outlets Smear Senator Who Asked Question, Ignore Stunning Newsworthiness of Answer<\/em><br \/>\nIraq Vet Source Dubious About Secretary of State&#8217;s Admission that Military Lacks Body County Estimates&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, January 13th&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4025\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeekInReview_NYTimes.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4025\"><strong>New York Times Joins Rightwing Outlets in Twisting and Torturing Boxer&#8217;s Comments While Ignoring White House Delinquency in Their New Iraq Plan<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Once-Great Paper Misrepresents the Facts, Quotes Only Rightwingers and Misrepresents Some of them to Suggest They are &#8216;Liberal&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\nPLUS: An Invitation to Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4028\"><strong>Maryland Preparing to Screw up Their Election System Yet Again<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>State Lawmakers Moving Towards Paper &#8216;Trail&#8217; Voting Instead of Paper BALLOTS&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Des SUNDAY, January 7th&#8230; BLOOD SURGE Congress Must Demand to Know the White House&#8217;s Estimated Body Count for Bush&#8217;s Double-Down Scheme in Iraq&#8230; (A)side from cutting off funding for the war, now or in the future, there is another option for the moment in answer to Bush&#8217;s predicted call for a &#8220;surge&#8221;: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}