Archive for December, 2004
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Monday, December 27th, 2004After losing her House of Representatives seat in 2002, over a comment that Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks before they occured, Cynthia McKinney came back on November 2nd, and won it back. That’s a feat in itself.
Now she has to hurtle the feelings of other members of Congress that didn’t like her comments [...]
Getting It Wrong
Sunday, December 26th, 2004In an opinion piece titled, “The new status quo”, US News and World Report writer Michael Barone paints liberalism as something quaint and nostalgic – looking to the past. The only thing is, he’s gotten his facts wrong.
He wonders why blacks support for Republicans is at an all time low. Ask the family [...]
Free and Fair Elections – just not here
Sunday, December 26th, 2004The US State Department today put out a statement by Noel Clay, a State Department spokesman, that requested the Ukrainian govermnet to count the votes and make the votes count in their re-do election held today. They’re urging that the vote be held to International standards.
Too bad our government only holds foreign nations to [...]
Kerry coming out of seclusion
Thursday, December 23rd, 2004It’s about time!
Because of all of the allegations of fraud and vote tampering, John Kerry has decided to join in the fray, and will be filing suit in support of the Green and Libertarian parties. Specifically, it’s what was going on with Triad systems and the alleged vote tampering by computer rebuild that is [...]
Reasons for Conservatism?
Thursday, December 23rd, 2004An article from my hometown cites a close-by neighborhood to me as the most conservative in Multnomah County. In it, they find two voters who are now Republicans because of abortion and gay marriage. They’d rather not think and have talking points shoved at them from Republicans, rather than to work for change [...]
“Bomb” the Liberals
Thursday, December 23rd, 2004What is it about Republicans and death? In a fit about how he believed property taxes were an unfair tax, especially having to pay for schools, freshman Georgia State Senator Jim Whitehead said about Elbert County that, besides the UGA (University of Georga, Athens) football team, that UGA and all the liberals should “be [...]
Conyers Requests Exit Poll Data
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004Judiciary Committee Ranking member John Conyers has requested the raw exit poll data from the data originators, Mitofsky International and Edison Media Research, and they have refused. He and the rest of the Democrats on the Judiciary committee, who have been holding meetings on voting irregularities, know the discrepancy between the exit poll data [...]
Democrat Wins WA Governors Race
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004The electric sign on I5 South just outside of Seattle should go dark now.
Gone are the crys of “Concede, Christine!” went unheeded, and now, are unneeded. By an official 10 vote margin, Democratic Gubenatorial candidate Christine Gregoire has won the Washington governors race. Sore loser Dino Rossi is now trying to cry foul, saying [...]
NC Schools Chief Position in Peril
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004Looks like it’s now not just Ohio Republicans who think that votes should be thrown out. The Democratic challenger in for the North Carolina Schools Superintenant race, June Atkinson, won by over 8500 votes. However, the Republican challenger has a case before the North Carolina Supreme Court to throw out her win (which [...]
