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| North Carolina bill to define marriage |
| 01.27.05 (4:52 pm) [edit] |
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Now, this seems like bad business. To me, this sounds like communism.
This reduces the free market - think of the $millions in fees that this would cost divorce attorneys. And wedding planners.
Sens. Jim Forrester, R-Gaston, and Fred Smith, R-Johnston, filed a bill to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. The constitutional referendum, if approved by the Legislature, would go to voters at the May 2006 state primary election.
A majority of senators last year sought consideration for a similar bill pushed by Forrester. The bill fell two votes short of the 30 needed to get it out of committee and onto the Senate floor for a vote.
The Senate on opening day Wednesday made that rule even more stringent. Now, 34 signatures are needed instead of 30
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| Tell Dobsen to Get Off of Spongebob's back |
| 01.22.05 (7:09 pm) [edit] |
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Dobsen thinks cartoon characters are being used to promote homosexuality, because of a film promoting tolerance.
Focus on the Family Website official statement on the SpongeBob Square Pants question: here
Do you agree with Focus on the family sending out a gay alert warning over the children's video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon favorites? Reuters
WWJD?
What do you think Jesus would do in this case?
Send your comments to:
Cultural or public policy issues:
contact
Christopher Norfleet
(719) 548-4570
culturalissues@family.org
The organization/ministry of Focus on the Family or about Dr. James Dobson:
contact Paul Hetrick
Vice President of Media Relations
(719) 531-3336
press@family.org
Focus on the Family products or events:
contact Lisa Anderson
Corporate Publicity Manager
(719) 548-5883
publicity@family.org
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| I Want A Divorce |
| 01.10.05 (6:24 pm) [edit] |
Democratic voters have been completely hoo-dooed.
As you remember, some of us were never fond of Kerry in the first place. It was a case of holding your nose while voting democratic. The idiot voted for the War on Iraq!
Who really deserved our vote? Maybe David Cobb, who continues to speak the truth? Who more nearly represents what we stand for anyway?
The democratic party is the republican party's bitch, to use street terms. What fools.
If you have ever been to a car race or to a boxing match, you might have heard of the term -
"sand-bagging".
Or how about "throwing a fight"?
How could a candidate for the most important office on this planet run a race with scarcely any platform except for being pro-gay marriage and pro abortion, and also not spend around $50 Million in campaign funding?
Who honored their promise that our votes would be counted? Who cares about our votes being counted?
We should walk away from those who clearly lied to us, like....
Where was MoveON?
We begged them a YEAR ago to take up the issue of verified voting, meanwhile, as their millions of members sent them dollars and responded to their email actions - I was told by an insider that Moveon would not take up the issue of verified voting. Please recall how the character of Moveon changed once they became a 501 C3.
Non-Profit does not mean there are no GIGANTIC salaries.
Please tell me the value of Moveon asking us to email the republican congress to "Censure the President". If that isn't the dumbest thing I have ever heard of.
Moveon, like John Kerry, diverted our minds and actions, at least those who fell for it, to meaningless actions, in an attempt to make us think that we were "having an impact". Someone must be laughing their as$es off at us right now.
Just like the voting machine companies, who - like SOS Blackwell had promised to deliver the electoral votes of Ohio to Bush.
PLEASE tell me, when will good hearted democrats quit being as stupid as they think that their similarly stupid republican siblings are. Both stupid, just in different ways. Each thinking the other is wrong, when both are.
I hereby divorce myself from the democratic party. It is really a boring, vapid party, with no spine whatsoever
Do strong, bold and patriotic people really support the liars, those that assisted in robbing our country of its freedom to choose it's leaders?
We have been robbed, and it was a bi-partisan action.
The Democratic Party has a cancer, and we must either cut out the cancer or give the party up for dead.
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| North Carolina Ballot Blues |
| 11.26.04 (4:31 pm) [edit] |
POINT OF VIEW |
Published: Nov 26, 2004
Modified: Nov 26, 2004 3:00 AM
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North Carolina's ballot blues
By JOYCE MCCLOY
WINSTON-SALEM -- We've got a problem:
"NC has the worst election problem in the country right now." -- Computer scientist Dr. David L. Dill of Stanford University
"A Florida-style nightmare has unfolded in North Carolina in the days since Election Day, with thousands of votes missing and the outcome of two statewide races still up in the air." -- AP Newswire, Nov 13
Our key decision-makers are ignoring the seriousness of the problem:
"Except for the lost votes in Carteret County, Gary Bartlett, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, called the problems 'easily remedied and lessons learned.'" AP Newswire, Nov 13
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North Carolina's election problems will not be that easily remedied. This year's disaster shows that many election workers are in over their heads.
Problems with voting machines, central tabulators using outdated and secret software, registration confusion, poll worker training, provisional ballots and absentee ballots are not easily remedied.
Add to all this the lack of a voter-verified paper ballot and you have no disaster recovery plan.
This is the case with more than 40 counties using touchscreen or "dial a vote" machines. The security of their votes depends on the software, source code and hardware of the voting machines. Election workers' ability, or lack thereof, to operate and troubleshoot the machines can affect the security of the votes as well.
Lost: 4,500 votes in Carteret County -- paper ballots verified by voters and retained by the election officials would have saved these votes.
Omitted: an entire precinct of 1,209 votes in Gaston County.
Missing: 12,000 more votes in Gaston County not reported. The election director hired a voting machine technician to upload the county vote totals and did not oversee the process.
Bamboozled: Guilford County bought vote-tabulating software that used outdated technology and with insufficient vote storage. As a result, Guilford County's public vote totals for president were off by 22,000 votes.
More votes than cast: Craven County reported 11,283 more votes for president than cast, voting with the same software as in Guilford County.
The State Board of Elections has relied on the advice of voting machine salesmen and turned a deaf ear to the good advice and warnings of computer scientists.
Voting machine salesmen gain access to some election officials via a private organization called the Election Center. This organization's mission is to educate and inform election officials, yet it admits to accepting money from voting-machine companies. The Election Center hosts conferences for election officials at which salesmen provide parties, prizes and even a dinner cruise on the Potomac. North Carolina's director of elections, Gary Bartlett, sits on the board of directors of the center.
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Continued computer breakdowns and miscounts prove the need for a voter-verified paper ballot. This is not a receipt but a paper printout of the ballot, to be verified by the voter and kept by the election officials in case of recount, audit or computer breakdown.
The State Board of Elections can do the right thing by consulting computer scientists to recommend real requirements for our voting systems. It should also allow sufficient time for a thorough review by outside experts, to ensure that North Carolina's voting system is the most secure and trustworthy in America.
Joyce McCloy is coordinator of the N.C. Coalition for Verified Voting (ncvoter.net).
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| Electoral Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| 10.26.04 (6:30 pm) [edit] |
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| Why Kerry/Edwards - crystal clear |
| 10.11.04 (6:44 pm) [edit] |
wanted to tell you about my thoughts on Kerry/Edwards.
I started out really loving Kucinich - he truly represents my views.
I worried thought that he lacked the charisma and general appeal to the regular public.
Plus, he is so right on the issues, I am sure that extremely powerful groups would not allow him
to be President.
I switched my support to Dean, because he is so earnest, intelligent and gutsy.
It made me sick when the media sabotaged him. Not long after he said he would break up
the media monopolies, the Dean Scream thing happened. Fact is, the microphone he
was given was not intended for the type of quarters he was in. It distorted his voice.
So then we end up with Kerry/Edwards. I actually like Edwards better.
But now I see the logic - why Kerry/Edwards.
(Kerry's membership in the Skull and Bones bothered me).
I felt like Kerry was too much of a Washington insider.
He voted to give Bush the power to start a war if he wanted, while those of us who access the network knew the war was BULL-$H!T.
Kerry had to know, surely he was smarter than to be misled by idot boy.
This is why I disliked Kerry.
I changed my mind following the debates, and after reading Orwell 1984,
Animal Farm, and now reading Thomas Jefferson's letters. If you havent read these in a while, please pick up one of them at the library.
It became crystal clear to me that Shrubya's opponents HAD to be
lawyers - he had to be confronted and tried in public, and the debates were/are the trial.
This is the first time in these 4 years that Shruby had to face a prosecuting attorney (former) who confronted him on his maschinations of his pResidency. Even though Bush has been arrested 3 times, the debates had to me much more painful. Only a psycho path could come away from a beating like that and not feel it!
How sweet, ironic and perfect to have the best trial lawyer (perhaps) and champion for the underdog to put Cheney on Trial. Edwards was awesome in every way during the debates.
I loved watching it. My only surprise is that Cheney didn't go into arrest at the time.
We have a former district attorney and prosecutor and war hero fighting against Shrubya -
We have a champion for the underdog and extremely fierce (with velvet touch) lawyer putting
Cheney on trial.
There could not be a better combo, could there?
If you remember, Cheney was about to be subpoenad by the GAO RIGHT before 911, over the "secret" energy commission meetings (think Enron).
The biggest crooks in the world are seldom if ever brought to justice, but
the debates have been the nearest thing to sweet justice that I have ever seen.
The thugs looked just like thugs. The debates shined a light on the corruption and crassness of this current administration.
Only Kerry/Edwards could have done this. A powerful team.
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| Oct 8-The Abu Ghraib Supplementary Documents |
| 10.08.04 (8:43 pm) [edit] |
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Just in time for the debates, more documents on Abu Ghraib at The Center for Public Integrity and Justice.
Riots, prisoners killed, prisoners sleeping on card-board.
Lack of water in 100+degree temps. Torture rape and murder.
By the way, this happened last year, long before the beheadings that have been given much publicity.
Here is the report:
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| RFID Tracking Tags in your Abercrombies |
| 10.08.04 (6:56 pm) [edit] |
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Another reason not to buy their clothing - besides the expensive price and the huge profit made at the expense of poorly paid laborers:
Abercrombie & Fitch
A $600 million company called Checkpoint has developed prototype labels
containing RFID spychips for Abercrombie & Fitch, Calvin Klein, and
Champion sportswear. These tags contain tiny computer chips with unique
ID numbers that can be read remotely by anyone with the right
equipment.
CNET picked up the story on Friday, September 24th. You can read it at:
http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0" title="http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0" target="_blank"http://networks.silicon.com/l...,39024663,39124341,00.htm
Photos of the spychipped clothing labels can be seen on our website at:
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/checkp oint-photos.html" title="http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/checkp oint-photos.html" target="_blank"http://www.spychips.com/press...
Potentially, people wearing the tagged clothing items could be
identified and tracked as they pass through Checkpoint-equipped
doorways and store portals, as they stand near Checkpoint's retail "smart
shelves" containing hidden RFID reader devices, or when they enter
Checkpoint's planned RFID "smart zones" in stores.
I can see anti theft devices, but this goes too far.
See what Gillette is purportedly doing:
Gillette has been caught hiding tiny RFID surveillance chips in the packaging of its shaving products. These tiny, high tech spy tags are being used to trigger photo taking of unsuspecting customers!
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| Debate: as close to being prosecuted as Dick will ever get |
| 10.06.04 (8:29 pm) [edit] |
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The Cheney Edwards debate last night gave me deja-vu:
I believe that this is as close as we will get to experiencing the joy of having Cheney prosecuted for any of his numerous crimes.
This was the first time that the real issues got any exposures.
It was right before the 911 disaster that Cheney was going to be charged with crimes: The GAO was planning to present him with a subpeona for testimony about his energy commission meetings.
See:
Energy Showdown
Agency May Sue White House
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| $Reward to first person asking this question |
| 09.17.04 (7:32 am) [edit] |
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This is tooooo goood.
Please share link with your readers.
Just One Question... "How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?" * *$2207.35 Bounty to the first person to ask George W. Bush this question in a public forum.Contact john_goldstone@nospamyaho o.com with documentation to claim your reward!
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| Bug Me Not! |
| 08.20.04 (4:52 pm) [edit] |
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Next time you want to read that New York Times or LA Times or whatever online newspaper - don't register to read it, don't use your sign on, try
Bug Me Not -
Bypass Compulsory Web Registration!
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| Google this, Rove |
| 08.19.04 (8:47 pm) [edit] |
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I love Google, once again a special google trick;
Click on this link,
then click on the Google Search Button.
Wonderful surprise for you.
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| RollingStone -Secrets of Abu Ghraib |
| 08.01.04 (8:41 am) [edit] |
Never afraid of controversy -
New classified documents implicate U.S. forces in rape and sodomy of Iraqi prisoners
Secret files of at least 6,000 files, documents and internal emails are being hidden from the public.
Congressional inquiry is being stalled.
But, good alternate media sources are not being stalled -
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story?id=638 8256&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7" title="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story?id=638 8256&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7" target="_blank"http://www.rollingstone.com/p...
I am still waiting for Seymour Hersh to tell the rest of what he knows - is he waiting until when he thinks it will have maximum impact?
Much of the abuse happened LAST YEAR, by the way.
The supposed decapitations this year would hardly be in retaliation, as the torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib were known to all of Iraq last year as well.
We, the American public are the last to know if we even know at all.
I guess all prisoners in Iraq are safe now that Rumsfeld has put an end to digital cameras in Iraq.
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| Secret Childrens Section in Abu Ghraib |
| 07.31.04 (3:18 pm) [edit] |
[i][b]There were certainly hundreds of children in this camp. [/b][/i]
This information comes from a German website translated into English:
[b]About a 12 year old girl held prisoner:[/b]
"She was beaten. I heard her call out: They have undressed me. They have poured water over me."
[b]Children who had been arrested in Basra and Kerbala [/b](…) were handed over as a matter of routine to an internment facility in Um Qasr".
http://www.swr.de/report/archiv/sendunge n/040705/07/frames.html" title="http://www.swr.de/report/archiv/sendunge n/040705/07/frames.html" target="_blank"http://www.swr.de/report/arch...
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| Backup for Hersh's claims about Abu Ghraib |
| 07.31.04 (3:05 pm) [edit] |
Boing Boing has the goods, very informative.
this is being covered up nicely.
Democrats not saying much because having so much fun with Convention and that crap
I refer you to Boing Boing's story on this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/20/evidence_f or_hershs_.html" title="http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/20/evidence_f or_hershs_.html" target="_blank"http://www.boingboing.net/200...
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| Vote for Kerry?Undecided?READ HERE! |
| 07.30.04 (7:51 pm) [edit] |
I think I just read the most persuasive argument to vote for Kerry ever.
If you have any doubts, or are considering voting for a houseplant instead, please read this:
http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2004/07/from-left-fie ld-so-why-kerry.html" title="http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2004/07/from-left-fie ld-so-why-kerry.html" target="_blank"http://aliberaldose.blogspot....
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| Seymour Hersh Transcripts available |
| 07.29.04 (5:06 pm) [edit] |
[b]I finally took the time to listen to Seymour Hersh.
It is a privilege to listen to him.[/b]The video or the transcripts are available.
I hadn't been able to find the transcripts before.
All of it here:
http://informationclearin ghouse.info/article6492.htm" title="http://informationclearin ghouse.info/article6492.htm" target="_blank"http://informationclearin ghou...
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| Bush on Major Mood Altering Drugs - Capitol Hill Blue |
| 07.29.04 (9:15 am) [edit] |
From Capitol Hill Blue - Bush Leagues
[b]Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior[/b]
One long-time GOP political consultant who – for obvious reasons – asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush.
“We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes,” he says sadly. “That’s not good for my candidates, it’s not good for the party and it’s certainly not good for the country.”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printe r_4921.shtml" title="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printe r_4921.shtml" target="_blank"http://www.capitolhillblue.co...
Didnt want other Tbloggers to miss this article!
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| The Weapons of Mass Destruction Found - |
| 07.28.04 (8:32 pm) [edit] |
The Weapons of Mass Destruction were detected in Iraq in 2000. They were weapons of unusual potency, and had a name designating their origion.
[i][b]The WMDS are: The Euro[/b][/i]
The dollar began its decline with the advent of the Euro.
I used to work in Foreign Exchange at a bank corporation.
In 2000, you could buy a Euro for around 80 cents.
Now, it probably would cost you about $1.20
"By midmorning in New York, the euro was trading down 0.1 per cent at 1.2038 against the dollar after touching a six-week low at 1.1999 earlier."
http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=865882004" title="http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=865882004" target="_blank"http://business.scotsman.com/...
[b][i]Then, Sodamm Insane told the US that Iraq would only be trading in Euros, not dollars. [/i][/b]
[b]Iraq: Baghdad Moves To Euro[/b]
By Charles Recknagel
Baghdad's switch from the dollar to the euro for oil trading is intended to rebuke Washington's hard-line on sanctions and to encourage Europeans to challenge it. But the political message will cost Iraq millions in lost revenue. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel looks at what Baghdad will gain and lose, and the impact of the decision to go with the European currency.
[b]Prague, 1 November 2000 (RFE/RL) -- Iraq is going ahead with its plans to stop using the U.S. dollar in its oil [/b]business in spite of warnings the move makes no financial sense.
http://www.rferl.org/features/2000/11/0111 2000160846.asp" title="http://www.rferl.org/features/2000/11/0111 2000160846.asp" target="_blank"http://www.rferl.org/features...
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| Hell on Earth |
| 07.20.04 (6:59 pm) [edit] |
They called it Hell on Earth: http://www.truthout.org/docs_...
[b]Read 14 Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees[/b]http://www.washingtonpost.com...
fax some of these affadavits to your congressmen and senators.
[b]You can set up free faxing via email here:[/b]Washington DC and most large cities. If you just send a few, it goes through fine, send a bunch and it is blocked as spam.
http://www.tpc.int/verify.html" title="http://www.tpc.int/verify.html" target="_blank"http://www.tpc.int/verify.htm...
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| When the Deception Began..... |
| 06.25.04 (7:54 pm) [edit] |
"Since the National Security Act of 1947, in which the people agreed that their government would tell them only what it wanted them to hear"
citizens have relied on the government to act in good faith. It would shake their entire belief system to question that good faith.
http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader" title="http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader" target="_blank"http://www.augustafreepress.c...$23285
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| Jack Ryan a Moralist, said George Wills |
| 06.25.04 (9:54 am) [edit] |
[b][i]In June 2003 George Wills writes of Senatorial Candidate Jack Ryan:[/i][/b] "Too good to be true, but true just the same"
Calles Jack Ryan a "Moralist"....http://www.spokesmanreview.co...
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| Why the Natl Inst for Blind LOVES DIEBOLD |
| 06.11.04 (3:48 pm) [edit] |
"We recognize a spirit of common interest and generosity in Diebold, and we are joining with the computer developers within that company to design inexpensive, effective machines."
"They also believe in us. They want to support enhanced technology for the blind, and [b]they have promised to help us build the National Research and Training Institute for the Blind with a gift in the amount of one million dollars. [/b]The president of Diebold, Incorporated, Mr. Walden O'Dell, will be with us at this convention." http://204.245.133.32/BM/BM01...
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