Guest guest Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:00:52 -0500 (EST) OpEdNews 3/10/06 rob OpEd News dot Com To read these articles please click here to see the web page version with links. http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060310_1.html Headlines of Newest Articles By Charles Sullivan Externalizing The Cost Of War There are 192 recognized nations on earth; the U.S. has troops in 135 of them. We are bringing democracy to the world through the sites of an AK-47 and carpet bombs. If this is democracy the world has had enough of it! By Gerald Rellick Bush Jokes Are No Longer Funny In an ironic twist, the most powerful military in the history of humankind takes its marching orders from a cabal of cowards.... By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For March 10, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster The Shots Heard Round The World Were Not A Government Operation Americans have been deluded into believing that government made them free. Americans made themselves free the first time - and we can do it again. By MoveOn April DC Opportunity To Meet With Congress And Save The Vote A coalition of groups, including Common Cause, VerifiedVoting.org, and VoteTrustUSA, is arranging these meetings. Tell Congress to get serious about the security of our voting machines. Click here to sign up: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1531 By Michele Gregory, Wife Of Steven Heller Whistleblower's Wife Thanks Public For Support Whether or not you are able to donate, please pass the website around to everyone you know. Stephen's lawyer has said that public awareness of his situation will be beneficial to his defense. By Agata Gussmann, Care2 And ThePetitionSite Team Stop Media Giants From Privatizing Our Internet! Take Action! Telecommunications companies like AT & T and Verizon are lobbying Congress for the right to control where you go on the Internet, how fast you get there, and how much you pay for the service. In other words, your favorites websites and blogs might be left in the slow lane of the information superhighway. By Allen L Roland LYNN WOOLSEY / AN AMERICAN HERO Yesterday Woolsey joined fellow Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Barbara Lee in introducing the Common Sense Budget Act (CSBA), which would divert $60 billion of unnecessary Pentagon spending to underfunded domestic priorities. Among the cuts: $7 billion from the National Missile Defense Program and $13 billion to reduce the American nuclear arsenal to 1,000 warheads. By Bob Burnett Osama And George Today is Osama bin Laden's birthday, his 49th. An appropriate time to consider the strange similarities between the world's most notorious fugitive and the President of the United States. By Evelyn Pringle Life After Depo-Medrol - Sheer Hopeless Hell By Mike Whitney Running-Amok With John Bolton Scott Ritter noted that, " Bolton was sent to destroy the UN. " His new package of " reforms " is loaded with goodies for big-business and more power for Washington. Ultimately, Bolton aims to remake the UN into a reliable " rubber stamp " for American foreign policy. Iran and Sudan are just the most recent debacles. By Robert Perry Oversight By Capitulation Despite a dip in his opinion polls, George W. Bush's transformation of the United States into an authoritarian society continues apace with new " compromises " with Congress actually consolidating his claims to virtually unlimited executive power. By Doug Thompson Typical Political Arrogance Saw this bumper sticker while driving to Richmond Thursday: I prefer a President who only screws interns Yep. George W. Bush has managed to make us miss Bill Clinton. By Roy Murtishaw Hardball Hypocrisy To The Umpteeth Power Response to Matthews and Buchanan on MSNBC Hardball By Carol Wolman Are You Working For Impeachment? " We the people " are ultimately responsible for the actions of our government, no matter how fraudulent the elections or how corrupt the Congress may be. By Steven Leser Bush Poll - Supporter Wavering All cabinet officials have been pulled off their normal assignments and pressed into service to come up with a plan to keep Sher's support firmly in the White House camp. By Robert M, Blueblogsradio.com How To Support Ion Sancho: Contact FL Officials, Guv, Legislature Help defend Mr. Sancho's exposing the vulnerabilities of voting machines. It took a lot of courage for this man to stand up to the entrenched Republican culture of corruption we have here in Florida. It would not surprise me in the least if he loses his job over this. By Robert Koehler Whistling Diebold I cringe at what seems like misplaced outrage. I cringe to watch the machinery of " justice " grind up a little guy who was faced with a terrible ethical choice and chose not to play it safe or dumb, but instead acted for the greater good. By Jane Stillwater Good Advice For Neo-cons: Be The First On Your Block To Turn State's Evidence! Be the first Neo-con on your block to become Andrew Fastow! Don't wait around to become Jeffrey Skilling. Who do you bet will be the first in the Bush bureaucracy to save his own hide and sing like a canary in order to avoid jail time? By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For March 09, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. Best News Links from the Web http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060310_1.html Poll: Bush At Low Point, GOP Support Weakens Concerns by some party loyalists could impact congressional elections Blank Stares And Stupors Bush is all but universally reviled and vulnerable. But when the U.S. military starts dropping bombs on Iran, Democrats will be looking at one another with blank stares —stupefied, dumbfounded. As Iraq descends into Civil War, Bush plans to use nukes on Iran; he makes a treasonous deal with Dubai, a hotbed of international terrorism. The subplot is equally nefarious: he has placed himself above the law. Democrats should be planning to retake both House and Senate, impeaching Bush, and restoring the Constitution and American Democracy. That's what they should be doing. But are they? Summit OH Voting Gear Flunks Some feel they would have been better off with Diebold?!#!?# That's a choice? WaPo Front Page Story: MD House Unanimous In Dumping Diebold Touch-Screen In 2006! TrueVoteMD issued a massive document dump yesterday with loads of " evidence of anything wrong with Maryland elections " including information on a five-month " Diebold-imposed lockdown " on machines after Maryland's " November 2004 meltdown. " Still and all, of course, all of this is certainly a move in the right direction, and yet another stain on Diebold's atrocious record in the Voting Machine Industry and as once-great American company. Hear The Other Shoe Drop? Halliburton To Step In For Dubai Port Deal? Halliburton is being mentioned as the American company readying itself to step in as a sub for Dubai Ports World. Is anyone out there surprised by this news? Oh My Ohio: Third Election Official Indicted On Charges Of Gaming 2004 Presidential Recount Amazingly enough -- or perhaps not, since this is Ohio, after all, where the rule of law no longer actually applies -- the story also reports that " All three [indicted] employees continue to work at the board. " " We're in the process of converting to the electronic voting, and we need our best people, " board chairman Bob Bennett said. " We've moved them from any responsibility of recount or responsibility of ballots. " Sure you have, Bob. We all feel much better. We guess by " best people " he means the ones who are most indicted. (Perhaps he should consider hiring the affable Jack Abramoff to answer the phones for them during this busy season?!) OxyContin, Unlike Soft Drugs, Leading To Heroin Due to the cost of OxyContin -- expensive on the black market -- users that otherwise might not have come in contact with hard drugs are being driven into the heroin culture. Interior Secretary Abruply Resigns After Ties To Abramoff Indian Deals Interior Secretary Gale Norton will resign today, the Associated Press has confirmed. Norton, photographed at left with fallen conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was fingered in deals with Native American tribes that Abramoff represented. The photograph at left was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Abramoff's tribal clients donated $50,000 to a conservative environmental group founded by Norton, hoping to win face time with the Secretary. They eventually did. NYT Fri: Abramoff Spending Detailed; $20,000 For Car Monitor When the money was rolling in, Jack Abramoff certainly knew how to spend it. During his heyday as one of Washington's top lobbyists, Abramoff raked in millions of dollars and feted lawmakers and luminaries at his Pennsylvania Avenue restaurant. But one of his most conspicuous indulgences was his fully loaded 2002 BMW, the New York Times will report Friday Israel Says Haniya Could Be Target Hamas's candidate for Palestinian prime minister, Ismael Haniya, could become a target for assassination if he becomes involved in " acts of terror " , Israel has warned. [Hey I want the waters of the Middle East tested for steriods! Crazy BOMFs!] Fighting Terror Or Pushing Bigotry? It's hard to conceive how the United States will win a " war of ideas " in the Islamic world when American leaders flock to a Washington conference where Muslims are publicly insulted and the U.S. officials fail to voice objections to the bigotry. Catholic Charities To Halt Adoptions Over Issue Involving Gays The Boston Archdiocese's Catholic Charities said Friday it would stop providing adoption services because state law requires them to consider gays and lesbians as parents. Sandra Day O'Connor Warns Of " Beginnings " Of Dictatorship... Slams Tom DeLay, Sen. John Cornyn... NPR's Nina Totenberg aired an amazing story this morning about a talk that just-resigned Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gave at Georgetown University. The first woman to serve on the High Court wouldn't allow her actual words to be broadcast, and that's a shame, because -- based on Totenberg's report -- every American needs to hear what she said. The Reagan appointee who became a moderate and an American icon -- Bush v. Gore notwithstanding -- all but named names in thinly veiled attacks on former House majority leader Tom DeLay and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, and ended with a stunning warning. O'Connor told her Georgetown audience that judges can make presidents, Congress and governors " really really mad, " and that if judges don't make people angry, they aren't doing their job. But she said judicial effectiveness is " premised on the notion that we won't be subject to retaliation for our judicial acts. " While hailing the American system of rights and privileges, she noted that these don't protect the judiciary, that " people do " : Chickenhawk-In-Chief Bush Concerned About Ports Message The collapse of efforts by a Gulf Arab company to manage U.S. ports may send a worrying message to Middle East allies, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday, a day after his stinging defeat on the deal. " In order to win the war on terror, we have got to strengthen our relationships and friendships with moderate Arab countries in the Middle East, " Bush told newspaper editors. US Presses Iraqis To End Deadlock The American ambassador to Iraq pressed the country's divided leaders to end a political deadlock that has stalled formation of a grand coalition Washington sees as its best hope for a troop withdrawal. Thief-in Chief Bush Says Diplomacy Way To Tackle Iran Atom Threat Bush on Friday called Iran a " grave national security concern " , but said he sought a diplomatic way to cap its nuclear goals. A hardline Iranian cleric told a Friday prayers congregation in Tehran earlier that Bush was using the nuclear issue to further his goal of overthrowing the Islamic Republic. The U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, will tackle Iran's case early next week after the U.N. nuclear watchdog sent it a report this week saying it could not verify that Iran's atomic activities were purely peaceful. Senators Hillary Clinton And Ted Kennedy Asked To Help In Gary Revel MLK Assassination Investigation Senator Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Christopher Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Lamar Alexander and William Frist are among the list of Senators that Gary Revel has asked to help in his Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Investigation and his request for payment for his work. Iraq Won't Use Abu Ghraib After US Quits Jail Abu Ghraib prison, a symbol of terror for Iraqis under Saddam Hussein which later became notorious for the abuse of prisoners by U.S. guards, is to be turned into a warehouse, Iraq's justice minister said on Friday. Idiot-in-Chief Bush Says His Beliefs Unshaken By Poor Poll Numbers Down in public opinion polls, President George W. Bush said on Friday he realizes he has made some unpopular decisions but that it " comes with the territory " and he will stand by his beliefs. Columbus Mystery Nearly Solved 500 Years After Death Nearly 500 years after the death of Christopher Columbus, a team of genetic researchers are using DNA to solve two nagging mysteries: Where was the explorer really born? And where the devil are his bones? Ken Blackwell's Blog Caught Scrubbing Super Secret Post Dramatically scaling back the size of the federal government and abolishing the last remnants of the New Deal may be one goal of the CNP, but many of the foot soldiers of the Religious Right sign on for a different crusade: a desire to remake America in a Christian fundamentalist image. 30% Of ES & S Voting Machines Fail Recent Test In Ohio The first 177 cards tested Monday worked flawlessly, Williams said. When testing began on the remaining 348 cards, however, the failure rate was so high that the rest were thrown out. ES & S had a second batch of cards sent to Akron on Tuesday, but Williams said those cards experienced a similar failure rate. He said a third batch is expected to arrive today. Unanswered questions abound. How many other ES & S customers have these bad memory cards? How many of these other customers will go into elections without knowing that their memory cards are bad? How many of the problems with ES & S machines in Texas on Tuesday are a result of bad memory cards? Does ES & S have any Quality Control at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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