BROKEN RECORD

DaG nabit! McCain! Obama! When I predict that you two are going to bring up past associations, why don't you do it?! Now, I had to go back and edit out an entire paragraph from my last post. It makes me look bad. Not one mention of William Ayers or the Keating five. Sheesh! It was very boring. There wasn't one new piece of information from either of you. Viewers could have just replayed the first debate because you two stuck to the script. Oh wait there was two new pieces of information: First, McCain said the government should buy up all the bad mortgages. Bet the Conservatives just loved that little tid bit. Since the government is essentially broke I guess that would mean printing another 2 or 3 billion highly devalued dollars. We also learned that those assholes from AIG spent some $440,000 of bailout money at a lavish corporate retreat in California. Isn't that embezzling? Shouldn't somebody be brought up on charges? Why does this barely get a mention in the media? Oh well, howling at the moon I guess. . . onto bigger and worse things.

Doom and Gloom scenarios:

1.) Sometime before the election there will be national emergency. An Oklahoma City type bombing . . .an assassination. . . . an attack on Iran . . . something. Bush will suspend the elections, curfews will be put in place, and Air America will be taken off the air. Then he'll flee the country with the 700 billion dollars he just extorted from congress leaving Cheney in charge.

2.) On NOV. 5th - The day after. America wakes up hearing that McCain has been declared the winner, even though all the exit polling clearly had Obama on top. Cries of "Election fraud!" echo through the streets, as citizens gather in large unruly crowds. The 1st Brigade and the 3rd battalion are deployed in key cities to quell the riotous crowds. They had a lot of practice doing that in Iraq, and are currently training here in the states. What's to stop Bush from ordering the military into the cities if something like this happens? The constitution? Ha! it is to laugh. The troops will be armed with rubber bullets, tasers, and tear gas. They will quickly erect fences and to make enclosures in order to arrest and or detain as many of the protesters as they can. President Bush will declare Martial Law, nationalize everything and the final stage of the coup d'etat that began in 2000 will be complete. Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! Just scared myself.

I certainly hope that the above is merely the rantings of a Doom and Gloom conspiracy minded blogger with 2 adult children and an unnatural obsession with guitars. However, it may be closer to the truth than fiction when you take into consideration . . .

The obvious :

Electronic voting machines. Time and time again these evil devices of deciet are proven to be unreliable yet more than 50% of of all votes are cast on one of these machines. Can somebody please explain to me why this is considered acceptable? As recent as this month, a pre-election check of the voting machines in Santa Fe New Mexico, (heavily Democratic district.) were found to not record a vote for president if the voter selected straight ticket.

The less obvious

Caging: (CNN) — Barack Obama's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee went to court on Tuesday to block what they said were efforts by Republicans in the battleground state of Michigan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls in November.

The epidemic of Voter purging:
States with Republican Secretary's of State have a higher than normal rates of Voter purging. CBS NEWS reported: Red Flag On Purging Voter Rolls
Little-Known, Problem-Ridden Process That Could Endanger Your Vote

"What's wrong with the process is it's happening in secret. It's happening with no accountability," Michael Waldman, the center’s executive director, told CBS News. Another study, by the group U.S. PIRG, released last week, also looked at the issue of voter purging and discovered that 19 states are ignoring a federal law banning systematic purges within 90 days of a federal election. The 19 states include battleground states of Colorado, Ohio and Nevada.

Shorting of voting machines in Democratic precincts: Part of the Ohio debacle in 2004 was directly due to the fact that there weren't enough voting machines in certain polls. Some schools had only two machines to handle 1,500 registered voters. In Columbus alone an estimated 15,000 left the polls without voting because there was a 10 hour wait. Could this have just been an over sight, a simple mistake? Doubtful when you take into consideration which precints were shorted and who's in charge of supply. Yup, you guessed it . . .the predominately black precincts and the man in charge was Republican Secretary of State and chief election official , Kenneth Blackwell. Allegations of conflict of interest and voter disenfranchisement led to the filing of at least sixteen related lawsuits naming Blackwell. He skated on all of them.

DaG Out