Bush comes out of his "bubble" and meets reality: A non-staged audience! Bush "booed" @ Washington Nationals opener:
This is a huge story! This is what America thinks of "president" Bush! This should be the #1 story on the national news! But I guarantee you will not see this on ANBCBSNNX! See if ANBCBSNNX "edits out" the BOO's tonight, or if they even show this!
● Bush booed as he throws inaugural pitch at Nationals home opener
● Bush booed loudly while throwing out first pitch in Nationals home opener.
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Voting News:
(Brad on right; click on picture to enlarge in new window)
Brad Friedman of "BradBlog":
"The declaration was created as several of us determined it would be helpful to define the cause as specifically and directly as possible. Once it was finalized, I signed it first, in large letters, as the Hancock legend goes, "so that King George can read it without his glasses."
My hope is that anyone --- any person or organization in the fight for clean, fair, honest, accurate democracy --- would both commit to this simply stated mission, and then measure his or her efforts against it."
● The Creekside Declaration..."Mission: To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy." - Creekside Declaration, 3/22/08
● The ground feels a little soft, but we’re going to stand it. Premise one: Having a fair election — all votes counted, all who are eligible and want to vote allowed to vote — is far, far more important, even in 2008, than who wins. Premise two: Fair elections are not a given. They never have been, but things are worse now than ever before because of a perfect storm, you might say, of factors that have converged in the new millennium: officialdom’s seduction by unsafe, high-tech voting systems; the seizure of power by a party of ruthless true believers who feel entitled to rule and will do anything to win; a polite, confused opposition party that won’t make a stink about raw injustice; and an arrogantly complacent media embedded in the political and economic status quo. The result: Benjamin Franklin’s worst nightmare.
● Excellent! Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org describes "ballot washing": "Archivists know this technique as a document repair method, criminals know it as "check washing." If you have the right chemicals, can you remove votes from ballots, allowing election-riggers to "re-vote" the ballots before they are counted, recounted, or audited? Yes. We have been able to remove votes marked in ink from ballots without leaving a trace. Using this technique, insiders can alter votes on ballots.
● Texas Prosecutes Little Old Ladies for Voter Fraud. Democracy and Elections: State's Attorney General has prosecuted Democrats who help seniors vote by mail while ignoring documented Republican ballot box stuffing.
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Other News:
● As Jobs Vanish, Food Stamp Use Is at Record Pace
● BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraqi capital locked down by curfew. U.S. diplomats holed up their workplaces, fearing rocket attacks. Nearly every major southern city racked by turmoil. Hundreds killed in less than a week.
● Another Republican Senator using his "Mulligan" to blame Iran for something: Sen. Graham: 'Iranians are killing Americans'
● Read my post about "past mulligans"...
● A group of 200 Tibetan exiles and monks tried to storm the Chinese Embassy visa office in Nepal's capital on Sunday but police beat them back with bamboo batons.
● Check out my good friend BlueBear's "EcoBlog", you'll like it! BlueBear's EcoBlog is now up on the Big Links on the right side of my blog.
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O'Hillarama will be in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday. Pssssttttt.....why won't McCain visit Wilkes-Barre or Scranton? WILK "conservative" callers remain silent on McCain abandoning them !!! AND...they remain silent on the Republicans not banning abortion when they controlled all branches of govt & 8 of 9 Supreme Court judges from 2000--->>>2006 !!!
● O'Hillarama will be in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday!
McCain won't visit Wilkes-Barre, he thinks Wilkes-Barre "STINKS ON ICE" !!!!!!!!!
