KOS points to an article about some of the stuff in Patriot Act II, and “Dissenting Bloggers Beware”: Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. Purging the intelligence community of those disloyal to the president? Purging liberal Democrats? Scared yet? You should be. Bush likes to operate in secret. Information is the Continue Reading

MSNBC – Oh and by the way: how come the “Kerry’s winning” part of the election night exit polling is presumed to have been wrong, or tampered with, but the “Moral Values” part of the same polling is graded flawless, and marks the dawn of a new American century?

US, as in “us” as a nation, or as in “U.S.” I’ve heard a lot about this book, and the premise, encapsulated in a couple of quotes below, seems to be relevant to the rest of the country. The obsession with “values” (I call it “obsession” becuase it ignores the value-laden “other” issues (of which there are thousands) that are Continue Reading

I meant to get to the point, in my previous posts about how much I appreciate the Al Franken show, that it is a kind of surrogate community for me. I do have the blogosphere, and the blogging friends I have gained in the past two years, but here is a different aspect: a voice, and all the great guests Continue Reading

My previous post began with an intent to talk about how thankful I am for the Al Franken show (on Air America Radio), but when I started to say how it helps me to deal with my depression and disappointment over the election, I launched into the litany of my fears. The point is, is that all these are very Continue Reading

Democrat, or maybe afraid-of-Bush,mistrustful-of-Bush, advocate of Peace/Democracy/Responsibility/Accountability (and nearly every other positive value of citizenry in the ideal U.S.)…..any of the above groups are likely to still be, and likely to be for some time, in our most thoughtfujl moments, somewhat depressed about the disappintment and sense of “oh no, another four years” and ” oh no, will we ever Continue Reading

This article linked by Juan Cole ( I heard him on Al Franken yesterday– here’s the link to AirAmericaPlace mp3 of this show (the Cole interview starts about 38:00), which archived the shows in mp3 format) ABC News: School Talent Show Draws Secret Service “These kids are being used to promote an extreme leftist point of view on the taxpayers’ Continue Reading

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida’s 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who Continue Reading

MSNBC – David Cobb of the Green Party told a California radio station late yesterday afternoon that he is “quite likely to be demanding a recount in Ohio,” with a final decision to be reached and announced during the day

Now there’s more than just a few scattered “rumors”, but I am not at the point of believing something will happen with any of these (even if they ARE true, or COULD be true…..which would confirm some of my worst night mares about this election coming in, but had managed to let my optimism overshadow it, which is, that if Continue Reading

On the previous post, in the same vein, Olbermann at MSNBC has his own investigation going….. MSNBC – Thus the majority of the media has yet to touch the other stories of Ohio (the amazing Bush Times Ten voting machine in Gahanna) or the sagas of Ohio South: huge margins for Bush in Florida counties in which registered Democrats outnumber Continue Reading

The Dowd Times article lays into the Cheney boast (which as usual, has its heavy “BushWorld” saying-it-enough makes it true kind of “alternate reality”:

Nothing like that message of “unity”, even as he emptily boasts of a “broad nationwide victory” Pandagon: Broad? “[T]he result is now clear — a record voter turnout and a broad, nationwide victory.” -Bush, today Here’s that broad, nationwide victory in visual form:

Maureen Dowd (via Josh) has a good article in the Times:

Bush speaks glowingly of our troops, whom he severely under-supplies and under-armors. Bush has the gall to claim that Kerry voted against armor (in some comprehensive package that contained OTHER legislation as well, a typical tactic of Bush rhetoric to gloss over the more comllex realities of legislation) and then proceeds to grant a huge 70 or 80-some billion dollar Continue Reading