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Thursday, November 11, 2004 |
His argument is lengthy but worth the read. CG's Plan B to defeat the Right in 24 months:
Conceptual Guerilla's proposal to secede and conquer. The key to this plan is the reality of the Blue States subsidizing the Red States. Tax financed infrastructure, agricultural price supports. All kinds of Red State welfare and socialist redistribution of wealth that has allowed a priviledged elite to arise in the Reds that is now agitating for all this guvment reform. Let's give it to them. Let's submit to their program to expulse the Dirty Dozen (how does Minnesota become one of them?), let's volunteer to secede and take our expertise and our manufacturing base with us while leaving them with the debt that they voted for. And if we can't secede, let's start carving up the states, starting with Florida, into the subsidizing Blue parts and the deadbeat Red parts. There is historical precedent for this and the rednecks will undoubtedly support us. And all the while, whether anything comes of this or not, it will shock and awe the faith-based and force the Grover Norquist inspired elite to reveal their true hand which is Cheap-Labor Conservatism and the exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
There is much agnonizing analysis and strategery taking place among Democrats, democrats and progressives hoping to make sense out of Kerry's loss and to prepare for the future. Whether you believe the vote was hacked and the outcome changed or not, the Black Box Voting argument that the ownership and control of electronic voting machine production and programming should be investigated has become even more persuasive, as has the case for a paper trail that can be recounted in a meaningful way. In fact, one can make a strong case for a return to paper ballots marked with #2 pencils and counted by public officials monitored by those having a stake in the outcome. Our recommendation is that a thorough investigation of the anomolies of the recent election be pursued with an eye to getting the security and paper trail that we deserve in place before the next vote.
As discussed below, the science and art of linguistic framing may be useful to future endeavors. The field of memetics also deserves a serious look. But our old hero, Conceptual Guerilla, offers once again a theory AND a pragmatic antidote to the cheap-labor conservatives' poisoning of public discourse.
Based on his reality-based theory that the cheap-labor conservatives can't sell their brand of snake oil without lying to and deceiving the voters who actually like social programs like medicare, social security and universal public eductation, Conceptual Guerilla suggests the following plan of attack:
Gameplan For 2006
-Once again, it's simple.
Set up a nationwide "527" committed to opposing vulnerable Republicans.
Spend a few months -- staring now -- identifying those vulnerable Republicans, and doing "opposition research" on them.
Develop some universal populist working class themes to use nationwide -- and in each individual race that dovetails with your "opposition research." Make the epithet "cheap-labor conservative" the certerpiece of your attacks.
Raise money for television advertising.
Recruit and/or coordinate with Democratic campaigns in those races.
Develop and run "attack ads" based on those populist working class themes, that can be heard in the kitchen.
That's his Plan A. Plan B promises to be much more fun.
12:03:04 PM
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Monday, November 08, 2004 |
Nader requests N.H. vote recount
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN, Telegraph Staff
landrigank@telegraph-nh.com
Published: Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004
CONCORD - Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader requested a hand recount of ballots in New Hampshire after getting seven-tenths of 1 percent of the vote.
"We have received reports of irregularities in the vote reported on the AccuVote Diebold Machines in comparison to exit polls and trends in voting in New Hampshire,’’ Nader wrote.
"These irregularities favor President George W. Bush by 5 percent to 15 percent over what was expected. Problems in these electronic voting machines and optical scanners are being reported in machines in a variety of states.’’
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041106/NEWS02/111060040/-1/news
Which is part one of the plan proposed by www.BlackBoxVoting.org to unearth fraud in this election and to prepare for the next. Visit
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
and see if there is anything you can do to help:
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Donate. PayPal, credit card, Wish List, address are at this link. Our mailing address is Black Box Voting, PO Box 25552, Seattle WA 98165.
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Media calls: 206-335-7747
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If you are concerned about what happened Tuesday, Nov. 2, you have found a home with our organization. Help America Audit.
BREAKING -- SUNDAY Nov. 7 2004: Freedom of Information requests at http://www.blackboxvoting.org have unearthed two Ciber certification reports indicating that security and tamperability was NOT TESTED and that several state elections directors, a secretary of state, and computer consultant Dr. Britain Williams signed off on the report anyway, certifying it.
Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines. We base this on hard evidence, documents obtained in public records requests, inside information, and other data indicative of manipulation of electronic voting systems. What we do not know is the specific scope of the fraud. We are working now to compile the proof, based not on soft evidence -- red flags, exit polls -- but core documents obtained by Black Box Voting in the most massive Freedom of Information action in history.
Air America's Randi Rhodes suggests that everyone send Bev Harris 5 bucks to finance this most crucial of investigations:
Black Box Voting, PO Box 25552, Seattle WA 98165.
12:55:12 PM
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Sunday, November 07, 2004 |
While you may have heard of Prof. of Linguistics and Cognitive Science George Lakoff and his theory that the rest of us have been framed by moral politics, here is a provocative analysis of the right to meme and take back control of what passes for political discourse by Nathan F. Piazza.
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Saturday, November 06, 2004 |
Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters
November 5, 2004 04:56 PM
According to the official election results posted on the Palm Beach County election website, 542,835 ballots were cast for a presidential candidate while only 454,427 voters turned out for the election (including absentee). This leaves a discrepancy of 88,408 votes cast for the presidential candidates.
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Electronic-Voting Critics Scrutinizing U.S. Election
By charlie smith
Publish Date: 4-Nov-2004
A Seattle-based nonprofit organization has announced that it is conducting the largest freedom-of-information action in U.S. history to examine computer voting in the November 2 U.S. election. Bev Harris, a founder of www.blackboxvoting.org/, told the Straight that her group plans to file requests for the internal audit logs of all computerized voting machines used across the country.
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=6199
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Thanks to Barry Ritholtz for posting more maps to help visualize the election results from different perspectives. The Buchanan/Nixon concept of "positive/polarization" must be grappled with and overcome.
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Friday, November 05, 2004 |
At the risk of perpetuating the myth of the Democratic propensity for elite intellectual snobbishness, we pass on the following observation concerning the correlation between voting and IQ in the recent election:
States with higher average IQs tended to vote for Kerry.
5:37:52 PM
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Three days before the election, SSS seeks Education Dep. data to check up on students' compliance with registration law:
Selective Service to match records with Education for compliance
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