Great article Sally. As you well know results
from early voting in 3 states indicate the election is already in the process of being stolen for the fourth time. Rove was very indignant the other day on TV when discussing the
polls. He exclaimed that National Polls mean nothing, he has all of the local polls and they are what counts, and they show (according to him)
that there will be no change. Other than a few
investigations, do the Democrats have a program?
Methinks not! They just want get back to the money
trough, and Corporations are already complying
according to yesterday's news. Same ole, same ole!

Thank you for the article and for standing forward to say that you feel that Kerry has started dissolving the fog.
I was so disgusted with Kerry after 2004 AND here in California I voted mostly for Green candidates still Kerry stood up for himself and stood up for most of us who hate what has been done in and to this country.
Maybe because I have the current Scorpio gatherining aspecting almost everything in my chart I feel renewed and focused and definately ready for a fight
The time to judge the Dems is when they have some bargaining power again. Conyers has been investigating and we can see what has come of his activities.

And. . .happy birthday to you, Sally! A great big giant HAPPY birthday, and thank you for inspiring us week after week. This article is no exception, including the ways you weave the elements of Poe's poem into the political climate.

I do wish Kerry would have just laughed and then responded with an open-ended question, something like: "Don't you wonder what this administration is SO upset about?" Get people to thinking.

And yes, please vote. Write in your name if you don't like the candidates. That's what i intend to do. Maybe we can start a national trend. . .truly elect "we the people!"

I do know the "stealing of the election" has begun wv, and the early voting problems are confirming the fears I've had about this election for several months, in fact from the exact time I ran the Election Chart a year ago. You should see the Full Moon chart, so much 12th house activity. The Mars/Uranus trine is what makes me think their little game will be upended somehow. I would think they would be a bit more creative this time, particularly since only 1 out of 4 still believe in their honesty around elections, or anything else for that matter.

Keep in mind the illusionary, deceitful aspects on Election Day impacts the GOP as well, and the tables could well be turned on them. They could be struggling with "what happened" at the end of the day.

Sticking with tradition
The Republicans' promise to protect 'traditional' values promotes an image of America that doesn't really exist.

Melissa McEwan

There's no shortage of desperate and ridiculous Republican campaign ads this season, as we head towards a midterm that looks sure to deliver the GOP a defeat in the House of Representatives. A misdialled phone number is suggested to be a sex scandal; Democrats are being accused of everything from being traitors to wanting to abort black babies; "jungle drums" are used as the backdrop in a radio ad criticising a black candidate. And yet it is not the overtly absurd ads that are the most odious. It's the ads that rely instead on the ultimate GOP dog whistle: "tradition".

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/melissa_mcewan/2006/11/the_traditional_dog_whistle.html

Full Moon in Taurus
Sunday, November 5, 2006
4:58am PST
12º 58'

Taurus is a show-me sign; a grounded, earthy, full-body experience. The Moon in Taurus is a big reminder that it is our actions here on earth which matter most for bringing an end to the suffering and pain humans cause each other, our animal and plant brothers and sisters, and our collective Mother, the Earth. How we walk through life, how we treat other life forms makes the difference between ignorance and enlightenment.

What the Moon in Taurus wants most to convey is the message that all the wisdom of the universe is already present in your body; particularly in the human brain. There is nowhere to go, nothing higher than the multileveled intricacy of the brain we have each been gifted. Enlightenment is ever-present; lying dormant, waiting for each of us to awaken, through meditation, the totality of the pre-frontal lobe's synaptic connections. Sun/Venus/Mars trining Uranus, and the deeply compassionate, loving and spiritual Moon square to Neptune and sextile to Uranus, make this an especially powerful Full Moon to gather with others and commit to realizing your birthright: an enlightenment that is embodied, selfless, and deeply committed to ending the physical suffering of all other sentient beings

http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisfullmoon.htm

Keith Olbermann will be having another 'editorial' tonight- Nov. 1.

Sally,

You are such a wonderful writer. It's an intense pleasure on so many levels to read your work.

Bush's chart shows that the Moon conjunct Uranus is presently transiting his 8th house (Scorpio's natural house) and all the planets in Scorpio (five of them) are in his 4th house of foundation, of family, of his deepest inner self.

Pluto is conjunct his South Node. Karma time I hope?

Let us hope Americans seize their chance to hobble George Bush

Next Tuesday's elections in the US cannot, alas, remove the president. But they can change the political terms of trade

Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday November 1, 2006
The Guardian

First, let's lay down the mother of all caveats. The conventional wisdom says Democrats are about to win control of the House of Representatives and could well take the Senate too. But, and here's the mega-caveat, the conventional wisdom in Washington is often very, very wrong. Cast your mind back to election night 2004, when the US media anointed President John Kerry. The warning this time is that Republicans might be fewer in number, but more motivated and therefore likelier to turn out. Note, too, the reports that White House strategist Karl Rove, the election wizard famed as George Bush's brain, is in cocky mood. In the contests that matter, Rove reckons Republicans have the money and the machine to win.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1936324,00.html

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=David+Smith+Halliburton&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

David Smith is a Halliburton whistleblower with an amazing story to tell. While working at KBR of Halliburton he received a batch of emails meant for another David Smith - one who was vp of taxes for Halliburton. This email discussion concerned how to hide bribes to foreign officials from the IRS. A party in the discussion was the Bush White House.

There's more...much more. I highly recommend reading thru David's journal on Democratic Underground. He goes by the name CorpGovActivist and one of his advisors is IdesofOctober.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/CorpGovActivist

It's a fantastic detective story - great for all this Scorpionic energy.

And thanks, Capt'n Sally. I'm a big fan and long time lurker.

Good one Sally. The fact that the dems are affected late in the 2nd week gives me hope because we'll be past the 7th then. I do really, really have my fingers crossed that they, the pugs, end up smacking themselves in the head and saying what happened.

I agree with you on Kerry and thought his words strong and wonderful. But I also think this should make him think twice about running again. He seems to have speaking problems, which I think may have something to do with performance anxiety. That could be an ongoing problem for him. What do you think?

With his stellum in Gemini I think you are right M he would have speaking problems, such as his mind moves so fast he leaves things out and the door open to assumptions. The other thing I noticed is not one Democrat has stood up for him, while all the Republicans are using their voice to back the White House. That tells me a lot about the Democrats, if they won't stand up for one of their own, how will they stand up for us.

Looks like we have two parties to choose from 1) thugs, thieves and bullies, and 2) lily livered cowards. nice choice

Yoo-Hoo, Cap'n Sally! A happy, happy birthday to you. May all the wonderful things you do for us return to you in abundant increase.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAP'N SALLY AND MANY MANY MORE!!! LONG MAY YOU REIGN!!!You are easily my fave person/heroine in all of Cyberspace.

Now, back to the elections----right on cue, here come the "tricksters"......

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3697

It gives me the willies because I looked and my early voting machine here in TN was an iVoltronic, made by ES&S, but the summary screen showed all of my choices correctly, as I recall, and I don't remember anyone else mentioning any problems...but TN does tend to vote red anyway....(sigh)

Happy birthday Sally!
Haven't read anything yet, as the library is closing at 2 so the librarian can go to PT.
I'm printing out as miuch as I can to gain reading material for this evening!!!
Love you all AW'rs
QOP

True or not, this guy cracks me up---note the comment about the desk:

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2556.htm

Sally's Birthday is on Nov.18, but we can wish
her Happy Birthday all month.

Kerry was awesome. That.is.all. He made my heart happy for the first time.

It's Rove's midterm to lose
His tactical successes have laid the groundwork for the GOP's strategic failure and could cost his party control of Congress.

By Sidney Blumenthal

Nov. 01, 2006 | Karl Rove remains supremely confident, assuring fretful party leaders that Congress will continue to be under their control despite the stream of new polls revealing previously impregnable Republican incumbents suddenly vulnerable. "I believe Karl Rove," President Bush's chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, proclaimed in a faith-based confessional. While hardly any Republican candidates are running on the Bush record, many are airing TV commercials separating themselves from Bush, and few will even appear on a public platform with him, Republicans cling to Rove's Svengali-like reputation like a life raft. Only Rove stands between the president and the deep blue sea.

Now, however, it is apparent that Rove's short-term ploys have undermined long-term Republican possibilities. His tactical successes have laid the groundwork for strategic failure. His polarizing and paranoid politics have been an intrinsic aspect of Bush's consistently radical presidency, which may be checked and balanced for the first time with the election of the 110th Congress. Rove's legacy may be to leave Republicans with a regional Southern party whose constrictive conservatism fosters a solid Democratic North.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/11/01/rove_elections/print.html

Confessions of an Ohio poll worker
I went through the training -- twice -- and I'm still confused. I hope I can figure it all out by Election Day because I'm a precinct judge.

By Lucy Paul

Nov. 01, 2006 | I had been thinking about working at a polling place on Election Day ever since 2004, when Ohio was the crucial presidential battleground state -- and the red-hot center of controversy, with voters either turned away from the polls, or exercising their rights on machines that recorded their votes incorrectly, or not being able to get to the few machines at all.

Would this year be 2004 all over again, I wondered?

Then I saw a notice in our church bulletin: "Poll Workers Wanted." It said you could help your community and make money, too. It listed the pay: $95 plus training fees as a regular judge, $105 plus training fees as a presiding judge, or $115 plus training fees as a red bag judge. Figuring I could take a paid vacation day from my job while being paid to work a polling place -- and seeing the bill from my husband's student loans -- I decided I could use an extra hundred bucks, in addition to witnessing our democracy at work. Or not.

I speak with Rebecca at the county Board of Elections and tell her I want to be a presiding judge. This looks like the way to go -- it pays more than a regular judge, and doesn't sound as ominous as a "red bag judge." Rebecca sounds thrilled to have someone who wants to work for her.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/01/poll/print.html

You may have to watch a small advert to connect
with this, but it is worth it...

If you want to laugh and cry at the same time read the latest from the Mogambo Guru. http://www.321gold.com/editorials/daughty/daughty110106.html...........After you read the guru and change yer pants, take a look at these people who just yelled FIRE in a crowded theatre. snip......."ABU DHABI — The UAE Central Bank may cut its US dollar dominated reserves by up to 90 per cent and is looking at other currencies such as the yen, euro and sterling, Sultan Nasser Al Suwaidi, Governor, Central Bank of the UAE, said yesterday. However, he did not elaborate on the topic further." http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/business/2006/October/business_October902.xml§ion=business ........Now my friends, you can count on me, with Saturn in Scoorpio conj a Scorpio ASC to have dug down to the bottom of at least some take caution for myself secrets. Many financial writers write about gold because it has financial sizzle, all the while they are investing in silver bullion, following the lead of Buffet and old money in Europe. If that interests you. Have a look here http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1161705933.php I'd be interested to know which planet symbolizes silver. The Moon?.........Imagine the music from the PBS Mystery series: The public is about to find-out whodunnit. Pluto clapping the dust of a days work well done from his hands can go home to a fine dinner and a relaxing smoke of his pipe knowing his undoings have gone well...........As to no choices between the repubs (red) and the demos (blue), philosophically at opposites, when bellies are more empty than the fluff the news broadcasts, we will need the rhetorical White party to unite the opposites and rebuild.....Happy BD Sally. thank you sooo much for a place to hang out.

Rove is at best, blind, and at worst, a total fool, a crass political opportunist believing that he has all of the answers, when in fact he is totally unaware of the full implications of the mess that he has manipulated himself and the United States into.

The very path that he has started his party and this country down is a path of ruin. Whatever victories he has celebrated in the past, and may yet celebrate, will seem illusory when the US finally hits rock bottom with a thud that even the sleeping masses can no longer ignore.

The public should be more aware themselves, but in seeking the truth, they will come to blame this one man for so much that has gone wrong with the nation's politics.

Glad to see Kerry speaking out. He shouldn't apologize, and has absolutely no reason to do so. If he had consistently campaigned the same way in 2004, he'd be president right now, Diebold be damned.

This is an early forecast, but I think where we are heading is a total repudiation of all things corporate. It's been obvious to most if not all of us here how much corporations actually dominate in our society, including politics, government and the media. The very existence of a George W. Bush presidency is a key symptom of just how sick our nation has become. But there have been many other symptoms large and small over the years that have suggested that the US was on a path to sickness and decay.

Maybe it takes one more stolen election, amidst growing public unrest about the direction and future of the United States, to finally drive the point home about how screwed up everything is. If the public really is trending to the Progressive Left, and another election keeps the reigns in the hands of a stubborn, regressive, reactionary Republican Right-Wing fighting to maintain a wretched status quo, maybe, just maybe, a collective light bulb will go on over the heads of a majority in this country.

Then, things become really interesting.

Willie Nelson's public statement regarding being caught with a bag of Marijuana:

"It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. I'd be dead by now."

Tim, http://www.321gold.com/editorials/daughty/daughty110106.html is not available. What did it say?!?!

Tim, pay no attention. For some reason it came up on the link i posted, but not on the one you posted!!! Go figure.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061113/whitewater_to_blackwater

Blackwater USA has a new attorney to defend it against a wrongful death lawsuit by families of four contractors killed in Iraq: Kenneth Starr.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=134555

Outsourcing Al Gore

Do you get the feeling that every project the United States might once have undertaken is now either outsourced or simply handed over to others elsewhere on the planet? GM and Ford, for instance, took the SUV money and ran, handing over the market in fuel-efficient cars, and part of our economic future, to Japanese and other foreign automakers. Now, it turns out that the federal government has done both of those companies one better. In a front-page piece in Monday's New York Times, "Budgets Falling in Race to Fight Global Warming," Andrew C. Revkin points out that, as the global energy crisis revved up, American dependence on foreign oil imports grew, and military research of all sorts rose by 260 percent "annual federal spending for all energy research and development… is less than half what it was a quarter-century ago. It has sunk to $3 billion a year in the current budget from an inflation-adjusted peak of $7.7 billion in 1979."

Practically speaking, what that means is: From solar power to wind power, the US is ceding a lucrative energy future to other countries. Whatever breakthroughs might be achieved in alternative fuel development are ever less likely to happen here. Imagine what our world might have been like, if -- instead of laughing him out of American living rooms --- we had listened to Jimmy Carter in that "peak" investment year of 1979 when he gave his famous "crisis of confidence" speech in a sweater. "To give us energy security," he announced that night, "I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel." Talk about what-if history…

More....

Howard Dean

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=061101&cat=politics&st=politicsd8l4hs080&src=ap

Sally, thank you for another wonderful article. Here we go again with much hope and much dread. If we lose this one too, I don't know how in the hell I'm going pick myself up again. My only hope is that this corrupted group would not be spending this much money if they had it already in the bag. I know, I know, it's not much but it's the best I've got right now. Besides, isn't Rove's best days behind him???

abilene, even if they do win they lose. So many people now believe (3 out of every 4) elections are being stolen, and they are now fearful of this government and I think there will be an outcry. Plus there is a group of professionals focusing on the election problems. This will be an interesting two years, no matter what happens. Also the difficult aspects on election day can affect the GOP as easily as the Democrats

Olberman shows them how it's done.

http://snipurl.com/110s5

............

US Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques

http://snipurl.com/110w9

The true stories of how American troops, killed in Iraq, actually died keep spilling out this week ... Now we learn that one of the first female soldiers killed in Iraq died by her own hand after objecting to interrogation techniques used on prisoners.

I'm back! Been up in Queensland having fun :)

OMG, PatC, Olbermann goes off! I want everyone who speaks English to watch it! What a hero this guy is and how astute and clear and unemotional in his clever way (whilst being very emotional - brilliant!).

MOREKEITHOLBERMANNSMOREKEITHOLBERMANNSMOREKEITHOLBERMANNS!!

Ah, that feels better!!

In saying 'everyone who speaks English' (above), of course, I'm referring to all those on the planet who could understand his words and sentiment! What a bummer he doesn't have a much bigger audience :(

Our boy Keith just keeps getting better and hitting harder with each commentary.

Here's another take on predictions for November. Perhaps a new dawn for change on many levels.

https://www.galacticcenter.org/

Keith Olbermann rules! I saw him lsst night for the first time and tonight for the 2nd. He made Kerry's speech look tame by comparison. And all of this on a conservative cable channel, MSABC?

After one of Olbermann's "Special Comments" you really want to say "good night and good luck to you Keith." Powerful in their truth, I don't think I've seen one that couldn't win the Edward R. Murrow award or a Pulitzer, certainly worth of such awards. Olbermann (January 27, 1959) has a very difficult aspect coming up soon with Saturn opposing his natal Venus and squaring his natal Mars, if the long knives aren't out for him now, they soon will be and he will most certainly answer those "long knives" with extreme stubborness, which is what he has done in the past at other stations when they encroached too far or tried to go too far in reigning him in. We are most fortunate at this time in our country's history to have Mr. Olbermann and I don't know who out there, right now, could possibly take his place and his contribution.

I cannot imagine the death threats he might have received, but I do imagine there are quite a few. The far right sends death threats if they don't like your bumper sticker. Might I suggest that at the very least we watch the commercials run during his program and buy from those people. Fortunately Olbermann is a huge money maker for MSNBC as his ratings continue to soar on Countdown and money talks to the media, so I expect they protect him pretty well, at least I hope so.

In looking at the USA chart again I notice Pluto in 2 is opposite Mercury in 8, both retrograde. So I guess we would have a tendency to push our values onto the rest of the world, rather rudely, and be fairly unconscious or naive in this behavior. In reading "The Inner Planets" by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas. They point out Carl Jung's assertion "The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual...does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halfs." I see the conflict/opposition as one where we unconsciously feel the need to tear down our unsatisfactory selves and rebuild. We then project what we feel as unsatisfactory in us onto the world at large, ruthlessly.....In the same book "...Mercury equips us with the capacity to take any "higher" insights or spiritual visions we have and apply them in everyday life. Or to put it another way, Mercury (which rules the nervous system) mediates Jupiters superconscious vision, wisdom, and higher understanding and makes it accessable to our conscious minds". pg 19......They also point out an insight from Alan Oken's book "Soul Centered Astrology" "He theorizes that Venus takes the "conflicts of duality".....and transforms them into a higher octave of expression....through the creative expression of the mind."...."He sees Venus as "an agent of syntheses because it is her function to blend and harmonize opposites into more creatively evolved wholes." pg 125 Now in the USA chart Venus is wedded/conj Jupiter in the 7th house of relationships. And although they don't aspect Mercury and are few degrees into cancer, the cusp on 7 is Geminii ruled by Mercury. Also the esoteric or soul ruler of Gemini is Venus. I see all this as supporting Sally's report on the USA draconian interpretation of the US finally taking her role in destiny, or fullfilling our 1st best destiny. Venus helps us understand our values and eventually decide what our values will be as distinct from our parents. It helps us become whole. Our own person! In this case I see the USA parents as Europe still parenting and controlling us through, in large part, ownership of the Federal Reserve Central Bank. Some growing pains will have to come first, but grow-up we will.....Hafta say, I'm no pro at astrology. I just thought this info seemed relevant and a cause for hope....Peace, Timmy J

Happy Birthday, Sally. I didn't pick up on that until I had time to read the later posts.
Olbermann was stunning. I saw something shining through in his countenence-the willing acceptance of responsibility. I know what he offers does not come free; what a gift to us. Good to hear how popular he is.

There was as story a few weeks back about Olbermann receiving a letter with white powder in it. The story was broken by some Right Wing Rag that tried to make fun of him and told the story as if he had been a panic striken wimp who ran screaming to the hospital to get checked out.

He responded and set them straight. Yes, he did receive a white powder in the mail at which time he contacted the FBI, just in case. The FBI claimed he was quite calm and actually had to be convinced to get himself checked out. The hospital personnel who saw him also said he was calm. The FBI asked him not to talk about it so they could investigate.

In essence he told the Rag that they had obstructed the investigation by insisting on telling the story just to ridicule him, and basically turned the tables on them, accusing them of allowing a criminal to find out he/she was being sought by the FBI.

Sally, I remember you predicted this, but after a quick scan couldn't find it. Anyways, here it is, right on schedule:
"The New Haven Register has an explosive new story with multiple firsthand sources confirming Senator Joe Lieberman's behavior in the burgeoning "petty cash" scandal is legally "at odds with some campaign finance requirements.""

TPM Poll Tracker - every damn poll under the sun! http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/polltracker

Did anyone catch Paula Zahn l;ast night? They've been having Blitzer & Cafferty with her, doing the Broken Government Show. but she4 was on her own last night with Christopher Hitchens, & Andrew Sullivan.
The actually did an INTERVENTION ON BUSH!! hITCHENS WOULDN'T LET pAULA FINISH ANY OF THE STOCK COMMENTATER PABLEM,
Oh it did my heart good!
I am taking my iBook to the tech tomorrow, because now even my outlook express mail is crashed!
QOP

I saw Paula Zahn last night, too. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Hitchens agreed with Sullivan. I thought he was brought on as his counter-point. Hitchens is usually a big supporter of Bush's war. Now, even HE has had enough.

Posted by Judith on Starlight News:

Chertoff has received a very coveted and prestigious award which, in my opinion sullies it and ruins the very essence of what it means. It’s the Henry Peterson award given to Department of Justice criminal division careerists who did their jobs well for a long time. Everything they touch ends up with their excrement on it. Everything, ruining it for anyone who follows them and really does deserve the awards. The letter to Chertoff below is from Henry Peterson’s grandson who works pro-bono for Katrina victims.

************

Dear Mr. Chertoff,

My grandfather was Henry Petersen, the man whose award you are receiving tomorrow. Sadly, I am not able to attend the ceremony tomorrow in the Great Hall. You see, I am an attorney working in New Orleans…I moved to New Orleans from D.C. a couple months after Hurricane Katrina to provide volunteer legal assistance. I staff a free legal clinic in the 9th Ward as part of the Common Ground Legal Collective. Furthermore, I founded and run bankruptcy and debtor relief clinics in several locations in and around New Orleans.

As I have said, it is sad that I will not be able to attend; sad on many different levels. It is sad that you are receiving the award. You, Mr. Chertoff, do not deserve anything bearing the name of Henry Petersen, let alone an award. My grandfather was the source of inspiration in my decision to attend law school and devote my life to law in the spirit of the public interest. You are the antithesis of everything he stood for in life and in memory. You must realize that I struggle with the effects of your leadership of FEMA on a daily basis (and if you still cannot hear the sarcasm in my voice, just insert “inept” before “leadership). You have done nothing to deserve this award. In fact, you deserve no place as part of the Department of Justice. Justice played no role in your authorship of the PATRIOT Act, your unforgivable response to Hurricane Katrina or your notion of what constitutes torture. Perhaps in the warped Orwellian minds of this administration or in the dark halls of the Department of Homeland Security, the concept of justice is flipped so it revolves around violations of the U.S. Constitution and intrinsic human rights?

It is sad that the Henry Petersen Award is being used so blatantly as a political reward. It is sad that a person’s memory can be so twisted that it fits into your image. I liken it to forcing the square block into the space made for the triangle. In fact, I will be surprised if your hands will be able to clutch the award tomorrow; your hands should be repelled by the aura of justice emanating from the text of my grandfather’s name inscribed on the plaque.

Yes, it is sad. It is sad that I will not physically be at the ceremony in the Great Hall when you get the award (this one is only sad for me). It is sad for the attendees of the award ceremony that they have to sit through your stupid little speech. It is sad for the person who photographs your lifeless body, complete with contrived smile, receiving the award. It is sad for the people of New Orleans and of all the Gulf Coast. It is sad for every citizen of this nation. Yes it is sad, ad nauseam.

In closing (because I have taken enough time out of my day to pay you any heed), I want you to remember every single time your eyes peer at the Henry Petersen Award in whatever job you happen to be mucking up, that you do not deserve it.

Sincerely,
Miles W. Swanson, Esq.

This guy Haggard is such a slime ~ He has spewed such hatred towards gay people ~ No big surprise that he is a right wing "christian leader racking in millions" and a self detesting closeted homosexual. I still stand by my belief that Bush is a closeted self-loathing homosexual. These people are so sick, not because they are gay, but because they are Sociopaths

TED HAGGARD STEPPING DOWN AMID GAY AFFAIR INQUIRY
By Eric Gorski
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:11/02/2006 03:51:34 PM MST

Ted Haggard, President of the National Association of Evangelicals and founder and leader of the Colorado Springs-based New Life Church, stepped down Thursday following allegations that he has had a three-year homosexual affair with a male prostitute.

continue~
http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_4588998

Splendid letter by Miles W. Swanson, Esq... he does our level of pain justice.

At least that miserable Haggard character stopped screwing his wife in the butt while she was out via sleeping pills... oh right, that was its first wife. A closeted gay homophobe really needs to march out of the closet... they are so horribly dangerous otherwise... always have been.

Haggard is the miserable character that was screwing his wife in the butt while she was out on sleeping pills... oh right, that was the first wife. At least he seems to be coming out of the closet... nothing more destructive than a gay homophobe... particularly a religiose one.

Ooops!

That was Dr. David Hager, JoannaO. I think Eschaton first reported this May 12, 2005

This is a good summary of the Hager matter. He worked for Smirky&Co, of course:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/26/1427236

Oh, wow! This could certainly increase the number of midnights dreary:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061120/brechersmith

Thanks for that, shylurker... er, I think. Now there're TWO nasty religio-twits in my haid files with "H" names when one was more than enuf. ;O)

British believe Bush more dangerous than Kim Jong-il

· US allies think Washington threat to world peace
· Only Bin Laden feared more in United Kingdom

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1938434,00.html

Steve Bell gets better with every anti-Bush cartoon...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive/0,,1284265,00.html

Yet another Bell classic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,,1937296,00.html

I don't see why Kerry had to apologize. He said nothing to belittle the troops in Iraq, but as usual, his words were misconstrued. What he said was squarely aimed at Bush, when he said that those who go to school, and don't learn anything (refering to Bush's stint in college), end up in Iraq, and get bogged down there. But of course, either the media, or the repugs didn't understand the joke, and ran with a whole different interpretation of it, (thinking it referred to the troops). And of course, George's penchant for twisting words to suit his own ends, just promulgated the farce, in order to deflect it away from him, and everybody jumped on the bandwagon. It was a total over-reaction by everyone, without anyone stopping to analyze just what Kerry had said! Much ado about nothing. But what puzzles me most, is why Kerry was unable, or chose not to explain himself. It was as though he himself did not understand his own joke.

Hate to be a wet blanket, but I FEEL that this election will be a repeat of the 2004 Presidential election when high hopes for a Democratic sweep were dashed. Just look at Bush campaigning; twisting the truth, but delivering his words so forcefully, and with so much bravado, that the gullible audience probably thinks that he is speaking the truth. He along with his Republican cohorts have done such a good job of being convincing liars! And they've had plenty of practice at it.

[An explosive New Haven Register story with multiple firsthand sources confirming Senator Joe Lieberman's behavior in the burgeoning "petty cash" scandal is legally "at odds with some campaign finance requirements." Lieberman has yet to answer where almost one tenth of all his campaign spending has gone, with the Senator continuing to refuse to release details of more than $387,000 in "petty cash" disbursements - an "unprecedented" sum according to nonpartisan government watchdog groups.] -Sirota

New Haven Register 11/02/2006

Lamont files an FEC complaint over Lieberman’s expenditure of petty cash review of the use of consultant services by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman’s campaign, which in turn dispensed large amounts of petty cash, raises questions about the practice.

Lieberman’s Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the $387,000 in petty cash the senator spent in the waning days before the August Democratic primary.

Political committees may make expenditures of not more than $100 to any person or for a transaction out of the petty cash fund and are required to keep a written journal documenting the payments.

The campaign has said it is under no legal obligation to release the journal and has no plans to do so. Lieberman also said their attorney has assured him that they have done nothing illegal. ..

more

http://tinyurl.com/ykkuzn -NHR

I'm not so sure about Bush, but I always thought Rove was rather repressed. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time that the architect of a mass movement propagandized around hatred of a particular group (in this case, homosexuals) ultimately turned out to be a self-loathing member of that very same group.

It's amazing how much damage one person can cause by projecting his insecurities out into the world.

Yes, Sally, that was/is a good one.
And Happy, happy birthday! Somewhere in November, I think.

Rove's antics old. Bush's antics old. Cheney about to dissolve, he's so old and encrusted in whatever oozes from his pores. So old and so transparent that even the MSM is able to see through this blather.

To those of us who pray in our own weird way, I implore you pray. We've written the letters, we've donated money we didn't have, we've protested to our congress, we've bullied our bloggers and mentored our students....now it's time to pray.

Latest wonderful flap is that Smirk&Co have had posted on an official website secrets about developing nooooocleeur weapons. Guess what they'd do to me or you or ol' Obie over yonder if we'd done that.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010759.php

As an astrologer you look at things in the abstract and then when they happen you are as surprised as everyone else. I noted in (I don't know) my last article or the one before that, the aspects between Saturn/Jupiter/Neptune would be ruthless in bringing out the truth and everyone would have a hard time getting away with anything, and here we are, hypocrisy, lies, blunders seeping out everywhere.

I am somewhat ashamed of my pleasure at seeing the Rev. Haggard exposed. Sorry for his kids, but not for him. The Colorado Springs New Life Church and Focus on the Family has driven this state nearly into the ground. They have seeded a culture of hate all over Colorado and Wyoming for sure, and as much of the rest of the country as possible. I saw one letter to the news blog in Denver that said "I know this man, my niece is married to Ted's son, I go to this church and I have been around gays and this man is absolutely not gay." Well, tonight they have done a voice match from the recorded messages and found it to fit Mr. Haggard's, and he has admitted that some of the alligations are true. I doubt that he will admit to the drug accusation and I don't know if that can be proven. Now we are waiting for James Dobson to fall and feel pretty certain that day will come. They have been without mercy in hounding the gay community in this state and now the church is begging for compassion and understanding of Mr. Haggard. This might jar the evangelicals to look at the beam in their own eye before they cast about to find the beam in others.

To show you have disliked they have become, the media community in this town jumped on the news before they had any proof whatsoever. Just as soon as this guy went on the radio this morning, the papers and TV picked it up immediately and started broadcasting the accusations. I think this will do in Fawcett (the GOP running for US Rep in that district)he is heavily tied to this church and their agenda. If they don't know what hypocrites they are tonight, and how they've been led by hypocrites and believed them, they never will.

Sally - I really like Kerry. For the 2004 election, I've read everything I could about him and he seems to always do the right thing but is always attacked from the left and right with little support from others. Is there something in his chart that accounts for this? Is he working off some major karma?

Sally --

I tend to believe the story about Ted Haggard's gay affairs, but if you -- or anybody -- could check his transit chart, it might help to confirm if they were true.

Ooops, disregard my post. I didn't see Sally's earlier one...

kitticup, I agree with you on Kerry in some ways. I think the main thing that brings him down among many liberals/progressives, however, is the fact that he threw in the towel so quickly on Election Night, 2004. Had he showed himself to be the fighter that he claimed so often that he would be during the campaign, demanding a recount and refusing to back down, he'd be both a major hero and a martyr for the reviving U.S. Left today.

Simply put, Kerry lost a lot of people when he quickly conceded to Bush, a totally out of control chief executive who desperately needed to see his occupation of the White House brought to a decisive end. Sadly, Bush has been permitted to continue his reckless, destructive reign, and so many more people have paid for his wanton behavior in so many horrific ways. I can't blame anyone for holding this against Kerry. We needed then -- and still need -- someone who will stand up, get into Bush's face and tell him NO! You can't get away with what you have been doing! You can't ruin our nation, and you can't ruin our world!

Hard as it may be to believe at times... a major energy shift is in the making.

We still have just over a year to go of Pluto in Sag. In the late degrees now, it's likely that we will see the truly rotten cores of the most corrupt beliefs exposed throughout the rest of this year and in 2007. The implications of Haggard's case are both staggering and far reaching, and no doubt will shake many of his followers to the very foundation of their faith.

There are indeed growing signs that Religion, and particularly the extremist/fundamentalist variety, is losing steam and the political relevance it claimed more than a decade ago as hypocrisy and scandals claim so many of its' top leaders and advocates. We may yet see a shift to and emergence of a genuine spirituality, as millions empty out of the big churches in search of deeper meaning and genuine truth in their lives.

* Nov 2, 2006 -- With less than a week before the election & amid VA Sen Geo Allen's commitment to an amendment to the VA Bill of Rights banning state recognition of civil unions or domestic partnerships for hetero- & homosexual couples, comes add'l chatter about the large number of open & closeted male homosexuals working in top positions in Allen's Senate office. Allen is described by Capitol Hill insiders as having a relationship with one of his gay Senate staffers that is "closer" than his relationship with his wife Susan.

Allen's closeted homosexuality has long been the subject of interest ever since his time as Gov of VA. Allen, according to informed sources in Richmond, was a frequent visitor to private clubs in the state capital that catered to gay clients. The rumors about Allen dogged him from Richmond to Wash, esp after it became well known that Allen's DC hiring practices favored young gay men. Allen was also one of 3 US Senators who received contributions from Rep Mark Foley, who resigned after soliciting sex from underage male pages. The other two are Rick Santorum & Jim Talent.

The closeted homosexuality of Allen as an issue of hypocrisy of top GOP leaders is sure to affect turnout & support by xian fundamentalists in downstate VA, thus boosting the chances of Dem candidate Jim Webb. Similar allegations of hypocrisy also surround FL gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist, PA Rep Phil English, CA Rep David Dreier, NC Rep Patrick McHenry, LA Rep Jim McCrery, CA Rep Dana Rohrabacher, ID Sen Larry Craig, & UT Sen Orrin Hatch. http://waynemadsenreport.com//

Gore Vidal Calls for New 9/11 Investigation 'Before We Find Our Leaders Dragged off to The Hague in Chains'

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/021106_vidal.html

During his visit to the Texas Book Festival, author, historian and political commentator spoke with Alex Jones about the current state of the nation under the Bush Administration and what to expect in the near future.

Vidal discusses the importance of due process of law, "the very basis of this country." He contends that the eradication of the Bill of Rights under the 2006 Military Commissions Act has led to a 'Bill of Wrongs.'

"These are powers that have never been even thought of before by earlier Attorney Generals and Presidents and it's very scary that it all passes by so simply. Everybody yawns, 'Well, we've got to move on, you know.' Well, we've moved on into hell-- that is what has happened to the Republic of the United States," said Vidal.

He lines that problem up with a number of factors-- an under-read and largely ignorant populace as well as the media, which has been "bought and paid for 1000 times over."

He particularly chastises the New York Times for not picking up a story broken by the India Times, as well as covered by the Wall Street Journal: that fighter jets were, in fact, not scrambled on the morning of 9/11 to warn, redirect or shoot down the highjacked airliners.

"According to law, they all should have been up there. And not one went up," Vidal, who's father helped develop the Air Force procedures, charged.

"Well, that could have only happen if somebody told them to stand down- not to respond to what was, after all, their sworn duty. "

He went on to comment on his desire for a new investigation into the September 11 attacks.

"I think one advantage of having a Democratic House of Representatives after the coming election will be that we can have a new commission investigate 9/11 and the events leading up to our attacks on two innocent countries, Iraq and Afghanistan. It's about time that we begun to clean up our own house before we find that an international tribunal has summoned our leaders to The Hague in chains to put them on trial."

more...

Right wing moral cripples

http://www.ccn.tv/images/images1/MarriageEmail.gif

A must read Bilmon

http://billmon.org/archives/002922.html

From www.opednews.com

HBO's Hacking Democracy Was Fabulous; Execute Vote Corrupters
Kudos and thanks to Bev Harris-- a modern day Paul Revere-- spreading the alarm since at least 2002, when I first started reading and writing about her work. HBO deserves a lot of credit for doing this superb show. If the news networks don't pick this up, shame on them. If you don't watch it, you're really missing something special. It will Make you angry. It will make your cry.

The documentary shows clearly, how easily votes could be hacked. It shows how, in questioned counties, how ugly, despicable people-- lying scum-- broke the law, threw away records, disobeyed re-count requirements. Some day these people will see their day in court or justice will find them some way. Yes they make me VERY angry. These bastards broke the law and helped steal the election. Watch this. Yes you already know... but seeing it, seeing the work Bev Harris and her crew have! done, seeing the lying vote clerks--- it's different. You don! 't want to miss this. And you'll get to meet another voting integrity hero-- Ion Sanchez.

I'm hoping HBO will make it available on demand.

Unfortunately, I am now even more worried than I was, that elections will be stolen all across the country. I am more confirmed in my belief that hacking or corrupting the vote should be consider murder of democracy-- that it deserves the death penalty. No joke. Too many people die when elections are fixed-- soldiers, people without health care, victims of toxic ecology, workers and consumers in preventable accidents, catastrophy victims who die due to incompetence, like the Katrina response.

Like many are saying. The one sure way your vote won't be counted is to not vote. I'm sure, if you're reading this, you'll not only be out there voting, but canvassing to get out the vote.

November 3, 2006
U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer

By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ei=5094&en=8326da2ccc77699e&hp=&ex=1162616400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

Poll Shows Crist Leading Fla. Gov's Race

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:40 a.m. ET

THE RACE: Governor, Florida

THE NUMBERS:

-- Charlie Crist (R) 50 percent

-- Jim Davis (D) 43 percent

Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., poll of 625 registered voters who said they were likely to vote and were interviewed by phone Oct. 31-Nov. 1, sampling error plus or minus 4 percentage points.

OF INTEREST: Crist, the state attorney general, has consistently been ahead of Davis, a five-term congressman, but Davis has been closing the gap, boosted in part by recent TV ads.

My PS ( and so do the machines in Dade County
which have already been fixed, and delivering
Democratic votes to Mr. Crist)

NY Times Editorial...

November 2, 2006

The Great Divider

As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.

In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.

In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.

Mr. Bush has been pushing these divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Kerry warned college students that the punishment for not learning your lessons was to “get stuck in Iraq.” In context, it was obviously an attempt to disparage Mr. Bush’s intelligence. That’s impolitic and impolite, but it’s not as bad as Mr. Bush’s response. Knowing full well what Mr. Kerry meant, the president and his team cried out that the senator was disparaging the troops. It was a depressing replay of the way the Bush campaign Swift-boated Americans in 2004 into believing that Mr. Kerry, who went to war, was a coward and Mr. Bush, who stayed home, was a hero.

It’s not the least bit surprising or objectionable that Mr. Bush would hit the trail hard at this point, trying to salvage his party’s control of Congress and, by extension, his last two years in office. And we’re not naïve enough to believe that either party has been running a positive campaign that focuses on the issues.

But when candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.

This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.

There is much more going on at Family Focus and New Life Church than Rev. Haggard's "secret life" and the investigation won't stop here. Looking at Foley's chart, Dobson's, Haggard's, and several of the GOP who have been suspected of being closeted gays. It seems as if there is some kind of ring and this has to do more with money, sex, drugs and power all covered and under the guise of religion and it's been going on for years. Gannon, Foley, Haggard are only the tip of this iceberg and eventually there will be someone who will come forward to put more of the the puzzle pieces together. The outer planet aspects unfold slowly over time and these Jupiter/Saturn/Neptune truth squad aspects fell across the Aug. 1999 eclipse as did the Mars/Uranus square of the 2001 Inauguration. The truth of this administration's plan to drain the United States will eventually be revealed.

From Drudge

12 SMARTCARDS GO MISSING IN TENNESSEE; CONTROL ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES
Fri Nov 03 2006 10:09:31 ET

Political insiders have expressed alarm after 12 voter smartcards have gone missing from one Shelby County, TN early vote location!

The cards are used to activate electronic voting machines.

The location at the center of the controversy is Bishop Byrne High School on E. Shelby Drive in Memphis.

The polling place started out with 25 cards. By Wednesday, 11 were missing, says an eyewitness.

The location was given 5 more smartcards on Thursday.

And another card went missing!

Someone possessing a smartcard could use 'off the shelf equipment' [equipment that reprograms the card] and alter it to be used multiple times, and cast multiple votes.

One concerned insider explains: "Shelby County Board of Elections has been notified. They said is was 'not a big deal' because, they said, the cards are deactivated. But the reality is, you can buy the equipment at computer stores to reactivate them. It's on the Internet how to reactivate the cards!"

Meanwhile, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is reviewing reports by the Shelby County Election Commission that two people voted twice during early voting in Memphis.

Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons said he's referred the cases to the TBI for investigation along with other matters he declined to discuss.

Poll watchers are expected to turn out Tuesday to observe voting in Tennessee's heated U.S. Senate race between Chattanooga Republican Bob Corker and Memphis Democrat Harold Ford Jr.

Developing...

Some comments from the Denver Post re the gay
Reverand.

http://www.denverpostbloghouse.com/2006/11/02/another-church-sex-scandal-or-dirty-tricks/#comment-30702

"The truth of this administration's plan to drain the United States will eventually be revealed."

That is truly be a great day!

more comments from the Colorado Springs newspaper...

Church leaders say allegations have 'some truth'

Updated at: 10:53:54 AM

The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned Thursday as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a male escort said Haggard paid him for sex over a three-year period. Haggard, senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, also put himself on administrative leave from New Life while a panel of outside church leaders investigates the accusations.
FULL STORY | COMMENT ON THIS STORY (92) | More on Haggard

From The Wilderness
http://tinyurl.com/a7r6c
January 18 2005
OPPORTUNITY: 9/11 War Games

Cheney was managing multiple war games and terror drills on 9/11 that paralyzed U.S. Air Force response.

* In May of 2001 Dick Cheney was placed directly in charge of managing the "seamless integration" of all training exercises throughout the federal government and military agencies by presidential mandate.
* The morning of 9/11 began with multiple training exercises of war games and terror drills which Cheney, as mandated by the president, was placed in charge of managing.
* War games & terror drills included live-fly exercises with military aircraft posing as hijacked aircraft over the United States, as well as simulated exercises that placed "false blips" (radar injects indicating virtual planes) on FAA radar screens. One exercise titled NORTHERN VIGILANCE pulled Air Force fighters up into Canada simulating a Russian air attack, so there were very few fighters remaining on the east coast to respond. All of this paralyzed Air Force response ensuring that fighter jocks couldn't stop 9/11.
* An unknown individual or command center referred to by Major Don Arias of NORAD as the "maestro" coordinated the war games. It is possible there was more than one maestro, but no one will name names. FTW has asked this question of everyone in relevant government and military positions, to no avail. Our investigation has found the maestro was either Dick Cheney, General Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, or both.
* Whoever was coordinating the Air Force war games was under the management and direction of Dick Cheney, who was also in charge of managing a terror drill being set up on the West Side of downtown New York on 9/11 titled Tripod 2. This exercise set up a command and control center on 9/11 that was configured exactly like the one lost that morning in WTC 7. It was the perfect command center to respond to the crisis, and it was under Dick Cheney's management before the hijackings occurred. How convenient.
* Dick Cheney was one of the main government officials deciding that such extensive war games would take place on 9/11. This was when American intelligence had collected dozens of warnings from governments and intelligence agencies indicating that terrorists were planning to hijack civilian aircraft and crash them into American targets on the ground during the week of September 9th, 2001.

Is there such a term as 'functionally insane'. Bush is it if there is. I think Andrew Sullivan is onto something by questioning Bush's sanity.

I'm serious. We knew we were going to witness some extreme things if the neo-cons felt threatened during this election. Bush's speeches now are completely extreme. He's taken his worldview of opposites, black and white to such an extreme that it simply can't go any further. He's created a totally fictional reality full of straw men that he can knock down and he's yelling it at the audience. He doesn't have any cadence or rythm to his speeches. Just yelling all the time, yet he doesn't sound like someone who is fired up. Just like someone who is pretending to be fired up by yelling.

I wonder if Mike Jones knows Jeff Gannon? I would love to hear the truth behind all those visits Jeff Gannon made to the White House.

WV, I just saw that story you posted from Drudge--and surprise, surprise, Memphis is Ford's hometown AND is also predominantly black and VERY Democratic-leaning. I was wondering if the GOPer's here would try to pull some kind of dirty trick in this election and there's my answer.

http://www.nedlamont.com/?s=standupforchange

More Thuggery

Remember the primary when Joe sent his staffers to Ted’s in Meriden to start a fight with Ned and campaign staff? Well … they are at it again.

Today at an event in Hartford, at a senior center, Joe “volunteers” swarmed the “stand up for change” bus and pressed their bodies against the vehicle, not allowing the doors to open and anyone to exit.

When the bus moved and the door was partially opened for Ned and staff, Joe’s “volunteers” rushed the bus again, violently screaming in the door. Ned was never able to make it off the bus and into the senior center.

There’s something in the air …

More…

Protecting the Vote-- AlterNet Resources Page

Posted on November 3, 2006,

http://www.alternetvoterprotection.org/
Many dozens of groups, lawyers, video makers, activists, bloggers, and concerned people are gearing up to make sure voters rights are protected and their votes counted.

AlterNet has gathered together in one place many of the resources and ideas available to help. Whether it is locating your polling place, reporting voter suppression, shooting video, receiving emergency text messages or getting rewards for evidence of voter fraud, you will find it all here, in AlterNet's Voter Protection: Action & Resources.

War Room

Three pundits agree:

Democrats will take the House

Democrats need 15 seats to take control of the House of Representatives. Here's what three political analysts think they'll get, at least as of today:

Stuart Rothenberg says that Democrats are "most likely" to pick up 34 to 40 seats, "with slightly larger gains not impossible." Rothenberg also says that he thinks "state and national dynamics" make it more likely than not that the Democrats will pick up the six seats they need to take control of the Senate.

Larry Sabato is up with a new set of "Crystal Ball" predictions, and he says he's never seen a "stormier" outlook for anyone. Sabato is projecting that Democrats will pick up between 23 and 30 seats in the House, with his best guess being 27. But that's not the worst of it for the GOP, he says. At this moment, Sabato says he doesn't see "a single election for Senate, House or governor in which a Republican is likely to succeed a Democrat in office." If that scenario holds, he says, it will be the first time since at least World War II that one of the two major parties has been so thoroughly shut out of electoral success.

Charlie Cook now says it would take a "miracle" for the Republicans to retain control of the House. Based on the latest polling data, Cook says the GOP is likely to lose between 20 and 35 seats in the House, but that a loss of more than 35 seats wouldn't surprise him, either. "The vulnerable GOP seats are there, the wave is there, maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't," he says.

-- Tim Grieve

cons and repugs attempt at STEALING Nov.7 elections will FAIL this time. Sally should check
this astrological, for even stealing will not succeed ALL the time like robbing, assasinations
FAIL some times. cons definitely TRY all the avenues to steal like they stole in 2000 & 2004.
Logically cons will FAIL at stealing this time because the ODDS are overwhelmingly AGAINST them like 38 to 58 and other reason is it is easy to steal presidential elections since manipulation has to be done on one of the two names. In this elections there are 438 times 2 candidates and some palces more than 2 vying with Green party etc. and 33 senate seats also has 66 or 76 candidates. So the stealing WILL not be that easy
as a walk in the park or a piece of cake. So, I am
confident the cons will fail for the first time in 6 years in their daylight robbery!

Things are really heating up and the anticipation is really exciting.

With all this controversy already about the reliability of our votes, I can see that Sally/Nancy were right and Neptune is doing its thing as there will be many protests, probably from both sides if they don't like the results and, since there are few paper-trail electronic ballots, that should paralyze results in some contests for a while....this WILL be interesting and, hopefully, grounds for major change.

You guys were also right about these scandals. It is just so amazing that the only people implicated seem to be Republicans and right-wingers. Do the People see it? It has always been the general wisdom that politicians are not trustworthy but this time it's basically one party and the other seems to be basically protected and walking in truth and integrity.

Something like a year ago, the press was afraid of being called unpatriotic if they criticized the administration but now we have HBO and MSNBC (Olbermann) bringing the truth to light, not just the bloggers, the NY Times, and Bill Moyers. One of the turning points for the press, I think, was Stephen Colbert's talk at the Press Club Dinner...but there have been heros since the beginning and mine will always be people like Howard Dean and Richard Clark. From the first time I heard Howard Dean announce his candidacy, I knew I was in the presence of someone of the caliber of the Revolutionary war heros, WWII heros, and other greats. He had the courage to speak out when no other politician did. He is now in the perfect position to be a support to the good guys and I credit all the powers in the Democratic Party who put him there. What did they have to lose? Nothing else was working. Dean might be a tad clumsy, tactless, even inaccurate at times, but he has the raw power of truth and integrity on his side. I feel that Kerry also leans in that direction but his political career has taught him to be too careful, until this week that is.

Finally, I want to say that it is a sad commentary on our society when a politician's or religious figure's downfall comes because they are gay. I guess there is a line there between being gay as a responsible adult and taking advantage of young pages or hiring prostitutes, but it is still sad to me. I hope that one day one's sexual orientation will not be cause for ruining their lives. It is also a lesson to those who have been hiding theirs, that they can't have both worlds at this point in time, so they better pick one or run the risk of being unmasked as a hypocrite.

PatC, that link:

http://billmon.org/archives/002922.html had an interesting opening where he talks about tsunamis gathering speed and how you don't want to be at the beach when they hit.

I was up very late last night writing a new blog entry for this full moon for my site. I write about
Children at the Beach as it's the degree of the full moon... well, the actual degree Symbol is Taurus 13: A Porter Carrying Heavy Baggage, but the full moon is at 12Taurus58 and it flips onto Children Playing on the Beach immediately after. The Sabian Symbol for the Sun a few days after the full moon is Scorpio 15: Children Playing Around Five Mounds of Sand (hide and go seek issues? not seeing what's really going on? frantic game playing?).

Interesting - this full moon has the motive of playing on the beach on the Taurus end and playing around sand dunes on the Scorpio...

Just another one of those synchronicities...

Gaydar, Washington, and Hypocrites: a Morality Play amongst the "Right"

I relocated 18 months ago from Chicago to Maryland, about a 45 min drive from D.C. Lesbian and new in town, I have sought out my “gay community resources, and I can tell ya there’s lots and lots of “us” in the woodwork in good ole DC. Yep, our very moral Repugs have plenty of gay staffers, and furthermore, there’s plenty of gay prostitute action with the gentlemen on the Hill. (Jeff Gannon anyone?)

Best example, I was at the main train station in downtown D.C. (the one closest to Capitol Hill) with time in between trains and went to buys some magazines at the bookstore in the terminal building. I wanted some gay mags like “Out” or “The Advocate”. I looked all over the magazine section at the store where the mags usually are, ie, “lifestyle” section and didn’t find any. I then headed over to the business section where “Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune Magazine” etc is. Low and behold, while these mags were on the top and bottom shelves, all of the gay mags were on the middle shelf in the section clearly labeled "Business". The reason? The store clerk told me, out of the side of his mouth, was that all of the fine upstanding “straight, Fundamentalist, moral, traditional family values, Repug etc etc” aides, staffers, and politcols that didn’t want to be caught looking at/buying the gay mags. If anyone came near them they could quick drop “Out Magazine” and start looking at Fortune Magazine or some such.

Sorry Christian Right, were here, were queer and we’re everywhere. Too bad their boy got “outed” in Colorado. :) Maybe they’ll finally start questioning all of the hate mongering their “Christian" leaders promote!

Maybe this retrograde and the Neptunian energies will finally work in our favor and more of these slimy toads will be exposed to the Light when someone turns over the rocks! Please Goddess, just in time for the elections!!

Swamp

Sharon, I agree with your 8:59 post above, but I believe these incidents are more about hypocrisy, projection, intolerance, and karma. If these people had examined these issues in their lives in regard to their public personas, they probably would've spared everyone involved lots of grief.

I just think it's poetic justic that these people who preach such violent hatred towards gays are exposed for the hypocrites they've been all along. Now, they can reap the intolerance they've sown.

We have received several reports, including from the news media, that misinformation about voting is circulating in Pennsylvania.

Citizens are being told that the best way to ensure their vote is counted is to "write in" every choice.

This is absolutely incorrect! If a candidate's name is on the ballot, you can not write it in.

"Write-ins" are strictly for names not appearing on ballot.

Even though PA lacks Voter Verified Paper Ballots, a write-in is not a solution but rather a loss of your vote

If you have any questions now thru election day, please call 1-866-OUR-VOTE , the Election Protection hotline

Also the Coalition for Voting Integrity will be manning a hotline on election day for Pennsylvania, collecting data on poll problems or questions: 215-589-1925.

http://www.coalitionforvotingintegrity.com/

http://saveourvote.com/

Dear Sally, I "wikied" Ted Haggard's data and he is born on Jun 27 1956. He has natal Moon 24 AQ 180 Jupiter conj Pluto. His power Jup/Plu to the public Moon.However, I am a cosmobiologist and he has Pluto conj Alphard=Venus/Neptune. Alphard is the star of sexual posioning by another. Pluto = Venus/Neptune according to Ebertin says,"Amorous abberations caused through a strong longing for love without attaining fulfilment." He suffers in love but is a hypocrite in public. Bill

An interview with Rev. Ted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmNjfpoRZpE

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061120/brechersmith

War Criminals, Beware
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith

On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts will come before the German federal prosecutor and ask him to open a criminal investigation targeting Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other key Bush Administration figures for war crimes. The recent passage of the Military Commissions Act provides a central argument for the legal action, under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction: It demonstrates the intent of the Bush Administration to immunize itself legally from prosecution in the United States, even for the most serious crimes.

The Rumsfeld action was announced at a conference in New York City in late October titled "Is Universal Jurisdiction an Effective Tool?" The doctrine allows domestic courts to prosecute international crimes regardless of where the crime was committed, the nationality of the perpetrator or the nationality of the victim. It is reserved for only the most heinous offenses: genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture. A number of countries around the world have enacted universal jurisdiction statutes; even the United States allows it for certain terrorist offenses and torture.

Many of the participants in the New York conference were human rights lawyers who have been expanding the use of universal jurisdiction since it was employed against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. In a recent case brought in Spain, for example, Argentine Adolfo Scilingo was tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity he committed in Argentina and sentenced to serve a 640-year prison term [see Geoff Pingree and Lisa Abend, "Spanish Justice," October 9]. The decision was made to try to prosecute Rumsfeld in Germany because its laws facilitate the use of universal jurisdiction.

more...

Hi Bill

Thanks for the date of birth. Interesting midpoints you mention.

Seems Haggard has Venus retrograde... the Sabian Symbol is Gemini 28: Bankruptcy Granted to a Man, He Leaves the Court. Seems he can make 'judgments' on others...
With Pluto opposing that Venus soon, he's going to find out what being in the 'court of public opinion' can feel like.

Saturn is quinqunx that Venus from Scorpio 28: The King of the Fairies Approaching His Domain... Saturn is also retrograde.

His progressed Venus is at Cancer 9: Rabbits Dressed in Clothes and on Dignified Parade - I've seen this degree again and again when it comes to priests of the church - inside they have normal urges like everyone else, but outside they have to 'cover them up' or 'dress them up' - disguise them.

Seattle Times, Friday, July 29, 2005

In Seattle ..two high schools in Federal Way will debut Air Force courses this fall. Students as young as 14 will wear uniforms, march in drills with decommissioned guns and get schooled in military history, customs and technology.

Course materials are mostly created by the Air Force, and the classes taught by retired officers. Costs will be split between the Air Force and the school district.

Federal Way is the third King County school district to ask the military to set up shop as part of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC). Kentwood High in Covington has a program taught by the Marines; two Issaquah high schools have courses taught by the Navy.

JROTC is a fixture in schools across the South and is rapidly expanding in the North.

"We applied for them to come here, and they looked at the general attitude of the community before they agreed," said Debra Stenberg, spokeswoman for Federal Way schools, explaining why there's been no controversy about it.

Seattle is overly viperous toward the military. It's a vital institution, as well as a major source of jobs, and Seattle's schools ought to educate kids about both. Let the Army set up a booth at career day. It's better they buttonhole kids there, where they can be supervised.

But ensconcing the military inside school walls, and subsidizing it with school dollars, is over the line the other way.

Backers say JROTC is mostly about citizenship and discipline, with military subject matter secondary. They also insist it's not about recruiting.

Federal Way officials were drawn to it because it features courses in aerospace technology, a subject the schools couldn't offer otherwise.

I can see the allure, especially for a school district on Boeing's doorstep.

But what other government agency, corporation or special-interest group gets to design what is taught in a public-school classroom, and then run the classes themselves?

Take this fall's first course. It features the role of the military in history, taught by an officer using material provided by the military. That's like having a course on environmental policy taught by Greenpeace.

It's also clear that a goal of JROTC is to groom future enlistees. Students are given information on how to sign up. The Defense Department testified to Congress in 2000 that JROTC is one of its premier recruiting devices.

Armed-forces recruiting is essential. Without it, we'd have a draft. Schools must by law allow it, but it's their duty to supervise it, not subsidize it.

There's a war on. Education devoted to exploring diverse points of view about war ought to include bringing the armed forces into our classrooms.

They shouldn't, however, be handed the keys.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002408579_danny29.html

Retrograde Venus shows up very often in the natal charts of homosexual men, just as retrograde Mars is prevalent in the charts of paedophiles. Just speaking from observation. Valuable research can be done on this.

Lynda Hill wrote: Saturn is quinqunx that Venus from Scorpio 28: The King of the Fairies Approaching His Domain...

Am I the only one who LOL at that? I love seeing hypocracy exposed! LOL

I can't help it... watching YouTube haggard's lips is like watching a possessed thick rubber band that writhes in all directions on its own... one watches in horrified fascination. (gag-bag)

The thoughtful David Neiwert issues a warning about complacency:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/11/dealing-with-muggers.html

One of the important ways that people become victims of violent crime is that they often set themselves up. They make themselves vulnerable because they are not prepared to deal with people who have pathological personalities -- those who are sociopaths, exhibiting antisocial or narcissistic personality disorders, or in some cases outright psychoses. They project their own normalcy onto these other people, and really cannot believe that someone else would act in a way substantially different from their own decent, sane base of operations.

Something similar is at work in the American body politic: The executive branch under President Bush is rapidly metastasizing into an all-devouring power that threatens to make Nixon's "imperial presidency" look like a hippie commune. Yet it seems that no one -- not the Beltway pundit class, nor traditional mainstream conservatives, nor even mainstream liberals -- is able to figure out that there is something seriously wrong afoot, for one main reason: They are projecting their own normalcy onto them. Even with the evidence staring them in the face, they refuse to perceive that these people are not operating within a framework guided by the boundaries of basic decency, the rules of fair play that constrain the rest of us.

More...

Does anyone else see a similarity between

Ted Haggard and Paul Lynde???

Yes, but I like Paul Lynde....but Haggard really looks twisted to me.

I don't see Paul Lynde, but c'mon...I don't mean to generalize, but Haggard is soooo gay. He's just as flaming as Lynde- not that there's anything wrong with that. ;-)

Oh, and I loved Paul Lynde.

The Democrats must not think they speak for America

Victory in next week's elections on the back of the miseries of Iraq won't guarantee a return to the White House in 2008

Martin Kettle
Saturday November 4, 2006
The Guardian

This is a good weekend to be a US Democrat - and next weekend will be an even better one. The only serious question as America's midterm election campaign reaches its climax is the size of the Democratic victory over George Bush's Republicans on Tuesday. Will it be at the bottom end of the scale - which means only narrowly recapturing the House of Representatives and making insufficient gains to overturn the Republican majority in the Senate? Or will 2006 be one of those wave elections where everything comes together in a sweeping rejection of the party in power, in which case by this time next week the Democrats may find themselves sitting atop a 40-seat House majority and a four-seat Senate advantage too?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1939320,00.html

Randi Rhodes had a caller who talked about the amphetemine addiction of Hitler and the soldiers. Sound familiar? My significant one said that the info was published in the 80's in a Time/Life series.
I am thinking of the ugly, worldly entertainment in these evangelical churches, the cultivation of cruelty and hatred from the churches and this administration. The Jeff Ganon episode that just faded away, the strangeness of Rove, the drunken/drugged demeanor of the president. And the godless cruelty and viciousness of the entire administration. I am praying that this country wakes up earlier than the Germans did.

I found that birthdate last night Bill and noticed that moon and Jupiter/Pluto all squares Saturn to be aspected by transiting Saturn, Pluto will oppose his Venus very soon and Uranus will conj his Mars and square his Mercury this spring. This man's problems are just beginning. I expect money issues to begin coming to the front, such as fraud by summer for the whole conglomeration in Colorado Springs. Haggard could be the key to a lot of issues for this right wing Christian group. They have some real issues to address and those issues are the leaders whom they gave their power to several years ago. But it's still not the sexual orientation that's the scandal, it's money, power and drugs, along with extreme repression and fear.

Blood and money

By John Pilger

The United States promised a democracy when the Civil Rights Act became law in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the following year finally ended slavery. For the next decade, the civil-rights movement joined the great popular movement to end the slaughter in Vietnam, and Congress legislated to restrain the CIA's secretive parallel power. It was a fleeting intermission.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15493.htm

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I Want To Hurt Somebody

By Greg Palast

It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times yesterday splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who'd retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15486.htm

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Baghdad is Surrounded: "The American Era in the Middle East has ended"

By Mike Whitney

After 3 and a half years of violence and mayhem we still know as little about the Iraqi resistance as we did in March 2003. This is inexcusable. In addition, there's been no attempt to engage the representatives of the resistance in political dialogue. How can we possibly reach a political solution without dialogue and negotiation?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15488.htm

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=5450

“There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq”

Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh slams Bush at McGill address

“The bad news,” investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told a Montreal audience last Wednesday, “is that there are 816 days left in the reign of King George II of America.”

The good news? “When we wake up tomorrow morning, there will be one less day.”

More…

The 'worms' are turning on Bush..

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612

Lynda, you're just brilliant. That.is.all. The Sabians are brilliant.

Billmon is one of the best blogs out there. You will enjoy his wisdom.

Poll: Bush policy threatens world peace

BETH DUFF-BROWN Associated Press

TORONTO - A majority of people in Canada, Britain and Mexico think President Bush and his foreign policy pose a threat to world peace and worry the U.S. will invade Iran or North Korea within two years, according to polling released Friday.

The polls by the Ottawa-based EKOS Research also found that the respondents in Canada, Britain, Mexico and Israel believe Osama bin Laden poses the gravest danger to the world of five national or militant group leaders included in the poll, followed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, then Bush, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.

Mexicans ranked Bush the second most dangerous of the five men, behind the al-Qaida leader.

Conversely, only 9 percent of the Israeli respondents found that Bush represented a danger to the world, while Iran's leader drew 81 percent of those polled in Israel.

The poll found 69 percent of Britons, 62 percent of Canadians, 57 percent of Mexicans and 36 percent of those polled in Israel believe Bush's foreign policy has made the world less safe.

"As we approach next week's midterm elections in the United States, the polls show pretty clearly that many Americans are dissatisfied with the Bush foreign policy, particularly in Iraq," said EKOS president Frank Graves. "Now we have a clear confirmation that Bush's policies are even more unpopular abroad among the citizens of countries with very close ties to the United States."

The polling also found that 89 percent of those polled in Mexico, 73 percent in Canada, 71 percent in Britain and 34 percent of respondents in Israel now believe the U.S. decision to invade Iraq was not justified.

The poll also found that 68 percent of Mexican respondents, 60 percent of Israelis and 57 percent of Canadians believe the United States will "intervene militarily" in Iran or North Korea in an effort to block the development of nuclear weapons. British respondents were not asked the question.

The polls were asked of 1,000 residents in each of the four countries at the end of October. Results are considered accurate within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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EKOS Research: http://www.ekos.com

Oh and don't forget James Dobson (04.21.1936 Shreveport, LA. quite a group, that's for sure. Follow his progressed chart and Solar Arc. He has a very similar chart to James Baker III

"Democrats Press GOP to Ease Off Voter Challenges"
by Matthew Mosk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201670.html

"Last Minute Push Polls Push Some Voters Over the Edge"
by Ann E. Marimow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201672.html

Sally does that mean he'll remain untouched??

No Dobson will not remain untouched but it could be a few months that his problems begin and take a couple of years to get through but I think it's going to be bad for him eventually

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003352525

4 Leading Military Papers: ‘Rumsfeld Must Go’

E&P : November 03, 2006 11:00 PM ET

An editorial set to appear on Monday—election eve—in four leading newspapers for the military calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The papers are the Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times. hey are published by the Military Times Media Group, a subsidiary of Gannett Co., Inc. ...

“Time for Rumsfeld to go.”

“So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion … it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth.”

That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.

But until recently, the “hard bruising” truth about the Iraq war has been difficult to come by from leaders in Washington. One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “mission accomplished,” the insurgency is “in its last throes,” and “back off,” we know what we’re doing, are a few choice examples. ...

... Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.

This is not about the midterm elections. Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7, the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth:

Donald Rumsfeld must go.

Thanks Sally. It can't come a moment too soon.

http://donkeyod.blogspot.com/2006/11/as-bechtel-goes-by-paul-krugman.html

As Bechtel Goes By PAUL KRUGMAN

I know that everyone is starting to become rather giddy about Tuesday. I'll hold off until I see the returns in FULL. With Mercury Rx, and Diebold machines still in so many places, I don't think the dust is going to settle on the total outcome for a few days... at least.

On the other hand, maybe it will be the GOPers upset that the machines didn't work in their favor. Under Mercury Rx, now wouldn't THAT be ironic?

On another note, it's funny how so many self-proclaimed "holy men" God-fearing Christian ministers and politicians are being exposed for sick pedophile behavior. It's only the tip of the iceberg, I'm sure. And the whole deal with Jeff Gannon leaves too many unanswered questions.

I'm hoping that the long rumored Congressional pedophile sex ring gets exposed and the American people can finally see just how sick, sick, sick so many of these people are. Maybe Poppy Bush gets implicated as well so his phony CIAed image and vainglorious family name are finally broken and exposed so that everyone can see their ugliness.

BIG NEWS

The Times November 04, 2006

Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor

Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom technology


THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology.

The move, which follows the failure by the West to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, could see a rapid spread of nuclear reactors in one of the world’s most unstable regions, stretching from the Gulf to the Levant and into North Africa.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2436948,00.html

The Times November 04, 2006

Nuclear steps put region on brink of most fearful era yet

By Richard Beeston

The Middle East is poised for a headlong rush into a new age. The players, their motives and the risks are analysed by our correspondent


IT IS one of the world’s most unstable regions, where conflicts over land, ideology and religion have raged for centuries.

Yet the Middle East may now be entering the most precarious era of its history, with the sudden rush by Arabs, Iranians and Turks to master nuclear technology and one day unlock the secrets to the atomic bomb.

Yesterday’s disclosure that Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and smaller states such as Tunisia and the UAE want to acquire nuclear technology was suspected for some time, but the headlong race into the atomic age came as a shock.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2436843,00.html

Friday November 3 2006

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Republicans could say bye to OhioBy Kevin Anderson / Midterms 2006 05:17pm

Anti-incumbent, read Republican, sentiment is especially high in Ohio, largely because of economic concerns. Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball calls Ohio possibly "the hardest atmosphere for Republicans anywhere in the nation".

However, as most American journalists have been quick to note, the polls in Ohio reflect local concerns and shouldn't be overapplied to the rest of the US. Sorry, Indy, in this case, Ohio isn't a bell-weather state in these elections.

The state was pivotal in the last presidential election, but the mood in Ohio is down to local issues and shouldn't be read as an indicator of the mood across the US. The biggest issue this year in Ohio is the economy.

"The unemployment rate in Ohio is 5.7%-- a full point above the national figure. Meanwhile, the Ohio Poll found that 82% of Ohioans believe that the economy is in poor or fair shape, and two-thirds say things are

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/11/03/republicans_could_say_bye_to_ohio.html

The Fix by Chris Cillizza

washingtonpost.com's Politics Blog

About This Blog | Meet Chris Cillizza |
One Man, One Vote, One Big Mess

Election Day is almost here and you're all excited to hit the polls and cast your ballot.

But wait, what's all this grumbling that your ballot may not get counted properly? That some new-fangled voting machines are gonna eat your vote or some hacker kid is going to figure out a way to swing the Senate race to the Libertarian Party?

The controversy over electronic voting and ballot counting has only intensified since it became a much-talked about matter in the 2004 cycle. Here's a collection of links to catch you up on the issue:

First, just how exactly will you cast your vote on Tuesday? Several Web sites will help you figure out if you'll be touching screens or punching chads, including the nonpartisan ElectionLine.org and the tech news site ComputerWorld.com.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/11/one_man_one_vote_one_big_mess.html

Technical issues lead to long lines, force some to walk out

By ALEXA AGUILAR - aaguilar@nwherald.com
Comments (3)
Computer glitches kept some voters who wanted to vote early in long lines Thursday afternoon, until some gave up and walked out.

McHenry County Clerk Katherine Schultz said the server that allowed computers in off-site locations to connect to the county office’s voter database went down late in the day.

Thursday was the final day for early voting, which allowed Illinois voters to cast their ballot anytime between Oct. 16 and Thursday. Unlike with absentee ballots, voters didn’t have to provide a reason for why they couldn’t vote on Nov. 7, Election Day.

Election judges check every early voter’s photo identification, in addition to verifying on the online database that they are eligible to vote. When the computers went down, the election judges couldn’t process all the voters in line.

Schultz said the office was contacted by disgruntled voters from the Algonquin and Grafton township offices, two early-voting locations that were open until 4 p.m., about the problems. She said she was unsure of how many people didn’t vote who had wanted to.

If voters who gave up Thursday can’t vote on Election Day, Schultz said, they still can cast an absentee ballot in person at the county clerk’s office, or the Algonquin, Grafton, McHenry or Nunda township offices. Voters must provide a reason why they can’t vote on Election Day.

"It's the money,power and drugs"-Sally, that is my point only you said it so directly.
Sexual orientation would not be a problem without the dualism and paternalism of fundamentalism. People could grow past their ignorance and prejudice if only their was no belief in a punishing god out there.
By the way I am continually shocked to hear supposedly sophisticated people refer to god as he. That is so wierd.

OOPS-I do know the difference between there, their and they're. For the sake of my vanity please excuse the error.

This piece by acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein is out today. I’m told it is running simultaneously in today's Journal Inquirer – one of Connecticut’s largest papers. – David Sirota

The Odd Couple: Nixon and Lieberman

By Rick Perlstein

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2900/

The Heavens:
Astrological Forecast For November 2006
by Lou Valentino

This month is another turning point in the direction that America will take. What party will dominate the political environment for the next two years? This month Taurus wants a practical solution to financial spending, Sagittarius wants more romance, Mercury goes direct, Scorpio is ready for anything and everything and, by the end of the month, the optimistic sign of Sagittarius says shoot for the stars.

Remember all of the Scorpio energy from October? It is manifesting again in November. So, if you were born under the sign of Scorpio your life is transforming for the better. But it hurts sometimes since Pluto, which rules Scorpio, forces us to look at the dark shadows of the mind and Mars, the co-ruler which can create physical stamina and accidents, pushes you around on the inside and the outside. Hang in there Scorpio because the last two weeks of this month has anything and everything going for you. I will explain later.

http://www.wisdom-magazine.com/article_view.do?articleId=546

11.03.2006

Rev. Ted Haggard Comes Out the Same Day as "Borat": One Represents Hypocrisy, the Other Exposes It (14 comments)

Today, Ted Haggard, the newly resigned leader of the 14,000 member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, admitted to asking male prostitute Ralph Jones to score him some meth for curiosity's sake and asking for a "massage". It is just a matter of time before the rest of the sordid truth unfolds.

Rumor has it that the gay community in Colorado Springs has known about Rev. Ted for years and that he not only has had sex with gay prostitutes, but has also had a ten-year long affair with one of his male aides, and has come on inappropriately to many young staffers. Déjà vu, anyone?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyn-lear/rev-ted-haggard-comes-ou_b_33208.html

From Wayne Madsen

With Panama's election to the Security Council, it is germane to revisit the following WMR expose from March of this year:

March 23, 2006 -- White House insiders report that an influential group of extreme right-wing gay Latino power brokers has been given almost total control over U.S. foreign and business policy decisions affecting Latin America. A number of members of the Young Hispanic Republican Association report that they have been sexually preyed upon by members of the influential Latino power brokers after accepting administration appointments, including positions on the White House staff.

The gay Latino group, led by an individual nicknamed "El Padrino" (the godfather) and which has close ties, including gay relationships, with top GOP officials in the Republican National Committee, Small Business Administration, the Department of State, State of Texas, and Executive Office of the President, has been tasked with ensuring that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez does not successfully bid on the sale of Univision, the largest Spanish language TV network in North America. Senior White House officials have provided hundreds of millions of dollars, through CIA and State Department conduits, to the Latino group to ensure that Chavez does not gain control of Univision.

The group has also prevailed upon the government of Panama and particularly senior gay members of the Panamanian government, to ensure that President Martin Torrijos backs out of a regional energy treaty signed between Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia. The deal would see Panama's transisthmian Petroterminales de Panama (PTP) pipeline between Puerto Armuelles on the Pacific to Chiriqui Grande on the Caribbean reverse its flow from east to west to permit the export of Venezuelan oil to China. However, since the Panamanian government only owns a 30 percent stake in the pipeline, the GOP Latino power brokers have applied pressure on a New York-based family-owned firm that owns 60 percent of the pipeline to sink the deal. The law firm that represents the interests of the New York family is reportedly owned by the family of the Panamanian ambassador to the United States and Panama's ambassador to the United Nations. Ten percent of the pipeline is owned by a shadowy Swiss-based firm, the shares of which are held by anonymous parties, that is reportedly connected to the CIA and senior members of the Panamanian government.

The other part of the Venezuelan-Colombian-Panamanian deal that is being targeted by the GOP Latino group for cancellation is a natural gas pipeline from Colombia through Panama and Central America to southern Mexico . . . The GOP group has also been tasked by the White House to work on reversing the leftist tide that is sweeping Latin America. Currently, the Bush administration can only count on three Latin American nations to fully carry out U.S. policy: El Salvador, Panama, and Colombia."

Another SURE reason the cons are in for a TOTAL
derailment next TUES. is what kind of oct/nov surprise, the crooked cons spring? Is it bold and
brazen OR a meek and mouselike?crooked teflon reagan asked the Iranians NOT to release hostages
in OCT'80 and in return promised money and weapons
of mass destruction during his stealing of WH for 8 years.Iran obliged and presto, the felon reagan
with his cronies oliver north kept on delivering for 6 years before he caught got red handed in 1986 and then he LIED big time to wriggle. NOW, all the cons can think of nov surprise is saddam
verdict tomorrow.90% people here will yarn at the verdict here and go and vote for non-cons on tues.

Here's a chuckle for you...learn Yiddish with
George and Laura...

http://www.vidlit.com/gandl/

Even though, I don't know an iota of yiddish(or
hebrew),wv, I found the above VERY,very hilarious
indeed!

above the above, it should be 'yawn', NOT yarn!

Prelude to war

Current 'limited' Gaza operation only prelude to wide scale military conflict
Alex Fishman

Let there be no mistake. This is not the "large scale operation." The operation launched by the IDF Tuesday in Beit Hanoun is not part of the series of operations discussed this week by the security cabinet.

The cabinet discussed ways of dealing heavy handedly with the strengthening of Hamas and ways to stop the "commando division" – as described by the southern command chief – from being established by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

"The large scale operation" – if given the green light – would be a long term offensive operation employing a different scope of troops entirely.

The "Autumn Clouds" operation, currently in progress, is still part of the series of defensive operations being carried out against Qassam rocket launchers. The operation can be combined with another operation on another front to uncover arms tunnels, or jointly with the air force.

The idea is to keep the incessant activity up in an attempt to delay the inevitable and to gain time for what looks like the unstoppable strengthening of Hamas. These operations are simply blocking the dam. But alas, only in fairytales can floods be stopped with a single finger

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3322918,00.html

Thanks for the up-date on the utterly narcissistic me-only criminal "shadow families" on the planet, wv. Even more reason to drag homosexuality completely out of the closet so that gay folks can lead the regular lives to which they are entitled. I can't help but notice, of course, that rukus is basically about male homosexuality... always has been.

http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2006/10/30/daily27.html?t=printable

U.S. Attorney's Office: We're ready to investigate election fraud

n a preemptive move that underscores the highly partisan and tightly contested races for public office that will be decided next week, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's office said Wednesday that federal prosecutors and FBI agents are prepared to review and investigate allegations of election fraud.

A federal task force has been formed to look into any allegations of ballot forgery or theft, voter intimidation, campaign finance violations and corruption, among other federal election crimes, Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement.

The task force has consulted with Maryland Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone, Attorney General J. Joseph Curran and Special Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh on how it will handle fraud or voting rights violations, and will have a team of federal prosecutors and FBI agents at the ready while polls are open Nov. 7.

"Our goal is to prevent election fraud and preserve public confidence in the integrity of the democratic process," Rosenstein said in a statement. "Fair elections are the foundation of American government. Because elections involve high stakes and strong emotions, allegations of wrongdoing frequently arise. We will review all allegations in a nonpartisan manner and pursue any evidence that warrants criminal prosecution."

More...

* Haggard fired for "sexually immoral conduct"

Ted Haggard, the beleaguered pastor of a Colorado Springs evangelical church who had denied having sex with a male prostitute, has been fired by an oversight board, which found him guilty of "sexually immoral conduct."

The findings stand in stark contrast to the immensely popular public image of the New Life Church's founding pastor. A rising star, Haggard, 50, was at times a consultant to the WH, the author of several books, & until he stepped down this week, prez of the Natl Assn of Evangelicals, which represents more than 30 million worshippers.

The board that made the decision, called the "Overseer Board of New Life Church," said in a prepared statement Sat afternoon: "Our investigation & Pastor Haggard's public statements have proven without a doubt that he has committed sexually immoral conduct." ... http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4604135

Tho it may seem terrible to Haggard now, it gives him a chance to start an authentic life & probably a lot more helpful to the struggle of others given his area of expertize.

'We are facing a massive assault on our liberties'

Since losing to George Bush in 2000, Al Gore, the former Vice-President, has reinvented himself as America's voice of reasoned opposition, particularly on global warming, the subject of his internationally acclaimed film An Inconvenient Truth. In this interview, he tells Henry Porter of a crisis of democracy in America.

Sunday November 5, 2006

Observer

HP: I wonder if you feel that a constitution like the American one makes people more aware of their rights.
AG: I think it does. Those who wrote the constitution were very steeped in the culture of the printed word and the essays that were written to define the theory of representative democracy. The debates and the Constitutional Convention were all re-capitulated in elaborate written accounts. The debates over each precise word actually did focus public attention then, and continue to influence public attention now, to individual rights.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329618960-119093,00.html

* ... But those are facts, & Colorado Springs is a city of faith. A shining city at the foot of a hill. No one there believes it is perfect. And no one is so self-centered as to claim the perfection of Colorado Springs as his or her ambition. The shared vision is more modest, & more grandiose. It is a city of people who have fled the cities, people who have fought a spiritual war for the ground they are on, for an interior frontier on which they have built new temples to the Lord. From these temples they will retake their forsaken promised lands, remake them in the likeness of a dream. They call the dream “xian,” but in its particulars it is “American.” Not literally but as in a story, one populated by cowboys & Indians, monsters & prayer warriors to slay them, & ladies to reward the warriors with chaste kisses. Colorado Springs is a city of moral fabulousness. It is a city of fables.

* * *

The city's mightiest megachurch crests silver & blue atop a gentle slope of pale yellow prairie grass on the outskirts of town. Silver & blue, as it happens, are Air Force colors. New Life Church was built far north of town in part so it would be visible from the AF Academy. New Life wanted that kind of character in its congregation. ... http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist-20061103288348488.html

Brings to mind the story of King Arthur's court... same tone, same longing, same ambiance, same imagined purity, same... um, "destroyer in the midst"... it's supposed to be there or nothing would ever grow up out of childishness. That's where haggard comes in for his scheduled part in the Great Myth script. ;O)

From Steve Judd

4 November

The full Moon this weekend carries mixed messages. The squares from the Sun, Moon, Retrograde Mercury, Venus and Mars to Neptune, and by extension Saturn, suggest challenge and difficulty in discerning the truth over the coming two weeks. This may point to an element of skulduggery in the coming few days in order to influence later events. Yet at the same time it has an awakening effect that can really get to the places that other effects don’t reach. Come what may, there’s going to be a lot of dissolving of the old over the coming days, and the wise person will sit back and let it happen rather than get embroiled in a situation where they can’t see straight, let alone make rational and objective decisions.

I too Wikipediad the Haggard birth data, but all it says is Indiana...WHERE in Indiana? Anybody know?

Beasley, according to a friend of mine who goes to the church, he says Indianapolis, but that was based on information he said he heard from Haggard several years ago. There is much more to this story than what has been revealed and I don't know if the extent of his double life will come out, I suspect it will however, before this time next year and I will still say money is involved. There is an assistant minister who has taken over Haggard's duties until another minister can be found. He was on the local news tonight and very holier than thou, I thought his attitude was a bad idea.

The "Denver" police will be investigating possible criminal activity because if there was a crime with the drug activity it happened in Denver. It's a good thing that it's the Denver police department because James Dobson's reach does not extend into the mayor's office or justice system in Denver. I feel sad for the church, like I felt sad for the Jim Jones victims, but I don't feel sorry for them, they've had 22 years to grow up and re-think the possibility of thinking for themselves. They are "welcoming" his family back to the church (if they want to come) but not in a leadership capacity (that was said by his replacment with a smirk) the greatest judgement this family will have will come from within those ranks, not from without. Wait until the reality that his has betrayed them comes within a week or two, the Haggards might reconsider where they go to church and where they live.

Just coincidence or intentional with two old pink head vampires hurridly sniffin' around the troubled site of one of their politico-religio-porn guys?

* bush Lands in Colorado

It's an unusual night in Colorado. bush is spending the evening in Englewood--before a Sat rally in Greeley to boost the campaigns of local [necroporns]. V[rez] cheney is in Colorado Springs. He met with troops at Ft Carson & then held a rally of his own. ... http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/4565692.html

* ... Imagine if Haggard had chosen to deliver a message of tolerance to his congregation. That would have required courage. Instead, this minister, who is married & the father of 5 children, obviously believes that copping to drugs is a more acceptable admission than copping to homosexuality. How sad. Also, sad is Haggard's infidelity, the betrayal of his wife & children. What happened to family values?

It's a shame that Haggard's self-loathing dictates a denial that he is gay. It's a shame that society & our culture force men & women to live lies & skulk to the shadows to be themselves. It's a shame that we allow judgments of right & wrong behavior regarding sexual ID to stir us into partisan battles. It's a shame that this issue is a wedge that banishes other matters such as the depravity of war to a place of lesser importance in deciding elections.

Apparently, those who protest too vociferously & piously against gay rights are the ones who end up resigning to seek treatment or spiritual counseling for their behavior. If only they could be honest about their sexuality. If only their sexuality could be accepted. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_missy_co_061104_the_massage.htm

I am sad that these people cannot see that it isn't about sexual orientation but hypocrisy. There is an old quote that says "you might as well invite the gods to your party of life because if you don't, they will come anyway and will be in a mood to make mischief." My observation in life is the "gods" when trying to get your attention, will give you a little brush on the cheek; if that doesn't work, you then get a little shove, after that it's a two by four, and after that it's a bullet. The rigid right-wing christians have been given a shove in this situation, soon it will be a two by four. Almost every single mega church across this country has been trained by "Haggard's and Dobson's Warriors" when this "wing" of the Christian religion gets the two by four it will be a mighty crack. They are still a way from the 2 by 4 but it's coming and coming before 2012, along with the catholic church.

The Republicans still don't get that the upsurgence of Left Wing/Radical politics in Latin America isn't something that they can suppress anymore. Even Mexico, where they purposely intervened to hold it back, will eventually rise up to sweep away their inept reactionary puppet Calderon and the elitists there who back him.

The fact is, the new Left has emerged in direct response to conservative methodology which seeks to establish a ruling elite ("New World Order") class over all of the world's people at their expense. It is an utterly ridiculous proposition that will soon see a complete and total repudiation by the very masses of common people the elites are so fearful of.

It is only a matter of time before the politics of the people emerge here, too, within the US and seek to dislodge from power, money, corporations and the self-serving elites.

BBC News

Death penalty for Saddam Hussein

Saddam trial verdict
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court and sentenced to death by hanging.
He was found guilty over his role in the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982.

His brother Barzan al-Tikriti was also sentenced to death, as was Iraq's former chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bander

Former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan got life in jail and three others received 15 year prison terms.

Another co-defendant, Baath party official Mohammed Azawi Ali, was acquitted.

Saddam Hussein shouted out "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest) and "Long live Iraq. Long live the Iraqi people!" after the judge announced the verdict.

Correspondents say the former leader looked visibly shocked as the sentence was passed, but the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson said that as he was led away Saddam Hussein seemed to have a small smile on his face.

"It was as if he was thinking 'I've come here and done what I intended to do'," our correspondent said.

NY Times
November 5, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist

Throw the Truthiness Bums Out
By FRANK RICH

EACH voter will have a favorite moment from the fabulous midterms of 2006. Forced to pick my own, I’d go for Lynne Cheney’s pre-Halloween slapdown of Wolf Blitzer on CNN. It’s not in every political campaign that you get to watch the wife of the vice president of the United States slug it out about lesbian sex while promoting a children’s book titled “Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America.”

The pretext for this improbable dust-up was a last-ditch strategy by the flailing incumbent Republican senator of Virginia, George Allen. Desperate to resuscitate his campaign, Senator Allen attacked his opponent, Jim Webb, for writing sexually explicit passages in his acclaimed novels about the Vietnam War. Mr. Webb fought back by pointing out, among other Republican hypocrisies, Mrs. Cheney’s authorship of an out-of-print 1981 novel, “Sisters,” with steamy sexual interludes suitable for “The L Word.”

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/opinion/05rich.html?pagewanted=print

NYTimes

November 5, 2006
Editorial

The Difference Two Years Made

On Tuesday, when this page runs the list of people it has endorsed for election, we will include no Republican Congressional candidates for the first time in our memory. Although Times editorials tend to agree with Democrats on national policy, we have proudly and consistently endorsed a long line of moderate Republicans, particularly for the House. Our only political loyalty is to making the two-party system as vital and responsible as possible.

That is why things are different this year.

To begin with, the Republican majority that has run the House — and for the most part, the Senate — during President Bush’s tenure has done a terrible job on the basics. Its tax-cutting-above-all-else has wrecked the budget, hobbled the middle class and endangered the long-term economy. It has refused to face up to global warming and done pathetically little about the country’s dependence on foreign oil.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/opinion/05sun1.html?pagewanted=print

I had a powerful, black-hole-metaphor dream last night. I woke with this theory of being; that humans void of feeling (and consciousness) gain temporary energy by "eating" that which they do not have.

Black-hole energies paralyze their intended victims with fear before negating (swallowing) the victim's existence.

But, black-hole entities are mistaken in believing their own power is absolute. Energies, once swallowed, transform and become magnified, create new worlds and ways of expressing creativity.

A cosmic dance extraordinaire.

The New Scientist thought this article was important enough to print in full, which they don't usually do.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10445-climate-change-special-state-of-denial.html

Climate change special: State of denial

I have said it before and I'm saying it again. It is not coincidense that the country's largest military base and Jim Dobson and Ted Haggard are in the same city. I believe that the fundamentlist,evangelical movement is part of the "psy-ops" of the intended New World Order.
I don't know why Americans are so vunerable to the bs the creeps preach. Some say it is because they are for the most part the children of the pluto in Leo generation. My SO says it is because Americans are spoiled and freak out at the first hint that life can be tough.
I no longer commune with my parish so disgusted am I with the new pope and with our new pastor and the new parishioners who seem eerily Opus Dei in their fervent responses and cold eyes. I sadly believe the new Pope to be part of Bush I's New World Order. I thought I could wait out the fad-I was part of the St Joseph the Worker Church inspired by Dorothy Day we celebrate St Josepj the Worker's feast day on May 1. My belvoed priests are now either dead or retired and the new priest from Germany is very young. Think that I will have to move along now.

Scorpio and Pluto are kicking some serious butt this month. Where will we be when the dust settles?

From the Mountain Astrologer.

Full Moon in Taurus, Nov. 5. 2006

"Scorpio is the sign most concerned with the shadow so what could be its dark side? Inability to trust. Double standards. Addiction to drama. Black-and-white thinking. Not everyone has natal planets in Scorpio, but we all have an 8th house and we all have a Pluto (the modern ruler of
Scorpio) delineating where we wrestle with our deepest fears and desires. Our shadow contains not only our less desir-able qualities, but also anything that has been repressed or denied — our power, our truth, our light."

snip

"This Full Moon has not just the Sun in Scorpio but
Mars, Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter as well. Rarely are five of the ten planets this close together; when this happens, it raises critical issues that must be addressed. Mars, the ancient ruler of Scorpio, represents what moves us, what stirs us to action. The Roman God of War probes: What is our motivation? Why are we doing what we’re
doing? And why are we not doing what we should
be doing? Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty,
questions: How are we using our power? Are we
going for the gold? What would Love (not lust)
do? Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, asks:
Are we speaking our truth? What needs to be
said — or heard? And last but not least, Jupiter,
the King of the Gods, queries: Is fear still in the driver’s seat? What preconceptions or habits are blocking our progress? All of the outer planets are involved with this Full Moon, pushing for the release of parental, cultural,
and religious programming."

HBO's Hacking Democracy
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7236791207107726851&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en-CA