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Holidays.
See you next year.
Wednesday, December 20 2006 Prof. Altman pretty much sums up the spin surrounding the when he opines that, "[I m being] imprecise because there is no agreed-upon method of vote-counting;.
.." This was not at all the case.
The Democrats flubbed up in their own district, disenfranchised so-called "chads" were "hanging," "double were too old to any longer grasp the meaning of voting (if you believe some reports)--in favor of Al Gore. It was farcical. This Supremes got involved.
The Florida [Prof. Altman reminds me] that was deliberately thwarted by the Supreme Court..
." Deliberate yes, and the _law_ also, "..
. lest it conflict with the result of their decision." What decision?
The one hammered out as per the law? Or the one that didn t let Al Gore steal the election through fraud? (i.
e. Boise, a precedent that never took place.[1]).
The final verdict in Florida was that the Law won.
I see nothing but opinion from either Profs. Altman or Kaiser.
They are entitled to it. I d still like to see the so-called _BEST_ study showing the Bush didn t win at all.
a 3-4% "+" or "-" statistical error in the voting.
Florida it posesses. Buchanan wasn t even within the 3% range.
[1] Therefore, it appears that Respondent-Attorney Boies and Respondent-Attorney Berger To summarize, it appears that Respondent-Attorney Boies and Respondent-Attorney Berger affidavit to two Florida courts,7 Berger has taken remedial measures to address the allegedly false affidavit.
for some reason, did much sum[ming] up the spin surrounding the Bush/Florida situation," I would suggest that he a) get my name right, and b) take a moment to examine the facts more carefully.
of the NORC recount in November 2001,"A full, statewide recount of all ahead by a tiny margin ranging from 42 to 171 votes, depending on how valid votes are defined."
of counting, In fact, had the Supreme Court not intervened for the man, it his mind, but he was considering the "overvote" standard that would demonstrating that Lewis meant what he said.
The following is from my book, What Liberal Media: The Truth About Bias and the News (Basic Books, 2003), and has never been factually challenged:
attacks, a Gallup Organization poll found that nearly half of Americans technicality" or "stole the election." And they were right, though this would have been difficult to received. The headlines read: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote," (The New York Times) and Washington Post).To celebrate the January 23 release of Grateful Dead s LIVE AT THE COW PALACE, NEW YEAR S EVE, 1976, the Rock N Roll Hall Of Famers will turn back the clock 30 years and present A free online stream of the classic concert will be made available for two days at www.dead.These were misleading at best. What the NORC researchers really discovered was the Gore legal team s incredible incompetence. They happened, it turned out, to choose just about the only counting argument that would have lost Gore the election even had the Court ruled in his favor.
Lead votes-one that not only would have elected his man, but would have been immeasurably more fair to the people of Florida. but not "overvotes." Using that method, Bush did indeed outpoll Gore and the Court s intervention did not ultimately make a difference.
It was, perhaps, a perfect coda to a perfectly awful campaign.
As the AP report put it, "In the review of all the state s disputed statewide." In other words, he got more votes in Florida than George Bush by almost every conceivable counting standard.Gore won under a strict-counting scenario and he won under a loose-counting scenario. He won if you counted only a fully-punched chad. He won if you counted won if you fairly counted the absentee ballots.
No matter how you count it, if had had a chance to see their vote counted, Al Gore is our president.
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on January 1, 2007, tape vault of 2,400 performances. Available as an on-demand stream for QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media players, the eclectic elements of three or four clearly defined eras of the Grateful Dead s long career.
it s Stupid to hold grudges during the holidays. The most underreported outrage of Dubya s administration is the undermining of the Internal Revenue Service. Forget turns to avoid following the law when you can simply refuse to follow the law?
Consider the IRS estate tax enforcement department. Each attorney working there recovered, on average, $2,200 for every hour they worked. So what did Dubya do this summer?
He cut the department in half, arguing that the agency only needed to audit about 10% of wealthy estates to get 80% of the revenue. The Clinton Who do you believe: the surplus administration or the record-deficit administration? This at a time when concentration of wealth "death tax" is a needed break on rising inequality.
enforcement. In 2003 the Treasury s Inspector General reported that the IRS had as tax cheats. It goes on and on.
A 2005 internal IRS analysis showed that and a nearly 50,000 audit backlog. Remember how offshore tax dodging was an issue in the 2004 elections? At the time Dubya promised tax simplification in his second term, and indeed, corporate tax cheats take wild advantage of the complexity of the tax code in setting up elaborate schemes.
Which is why he hasn t revisited it since. Nor, for the most part, has the media. The Dems mean there isn t a deficit problem or a recession coming.
Now that the GOP will return to bashing big government, the counter-narrative of collecting hundreds of billions of dollars of dishonestly withheld taxes sounds pretty good.
Since nobody bothers to buy, or listen to, albums anymore, Todd Snider. Boomtown economics as explained by our on the Mountain," Bob Dylan.
He s got Alicia Keys on the brain.
I know, he launched the song off a Chevy ad. But you know what, Mellencamp millions for a decade-plus. Plus, singing about bigotry and poverty in America?
Two old pros who know how to swing.
proven right in the past. While your piece was tailored to make a particular point there s a related matter that tilts the playing field even farther.
One guests spar with the host serving as a theoretically neutral moderator. The format is set up to give the debate a legitimacy that it in no way deserves. Time offering supporting comments.
When it s time for the opposing guest to speak him/her from completing a thought. If they re lucky the guest will eventually break down in frustration and behave in a foolish manner. At the very least argument.
For some reason this is considered exciting and entertaining. It may be that, but people who rely on these exchanges to educate their thinking will end up with nothing but a false sense of superiority, a bizarre set of beliefs, and probably a similarly argumentative way of approaching every discussion.
military, parts of the intelligence apparatus capabilities right to the bitter end of the Cold War.
I remember, as a military pilot, the glee and curiosity I felt when a defector flew a MiG 25 Foxbat to Japan in the early 1980s.
supposedly their most impressive fighter plane, the one which inspired the US to design and build a fleet of F-15s. What those who had the most to gain from never meant to be maneuverable against another fighter.
of our aircraft. And the damn thing was not made of some super alloy of "unobtainium" as claimed; it was made of steel! And that was just one of many ways that aircraft, and indeed much of the Soviet military, was oversold to the American people.
The same was true in varying degrees about their missiles and tanks and soldiers.
is well timed. I can t wait to dig into it.
most recent press conference, but the actual and meaningful answers -- not responses -- he gave to them.
follow-up, ladies and gents of the press.
Don t do that!
" When it comes right down to it, they are only using God as a crutch to support their own biases. Susan B. Anthony said it best when she said, "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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questions on all other topics at the President s press conference. This shouldn t be surprising. If you can t begin to believe the answer, then what s the point in asking the question.
The man is a liar. It is as simple as that. And the sooner everyone accepts that, the sooner we can all begin to move this coutry in a better direction.
Democrats who now control the Congress should especially take this attitude. The this attitude, and they wound up being "the marketing plan needed to get the beginning. Now, we ve moved on to the "listening tour," which of like it is doing something when it is in fact not.
President has visited upon us. Nothing, absolutely nothing, he says should be taken at face value. If he says it, he should be required to prove it.
Otherwise, no dice.
Thus, I am simply asking inane questions of the President at press conferences.
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