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Such as "Would your opinion of John McCain be different if you knew he fathered an illegitimate black child ?"

"Joe, I don't do 'nuance'."

I believe that the reason Bush won this election had more to do with Bush's campaign than Kerry's campaign. While Kerry ran an inadequite campaign, failing to connect with the voters, Bush ran a low and dirty campaign. It is very true that Bush lied to the entire country about a war, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and he is destroying the economy, etc. However, he forced this Vietnam issue to the frontpages and made this the forefront of the campaign, i.e.- he made an irrelevent issue that had nothing to do with the presidency the main issue. It was no longer about who had the best credentials for the job, but instead became about who could lie about more issues with Vietnam, and who could duck more bullets. Kerry lost this battle, and lost the election even though Vietname has NOTHING to do with the job of the presidency. Bush's dirty and low campaigns is nothing new, either. In the 2000 primary, he and his supporters labeled McCain "The Fag Candidate." (proof here), as well as spreading racist rumors about his daughters. In short, Bush has won all of his campaigns, including the 2004 election, by running them as low and dirty as possible.

Actually it seems, more a Healthy Chunk of Taiwan's Economy since the military is bypassing traditional suppliers for bullets now.

A story from just a few days ago on our outsourcing of BULLET PRODUCTION despite the fact that since last May Alliant has increased it's production capacity to 300 million bullets/month from 1.2 million bullets/month, Taiwan gets a $62.5 million dollar contract instead of Alliant.

I agree there are problems with not having a paper trail, but I urge everyone to not buy into the panic created by this scam artist...according to her there is no need to vote since it won't count anyway. Most legitimate organizations fighting against these machines distance themselves from her conspiracy nutjob fantasies. If you want to get involved, contact your local representatives and stay away from the internet "activists". She's not the savior of the voting Democrats, she's admittedly neither a voter nor a Democrat and yes, she certainly IS trying to make money from all of this.

Bev Harris (aka BJ Dudley) is a "literary publicist" who steals money from her clients and does not do the work(1). An "author" who uses other people's work and claims it as her own and whose idea of solid evidence in her "book" is pasting something she sees written anonymously on an internet message board(2). A master at figuring out ways to profit from other people's hysteria, she'll tattoo a "donate here" button on her forehead if she thinks it will get her a buck(see her website). A stalker who brags about hiding in the bushes with her pal Andy and a tape recorder to harrass various voting machine company employees(3). A litigation-happy work-avoiding scam artist who is constantly looking for a way to sue someone (ANYONE) to get rich (or at least get some attention) and drag herself out of her overweight-aging-bored housewife lifestyle(4). A liar, a thief, and suffering from severe paranoia (mostly due to the fact that she is constantly screwing over her friends and associates), she has a history of accusing members of her own BBV movement of betraying her during amusing meltdowns on public internet message boards(5)(8)(10)(11).

Her most blatant attempt of profit oriented sleaziness to date has been filing a 'Qui Tam' lawsuit against Diebold in a state she doesn't live in (CA) while simultaneously accusing (and viciously attacking) everyone in her early organization of doing the same and pronouncing a Qui Tam as something she wouldn't "soil herself" with(6)(7)(9).

Before deciding to "investigate" Diebold and riling up the extreme liberal internet message boards to fund her "work avoidance" lifestyle, Bev tried to make money from the sex scandal surrounding Bill Clinton. I give you, the Clinton Cigar presented by Bev Harris:

Original page archived on the web:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991112034903/http://w ww.talion.com/cigar.htm

Posts in various newsgroups by Bev Harris herself hawking her product:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:talion%40 ix.netcom.com&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=20 &sa=N

The sources below are all message board posts on various sites by Bev, her associates and former associates. I could go on digging up more for days, but this should really be enough for now. These are the same places that Bev used as "sources" in her book, so it must all be true:

1 - posted by former right-hand associate, Roxanne Jekot:
http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_to pic&forum=2&topic_id=308296#308409
2 - posted by former friend, co-author and publisher, David Allen:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa rd.php?az=view_all&address=104x1960084#1989451
3 - posted by current head sycophant, Andy Stephenson:
http://www.democraticunde

Don't believe everything you read...most legitimate organizations fighting against these machines distance themselves from her conspiracy nutjob fantasies.

Bev Harris (aka BJ Dudley) is a "literary publicist" who steals money from her clients and does not do the work(1). An "author" who uses other people's work and claims it as her own and whose idea of solid evidence in her "book" is pasting something she sees written anonymously on an internet message board(2). A master at figuring out ways to profit from other people's hysteria, she'll tattoo a "donate here" button on her forehead if she thinks it will get her a buck(see her website). A stalker who brags about hiding in the bushes with a tape recorder to harrass various voting machine company employees(3). A litigation-happy work-avoiding scam artist who is constantly looking for a way to sue someone (ANYONE) to get rich (or at least get some attention) and drag herself out of her overweight-aging-bored housewife lifestyle(4). A liar, a thief, and suffering from severe paranoia (mostly due to the fact that she is constantly screwing over her friends and associates), she has a history of accusing members of her own BBV movement of betraying her during amusing meltdowns on public internet message boards(5)(8)(10)(11).

Her most blatant attempt of profit oriented sleaziness to date has been filing a 'Qui Tam' lawsuit against Diebold in a state she doesn't live in while simultaneously accusing (and viciously attacking) everyone in her early organization of doing the same and pronouncing a Qui Tam as something she wouldn't "soil herself" with(6)(7)(9).

Before deciding to harrass Diebold and riling up the extreme leftist internet message boards to fund her "work avoidance" lifestyle, Bev tried to make money from the sex scandal surrounding Bill Clinton. I give you, the Clinton Cigar presented by Bev Harris:

Original page archived on the web:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991112034903/http://w ww.talion.com/cigar.htm

Posts in various newsgroups by Bev Harris herself hawking her product:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:talion%40 ix.netcom.com&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=20 &sa=N

The sources below are all message board posts on various sites by Bev, her associates and former associates. I could go on digging up more for days, but this should really be enough for now. These are the same places that Bev used as "sources" in her book, so it must all be true:

1 - posted by former right-hand associate, Roxanne Jekot:
http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_to pic&forum=2&topic_id=308296#308409
2 - posted by former friend, co-author and publisher, David Allen:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa rd.php?az=view_all&address=104x1960084#1989451
3 - posted by current head sycophant, Andy Stephenson:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa rd.php?az=view_all&address=104x2177642#2177657
4 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa rd.php?az=view_all&address=104x1938773
5 - posted by former friend, co-author and publisher, David Allen:

This issue of who gets the most money from the taxcuts and what not shouldn't be an issue at all.

I'm poor as hell, so I don't have any natural biases(well...maybe). But I do understand that 6-figure+ salary makers pay more than me, and therefore should recieve back more than me.

Did you even bother considering which end of the spectrum actually pays the most taxes, because it isn't the same.

The wealthiest 50% of the U.S. pay 96% of all income taxes. Bet you have never read this before. Despite the fact that this is from 2000, I doubt things have changed significantly since. So shouldn't the people who pay the most, get the most back?

They actually decreased when Reagan gave his tax cut for the rich.

Table of tax collections in the 80's given in current and constant dollars

This data is from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Historical Tables, Budget of the U.S. Government, FY 1996.