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This is inside WA state capitol, in the main chamber, a year ago.

They've repeated it this year, too.

Punish it for what it is: an attempted coup. Maybe this shouldn't count as "real voter fraud," but in general, democratic societies ought to punish organized voter fraud as a form of "attempting to overthrow the government." If the federal government were to hang a few people for attempting to systematically defraud the electorate, I think you'd see a lot fewer people willing to engage in the practice.

Here are a few:

How the GOP Rules America: Voter Suppression and Political Apartheid
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/yellow/36325/how-the-gop-rules-america-voter-suppression-and-political-apartheid

Patterns of Touch Screen Voting Machine Fraud Identified and Documented in Florida, Ohio, New Mexico and Elsewhere in 2004
http://www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html

Republican voter suppression: Maria’s Story
http://horsesass.org/?p=39248

New Requirements Under HB 2067 (Voter Suppression Law)
http://www.sunfloweract.org/hb2067new
(in short, birth certificate based voter ID tends to disenfranchise elderly voters who were born at a time when birth certificates were not routinely issued -- even Ronald Reagan's bitch certificate was created many years after the fact)

Map of voter ID requirements:
http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=16602

Rubbish. Tim Eyman, the Horses Ass, successfully got rid of the percentage tab fee, now all vehicles pay $30 for their tabs. This is one of the major reasons the state has to consider other forms of income. The largest portion of the dollars in your yearly license fee is a tax for the RTA to fund the Light Rail and other transit initiatives. If you don't like it, move out of the 3 counties it's implemented in. If you have noticed that it's now faster for you to drive your single occupant SUV to work in the morning than it was 10 years ago, this tax is one of the reasons. The RTA tax is .3% of the value of your vehicle, so to get a bill for "thousands" of dollars, you had to buy a vehicle over 330K MSRP.
I bought a brand new vehicle for about 30K last year, and my tab renewal was just over $100.

The chemical weapons were from the U.S. If Saddam was guilty of gassing people, so are we. Or have you forgotten this famous picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam? Read the caption and try not to throw up.

The FDA has already done such a bang up job on identifying melamine in wheat, rice, and/or corn gluten. If they had such success with pet food, why not chocolate? Or should we turn to the USDA to help with our organic chocolate. After all they want to help improve the quality of our organic coffee.

Ever heard of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? Addressing educational inequities, especially in the United States, is exactly what they do.

Yeah, by subsidizing the spread of Intelligent Design in public schools.

Thanks, Bill, but that's OK. Really. You shouldn't have.

What part of mandatory evacuation order can be interpreted as leaving people to their own devices? So maybe people aren't criticizing him for not managing events he doesn't have the resources to handle.

http://www.slate.com/id/2125587/?nav=tap3 ...In the days prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall, the 49-year-old mayor ordered New Orleans' first-ever mandatory evacuation. He told those in the most flood-prone areas to leave early, and he set up shuttles to get the 100,000 or so residents without cars to shelters. He announced that the potentially catastrophic hurricane represented "an opportunity for us to come together in a way we've never done before." Instead, Katrina's aftermath turned into a typical--if unimaginably and hellaciously tragic--scene from New Orleans politics, with the requisite allegations that the rudderless, incompetent city government can't deal with the city's intrinsic geographic, economic, and racial problems...

The President and the director of FEMA may not have consciously decided to let tens of thousands of people die but when the president barely mentions the people flooded in the Hurricane at a fundraiser, jokes about partying with Lott when they rebuild his house, smirkingly plays guitar and only sent help 4 days after the flooding because his incompetent political hack doesn't even know about the looting and starvation, people tend to get the impression that he doesn't care. Bush might not hate blacks but he certainly doesn't seem to give a damn about a whole lot of people. Not just blacks but also people who value reason over superstition (creationists); people who need abortions; people who need stem cell research; etc...

Since you've chalked the fuck-ups to incompetence, now would actually be a hell of a good to find out who's screwing up so they can be replaced with people who can actually do the job. Especially since the people we're pointing fingers at haven't gotten the fucking job done! Look at who is running FEMA now and compare him with the guy who ran FEMA under Clinton.

James Witt http://www.slate.com/id/2125224/?nav=tap3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lee_Witt

with Mike Brown

http://www.horsesass.org/

"An unmitigated, total fucking disaster." That's not a quote from Mike Brown, but rather, a quote describing him. And most disturbingly, it's not even a reference to his dismal performance as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This blunt critique was emailed to me from a regular reader who was apparently attracted to HorsesAss.org by her passion for politics and her love of Arabian horses.

I think I've told you that I'm into Arab horses. Well, for 3 years Michael Brown was hired and then fired by our IAHA, the International Arabian Horse Assoc. He was an unmitigated, total fucking disaster. I was shocked as hell when captain clueless put him in charge of FEMA a couple of years ago.

* Goldy at HorsesAss's diary :: ::
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He or the WH lied on the WH presser announcing him to FEMA. IAHA was never connected to the Olympic Comm, only the half Arab registry then and the governing body to the state and local Arabian horse clubs. He ruined IAHA financially so badly that we had to change the name and combine it with the Purebred registry.

I am telling you this after watching the fucking shipwreck in the Gulf. His incompetence is KILLING people.

Yes, that's right... the man responsible for directing federal relief operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, sharpened his emergency management skills as the "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" for the International Arabian Hors

And here in Washington State if you propose an Initiative for the ballot, it must only have one part to it. If there are two, it will generally be ruled as unconstitutional. As well it should. Just ask Tim Eyman. It would be nice if the same were done with the U.S. Congress. Perhaps stop some of the bloat in the budget. Although, they may just concern themselves more with their pet projects and less with actual legislation.