decided that it was more important to make sure that all of it's citizens were properly enfranchised by having their votes properly counted than to have the election certified by a specified date. That was their states right decision.
The SC decided to ignore their rights and ensure that a large section of the state was disenfranchised. The fact that they decided to enfranchise a small section of votes that were clearly illegal while simultaneously disenfranchising a much larger group that were legal shows their contempt for the whole process. The SC's interpretation was that W won and that further counting would cast doubts on their decision that W won.
You, like W, have conveniently rewritten the reasons for the war. You go over all the build-up before the war. You'll see. Again and again and again: WMD, Imminent Threat.
Now that this justification has been proven false, W comes up with "threat to the stability of the region". Note the absent modifier: Imminent.
So this was not a war of necessity. It was a war of choice. He was no more an imminent threat when we invaded then he had been for years. W decided to invade at that point (with no real international support) because he chose to. Not because he needed to. Not to protect Americans, or the world, or the region. Because he decided to.
H.W. should have taken out Saddam in '91. We would have had full international support. They were a clear invading threat to the region. They were the aggressors and the world was with us. He didn't.
W decided to take all of the international support post 9/11/01 and throw it in the toilet. He went in alone and is now begging the world to lend him a hand. The world sees him as the aggressor. He's losing the peace (though rewarding Halliburton with huge no-bid contracts). And he is breeding further instability in an already unstable region. Oh, and he continues to let Afghanistan slide into chaos, again.
And it is so very convenient to assume that 9/11 would have happened no matter who was in office. I'm sure you were the same way after the first bombing of the WTC towards Clinton. Right? Right?
didn't allow a state wide recount. They didn't allow a wider section recount. They didn't allow the states processes to go forward as required in the state constitution. They stopped all of it. They abrogated the states authority. They invalidated findings by the Florida State Supreme Court. The federal government overrode the highest court in the state. They declared a winner and further declared that recounting would cast doubt on their choice.
As for the military absentee votes, the law said that they had to be individually postmarked (that was specifically there). Republicans like to conveniently forget the letter of the law when it serves their purposes.
The SC, not the electoral college, chose the winner of the 2000 selection. That's why W is the asterisk President. Selected President of the United States*
As you can see from this Wayback version of this press release, all of the ballots WERE voted.
And unlike Florida, these votes (which were counted) had no effect on the electoral college results of the ultimate election. The uncounted Florida votes and the SC interference with the state mandated process obviously DID.
And there is a magical fairy that helps Republicans never have to try and understand or deal with damnable "facts" that interfere with their closely held beliefs. And you can be sure the parent AC has been thoroughly dusted.
A) Which WMD would that be? Where are the stores of biological/chemical weapons that were about to be shared with terrorists/used against Western civilization? Where is the rebuilt nuclear program? Last I checked, none of that has been found. So what the heck are you talking about?
B) She was not an analyst. She worked in a non-government cover position. She didn't have diplomatic immunity or any other form of official government cover. She was also working at actually finding/stopping the spread of WMD. Now that her employment has been leaked by the administration, everybody who had extensive contacts with this agent will be suspect. These are foreign nationals who helped the US in trying to stop the spread of WMD and we've hurt every one of them. Way to go!
C) We won the war, but we're quickly losing the peace. Rebuilding the cities while various factions continue to blow them up seems oblivious to the reality of the situation. While I recognize that it does good things for Halliburton and Cheney's stock options, it really isn't the best course of action. And as long as Rumsfeld continues to believe in the operational numbers he's declared are just enough, we won't be in a position to make things better no matter how much the ground troops would like to.
I did so purely to point out that W and his bunch recognize that he started out without any form of real mandate for the job and that they can no longer assume that Iraq II and photos of W in a flight suit are going to allow him to coast into a second term. I raised the fact that the continuing mess in Iraq and the extreme failure of the economy (first net loss of jobs in 70 years, highest budget deficit ever) are probably weighing on his handlers.
I didn't mention his failures to hold anyone in the government (intel and administration) responsible for the intel lapses that led to 9/11/01. I didn't mention his failure to find:
a) Osama b) Mullah Omar c) Saddam d) WMD e) the anthrax mailers f) the leaker of the CIA agent
W was not elected under the rules set forth for elections but was specifically selected for the position by the SC. They stopped the procedures set forth for recounts of disputed votes in Florida, (proving once and for all that Republican respect for states rights is as strong as their respect for civil rights when self-interest is on the line), declared that W had won the election and that any attempts to recount the votes would cast doubts on their selection of W as the winner.
That's why W is the asterisk President. He's the selected President of the United States*.
and with the economy/war effort going as poorly as they are, how exactly do you expect W to assure "reelection"? Considering the the top Diebold executive is a state Bush campaign manager and has guaranteed that he'll "get out the vote", why does any of this seem surprising? Considering that W has directed millions of dollars of federal monies to Diebold to replace those old, "untrustworthy" voting machines, why does this shock?
Voters are fickle. Voting machines you "own" are forever.
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Wow, telemarketers really, REALLY know how to motivate people to do things. Like having them band together to permanently ban the notion that commercial speech is equivalent to free speech by individuals and is protected by the First Amendment in the same way.
RIAA, you'll have to work harder if you want to take back the "Incredibly Stupid Commercial Entity Trying to Alienate Their Theoretical Audience" prize!
the top executives who control the direction of our corporate overlords are acquiring the same level of knowledge of a high school dropout intern whose main responsibility is sorting the mail (but can't really be trusted to deliver it).
assign the full responsibility for this situation on 'Roos? Let's face it: they are the a) the least trustworthy of the marsupials and b) the most likely to get involved in disreputable marketing. Has anyone forgotten the 1996 "Hopping Diet" pills (ephedra, caffeine, nicotine and that special ingredient, speed)?
Terminator (1,2,3), Matrix (1,2,3), Westworld/Futureworld: When are we going to recognize that teaching robots violent behavior without a thoroughly tested functional Asimov chip is a BAD thing? (And I'm not talking about those MS Asimov/Palladium chips either. My 7 year old nephew hacked those over a weekend.)
Oh, great. Now the Aibo has my nunchucks and the Roomba is attacking me Deadly Venoms Poison Toad Style!
As an MCSE, I have to ask: Are there pictures? Are there ducks in the pictures? Will we be tested on how many ducks there are in the pictures? How many chances do we have to guess the correct number of ducks in the pictures? Can I go nap now?
If by "quicker and more stable", you mean that it is quicker for black hats to own your system and there are stable tools out there for them to attack the 30 major known unplugged holes in IE, I would have to agree.
If you are comparing it functionally to Mozilla/Netscape, on the other hand, I'd be forced to giggle uncontrollably.
is legal (e.g. EULA components where you agree to be harvested for your organs if you die or are incapacitated or in the vicinity of a hospital or if Bill needs/wants them) and financial (e.g. charging you a separate licensing fee for each organ harvested), then you stop wondering about those pesky "standards".
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I'm manipulating my pocket cluster.
Wait, put down the phone. Stop dialing 911. Wait, stop!
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I see nothing in the article about a steel cage. You call that a smack-down?
able to power a supersonic jet just with grapes.
I call shotgun!
The SC decided to ignore their rights and ensure that a large section of the state was disenfranchised. The fact that they decided to enfranchise a small section of votes that were clearly illegal while simultaneously disenfranchising a much larger group that were legal shows their contempt for the whole process. The SC's interpretation was that W won and that further counting would cast doubts on their decision that W won.
Now that this justification has been proven false, W comes up with "threat to the stability of the region". Note the absent modifier: Imminent.
So this was not a war of necessity. It was a war of choice. He was no more an imminent threat when we invaded then he had been for years. W decided to invade at that point (with no real international support) because he chose to. Not because he needed to. Not to protect Americans, or the world, or the region. Because he decided to.
H.W. should have taken out Saddam in '91. We would have had full international support. They were a clear invading threat to the region. They were the aggressors and the world was with us. He didn't.
W decided to take all of the international support post 9/11/01 and throw it in the toilet. He went in alone and is now begging the world to lend him a hand. The world sees him as the aggressor. He's losing the peace (though rewarding Halliburton with huge no-bid contracts). And he is breeding further instability in an already unstable region. Oh, and he continues to let Afghanistan slide into chaos, again.
And it is so very convenient to assume that 9/11 would have happened no matter who was in office. I'm sure you were the same way after the first bombing of the WTC towards Clinton. Right? Right?
As for the military absentee votes, the law said that they had to be individually postmarked (that was specifically there). Republicans like to conveniently forget the letter of the law when it serves their purposes.
The SC, not the electoral college, chose the winner of the 2000 selection. That's why W is the asterisk President. Selected President of the United States*
And unlike Florida, these votes (which were counted) had no effect on the electoral college results of the ultimate election. The uncounted Florida votes and the SC interference with the state mandated process obviously DID.
And there is a magical fairy that helps Republicans never have to try and understand or deal with damnable "facts" that interfere with their closely held beliefs. And you can be sure the parent AC has been thoroughly dusted.
But then I did mention them.
B) She was not an analyst. She worked in a non-government cover position. She didn't have diplomatic immunity or any other form of official government cover. She was also working at actually finding/stopping the spread of WMD. Now that her employment has been leaked by the administration, everybody who had extensive contacts with this agent will be suspect. These are foreign nationals who helped the US in trying to stop the spread of WMD and we've hurt every one of them. Way to go!
C) We won the war, but we're quickly losing the peace. Rebuilding the cities while various factions continue to blow them up seems oblivious to the reality of the situation. While I recognize that it does good things for Halliburton and Cheney's stock options, it really isn't the best course of action. And as long as Rumsfeld continues to believe in the operational numbers he's declared are just enough, we won't be in a position to make things better no matter how much the ground troops would like to.
I didn't mention his failures to hold anyone in the government (intel and administration) responsible for the intel lapses that led to 9/11/01. I didn't mention his failure to find:
a) Osama
b) Mullah Omar
c) Saddam
d) WMD
e) the anthrax mailers
f) the leaker of the CIA agent
I will now.
That's why W is the asterisk President. He's the selected President of the United States*.
Voters are fickle. Voting machines you "own" are forever.
Uther: "ONE LAND, ONE KING!"
RIAA, you'll have to work harder if you want to take back the "Incredibly Stupid Commercial Entity Trying to Alienate Their Theoretical Audience" prize!
I feel safer now.
assign the full responsibility for this situation on 'Roos? Let's face it: they are the a) the least trustworthy of the marsupials and b) the most likely to get involved in disreputable marketing. Has anyone forgotten the 1996 "Hopping Diet" pills (ephedra, caffeine, nicotine and that special ingredient, speed)?
Oh, great. Now the Aibo has my nunchucks and the Roomba is attacking me Deadly Venoms Poison Toad Style!
As an MCSE, I have to ask: Are there pictures? Are there ducks in the pictures? Will we be tested on how many ducks there are in the pictures? How many chances do we have to guess the correct number of ducks in the pictures? Can I go nap now?
If so, what sort of a connection would be available?
Pancakes
Sweaters (pullover)
Lug nuts (various sizes)
Adamantium
Hedgehogs
Wishbones
Brie (or any other cheeses, for that matter)
This is just a short list, but when are the developers going to get serious on these issues?
Never underestimate your opponents capacity for stupidity.
If you are comparing it functionally to Mozilla/Netscape, on the other hand, I'd be forced to giggle uncontrollably.
is legal (e.g. EULA components where you agree to be harvested for your organs if you die or are incapacitated or in the vicinity of a hospital or if Bill needs/wants them) and financial (e.g. charging you a separate licensing fee for each organ harvested), then you stop wondering about those pesky "standards".
Wait, put down the phone. Stop dialing 911. Wait, stop!