They've found some guy who was playing with his laser pointer and they're going to fry him. Doesn't matter whether he was the one they were looking for, doesn't matter whether the guy they were looking for could have done any harm this way if he'd been trying
David Banach, 38, of Parsippany, admitted under questioning that he aimed the hand-held laser beam at the jet and later a helicopter, but did not intend to do any harm, authorities said.
The jet was flying at 3,000 feet with six passengers aboard and was about 11 miles away from the airport. The flash temporarily blinded the pilots, but they were able to safely land the plane.
Banach even warned agents not to point the laser into anyone's eyes because it could hurt them, court papers said.
Intelligent Design, therefore, while perhaps a good example of things to believe in without proof, has nothing to do with science and god. It has much more, however, to do with politically empowered people who don't understand science, and the people they seem to think are somehow disproving god.
What does that have to do with genetically modified food?
Genetically modified organisms are definitely a product of intelligent design (human design) but say nothing about the existance of god or evolution.
During the period from about 120,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet grew much larger than it is today. This was the last glacial phase. Since about 20,000 years ago, the ice sheet has been retreating to its present size. This marks the present interglacial phase of the cycle. A similar change occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, with ice sheets expanding across large areas of North America, Asia, and Europe. Shifts in climatic conditions occur across the globe accompany these cycles. This cycle of advance and retreat of the ice sheets in the Northern and Southern hemispheres has occurred many times in the past and will occur again in the future.
All but small remnants of the continental ice sheets retreated from North America thousands of years ago. Although it may appear that the Ice Age has ended, many scientists argue that our present relatively warm period represents but a brief interlude and that the glaciers may again advance in the future.
A glacier covering much North America, Europe, and Asia seems like a more serious (and more likely) problem than a mega tsunami.
From the link you posted one can see that the U.S. donated 6.9 Billion in ODA (Economic Aid - Donor) while Norway donated only 1.4 Billion.
Also, there is this little goody -
Norway exports 3.466 million bbl of oil/day - Only Saudi Arabia and Russia export more oil than Norway.
Due to their oil production, Norway is the third biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emmissions on earth, but they don't seem to feel very guilty if you were to judge them on the amount of foreign aid they give. They make ~40 Billion a year selling oil, and they donate a paltry 1.4 Billion?
What does Norway think happens to all the oil they sell - do they think it magically disappears? Why do they continue to supply this greenhouse gas producing liquid?
Norway is world leader per-capita in the production of greenhouse gas precursors!
"I got a chuckle out of putting a clock up in the window and having the hands of the clock display the right time (it actually started out 3 minutes slow, but then gained a minute a day, until it was 4 minutes fast, and then reset itself) -- again, all computer trickery!" Komarnitsky said on his Web site Monday.
The Lafayette man said he accomplished the trickery by taking 12 "base" photographs of the house with lights on and off and then constructed a Web page that appeared to show lights going on and off when the Web visitor clicked, but after performing web server stress testing, he replaced the test images with real-time camera generated images for the holiday season.
It follows that this court cannot order the Secretary to establish
standards for the recanvassing of ballots previously rejected in this
election, although this ruling shall disallow the canvassing boards addition of new votes to the current vote totals. And petitioners' call for uniform signature-checking standards
(seemingly beyond the statutory requirement that the signature on an
absentee ballot be the same as the signature in voter registration files)
is beyond the relief that can be afforded in this action.
noted, the King County Canvassing Board says that these 573
ballots were previously coded by election employees as having "no signature
on file." The board has now concluded that this designation may have been
in error, since election workers failed to check the signatures against
voter records on file, as required by RCW 29A.40.110(3) and King County
rules for this election. As it is allowed for the canvassing boards to add new votes to the current vote totals, yhe board has therefore decided to recanvass the
ballots and correct any such errors that it finds.
I think you'll be happy to know that no county in Ohio used Diebold voting machines. So you don't have to worry that Diebold stole the election in Ohio.
No Ohio County used Diebold Electronic Voting Machines (See Press Release Below) Ohio did not use modern electronic voting machines in this election. Six counties use an older form of electronic voting, which has a means of verifying the accuracy of the vote. In 69 Ohio Counties, punch card ballots were used.
(July 16 Press Release) Blackwell Halts Deployment Of Diebold Voting Machines For 2004 July 16, 2004 COLUMBUS - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today halted deployment of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting devices in Ohio for the 2004 General Election. The decision is based on preliminary findings from the secretary of state's second round of security testing conducted by Compuware Corporation showing the existence of previously identified, but yet unresolved security issues. Hardin, Lorain and Trumbull counties had selected to use new Diebold equipment this November. Those counties will use their current voting devices in 2004. "As I made clear last year, I will not place these voting devices before Ohio's voters until identified risks are corrected," Blackwell said. "Diebold Election Systems has successfully addressed many, but not all, of the problems that were identified in our first security review. The lack of comprehensive resolution prevents me from giving county boards of elections a green light for this November.
I think you'll be happy to know that no county in Ohio used Diebold voting machines. So you don't have to worry that Diebold stole the election in Ohio.
No Ohio County used Diebold Electronic Voting Machines (See Press Release Below) Ohio did not use modern electronic voting machines in this election. Six counties use an older form of electronic voting, which has a means of verifying the accuracy of the vote. In 69 Ohio Counties, punch card ballots were used.
(July 16 Press Release) Blackwell Halts Deployment Of Diebold Voting Machines For 2004 July 16, 2004 COLUMBUS - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today halted deployment of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting devices in Ohio for the 2004 General Election. The decision is based on preliminary findings from the secretary of state's second round of security testing conducted by Compuware Corporation showing the existence of previously identified, but yet unresolved security issues. Hardin, Lorain and Trumbull counties had selected to use new Diebold equipment this November. Those counties will use their current voting devices in 2004. "As I made clear last year, I will not place these voting devices before Ohio's voters until identified risks are corrected," Blackwell said. "Diebold Election Systems has successfully addressed many, but not all, of the problems that were identified in our first security review. The lack of comprehensive resolution prevents me from giving county boards of elections a green light for this November.
The links you provided to others' analysis are invalid - maybe you could read the actual order.
It states:
Section 6:
Foreign investment may take place with respect to all economic sectors in Iraq, except
that foreign direct and indirect ownership of the natural resources sector involving
primary extraction and initial processing remains prohibited.
This specifically does NOT allow foreign investment in oil.
And by September 2004 electricity producton was nearly 50% *above* prewar levels 6000 Megawatts vs 4400 prewar.
Also:
"While total electric power output continued to
climb, it was distributed in a new way. Under the old
regime, the outlying regions were required to send
power to Baghdad which enjoyed electricity nearly 24
hours per day. But the smaller cities such as Basra had
power only a couple of hours each day. Now power is
more evenly shared, even if Baghdadis may feel they
have less hours of power than they enjoyed in the
past."
Why has claiming Bremer Order 36 has anything at all to do with Texaco been moderated as Informative?
Why isn't there a Misinformative moderation?
Here is order 36 in its entirety
Recognizing that the theft and smuggling of the natural resources of Iraq are crimes that
affect the wellbeing and future of all Iraqis;
Noting the complexity of the past regime's laws, regulatory provisions and instructions in
the field of oil distribution, and the inconsistency and irregularity of their enforcement;
Determined to act decisively to tackle the theft and smuggling of natural resources
pending the outcome of a full review of current Iraqi laws, provisions and instructions;
Resolved to provide the Coalition Forces with an easily accessible and ascertainable
regulatory code with which to support the Iraqi authorities in the lawful distribution of oil
into, out of and throughout Iraq;
hereby promulgate the following:
Blah, Blah, Blah
COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY ORDER NUMBER 36
REGULATION OF OIL DISTRIBUTION
Pursuant to my authority as Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA),
under the laws and usages of war, and consistent with relevant U.N. Security Council
resolutions, including Resolution 1483 (2003),
Recognizing that the theft and smuggling of the natural resources of Iraq are crimes that
affect the wellbeing and future of all Iraqis;
Noting the complexity of the past regime's laws, regulatory provisions and instructions in
the field of oil distribution, and the inconsistency and irregularity of their enforcement;
Determined to act decisively to tackle the theft and smuggling of natural resources
pending the outcome of a full review of current Iraqi laws, provisions and instructions;
Resolved to provide the Coalition Forces with an easily accessible and ascertainable
regulatory code with which to support the Iraqi authorities in the lawful distribution of oil
into, out of and throughout Iraq;
hereby promulgate the following:
Section 1
Definitions
1) Authorization means any written approval, authority, certificate, license, contract or
other order issued by the Ministry of Oil, the Oil Products Distribution Company, the
State Oil Marketing Organization, and the recognized representative regional
organizations or companies of those bodies, the Coalition Provisional Authority, the
Commander Coalition Forces, and in relation to fishing vessels the Iraqi Port
Authority. Authorize and authority and all cognate and derivative words shall be
\ construed accordingly.
2) Benzene is also known as petrol and gasoline.
3) Cargo Fuel means fuel transported by any vehicle or vessel which is not being used
or is not intended for use as fuel by that vehicle or vessel.
4) Confiscation Order means CPA Order Number 25, Confiscation of Property Used in
or Resulting from Certain Crimes.
CP A/ORD/3 Oct 2003/36
5) Criminal Proceedings Law means Law of Criminal Proceedings Number 23 of 1971,
as modified by CPA Orders and Memoranda.
6) Customs Law means Customs Law Number 23 of 1984, as amended.
7) Diesel see gasoil.
8) Fuel means crude oil, residue crude, oil products including for example diesel,
kerosene, liquid petroleum gas, benzene.
9) Gasoil is also known as diesel.
10) Gasoline see benzene.
11) Interdiction means the stopping, search, arrest and the initial questioning of a suspect.
12) Penal Code means the Iraqi Penal Code Law Number 1
CP A Orders and Memoranda.
of 1969, as amended by
13) Petrol see benzene.
14) Port of Entry means a designated land, sea or air point of entry or exit manned by
Border Enforcement staff.
15) Regulatory Offense means a contravention of a Regulation under this Order.
16) Territorial Jurisdiction includes the territorial sea and all internal waters.
Section 2
Regulatory Code
1) There is hereby created the Regulatory Code for Oil Distribution. The Code is set out
at the Annex.
2) The Regulatory
I read the book, and your quote should be the synopsis on the jacket cover - It fits perfectly.
Not in the idiot way, but that, if you believe how he tells it, he was involved in every national security crisis in the past 30 years and if it wasn't for him, by golly, we'd all be doomed. He almost single-handedly saves the day every time!
Actually - Diebold is a public corporation - stock symbol DBD.
Sequoia is a child of De La Rue which is also a public corporation. (Although interestingly, they made a lot of money last year producting Iraqi banknotes) "This was primarily driven by the impact of the exceptional order in relation to Iraq banknotes announced in July 2003.".
The indymedia link above has an analysis of the Florida voting which shows that Bush's vote percentage for all brands of voting machines - Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia increased in 2004 in 59 of 67 counties.
The glaring exception was the single county that used the ES&S release 4.3 which showed an increase of ~15% for Kerry.
The Anti-Defamation League in the US is supportive of Prescott Bush and the Bush family. In a statement last year they said that "rumours about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated... Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathiser."
I posted 2 somewhat interesting entries from the Wiki mentioned in this Slashdot story, and both were moderated -1 overrated from their starting value.
Seems like some slashdotters may also be wiki battlers.
"George Bush's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade. "
Without wiki, no one would know that John Kerry's grandfather made a fortune in the opium trade.
"John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade. "
Your figure for gross income is incorrect - you are using the Adjusted Gross Income figure, which is much less than the value for gross income.
Teresa Heinz Kerry on Friday released a portion of her 2003 federal tax return, reporting that she paid $627k in federal income taxes on $2.3 million of AGI, primarily from dividends and interest.
She received $5.1 million of gross income, $2.8 million of it tax exempt interest income.
Ms. Heinz Kerry, who filed separately from Senator Kerry, thus paid federal income tax at the rate of 12.3% of her gross income and 27.4% of her AGI
Slashdot Mirror
They've found some guy who was playing with his laser pointer and they're going to fry him. Doesn't matter whether he was the one they were looking for, doesn't matter whether the guy they were looking for could have done any harm this way if he'd been trying
The article says:
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/37694.htm
David Banach, 38, of Parsippany, admitted under questioning that he aimed the hand-held laser beam at the jet and later a helicopter, but did not intend to do any harm, authorities said.
The jet was flying at 3,000 feet with six passengers aboard and was about 11 miles away from the airport. The flash temporarily blinded the pilots, but they were able to safely land the plane.
Banach even warned agents not to point the laser into anyone's eyes because it could hurt them, court papers said.
What does that have to do with genetically modified food?
Genetically modified organisms are definitely a product of intelligent design (human design) but say nothing about the existance of god or evolution.
Holiday Rates:
1) On National Holidays apply our weekend rates.
2) If a workday follows: Prices as on Sundays.
3) If a Sunday or Holiday follows: Prices as on Saturdays.
4) On a Holiday's Eve: Prices as on Fridays.
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/
During the period from about 120,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet grew much larger than it is today. This was the last glacial phase. Since about 20,000 years ago, the ice sheet has been retreating to its present size. This marks the present interglacial phase of the cycle. A similar change occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, with ice sheets expanding across large areas of North America, Asia, and Europe. Shifts in climatic conditions occur across the globe accompany these cycles. This cycle of advance and retreat of the ice sheets in the Northern and Southern hemispheres has occurred many times in the past and will occur again in the future.
All but small remnants of the continental ice sheets retreated from North America thousands of years ago. Although it may appear that the Ice Age has ended, many scientists argue that our present relatively warm period represents but a brief interlude and that the glaciers may again advance in the future.
A glacier covering much North America, Europe, and Asia seems like a more serious (and more likely) problem than a mega tsunami.From the link you posted one can see that the U.S. donated 6.9 Billion in ODA (Economic Aid - Donor) while Norway donated only 1.4 Billion.
Also, there is this little goody -
Norway exports 3.466 million bbl of oil/day - Only Saudi Arabia and Russia export more oil than Norway.
Due to their oil production, Norway is the third biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emmissions on earth, but they don't seem to feel very guilty if you were to judge them on the amount of foreign aid they give. They make ~40 Billion a year selling oil, and they donate a paltry 1.4 Billion?
What does Norway think happens to all the oil they sell - do they think it magically disappears? Why do they continue to supply this greenhouse gas producing liquid?
Norway is world leader per-capita in the production of greenhouse gas precursors!
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/holidays/4027215/d etail.html
"I got a chuckle out of putting a clock up in the window and having the hands of the clock display the right time (it actually started out 3 minutes slow, but then gained a minute a day, until it was 4 minutes fast, and then reset itself) -- again, all computer trickery!" Komarnitsky said on his Web site Monday.
The Lafayette man said he accomplished the trickery by taking 12 "base" photographs of the house with lights on and off and then constructed a Web page that appeared to show lights going on and off when the Web visitor clicked, but after performing web server stress testing, he replaced the test images with real-time camera generated images for the holiday season.
Not everything on the internet is a forgery.
The December 14th decision states:
http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/?fa=opinions.opi ndisp&docid=763216MAJ
It follows that this court cannot order the Secretary to establish standards for the recanvassing of ballots previously rejected in this election, although this ruling shall disallow the canvassing boards addition of new votes to the current vote totals. And petitioners' call for uniform signature-checking standards (seemingly beyond the statutory requirement that the signature on an absentee ballot be the same as the signature in voter registration files) is beyond the relief that can be afforded in this action.
The latest ruling states:
http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/?fa=opinions.opi ndisp&docid=763992MAJ
noted, the King County Canvassing Board says that these 573 ballots were previously coded by election employees as having "no signature on file." The board has now concluded that this designation may have been in error, since election workers failed to check the signatures against voter records on file, as required by RCW 29A.40.110(3) and King County rules for this election. As it is allowed for the canvassing boards to add new votes to the current vote totals, yhe board has therefore decided to recanvass the ballots and correct any such errors that it finds.
http://www.web.appstate.edu/news/glance.html
Where did you get the 22,000 residents are students number?
Are you counting High School and Grade School students also?
How can the EU allow voting with no paper trail?
Can you please provide a link to the locations of these roadblocks and the people who disenfranchised by these "well documented" roadblocks?
Thanks!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof
No Ohio County used Diebold Electronic Voting Machines (See Press Release Below) Ohio did not use modern electronic voting machines in this election. Six counties use an older form of electronic voting, which has a means of verifying the accuracy of the vote. In 69 Ohio Counties, punch card ballots were used.
(July 16 Press Release) Blackwell Halts Deployment Of Diebold Voting Machines For 2004 July 16, 2004 COLUMBUS - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today halted deployment of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting devices in Ohio for the 2004 General Election. The decision is based on preliminary findings from the secretary of state's second round of security testing conducted by Compuware Corporation showing the existence of previously identified, but yet unresolved security issues. Hardin, Lorain and Trumbull counties had selected to use new Diebold equipment this November. Those counties will use their current voting devices in 2004. "As I made clear last year, I will not place these voting devices before Ohio's voters until identified risks are corrected," Blackwell said. "Diebold Election Systems has successfully addressed many, but not all, of the problems that were identified in our first security review. The lack of comprehensive resolution prevents me from giving county boards of elections a green light for this November.
http://www.ohiodems.org/index.php?display=ReleaseD etails&id=192686
No Ohio County used Diebold Electronic Voting Machines (See Press Release Below) Ohio did not use modern electronic voting machines in this election. Six counties use an older form of electronic voting, which has a means of verifying the accuracy of the vote. In 69 Ohio Counties, punch card ballots were used.
(July 16 Press Release) Blackwell Halts Deployment Of Diebold Voting Machines For 2004 July 16, 2004 COLUMBUS - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today halted deployment of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting devices in Ohio for the 2004 General Election. The decision is based on preliminary findings from the secretary of state's second round of security testing conducted by Compuware Corporation showing the existence of previously identified, but yet unresolved security issues. Hardin, Lorain and Trumbull counties had selected to use new Diebold equipment this November. Those counties will use their current voting devices in 2004. "As I made clear last year, I will not place these voting devices before Ohio's voters until identified risks are corrected," Blackwell said. "Diebold Election Systems has successfully addressed many, but not all, of the problems that were identified in our first security review. The lack of comprehensive resolution prevents me from giving county boards of elections a green light for this November.
http://www.ohiodems.org/index.php?display=ReleaseD etails&id=192686
http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/20031220_ CPAORD_39_Foreign_Investment_.pdf
The links you provided to others' analysis are invalid - maybe you could read the actual order.
It states:
Section 6:
Foreign investment may take place with respect to all economic sectors in Iraq, except that foreign direct and indirect ownership of the natural resources sector involving primary extraction and initial processing remains prohibited.
This specifically does NOT allow foreign investment in oil.
What did you think it said?
Your claim that "the country's energy is far *lower* than before the war" is incorrect.
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/pdf/AYearInIraq_infrastr ucture.pdf
By October 2003 the Electricity generation surpassed prewar levels. 4500 Megawatts postwar vs 4400 prewar.
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq_electric_Sept04 .pdf
And by September 2004 electricity producton was nearly 50% *above* prewar levels 6000 Megawatts vs 4400 prewar.
Also:
"While total electric power output continued to climb, it was distributed in a new way. Under the old regime, the outlying regions were required to send power to Baghdad which enjoyed electricity nearly 24 hours per day. But the smaller cities such as Basra had power only a couple of hours each day. Now power is more evenly shared, even if Baghdadis may feel they have less hours of power than they enjoyed in the past."
Why has claiming Bremer Order 36 has anything at all to do with Texaco been moderated as Informative?
Why isn't there a Misinformative moderation?
Here is order 36 in its entirety
Recognizing that the theft and smuggling of the natural resources of Iraq are crimes that affect the wellbeing and future of all Iraqis;
Noting the complexity of the past regime's laws, regulatory provisions and instructions in the field of oil distribution, and the inconsistency and irregularity of their enforcement;
Determined to act decisively to tackle the theft and smuggling of natural resources pending the outcome of a full review of current Iraqi laws, provisions and instructions;
Resolved to provide the Coalition Forces with an easily accessible and ascertainable regulatory code with which to support the Iraqi authorities in the lawful distribution of oil into, out of and throughout Iraq;
hereby promulgate the following:
Blah, Blah, Blah
COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY ORDER NUMBER 36 REGULATION OF OIL DISTRIBUTION Pursuant to my authority as Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), under the laws and usages of war, and consistent with relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions, including Resolution 1483 (2003), Recognizing that the theft and smuggling of the natural resources of Iraq are crimes that affect the wellbeing and future of all Iraqis; Noting the complexity of the past regime's laws, regulatory provisions and instructions in the field of oil distribution, and the inconsistency and irregularity of their enforcement; Determined to act decisively to tackle the theft and smuggling of natural resources pending the outcome of a full review of current Iraqi laws, provisions and instructions; Resolved to provide the Coalition Forces with an easily accessible and ascertainable regulatory code with which to support the Iraqi authorities in the lawful distribution of oil into, out of and throughout Iraq; hereby promulgate the following: Section 1 Definitions 1) Authorization means any written approval, authority, certificate, license, contract or other order issued by the Ministry of Oil, the Oil Products Distribution Company, the State Oil Marketing Organization, and the recognized representative regional organizations or companies of those bodies, the Coalition Provisional Authority, the Commander Coalition Forces, and in relation to fishing vessels the Iraqi Port Authority. Authorize and authority and all cognate and derivative words shall be \ construed accordingly. 2) Benzene is also known as petrol and gasoline. 3) Cargo Fuel means fuel transported by any vehicle or vessel which is not being used or is not intended for use as fuel by that vehicle or vessel. 4) Confiscation Order means CPA Order Number 25, Confiscation of Property Used in or Resulting from Certain Crimes. CP A/ORD/3 Oct 2003/36 5) Criminal Proceedings Law means Law of Criminal Proceedings Number 23 of 1971, as modified by CPA Orders and Memoranda. 6) Customs Law means Customs Law Number 23 of 1984, as amended. 7) Diesel see gasoil. 8) Fuel means crude oil, residue crude, oil products including for example diesel, kerosene, liquid petroleum gas, benzene. 9) Gasoil is also known as diesel. 10) Gasoline see benzene. 11) Interdiction means the stopping, search, arrest and the initial questioning of a suspect. 12) Penal Code means the Iraqi Penal Code Law Number 1 CP A Orders and Memoranda. of 1969, as amended by 13) Petrol see benzene. 14) Port of Entry means a designated land, sea or air point of entry or exit manned by Border Enforcement staff. 15) Regulatory Offense means a contravention of a Regulation under this Order. 16) Territorial Jurisdiction includes the territorial sea and all internal waters. Section 2 Regulatory Code 1) There is hereby created the Regulatory Code for Oil Distribution. The Code is set out at the Annex. 2) The Regulatory
Not in the idiot way, but that, if you believe how he tells it, he was involved in every national security crisis in the past 30 years and if it wasn't for him, by golly, we'd all be doomed. He almost single-handedly saves the day every time!
I bought all this stuff last Christmas.
What is the point of registering for a party if you're going to vote differently?
72% of Ohio voters used punchcards.
12% of Ohio voters used optical scan (bubble on paper)
16% of Ohio voters used electronic voting.
Should be possible to recount 84% of the votes
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:AEDmyoVJM-YJ:ww w.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/9982287.ht m%3F1c+Ohio++voting+system&hl=en
Actually - Diebold is a public corporation - stock symbol DBD.
Sequoia is a child of De La Rue which is also a public corporation. (Although interestingly, they made a lot of money last year producting Iraqi banknotes) "This was primarily driven by the impact of the exceptional order in relation to Iraq banknotes announced in July 2003.".
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/34704.ph p
The indymedia link above has an analysis of the Florida voting which shows that Bush's vote percentage for all brands of voting machines - Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia increased in 2004 in 59 of 67 counties.
The glaring exception was the single county that used the ES&S release 4.3 which showed an increase of ~15% for Kerry.
http://www.adl.org/Internet_Rumors/prescott.htm
The Anti-Defamation League in the US is supportive of Prescott Bush and the Bush family. In a statement last year they said that "rumours about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated ... Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathiser."
Seems like some slashdotters may also be wiki battlers.
One from the Bush wiki entry http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12926 0&cid=10782164
"George Bush's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade. "
One from the Kerry wiki entry http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12926 0&cid=10782206
Without Wiki, most people would never know that John Kerry's grandfather was the chairman of the United Negro College Fund.
Without wiki, no one would know that John Kerry's grandfather made a fortune in the opium trade.
"John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade. "
Without Wiki, most people would never know that President Bush's grandfather was the chairman of the United Negro College Fund.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/10/te resa_heinz_ke.html
Your figure for gross income is incorrect - you are using the Adjusted Gross Income figure, which is much less than the value for gross income.
Teresa Heinz Kerry on Friday released a portion of her 2003 federal tax return, reporting that she paid $627k in federal income taxes on $2.3 million of AGI, primarily from dividends and interest.
She received $5.1 million of gross income, $2.8 million of it tax exempt interest income.
Ms. Heinz Kerry, who filed separately from Senator Kerry, thus paid federal income tax at the rate of 12.3% of her gross income and 27.4% of her AGI