What's Coming
I think John Kerry was close when he said more of the same. The part he left out though is that there is no holding back because there is no reelection worry. God, guns and gays. If you are for the first two and against the last one you are OK if not look out. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the draft will be back too.

This theory everyone has that Bush won because of values is making me angry. This issue is a framed so that it implies that Bush won because those that voted for him have good moral values and those that voted against him don't. That is wrong and here is the proof.

As you will see below the whole "values" issue is just a smoke screen to cover what actually happened that isn't being reported. Remember it was actually Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile who wrote the entry in the Encyclopedia Italiana that said: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." As all three of the articles point out, we are now obviously ruled by corporatism. When corporations control the machines that count the votes and can kill without serious penalty those are definite signs we are there. We are not fascist yet but how much more can we take? Don't forget, "Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who COUNT the votes decide everything."

Greg Palast tells us...
Kerry Won

Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided—known as “spoilage” in election jargon—because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Palast’s investigation suggests that if Ohio’s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots.

Thom Hartmann
The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy

The hot story in the Blogosphere is that the "erroneous" exit polls that showed Kerry carrying Florida and Ohio (among other states) weren't erroneous at all - it was the numbers produced by paperless voting machines that were wrong, and Kerry actually won. As more and more analysis is done of what may (or may not) be the most massive election fraud in the history of the world, however, it's critical that we keep the largest issue at the forefront at all time: Why are We The People allowing private, for-profit corporations, answerable only to their officers and boards of directors, and loyal only to agendas and politicians that will enhance their profitability, to handle our votes?

Molly Ivins can always make me laugh though
Do you know how to cure a chicken-killin' dog?

So, fellow progressives, stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad. Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do something immediately, now, today. Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country -- join something, send a little money to some group, call somewhere and offer to volunteer, find a politician you like at the local level and start helping him or her to move up.

Think about how you can lend a hand to the amazing myriad efforts that will promptly break out to help the country recover from what it has done to itself. Now is the time. Don't mourn, organize.

Maureen Dowd
The Red Zone

The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel.
W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

- posted by Mom/Dad @ 5:43 PM