From the Guerrilla News Network & Eminem, Mosh gets a new ending.

In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.

In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.

The pattern repeats over and over again – but only in the counties where optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats, went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush.

Read the full article here at commondreams.org.

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

"It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

"If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."

– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter of 1798, after the passage of the Sedition Act.

]]> http://kellyd.com/2004/11/07/a-quote-from-william-gibsons-blog/feed/ 0 kellydallen http://kellyd.com/2004/11/05/4-more-years-america/ http://kellyd.com/2004/11/05/4-more-years-america/#comments Sat, 06 Nov 2004 03:11:37 +0000 kellydallen http://www.kellydallen.com/?p=46 ]]> Some brief thoughts on the election from a current US soldier and Iraq war veteran:

If you voted for Bush, didn’t vote, or voted no on gay marriage, I hope you get drafted.
I hope they stick you in my unit, and you go with me to Iraq when my unit goes back in September. I will laugh when you see what soldiers in that country face on a daily basis. I hope you work with gay soldiers too. I did. One of them saved my life. Think he shouldn’t have the right to get married? Fuck you. He fought just as hard as I did and on most days, did his job better than me. Don’t tell me gays don’t have the same rights you do.
Think the war in Iraq is a good thing? I’ll donate my M-16 to you and you can go in my place.

Why did a voting machine in Republican Gahanna, Ohio report 4,258 votes for George W. Bush when only 638 people cast votes at the New Life Church polling site?

If Kerry had been the winner and an irregularity like this were discovered in his favor, all hellfire and brimstone would rain down upon the earth.  Does anyone actually think this is just an isolated case?

I feel bad for the Red States.

    Yes, they won the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and most of the state houses.  But they still can’t have the country they really want because the last few Blue States won’t roll over.  So I am making a simple proposal:

    Secession.  Divorce.  Splitsville.

    Personally, I think we made a huge mistake not letting them go when we had the chance back in 1862.  Well, no time like the present to correct an old mistake.

    Then, they would finally be free to have the kind of society they’ve always wanted; church and state can be fused so they build the kind of theocracy they’ve dreamt of, with Jesus at the helm.  Then the new USAR (United States of America Red) can ban books, repeal civil rights, persecute gays and have all the wars they like. They want prayer in schools?   More power to them.  They can ban abortion and post the Ten Commandments in every federal building in their country.  Bring back slavery, if they want.  We’ll be free to live with our like-minded countrymen who believe in science, modernism, tolerance, religion as a personal choice, and truly want limited government intrusion in our personal lives.  Why should each side be driven mad by the other any more, decade after decade?

    Call the Culture War a tie and everyone go home.

    Of course, we in the U.S.A.B. get the Gross Domestic Product, businesses and universities of California, New York, Massachussetts — basically the whole Northeast and Northwest (plus Illinois and Michigan if they want to come along).  They get Wal-Mart and Duke and most of the Nascar tracks.  But they can feel free to import movies, TV shows, financial services, and defense technology.  We’ll import country music, bibles and Confederate flags.

    The two countries will by necessity have open immigration policy: anyone who feels they are living in the wrong country can just move across the border, no questions asked.

    Ultimately, why should I have to convince my fellow countrymen that Darwin may have had a point and that the word “liberal” is not equivalent to “godless communist?”  And why should they be forced to live in a country with morally corrupt non-believers?  I’ll stay in the messy, free-thinking U.S.A.B.  And to the U.S.A.R. I say…

God bless you all, and see you at the U.N

]]> http://kellyd.com/2004/11/05/my-modest-proposal/feed/ 3 kellydallen http://kellyd.com/2004/11/04/a-diebold-flashback/ http://kellyd.com/2004/11/04/a-diebold-flashback/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2004 05:11:57 +0000 kellydallen http://www.kellydallen.com/?p=43 ]]> Courtesy of Boing Boing, here’s a timely flashback to a CNN story including statements made by Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell:

The company came under fire last year for a letter that Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell wrote as a fundraising pitch to Republicans. In the letter, O’Dell said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." Diebold is based in North Canton, Ohio.

]]> http://kellyd.com/2004/11/04/a-diebold-flashback/feed/ 0 kellydallen http://kellyd.com/2004/11/03/bush-unbound/ http://kellyd.com/2004/11/03/bush-unbound/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2004 01:11:06 +0000 kellydallen http://www.kellydallen.com/?p=41 ]]> I lied.  One other very pertinent article about what to look forward to in the years to come:

Brought along with Bush is a gallery of grotesques in the Senate—more than one of the new senators advocating capital punishment for abortion, another urging that all gay teachers be fired, yet another revealed as suffering from obvious symptoms of Alzheimer’s.

Bush likes to use old Texas sayings a lot. I have one for him. In Texas there is a saying that goes, ‘Give em enough rope and they will hang themselves.’ Well, I guess the Republicans have all the rope they need.

If you just accepted Diebolt’s rigged voting machines, then it’s your fault we’re heading into an Ashcroftian  fascist state.

If you –like too many people in New Mexico–just accepted the Republicans’ blocking of the registration of Hispanic voters, widely reported in NM, then it’s your fault that the poor will be increasingly enslaved and disenfranchised in the next four years.

If you just shrugged and let the election happen, it’s your fault we’re going to choke on environmental toxins in the next four years.

If you’re in Big Media and you’re pretending that nothing sketchy, nothing shady went on in this Presidential race… if you turned your back on the evidence–if you ignored the ACLU lawsuits, if you didn’t report, on CNN and Fox and NBC and ABC and CBS on the evidence of voter fraud by the Republicans in Florida and Ohio, thus giving no support to calls to investigate–then it’s your fault, too, that we’re going to lose thousands more American soldiers in an incompetently run war in Iraq, and it’s your fault that tens of thousands of civilians will die in the crossfire.

If you voted for Ralph Nader, it’s your fault that the minimum wage will not pass, and that OSHA safety standards will deteriorate for American workers; it’s your fault, ironically, that automobile companies will not be held to safer standards in manufacture, and more people will die in accidents; it’s your fault the forests will be clear cut and the parks will turn into oil fields.

If you didn’t push for Kerry then it’s your fault that the wealthy will get tax breaks while the Middle Class pays more; it’s your fault that multinational corporations will get tax loopholes, and it’s your fault we’ll be stuck paying high prices for oil because there’s no real effort for an energy alternative; and it’s your fault that gays and women will be disempowered.

If you voted for George Bush then it’s your own fault  you don’t have health care; it’s your own fault global warming continues unabated, wrecking the world for your grandchildren; it’s your own fault that terrorism will only get worse, because Bush will feed those fires; it’s your fault that a fanatic religious cult will finish taking over the White House; it’s your own fault that you’re going to lose your civil liberties.

And you will get the theocracy, the thinly-disguisted dictatorship, the poisoned environment, that you deserve.