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Combat brigade may help secure inauguration

# Combat brigade may help secure inauguration
Omaha World-Herald - Nov 07 10:20 PM
WASHINGTON - An unprecedented level of security will frame President Bush's second inauguration, with officials planning to use thousands of police from across the country, new screening technology for inaugural guests and a military contingent that could include a combat brigade of up to 4,000 troops.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=54&u_sid=1252479

# Unprecedented inauguration security plans
The Washington Times - Nov 07 9:12 AM
WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Security, always a concern in Washington, will be at unprecedented levels for President Bush's second inauguration Jan. 20 -- possibly including 4,000 troops.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041107-114046-3762r.htm

# Security layers padded for Bush's inauguration
Miami Herald - Nov 08 12:22 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/10125371.htm?1c

# Inauguration security will be unprecedented
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Nov 08 12:21 AM
It will be the first since 9/11. About 2,000 out-of-town officers, military personnel, chemical sensors and new screening technology will be deployed.

Video of Tanks at anti-war protest in LA Nov 9, 2004

LA, November 9 2004 At 7:50 PM

two armored tanks showed up at an anti-war protest in front of the federal building in Westwood. The tanks circled the block twice, the second time parking themselves in the street and directly in front of the area where most of the protesters were gathered. Enraged, some of the people attempted to block the tanks, but police quickly cleared the street. The people continued to protest the presence of the tanks, but about ten minutes the tanks drove off. It is unclear as to why the tanks were deployed to this location.

Crooks and Liars

Crooks and Liars: "Keith Olbermann on Voter Irregularities: Part 1

Keith talks about the new Cincinnati Enquirer article and a host of other voter problems in Ohio and Florida.

Video

Keith Olbermann on Voter Irregularities: Part II

Interview with John Conyers. A senior member in the House of Representatives that was elected by his congressional colleagues to lead the Democratic side of the pivotal House Committee on the Judiciary.

Video

Daily Kos :: The real Question: Why are we still w/ Diebold

The real Question: Why are we still w/ Diebold

Daily Kos :: totals from yesterday

10,000 Extra Votes Added in Nebraska County Another ES&S computer 'failure'. http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html

50,000 Votes could be LOST in Dem Indiana County! Yet another ES&S computer 'failure'.
http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt

19,000 new ballots were added after all precincts reported for Miami county ohio
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983

268,159 more votes than voters in florida
http://ideamouth.com/voterfraud.htm#FL

22000 votes in Guilford county NC
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/charlotte/news/special_packages/election2004/10104576.htm

11,283 votes in Craven county NC

4,530 votes lost in Carteret county
http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/stories/110404ccjrwcncpolmissingvotes.264d17aa.html

4000 extra votes in Mecklenburg NC
http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/local_news/mecklenburg/?ArID=78411&SecID=3

Diaries :: drummer55's diary ::

4000 votes in PA
http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/288078640794824.php

3893 votes in Franklin county OH
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html

4000 lost votes in mercer county OH
http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/288078640794824.php"

What's the picture hanging in the Oval Office ?

Our dreams will never fit in their ballot boxes

Our dreams will never fit in their ballot boxes

Daily Kos :: Moore Videos from Ohio Appear

Kos

You may recall that Michael Moore recruited volunteers to assist with video in Ohio and Florida on election day. One of the videos has finally hit, and it doesn't look pretty. It's not clear from the video how many votes were affected, but what is clear is that Republicans were on the ground in black precincts. It will be interesting to see what else starts to emerge from the Moore camp.

Video here:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/06/electionday_footage_.html

For information on reported voter intimidation

machine failures, and other issues, voteprotect.org is a good place to go. Here is their Florida list, for example.

I said before that I did not think these voter intimidation efforts had much demonstrable effect on turnout. After looking at things for a few days, I'm hedging that statement a bit. For example, calls in Orange County (Orlando) and other Florida counties suggest a coordinated effort to contact voters and tell them that their precinct or polling place had changed when in fact it had not. In other counties, Republican challengers showed up at the polls not only with the 'felon lists', but with pictures of 'felons' who were not to be allowed to vote. Both in FL and OH, there are some pretty grim things in the reports, but the scope is unclear.

Iraq Declares Martial Law, 23 Police Killed

Iraq Declares Martial Law, 23 Police Killed
By Fadel al-Badrani
Reuters

Sunday 07 November 2004

FALLUJA, Iraq - Iraq's interim government declared martial law on
Sunday after insurgents killed 23 Iraqi policemen and set off blasts
in Baghdad in a fresh show of force before a planned U.S. offensive on
Falluja and Ramadi.

"We have decided to declare a state of emergency in all areas of
Iraq, with the exception of the region of Kurdistan for a period of 60
days," Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's spokesman Thaer al-Naqib told a
news conference.

He said the state of emergency, equivalent to martial law, was
intended to ensure security ahead of elections in January.

The government gave itself emergency powers soon after replacing
Iraq's U.S.-led administration on June 28, but it has not yet used
them despite a raging insurgency.

Moments after the announcement carried on live Iraqi television, a
car bomb exploded near the house of Iraq's finance minister in central
Baghdad. It was not immediately clear if Adel Abdul Mahdi or anyone
else had been hurt.

Insurgents have launched a wave of violence in central Iraq to show
their muscle before U.S.-led forces assault Falluja and Ramadi. The
Americans say they are only awaiting the word from Allawi, who
returned from Europe on Saturday, to attack.

Police said gunmen killed 23 policemen in three attacks in Iraq. The
bloodiest assault was in Haditha, 200 km (125 miles) northwest of
Baghdad, where insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars
attacked a police station at dawn.

After a 90-minute battle in which six policemen were wounded, the
attackers took 21 captured policemen to the K-3 oil pumping station
area and shot them dead execution-style.

Brigadier Shaher al-Jughaifi, security chief in western Iraq, died
in an attack on a police post in nearby Haqlaniya.

Gunmen killed another Iraqi police officer and wounded one in the
town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, police said. A suicide car
bomber attacked a U.S. convoy on the highway to Baghdad airport. A
U.S. spokesman could not confirm the report.

In Falluja, residents said fighting erupted on the eastern edge of
the city near the highway leading to Baghdad after intense overnight
air strikes and artillery shelling.

Samarra Curfew

On Saturday, bombings and attacks on police stations killed 34
people, mostly police, in the restive city of Samarra, some 100 km (60
miles) north of Baghdad. Allawi's office said 49 people were also
wounded. All the casualties were men.

U.S. troops enforced a round-the-clock curfew in Samarra and nearby
villages on Sunday, paralyzing normal life.

Local officials said they were asking the Americans to lift the
curfew at least briefly so that people could go to mosques and shops.
They also wanted U.S. troops to reopen roads around the sealed-off
city to let stranded people get home.

The Samarra violence erupted barely a month after U.S. and Iraqi
forces stormed the city to dislodge rebels in what was then seen as a
model for similar actions in Falluja and Ramadi.

The Haditha killings recalled last month's slaughter of 49 unarmed
army recruits on a lonely road northeast of Baghdad.

Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, which previously claimed
responsibility for that mass killing, also said it was behind
Saturday's car bombings in Samarra.

The U.S. military says 1,000 to 6,000 fighters, including some loyal
to Zarqawi, are holed up in Falluja.

Falluja residents said U.S. air strikes interspersed with artillery
shelling set off huge explosions from about 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) onwards.
There was no word on casualties.

U.S. attacks have killed dozens of guerrillas, but have failed to
scare them away, a senior Marine commander said.

Regiment Commander Colonel Michael Shupp said escape routes out of
the city were still open but rebels were not leaving despite days of
fierce air and artillery bombardment.

About 450 troops from Britain's Black Watch regiment moved across
the Euphrates river, southwest of Baghdad, in what a Sky News reporter
embedded with them called a major redeployment.

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With reporting by Faris al-Mahdawi in Baquba, Michael Georgy near
Falluja, Akram Saleh in Baghdad and Sabah al-Bazee in Samarra.

Yahoo! News - Ground Zero Suicide Inspired by Election

And we thought WE were taking it too hard...
Yahoo! News - Ground Zero Suicide Inspired by Election: "Ground Zero Suicide Inspired by Election

1 hour, 10 minutes ago

U.S. National - AP

NEW YORK - A 25-year-old man from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found, Coleman said."

Presidential candidate's defeat paves way for a new country: Caliwashegon.

Presidential candidate's defeat paves way for a new country: Caliwashegon.

Northeast and Upper Midwest weigh secession, too.



by George Wolfe



After the announcement of George Bush's election to the presidency in 2004, the Democratic-leaning West Coast officially broke off from the United States and formed a separate country, to be known as the sovereign nation of Caliwashegon.



Barbara Boxer (former D-Calif.), Patty Murray (former D-Wash.) and Ron Wyden (former D-Ore.) lead the secession movement. Boxer matter-of-factly noted that "We did our best to get out the vote, and it just didn't work - so now we're getting ourselves out before it's too late." Asked by a Fox News reporter about Kerry's concession message urging Americans to come together as one, without anger or rancor, Boxer said, "Heal the nation? To hell with the nation...

going to hell in a handbasket!!" after which she lunged and bit the reporter's ear.



Without California, Oregon and Washington, the United States would be reduced to just 47 states. Democrats and disenfranchised independents in Republican-leaning states gathered their belongings and began a mass exodus to join their new homeland in Caliwashegon. The steady march of alienated citizens is being called the Trail of Fears in light of four more years of the current administration's wreaking of havoc and mayhem.



The Northeast has also been discussing the possibility of secession from the United States, perhaps along with the Upper Midwest. So far, three plans have been floated. The first plan posits a sovereign Northeast nation, known perhaps as New New England. The second plan would join forces with the Caliwashegon movement, creating a predominantly bi-coastal Blue Union of liberals and independents. The third proposal would be for full repatriation as a colony of England.



Speaking to the sleeper issue which put these nation-breaking forces into motion, Cincinnati resident Sally Steubitt defended her vote for Bush by saying, "In the end, I just wasn't convinced that enough people had died yet in the name of moral values. But fortunately we now have a mandate to wash our hands of a loving Christ, in the blood of Iraqis."

Election Results Data Extract Utility

FL Election Results Data Extract Utility
Election Results Data Extract Utility

Anyone handy with Excel ??!?!?

Don't Blame Me I Voted 4 Kerry

Elizabeth Edward: Patience shall be rewarded

Daily Kos :: Elizabeth Edward: Patience shall be rewarded: "Elizabeth Edward's post on Democrat Underground:

Something to mull over... I hope she and Teddy are right!

Elizabeth Edward's post on Democrat Underground:
... I want to share something inspiring, part of a letter from Thomas Jefferson.. Jefferson sent the letter in 1798 after the passage of the Sedition Act:

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."

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004: "COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch."

Yahoo! News - Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush (news - web sites) 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365."