Good morning!

Thanks PW. I saw a short piece on this at NBC’s website yesterday for about an hour and since then, Poof! It’s not anywhere in the mainstream media outlets now. Apparently it’s much more widespread in Virginia than originally thought. The RNC fired this firm, (supposedly) but then the Virginia Republicans immediately hired them to do their own dirty work.

Hey PW & Pupses:

Speaking of voter suppression, the subject came up on Maher’s show last night. John Fund (along with some other wingnut moran) was yammering about the massive voter fraud committed by (wait for it) Acorn. While the rightwingers are obviously tools and/or useful idiots, Fund is a cut above (well, below actually) the rest of them – just a major-league, dimwitted jackass.

Are these people really this stupid or are they just so bought off that they’re able to sublimate any twinge of conscience that might happen to arise? I simply cannot t get my mind (such as it is) around this. Whatever the rationale, I would submit that there are some serious hard-wiring problems going on inside their craniums. What other explanation can there be? (I’m actually sorta seriously posing this question.)

I’ve always said that to be conservative, one first has to be a little bit of a sociopath. If they cared about people other than themselves, they wouldn’t be conservative. They are cowards, afraid of everything that doesn’t suit their idea of “normal” and have no conscience when it comes to stepping on or over everybody else to accomplish the goal of forming a cocoon to make themselves feel safe.

Yup. There’s simply isn’t much else that could explain it. What is most alarming to me about that assertion is the large number of people who actually fit that profile. I attempt to allay my own fears (to a degree) by convincing myself that a long-term steady diet of solid journalism and other good information might bring truly help a chunk of these otherwise lost souls. In other words, journalistic malpractice is a major problem, in my opinion.

Gotsta bail. Be back around these parts later on.

I’ve always said that to be conservative, one first has to be a little bit of a sociopath.

Look into the face of Colin Small,
tell me that don’t say it all

I have to fault the Obama administration for going instant-panic and shutting down funding to Acorn BEFORE it was found that the evidence, created by Breitbart and O’Keefe was totally fraudulent. They also freaked out and fired that social worker (the name escapes me) BEFORE considering the source of the damning evidence… again, Breitbart and O’Keefe.

Why doesn’t Holder simply investigate all that Sproul does, since most everything he does is against the law?

In NM, voter registrars are issued packets of forms, numbered sequentially. There is a tear-off receipt for the voter with the number of their form on it. If they do not receive their voter card, they can call their county clerk (all the clerks’ numbers are listed by county on the receipt), and the registrar who issued the form is responsible. Unless the clerk is in on some kind of voting registration fraud, the person who registered that voter would be in trouble.

I don’t know how it works in other places, but I can say that this is one of the clean-ups that was put into place after the 2004 election when newly registered voters were not found on the voter rolls. This is the same time we got paper ballots.

The last fix to our system is an audit for the vote. We have to account for every ballot issued to voters, and if the totals don’t match the number of voters, it is a big deal. The audit is designed to account for any discrepancies in the vote tallies from the paper ballots.

It is not a foolproof system, but it is pretty close. Of course it was due to voter action and progressive legislators that we have been able to get it done.

Our current SoS is a Repubican, and she has not been above some dirty tricks, including trying to get voter ID passed every session. But so far, she has not been successful. We currently have some investigations, nationally and from the NM AG, because some R groups have been training poll watchers and voter challengers to demand ID that is not required as well as other intimidation tactics. It has been recorded and is on You-tube, so they are totally busted.

Yep, that was a cowardly capitulation.

Speaking of Issa, I’ll make you all a deal: Help me help get Darrell Issa out of office before he endangers more lives. Jerry Tetalman’s war chest isn’t one tenth Issa’s is but we can make a difference.

Probably shouldn’t violate Godwin’s Law so early in the morning, but the perp does look like a Aryan master-racist’s wet dream.

Close to my thought…So doesn’t look like the “good kid.” Sad, I’d say.

I was just glad to hear that the discarded registrations got delivered finally. At least those discarded registrations were.

Issa is simply following the republican ideal of winning at all costs. Don’t forget the outing of a CIA agent by the Bush administration and the deaths that were probably caused overseas. This is very similar. They don’t care enough to think it through. Or they like being responsible for the murders of others. Makes me wonder if the republicans might have had anything to do with the consulate being attacked. They sure reacted swiftly, irresponsibly and incorrectly to the attack. Seemed they were ready for it.

And yet, Bradley Manning’s prosecution never ends.

oh and Reagan made a deal with the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election.

You see what I see.

It’s inconvenient, but obvious.