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Democracy In Chains
The Guardian ^
| 6/23/06
| Greg Palast
Posted on 06/24/2006 1:52:22 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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Greg Palast is an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering turned journalist. Tribune magazine called him the most important investigative reporter of our time and he is best known in his native USA for his investigative work on how thousands of black people were not able to vote in the Florida ballot at the 2000 election in which George Bush was elected president.So as you can see from his biography Mr. Palast specializes in fiction, tho I'm sure he's a featured speaker at the tinfoil hat conventions.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Talk about hysteria!
(The root hyster- comes from the Greek word for womb. So, the psycholological disturbance termed hysteria was originally believed to be a disease of women and resulted from some disturbance in the uterus.)
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posted on
06/24/2006 1:56:04 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Refute the Drive-By Media. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
What an idiot.
Only a DUmmie could take this fool seriously.
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posted on
06/24/2006 1:58:36 AM PDT
by
West Coast Conservative
(Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.)
To: Jeff Chandler
actually they believed that the utereus would wander in the body causing mental disorder
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posted on
06/24/2006 2:05:35 AM PDT
by
wildcatf4f3
(Islam Schmislam blahblahblah, enough already!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Cripes. Where I live, it's not even legal to ask voters for ONE PIECE OF ID when casting a ballot.
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posted on
06/24/2006 2:07:30 AM PDT
by
Question Liberal Authority
(Now that Zarqawi is dead, who will the Democrats nominate in 2008?)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
What a crock.
They're getting desperate.
And it shows.
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posted on
06/24/2006 2:08:06 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(I'm Shizophrenic. No, I'm Not. Yes, I Am. No, I'm NOT. Are TOO. Am NOT.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Complaints by a couple of good ol' boys to legislation have never stopped the GOP leadership from rolling over dissenters.
I can't count the number of time the good ol' boys have been begging the GOP leadership for a guest worker program, amnesty for illegal aliens, and absolutely no fence on the border.
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posted on
06/24/2006 2:10:44 AM PDT
by
Question Liberal Authority
(Now that Zarqawi is dead, who will the Democrats nominate in 2008?)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I can't speak for the rest of the country, but here in NYC where the Demon-rats run the schools, only fractions of classes graduate.
New York is actually churning out 4 times more morons than ever. Of course in defense, Randi Weingarten is carping about the teachers not making enough.
If I was the mayor, I would offer a raise as soon as an entire class graduated.
The way it is now, most NY Public School children earn a GED at Rikers Island.
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posted on
06/24/2006 2:14:39 AM PDT
by
Nitro
(Mil)
To: wildcatf4f3
actually they believed that the utereus would wander in the body causing mental disorderEeeewwww!
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posted on
06/24/2006 2:15:10 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Refute the Drive-By Media. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Yes, Palast has been in the forefront of exposing wrongdoing and corruption, even though he could find absolutely no facts or evidence indicating such. This is truly and important distinction. He also has carefully avoided researching and exposing the obvious vote fraud corruption perpetrated by Democrat officials during the idiotic "Gore hanging chad recount" fiasco. He has effectively missed clues and indications of blatant vote manipulation via this phony gambit that a blind man could see. No wonder Poltroon Magazine has honored him with the "most least important investigative journalistic failure to ignore in 2006" award.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
the Republican party's decision yesterday to "delay" the renewal of the Voting Rights Act has not a darn thing to do with objections of the Republican's white sheets caucus. Wow, this nutcase refers to the KKK at least 3 times in this article; the only ex-KKK member I know of in Congress is U.S. Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd, Democrat from West Virginia.
Oh, the irony of it all :-)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Michael Moore shows Florida voter "scrub list" on reporter Greg Palast's computer. (photo: M.Pascarella)
Greg Palast and... Ta Da. You guessed it.
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posted on
06/24/2006 3:20:26 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
This person has touching faith. Generations may come and go, the Republican Party may switch from the assumption that tax revenue is proportional to tax rate to the assumption that tax revenue is weakly or even negatively influenced by tax rate, southern whites may drop their tradional allegiance to the Democratic Party and even join the party of Lincoln - but he has faith that white southerners will never be respectable. Blacks may dominate voting districts in all our cities, and the reported turnout in Philadelphia may exceed the adult population of the city - but this foreigner knows that blacks are discriminated against in voting. He has faith. Facts? He don't need no stinkin' facts! He can make up facts anytime he wants!
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posted on
06/24/2006 3:29:19 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Talk about hysteria!Yep!
Isn't it wonderful to see the b*$tards squirming around so?
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posted on
06/24/2006 3:56:14 AM PDT
by
Bigun
(IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
To: Richard Axtell
What many people missed in the first machine voter recount in Florida was the statistical impossibility of what happened. The first recount increase Al Gore's vote total by several thousand. When dealing with a set of data in the millions the gains and losses from each candidate would have canceled out and the second count should have had the same distribution as the first count with the following exception. Since the ballots were essential computer punch cards and a small fraction of them will be damaged at each machine count both candidates should have lost a few votes due to a ballot that was not readable. There is no way in hell Al Gores vote total should have increased. Both vote totals should have decreased.
The first machine recount had massive ballot box stuffing in favor of Gore. They just did not stuff enough into the first recount to give Gore the victory. They did try very hard.
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posted on
06/24/2006 3:59:02 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
To: American in Singapore
Wow, this nutcase refers to the KKK at least 3 times in this article; the only ex-KKK member I know of in Congress is U.S. Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd, Democrat from West Virginia. He is the most senior DEMONICrat in the Senate. On a lighter note, the deceased Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who was black, would say to Senator Byrd when he had occasion to bump into him, "Whats shaking sheets?" I did not care for many of Marshall's rulings, but I did love his sense of humor.
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posted on
06/24/2006 4:16:59 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
To: cpdiii
You got that right. Here in Palm Beach county, we contributed 10,000 more Gore votes in a matter of three hours. And, the election officer gave Bob Montgomery, tobacco lawsuit litigator a black eye.
To: raybbr
Laurel and Hardy up to their misguided shenanigans again.
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posted on
06/24/2006 4:34:51 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
To: ClaireSolt
btw, when I workled as a poll watcher in 2002, the poll workers told me that their voter rolls still had 1/3 dead people to accomodate busloads of non-English speaking Haitians clamoring to exercise their voting rights.
To: Question Liberal Authority; All
"Cripes. Where I live, it's not even legal to ask voters for ONE PIECE OF ID when casting a ballot." Thank goodness here in Volusia County Florida, WE don't have to put up THAT. Volusia County Florida requires fool=proof, secure ID here, otherwise, NO VOTE FOR YOU !!
I just have to show a COPY of my "light bill".
It keeps those darn idiots with no electricity from trying to screw with the voting process. I would HATE to be one of the poll workers here though. Lots of families name the whole family with the same FIRST initial, and some of them are BIG families !! You know, like "J Smith".
That makes it hard,when say :
John,Jeremy,Joyce,James,Jacqueline,Joseph,Juanita,Jimmy,Joe,Johnny,Jeremiah,Jean, and Joey Smith, are all at the same address,and vote on election day.
( I think it's a little strange when parents name all the kids like that, but at least THEY come out and vote and not stay away from the polls on an election day like some people !!)
Glad I don't have to put up with all that voter fraud mischief, with people trying to vote with NO ID !!!
I'd just hate to have to work the polls that day and try to read through all those light bill COPIES !!
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posted on
06/24/2006 4:53:39 AM PDT
by
musicman
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