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Film Recommendation: Plot Summary for Yangtse Incident (1957) While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.

Republican vs. Democrat Stimulus Packages: Democrats want to give you an allowance. Republicans want to cut the government's allowance.

STEALING ELECTIONS FOR DUMMIES Lesson 1: Selective Manual Recounts Every close election becomes a signal-to-noise problem. For the purposes of this guide to stealing elections, I will leave aside stochastic variables that affect turnout, like weather, and the non-random variables, like fraud. Instead I will focus only on imperfections in the system of recording votes. Human beings are fallible and will commit errors to some measurable extent in any process. They may make stray marks on a ballot, fail to punch through a punch card, leave a hanging chad and the like. Different voting systems provide different opportunities for ...

THE TRUTH ABOUT NASSAU COUNTY FLORIDA AND THE "MISSING" 51 VOTES. Why are MSNBC and the other news outlets airing the false charges of the Minority leaders in the House and Senate without correction when the truth is well known to them? The following is from a front page article on 27 November 2000 in the Florida Times-Union:              Boies also said the campaign will challenge the actions             taken by the canvassing board in Nassau County, which             belatedly decided to change its membership and certify             the original election results rather than those provided by             a ...

The least important fact of this bizarre election is not the installation of G.W. Bush as President of the United States. It is that for the first time in living memory the Republican Party has won this sort of battle. And they won it starting from scratch against a well-oiled force in being. We must, as a political power feeling its oats for the first time, plan for the future. Let me list some goals:   Assemble as large a group as possible in Washington, D.C. (and in the State capitols and major cities) to celebrate on January 20th. Exert ...

HOW WILL IT END?   Act 1 ended with the eerie scene at the two campaign headquarters on election night. Two masses of loyal followers waiting breathlessly for a verdict. Act 2 spun out of control from that elevating moment. After many dramatic reversals of fortune, it ended with the Florida Supreme Court ruling, which seemed to portend a quick Gore victory. Act 3 started on an ironic note. In a sublime example of poetic justice, the Florida Supreme Court's arrogant and partisan meddling robbed Gore of his ill gotten gains in Miami Dade. The act then careened off into ...

POSSIBLE VOTE COUNT FRAUD CAUGHT ON FOX NEWS? Fox News showed the recount in Broward County live for a few minutes. During this time Gore picked up a vote on each and every ballot examined -- at least three. One ballot was, possibly, an example of vote manufacture. Its was pronounced a non-vote by the man on the (our) right. The judge in the middle agreed. The woman on the left claimed to see light through the chad. The judge looked again and still did not see light. The woman took the ballot back and held it up. Then, or ...

A Call to Arms We start our lives in families and learn to accept legitimate authority. As we move into adulthood we transfer our allegiance to the wider society and state. Among nations there is no such legitimacy. Relations are more like the Wild West; power rules. In the Old West, outside the reach of law, people did not slaughter each other without restraint. And nations states do not war with each other perpetually. But the shallow veneer of harmony covers an abyss where naked power rules. The stuff that differentiates our experience as citizens in a democracy from the ...

THE DECISION IS GOOD NEWS! This decision by the Florida Supreme Court is actually good news -- if the Republicans have the nerve to play this game to the end. It would have been better news had the Court stepped up to its responsibilities and ruled responsibly. But they did not. Even a cursory read of the tortured logic and hair splitting in their opinion leaves one certain that the decision was reached first and the justification cobbled together later. But of all the bad outcomes that one had to expect from this arrogant and dim-witted Court, this one is ...

THE LEGAL CONTEST MAY BE A PHOTO FINISH, TOO If you read the following carefully, you will see how delicately balanced are the legal issues upon which this election will be determined. If the other side uses the Contest process to steal the election, our hopes will be pinned on an appeal based on their not having followed pre-existing statutory methods. This might be a close call. A better solution might be for the legislature to intervene now based on the fact that there was, as of election day, no winner. They would use their power to decide how ...

TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 of Federal Code Sec. 1. Time of appointing electors The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President. Sec. 2. Failure to make choice on prescribed day Whenever any State has held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature ...

CONTINGENCY PLANS January 6, 2001 If the final decision is thrown to the Congress -- for example, if two slates of electors send votes to Washington -- there should be a Million 'Merican March on the Capitol. (Not called that, of course.) I am not talking about a Free Republic protest. I mean an organized, mass demonstration of people from all walks of life, all political persuasions and all parts of the country. January 20, 2001 If Gore does succeed in stealing this election, there should be a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C. -- a peaceful but hostile demonstration. ...

A WINNING ENDGAME Yesterday I posted an article here to the effect that the Florida Secretary of State could, as a last resort, trump the Florida Supreme Court, should it intrude into the election process, by kicking the decision into the State legislature. Many here misunderstood the potential consequences, believing that this would leave Gore the winner. Please read the following article on the Washington Post site: Florida Legislature Can Select Florida's Electors  I have written the following email to Tom Feeney:   Subject: DECLARE FLORIDA RESULTS UNCERTIFIABLE DUE TO FRAUD AND        ABUSE    Date:  Sat, 18 Nov ...

As a Vietnam veteran I have been outraged by the disenfranchisement of military overseas voters in Florida. I refer to the cynical effort mounted by the Democrats to challenge these ballots. Along with the Kangaroo Count it invalidates the results entirely. I encourage the Florida Secretary of State, if she is prevented from doing her duty, to declare that fraud, bad faith and political manipulation have been so rampant in the Florida vote that no valid result can be certified. The Courts can render all the opinions they want about Florida law, but they cannot force a constitutional officer to ...

In this post-modern age, of course, even court decisions can be deconstructed. The Gore people seem to take the position that the admonition to the Secretary of State exercise discretion in a non-arbitrary manner is actually a license to Democrats to ignore her edicts. It may not matter. The ruling, if un-appealed, defers the legal squabble. And it may doom the Gore effort to steal the election. The Secretary of State should now require certified results by the deadline today. As she has. She should require overseas results by Friday. Then, assuming no county has a valid reason to change ...

The Florida Attorney General's Office: Legal Opinions   Frequently Asked Questions About Attorney General Opinions I. General Nature and Purpose of Opinions  Issuing legal opinions to governmental agencies has long been a function of the Office of the Attorney General. Attorney General Opinions serve to provide legal advice on questions of statutory interpretation and can provide guidance to public bodies as an alternative to costly litigation. Opinions of the Attorney General, however, are not law. They are advisory only and are not binding in a court of law. Attorney General Opinions are intended to address only questions of law, ...

A WINNING BUSH STRATEGY As some may recall, I predicted some time ago that the Democrats would try to use ambiguities in the 12th Amendment to disenfranchise Florida. That they would also fight on two other parallel fronts: Rigging the recounts. Subverting Bush electors. Many here ridiculed my conclusion that we had, at best, a 50%-50% chance of retaining our electoral victory. I feel vindicated. Let me outline here the only possible winning strategy for our side: I have doubts about the Bush case in Federal Court. But having made it, it is worth pursuing as it launches an appeals ...

We Got The Guns The Democrats will attempt to take the White House through three parallel tracks: First. They will try to overturn the Florida result in the Courts, based on the "voting mistakes." Second. They will try to switch three electors using the "popular will of American voters" argument and the "thwarted will of Florida voters" argument. Third. And this has not been commented on to my knowledge. See also the 12th Amendment below. What does "if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed" mean? Does it mean 270 or more? Or does it ...

This is what the Rule Book says about the Senate race in Missouri: "No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen." A man who is dead at the time of his election cannot be seated as Senator. The failure to seat an unqualified candidate does not create a vacancy. The next highest poling candidate should be seated.

Someone with access to all exit polls from both parties called me. The Republicans seem about to lose all close Senate races: including NY and NJ. Bush people still think they *might* win. But it looks like 272 EV's -- WITH LUCK. A bad day.