Barking up the wrong tree

Am working on a book about this election, so please stay tuned. Posts will be a little less frequent as a result, but they will be regular. Won't speak unless I have something to say, probably a good general policy in life anyway.

The work going forward on investigating the vote is important, but folks are missing the main point: the Democrats had 4 years to fix it, to make sure 2000 never happened again, but they didn't. Reporters should be asking: Why? If the "other party" can't even insure that its voters are counted, why does it even exist? The platform means less than nothing if the other guys can always cheat. Where was the "Lion of the Left," Ted Kennedy, for 4 years? Tom Daschle? Nancy Pelosi? You'll forgive me that I'm not crying that Daschle is gone. The new blood, new Democratic challengers, need a chance.

Counting votes is the single most basic function of a democracy. Nothing else works if that doesn't.

Fox News Advertisers

For slanting news I don't think Fox is actually much worse than the other major networks, ABC/CBS/NBC; it's the news that isn't reported that's the problem. Still, it's good practice to start thinking about tweaking your buys so that you're not unwittingly supporting something you despise, and Fox is as good a place as any to start. So here are Fox New's major advertisers, according to the Infoshop.org Fox News Boycott.

Earthlink
Gateway Computers
Honda
Orbitz
Shell Petroleum

The list will grow

News

Speaking of news you'll never see on Fox, tanks appeared at an anti-war protest in LA yesterday. Here's video and photos.

Another twist in the vote fraud which the newspapers are hastily denouncing, predictably, as "conspiracy theories." They always have names but they never have answers. Presidential Votes Miscast on E-Voting Machines Across the Country.

Of interest: "I Killed Innocent People For Our Government" - Interview with Marine Sergeant Jimmy Massey. Though it now turns out there are probably more than 100,000 casualties of the Iraq invasion, Bush still sticks to the line that Saddam was worse. Still waiting to see the networks report that the "Saddam's mass graves" story was a lie, something everyone in the world knows except most Americans. After the election we know there are vicious Nazis among us who could care less about civilian casualties, but that's on them, not on us. The Judgement Day awaits us all on our "values."

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just" --Thomas Jefferson

Election may have been hacked

Back, while we're studying options on what should come next here's some reading, "The Vote May Have Been Hacked" by Thom Hartmann. Good news is that Howard Dean may have a chance to chair the DNC, which means the Democratic honchos finally understand that their party is about to fade into total obscurity, like the Whigs. Remember, no one is coming to save us. We're on our own. There is a yawning leadership vacuum in the center, we are now officially a one-party state (sealed by Kerry's cave-in on the vote.) No one can fill that vacuum but us. Stay tuned, and start building your personal email lists. We need to use some of the tools of the Looney Right, like organized boycotts of advertisers in the major media whenever they piss us off, which is most of the time. Not spending money can be very powerful. Let's see which news outlets start to bring Bush's crimes and betrayals of national security to light, and we'll spend our money there. 51 million people wield a lot of purchasing power.