BRAD BLOG’s Last Week In Review 1/7/06 – 1/13/06

In Case You Missed 'Em... Selected Stories from the Week That Was

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SUNDAY, January 7th…

BLOOD SURGE
Congress Must Demand to Know the White House’s Estimated Body Count for Bush’s Double-Down Scheme in Iraq…

(A)side from cutting off funding for the war, now or in the future, there is another option for the moment in answer to Bush’s predicted call for a “surge”: demand that the White House release their estimates of the number of casualties we will incur during such a “surge.”

MONDAY, January 8th…

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Major E-Voting Critic, Attorney Named to Key Voting Systems Oversight Role by New CA Secretary of State!
Debra Bowen Appoints Lowell Finley of Election Integrity Watchdog Group VoterAction.org to Role of ‘Deputy SoS for Voting Systems Technology and Policy’
[UPDATED] Critics of E-Voting Hail News as ‘Collosal Suprise,’ Very Good for Voters, Very Bad for the Nation’s Electronic Voting Machine Companies…

TUESDAY, January 9th…

EXCLUSIVE: The EAC Now Admits ‘The Ciber Report’ Does Exist After All
Federal Commission Admits There is Paperwork on ‘Barred’ Voting Machine Testing Lab, Will Release ‘When the Process is Complete’
Lab Was Secretly Refused Credentials in July, State and Local Voting Officials Were Kept in Dark Throughout November Elections Until NYTimes’ Revelations…

EXCLUSIVE FL-13 UPDATE: ES&S Moves to Strike U.S. House Admin Committee Letter
Voting Machine Company Claims Chairwoman’s Missive ‘An Attempt to Intimidate, Unduly Influence’ Florida Court
Plaintiff Attorney Says Claim is ‘Remarkable,’ ‘Takes a Lot of Chutzpah’

WEDNESDAY, January 10th…

Update on Busby/Bilbray CA50 Election Contest Appeal
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: Details of Attorney Oral Arguments Concerning Whether the U.S. Congress Can Overrule State Election Laws Simply by Swearing Someone In
Also, Updates on Some of the Sad Players…Some Gone, Others (Hopefully) on Their Way Out…

ABC: Bush Gives Congress, American People, Democracy the Finger
Begins Iraq Escalation Before Speech, Approval From Congress, in Wake of Opposition from Dems and Republicans Alike…
POST-SPEECH UPDATE: No Estimate Given for Change in Casualties in New Plan. Surprised?

THURSDAY, January 11th…

EXCLUSIVE: NEW COULTER VOTER FRAUD DOCS – Police Report Says TWO Third Degree Felonies, One Misdemeanor May Have Been Committed by GOP Darling!
New Third Degree Felony for Fraudulently Registering Driver’s License Added to Previous Allegations of Voter Fraud!
But Palm Beach Election Supervisor Having Trouble Finding Law Enforcement Agency to Bring Charges…

Christine Jennings Admits She Should Have Listened to Election Integrity Advocates Earlier…

“Those people with the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections? I used to pat them on the back at Democratic meetings, but I had no idea. The vote is the great equalizer in this country – and when we’ve lost that, we’ve really lost something.”

FRIDAY, January 12th…

White House Made No Casualty Estimates for ‘Surge’ Plan According to Rice Admission!
Rightwing Outlets Smear Senator Who Asked Question, Ignore Stunning Newsworthiness of Answer
Iraq Vet Source Dubious About Secretary of State’s Admission that Military Lacks Body County Estimates…

SATURDAY, January 13th…

New York Times Joins Rightwing Outlets in Twisting and Torturing Boxer’s Comments While Ignoring White House Delinquency in Their New Iraq Plan
The Once-Great Paper Misrepresents the Facts, Quotes Only Rightwingers and Misrepresents Some of them to Suggest They are ‘Liberal’
PLUS: An Invitation to Bill O’Reilly…

Maryland Preparing to Screw up Their Election System Yet Again
State Lawmakers Moving Towards Paper ‘Trail’ Voting Instead of Paper BALLOTS…

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    Dredd said on 1/15/2007 @ 6:12am PT: [Permalink]

    The spirit of Brad Blog is the spirit of King:

    Millions have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of firm dissent, based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Now, of course, one of the difficulties in speaking out today grows out of the fact that there are those who are seeking to equate dissent with disloyalty. It’s a dog day in our nation when high level authorities will seek to use every method to silence dissent. Something is happening and people are not going to be silent. The truth must be told. And I say that those who are seeking to make it appear that anyone who opposes the war in Vietnam is a fool or a traitor or an enemy of our soldiers is a person who has taken a stand against the best in our tradition.

    — Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16th, 1967, Ebenezar Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA

    And the spirit of the preznit blush regime is the spirit of hitler:

    War critics help Osama ben Laden

    The Dick Cheney, Virtual President

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