Waller County is a microcosm.

As I was checking in to Bradblog, the quote showing up on the page heading was "Serving at the displeasure of the president".

I can relate to that.

Walter J. Hickel, Jr., was the governor of the State of Alaska at the time he was asked, by president nixon, to become the Secretary of the Interior. He was later fired by nixon because he made the oil companies toe the line. I served at Hickel's pleasure once (why don't we just say "worked for"?).

Hickel would eventually come to claim, as a badge of courage, to have once been "Serving at the displeasure of the president" nixon.

When a military officer was asked about the pleasure of the president when it comes to Iraq, all he could say was that the "president is AWOL".

In the spirit of listening to the military "on the ground", I would simply add to that: "at best".

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The_Zapkitty

Thank you. All fixed now.

Please reconcile for me Bradblog's position on HR811, and the 4/30/2007 commentary in truthout.org by David Dill: "Time to Outlaw Paperless Electronic Voting." I'm inclined to move over to the Verified Voting Foundation's position, which makes sense, and which is not the same position that Bradblog takes. However, I would like to read a response by you to that commentary, before making the change, to make sure I haven't missed something.

Linda - If you want to see a good rebuttal to Dill's piece, go to www.opednews.com/article...rebuttal_to_dill_s_s.htm
It's by Nancy Tobi.
Larry