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DECEMBER 13th!

Keep that date in mind ladies and gentleman, for it is by that date that the Ohio recount must be finished in order to be valid, thus spake Secretary of State Mr. Blackwell-Ohio's Katherine Harris. And of course, is he making sure that things are running smoothly? Certainly not, he could slow things up at any moment. In fact, here's a hint of his mood:

It was heard on Stephanie Miller on Air America this morning (thanks mom-who also can be heard on the air there as she called to comment on how happy she is that Air America is in Boston and they use her clip in the promos): An Ohio listener called saying that he had actually spoken with Ken Blackwell about the vote count and Blackwell said "Have you been listening to NPR or Air America?" The listener replied in the affirmative, to which Blackwell replied "Oh don't do that. You're doing yourself a disservice..." Um, who's doing the people a disservice? Would you care to rephrase that, Mr. Blackwell? Where's the Letterman or Daily Show editing team when we need them...

Speaking of voter count and disservice....

You MUST read the latest Bloggerman. There is a UC Berkeley report out now that, while it cannot explain how this happened, they can at least say one thing that did happen in Florida: Bush got upwards of 260,000 votes he shouldn't have gotten due to faulty electronic voting machines. They are called "excessives" and well, I can't think of a vote situation more appropriately named. See the whole deal at:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

And did you know that New Hampshire was also having a recount, thanks to Nader? Probably not as NOBODY is talking about it. Time to nag the networks again people. The only way we'll get to hear anything about this is if, we, the people, get out the e-mail, letters, calls, and faxes and nag the suckers. Yes, we know that there are other things going on in the world and it's hard work to keep tabs on election fraud along with everything else, but if Keith Olberman, Stephanie Miller and NPR can devote a little time to this, can't the mainstream press? Particularly as this could actually be the Watergate for some reporter (there's some incentive...and it so far doesn't involve meeting some guy with a porn star nickname in a garage late at night).

IN OTHER NEWS...

Arlen Specter looks like he'll get the backing to be the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately he did sell at least a piece of his soul as he pledged that he would not block anti-choice "suggestions", once again admitting that he supported Rehnquist AND Clarence Thomas (why would one admit such a thing?!?! save for as an error of judgement...but that's just me).

AND...despite Kerry speaking out on the Senate floor (and perhaps because of) the debt ceiling was raised yet again by $800 billion dollars. Yeah, the debt ceiling was RAISED, while proposed budget resolutions are out to cut funds for education (Miss Spellings? anything to say about that?), "non-defense science", clean water projects and small business loan subsidies. OH and $93 billion dollars will be taken from Iraq (already underfunded) and shifted to Darfur (virtually ignored til I think juuuust before the election) You can get details at Wonkette.com and you should go there anyway if only for the photo of Rumsfeld in South America looking rather befuddled. ("Okay, which ones are the Contras? It's been a while since I been back here..." Meanwhile, Bush is entertaining dignitaries with tales of drinking excursions through Mexico. "I ate the worm! Yeah, I did!...that's about all I remember...oh wait, did I tell you about this time in Oaxaca-how do you pronounce that town again?...")

AND NOW, as it's Friday and we could use something frivolous, SOMETHING NOT POLITICS RELATED AT ALL!!!

I sing with the New York Choral Society (we made the New York Sun this summer as, due to massive response from the group-including me-we pulled out of singing at the Republican Convention...okay so there's a little politics) and we have our annual holiday concert at Carnegie Hall December 12th at 2p. You can get further details about program, time and tickets at www.nychoral.org.

AND IN THE MEANTIME...KEEP E-MAILING!!! Call, write, fax, e-mail your local papers, networks, Congressfolk, friends and family. Keep up the fight, my friends and as always, pass it on, pass it on, pass it on!

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 7:43 AM