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7,000 votes...

According to an Ohio caller to the Stephanie Miller show this morning, the recount in Franklin county has been completed and there was a net gain of 7,000 for Kerry. 7,000. That's not just a handful, that's a LOT...and in just one county. AND IS ANYBODY OTHER THAN STEPHANIE MILLER TALKING ABOUT THIS?!?! If ever there was a time to call, write, e-mail, and fax your local media outlets, NOW is it.

Keith Olbermann today talked about Bev Harris...and how she may not be the best face to alert the world about voter fraud after all. Olbermann has tried to have her on the show repeatedly, and with her videotape of trashed votes, but she refuses as apparently she does not want to show the Countdown staff the tape before she goes on the air. Sorry to say, but that sounds fishy to me. You'd think with something that important, you want to make sure every network in the world saw this and that you would jump at the chance to air such volatile material on a supportive show on a major network. But according to Keith, she refuses. I may have to agree with Olbermann on this entry. You can see the whole shabang and make your own decision at:

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

IN THE MEANTIME...

You can't throw a stick and not hit a story on the vote chaos in Ukraine. Anyone else find this really WRONG, or is it just me?

And speaking of stories you should be able to throw a stick at and hit..Iraq...12,000 more soldiers are going to be sent to Iraq. And of the guys already there, their tours are being extended an extra two months (they found out yesterday I believe). See this is where I get thoroughly annoyed with the people who ask how you can support the troops and not the war? The troops are mostly YOUNG men and women who VOLUNTEER to defend our country in a time of dire need. Iraq was not dire need. Afghanistan, where Osama Bin Laden is still floating around sitting in front of video cameras cursing out America and urging people to rise up against the infidels, and where the Taliban is regrouping, yeah, that's dire need. Iran and North Korea where they actually have nuclear programs; if they were acting up, I'd put up a strong maybe. Saudi Arabia, where the majority of the terrorists came from, where they gather, where they are funded, and where human rights-as it is increasingly noted-are essentially a non-issue, yeah, they got some problems there we ought to worry about. But Iraq...Iraq had no WMD, no ability to create WMD, had not threatened us, was not a terrorist hotbed (UNTIL WE GOT THERE), no they were not a dire need situation. There was no reason to go there and the idea that this administration can just delude our young-and old-men and women into thinking that they are there for the war on terror, then not properly arm them, train them or have an exit plan...I ask you is that any way to treat people willing to die for you? I think not.
*stepping off soap box...oh wait...isn't that what this blog is?*

SPEAKING OF NETWORKS IGNORING THINGS...there was this article in the Boston Globe about how CBS and NBC are banning an ad by the United Church of Christ as too controversial. The ad essentially shows at one point two men holding hands attempting to get into a church that won't let them in (but the UCC will let them in). A lot of churches are succumbing to advertising in order to get parishioners, and I've never been fond of such advertising on the air, but like with anything you see on TV, you can change the channel if you don't like it. There is also the factor that with the evangelicals just about taking over the election and trying to push their views on the rest of us, perhaps the UCC decided to create an ad saying, by the way, there are some of us that are okay and aren't out to say that you are evil heathens just because you're gay or anything else distasteful to the fundamentalists. God forbid we try to show some TOLERANCE on the air. You can see the whole article at:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/12/02/two_networks_bar_church_ad_welcoming_gays/

and send ABC a thank you note for agreeing to air the ad on ABC Family network and to, of all people, FOX.

All right, I know there's more to write but, man they are making me do my JOB today! Potentially more later. But until then KEEP E-MAILING!!! Call, write, fax, e-mail your networks, friends and family, and your Congresspeople! GET THE WORD OUT!

and as always, pass it on, pass it on, pass it on :)

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 8:06 AM