A Forum for the New World Order

At a time of economic and social crisis, when people can’t get basic medical coverage; when people are dying in war, when thousands of voters are purged from rolls, when there are people in our own country that are zombified by a fear drum-beat to the frenzied end of plotting to assassinate President Obama; it would behoove us to get our priorities straight. I’m not going to be popular for this, but that means you, gay community.

I have spent years and money and effort supporting gay rights, and I will continue to do so. I applauded last year’s Sundance film, “For the Bible Tells Me So”, even though it made its point partly by bashing my own personal relationship ideals. I man a booth at gay pride in spite of the GLBT director’s insistence that we don’t belong in their club. I think I get it sometimes when some people think liberals are elitist.

Right now we need to be about feeding the poor. Right now we need to be about worker’s rights. Right now we need to come together and keep people from becoming homeless. Have you ever known someone in need of a doctor, but couldn’t afford it? Bring on the hate mail, but I think that’s something that trumps the right to get divorced.

A healthy and happy populace will put away hate and fear eventually. People will come to know there is nothing to fear but fear itself, and all those hate mongers will be on the wrong side of history soon enough. In the meantime, It just doesn’t look good for our party to have the affluent arm singularly obsessed with marriage. It’s a bit of a barometer to the divided state of our country; economically and otherwise.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 4:55pm

I haven’t noticed much attention paid to the REAL potential of an Obama presidency: he’s hott as hellfire.

Yucko web-tards everywhere have been trolling around that Palin is somehow sexually exciting. Yeah. About as exciting as a sewing circle in a cold shower.

No, people. Let’s entrust this country to Obama so we can all collectively gaze upon his suave, manly face during his very presidential addresses. Let’s all rest assured that he’s fixing healthcare while we imagine his rolled-up shirt arm reaching out to caress us, his bedroom eyes telling us what they’re gonna do to us. I don’t know about you guys, but I’ll be imagining him taking that shirt right off. And just as he’s about to give us a populist sign-off we can all experience a nationwide climax as he flashes his toothy smile.

I, for one, will be masturbating to president Obama.

You may have read about this, and Black Box Voting has sent an ELECTION ALERT about this. Here are the details and what to do about it:
THE PROBLEM: “Straight party voting” on voting machines is revealing a bad pattern of miscounting and omitting your vote, especially if you are a Democrat.
Most recently (Oct. 2008), a firm called Automated Election Services was found to have mis-coded the system in heavily Democratic Santa Fe County, New Mexico such that straight party voters would not have the presidential vote counted.
Straight party voting is allowed in 15 states. Basically, it means that you can take a shortcut to actually looking at who you are voting for and instead just select a party preference. Then the voting machine makes your candidate choices, supposedly for the party you requested.
Additional details follow, but first: PROTECT THE COUNT
1) NEVER CHOOSE THE STRAIGHT PARTY VOTE OPTION, because it alerts the computer as to your party preference and allows software code to trigger whatever function the programmer has designed.
2) SEND THIS INFORMATION OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN, blog it, root n’ toot it out there to get the word out.
3) ESPECIALLY GET THE WORD OUT TO PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING STATES, which have straight party voting options:
- Alabama
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Utah
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
(Missouri and New Hampshire had straight party voting in earlier years, but have cancelled the straight party option for the Nov. 2008 election; however, the Straight Party software is still on Missouri and New Hampshire election management computers.)
4) DEMAND COMPLETE AND CAREFUL TESTING OF THE STRAIGHT PARTY OPTION IN LOGIC & ACCURACY TESTS. Bring copies of the citations in this article to buttress your case for why this is needed, if you have to. Witnesses for L&A tests in the straight party option states should specifically watch for and note whether (a) the tests were done and (b) the results were accurate.
5) LOOK FOR UNDERVOTES (high profile races with lower-than-average number of votes cast) and flag them, post them, bring them to the attention of others for additional scrutiny.
Undervotes may reveal straight-party programming fraud after the fact, but can never be reconstructed to know who the voter would have voted for. Such programming malfeasance, when found, disenfranchises voters.
MORE DETAILS ON THE STRAIGHT PARTY TRAP
October 2008: In Santa Fe, New Mexico the machines were NOT counting straight party ballots correctly, and now it turns out that voting machines have been caught giving straight party votes to the other party’s candidates, omitting the counts for some straight party votes, and generally creating mischief.
Most recent news on this can be found here:
More on that here:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/30557559.html?elr=KArksac8P3iUec7PaP3iUqc8P3UU
with archive copy and commentary on the claims made in the article here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/159/78362.html
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/78367.html