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nacl99,
Did you miss the exit polls in the swing states where the Bush supporters overwhelmingly stated moral issues as being the deciding factor?
Maybe some middle ground mom and pops voted for him, but he won over gay marriage, stem cell research and abortion, not middle ground issues like the economy, the war, education, etc.
Here’s how they voted
http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtmlThere is a young man in Iraq whom I took into my home for a few months while he was in the 12th grade – awaiting his graduaduation and to be sent to boot camp. He came to live with us after being thrown out of his home by his step-father.
A wonderful kid, with a lot of personality, hobbies, interests and passions. An imaginative guy who make a “ninja baby” home video with my newborn daughter Samantha in the title role. But a lost kid whose family turned their backs on him. A kid who found a family with us and, unfortunately, with the marines at a time when he was feeling very weak and lost.
He was promised by the recruiters that, as a reporter, he wouldn’t leave the states. His seargent, also a friend of mine, assured me he most likely wouldn’t go to Iraq, should a war start.
He’s been in Iraq for just over a year now, and we haven’t heard anything from him since April.
I read the list of casualties daily to be sure his name hasn’t been added.
I don’t know wtf people were voting for, but it sure wasn’t family values or morality.
— Good luck, Sam, please come home —
i think they need to revise the election process. powerhouse states like California and New York need to be weighted more and be worth more electoral votes.. California has the 5th largest economy in the world.
the two powerhouse states (california/new york) voted for Kerry.
trailor park trash voted for Bush.
the election process needs to be revised because TRAILOR PARK TRASH decides who our president will be.
It’s fine by me, lmaoooooo……. You think we could put the holy rollers who open gambling forums/sites in there somewhere? You know, the ones with prayer sections and daily messages from the Lord on their sites?
That is funny, nice paint job.
That’s too funny!
Don’t forget Hawaii – can’t leave that behind in Jesusland.:p
…rename Orlando to “Orlario” and lets take that, too.
Man, I want to put that map on the homepage of my site so bad!!
Bad career move, but too funny!
I am equally shocked. I like everyone else, thought that the press was controlled and the polls were all lies. I thought that Kerry would have a blow out election, defeating Bush.
You have to hand it to Bush. I heard on NPR over the summer that the Bush campaign was really pushing their message to Deacons, Ministers and Priests.
Now it makes sense, with 11 states voting on gay marriages, each of those states were a pure Bush play.
Also amazing, South Carolina (Edwards state – the prospective Vice President) was won by the Bush and not by Kerry.
I agree with the Professor. America is going to gets its ass handed to itself as a result of this election. And this time, there is no one to blame but ourselves. Its not like 2000.
As for the online casino industry…….this was crushing news. Think about it. The Republicans now control the White House, the Senate, the House, numerous State legistlatures. They are now bulls on the run.
I suspect the Justice Department will really increase pressure on the advertising community regading this industry. No one can stop them. It unlikely Corfman will get anywhere, but we have to support what he is doing.
Marc Lesnick
Conference Organizer
Casino Affiliate ConventionCorfman will win unless they change the constitution.
I will take a good while though – lots of stalling.
Whether they will pay any attention to Corfman’s win – under the circumstances……. they will certainly try not to.
One of the possibilities is that the economy will take such a dive that revenue from licencing online gambling will look better and better to the politicians…
I am going to prepare myself for a very bad economy in general and take my precautions.
Now that Bush is back I have a feeling that Corfman will be gutted. He will surely be audited by the IRS and I wouldnt be surprised if they dont sick the FBI on him to and claim there is money laundering going on. These guys don’t play fair. These people dont lose Dom. They will destroy anyone in their path. Even the American people, unfortunately I have a very strong feeling that Corfman will be made an example of.
Given the laws involved that will be extremely difficult to pull off.
His taxes are fine – he was not stupid going into this. All his i’s are dottet and all his t’s are crossed everywhere.
I am quite convinced Corfman will prevail – but – like I said – whether they will adhere to the rules after that may be questionable. The DOJ is using unfounded scare tactics now, why not later too.
I dont agree. I think you are vastly underestimating our government. These are the same people who brought you Waco and Ruby Ridge. Corfman is toast.
I disagree strongly with you.
If you are right, you will not see me for a long time – I will move out of the country (Montreal, here I come) and likely out of the industry.
So I am going to go with what I know the facts are and not think about asassinations and the like to stop Corfman. I don’t think the country will plunge into lawlessness over night.
I am much more worried about additional wars. Like a war on Iran. That scares me a lot.
Election was fixed ?
Published April 2004
CIA-owned Voting Machines Ensure Bush Victory in 2004
Chris Floyd
It’s a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buyouts and bogus fronts. It’s a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers — and presidential family members — lie down together in the slime. It’s a hacker’s dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It’s how the United States, the “world’s greatest democracy,” casts its votes. And it’s why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States — no matter what the people of the United States might want.
The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players — Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia — with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation, coming on strong. These companies — all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid — have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines nationwide by the 2004 election. These glitch-riddled systems — many using “touch-screen” technology that leaves no paper trail at all — are almost laughably open to manipulation, according to corporate whistleblowers and computer scientists at Stanford, Johns Hopkins and other universities.
The technology had a trial run in the 2002 midterm elections. In Georgia, serviced by new Diebold systems, a popular Democratic governor and senator were both unseated in what the media called “amazing” upsets, with results showing vote swings of up to 16 percent from the last pre-ballot polls. In computerized Minnesota, former Vice President Walter Mondale — a replacement for popular incumbent Paul Wellstone, who died days before the vote — was also defeated in a large last-second vote swing. Convenient “glitches” in Florida saw an untold number of votes intended for the Democratic candidate registering instead for Governor Jeb “L’il Brother” Bush. A Florida Democrat who lost a similarly “glitched” local election went to court to have the computers examined — but the case was thrown out by a judge who ruled that the innards of America’s voting machines are the “trade secrets” of the private companies who make them.
Who’s behind these private companies? It’s hard to tell: The corporate lines — even the bloodlines — of these “competitors” are so intricately mixed. For example, at Diebold — whose corporate chief, Wally O’Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has publicly committed himself to “delivering” his home state’s votes to Bush next year — the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob’s brother, Todd, is a top executive at “rival” ES&S. The brothers were originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing “steering group” stacked with Bushist faithful.
Ahmanson also has major holdings in ES&S, whose former CEO is Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. When Hagel ran for office, his own company counted the votes; needless to say, his initial victory was reported as “an amazing upset.” Hagel still has a million-dollar stake in the parent company of ES&S. In Florida, Jeb Bush’s first choice for a running mate in his 1998 gubernatorial race was ES&S lobbyist Sandra Mortham, who made a mint installing the machines that counted Jeb’s votes.
Sequoia also has a colorful history, most recently in Louisiana, where it was the center of a massive corruption case that sent top state officials to jail for bribery, most of it funneled through Mob-connected front firms. Sequoia executives were also indicted, but escaped trial after giving immunized testimony against state officials. The British-owned company’s corporate parent is private equity firm Madison Dearborn — a partner of the Carlyle Group, where George Bush I makes millions trolling the world for war pork, privatizations and sweetheart deals with government insiders.
Meanwhile, the shadowy defense contractor SAIC has jumped into the vote-counting game, both directly and through spinoffs by its top brass, including Admiral Bill Owens, former military aide to Dick Cheney and Carlyle honcho Frank Carlucci, and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates. SAIC’s history of fraud charges and security lapses in its electronic systems hasn’t prevented it from becoming one of the largest Pentagon and CIA contractors — and will doubtless pose little obstacle to its entrance into election engineering.
The mad rush to install unverifiable computer voting is driven by the Help America Vote Act, signed by Bush last year. The chief lobbying group pushing for the act was a consortium of arms dealers — those disinterested corporate citizens — including Northop-Grumman and Lockheed-Martin. The bill also mandates that all states adopt the computerized “ineligible voter purge” system that Jeb used to eliminate 91,000 eligible black voters from the Florida rolls in 2000. The Republican-run private company that accomplished this electoral miracle, ChoicePoint, is bagging the lion’s share of the new Bush-ordered purge contracts.
The unelected Bush Regime now controls the government, the military, the judiciary — and the machinery of democracy itself. Absent some unlikely great awakening by the co-opted dullards of the corporate media, next November the last shreds of a genuine American republic will disappear — at the push of a button.
Don’t forget they will be packing it full of conservatives soon too.
