Comment by robertoroberto — February 1, 2008 @ 11:31 am

then you probably have heard about this, just found on google news:

Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast
(CNN) — An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.
Ships have been dispatched to repair two undersea cables damaged on Wednesday off Egypt.
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True the day is long (13-14 hours) and that does have an effect on people.

I do like your idea of split shift type working. I don’t know that it is a violation of any voting law here. I might have to shoot an email off to our county Director of Elections and see if he has an answer.

I’d volunteer — forget the pay — if it were for shifts of 4 to 6 hours.

Has anyone anywhere ever considered dividing up the time? I’m imagining a lot of folks would be willing to take the morning or the afternoon, or a long lunch’s worth of time, off from their paid jobs to work at the polls with no pay attached to the time spent at polling places.

This has to be the worst part. Get out and help at the polls if you can. Locally in my county we have a pilot program to get young kids involved. They come and help at the polls with permission from their respective high schools. It helps us (I am Judge of Elections for my pct.) at the polls and gets the kids a lesson in democracy.

Mentally disabled women with remotely detonated bombs are NOT SUICIDE BOMBERS! It is MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Starve the beast, baby!

as a white lady in central illinois, i can only imagine to relate to the author’s points, but when i got to this line:

No friend of Black and disenfranchised people would have, in any manner whatsoever, praised Ronald Reagan

i knew that it was just another mis/un-informed misguieded ranter…
could even be a liar… i didn’t go all the way to find out…

but he LIED about that… so, i guess he is a LIAR…

GO BARACK!

Well, not to stir the sh1t here and I agree with Doro’s comments about Germany but one reason Germany and France opposed Iraq invasion was because they had signed contracts with Saddam, and if he was going to be deposed, those contracts will pass to US, UK and Spain hands.

So it is not like Germany and France did look out the welfare of Iraqis, it just was against their economic interests. Although they seem to have far more common sense and know what diplomacy is about…

Mike’s Blog Roundup
By: Mike Finnigan @ 8:00 AM – PST

The Black Commentator: Larry Pinkney thinks Barack Obama is “bamboozling America.” (h/t Make Them Accountable)

Comment by Wayne A. Schneider — February 1, 2008 @ 9:20 am

I don’t think that’s the main motivation here — I think George Bush is putting protection of HIS OWN A$$ ahead of the protection of the American people.

If somebody sues one of the telecom companies that helped this administration, a whole lotta under-the-rock slime is going to ooze out — creating trouble for this administration and their illegal activities.

If a telecom company gets sued, any competent lawyer will be able to save them — but it will require putting the blame where it belongs. Which is what the American people deserve to see.

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Bush claims to be concerned about his legacy, but the superlatives he’s achieving shows a rather odd way of setting it. Look at the records he’s racked up:

1) Highest national debt ever

2) Highest rate of national debt increase ever

3) First U.S. pre-emptive invasion of another country

4) Worst presidential approval ratings ever

5) Worst president ever

Sen. Specter wants “Spygate” answers from NFL
USA Today – 1 hour ago
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell gives his State of NFL address today. Should be a good one. Not only is a potential labor dispute up for discussion, Spygate will be a topic, too.
Report: Senator Wants To Re-Open Pats ‘Spygate’ Boston Channel.com
Senator wants Patriots to explain themselves Rotoworld.com

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203×496422

*** I hope you’re all following Bradblog dot com for the New Hampshire vote recount story. Yesterday Dennis Kucinich sent a letter demanding the vote count be continued even though he ran out of money to pay for it . Discrepancies as high as 10% were reported in parts of counties. None of this is being reported in any corporate press.

EXCEPT – all those early votes for, say, edwards… nill, null, nixed…

i never thought much about it until listening to randi and the arguments AGAINST early voting… it IS a scam and only benefits the front runners…

there are only a few reasons why it would be necessary to vote early…
otherwise, you take a big chance on NOT voting at all…

voting day should be a national holiday.

He revealed that bin Laden recently appointed an official for al-Qaida’s foreign relations; he is an Egyptian named Said, who previously worked as a financial official for the group.
He said that there are divisions that have taken place in al-Qaida recently, most important the split by Abu Laith al-Libi, who took some of his supporters with him and preferred to work alone within Afghanistan. It is believed likely that the divisions have prompted bin Laden to bring Egyptians closer to him, at the expense of his supporters from other nationalities.