The types of voter fraud we need to clean up are voting machine hacking, voter caging, and other mischief.

See the Repube-lo-CONS think that voting is something that needs conserving. There is TOO much of this here “votin” going on, and it is their mentally warped mindset that all things that are good, need to be curtailed and kept from those that “do not deserve it.” And they are the regulators of WHO deserves it or not, because they are the CONSERVATIVES, conserving, all that needs conserving.
So Don’t you forget it.

What I don’t understand is why there is no law just simply requiring that the origin of the meat be disclosed.

Perhaps I would choose to eat birds from Asia (Bird Flu), perhaps not. Perhaps I would choose to eat Canadian beef, perhaps not. What about South American beef ? What about after the problems from Chinese toys and medicines ?

In any case, that would be allowing me to practice the good of personal choice. I could also see the American cattlement, etc, get in on it and advertise, good American grown beef.

But every time some Congressman introduces such legislation, it gets slapped down.

I discounted that.

But now, perhaps he was right ?

Less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows are currently tested for the disease under Agriculture Department guidelines. The agency argues that more widespread testing does not guarantee food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers.

This has always been at the crux of the conservatives’ argument against government monitoring – there’s too much danger of a false positive, and that would be bad for business (which is their real concern, not the public’s safety). To them, it is better that corporations make money even if a few people die, than that corporations make less money (not no money, just less money) and nobody dies. And this mentality applies not just to food tresting, but to any kind of safety testing (FAA and the mechanics), too. Testing for safety costs money, hurts the bottom-line profits, and might result in some false positives, so they feel it is better to do less testing. Never mind that increased testing would actually save lives, and that any “true” positives they catch would have been worth it. They feel that a single false positive (which must be confirmed, BTW, before any recalls are done) is unacceptable. (And, BTW, they will also use the excuse that since fewer positives were found overall, that this would be a good reason to do even less testing.)

More evidence that since the Bush Administration came to town, the Republican Party has been putting the interests of corporations ahead of the interests of American citizens. If you want to die an early, preventable death, vote Republican.

Iran involved in Sadr City truce, says Iraqi MP
Reuters – 57 minutes ago
By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD, May 12 (Reuters) – Iran played a prominent role in a deal struck by Iraqi Shi’ite factions to end seven weeks of fighting in the Baghdad stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a senior Shi’ite Iraqi legislator said on Monday.
Drive in Basra by Iraqi Army Makes Gains New York Times
Iraqi PM says crackdown shows he’s not sectarian Washington Post
Voice of America – CNN – Times Online – The Associated Press
all 2,844 news articles »

Hartman and Haynes have an interest. “Political” ends through “show trial” and convictions. No other outcome is permissible. That’s what they care about.

More here.

Cheers,

Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow

Less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows are currently tested for the disease under Agriculture Department guidelines. The agency argues that more widespread testing does not guarantee food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/mad_cow

As for Missouri, the re-pukes are pulling out all of the tricks now because in November they haven`t a chance in hell if winning, this should show the country once and for all that the re-pukes will do anything to win the White House.These Reich wingers are have no morals and they are Anti- American!!!!!!!

I think I found the link:
“Half of likely voters nationwide said they would never vote for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, in a poll Zogby conducted Oct. 11-15, 2007, with a margin of error of +/– 1.0 percentage point.”

She ranked the highest on this question. The other two who ranked high on the “who I’d never vote for” list (second and third respectively), Kucinich and Gravel, are, of course, long gone.

May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am

Sorry, mary, that would be classified. And it would classified illegally, since it is information whose release would not affect national security, which is the requirement for material to be classified.

If the evidence supports the claim that Iran is backing the people we’re fighting, then it would be legally classified because it relates to national security. And if the evidence does NOT support the claim that Iran is backing the people we’re fighting, then it will be illegally classified just to keep it out of the public domain. Either way, without the help of some brave whistleblower, we may never learn the truth. But that won’t stop them from attacking iran anyway.

I predict that, sooner or later, Bush will say that we have to attack Iran and that we will just have to trust him on the reasons why. They won’t have the evidence they need to convince us it’s necessary, and they will punish anyone who tries to prove they’re lying, but they will insist that we have to do it. And when Congress refuses them the authority to do it, they’ll do it anyway.

Call your US Representative now and ask them which is more important: Protecting the American people from a lawless president, or protecting a lawless president from the American people?