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I’ve just found this excellent article entitled,All The President’s Votes? over at The Independent.

Any American not living in a cave knows about the Florida debacle in our last Presidential election, and the subsequent push towards modern voting systems. Many states have rushed to implement touch-screeen systems, and there is a large amount of federal money available to help with that transition.

All of this is being done however, without any sort of accountability or investigation into the security of these machines and this new process.

Our democracy depends on verifiable elections, and when that goes, so goes our country.

This article is absolutely chilling. Even leaving out the conspiracy theories you’re left with an exremely scary scenario that any lover of democracy will want to see rectified. And if you are into conspriacies, here’s some fuel to the fire.

In many Georgia counties last November, the machines froze up, causing long delays as technicians tried to reboot them. In heavily Democratic Fulton County, in downtown Atlanta, 67 memory cards from the voting machines went missing, delaying certification of the results there for 10 days. In neighbouring DeKalb County, 10 memory cards were unaccounted for; they were later recovered from terminals that had supposedly broken down and been taken out of service.

I suggest that anyone who reads my site, read this article.

And I’ve found out.. I just suck at Hearts. I always want to shoot the moon and nobody is helping me out here.

There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes wide open.

Now that I’m a Cubs fan for the remainder of the season, I’ve been following with interest stories about them in news. Because we all know, if the Cubs and Red Sox get to the World Series… it could be the end of the world as we know it.

Along those lines, I came across this article in the Chicago Tribune:
Is it OK to pray for the Cubs?. It contains a lot of really good quotes about praying for a sports team. Something I always find a little bit funny. Here’s one good quote:

We can pray all we want, but it’s nice to have Kerry Wood on the mound.”

This ought to be good.

Although coming from a state that elected Jesse “The Body” Ventura as its govenor, it might not be all bad. In fact… I’d rather have Jesse than Pawlenty.

Here’s one Why I Voted for Arnold article that is fairly convincing.

Regardless, the whole thing is a sham. It’s all been directed by Arnold from the start. (farther down the page on the above link)

The Twins are facing some interesting decisions this offseason. If I were the GM, here’s what I’d do:

Sign Hawkins for 3 years, Stewart for 2, and Guardado for 2 years.
Trade Jacque Jones for some middle infield prospects
Let Rick Reed, The Gambler (Kenny Rogers), and Chris Gomez go.

Here’s what our roster would look like next year:
C – A.J. Perzynski
1B – Dougie
2B – Rivas
SS – Guzman
3B – Koskie
LF – Shannon Stewart
CF – Hunter
RF – Cuddyer / Lew Ford / Restovich / Other Unnamed OF

And a pitching rotation of, Santana, Lohse, Milton, Radke, ???

Who knows? It’s going to be crazy. I hope we can get Hawk back though. He’s our best reliever by a long shot.

Roster change is in the air

The Starting Staff

It’s going to be a fun offseason at least! Go Cubs!

One site I read every morning while I eat my Wheaties is Warblogging.com

I know I repeatedly mention and link to it on these pages… and I know John D. gets pretty tired of me sending him an IM once every couple days telling him to go check it out, but it’s an important site, because the man speaks clearly and forcefully.

The author of the site writes under a pen name, and I would venture a guess that it is someone who is somewhat well-known. Even if it’s not a well-known person I’d run a “Draft Warblogging-person” campaign to see this guy in office, whoever it is.

So go check it out. Read it today!