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Spain’s Zapatero Rejects Bush Appeal on Iraq

“Fighting terrorism with bombs, with operations of ‘shock and awe’, with missiles, that does not combat terrorism it only generates more radicalism.”

-Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Coca – Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water

I don’t think I could read a funnier piece of news today!

This article, Warblogging.com: Exploiting the Fallen needs no commentary or explanation.

As many of you have doubtless heard, one of President Bush’s three new campaign ads – debuted early last week – features a flag-draped coffin being removed from Ground Zero by firefighters. That’s correct. While Bush refuses to allow newsworthy events – the death of American soldiers – to be covered for the purposes of informing the public, Bush is perfectly happy to use similiar images from September 11th for his own campaign commercials.

This is a very important article from one of the original authors of the paper that exposed the massive security issues with the Diebold voting machines. He was an election judge at his local primary, and these are his thoughts.

I mentioned in my previous post that I proposed and passed a resolution that would require all touchscreen voting machines to have a voter verifiable paper trail. I believe this issue is extremely important. Judging by the number of requests for interviews this guy had on his cell phone at the end of the day, hopefully it will continue to be an issue until it is fixed.

My day as an election judge

There were also some security issues that I found to be much worse than I expected.

Well, I’m not even sure how you spell the word “caucusing” at this point, but I went to my polling location tonight and participated in the caucus.

It was actually kinda fun. There were about 25 people from our precinct there, and according to the single guy who had said that he had some caucus experience, it was quite a bit bigger than the 2000 turnout.

I ended up putting forth a resolution that any electronic voting machines include a voter verifiable paper trail, and it passed unanimously. It was fun to bring that up, there was a lot of discussion, and a lot of people had not heard of the issue before.

We had 17 delegates available to the county convention, but only 12 were filled by volunteers. I volunteered for that, so I will be going to the county convention March 27.

So who did I end up voting for? I am a dean supporter, and was really motivated to get involved in politics this year by Gov. Dean and his campaign. But in the end, I voted for Kucinich. Although I will support Kerry, as it looks he is the nominee, I feel that Kucinich’s platform is worth pushing forward to the national convention so that his ideas are heard.

ABB in November