So Called Liberal Media

Colorado Suit: Ban computer voting

Rocky Mountain News

"Voting on computer screens is so vulnerable to massive fraud that Colorado's November election is "headed for a train wreck," says an attorney who is seeking to have the equipment barred at trial next week.

An expert would need just 2 minutes to reprogram and distort votes on a Diebold, one of four brands of computerized voting systems attacked in the suit, says attorney Paul Hultin. His firm, Wheeler Trigg Kennedy, has taken on the case pro bono for a group of 13 citizens of various political stripes..."

When all you care about is power and access, a fair and true voting system is the last thing on your mind. So long as it benefits the Republicans, either in the state houses or in Washington, nothing - repeat nothing - will be done to fix fraudulent voting in America.

It's so easy to disrupt an electronic ballot. If you have a Republican administration controlling the Board of Elections and you want to disrupt the vote in a largely Democratic county, why just make sure some necessary piece of equipment doesn't get delivered to the polling places until hours after they open.

Cheap, easy and you don't leave any paper trails by having to hire a hacker.

ABC 9/11-Porn: "Worse than you think."

Crooks and Liars

It is perhaps axiomatic that whenever the Entertainment divisions (and, AFAIK, the News Divisions are subordinated to the ED's) of the major networks get ahold of a historical event to "docu-dramatize" they inevitably screw it up. Badly.

They compress events, create "composite" characters, invent dramatic conflicts that didn't previously exits, and generally get the facts so thoroughly wrong that any semblance to reality is shattered.

Everything I hear about ABC's "Path to 9/11" contradicts all this. Somebody didn't "accidently" screw up this story because they're incompetent storytellers who just wanted to milk 9/11 for dramatic effect. From the people on our side of the fence who've been able to get their hands on a copy of the "pre-screening" dvd (that went out exclusively to the various right-wing media organs and blogs) say that it is a full-throated, swift-boated smear of Bill Clinton and his administration. A propaganda piece so dirty and despicable in it's lies and distortions, trotted out two months before a major election cycle, that it beggars the imagination.

It doesn't surprise me that there are right-wing crazies and organizations that engage in this behavior. What does surprise me is that a major media network, owned and operated, btw, by the Disney corporate empire, is distributing this filth. I can draw only two conclusions: either the ABC/Disney corporation is filled with right-wing crazies or they are so corrupted they think nothing about throwing their weight behind the Republican party to try to ensure the continuation of the most corrupt and criminal political machine that has ever existed since the signing of the Constitution.

Either way, if this piece of 9/11-porn is broadcast tonight on ABC I can promise ABC/Disney one thing. I will never watch another program on an ABC affiliated station for the rest of my life and that includes any product, either film or otherwise, created by Disney.

I hear that the second installment WILL contain commercials. I suspect a list will be posted of the sponsors and they can expect similar treatment from me and mine.

Really, there can be no half-measures with these people anymore.