1049 rights wronged

After the final debate last week, Gina writes of the 1049 Rights afforded to straight married couples that are denied to Gay and lesbian couples who would seek to marry, if only it were “allowed”.


http://scribbling.net/1049-federal-rights-depend-on-marital-status

She mentions the Government Accounting Office Jan 1997 Letter from Henry Hyde listing the specific rights that marriage brings. http://www.gao.gov/archive/1997/og97016.pdf

Her story is so close to home! Emma and I moved in together over the Thanksgiving weekend, 8 years ago. We bought a home together August 1, 2000. We would share insurance, car registrations and all the rest, if it wasn’t denied to us. We have gotten our wills done, had all kinds of external legal documents done, just in case one of us has an accident or dies. Yet we still won’t be able to share social security benefits and many of the other “priviledges” granted to couples that are “approved by the state”.

More Election Irregularity links

Here is a state-by-state list of irregularities
http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp?offset=0&catid=&showall=&sort=

PST! There is more than just a few stories digging into the rumours of Election Fraud. Here is a huge list of Election Vote Irregularities courtesy of Shaula Evans She says:
I just fell into a goldmine. Here are more links for whoever wants them:

are you getting the picture yet…

We wuz robbed!

Evidence mounts that the recent US Presidential Election was hacked (Thanks, Grant!)

All the time the Diebold machines were being moved into position for the eVote initiative – to "help" avoid the issues of the 2000 Presidential election, and these machines have no internal printer, there is no paper trail, no way to check if the vote you think you entered was actually recorded that way. Check the " eVoting Fraud" link in the links sidebar for more info.

Now another source arises with specifics on questionable number from the 2004 voting … see
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4175

Also see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/ 2004/11/05/politics1149EST0515.DTL


Here are some charts
that compare voter registrations with votes received in Florida.

There are ways to have accountability.
You can have voting machines that when you vote they printout a receipt card that is human and machine readable – you can read it visually to confirm it recorded what you voted, then you slip it
into a scanner device that reads it and does the tallying. The receipt cards never leave the poll, so they are there if a recount is needed.

Apple WiFi with Airport Extreme & Express

I got Emma a 12 inch iBook for a birthday/Ordination present. To make it more enjoyable, I set it up with another 512meg of memory, and an Airport Extreme network card, so she can use it anywhere in the house. I also got a refurbed Airport Extreme base station (the one w/out the modem), and connected that to our Cable Modem through our existing home router. With all of this, I loaded Mac Stumbler on the notebook, logged in and got a solid 69 or 70 units (?) at my desk next to the base station.

This also has the benefit of raising the signal at the Airport Express downstairs that feeds the stereo – so now the iTunes feed from my old powerMac is rocksolid downstairs.

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Tinariwen!

We got tickets for the Sunday night show!!

GW’s Lisner Auditorium presents Tinariwen
Stars of Mali’s Festival in the Desert


NPR’s All Things Considered

Tinariwen formed in the refugee camps of Libya and Algeria. They’ve carried instruments and rifles in their lives, and fought for the freedom of their Tuareg people. Their music is a mix of North African blues and at times reggae-influenced. Chris Nickson reviews their CD, Amassakoul.

Listen to a one hour concert of their music via the Beeb

Take a bite outta …

This is just too good to pass up.

Ross_bush.jpg
(Village Voice cover by Alex Ross)

News Update Oct 30, 2004 – from “The Fix” column at salon.com –

Weird Halloween factoid (insert your own “bloodsucking politician” joke here): George W. Bush and John Kerry are ninth cousins twice removed and can each trace their lineage back to Vlad II Dracul, the 15th century Transylvanian warlord who inspired Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” (Ancestry.com, via
Rush and Molloy
) .

Hunter S. Thompson: The 2004 Campaign!

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 2004
See the Rolling Stone website

The good Doctor is in prime form in this column … such choice nuggets! Here’s a few paragraphs of his current writing …

The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way. That is what this election is all about. We are down to nut-cutting time, and millions of people are angry. They want a Regime Change.

Some people say that George Bush should be run down and sacrificed to the Rat gods. But not me. No. I say it would be a lot easier to just vote the bastard out of office on November 2nd.