Even more direct: the Guardian is now calling for Bush's assassination, according to Powerline and Drudge.

Guardian's site has been swamped and is down. Drudge's headline mentions them wondering where Booth and Hinkley are.

Wretched Scouser wankers!

Here's the last paragraph from the column, posted on the Corner:

On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?

"Civilised" my fat American ass. These people can't even spell.

This, next to the campaign finance reform debacle (Sinclair bad! Michael Moore good!), is the biggest internal threat to our democracy right now.

The city of Milwaukee has requested three times as many ballots as there are registered voters in the city. Now what do you think they are planning on doing with all those ballots?

Fact is, because Bush won in 2000 we let all the voter fraud that year go. And there was a lot of it. Urban precincts voting at the rate of 110% the number of registered voters; entire precincts (I mean every effin' vote) going Democratic; dead people filing suits to extend poll hours (now just how did the Dems get that guy's name as a disenfranchised voter, I wonder); baseless claims of voter intidimation; precincts in eastern Florida getting their votes in hours after precincts in western Florida whose polls closed an hour later.

We let them get away with all of it because we won and there was no perceived need to address it. That cannot happen this year--win or lose.

This shit has to be exposed. The RNC had better get its act together on this. Because no matter what else you do--no matter what kind of campaign you run, no matter how good your plans and ideas--if the other side is going to to simply wholesale steal the election with voter fraud, you're going to lose. Every friggin' time. You may not be able to get everyone you need to vote for you, but you can always create all the votes you need by punching the ballots yourself.

Check this out, ace. HAWAII.

the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Oct/23/ln/ln05p.html

... and we just "stole" it right back, in return. Check it out:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041023/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_ballots&cid=694&ncid=716

We're smarter than they are, and have righteousness on our side. Don't surrender just yet. :)

I agree, agree, agree with all of the above posts.

So what do we do next?! We have a responsibility to not let this happen! What can we do to combat this?!

Well in Florida you can volunteer and be a poll watcher. If you're in Ohio and you care you can see if there is also a program there (through the local GOP). I know its a pain to do this stuff but its just one day (unless you live in Florida then its 2 freaking weeks) and you'll have the satisfaction of counter balancing the moveOn.org types of the world for once. Plus maybe there will even be a cute UN observer there with you.

I just exercised the other of my two most important constitutional rights today and went out and bought a Desert Eagle .50. It took them all of two minutes to call in and verify, with my photo ID in hand, that I was who I said I was and that I had not had the legal right to purchase a gun revoked for any of the same reasons one could loose the right to vote. I've got a great idea. The liberals love the instant check system so much, lets use ot to verify voters! It is absolutely criminal that a lerson can get a voter card right up to the last minute in the country with absolutely no accountability for the issuee, the issuer, or the hired crack-dealer who turned in the regstration. There is absolutely no reason why we cannot flush the entire voter roles in a single election cycle and make everyone who cares enough to vote go to their county seat, in person, and prove their existence and right to vote.

Nuff, said. I'm going out to blow up some rocks with my newest toy.

Dacotti - I also don't want my vote cancelled by a Democratic opertative registered to vote in 31 locations under 22 fake IDs.

We need a national ID with biometrics and insta-check features. We need it to wipe out voter fraud, ID theft, and for national security.

Libertarians will have a cow about it, but it is long past time when 8 of the 19 hijackers were holding US ID and were registered to vote.

That said, the big problem in Ohio for Bush is the economy and job losses. And, part of the problem is bad Bush policy. Most of the money from Bush's borrowed from China "tax cuts" for the wealthy went to solid blue Kerry States - NY, California, CT, Mass, Illinois - + weak blue states like NJ, Penn, Washington, Maryland - not the Swing States.

Ace!

Looks like events are changing on the ground faster than you can update! This has got to be good news for republicans:

CINCINNATI (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Saturday that provisional ballots Ohio voters cast outside their own precincts should not be counted, throwing out a lower-court decision that said such ballots are valid as long as they are cast in the correct county.

Upon reading my last post, I realized the AP excerpt I used was poorly worded (Not my fault the AP writers suck)

The gist of the article is that voters in Ohio have to vote in the precinct asigned to them.. They just can't go about willy-nilly casting ballots in whatever church they fancy..

given that democrats have such difficulty following simple rules, this particular hurdle will cost them a couple thousand votes, as the particularly stupid ones won't be able to find their polling spot, and since they are cynical by nature, will be prone to give up quicker than his average - more optimistic republican counterpart.

This development helps the republicans, and hurts the democrats

In other developments:
More word that Osama is in fact dead

Oh brother. Cedarford is on his "tax cuts for the wealthy" bullshit ramble again.

You want to see stolen votes? This is huge. Look at an absentee ballot from Ohio. The box to check to vote for Kerry is, surprise, next to Kerry's name. The box to check to vote for Bush is way off in the corner, right where you left that tube of chapstick you can't find. This is going to be worse than Florida last year.

I wanted to clarify, if you follow that link above, the blue blox is Kerry, the red is Bush, and the green is some other election.