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Afghanistan
Al Qaeda terrorist captured in Afghanistan
Troops in eastern Afghanistan captured a “known Al Qaeda terrorist” who has ties to the network’s leadership, and five other extremists, including Saudis and Pakistanis, on Monday, said the US-led coalition. The force would not identify the captured men who were rounded up in an early morning operation by Afghan and coalition troops in Khost. “The detainee, who has known ties to Al Qaeda leadership, was taken into custody along with five other terrorists found in the compound, including Saudi and Pakistani nationals,” said the force in a statement. The troops also found grenades, military equipment, armour-piercing rounds and AK-47 assault rifles during a search of the compound where the men were arrested. The statement said troops had also found a camera containing surveillance video of nearby military installations.
Can you just imagine how the pointy little heads of the progressive Left would explode if the person captured today turned out to be OBL?
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Four Afghans linked to foreign aid group abducted
KHOST, Afghanistan - Two Afghan engineers employed by an international aid group, and two other Afghans working with them, have been abducted in southeastern Afghanistan, police said Monday, blaming Taleban. Police said the engineers worked for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) but the group could not immediately confirm some of its staff were missing.

The United Nations said it was aware of the report and looking into it.

The four were abducted in the remote Zurmat district of Paktia province onSunday afternoon, provincial police chief General Abdul Hanaan Raufi told AFP. “Two engineers from IOM and two other local liaison workers were abducted by Taleban yesterday afternoon in Zurmat,” said Raufi.

The missing men had not contacted police before going to the area, Raufi said, and he did not know what they were doing there. “We have tried to win their release through negotiation via tribal elders and influentials,” he said.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Kenya: Somali Islamists detained After US warning
(SomaliNet) Several senior Somali Islamist Officials were at the weekend briefly detained by Kenyan authorities after a US warning that the group has threatened suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia, police said on Sunday. IOL reported Monday. According to sources, the Somali Islamists were detained by Kenya's immigration officials on Saturday after a small plane carrying them from the southern Somali port of Kismayo to Mogadishu was diverted for weather reasons and landed by mistake in Nairobi, they said.

However, the Somali Islamists 13 detainees in number from Somalia's southern Juba Valley region of which Kismayo is the capital, were released and sent back to Somalia on Sunday after authorities here determined they posed no risk, police said. "After realising that they did not have ill intentions, we deported them today," a senior Kenyan police official said, adding that they had arrived at and departed from Nairobi's Wilson Airport.

A Kenyan official reportedly said the men were detained because they had been unable to produce travel documents on their arrival in Kenya, just two days after the US terror warning was issued.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Unfriendly Fire
From a blog, but too good to pass up
Wonder how popular the BBC's Alastair Leithead is among the Royal Marines he's embedded with in southern Afghanistan. It's a dangerous place, what with rogue Taliban fighters, flying mortars and regular machine gun attacks.

And then there's the other danger... clumsy journalists.

"And there are other dangers - the 24-hour ration packs are very good and if there's time are heated up on small, metal solid fuel stoves which are light and ideal for boiling water.

"The silver bags of ready made food are popped on and 10 or 15 minutes later the meal is piping hot.

"I struck a heavy duty match or two on the side of the car and lit the stove, wandering off and thinking little of it, but the first match head had flicked onto a rucksack and it had caught fire.

"Fred the cameraman spotted the flames licking about a gun propped up at the side and the fire was out in no time, but the fuel, and thousands of rounds of ammunition on board could well have gone up. It's when you realise the value of military discipline, and the dangers other than coming under fire of living a semi-nomadic life in the desert.

"I've now been denied access to matches."
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/07/2006 11:33 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BBC or CNN. Will someone remove these idiots?
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/07/2006 14:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Another failed Darwin attempt. It's not easy folks, every year there are numerous failed attempts to produce just one bona fide Darwin Award winner.
Posted by: wxjames || 11/07/2006 14:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Whatever you do, do not handle him a grenade!
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 14:48 Comments || Top||

#4  We're all idiots about something.
Give the guy some credit - he's out there, he's respectful (despite being BBC), and he isn't trying to blame somebody else (even seems to have a bit of a sense of humor about his shortcoming.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/07/2006 14:50 Comments || Top||

#5  I doubt that the soldiers putting up with this git feel anywhere quite as generous about it as you do, Glenmore.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 15:23 Comments || Top||

#6  I bet no one lends this fool any kit to make it through the night! Stupid is as stupid does.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2006 19:19 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Four guilty of Cronulla race-riot revenge
FOUR men pleaded guilty today to bashing a man with concrete blocks in the aftermath of Sydney's Cronulla riot late last year.

Police said the men drove to Cronulla seeking revenge after people of Middle Eastern appearance were targeted in race-fuelled violence last December 11. They attacked Jake Schofield as he walked along a Cronulla street just after midnight on December 12.

An earlier hearing was told the men stomped on his head and beat him with blocks of concrete. Mr Schofield, 20, suffered injuries including a fractured eye socket, broken nose, two stab wounds and a dislocated jaw.

The four men, then aged between 19 and 21, were charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to do so and malicious wounding in company. In Downing Centre District Court, each pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of assault in company occasioning actual bodily harm. Judge Peter Berman suppressed their names at the request of the defence.
Peter, Jake, Trevor and Bob, right?
They were remanded in custody for sentencing on December 1.
Posted by: Jineng Gravimble9392 || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They can sweep it under the carpet all they like. The cat's now out of the bag for most Australians. (There's an uncovered meat/burka joke lurking somewhere in that latter metaphor.)

Most Aussie's now know that it's in their best interests to be wary of the followers of Islam.
Posted by: Gladys || 11/07/2006 5:15 Comments || Top||

#2  since when do convicted felons have a right of privacy to not have their names known? Jeebus. What PC bullshit
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  seeing I did no good on the Cup today what odds can I get that at least one name starts with "M"
Posted by: Classer || 11/07/2006 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  "since when do convicted felons have a right of privacy to not have their names known?"

When it might prejudice another trial they are involved in.

i.e. they're professional criminals.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 11/07/2006 14:20 Comments || Top||


Europe
Dutch police arrest six suspects in terror case
Dutch police arrested five men and a woman suspected of recruiting radical Muslims for jihad, or holy war, in other countries, possibly including Iraq, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The six suspects were arrested Monday and Tuesday in Amsterdam and The Hague, said a statement by the National Public Prosecutor's office.

An investigation was launched last year when the Secret Service tipped off the prosecutor's office that three young men from The Hague were interested in taking part in fighting for Islamic extremists. The three had traveled to the Caspian Sea state of Azerbaijan where they were arrested by local authorities and sent back to the Netherlands under a police escort. They were released and sent home, the statement said. "The investigation ... has since then revealed that jihad fighters are being recruited using hate-inciting texts and films," the statement said. "Central in the ideology is the alleged duty of every Muslim to take part in jihad."

No details of the identities of the six suspects were released, and it was not immediately clear if they had been charged with any offense. "Some of the suspects are believed to have been trying to obtain false travel documents for Iraq," the statement said. "National investigators are trying to establish whether they formed a terror organization."

The arrests came at a time when surveys indicate the Dutch are growing less afraid of a terror attack in their country, two years after an Islamic extremist murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh, whose movie "Submission," was considered blasphemous by many Muslims. According to a poll of 845 people conducted last month by the office of the National Counterterrorism Coordinator, only 20 percent of respondents called terrorism their greatest worry, down from 39 percent in August last year. The poll's margin of error was not immediately available.
That's the short attention span thing I keep talking about.
The announcement also came as another terror case was reaching its climax in a Dutch court. On Monday, prosecutors asked the court for sentences of up to 15 years for six Muslims accused of plotting attacks on Dutch politicians. Possible targets of the group included Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalia-born former lawmaker and prominent critic of radical Islam who wrote the script for "Submission."
Posted by: Hupulet Cloluter4167 || 11/07/2006 14:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Central in the ideology is the alleged duty of every Muslim to take part in jihad."

Take out the alleged and that is what the truth is. We in the west need to face up to it and deal with it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/07/2006 16:47 Comments || Top||


DUTCH PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SAYS SIX ARRESTED IN TERROR CASE...DEVELOPING
Posted by: Clinerong Phinesh7921 || 11/07/2006 06:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Six Budhists?

Six Amish?

Maybe it's six members of a cult that threatens women with rape if they refuse to wear clogs?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 11/07/2006 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, we've caught all of the terrorists. I guess we can go back to normal, elect High Speaker Pelosi and start redistributing assets again.
Posted by: Uleque Elmeck4344 || 11/07/2006 9:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Calvinists all.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/07/2006 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Linky no worky.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, CP7921, post the linky! We here are on pins and needles wanting to know which religion these guys are from. Inquiring minds and all....

My bet is on the Hindus. They're behind all of this stuff, ya know.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 10:40 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll bet you it's the Pennsylvania Dutch trying to take back their homeland!
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  #6? Take back Germany?
Posted by: GK || 11/07/2006 11:18 Comments || Top||

#8  here's a link



International Herald Tribune
Posted by: PlanetDan || 11/07/2006 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Take back Germany?

Actually, the Pennsylvania Dutch came from all over Europe, essentially from wherever German was spoken up to around 1800. That included Eastern France and Switzerland as well.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 12:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Associated Press:
An investigation was launched last year when the Secret Service tipped off the prosecutor's office that three young men from The Hague were interested in taking part in fighting for Islamic extremists.

The three had traveled to the Caspian Sea state of Azerbaijan where they were arrested by local authorities and sent back to the Netherlands under a police escort. They were released and sent home, the statement said.

"Some of the suspects are believed to have been trying to obtain false travel documents for Iraq," the statement said. "National investigators are trying to establish whether they formed a terror organization."

Associated Press secrete sauce:
The arrests came at a time when surveys indicate the Dutch are growing less afraid of a terror attack in their country, two years after an Islamic extremist murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh, whose movie "Submission," was considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
Posted by: RD || 11/07/2006 12:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Where did the Menonites come from ?
Posted by: wxjames || 11/07/2006 15:05 Comments || Top||

#12  The Old Order Amish who shun them for their black Fords.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/07/2006 19:05 Comments || Top||


Egyptian convicted in 2004 Madrid train bombings
An Egyptian man who is one of the chief suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings was sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court on Monday. A Milan court convicted Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, 35, and a co-defendant, Yahia Ragheh, 23, of subversive association aimed at international terrorism, a charge that was introduced after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The younger man was given a five-year term.

Italian police bugging Ahmed's apartment listened as he reacted with joy while watching a video of the beheading of American Nicholas Berg by his al-Qaida captors in Iraq, the court heard. "Come nearer, watch closely, this is the politics you have to follow, the politics of the sword," he advised another man as Berg's screams rang out. "Go to hell, enemy of God, kill him, kill him, cut it well, cut off his head," he said.
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#1  Egyptian convicted in 2004 Madrid train bombings

Another pyramid scheme!

Italian police bugging Ahmed's apartment listened as he reacted with joy while watching a video of the beheading of American Nicholas Berg by his al-Qaida captors in Iraq, the court heard. "Come nearer, watch closely, this is the politics you have to follow, the politics of the sword," he advised another man as Berg's screams rang out. "Go to hell, enemy of God, kill him, kill him, cut it well, cut off his head," he said.

Let's all hope that while he's in prison, someone who opposes terrorism drives the point home.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 1:43 Comments || Top||


Spanish justice demands 270,000 years jail for 3/11 attackers
MADRID - The Spanish state prosecutor is calling for a record 270,000 years jail for 29 people due to stand trial in February for the Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people, a judicial source said on Monday.
Great padlock you have for the gate to that empty barn.
Seven of those charged are set to face prison terms of around 40,000 years, although in practice the legal maximum they will actually serve is 40 years.
With time off, good behavior and Y'urp-peon sensitivity that should be about, oh, 8 years in the clink. A nice prison, mind you.
The high court is due to unveil on Tuesday the full extent of the terms sought for those implicated in Spain’s worst ever attack prior to a trial set to start in February and last for some six months.
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#1  Who the fuck thinks that even lengthy prison terms will ever counterbalance Spain's capitulation to the terrorists?

[crickets]
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe they should compare the cost of 270,000 years with a length of rope
Posted by: SwissTex || 11/07/2006 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  270,000 bullets I could understand. The only thing left in Spain with balls, are the bulls.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/07/2006 14:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe they should think of building a Turkish-style prison, with cells 4x4x6, a grate in the floor for a toilet, and meals twice a day of whatever is cheapest at the bazaar, with two to three cups of water per person per day. Maybe that would be a bit of a deterrant. You don't get virgins if you die in prison.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 11/07/2006 14:55 Comments || Top||

#5  "You barbarians!" he yelled. "I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled ... until ... until ... until you've had enough."

Ford was running after him very fast. Very very fast.

"And then I'll do it again!" yelled Arthur. "And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!"

Arthur didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers; he didn't notice that Mr Prosser was staring hectically into the sky. What Mr Prosser had noticed was that huge yellow somethings were screaming through the clouds. Impossibly huge yellow somethings.

"And I will carry on jumping on them," yelled Arthur, still running, "until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do, and then ..."
Posted by: gorb || 11/07/2006 15:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Hitch Hiker's Guide?

Wow. There's a great reference

Seven of those charged are set to face prison terms of around 40,000 years, although in practice the legal maximum they will actually serve is 40 years.

So what exactly does that mean? Divide by 1,000? 270,000 he gets 270 or 40? Que?






Posted by: Dunno || 11/07/2006 19:51 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India strengthens security along Bangladesh border
(KUNA) -- India Monday beefed up security along its boundary with Bangladesh suspecting the involvement of foreign-based guerrillas in the twin blasts in the country's Northeastern state of Assam Sunday that killed 14 people, while the security forces killed a bomber linked to the explosions. Official sources told reporters in Delhi Monday, "We know that the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was behind the bomb blasts in Guwahati. We are trying to find out if they have been backed by guerrillas in neighbouring Bangladesh." News agency Indo-Asian News Service reported that the security forces killed one of the bombers involved in Sunday night's blasts, near Guwahati in Assam.

Two explosions rocked Guwahati Sunday evening. Fourteen people were killed and 38 wounded in the blasts. The ULFA is yet to claim responsibility for the attacks. "A composite team of the Indian Home Ministry is arriving in Guwahati to take stock of the situation and work out strategies," Assam governor Lt. Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh told reporters today, the news agency reported. "This is nothing but an act of desperation with the ULFA killing innocent civilians. We are stepping up security and take all possible steps to thwart possible rebel attacks," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in Guwahati today.

Meanwhile, a dawn-to-dusk general strike Monday to protest the bombings called by civil society groups affected life in Guwahati today, the news agency said.
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Indian troops kill 2 militants, arrest four
SRINAGAR: Indian troops killed two suspected militants in Kashmir and arrested four others as they sought to cross into Azad Kashmir, said police on Monday. "The militants were killed during a gunbattle with the army in Doda district late on Sunday, said a police spokesman, adding that the two men were "Pakistani nationals". Soldiers also arrested four rebels along the LoC on Monday, he said. "The four militants were arrested in Baramulla district by the army when they were about to cross the Line of Control," said the spokesman.
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3 Russian-made missiles fired at Peshawar
Unknown men fired three Russian-made missiles at the provincial capital early on Monday morning, but there were no casualties, police said on Monday. “The first missile hit the Darul Uloom Muhammadia madrassa at around 2am, but there was no loss of life and property,” Operations SSP Iftikhar Khan told reporters. He said that another two missiles hit Pawaka – in the Pishtakhara police precincts – and Safaid Dheri areas, but did not explode. Khan suspected that the Russian-made NDR-12 missiles were fired from the Khyber Agency and were directed towards the Peshawar International Airport.

However, he said the police was trying to identify the exact location from where the missiles were fired. This is the second incident in which unknown men fired missiles at the provincial capital. A Russian-made missile hit Peshawar on October 17, but no one was hurt. Some police officials, asking not to be named, said the missiles might have been fired by tribesmen in reaction to an army airstrike on a madrassa in Bajaur Agency. The government suspected that the madrassa was a training camp for militants.
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Bourses under terror threat
Intelligence agencies have been informed of a potential terrorism strike on the country’s stock exchanges by the end of November, intelligence sources told Daily Times on Monday. Sources said that terrorists would try to sabotage Pakistan’s economy by attacking the stock exchanges and that the intelligence agencies had forwarded the information to the relevant quarters for action.

Punjab Police IG Ziaul Hasan Khan and Sindh Police IG Jehangir Mirza were not available for comment despite repeated attempts by Daily Times. However, sources in the Punjab Police Special Branch told Daily Times that security agencies were alert to possible terrorism, especially in the aftermath of the airstrike on a madrassa in Bajaur Agency suspected of being a training camp for militants. At least 80 people were killed in the air raid and thousands of protesters in the tribal areas had vowed to avenge the killing of “innocent people” by joining suicide missions against the Pakistan Army.

Lahore Stock Exchange Managing Director Hamid Imtiazi told Daily Times that he had not received any information from intelligence agencies so far, but said that the stock exchange had a foolproof security system. Islamabad Stock Exchange Managing Director Aftab Ahmed Chaudhry said they had adopted strict security measures, including installation of closed-circuit cameras, but he would discuss the security issue with the district administration on Tuesday (today). He said the capital police had already deployed several policemen – uniformed and in plainclothes – in and around the building.

On July 14, two Afghan nationals had tried to enter the Karachi Stock Exchange building with hand grenades hidden in their clothes. However, the suspected terrorists were nabbed by the building’s security guards and handed over to the police. The incident occurred 45 minutes before renowned Shia scholar Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew were killed in a suicide attack in Abbas Town, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi.

Criminologist Ahsan Naqvi said that an attack on stock exchanges would result in a stock market crash and foreign investors could withdraw their investments.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least 80 people were killed in the air raid and thousands of protesters in the tribal areas had vowed to avenge the killing of “innocent people” by joining suicide missions against the Pakistan Army.

Sooner or later the Pakistani army will need to take this as their cue to soften up all of the semi-autonomous tribal areas that continue to assist the Taleban. Unfortunately, almost ALL of Pakistan assists the Taleban, so that really doesn't mean much.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 10:50 Comments || Top||


Iraq
British soldier killed in Iraq
A British soldier was killed in an insurgent attack on an army base in southern Iraq, the ministry of defence said today. The soldier died as a result of fire on a coalition forces base in the city of Basra on yesterday. No other troops were injured in the incident.

The family of the unnamed soldier from the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, have been informed. The death brings the number of British troops killed in Iraq since the March 2003 US-led invasion to 121. Britain has about 7200 soldiers based around Basra, Iraq's second city.
Damned thin on the information side.
Posted by: Phemp Sheck8302 || 11/07/2006 05:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Shaky calm prevails, one killed in protest
(KUNA) -- Iraqis experienced shaky calm on Monday as the authorities maintained special security precautions it had enforced simultaneously with yesterday's verdict-issuance session held by the higher court that ended prosecution of the ousted dictator Saddam Hussein and seven of his henchmen. A source of the interior ministry told KUNA that the government decided to extend the curfew in the main cities indefinitely, as a precaution against a possible bloody backlash by supporters of Saddam, who was handed a death sentence against him and two of his former aides during yesterday's session.

Baghdad, the cities of Mosul and Baqouba witnessed several security indicents, yesterday, despite the special measures. In Baqouba, the police dispersed demonstrators opposing the death sentence. The police opened fire at the protestors killing one and wounding five others. In Mosul, the security forces dispersed a similar demonstration but no one was hurt.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shaky calm prevails, one killed in protest

Calm of any type is infuriating and calls for some killin'.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 3:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Be Yer name Hatcield, Or Coy?
(Click of hammer cocking)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/07/2006 6:16 Comments || Top||


US chopper crashes, two servicemen killed
(KUNA) -- A US chopper crashed in the northern Salaheddin province on Monday leaving tow troops killed, the US military announced. An army statement said two US soldiers were killed when their chopper crashed in Salaheddin province. The statement said the incident was under investigation. The deaths brought to 16 the number of US troops killed in Iraq since the start of November.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The put so many hours on 'em it's a wonder it doesn't happen more often. Condolences to the families of these brave men - and my thanks for your dedication and service.

Thank you, KUNA, for the box score, you fucking Arab pricks.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 3:25 Comments || Top||

#2  God bless them and their families.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2006 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, .com, to give KUNA some benefit of the doubt, at least they're an overseas outfit. I'm sure our home-grown CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/etc. will post the box #s too.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Meant to add, God bless them, their souls and their loved ones. I still find myself in awe of those who serve us by laying their lives on the line.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Any word on the unit they came from???
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2006 19:28 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Network of Islamic Jihad women exposed
Cleared for publication: IDF, Shin Bet arrest six women who receive funds from Islamic Jihad's Syrian command, transfer funds to terror cells and families of suicide bombers.

The Shin Bet exposed during the months of August and September a network of women operating for the Islamic Jihad as part of the organization's terror infrastructure in the West Bank. The network is split into two terror cells – one in Kfar Ayin and one in Kfar Na'ama – that have carried out shooting attacks and have laid roadside bombs around Ramallah. The network has even operated an explosives lab. The Shin Bet and the IDF have arrested a number of the network's members.

One of the senior women arrested is Wadha Faqhaa, 24, from Jilzon, dealt with transferring finances to one of the cells. Faqhaa, head of the Islamic Jihad office in Ramallah, was arrested on August 3. During her interrogation, she said that she received funds from the organization's command center in Syria. Some of the funds she allocated to finance terrorist cells by way of a number of women Islamic Jihad activists serving as money couriers.

Two of the couriers – Haba Hamidat, 21, and Falastin Tsoobah, 21, also residents Jilzon – worked in the Islamic Jihad office in Ramallah that takes care of the organization's prisoners. They were arrested on August 20 and confessed to the accusations against them. In addition to the two couriers, Faqhaa was also aided by other Islamic Jihad activists who served as a conduit for transferring funds from the organization's central command in Syria to the terror cells.

Two of these activists – Afat Khalifa, 21, from Kfar Naama, and Zakia Guanma, 40, from Jilzon – were arrested as well. They said during their interrogations that they received commission of USD 100 for each money transfer they carried out. These funds then funded the terror attacks of the Islamic Jihad's terror cells.

The sixth member who was arrested is Rania Abu Khadir, 26, from Tzurif. She is the head of the Islamic Jihad's student union at Hebron University. Khadir is suspected of being active in charity organizations, which transferred funds to terrorist organizations and the families of suicide bombers.

The defense establishment noted that in recent years, the phenomenon of infiltrating women into Fatah and Islamic Jihad positions serving in organizational roles, logistical aid in the West Bank, and running charity organizations as a front for organizational activity has been common. Because of the senior positions of the women and their linkage between the organizational operations and the terror operations, the Shin Bet pointed out that some of the women dabbled both in terrorist activity and in financing it.

The defense establishment said that the women's arrest significantly damages the organization's capacity to recruit funds and to transfer them to operatives in a number of areas around Hebron and Ramallah.
Posted by: ryuge || 11/07/2006 01:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  exposed? thank goodness no graphics
Posted by: Captain America || 11/07/2006 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  But you can go ahead and curse their mustaches, CA.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 3:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Curly toed slipper-wearing females exposed? Where, Playboy or Penthouse or JihadHouse?
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 11/07/2006 23:45 Comments || Top||


3 Molotov cocktails thrown at Hadassah Hospital
Three Molotov cocktails were thrown on Monday evening from the vicinity of Issawiya at the parking lot behind Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. No one was wounded, but two cars were damaged. Police were investigating the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Palestinians: IDF begins withdrawing from Beit Hanun
The IDF began to withdraw from Beit Hanun, Palestinians reported early Tuesday. Witnesses told a French news agency that they saw armored vehicles moving north out of the town limits. The army did not respond to the reports.

Five Palestinians were killed Monday in separate incidents in the northern Gaza Strip. At least 55 Palestinians were killed during the six-day operation. Four Hamas gunmen were killed by IDF snipers and IAF helicopter missile strikes Monday, including two who were shot as they approached troops with RPG rocket launchers. Two civilians were killed as well. Earlier, a female suicide bomber blew herself up near troops in Beit Hanun Monday afternoon, lightly wounding a soldier, the IDF reported.

Two gunmen were wounded as they attempted to fire Kassams, the army and PA security officials said. Palestinians managed to fire anti-tank missiles at an armored vehicle, without causing any harm, the IDF said.

The attack by the female bomber was the first against the IDF since it entered Beit Hanun on Wednesday in a bid to curb the Kassam attacks. Snipers and IAF missiles have succeeded in preventing Palestinian gunmen from using shoulder-fired missiles and roadside bombs.

Apparently frustrated by their inability to keep soldiers from conducting searches in Beit Hanun, the terrorists resorted to sending a woman. She approached troops, ignored calls to stop, and then detonated her bomb. She was killed in the blast that shook nearby homes and wounded several Palestinians. The soldier was lightly wounded by shrapnel and evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, the army reported. The boomer was identified by relatives as Mervat Masaoud, 18, a student at Gaza City's Islamic University. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
School employee shot dead, rail station bombed in latest Thai violence
A school staff was shot dead by insurgents in Thai violence-plagued southern province of Narathiwat Tuesday morning, while a huge bomb exploded at a railway station in another incident, a local source told Xinhua. The school worker was heading to the school in Ra-Ngae district when attacked by several gunmen at about 9 a.m. local time (02:00 GMT). The attackers shot him several times and soon left the site.

About 30 minutes later, a home-made bomb of five kilograms was trigered at a railway station in nearby Cho-Ai-Rong district. Nobody was killed or injured in the blast since no scheduled train and passengers were nearby at that time.
Posted by: ryuge || 11/07/2006 01:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn. Damn the Muzzies all to Hell. It's not a "violence-plagued" province - it's the Muzzy Plague rubbing up against any form of civil society. It's simply incompatible with humans. You'll have to kill it, eventually, so why the fuck not start now. Oh, I forgot, Muzzy Junta "PM". C'mon, Bhumibol, remember your roots, baby. Pretend they're Burmese and get seriously hinky on their asses. The Muzzies are your new mortal enemies. Get on it or pass that crown down.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  They really don't like teachers do they?
Posted by: Howard UK || 11/07/2006 3:35 Comments || Top||

#3  cuz ignorance is very Islamic
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  If it's not rote memorization of the Koran, it's not Islamic.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2006 8:28 Comments || Top||

#5  I see it more clearly in Thailand than in any other place...they are systematically destroying the entire middle class. They kill and bomb the teachers, the cops, the doctors, the shopkeepers, the restaurant owners and their patrons. The last statistic I saw said the rubber plantation production is down 6%, and that was a while ago, I bet it's even more now. The Arabian ontology requires that there be a bejeweled and begrenaded Turban-in-Chief (and his retainers and enforcers, of course) and an ocean of groveling slaves.

Wake up, Thailand, wake up.
Posted by: Seafarious || 11/07/2006 8:50 Comments || Top||

#6  They are acting almost like the Kmer Rouge: eliminate everything but the lowest level of society so they can form the upper layer.
Posted by: Jackal || 11/07/2006 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  It's what the Arabs did to themselves. As soon as the Jews started expanding the economy and opening schools at the turn of the 1900s, the Arabs starting killing off those amongst themselves who threw off tradition to join in. The wonder is that, despite over a century of culling, there are still those who try.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2006 9:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Sea, that's interesting insight and something I hadn't noticed before. Amazing how much the jihadis and the Donks have in common, eh? Let's get rid of the middle class, ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!

I thought I'd puke when I heard late yesterday, some Donk talking about how Bush and crew had absolutely screwed over the middle class to the benefit of "the rich" through his tax cuts. He literally said "He cut the taxes for those of us who can afford it, to the benefit of those who can't." Sound familiar anyone? And, I consider myself middle-class, and absolutely LOVE the Bush tax cuts! And, to boot, this year, I get to "deduct" my 2nd little future 'burger too!
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 10:37 Comments || Top||

#9  They are acting almost like the Kmer Rouge: eliminate everything but the lowest level of society so they can form the upper layer.

Too true, Jackal. It's up to us to make sure that Islam forms the upper layer of our septic tanks. Where's that Koran toilet paper when you need it?
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 10:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Did my monthly visit to my favorite Thai restaurant yesterday. The two ladies that own it were in a festive mood (first drink on the house !!!). Word came down from the Fed. Gov't that mother, an aunt and uncle have been cleared to immigrate to the USA from southern Thailand. Please don't ask me to tell you the name of the village unless you want a phonectic translation!

The family are Thai Buddhists. You'd swear they've lived in the USA for 10 generations given their prompt assimilation to our culture, but they've only been here for 15 years. Honest, happy, hard working people, family values, live and let live, no hint to wanting to spread their faith by the sword, get an education,pro military defense, women running the show as equals of their male counterparts in every respect, deference to authortiy but no hint of being sheep, a small tasteful American flag on a statue of Buddah displayed at the cash register. You'd think these folk were born Republican.

You want to see a Thai pissed off? Ask him or her "How's that Muslim thing going in southern Thailand"?
Posted by: Mark Z || 11/07/2006 12:33 Comments || Top||

#11  The Tsunami set back the movement a couple years, now it is back. Thailand and Indonesia both will be picking up in the next year or so. the Thais are just wishing this away, it is going to get worse, soon. Indonesia will slip away in total in the next two years.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2006 19:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Sorry, expect the Thai muzzies demanding a islamic state in the near future. They are taking notes from the ARMM in the Philippines.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2006 20:00 Comments || Top||


Jihadis torch school in southern Thailand
A school in Bannang Sata district of Yala has been burnt to the ground, apparently by Muslim insurgents who infiltrated a village where local people had chased off border patrol police. Police said Ban Tabingting Samakee school was set ablaze at 2.30 a.m. The school's kitchen and shops were burnt to ashes.

According to official reports, insurgents moved into the Muslim village after local people had confronted police on Monday, and forced them to move out of the village. Villagers said they would look after the school, the reason the police were at the village in the first place. But insurgents set the school on fire, causing damage estimated at 500,000 baht.

It was the fifth arson attack against schools in the area. Insurgents burnt down four Bannang Sata district schools last Friday. Head teachers of 35 schools in the district suspended classes yesterday for the safety of students and teachers, after a police patrol unit appointed to protect local schools decided to leave the area.

Education Minister Wijit Srisa-arn will go to Yala to visit the troubled area today. Mr Wijit said he wants to listen to teachers' complaints in person.
Posted by: ryuge || 11/07/2006 01:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Following the pattern of systematic eradication of non-muslim education exposed here by a RB regular (can't remember who, my bad)?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Schools: Why do they hate us?
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 11/07/2006 23:44 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran hangs six 'tourist kidnappers'
Iran has publicly hanged in the southeastern city of Zahedan six members of a Sunni “terrorist” group convicted of abducting European tourists and armed robbery, a press report said Monday.

The men, identified only as Behzad N, Mohammad-Amin H, Abdollah Sh, Mohsen S, Majid K, and Nader K were all members of a “terrorist group led by (Sunni militant) Abdolmalek (Rigi)”, the Ayande-No daily said. The men had reportedly kidnapped Dutch, German, and Irish tourists travelling through Iran and also set a police car on fire, killing four people, the report said.

It appeared to be referring to the abduction by armed bandits in December 2003 of one Irish and two German tourists cycling through Iran, who were later released unharmed. The militant group Jondullah (Soldiers of God), headed by Rigi, has been held responsible for murdering 22 people in March in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province and another 12 on a road in southern Kerman province in May. The rebels had also abducted nine soldiers near the Pakistani border last December. A minority in Shiite-dominated Iran, Sunnis account for more than half the population of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which lies on the main narcotics route from Afghanistan and Pakistan and is a scene of deadly clashes between traffickers and police.
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#1  Baluchis, I believe.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 11/07/2006 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  A little proof-loading for future activities, or pre-stretching exercises per chance???
Posted by: USN, ret. || 11/07/2006 13:56 Comments || Top||

#3  If you believe that six guys are responsible for murdering 22 people in one month, then you'll probably also believe it is safe to go vacation in Iran. Have a nice vacation!
Posted by: gorb || 11/07/2006 14:48 Comments || Top||


Voting play by play...
Following the Election Returns

Predictions

Voting Machines Woes Cause Early Delays

Polls: Rendell Maintains Comfortable Lead in PA

Indiana court hearing scheduled to consider extending voting hours

Election fixing charges fly in Utah town

Fort Wayne: Precincts report strong turnout
Some longtime election workers say numbers are biggest they’ve seen

San Diego: Some county voters face glitchy machines, resort to voting on paper

Deerfield Beach voters frustrated by bad electronic ballots

Dem lawyers in TN going to court to keep polls open late

Ky. Poll Worker Charged With 'Choking Voter'

Bomb threat closes Madison polling site

S.C. Governor Turned Away by Poll Worker
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 10:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, time to stick my head in the sand until it's all over...I hate treating an election like it's some sort of sports event, and I especially loathe when the media "calls" a race, as if that makes it authoritative.
Posted by: gromky || 11/07/2006 10:57 Comments || Top||

#2  From "Voting Machines Woes Cause Early Delays"

In New Mexico, some voters complained they had received phone calls giving them incorrect information about where in vote.

I'm sorry, but this whole process seems VERY easy to me. You go to your local (usually County) Voters Registration Office, register to vote, and they handle manning the polls (with a hard-copy print out of the Voter Registration database) on election day. A few weeks before the election, they mail you a new Voter ID card, which has your polling place (with address) listed. This is how we do it in Georgia (Atlanta area).

You then go to your polling place (after using that handy-dandy Mapquest, if you don't even know your local area), you may or may not even have to show ID (just be listed as registered on THAT polling places Voter Registration database printout), and you go punch/touch screen whom you want to win.

I have NO sympathy for anyone who doesn't put forth a little initiative of their own to find out WHERE to go vote. I'd imagine in (more) rural New Mexico, it's probably even more simple (only a handful of polling places per County vs. hundreds per County here in Atlanta). Voting is a right, and our nanny-state gov't has raised a class of citizens who won't put forth a little initiative of their own to even find out WHERE to go vote. I'm more and more beginning to think (like Neal Boortz here in Atlanta) that there should be some "basic aptitude" test on how our Government works BEFORE you can vote. Incoming immigrants (at least the legal ones) have to take a test, why not citizens who would normally just vote a straight ticket w/o even knowing what they're voting for?
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Personally, I thing you ought to have to factor a simple polynomial before they let you take the wheel of America's shiny black sedan in your sweaty little paws, but that's just me.

The brakes are lousy, by the way. Be aware.
Posted by: mojo || 11/07/2006 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Indiana has the earliest poll close, 6 pm EST.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 11/07/2006 11:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I have NO sympathy for anyone who doesn't put forth a little initiative of their own to find out WHERE to go vote.

I am afraid this is a sign of the times. Most people these days (my personal experience) need someone to tell them what to do, think, wear, etc. etc. I run into so many folks that can't think for themselves, can't process information and reach a conclusion. I think humanity is destined to slip back into some dark age for a period of time. These things seem to come in cycles, we seem to be heading into one.

Maybe my mood will be better tomorrow after the election, then, maybe not.

Posted by: Mick Dundee || 11/07/2006 11:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Mick, I fear you're right. I can't for the life of me, though, understand WHY (actually, I know why, that nanny-state mentality) it's so hard for people to put for just a little effort just a generation or two from that Greatest Generation who shouldered EVERYTHING for us to remain free. I mean, good grief, you can just hit the internet for 2 minutes and find out where you go to vote (if it's not given to you on your voter registration card). The Republican national party (and, I assume the Donks too) have a "See where you should go to vote" webpage, your local County office should have a webpage, and, if all that fails, look it up in the phonebook. These are the exact same people who'll be whining about not having a "free ride" (literally) to the polls to vote.

When I think about what our Forefathers went through to give us this RIGHT to vote, I p!sses me off when someone takes that for granted. That's why I've really started to consider that there should be some sort of "aptitude test" on how our Gov't works/is set up BEFORE you can vote. Otherwise, you're only seeking betterment of yourself (through welfare, food stamps, local pork projects, etc.), not the "big picture," the entire nation as a whole.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 11:24 Comments || Top||

#7  No, it's not too much to ask that people spend a couple of minutes to find out where to vote. But that doesn't make the people who purposely give out false information any less despicable.
Posted by: Flomons Omaviling1245 || 11/07/2006 11:31 Comments || Top||

#8  We get cards telling us where our place is before the election.

Chaffee alluded he'll finally make the (D) behind his name official when he wins.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 12:00 Comments || Top||

#9  I live in central California and a local radio station has people calling in with voting woes. So far they have had calls from San Jose, Marin, San Francisco, and Oakland about those EVIL voting machines not working. Now ALL of those cities/counties had the SAME machines last year, can’t seem to get their act together, and they ALL are in the DEEP BLUE Bay area. I wonder what happens when they make a deposit in their bank account. I bet half the time they can’t complete the transaction at an ATM. BTW I live in a rural county and we switched from felt tip pens to Sequoia machines with NO problems.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 11/07/2006 12:09 Comments || Top||

#10  The CNN website headline is "Glitches Reported in Early Voting." I take that as a good sign.
Posted by: Matt || 11/07/2006 12:20 Comments || Top||

#11  If you check out the fever swamp today they are all about a stolen election. Gosh if they are so far ahead in the polls how can the Neocons steal the election? Lot’s of charges tossed around but nothing of substance. I think they are just laying the ground for a legal battle in the morning.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 11/07/2006 12:40 Comments || Top||

#12  Cyber Sarge -- the voting machines that "crashed" in Cleveland are also, I believe, in a Democrat-controller area.

My polling station had a single innovation this year: a machine that scanned your ballots to make sure you had properly marked it. The style of ballot was the same as last year. The entire state switched over to the same system for this election, so the Cleveland precincts screwed up a system the elderly election volunteers in my precinct had no problem with.

I have to wonder if the screw-ups in majority-Democrat areas are on purpose. Muddy the waters a bit, claim "irregularities", and count on a compliant press to not report just who was in charge.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2006 12:48 Comments || Top||

#13  Get ready for the Democraps complaints.

This voting machine crap is complete BS. We use paper ballots here. Any idiot with a pen can vote. Traceable.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/07/2006 14:04 Comments || Top||

#14  I have to wonder if the screw-ups in majority-Democrat areas are on purpose.

Duh!

#6. BA. I hear you. People just don't want to think anymore. Well, the younger set that is. The schools have been teaching kids what to think, instead of how to think. Combine that with the "TV" culture, and people are mindless. I see it all the time.

I have to stop thinking about it, it raises my BP to dangerous levels.

Posted by: Mick Dundee || 11/07/2006 14:05 Comments || Top||

#15  #7 FO1245 - I agree. Those that give out false information on polling locations are despicable. I completely agree. However, those sheeple who follow that advice are just as liable in my mind, especially knowing that shenanigans are being played out everywhere (from 2004 on). I wonder how many States send out NEW voting registration cards just before the election, with your polling place/address on it? I know Georgia does, and it sounds like others do to. Now if you fall for "the joke" (a bad one, like Kerry's last week) and listen to someone on a phone call, it's your own dang fault, in my book. People in this country have got to wake up and take RESPONSIBILITY for themselves, for Pete's sake!
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 14:47 Comments || Top||

#16  I got a Spanish language GOTV call from the local Donks yesterday, with a live person for a change. After the initial spiel, I told him that I prefer to speak English on my own phone. He apologized, told me that he did not speak enough English to do that, and hung up.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 11/07/2006 14:57 Comments || Top||

#17  At our precincts in Anchorage, Alaska, we have the AccuVote machines. You have a 8.5 x 14 piece of card stock. Your choices each have an oval outline next to them, with plenty of space between ovals and choices. Just like standardized tests in elementary school, heh. Fill out both sides of the ballot. Ballot slides into the machine and it reads it. You also have the paper original in the machine. What could be simpler? Paper trail, any glitches and you can have a manual recount. Who would want those POS screen terminals anyway. It is not really that hard to make a user-friendly ballot safe and virtually foolproof.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/07/2006 15:00 Comments || Top||

#18  heh. My prediction is coming true. The polls radically shifting towards GOP just before the election and claims of voter fraud abound. Things aren't going well for the Dems. And I suspect that they never were.

I can't help myself. I'm going to have to put on waders and go see what's happening on Kos and DU.
Posted by: anon || 11/07/2006 15:04 Comments || Top||

#19  ok..here is my report. The Kos Kiddies are not in a cheerful mood. The bottom line is that the world is coming to an end over voting problems and they want vote by mail to be mandated as the solution. Ok. And all republicans and supporters are thugs and *ssholes.

BUT DON'T MISS THIS FROM LAURA INGRAM:
As you already know, the Dems have sent out an army to photograph and report any pereived incident of disenfrancisement, etc.


Laura Ingraham has asked her listeners to call the Dem Voter protection hotline -- and they are now being flooded with calls from crank callers. Please call Laura and tell her what you think about this: 800.876.4123. You can e-mail her here. Apparently, voter intimidation and fraud are a joke to Laura Ingraham. Let's let her know that it is no joke [...]

More on Laura Ingraham: "caller indicated she is running a tape of Bill Clinton over and over saying "call 1-888 Dem Vote to report problems" -- and then making fun of him, thus producing a spike in crank calls to the number" Protecting voter integrity is no joke. And I am not laughing. If anyone has audio of this, I'd love it
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Posted by: anon || 11/07/2006 15:11 Comments || Top||

#20  DU is all over the "voting fraud".
Posted by: anon || 11/07/2006 15:17 Comments || Top||

#21  Lol, anon -- Reporting from the front lines, not sitting in a Green Zone bar. Thx!
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 15:20 Comments || Top||

#22  I'd get giddy over what I think I'm seeing, but the elections far from over, and I think the dead vote only comes out at night.
Posted by: anon || 11/07/2006 15:29 Comments || Top||

#23  Anyone who is surprised that people don't think for themselves these days hasn't had the glorious opportunity to sit at the main console for your state's Department of Health. No matter how bad you think it may be, I assure you, it's far, far worse than you think.

And the sad part is that most of these idiots are probably voting Democrat . . .
Posted by: The Doctor || 11/07/2006 15:43 Comments || Top||

#24  WTG Laura! Fight fire with fire. But not really necessary. Remember in 2004 the BIG voter suppression consisted of a Donk voter getting an "intimidating look" from a republican observer. So I guess if someone looks at a Dhimi voter cross-eyed they run screaming like a little girl. I am sure the Donks have many staged voter suppression action photos that will surface in various papers and websites after they lose today.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 11/07/2006 16:19 Comments || Top||

#25  Voter fraud my ass. ALL the machines went down in Hawkins County, Tennessee just befor noon so paper ballots are being used. I have tried to vote twice today but the machines in my polling place are not working, either. I live in Greene County. As of 9:30 this morning they had no paper ballots, either. I will be going again (third time) as soon as I get off work. If I still can't vote I'll probably be arrested for creating a hell of a disturbance.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/07/2006 16:22 Comments || Top||

#26  if you haven't voted GO VOTE!

And if someone is between you and your vote, run over them. Call your county election board if they dont have ballots or the machiens are down. The Voters Rights Acts says you can demand a paper provisional ballot - and they damn well better have them.

And also call the local newspapers news desk - report FRAUD in the area, you witnessed it, they were telling people to go away, etc.

Finally, call your local Republican Comittee - or contact the national Republican Party if you are getting stonewalled. They should have an election judge nearby or something similar if youa re getting monkeybusiness. And be sure to contact the Federal Department of Justice in the closeset larget town or city, lodge your complaint with your name so you can use that as a basis to sue.

Dont lie there and take it - exercise ALL your rights, and make the bastards give you your vote.


Its the law.

On my local campaign,

Got the vote registers from the outlying precincts. And we now have official records of who has and hasnt voted as of this afternoon. We are going to give evey registered Repub that hasn't voted a phone call in the next 2 hours, offer them a ride, etc. Get them out there to vote (we even have Taxi vouchers and some taxis standing by if there are 2 or more in a place).

I'll be back WAY later if at all.

If we win, I'm drinking.

And if we lose, I'm drinking too, just not as happily.


I'm off to man the phones until the last possible minute.

Wish us luck.

Later all.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/07/2006 16:23 Comments || Top||

#27  #18 I too think that things were never going as well for the donks as the talking heads would have us believe.

I suspect that a larger than average turn out will favor the Republicans.

People who do not think for themselves are not smart enough to be voting; there should be a test to qualify to vote.
Posted by: Dreamsmith || 11/07/2006 16:25 Comments || Top||

#28  Add this one, Fred:
Philly Fraud
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 16:29 Comments || Top||

#29  I saw a Newsmax article that the voter turnout in VA is as as 65%. Not sure what that means how about you VA ranters?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 11/07/2006 16:39 Comments || Top||

#30  Go OS!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/07/2006 16:42 Comments || Top||

#31  Take Ace next time Deacon.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/07/2006 17:02 Comments || Top||

#32  And dress like a BlueBelly.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/07/2006 17:03 Comments || Top||

#33  Be on the look out for this escaped DemoCrap voter!

Posted by: RD || 11/07/2006 17:04 Comments || Top||

#34  Rofl, RD!
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 17:10 Comments || Top||

#35  Hee hee hee
Posted by: Shipman || 11/07/2006 17:14 Comments || Top||

#36  Is that Angel Martin on the trike?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/07/2006 17:21 Comments || Top||

#37  Via a Lucianne poster:

75% turnout reported in Conservative Ozaukee County north of Milwaukee; slow, light turnout in urban Milwaukee county voting polls.

Good news for GOP Mark Green for governor; if it happens you heard it here first--- Republican Perfecto Rivera defeats first term democrat Gwen Moore in Milwaukee, an unexpected pickup for the Fifth Congressional district.

Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 18:10 Comments || Top||

#38  No, Angel's dead, or better be, he owes me $48736.45 and 50 lbs. of ground chuck.
Posted by: Jimmy || 11/07/2006 18:42 Comments || Top||

#39  Spewing juices, RD!!
Posted by: Hyper || 11/07/2006 19:31 Comments || Top||

#40  LOL RD - a classic
Posted by: Martina Navratirovliva :-) || 11/07/2006 19:34 Comments || Top||

#41  that was me, of course...stinking cookies!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 19:35 Comments || Top||

#42  Update on the "Voter Chocking":

Ky. Poll Worker Charged With Assault

The voter told poll worker Jeffery Steitz that he didn't want to vote in a judicial election because he didn't know enough about the candidates, but Steitz told him he had to vote in the race anyway, Yates said.

Steitz, 42, eventually grabbed the man by the neck and threw him out of the polling place, Yates said.

"The poor guy went back in and he threw him out again," Yates said. "At least it wasn't over a Democrat or a Republican being on the ballot."


What's this guy doing reviewing the ballot and claiming everything had to be marked? I just left a whole bunch 'unmarked' because there was no resonable opponent.
Posted by: KBK || 11/07/2006 19:44 Comments || Top||

#43  Gotta chock them voters, make sure they don't roll away too soon. Only reasonable.
Posted by: KBK || 11/07/2006 19:46 Comments || Top||

#44  all things are calm in KY, last term there would be shootings, not chokings!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2006 19:53 Comments || Top||

#45  Missouri turnout is being estimated at 70 %, my wife and I both waited nearly two hours (she went in mid-afternoon and I went in the evening) The election workers said that it has been the busiest they have seen.
Posted by: djh_usmc || 11/07/2006 19:59 Comments || Top||

#46  Missouri turnout is being estimated at 70 %, my wife and I both waited nearly two hours (she went in mid-afternoon and I went in the evening) The election workers said that it has been the busiest they have seen.
Posted by: djh_usmc || 11/07/2006 20:00 Comments || Top||

#47  Mods sorry for the double post!
Posted by: djh_usmc || 11/07/2006 20:12 Comments || Top||

#48  Lost two senate seats and 1 house seat so far.
Posted by: Charles || 11/07/2006 20:45 Comments || Top||

#49  As a Ozzie (and ex-Brit) I find it strange not to have projections based on swing (of those booths reporting) and a winner called already.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/07/2006 21:12 Comments || Top||

#50  Phil_b, they tried that in 2000 in Florida before the polls had even closed in parts of the state.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 11/07/2006 21:49 Comments || Top||

#51  All you D.C. Rantburgers say hi to our first Muslim congressman. Keith Ellinson from Minnesota. You can keep him.

Posted by: Mike N. || 11/07/2006 22:02 Comments || Top||

#52  And from the Thank God Department, Jimmuh's boy Jack Carter is losing to the incumbent Ensign, here in Nevada.
Posted by: Vegas Matt || 11/07/2006 23:31 Comments || Top||

#53  We gave it our best shot in the campaign here.

One things for sure: Haster is going to go. Shadegg shoudl be voted into Repub House leadership. Haster and his old pork barrel bullshit cost the Repubs this election.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/07/2006 23:58 Comments || Top||


Vote
Fred says it in the bloid. I'll say it here.

Vote.

If you haven't yet voted, stop reading the Burg, get into your preferred mode of transport, and get to the polling place. Go to the right place. Have your voter registration card and picture ID handy. Wait in line politely. Sign the form. Go to the voting machine. Punch, scribble or click your way through the ballot.

Check your ballot for errors -- it's your fault if it isn't counted properly. Turn the ballot into the election judge.

Vote.

We have a choice today. If you're a regular reader at the Burg you know the issues and you know the parties. This isn't a day to withhold a vote because someone didn't do 100% of what you wanted. No candidate or party is perfect. But they do stand for things, and you have a choice.

Vote. No excuses. Vote.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/07/2006 01:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  don't forget, donks vote on Wednesday
Posted by: Captain America || 11/07/2006 1:32 Comments || Top||

#2  No thats in odd numbered years.

In EVEN numbered years, Democrats vote Thursday.

Posted by: OldSpook || 11/07/2006 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Its revolution, civil war, anarchy, Amer Hiroshima + Motherly Commie Airborne iff Dubya-GOP "steals" another one. Just vecuz Amer is suppos to be a Representative Democracy doesn't mean our Clintonian Federalism = Trianglular/Socialist Centralism NPE, etal. has to tell the Voters = "the People" anything, espec vv OWG. US LEFT > America is the only Nation that make Socialism work, ergo is the only one that has to give its sovereignty, freedoms + endowments. The world-mighty, future USSA-CPUS = weak/controlled Global SSR = WARSAW PACT. BERLIN = VICHY, don't ya know.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/07/2006 3:14 Comments || Top||

#4  It's in the bag, Donks. Bong up and party down, d00ds.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 4:00 Comments || Top||

#5  This isn't a day to withhold a vote because someone didn't do 100% of what you wanted. No candidate or party is perfect. But they do stand for things, and you have a choice.

I could not have said it any better, Steve.
Posted by: Mike || 11/07/2006 6:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Was there when the polls opened, Lots of folks there with me. Must have all been Republicans because the rain wasn't melting anyone.
Posted by: Un-Disenfrenchfried Voter || 11/07/2006 7:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Read this and I went to my polling place, but the lady said: "it's 4AM, a**hole!"


guess I'll go back later
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 7:41 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm in Cook County, Illinois. I'm planning on voting early and often.
Posted by: Darth VAda || 11/07/2006 8:04 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm in the Washington state / Snohomish County - we have no polling places where I live - they are illegal.

Everyone must vote by mail. That way the ballots can get mislaid lost easier. Not to mention the dead, felons, and imaginary friends won't get 'disenfranched' by having to actually exist and appear at a polling place...

And as an added bonus we may not know the results until weeks afterwards -- and its way, way, more expensive!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/07/2006 8:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Already voted.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2006 8:26 Comments || Top||

#11  I voted, one of the first in line this morning.

Today's the day America will either decide to soldier on until the job is done, or announce to the world that we have lost our minds, our nerve, our spines and our balls, and that all we really want to do is curl up in the fetal position and pretend it's 9/10 again.

God have mercy on us if we choose the latter; our enemies certainly won't. Vote like your life depends on it, folks-- because it does.

Posted by: Dave D. || 11/07/2006 8:41 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm in a largely Democrat district in CA (the 10th US House District has been virtually owned by Ellen Tauscher since '89 or thereabouts; didn't prevent me from running ineffectively against her in 2000 though) so I'm expecting huge Dhimmi wins out here.

Won't prevent me from voting this afternoon though and I'll be voting straight Republican (as will my mother and her roommate).

Voting is an honor, a privilege, and a sacred duty for every eligible American.

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 11/07/2006 8:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Voted absentee from South Korea, straight Republican ticket. They drive me nuts sometimes but the Democrats, quite simply, hate this country and what it stands for. I'm sorry as hell that it's a choice between the bad and the worse but I'm damned if I'm going to let the worse come to pass if there's anything I can do to stop it. Those who have died defending the liberty I now enjoy deserve no less.
Posted by: mac || 11/07/2006 9:00 Comments || Top||

#14  I just pulled the lever for straight GOP in PA (well, technically, I pushed the button but the idea is the same). It feels good. Somebody noted once that when you vote, you're alone with your conscience in order to perform the central duty of democracy. Politicians are begging you to vote for them -- it's not you begging them for favors, but them begging you. That kind of power being devolved to individuals is unprecedented in world history.

The franchise is like a muscle: it only works well if you exercise it!
Posted by: Jonathan || 11/07/2006 9:15 Comments || Top||

#15  I am in MN. and I will be voting Republican to offset my Mothers' vote. Can anyone on the 'Burg help offset my Sisters' vote?
Posted by: Mike N. || 11/07/2006 9:30 Comments || Top||

#16  If they ever get the machines fixed at my polling place I'll vote. Been there twice already this morning and no one has any idea when or if they will be fixed. This is a heavy Republican area with about 1200 people voting at this particular place. I hope everyone who has tried to vote this morning goes back as many times as it takes. If the machines aren't fixed we will be given paper ballots but there are none available as of now. This really stinks.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/07/2006 9:46 Comments || Top||

#17  Lucky for me that it is a certainty that the democrats will win. I'm so busy today!!
Posted by: democrat || 11/07/2006 9:48 Comments || Top||

#18  Deacon Blues, that is terrible. I smell "dienfranchisement". Are you in a swing district?
Posted by: anon || 11/07/2006 9:49 Comments || Top||

#19  To Ed Rendell (Gov. of Pennsylvania): Ed, I like you and I seriously considered voting for you even though you are a Democrat, but when I got into the booth I decided that your being a Democrat is a serious character flaw, so I hit the "All Republican Candidates" button and left with a clear conscience.
Posted by: Darrell || 11/07/2006 10:03 Comments || Top||

#20  I voted. Mike's one step closer to the Senate.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 10:06 Comments || Top||

#21  How do we know if the Republicans are going to keep the house? Certainly the exit polls won't tell us as most of us went to bed in 2004 thinking that Kerry had won.

The way you will know if the Republicans are taking the house will be when the MSM begins talking endlessly about fraud and voting irregularities in the house/senate races that are "too close to call".

If you are voting Republican, it is imperative that you get off your behind and vote. DO IT NOW!! As important as winning is that the margin of victory is beyond dispute. (If you are a democrat - don't sweat it- one limp hanging chad can swing the election your way.)
Posted by: anon || 11/07/2006 10:09 Comments || Top||

#22  My wife & I vote absentee for the Michigan elections. I never vote Dem and only vote Repub for U.S. senators (Stabenow & Levin make that a real easy choice), reps and State Governor. The rest will be libertarian.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 11/07/2006 10:09 Comments || Top||

#23  I'm not in a swing district. There has been almost no campaigning for Harold Ford here as this is a big Republican area. I think this is just someone not doing his job.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/07/2006 10:13 Comments || Top||

#24  Here in the West suburbs of Chicago we had the option of paper ballots or touch screen voting. This was the first time for electronic voting in my district so I went with the touch screen to see what all of the fuss was about. Most people chose paper ballots.
The screen itself is quite large and the voting options are laid out clearly on the screen. If you make a mistake you can instantly correct it without having to get a new ballot from a poll worker. When selections are completed, a paper copy of your ballot is printed on a roll of paper. This paper ballot is viewable to the voter behind some clear plastic that is right next to the touch screen. This is not a receipt it is a verification measure. Even at this stage you can change your vote. Once you have reviewed the entire paper ballot and approved it the results are saved.
If there was a Republican candidate, he or she got my vote. The only thing I don't like about the way we vote is that ID was not required. The only thing I was asked was my last name.
Posted by: Scott R || 11/07/2006 10:31 Comments || Top||

#25  Always vote after work and as a family. I just hope those touch screen machines don't bite ne when i try to vote.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 11/07/2006 10:35 Comments || Top||

#26  Interesting story being reported out of Atlanta, GA.

Neil Boortz, talk show host, went to vote this morning. The computer system at his precinct acknowledged he was a registered voter, but would not permit him to vote.

Boortz says he'll return to vote later this afternoon in order to give the precinct people a chance to "fix the problem".

Preliminary analysis per Boortz: Someway, somehow, someone has already voted using Boortz's identity which expalins why the computer won't allow him to vote "twice".

Boortz will update his listeners on tomorrow's program. Developing....
Posted by: Mark Z || 11/07/2006 10:45 Comments || Top||

#27  Voted on the way in. You may be interested but not too surprised to know that there are more Green-Rainbow then Republican candidates for state office here in Massachusetts, Peoples Republic of.
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/07/2006 10:46 Comments || Top||

#28  Interesting, Mark Z. Knowing Boortz's following here in atlanta, that could have a LOT of attention!

And, CS, we here in the red state of Georgia have had electronic touch-screen voting since before the 2004 Presidential elections. If we here in this stupid, red-neck state of Georgia (who houses quite a few of those loathed, uneducated soldiers to boot) can get electronic voting down, surely you all can, lol!
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 10:48 Comments || Top||

#29  Boortz update (per Boortz):

Sec. of State for GA just contacted Boortz to advise him that someone, someway, changed his address to vote to a different precint. He's pissed.

More to follow...developing....
Posted by: Mark Z || 11/07/2006 10:53 Comments || Top||

#30  Will vote tonight, right after work.

Not surprised about the goings-on in Atlanta: when Pat Robertson ran for the GOP nomination, a lot of evangelical black voters were unable to vote because their otherwise democratic precincts didn't happen to have ANY Republican voting ballots...

Heh, I like to think that, down here in South Georgia, Electronic voting FINALLY gave us clean elections, since the political boss SOBs are too damn computer-ignorant to hack the vote. I'm probably the only one capable of doing so within a 3 county radius, and I'll turn the SOB in who even TRIES to solicit me to do so.

Go Vote. Git 'er done.
Posted by: Ptah || 11/07/2006 11:06 Comments || Top||

#31  I'm batting cleanup out on the Left Coast, I'll be punchin in around 7:00 pm.....straight Republican ticket - and that's a 1st.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/07/2006 11:13 Comments || Top||

#32  Voted here in C(r)ook County, IL. First time using the touch screen, which was fairly simple.

Much as I hated to do it, voted for Baar-Topinka. GOP in IL is in total shambles.
Posted by: Dreadnought || 11/07/2006 11:17 Comments || Top||

#33  Ptah, thanks for your votes, which will hopefully over-ride districts like the Democratic People's Republic of DeKalb, and a few others around the ATL.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 11:19 Comments || Top||

#34  Remember to be sure how many sides the ballot has.
Posted by: Korora || 11/07/2006 11:22 Comments || Top||

#35  Heh--I'm in King County, WA, and sent in my mail ballot last week. I wish that would have made me exempt the rest of the week from all the ads and calls!
Posted by: Dar || 11/07/2006 11:53 Comments || Top||

#36  Btw, I also vote for the return of the Ranger Up girl! The new ad is LAME!
Posted by: Dar || 11/07/2006 11:53 Comments || Top||

#37  To Cook County voters, Peraika is the important vote! Cook county govt is one of the richest and most corrupt in the nation....
Posted by: Mark E. || 11/07/2006 12:20 Comments || Top||

#38  voted here in Santee (outside San Diego) - while I was, some morons who "moved here yesterday" wanted to vote. BZZZZT - bad answer....no registration, no vote
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 12:39 Comments || Top||

#39  Voted straight repub ticket, even Katheryn Harris can you believe I will not vote Democrat until they all act like they got some balls.
Posted by: djohn66 || 11/07/2006 13:20 Comments || Top||

#40  Already voted. I had to show photo ID; Gawd, I feel so disenfranchised--NOT!
Posted by: Mike || 11/07/2006 13:33 Comments || Top||

#41  Ring up another vote for the Man of Steele! I can't think of a better man to represent Maryland in the Senate.
Posted by: eLarson || 11/07/2006 13:39 Comments || Top||

#42  CF: I live in island county, one of only 5 left in WA that have actual polling stations, but work in skagit co. if you are looking out the window, you know about the flooding, but my co-workers are reporting no problemo w/ dropping ballots off or voting, so we shall see what happens tonight. the floods you know are all bush's fault!!
Posted by: USN, ret. || 11/07/2006 13:45 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 14:10 Comments || Top||

#44  Wife and I are going later this afternoon here in Colorado Springs, CO. We have 14 ballot initiatives to vote on, as well as for candidates, including Governor and judges. One of the ballot initiatives is to assign term limits to appelate judges. Another is to 'define marriage'. I'll keep the Burg informed how these things go.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 11/07/2006 14:14 Comments || Top||

#45 
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Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 14:57 Comments || Top||

#46  Downers Grove Township - on the ballot should we leave Iraq now, bringing home the NG first?
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 14:59 Comments || Top||

#47  A2U: had the same question on the Oak Park Township vote. I enjoyed that one.

Cook County voters: Mark E is absolutely right. Peraika is the must vote to do; Topinka [swallows hard] is next. Outside Cook, if you live in IL-6 you gotta vote for Roskam over Duckworth, and in IL-8 you gotta vote for McSweeeney over Bean. That's where we can make a difference in Illinois.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/07/2006 15:11 Comments || Top||

#48 
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Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 15:15 Comments || Top||

#49  I'm sorry, Horny Abdul, but you have to have an IQ to post here.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 15:22 Comments || Top||

#50  I'm going to Peraica's election night party tonight at the Hotel Intercontinental; if anybody else is gonna be there (or wants to go), let me know....
Posted by: Mark E. || 11/07/2006 15:23 Comments || Top||

#51  I voted. Straight Republican ticket. I didn't even bother to review the candidates, only the initiatives.

Bad news for Dems was that I really had to hold my nose and vote for a Repub that I didn't want to vote for. In a different election, I probably would have voted for his challenger. Not this time.
Posted by: anon || 11/07/2006 15:25 Comments || Top||

#52 
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Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 15:27 Comments || Top||

#53  I'll just sit back now and let .com fire away, lol! Hibjobol, you have NO idea what you're asking for.

And, BTW, "George" (I assume you mean Bush) graduated from Yale with flyin' colors. Where'd you go, Sally Struther's School for Suckers?
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 15:31 Comments || Top||

#54  More negative IQ issues.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 15:42 Comments || Top||

#55  Classes got out early today.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/07/2006 15:43 Comments || Top||

#56  That's our jerkwad visitor from Dubai.
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/07/2006 15:46 Comments || Top||

#57  Dubai. Lol. YJCMTSU.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 15:52 Comments || Top||

#58 
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Posted by: DEMOCRATS TO VICTORY! || 11/07/2006 15:52 Comments || Top||

#59 
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Posted by: A Democratic Vote || 11/07/2006 15:53 Comments || Top||

#60  Re: #60 -- Right. Transparent fuckwit.

You forgot to say you have a [son | daughter] in Iraq so you can play the Absolute Moral Authority card.

Second-rate Moron.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 15:57 Comments || Top||

#61 
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Posted by: Vote! Support our troops! || 11/07/2006 15:59 Comments || Top||

#62  The post by support our troops semmed o.k. to me. Did I miss something?
Posted by: Mike N. || 11/07/2006 16:03 Comments || Top||

#63 
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Posted by: A Democratic Vote || 11/07/2006 16:04 Comments || Top||

#64  Democrats are slow learners -- this one keeps getting flushed into the sinktrap over and over today! Is this a real U.S. Democrat, or is this a Toronto or Dominican Republic wannabe?
Posted by: Darrell || 11/07/2006 16:04 Comments || Top||

#65  Mike N., it's the same guy changing faces faster than Rich Little.
Posted by: Darrell || 11/07/2006 16:06 Comments || Top||

#66  Where's that sunlamp?
Posted by: Korora || 11/07/2006 16:10 Comments || Top||

#67  2000 - Expectations and whining go unrewarded - Camelot III postponed... the grumbles begin...

2004 - Whipped like dogs, fair 'n square, tires are slashed, computers trashed, shots are fired into empty campaign offices... Lucky hats lose their pretentious magic... Foreign media engage in electioneering shenanigans...

2006 - This is where it turns ugly. Really ugly. Everywhere ugly. The experts on voter fraud declare fraud, lol. "Legitimacy" is challenged without any need for proof. The courts, the only ally the fraudsters have, are called upon to correct the "mistakes" of democracy...
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 16:12 Comments || Top||

#68  Shhhhh. When I fart you listen. Got it? Good.
Posted by: Speaker Pelosi || 11/07/2006 16:16 Comments || Top||

#69  I voted 2 weeks ago by absentee balot. No waiting in line, no "the machines are broken" no election day hassels. More people should do it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/07/2006 16:16 Comments || Top||

#70  "This is where it turns ugly."

Yeah, I think you're right. Oh, well: it had to come, sooner or later.
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/07/2006 16:17 Comments || Top||

#71  Hmmm, maybe Instapundit was right, where's the leakage?

Mebbe pubbies are doing better than hoped?
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 16:18 Comments || Top||

#72  Hey, SOT - I'm perfectly willing to bring them home, they've been in Germany, Italy, Japan and SorK longer than I've been alive, and I'm in my mid-40s.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 16:20 Comments || Top||

#73  Dread, I wrote in Oberweis.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 16:22 Comments || Top||

#74  Check out The Truth Laid Bear's site for watching returns - nice / interesting layout.

Lol, Mods - just remember, bizzy hands are happy hands. ;-)
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 16:24 Comments || Top||

#75  Dave D / PA voters - check this story out...
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 16:27 Comments || Top||

#76  That's just normal here, .com.

When the sun goes down in a few minutes, then we begin our traditional Night Of The Voting Dead...

Posted by: Dave D. || 11/07/2006 16:51 Comments || Top||

#77  Here's the YouTube video...

Lol - you can't do the usual dick these days without being captured on vid, heh, heh.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 17:16 Comments || Top||

#78  That's Philly for ya! God, I just love this city...
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/07/2006 17:28 Comments || Top||

#79  Just got back from the Polls. Breezed in, showed GA Drivers license, waited about 10 minutes, then voted straight Republican ticket. The initiatives were all good this time, including a ban on using Eminent Domain to give corporations other people's land.

Ditto on not feeling disenfranchised: The living dead will have definite problems sticking the card into the slot, much less presenting ID.
Posted by: Ptah || 11/07/2006 18:02 Comments || Top||

#80  Voting here was darn steady. I'm wondering if we are going to beat the state record for turn out. Not to many liberals in the out state areas. Got to love the working folk, they don't buy this Dhimmicrap cut and run shit.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/07/2006 18:05 Comments || Top||

#81  Mike N. I offset your evil liberal sister's vote! No Hatch for Minnesota!
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/07/2006 18:07 Comments || Top||

#82  Voter smashes touch-screen machine in Allentown
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 18:48 Comments || Top||

#83  BTW, that came via Pajamas Media coverage here.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 18:52 Comments || Top||

#84  Voted about an hour ago - straight Republican as I said (the moms voted this morning).

Breezed right in, one of the pollworkers was holding out the ballot before I'd even signed in. I presented my unsigned registration card, signed the register, asked if I needed to sign the registration card or show my driver's license ("No" on both accounts), was handed the ballot, stepped to a booth with no waiting, voted, and was in and out in less than 20 minutes.

What was scary was that they almost seemed desperate to get people to vote, that there weren't any lines at my polling place in Antioch, CA, and that the weather was beautiful, bright, sunny, and warm, but the activity at the polling places I saw along the way and around town seemed way low.

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 11/07/2006 18:57 Comments || Top||

#85  Fun Fact: Here in Sin City, suddenly Cox Cable has all sorts of problems with the FoxNews Channel - in and out, half-scrambled, basically unwatchable. Been going on for the last 15+ minutes.

None of the other channels are having this problem. Go figure, huh?
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:21 Comments || Top||

#86  CNN just called Robt Byrd the winner in W.Va. The Dhimmi Klan rejoices.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:25 Comments || Top||

#87  Thanks Icerigger!.com, would you expect it to go any other way?
Posted by: Mike N. || 11/07/2006 19:32 Comments || Top||

#88  Fox News was "troubled" in NY today too. My what a coincidence.
Posted by: lotp || 11/07/2006 19:33 Comments || Top||

#89  Lol, I just called Cox to report the problem (still going on) and they have a recording saying that there have been a number of reports, they are aware of the problem, and engineers are on it - no ETA.

Oh, and they confirm it's ONLY the FoxNews Channel having a problem.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:34 Comments || Top||

#90  Mike N - No, just wanted to reassure the liberal herd their man was the first to be called a winner.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:37 Comments || Top||

#91  "Winning means forcing an end to the disastrous war in Iraq, and getting our heroes home."

-John Kerry website

So they can drill around in circles and paint rocks white here at home.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:40 Comments || Top||

#92  No doubt that'll do wonders for recruitment... ;-(
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/07/2006 20:10 Comments || Top||

#93  Gawd damnit .com, I get home and tune into to the "Burg, I find this thread, read your comments, then see a bunch of redacted...redacted...redacted...and then more comments by you....

Good Lord man, did you piss somebody off? LOL???
Posted by: Mark Z || 11/07/2006 20:10 Comments || Top||

#94  Lol, The Loonies are self-medicated, I didn't do it!
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 20:15 Comments || Top||

#95  Any idea how many seats the Pubs will lose? So far we've lost 2 in the Senate and 1 in the house according to Fox. I'm beggining to get nervous.
Posted by: Charles || 11/07/2006 20:47 Comments || Top||

#96  Dems might get the senate, too.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 20:53 Comments || Top||

#97  Beginning? Heh, bless you - you're an optimist.

The House will go Donk and the Senate will be within 2 of a tie, IMO - could go either way.

Corker's looking good in TN, Allen (Dumbass R, VA) looks shaky, and to my complete amazement, there is not one service I can find with ANY results in the Steele / Cardin (MD) race.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 20:55 Comments || Top||

#98  Md Polls close at 9:00
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/07/2006 21:01 Comments || Top||

#99  amy klobuchar is going to take one of the senate seats. klobuchar is a cut and run liberal. it will be interesting to see how the voting breaks down. i'm sure the outstate minnesota voters didn't want anything to do with her. the trouble is mark kennedy is dim as a box of rocks. can't win them all.

doomed to the stupid. the crime rate in moscow on the mississippi, minneapolis, is out of control. black thugs murdering left and right and amy klobuchar's pc office is completely soft on the punks. now they have sent her to dc...

pathetic.

keep a stiff upper lip folks!
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/07/2006 21:04 Comments || Top||

#100  Fox shows 8:00 - their bad.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 21:05 Comments || Top||

#101  Optimist? Me? Perhaps. But as much as I'm pissed at the Pubs for the job they HAVEN'T been doing, I still vote for them. I heard a estimate that around 25% of Pubs in that voted ended up doing AGAINST the GOP. It was heart-breaking to even hear something like that. Is it true? I don't know, but I get the feeling at least some people did so. I would hate to think of the Democrats in control of either house.
Posted by: Charles || 11/07/2006 21:05 Comments || Top||

#102  They'll have the House - believe it.

Senate is a tossup, IMO... Fox just called Cardin the winner in MD with only 1% of precincts in.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 21:16 Comments || Top||

#103  If you were watching like me .com you would also see that Steele was ahead 55% to 44% when they called it. I'm beggining to wonder who is running Fox News tonight and if they took their medication.
Posted by: Charles || 11/07/2006 21:20 Comments || Top||

#104  2 more house seats down. Northup among them.
Posted by: Charles || 11/07/2006 21:21 Comments || Top||

#105  Flip side of the coin....the 'Merican Public may just be subjected to a stint of Speaker Pelosi - now that could be a real eye opener for the fence sitters.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/07/2006 21:43 Comments || Top||

#106  Well, the defense budget will cut itself, I wouldn't stay in.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 21:50 Comments || Top||

#107  ...the 'Merican Public may just be subjected to a stint of Speaker Pelosi - now that could be a real eye opener for the fence sitters.


Oh, it will be a real eye opener alright. If the Dems do actually take the House, the next two years could spell the end for the Democratic Party. It will pull the mask all the way off. Let's hope the country can survive it.

Posted by: Mick Dundee || 11/07/2006 21:56 Comments || Top||

#108  The VA, TN, and MO Senate races will go very very late before a winner is known.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 21:59 Comments || Top||

#109  Get ready for open borders.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 22:05 Comments || Top||

#110  Fox just reported that in IN-09, Hill (D) vs Sodrel (R-incumbent) just got very interesting - FBI called in when unopened absentee ballots were found after all had supposedly been counted... or so I gathered. Hill was leading by less than 2,000 votes...
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 22:08 Comments || Top||

#111  Saw that too, .com. Good to see you got your Fox News back, lol!

Something I've often wondered is, what happens with these absentee ballots when they come in? Do we really trust some of these pukes to handle them correctly? I've often heard that absentee ballots trend (especially in a time of war) Republican big time, so this could prove interesting. I voted at around 6:15 EST. Took about 20-30 minutes. Had to show ID, be on the Voter Registration roll FOR THAT PRECINCT AND sign a (basically) afidavit that I was only voting once. This is in metro Atlanta, a very red area too. And, that's before voting on some strong State amendments to even further cull election fraud, lol!
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 22:19 Comments || Top||

#112  Wow, FBI. That could change everything.
Posted by: Charles || 11/07/2006 22:19 Comments || Top||

#113  Heh - it was fritzed for about an hour, then "magically" got better - prolly when they tossed the looney out of the control room. I hope they shot him. :-)
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 22:21 Comments || Top||

#114  The VA Senate race (Allen) is looking Repub. with 91%+ of the districts reporting. Looks like TN will go Republican too. Looking like we could pick up two seats in the House here in GA too, from what Fox News is showing with 58%+ of districts in.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 22:22 Comments || Top||

#115  Fuck this. I'm gonna go get drunk.
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/07/2006 22:22 Comments || Top||

#116  Oh the Fibbies are great at telling you who did what to whom -- after the fact. It's that "preventative" thingy that seems to be such a challenge for 'em, lol. ;-)
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 22:24 Comments || Top||

#117  Lieberman wins in CT.
Musta sucked when all your new lefty friends cast you adrift a few months back when they realized you were a lost cause, eh, Neddy?
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/07/2006 22:28 Comments || Top||

#118  he's a better conservative vote than Chafee, regardless where he caucuses
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 22:32 Comments || Top||

#119  I'ma signing off now! Here's to hopin' it's not as bad as I thought it might be in the morning. Fox News just threw out the "R" word (recount) in the Allen race in Virginia.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 22:47 Comments || Top||

#120  Ohio: issues up in Cleveland, reporting stopped for a bit, with 51% of precincts having reported in. Blackwell(R), so the governor will be a Democrat; apparently Senator DeWine (R) also lost. We'll see.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2006 22:55 Comments || Top||

#121  only 1 now needed for house.
3 for senate

I wish to condem the pubs in the senate and house for grabbing too much pork instead of going all out to do a good job. If the War on Terror get's destroyed by this I condem the crooks to hell.

Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2006 23:05 Comments || Top||

#122  There goes your guns boys. The Senate will go along with it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/07/2006 23:17 Comments || Top||

#123  House is gone. Waiting to see what happens to the Senate.
Posted by: Charles || 11/07/2006 23:45 Comments || Top||

#124  Well it's a done deal. I wouild say that that the Republican senate and congress have reaped what they sowed. They betrayed the conservative revolution of '94. For that, the nation will pay a heavey, painful price. I can only hope that we learn the right lessons. In the meantime, the jihadists have just been handed a huge victory. Say what you want...believe what you want....but IT IS Tet all over again and so will be the ensuing slaughter unless we act every day to overturn what has happened. We must lobby ouir reps everyday and hammer home the harsh lesson. There are no guarantees here....the price we will pay will be monstrous, but we need now to lay the foundation that will allow the US to overcome what has been laid before us. My prediction....within 2 years we will see a major and succesful terrost attack here in the US. This is the hammer blow. Do we rise up to meet it, or bow down in subjugation?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/07/2006 23:46 Comments || Top||

#125  Decamp to Afghanistan?????

What the hell are they thinking?
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 23:46 Comments || Top||

#126  The Senate hinges on: MO, TN, VA, and MD.

We only need three out of four. MO and TN seem fine. In the worst case we have Cheney casting deciding votes.

Ds running the House may be a necessary wake-up call. Or else, the call will be Islamofascist nukes.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 11/07/2006 23:50 Comments || Top||

#127  Wow the repubs have over 30 votes

Hahahahahaahahahahahaha
Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 14:10 Comments || Top||

#128  Republicans

Redacted for stooopidity
Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 14:57 Comments || Top||

#129  If the repubs are redacted for stupidity

Then my comments are OK AND CORRECT !
Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 15:15 Comments || Top||

#130  Hey .com no fear of george posting then
Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/07/2006 15:27 Comments || Top||

#131  you have to have an IQ to post here.

And yet you continue to post. Boggle!
Posted by: Photh Ebbutle2361 || 11/07/2006 15:29 Comments || Top||

#132  That's where com went.
Posted by: Glealet Flaviting8567 || 11/07/2006 15:32 Comments || Top||

#133  yeah !
Posted by: ************* || 11/07/2006 15:40 Comments || Top||

#134  bushy
Posted by: *DEMOCRAT* || 11/07/2006 15:39 Comments || Top||

#135  bushhhy
Posted by: ****VOTE**** || 11/07/2006 15:40 Comments || Top||

#136  God, let Dem win!
Posted by: DEMOCRATS TO VICTORY! || 11/07/2006 15:52 Comments || Top||

#137  I voted today, but I must say that I could not face voting Republican anymore.

A change is needed
Posted by: A Democratic Vote || 11/07/2006 15:53 Comments || Top||

#138  Support our troops by bringing them home! VOTE for DEMOCRATS
Posted by: Vote! Support our troops! || 11/07/2006 15:59 Comments || Top||

#139  mmm

.com / moderator

Is this what the US is becoming ?

Are you representitive of a US citizen - I think not
Posted by: A Democratic Vote || 11/07/2006 16:04 Comments || Top||

#140  I see a parallel here: Shit hits the fan in Iraq, ditto US. Popcorn!
Posted by: Angavins || 11/07/2006 16:20 Comments || Top||


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#1  I'll give Ms. Sheridan many tanks.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 3:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Just the bear bare necessities...
Posted by: Spot || 11/07/2006 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  I know why that bear's smiling.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2006 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  You know I have to thank you, Fred. I was familiar with many of these ladies only at the ends of their careers. Now I know what I missed.....dammit
Posted by: Wharong Elmeck9555 || 11/07/2006 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Women were hot back then.
Posted by: JAB || 11/07/2006 14:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes they were. But oft opressed and living in a world different from ours. It was a long time ago, things were different then. Good times, bad times, weird times. Mushrooms were legal then as were serious auto fins. I don't judge, just observe and do voice overs for serious money.

/Sepia
Posted by: KB Shipman || 11/07/2006 17:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Tomorrow: Better Grable, the Early Years
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#8  she had late years?
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