So let me get this straight.

According to pretty much every influential left-leaning blogger:

It is not a "conspiracy theory" to suggest (and post pictures) that Bush wore a wire during the debates.

Kerry Investigates Voter Fraud

Letter from Cam Kerry:

I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election. I want to you to know we are not ignoring it.

Ohio Statute 3515.011: Recount when winning margin less than one-half per cent of total vote (Moritz Law):  "If the number of votes cast in any statewide election for the declared winning nominee, candidate, question, or issue does not exceed the number of votes cast for the declared defeated nominee, candidate, question, or issue by a margin of one-fourth of one per cent or more of the total vote, the secretary of state shall order a recount which shall be conducted as provided in sections 3515.04 and 3515.05 of the Revised Code."

In my last post, Cocaine, Wrestling & George Bush Part 4, I wrote about Line-X Paxcon, a spray-on polyeurothane that supposedly offers bomb-blast protection. This Fox News report shows a brick sprayed with Paxcon paint that doesn't fall apart when dropped from a great height. Fox News

This past Sunday, 60 Minutes ran a disturbing storyfeaturing correspondent Steve Kroft entitled "GIs Lack Armor, Radios, Bullets" that dealt with some troops from the 343rd Quartermaster Company who refused to go on a "suicide mission" because they lacked armored vehicles. It also included an interview with Karen Preston, the mother of a soldier currently deployed in Iraq named Ryan who is serving with the Oregon National Guard."

In fact, the voting rights act does not require every person voting for the first time to display proper identification. That only applies to people who registered to vote by mail...who do not include several different kinds of identification with their registration.

First time voters who registered to vote while getting a drivers licence...for example...do not have to show id at the polling places.

Remember November to December of 2000? Of course, you do. Remember how the Republicans managed to steal the election all-the-while pretending that it was the Democrats ("Sore Loserman") who were trying to steal it? Well, they're at it again. But this time they're starting early.

Last night, I noticed that the acknowledgment notice said "registration effective on 11/09/04...Let's just say I freaked out...

The Philadelphia Inquirer posted an article today that disputes the role George W. Bush played in Operation P.U.L.L.: Some dispute Bush account of '73 charity work.  Meg Laughlin writes, "Some former associates of White, who died in 1988, speaking on the record for the first time, say that Bush wasn't helping to run the program but was instead a volunteer, and that White hadn't asked Bush to come aboard. Instead, the associates said, White told them he agreed to take Bush on as a favor to Bush's father, who was honorary cochairman of the program at the time. They say White, a tight end for the Houston Oilers in the '60s, told them Bush had gotten into some kind of trouble, but White never gave them specifics."

Finally, someone other than little old me (and the late James Hetfield) is beginning to investigate this shadowy period of the silver spoonhead's life - a time which should have been spent fulfilling his commitment to the Texas Air National Guard.

The Bush Administration is lying (can you believe it?) about their role in the flu shot shortage. Check out this fantastic blog post from the O'Franken Factor website written by James Norton: Truth, Lies, And the Flu. Mr. Norton has another great article about this at Flak Magazine.

Rather than reiterate Mr. Norton's excellent points I decided to dig a little bit deeper myself (a helluva dig for me since I don't, uh, "dig" science).

Instead of stubbornly sticking with the "flip-flop" strategy that bombed in the first Kerry-Bush debate, Dick consistently deployed the term "consistency."  While Senator Edwards used it first, Dick threw it back at him.  Again.  And again.  And again.  And again (and Dick's probably somewhere RIGHT NOW still saying it).

There's really not much point in arguing with a right winger. Especially when they happen to be clairvoyant right wingers.

Meet the Truth for Troops brigade. True believers who claim to believe in the truth but who do so primarily on faith and brand recognition.