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Archive for July, 2004
Piggies perplex slow-witted slumlord
July 26, 2004
Uh, Ms. Lynch: the cost is actually $200 BILLION, and your child is gonna be paying this bill for a long time. Unless, of course, she is conscripted and killed first. Maybe you should make an effort to “get it.” She grabbed up apartment buildings and boardinghouses, the ones the banks wouldn’t even consider financing. [...]
E-voting reality
July 25, 2004
The Village Voice: Features: The Rise Of The Machines by Kareem Fahim “Anything in a computer can be changed,” said Hommel, who has worked with computers for over 30 years. She’s devoted the past year solely to the voting issue. She talks about voter-verified paper audits of the new machines—a primary demand of many advocates—with [...]
Troxler tanks
July 25, 2004
Howard Troxler is completely, absolutely, one hundred percent wrong about e-voting problems. Which is a shame, because I often agree with Howard and usually enjoy his columns. What should a reasonable person conclude about touch screen voting machines? Sure, there are some safeguards it would be nice to add. But most of the worry out [...]
Pretty Pink Piggies Parallel Park, Possibly Posing Porcine Problem?
July 23, 2004
Pretty Pink Piggies Parallel Park, Possibly Posing Porcine Problem? Contact Information: Norwood Orrick 813-226-2550 norwood@blogwood.com www.BlogWood.com (local updates) www.TrueMajority.org (general info) Event Information: What: TrueMajority Pig Mobile on Gandy Beach Where: Pinellas Gandy bridge approach, South side Date: July 22, 7am – 9am FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2004 TrueMajority Pig Mobile Makes Gandy Bridge [...]
Pigs will be pigs
July 22, 2004
So, at lunch time today I was driving the Pig Mobile through Ybor City when a police car jumped on my curly, slow moving tail. I didn’t think much of it – just kept rolling down 7th Avenue, Piggies a gruntin’, pedestrians smiling and laughing. Then the cop hit his siren. He was pulling the [...]
Welfare daddy takes the money and runs
July 22, 2004
Well, it looks like our little $4 million welfare experiment, our pansy-ass coddling of “needy” people companies is turning into a huge failure. We give these shiftless irresponsible louts our tax dollars, we pay these unrefined yahoos to make babies jobs, which they happily do as long as the free money is coming in, and [...]
Paperless problems
July 21, 2004
Look – lotto machines give receipts, in the form of a ticket. ATMs give receipts. So do gas pumps and all other computerized automated transaction machines. Why is it so hard to create a countable, verifiable paper trail in the form of a receipt that can be deposited into a ballot box? If you live [...]
Florida: Juan person, wan vote
July 21, 2004
So, it turns out the both the state and the private vendor who worked on the 2000 Florida voter disenfranchisement list were aware that using race as a factor in compiling the list would result in errors based on problems matching Hispanic names. See, the state seems to have known exactly what it was doing [...]
Get Up with MorningWood!
July 20, 2004
Get Up with MorningWood, on 70,000 Watt Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am (eastern) every Tuesday! Studio line: 813-239- WMNF WOOD MorningWood Needs Your Vote! The WMNF listener survey is out, and somehow MorningWood got left off of the list for favorite shows. This sucks. You can [...]