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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (541)	11/15/2000 6:00:14 PM
From: Cola Can	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3887

Monkeys will vote for Democrats next year. They are being trained: Monkey Brain Controls Distant Robot Movement LONDON (Reuters) - Brain signals from a monkey in a laboratory in North Carolina have been used to control the movement of a robot arm over the Internet at a university 600 miles (1,000 km) away, American scientists said on Wednesday. They believe the experiment could form the basis of brain-interface machines that could allow paralyzed patients to move prosthetic limbs. ``It was an amazing sight to see the robot in my lab move, knowing that it was being driven by signals from a monkey brain at Duke (university),'' Mandayam Srinivasan, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a statement. ``It was as if the monkey had a 600-mile-long virtual arm.'' Scientists from MIT and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, implanted electrodes in the monkey's brain and recorded the brain activity as the animal learned tasks and moved its limbs. In a study in the science journal Nature, they described how they fed the information into a computer and used mathematical methods to predict hand trajectories in real-time as the monkeys learned to make different types of hand movements. After the scientists were convinced the computer analysis could predict hand trajectory from brain signal patterns, they used the brain signals from the monkey as processed by the computer to allow the animal to control a robot arm. ``When we initially conceived the idea of using monkey brain signals to control a distant robot across the Internet, we were not sure how variable delays in signal transmission would affect the outcome...it worked out beautifully,'' said Srinivasan. Miguel Nicolelis, a professor of neurobiology at Duke, said the system offered hope of restoring some motor function for paralyzed patients. These monkeys will have two things the average Democrat wont have, an education and a JOB!

To: Carolyn who wrote (541)	11/15/2000 6:00:25 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

How about this happy thought: If Gore is successful in his treasonous behavior and becomes President, I would like to see no one attending his inaugural. And no one showing up for the State of the Union address. He he

To: Carolyn who wrote (541)	11/15/2000 9:51:07 PM
From: rich4eagle	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 3887

Most of you folks are totally partisan totally biased and not too in favor of democracy. You all want Gore to lose and Bush to win and to stop democracy in it's tracks to make sure that happens. Geez we have an election separated by 300 votes with reported discrepancies in the state in question with the leader in the popular vote standing to lose the electoral college by 271-269 and win the popular vote as it stands today. And all you folks want to stop the vote sorting process in it's tracks because you like the outcome as it stands today. You are not interested in democracy you are interested cramming the right choice on everyone. If the vote was reversed you would all want a revote with only a Bush lever available to push. You are all sick puppies. Let freedom ring!

To: Carolyn who wrote (541)	11/15/2000 10:28:35 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 3887

How Long Will Americans Wait? With a Deadline Set for a Final Florida Tally, Americans May Say Enough Is Enough By Maria F. Durand Nov. 15 — As deadlines and court rulings come and go in Florida, Americans’ patience wears ever thinner. Political analysts say Americans waiting to find out who their next president will be have so far waited patiently because they understand that questions remain over the legitimacy of some ballots. “The public’s sense of fairness is one of the things that drives people in this country,” said Tom Patterson, acting director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. “There’s still enough ambiguity that they haven’t come down hard yet.” Patterson, who runs the Vanishing Voter Project, a study of public participation in the 2000 election campaign, said if the public feels the votes have been counted fairly and one party keeps pushing the issue into the courts, that party will lose public support. Take 55-year-old Carolyn Gemake of Long Island, for instance. “I would like this to be over with,” Gemake said. “They need to finish the hand count and get the results from the overseas ballots and come out with a result. This should not go to the courts.” On Saturday, barring any legal challenges, Florida is to finalize its vote count after tallying absentee ballots from overseas. Florida, with its 25 electoral votes, could determine whether Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who is currently ahead in the official state tally, or Vice President Al Gore wins the national election. Even some supporters of Gore — who is being accused by Bush’s campaign staff of prolonging the election with repeated legal challenges and recounts — are beginning to call for an end to it all. “It think this is ridiculous,” said Jessica Jimenez, a 21-year-old Gore supporter from Manhattan. “ At least by the end of this week they should pick someone so we can have a president.” Other Americans insist there has already been a fair count of the votes. “I think someone will come to their senses and say you know let’s do this, get it over with and get on with the business of running our nation, or, at least I hope that’s what happens,” said Joe Claxton, a voter from Michigan. “Whether it’s five votes, or 17 or 223, someone is going to have to say ‘someone’s got more votes in Florida, they get those electoral votes, they win the election.” Saturation Close at Hand If the process drags on, it will be difficult to get a consensus on who deserves to win, but experts say media saturation and other factors may drive some Americans to just give up on the whole issue. Katherine Weber, 30, of Manhattan, said she if the current count stands after overseas ballots are counted Friday, the vice president should concede. “I would rather see Gore get it [the presidency] but at what cost?” asked Weber. “I would tell Gore to gracefully concede. Don’t drag us all into this legal mess and four years from now ride in on a white horse.” According to experts, some will soon begin to think the process has become tainted through manipulation and too much politicking. “I think we are really close to getting to a saturation point with this story,” said Frank Farley, former president of the American Psychological Association. “People in everytown America have a lot of things to do and this already becoming a boring event.” But some say they have the stamina to see this process go on even longer. “It wouldn’t bother me if it goes on another few weeks, another month, I think the point is to make it as accurate as possible,” said Kara Witso, a Gore supporter from Seattle. “It would be really interesting to come to the end of January and not have a president.” “Hopefully it will end at some point,” said Chris Lukasik, of Chicago. “But I’m glad that they are taking their time.”