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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (117109)	12/17/2000 9:51:50 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

more voting irregularities in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach herald.com they tried this trick in Maryland not too long ago. give all the ballots to a nursing home administrator to fill out.

To: Neocon who wrote (117109)	12/17/2000 10:00:16 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Senator John Kerry seems to think that Hillary's new book deserved the 8 million dollar advance under the theory of it being a fair market price due to the fact that the publisher was willing to pay it. Which seems logical to me.....but I am curious as to what his position was on Newt's advance.

To: Neocon who wrote (117109)	12/17/2000 10:15:32 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

5 aces! nice hand. Another great commentary by Ann Coulter: Plus The Sun Was In His Eyes By Ann Coulter It was a nice speech, albeit five weeks late: "And I'd like to give a special thanks to all my supporters who worked so hard to steal the election in Florida, including David Boies, whom I'll never hire again even to wash my car." And it was nice that the vice president did not actually morph into his "Saturday Night Live" caricature by prattling on about how he won the popular vote. Of course, he didn't need to be a gauche blowhard since various Democratic mouthpieces were gauche blowhards for him. In its lead editorial the day of Gore's better-five-weeks-late-than-never speech, The New York Times twice claimed Al Gore was the popular vote champion -- even though "all the votes" have not been counted even once. According to an L.A. Times article the next day, San Francisco alone has yet to count 8,000 absentee ballots. Most delusionally, the Newspaper of Record claimed Gore was the winner "probably in Florida as well." But alas, "ballots that could have brought a different outcome went uncounted in Florida." Normally, I'd write this off as the partisan rant of a bizarre sectarian newspaper edited by wrathful demagogues -- which it is -- but some honest Democrats seem to believe the same thing. As one such rara avis helpfully explained the theory to me: "Democrats are stupider." I ought to stop when I'm ahead, but for those Democrats who genuinely believe that Al Gore secretly beat George Bush in Florida -- there are competing arguments. First, the well-belabored one: All the ballots were counted in Florida. And counted a second time. And then counted a third time in certain select Democrat bastions. The only ballots that weren't "counted" had already been counted three times without registering a vote. Al Gore was denied was yet a fourth try at bat for particular ballots that were, at best, cast improperly. But whether or not you view the endless Florida recounts as a subterfuge for fraud, error and outright theft, that debate concerns only the Democrats' close calls -- not the Republicans' close calls. Republicans have their own separate and independent bones to pick with the Florida election unrelated to dimpled chads or stupid voters. No one jawbones about them because Bush won. Losing a close election is like narrowly missing an airplane. You pace the airport thinking of all the things you could have done differently and made your flight. If only I hadn't hit the snooze button that last time, if I hadn't stopped for a doughnut, if the cabbie had taken a different route, if only I had won Tennessee ... But when you arrive just in time for a flight, you never muse about the various ways you could have been at the airport even earlier. It doesn't matter. You made your flight. Similarly, Bush won Florida. It doesn't matter if he can concoct some post-election stratagem for being credited with another 1,000 votes here or there. Still, granting Gore his 9,000 indecipherable votes -- lock, stock and dimple -- Bush has his own recriminations about the Florida election. First and most strikingly: The networks called Florida for Gore before the polls had closed. No one really talks about this since Bush caught his plane, but an early call is roundly acknowledged as a great way to suppress the vote for the purported loser. Of the 379,000 votes that were cast in the (very Republican) western panhandle region of Florida affected by the incorrect call, 65 percent went for Bush. Comparing voting patterns throughout the state in the last four presidential elections, economist John Lott determined that the Republican voting rate in the panhandle this year was suppressed by about 4 percent compared to the Democrat voting rate. That alone adds up to another 10,000 votes for George Bush. Another doughnut that slowed down Bush was the high rate of felons voting illegally in the Sunshine State this year. In a review of half a million ballots cast in 12 counties, The Miami Herald turned up 445 Florida felons who voted illegally, including 62 robbers, 56 drug dealers, 45 killers, 16 rapists, seven kidnappers, and at least two voters whose mugs grace the state's online registry of sexual offenders. Seventy-five percent of the voter/felons unearthed were registered Democrats(!). If that sample is representative -- and 8 percent of all Florida voters is a lot more representative than the average Gallup poll -- about 5,000 felons voted illegally in Florida's election this year. Had those votes been excluded in a post-election contest -- which is, incidentally, the purpose of a post-election contest -- Bush would have netted another 2,500-vote advantage. Exclude all the crooks from the Florida election, and Bush won by 13,430 votes -- more than all the dimpled chads in the Florida Supreme Court's fantasies. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Neocon who wrote (117109)	12/17/2000 10:40:13 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

It seems to me the liberals are the anti-whatever amongst us. To wit: Nativity story retold PC style -- minus Joseph United Press International - December 17, 2000 08:16 LONDON, Dec. 17 (UPI) - Manufacturers eager to be politically correct are retelling the story of Nativity to attract single-parent customers, published surveys of shops decked out for Christmas showed Sunday. Gone are Joseph and dark-skinned kings from some Nativity sets, while in other examples Joseph appears as a rose-complexioned female. The traditional Nativity set, used at homes throughout the world as part of Christmas festivities, depicts a baby Jesus with Mary and Joseph, her carpenter fiancie in biblical accounts. The Times newspaper said one London store it questioned about the absence of Joseph from many Nativity sets told its reporter: "Joseph has done a runner!" A spokesman said, "We have a variety of Nativity sets so people can choose what they like best." Some other sets on sale presented Joseph as a figure with rosy cheeks and curly hair, donning a headscarf and cloak and carrying a crook -- almost resembling but not quite like the shepherds that have featured in the scene through many years. The shop surveys showed that modified Nativity sets were designed to appeal to single parents or those with "Sapphic (lesbian) inclinations." The manufacturers also responded to customer needs and given buyers the option to choose the colour of the three wise men, traditionally identified as kings from Arabia, Persia and India and usually one with darker skin than the two others. Some sets on sale showed all three as pale-skinned. George Austin, the former archdeacon of York in northern England, commented on the absence of Joseph from Nativity sets in one London store. He told The Times, "At least John Lewis clearly believes in the virgin birth." datek.newsalert.com