Gail Huff's Husband: Wins!

[IanEye]

Notice how "red invades blue". Yet, if blue stands up to red it is called an "attack". I thought that was cute.
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Oh well, one can always vote for Joe Kennedy, the Libertarian Candidate....

[Nordic]

You want red-state/blue-state psyops? I got yer psyops right here:

(no need to play it, just look at the first frame and you 'll know what I'm talking about)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbYTrYD5y8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Okay, how the FUCK do you embed youtube videos on this site?

[Uncle $cam]

Is this what you were trying to post Nordic? Here is how to do it, click on the youtube tab in the space where you compose your posts/comments etc... the first tab is the (B) for bold text, the last is the youtube tab... which looks like this: [ youtube ] [ /youtube ]

and then put everything after the equal sign (from the yt address link) in between the two open and close html thingys from the compose tab. For example:

Here's the link address: http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbYTrYD5y8 <---- everything after the equals sign put below in between the two yt box's.

[ youtube ] numbers after the equals thingy go here [ /youtube ]

[ youtube ] [ /youtube ]

[ youtube ] YCbYTrYD5y8 [ /youtube ]

Does that make sense?

[Nordic]

Ooooooooh!

Thanks.

I never would have figured that out in a zillion years.

Yeah, that's it.

My wife caught that red-state/blue-state thing with those ads.

[IanEye]

[freemason9]

ah, screw it anyway. at this point it's fairly clear that there are few differences between D's and R's in the senate. plus there's the added bonus that

this horrendous "health care reform" bill will finally die, as it should have long, long ago. it is nothing but a handout to insurance companies, a continuation of american corporate socialism.

a single payer system is the only way to properly reform health care.

now we can sort the good from the bad, and wait until health care costs increase another 60% over the next five years; eventually, even dumb fucking americans will decide they've had enough.

maybe. in the meantime, fingers should be pointed at those that killed health care reform.

Edit: oh, and fuck obama

[lupercal]

awful news.. this could have had something to do with it:

Easily Hacked Voting Systems to be Used in MA Special Election for the U.S. Senate

BOSTON, MA - Next Tuesday's Special Election for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts looks to be coming down to the wire. Surprising pundits in what had previously been thought to be a cakewalk for State Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate hoping to fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, Republican state Senator Scott Brown has come on strong in the final days of the campaign.

But as the election looms, tempers flare, money is poured into the contest from all sides, and Democrats sweat out what should have been a safe seat for them - a Democrat named Kennedy has held that particular seat for more than the last 50 years - questions about whether the election results can be trusted have already emerged in a race where the stakes couldn't be higher.

As the 60th "filibuster-proof" Democratic U.S. Senate seat hangs in the balance - and the party's healthcare reform bill and other key legislative hopes along with it - fears are mounting that the final vote tallies could be as questionable as they were in the recent NY-23 Special Election for the U.S. House. Perhaps even more so.

The electronic voting systems used in Massachusetts are notoriously plagued with problems and vulnerabilities, and are in violation of federal voting system standards. Moreover, they are sold, programmed, and maintained by a company with a disturbing criminal background.

The outcome couldn't be more important, and the race, according to a number of pre-election polls, couldn't be closer. Coakley began running in September, 2009 with a strong lead over Brown, her main opponent. But that trend has significantly changed in the last month leaving Coakley with a thin 2 point margin over Brown, according to a recent poll from Republican pollster Rasmussen. Another more recent survey, from a Democratic-leaning outfit, gives Coakley a more comfortable 8 point edge over Brown.

(snip)

The vulnerability, easily exploited by Finnish computer security expert Harri Hursti in the film, resulted in flipped results for a mock election held in Leon County, FL several years ago. At the time, news of the hack sent shockwaves throughout the e-voting industry, and among state and federal election officials. But the federally certified machines were never decertified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, despite the discovery of the code in violation of federal standards. That code, allowing this simple exploitation, still remains on the systems to be used in next week's special election in Massachusetts.

The key to the exploit is access to the scanner's memory cards. Those sensitive cards contain the programming instructions for how the machines should read paper ballots as they pass through it. They also track the tally of votes. In Hursti's hack, he was able to make a slight change to the memory cards' programming instructions which flipped the results in such a way that only a manual hand count of every ballot would have revealed the manipulation.

The machines and cards are often accessed by both election officials and the private vendors who program and maintain them. In Massachusetts, as in most of New England, an outfit by the name of LHS Associates services the machines.

http://www.gouverneurtimes.com/st...l-e ... enate.html

LHS were the guys that gave us Hilly and McCain in NH in 2008..

[chiggerbit]

And now the Bluedogs are going to say it was because they were too liberal on healthcare?

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/brown-trium ... nate-seat/

Brown triumphant as GOP claims Kennedy’s US Senate seat

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 -- 9:23 pm
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Republican Scott Brown has pulled off a stunning upset in a special election to fill former Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts.

At time of publication, Brown was leading 864,629 votes (53%) to 759,561 votes (46%), with 75% of precincts reporting. "With 87 percent of precincts counted, Brown led Coakley, 52 percent to 47 percent," the Associated Press noted later that hour.

MSNBC reported that Coakley called Brown at 9:13 p.m. EST to concede the race.

The race between Brown and Democratic candidate Martha Coakley had been hotly contested in recent weeks as it became apparent that Brown was a legitimate contender who could derail Democrats' super majority in the Senate. Brown has said he wants to see the president's health reform proposals go "back to the drawing board," drawing criticism from leading Democrats who interpret that to mean he wants to see the efforts end.

The White House admitted Obama was "surprised and frustrated" and "not pleased" about the narrow nature of the race, but dismissed the idea that it showed he was out of touch with the angry mood felt by Americans.

[Truth4Youth]

Screw the Democrats

A lot of people will spin Massachusetts a lot of ways, but what today's vote really means is that independents turned out in record numbers to tell the Democrats: ENOUGH! Trying to make every sort of policy on the basis of what one or two or three "moderates" want, when everybody knows that "moderates" is a code word for corporate interests, is just plain stupid. The only sensible option was to throw the Democratic supermajority out. Their vote doesn't mean that people in Massachusetts want a Republican Senator so much as that they've made a strategic point. It's a shame, but Washington almost surely won't listen. It'll take another election later this year to hammer the point home...

It's also unfortunate that in the end the progressive website most critical of what's on offer in terms of "health care reform" — that would be firedoglake — couldn't bring themselves to endorse a Democratic Party defeat. Others on the left (should I put that in "quotes"?) make the amazingly ignorant claim that the election wasn't about health care. I say: THANK YOU, MASSACHUSETTS! Let's hope this kills the bill.

http://www.electricpolitics.com/2010/01/screw_the_democrats.html#more

[chiggerbit]

How many years are left of the term, two years? If so, that's a cheap price to pay to make the point.

[IanEye]

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Don't you worry - ‘bout what you've done - Don't feel sorry - 'bout the way it's gone...

[seemslikeadream]

How many years are left of the term, two years? If so, that's a cheap price to pay to make the point.

it seems time for the dems to decide

[mentalgongfu2]

[chiggerbit]

this horrendous "health care reform" bill will finally die, as it should have long, long ago. it is nothing but a handout to insurance companies, a continuation of american corporate socialism.

a single payer system is the only way to properly reform health care.

Totally agree. Besides being the best, it would also be the most economical in the long run.

[Nordic]

Yes, and of course now the Corporate News Media is telling us that this is all because the Democrats weren't "bipartisan" enough.

And an awful lot of Americans will actually believe this bullshit.

I'm glad she lost. I hope HCR dies, quickly, and nothing remotely like it ever gets passed.

Did they really think a strong Union state like Massachusetts would sit idly by and let a plan that taxes (severely!) Union health plans pass?

Fuck that, hell no.

The HCR bill fucks everybody, people who already have it (your plan gets taxed!) and those who don't (you have to buy junk insurance from Big Corporations!).

I'm amazed this got as far as it did. This is about as popular as sending people's Social Security to Wall Street.