Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Politics

  • Bush Urges Iraqis to Vote, Lowers Expectations

    Yahoo! News – Bush Urges Iraqis to Vote, Lowers Expectations Bush also expressed sadness over the crash of a U.S. helicopter in western Iraq that news reports said killed 31 American Marines. Five more U.S. troops died in insurgent attacks on Wednesday. He did?!? I certainly didn’t hear any “sadness”. You gotta love the media…

  • Disgruntled Troops Complain to Rumsfeld

    Yahoo! News – Disgruntled Troops Complain to Rumsfeld Disgruntled U.S. soldiers complained to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Wednesday about the lack of armor for their vehicles and long deployments, drawing a blunt retort from the Pentagon chief. And Rummy’s response? “You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you…

  • Nationwide Voting Errors Tallied, More than 30,000 Complaints Lodged

    t r u t h o u t – Nationwide Voting Errors Tallied, More than 30,000 Complaints Lodged The events of the last month in the United States and the Ukraine are a study in electoral duality. In the Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest that nation’s questionable election,…

  • Ridge steps down as Homeland Security chief

    CNN.com – Ridge steps down as Homeland Security chief – Nov 30, 2004 Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigned Tuesday, but he will remain in the post until February 1 unless a successor is confirmed sooner. “There will always be more to do, but today, America is significantly stronger and safer than ever before,” he…

  • UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds ‘Smoke Alarm’ for Florida E-Vote Count

    UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds ‘Smoke Alarm’ for Florida E-Vote Count Today the University of California’s Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team released a statistical study – the sole method available to monitor the accuracy of e- voting – reporting irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000-260,000 or more excess votes to President…