TG Commander Claims Bias

Well, I can't let TFC go without mentioning this fun article. If you feared that I had ignored al that Florida-y goodness of the past week, don't worry. I didn't. They're all up in my journal.

This can't be good ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Two laptop computers are missing from the military command center coordinating the war in Afghanistan, including one with classified information, officials said Wednesday.
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations is investigating the computers' possible theft from U.S. Central Command, office spokesman Maj. Mike Richmond said. The computers disappeared Thursday.

Is there not one part of the federal government where security isn't swiss-cheese like?

News from the scene of the crime —

Thousands of Errors and Omissions Plague Bush-Cheney Recount Fund Disclosure Forms

Recount Fund May Face $850,000 in Fines

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bush-Cheney recount fund, which evaded soft money disclosure laws for 18 months, filed disclosure reports with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) containing thousands of errors and omissions and could be fined $850,000, Public Citizen has determined.

The Bush-Cheney 2000, Inc-Recount Fund, a 527 political group created after the November 2000 election, filed disclosure reports with the IRS on July 15, 2002. The reports were submitted at 3:25 p.m. on the last day of an IRS amnesty program that allowed out-of-compliance groups to turn in reports and avoid millions of dollars in potential fines.

But the Bush-Cheney recount fund disclosure reports are incomplete, and the group could be subject to IRS fines in the thousands of cases where it did not disclose the employer and occupation of individual contributors and recipients of expenditures.

Remember, they paid for that Republican white-bread riot in Miami-Dade to stop the recounting there.

I guess I should take solace that I'm not the only one experiencing archive/permalinking problems on BlogSpot. But I've got no response from Pyra or any notice from status.blogger.com. But I have no right to complain — this service is free to me!

Update at 8:01pm — As soon as I published this note, the archives begin to work!

OK, for our first non-political post on these pages, we have simply an unbelivable lack of common sense.
(From the Palm Beach Post, via Fark)

WEST PALM BEACH -- Joanne Renee Nemeroff lighted a cigarette while soaking her hands in fingernail polish remover Friday, sparking the flames that engulfed her 18th-floor condo and landed her in jail, city fire-rescue department spokesman Phil Kaplan said Sunday.

Nemeroff, 58, was arrested because firefighters and police said she tried to block efforts to fight the fire...
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OK. We're back...
(archives still non-existant).

Here's the master list of every way the state of Florida has screwed up the 2002 elections thus far!

Remember Palm Beach? One of the scenes of the crime back in November 2000! A retired IBM executive bought 3,000 of them for $50 each. He plans to sell them to countries where a Florida-style election debacle would be an improvement over their normal election processes.

Ah, yes. We find more ballot problems in the sunshine state. Florida wants people to vote for a pair of candidates in the Democratic primaries -- governor and lieutenant governor. Of course, the fact that no one has yet chosen a lieutenant governor to run with, and that the less savvy would think they would pick any two people on the list (since there is NO running mates to complete the pair) didn't cross ballot designer's minds. But hey, it doesn't matter to Jebbie. He's uncontested for the GOP spot.
From the Boston Globe.

There will not be an election in Florida that won't be screwed up! That's a guarantee that you can take to the bank! They lost boxes of petition signatures just days before they are required to get an proposition placed on the ballot. Of course while they were looking, they found a few hundred Al Gore ballots from the 2000 election! (Thanks to Atrios for this link and the one below.)

Ah, hell! I may as well start the puppy up now! Look out, terrorist! Florida has a secret weapon in the War on Terror — old people! Thanks to the Bush administration, grandma and grandpa can root out the terrorists among the crackheads and prostitutes, where you know police presence will be minimal!

I'm going to assume that it takes a while before BlogSpot allows Blogger to begin archiving posts on this "blargh". That's why the "permalinks" (the little time clock underneath each post) are sending you to the "File not Found" template. I still have my LJ and my Movable Type sites to work with, if things don't settle down here. Until then, I guess I'll just work on tweaking the template here (adding links, making the text larger, flitting around with colors, etc.).

Stay tuned...
See my LiveJournal for details.