Comments on: Bush Executive Order Overturned Ninth Commandment

By: grimgold

grimgold — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:29:34 +0000

RS I agree as long as we can do something to get away from stupidity such as hanging chads.

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:23:50 +0000

Grim, I like Jefferson’s quote, but I’d amend it in the post-Junior era to say that what government you have left should not be run badly.

As far as voting machies, they’re kind of a useless expense. What’s the big deal about marking paper ballots, just as Canada and other nations do, and we did, and then counting them by hand? It’s cheaper and who cares if we have to wait longer for the results if they’re more accurate and less ‘tamperable’ than the voting machines?

All f the computerized voting equipment is nothing but a swindle, IMO, to transfer public funds to voting machine companies like ES&S, and make the jobs of voting officials little easier. Bah — voting officials only work once every two years and the CVS are too easily to hack and prone to glitches to be trusted. Bring back the old-fashioned paper ballot!

By: grimgold

grimgold — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:47:37 +0000

BP, Concerning voting machines, you are right on. And this is so simple – have a touch screen that won’t let the little old lady in Florida vote for two candidates, then print out a PAPER ballot that would be put into the box. Then record the vote electronically and at the end of the night compare the number of paper ballots with the computer tally. Further she could be given a code known only to her that she could then look up on the net to confirm that her vote had been counted. How easy is this!
Grimgold

By: grimgold

grimgold — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:40:22 +0000

There’s also this:
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results
from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:02:03 +0000

Thanks, Bob Patterson, for this listing of some lies that have gotten so common that some of us don’t even see them as lies anymore — just ‘political talk.’

One correction: Your quote came from Mark Twain originally — “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” — although Churchill might have borrowed it.

By: grimgold

grimgold — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:12:19 +0000

I don’t have the time for this, so great smear job. Again.
But I can’t resist this: “President Reagan had, while he was in office, (according to two reliable sources) expressed a wish that the United States would have a new Great Depression.”
I didn’t like Reagan. I’m not going to defend him. But I want you to produce your two ‘reliable sources.’ Oh, you can’t?
Am I supposed to be surprised?
Grim