tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67476034267509635302011-04-21T20:57:15.352-05:00Every morning I read the newspaper and more often than not it gets my blood boiling to miss the news that is not covered, the facts that are missing or downplayed, and the editorial flip-flopping over time. Watching TV news and listening to most radio news is, if anything, less and worse than the newspaper. Letters to the editor are insufficient. This Blog is my partial remedy.BlastFromGlasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08344255639803058901noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747603426750963530.post-12796163574704563172007-07-02T13:27:00.000-05:002007-07-02T13:30:11.843-05:00

Lots of controversy lately from some activists against HR811 and then the big non-profits and some words from Rush Holt for it. So, at long last I've read the whole thing and read over some of the objections again.Here are my conclusions:1) HR811 is extremely readable compared with our own SB1311. Much less ambiguous.2) I wish HR811 applied to all races in CT (with stronger % audit, especially

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A couple of days ago Ned went to NH to represent Chris Dodd. I finally got around to reading the MLN blog entry. The 1st question was about HAVA. As much as he is one of the better candidates running on the Democratic side, he should be held as accountable for his HAVA vote as Joe Lieberman should be for Iraq votes. (Because Dodd was a leader in HAVA and Joe was a leader in the original Iraq

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MLeftNutmeg has another post on the National Popular Vote. The discussion got into Instant Run-Off Voting, and here is my comment to that post: I like the idea of IRV, however, it requires a higher level of integrity and accuracy in our voting process. We need to fix the integrity of our voting process as a prerequisite to IRV. There are two pressures we need to deal with. One is the pressure

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On April 12th the Citizen ran the following in the editor's column:Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz says Diebold Accuvote Scan voting machines tested in 25 towns this past November showed no significant problems. With the successful test in the books, Bysiewicz says the machines will be in all 169 Connecticut towns by this fall's election. Voters cast ballots by using a pencil to fill

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For funzies I keep on the NewsMax.com e-mail list. Today they passed on this gem: Slightly over half of all Americans – 52.6 percent – now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, N.J. That's up from 49.4 percent in 2000 and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950. If the trend continues, the percentage

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Finally getting around to reading the March/April Skeptical Inquirer. Two articles have relevance to my recent testimony against the Agreement for the National Popular Vote.The first is a article by Lauren Becker revewing Carl Sagan's postumus book:"he understood that the issue is a matter of emotion more than a matter of facts. Each side always thinks they have evidence for their claims, but

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NationalPopulerVote.org is the organization leading the effort to pass the National Popular Vote Agreement between the States. In addition to a 646 page book, they provide 1-sentence, 3-sentence, and 400-word descriptions of the agreement. Here are equivalent rebuttals. See http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/explanation.php1-Sentence DescriptionThe National Popular Vote bill would guarantee

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On 2/1/2007, I sent the following as an attachement to the three CT legislators who are sponsoring the National Popular Vote Agreement. Thus far two of the three have replied, one with a boiler plate response saying he would review my comments when the bill gets to the General Assembly and another whose assistant forwared my comments to my Senator.My summary and request sent in the e-mail:SUMMARY

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If I had time I would dissect the Courant's Sunday article on Bush's health care plan. I would say it does four things:Taxes the sick and oldRewards companies to drop plansEncourages individuals to pay or insure individuallyWill leave less people insured, more paying the full sticker (sucker) price for procedures.Krugman did a pretty good, if incomplete job of it. Here is my comment posted with

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Do you believe in all the Miracle articles they publish? And those that show the value of Prayer? Its conservative, right wing focus?I stopped paying for my subscription 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years ago, yet it keeps coming every month. Of course, when I stopped paying they called and sent many months of letters, offering me just one more last chance. Then about six months ago I got another raft of last

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My diary at MyLeftNutmeghttp://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5327Also a new proposed State law for Popular Election of the President was timed perfectly for the session on voting integrity in Memphis. It looks like I will have to do a bit more work in tracking this bill and perhaps testifying against it at the Capitol.http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5331

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Why do the CIA, FBI, and Connecicut State Police spend so much time tracking activists?The Ken Krayeske arrest last week has caused quite a bit of good blogging, and finally, so far, some good inquiry by the Governor facing the threat and likely reality of legislative investigations. (For posterity I will remind you that Ken is a well known local political activist, peace activist, and campaign

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That picture of me is from a tour in Korea courtesy of the draft. For now I will summarize my military career, as I often do, as “A lot like the movie MASH, without the blood”. The movie came out while I was there. Originally censored by the Army, yet such a stink arose, they said it was just put up to a higher review board, which then approved it because “it was not like the Army and everyone

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From a MLN post after several discussing if bloggers will need to keep close to the decorum of journalists on the campaign to remain welcome: http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5103I'm certainly not a Journalist and just an amateur part-time Blogger.Yet it seems to me that the association of Journalist and Decorum has a lot to do with who the Journalist is and the times. When I

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