After the 2004 presidential election, [Ohio] Cuyahoga County election workers secretly skirted rules designed to make sure all votes were counted correctly, a special prosecutor charges. [...]
But the fix was in at the Cuyahoga elections board, [Erie County Prosecutor Kevin] Baxter charges.
Days before the Dec. 16 recount, workers opened the ballots and hand-counted enough votes to identify precincts where the machine count matched.
"If it didn't balance, they excluded those precincts," Baxter said.
"The preselection process was done outside of any witnesses, without anyone's knowledge except for [people at] the Board of Elections."
On the official recount day, employees pretended to pick precincts randomly, Baxter says.
So now we have a pretend president for the second four-year term, all because of the ineffective gentility and lack of bloodlust in a couple of Democractic presidential candidates.
...Bush threw out the first pitch in Cincinnati on Monday. And although he received scattered boos there, he insulated himself from the worst by walking out to the mound accompanied by two injured American soldiers and the father of a soldier who was killed in action.
He has a habit of hiding behind the people he has hurt.
Next to the recent arrest of DHS spokesman Brian Doyle on child sex charges, this was just one more reason to take Operation Predator away from DHS, I said. "Predator" is the agency's program to bust child sex criminals.
Now we discover -- that law enforcement agent, Frank Figueroa, used to run Operation Predator.
The victim, a 16-year-old girl, said Figueroa pulled up a leg of his shorts, exposed himself and masturbated for about 10 minutes, according to the Tampa Tribune.
A leisurely jerking off session in the food court of a mall — there's your Republican law enforcement.
The fox-guarding-henhouse position of Frank Figueroa, aka "Frankie the Fig," is so outrageous that even rightwingers are appalled.
A deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was charged with using a computer to seduce a child after authorities said he struck up sexual conversations with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl.
Brian J. Doyle, 55, the fourth-ranking official in the department's public affairs office, was expected to appear in court Wednesday afternoon in Maryland and also to be placed on administrative leave. [...]
Doyle found the teenager's profile online and began having sexually explicit conversations with her on the Internet on March 14, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
He sent her pornographic movie clips, as well as non-sexual photos of himself, officials said. One of the photos, released by the sheriff's office, shows Doyle in what appears to be DHS headquarters. He is wearing a Homeland Security pin on his lapel and a lanyard that says "TSA." The Transportation Security Administration is part of the Homeland Security Department.
During online conversations, Doyle revealed his name, who he worked for and offered his office and government-issued cell phone numbers, the sheriff's office said.
Thank God we have an administration that spends hundreds of millions of US tax dollars on promoting sexual abstinence.
Remember this story the next time you are charged a "security fee" by the TSA and ordered to take your shoes off at the airport.
Osama must be laughing his terrorist ass off at us.
I'll bet it was planned. GM probably thought that by giving their critics a voice they were containing them, de-enraging them, and making them easier to dismiss. Because the voice they gave is an extremely limited one that has no distribution relative to real Tahoe ads.
The controversy puts SUVs back into the national PR spotlight, this time as a victim.
