Well the democrats today dodged a bullet by McCain not selecting Tom Ridge as his VP running mate, instead choosing Gov. Sarah Palin from Alaska. Who???? Exactly. Here’s a pic:
She’s little known in the national spotlight, and from what I’ve read so far she’s the all-american republican woman (5 kids, life long member of the NRA, etc.), and squeaky clean thus far. All I can say is that I look forward to the VP debates between her and Biden on foreign policy as it should be a complete trouncing.
Fresh off the announcement that Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate, which my father had actually predicted a few days ago, this story comes out of the Columbus Dispatch.
Apparently Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner recieved a letter from Premier’s President David Byrd admitting that the voting machines that are used in half of Ohio’s counties are defective and stated that their own programming error is to blame for votes being dropped in some counties. Premier, formerly Diebold Election Systems, also stated that the error wont be fixed in time for the Nov. 4th elections.
Here’s a better pic of the machine in question:
Circled in red is the card slot that holds the memory card, used to tabulate and store all votes. The only problem is, is that this is accessible by the voter, so theoretically anyone could just go in there, and either swap memory cards, or just remove it and game over. They just rigged an election. My town of Greenville, PA in Mercer county uses a similar setup, but I’m not sure if Diebold made the machines.
Here’s a link to the story: Ohio’s voting machine glitch exposed
Well, the Olympics are back and personally, I’m glad. I’m also especially happy for the fact that they are in a time zone that is 13 hours ahead of me, so when I’m up all night until 4am, I’m watching all the events live. It’s especially cool, when you go into work the next day and people are watching the re-runs of it during the day and I’m able to ruin it for them by telling them who places where before it ends.
And you know who else likes the Olympics?
George W. Bush
Oh well, at least he has good taste as he seems to have taken a liking to uber milf/pitcher Jenny Finch (she’s so dedicated, she married a MLB pitcher and their son’s name is Ace):
But seriously, he’s the President of the United States. He knows that his picture will be taken continuously, so why does he set himself up so many times for all those wonderfully awkward shots. Like these two:
And even better…
He’s got that weird pedophile stare/gaze going on.
