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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 04:36 AM
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Hold on to your seats, here we go....
Edited on Sun Sep-11-05 04:37 AM by texpatriot2004
Except for my occasional posts on the Bleever thread, I haven't posted here in this forum for quite some time. I just read this. It's hot off the press - a brand new press that looks quite fascinating. For all of us who kept this forum buzzing prior to the "election" and were heartbroken and full of despair after...ENJOY!

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"Taken together, these problems point to an election that requires scrutiny. Even if the discrepancy between exit polls and actual vote counts is simply a fluke, other flaws and questionable practices in the voting process make one wonder whether or not the people’s voice was actually heard and if we are truly a working democracy."

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http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2006/index.htm#3

You know, I knew that it was too quite for those months after the election; you know, the first say 6 months...somebody has been working on something, something GIGANTIC! I got a gut feeling something is about to go down.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 05:19 AM
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1. Awesome! As someone with "gut feelings" which are rarely
totally off--especially with regard to last year's "election," I salute you for sharing this info and your impression. Since we're on the subject, though, I have to say I don't have any feelings. I've been over and over the evidence we have, sniffed around the usual news sources, and I don't feel that much is going to happen re: election fraud coverage right now. Maybe my gut is broken, couldn't say.
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 05:32 AM
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2. kick-n-recommend...nt
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 05:51 AM
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3. Kicked...
:hi:
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Fly by night Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 06:48 AM
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4. A double thread on an old article -- you should really visit 2004 ERD more
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 12:41 PM
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5. run jesse run
that's all i can say. i love the man, always did. still got a jesse for prez buttons around here somewhere. i wish he would get in the race. jesse in the field would make it clear who the pink tutus are.
thanks for the link.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 08:45 PM
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6. I'm going with your gut, texpat. The whole theft of the election
depended on people being afraid to even question it. Hence the popular vote theft in addition to Ohio.

But now that there are angry people who no longer hesitate to question the infallibility of this regime, everything is up for grabs.

Big, big thanks to everyone who's made sure that this topic continued to percolate and see the light of day, instead of being plowed under and never known to history.


:patriot:
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 10:49 PM
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8. I believe that this is such an honor to see Bleever's words here
Edited on Sun Sep-11-05 10:53 PM by texpatriot2004
an honor, a relief and the ability to breath for the first time since that horrible, horrible night Nov. 2nd. I had worked the "election" all day and they gave out these stupid little stickers that said "my vote counted" to voters even when I knew it probably wouldn't and I was terrified of that since we are America and we're supposed to be the model of Democracy (which means transparent elections that are auditable)among other things. Then there were all those voters that day, many of them and the worst part about the whole thing was these voters would ask me, practically beg me for some piece of paper to show that their vote was counted as they intended it and I, as an alternate election judge in the United States of America in what I felt like was the most important election of my lifetime, had to look these voters in the eye and tell them I couldn't give them one, it wasn't possible. Are you kidding me? I can go into any place of business anywhere in this country at any time, transact some business and get a receipt; a little piece of paper that gives me lots of details about my transaction no matter how many items I purchase. Not being able to provide a voter with that little piece of insurance was repulsive. So, I'm dead tired because I've been working for days and days, going to polls in Houston where people, tons of people would come up to me in my Kerry-Edwards garb and ask me for bumperstickers and other items that I gladly gave out and they had hope in their eyes like I had in mine and they showed up and waited 3 and 4 hours or more to vote in Texas. We all said "We Are Making History" in this "election." That was our battle cry. "We are making history." We were so desperate for a new direction for our beloved America. We so wanted to believe even people like me who were aware of the electronic voting machines. Some Americans that I spoke with were afraid to believe it was possible to win. Finally, I go home, and I am so exhausted but I have to watch the returns because I cannot rest (literally) until I know that son-of-a-bush is out of the White House. I fade in and out of consciousness on my sofa trying to stay awake. I remember Kerry was leading when I must have dozed off for awhile and sometime around 2 AM I woke up and Bush was leading and I was terrified. I knew what they had done, again! Then, the next morning there was the decision to concede; I wept like a wailing woman who had lost a beloved relative because I had and it was my country. I vowed that he would not get away with this a second time. Before the sham of an "election" others who felt the same way I did said that if he did it again, we would not go quietly this time. And we didn't! Thank you Bleever for being there during the darkest times with your match that lit the way for the American people to follow. Today is a great day. It's my first time to have a post on the Greatest page (actually I had a couple of them today). I haven't slept much since Katrina hit last Monday. I have been vigilant as others have. You know, Katrina changed everything.
September 11, 2005
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 10:25 PM
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7. Kicked and Nominated

The fat lady is calling her booking agent!

:kick:

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KaryninMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 12:25 AM
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9. We can only hope....
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 06:44 AM
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10. We can do more than hope, we can believe, right Bleever(s)?
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 11:37 AM
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11. Believing for us means choosing what will happen, not guessing about it.
And we are making history. It is happening.

We are never giving up.

Thank you, texpat.
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 03:33 PM
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12. Yes, believing = choosing here, it's about intention, direction,
and the political will to overcome this.

What will you choose? For me, I reject hopelessness, despair, doom and gloom...these things are not of my God, they are not His will. I choose hope and all that is good. More than that, I intend to work for it just as the American patriots in the past did. We have a choice, joy is optional? The alternative is unacceptable to me. I will not stand by or cower in fear and allow my country and my countrymen to be destroyed.

NGU!

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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 12:02 PM
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13. What is your choice? n/t
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 10:13 PM
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14. Texpatriot2004, you are truly a "cyber rabble rousing pirate'
Great thread, great reading, remind us all of the theft that we'd sure love to have a chance to investigate.
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