Did you see this? Dick Cheney apparently caused an uproar recently by showing up at a ceremony marking the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz dressed in what the
Washington Post called, "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."Just look at this picture. Cheney obviously knows he fucked up, he looks like nothing so much as the little boy who wore his batman pajamas to School picture day, and has just noticed all the other kids in starched shirts and ties... The best part of the image, however, is the guy just over Cheney's right shoulder, giving him the evil glare.. He looks pissed, doesn't he? Either that or the fuzz from Cheney's hood is activating his allergies.
You know, I'm hardly the fashion maven. I fucking hate dressing up, putting on monkey suits, wearing fancy duds, any of that crap. My wife will testify that it's like pulling teeth just to get me to put on a button-down shirt. ...But, I'm not the Vice President of the United States. And if there is any sort of occasion on the planet that really does warrant solemnity, it's probably an acknowledgement of the millions of Jews (and others) who died under right-wing Nazi fascism in death camps like Auschwitz.
It seems Cheney couldn't be bothered to dress up for this one, however.. At least, it was apparently more important that he bundle up in a weird embroidered parka, a ski cap, and leather work-boots (I think I have the exact same pair!) than to show a measure of respect and decorum to the memory of six million brutally murdered Jews. This incident raises other, interesting questions, as well.. it looks like Lynne managed to get the memo about the formal attire-- so where the fuck was Mrs. Vice President while Dick was trudging around the polish hotel in his steel-toed leather lace-ups, looking for his gangsta cap? Hell, maybe she's pissed at him and let him cause the faux pas without giving him a heads up.. Or maybe they fought about the clothes, and the expression on her face in these photos indicates nothing so much as her saying to herself, "I
told him he would feel stupid in that getup. Fucking asshole is too busy running the planet into the ground to listen to his own wife"
Well, the folks at the Washington Post should take a breather. Obviously, this is another case of the treasonous dirtbags of the liberal media unfairly ganging up on a good, Godly member of The Presidential Administration Most Preferred by Jesus Christ™. Yes, certainly they are out of bounds criticizing Dick Cheney, and not (as some of those hippie bastards might tell you) because they really ought to maybe start with shit like lying the country into an ill-conceived, pointless and exhorbitantly expensive war before going after his choice of outerwear. No, what the Washington Post missed when describing Cheney's outfit as something "one would wear when operating a snow blower" becomes as clear a case of media bias as the stash of phony anti-Bush documents Dan Rather kept tucked into his thong underwear, particularly in light of new *exclusive* information uncovered by the crack research team (meaning that we suspect they may be on crack) here at the Impeach Dubya blog.. namely, that Dick Cheney does regularly operate a snow blower...
... in a three piece suit.
Meanwhile:
· Just As the US Deficit is Projected to Hit Record Levels... · Whoops! $9 Billion Dollars (that's "Billion" with a "B", kids) Just Up'n Plum Varnishee-d in Iraq! Hooo, Doggie!Shit, Granny, look in the shed next to the cee-ment pond.
Or, better yet, check the pockets in Cheney's big, fuzzy parka.
One of the few fun things about right wingers, despite the fact that they are generally vicious control freaks bent on world domination, is that every so often their intrinsic stupidity causes them to stumble into a situation that most of us would have seen coming from miles away. The 12 Step Crowd says that insanity is doing the same stupid fucking thing repeatedly and expecting a different result (in not so many words) and Lordy knows that anyone who voted for Bush
twice had to be a serial masochist or badly, horribly misguided.
What we can't do, according to one poster at DU, is call y'all stupid. That would be "condescension" and result in further Alienation from the Democratic Party of the great Merkin Hordes who wander the Red Plains, stopping only occasionally to barter at Wal-Mart or Graze at the Dairy Queen. Well, fuck that. I'm going to continue to call a spade a spade, and in my mind, anyone who voted for the blubbering Shrub, particularly after watching his performance during his first four years (shit, just after watching his performance in the debates) qualifies, in my mind, for a lifetime supply of plastic utensils and a free non-transferable ticket on the short bus.
Ah, but, where was I? Oh, yes- the fun of watching Right-Wingers, particularly the James Dobson bible-thumping crowd, stumble into a briar patch that they
really should have seen coming. Which was what they did, this week, with this whole SpongeBob deal. (In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that not only am I pro-Sponge, I do also vote) Right. One would think that after that fucking drubbing Jerry Falwell took over Tinky Winky, they would know that by going after popular
children's characters they make themselves look out of touch, petty, mean, and reactionary. But, shit, Falwell and Robertson were able to blame 9-11 on secular humaninsts, feminists, etc. (essentially everyone except the real culprits, who happened to be
religious extremists) and in the process they implied that America (and those 3,000 people) "deserved" what happened on that day-- and while they caught a small bit of flak, they're still out there punditizin', preachifyin', rantin' and bloviatin'. No, it's clear that the cultural right lives in such an echo chamber that they can't hear- or take it as a badge of honor- when the Corporate-owned media that is wholly in the bag for the entire rest of the right's laundry list of agenda issues
laughs itself silly at these stupid blow-dried farts getting their panties in a bunch over a fucking cartoon sponge...
Yes, but
is SpongeBob Gay? That is the question. Well, he dresses like Tucker Fucking Carlson, that has to be a giveaway. But does he engage in spongy, squishy, cartoon sodomy? That other weird squid guy.. is that a penis or a nose on his face? Surely the brain trusts of the family values crowd must be keeping themselves awake nights, eyes glued to videotapes of Nickelodeon, worrying about the implications. The right has a weird obsession with cartoons, certainly.. I suspect it's because they are an art form the right generally doesn't fucking understand. Well, actually, you could probably say that most art forms are beyond your average cultural conservative. Not only are they generally several decades behind the curve with regards to trends in fashion, humor, etc. they really seem to have the weakest, most base, pathetically simple and one-dimensional aesthetic sensibilities of anyone around. For instance, the secular, hedonist, drug-taking, orgy-fucking sixties left gave us Jimi Hendrix-- The Christian right gave us Jessica Simpson. That example alone should be enough for me to rest my case. But how else to explain the preponderance of progressives in the arts, music, and other cultural endeavors? The right would explain that it's because we're all lazy deadbeats who don't want to get real jobs, as if the middle manager who fills out spreadsheets detailing widget sales all day is making such a greater contribution to society than the artist, musician or filmmaker. My personal theory is, right-wing conservative types are terminally thinking-inside-the-box people. They want simple little Euclidean answers to everything- witness the unquestioning, kindergarden level of their metaphysics. ("God said it, I believe it.") They are, to borrow a well crafted, long-abandoned phrase from a more civilized age, "square".
No, the occasional exception to the contrary, right wingers usually have little or no handle on creativity or artistic endeavors. Even though she inspires weird pseudo-sexual devotion in her myriad slavish followers, Ayn Rand's books are horribly polemic and obtuse.. And she skews far too libertarian for today's GOP. I shudder to think what a pile of badly written tripe those
Left Behind books must be. (No, I haven't read them, and
fuck no I don't intend to)
But back to cartoons. You have always had a few right-wing editorial cartoonists, and I will admit that some, a few, do good work. Dick Locher is (was? is he dead?) one example- I disagree with most of the viewpoints expressed in his editorial cartoons, but his work is well done, intelligent, and most important it usually has a narrative structure and a detailed, layered, subtle point.
Contrast this, however, to the "work" of someone like Mike Ramirez of the LA Times. Scrawling, more like. I look at his stuff and I am reminded of nothing so much as Nazi Propaganda drawings where Jews and other "enemies" were depicted as these horribly deformed, diseased creatures. Ramirez is the king of the one-note, ad hominem attack cartoon, whereby the "joke" (if you can call it that) is merely to depict the liberal in as ugly, dirty a fashion as possible.. I remember one cartoon Ramirez did during the run-up to the Iraq war where the whole 'gag' consisted of saying that "Anti-War Protesters are dirty, unemployed hippies". That's it. Wow, way to make your case, Mike. Presumably, there is a whole demographic of right-wingers who not only think this shit is funny, they consider it intelligent, thoughtful commentary. Interestingly enough, right around Xmas last year he published one showing Santa asking for peace. Well, shit, asshole- one way to have "peace" is to
not start fucking wars, which was the point all of us dirty, unemployed anti-war protesters were
making back in Feb. of 2003....
But there was one cartoon in today's paper that really took the cake. Just summed up what passes for intellectual discourse on the right, in a nutshell. See, Scott Stantis, another would-be right wing editorial cartoonist, has been putting out a daily strip for a while now called "Prickly City". Like Stantis's editorial work, it has a serious right-wing bend (in a stellar display of snotty conservative hubris, Stantis, a fat white yuppie, has as his right-wing agit-prop mouthpiece of the cartoon a little African American girl) but political considerations aside, the cartoon is weak, badly drawn, and terminally unfunny. And it's chock full of these one-note, baseless, dumb ad-hominem attacks the right is in love with.
To wit, I include today's "Prickly City" for your consideration, dear reader:
Now, apparently, right-wingers, like the open-mouthed crazed laughing characters at the bottom, are supposed to think this is hysterically funny. Michael Moore? Swine? Hyuk! Hyuk! Hyuk! ... Especially because... he's FAT!... Sure, it's a fucking riot.. if you're six. Beyond that, he's playing off some seriously deranged right-wing lies about Mr. Moore. I'm fairly certain that Michael Moore has never burned an American Flag, and anyone who has actually watched MM's movies, whether or not you agree with the guy, knows he genuinely loves America... And, in particular, he certainly loves the folks who comprise the meat and potatoes of this nation. The folks sending their kids off to die in ill-conceived wars based on lies, the folks bearing the worst brunt of Bushco's misguided policies.. In fact, the only way anyone could seriously assert that Michael Moore even opposes
America is if that person were conflating "America" with the Agenda of George W. Bush and the neo-cons.. But getting back to Hitler and the Nazis, I thought we learned a while ago what a no-no that is.
But this is what passes for commentary- intelligent political discourse- on the right. Calling the filmmaker you don't like a "swine".
Yeah, no wonder they can't get a fucking handle on SpongeBob. Nevermind the fact that he looks like nothing so much as a square, spongy version of Ralph Reed, the fact that he's nice to people and exists in an aquatic world where values like tolerance are occasionally touted, hell, that's enough for the cartoon jihadis. I suspect the only way they would truly be happy is if he spent all his life composing sucky, spongy songs about Jesus and the Old Testament, like those fucking computer animated vegetables... However, the fact that Spongebob espouses "tolerance" is really what has sent the family values crowd over the edge. Because in River City, it seems, Trouble with a capital-T stands for "tolerance". Yes, it's the would-be Christians against any implication that- heaven forefend- we should "tolerate" people who disagree with us or live differently. That's what it's really about.
In that vein, it seems our old church-lady friends at
Concerned Women of America, among others, took time off of their attempts to criminalize birth control and nudie pictures, to
wage a war against something called
"no name calling week", which was proposed by some middle school students and was reportedly observed (one wonders with how much success) in schools across the USA recently. Now, any of you who did any time in Junior High probably understand that any attempt, albeit perhaps futile, to get kids of that age group to behave more civilized towards one another is worthy and respectable and a fundamentally kind and humane thing to do. Any of you, that is, except cultural conservatives like Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's 'Culture and Family Institute':
"I hope schools will realize it's less an exercise in tolerance than a platform for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda..."
...Yes. James Dobson and other would-be evangelical Christians expressed alarm at this no-name calling day, as well, since, like the
tolerance video affiliated with Spongebob, it advocates not using demeaning or belittling insults based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, as well as other nasty things kids say.
It seems, to Dobson and the CWA, that 12 year old bullies calling smaller, weaker boys "faggot" is part and parcel of Jesus's divine plan.
Oh Yeah? Well, what the fuck is someone named
Robert Knight doing as a director at an organization called
"Concerned Women for America"? Answer me that, Little Sissy-man.
"Pan-Sexual Agenda", indeed.
The Presidential Votefor George W. Bush
Does Not Compute
Excellent Work From The Folks At Freepress.org
Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute, and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the Electoral College (Part One of Two)
by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
January 3, 2005
The presidential vote for George W. Bush does not compute.
By examining a very wide range of sworn testimonies from voters, polling officials and others close to the administration of the Nov. 2 election; by statistical analysis of the certified vote by mathematicians, election experts and independent research teams who have conducted detailed studies of the results in Ohio, New Mexico, Florida and elsewhere; from experts who studied the voting machines, tabulators and other electronic equipment on which a fair vote count has depended; and from a team of attorneys and others who have challenged the Ohio results; the freepress.org investigative team has compiled a portrait of an election whose true outcome must be investigated further by the Congress, the media and all Americans -- because it was almost certainly not an honest victory for George W. Bush.
Crucial flaws in the national vote count, most importantly in Ohio, New Mexico and Florida, indicate John Kerry was most likely the actual winner on November 2, as reported in national exit polls. At very least, the widespread tampering with how the election was conducted, and how Ohio's votes were counted and re-counted, has compromised this nation's historic commitment to free and fair elections.
On Thursday, January 6, the Electoral College will be challenged by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and other members of Congress under a law passed in 1887 in reaction to the fraudulent election of 1876. A fuller investigation requires assent by at least one Senator.
As this vote nears, Ohio’s certified presidential vote (and quite likely those of at least Florida and New Mexico) is simply not credible. George W. Bush’s ‘victory’ appears to have resulted from multiple frauds – a GOP ‘do-everything’ strategy to win the state that swung the election.
In today's article, we list the top ten glaring flaws in the Ohio vote that have allowed Bush to gather the votes to ‘win’ the presidency in Ohio with an apparent margin of 118,775 votes - the result from an official recount that manually examined only 3 percent of ballots cast.
This list involves very large totals of uncounted, tainted or fraudulent votes. Taken together, they exceed Bush's margin of victory in Ohio.
These expert analyses are based on state and local Board of Election statistics, U.S. Census reports, and other public documents. They were not conducted with any assistance from John F. Kerry’s campaign. All the conclusions presented can be re-checked among the wide range of documents posted at freepress.org under the Election 2004 department. The authors will also respond to specific journalistic inquiries at truth@freepress.org. Additional key sources are specified below.
These flaws involve very large numbers of votes. But they cannot fully explain how the results were recorded on Election Day for one crucial reason: the paper and digital record trail needed to analyze the actual voting has been sealed from public scrutiny by Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, who both administered the state's election and served as the co-chair of Ohio's 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign.
Blackwell and other Republican officials continue to discount such criticisms. Blackwell has written that the election ran "smoothly." His office has refused subpoenas requesting him to testify, terming them a form of "harassment." Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett has said that this year's election had "fewer glitches" than previous ones. "We have bipartisan (election" boards and very specific rules and procedures," he says. "To have fraud within the counting process in Ohio, you would have to have massive collusion."
Nearly 85 percent of the state used paper ballots. Most were tabulated electronically – meaning an evidence trail exists, if it has not been destroyed or fatally compromised. But we have reason to believe this destruction has already occurred in a number of Ohio counties, rendering a full recount and audit impossible.
While the anomalies we have found in the Ohio vote are deep and serious, an in-depth study now indicates shocking parallels in New Mexico, which we will discuss in tomorrow's article.
The Bush-Cheney ‘do-everything’ strategy in Ohio covered a very wide range of tactics, from disenfranchisement of minority voters to discarding of ballots to tampered tabulators and much more.
Taken as a whole, this compendium of error, fraud, cover-up and contempt indicates that this was not a legitimate election, and is not worthy of being certified by the Congress of the United States:
1. More than 106,000 Ohio ballots remain uncounted. As certified by Blackwell, Ohio’s official results say 92,672 regular ballots were cast without indicating a choice for president. This sum grows to 106,000 ballots when uncounted provisional ballots are included. There is no legal reason for not inspecting and counting each of these ballots. This figure does not include thousands of people who did not vote, despite intending to do so in Ohio’s inner cities, due to a lack of voting machines, having no available ballots, intimidation, manipulation of registrations, denial of absentee ballots and other means of depriving American citizens of their rightful vote.
2. Most uncounted ballots come from regions and precincts where Kerry was strongest. In Hamilton County, 4,515 ballots or 51.64 percent of the uncounted county total, came from Cincinnati, where Kerry won 67.98 percent to Bush’s 31.54 percent. In Cuyahoga County, 4,708 ballots or 44 percent of the county total came from Cleveland, where Kerry won all 65 precincts. In Summit County, 2,650 ballots or 48.72 percent of the county total came from Akron, which Kerry won 68.75 percent to Bush’s 28.00 percent.
3. Of the 147,000 combined provisional and absentee ballots counted by hand after Election Day, Kerry received 54.46 percent of the vote. In the 10 largest Ohio counties, Kerry’s margin was 4.24 to 8.92 percent higher than in the certified results, which were predominantly machine counted. As in New Mexico, where George W. Bush carried every precinct whose votes were counted with electronic optical scanning machines, John Kerry's vote count was significantly lower among ballots counted on Election Day using electronic tabulators.
4. Turnout inconsistencies reveal tens of thousands of Kerry votes were not simply recorded. Systematic mathematical scrutiny reveals that the certified results at the statewide and precinct-to-precinct level display key patterns against a backdrop of implausible results. Most striking is a pattern where turnout percentages (votes cast as a percentage of registered voters) in cities won by Kerry were 10 percentage points or more lower than in the regions won by Bush, a virtually impossible scenario.
In Franklin County, where Columbus is located, Kerry won 346 precincts to Bush’s 125. The median Kerry precinct had 50.78 percent turnout, compared to 60.56 percent for Bush. Kerry’s lower numbers are due to local election officials assigning more voting machines per capita to Republican-leaning suburbs than the Democrat-leaning inner city – a political decision and likely Voting Rights Act violation. If Kerry-majority precincts in Columbus had a 60 percent turnout, as recorded throughout the rest of the state, he would have netted an additional 17,000 votes.
5. Many certified turnout results in key regions throughout the state are simply not plausible, and all work to the advantage of Bush. In southern Perry County, two precincts reported turnouts of 124.4 and 124.0 percent of the registered voters. These impossible turnouts were nonetheless officially certified as part of the final recount by Blackwell. But in pro-Kerry Cleveland, there were certified precinct turnouts of 7.10, 13.15, 19.60, 21.01, 21.80, 24.72, 28.83 and 28.97 percents. Seven entire wards reported a turnout less than 50 percent. But if the actual Cleveland turnout was 60 percent, as registered statewide, Kerry would have netted an additional 22,000 votes. Kerry is also thought to have lost 7,000 votes in Toledo this way.
6. Due to computer flaws and vote shifting, there were numerous reports across Ohio of extremely troublesome electronic errors during the voting process and in the counting. In Youngstown, there were more than two-dozen Election Day reports of machines that switched or shifted on-screen displays of a vote for Kerry to a vote for Bush. In Cleveland, there were three precincts in which minor third-party candidates received 86, 92 and 98 percent of the vote respectively, an outcome completely out of synch with the rest of the state (a similar thing occurred during the contested election in Florida, 2000). This class of error points to more than machine malfunction, suggesting instead that votes are being electronically shifted from one candidate to another in the voting and counting stage. All reported errors favored Bush over Kerry.
7. In Miami County, two sets of results were submitted to state officials. The second, which padded Bush's margin, reported that 18,615 additional votes were counted, increasing Bush’s total by exactly 16,000 votes. Miami County’s turnout was up 20.86 percent from 2000, but only had experienced a population increase of 1.38 percent by 2004. Two Miami County precincts were certified with reported turnouts of 98.55 and 94.27 percent. In one of the precincts this would have required all but ten registered voters to have cast ballots. But an independent investigation has already collected affidavits of more than 10 registered voters that did not cast ballots on Nov. 2, indicating that Blackwell's officially certified vote count is simply impossible, which once again favoring Bush.
In Warren County, in southern Ohio, an unexplained Homeland Security alert was cited by Republican election board officials as a pretext for barring the media and independent observers from the vote count. In Warren and neighboring Butler and Clermont Counties, Bush won by a margin of 132,685 votes. He beat Gore in these counties in 2000 by 95,575 votes, meaning an implausible pickup of almost 40,000 votes.
But Bush’s numbers meant 13,566 people who voted for C. Ellen Connally, the liberal Democratic candidate for Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice, also voted for Bush. In Butler Country, Bush officially was given 109,866 votes. But conservative GOP Chief Justice Moyer was given only 68,407, a negative discrepancy of more than 40,000 votes. Meanwhile, Connally was credited with 61,559 votes to John Kerry's 56,234. This would mean that while Bush vastly outpolled his Republican counterpart running for the Supreme Court, African-American female Democrat running for the Supreme Court on the Democratic side outpolled Kerry. By all accounts such an outcome is inconceivable. Again, it indicates a very significant and likely fraudulent shifting of votes to Bush.
8. Democratic voters were apparently targeted with provisional ballots. These ballots require voters to fill out extensive forms at the poll. Under extraordinary rules established by Blackwell these ballots were set to be discarded if even minor errors were committed. Poll watchers in Cleveland and Columbus have testified that most provisional ballots were given to minority and young voters. The same is true with presumed liberal college and university students. In Athens, where Ohio University is located, 8.59 percent of student ballots were provisional. At Kenyon College and Oberlin College, liberal arts institutions, there were severe shortages of voting machines when compared with nearby religious-affiliated schools. Students at Kenyon waited up to eleven hours to vote. Provisional ballots were also required of mostly African-American students at Wilberforce College.
9. Ohio's Election Day exit poll was more credible than the certified result, according to intense statistical analysis. In-depth studies by Prof. Ron Baiman of the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that Ohio's exit polls in Ohio and elsewhere were virtually certain to be more accurate than the final vote count as certified by Blackwell. Ohio's exit polls predicted a Kerry victory by percentages that exceeded their margin of error. Compared to the voter access, voting technology and vote counting problems in Ohio, the exit polls were far more systematic and reliable. Critics of the exit polls’ accuracy say too many Democrats were sampled, but a detailed analysis of that assertion shows no credible evidence for it. The stark shift from exit polls favoring Kerry to final results in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio all went in Bush's direction, and are, according to Baiman, a virtual impossibility, with odds as high as 150 million to one against.
10. The Ohio recount wasn’t random or comprehensive and may have involved serious illegalities. Under Ohio law, 3 percent of the ballots in a precinct are examined by hand. If the numbers match what was counted on Election Day, then the rest of the ballots are compiled electronically. In many districts, Republican Secretary of State Blackwell chose the precincts to be counted in a partisan manner, weighing the choices toward precincts where there were no disputes while avoiding those being contested. Moreover, there have been numerous confirmed instances where employees of the private companies that manufactured the voting machines had access to the machines and the computer records before the recount occurred. In at least two counties, technicians from Diebold and Triad dismantled key parts of voting machines before they could be subjected to audits for recount. In some counties, vendor companies conducted the recount – not public election officials. At least one county---Shelby---has admitted to discarding key data before the recount could be taken. In Greene County unrecounted ballots were left unguarded in an unlocked building, rendering the recount moot.
These ten points are among the most serious clouding the electoral outcome in Ohio, but are only part of a larger pattern. Their correlation with similar evidence in New Mexico, Florida and elsewhere gives them added gravitas. Scores of sworn affidavits and the on-going work of teams of attorneys, statisticians and other experts have revealed far more points of contention and suspicion, many of which we will present in tomorrow's article.
The sources used for this report are available at http://freepress.org The statistical analysis was primarily done by Richard Hayes Phillips, PhD. A transcript of his deposition in the election challenge lawsuit detailing these findings can be found at: http://freepress.org/images/departments/Dep_Phillips.pdf The exit poll analysis was by Ron Baiman, PhD, and a transcript of the deposition describing his analysis can be found at: http://freepress.org/images/departments/Dep_Baiman.pdf Additional material appears in court filings in Moss v. Bush and related legal actions filed with the Ohio Supreme Court.
Taken together, these ten points involve votes that cumulatively exceed Bush's 118,775 vote margin in the state.
These flaws must be thoroughly investigated before Congress ratifies the Electoral College. The legitimacy of the presidency and American Democracy is at stake. In tomorrow's article we will outline more of the evidence leading up to Thursday's historic vote.
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Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of OHIO'S STOLEN ELECTION: VOICES OF THE DISENFRANCHISED, 2004, a book/film project from http://freepress.org Tax-deductible donations are welcome there and at the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism, 1240 Bryden Road, Columbus, OH 43205.
