This just in from Amy King: a great weblog with all the info and numbers you should be calling if you are worried about voter fraud. Please go here and click on some links and make some phone calls and do some voodoo on Dick Cheney's pacemaker. Thanks Amy.
This post is going out to chupacabra Dick Cheney: keep eating red meat dude. And now, let's return to peak performance. It might be dark and cold, but that doesn't mean you can stay in bed. There is a revolution to plan, and these days you should be asking yourself "Do I have the upper body strength to scale the walls of the White House?" "Have I trained like a navy-seal to swim out to a Halliburton Oil Platform?" You may want to incorporate these ideas into your vision statement. And if you are new to Lisablog you might not know what a vision statement is. I learned about vision statements from this dude named John DeRosalia who is a skydiving psychotherapist. He helps athletes to become world champions. So today let's make you a world champion too. First you might want to check out John DeRosalia's Website
And here is a little excerpt from it:
What's the most powerful peak performance tool?
My 'miracle tool' is a Personal Vision Statement; a written description of the goal, its time-frame, the steps you'll take to achieve it, and a list of reasons that make it important to you. Writing this out can be time-consuming but it's worth the effort. Most people have thoughts, ideas and dreams of what they'd like to do. But thinking about something is only the first level. Putting your thoughts into words is a second, much more powerful level. A recent study revealed that over 90% of Olympic gold medal winners had their goals down in writing. The third level is taking action in the direction of your goals. The idea is to begin living your dreams and not just thinking about them. Thought, word, and deed are cornerstones in every major philosophy and religion throughout time. The idea in peak performance is to reach for the highest thought.
Writing a vision statement can be quite fun. Sometimes it helps to start with a list of stuff you want to do. Think of the small details, and think of big plans too. For instance, my vision statement ideas might look like this:
Drink 8 glasses of water a day. The next step is to craft your ideas into a positive, enthusiastic, easy to read mantra. For instance, my vision statement could look like this:
Vision Statement
I eat well and I drink eight glasses of water every day, which means two in the morning before I leave the house and I eat greens every day and I eat clean protein like raw fish and I don't eat too much sugar and every morning for ten minutes I stretch and do yoga and I do 60 push ups and 25 stomach crunches and I reintegrate running into my life, especially after school ends, when I am in London where I can run through parks filled with foxes and I am a lean, mean fighting machine and I am the one.
I am good to my students and I learn as much as I can all the time and I work on major projects like the Duncan book, which becomes my life beginning in January, and my novel, which I finish over the summer, and my translation of the Iliad, which I work on for an hour every other day beginning in January as a way to take a break from the Duncan book, and I work on knitting and I make 100 hats for people all over the world and also I knit a long warm funky blanket for me and Thomas and the cats and I do what I can every day to stop the war machine and I dedicate some time to that in whatever way possible. I look forward to the following things: finishing major projects so that I can study Latin and archaeology and wild flowers and astronomy, getting a big German Shepherd dog, saving money for a farm in the country, having a vegetable garden and chasing the pheasants away, visiting Scotland and Wales and Greece and Italy, learning more about whiskey and beer and tea, being a teacher of poetry and having health insurance, having a most excellent husband and sharing my life with him.
The next step:
Read your vision statement every morning, and read it at night before you go to sleep. It helps to dream about your imminent Olympic successes. See yourself doing these things. John DeRosalia says there are two possibilities with a vision statement: you read it every day and achieve your goals or you don't read it every day and you don't achieve your goals. Set your goals realistically, and pace yourself. And you might find that it's really exciting to revise your vision statement in a few weeks or a month. Save your old vision statements and chart your progress. Be a champion! You are the One.
Re-integrate running 5 days a week.
Have an excellent husband and have a good life with him.
Save money to get a sheep farm.
And health insurance.
Knit 100 Hats.
Knit a sweater.
Knit a blanket.
Translate the Iliad.
Finish the Duncan biography by June 1st.
Be good to my students.
Be a streamlined and cool gnosis seeker.
Stop the war machine.
Get a dog.
Publish my first novel.
Get a full-time teaching job.
Visit Greece.
Visit Scotland.
Visit Italy.
Visit Wales.
Learn Latin.
Study Middle Eastern archaeology.
November 13, 2004
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Updated: Saturday, 13 November 2004 6:28 PM EST
This post is going out to Ted (25), Dave (25), Tom (20), Peter (22), Erick (21), Sean (28), Romulo (21), Dan (25), Dennis (21), Mike (45), Josh (24), Aaron (20), Gene (28), Justin (20), Abe (19), and Julian (22). They were all killed in Iraq yesterday.
And now, from the New York Times: "Human rights experts said Friday that American soldiers might have committed a war crime on Thursday when they sent fleeing Iraqi civilians back into Falluja....laws of war require military forces to protect civilians as refugees and forbid returning them to a combat zone....Because the United States has refused to take part in the International Criminal Court, it is unclear whether American troops could be held accountable."
Thanks to Brooklyn correspondent Geoffrey for forwarding this info. And by the way, the news in the newsrooms is that there's a lock down on coverage of election fraud.
Go out and bug these people:
Politicians allegedly/reportedly looking into the issue - urge them to introduce a bill to investigate voter fraud:
Rep. Henry Waxman of CA - 202-225-3976
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of OH - 202-225-7032
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of OH - 202-225-5871
Rep. Tim Ryan of OH - 202-225-5261
6) Federal Elections Commission:
Audit Division
Joseph Stoltz, Assistant Staff Director
800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1200)
Inspector General
Lynne McFarland, Inspector General
800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1015)
Call /email Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center: carterweb@emory.edu or call at (800) 550-3560
Former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center are considered to be the most experienced in the election process and conducting fair democratic elections - urge him to get involved and investigate possible fraud and the unexplainable discrepancies throughout the election involving the computer voting machines, especially in swing states.
And bug these people too:
CNN VP of News Susan Bunda via email at cnnfutures@cnn.com
ABC News President David Westin via email at netaudr@abc.com
CBS News President Andrew Heyward via email at ajh@cbsnews.com
NBC News President Neal Shapiro via email at letters@msnbc.com
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes via email at roger.ailes@foxnews.com
Coming Soon:
A feature article on the Loch Ness Monster
What is a vision statement and why should you have one?
Where is Wales and what do Welshmen really do with sheep?
Can you name all the bones in your skull?
Comparative Anatomy: Cat skeletons: can you name all the bones in the skull of your cat?
And a recap of weird stuff you should be doing to irk the right wing in America.
Evan's New Chapbook:
My buddy Evan Kennedy has a new beautiful little chapbook called My Pet Goat, a series of love poems for the American Taliban John Walker Lindh. Evan is an excellent young poet with a Spicerian O'Hara-esque
Beckettly sensibility. Support the resistance! You can get a copy of Evan's chapbook for one buck. Email him at kennedyisdead@hotmail.com for more info. And here's an email that Paul the Apostle got from John Kerry's brother:
From: "Cameron Kerry"
I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their
deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and
other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their
concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election.
I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers
are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the
votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring with lawyers
involved and have made them aware of the information and concerns people
have given me. Even if the facts don't provide a basis to change the
outcome, the information will inform the continuing effort to protect the
integrity of our elections.
If you have specific factual information about voting problems that could
be helpful to the lawyers doing their job, please send it to vri@dnc.org
rather than to me.
The election protection effort has been important to me personally, and I
am proud of the 17,000 lawyers around the country who helped. It's
obvious that we have a way to go still, but their efforts helped make a
difference. Their work goes on.
Thank you,
Cam Kerry
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:24:46 -0400
To: FXGRAFFIX1@aol.com
Subject: Election Day 2004
From the Gospel of Philip: "Great is the mystery of marriage! For without it the world would not exist."
O gentle sheep shaggers, this is a second plea for a gay occultist minister. I know that there are a bunch of you out there who dabble in the black arts. Does anyone know a minister? Or a theosophy hall that is keen on ceremonies of blessed bohemian matrimony? The first Lisablog reader to locate a Neo-Platonic minister gets a Hypostasis of the Archons Hat from the 100 hats project. Thank you and good night.
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From the House of Jihad: Here's a big shout out to Dictator Bush and his new main man Alberto Gonzales who thinks that the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War is "quaint" and "obsolete". O Americans, welcome to Abu Ghraib.
From the House of War:
Names of the Dead:
Steven Auchman, 37, Waterloo, NY
Guess what? More to come tomorrow.
Rest in Peace.
Don Clary, 21, Troy, Kan.
Steven Faulkenburg, 45, Huntingburg, Ind.
Branden Ramey, 22, Boone, Ill.
David Ries, 29, Clark, Wash.
Robert Warns, 23, Waukesha, Wis.
Clinton Wisdom, 39, Atchison, Kan.
Thomas Zapp, 20, Houston, TX
This just in from correspondent Amy King:
The following is from the above website:
Investigate Electronic Voting Machines -
Now that November 2 has come and gone, some disturbing reports of problems
with electronic voting machines have surfaced. For example:
*In Columbus, Ohio, an electronic voting system reported that Bush received
4,258 votes while Kerry received 260 votes in a precinct where records show
only 638 voters cast ballots;
* In North Carolina, a machine lost more than 4,500 votes due to a mistaken
assumption about the memory capacity of a computer;
* In Youngstown, Ohio, and South Florida, numerous voters complained that
when they tried to cast votes for Kerry, the machines instead recorded their
votes for Bush.
All in all, more than 30,000 complaints have been gathered from across the
country, and the Internet is heating up with rumors and innuendo that the
results of the election were somehow tampered with. In the midst of such
turmoil, it's crucial that an independent authoritative investigation be
undertaken to sort this all out.
Fortunately, a handful of representatives are working hard to get to the
bottom of the situation and have urged the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) to immediately investigate these charges. It's crucial that Congress
continues to pressure the GAO so that these problems can be investigated and
reported on to the American people to ensure that Americans' faith in the
election process is maintained and strengthened.
Call to action
Urge your representative to join Representatives Conyers, Scott, Nadler,
Watt, Wexler and Holt in calling on the Government Accountability Office to
immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy of electronic voting
machines.
Add your name and address below [*GO TO THE WEBSITE LISTED ABOVE*] and send
this e-mail as is, or personalize it using your own words. When you click
Send E-mail, your name and address will automatically be inserted at the
bottom of this e-mail letter. The subject of your e-mail will be the title
of the action.
Your e-mail will be sent to:
Your U.S. Representative
*SECOND SITE: A compiled petition with your individual comment will be
presented to your Senators and your Representative in Congress by
MoveOn.org. Go to: http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
Contributed by Working Assets
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Thanks to all you sheep fuck poem lovers who got the goods to Daniel in time for his presentation! William Blake Sheepinator hats are in the works for you. And now, assignment number seven. This one will make you cry.
From DC correspondent Rod Smith
Friends--
I am increasingly convinced that this election has been stolen, and I believe
that the first step is to make sure that as many people as possible have the
information that is available. Below are a number of reports, please take some
time to look them over if you haven't encountered them already. There is word
that Kerry is considering unconceding if enough evidence emerges-- that
information is also included below. This is, I think, incredibly important, not
just to us but to people all over the world.
1. MSNBC report:
http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater270.html
2. excellent list of links to stories on the questionable election results:
http://radtimes.blogspot.com/
3. from Thom Hartman story at
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce
results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched the
Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically scanned
paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking
? the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.
In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them
Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and
7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country
where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.
In Dixie County, with 9,676 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a
mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but
4,433 voted for Bush.
The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where
optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats, went
58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush.
Yet in the touch-screen counties, where investigators may have been more
vigorously looking for such anomalies, high percentages of registered Democrats
generally equaled high percentages of votes for Kerry. (I had earlier reported
that county size was a variable ? this turns out not to be the case. Just the
use of touch-scrversus optical scanners.)
Also See:
Florida Secretary of State Presidential Results by County 11/02/2004 (.pdf)
Florida Secretary of State County Registration by Party 2/9/2004 (.pdf)
4. Request from Kerry's attorney
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:03 AM
Please pass this on to those in these states who might have personal
information to provide.
Everyone! Please forward to all who have specifics on vote fraud. The
send-to address below is John Kerry's brother at his law firm. Kerry
will unconcede if there is solid evidence of fraud. We need first hand
sufferers so please get this info to them!!
FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
EMAIL FROM DC LAWYER CYNTHIA BUTLER
I am angry and getting emails and recrimination from people wondering
why KERRY just caved and is not fighting this before the final count in
Ohio,before any of the fraud was challenged, before New Mexico and Iowa
even came in.
There is widespread feeling that he did not lose the election and that
it was taken from him. There is enough here to warrant investigation and
enough to challenge the results. It's coming from all corners.
I understand that he has until the official count certification in
Ohio to Un Concede which is several days from now.
Anyone who thinks that he should unconcede should give reasons why --
whatever they noticed, particularly in Red Republican Governed States
using electronic machines- and send them directly to Cameron KERRY, John
Kerry's brother at his law firm at the address CKerry@Mintz.com
They should inform us if they were not allowed to vote provisionally
(for whatever reason- they lost forms, ran out of forms, etc.) I
personally witnessed a number of things as I reported in Texas with the
DCCC. (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee)
If you know anyone in particular in Ohio who tried to vote and was
turned away at the polls please get their information and notify the
campaign.
They should be notified if they experienced lines longer than four
hours -particularly elderly or infirm people (we call that torture
when they do it to political prisoners) . They should be notified if
people were told as has been reported that due to too many people
showing up in African American precincts, particularly in Ohio where
there were too few booths (some only had two or three for the entire
precinct) and told because of heavy turn out they could vote on
Wednesday. If the n umbers of these sorts of incidents creates a
percentage margin that exceeds the margin of victory- Un Concession has
to be made to challenge the count.
If people wanted to and tried to vote and were prevented or actively
discouraged from doing so, that is a Civil Rights matter and must be
dealt with in terms of the ultimate count.
This is the last email that I am writing on this subject in this
venue. I am taking it up in other venues.
Please pass along this to your listservs so that we may make Democracy
Work in America. We are not a country where he who cheats best wins.
Cynthia L. Butler
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
Dal LaMagna
5. Thanks.
--Rod Smith
Subject: Fw: On Kerry's Brother (lawyer)--Really Important to those in
Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Mexico
BUTLER LAW FIRM, P.C.
1717 K St. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Dal LaMagna, Founder
Progressive Government Institute 12 Eliot Street 3rd Floor Left
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-547-1331
mobile number 516-456-2696
dal@progressivegovernment.org
www.progressivegovernment.org
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Hey blogheads, my friend Daniel is giving a presentation on Ed Sanders' Sheep Fuck Poem tomorrow and he urgently needs a copy of the poem. I can't find it here. If someone has the Sheep Fuck Poem please email it to Daniel at dkane@panix.com. Daniel is in England. It's already 1 a.m. there, and he needs it ASAP. The first person to email the Sheep Fuck Poem to Daniel and to the White House gets a William Blake Sheepinator Hat. Thanks.
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