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By Peter Andrew - ConservativeAmerican.orgThe Department of Defense today released the names of several more soldiers who have died, including a few who were killed in a shooting incident at Camp Liberty in Iraq. One soldier is being charged with murder for that incident. The latest announcements mark a very sad milestone for the new President. Two soldiers from Illinois, President Obama's home state, marked the 100th and 101st military deaths since President Barack H. Obama became Commander in Chief. Those two soldiers were identified as 21-year-old Omar Albrak and 23-year-old Lukasz Saczek. Saczek was one of the men murdered...

I'm hoping to be able to ascertain an overall national figure of attendance at the tea parties today by asking Freepers to post their crowd estimates on this thread.I'm also asking that the thread be kept to just the numbers, no photos, etc., but if you want to link back to photos in your crowd estimate that's fine.Please give the location and number of participants.I'll go first:Melbourne, FL - 1000.

According to the latest unofficial combined machine and paper results released this afternoon, Democrat Scott Murphy has a 35-vote lead over Republican Jim Tedisco in New York’s 20th District. The following counties have finished counting their domestic absentee ballots: Delaware, Essex, Greene, Otsego, and Rensselaer counties. No numbers have been reported to the state from Saratoga and Washington counties.

A truckload of Iraqi Policemen head to a local voting station in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district, Jan. 28, 2009, to cast their vote in the country's second election since the fall of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jerry Saslav. CAMP VICTORY — During the 2005 provincial Iraqi elections, voters had their fingers stained with election ink to prevent them from voting twice. Some held their fingers up in pride as they took part in democracy; others hid their faces from cameras, afraid of becoming victims of sectarian violence. This year, ink or not, Iraqi Security Forces will make their...

The race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. John Doolittle has tightened, with Republican Tom McClintock holding on to a 291-vote lead districtwide. With about 40,000 ballots that remain to be counted in the 4th Congressional District, Republican Tom McClintock is asking for volunteers to observe the count in county elections offices throughout northeastern California. “The process of counting the remaining votes could take several weeks, and the Democrats are bringing people in from around the state and nation,” McClintock wrote in an e-mail to supporters today. “We need additional volunteers to help staff the office and monitor the vote-counting process....

Look, I don't know much about gymnastics, but I do know that landing a vault on two feet is better than landing one on two knees. Olympic gymnastics judges evidently disagree with me, as they awarded China's Cheng Fei a bronze medal yesterday even after she fell on her vault landing. American Alicia Sacramone finished fourth despite, you know, not falling.

"...The results produced some remarkable anomalies, such as 21 counties showing no Republican voters and three counties showing no Democratic voters..."

WASHINGTON - History shows the folly of counting out a Clinton. If Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is looking more and more like the Titanic, she may yet prove to be the unsinkable Molly Brown. Ask Mike McCurry about the Clintons' resilience. McCurry worked for Bob Kerrey, one of Bill Clinton's chief rivals in the 1992 presidential campaign. He remembers the day details broke about Clinton's efforts to avoid the Vietnam draft, just weeks after allegations had surfaced of an affair with Gennifer Flowers. "He's toast," McCurry told co-workers on the Kerrey campaign. "He's never going to survive this." McCurry went...

Everything is dependent on the amount of delegates each candidate gets ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2007 – U.S. troops in Iraq are anxious to come home, but also want to ensure that they don’t leave too soon for their efforts to take hold, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today in Manhattan, Kan. Speaking at Kansas State University’s Landon Lecture series, the defense secretary said the first troops not to be replaced in Iraq have already returned home, and more will follow in December. He noted that Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, has laid out a proposed timetable to return one Army brigade combat team home...

Until about the 18th of this month, FR posted what I thought was a viable tracker about the interest a thread might attract. The 'lurker'; that ever-present internet FR surfer who rides from thread to thread opening that which peaks his/her spirit. Stocks Soar After Half-Point Rate Cut Posted by Always Right On 09/18/2007 2:43:25 PM PDT · 50 replies · 219+ views Having removed the number of people who 'viewed' a thread eliminates the true value of a thread, and subjects it to a value shaped only by the number of replies it may or may not attract. For...

As a result of Hugh Hewitt's conversation with General Petraeus a few days ago, the question has been brought up of how many terrorist combatants have been killed due to the United States' fighting the War Against Islamic Terror in Iraq. This has been a complaint of mine for a couple of years now. Why do we never hear how many bad guys are killed from day to day from the television news journalists? All we ever hear is how many American Soldiers are killed each day, nothing else. The reason is because the TV news channels are antiwar pacifists...

BAGHDAD - U.N. officials accused Iraq on Wednesday of withholding civilian death figures to try to deflect attention from escalating violence and a worsening humanitarian crisis despite the U.S.-led Baghdad security crackdown. Those conclusions by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq drew a sharp rebuke from the Iraq's political leadership, which called the report "unbalanced" and said it raised questions about the credibility of the U.N. staff in Iraq. The clashing views over the document — which covered three months ending March 31 — reflect a wider debate that goes beyond attempts to tally the bloodshed: whether the Baghdad security...

KABUL (AFP) - Near-daily battlefield death tolls released in Afghanistan are no measure of the success of US-led operations, can be misleading, and often deflect attention from real achievements in the war-torn country, experts and officials say. ADVERTISEMENT Official numbers of "enemy" killed in battle can be staggering: 100 in Panjwayi, 60 in Musa Qala, 10 every other day. Loosely worded statements on "estimated" dead or "enemies of Afghanistan" are often picked up by international media desperate for news from inaccessible battlefields but with little way of verifying details. The Taliban also issue battle tolls but these are usually so...

So reveals Leonel Cota Montaño, National President of the PRD and member of the commission, which will present inconsistencies in the PREP tomorrow Monday, July 3, 2006, 9:48 p.m. The "For the Good of All" coalition (PRD-PT) formed a political commission in their fight for the defense of the vote. Leonel Cota Montaño, National President of the PRD and a member of this commission, revealed that at midday tomorrow [the commission] will make inconsistencies in the [vote count of] the Program of Preliminary Electoral Results (PREP) known. Cota Montaño said that they are demanding that the IFE not use this...

Gaza families count the cost of Israeli siege By Harry de Quetteville and Patrick Bishop in Gaza (Filed: 03/07/2006) Israel's deputy prime minister said his country would prosecute Palestinian government officials seized in connection with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier. The threat came as concern grew over the humanitarian cost of Israel's siege of the coastal territory, the most crowded place on earth. A Palestinian family examines the damage to their house after it was left in ruins by the Israeli army "They will be put to trial," Shimon Peres told CNN's Late Edition on Sunday. "And they will...

Our illegal immigration counters are based on an estimated twenty million illegal aliens having been present in our nation as of January 1, 2004. In a letter dated February 2004, no less an authority than Arizona Senator John McCain recognized that Border Patrol apprehension figures demonstrated that "almost four million people crossed our borders illegally 2002" (read McCain's letter) – experts on the subject agree that illegal crossings have only increased since then. The Tucson sector Border Patrol union local 2544 on the number of illegal aliens in our nation: "There are currently 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in...

"We won. They lost. Could you just write that once?" That was Democratic/Labor strategist Gale Kaufman's one request this morning from those of us in the Capitol press corps. The finality of her sentiment-- her side as winners, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's camp as the losers on Election Day-- is one that seems to contrast with an often repeated thought in recent days: that everyone now simply needs to find a way to get along and get to work on the state's problems. Interestingly enough, the need to "get along" is exactly what it sounds like the governor has decided to...

Size doesn’t count at the World Dwarf Games PARIS: Aside from the pursuit of gold medals competitors at the World Dwarf Games being held in France this week wanted to be treated as serious athletes, and not pitied because of their height. The fourth edition of the championships at Rambouillet, south of Paris, has drawn together 135 dwarves measuring between 80cm and 1.40m with the largest delegation coming from Britain. Other countries represented are the United States, Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, Spain, Morocco, Kosovo, and hosts France. Arthur Dean, president of the International Dwarf Athletics Federation, believes these championships send...

The reports come in with numbing regularity. Iraqi police blown up by suicide bombs. Government officials murdered in the street. Dozens of insurgents killed by U.S. forces. Shoppers killed when cars explode near busy markets. Grieving mourners killed by explosions at funerals for their loved ones. In the past two weeks alone, about 400 Iraqis reportedly have died across the country. On Wednesday alone, five car bombs and a man with explosives strapped to his body killed at least 69 people in Baghdad and elsewhere. But while the incidents and the numbers all start to blur together, they raise once...

Strange Accusations Get Princeton Student Barred Record, The; Bergen County, N.J. 04/07/2005 PRINCETON - A Princeton University graduate student has been barred from campus after he was accused of surreptitiously cutting locks of hair from women on campus and pouring bodily fluids into women's drinks. Officials say the student, Michael J. Lohman, 28, apparently targeted Asian women in a spree that may have begun in 2002. Lohman was arrested March 30. A woman reported last month that a man cut off a lock of her hair on a campus shuttle bus, triggering an investigation. University spokeswoman Lauren Robinson-Brown said...

LONDON (AP) - A group of public health experts sharply criticized Britain and America on Friday for failing to count the number of Iraqis who have died as a result of the war in Iraq. The group said the United States and Britain rely on the Iraqi Ministry of Health tally and that number was "likely seriously to underestimate" deaths. It urged officials of the two countries to immediately commission "a comprehensive, independent inquiry into Iraqi war-related casualties." The Iraqi Health Ministry has estimated that 3,853 civilians were killed and 15,517 injured between April and October 2004. Britain's Foreign Office...

I just got an email from a friend pointing to a petition called "CountEveryVote" linked to http://www.friendsofhillary.com/CountEveryVote/ In about a 3 second search I found the real source of the petition.. http://www.theorganizer.org/LP/USHistory/CountEveryVote.html which is pure anti-american socialist drivel.Noting the first website I can only say: "Hillary has no friends, only people she hasn't used yet."

WINNIPEG (CP) -- Manitoba drivers suspected of being high on drugs will be asked to perform a specific series of tasks, including standing on one leg while counting out loud, under new regulations approved by the NDP government. "The tests are, by nature, divided attention tests," David Greening, a senior Justice Department policy analyst, said in an interview. "(Police) can determine if a person is impaired by how they perform on the tests." The new regulations stem from amendments to the provincial Highway Traffic Act approved by the legislature last spring which are intended to crack down on motorists who...

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Here is the speech John Kerry should have delivered at 10 o’clock on the morning after Election Day. The speech that might have prevented, or at least transformed, the fever of "stolen election" paranoia that is sweeping through cyberspace now. Or, if not prevented it, given people some reason to hope that their candidate cared about their votes, even if he lost—cared enough to make sure, as he’d pledged, to get them counted. The speech that might have spared us the post-election dialogue on the phony "values" issue. Here’s the "alternate history" Kerry speech. It’s 10 a.m., when only two...

Sometimes the problem is that votes were miscounted. That's what happened, officials say, with precinct-by-precinct results posted on the Orange County elections office Web site showing that Democrat John Kerry beat Republican President Bush by 9,227 votes in Orange. That was off by 8,400 votes. Officials working for Bill Cowles, the Orange elections supervisor, said the correct totals, available elsewhere on the site, showed that Kerry bested Bush in the county by only 827 votes.

How many times have you heard someone tell you their vote (or yours) really doesn’t count? In the 2000 presidential election, approximately 105 million Americans cast their votes in one of the closest races in this country’s history. One hundred and five million votes may seem like a lot, but consider this: Way more than that many votes were cast in the last season of the popular TV show “American Idol,” with more than 65 million votes cast during the final night alone. I don’t want to make the claim that we as a society care more about the next...

Published online: 19 August 2004Tribe without names for numbers cannot count Helen PearsonAmazon study fuels debate on whether the concept of numbers is innate. Can a knowledge of numbers determine the way we think? © Alamy A study of an Amazonian tribe is stoking fierce debate about whether people can count without numbers. Psychologists, anthropologists and linguists have long wondered whether animals, young children or certain cultures can conceptualize numbers without the language to describe them. To tackle the issue, behavioural researcher Peter Gordon of Columbia University in New York journeyed into the Amazon. He carried out studies with the...

FORT LAUDERDALE — Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards, on their first trip together to the state that narrowly put President Bush in the White House after a disputed recount in 2000, promised on Thursday that "every vote is going to be counted" this year. The presidential candidate told thousands of screaming supporters gathered in an airport hanger in Broward County, a region critical to the recount, that he's discovered that Edwards' two young children, ages 6 and 4, were "good at math." "Those kids really know how to count," Kerry said. "I've given them a special duty in this...

Incan Counting System Decoded? By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Learn how to add 9+7 on the yupana abacus. Jan. 29, 2004 ? The Inca invented a powerful counting system that could be used to make complex calculations without the tiniest mistake, according to an Italian engineer who claims to have cracked the mathematics of this still mysterious ancient population. Begun in the Andean highlands in about 1200, the Inca ruled the largest empire on Earth by the time their last emperor, Atahualpa, was garroted by Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Long been considered the only major Bronze Age civilization without a...

Delegate Count 1 hour, 42 minutes ago By The Associated Press The current breakdown of the presidential preferences of delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions. The numbers are based on party and state rules, delegate interviews and analysis of election results by The Associated Press. The first column shows the delegate total for each candidate; the others show delegates gained or lost during the last day, week and month. DEMOCRATIC Changes Total Tuesday 7 days 30 days Dean 104 0 0 +7 Kerry 81 0 +6 +26 Edwards 36 0 +2 +20 Clark 30 0 +1 +1 Lieberman...

Check out the current (12:32AM PST) vote count (74% of precincts reporting). As of now San Francisco County is 81% NO RECALL but only 64% Bustamonte. LA County is 52% NO RECALL but 55% Arnold & McClintock. Clearly a large number of my fellow Kalifornians are very confused.

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) -- Counting bugs is serious business to researchers at Oregon State University. The school plans to use a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create technology that can identify insects with pattern recognition systems similar to systems used to compare and identify fingerprints. Counting bugs with computers could help protect the environment and give scientists a better understanding of their ecological role, researchers say.. But researchers say identifying the flat, black-and-white images of fingerprints is easy compared to identifying the incredible variety of insects that come in many shapes, sizes, colors and configurations. In...

Diane Whatley mailed her absentee ballot a week early for last year's primary election. Eleven months later, her ballot sits -- still unopened and uncounted -- in a file with 267 others in the Broward State Attorney's office. The ballots, postmarked as much as a week before the primary, went unnoticed in a pile of thousands of pieces of elections mail dumped in the Broward elections office in the frenzied days leading up to the primary. Until Tuesday, when they were contacted by Herald reporters, none of the 268 disenfranchised voters had any idea their votes didn't count. ''It's amazing,''...

<p>SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and his allies aren't the only ones getting headaches from the Republican-led recall drive that could qualify for the ballot this week.</p> <p>The recall is also creating burdens for elections officials in California's 58 counties, who have the task of counting more than 1.6 million signatures submitted by proponents, verifying them through a random-sampling process, and reporting totals to the secretary of state by Wednesday.</p>

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00078.htm   Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines Thursday, 10 July 2003, 9:56 am Article: Bev Harris Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines and The Truth About the Rob-Georgia File By Bev Harris ** Bev Harris is the Author of the soon to be published book " Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering In The 21st Century "Pre order at… http://www.blackboxvoting.com Scoop.co.nz has now revealed for the first time the location of a complete online copy of the original data set. As we anticipate attempts to prevent the distribution of this information we encourage supporters of democracy to make...

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John just said a station employee's wife just called in from the Issaquah Costco asking if her husband wanted an autographed Algore book. She said The tree and Tipper are sitting there and there are only a couple people there to buy books. Bwahahahahah. I thought this was a "best seller." They have another signing tonight at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. That should draw a little better among Seattle's Lefties.

Former vice president Al Gore yesterday urged Maryland Democrats to remember the outrage they felt over the results of the 2000 presidential election and channel it to bring voters to the polls in the tight gubernatorial race. Appearing with Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend at a boisterous rally at Bowie State University, Gore asked people whether they recalled where they were when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to discontinue counting ballots from the disputed Florida vote two years ago. Dozens of hands shot up. "Are you over it?" Gore asked, to which the crowd shouted that it was not. "Use...

Al Gore. State election officials ultimately declared George W. Bush the winner by a margin of 537 votes, but during and after the election dispute, questions remained about the uncounted ballots of 175,010 voters, ballots that had been rejected by error-prone tabulating machines employed in many Florida counties. Confusion and conflict, much of it generated by partisan intrigue, prevented these ballots from being counted during the election controversy. However, in 2001 every uncounted ballot was carefully examined in a scientific study by the University of Chicago, which concluded that when all the votes were counted, more votes had been cast...