Sunday Musings and Rambling Thoughts

There is a bit of buzz in the blogosphere. Apparently, several bloggers have received an email tip that the Washington Timesis about to break a story that will not be Kerry friendly. I'm glad that the email did not contain more information about the story because I am just paranoid enough to think that it could be a set up. You know, start something on the Internet, get it blown all out of proportion and then Kerry comes along and refutes it with all kinds of proof and the blogosphere comes away with egg on its face. And somehow Bush gets blamed. Here, here, here, and here.

UPDATE: I don't know whether this is "it" or not, but members of the UN Security Council are denying that they met with Senator Kerry in October 2002. Kerry said he met for hours with members of the Council just a week before voting to authorize the use of force in Iraq. Here's the link to the Times story.

UPDATE: Joel Mowbray, the Washington Times reporter who broke the above story, will be blogging at RedState.org "to cover developments in the story and respond to any critiques and comments raised." Looks like Red State will be place to get the real skinny on this one.

Then there is The Guardian newspaper in the UK. First it starts a campaign where it's readers send email and letters to the "ignorant" people of Ohio who might be stupid enough to vote for Bush. That campaign backfired with the "ignorant" people of Ohio told the Brits just how to fold the Guardian before depositing it. And in case the Brits didn't know where to deposit the paper, Ohio told them where. Now, one of it's writers, Charlie Brooker, is openly calling for the assassination of President Bush. Now I know that the Guardian doesn't represent the whole of the UK, but to be honest, when I finally make my world tour, the UK will be the stop right after France and Germany.

UPDATE: The Guardian and Charlie Brooker have issued an apology.

A Federal Appeals court ruled that provisional ballots in Ohio may only be counted if the voter cast their vote in the correct county. Florida ruled the same way. If a voter goes to a poll to vote, but their name isn't on the voter registration list, they will be given a provisional ballot. If the voter is later determined to have voted at the correct polling location and is eligible to vote the ballot will be counted. If they were not eligible or did not vote at the right place, the vote will not count. One of the reasons given for provisional ballots being counted whereever they are cast is because of recent hurricanes. In my opinion, people who are living other than where they are registered should have had sufficient time to find out where to vote. A call or trip to the supervisor of elections office would clear up the matter. They may also vote early or by absentee ballot. This is not rocket science. Now, before anyone starts whining that hurricane displaced residents have had more important things on their minds than where they should vote here is my answer. It's been a month since the last hurricane. That's sufficient time to contact the Supervisior of Elections. If you can't take the time, then maybe you should forget about voting. You do have too much on your minds to make an informed, rational decision.