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underpants's JournalVa. (State Police) investigates voter fraud
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
As Virginia legislators hotly debated a voter ID bill that narrowly passed the General Assembly, many were unaware of a state police investigation that, so far, has resulted in charges against 38 people statewide for voter fraud. Warrants have been obtained for a 39th person who can't be located.
A majority of those cases already have resulted in convictions, and 26 additional cases are still being actively investigated nearly 3½ years after the state Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to Virginia State Police for individual investigation.
"If we have a widespread number of felons showing up to vote when they can't, then the voter ID law is not going to fix that," Del. Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond) added.
"If someone tells someone that they can vote, and they believe it, and they present themselves and don't change their identity, then that might be a mistake," Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, (D-Richmond) said. "But that's not voter fraud in the sense that we were told that it existed."
Read more: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/news/2012/apr/22/tdmain01-va-investigates-voter-fraud-ar-1859666/
There were just under 3,000,000 votes cast in Virginia in 2008
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/states/virginia.html
--From link on the original story--
Fraud complaints
Voter fraud complaints investigated in Virginia from 2008 general election*
Still active 26
Unfounded 119
Closed with arrest 38
Inactive 1
Inactive WOF 1
Closed service 29
Prosecution declined 194
Total 408
Key:
Active: cases still under investigation
Unfounded: investigation reveals event did not occur
Closed with arrest: alleged offender has been arrested
Inactive: no investigative leads exist or all leads have been exhausted
Inactive WOF: case successfully concluded with a warrant on file, but no arrest because offender can't be located
Closed service: inquiry incomplete with no further police action necessary
Prosecution declined: case where commonwealth's attorney declined prosecution
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/apr/22/tdmain07-voter-fraud-complaints-ar-1859668/
Chuck Colson
Colson authored the 1971 memo listing Nixon's major political opponents, later known as Nixon's Enemies List. A quip that "Colson would walk over his own grandmother if necessary" mutated into claims in news stories that Colson had boasted that he would run over his own grandmother to re-elect Nixon.[8] In a February 13, 1973 conversation, Colson told Nixon that he had always had “a little prejudice.”[9] Plotz reports that Colson sought to hire Teamsters thugs to beat up anti-war demonstrators.[7] Colson also proposed firebombing the Brookings Institution and stealing politically damaging documents while firefighters put the fire out.[10][11][12]
Colson's voice, from archives from April 1969, was heard in the 2004 movie Going Upriver deprecating the anti-war efforts of John Kerry. Colson's orders were to "destroy the young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader."[13][14] In a phone conversation with Nixon on April 28, 1971, Colson said, "This fellow Kerry that they had on last week...He turns out to be really quite a phony."
Watergate and Ellsberg scandals
Colson also became involved in the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP or CREEP). At a CRP meeting on March 21, 1971, it was agreed to spend $250,000 on "intelligence gathering" on the Democratic Party. Colson and John Ehrlichman appointed E. Howard Hunt to the White House Special Operations Unit (the so-called "Plumbers"
which had been organized to stop leaks in the Nixon administration. Hunt headed up the Plumbers' burglary of Pentagon Papers-leaker Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in September 1971. The Pentagon Papers were military documents about the Vietnam War which helped increase opposition to the war. Colson hoped that revelations about Ellsberg could be used to discredit the anti-Vietnam War cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson
April 20th - Columbine and the (BP) Gulf oil spill
oh yeah and Hitler was born on this day
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing twelve workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20#Events
Your tax money doing the dirty work -- pics of the Columbian prostitute
At least three more Secret Service officers implicated in the Colombia prostitution scandal were expected to lose their jobs today as the congressional committee probing the affair revealed it would be investigating whether any of the females involved were underage.
The disciplinary announcement expected later today would bring to six the number of Secret Service employees who no longer work for the agency in the wake of the scandal, according to a federal source.
The U.S. agents and military personnel involved could also face criminal charges if is proven that they had sex with girls under the age of 18.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132844/Three-Secret-Service-officers-set-fired-investigators-probe-agents-sex-underage-girls-Colombia.html#ixzz1sdCqjTf1
Scandal: David Randall Chaney, right, was forced to retire over his alleged role in the incident. The 48-year-old claimed he was 'really checking out' Sarah Palin, left, when he guarded her during the 2008 election campaign
This Secret Service thing is freaking me out
They were wrong but apparently the "wheels up" parties are a regular thing.
Well, I can understand the *umm* releasing of energy and I never got how people could stay THAT focused 365.
What is wierding me out is the sudden vacuum of leadership and middle management. Not that I have ever been a fan of middle management. But it does play a role.
If anything happpens (the right is stepping all over promoting it) we will hear, "Well you know they whole organization was in a bit of disarray".
Sorry, but it is wierding me out.
Starbucks de-bugs its menu offerings (still cheaper than using actual strawberries)
Source: USA Today
Just weeks after the world's largest coffee chain took serious PR heat from vegan groups and public relations gurus for switching to commonly-used cochineal beetles to color its Strawberry Frappuccinos, the company's U.S. president, Cliff Burrows, now says that bugs are coming out and tomato-based extract is coming in.
"We fell short of your expectations," he said, in a statement on Thursday on the company's "My Starbucks Idea" consumer site. "We are reformulating the affected products to assure the highest quality possible."
By the end of June, he says, the company will transition to using lycopene, a natural, tomato-based extract, in its Strawberry & Creme Frappuccino blended beverage and Strawberry Banana Smoothie. It also will drop the use of cochineal extract in its Raspberry Swirl Cake, Birthday Cake Pop, Mini Donut with pink icing and Red Velvet Whoopie Pie.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2012-04-19/starbucks-no-red-dye-drinks/54414032/1
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2012-04-19/starbucks-no-red-dye-drinks/54414032/1
5:53 interview with Levon Helm
Tomorrow (April 19th) in history -- *Yikes*
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1955 – The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_19
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