posted by Kelly at 2:45 pm
In today’s L.A. Times there’s more bad news regarding Electronic voting machines: according to a review by the California Secretary of State, it seems those used in recent elections are all easily hacked. This doesn’t really come as much of a surprise, especially if you’ve seen the demonstration video, based on the Princeton University study of DieBold’s voting machines’ security (or lack thereof). In the video, they show just how easy it is to infect a machine with malicious software which alters the vote counts, & then erases itself, leaving no evidence. In a demo election, Benedict Arnold was able to defeat George Washington, even thought George received more votes.
Here’s a related cartoon I did several months before the last elections:
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posted by Kelly at 10:32 am
If you’re the Bush Administration & things aren’t going as well as you’d like them to in Iraq, do you change strategies? Admit the “surge” might not be working? Confess that the outcome has been disappointing? No, you just stop reporting the bad news, of course!
“As the Bush administration struggles to convince lawmakers that its Iraq war strategy is working, it has stopped reporting to Congress a key quality-of-life indicator in Baghdad: how long the power stays on.
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Baghdad residents could count on only “an hour or two a day” of electricity. That’s down from an average of five to six hours a day earlier this year.”
That’s right after how many years, how many billions in reconstruction, now many no-bid contracts, Baghdad residents get just one or two hours of electricity a day! With summer temperatures well over 110 degrees it’s tough to win over the “hearts & minds” if those “hearts & minds” can’t use their air conditioners.
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posted by Kelly at 11:14 am
Here’s the actual story in the LA Times.
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posted by Kelly at 12:01 am
Caricatures have never been my strong point, but I’m pretty happy with how these turned out. Except, of course, for Fred Thompson–there was just something about his eyes I couldn’t quite capture. I also debated whether or not to place a question mark after 2008 under him, but at this point his candidacy is practically inevitable. If/when he does run, I sure hope he doesn’t win–for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that he’s tough to draw.
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