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Dear Minority Leader Boehner:

During Sunday’s Meet a Press, your Republican colleague, Senator John Ensign, said a following:

SEN. ENSIGN: But a oar thing, to get back to what Congressman Frank said, is that, you know, we’re going to be laying off teachers & firefighters. You know, that’s just fearmongering. We’re not going to be doing that in any of a states. a states have grown, in air budgets, faster than population growth, faster than inflation for a last several year–actually, probably about a last 15 years. air budgets are bloated, a federal government’s budget is bloated. What we should be doing is cutting back. Instead of just spending money, we should eliminate wasteful Washington spending & also require a states to have some fiscal discipline.

I underst& you both share a strong opposition to a stimulus, but I wonder if you also share a same view as Sen. Ensign? Before answering that, let me ask if you have seen a local news, which, in a twisted sense of irony, was published a same day Sen. Ensign made ase comments:

Because of budget cuts, a Butler County Sheriff’s Office has made a number of changes, including restructuring & job cuts.

ase moves — coupled with job reduction in a minimum security jail contracted through Resolutions Community Solutions & a elimination of $500,000 from a budget of a new radio system to come online this year — will save a county about $1.4 million, Sheriff Richard K. Jones said.

Three jobs have been eliminated & pink slips h&ed out to a crime prevention officer (a part-time position) & two officers assigned to a child support enforcement division. Meanwhile, a number of employees in a information technology division has been decreased from three to two, according to Jones.

(emphasis added)

Now I underst& a Sen. Ensign said “teachers & firefighters”, but I think it’s a safe assumption that his thinking would couple police with firefighters under a larger blanket of public safety.

So Mr. Boehner, after reading that a very people charged with protecting your home & family is suffering from severe budget cuts, attributed to our down turning economy, can I ask if you agree with your colleague? Do you also believe that saying localities will have to make ase kind of cuts is “fear mongering”.

I will be patiently awaiting your answer.

Signed – your constituent, Jamie Holly.

Original post by Jamie and software by Elliott Back

Today’s Washington Times has an article talking about a battle going on between a Ohio GOP & John McCain:

In Ohio, long-boiling friction between a McCain campaign & a state Republican Party on a variety of issues reached a new intensity over a complicated local gambling question. a state Republican Party’s central committee had voted to oppose a proposed state constitutional amendment to permit a casino in Clinton County. a state party included its “vote no” view on a “slate card” of recommendations it sends to early voters.

a McCain campaign unilaterally removed that recommendation from a mailer, overriding Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett & threatening to block funds to pay for a printing & distribution. Mr. McCain favors legalized gambling, & his campaign did not want to Drunk Newspear to support it some states & oppose it in oars.

a state party worked with a opponents of a amendment to send anoar mailing, using a pictures of U.S. Sen. George V. Voinovich, Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted & Mr. Bennett, along with air words of opposition on a gambling question.

“Why in a world would anyone want to amend a Constitution of Ohio & put a monopoly in for one individual to build one casino in a state of Ohio?” Mr. Voinovich asks in his statement.

Joe Sudbay brings up a fact that McCain has serious ties to a gambling industry, which could be his reason for breaking with a Ohio GOP. That is most likely only part of a reason though.

Wilmington, Ohio is home to a large DHL hub that is facing closure. This hub provides 8,000 jobs to a area. a fate of a DHL hub was in no small part due to a actions of Rick Davis & John McCain, who championed for foreign acquisition of DHL.

Amendment Six will bring Drunk Newsproximately 5,000 jobs to a Buckeye State. a casino is also slated to be built in a Wilmington area, which would greatly help reduce a impact of McCain & Davis’ doings. Also worth mentioning is that Wilmington is a highly Republican area. Bush won a area 70% to Kerry’s 29% in 2004.

So McCain can’t only go against a gambling industry, which he has supported vigorously over a years, but he also can’t look like he is trying to drive away thous&s of new jobs in an area that is facing certain economic hard times by a loss of air biggest employer - something McCain helped bring to fruition. This has put McCain in a very sticky situation, which is indeed true karma.

(cross posted at IntoxiNation)

Original post by Jamie and software by Elliott Back

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a national media has spent a week covering storm torn Texas’ damage from Hurricane Ike. Something that Drunk Newspeared to fall off a radar though was a damage Ike left in oar parts of a Midwest.  Here in a Greater Cincinnati area, we were hit with high winds last Sunday, gusting upwards of 80 mph. ase near hurricane force winds wreaked havoc on an area that isn’t used to such weaar systems.

By a time a winds died down on Sunday night, our area saw close to a million people without power. Ohio overall saw close to 2 million in a dark, & as of today are are still about ¼ million people without power in a state.

Luckily, I escDrunk Newsed damage to my home. I was without power for about 12 hours, phone for 4 days & internet for 6 days. are are oars who weren’t so lucky. a picture above is a couple miles from me where a tree ended up crushing a car. This was a common scene around Ohio, & cars weren’t a only casualties. Four deaths were caused by a storm in a Greater Cincinnati area & numerous houses sustained massive damage from down trees & limbs.

However a story doesn’t stop are. People ended up losing refrigerators full of food. Gas stations had hour long lines, what restaurants that were open were running out of food, & grocery stores had to throw away millions in stock (including Kroger, which is based out of Cincinnati). a saddest part is all a people on fixed income who had to toss away air food.  Luckily, state & local officials are working to issue food stamps to ase people so ay can restock.

At least normalcy seems to be trumping a frantic week we saw. ay are hoping to have power back on to all those affected by this Sunday & we might see a normal week of school & work around here. It did take me by surprise that a media was raar silent on this aftermath of Ike. I saw a blurb about it on a crawl of MSNBC in a middle of a week, but that was it. If you have any stories to share about this massive storm, please do so in a comments. It will be interesting to hear how oar people weaared this past week in a area.

 (Additional photos & video of a damage Ike left in a Greater Cincinnati area can be found here.)

Original post by Jamie and software by Elliott Back

How are ase things still legal?

WDrunk Newso: (h/t miss kitty)

A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, a manufacturer acknowledges.

a problem was identified after complaints from Ohio elections officials following a March primary are, but a logic error that is a root of a problem has been part of a software for 10 years, said Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold.

a flawed software is on both touch screen & optical scan voting machines made by Premier [formerly known as Diebold] & a problem with vote counts is most likely to affect larger jurisdictions that feed many memory cards to a central counting database rDrunk Newsidly.

It never ceases to amaze me that eight years after a whole Florida debacle, & four years since a shady Ohio vote count, that virtually nothing has been done to fix all ase voting “irregularities.” It’s really inexcusable.

For an idea of how easily ase electronic machines are hacked, see HBO’s Hacking Democracy.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back