"Air America Radio's" Al Franken today had a guest who suggested a simple, leagl method for states to elimininate the "Electoral College" from future presidential elelctions. Each state would pass a law which says that they "will use their "electoral-college" votes ONLY to vote for the majority-winner of the national election, and ONLY when ALL states pass similar legislation to do-the-same". This would enable Americans to be assured that their votes would apply to the TRUE majority-winner; and would NOT require a 2/3 vote of a corrupt-Congress to change the Constitution. I encourage all readers to forward this idea to your legislators and political activists. WE CAN'T WAIT UNTIL '08!!! Change begins with YOU & I, and MUST START NOW!!! I also encourage readers to read the "Weekly Alibi" article of March 9-15....@ alibi.com... the interview of Laura Berg; Veteran's Administration Hospital employee, who was INVESTIGATED FOR "SEDITION", for writing a letter critical of George W. Bush! In a similar case, Amy Goodman recently interviewed a woman who had been fired from her job, because her car had an "Air America Radio" sticker. (See "Democracy Now) It is also VERY curious, that the Neo-Cons continue to attack "The Liberal-mainstream-Media".... Yet a recent visit to Albuquerque by Howard Dean and Joe Wilson WAS COMPLETELEY IGNORED BY THE THREE "MAJOR" NETWORK NEWS PROGRAMS!!! They would rather "muck-rake" the '"tabloid" type news about Bill Richardson's appointees... who are being accused of "favoritism" and "improper background-checks"!!! Two highly qualifed appointees, ( Judge Tommy Jewel, and Harry Pavlides) were forced to resign from positions for which they were VERY quailified, and which sorely needed them.... As the result of KRQE's Larry Barker, the local " Geraldo-Rivera-wanna-be". Larry Barker once unleashed his "investigative-team" on the "scandalous" use of Federal-Government-money by the B.L.M. It seems that once a year, they have a "team-building-picnic", to make award-presentations, and to interact with other agency employees who often work in other areas of the state. This "Team-building" event is very important to build human contact and interaction with their peers, who often work from great distances via telephone or e-mail. A few years ago, Larry Barker descended on one of these picnics with his cameraman, microphone-in-hand, to "expose" such a blatant waste of "tax-payer's-money". Where was he, when Dick Cheney travelled to New Mexico, (at Taxpayer's expense) to RAISE MONEY FOR HIS OWN RE-ELECTION??? AND TO ADDRESS A "HAND-PICKED" CONSORTIUM OF HIS OWN "DITTO-HEADS"????(Before the last "election", more than 60% of Cheney's "public-appearances" were NOT about running the country, but WERE about raising money for Republican-Party coffers!! It seems that Larry Barker doesn't "Have the cojones" to seek out REAL corruption in government. It also seems that the "Big-Three" networks prefer to repeat the "party Talking-points" & the latest "body-count" from local murders and traffic-accidents, and gloss-over any "in-depth" issues. Where is the REAL news??? Every night, the local news is NOTHING more than the latest stories about some "Meth-head" killing someone, and how many people died in the latest car-crash!! Where is the "in-depth" investigation of the Laura Berg "sedition" story?? It often seems that New Mexico, being an integral part of the "Military-Industrial-Complex", is too-blind, or too-afraid of examining the "TRUTH"!!!! After all, tens-of-thousands of New Mexico jobs are directly and indirectly supported by the deficit-spending and illegal military actions of this administration!!
- posted by Dave @ 1:23 PM