That's it. Rest in peace.

As a European I feel obligated to reply to Jerome's recent 2 posts. I'm Swiss and my country is not part of the EU, so I guess I can be considered to have a 'neutral stance'. Yeah pun intendend.

I'm pro EU and hope my country once will join 'the club', but this does not prevent me from having a critical view on both the current 'European' and American leadership. Being surrounded by 3 big European countries, and as a bilingual speaker, I consider myself to have at least some insight into France, Germany and Italy. This is not about America vs. Europe. This is about the hypocrisy of the west in general.

Yesterday, Bush participated in an overlooked interview with the New York Post. And in my oppinion, some of the remarks uttered by our beloved president are explosive.

UPDATE I: ACLU released the documents. Read them here.

UPDATE II: NYT and WaPo don't have the balls...

... according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll

Guys, this is unbelievably sick. My stomach is turning around at this very moment...

Read the google-ized version here.

undermine, delegitimize, minimize. Nice wording there :) As other posters have pointed out, there's really nothing in the article supporting Cobb's harsh remarks other than Kerry's 'hesitation' to join the battle.

Yeah, a prison inside a prison... kinda kafkaesk, ehhh?

According to the newspaper, al Zarqawi told one of his companions, before the US attack in Fallujah that there will be  "a huge event", about which the whole world would talk more "than september 11th" .

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush turned to his most trusted foreign policy adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to lead U.S. diplomacy during his second term, replacing Secretary of State Colin Powell, who often was out of step with more hawkish members of the administration's national security team.

A senior administration official said Bush on Tuesday would nominate Rice, another move in a significant Cabinet shuffle that has included the exit not only of Powell, the administration's most prominent moderate, but also the resignation of Attorney General John Ashcroft, one of the administration's most outspoken conservatives."

I hope it'll clear things up, because there were many confused questions floating around the differeent boards.

I below post the 'most important' questions imho:

• What's the timeline?
• Who does the recount?
  
• How does it work?
  
• Is a hand recount possible for touch-screen voting?

Original Content is here.

From Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell has told his colleagues he is resigning and the White House is expected to make the announcement on Monday, a U.S. official said.

[Edit 1]: Maybe you misjudge him. I think he tried to alter the course several times, and was overruled. Probably he believed that being a secretary would still give him more possibilities to do something good than leaving the administration. He was one of the only secretaries of this world to visit Karthoum, securing an agreement from the government to halt the violence. Do you really think this was Bush's idea?

Yes, I indeed believe he's reasonable and decent.

[Edit 2]: Reuters reports that U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has told President Bush that he plans to resign but will stay on until a successor is in place.

[Edit 3]: Agriculture Secretary Ann Venneman & Education Secretary Rod Paige are also out. Wonder when it will hit Rummie.

Iraq's deputy prime minister Barham Salih stated for the first time ever, that the elections could be postponed because of the country's violent insurgency.

Guardian online paraphrased him, stating that 'he admitted they would have to assess the security situation nearer the time'.

"Deputy Chief Resigns From CIA
Agency Is Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss

By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 13, 2004; Page A01

The deputy director of the CIA resigned yesterday after a series of confrontations over the past week between senior operations officials and CIA Director Porter J. Goss's new chief of staff that have left the agency in turmoil, according to several current and former CIA officials.

John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said."

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/11/10/voting/index_np.html

"Was the election stolen?
The system is clearly broken. But there is no evidence that Bush won because of voter fraud.

Nov. 10, 2004  |  Did John Kerry actually win the presidency? If you've spent any time online this week, you've no doubt heard this argument: The election was stolen. Corrupt officials, rigged voting machines, a sleepy media and a Democratic Party that's been less than fully aggressive in its efforts to counter Republican dirty tricks came together to subvert the true will of the people."

There are 2 Absentee Rows with ALMOST the same results (Badnarik and Bush got 1 Vote more in the ABSENTEE 2 row than in ABSENTEE 1 row; REP TO CONGR. race is not listed anymore in ABSENTEE 2 row). Now I calculated all results with Mathematica and ABSENTEE 1 AND ABSENTEE 2 are indeed added to the district's result, thus forming the final result posted by the Board of Elections. These are NOT machine recounts therefore. (This means that Badnarik and Bush got one vote for free).