From our Friend Terry at:
Visions of Peace: A Combat Vet's Dream at http://visopeace.blogspot.com/
Monday, September 15

It's now clear the jackals of Bush and Co. are going to raid the
treasury before the end of the nightmarish eight years. Freddie Mac,
Fannie Mae, Lehman, AIG and all the big financial leeches of the Wall
Street gang are lining up with hands out to get the welfare of the
American government.

McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/52174.html

Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008
By Nicholas Spangler and Sahar Issa | McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers returned from their summer recess Tuesday, still gridlocked over the critical law on provincial elections and with no new vote in sight.

A premature vote, warned Ali Adib, of the ruling Dawaa Party, could lead to another veto by the Kurdish leadership. "It means we'll go into crisis and the positions of the blocs will freeze and get more and more complicated," he said.

Elections in Iraq's 18 provinces are seen as crucial for national reconciliation and safeguarding the security gains of recent months. They would be the country's first since 2005 and would enfranchise many Sunnis who boycotted that round.

But the status of oil-rich, ethnically mixed northern region of Kirkuk has proven contentious. Kurds currently dominate Kirkuk's political leadership and administration, and a Kurdish victory there in provincial elections could be a step toward that region's annexation by the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

truthout
http://www.truthout.org/article/nearly-600000-voters-subject-possible-caging-ohio

Friday 05 September 2008
by: David Rosenfeld, Miller-McCune

  How many voter-registration mass mailers are "returned to sender" in the run-up to Election Day may determine how many Ohio residents are eligible to vote.

    Ohio election officials are sending out a mass mailer stamped "do not forward" to all registered voters today (Sept. 5) with an absentee ballot application and other important notices for Nov. 4.

    What's important here is not so much what's going out as what's being returned to sender.

    Unbeknownst to the would-be recipients, the same mailer - just 60 days before the election - has the potential to determine their eligibility to vote, challenged not by election officials but by partisan opposition.

truthout
SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2008
http://www.truthout.org/article/wisconsin-gop-trying-disenfranchise-voters

Friday 12 September 2008
by: Steven Elbow, The Capital Times

     A lawsuit filed by the state attorney general Wednesday has the potential to slow down voting lines in what promises to be a staggering turnout for the Nov. 4 election, local voting officials said.

From the Web site: Women Against Sarah Palin
On Wednesday, September 3, we sent out an email to 40 friends and colleagues asking them to respond to Sarah Palin’s candidacy as Vice President of the United States. They forwarded the letter to their friends across America. To date, we have received more than 120,000 responses from women of all ages and backgrounds. Below are their voices
http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Women say NO - Part 1
 
Sarah Palin’s mocking, sarcastic speech at the Republican National Convention made me very nervous about having her at a table with world leaders. The thought of her representing our country among sophisticated, diplomatic, global thinkers scares me. Not to mention that on every issue that is close to my heart—education and choice for girls and women, the environment, guns, censorship and religious freedom—she is a polar opposite. Do the Republicans think that American women are so stupid that we will support any woman on the ticket just because she is a woman? I feel belittled by her selection and appalled by the candidate.
—Sophie O., 42, Burlingame, CA