Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes

An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365.

I wonder how many more machines had the same glitch.

We're All Really Really Sorry.

3 British troops killed in Iraq

Three British soldiers sent to provide cover for U.S. troops in Iraq and a civilian translator have been killed in an attack, according to the government.

Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram announced the news to the House of Commons on Thursday.

The three were among the 850 Black Watch Regiment members deployed from Basra to south of Baghdad, a move made to free up U.S. Marines planning operations against militants in Falluja and other cities.

The defense ministry said Thursday's attack also injured several others -- thought to number eight, but the figure has not been confirmed. The translator is believed to have been an Iraqi national.

I Don't Believe This....
I'm listening to Bush talk to the press after meeting with his cabinet. I don't believe this idiot was re-elected. It's just unbelievable.

In response to the Israel-Palestine issue, he said he had a plan for middle east peace from the beginning of his term and then goes on to say that he laid out his plan in March 2002 after ignoring it for 2 years. He still says that Iraq was a direct threat to the US. He still wants to spread "freedom" in the world.

News Flash: US troops in Iraq are there by Allawi Invitation [Dabya].

Lions Understand English...
Stupid Man: [After leaping into the den] Jesus will save you! Come bite me!
Lion: OK!

A man leaped into a lion's den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts.
"Jesus will save you!" the 46-year-old man shouted at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away.

"Come bite me!" he said with both hands raised, television footage showed.

One of the lions, a large male with a shaggy mane, bit the man in his right leg before zoo workers drove it off with water hoses and tranquilizer guns.

Newspapers said that the lions had been fed earlier in the day, otherwise the man might have been more seriously hurt ... or worse.

Dumbass! Apparently, lions need saving also. Ironically, this guy was saved by zoo workers.
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Since The Elections are Over and US Casualties Won't Matter...
Five die as U.S. pounds Falluja

U.S. planes and tanks have bombarded Falluja overnight, killing five people and increasing pressure on Iraq's most rebellious city, which is braced for an all-out offensive now that the U.S. presidential poll is over.

The U.S. military said on Thursday two air raids after midnight destroyed "fighting barricades" prepared by insurgents in the northeast and southeast of the Sunni Muslim city.

News That Doesn't Matter
Soldiers Describe Looting of Explosives

In the weeks after the fall of Baghdad, Iraqi looters loaded powerful explosives into pickup trucks and drove the material away from the Al Qaqaa ammunition site, according to a group of U.S. Army reservists and National Guardsmen who said they witnessed the looting.

The soldiers said about a dozen U.S. troops guarding the sprawling facility could not prevent the theft because they were outnumbered by looters. Soldiers with one unit — the 317th Support Center based in Wiesbaden, Germany — said they sent a message to commanders in Baghdad requesting help to secure the site but received no reply.

The witnesses' accounts of the looting, the first provided by U.S. soldiers, support claims that the American military failed to safeguard the munitions. Last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency — the U.N. nuclear watchdog — and the interim Iraqi government reported that about 380 tons of high-grade explosives had been taken from the Al Qaqaa facility after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003. The explosives are powerful enough to detonate a nuclear weapon.

Nuf Said!

It's a Sad Sad Day...
Bush camp is claiming victory but there are still provisional ballots to be counted in many closely contested states.