Ding Ding Ding

The registration deadline for the general election has now passed. I know we would have all liked to have done more, or turned more in, but it looks like we did pretty damn well as it was. The World reported that Tulsa County received nearly 7000 registrations last week. This is not counting yesterday, when they were also very busy, and is also not counting the mailed in applications they will be getting over the next couple of days. Great job everyone!

Notice in the comments at the bottom of that article how the Reps are already whining that all of these registrations are fraudulent. Expect much more of this to come. The thought of hordes of usually-silent poor people actually voting has them scared out of their minds.

Dumpster Diving
Today being Saturday, let's see what was placed in the Friday news dump.
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Oooh. Look at this...



AP:

After a lengthy investigation lawmakers in Alaska have concluded that Governor Sarah Palin did in fact abuse her authority when she fired the state's Public Safety Commissoner

Palin turns out to be not just ethically-challenged, but reality-challenged as well. From CNN:

"If you read the report, you will see that there was nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member," Palin said.
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Palin violated state ethics law by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator's report for the bipartisan Legislative Council concluded Friday.

The funny thing is that the Republicans knew this investigation was coming when they nominated her. I guess after eight years of Cheney they felt like the position of VP requires someone ethically-challenged. Still it does say good things for them that they had to go clear to Alaska to find someone with the requisite lack of scruples for the job.