Photo ID and Voter Fraud

I voted in yesterdays primary.

I directly observed three white males by pass the photo ID check.

As far as I can tell, these men were not forced to use the provisional ballot.

And if their ballots were provisional in anyway, these men were not informed.

Two of the men stood in line ahead of me. One stood behind me in the line.

I could see their 'paperwork' on the table. I observed at least two or more poll workers allow this violation of election law.

I have contacted Karen Handel via the online contact form at the Secretary of State website.

While these men were allowed to bypass the photo ID requirement, a woman was taken out of line to the table marked "Provisional Ballot."

Allowing 'men' to vote without ID seemed to be the norm as I could see three stacks of paperwork on the table where the plastic voting cards were being passed out.

One entire stack had no markings to indicate a photo ID had been presented or checked. Nor, were these papers signed by the poll worker checking IDs.

ID's were checked at a separate station where the poll worker signed the paperwork, noting which form of ID was presented and checked.

I expect Karen Handel to blow off my allegations.

Comments?

Bio-diesel industry dying in Georgia

"Do you want to pay twice for your gasoline? Once in taxes and once at the pump?"

I've never been a fan of growing food, harvesting the food, and then making food into gasoline or diesel. However, the bio-diesel idea caught on in Georgia a couple of years ago with huge promises from Sonny Perdue. Perdue more or less promised we could be free of foreign oil if the taxpayers would invest enough money in bio-fuels.

So Perdue put your tax dollars to work.

It didn't work.

There are and there always have been too many 'ifs' in the bio-fuels industry. The biggest 'if' being if the taxpayer invests enough money in privately owned companies.

In the attached story, the "bio-fuel" spokes-people complain about not being able to compete in the market place. Without taxpayer money, the market place and competition will 'drive' bio-fuel prices so high that the companies can't make enough profit.

Perdue has profited from a "one of a kind" tax break himself. He's given huge tax breaks already to bio-fuel companies and plants. Now, the bio-fuel companies are asking for more corporate welfare from the taxpayer.

So I have to ask.

"Do you want to pay twice for your gasoline? Once in taxes and once at the pump?"

Story from the Macon Telegraph.

Southern Company makes more money in the drought

On January the 24, I blogged about the drought in Georgia. Georgia is enduring one of the worst droughts in its history.

Yet, Lake Lanier wasn't used as a holding tank for drinking water.

As I stated on the 24th, in my opinion, Lake Lanier was drained to provide cooling water to the Joesph M. Farley Nuclear Plant on the Chattahoochee River just east of Dothan, Alabama.

As noted in the April 23, 1998 Federal Register, Farley evaporates 18,093 gallons per minute of the water it draws from the Chattahoochee. Farley draws 90,000 gallons per minute from the Chattahoochee. [Those are old figures but the only public figures that I can verify. Farley now operates at a higher level of production, in my humble opinion. However, I cannot complete the calculations to support that conclusion. I cannot convert megawatts thermo to megawatts electricity.]

That means over 20 percent of the free water taken from the Chattahoochee River is lost to the atmosphere. The remaining water is sent back to the river at a temperature of at least 96 degrees.

This information can be verified online at the EPA website, here.

The Southern Company reported a profit increase for 2007 of nearly 10 percent while only increasing its customer base by only 1 percent.

That increase in profit came from Lake Lanier at the expense of jobs, business, and local government.

Thanks, Sonny, Casey, and the Southern Company.

Kneel before the greatest modern god, The Market!

I doubt I will ever understand this series of events. A brand new trader, sometimes called a 'junior trader,' buys 'stocks' with 50 billion in non-existent euros.

Someone needs to answer some questions. Why didn't the bank have the police present when questioning this employee? How did this employee manage to avoid the police and hide for several days?

I'm thinking the bank tipped him off and gave him time to get his story together.

As the information slowly leaks out on this 'inside the bank' fraud, it seems less and less likely that anyone obeys the Great and Powerful Market, god of all things profitable.

I don't think the bank should have been saved. The government should have put it down like an old dog.

Now the 'police' and the 'courts' are after some sacrificial blood. If one brand new 'junior' trader generated over 1.4 billion euro in profit in one calender year, then telling me that no one in management knew about the insider fraud is bullshit.

His boss knew. And, was counting his bonus along with everyone in the department all the way up the chain to CEO and the Board.

From the limited information in the news stories, the fraud would have continued as long as the bank was making money and the market going up. The market should have kept going up with one bank trader printing money. That's his crime, isn't it? Using a computer to print money. Money which he then invested for the bank. A bank that made 1.4 billion euros from the counterfeit money?

But, again, why didn't the government let the market take down the bank, the managers, and the criminals?

"Live by the market, Die by the market."

But, those risk taking entrepreneurs keep the Market Temple closed to the government when business is good. When business is bad, even on a Sunday afternoon, the risk taking and risk rewarded capitalist runs to his friendly local politician to beg forgiveness.

"Thou shall have no false gods."

The government should have let the market sort this out. The market created the problem.

But, then, I've never understood worshiping money or the people with all the money.

Perdue, Cagle, Big Business, and the drought.

Big news today for consumers.

If we have a severe drought, nuclear power plants maybe forced to shut down!

Already, the drought affecting metro Atlanta and North Georgia has forced a shut down in Alabama this summer.

"Water is the nuclear industry's Achilles' heel," said Jim Warren, executive director of N.C. Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, an environmental group critical of nuclear power. "You need a lot of water to operate nuclear plants." He added: "This is becoming a crisis."

An Associated Press analysis of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors found that 24 are in areas experiencing the most severe levels of drought. All but two are built on the shores of lakes and rivers and rely on submerged intake pipes to draw billions of gallons of water for use in cooling and condensing steam after it has turned the plants' turbines.

Extending or lowering the intake pipes is not as simple at it sounds and wouldn't necessarily solve the problem. The pipes are usually made of concrete, can be up to 18 feet in diameter and can extend up to a mile. Modifications to the pipes and pump systems, and their required backups, can cost millions and take several months. If the changes are extensive, they require an NRC review that itself can take months or longer.

Doesn't sound like fun, building more nuclear reactors with water intake pipes 18 feet in diameter.

We should be wondering if the missing water from Lake Lanier went to a utility company to cool a nuclear reactor.

That would be the Joesph M. Farley Nuclear Plant on the Chattahoochee River just east of Dothan, Alabama.

In reality, our water is being used to make a specific corporation wealthy.

Cagle knows it.
Sonny Perdue knows it.
And they lie about the water being used for 'mussels.'

Both Cagle and Perdue take campaign contributions from ... power companies, don't they?