Doonesbury Say What?

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone."
--McCain adviser on Sarah Palin, to CNN

"Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic."
--McCain source with direct knowledge of the process to brief Sarah Palin

West Virginia vote flipping caught on tape!

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And for more vote-flipping news...

More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes
In six cases, Democratic votes flipped to GOP
http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180251

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/27/1421226

When are people going to get rid of these damn machines? They are dishonest now, and we all know that in the future they're going to start talking to each other, eventually taking over all of the satellites and forming a cybernetic intelligence that will destroy humanity, requiring the Governor of California to come back in time to save us?

Is NASA's next rocket, the one that'll return us to the Moon and go to Mars, doomed?

Kinda sounds like it. Among the problems: it might shake the occupants to death, it could easily veer into the launch tower, and it might be too heavy to fly with the capsule. So what's the solutions? One was to relax the rule that all systems must be triple-redundant.

Respected engineers have quit the project in protest of the compromises.

Sounds like they need to scrap it and pursue other designs.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-ares2608oct26,0,561055.story