This is great, e-bird (and brad.)

Where is/was she on?

Her tone was both indignant and astonished, that the American people are sleep walking through the greatest assault on their democracy. Although I never saw much of Crier on CNN, I've read that she was put out by the entire Clinton impeachment. Crier was a judge at one time, knows Texas politics, and holds the Constitution in high regard. That would make her a friend indeed.

Thank you so much for catching this.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.--J. V. Marley 

My kind of lady!

What a wonderful piece.

Was this seen widely I wonder? It should be -- I may do some emailing. We'll see more and more of this....I promise you. More and more.

Thanks so much for posting this e-b!

... and to Brad, too. Excellent. Ms. Crier is easy on the eyes to beat!

" Repetion does not transform a lie into a truth." FDR

At last this gets into the MSM. "Banana Republic" is not an exaggeration, it's what goes around coming around. The Republicans pretended for so many decades that rightwing thugs were "Democratic Forces" that their chickens have come home to roost. Except that these chickens are going to fry and eat us, not the other way around.

Does anyone really think Bush will catch bin Ladin?
http://impoliticallycorrect.blogspot.com/

www.rawstory.com  Lopez Obrador Files ChallengesLawyers for the leftist candidate in Mexico's presidential election seek a complete recount.

By Richard Boudreaux and Carlos Martinez
Times Staff Writers

July 10, 2006

MEXICO CITY — Lawyers for leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Sunday turned in documented allegations of irregularities that they said cost him the July 2 presidential election, and a senior aide warned that Mexico faces an "insurrection" unless all 41 million ballots are recounted.

The warning by Gerardo Fernandez Noroña, the campaign's chief spokesman, was the most explicit high-level threat that the challenger's struggle to overturn his razor-thin defeat could erupt in civil disobedience and violence.

Lopez Obrador lost by 244,000 votes in the official tally, an average of less than two votes per polling place. His demand for a recount has been resisted by election officials and the apparent winner, Felipe Calderon of the ruling National Action Party, or PAN.

Fernandez said that if the seven-judge Federal Electoral Tribunal upheld the result without a full recount and allowed Calderon to take office, "we are not going to let him govern." He spoke to reporters outside an election district office where Horacio Duarte, the chief lawyer, delivered the documentation half an hour before a midnight deadline.

"The other road is insurrection," Fernandez said. "If the judges decide not [to recount each vote] we all have a problem — they, we and the country…. What has to be done to avoid this confrontation? Count the votes one by one … and if we lose, we will respect the result absolutely."

The legal challenge came a day after Lopez Obrador summoned 250,000 supporters to Mexico City's central square, the first of a round of marches and rallies in support of a recount. He urged them to remain peaceful, but has so far declined to say whether the street protests would continue if he lost the legal battle.

By submitting 836 pages of documents, Lopez Obrador's team of 30 lawyers set in motion legal steps that could take as long as two months to complete.

The lawyers presented their main set of documents to a Mexico City district office of the Federal Electoral Institute, which organized the election and counted the votes. Fernandez said officials of Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party filed separate challenges at each of the institute's 299 other offices.

By law, the electoral body must send the complaints, along with its own official vote counts, to the tribunal.

That body, the country's highest electoral authority, will then assign one of its judges to examine the case and draft an opinion for consideration by the entire bench.

The judges have an Aug. 31 deadline to rule on the case and another week to take whatever steps they decide are necessary, including a recount, to determine who won the election.

The fight over a recount has strained Mexico's democratic institutions just six years after PAN candidate Vicente Fox's election as president ended decades of one-party rule.

The task of reviewing this year's race is uncharted territory for the tribunal, which was chosen by the Senate in 1996 from a consensus list of all three major parties that ran in last week's election. 

Set clocks ahead - things like the others - others back - things not the same - dictionary index - pedal powered wheel chairs - Camp Pain call Jason did you get out yet? Green Tortoise see you soon your friends at the Times -

crierlive@ courttv.com

 Thanking C. Crier

For Being Champion for Democracy... and sent her the

Importance of 2006 ......

 She deserves our thanks