The lead of Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate narrowed to less than 1.5 percentage points over his conservative rival on Wednesday with results in from almost 88 percent of polling stations in the recount of a fiercely contested election.

It was still to soon to say if Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s lead would hold.

This Reuters article is so biased it’s almost comical. The MSM just can’t quite bring itself to accept the obvious, that Obrador is ahead and will probably win. It just wasn’t supposed to happen this way. All the pundits proclaimed the right wing candidate would triumph. Yet now a populist friend-of-Chavez is poised for victory.

Plus, as Left i on the News points out, it wasn’t a recount at all, considering this count included 2.5-3.5 million votes they forgot to count before.

Update: It’s narrowing, we’ll know soon enough.

[tags]Obrador, Mexico election[/tags]

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Virtually all mainstream media during the initial Mexico vote count cheerily announced Obrador was losing, barely bothering to disguise their bias against him.

They were wrong.

There’s still a long way to go, but Obrador, with 47% of the vote counted, is now 2.7% ahead - quite different from the initial count.

[tags]Mexico election, Obrador[/tags]

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Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators.

Interesting. Let’s hope Yahoo and Amazon join in the fun.

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“There are many irregularities, to say the least, or to say it nicely,” Lopez Obrador warned.

“We are convinced that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won, so if they don’t respect the results there are going to be demonstrations,” said Rodolfo Gutierrez, a member of the Alianza Resplandor indigenous movement.

Reports have conflicting numbers on how many votes weren’t counted, anywhere from 2.5 to 3.5 million. Why weren’t they counted? Are there others?
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The U.S. military is investigating whether the kidnapping, killing and mutilation of two American soldiers was carried out in retaliation for an alleged rape and killing of an Iraqi woman by another member of the same unit three months earlier, a military official said today.

Here’s the appallingly clueless response from an unnamed US official.

“We are trying to find out if this hit on these three soldiers was a retribution for the rape and murder,” said the official. “I cannot fathom the audacity it would take to do such a complex attack. What sort of rage exists in the populace? Are they saying we aren’t going to take this from people who do this to our women?”

Golly, why would anyone want vegeneance if their mother/ wife/ sister/ daughter were raped by degenerates from an invading army? Who could even conceive such a thing could happen? Certainly not the US military…

Where does the military find these emotional cripples, devoid of normal emotion, stupid and uncaring beyond belief, not even capable of understanding why rape might cause people to become angry. Sickening.
[tags]Iraq rapes[/tags]

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I have made it clear in my columns that Bush supporters are not true conservatives. They are brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler’s enthusiastic supporters. And they are just as resistant to facts.

The premeditated rape and murders are just the latest in the long line of horrific war crimes from Abu Ghraib to Haditha. Bush supporters are still in denial about each incident.

America has become a land of evil. The rest of the world hates and despises us. And we are going to pay a terrible price for it. Bush’s belief that our superpower status makes us immune to the opinion of others goes beyond hubris into insanity.

– Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and past Contributing Editor of National Review.

[tags]Iraq war[/tags]

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2.58 million official uncounted votes

Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute said 2.58 million votes weren’t included in the preliminary tally of the nation’s presidential election because of inconsistencies.

3.5 mln votes not counted: Mexico’s left-wing party

More than 3.5 million votes, from some 13,000 polling stations boxes, were ignored by the first count which gave conservative candidate Felipe Calderon the lead in Mexico’s elections, a left-wing party told media on Tuesday.

Obrador may call election protests

As well he should. Question: are the uncounted votes from areas where Obrador was expected to do well? Anyone know?

[tags]Mexico election, Obrador[/tags]

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Cold Sweat [ice cream] is made with three kinds of pepper and two kinds of hot sauce.

Among the first to try Cold Sweat was Justin Smith, 22. He went to the restroom and vomited after a spoonful.

He’s had about five samples since, and wants to go for the record of 14 ounces in a sitting.

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