The BRAD BLOG is four years old today! Though it feels like 40 for some reason.
If you’re in the mood to leave us a much-needed birthday gift, we’ll happily and gratefully accept it right here.
If you’re in the mood to really make this year “count”, please consider creating an automatic monthly support subscription of any $ amount you wish. It’ll take you about 60 seconds. See the blue form on the right side of this page to set it up quickly.
We’ll send a gift (we’ve got a number of cool premiums we’ll contact you about) to anyone who signs up for $10 or more per month.
NOTE: I’ll be “celebrating” by driving back up to Northern California for the bulk of the day, to speak this weekend at an alternative media conference in Santa Cruz. So I’ll be “off the grid” until later tonight. If you’re near Santa Cruz, please come on by if you can! There will be a bunch of great folks there, including (ironically enough) a panel I’ll be speaking on Friday night, along with Elizabeth Kucinich and Elizabeth de la Vega (author of The U.S. v. George W. Bush
Since 6 or 7 are 4 we have shown the MSM that it is a voodoo news realm and we are the blog.
Good 4 us bradblog … the truth never gets old here!
Congrats Brad.
Don’t get too excited. This means next year we have to start school.
Hey 99, that’s kinder garden!
Dredd, what were your Kodiak years?
Yeah, kindergarten is where kids are lulled into thinking school is going to be fun!
Dredd’s Kodiak years were back when he was being held hostage in a brown bear’s lair.
Dredd, I’m ’81-’98. Anyways, great knowing you both.
Brad, you’re a patriot and a right (left?) bastard! Happy birthday from a long-time reader!
Now, now 99, I have a teaching cert. and kinder garten was founded on a great premise, just like this country, but alas things have gone wrong. Imagine that!
Happy Birthday Bradblog!!!!
Okay, enough chit chat, sorry. Brad you are undoubedly THE BEST!
Hummm… 4 years old . . . . . Must be dog years . . . Happy Birthday!
… JUDGE OF JUDGES said…
“Hummm… 4 years old . . . . . Must be dog years . . . Happy Birthday!”
Nope… must be cat ears…
“Happy Birthday!”
And may Brad and his Blog have many more!
BBx4!
Thanks Brad and all the BB contributors for fine bein’ humans…honored that you are fellow citizens.
In Colorado the dem Governor Ritter stood by the side of the slim-margin dem loser for Secretary of State (Gordon, who is still uber state senator) and announced paper at precincts for our state voting method.
Which pissed-off Coffman (scandal-plagued GOPer who “won” as Secretary of State, and who tried to steer CO to only Diebold/Premier equipment), most of the County Clerks (who now seem only to hold secret meetings and pray for mail), and the equipment vendors.
Bold leadership? Political payback? No other choices?
Still, even though the state dems co-opted the issues of a movement started years ago by a handful of damned-dedicated election activists, our efforts may have had something to do with it.
Happy Birthday…
yupiee! kindergarten. Happy birthday!
Give that man a Pulitzer already!
Attlatl: Hadn’t heard about Ritter’s decision, but as a CO voter, I’m thrilled – tried to vote on paper in ’06 but got the provisional ballot BS – it was either touch screen or my vote didn’t count.
Here’s what the AP/9News article said about the plan that SOS Coffman backs:
“…people who have moved frequently, don’t have a permanent address and haven’t voted by mail before could be left out a mail election.
“This burden will fall hardest on minority, low-income and young voters. ”
Another GOP vote suppression tactic.
No bill has yet passed to make the new paper-based voting law, but one is expected in several days – something to watch closely.
Thanks for the tip.
Happy Birthday to the Bad Blog! OOPS! I mean the Brad Blog! The “r” button on my keyboard gets stuck sometimes……sorry………
Ancient #3,#5; Agent 99 #4
Two Kodiak stints. In ’69-70 and later in the 80’s.
I lived on the Trinity (3-masted schooner type) in the harbor in ’69-70.
In the 80’s I worked for a muti-faceted corporation (offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Prudhoe) that was renovating the crab-scrap processing plant and updating it to produce fertilizer (and smell better).
Undoubtedly this is the best blog around. Happy to have been here since almost the beginning.
Peace
SR
Agent 99 #2
Maybe we could go to school with lil’ Bush, lil’ Condie, a lil’ rummy, and lil’ dick?
Crooks and Liar getting flak for not covering election fraud. So, they put up an article saying N.H. recount over. Everything is fine. I wrote a comment”Don’t put up lies , if you don’t want to be thought of as a gate keeper.” Censored again. So…it is intentional.
Dredd, did you know the folks that lived on the Rhino?
Congratulations, Brad.
Your place was the first one I found when I ventured online in November ’04 when I knew instictually that the election had been stolen. You, Winter Patriot, and all the great members back then set me off in a new direction and helped to change my life and become more active in election fraud issues, and especially anti-war protest. I still regret not having met you in Crawford.
Peace
Supersoling, great to hear from you!
Great site, this is my first visit here. I will come back soon again.
And Happy Birthday too!!!
czaragorn,
great to see you too :o) I have nothing but good feelings for that time, with you, Dredd, Cheryl, WP, Free Bird, sheesh…so many.
Take care
Happy Birthday, BB……and best wishes to the best blog on the net.
Did ya make a wish when ya blew out the candles on the cake …. :o)
My wish for you is, that this is the year when all your hard work comes to fruition, the house of cards finally tumbles, and ITMFA becomes reality and ceases to be a collection of caps on a blog post.
BRADBLOG is THE best… !!
Happy Birthday Brad and congratulations! Some posted the documentary “UNCOUNTED” on Google today so I thought I would bring it to your attention, here’s the link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6087391125847609552&q=documentary+site%3Avideo.google.com+duration%3Along&total=4150&start=0&num=100&so=1&type=search&plindex=9
Spankings! You know the drill…drop them britches.
My first visit was at this point, where you show the American Center for Voting Rights “address”. (3/24/2005) Your soldiers on the ground found it…
https://bradblog.com/Images/AC4VR_299.jpg
I am now an addict and don’t know how to get off here! HELP!
Congratulations Brad!
Blog on and hopefully one day/year you can get back to your “normal” life. Bless you.
Simply the best , better than all the rest …
I meant to add the blog of that day…
https://bradblog.com/?p=1283
(What am I doing wrong when I click on link and paste the address in, it does not show in preview???
I should have added Brad’s comment. It’s 🙂
“While there may be some small-minded folks working these days for GOP front groups, we suspect this choice for a home office would be entirely too cramped even for the tiniest of professional Republican disinformation operatives.”
Now I am curious as to who the intrepid photographer was.
Ancient #21
I don’t even know how many relatives I know 😉 … but I played pool all the time at Cy’s pool hall.
Happy Birthday BradBlog… I too found you after the 2004 debacle, It makes me sick to my stomach that the same things are still going on with our elections. Thank You for all your Stellar work on behalf of Our Country! You are a HERO in my eyes. I just hope in the years to come we can win this war against the CORRUPTION of this government!
GWN #30
This reminds me of Sherry, Pat et. al. giving me mucho shit because I would not tell them how I did stuff they wanted to do back then. 🙂 !!!
There are so many wonderful bloggers in my bradblog memory. Supersoling … so damn good to see you.
Anyway GWN, delete the double quotes (“”) around the “http://www.url.org” so that it becomes http://www.url.org after it is placed into the comment window by the link pop-up.
I LOVE BRAD AND BRADBLOGGERS !!!! We are the true semper fi! All 6 or 7 and especially 6 of 7 … resistance is futile.
Cristina #24
Welcome darling. We are harmless to life and other living things 😉 … but the death-miesters dread us. 🙂 … stick around … you will give us wisdom and we will give you wisdom …
Laura #33
Luv ya!
Congrats on the long and productive run, Brad! I discovered your site during the ruckus generated by the June 2006 Rolling Stone piece by RFKJr about the 2004 election. You tirelessly go where no corporate-sucking mainstream news source dares to go, for fear of being called unpatriotic by the magnetic car bumpersticker crowd. You and the others like Bev Harris, keep up the good work.
Brad,
You’ve made something wonderful here and thank you.
Dredd #36 Right back at you, I do so love your posts. To all the Great Bradbloggers I wish us all a very Happy Birthday! I know my day wouldn’t be complete w/o a drop by to Brad’s place. Well I’ll be working the polls again this Super Duper Tuesday, All I can say is I hope it goes better here in Illinois then in New Hampshire! Since Dennis dropped out I don’t much feel like voting for any of the CORPORATE whores!
[Sound cue: The Beatles White Album — uh, CD — track 18 “Birthday”]
“You say it’s your birthday
It’s my birthday too–yeah…”
The birthday of Hope —
In Individuals taking responsibility for finding out what’s really going on behind the curtains — and getting that information out — when the people who usurp power make deals with those who were supposed to be keeping the curtains open and shining that light.
Without this knowledge, we cannot have the Democratic Republic the United States was designed to be.
How perfect is it that the information you have most sought to reveal is the corruption of the essence of the “Freedom” Mr. Bush pretends to uphold —
Our Freedom exists only so long as our Choice, represented by our Vote, is properly counted.
So, it was the 24th of January, 2004, eh?
On the 25th of January, 2004, I too was born as “OnePerson MakingADifference”.
On that day, I hit send, and hundreds of people received the following message from knowbush@msn.com:
Welcome to the Inaugural Message of
Know Bush
Based on the belief that The Truth Shall Set You Free.
As an introduction, you know me. I am your friend, your neighbor, your family, your customer, someone I’ve shared moments with.
We probably don’t agree on everything, but we’ve smiled together.
All I ask is that you, and the people you share this with, be open and willing to know more than you have, and vote. It has never been more important. (So now keep reading…)
Today’s Fact is:
When Bush went to Ground Zero shortly after September 11, he threw his arm around a tired, retired firefighter at the scene and assured him and the other rescue workers he was with them. In August 2002, he pocket vetoed $150 million in emergency first responder grants.
Thank you for paying attention. Now pass it on.
So, Brad, I guess there was something in the air (and not on the airwaves).
And I look forward to the day we can truly celebrate our successes because enough people have realized their responsibility in demanding that we keep that Democratic Republic alive:
Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Dredd,
damn good to see you still here hammering away.
I know you were out in Crawford too, on the same day I was if I remember correctly. But you know, I probably walked right past you. Maybe even said hello without knowing. That’s one of the cool things about blogging…knowing or knowing of someone without a clue or a care what they look like or where they come from.
Peace
Supersoling #41
Yes indeed, the Crawford thingy for mere mortals 😉 … I think I probably got pictures of you … no?
Anyway, my spirit told me you are a kindred spirit.
Laura #39
Yeah baby, I still remember all those ***** times in the liberry when shrub wasn’t around … WoooHoooo … we know what he is missing! 😉
Hey, just kiddin … love my sisters!!!!
Happy birthday from poland.