I am a Joe Scarborough fan but he gets completely pwned by Zbigniew Brzezinski in this interview.

The last few minutes of this are pretty brutal.

We have all head for years now the concerns with electronic voting machines.  As a software engineer, I always thought that a voting machine should be one of the simplest machines on the planet to design.  I mean really… how badly can you screw up:

Candidate += 1;

Well, now comes word from the Washington Post that Premier Election Systems, formerly Diebold, announced their voting tabulation software, GEMS, has a flaw that causes it to incorrectly count votes.  Diebold systems are used in elections all across the country.  In local, state and federal elections.  So your county may have a pretender to the throne elected as the new dog catcher and perhaps maybe the vote counts are incorrect for  higher offices.

Here is CNN’s coverage of the story:

Hacking Democracy is an HBO documentary about the lack of security in electronic voting machines.

Yahya and Ghazala plus Ten

A woman in Egypt today has given birth to septuplets after eight months of gestation.  The babies weighed between 3.2 and 6.2 pounds.  Both of those facts are remarkable.  High order multiple pregnancies are often very premature.  The more babies, the earlier the usually come.  It appears the babies are all relatively healthy.

She had more in one shot than we had all together (and we have a lot!).

Looks like Jon & Kate have some competition now.