And so it begins...

What the American public has a right to look forward to every 10 years is now beginning. But not with a sense of hope. It's with a sense of dread, because of the shenanigans of 1990 and 2000.

I speak of the decennial census - when Americans are supposed to be able to stand up and be counted (literally). But even the census is corrupted by Republican rigging. After all, the census is the basis for congressional and electoral vote apportionment.

The 2000 census was the most inaccurate ever. I did not even receive a census form - even after I asked for one. So I was not counted. This oversight was intentional.

Now - for the 2010 census - the Census Bureau is openly ignoring some 1,700,000 addresses nationwide.

And - generally speaking - they're not in the Republican exurbs. Without explanation, the census has removed almost 13,000 addresses that are in the now-Democratic city of Cincinnati. Only a handful of suburban addresses were removed. For instance, the Census Bureau removed only 9 addresses in the Republican suburb of Union, Kentucky.

Not only that, but the addresses that were removed in Cincinnati are in the city's most heavily Democratic neighborhoods, such as Over-the-Rhine and Corryville.

Cincinnati is urging the Census Bureau to restore some of the 13,000 households it inexplicably removed. About 2,000 other cities have made similar pleas.

If you see any fishy population figures when the results of the 2010 census are released, I think you can safely say that much of it was because the census missed so many addresses that should have been counted.