So rare coin dealer and Republican thief Tom Noe--sorry for the redundancy--has been convicted of giving $50,000 illegal to the Bush campaign.

Yes, Noe is the self-dealing, corrupt Republican--sorry for the redundancy--who, gosh, somehow got the (Republican) state of Ohio to invest millions of worker's compensation funds in a rare coin business he himself ran. And then, gosh, allegedly, looted.

In the other case, Noe has pleaded not guilty to stealing at least $1 million from the coin investment.

So, $50,000 to Bush. That leaves $950,000 still unaccounted for. I wonder where it went?

My theory has always been that, since a coin dealership is an ideal place to launder money, that Noe funded a corrupt programmer to hack the vote at Diebold's central servers.

So, try to knock my tinfoil hat off. I dare ya.

NOTE Oh, did I mention that both Tom and his lovely wife, Bernadette, were on the scandal-plagued Lucas County Board of Elections--and that Bernadette rammed through a contract for Diebold voting machines? Sorry.