Minnesota’s Disgrace: Al Franken Steals Election

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 (10 hours ago)

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It’s a tough read if you care  about the integrity of our electoral system.  From the Wall Street Journal:

The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year’s disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman’s gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don’t need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat’s strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.

But the team’s real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman’s lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman legal challenge, and the Supreme Court that reviewed the panel’s findings, in essence found that Mr. Coleman hadn’t demonstrated a willful or malicious attempt on behalf of officials to deny him the election. And so they refused to reopen what had become a forbidding tangle of irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn’t lose the election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after the fact.

This is now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire’s team demanded the right to rifle through a list of provisional votes that hadn’t been counted, setting off a hunt for “new” Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she’d discovered enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team.

It’s very difficult to have faith in our democracy when you learn about stories like this out of the state of Minnesota. Al Franken is a bitter  demagogue who has risen up in the world of politics by slandering his political enemies in the most unscrupulous manner. And though we can look to scoundrels such as Franken with a keen eye of distrust, the theft of this election is just as much our fault on the Right for not being as active as we should be in our own communities. Quite frankly, the Democrats stole this election because no one was looking, because Republicans and Independents failed to be engaged. What happen in Minnesota is not only an injustice to the American citizenry, but also against the founders of this country who shed blood for the principles of freedom, liberty and honest elections. We must always remember this disgrace, if for anything else, to preserve the credibility of our electoral system. The next time a Leftist brings to the forefront the argument of George W. Bush stealing the 2000 presidential election (which is a lie), Al Franken’s real disgrace must be our first response. Shame on you Mr. Franken, but even more so, shame on you Minnesota!

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Obama Goes To War

Posted by: Evrviglnt on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Marines Land In The Helmund River Valley

News breaks that the Barack Obama administration has attacked the Taliban in the Helmand River valley of Afghanistan.  At first glance, the preparation makes it look promising – from the Washington Post:

The operation will involve about 4,000 troops from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, which was dispatched to Afghanistan this year by President Obama to combat a growing Taliban insurgency in Helmand and other southern provinces. The Marines, along with an Army brigade that is scheduled to arrive later this summer, plan to push into pockets of the country where NATO forces have not had a presence. In many of those areas, the Taliban has evicted local police and government officials and taken power.

But then you read this:

Once Marine units arrive in their designated towns and villages, they have been instructed to build and live in small outposts among the local population. The brigade’s commander, Brig. Gen. Lawrence D. Nicholson, said his Marines will focus their efforts on protecting civilians from the Taliban and on restoring Afghan government services, instead of mounting a series of hunt-and-kill missions against the insurgents.

“We’re doing this very differently,” Nicholson said to his senior officers a few hours before the mission began. “We’re going to be with the people. We’re not going to drive to work. We’re going to walk to work.”

Similar approaches have been tried in the eastern part of the country, but none has had the scope of the mission in Helmand, a vast province that is largely an arid moonscape save for a band of fertile land that lines the Helmand River. Poppies grown in that territory produce half the world’s supply of opium and provide the Taliban with a valuable source of income.

And then this:

In meetings with his commanders at forward operating bases over the past three days, [Brig. Gen. Lawrence D. ]Nicholson acknowledged that focusing on governance and population security does not come as naturally to Marines as conducting offensive operations, but he told them it is essential that they focus on “reining in the pit bulls.”

“We’re not going to measure your success by the number of times your ammunition is resupplied. . . . Our success in this environment will be very much predicated on restraint,” he told a group of officers from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines on Sunday. “You’re going to drink lots of tea. You’re going to eat lots of goat. Get to know the people. That’s the reason why we’re here.”

Is this the New Marine Corp?  Is that what our Brigadier Generals are going to sound like from now on?  Barack Obama thinks the reason why the Taliban are still causing problems in Afghanistan is that no one trusts each other.  He’s going to convince the river population to stop growing poppies and start growing corn (which will fuel the cars he’s going to sell them).   By then he expects the Taliban to just give up, wandering away rejected by the Afghanis like a girl drops a boyfriend.  Does Barack Obama have any respect for the enemy at all?

This isn’t an army he’s sending into a very dangerous  situation – it’s a leftist delusion armed with conflict resolution DVDs and a letter from the State Department.  Don’t misunderstand me – an offensive force attacking a region naturally tries to pacify their surroundings by befriending locals and passing out goodies.   We gained control of Afghanistan after the fall of the capital Kabul using less than a thousand American soldiers in the country.  We know how to network and create relationships on the ground.  But there was always an obvious show of the “offensive” capabilities we could use.  The article reveals a very un-Marine-like perspective – actually declaring ourselves easy targets.  If what we have landing on the ground in Afghanistan is a reflection of the mysterious Obama Doctrine, it’s time to fret.  But we’re announcing to the world our military isn’t there to fight – what do you make of that?

It could be that Obama’s just feeding the international beast – doling out propaganda so our soldiers can do those hunt-and-kill missions behind the scenes that will deliver justice to the Taliban.  We’ll know soon enough the truth, but let’s all pray that Obama isn’t endangering our soldiers for a loopy interpersonal communication approach to retraining head chopping fundamentalists into iPod sporting soy bean farmers.  War is serious business -keep it simple.  The military is for breaking things and killing the enemy.  The State Department is for appeasement.  The congress is for spending, and the presidency is for buying.  The United Nations is for show and cheap prostitutes.  Understanding the nature of those institutions will reveal the limits to their effectiveness in the mission you give them.

Pray for our soldiers tonight.

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Democratic Culture Of Corruption #107: Sen. Inouye’s Bank Bailout

Posted by: Evrviglnt on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

It sure is profitable being a senator’s piggy bank!  From the Washington Post:

Central Pacific was founded in 1954 by a group of World War II veterans including Inouye who were emerging leaders in Hawaii’s Japanese American community.

“The time had come to fund a bank that could provide equitable service not only to the Japanese, but to all communities,” Inouye is quoted as saying in an exhibit in the lobby of one of the company’s Honolulu branches. Inouye, who became the bank’s first secretary, said that he initially invested $3,000, the minimum amount possible.

Central Pacific is Hawaii’s fourth-largest bank, holding about 15 percent of the state’s deposits. In recent years, it increasingly used the money to make loans in California, funding several large residential developments. By last year, the bank was facing the consequences of California’s collapsing housing market. In July , Central Pacific reported a quarterly loss of $146 million, matching its total profit in the previous three years.

In October, shortly after the government announced that it would invest billions of dollars in banks to spur new lending, Central Pacific submitted an application under the initiative, called the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP.

And…

Sen. Daniel K. Inouye’s staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth.

The bank, Central Pacific Financial, was an unlikely candidate for a program designed by the Treasury Department to bolster healthy banks. The firm’s losses were depleting its capital reserves. Its primary regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., already had decided that it didn’t meet the criteria for receiving a favorable recommendation and had forwarded the application to a council that reviewed marginal cases, according to agency documents.

Two weeks after the inquiry from Inouye’s office, Central Pacific announced that the Treasury would inject $135 million. …

The senator says he only made one call in reference to his bank getting the bail out.  That doesn’t connote innocence, it’s an example of what a phone call from a senator will get you…

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Universal Health Scare #37: Canadians Flock To Private Clinics To Avoid Long Lines

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Fox News has the details…

Private for-profit clinics are a booming business in Canada — a country often touted as a successful example of a universal health system.

Facing long waits and substandard care, private clinics are proving that Canadians are willing to pay for treatment.

“Any wait time was an enormous frustration for me and also pain. I just couldn’t live my life the way I wanted to,” says Canadian patient Christine Crossman, who was told she could wait up to a year for an MRI after injuring her hip during an exercise class. Warned she would have to wait for the scan, and then wait even longer for surgery, Crossman opted for a private clinic.

As the Obama administration prepares to launch its legislative effort to create a national health care system, many experts on both sides of the debate site Canada as a successful model.

But the Canadian system is not without its problems. Critics lament the shortage of doctors as patients flood the system, resulting in long waits for some treatment.

“No question, it was worth the money,” said Crossman, who paid several hundred dollars and waited just a few days.

Health care delivery in Canada falls largely under provincial jurisdiction, complicating matters.

Private for-profit clinics are permitted in some provinces and not allowed in others. Under the Canada Health Act, privately run facilities cannot charge citizens for services covered by government insurance.

But a 2005 Supreme Court ruling in Quebec opened the door for patients facing unreasonable wait times to pay-out-of-pocket for private treatment.

This is a story that is becoming way too familiar in Canada. But more importantly, it’s a tragedy for those who’s waits become a terminal problem, another trend all too familiar in socialized health care systems through out the world.

*Check out our entire list of Universal Health Scare, it’s downright scary!

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Republicans Take The Lead On Congressional Generic Ballot

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Rasmussen has the polling data…

Republican congressional candidates rebounded this week and pulled ahead again of Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The last time the GOP held a lead was in early May.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 41% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 39% would choose the Democratic candidate.

Accountability!

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Obama Finally Takes Responsibility For His Failed Economic Policies… it’s About Time!

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says that we can judge whether the President’s stimulus package has failed or not now. I guess with unemployment about to break the 10% barrier after the administration said that it would peak at 8 if we got the porkulus bill passed, that they’re running out of excuses.  With misery on the rise under his presidency, Americans will once again demand action from the White House. We will soon see the mantra from the Left that a second stimulus package is needed because the first was just too small of a proposal, and since the messiah has admitted that we’re out of money… tax hikes here we come!

No more excuses, no more blaming Bush! Here it is…

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Political Vindication Radio; Tonight 6pm PST

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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Tonight, Vicki of Not Ready For My Burqua blog joins us in our first hour to talk about her new book “A Pastoral Letter to the Captives, and other works: Selected hostage accounts from the Barbary Pirates Era. In our second hour, we’re going to be taking stock in the Obama administration as the world has all of a sudden become a very dangerous place since his inauguration.  North Korea, Iran, Honduras all on the verge of violent eruptions… are these the tests that Joe Biden said Obama would face? The world is anything but more peaceful since the messiah took power, and we’re going to examine if Barry has got the fortitude to deal with the global meltdown of foreign relations under his leadership. Show time starts at 6pm PST, the call in number to talk to us live is (646) 652-4598. The chat room open 15 minutes before show time, join us live for stimulating talk radio!

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U.S. Begins Its Withdrawl From Iraqi Cities

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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VOA News has the details…

Iraqi forces officially assumed control of Baghdad and other cites across the country early Tuesday, following the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from urban areas. Celebrations in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, include music, dance and poetry.

Iraqi government TV has been playing patriotic music to celebrate the U.S. military withdrawal from cities, towns and villages across the country, officially set to be completed by Tuesday, June 30.

Iraqi military vehicles were also covered with flowers to celebrate the event, and military parades, complete with band music, were organized in Diyala and Diwania provinces.

The government declared a “Day of National Sovereignty” to mark the event, and has invited ordinary citizens to join evening celebrations at Baghdad’s Zawra Park for a festival of music and poetry.

To bad the MSM isn’t there to cover a brave hard fought U.S. victory.

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Obama’s New Friends

Posted by: Evrviglnt on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

From Michael Ramirez:

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A Special Invitation For Janeane Garofalo

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Monday, June 29th, 2009

I’m jumping on this bandwagon, as I hope all other conservative bloggers will to make sure Janeane Garofalo gets this very special invite to the July 4th Tea Party in Dallas. As for myself, I’ll be attending the St. George Tea Party in Southern Utah, and would be more than happy to be Mrs. Garofalo’s escort if she happens to be in these redneck of the woods on Independence Day. Either way, give us a chance Janeane.

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Universal Health Scare #36: Canada Sends 14 Week Old Premie To U.S For Lack Of Resources

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Sunday, June 28th, 2009

This one’s a heart breaker. CP 24 in Toronto has the details…

A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don’t have passports.

Ava Stinson was born Thursday at St. Joseph’s Hospital, 14 weeks premature.

A provincewide search for an open neonatal intensive care unit bed came up empty, leaving no choice but to send the two pound, four ounce baby to Buffalo.

Her parents Natalie Paquette and Richard Stinson couldn’t follow their child because as of June 1, a passport is required to cross the border into the United States.

They’re having to approve medical procedures over the phone and are terrified something will happen to their baby before they get there.

The Canadian Consulate in Buffalo is providing advice and guidance to the first-time parents, and their local MP, New Democrat David Christopherson, is working to arrange emergency passports.

But that will take until at least Monday afternoon and the situation is complicated by the fact the baby’s dad has a criminal record.

“I just want to be with her,” said Paquette.

“She only knows my heartbeat, my voice and her daddy’s voice. It’s all I can think about. I feel so helpless.”

This is obviously a horrific case, in which a child is alone without the presence of her mother in her first days of life. Both Ed Morrissey and  Michael Stickings do an excellent job of covering the personal side of this story, but I would like to focus on the economic aspect of this case. Is the Canadian government going to pay for the services provided in the United States, or is the family of this child going to be double taxed? This family has almost certainly paid for their right to health care and their government failed them. In addition, will the Canadian government cover any if not all of the expenses for the parents after having forced them to go to another country because their rights to health care were denied? You tell me how this case, both the personal aspect and the economic aspect are anything but compassionate as many Leftist’s claim when promoting government sponsored health care.  We pray for the well being of this child, but the proponents of big government health care in Canada have allot of explaining to do!

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Environmental Corruption: Dennis Prager Interviews Ian Pilmer

Posted by: Evrviglnt on Saturday, June 27th, 2009

U.S.S. Annapolis Brings global warming to the Arctic

On April 27 of this year radio host Dennis Prager interviewed one of the leading earth scientists in Australia, geologist Ian Plimer, about his new book “Heaven And Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science”, which assails  the hoax that is anthropogenic global warming. Professor Plimer says many things that cut to the heart of the science and the business it has become.  I’ve transcribed just a few minutes of the 35 minute interview, consider it a teaser:

Dennis Prager: …If the social sciences have been corrupted, which I believe they have entirely in the Western academic world by political agendas, there was always the belief that if there’s a place where truth was dominant, it was in the natural sciences, and you’re telling me that’s not the case.

Ian Plimer: I think the natural sciences have now been corrupted.  I think they’ve been totally politicized.  I think the natural sciences now are driven by two groups.  One group who go outdoors, collect the new evidence, who try to integrate a new interdisciplinary science to try to understand how the planet works.  There’s another group who don’t collect this information, they sit next to their computer, model someone else’s data and come up with a conclusion, and then they go outside and find it doesn’t work.  That’s what we’re up against now.  The modelers are dominating the natural sciences, and the models they create are totally unrelated to reality.

Prager: …Modeling, as in computer modeling, we’re told what’s going to happen in 40 years.  Is that what you’re referring to?

Plimer: Very much so, but they can’t even get it right a couple of years in advance.  For example, the modeling that was done in 1990, did not tell us about a huge event, where we shift a massive amount of heat around the world, and that was the El Nino of 1998.  It didn’t tell us that in this century it started to cool down.  Just after a few years those models were absolutely and totally wrong.  So what hope have they got at predicting what might be happening in thirty or fifty years time?

It gets better:

Prager: I was just reading the other day…you make the point…that we have had just as much time, in the geologic time that you measure, we have had half the time with ice caps in the arctic and half the time without them?

Plimer: The figure is a bit less than that.  It’s about twenty percent of the time we’ve had ice.  The rest of the time the planet has been warmer and wetter, and it’s been a wonderful, volcanic world, because every time we’ve had high carbon dioxide, we’ve had thriving life on planet Earth.  It’s when we have low carbon dioxide content, and that’s as it is today in geological history, that we have life that seems to struggle a little bit.

Prager: So let me get this straight – for my layman’s brain.  You’re telling me that 80% of recorded time, or of time that we can, not record, but measure, of Earth’s history…80% of the time there was no ice in the Arctic?

Plimer: That’s correct.

When did the ice that we see in the Arctic actually appear?  Three million years ago.  We’re in an ice age right now.  Incredible!  Again, if the Earth is warming, man ought to do all he can to help it along.  A warmer planet is one that supports more life, more vegetation, and a healthier environment.

You can access the interview by signing up to the Itunes podcasts of American Conservative University (it’s free, and incredibly educational).

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Mike Huckabee And Jon Stewart Discuss Abortion

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Saturday, June 27th, 2009

I’m not the biggest fan of the Jon Stewart show, but I think this was a great conversation between the Comedy Central host and the former Governor of Arkansas. Mike Huckabee is a very articulate voice for the pro-life position and does a great job at getting his arguments down, while also dealing with a couple tough questions from Stewart. Overall it was a good civil discussion that I wish would happen more often in politics… MSNBC are you listening?  I think most sensible people are going to enjoy this exchange, check it out…

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The Scandal Of The Canadian Catholic Church

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Life Site News has uncovered a major scandal concerning the Canadian Catholic Bishops and their financial support of pro-abortion organizations.

In 2009, investigative reporters from LifeSiteNews.com discovered a widespread scandal with the funding practices of the Canadian Catholic Organization For Development and Peace (CCODP). This official agency of the Canadian Catholic Bishops has been funding pro-abortion groups. Watch this video to see the undeniable evidence of pro-abortion and other advocacy contrary to Catholic teachings on life and family.

Here’s the video…

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As a Catholic myself, this is quite stunning. In Catholic theology, formal cooperation with abortion is punishable by canonical law of excommunication; this is a universal decree by Rome and is not open for debate (Catechism Part 3, article 2272). But even more so, I’ve always viewed priests and bishops as moral leaders that are supposed to transcend the sentiment of popular culture and recognize and expose the evils that mask themselves within society. To see the clergy of my church actively participate in this kind of evil makes one wonder if the devil has not got his foot in the door…

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EPA Censoring New Study On Global Warming

Posted by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Saturday, June 27th, 2009

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Watts Up With That has all the details:

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.

New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.

Watts Up With That is one of the best blogs when it comes to the details of the climate debate, and I encourage anyone who’s interested to head on over there. It really pisses me off to read this on the same day that the congress passed a phony cap and tax bill that will punish all American families for a global warming theory that’s crumbling under scientific scrutiny. We’ve got to stop this thing in the senate!

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