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indoctrination. We should be suing, demanding the firing of each and everyone of these teachers for promoting religious worship in the classroom. Lawfare, bitches, it works both ways
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It is pretty darn astounding that with all of the insistence from the White House that Fox News Channel is "not a real news network," that their preferred channel, MSNBC, did not have live coverage at 10 p.m. Eastern on ELECTION NIGHT. They re-ran Olbermann's 8 p.m. coverage, which was, of course, two hours out of date. "What do you want?"
"I want the truth."
"We can't handle the truth!"
No, really, when you stop covering the news, people can legitimately say you're not a news network. That has nothing to do with percieved bias or ideology (although we can speculate as to why Olbermann disappeared from the 10 p.m. coverage, as previously expected) but because you're not actually bringing any new information to viewers. Just imagine what it would have sounded like had Olbermann gone live at 10:00:
"We go now to New Jersey, to the Corzine campaign, ... and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames and the... and Governor Corzine is falling on the mooring mast. And all the folks agree that this is terrible; this is the one of the worst catastrophes in the world. [indecipherable] its flames... Crashing, oh! ... Oh, the humanity!"
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The post was something about sleeping with dogs and getting fleas? Or the abdication of the MSM to report news or we don't care about the role of a free press in a free society. Or we [the MSM] really do like the Joseph Goebbels model for reporting news propaganda.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. That's some accounting!
The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report. A non-proffit. They don't generate anything. This is stimulus?
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren't saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren't saved.
That type of accounting was found in an earlier AP review of stimulus jobs, which the Obama administration said was misleading because most of the government's job-counting errors were being fixed in the new data.
The administration now acknowledges overcounting in the new numbers for the HHS program. Elizabeth Oxhorn, a spokeswoman for the White House recovery office, said the Obama administration was reviewing the Head Start data "to determine how and if it will be counted."
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job," HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said. Very twisted logic. This is AP so if you want to read the rest go to the link.
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935 jobs were saved but only 508 people work there.
Er, er, ah, its complex and about nuanced perception. Something for us professionals to worry about. You don't have to bother yourself with such things.
The stimulus is about control and the stimulus is about buying votes at the proper time. One problem, the rubes are catching on to the Washington game and perhaps they are not so naive.
How would you like to be a New Jersey police officer and look out your window and see several known criminals, including a man you arrested several weeks ago and another who had just been released from prison for shooting a cop? And then find out that the men were sent into the neighborhood by the Democratic Party for GOTV operations - complete with lists of voters names, addresses and phones numbers!
That is what happened Sunday on a quiet street in Morris Township. The officer, who's name we are with holding, specifically heard the men discussing that he was a police officer and that they now know where he lives. The officer confronted the men and they took off. He contacted the local police who responded and caught up with them and about a dozen other men a few blocks away. According to the police report, the men were known criminals and when asked why they were in the neighborhood they stated they were "campaigning for the Democratic Party."
Below is an interview with another Morris Township resident who also witnessed the gangbangers going door to door. She contacted a local Democratic Party Official who sent her an email stating
"Thanks for writing. Yes, I heard about this and am very sorry for the incident."
Shockingly, this isn't the first time New Jersey Democrats have used gang bangers for GOTV. According to this story on PolitickerNJ, the Bloods Street gang stole $6000 from the NJ Democratic State Committee through a check fraud scheme. NJ Democratic Party Chairman Joseph Cryan said "that checks were copied from payments sent out for the party's 2006 field operation."
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Ron Dellums, who earns about $184,000 as Oakland mayor on top of a congressional pension, appears to owe the Internal Revenue Service at least $66,554. A lien has been placed against his property for failing to pay taxes for 2006. According to the East Bay Express, which broke the story, Mayor Dellums and his wife, who file jointly, may owe more than $239,000 in taxes, mostly for the years he worked as a lobbyist in Washington, DC.
Though there has been some speculation that Mayor Dellums would run for reelection, this confirms long-standing rumors that he has financial problems that are exacerbated by his job as mayor. The failure to pay taxes on what is undoubtedly a comfortable income is also an embarrassment to the mayor. It is unclear how the tax dispute arose or will be resolved; normally, taxes are a private matter, but the filing of the lien created a public record discovered by the Express.
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Nonsense. He is a Democratic former Congressman. Such people are above paying taxes.
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he has financial problems that are exacerbated by his job as mayor
The job pays $184K a year! How does that make his problems worse?
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Big tent GOPer Gov. Tim Pawlenty perhaps became a former big tent GOPer this morning during an on MSNBC . He said the former GOP candidate for New York's special congressional race didn't "minimum standard" for a Republican candidate but added Minnesota U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen and former U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad are moderates who may be acceptable.
"There's a range of behavior and issue behavior that you can take," Pawlenty said. (Last week, the governor backed the Conservative Party candidate in that New York election over the Republican candidate. Over the weekend, the Republican dropped out and endorsed her former Democratic rival.)
Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, of Maine, might have more problems meeting the standard, Pawlenty suggested.
"We want Olympia Snowe in the big tent but she can't say she's a Republican and then vote against the Republican position much of the time," Pawlenty said. The governor also said that Snowe's position on health care reform in the Senate has made many Republicans "mad."
"If she disagrees with everything, that's a problem," he said.
"Do you want Olympia Snowe in your Republican party?"MSNBC's Joe Scarborough asked. "Are you glad that Olympia Snowe is in your party?"
Pawlenty scrupulously avoided giving a yes or no to that question.
"I'd much rather have a Republican in Maine than a Democrat that's for sure," Pawlenty said.
His lack of response elicited a quick follow up response on MSNBC.
"That was as close to standing in front of a bunch of stuff with bunting and saying 'I'm running,'" Jon Meacham, Newsweek Editor said in analyzing Pawlenty's remarks.
The analysis also examined the governor's use of the phrase "range of behavior" and his question of those who deviate from Republican conservative principles.
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It is better to have your enemy in front of you with a sword, than a RINO behind you with a dagger
Yelling in your ear that you must protect them, because they are your friend. In between stabs.
More than 10,000 people turned out Monday night for a North Houston Tea Party Patriots gathering to protest proposed health care reform and what they called big government spending and overzealous government leadership, according to preliminary attendance figures.
Under clear skies and a perfect moon, crowds packed the field at the Sam Houston Race Park and cheered loudly as speakers called for the people to take control of the American government. Wearing slogans that said "Don't Tread on Me" and T-shirts stating, "I am a Tea Party Patriot -- I will defend our Constitution," those attending the event enthusiastically showed support for more constraints on the government and more personal freedom.
"This isn't about 'I can't stand Barack Obama' -- this is about 'I can't stand a government that will tread on me,' " said Houston radio talk show host and TV anchor Joe "Pags" Pagliarulo to a rousing burst of applause from the audience.
"Taxes are going up because we have to pay for health care for people who are here illegally," Pagliarulo said. "We have to pay for health care for people who don't want health care ... We've got a government that's run amok -- we've got a government that doesn't care about you or me. It cares about power, it cares about control."
Attendees stressed that Monday's event -- and their support of it -- was not partisan in nature. Several of those in the audience said they feel all political parties have stopped listening to the people and that voters feel like they no longer have a voice in Washington.
"We vote primarily Republican, but they don't seem to be that much different anymore than Democrats," said Everett Cochran of Montgomery, who attended the rally with his wife, Donna. "Nobody in the party apparently is listening to what the moderates to conservatives are saying -- all they're listening to is the moderates to the liberals."
Laureen Jones and Joan Orozco of The Woodlands said they attended to protest government spending as well as government-run health care.
"Basically, I think the country is going in the wrong direction quickly," Orozco said. "I think the Constitution is being violated. People are tired of being told what the government is going to do to them."
An exact attendance count was not available Monday night, but Sam Houston Race Park officials said preliminary numbers based on turnstiles indicated the crowd exceeded 10,000 people.
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Is there nothing MSNBC can't spin? A graphic on Tuesday's Morning Meeting hopefully announced, "NY-23: Win-Win For Dems?" Apparently, even if Democrats lose the special congressional election in New York to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, it will just show how extreme the Republican Party has become.
In a not-exactly-balanced segment, host Dylan Ratigan talked to Representative and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen, liberal blogger Arianna Huffington and Professor Tom Schaller, who has written a book on how Democrats can win without the south.
The interview seemed very similar to one that appeared on Friday's Situation Room on CNN. That program featured a graphic that read: "If The Dems Lose Next Week: How it might help them in the long run." And that followed an October 6 blog by ABC reporter Claire Shipman in which she speculated that President Obama losing Chicago's Olympic bid was also a good thing.
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Keith was busy working on his "Sarah Palin, worst person in the world, was the biggest loser last night! Yeah! That's it!" story. They'll have it ready for all seven of their morning viewers, don't worry.
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Well, I was wrong about the network and the announcer, but....Stephanopoulous (however you spell Georgie's name, you know who I'm talking about) and ABC have officially claimed that Sarah was the big loser yesterday.
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Hoffman didn't do too bad for a last minute effort in a clusterfvck kind of election complicated by stealth Donk candidate Scuzzy complicating things. She got 6% of the vote which had it gone to Hoffman, he would have won.
Amidst the stunning events in New York's 23rd congressional district -- with Republican-turned-independent Doug Hoffman suddenly surging to the front and likely to win today's race -- collateral damage has been suffered by some of the GOP's presidential hopefuls who misread the race and the mood of the Republican electorate.
Mitt Romney -- formerly a man who seemed willing to show up and plug for any Republican anywhere to pick up a few chits -- was nowhere to be seen in the district. Mike Huckabee, a favorite for religious conservatives who demonstrated a gift for gab in last year's Republican presidential primaries, materialized at an event near the district last week but didn't venture into it or speak up for Mr. Hoffman.
Newt Gingrich, though, may have taken the biggest hit to his relevance. He threw his weight behind Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican assemblywoman picked to run by local party bosses, just days before a GOP revolt pushed her out of the race. "I felt very deeply that when you have all 11 county chairman voting for someone, that it wasn't appropriate for me to come in and render my judgment," he now says.
He may not have noticed, but the anti-Scozzafava reaction actually has its roots in the district itself. New York's 23rd was a hotbed of town-hall activity all summer. Mark Barie, chairman of the Upstate Tea Party organization, emerged as leader of an upstate New York rebellion against federal deficits and Obama health-care reform. He turns the idea of outside conservative meddling in the district on its head, telling reporters flat-out his movement is aimed just as much at remaking the Republican Party in Washington: "The people who run the Republican Party are going to have to learn that moving to the left is not going to win them election."
In contrast, pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, the Club for Growth, Fred Thompson and Dick Armey all endorsed Mr. Hoffman. Then there's Sarah Palin, whose endorsement of Mr. Hoffman focused national media attention on the race and seemed to set in motion the collapse of support for Ms. Scozzafava. Lucky or otherwise, Ms. Palin comes out looking like a leader and Mr. Gingrich doesn't.
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Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican assemblywoman
Liberal Republican? Is that the mirror image of a conservative Socia!ist?
Florida Governor Charlie Crist didn't have as bad a week as Dede Scozzafava, the up-state New York RINO who pulled out of the congressional race there because of increasing pressure from the conservative independent candidate and his supporters. But things are steadily unraveling for Crist, the Florida RINO who wants to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 against conservative former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio.
Crist's problems aren't confined to polls, though a new Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll indicates Floridians rate Crist's performance as governor at the lowest level in the 34 months he's been in office. Just 42 percent of 600 respondents in a telephone poll conducted Oct. 25-28 rated Crist's performance as good to excellent, while 51 percent rated Crist fair to poor. Not terrible, but for much of Crist's first two years in office he enjoyed approval ratings in the sixties.
Even these mostly less-than-enthusiastic Floridians have a more charitable take on Crist than Reihan Salam, a political columnist for Forbes magazine who suggested last week that Crist may be "America's worst governor."
Worse than Patrick, Patterson, Corzine and Blagojevich? Oh come on ...
Salam concedes that Crist is a gifted politician. But in discussing Crist's actual performance Salam's piece is full of expressions such as "opportunist," and "light-weight."
Salam gigs Crist for various forms of "free-lunchism," but especially for being so wildly enthusiastic about president Obama's stimulus slush fund. He quotes the giddy way Crist spoke to the Miami Herald about Obama's deficit-ballooning scam just a few months ago: "I think it's fantastic. Are you kidding me? We don't have to raise taxes.... We might be able to cut property taxes some more. We have more money for education, so we can increase per-student spending. We can spend more money on our roads and infrastructure. We can provide health care for our people. I mean it's remarkable."
Those comments are indeed remarkable. How many conservative Republicans are nearly so enthusiastic about the absolute healing powers of "free" money from Washington? No one but Obama fundamentalists believes the comically-specific reports, coming out of Washington and Tallahassee, on how many jobs the stimulus slush fund has supposedly created or saved.
Salam points out that Crist wanted the Florida Legislature to rely on non-recurring federal slush funds for about 12 percent of Florida's budget. When the legislature passed a budget containing some unpopular spending cuts, Crist vetoed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of them. The final result was a budget containing $2.2 billion in new state taxes and fees. After all this Crist has tried to paint himself in speeches and political ads as a fiscal conservative, a move that has gotten the horse-laugh it deserves in Florida political circles and from much of the Florida media.
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Republican Robert F. McDonnell is off to a sizable early lead in the race for Virginia governor based on the early exit polls, but it is too soon to call the contest. Fox called it for the Publican at 8 pm with McDonnell leading almost 2-1... Lead by almost the same margins in lieutenant governor and attorney general races...
Polls closed moments ago in the contest between McDonnell and Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, a race that turned on competing visions for the commonwealth and changing views about the Obama administration.
There was little sign of the blue tide that swept the state a year ago and played a pivotal role in the election of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president. Instead, voters seemed at least as likely to be voting against the Obama agenda as for it. For each Virginia voter who claimed to be rebuking his administration, there were others who said their decisions were strictly local.
Gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday were closely watched across the nation as barometers on voter attitudes toward Obama and the Democratic Congress a year after his election.
At Stonewall Middle School in Prince William County, John Carte said he had voted for Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) four years ago but switched to Republican this year to cast a ballot for McDonnell. The reason? "Obama," he said. "I came to vote against the policies going on in Washington."
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The 'Pubs might have gone three for three without Dede "Et tu, Brute" Scozzofava's treacherous cross-endorsement.
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The Lord used to talk about Publicans and Sinners. You can be one or the other...
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..treacherous cross-endorsement.
Hardly when she was a flaming Donk left of the actual Donk candidate. It was more like exposing herself in public [now go Brillo your mind]. The real treacherous cross endorsement was done by the [cough] Trunks who put her name on the ballot and those who backed her after her true colors were known.
The Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday prematurely ran a Macy's advertisement congratulating the Philadelphia Phillies for winning the World Series. The New York Yankees, who still lead the series, may have something to say about that. People still watch the World Series?
hey, ... some of us around here are Yankees fans. LOL
That's baseball, right? When did they stop being the boys of summer?
Ah, baseball in the snow. Maybe they can use orange balls just like in winter golf ...
Maybe there's something going around, but the Democrats and their amen corner in the blogosphere are similarly acting as if the game is in the bag before a single vote in Tuesday's elections even gets counted. "Yeah! We're three fer three!"
Even if they lose a few seats, some liberals are carrying on as if this would suit their Master Plan just fine. The thinking is that the more that right wing elements become the face of the Republican Party, the less that Democrats have to worry about in the long run. "Y'see, if the Publicans act like Publicans that'll give the people a choice. And if they gotta choice they're gonna choose us. Ever'body knows that!"
Hubris? Yup. And at this point, any thumbsucking post would be remiss not to mention the familiar warning about being careful about getting what you wish for. So it is that surveys from Public Policy Polling as well as the Siena Research Institute put conservative Bill Hoffman ahead of the Democrat Bill Owens in the highly-watched New York Congressional 23rd District special election. Kinda dramatically ahead, and just about overnight...
Win or lose, though, it seems that Democrats are overjoyed at the prospect of facing Hoffman as the Republican Party's nominee. The GOP's erstwhile candidate, Dede Scozzafava, faded after a pantheon of Republican heavyweights - including Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, Michele Bachmann, and Dick Armey, among others - threw their weight behind Hoffman. Fox News' Glenn Beck also got into the act. But she had Noot and the Publican establishment on her side...
With her support taking a hit after activists trashed her for not being a "true conservative," Scozzafava suspended her campaign over the weekend. Then she endorsed her Dem opponent.
But even before her pullout from the race, the prospect of a mainstream New York politician getting pilloried by some in her own party as a radical offered proof to some that the Republican Party was about to head off a cliff. "Head up them lemmings, Tex!"
"Move 'em out Lefty!"
Writing in Sunday's New York Times Frank Rich said he hopes the trend picks up. His calculation is that the more rightists winning Republican primaries, the greater the Democrats' political chances in 2010:
...it's even better for Democrats if Hoffman wins. Punch-drunk with this triumph, the right will redouble its support of primary challengers to 2010 G.O.P. candidates they regard as impure. That's bad news for even a Republican as conservative as Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose primary opponent in the Texas governor's race, the incumbent Rick Perry, floated the possibility of secession at a teabagger rally in April and hastily endorsed Hoffman on Thursday.
Why oh why do they insist on being so vulgar? It really doesn't make them them look anything like clever.
There's no doubt that conservatives feel this could be their moment. With Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck leading the charge, Hoffman has become the cause c"l"bre for the party's base. The hard right activist, Richard Viguerie, went so far as to put the Republican establishment on notice and declare that ascension the "tea Party activists" now represent the face of "the New GOP." Like Rich, he's reading much into the moment. I think there's a lot there to be read, but I don't think it's something all that hopeful for the GOP, certainly not for the establishment. The Pubs were kicked out for pretending they were Dems -- trying to "govern from the center." Once the Contract with American had been mostly (not completely) finished it settled down to politix as usual, McCain playing the same role Bob Dole had been thrust into ten or twelve years before. McCain got the nomination because the field was perceived as going through the motions of being conservative. They couldn't all be Ronald Reagan, and none of them were really long on original ideas. I did get a good snicker about Johnnie being a "foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution," though.
No disrespect to the inhabitants of Watertown, but that rural outpost is only important to so many right now because the contestants have become proxies for bigger forces. So it was that Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit on Monday to stump for Owens and urge voters to teach a lesson to conservative "absolutists" in the special House election. Biden might as well have stayed home, though his eyes won't be blacked like Noot's and (sadly, because he should know better) Mike Steele's.
After getting assailed for months by activists associated with Beck's 9/12 Project, Biden and the rest of the Democratic leadership would like nothing better than to flip things around and promote the image of hysterical radical right wing Republicans, raging at minorities, government and hidden left-wing conspiracies. For the liberals, that's the equivalent of a hanging slider. What we don't know is whether they're good enough to handle that kind of heat. They're not. There's a qualitative difference between the Tea Party movement and the astroturfing that Dems are best at.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Jim Geraghty, "The Campaign Spot" @ National Review
More than 10,000 people turned out Monday night for a North Houston Tea Party Patriots gathering to protest proposed health care reform and what they called big government spending and overzealous government leadership, according to preliminary attendance figures.
Is there nothing MSNBC can't spin? A graphic on Tuesday's Morning Meeting hopefully announced, "NY-23: Win-Win For Dems?" Apparently, even if Democrats lose the special congressional election in New York to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, it will just show how extreme the Republican Party has become.
Amidst the stunning events in New York's 23rd congressional district -- with Republican-turned-independent Doug Hoffman suddenly surging to the front and likely to win today's race -- collateral damage has been suffered by some of the GOP's presidential hopefuls who misread the race and the mood of the Republican electorate.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist didn't have as bad a week as Dede Scozzafava, the up-state New York RINO who pulled out of the congressional race there because of increasing pressure from the conservative independent candidate and his supporters. But things are steadily unraveling for Crist, the Florida RINO who wants to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 against conservative former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio.
Republican Robert F. McDonnell is off to a sizable early lead in the race for Virginia governor based on the early exit polls, but it is too soon to call the contest. 
The Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday prematurely ran a Macy's advertisement congratulating the Philadelphia Phillies for winning the World Series. The New York Yankees, who still lead the series, may have something to say about that. 
