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A note to Goodluck: please do not post large images in the comments. They mess with our formatting. Plus, these images have links back to sources that could (potentially) get us into copyright trouble.

I've deleted several from the comments this morning. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

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Posted by: || 09/19/2010 09:05 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In general, it's also rue to the people posting the image. They're paying for the bandwidth, and they get almost nothing for it from Rantburg readers.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 09/19/2010 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Sorry, will not happen again -- Goodluck
Posted by: Goodluck || 09/19/2010 11:32 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Massive, nationwide vote fraud is the among the most rotten fruit of ACORN-type activism
Since passage in 1993 of the National Voter Registration Act - aka "Motor Voter" - by the Democratic Congress that led to the 1994 GOP takeover, ACORN and a bunch of other radical liberal activists groups, many financed by George Soros, have been steadily growing their ability to increase vote counts for their candidates by stuffing ballot boxes with illegal votes on election day.

To get just a taste of how deeply devious the Left's tactics are in subverting elections, check out this report by Leo Vaquez, the Harris County, Texas, Voter Registrar. Here's a partial list from that report of the many ways one leftist group, Houston Votes, has tried to register thousands of illegal voters in recent months:
  • Houston Votes has turned in 25,640 applications.
  • Houston Votes applications have generated 7,193 "new" voter records.
  • Houston Votes applications have generated 3,531 applications which were rejected by the SOS for failure to match TDL/SSN.
    Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Has anyone else noticed that the United States started goint to hell in 1993 when Clinton was elected president? And we've never recovered. The US is almost unrecognizable to me today.
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 || 09/19/2010 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Oops, that would be going to hell.
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 || 09/19/2010 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Majority media's narrative: Bush "stole" the 2004 election. Reality: nothing of the sort.

Majority media's attention to the genuine, widespread, fraud undertaken by the Democrats for years and through serial elections: nothing.

And these shameless and duplicitous arseholes have the cheek to also push the line that the minority neutral media is biased.
Posted by: Bulldog || 09/19/2010 5:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Recently, analysis of voter rolls and castings in Minnesota showed that unqualified felons probably turned the election. The Secretary of State (D) in New Mexico wants to make sure that such nasty truths don't come out in her state.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/19/2010 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  This has nothing to do with Clinton and everything to do with Soros
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/19/2010 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  One only has to look at the Washington State Governor election a few years ago (04?) where they kept re-counting (and finding ballots) until the democrat won.

Al-Franklin owes his seat to these tactics.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/19/2010 9:30 Comments || Top||

#7  These statistics are just for Houston. When you start considering blue state cities such as Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., Detroit, San Francisco, Lost Angeles, Philadelphia, etc. there is a real problem of a vast left wing conspiracy to manipulate votes and to engage in systematic voter fraud.

How do we insure our elections aren't like Afghanistan, Zimbabwee, Somali, etc.? This is a huge threat to the freedoms of the U.S.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/19/2010 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Let's cut through the mythology of Posse Commitatus. It was passed at the end of Reconstruction not to protect the citizens liberty, but rather to remove the hated bluebelly who stood watch at election stations in the south that insured blacks could exercise their rights under the 15th Amendment to vote. Once the troops left, blacks lost their rights and votes for nearly a hundred years. Remember its not who votes which counts, but who counts the votes. However, keep the pressure up and keep the spot light on and soon a enough Americans will realize that the government is no longer legitimate. Once that sense takes hold, all the efforts and all the machinations to get the power will only result in its dissolution. Someone mentioned that Americans were ungovernable. To a certain extent he was right. Too many refuse to be ruled. Americans can be lead, and mislead, but only for so long as they 'believe'. Once you kill that belief in the vision or legitimacy, it all comes tumbling down to a sorry ineffective inefficient graft laden world in which the people 'in power' are fighting over a carcass. Then someone will step forward to fill the power vacuum.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/19/2010 12:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Systematic voting fraud is the main issue. Remember fraud does not have to occur in every state, just in the closely-contested ones &/or the ones with an infrastructure which has been successful at fraud in the past (i.e., Illinois). If voting is lopsided, fraud is a bit harder to pull off.
it all comes tumbling down to a sorry ineffective inefficient graft laden world in which the people 'in power' are fighting over a carcass. Then someone will step forward to fill the power vacuum. That may not mean what you think it does. Our financial oligarchy is making out like the bandits they are. Our economy is inefficient and graft-laden, but the carcass is still extremely valuable, and there is no power vacuum.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/19/2010 14:35 Comments || Top||

#10  You ain't seen nothing yet. All the previous election had apolitical Justice Department.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/19/2010 14:40 Comments || Top||

#11  Our economy is inefficient and graft-laden, but the carcass is still extremely valuable, and there is no power vacuum.

Oh really. They're getting close in California. The interesting part is when mobility is constricted and you become simply a tax serf tied to either physical or virtual land of the lord. That's when, as the Chinese would say, you'll live in interesting times.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/19/2010 15:30 Comments || Top||

#12  you become simply a tax serf

Yup, a worker bee to support the likes of queen bees such as queen nancy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/19/2010 17:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Remember fraud does not have to occur in every state, just in the closely-contested ones &/or the ones with an infrastructure which has been successful at fraud in the past

Or a state with a significant number of Electoral College votes.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/19/2010 21:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama blasts Republicans for blocking campaign finance rules
[Bangla Daily Star] US President Barack B.O. Obama yesterday accused Republicans of blocking stricter campaign finance rules he believes are necessary after a Supreme Court ruling lifting caps on corporate donations.
Oddly enough, the Republicans do not believe as he does, which is why they are blocking the president's latest desire. I do realize such a difference of opinion is inconceivable to the dear man, but nonetheless it is so.
Obama's criticism came six weeks ahead of legislative elections that will determine how much room for political maneuver the president will have in the second half of his four-year term.
Think how much he'll complain then, if we hear this much when his party controls both Houses of Congress and the presidency.
In a decision announced on January 21, the US Supreme Court said that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in elections could not be limited under the First Amendment to the constitution.

"Now, as an election approaches, it's not just a theory," the president said. "We can see for ourselves how destructive to our democracy this can become. We see it in the flood of deceptive attack ads sponsored by special interests using front groups with misleading names."
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Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Funny how they only want require disclosure by Corporations. Not Unions, or Environmental groups, or any of the multitude of Soros funded groups.

This wouldn't be too bad of bad idea - if *everyone* had to disclose their 'root' funding. But they only want *their* special interest groups to have a say.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/19/2010 13:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Ohh, if this isn't an "it's not fair" ad, I don't know what is.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 09/19/2010 21:07 Comments || Top||


John Boehner: the second of 12 kids from Ohio who is Barack Obama's elitist target
The White House is attempting to cling on to Democratic control of Washington by portraying an Ohio congressman who grew up in near poverty as an elitist country club Republican controlled by wealthy lobbyists.
Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  wow, he's a "person of colour (tan)", smokes and plays golf. The bastard!

perhaps Preznit Dipshit could look in the mirror before he steps in it any deeper
Posted by: Frank G || 09/19/2010 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  On the I-75 freeway outside Cincinnati, a huge poster showing a tanned Mr Boehner playing golf accuses him of teeing off 119 times in a year.

119 times he teed off? That would be about 10, eighteen hole golf games. Less than one per month. If the data is factual, that would mean some donk operative is following after Boehner trying to dig up dirt.

BTW How you do'in Mr. Obama how are you and the Mrs. enjoying the taxpayer's money?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/19/2010 14:33 Comments || Top||

#3  The comment by Boehner's sister is the best: "If all they can find on him is that he plays golf and he has a tan, well, whatever."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/19/2010 14:40 Comments || Top||

#4  accuseshim of teeing off 119 times in a year.

How many of those games were work-related? An awful lot of decisions happen during golf games and business dinners. One segment of the capital-F Feminists have waxed exceedingly indignant over that fact over the years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/19/2010 15:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Boehner tees off only 119 times a year? He's a piker.

I get teed off at the Dems more times that that in a month.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/19/2010 15:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Actually...it would be 6.6 rounds of golf. 119 tee offs divided by 18 holes per round is: 6.61...
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 09/19/2010 16:14 Comments || Top||

#7  SAM, I stand corrected.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/19/2010 17:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Once every 1.8 months he goes out for a game of golf? Not much.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/19/2010 17:26 Comments || Top||


Dem Congresswoman's Supporters Stage Participate in 'Palin-As-Hitler' Rally
A video showing protesters outside an Americans For Prosperity event has surfaced on the internet. It shows the protestors with signs depicting Sarah Palin and Glenn beck with Hitler mustaches and the label "Naz-Tea Party" over their pictures. Also depicted as Hitler is GOP candidate Adam Kinzinger running against Rep. Debbie Halvorson (IL-D) in the 11th District in Illinois.
This is my district. This occurred in Joliet which is just a little west of where I live. Had I known I would have been there with a video-cam myself.
As protests go, it's a bit limp and poorly attended, but the offensive and inflammatory signs certainly grab your attention. What makes this video so compelling is what it shows after the protest.

Once the scene breaks up, a handful of the protesters, including one gentleman in a striped shirt who is earlier seen leading the group in a chant, walk two blocks away and enter a well-lit office. So well-lit that you can see them chatting and you can clearly make out their faces as the same people who had just participated in the protest.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bill Clinton is on Face the Nation this a.m. He referred to the Tea Party as an "insurgency." WTF? Insurgency is used to refer to jihadist, Mohammedans, islamicists, etc.---People who kill and blow up things.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/19/2010 10:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Thought Bill Clinton's definition of Insurgency was: The act of placing your unit into a warm place, even while under the Oval Office table, since it has never had such refuge in 20 years.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 09/19/2010 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Their name calling is getting diminishing returns.

"RACIST", "KKK", "NAZI", "FASCIST", and "HITLER" just isn't getting the same bang for the buck anymore.

Particularly when people point out, with proof, that those terms apply more to the Democratic Party than Conservatives.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/19/2010 12:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Definition of INSURGENCY

1: the quality or state of being insurgent; specifically : a condition of revolt against a government that is less than an organized revolution and that is not recognized as belligerency

Sounds about right to me at this point.
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 || 09/19/2010 14:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Definition of REVOLT

1: a renouncing of allegiance (as to a government or party); especially : a determined armed uprising

2: a movement or expression of vigorous dissent

Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 || 09/19/2010 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Saw where O'Donnell supposedly appeared on the weazel Bill Maher show in 1999. Bob Schieffer on CBSNew's Face the Nation showed a clip from 1999 where O'Donnell mentioned something about witchcraft. Schieffer seemed a little embarassed to mention this. Maher was probably ecstatic to find this in the archives. The comment by O'Donnell seemed innocent enough and taken out of context. Probably she was dressed up as a witch when she was 6 years old on Halloween or some B.S. such as that. Mrs. John QC said the donks are desperate if that's all they got.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/19/2010 14:40 Comments || Top||

#7  NPR also calls the Tea Party an Insurgency.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/19/2010 19:46 Comments || Top||

#8  By NPR's normal definition of things, that would make the TEA Partiers the "freedom fighters" and NPR itself "the mouthpiece of the oppressors".
Posted by: eLarson || 09/19/2010 20:57 Comments || Top||



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