If you have not already done so, please take the necessary time today to go to the polls and vote.
Our country depends on it.
Thank you.
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11/02/2010 00:00 ||
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Dunno about everyone else, but I'm pretty fired up. I cast a straight party ticket (R) on the second day of early voting here in Texas, two weeks ago.
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My family and I join all of you in voting a straight Republican ticket. It will be interesting to see what happens in Wichita between Pompeo and Goyle over Todd Tiahart's seat in Congress.
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Those of you in Ohio: John Kasich's running mate, State Auditor Mary Taylor, used to be a CPA in private practice. I shared several clients with her, and I always found her to be intelligent, professional, smart as a whip, and very pleasant to work with. Please consider voting for her.
(If that's not a good enough reason, Gov. Strickland is mad as a hatter, he's Jimmy Carter without the peanuts.)
Posted by: Mike ||
11/02/2010 11:05 Comments ||
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is it considered voting straight R if there was only one election on the ballot? Combined my morning exercise with my Constitutional duties by walking to the polling location.
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Voted 2 hours ago in Minnesota. To all 'burgers:
Vote early. Vote often. They can't cheat if it isn't close.
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
11/02/2010 11:59 Comments ||
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I did NOT vote a straight R ticket. I'm in Colorado, so I had to veer off and go Tancredo for Gov (instead of that self-centered idiot crook Dan Maes).
Everyone - try to call peopel you know, even if they are in a ntoher state, and encoruage them to get out and vote - and for them to call others as well. Especially if you know someone in Colorado - we need all the help we can get for Ken Buck, Ryan Frazier and Tom Tancredo.
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kansas should be all red. Keep an eye on Kobach who should be the new Sec. of State. He helped write the Arizonia law and is running on a strong voter ID platform. Also, several of Sebelius's court appointments are up for confirmation and we hope to kick their asses out, esp. Biere who is a combination of Kagan and Sotomoyer.
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Just keep in mind: due to high expected turnout, today is Election Day for Republicans and Independents **ONLY**. For Democrats, Election Day is tomorrow, Wednesday, November 3rd. Your cooperation is appreciated.
Posted by: Dave D. ||
11/02/2010 12:52 Comments ||
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Warty-Wifal unit and I voted straight (R) also. Although in Kalifornia...we're strangers in a strange land. I'll be watching Katie Couric tonight in the hopes she has a break down on air...getting the popcorn and champagne ready...would love to her her have to say "Christine O'Donnell - Senator elect" followed by Carly Fiorina (Almost an anagram for California BTW) and Meg
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I voted for Roy Blunt (R) over Carnahan in Missouri. Anyone unopposed I didn't vote for. I was a little bit more picky on the state level, even voted for a Dem. Voted against every judge, and every proposition that would increase taxes.
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Voted this morning on the way to work (I never leave it until after work in case I get stuck working overtime - that's a holdover from the days when I worked 7 to 3 and could get held for a half-shift longer). The only signs around the polling place were for Cantor (though he did have 2 opponents); the only person there for a candidate was a nice, non-pushy lady for Cantor. I liked the fact that he put on a regular campaign, even though he was a shoo-in. I've met him a couple of times, and he seems like a pretty good guy.
Voted for Eric Cantor for U.S. Representative; the only other things on the ballot were some state constitutional amendments (voted both for and against, depending).
One of the constitutional amendments was to allow the "Rainy Day" fund to be larger than it presently can be. Well, duh.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
11/02/2010 19:22 Comments ||
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done here in Santee, and my Army son is home on two-week leave and got get his vote counted (unlike so many in uniform). Two "I'm not sure if I'm registered here" got their ID's checked and provisional ballots given out...
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/02/2010 19:46 Comments ||
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Almost straight ticket (R) in Caliphornia, except for the turn-coat Abel Maldonado. I went Libertarian for the Lt. Govenor.
I was pleased to be asked for ID (for ounce) and said so. The volunteer indicated that some were objecting to the "intrusion". Wondered if any had to leave and come back.
The U.S. mid-term elections on Tuesday are expected to have an immediate effect on Korea policy even before the 112th U.S. Congress opens in January.
The moment the results are out, President Barack Obama will deliver his government's final position on the free trade agreement to Korea. The deal, concluded in 2008, has been stuck in the parliaments of the two countries since.
The Obama administration will study the profiles of senators and representatives in the new Congress before deciding whether it is feasible for it to ratify the FTA, diplomats in Washington said.
"The Obama administration will present an optimal suggestion to Seoul before the G20 summit opens there depending on the election results," a diplomat there said.
If the Republicans regain majority control of the House of Representatives, Democratic Rep. Sander Levin, who has vehemently opposed the Korea-U.S. FTA, will step down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which handles the FTA bill, and will probably succeeded by Republican Rep. David Camp, a trade liberalist. That would make it easier to win ratification of the bill.
And if the Republicans regain control of the Senate as well, it would be possible to see the FTA ratified by Congress early next year and the deal to come into effect in the second half of next year.
A Republican sweep would also affect other areas of Korea policy. The Republican Party has traditionally valued Korea-U.S. relations and is also likely to will buttress the alliance that Obama has strengthened.
Being traditionally more hawkish, the Republicans are likely urge the Obama administration to be tough on North Korea and put it back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism if they gain control. Cuban-born Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has been named by the Republicans as the new chairwoman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, is going to submit a bill on this to the new Congress as soon as it opens.
A congressional staffer said the North could easily be put back on the blacklist given its attack on the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan and an assassination attempt on former North Korean Workers Party secretary Hwang Jang-yop, who defected to South Korea and died in early October this year, as well as because of exports of weapons of mass destruction and related materials.
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The major players in the various CHINA SEAS TERRITORIAL DISPUTES are nominally in favor of select disputed islands being converted into SEZS-EEZS for Regional = "Globalist" Trade.
BIG KAHUNA = SOVEREIGN STATUS OF OKINAWA/RYUKYUS [Why yes, that Okinawa!], as China is repor open to Same, or an OKI INDEPENDENT = SEPARATE FROM JAPAN, FOR PURPOSES OF DE-REGULATED FREE TRADE + AS LONG AS CHINA'S MERCHANT, PLAN WARSHIPS + COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT ARE GRANTED DOCK/LANDING RIGHTS THERE.
E.g. Vietnam + RUSSIA, INDIA + US NAVY RIGHTS, ETC. BUT NOT CHINA???
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* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > US STATE DEPT.US BACKS JAPAN ON ISLANDS DISPUTE [Kurils] WID RUSSIA. Hillary.
* WMF > [FM Spokeman]CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY: US MUST CHANGE ITS POSITION THAT THE US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY [Mutual Defense] APPLIES TO DAOYUS. CHINESE REJECTION OF US DIPLOMATIC ATTEMPT TO MEDIATE SINO-JAPAN DAOYUS DISPUTE.
The world is not a gentle place. You can either choose to influence events or allow events to influence you.
I remember an over million man Army in the early 70s, watched it drop to 950,00, then to 750,000, then to 480,000. The most expensive thing in the defense budget is personnel, to include carrying all the cost of the retirees. None of which seems to concern the author. Move those retiree costs to another department and watch the significant drop in 'defense' outlays. Those are previously pledged obligations for services already rendered.
As the US Federal Reserve meets today to decide whether its next blast of quantitative easing should be $1 trillion or a more cautious $500bn, it does so knowing that China and the emerging world view the policy as an attempt to drive down the dollar.
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Immediate devaluing of the dollar means an immediate jump in the cost of imported energy resources with ramifications throughout the economy. Welcome to the double digit inflation 70s kiddies. The 'best and brightest' aren't.
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The negative is that Congress, the courts, and the media have obstructed 'drill, baby, drill' and 'build, baby, build [nukes]' since the 70s. Had we shifted a far greater part of our energy requirements to domestic sources, the overall impact upon the country would have made this a viable act. In absence of that preparation, it's going to compound with the taxes and government regulation to strangle the economy further. How does a businessman plan ahead when the rate of inflation is increasing and indeterminable in its end. Throw in the 'automatic' cost of living increases for social security et al and there is no budget, just printing more and more money.
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Inflation is NOT the answer. "Quantitative Easing" just another doublespeak term for a tax-hike without voting for a tax-hike. Manufactured inflation will really hurt the poor and move some "Middle-Class" into the poor house. Fuel and energy price jump, sustenance price jump, and more slowing of the economy.
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..and watch 'trade barriers' of various forms and definitions arise against those American exports. See where all that concern in the Beltway for everyone but America's economy gets you now that you've started to play the game they've played for so long.
...Obama has certainly descended a long way from his Grecian Temple of November, 2008, to being called Dude by comedian Jon Stewart and appearing on programs like Myth Busters and doing the Ryan Seacrest show. Whats next? Bowling for Dollars? Wheel of Fortune? Maybe if they allow him to use a teleprompter, Obama can participate on Celebrity Jeopardy!
The Office of the Presidency has been thoroughly trashed well beyond that of the Jimmy Carter administration. All we need now is for a scene of Obama being chased by a Tea Party rabbit....
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11/02/2010 11:08 ||
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Would that be The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, with nasty, big, pointy teeth?
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When you sell hope and hot air and let people fill in their own details eventually they'll feel let down when the details don't arrive as promised. The Obama Presidency is somewhat instructive on how to get elected but not stay in office.
The liberal residents of Manhattan and Brooklyn aren't looking forward to the midterm results tonight. Many of them have only just recovered from their Halloween partying and are still trying to shrug off that lingering post-hangover depression. The New York Times is bravely trying to raise their spirits, pointing out that midterm defeats don't stop presidents being handsomely re-elected. So that's a straw progressive voters can cling on to, however bad the news. But will they be rushing to election-night parties? You must be kidding. Maybe they'll head off to a bar to watch the results and let out a lukewarm cheer when Andrew Sonny Cuomo is elected governor or the Democrats fail to lose their Senate majority. Then again, they could do with an early night after the weekend.
In a trendy bar in SoHo, a young writer told me that some of his friends in New Hampshire were so revolted by the antics of the Tea Partiers that "they just don't see any alternative to moving to Manhattan, an island of sanity". Well, good luck with that, because it's also an island of astronomical rents. Still, if they've got a couple of million dollars to spare, some of those brownstone apartments are fetching significantly less than they were before the financial crisis. New York may be insulated from the icy winds blowing down Main Street, but in some quarters there's serious anxiety about Wall Street's long-term health.
If New York is psychologically unprepared for an enemy surge tonight, it's even less willing to contemplate what could happen to its "island of sanity" if its prosperity evaporates. No one has a clue, says a business analyst who has been reporting on Wall Street for 30 years. "A return to the crime and ethnic tensions of the 1970s? Not likely, since the city isn't divided along neat ethnic lines any more. New York could fragment, but it's not knowing how it would fragment that's so nerve-racking."
And, he adds -- but in a low voice, because you have to be careful about dissing Barack B.O. Obama in SoHo -- the uncertainty isn't helped by the fact that the President increasingly strikes even sympathetic voters as a remote and elusive figure. Belief in his powers is patchy, even in Manhattan. Wealthy psychologists on the Upper West Side think he'll outwit a hostile Congress as masterfully as he pushed through healthcare reform (or, at least, the one I met yesterday thought that). And radical students who rallied for Obama in 2008 were on the streets of the East Village yesterday trying to revive the spirit of two years ago. The pedestrians didn't give their flyers a second glance. Too hung over, perhaps.
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11/02/2010 10:45 ||
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Uh oh. Sounds like a mutant strain of BDS has returned. And I'll bet they thought they had eliminated it once and for all.
Wait'll Palin gets in and dusts off the Escape From New York idea. Heh heh heh heh...
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In a trendy bar in SoHo, a young writer told me that some of his friends in New Hampshire were so revolted by the antics of the Tea Partiers that "they just don't see any alternative to moving to Manhattan, an island of sanity".
What antics? The fact that they had the audacity to question the elite political class? If Manhattan is an island of sanity, give me insanity.
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..were so revolted by the antics of the Tea Partiers that "they just don't see any alternative to moving to Manhattan, an island of sanity".
Back to the fish bowl of unreality. Next stop they can follow their trail of their Royalists predecessors. In today's case, their Euro Socialists brethren back to good old Europe.
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Speaking of fish bowels...
I propose an experiment. Take two towns, each with the resources needed for basics, food, water, power, etc. and fill one with socialists and the other with people willing to work in a capitalist society. Make it a reality TV show and watch each town and see how it makes itself work.
My vote is the socialist one will collapse before the end of the TV season because no one outside the "fish bowel" will pay for the benefits.
Finally, it's time to vote. But there's a full day left to wait for results. In the meantime, here are three dominant political themes for the days ahead.
One, the Republican wave gained serious momentum over the last three days and could be a tsunami. Two, the divisions within the Republican Party may be just a prelude to what happens starting this week. And three, President B.O. appears ready to offer up the same explanation he's given after past setbacks: voters don't understand what he's doing and that's why they don't like it.
A series of data points moved the needle back closer to panic for Senate Democrats over the weekend and through Monday. Indicators in virtually every close race for Democratic-held seats -- Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania -- moved those contests toward the Republican. And in Washington, last minutes polls made clear that Sen. Patty Murray will have to sweat it out Tuesday night, possibly keeping the entire nation waiting to see who controls the Senate. The two remaining wild cards are West Virginia and Alaska. Polls tightened in the Mountaineer state, and Republican Joe Miller got a much-needed dose of good news Monday in the form of a Public Policy Polling survey that showed him with 37 points to 30 points for both Sen. Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski and Democrat Scott McAdams.
It seemed over the weekend as if a Senate takeover for Republicans was out of the question. But on Election Day, the energy is going to the right in a big way and no one knows how far that goes. That said, polls close in West Virginia at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and that will tell us a lot. If Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin can't pull that race out despite holding a few point-edge in polls (Nate Silver of the New York Times gives him an 88 percent chance of winning), it's going to be a very long night for Democrats.
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11/02/2010 10:45 ||
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Defeat is Victory, Treason is Patriotism, the Mafia is the Law and Courts, and John McCain is a Traitor whose allowed to run for high political office, including for POTUS, but just not allowed to win the Presidency for good of the Naval Service and National Security.
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"...Rachel's Tomb [is] an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories and that any unilateral action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation of international law."
WHAT international law!
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I'm so sick of this total and complete farce. Israel should declare the gaza strip and west bank states, and on their next terror attack, utterly destroy them an annex them back, kicking out EVERYONE and putting an end to this moronic play of arab inferiority.
This dishonest shell game has got to stop. We live in a time where cable TV rules and satellite radio is all over the place.
If PBS and NPR have good product, there are plenty of places for it in the private sector. Let these people compete for their dollars. I will miss seeing the Drifters performing on fundraisers every two months, but I'll bite the bullet. No more public funding, please.
A number of Republicans on Capitol Hill say they will introduce legislation to defund public broadcasting. That will probably pass.
But President Obama will, I believe, veto the attempt. After all, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a liberal cathedral, and the president will not want to disturb the service.
Posted by: Fred ||
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Cut off NPR from public money if they are going to be idealogues and promote a radical left agenda.
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We're broke. Can't afford luxuries to just give the appearance of nothings wrong. NPR, PBS, National Endowments for Arts, Sciences, etc. Pew Grants [if you want college funding check the GI Bill], various welfare for the intellectually gifted. It goes on and on. Watch an entire strata [mostly the 'elites'] scream bloody murder.
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