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The SEIU, Harry Reid, And Voting Problems – Voting Machines are maintained by the UNIONS in Nevada!
Did you know that the SEIU represents the voting machine technicians in Clark County Las Vegas, Nevada? Is it any surprise, as we noted earlier today, that there was a voting glitch in Clark County, Nevada? The glitch caused Harry Reid’s name to be automatically checked on the ballot before voters had indicated who were they were supporting.
According to Joyce Ferrara who was an eyewitness to this strange ballot ordeal, the problem was widespread, “One person that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five minute period of time — that’s wrong.”It is particularly troubling that Clark County has put the uber left-wing SEIU Local 1107 in charge of their voting machines.
The agreement between the SEIU and Clark County specifically puts all voting machines under the control of the SEIU. See the collective bargaining agreement:
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Court Halts North Carolina Internet Tax Scheme Court Slaps Big Brother.
Taxpayers and First Amendment advocates won a huge victory yesterday when a U.S. District Court ruled that North Carolina could not collect detailed and private information about online shoppers to pursue them for tax collection.Beginning last year, the North Carolina Department of Revenue DOR sent letters to online retailer Amazon.com demanding that the company provide “all information” about in-state customers and their nearly 50 million purchases.
This included names, addresses, products purchased with descriptions, and more. The state DOR would then target those residents and force them to pay “use tax” on the purchased goods. Yet, a federal court in Seattle has now ruled such “reporting requirements” unconstitutional…
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Facebook’s Child Porn Subculture Baffles Executives, Challenges Parents
Without doubt, the Internet has wormed its series of blissful tubes throughout our lives. It’s what we check in the morning, what we look at during the day, what entertains us at night. It provides news, products, business opportunities, conversation, relationships, self-promotion and endless distraction. An entire generation is growing up having never known a time without the Internet.
Parental reaction is swinging the pendulum of opinion from luddite to addicts themselves.One thing most involved parents will agree on is the unparalleled role this technology has in our kids’ lives, social networking sites in particular. With choices such as MySpace, Twitter, Xanga, Tumblr and the mother of all, Facebook–it’s rare to find an unplugged teen.Many parents are content to simply regulate time spent online, sometimes check content to monitor behavior. But, all should be concerned about online safety. Facebook specifically bills itself as a safe site.
Yet, after a series of busts and multi-state investigations, the underbelly of both MySpace and Facebook were exposed.While both attempted to scrub the sites of any child-exploitative material, Fox News revealed that child predators still thrive on Facebook after concluding an exclusive investigation.Currently, the site filters content by key words that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children NCMEC has found to be linked to child pornography. According to “cybersecurity experts,” this should flag most offensive material found on the site.
Most.Fox reports:During a 90-minute phone interview with Facebook spokesman Simon Axten and the company’s chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, the two executives were guided by FoxNews.com through the site’s seamy subculture – an encounter that left Sullivan sounding dumbfounded, unaware of and unable to explain the extremely graphic content on the site.Excerpt Read more at newsrealblog.com …
Shots at Pentagon, Marine Museum From Same Gun
“Authorities have determined that the shots fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and the Pentagon earlier this month were fired from the same weapon, the FBI announced.
The FBI opened an investigation into those shooting and one that occurred overnight at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Chantilly, Va.”
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Sex workers in rural Spain are being forced to wear yellow fluorescent safety vests while renting their bodies in traffic or pay a fine.
Geert Wilders Is Undermining Dutch Jurisprudence – President Of The Supreme Court Says So
Andrew Bostom has published an excellent piece on the recent comments made by Geert Corstens, The President of the Netherlands Supreme Court. Corstens photo above alleges that accused Parliamentarian Geert Wilders is “undermining Dutch jurisprudence”. From Bostom’s article:“Geert Corstens, President of the Netherlands Supreme Court, maintains in Orwellian fashion that Dutch Parliamentarian leader Geert Wilders is “undermining” Dutch jurisprudence.
[Hat tip Fjordman]As reported here,Critical statements on jurisprudence such as Wilders has made during the proceedings against him have an “undermining” effect on jurisprudence, particularly as the leader of the PVV [Wilders’ Party for Freedom] is also still a parliamentarian, according to Corstens. MPs should contribute to the stability of the constitutional state, said the president on television programme Buitenhof. This past Friday 10/22/10, because the three sitting judges evidenced unacceptable bias, a special chamber of the Amsterdam district court ruled that the ongoing case against Wilders must be restarted with a different panel of judges.
During a dinner in May 2010, Tom Schalken, one of the judges who gave the order to the Public Prosecutor’s Office OM to prosecute Wilders, attempted to persuade Islamologist Professor Hans Jansen, an expert witness for Wilders’ defense, that the Dutch MP was guilty. Specifically, Jansen insists,…over and over [Schalken] steered the conversation towards the Wilders trial… to convince me of the correctness of his [Schalken’s] decision to drag Wilders to court.And now another “objective” jurist—the President of the Netherlands Supreme Court himself—has made plain his own hideous bias proclaiming that Wilders defense of freedom of speech, let alone fair legal proceedings, somehow undermines Dutch “jurisprudence.”…”Yes, indeedy. The hooks of Islam are sunken deeply into the highest levels of the Dutch legal system.The best analogy that comes to my mind is this:
JUST HOW MANY CROOKS ARE THERE IN GOVERNMENT? HOW MANY CAN WE OUST NEXT WEEK? by Ron Ewart
JUST HOW MANY CROOKS ARE THERE IN GOVERNMENT? HOW MANY CAN WE OUST NEXT WEEK?
by Ron Ewart
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” – David Brin
The Founding Fathers went to great lengths to limit the buildup of centralized power. First, they limited the powers of the federal government to 17 enumerated powers, as delineated in Article I, Section 8 of the U. S. Constitution. They went even further to limit centralized power by establishing the “Separation of Powers” doctrine, such that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government were designed to hold each of the other branches in check. But the final check on centralized power came in the form of the 9th and 10th Amendments, granting ALL OTHER rights and powers to the states and the people.
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Election Fraud Worries Already Rampant: Widespread Reports Of Machines Flipping Votes
Significant errors with voting machines have already begun to surface across the country, prompting fears that fraud could once again be a deciding factor in the elections this November.Fox News 5 reports that voters in Boulder City, Las Vegas have already experienced dubious errors with the machines.“Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked.” the report states.
The incident was not an isolated one, with several voters encountering the same problem within minutes of each other.Officials blamed the malfunctions on the machine’s “sensitive” screens and discounted any notion of fraud.Similar problems have also been reported in North Carolina. With rumours of voting problems in several counties.The New Bern Sun Journal reports:“Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff.”“They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the Republicans came up and I voted.”In this instance officials said that the machine needed to be “re-calibrated”.
This error seems to be somewhat common, however, the machines do not display an error message when they need to be calibrated, the simply complete ballots for the opposite party.
EARLY VOTING OR VOTING ON NOV. 2ND? BRING A CAMERA!!!
There have already been several reports of voter fraud & irregularities in several states. N CAROLINA:
I VOTED REPUBLICAN AND MACHINE CHECKED DEMOCRAT… Video of voting glitch in Texas that switches votes.
Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At PollsWe all know what happened in Philladelphia in 2008 with the Black Panthers…
No matter if you are early voting or voting on Nov. 2nd Take a camera or a smart phone to domcument what happens. If something does end up happening video will be the key.
Only 14% Prefer Government-Regulated Economy Over Free Market Americans not ready for Obamunism
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of Likely U.S. Voters think a free market economy is better than an economy managed by the government.
There is also a strong belief that more competition and less regulation would be better for the economy and job creation.
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NEVADA BALLOTS PREMARKED FOR REID!
Matt Drudge has this up as his banner in red. Ballots ALREADY MARKED for Harry Reid!
Prescription for Economic Crisis and Restoring America…
Prescription for Economic Crisis and Restoring America
RE-INSTATE Glass-Steagall Act
REPEAL The Sarbanes-Oxley Act-
REPEAL NAFTA –
BAN DERIVATIVES!-
Place a Tobin Tax on traders who wreck our system by taxing all trades over 1 million (tax the banksters and take the profit out of their crime)
Audit the Federal Reserve
End the Federal Reserve
STOP ALL DEBT BASED MONEY SYSTEMS
Institute by Congress as per the Constitution, a Gold, Silver, Commodity, and limited fiat currency with no debt attached system.
Prosecute the banksters for treason and sedition. (Bernanke, tiny Tim Geightner, Henry Pauslon, Kash & Karri, and others
If they can not be prosecuted, institute Margue and Reprisal with Delta Force and SEAL Teams, and rendition them to Guantanamo Bay for life in detention for financial terrorism
TARRIFFS- Pass legislation to impose a 50% Tariff on goods and services from China and other countries.
STOP ALL WELFARE to illegal aliens (undocumented workers)
Bring the troops home from around the world and place them on the border, starting with Arizona, implement Marque and Reprisal on Mexican drug dealers
STOP carbon TAX agenda at local levels as well as in Congress
All States should implement a State Bank similar to what North
Dakota has been doing for the last 100 years or so.(one of the few states with a surplus)
Cut taxes in half immediately- and phase out taxes and the IRS
America and Americans will prosper!
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Americans take heart!
Toronto, Bastion of Canada’s progressive socialism fell to conservatism last night
By Judi McLeod Full Story
Take heart, American Patriots everywhere! Figurative bells began ringing out from the bellwether City of Toronto last night, sounding the clarion call: “Progressives beware!”
For the first time that anybody could remember the penny-pinching, small c conservative Councillor Rob Ford is now Toronto mayor.
Toronto has long been Canada’s center of progressive politics and far left activists had come to regard it as a lock-down state.
“Gravy train” of graft, corruption, bribes, and becoming a wealthy, career government leader with power; it must end or the country will
It’s Term Limits or Certain Slow Death for America
By Jerry McConnell Full Story
Most, if not all, the grief, antagonism, misconduct, lies, corruption, cheating, intimidation, bribery, and other ailments short of hang-nails and diarrhea on the political scene here in our country can be solved by doing just ONE thing: Pass TERM LIMITS.
Obama may be losing the War on Terror, but his War on the Economy is headed full speed ahead
The Left’s War on the Economy
By Daniel Greenfield Full Story
Obama may be losing the War on Terror, but his War on the Economy is headed full speed ahead. The joblessness, the unemployment rolls and an economic in which the only people still making money are in the government, in public sector unions or on Wall Street is no accident. It was the intended result all along.
What Obama and the Democrats miscalculated is the mobilization of populist opposition and the speed with which the public turned to the Republicans for solutions, instead of treating Obama as the Great Savior for extending their unemployment benefits.
What will happen to jobs, living standards and families under restrictive energy policies?
Energy claims and realities
By Dr. James Tonkowich Full Story
Pennsylvania is lucky. Even amid this prolonged recession and depressingly high unemployment (9.5% in PA), families and businesses in the Keystone State are still paying just 9.4 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity.
A Blue Dog Democrat is still Blue and a dog!
Thank God, Stephene Moore revealed her true self before Election Day!
By A.J. Cameron Full Story
The state of Delaware does not have a monopoly on witches. San Francisco, Alaska, and Florida, among other localities, are all well represented by women of both parties who abuse the ‘privilege’ of being a witch. The state of Kansas has contributed to the coven, with former Governor Sebelius heading up our nation’s Stealth-Care system.
With IPCC Chair now off the hot seat, UN Chief must be held responsible
Heads should roll at the UN over climate panel’s disgrace
By Tom Harris and Bryan Leyland Full Story
“The authority of the United Nations is being undermined by the incompetence exposed within its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], and ultimately the buck has to stop with UN Secretary General,” asserted International Climate Science Coalition Chief Science Adviser Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia.
Globe and Mail’s ‘Fat Bo’y Wins
A new wind blowing
By Klaus Rohrich Full Story
Bob Dylan famously (and off key) sang, “the answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is blowin’ in the wind.” It’s no longer blowin’ in the wind; it IS the wind and the wind has ushered in a new era in, as the Toronto Sun’s Sue-Anne Levy likes to call, Toronto’s Socialist Silly Hall. Those sleepy hog town burgers have finally opened their eyes and realized that there was life beyond social democracy and those who paid the piper were entitled to call the tune.
While it wasn’t a clean Sweep through City Hall, eliminating the socialist elite altogether, it was a good start and a promise of a brighter future for taxpayers who had realized that David Miller’s brand of governance was for the benefit of his own leftist ideological allies like public sector unions and not for the benefit of the people who footed the bill for Miller’s largesse.
I feel lucky and privileged to believing in Canada and able to participate in free and fair elections
Toronto has spoken-Rob Ford is the New Toronto Mayor
By Sayeh Hassan Full Story
Tonight 50% of Torontonians came out and voted for their mayoral candidate, a higher voter turnout than we had seen in the past two municipal elections. Tonight Toronto voted for change and elected Rob Ford by 47% of the votes (as of the time I am writing this article) as its 64th Mayor.
Debunking Money #3:
Corporate PR, Financial Power, and Evaluating Some Popular “Solutions”
By Damon Vrabel Full Story
What is the biggest source of power in the world? Lesson 1 discussed the issue of financial power, but for those who haven’t lived in the world of balance sheet power it may still seem like a vague theoretical notion.
Maurice Strong, master of misinformation and economic destruction
Time To Hold Environmental And Climate Doomsayers To Account
By Dr. Tim Ball Full Story
The 1990 Greenpeace Report on Global Warming said, carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere naturally and unnaturally. They define unnatural as anything humans do. It is part of the theme of environmentalism that humans shouldn’t be here or tolerated only if they behave as they are told. The other part of the idea of unnatural is exploited to keep the people enthralled, fearful and therefore controlled. H.L.Mencken’s comment that, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary” applies and is proof of the political nature of events presented, directly or with implication, as unnatural.
It’s Term Limits or Certain Slow Death for America
“Gravy train” of graft, corruption, bribes, and becoming a wealthy, career government leader with power; it must end or the country willIt’s Term Limits or Certain Slow Death for America
By Jerry McConnell
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Most, if not all, the grief, antagonism, misconduct, lies, corruption, cheating, intimidation, bribery, and other ailments short of hang-nails and diarrhea on the political scene here in our country can be solved by doing just ONE thing: Pass TERM LIMITS. Unfortunately, it can only be done with Congress’ cooperation. That’s why I pray that the conservatives really do clean house and Senate so a Constitutional Amendment changing the Articles that pertain to service in Congress can be done without unnecessary tinkering and manipulation.
There should be no Constitutional Conventions that are mighty dangerous just by having them, with multitudes of people with axes to grind sitting around thinking of ways to CHANGE our entire governing process. We have just gone through a period of CHANGE proposed by the POTUS that has brought this country to the brink of dissolution or worse, a takeover by foreign and domestic anti-American interests.
Congress must propose the initiation for adoption of amendments to the Constitution with the necessity for a two-thirds concurrence of both the House of Representatives and the Senate which would then be proposed to theLegislatures of the full fifty states of our country requiring a three-fourths ratification of those Legislatures to make the Amendment as valid as part of our Constitution.
This is not a strange nor overly complicated process; witness the fact that such procedure has been done twenty-seven times before in our illustrious history, the first of which occurred in just two years and eight days after the initial passage on September 17, 1787 when the Bill of Rights, Amendments One through Ten, was sent to the state Legislatures on September 25, 1789 for ratification that then occurred on December 15, 1791.
It will require a truly honorable Congress overwhelmingly dedicated to making our country stronger and less prevalent to the urges of greed and self enriching. They will have to adopt the mentality of those great gentlemen who gathered in the Summer of the year of 1787 to forge and press for adoption of the world’s greatest and most enduring Constitution. But it can and it must make that effort as the divisive climate that prevails today will only worsen and cause more harm to the cohesiveness of our great country.Properly constructed, with Term Limits, the Congress people will not be in office long enough to figure out how to get corrupt.
And I am suggesting ONE term for all, not two as many others are saying.
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Soros group launches attack on poll watchers
A George Soros-funded organization, aided by Texas U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat, apparently is trying to chase volunteer observers from precinct polling locations across Harris County, Texas, after the watchers found election judges and clerks allegedly voting for citizens who were undecided.
“Only a week into early voting, volunteer poll-watchers also are being verbally and physically harassed by people loitering at the polls with no intention to vote at the time, including a man identified as a reverend and Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who was seen inside the polling location electioneering and threatening to turn a poll-watcher’s name to the Department of Justice for voter intimidation,” said a statement from Liberty Institute.The dispute has its roots in the bitter fight over elections that has developed in 2010, as Democrats both nationally and locally are feeling the sting of abandonment by voters who are enraged by the general takeover of society being pursued by President Obama.
WND reported just days ago when the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed it would investigate Democrat complaints of “intimidation” by “white middle class” poll observers in minority precincts in Harris County. They were accused of “hovering” around voters.
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Obama’s imaginary tax cut Democrats could leave Americans hurting for the holidays
How many times have you heard the president and the congressional Democrats say Americans who make less than $200,000 a year have not had, and will not have, any of their taxes increased? Unfortunately, it is not true, and it is likely to become a whole lot worse.
The 111th Congress has already enacted $352 billion in net tax increases and may, in the upcoming lame-duck session, enact the largest tax increases in history, which will hit every man, woman and child – as well as every business in America.
The good folks at Americans for Tax Reform ATR have put together the data on what the current Democrat-controlled Congress has done already. I have summarized their analysis in the accompanying table.The tax increase of $725.7 billion dwarfs the tax cuts of $373 billion, leaving a net tax increase of $352 billion. But it gets worse. Just $107.6 billion of the tax cuts are permanent – the rest are temporary – but all of the $725.7 billion increases are permanent.
The S-Chip bill was funded by an additional $65.5 billion in tobacco tax increases. These increases are paid primarily by lower-income people. Obamacare is funded with a variety of individual and employer mandates, excise tax increases and fees, including a tax on “tanning salons,” adding up to $652 billion in tax increases, before deducting $107 billion in “exchange credits” and $37 billion in small-business tax credits.
The vast majority of these tax increases fall on middle- and lower-income people. As with all of the revenue estimates prepared by Congress’ Joint Tax Committee, most of the behavioral effects of these tax changes are ignored
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Mel Gibson May be an Alcoholic, a Sedevacantist and an Anti-Semite – But He Has My Sympathy
Hollywood has turned against him: he has been dropped from the cast of Hangover 2Here we go again.
Mel Gibson has been dropped from the cast of Hangover 2. He was to have had a cameo role as a tattooist – the role played in the original Hangover by that winsome rapist Mike Tyson – but at the weekend it emerged that his co-stars had decided that they could not appear alongside a man whose wickedness has dragged the good name of Hollywood through the mud.
Over at Salon Matt Zoller Seitz thinks he detects double standards at play:“There’s something about this Hangover 2 thing that doesn’t pass the smell test. It seems, at the very least, yet another example of the selective outrage that fuels controversy-driven entertainment coverage, and Hollywood posturing generally, with actors, directors, producers, studio bosses and other players working themselves into a righteous snit about certain people and offenses while giving others a pass.”Go here for the whole thing.
Tax breaks for all [in Puerto Rico]
After months of work and anticipation, [Puerto Rico] Gov. [Luis] Fortuño finally unveiled his administration’s comprehensive tax reform.
At the center of the measure is an across-the-board reduction in the individual tax bracket that would result in a 49-percent overall savings in six years. Corporate reductions are slated to reach 30 percent.
The cornerstone of the tax modification is the reduction of the income tax brackets.
People making less than $20,000 would not pay any tax.
The bracket of those making $20,001 to $30,000 would be taxed 7 percent.
From $30,001 to $70,000, the allocation would be 14 percent.
The upper part of the scale, generating between $70,001 and $125,000, would pay 25 percent. Those making above $125,000 would be taxed 30 percent.
“This is more than just a Tax Reform; this is a new platform to spearhead an economic revival.
Enclosed in this document is the most comprehensive tax modification in the history of Puerto Rico,” Fortuño said.The plan, which is called Más dinero para tu bolsillo More Money in Your Pocket would start in December and would last until fiscal 2016.
The announcement came during a special joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Iraq War “Based On a Series of Lies”
In his recently published memoir, “Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior,” General Hugh Shelton, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, called the Iraq war “unnecessary” and said that the Bush team went to war “based on a series of lies.”
Shelton also said that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz and other Pentagon officials pushed for war in Iraq “almost to the point of insubordination.”Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Iraq War Based On a Series of Lies PTUmbz3NTEzM2ZjODdmNTANTdhYmRhZDFlNzY2MjY5YTAZCZzPWJsb2dnZXImb2Y9MA==This is not some voice from the peanut gallery.The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is – by law – the highest ranking military officer in the United States armed forces, and the principal military adviser to the President of the United States.
The Chairman outranks all respective heads of each service branch, including the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
Thank you, General Shelton, for confirming what Seymour Hersh and many others have been saying since 2003 and see this.
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Millions Of Unemployed Americans Now Live As Paupers Even As Foreign Nations Use Sovereign Wealth Funds To Buy Up Huge Chunks Of American InfrastructureMost Americans still do not understand just how bad the economic horror we are facing really is.
Today, millions of Americans are living as paupers in the land that their foreathers built even as America’s infrastructure is literally being sold out from under their feet by corrupt politicians.2 Comments
Don’t believe the insanity: Republican turnout is CRUSHING Democrats.
Early voting shows a Republican turnout advantage that is unprecedented in modern elections. In Florida and Pennsylvania, Republicans are more than TWICE as likely to have voted than Democrats.In 2004, the internet, then in turn talk radio and even network news were ablaze with news that exit polling showed Senator John Kerry crushing President George W. Bush. A quick look at the numbers easily showed that they were obviously fake: Michigan, for instance, was listed twice, with radically different poll results! But people were so hungry for news, few questioned their credibility.We are now facing a hoax that large. Early reports are claiming that the Democrats have a surprising turnout advantage. The numbers this time are real, but highly misleading……………………………………….
Protecting Military Voting: A Blue Star Mom Speaks Out
A military mom describes her experience fighting the bureaucracy to ensure that her deployed son receives his ballot in time to participate in elections back home.My name is Betty Boren Avery, and I am a Republican precinct chairman an unpaid elected position.
I will be serving as an election judge this November 2. To do so, I attend the mandatory secretary of state election law training and the required clerical training every seven months on how to assemble and disassemble the electronic voting equipment, do the paperwork, etc. Also, I am a volunteer deputy voter registrar and have attended the training on how to complete the voter registration form for the state of Texas for the past several years.In other words: I am trained and I know what I am doing. I follow the law and swear in my clerks each election to uphold the “purity” of the election.I am also a Blue Star Mom, with a son currently deployed to Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne. He is a registered voter and deserves the right to vote. He does not have to vote, but he should have the choice to vote and should have a ballot sent to him on time.
I have listened to the Department of Defense describe the military post card procedures. I have also reviewed the website for military voting, and I found and provided the “Registration and Absentee Ballot Request — Federal Post Card Application FPCA” form for my son and for other military service members. My son completed the form on one of his visits home from his home post of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and it was signed and dated with additional information to be completed. The APO address is to be provided later by the soldier or parents.This form seemed self-explanatory. People do not know their APO address until they are deployed or until just before they are deployed, and this was my son’s first deployment: he is 20 years old.My experience trying to change his registration to an APO address with the Harris County Voter Registration Department was interesting. I contacted the head of the elections department, and was told that they could not help me — I had to talk to the mail ballot staff.
I called them, and the person I spoke to was hesitant — they wanted to talk to my son. I tried to explain that this was not possible, as he had just left for Afghanistan and I had no contact with him.
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White House forms federal committee on Internet, privacy policy
The Obama administration has formed a subcommittee drawn from various parts of the federal government to advise the White House on regulatory and legislative issues for the Web.The panel, which will focus on the Internet privacy, comes as consumer advocacy groups have complained that Internet users need more protection from social media, advertising and other sites that collect user information.
A blog post last Sunday on the National Science and Technology Council Web site said the subcommittee will include members of several federal agencies, such as the Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security and State departments. Cameron Kerry, general counsel at the Commerce Department, and Christopher Schroeder, assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, will head the group.Representatives of the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission were also invited.
And the White House will have representatives from its Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, U.S. Trade Representative office and National Security Staff Cybersecurity Directorate.
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‘Perfect’ Muslim Soldiers
Islamofascism: O’Reilly, Whoopi and Joy are all wrong. The 9/11 terrorists weren’t “Muslim extremists” or just plain “Muslims.” A liberal newspaper reporter says they were model Muslims.”Several were described as among the best boys — bright, respectful — in their towns,” he reports in his book. “Many had gone to university,” he adds. “Three had studied Islamic law.” At least one, Ahmed al-Haznawi, had memorized the Quran, a sign of deep devotion much respected by Muslim elders. In fact, he earned the honorary religious title of “hafiz” at a young age.
McDermott describes how another hijacker, Wail al-Shehri left home to train for jihad in Afghanistan after a long period of recitation of Quranic verses. He had the approval of a local imam.But he wasn’t the only one who knew what they were planning. “Two-thirds of them told their families they were leaving to join the jihad,” McDermott writes, adding that their families did not discourage them. “They went where they were called by their religion.”That’s not the story we heard after 9/11. In media interviews, the parents of the hijackers expressed shock about the deeds of their sons.
We must have the wrong men, they insisted. Their boys could never do such a thing. Jihad? What jihad?
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Glenn Beck To MSNBC: “Why Don’t You Just Make Your Slogan ‘Bend Over’?”
MSNBC’s new “Lean Forward” campaign is large enough, bold enough, and the subject of just enough publicity to be the object of consistent ridicule from the right.
We’ve seen the parodies, the defiant counter-ads, and now Glenn Beck has taken it upon himself to improve upon the original slogan, suggesting: “MSNBC: Bend Over” because, he explains, “I think it would be more appropriate.”The comment came as an aside to a description of a politician Beck and his radio crew thought was not quite a moderate, but not quite a partisan.
“She leans,” one of Beck’s co-hosts explained, “like MSNBC, but not forward.” Here Beck interrupted to give some advice to his cable news competition: “By the way, MSNBC, why don’t you just make your slogan ‘Bend Over?’ Because you lean forward enough and it’s bending over, and I think it would be more appropriate.”“It’s a nudge,” explains his co-host in an attempt to follow the logic of the new campaign. “First you lean forward, then you bend over…” and before Glenn could jump in, he’s concludes “and then you fall on your face.”“Oh, that’s what happens when you bend over?” Glenn asks mischievously.
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