Update: Now up to $76,500: David Barnett/Cowlitz Tribe are buying ANOTHER democrat Clark County commissioner!
Is this the kind of corruption this scumbag intends to bring to Clark County? Casino developer pours last-minute cash against Mielke Friday, October 31 | 4:38 p.m. (updated) Would-be casino boss David Barnett cut checks for $59,000 (Now up to $76,500) this week opposing county commissioner candidate Tom Mielke. The political fliers seem likely to arrive in mailboxes sometime this weekend. Neither Mielke nor his opponent, Pam Brokaw, say they oppose the Cowlitz Tribe's proposed reservation and casino near La... [read more]

Advice for Obama Press Corps: Keep Your 'Chute Handy
As confirmed by Politico.com's Ben Smith in his corroboration of the story that broke on the Drudge Report last night, the Obama campaign did indeed bump three major newspapers from the press group traveling aboard the candidate's plane.  Although press accounts are not specific, it is assumed that their removal was conducted while the plane was still on the ground. The Obama campaign indicated that they will try to find seats on campaign buses for the disenfranchised Dallas Morning... [read more]

Since it's nearly Halloween...
...I thought I'd make you wet your pants and put the fear of God in you with a simple quotation of the 10 planks of Karl Marx's, The Communist Manifesto (courtesy of www.marxists.org): 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralisation of credit in the... [read more]

LA Times: Providing Asylum For Democrat Politicians In Need
Handling of Obama/Khalidi Tape is Handbook for 'Swiss Banking' of Politically Radioactive Material  As a student of journalism since junior high school, I was indoctrinated in the notion that the great reporters of the American press lived and breathed that thing called 'the story'.  When journalists such as Upton Sinclair and Nellie Bly received information it went into the story, not into the wall safe.  Maybe that's why the Los Angeles Times' refusal to release the infamous and enigmatic Khalidi... [read more]

Geoff Simpson's Dirty Politics (Part VI)
This is part six of a series, which will continue until Election Day, documenting all the lies and smears Geoff Simpson is selling the 47th district voters in a desperate attempt not to lose his job. You can read parts one, two, three, four, and five. Earlier, I wrote about a lie perpetrated by Geoff Simpson in this campaign mailer: That lie was his claim that Mark Hargrove is "running a campaign based on negative personal attacks," even though Hargrove... [read more]

Geoff Simpson's Dirty Politics (Part V)
This is part five of a series, which will continue until Election Day, documenting all the lies and smears Geoff Simpson is selling the 47th district voters in a desperate attempt not to lose his job. You can read parts one, two, three, and four. Simpson is back to his old ways of making things up out of thin air. Several days ago, this flyer landed in the mailboxes of 47th district voters: The mail piece claims: "[Hargrove's] running a... [read more]

Geoff Simpson's Dirty Politics (Part IV)
This is part four of a series, which will continue until Election Day, documenting all the lies and smears Geoff Simpson is selling the 47th district voters in a desperate attempt not to lose his job. You can read parts one, two, and three. One of the most traditional aspects of local campaigns is putting up yard signs. One of the most traditional aspects of Geoff Simpson's campaigns is taking down his opponents' yard signs. Simpson has a well documented... [read more]

Make Tonight Family Game Night Until 8:30ET, In Defense of Baseball and the American Way
Potentially the Greatest Baseball Blunder Since Buckner in '86There is no example in American history of a political showcase preempting the World Series, just as there is no example of a sporting event preempting an election. They are once-in-a-lifetime events, and we previously, collectively, considered them to be greater than an individual. Now I wonder if we should just insert 'Obama' between baseball and apple pie.The very fact that the World Series schedule was already established at the time Team... [read more]

REALITY CHECK: GREED
Liberals like to call the Bush years the Decade of Greed. By their thinking, people getting educated and working to achieve the American Dream makes them greedy if they choose to use their wealth to improve their lives and the lives of their children and family. Generally the result of education, hard work, and taking risks, the opportunity to earn more is the incentive that grows business, creates jobs, generates more taxes, and helps our economy grow. But let's talk... [read more]

AFN Public Service Announcement
This morning at the mess hall here in Iraq, I was watching the Armed Forces Network(AFN) when a Public Service Announcement came on (they don't have paid advertising so this is what we get instead) that was reminding Military members that the APO/FPO (Military Post Offices) have delivery confirmation at that it is recommended to use that on your absentee ballot so that you know your ballot was received by your state. This got me wondering how bad is it... [read more]

Obama's Past Connections with Marxism and Socialism (Updated!!)
FoxNews.com has a great article today talking about Obama's Affinity for Marxism is nothing new: Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism. But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in... [read more]

Judge in Rossi Case Should Excuse Herself from Case
I am not a lawyer, but one has to wonder what the Cannons of Judicial Ethics have to say about a Judge hearing a case where one of the parties has donated money to his/her campaign? In this current case, (Robert F. Utter and Faith Ireland in the name of the State of Washington, plaintiffs vs. The building Industry Association of Washington, Defendants); the presiding Judge, Paris Kallas is, in my humble opinion giving the plaintiffs everything they want. Faith... [read more]

Experimenting with Obama's "Wealth Redistribution"
from: http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2008/10/redistribution.html Robert Bluey offers an experiment in wealth redistribution: In a local restaurant my server had on an Obama 08 tie; again I laughed as he had given away his political preference - just imagine the coincidence. When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip... [read more]

Save the Date: More Obamacentric Lunacy on Election Day
It showed up in my inbox late yesterday afternoon.  Invited but still unwelcome, each day I receive the propaganda email distributed by the Obama campaign.  I have learned by experience to keep a supply of air sickness bags in my laptop bag to use in case of rapid lunch loss. The one sent to me yesterday was different from those preceding it, in that it did not direct me to remind my friends that the RNC is somehow responsible... [read more]

More Attempts by the Obama Campaign To Stifle Free Speech
Little Green Footballs has a copy of the letter sent to student journalists who have exposed voter fraud in Ohio. From: Rosenberg, Thomas Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:32 PM Subject: At least in today's blog you spelled my last name right To: tiffany In other words, I am going to read what you write and watch what you say. Hopefully you will be fair and impartial as you told me you would be. Thomas L. Rosenberg Roetzel &... [read more]

Even the Press Admits they are Biased
In this amazing piece from an ABC news technology reporter, who admits that he is ashamed to tell strangers he is a journalist. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=6099188&page=1 Unfortunately, too little too late. Hairy... [read more]

After the Election, How Will We Work to 'Reform' the Media?
The New York Times has dropped even the pretense of applying a delicate coat of sophistication to their bias.  Perhaps this is just a strategy born of the Old Grey Lady's survival impulse, that by leaning hard to the left they might hijack the readership of the Village Voice and thus delay their hastening demise. The picture accompanying this post was a teaser on the New York Times web edition's Politics main page at midday today.  It wasn't an extraordinary... [read more]

Republican Party Platform
This is from the 2008 republican party platform: We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe in the free market as the best tool to sustained prosperity and opportunity for all. So here are my questions: 1. Who do you vote for if you believe strongly in this GOP party plank? 2. Why does McCain not... [read more]

Geoff Simpson's Dirty Politics (Part III)
This is part three of a series, which will continue until Election Day, documenting all the lies and smears Geoff Simpson is selling the 47th district voters in a desperate attempt not to lose his job. You can read parts one and two. Earlier I wrote about this mail piece sent out by Geoff Simpson's campaign. It was also referenced by pudge at the Sound Politics main page. The piece accuses his opponent, Mark Hargrove, of being soft on crime... [read more]

Watching Democrats destroy the world
Here are 6 articles from today's Wall Street Journal. Any one of them alone would be a good argument to throw all the Democrats out of office, and not a surprise for a real newspaper vetting candidates and the political parties near an election. But of course we know that relatively few Americans will see these articles, as the Democrat media focuses on Sarah Palin's wardrobe and other vital issues. Justice and Vote Fraud Almost Everyone Would Do Better Under... [read more]

Philly Inquirer Opinion Piece: White People Shouldn't Be Allowed To Vote
The Philadelphia Inquirer has printed this opinion piece in it's Sunday Oct 26th edition (h/t Newsbusters.org). White people shouldn't be allowed to vote It's for the good of the country and for those who're bitter for a reason and armed because they're scared. Jonathan Valania is editor in chief of the blog Phawker.com As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until... [read more]

Sen. Barack Obama--Socialist is as socialist does
As I was making the usual blog rounds, I stumbled upon this post here at the Sound Politics Public Blog by TrueSoldier discussing a 2001 Obama Chicago public radio interview. TrueSoldier tipped the hat to Michelle Malkin, and I now in turn tip the hat to both TrueSoldier and Malkin. Here's a bit of Michelle's post: The blogosphere is buzzing about this video posted on YouTube Sunday night. It's Barack Obama musing about how best to redistribute wealth in America... [read more]

Obama's Socialism Unmasked
Michelle Malkin has the story along with links to the audio of Senator Obama on a Chicago Public radio program back in 2001 talking not only about redistribution of wealth, but also how we must "break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution". Here is the transcript of the Chicago Public radio show: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the... [read more]

Guess Who Obama Let Out From Underneath The Bus?
While I was surfing the web today I came across this article and thought it was of interest: Oct. 23-SANFORD -- Retired four-star Gen. Wesley Clark, who once commanded all of NATO's forces in Europe, used a downtown coffee shop Wednesday as his theater for political combat. Clark, stumping for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, said this election season has shown him just how divided the nation is. This is interesting as Obama threw Clark under the bus back in... [read more]

Congress Starting To Feel Like They Have Been Had Over The Bailout Bill
It is being reported that Congress is starting to complain that the bailout bill they approved is no longer what is being done as is being 000reported on FoxNews here. Many in the blogs (not to mention many a constitute) warned Congress that this would happen, but we were all told we did not know what we were talking about and that this was necessary to help the economy. Well it looks like things have changed. Lawmakers on both sides... [read more]

The Case for Steve Beren
In the 7th Congressional District in Washington State there is a race going on in which the two candidates are as different as night and day. On one side you have the incumbent Jim McDermott, who has been found in violation of a persons right to privacy, had a trip to Iraq prior to the war funded by Saddam's Intelligence Service, has made derogatory comments about our brave men and women and who believes that the government knows how to... [read more]

Impressive Video: Our Fight For Economic Freedom!
The Winds of Change: Our Fight For Economic Freedom! Loads of information with which to refute and/or torment our lefties. "Use the PAUSE BUTTON to see the details."... liberally!... [read more]

The Ragnar Report: Friday
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams Fred Thompson's remarks on the challenges America faces, and the vital importance of the 2008 election. Part 1 http://townhall.com/video/FredThompson/1450_102408Thompson1 Fred Thompson's Election Address, Part 2 http://townhall.com/video/FredThompson/1450_102408Thompson2 Why I Am Voting For McCain http://takeastandagainstliberals.blogspot.com/2008/10/for-whiners-why-i-am-voting-for-mccain.html A Happiness Gap: Doomacrats And Republigrins Now the good news for Republicans: You are happier than Democrats. You... [read more]

WEEKLY POLITICAL NEWS MAGAZINE-OBAMA'S TERRORIST FRIEND NEW SCANDAL!
HEADLINES IN THE NEWS OBAMA'S BEST FRIEND AND TERRORIST KHALIDI SCANDAL IS OBAMA A COMMUNIST? THIS BLOGGER SAYS YES! VARIOUS STORIES! AUDIT OF BUREAU CIRCULATIONS NUMBERS ARE OUT-IT'S A DISASTER! MAJOR UNDECIDED VOTE, NOW 10.1% MCCAIN LAUGHS AT BOGUS STORIES AND POLLS, SERIOUS JOURNALISTS DO NOT! SALMON SWIMMING UP STREAM? AL GORE TO THE RESCUE? BIG BRO GOES AFTER JOE! Quagmire caught in big lie Somer's unemployed Darcy Burner's phony degree killing her campaign Unions want to take over education... [read more]

Barack Obama Tax Plan Video Ad
A video about Barack Obama's Tax Plan: Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5uW-Cs2c4A... [read more]

Iranian Foreign Minister Threatens Attacks on London... With Non-Existent Nuclear Arsenal?
In browsing Brit Hume's Political Grapevine column this morning on FoxNews.com, I found this not-so-surprising morsel: London Calling An Iranian Foreign Ministry official says his government should target one of the United States' closest allies to ensure that President Bush does not attack Iran during his final weeks in office. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports Wahid Karimi was quoted as saying, "The last two months of Bush's presidency... will be the worst days of his presidency for... [read more]

Existing Home Sales Rise 5.5%, So What Happened To The Credit Crisis?
FoxNews Business is reporting that existing home sales have risen 5.5% for the month of September. So what happened to the supposed not being able to get mortgages because of the Wall Street Meltdown? Seems to me like it was hyped so that the government (yes both parties) could pass these massive bailouts that are slowly but surely leading us down the path to Socialism. cross posted: The TrueSolider Rants... [read more]

Harris Poll: McCain Preferred by One Percent of French
I can think of no better reason to vote for McCain. Brevity is the shortest path to truth.  This one speaks for itself.  I grabbed the story from Fox News. If that didn't do it for you, maybe knowing that the speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijiani, would prefer an Obama presidency will tip the scales. You can peruse that tidbit at the Telegraph UK site.Cross-posted at Unequal Time http://unequal-time.blogspot.com... [read more]

Geoff Simpson's Dirty Politics (Part II)
This is part two of a series, which will continue until Election Day, documenting all the lies and smears Geoff Simpson is selling the 47th district voters in a desperate attempt not to lose his job. In a Covington Reporter article which hits doorsteps Friday, October 24, Geoff Simpson claims: "[Hargrove] recently proposed balancing the state budget by increasing the sales tax, property tax or both while also cutting funding for education and road improvements." This is an outright lie... [read more]

Geoff Simpson's Dirty Politics (Part I)
This is part one of a series, which will continue until election day, documenting all the lies and smears Geoff Simpson is selling the 47th district voters in a desperate attempt not to lose his job. Last Saturday, Geoff Simpson sent a mailing to most people in the 47th district accusing his opponent, Mark Hargrove, of taking a campaign contribution from a supposed sex offender. This is either an outright lie or Simpson's campaign has time to do background checks... [read more]

The Ragnar Report - Thursday (todays infomail to friends and family)
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall Dear Undecided, Are you Kidding Me? http://www.newsbull.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=70558 http://archive.patriotpost.us:80/humor/?cartoonid=1648 On meaning of a possible Obama presidency http://townhall.com/columnists/RossMackenzie/2008/10/23/on_meaning_of_a_possible_obama_presidency?page=full Footage of interview with POW McCain released French reporter spoke to wounded prisoner during Vietnam War http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78860 Rove: Doubts About Obama Are Real http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29166 The fallout from one-party excess this election cycle could be catastrophic http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29152... [read more]

If you enjoy political theatre, vote McCain.
Aside from the obvious benefit of avoiding a slide in to the wealth redistribution of an Obama administration, there is another good reason to vote McCain. Political Theatre. If McCain manages to pull it off, the exploding heads as all hell breaks loose and the liberal unhinged are unleashed, will make Fourth of July seem quite tame. Imagine the second guessing and uncontainable shock and sadness of your favorite in-the-tank media personality. It would all be loads of fun to... [read more]

AP Poll: Presidential Race in Dead Heat
Even as some news networks such as The Eye have conducted recent polling that puts Sen. Obama ahead by as much of a spread as +10 (MoE at + or - 4% for the CBS poll), other polls, including the following AP poll, hint at a different story of how tight this race actually may be: AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among... [read more]

Biden Says Obama Would Be Tested, But Wait He Already Was
Recently at a rally in Seattle, VP Candidate Senator Biden made the following statement: "Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else... [read more]

High Flying Espionage 'Agent' Caught Spying on Iran's Nuclear Facilities
As rumors swirl around Iran's nuclear program, it was only a matter of time until a spy would be caught in the act of gathering up-close intelligence. The first prisoner has been taken and we only hope that it will be returned with all of its feathers intact.You read that right. The first spy caught inside of Iran during this time of international intrigue was nothing other than a pigeon, as reported by the London Telegraph's online edition.Iran arrests pigeons... [read more]

The Better Prez Candidate !!
Finally, a candidate for Prez we can all support !!! "Vote 4 me, if you want to live!" (scroll down for video ads)... [read more]

US Intelligence Estimates Iranian Nuke by February 2009
Israel's DebkaFile has reported today that US intelligence sources have briefed government leaders - including the two main presidential candidates, Senators McCain and Obama - on recent changes in the national intelligence estimates regarding Iran's nuclear capability. According to those unconfirmed reports, current estimates indicate that Iran is likely to have built its first nuclear weapon by February of 2009, around the time we will be inaugurating the next president.This revelation places Senator Biden's tough talking remarks about the challenges... [read more]

Sam Reed: Secretary of Snivel (and Whining).
Where it really matters, which to me is election security, defined as: * Keeping illegal aliens from voting and; * Keeping all non-American citizens from voting and; * Proving citizenship to register to vote and; * Providing legal identification TO vote and; * Keeping felon voters who have not had their rights restored from voting... ... Sam Reed has been an utter, abysmal, failure. He has had EIGHT YEARS to get this straightened out, and has done absolutely nothing but... [read more]

Obama Once Again Attempting to Use the DOJ Against Opponents
The Obama Campaign is at it yet once again. This time the Obama Campaign wants the DOJ and the Special Prosecuters office to go after the McCain/Palin Campaign and the RNC for (Gasp!!!!) daring to bring up the ACORN voter fraud that is plaguing our nation! Politico.com has the letter that was sent to the DOJ regarding this. It seems to me the only change Obama wants to offer is to change our nation from the free society it is... [read more]

An Army of Joe's
I was over on NRO and saw this great article. It appears that "average Joe's" are showing up to the McCain/Palin rallies with signs that proclaim who they are: Virginia Saturday afternoon. Dressed in a yellow hard hat covered with McCain-Palin stickers, wearing an orange high-visibility vest, Munoz carried a hand-lettered sign that said CONSTRUCTION WORKER FOR McCAIN. He got a coveted spot in the bleachers directly behind McCain, where he could be seen in the camera shot along with... [read more]

Hypocritical left remains silent on Mahoney...
Have they forgotten already? Good God... besides all the lies of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, all we heard about was "Mark Foley" this and "Mark Foley" that. And who did the scum replace him with? Just a guy who would screw anything that moves. Where's that leftist outrage? Where's all that moralizing? No where. Because leftists by definition are rank hypocrites. Foley deserved to get his butt kicked out. But not one democrat has condemned Mahoney or demanded HIS... [read more]

Biden Debuts Obama's 'Speak Loudly, Speak Loudly' Foreign Policy Style
It happened right here in my hometown of Seattle, WA. (Please-Keep-Him-Just-a-)Senator Joe Biden dropped what could become his most serious gaffe of them all."Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking," Biden said."Remember I said it standing here. if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And... [read more]

What Barry Ain't Got...
It's surprising that underneath all the mudslinging and namecalling, one real characteristic is never mentioned. Leadership. Obama-Biden doesn't have it. McCain-Palin does. Contrast the easily seen differences. Obama-Biden is analytical ticket. Obama is a professor; Biden might as well be one. Their style is analytical and detached. They don't create, they react and analyze. Their campaign planks are really a critique of other people's ideas. 99 percent of the time they diatribe about this or that not working, while never... [read more]

WEEKLY POLITICAL NEWS MAGAZINE- BURNER SCANDAL
THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES LATEST NEWS ON THE DARCY BURNER FRAUD! INVESTORS DAILY POLL IN AND BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA OBAMA LANDSLIDE POLL ACCURACY NOW QUESTIONED MCCAIN AND OBAMA NOW TIED! HILLARY GETS PARANOID, AGAIN! TEAR DOWN A MCCAIN SIGN AND FREE BEER AND PIZZA? NBC, ABC, CBS EVENING NEWS DYING? CRACK DEALERS/PIMPS REGISTERING HOOKERS TO VOTE IN FRISCO? MURTHA TELLS US WHAT HE REALLY THINKS? DEAD FISH VOTING IN CHICAGO? BARNEY FRANK IS GOING NUTS? OBAMA SMEAR REPORT-TRUE OR FALSE?... [read more]

NYT: Please Be Advised that Voting May Be Hazardous to Your Life and Your Child's
From the same newspaper that has reported eloquently and abundantly on the bogeyman of Republican use of fear politics, the Old Grey Lady raises her cane to deliver a double-whammy of paranoia to those readers still shackled to the carefully crafted words on her faded pages.Whammy number one: Polling places may become magnets for violence on the day of the election. Whammy number two: Wait a second, doesn't your child's school serve as a polling place?They're pulling out all of... [read more]

How to know if King County counted your ballot (and your vote for Rossi)
Now that we have a mostly vote-by-mail system that can easily be gamed, here is a possible strategy for knowing if your vote was counted. This year there are many judicial positions that have unnapposed candidates running for them. To know if your ballot was counted, randomly pick one of those races and write in a name that you can remember. Write yourself in. Write in your Mom. If King County publishes the entire results with everybody who received 1... [read more]

State Workers Sue to End Forced Union Dues
A group of state workers have filed suit to end forced union dues. Under governor Gregoire The WPEA/UFCW and WFSE/AFSCME have gone from about $4 million to over $33 million a year in dues. Forced Dues were only allowed IN EXCHANGE for non union workers, previously 77% of the workforce, being allowed to vote on contract ratification under a signed written agreement. The state and unions then coordinated, in writing, denying non union workers a vote. The WPEA and... [read more]

Deconstructing Obama's Big Con: Tax Cuts + Net Spending Decrease = Budget Nirvana? Never Gonna Happen
The Three-card Monte game is a Beltway mainstay of budget politics. The President proposes a budget with both increases and cuts to Congress. The Congress reviews the budget, rejecting cuts and proposing additional spending. The appearance of debate and budget-wrangling ensues as elected representatives and White House officials offer comments replete with heavy sighs, rolled eyes and furrowed brows. After much hand-wringing, both sides of the budget "debate" emerge to announce that a budget deal has been reached and the... [read more]

Video: This is the John McCain I Know and Love
Watch this FoxNews coverage of last night's Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York. John McCain absolutely flattens the crowd and roasts Obama is sitting a few chairs away on the dais.I laughed out loud and it renewed my faith in the potential for McCain ability to regain momentum. Please take the time out of your day to watch the entirety of both videos. In a time of economic crisis and an uncertain political landscape, this will really cheer you... [read more]

Jennifer Brunner: Ohio Secretary of State and democrat scumbag.
We've had out share of election irregularities around here... but the current incompetence/partisanship of the Ohio Secretary of State puts them all to shame. Like Sam Reed stupidly deciding to allow convicted felons to vote, the Ohio Secretary of State has decided to ignore the law... because she wants to. Ms. Brunner needs to understand that Federal laws are NOT suggestions. Mr. Reed would be well served to grasp the same. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/us/16vote.html Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters By... [read more]

Senator Obama, Chicken or Fish?; Obama: "Both"
Leadership is Understanding That You Can't Have it AllSenator Obama has made perfectly clear in his rhetoric on the campaign trail and his debate performances that he lacks a vital skill required of our leaders - the ability to prioritize.From last night's debate:BOB SCHIEFFER: "Given the current economic situation, would either of you now favor controlling health care costs over expanding health care coverage?..."SENATOR OBAMA: "We've got to do both."Later that same evening:SCHIEFFER: "The question is this: the U.S. spends... [read more]

Ignore the Media Vultures; Come In From the Rain, Have a Cup of Joe and Take a Look at this Morning's Polls Numbers
One Post-Debate Politico.com Snap Poll Finds McCain Capturing Majority of IndependentsEven among many conservative commentators this morning there seems to be a shift in focus, away from winning and toward dealing with the eventuality of an Obama presidency.It is not time to drink the Kool-aid, and there are reasons to ignore the funhouse mirror the major media are using to instruct us on what most of our fellow Americans are thinking.The results of the poll commissioned by Politico.com and conducted... [read more]

LiveBlog of Presidential Debate
5:31pm I'm about to go eat some dinner with my family, and then we'll all settle down to watch the last presidential debate. Oofta, I'm actually nervous for McCain. I'm praying he's been listening to talk radio the last couple days. He needs to paint the striking contrast that exists between him and Obama, especially on economic issues. He needs to call Obama out on the "spread the wealth" comment, tie that in to the fact that every time spreading... [read more]

Atlas Shrugged Deja Vu?
And Obama confirms in his own words his economic policy: By CHARLES HURT Bureau Chief WASHINGTON - You won't find it in his campaign ads, but Barack Obama let slip his plans to become a modern-day Robin Hood in the White House, confiscating money from the rich to give to the poor. Conservatives yesterday ripped Obama after he was caught on video telling an Ohio plumber that he intends to take the profits of small-business owners and "spread the wealth... [read more]

MichelleMalkin.com: The House That Fraud Lives In
No one has done better reporting on the tidal wave of voter fraud than Michelle Malkin. Please read her lead story this morning that describes how Democrat activists have been using Ohio as a clearing house to register as absentees. This really is Chicago-style politics, plain and simple. All indications are that there may be hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes being cast in Ohio. The Democrats have disarmed good-natured Republicans to a large degree because of their lunacy in... [read more]

Buckeye Institute Files State Rico Action Against ACORN
The Buckeye Institute has filed suit against ACORN using the RICO Statute. This should be done in every state that ACORN has proved to be fraudulently registering voters (which is about half the states now). COLUMBUS - The Buckeye Institute, a Columbus-based think tank, today filed a state RICO action against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on behalf of two Warren County voters. The action filed in Warren County Court of Common Pleas alleges ACORN has... [read more]

WEEKLY POLITICAL NEWS MAGAZINE-UPDATES
POLITICAL HEADLINES! MAJOR OBAMA TV BUY FOR WASHINGTON STATE SEATTLE TIMES ENDORSES ROSSI? NEW NATIONAL POLLS OUT-BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA! WASHINGTON STATE BACK IN PLAY FOR MCCAIN! MEGALOMANIA AND OBAMA! LEFT WING DICTATORSHIP IN AMERICA? COMMIES IN THE WHITE HOUSE? IT IS OFFICIAL FBI NOW AFTER ACORN! SNOHOMISH COUNTY BROKE? WAR IN SNOHOMISH COUNTY? 24,000 CONVICTED CRIMINALS VOTE IN SEATTLE OBAMA FLIP FLOPPING ALL OVER THE PLACE ACORN COULD COST OBAMA THE WHITE HOUSE-DICK MORRIS JEWISH VOTE A BLOCK FOR... [read more]

Barack Obama Ecstasy Video!
There's a new Obama video you've got to see to believe! It's titled Ecstasy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxtclkWgokQ... [read more]

Nationalizing Our Banking Industry
The Great 08 Bail Out has morphed into something horrific. Now the government plans to take large equity stakes in the largest banks in the country as well as investing in a thousand smaller banks. The nationalization of the country's banking industry is now underway. Equity stakes, for course, come with Board seats. Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi love the idea. Why? Because they hope Obama will win the election and socialists will have unprecedented central planning authority over the... [read more]

Darn, missed it!
Last weekend was the Kids for Obama Parade at Greenlake! http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/organizing/gshk3h I heard the best suggestion EVER from a caller to Dori's show. Conservatives should have organized a counter parade. The Pitbulls for Palin Parade. Put some lipstick on 'em and let 'em go. That'd give you film at 11. http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00101/a_101250a.jpg Hairy... [read more]

John McCain Gives Stage-Setting Speech in Virginia Leading Up to Debate
I don't know how many times Senator McCain can come out of the political coma his campaign keeps lapsing into, but his speech this morning in Virginia Beach, VA, is certainly an indication that John S. Lazarus McCain III is rising once again.The only place I found the entire speech was on McCain's own website. Follow this direct link to take you to a page that has a full video and the text of his speech. The speech begins almost... [read more]

Is Biden Freelancing at CNN?
Someone needs to remind CNN that in 1933 the US still had yet to experience the worst of the Great Depression.Should this be filed under "Failed Education System" or "Media Ineptitude"?First person to comment to the post with even a vague understanding of why this style of reporting is dangerous in a time of economic volatility wins my everlasting respect.Also posted on my blog at Unequal Time http://unequal-time.blogspot.com... [read more]

Welcome to Obama's Amerika
So how is Obama going to take from the "rich" and give to the "poor"? Or more accurately, how will he take from those who earn more and give their wealth to the 3rd of American taxpayers who already pay zero income tax? Obama's 95% Illusion Obama was asked yesterday about his new tax pledge on working Americans and small business. These are his words, expressed with no teleprompter or previously written speech from one of his speechwriters. "It's not... [read more]

Homeless Nesting in Seattle.
My office is located in a building that is close to an agency that provides direct aid to long term, hard core homeless. There are homeless folks who lost their job, lost their ride, and lost their place because of illness, or a plant shutting down, etc. Give those folks a little training, a little help finding a job, clean 'em up, help them back on their feet, and they are back in the rat race with the rest of... [read more]

Obama Caught Telling ACORN They'd Help Shape His Administration's Agenda!
Seems Obama won't be able to keep denying he has nothing to do with ACORN. "The One" has been caught promising ACORN workers that they'd be called upon by Barack Obama HIMSELF to help him shape his administration's goals, even before he takes the oath of office, should he win! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU Yep--- Obama has already sworn high-level access by ACORN to his administration; the same ACORN who are purveyors of massive voter registration fraud in multiple counties across the country,... [read more]

Yet Another Disturbing Obama Connection
The Washington Times has an article that shows what could be an even more disturbing connection to Obama than Ayers (and this time Obama can't claim well it happened when I was eight years old). The connection is to Mr. Raila Odingo and this is what the article has to say about the connection: Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However,... [read more]

OhDrama the Moron: Too stupid to avoid earmarks in an election year?
We know the MSM is in the tank for OhDrama. That the Times failed to headline this matter in such a way that they failed to mention that McCain, again, had NO earmarks, while that lying, empty suited racist scumbag, again, had MILLIONS. McCain OhDrama Never mind that the leftists were delirious when they supported the morons running Congress.... man, they promised EVERYthing... and they delivered NOTHING. They lied and lied and lied... and do you think the non-thinking idiots... [read more]

Obama, Alinsky, and Gramsci
The truly politically deranged are Alinsky and Gramsci, whose tactics are Obama's. Simply google "Alinsky Gramsci". If you have more time, read the Gramsci chapter in "The Keys Of This Blood," by Malachi Martin. Or you can read the below excerpt from the Spectator. In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a 'community organiser'. This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defence of community... [read more]

Troopergate: No Common Wisdom Gained from Brame Tragedy?
Putting the Palin's Troopergate "Intervention" into PerspectiveImagine that we are back in the early months of 2003. Governor Gary Locke has gained personal knowledge of a police chief who may be a danger to his wife, possibly others. Locke brings the full power of his office to bear on having this officer removed from his position and ordered into treatment, thus averting what we know actually happened - the public slaying of Crystal Brame and subsequent public suicide of Tacoma... [read more]

What does "In Any Form Whatsoever" really mean?
In the past four months much has been flogged, blogged and blathered around in Washington State concerning the potential loss of dollars from casino revenue sharing. Gregoires supporters defend her actions as on a par with the wisdom of Solomon. Her detractors think she sold Manhattan back to the Indians for a few trinkets and blankets. Well it was all exciting but little can be done about it because Gregoire ain't about to back down and the Indians got a... [read more]

City Hall - out of control
Letter to Editor from West Seattle Herald ... ** City Hall - out of control... [read more]

Taking Down a Messiah: It's a Grass Roots Thing
There are large numbers of voters out there who have yet to understand the relevance of Senator Obama's associations with left-wing radical extremists, and his apparent membership in a political party whose platform was radically socialist. I don't blame them, really, because the on-stage Obama talks like a Clinton Democrat - middle of the road; a staunch defender of the middle class and promoter of America as a global economic force. The accusation that he has a socialist agenda just... [read more]

WEEKLY POLITICAL NEWS MAGAZINE-MAJOR NEW UPDATES!
POLITICAL HEADLINES! STOCK MARKET TO GO OVER 10,000? WAMU, INSIDERS SPILL BEANS ON WHAT HAPPENED BOEING STRIKE STILL ON AREA NEWSPAPERS ABOUT TO BEGIN LAYOFFS FOR XMAS? MORE ACORN FRAUD, LINKED TO OBAMA ACORN ARRESTEES NOW RATING OUT OBAMA CAMPAIGN? ACORN REGISTERS MICKEY MOUSE IN FLORIDA! BIDEN HAS HAD A BOTOX TREATMENT? OBAMANOMICS A MAJOR DISASTER IN THE WINGS? OBAMA CAMPAIGN WORKERS INVOLVED IN ACORN? NY TIMES KRUGMAN GETS HAIL OF LAUGHTER? MCCAIN COMES OUT FIGHTING! MCCAIN TAKE OFF THE... [read more]

An ACORN Voter Fraud Roundup
Michelle Malkin has a great post regarding ACORN and their voter fraud. Here is what she has listed today: *MISSOURI: Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states. Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of... [read more]

Obama's Other Party
Newsbusters has this interesting story regarding Obama and the New Party which is part of teh Democtratic Socialist network. In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago "New Party".The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level... [read more]

Oct 9: Stock Market down ANOTHER 678: how's that "bail out" working for you?
Gee, today's bailout news? Stock Market: down ANOTHER 678! Do YOU feel "bailed out" yet? Remember, it was YOUR government and BOTH of our presidential candidates that helped do this to you. Well, here's a partial list of payoffs and sellouts within the bill that some here, initials "Eric," were so proud of (Are so proud of?) From Evergreen Freedom Foundation: Today the bailout bill (HR 1424 http://senateconservatives.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ayo08c32_xml.pdf ) was signed into law by President Bush. EFF agrees that action... [read more]

No Handshake, Michelle?
Because of my insistence on removing the influence of television from my home, I had the serendipitous fortune to watch it on CNN.com. After the debate had ended, the candidates wives came out into the speaking arena and the tension between the two was electric and visible. Even though Senator McCain and Senator Obama politely shook hands and chatted for a moment, Michelle Obama or Cindy McCain appeared to deliberately avoid making any such appearance of civility. They actually walked... [read more]

Is the McCain Campaign Now Playing With Fire?
Even if you believe only one of the candidates running for president, it is clear that at least one pair of pants is on fire."Liar! liar!" has been both the chorus and refrain from Senator Obama's camp running all the way back to his snatching of the nomination from the jaws of Hillary Clinton. As desperation set in, the McCain-Palin ticket has finally caught on that their straight talk rhetoric begs for straight walk follow-through. McCain has launched an attack... [read more]

Shot in the Fannie Mae
A friend of mine sent me this and it has some great information regaridng the current financial crisis: shotinthefanniemae1 Also, Michelle Malkin has this great article on her site today. crossposted: The TrueSoldier Rants... [read more]

Obama resurrects a lie to attack McCain
John McCain was named decades ago in 1989 as one of the Keating Five. The Keating case involved US senators who were accused of abusing their authority by interfering with government regulators investigating Charles Keating, chairman of Lincoln Savings and Loan. Yes, part of the Savings and Loan scandal. Sounds pretty awful doesn't it? And John McCain was the only Republican in the scandal, along with 4 Democrats, including John Glenn. So today, Barack Obama is revisiting the Keating Five... [read more]

Oct 7: Stock Market down ANOTHER 508 how's that "bail out" working for you?
Gee, today's bailout news? Stock Market: down another 508 Do YOU feel "bailed out" yet? Remember, it was YOUR government and BOTH of our presidential candidates that helped do this to you. Well, here's a partial list of payoffs and sellouts within the bill that some here, initials "Eric," were so proud of (Are so proud of?) From Evergreen Freedom Foundation: Today the bailout bill (HR 1424 http://senateconservatives.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ayo08c32_xml.pdf ) was signed into law by President Bush. EFF agrees that action... [read more]

The TRUTH SQUAD -- Examining Roger Goodman's Claims
We've added a new feature to our web site at www.tobynixon.com. The Truth Squad will take a careful look at the claims Roger Goodman makes in his campaign ads, and fill in the facts he omits. In its initial report, The Truth Squad examines these claims: * Goodman's claim to have gotten "results" on early childhood education (it turns out that his bill is just another study); * his claim to have "done something" about drunk driving (he makes it... [read more]

WEEKLY POLITICAL NEWS-DAILY UPDATE
HERE IS A LINK ROUNDUP ON THE LATEST ON MONEY AND POLITICS EXTRA ON OBAMA: PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS CLAIM OBAMA KEPT THEIR CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS! The Obama campaign says that the millions in illegal contributions with names containing funny boners like soccer stars from Brazil (who never heard of Obama) now say they returned the money to terror groups in the Palestinian territories. That looks like lie number 1,234,788 from the Obama campaign: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/palestinians-deny-obama-returned-illegal/story.aspx?guid={016C7EE7-AB9E-4242-80E1-6D1BA92FDC9E}&dist=hppr OBAMA ACORN OFFICE RAIDED IN LAS VEGAS, VOTER... [read more]

Is Obama eligible to run for president?
I hesitate to bring this up. I really do. But in our current atmosphere of lawyers scouring the country using the law and technicalities to attack just about everything, I can't help but consider this one man fight in US District Court in Pennsylvania to uphold the US Constitutional requirements on eligibility of a US presidential candidate. I also know that the less people know about a case like this, the more likely the judge in the case will feel... [read more]

Sandstorm in Iraq
Just thought I would share a picture of a recent sandstorm we had here in Iraq... [read more]

Biden Distorts, Exagerates and Lies in VP Debate; Yet MSM Stays Silent
I finally got to watch the VP debate last night here in Iraq and I must say it was pretty good. I feel Palin did exceptionally well and Biden did to....up until the point he decided to distort, exaggerate and flat out lie to try to make his point. The MSM has been utterly silent about these lies and distortions; yet if it had been Palin who made these claims they would have been all over it. Little Green Footballs... [read more]

Lamestream Media Bias? Fight Back.
One of the primary reasons why I tend to lean conservative is that there is such an overt media bias towards the left. Again and again throughout this campaign we have watched prominent media figureheads attack conservative candidates with tough questions and gotcha questions, while throwing up lobs for those candidates on the left. One way you can fight the media is to use their most precious manipulative tools in ways they had not intended. When you get calls from... [read more]

Update - Oct 6: Down 438: RU Getting it, yet? Rip-Off List added. So... how's that bailout working for you?
Gee, today's bailout news? Stock Market: down 438 as I write this. Do YOU feel "bailed out" yet? Remember, it was YOUR government and BOTH of our rpresidential candidates that helped do this to you. Well, here's a partial list of payoffs and sellouts within the bill that some here, initials "Eric," were so proud of (Are so proud of?) From Evergreen Freedom Foundation: Today the bailout bill (HR 1424 http://senateconservatives.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ayo08c32_xml.pdf ) was signed into law by President Bush. EFF... [read more]

WEEKLY POLITICAL NEWS MAGAZINE-BREAKING NEWS
POLITICAL HEADLINE NEWS! OBAMA ACCUSED OF CAMPAIGN FRAUD! VP TV DEBATE RESULTS AND OTHER POLITICAL NEWS BAIL OUT LINKS ON THE BIGGEST PORK BARREL TO EVER COME OUT OF CONGRESS! .7 TRILLION! IT PASSED THE HOUSE! ANOTHER OBAMA POLITCAL PAL UNDER INVESTIGATION MAJOR POLITICAL SCANDAL IN DENVER, GOES NATIONAL! iPHONES BEING USED TO REGISTER VOTERS AT THE U DUB? DOWD DUMPED OHIO VOTER FRAUD IFILL LIED TO EVERYBODY, WANTS MILLIONS FOR BOOK BIDEN LIED TO EVERYBODY, WANTS TO BE VP... [read more]

Looking at my kids facebook pages.
There is some interesting stuff going on there. These kids are making and keeping friendships across years and miles. It's weird watching a high schooler rediscovering a friend from 3rd grade and seeing them pick right up where they left off as if the 7 or 8 intervening years never happened. Our society is returning to an earlier day, in a way I had not anticipated. I remember in the 80's that the big drop in long distance rates, and... [read more]

Pro Market Senators in the NW
Here in the Pacific NW we have 6 senators. Based on todays bailout vote it appears three are pro free market and three are pro socialism. Voting for the unpopular bailout and increased control of the financial sector Murray (D) WA Craig (R) ID Smith (R) OR Voting no to the unpopular bailout Cantwell (D) WA Crapo (R) ID Wyden (D) OR I am not too familiar with the Oregon and Idaho senators (other than their escapades in MN airports!)... [read more]

McCain on Bailout
I was thinking on the way home today. A question I would like asked of McCain is this... What would he do if twenty 5 million dollar pork projects were added to the house bill to get 20 representatives to vote for the bill. Would McCain support the bill?... [read more]

Gary Larson: Hatchet Job Slashes at McCain for his Casino Positions
Gary Larson, below, responded to the New York Times article, For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling, with a number of good points in his article, Hatchet Job Slashes at McCain for his Casino Positions, http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/10/01/hatchet-job-slashes-at-mccain-for-his-casino-positions/. Aside from the obvious, such as the fact that the New York Times is guilty of "yet another misleading, loaded-for-bear 'expose'," he correctly notes that Senator McCain is hardly a champion of tribal casinos: "Truth is, McCain has distanced himself from... [read more]