The Minnesota senate election is getting embarrassing.  It’s getting down to the Demorates wanting to defraud every vote so they can win.  It’s a disgrace.  From the Wall Street Journal:

Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.

Mr. Franken…..who was insisting on "counting every vote" wants to shut the process down. He’s getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.

(I)t appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote.

And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that "very likely there was a double counting." Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.

(Hennepin County) officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night — the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.

Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he’s benefited both ways from the board’s inconsistency.

Many Franken-leaning counties did so (re examining rejected absentee ballots), submitting 1,350 ballots to include in the results. But many Coleman-leaning counties have yet to complete a re-examination. Despite this lack of uniformity, and though the state Supreme Court has yet to rule on a Coleman request to standardize this absentee review, Mr. Ritchie’s office nonetheless plowed through the incomplete pile of 1,350 absentees this weekend, padding Mr. Franken’s edge by a further 176 votes.

And the Canvassing Board appears to have applied inconsistent standards in how it decided some of these challenged votes — in ways that, again on net, have favored Mr. Franken.

Minnesota’s other Senator, Amy Klobuchar, is already saying her fellow Democrats should seat Mr. Franken when the 111th Congress begins this week if the Canvassing Board certifies him as the winner. This contradicts Minnesota law, which says the state cannot award a certificate of election if one party contests the results.

(W)e can’t recall a similar recount involving optical scanning machines that has changed so many votes, and in which nearly every crucial decision worked to the advantage of the same candidate. The Coleman campaign clearly misjudged the politics here, and the apparent willingness of a partisan like Mr. Ritchie to help his preferred candidate, Mr. Franken.

I believe Mr. Franken has been certified by the board as the winner now.   He’s already made his victory speech.

So, lets see.  Since Obama’s win we have Democratic Illinois governor, Blagojevich, being charged for trying to sell Obama’s senate seat which hasn’t stopped him from nominating Roland Burris as the new Senator.  Bill Richardson, Democratic Governor of New Mexico, had to withdraw from being nominated as Commerce Secretary because he’s being investigated for pay-to-play dealings (which completely blew me away!).  And now Democratic Al Franken may be Minnesota’s next Senator under obvious fraudulent recounts.

This is giving Democracy a bad name. 

This is getting pathetic.  The intolerant hate mongers that can’t handle that the will of the people voted against them is at it again:

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)  — Vandals may have marked up the wrong church Saturday night in an apparent revolt against Proposition 8 supporters.

Black spray-painted swastikas marred the front of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco’s Castro district. Though the church itself is gay friendly……

Pastor Steve Meriweather told KCBS his parishioners actually share the vandals’ sentiment against Prop 8. "I think it’s unfortunate that they selected our community to attack," said Meriweather, "because it’s the wrong one."

Some attending mass at Holy Redeemer in the heart of the Castro are calling it a hate crime. San Francisco Police have been called in to investigate.

Oopsie.  That isn’t the way to keep supporters is it?  How pathetic.  In their hate, they hurt one of the few Catholic Congregations that would stand by them.  Perhaps they should do their research a tad bit better next time. 

The good news.  These hate mongers are more than likely the minority.

Michael Mazzaferro stood outside the church after mass, explaining to his two adopted young children that the vandals share his feelings but expressed themselves in the wrong way.

"Just the conflict between being Catholic and being a parent, and being in a same-sex relationship, there are a lot of challenges, and these are no different than any other challenges they’re going to face in life," said Mazzaferro of his children.

The Catholic League had this to say:

“In the wake of Proposition 8, innocent persons have been assaulted, churches have been vandalized, a white substance resembling anthrax was sent to the Knights of Columbus and to Mormon temples, supporters of traditional marriage have been branded Nazis, African Americans have been called the ‘N-word,’ houses and cars have been trashed, etc. Unfortunately, most of those in the gay community have been silent about these acts.

“Part of the blame for the latest attack goes to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Both Newsom and the Board have shown nothing but contempt for the First Amendment rights of Catholics. When crucifixes are sold as sex toys and Catholic sensibilities are assaulted by naked men in the street at the annual Folsom Street Fair, they say nothing. When gay men dressed as nuns show up at Mass—at the same church—they say nothing. But the Board was quite vocal about condemning the Catholic Church in 2006, something which led to a lawsuit triggered by the Catholic League and the Thomas More Law Center.

“For those who love to write about ‘root causes,’ let them ponder the guilt of these public officials. Moreover, leaders in the gay community show no leadership when it comes to denouncing incivility committed in the name of gay rights. This has got to end.”

He’s right, its got to end.  Why do the Church goers always have hear how horrible we are just because we voted in a way we felt was right? Isn’t that why the proposition was put on the ballot?  So the state could vote on it?  No one should be afraid to vote in a manner they feel is right.  This is intimidation at its worse!

This whole "bail out" epidemic is beginning to tick me off.  Who should we tax into oblivion?  We can’t tax the low to middle income people because Obama promised he would do that - so where is all the money going to come from?

Sam Eldrige at the McCook Gazette has some idea’s:

1. Big Abortion……Dr. George Tiller, dubbed Tiller the Baby Killer, in Kansas, earns about five grand for every baby he kills. Planned Parenthood abortion mills are building bigger, and newer killing centers all over America. We need a new "Windfall Abortion Tax" so that the rest of America can share in this…"prosperity" of Abortion.

2. Big Hollyweird.  Oh my, it isn’t "fair" that some Hollyweird weirdos get to make millions of dollars a movie, while the peons in Hollyweird make so little…….A Hollyweird Tax of major stars is just the right thing to do, to help their buddy and messiah, Obama, make his dream of a Marxist America a reality.

3. Big Education. This industry has been at the heart of the Marxist revolution for years……We need the Ward Churchill Nutty Professor Tax. Tax professors at a much higher rate, so that they may fully participate in an Marxist America they helped bring about.

4. Big Porn…..Fifty years ago, we sent missionaries and Bibles around the Globe, and the World loved us…now, we send filth, and the world hates us. Smart aren’t we? Now that Big Porn makes more money each year than ABC,CBS, and NBC combined, we need a Porn Star Tax……

5. Big Media……Big Media has turned into a propaganda machine that would have made Hitler drool. Never could the Nazi’s have come up with the lies, distortions, half-truths, and omissions that our media came up with in their quest to ruin America as a super power. We need a Big Media Whore tax, to let these self inflated egomaniacs share in the demise they worked so hard to accomplish.

continue reading "Who Should We Tax To Save Us From Ourselves"

An Indiana Mom is suing her son’s school district because other children are allowed to learn about religion.

School officials in a northeastern Indiana district deny that a religious education program offered during the school day illegally advances religion, as a federal lawsuit claims.

A complaint filed by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of an unnamed woman and her eight-year-old son asks a federal judge to shut down the program and bar the school district from providing it with utilities or any other support.

Horace Mann Elementary School, which offers third- and fourth-grade students a "release time" program for "By the Book Weekday Religious Instruction" through the Associated Churches of Huntington, the suit states.

The Huntington County Community School Corp. argued in a response to the lawsuit that the release time program neither advances nor inhibits religion.

Huntington’s program is voluntary. Classes meet once a week in mobile trailers near school buildings, and children who don’t participate remain in their classrooms with school staff, according to a brochure for the program filed with the lawsuit.

It’s voluntary, it’s not in the school building, and it’s only once a week.  What’s the problem?  Why doesn’t the mother tell the school that they must provide instruction in the same manner in their families belief? 

I’ve been told on here multiple times that even Agnostics have days of "worship" and that the Christians took

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I stumbled upon two articles today, that both encouraged and disheartened me.  The first article shares the results of a Harris Poll.  It seems that 82% of Americans consider themselves to be Pro Life. 

The Harris survey included 2,341 adults and was conducted December 10-12.

It found 82 percent of Americans said abortion should either be illegal under all circumstances or would limit its legality.

More specifically, 49 percent of those polled took a pro-life position wanting all abortions made illegal (11 percent) or wanting almost all abortions illegal except for very rare cases of saving the mothers life or in rape or incest (38 percent).

That number is amazing.  49% of Americans want abortion illegal except in the cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.  While I personally think that being the result of a rape or incestual coupling are not sound reasons to be put to death, I also realize that these results are so rare that if they were the only reasons for having abortions, abortion would become almost non existent.

But what of the other 51%?  Well, that news too is heartening. 

The survey also found strong majorities of Americans support all of the common types of abortion limits enacted in Congress or state legislatures.

Some 95 percent of Americans say they favor laws ensuring only licensed physicians can do abortions.

Another 88 percent favor informed consent laws that provide women with information about abortion’s risks and alternatives beforehand and 76 percent say they want laws that protect doctors and nurses from being forced to perform or refer for abortions against their will.

Some 73 percent of Americans in the Harris poll support parental involvement laws, 68 percent favor a ban on partial-birth abortion, and 63 percent favor bans on making taxpayers fund abortions.

In fact, only a mere 9% of the population,  favors abortions at any stage of pregnancy, for any reason.

continue reading "And the winners are…? The losers."

Our regular visitor, Dan, has a blog of his own - Boston’s Young Democrat.  His article yesterday has really got me thinking, so I thought I would see if anyone here has any comments to it.

It’s all based around a Russians predictions for America:

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. — very seriously.

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end   of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control.

He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.

continue reading "American Civil War Part II"

This is an odd one.  I saw the story of Reverend Walter Hoye on the home page of ProLife Blogs.  I thought the story seemed a bit too sensational and shrugged it off.  Then this past weekend I accidentally clicked on the wrong button and ended up staring at the Don’t Drink The Kings Wine blog story on this.  So, I decided to start  digging.

The story isn’t one that would make national news but it would normally make a little blurb in local news.  I know that the basic facts from the pro-life blogs surrounding the story are true because I did find this on The Oakland Tribune:

Anti-abortion activist going to trial

Walter Hoye, the anti-abortion activist who became the first person charged under a new Oakland ordinance that prohibits people from approaching within 8 feet of people entering abortion clinics, will go to trial after refusing to take a plea deal, Hoye’s attorney Mike Millen said. A hearing is scheduled today to set Hoye’s trial date.

I can’t find anything else in regular news outlets.  Nothing else.  Nadda.  Zip.  The only place to get information on this is in the pro-life news.  So, in order to report this I am forced to report from biased sources only. 

According to Christian News Wire Reverend Walter Hoye is the reason for the new "Mother May I" ordinance. 

Now for some background on the story from One News Now:

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President Elect Obama said at a Planned Parenthood rally that the first thing he would do to assist in women’s rights would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).   I have had a lot of emails regarding this with people wanting to know if the pro-lifers are right in their description of this act,  or if they are just being hysterical.

There is a bit of hysterics going on,  however it is understandable considering our court system lately.   Nothing is based on law anymore because personal interpretation is being consider the law.

While researching both the House and Senate bills the first thing I noticed is how far these acts got in Congress.   Both the House and Senate sent their prospective bills to the Judiciary committee where both acts died.

FOCA will not pass a constitutional debate.   The reason for this is because it isn’t in the Federal Statute to overtake state laws in this manner.   If this bill were to pass a judiciary committee,  signed into law and then deemed constitutional by the U.S. Supreme court chaos would follow.   The reason for this is that it would open the door for the federal government to overtake all forms of commerce that goes across state lines.

So what does it say?   (Although, I believe both the house and senate bill are identical - I will be using the Senate text)

continue reading "What is FOCA?"

Australia is taking things to a new level in an attempt to protect children from predators.  Highlights from the Miami Herald:

SYDNEY — A proposed Internet filter dubbed the ”Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.

Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 websites prohibited by the government — mostly child pornography and advocacy of terrorism. Hundreds protested in state capitals earlier this month.

The list of prohibited sites, which the government isn’t making public, is arbitrary and not subject to legal scrutiny, Smith said, leaving it to the government or lawmakers to pursue their own online agendas.

One of the world’s largest child-advocacy groups questions the allocation.

”The filter may not be able to in fact protect children from the core elements of the Internet that they are actually experiencing danger in,” said Holly Doel-Mackaway, an advisor with Save the Children. “The filter should be one small part of an overall comprehensive program to educate children and families about using the Internet.”

Internet providers say a filter could slow browsing speeds, and many question whether it would achieve its intended goals. Illegal material such as child pornography is mainly traded on peer-to-peer networks or chats, which would not be covered by the filter.

”People don’t openly post child porn, the same way you can’t walk into a store in Sydney and buy a machine gun,” said Geordie Guy, spokesman for Electronic Frontiers Australia, an Internet advocacy group.

continue reading "Can Censorship To Protect Kids Go To Far?"

I am a HUGE fan of America’s Most Wanted with host John Walsh.  John’s son Adam was brutally murdered in 1981 - only his severed head was found.  John has devoted his life to being a victims advocate and helping put many people in jail for their crimes. 

There has only been one suspect through all these years, but lack of evidence has kept an official charge being made until now. 

From Fox News:

The investigation into the 1981 death of Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of "America’s Most Wanted" anchor John Walsh, is finally closed, after having been classified as an unsolved murder for 27 years.

Hollywood Police Chief Chad Wagner announced Tuesday that the department had concluded that a man named Ottis Toole kidnapped and killed the boy.

The now-deceased pedophile and convicted murderer confessed to the slaying, but later recanted.

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