Update
Fifty years ago today, November 3, 1964, Barry Goldwater
lost badly to Landslide Lyndon Johnson. (He of the self-promoted Silver Star
for one flight where no enemy were seen.) I recall it well, as that was the day
I graduated from Parris Island and became a
Marine. My Senior DI, Sgt. W. H. Harris had the returns on his radio at the
duty desk. He was for Goldwater too, and since I was now a Marine, he let me
stay there and listen that evening. I was a Goldwater volunteer before I joined
the Corps in August, attended the rally in Madison Square
Garden Asia .
I did, and we did, so the whole Vietnam
thing was my fault.
Forty-two years ago this Friday, November 7, 1972, I was
first elected to the Massachusetts Senate, defeating a Democrat incumbent by
nine votes out of 60,000 in a 4-1 Democrat district. Just eight years after
graduating from Parris Island and the same
year I graduated from U-Mass. Those years went in a flash--enjoy every day.
~Bob
From a Blog Reader/Contributor and former constituent. Her
whole family were campaign workers, so maybe a touch of bias: "If I never
said so......Thanks for your military service and THANKS for being a first rate
State Senator !" --Laura K.
Making Friends With Democrats
General News and Comment
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Tomorrow we vote. Indirectly, that is the topic
for today's comment. Directly, the matter is more important - the security
and safety, the survival, of the United States
A bunch of the celebrities in that Rock the Vote ad didn’t,
in fact, vote.
Excerpt: Rock The Vote released a public service
announcement last month with a parody of Lil Jon’s “Turn Down For What” that
featured public figures who explained why they planned to vote in the midterm
elections, but according to public records, a number of them didn’t vote in the
last midterm election. (Hollywood hypocrites.
~Bob)
Interesting: The Crystal Ball’s Final 2014 Picks.
Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley, Sabato's Crystal Ball
Who we favor in all 507 of Tuesday’s Senate, gubernatorial,
and House races
Excerpt: Voters around the country will head into Election
Day prepared to end their love affair with Barack Obama. Republicans should be
cautious in how they interpret the voters’ mixed signals. First, it is
important to understand the president’s delusions. A series of reports have
come out that the White House believes Democrats should embrace the president.
Never mind that only a month ago White House aides said the president would be
fine if Democrats campaigned against him. It appears the president is still
taking it personally. One almost expects President Obama to announce publicly
that these Democrats will deny him three times before the rooster crows on
Election Day morning.
Excerpt: In proving that Godwin’s Law applies to struggling Democrat
campaigns just like it applies to the Internet, the Mary Burke campaign has
decided to flash some swastikas in some ads that are encouraging people to vote
for Mary Burke. Here is the ad in question, and it’s just as ridiculous as you
might think it would be: (The stench of desperation. ~Bob)
White House meddles
in South Dakota
Excerpt: With only days left before Election Day, the FBI
has taken the unprecedented step of announcing it is opening an investigation
into and incident that happened when GOP candidate Mike Rounds was governor of South Dakota . This is
based on an incident that is three years old and has already been investigated
by other authorities.
Excerpt: The state’s highest court has toppled a cultural
taboo — legalizing a degree of incest, at least between an uncle and niece — in
a unanimous ruling.
The White House Press
Pool Noticed Something Conspicuous at Obama’s Campaign Stop in Pennsylvania
Excerpt: President Barack Obama delivered remarks Sunday for
a Pennsylvania
gubernatorial candidate at a venue that was largely empty.
Huffington Post:
Republicans on Track to Gain Senate Majority
Excerpt: Republicans are on the verge of gaining eight seats
in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday — perhaps more that that — according to the Huffington Post‘s polling data.
Excerpt: The Charlotte Observer pulled
a story that reported on Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband being reported to
the North Carolina
state auditor by the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DENR).
The DENR called for a “legal review” of the $260,644 in stimulus money the
company Hagan’s husband received...
Excerpt: If you’re in the Joni Ernst camp, then yesterday
was probably a very exciting one given that the Des Moines
Register’s latest
poll showed the GOP senate hopeful 7 points ahead of her Democratic
opponent Rep. Bruce Braley...
Voter-ID backer
catches Dems in the act
http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/voter-id-backer-catches-dems-in-the-act/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/voter-id-backer-catches-dems-in-the-act/
Excerpt: Molotov Mitchell, also a WND video columnist, is
running as the GOP nominee for North Carolina
State Senate District 16 against incumbent Democrat Josh Stein.
Stein’s father, Adam Stein, is part of a team of attorneys suing the state to
overturn its voter-ID law, set to go into effect in 2016. A new video released
by Mitchell purports to show a polling place with signs clearly marked
forbidding the distribution of election materials, but a photo reveals Adam
Stein well beyond the signs handing out voter guides. (Not a vote fraud
violation, but a violation. And I'm glad my first name isn't
"Molotov" - don't think I'd have won my senate seat. ~Bob.
Interesting: States ditch electronic voting machines
Excerpt: States have abandoned electronic voting machines in
droves, ensuring that most voters will be casting their ballots by hand on
Election Day. With many electronic voting machines more than a decade old, and
states lacking the funding to repair or replace them, officials have opted to
return to the pencil-and-paper voting that the new technology was supposed to
replace. Nearly 70 percent of voters will be casting ballots by hand on
Tuesday, according to Pamela Smith, president of election watchdog Verified
Voting. (My first elect was 100% paper ballots. The recount took weeks, but you
got to see every ballot. One of the committees I served on for ten years when I
was a senator was the Joint Committee on Election Laws. The head of the states
elections division, a straight-down-the-middle guy with decades of service,
told me he was a paper ballot man. "There's not an election machine a man
can make that a man can't fix." We have seen this in Illinois
and Maryland
this year. There's a funny story from my recount, since we got to see the
ballots. In my town of Lunenburg ,
there was one fellow noted for being a good citizen. He showed up for every
election—and wrote himself in for every office. At least, it was assumed that
the he was the one writing himself in, and not his wife or neighbor. In 1972,
he again voted, and again wrote himself in for every office. Except for state
senator, where he broke ranks and voted for me. I was proud of getting his vote
away from him. ~Bob)
A White House reporter’s tale of sex, booze and the briefing room. By
Sam Youngman
Excerpt: At least once a
week, I hear conventional wisdom from D.C. or New York
upended by words directly from the mouths of a Kentucky Eastern Kentucky .
Excerpt: Two bruising years later, only one of those
initiatives has been achieved, and a president who once boasted of a
barrier-breaking liberal coalition is under fire from his own party as his
Republican rivals are poised to make gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections. A
routine campaign stop Sunday on behalf of Gov. Dan Malloy (D) in Bridgeport , Conn.
GA: Michelle Nunn Charity Illegally Cuts Campaign
Video #GASEN #IRS. By Charles C. Johnson and Shannon Knutsen
Excerpt: U.S.
Senate candidate Michelle Nunn illegally used her tax exempt yet left-wing
charity in a campaign video, Gotnews.com has learned.
Excerpt: Thom Tillis (R) 47% [48%] (41%). Kay Hagan (D)
46% [43%] (44%).
NC: [Video] Reporter James O’Keefe Allowed to Vote as
20 Different People Without Showing Any ID
http://controversialtimes.com/politics/video-breaking-reporter-james-okeefe-votes-as-20-different-people-without-showing-any-id/
http://controversialtimes.com/politics/video-breaking-reporter-james-okeefe-votes-as-20-different-people-without-showing-any-id/
Excerpt: In his latest undercover video, O’Keefe shows how
easy it is for him to go vote as 20 different people just by providing a name
and address, without an identification whatsoever. Please note, O’Keefe did not
actually complete the voting process in any of the instances, so no laws were
broken.
CNN Calls out Davis,
Grimes for Most Shocking and Dishonest Ads of 2014
Excerpt: Alison Lundergan Grimes (D., Ky.) and Wendy Davis
(D., Texas) received top, or maybe it was low, honors from CNN’s The
Lead Monday in a discussion of the most dishonest and shocking political
ads of the 2014 cycle. Host Jake Tapper called Grimes’ commercial “the ultimate
Four-Pinocchio ad,” referring to the rating system of Washington
Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler.
Guns
Two Female Suspected
Burglars Shot By Homeowner In Atascocita
Excerpt: "The first call was I've got two females at my
door, banging on the door," said Harris County Constable Pct. 4 Lt. Walter
Stensland. A couple of minutes later came the call that the would-be burglars
were in his home, and that he had a shotgun loaded with buckshot ammo. The next
sound neighbors heard was at least three blasts from a 20-gauge shotgun used to
kill deer.
Race Card News
Voters catching on? 78% Say Politicians Play ‘Race
Card’ Just to Get Reelected
Excerpt: Voters, regardless of race, agree that most
politicians play the so-called “race card” just to pick up votes. Still, blacks
strongly believe that those who oppose President Obama are racist.
Just nine percent (9%) of Likely U.S. Voters think most
politicians raise racial issues to address real problems, according to a new
Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Seventy-eight percent (78%) say
they bring up race just to get elected.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Excerpt: Back in 2008, I met Michael Leavitt in his capacity
as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for President George W. Bush.
Secretary Leavitt was trying to implement a new way for Medicare to buy some
medical supplies, categorized as durable medical equipment (DME), through
competitive bidding. At the time, DME was bought using the same, Soviet-style
fixed-fee schedules that Medicare uses for doctors and hospitals today.
Competitive bidding for DME had actually been legislated in the Medicare
Modernization Act of 2003. In 2014, we know that competitive bidding has saved
hundreds of millions of dollars.
52% Expect Health
Care System To Worsen Under Obamacare
Excerpt: Heading into the highly consequential midterm
elections, voters continue to give the U.S. health care system less than
stellar reviews and believe it will get worse under the national health care
law.
Undocumented Democrat News
NH: Immigration Leaders: NH Fertile For Illegal Alien
Gangs, Crime If Jeanne Shaheen Re-Elected
Excerpt: If incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is
re-elected, national immigration experts are sure of one thing: Families, children,
and mothers in New Hampshire
won’t be safe from looming crime from illegal aliens’ gangs—which are
absolutely, law enforcement says, active in the region. “Jeanne Shaheen’s
support for amnesty for illegal aliens through her vote for the Gang of Eight
bill and through her support for President Obama’s planned executive amnesty is
endangering all families across New Hampshire,” Maria Espinoza, the national
director of The Remembrance Project, told Breitbart News on Sunday.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Gone With The Wind:
Resistance To Bird-Killing Turbines Grows
Excerpt: The natives are restless, and their ire is directed
against an intruder armed with taxpayer subsidies and intent on destroying as
much scenic beauty and wildlife as it can get away with. Across the country,
giant wind farms, among the ghastliest monstrosities ever devised by man, are
scarring the countryside in the name of providing renewable energy. But as the
toll of slaughtered birds and bats mounts, people are fighting back. Here’s an
update: (Hopefully, common sense will return to earth at some point after
Divine intervention. --Barb. Remember when the liberals banned DDT to save the
birds, killing millions of third world kids with Malaria? This is what they
saved the birds for. ~Bob)
Wind PTC is Redistribution to the Rich. By Zachary Huffman
Excerpt: Democrats are famous for pushing the idea that the
rich don't pay their fair share of taxes. So, why are many of them lining up to
support tax breaks for Big Wind's millionaires?
Under the leadership of Harry Reid, lawmakers are pushing to
extend the wind-energy industry's cash cow subsidy, the Wind Production Tax
Credit (PTC).
Excerpt: Billionaire Tom Steyer has spent $12 million trying
to make Floridians scared of global warming — an issue Gallup recently found
ranks dead last among voter priorities. Other research indicates that the more
people are harangued about it, the more they turn off, making this money not
well spent. Blame the information age, where people can easily see for
themselves that we are in our 18th year without a global-warming trend.
They can also go the National Climatic Data
Center ’s website and plot out Florida ’s yearly
temperature; there is no overall significant warming trend in the entire
record, which covers 118 years.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Erdogan's Book of Defeat. By Burak Bekdil
Excerpt: An Egyptian court convicted eight men on Saturday
of charges of “inciting debauchery” after their appearance in a video of a
same-sex wedding party on a Nile riverboat,
sentencing each to three years in prison. The Internet video shows two men
exchanging rings and embracing among cheering friends.
Are You There Allah?
It’s Me, John Kerry. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: A week before the anniversary of September 11,John
Kerry announced that he had been given a divine mission to protect
Muslim countries from Global Warming. The Secretary of State had spent
September arguing that the Islamic State was Un-Islamic. He told the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs that it was a war against the “enemy of Islam.”
Kerry was so eager to go native that he even switched from calling the Islamic
State by the acronym of ISIL and instead joined Muslim governments in calling
it by the more insulting Daesh.
Military Hates White
House ‘Micromanagement’ of ISIS War
Excerpt: The Pentagon brass placed in charge of implementing
Obama’s war against ISIS are getting fed up
with the short leash the White House put them on. Top military leaders in the
Pentagon and in the field are growing increasingly frustrated by the tight
constraints the White House has placed on the plans to fight ISIS and train a
new Syrian rebel army.
Islamic State 'kills
322' from single Sunni tribe
Excerpt: Mass killings by Islamic State militants have seen
322 members of an Iraqi Sunni tribe killed in western Anbar province, Iraq's government
says. The country's ministry of human rights said more than 50 bodies were
found in a water well, whilst 65 members of the Al-Bu Nimr tribe have been
kidnapped.
Moderates Defeated In
Syria
Excerpt: The day before a crucial mid-term election,
President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, which has become a large campaign
issue, took another blow in the Middle East .
U.S.-backed Syrian rebel fighters defected to the extremist group Jabhat
al-Nusra, an al-Qaida linked group.
Army cadet, 15,
burned with aerosol can and lighter after he sold Remembrance Day poppies in Manchester
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817653/Army-cadet-15-burned-aerosol-lighter-sold-Remembrance-Day-poppies-Manchester-city-centre.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817653/Army-cadet-15-burned-aerosol-lighter-sold-Remembrance-Day-poppies-Manchester-city-centre.html
Excerpt: The 15-year-old boy was waiting at a bus stop in
his camouflage uniform when a man holding an aerosol can and cigarette lighter
approached him. He then sprayed the terrified boy with blazing fumes before
walking off without saying a word. ... The attacker, who appeared to be under
the influence of alcohol, was described as black or Asian, 5ft 8in tall and
wearing a dark hooded top. ("Asian" is British media code for Muslim.
~Bob)
A Lesson on Free
Speech and Sharia in Knoxville
Excerpt: A recent legal victory by Freedom X upheld the right of private
citizens to discuss openly sharia law at a Knoxville , Tennessee
Going Dutch - The
Psychometric Tool Against Jihadism in the West. By Esam Sohail
Excerpt: The famed laissez faire liberalism of the
Dutch is only matched by their flinty commonsense. Two years after the brutal
2004 murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh at the hand of Islamist jihadists in Amsterdam , the Dutch government quietly introduced a form
of personality testing for immigrants from certain backgrounds who wished to
make the Netherlands
their permanent abode. By showing a set of short video clips highlighting the
culture of diversity, secularism, free speech, and gender equality to potential
migrants from very different cultures and then allowing responsible officers to
evaluate reactions of the audience, the Dutch government made a very
business-like decision to ensure a proper fit for a person to his/her new home.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tinyurl.com/o4nu65u. His blog of
political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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