ELECTION DAY , November 7, 2006
RACE BAITING LAST MINUTE SCARE AD IN ATLANTA OK ... so this is nothing new, but you would think that
sooner or later Democrats would grow tired of the race-baiting last-minute ads
trying to frighten black voters into thinking that Republicans will be coming
for them with a noose in the dark of night. Well .. it has happened again
.. right here in Atlanta. Georgia Democrat Congressman John Lewis, former Atlanta
Mayor and U.N. Ambassador Andy Young and current Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin
have teamed up to produce a campaign ad for John Eaves, a black Democrat running
for the position of Fulton County Commission Chairman. (Atlanta lies
almost exclusively inside Fulton County). The ad suggests ---- hell, it
doesn't just suggest, if flat-out says that if the Fulton County voters let
those Republicans get control of the Fulton County Commission it will be like
setting the dogs and water hoses on blacks again. In fact, it will be
worse! Here ... read the text of the ad for yourself: | "This is Congressman
John Lewis." "And I'm Mayor Shirley Franklin" "And I'm Andy Young" (John Lewis) "On November 7th we face the most
dangerous situation we ever have. If you think fighting off dogs and
water hoses in the sixties was bad, imagine if we sit idly by and let the
right-wing Republicans take control of the Fulton County Commision." (Shirley Franklin) "The efforts of Martin and
Coretta King, Hosea Williams, Maynard Jackson and many others will be
lost. That's why we must stand up and we must turn out the vote for
the Democrats on Election Day." (Andy Young) "And especially for John Eaves for
Fulton County Commission Chairman. Unless you want them to turn back
the clock on equal rights and human rights and economic opportunity for
all of us, vote for John Eaves as Fulton County Chairman" (Lewis) "Your very life may depend on it." (John Eaves) "This message paid for by the
committee to elect John Eaves." |
You can listen to
the ad right here. I'm not surprised that John Lewis made this ad. He's
never been one to avoid a little race-baiting in a campaign. He rather
loves playing the black victimization card. Andrew Young? No
surprise there either. Young has a history of playing the race card in his
political efforts. Young is just the type of bigot you would expect to
tell black voters that Republicans would "turn back the clock on equal rights
and human rights" if they get control of the commission. By the way --- a
Republican has been in control of the commission for years now ... and thus far
no blacks have been lynched. But Shirley Franklin? Now that's a disappointment.
A huge disappointment. I've had dinner with Shirley Franklin a few times,
and frankly I was impressed. Thus far she's done an admirable job for the
City of Atlanta. Now she allows herself to be used by John Eaves in a
cheap, crass attempt to scare black voters into thinking that if he doesn't win
this race all of the work of Martin Luther King Jr. will have been lost.
Mayor Franklin should be ashamed, and she should offer a public apology to the
black voters of Fulton County for her implication that they are dumb and
ignorant enough to buy this load of crap.
NEWSPAPER GETS IT WRONG .... WHAT A SURPRISE This little blurb is appearing on the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution website this afternoon: Boortz not immune to polling problemsBy
Staff reports | Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 03:08 PM The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Local radio personality Neal Boortz was among those
who had problems voting at the precinct where he reported before going on
the air Tuesday morning. After speculating that someone had perhaps voted
after impersonating Boortz, the talk show host later clarified the issue
for his listeners on WSB 750 AM: The address on his voter's registration
had changed since the last time he voted. He went to the wrong precinct. |
Well, they got it wrong. No surprise, since nobody
from the newspaper attempted to call me for the story. I didn't go to the
wrong precinct. I went to the right one. I went to the same precinct
that at which I voted in the 2004 general election. I went to the same
precinct where my wife is registered and where she voted today. The
problem was that someone somewhere had seen fit to change my voter registration
to where I work instead of where I live. Why? No idea. But it
happened. If I had voted in the precinct for my work address I would have
committed a crime. So ... this afternoon I returned to my precinct and
submitted a provisional ballot. I also re-registered to correct my
address. Do I expect a correction from the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution? Are you kidding?
 TODAY THE CALM
If there is going to be one slow day this week, today will
be it. Gone are the campaign ads (we hope) and a pathetically small
percentage of cogent Americans will make their ways to the polls to punish, to
reward or, in many cases, to vote for their livelihood. I'm going to try to cast my votes when the polls open, so
there will be paltry notes this morning. I have a feeling we'll make it up
tomorrow. My Congressman is a Democrat. John Lewis.
There is no way in hell that the voters are going to turn him away. Our
U.S. Senators are safe this time around .. neither is up for reelection.
There's really nothing for me to do at the polls except vote against any
constitutional amendments that give government more power, and vote for
Libertarians. TOMORROW THE STORM  Unless something earthshaking happens, tomorrow Democrats
will be celebrating a return to control of the House of Representatives.
If things go worse than expected they'll also be celebrating control of the
Senate. Celebrating right along with the Democrats will be those who have
declared war on our culture; those who have vowed to see our society placed
under their control ... the Islamic fascists.
If the people of this country truly understood that we are
involved in a war to preserve our very way of life, this wouldn't be happening.
There is no way in hell the Democrats can make any valid claim that they stand
ready to protect this country from Islamic terrorism. For them to prevail
the voters must believe that the threat doesn't exist. What happens at America's polling places today will be
seen as nothing less than a sign of weakness by those who want to destroy us.
While spokesbeards for the Islamists talk of cooperation and negotiations with
their newfound "friends" in Washington, behind the scenes they'll be plotting
ways to take advantage of our softness in a relentless drive to destroy America
and make Islam the world's dominant power. In the end I still believe that
Western culture will prevail and the terrorists will be defeated, but the cost
that will be paid will be increased by the weakness Americans will show at the
polls today. There will be other celebrations tomorrow, celebrations by
people who profess a love for this country rather than hatred. Those who
have squandered their American birthright and have, instead, become nothing more
than adult government dependents will be quite happy. What's not for a
loser to celebrate when the party of wealth redistribution shows strength?
Those who vote for a living will have their day today. Tomorrow those who work for a living, and those who have
managed to figure out that our country is at war, will wonder why they
couldn't make time to vote. NOW ... IF YOU HAVE A CHANCE BEFORE YOU HEAD TO THE
POLLS .... YOU GOTTA READ
THIS! Dan Simmons is an author. I haven't read any of his
books. I heard of him for the first time today when a listener sent me a
link to this article. It's a April 2006 message from Simmons. In
this message he details a meeting with a time traveler ... someone who came back
from the future to tell Simmons about something called The Century War.
Here is one excerpt I found compelling: | ......... He waved me into silence. "You were a
philosophy major or minor at that podunk little college you went to long
ago," said the Time Traveler. "Do you remember what Category Error is?" It rang a bell. But I was too irritated at hearing my alma mater being
called a "podunk little college" to be able to concentrate fully. "I'll tell you what it is," said the Time Traveler. "In philosophy and
formal logic, and it has its equivalents in science and business
management, Category Error is the term for having stated or defined a
problem so poorly that it becomes impossible to solve that problem,
through dialectic or any other means." I waited. Finally I said firmly, "You can't go to war with a
religion. Or, I mean . . . sure, you could . . . the Crusades and all
that . . . but it would be wrong." The Time Traveler sipped his Scotch and looked at me. He said, "Let me
give you an analogy . . ." God, I hated and distrusted analogies. I said nothing. "Let's imagine," said the Time Traveler, "that on December eighth,
Nineteen forty-one, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke before a
joint session of Congress and asked them to declare war on aviation." "That's absurd," I said. "Is it?" asked the Time Traveler. "The American battleships, cruisers,
harbor installations, Army barracks, and airfields at Pearl Harbor and
elsewhere in Hawaii were all struck by Japanese aircraft. Imagine if the
next day Roosevelt had declared war on aviation . . . threatening to wipe
it out wherever we found it. Committing all the resources of the United
States of America to defeating aviation, so help us God." "That's just stupid," I said. If I'd ever been afraid of this Time
Traveler, I wasn't now. He was obviously a mental defective." The planes,
the Japanese planes," I said, "were just a method of attack . . . a
means . . . it wasn't aviation that attacked us at Pearl Harbor, but
the Empire of Japan. We declared war on Japan and a few days later its
ally, Germany, lived up to its treaty with the Japanese and declared war
on us. If we'd declared war on aviation, on goddamned
airplanes rather than the empire and ideology that launched them,
we'd never have . . ." I stopped. What had he called it? Category Error. Making the problem
unsolvable through your inability - or fear - of defining it correctly. The Time Traveler was smiling at me from the shadows. It was a small,
thin, cold smile - holding no humor in it, I was sure -- but still a smile
of sorts. It seemed more sad than gloating as my sudden silence stretched
on. |
Does that whet your appetite? Do you have any
idea at all what the time traveler may have been trying to say? Good ..
.then it's time for you to read the rest of the article.
Here's your link.
And thanks to VC for sending it to me. [Oh yeah, we fully broke that site. Here's a link to the google cache of the page.] OK ... NOW THAT I'VE "TRIED" TO VOTE  A few more words about the election:
You've no doubt heard the predictions...Republicans are headed for the
slaughter. Wait..no they're not....after John Kerry's little display of
stupidity last week, they're surging! They'll lose the House...no wait, they
might not. So what is going to happen? No one really knows until people show
up and vote. Polls are just that...polls. What somebody says they're going to
do and what they actually do are two different things. But there are a few
things that we know.
The Republicans will be ending their 12-year reign in the House of
Representatives. Why did it happen? Well, the president's overall unpopularity
and the war in Iraq are but a few of the reasons. The fact is that the
Republicans are going to lose the House today because they stopped being
Republicans. The GOP started to get just a little too comfortable with their
power up on Capitol Hill. Corruption has been setting in for awhile now...and
the voters are tired of it.
Voters also see how the Republicans have started acting like Democrats and they
don't like it. The federal government has doubled in size since Newt Gingrich's
revolution in 1994....that's not very conservative. Illegal immigration? The
Republican Party took the unacceptable position that they weren't going to do
anything about it. In fact, they went so far as to propose and support an
amnesty program for illegal aliens.
But back to the president. Instead of touting an economy that's going like
gangbusters, he's been going around making speeches about Iraq. That's not
exactly the subject people want to hear about. If tonight's election coverage
shows that Democrats are taking the House, then one thing will be very clear.
It's not so much that Democrats took over the House of Representatives....it was
handed to them by a Republican Party that has lost its way.
LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE SENATE
If ever there were an example of how the mainstream media gets something wrong,
look at the case of Joe Lieberman. Lieberman was drummed out of his party
earlier this year when he lost the Democratic primary to an anti-war
challenger....some guy named Ned Lamont. The media picked up the story and ran
with it. Joe was the first electoral casualty because he supported the war!
But Joe Lieberman had other ideas. He decided to run as an Independent.
It's paid off. When the polls close tonight in Connecticut and the votes are
tallied, Ned Lamont will be placing a telephone call to Joe Lieberman to
concede.
Joe has been leading Lamont in the polls by double digits for several
months. The anti-war surge of Ned Lamont has never materialized. Thanks to a
number of Republicans who will vote for the very liberal Lieberman, Ned Lamont
will not be in the United States Senate yesterday.
So what happened? Why didn't the anti-war Left's hero become the victor? For a
few reasons. One, the primary in which Lieberman lost was not a general
election. It was the decision of the hardcore leftists who vote in Democratic
primaries...the 25-30% or so who decide these things. This is the same group of
people that nominated The Poodle to run against George Bush 2 years ago. These
people are so out of the mainstream...so far to the Left...anything they decide
is never going to be mirrored by the electorate at large.
So while supposedly the war in Iraq is hurting all politicians this year, Joe
Lieberman will have no problem at all cruising to re-election this year. In
fact, the only difference will be the (I) next to his name when he shows up on
C-SPAN.
SADDAM TO SWING IN JANUARY
With Saddam Hussein being found guilty of genocide and sentenced to death by
hanging, the question is. when? A confidant of the Iraqi prime minister says he
doesn't think the death sentence will be any later than the
end of January.
Bye-bye Saddam. The only question left then is whether or not Saddam's
execution will be televised. You can bet it will be. So there you have
it...start to finish....from verdict to hanging ... all in less than 90 days.
How do we get that system in our country? Under Iraqi law, Saddam will be
granted an appeal process. A 9-judge panel will review his case to see if he
has any grounds for an appeal. Since he doesn't, he'll be marched out back and
hanged, but that's the process. A trial, a speedy appeal and then he'll be off
to his desert sand nap. Bet he never thought he would be swinging from the
gallows just 3 short years from hiding in his spider hole, did he?
Yet in this country, some people wait on death row for 20, sometimes 25 years
before they're executed. Then we go through this lengthy process of lethal
injection with witnesses and all that nonsense. Looks like we could learn
something from the Iraqis here. REDNECK SCRAP BOOK The Christmas tree lots are already starting to set up so I don't think it's
too early to start thinking about
decorating your house. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Another reason to support the FairTax...it saves lives!
Watch Dr.
Randy Martin's short video clip showing how the FairTax saves lives. Here they are...final predictions:
Robert Novak says Democrats will gain 19 House seats and 2 Senate seats.
Larry Saba to says Democrats will take both the House and the Senate.
Dick Morris says the House is lost to the Democrats, but Republicans will hold
on in the Senate. Come back tomorrow to find out who was right.
This should tell you something....guess
which candidates the Communist Party is supporting? Democrats, of course.
They say the stakes have never been higher. I wonder if any Democrats are
welcoming the support of the communists. Doubtful.
Bill Clinton actually had the gall to come out yesterday and say that
Republicans couldn't run anything right. What...and his party can? If memory
serves me right, Bill Clinton had 8 years to screw up our national security
policy and make 9/11 possible.
Both political parties are lawyering up in case any elections are disputed or
very close. The Democrats have 7,000 lawyers fanning out across the
country...while the Republicans have only 1,000. Perhaps whoever has the most
lawyers will win.
The Democrat who was supposed to win a seat in the Senate likely won't. Harold
Ford Jr., the five-term congressman, is running for retiring Senator Bill
Frist's seat.
But he's behind in the polls...and is too busy making fun of his opponent's
height to win.
Even though GOP momentum has increased and they'll now likely keep the Senate,
Dick Morris still says it won't be enough to keep the House Republican. The
late surge is because of John Kerry's comments about soldiers being stuck in
Iraq because they're too dumb for college.
So what are Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats going to do once they seize control
of the House in January? For some clues,
liberal columnist Michael Kinsley looks at a 31-page document Democrats released
last summer...and he doesn't like what he sees.
Larry Kudlow sees today's mid-term elections as more of a horse race than
the media is letting on. He says Kerry's gaffe is just one of the reasons why.
How about a booming economy and extremely low unemployment? Those reasons alone
should keep almost all Republican incumbents in office.
Professor Mike Adams is leaving the University of North Carolina at
Wilmington...effective today. Where is he going? Missouri State University.
Read on to find out more about where the politically incorrect professor is
headed.
Thomas Sowell looks at the Democrats vs. the Republicans when it comes to the
game of politics. Sowell says Democrats are so good at sticking together
and being loyal to their base...he wonders how Republicans ever win anything at
all. | 
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