Sunday, October 31, 2010

Gallup Generic Ballot Shows No Democratic Party Comeback, Possible Record-Se...

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Gallup Generic Ballot Shows No Democratic Party Comeback, Possible Record-Setting GOP Turn-Around

via YID With LID by Jeff Dunetz on 10/31/10

Gallup has just released it's final generic ballot preference survey (Generic Ballot). The survey suggest that any thought of a Democratic Party comeback is a pipe dream. Republicans hold a 15 point spread vs a 14 point spread a week ago and a 17 point spread two weeks ago. It predicts a 45% turnout; slightly higher than recent historic trends. Gallup says if this holds up, the Republicans' current voting model suggests that a 60 seat pickup is now the floor for the House, not the ceiling.

The results are from Gallup's Oct. 28-31 survey of 1,539 likely voters. It finds 52% to 55% of likely voters preferring the Republican candidate and 40% to 42% for the Democratic candidate on the national generic ballot -- depending on turnout assumptions. Gallup's analysis of several indicators of voter turnout from the weekend poll suggests turnout will be slightly higher than in recent years, at 45%. This would give the Republicans a 55% to 40% lead on the generic ballot, with 5% undecided.

Republicans' 15-point lead among likely voters contrasts with their 4-point lead, 48% to 44%, among registered voters, highlighting the importance of higher GOP turnout to the election outcome. This wide difference between the GOP's margin among registered voters and its margin among likely voters is similar to the 2002 midterms, in which Democrats led by 5 points among all registered voters in Gallup's final pre-election poll, while Republicans led by 6 points among likely voters -- an 11-point gain.

Gallup says the +64 prediction made by Aqua Budda and yours truly may have been conservative.

Gallup's historical model suggests that a party needs at least a two-point advantage in the national House vote to win a majority of the 435 seats. The Republicans' current likely voter margin suggests that this scenario is highly probable, making the question of interest this election not whether the GOP will win the majority, but by how much. Taking Gallup's final survey's margin of error into account, the historical model predicts that the Republicans could gain anywhere from 60 seats on up, with gains well beyond that possible.

Gallup says the 15% GOP advantage is the largest it has ever seen in its polling history.

This means that seat projections have moved into uncharted territory, in which past relationships between the national two-party vote and the number of seats won may not be maintained.

In the end all of this is going to come down to one thing... turnout. If the GOP can rouse a strong turnout then they will be able to win the House, perhaps even at record numbers.

Republicans' turnout advantage is highlighted by two key questions used as part of Gallup's likely voter model. One asks Americans how much thought they have given to the upcoming elections; the other asks those who say they plan to vote how certain they are about voting.

The Oct. 28-31 poll finds that nationally, 75% of Republicans and independents who lean Republican are "absolutely certain" they will vote in the 2010 midterms, compared with 68% of Democrats. While these figures are not the only indicator of relative turnout strength -- this is just one question in Gallup's seven-item likely voter model -- the record-high seven-point gap between the parties is strongly indicative of a relative surge in GOP turnout.

Similarly, 68% of Republicans and Republican leaners say they have given quite a lot of or some thought to the elections. This compares with 54% of Democrats giving the same amount of thought to the elections, resulting in a 14-point difference between the parties. That gap is greater than any Gallup has seen since and including the 1994 midterms.

The bottom line is that victory is there waiting for the GOP, providing that they can get out the vote. If they can't, well then, it will be another two years of the progressive Democrats being able to shove their tyrannical programs down the throats of the American people.

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BUMMER. Kid Dresses Up as Obama Joker For White House Halloween Party

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On the bright side, the president didn't have another meltdown.

President and Michelle Obama greeted kids for Halloween at the White House.
They didn't expect this…
One of the kids dressed as Obama Joker.

The kid forgot to write "Socialist" on his T-shirt.

The president pushed the poor child on his way.

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Final Gallup Survey Shows Republicans Up 55% to 40% Among Likely Voters

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Strike! Yep, President Bush still has it!

via Gatewaypundit. President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch tonight with his father standing next to him and Nolan Ryan catching. And the crowd LOVED IT!

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The MAN is Back! Crowd Goes Nuts as George W Fires a Strike @ World Series.

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Email Reveals ABC News Walked Back ‘Bigs’ Publisher Participation in Election Night Coverage

In response to the announcement that I would provide my analysis on ABC News from Arizona on election night, like-clockwork, from the George Soros-funded Media Matters to Keith Olbermann to Huffington Post to Daily Kos to Talking Points Memo to Twitter (#boycottABCNEWS), the institutional left began on Friday to inundate ABC News with a wave of partisan objections and unfounded allegations against me.

Make no mistake: this is a calculated "astroturf" intimidation campaign by the well-funded and frightened-for-their-political-lives institutional left to quash dissenting voices. It's what they do.

What was ABC News' response? Not standing up for free speech and the 1^st Amendment. Not sticking by their original invitation. Not standing up for diversity of opinion.

Instead, on Saturday, ABC News issued an official statement that was immediately heralded as a victory by the anti-free speech forces on the left:

Since conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart announced on his website that he was going to be a participant in ABC's Town Hall meeting at Arizona State University, there has been considerable consternation and misinformation regarding my decision to ask him to participate in an election night Town Hall event for ABC News Digital. I want to explain what Mr. Breitbart's role has always been as one of our guests at our digital town hall event:

Mr. Breitbart is not an ABC News analyst.

He is not an ABC News consultant.

He is not, in any way, affiliated with ABC News.

He is not being paid by ABC News.

He has not been asked to analyze the results of the election for ABC News.

Mr. Breitbart will not be a part of the ABC News broadcast coverage, anchored by Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos. For the broadcast coverage, David Muir and Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg will contribute reaction and response gathered from the students and faculty of Arizona State University at an ABC News/Facebook town hall.

He has been invited as one of several guests, from a variety of different political persuasions, to engage with a live, studio audience that will be closely following the election results and participating in an online-only discussion and debate to be moderated by David Muir and Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg on ABCNews.com and Facebook. We will have other guests, as well as a live studio audience and a large audience on ABCNews.com and Facebook, who can question the guests and the audience's opinions.

George Stephanoplous quickly tweeted, "Breitbart NOT on ABC network broadcast http://bit.ly/bgkseJ."

I can state without absolute certainty that the verbal pitch to me to participate was punctuated by the opportunity to appear as part of ABC News' broadcast television for the night. I was also aware that the majority of my participation – seven long hours – would be online.

Here is the email from ABC confirming their invitation for me to participate in their online and network broadcast election night coverage:

Andrew,

So great speaking with you, and I cannot thank you enough for joining us in Arizona on election night. We truly appreciate it.

NY is booking your travel right now, and want to make sure your name on your ID reads "Andrew Breitbart".

I really look forward to meeting you, and would love to take you out to lunch or dinner before our election coverage.

See below about ABC New's coverage on election night.

Cheers, and will see you soon.

XXXX

XXXX XXXX

Producer

ABC News

ABC News is conducting a live event from Phoenix, Arizona for our election night special on Tuesday, November 2nd 2010. I am looking for political figures and newsmakers to appear in our Town Hall style panel.

ABC News is providing live coverage of the midterm elections hosted by Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos in New York, and correspondents across the country.

ABC News has partnered with Facebook and The Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University to live stream the entire event on abcnews.com, ABC News Now and Facebook.

The Town Hall is hosted by ABC correspondent David Muir and Randi Zuckerberg from Facebook, as well an ASU student leader.

The audience will consist of 150 students equipped with laptops and Ipads who will participate in online political conversations.

The issues include health care, the economy, immigration, terrorism, and the environment. We will have panelists who will contribute to these conversations remotely from Washington, DC, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.

This program will broadcast on the ABC Television Network, abcnews.com, ABC News Now, and ABC News Radio.

The show will be live on the web and ABC News Now as well as on the network from 4:00pm till 11:00pm MST.

We would love for you to be a part of our program, and please let us know what we can do to accommodate your needs.

I am booking the guests for the event and will be in Phoenix starting Thursday, October 28th.

Feel free to email me back or call me at the following number with any questions.

Thanks so much,

XXXX XXXX

Producer

ABC News

In addition to the two times that an ABC News producer confirms in the email that I will be part of ABC News' network broadcast, David Ford of ABC News confirmed to Media Matters that I "will be one of many voices on our air" on election night.

I was promised no specific amount of airtime, nor payment for my analysis, but was told that I would be a part of the broadcast coverage in addition to participating in the online event, as the email above clearly reveals.

And, clearly, I was being asked to give analysis – or, was ABC News paying for me to fly to Arizona and to foot my hotel bill so that I could perform avant-garde interpretative dance?

Apparently, a Daily Kos blogger has also been asked to participate. Daily Kos, as many of you may know, has been widely discredited for spreading malicious falsehoods and political extremism. It's creator Markos Moulitsas is currently promoting his book, whose title says it all: American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right.

I do not ask that the Daily Kos bloggernot get air-time. To the contrary, I have a long history of trying to bring as many voices to the fore as humanly possible. One need look no further than my creating the Huffington Post – a project that's underlying politics I never embraced – with Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer in 2005.

During its creation I explained to many bewildered observers: "Bringing my former boss and longtime friend Arianna's intriguing friends to the blogosphere, the ultimate level playing field, makes perfect sense to me, and I am thrilled to be committed to such a groundbreaking project. Will my pals on the right have a place to offer their two cents at the Huffington Post? Absolutely. Will I agree with everyone's written word? Of course not. But that's precisely the point. May the best ideas win."

This is not really about "me." This is about a full-fledged assault on the 1^st Amendment and free speech. It is an unabashed attempt to win by intimidating a news organization for daring to have a dissenting voice on its broadcast. The same forces just prevailed against Juan Williams, and Erick Erickson's CNN gig was met with the same anti-free speech, anti-opposing viewpoints full-court press from the institutional left. Again, it's what they do.

The Internet is the revolution of our time and new media has benefited democracy by expanding the number of people who can influence the political process. My Big sites (Big Government, Big Hollywood, Big Peace, and Big Journalism) have expanded the voice and power of the center-right, and in particular, the Tea Party movement.

As is evidenced by George Soros's $1 million dollar re-investment in Media Matters, which led the harassment campaign to silence center-left commentator Juan Williams, the political left is doubling down on its "silence your critics" strategy.

I am no stranger to this particular kind of tactic. In fact, my business has been built on the premise of fighting it. Boo, George Soros! Bring it on, John Podesta!

Is this trend of silencing dissenting voices not wholly obvious even to the untrained eye?

I created Big Hollywood for my conservative friends in liberal Hollywood to fight back against this most un-American practice. We are making up for a lot of lost ground in a very short period of time. That is why more and more voices are starting to express themselves and there are more bodies coming out of the closet. These victories motivate me to keep the pressure on.

On Sunday Big Journalism broke the troubling KTVA (Anchorage) voicemail story that showed reporters and producers plotting how to smear GOP candidate Joe Miller. The real story here is that the Big sites have broken huge stories that have affected this election cycle, including ones that show an unhealthy collusion between the political left and America's major newsrooms. Perhaps on election eve, as I prepare to head to Phoenix to participate — one way or another — in ABC News's coverage, it's no surprise that we are ending this news cycle with a clash on this bitterly contested front.

http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/10/31/email-reveals-abc-news-walked-back-bigs-publisher-participation-in-election-night-coverage/

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Early voting is over in Fla., and Dems still trail badly

I mentioned the other day that early voting numbers were not looking good for Florida Democrats. Well, early voting is now finished, and they don't look much better, according to GMU Professor Mike McDonald's tally. In fact, they look terrible. Here is the updated...

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Phallically challenged Obama implores base to defeat ‘cocky’ Republicans

Has there ever been a statement so devoid of presidential stature? The president accused Republicans of feeling "cocky."

Cocky. Having or pertaining to a cock.

Cock. A male chicken, or street slang for the tubular portion of the human male package.

It's an odd phrase: Republicans are "feeling cocky." It suggests, I guess, that they are feeling confident at this stage of the election.

I presume the opposite is also true: Democrats are "feeling cockless."

Maybe that's why we rarely see Obama from the belt down: Smooth pants would invite questions.

How utterly deafening is the lack of leadership and class in our current president. Sad.

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Dem Rep: ObamaCare “not a government takeover … will reduce the federal deficit”

Encore!

Yes, it's Betty McCollum again, providing yet another collective-groan moment from her debate ten days ago. This time, it's not quite as absurd as claiming that "al-Qaeda no longer poses a threat to the United States," but McCollum proves herself just as out of touch on domestic policy as on national security. She insists on [...]

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Obama to Send Voter Observers to AZ to Crack Down on Poll Monitors

The Arizona GOP has uncovered hundreds, if not thousands, of bogus voter registrations by the far left SEIU group Mi Familia Vota.

In reviewing all early voting requests in Arizona at least 8,000 permanent early voter requests appear to be forged. This has local voters concerned.

In response to this, the Obama Justice Department is sending voter observers to crack down on the poll monitors in Arizona.
FOX News reported:

The Justice Department is sending a small pack of election observers to Arizona as Hispanic groups sound the alarm over an anti-illegal immigration group's mass e-mail seeking to recruit Election Day volunteers to help block illegal immigrants from voting.

Hispanic voting rights groups say the e-mail is just an attempt to intimidate minority voters. But election fraud monitors say that there are hundreds of examples of duplicate registrations, wrong information and past unregistered voters getting ballots.

Voter fraud allegations have emerged just days before the midterm in many crucial battleground states across the country, including Nevada, Pennsylvania and Florida.

The Justice Department announced Friday it would deploy more than 400 federal observers to 30 jurisdictions in 18 states ahead of Tuesday's election. But Arizona officials say the department had already committed to sending observers to their state.

Justice Department officials had notified Maricopa County that they would send a "handful" of election observers, even before the e-mail was sent, Matthew Benson, a spokesman for Arizona's secretary of state, told FoxNews.com.

More… SEIU Offshoot 'Mi Familia Vota' Caught With 6,000 Bogus Colorado Voter Registrations

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/10/obama-to-send-voter-observers-to-az-to-crack-down-on-poll-monitors/

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Outstanding! Sharron Angle’s Closing Argument: “Now It’s Our Turn”

Going… Going… Gone!
Sharron Angle hits a home run with her closing argument against Harry Reid.

Sharron Angle leads in the latest Mason-Dixon Polling & Research survey:

Positioned to pull off the biggest upset in the nation, GOP challenger Sharron Angle heads into Election Day leading Democratic incumbent Sen. Harry Reid by 4 percentage points, says a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 8NewsNow.

The Mason-Dixon Polling & Research survey has Angle with 49 percent support compared with 45 percent for Reid in its first survey since the Tea Party favorite and the Senate majority leader held their only debate Oct. 14.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/10/wow-sharron-angles-closing-argument-now-its-our-turn/

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Pathetic Turnout at Obama’s Final Rally

Sad. They barely filled half of the arena.

(The Hill Photo)

The end of hope and change.
The Caucus reported:

President Obama wrapped up a weekend of last-minute campaigning in Ohio on Sunday, addressing Democrats in an indoor arena that, in a sign of the "enthusiasm gap" that the president is working so hard to close, was little more than half full.

About 8,000 people attended the Democratic National Committee's Moving America Forward' rally at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center, a hall where the capacity is 13,000. The rafters were largely empty.

Organizers noted the president was competing on a Sunday afternoon with church, football and Halloween. And Mr. Obama drew a huge crowd of about 35,000 when he was in nearby Columbus, Ohio, in an earlier October rally. Still, the thin crowd was perhaps a foreboding sign in the waning days of the midterm races, when Mr. Obama, who was joined Sunday by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., considers getting Democrats to the polls his most important mission.

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Sign of the Times: Thousands of Empty Seats at Obama-Biden Rally

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Sign of the Times: Thousands of Empty Seats at Obama-Biden Rally

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What a pitiful gathering. These two appear at a 13,000 seat arena and the place is not even close to full.The arena where President Obama and Vice President Biden are making their final appeal to Democrats to get out and vote in Tuesday's midterm elections was far from capacity Sunday afternoon.The crowd estimate stands at 8,000 in the arena that seats just over 13,000 and a couple thousand empty

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Losing His Cool

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Losing His Cool

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The erstwhile Anointed One has been campaigning in the bluest of blue venues in hopes of preventing an absolute rout on Tuesday. But even there the Agitator in Chief has found himself getting agitated at other agitators:

Apparently there's no such thing as a friendly venue for Comrade Obama at this point — unless he wants to restrict his campaigning to liberal establishment newsrooms.

As for the "other side" not spending any money on global AIDS: W threw more of our money at Africa in the name of this side effect of degeneracy than anyone else in history, tripling the amount of aid — earning him not the least bit of approval from liberals.

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MoveOn Email Of The Day

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MoveOn Email Of The Day

via Black & Right by Bob Parks on 10/31/10

This just ain't gonna happen….

Cancel your Sunday plans
Dear Bob,
I wouldn't ask if it weren't important: Can you drop whatever you're doing and sign up to volunteer TODAY for the (Democrat candidate) campaign? It's not every day that I send an email to hundreds of folks I don't know, asking you to cancel your weekend plans! Look, I know most of us use this time for things like chores and spending time with family.

Some of us morons watch football.

But right now is the biggest moment of the year for the future of our country. Really, this is it. We can all put off the laundry for a day or two, but the election's not going to wait. The (Democrat) campaign is one of the closest and most important races in the country, and they're getting out the vote right now. They need everyone within driving distance to come in and help out—or they'll fall short.

Thousands of MoveOn members around the country are making calls and knocking on doors this weekend. Will you join us by volunteering for (the Democrat) in (your area)?

Yes, I'll sign up to volunteer.

Sorry, I can't.

Hope you can help out today.

Sorry, I'm busy laughing at y'all..

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Obamanaut explorer of "Muslim World" lands in Michigan, decries supposed anti-Islam sentiments; compares it to Japanese internment in WWII

Should We Blame Obama, Rangel, and Baucus if People Die to Escape the Death Tax?

The death tax is a punitive levy that discourages saving and investment and causes substantial economic inefficiency. But it's also an immoral tax that seizes assets from grieving families solely because someone dies. The good news is that this odious tax no longer exists. It disappeared on January 1, 2010, thanks to the 2001 tax cut legislation. The bad news is that the death tax comes back with a vengeance on January 1, 2011, ready to confiscate as much as 55 percent of the assets of unfortunate families.

charlie-rangel

I've criticized the death tax on many occasions, including one column in USA Today explaining the economic damage caused by this perverse form of double taxation, and I highlighted a few of the nations around the world that have eliminated this odious tax in another column for the same paper.

Politicians don't seem persuaded by these arguments, in part because they feel class warfare is a winning political formula. President Obama, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus have been successful in thwarting efforts to permanently kill the death tax. But I wonder what they'll say if their obstinate approach results in death?

Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming is getting a bit of attention (including a link on the Drudge Report) for her recent comments that some people may choose to die in the next two months in order to protect family assets from the death tax. For successful entrepreneurs, investors, and small business owners who might already be old (especially if they have a serious illness), there is a perverse incentive to die quickly.

U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis says some of her Wyoming constituents are so worried about the reinstatement of federal estate taxes that they plan to discontinue dialysis and other life-extending medical treatments so they can die before Dec. 31. Lummis…said many ranchers and farmers in the state would rather pass along their businesses — "their life's work" — to their children and grandchildren than see the federal government take a large chunk. "If you have spent your whole life building a ranch, and you wanted to pass your estate on to your children, and you were 88 years old and on dialysis, and the only thing that was keeping you alive was that dialysis, you might make that same decision," Lummis told reporters.

The class-warfare crowd doubtlessly will dismiss these concerns, but they should set aside their ideology and do some research. Four years ago, two Australian scholars published an article on this issue in Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, which is published by the Berkeley Electronic Press. Entitled "Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?", their paper looked at the roles of tax, incentives, and death rates. The abstract has an excellent summary.

In 1979, Australia abolished federal inheritance taxes. Using daily deaths data, we show that approximately 50 deaths were shifted from the week before the abolition to the week after. This amounts to over half of those who would have been eligible to pay the tax. …our results imply that over the very short run, the death rate may be highly elastic with respect to the inheritance tax rate.

And here's a graph from the article, which shows how many affected taxpayers managed to delay death until the tax went away.

Obama and other class-warfare politicians now want to run this experiment in reverse. I already noted in another blog post that there are Americans who are acutely aware of the hugely beneficial tax implications if they die in 2010. In other words, Congresswoman Lummis almost certainly is right.

I don't actually think that Obama, Rangel, Baucus and the rest of the big-government crowd should be blamed for any premature deaths that occur. But I definitely think that they should be asked if they feel any sense of guilt, remorse, and/or indirect responsibility.

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Alaska KTVA TV: We Defend Our “Corrupt Bastards” Who Conspired Against Joe Miller (Video)

Alask CBS affiliate KTVA defended their "corrupt bastards" on staff who conspired against Republican Joe Miller. The reporters were caught on tape planning to report scandalous stories against Joe Miller. The audio of their conversation displayed the shocking level of bias and corruption in this Alaska media outlet.

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Palin pinpointed it perfectly: “Corrupt bastards” in the media and the establishment

The media and Washington, DC are full of "corrupt bastards" as Sarah Palin brilliantly pointed out in those two words. We are up against a big fight. Not only with the democrat party, but with a complicit liberal media, and establishment figures in the republican party.

If McConnell, Cornyn and the rest think after November 2nd we're done, they better think again.

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MYSTERY: Why does the Left keep lying about the attendance at the “Restoring Honor” rally…now claimi

I want you to head over to AintItCoolNews.com and read this article they've posted on Jon Stewart's rally yesterday in Washington, DC. I will warn you though — the comments are crass and vulgar at times. Like reading things at Daily Kos, you'll want to take a shower afterwards. The article itself is just crazy. [...]

http://hillbuzz.org/2010/10/31/mystery-why-does-the-left-keep-lying-about-the-attendance-at-the-restoring-honor-rally-now-claiming-jon-stewart-had-twice-as-many-people-at-his-rally/

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Figures. Harry Reid Replaces National Anthem With Indian Song at Rally (Audio)

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Figures. Harry Reid Replaces National Anthem With Indian Song at Rally (Audio)

via Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft on 10/31/10

Barbara Simpson reported this on a rally for Harry Reid last night on her KSFO talk show in San Francisco. Barbara had this report from a Harry Reid rally with VP Joe Biden this week at the University of Reno. When the audience was asked to stand for the National Anthem a native American-Indian came out and spoke in her native language and then sang an Indian song in lieu of the National Anthem.

That's strange… No media outlets reported on this?

Pretty song. Wrong country.
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Figures. Harry Reid Replaces National Anthem With Indian Song at Rally (Audio)

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Figures. Harry Reid Replaces National Anthem With Indian Song at Rally (Audio)

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That's strange… No media outlets reported on this?

Pretty song. Wrong country.
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Irony: Gary Peters (D-Pelosi) who took in $510,000 from lawyers and lobbyists, $545,000 from labor, and money from PELOSI, blasts Rocky Raczkowsli for taking $5,000 from Sarah Palin

Veteran Democratic Congressman Calls It Quits; Threatened By Unions Over Healthcare Vote

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Veteran Democratic Congressman Calls It Quits; Threatened By Unions Over Healthcare Vote

RWB News: Life long Democrat Rep. Brian Baird, a six-term congressman from Washington state has never won re-election with less than 56% of the vote is calling it quits. He tells the Wall Street Journal in a very telling interview that he wants to watch his twins grow up and leaving congress allows him to speak out about the direction he sees the Democratic Party heading. This former democrat congressman should be heard by all moderate democrats and independents……most Republicans already knew how the ‘Regime’ operated.
All Good Democrats should be really irate when Rep Baird says When it came to the Healthcare Bill “What the hell were we doing voting on this? I had labor groups come to me and insist the bill was so important we couldn’t wait to know what was in it,” he recalls. “I asked them if they were handed a new union contract and told it was so important they had to agree to it without reading it, would they go along?” They continued to insist he vote for the bill and threatened him with a primary challenger. Wow Huh ? Sounds like what many people were trying to say but was buried by the State Run Media.
Rep. Baird says “It’s been an authoritarian, closed leadership. That style plus a general groupthink mentality didn’t work when Tom DeLay called the shots,” Mr. Baird says. “We’ve made some of the same damn mistakes, and we were supposed to be better. That’s the heartbreak.”

Mr. Baird, 54, is a loyal Democrat who voted for all of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s legislative priorities, including the stimulus bill, cap and trade and ObamaCare. But he admits all three have serious flaws.
Mr. Baird recalls that he was “very excited” when his party took control of Congress in 2006, but he saw ominous signs early on. Before the 2006 election, he says, Mrs. Pelosi had 30 members working on a rules package to make the House more ethical and deliberative. “We abandoned all that work after the election, and leaders told us we should trust them to clean things up. I don’t know a single member of the Democratic caucus who saw the final rules package before they voted on it.”
Democrats also watered down efforts to practice fiscal responsibility. “We initially had numbers a bit more honest than the Republicans—we at least included war costs in the budget,” he says. “Now we’re authorizing programs for three years instead of five in an attempt to pretend we’re saving money.”
“Obama decided we weren’t going to have a highway transportation bill because it might have required a gas tax increase,” he recalls. After passing a misdirected stimulus bill, Mr. Obama made the fatal error of pushing forward with other priorities: cap and trade, financial services reform, ObamaCare. Each became compromised quickly.
“You don’t get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn’t accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.” Mr. Baird is especially upset that “good solid members will lose this fall because they took a tough vote for a cap-and-trade bill that never made it through the Senate.” He has told environmental groups that they lost sight of the goal of reducing carbon emissions by focusing on the minutia of regulation to achieve it.
For some of the shortcomings of financial regulatory reform, Mr. Baird blames the disillusioning battle over ObamaCare. “When the House had to pass the Senate version of health care unchanged, some members asked why should they invest the mental effort in mastering the details” of financial reform. Mr. Baird found parts of the bill mind-numbing.
Although he voted for it, he says he was troubled that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the entities at the heart of the housing meltdown, weren’t addressed. They have clearly exercised undue influence on Capitol Hill, he notes. “When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?”
When it came to the Healthcare Bill “What the hell were we doing voting on this? I had labor groups come to me and insist the bill was so important we couldn’t wait to know what was in it,” he recalls. “I asked them if they were handed a new union contract and told it was so important they had to agree to it without reading it, would they go along?” They continued to insist he vote for the bill and threatened him with a primary challenger.
“I warned my fellow Democrats that the insurance companies they were whacking could increase premiums just before the midterm election and blame them for it,” he sighs. “I pointed out that the major benefits wouldn’t kick in till 2014, but the costs were up front. I asked them, where was the political win? There was no real answer.”
“A lot of rethinking is needed” after Democrats take their drubbing, Mr. Baird says, especially since he anticipates “a huge number of retirements” from Democrats unwilling to serve in the minority. He proposes that the House elect an independent speaker who would help drain partisanship from the body. Britain’s House of Commons uses such a model.
Democrats, he says, will also have to recognize why they lost touch with voters. “Back in September, we had pollsters and strategists from my party tell members that the mass of people didn’t care about the deficit. The mind-boggling lack of reality coming from some of the people who give us so-called advice is stunning.”
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Sarah Palin: We Have Tape of Those ‘Corrupt Bastards’ In Media Conspiring Against Joe Miller (Video)

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Sarah Palin: We Have Tape of Those “Corrupt Bastards” In Media Conspiring Against Joe Miller (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, October 31, 2010, 8:34 AM

“That’s sick. Those are corrupt bastards, Chris.”
Sarah Palin told Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday this morning that “we have the tape that proves it” of the “corrupt bastards” in the media conspiring against Joe Miller.

Sarah Palin weighs in on the corrupt bastards in the Alaska media:

“Just last night it was revealed that the rally that I had for Joe Miller on Thursday, it was revealed and we have the tape to prove it, that the CBS reporters, the affiliate in Alaska, conspired to make up stories about Joe Miller. We have the tape Chris, and I can’t wait until it busts out all over the nation, that shows what it is that we… kinda what I put up with for two years now from the media… but what Joe Miller is faced with in someone like Lisa Murkowsky who feels so entitled to that seat, that she and some of her people including some complicit in the media will do anything, they will stop at nothing, to allow Lisa Murkowsky to get back elected.”
I am saying that we have on tape the CBS reporters in the affiliate up there in Alaska saying, “Let’s find a child molester in the crowd as a supporter of Joe Miller. Let’s blast that. Let’s concoct a Rand Paul moment there. Let’s find any kind of chaos so we can tweet, “Ooh, there’s chaos. Joe Miller got punched.”" That’s sick. Those are corrupt bastards, Chris.

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Climate History Key to Future; Inuit Travels Provide Political Direction

World governments continue to ignore the climate realities. Pushed by environmentalists with political agendas who know nothing.

Dr. Tim Ball at Canada Free Press

Meanwhile nature ignores the false science. Solar activity declines, global temperatures decline and both will continue to do so.

Temperature conditions similar to those of the Dalton Minimum, and if the quiescence continues, the Maunder Minimum are anticipated (Figure 1).

What does that imply?

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Some fascinating examples of conditions during the Little Ice Age (LIA) are reported in a wonderful book titled, "In Order to Live Untroubled" that evolved from her doctoral thesis, Renee Fossett provides a fascinating history of the contact between Inuit and Europeans in the Central Arctic between 1550 and 1940. Ms. Fossett lived among the Inuit and learned their language prior to working on the doctorate. A fascinating theme of the book is the change in climate, particularly the Little Ice Age (LIA) and its impact. Principle among these is the effect on food supply and the subsequent movement of people to survive.

Historic Ice Conditions

People moved into more northerly regions of North America during the much warmer conditions of the Medieval Warm Period. Vikings sailed in Arctic waters now permanent pack ice and built settlements in Northern Newfoundland and on Ungava Bay. As the sun went into decline, correlated with reduced sunspot numbers of the Maunder Minimum, the world cooled from 1450 AD. Glaciers expanded and sea ice extended over much larger areas. Viking settlements in Greenland were isolated. A 1492 letter of Pope Alexander VI reporting on conditions in Greenland says, "shipping to that country is very infrequent because of the extensive freezing of the waters – no ship having put in to shore, it is believed, for eighty years – or if voyages happened to be made, it could have been, it is thought, only in the month of August…" H.H Lamb lists nine measurable effects including "Increasing spread of the Arctic ice sea ice into all the northernmost Atlantic and around Greenland, forcing the abandonment of the old sailing routes to Greenland which had been used from about A.D 1000 to 1300."

Ice blocked shipping it provided a bridge between islands. It was the ice bridge across the Bering Straits that provided the route from Asia to North America that made Inuit the last arrivals on the continent. Stories of this travel are still part of the oral tradition. Fossett writes about increased frequency of Inuit crossing as the ice expanded to the east. Travel to hunting areas and moving with migrating animals like caribou is basic to the Inuit way of life. Figure 2 shows the extent of the pack ice and the connection between Greenland and Iceland. This southern extent is confirmed by a change in the sailing orders issued by the Hudson's Bay Company. As the Earth warmed out of the LIA and the pack ice retreated the orders allowed them to sail further north.

Figure 2: North Atlantic showing mean LIA Ice Pack location. Source: Fossett, 2001, In Order To Live Untroubled. U of Manitoba Press.

Figure 2: North Atlantic showing mean LIA Ice Pack location.
Source: Fossett, 2001, In Order To Live Untroubled. U of Manitoba Press.

Notice the ice extending north of the Faeroes to Norway. These limits are based on reports but represent an average. We have another indicator of how far south the ice came because in a letter to the Admiralty in 1817 the Royal Society wrote, "The ice this year that has surrounded the northern coast of Ireland in unusual quantity and remained unthawed till the middle of August." The comment "unusual quantity" implies it was regular to have ice each year. It was unusual because of cooling following the eruption of Tambora in 1815.

Remarkable Stories

The nadir of the LIA was in the 1680s with a meter of ice on the Thames as Grifier's 1683 painting, "The Great Frost" illustrates. It is not surprising that Fossett reports between 1682 and 1701, "several local historians in the Orkneys and northern Scotland commented on the appearance of mysterious strangers in skin boats along the coasts." Consider these reports from reliable observers.

Jan Grifier, London 1683 The Great Frost

Reverend James Wallace of Kirkwall, Orkney wrote, "Sometimes about this Country are seen these Men which are called Finn-men. In the year 1682 one was seen sometimes sailing, sometimes Rowing up and down in his little Boat at the south end of the Isle of Eda, most of the people of the Ile flock'd to see him, and when they adventur'd to put a Boat with Men to see if they could apprehend him, he presently fled away most swiftly."

Reverend John Brand reported frequent appearances of strangers in skin boats off the coasts of the Isles of Orkney, near Stronsay in 1699 and Westray 1700. The description leaves little doubt. "His boat is made up of Seal skins, or some kind of leather, he also hath a Coat of Leather upon him, and he sitteth in the middle of his Boat, with a little Oar in his hand, Fishing with his Lines" More detail that clarifies the identity was given by Reverend Wallace's son Dr Jame Wallace. Be the Seas never so boisterous their Boat being made of Fish Skins, are so contrived that he can never sink, but is like a Sea-gull swimming on the top of the Water. His shirt he has is so fastened to the Boat, that no Water can come into his Boat to do him damage, except when he pleases to unty it which he never does but to ease nature, or when he comes ashore."

Most remarkable is the report by the Reverend Francis Gatrell of a kayak he saw in an Aberdeen museum in 1760. The kayak was, "driven into the Don with a man in it who was all hairy, and spoke a language which no person there could interpret. He lived but three days." Fossett notes, "An increasing body of convincing evidence that the kayaks and their inhabitants were North American was produced during the twentieth century." The Don enters the North Sea at Aberdeen on the east coast of Scotland. There's little doubt who these people were considering the climate and resulting ice conditions.

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Meanwhile world governments continue to ignore the climate realities. Pushed by environmentalists with political agendas who know nothing, they are preparing us for completely the wrong future. What impact will such ice conditions have on shipping and thereby world trade today? What about increased demand for energy to offset the cold? What about agricultural production? All the people who are putting us in this mess will be long gone living on their ill-gotten gains including big fat pensions.

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Veteran Democratic Congressman Calls It Quits; Threatened By Unions Over Healthcare Vote

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Dr. Tim Ball, is a member of CFP's Speakers' Bureau.

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