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A few quick “points of interest” have emerged in recent days, and while each of them deserves an individual
posting, sometimes it’s better to sit back and take a broader look at the “big picture.” Consider these news items,
for example:
FRANKEN-FURTERS
The six-month election recount that turned former "Saturday Night Live" clown Al Franken into a U.S. senator
may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
That's the finding of a study conducted by Minnesota Majority, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in
Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race. The final recount vote in the race showed
Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes. That’s fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were
counted.
The report said that in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, 899 suspected felons had been matched
on the county's voting records, and the review showed 289 voters were conclusively matched to felon records. In
Ramsey, 460 names on voting records were matched with felon lists, and a further review found 52 were
conclusive matches.
KILLING CRACKERS
Voters at a precinct on Philadelphia's Fairmont Street witnessed unusual sights and sounds on Election Day
Nov. 4, 2008. Two members of the New Black Panther Party, King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, stood within
15 feet of this polling station dressed in military-style black jackets, black berets and black combat boots. King
Samir Shabazz wielded a 2-foot-long night stick. "Cracker, you are about to be ruled by a black man," one of the
New Black Panthers told a white voter. They taunted others as "white devils." A black couple who served as
Republican poll watchers said they felt endangered when the Panthers called them "race traitors."
At an April 23, 2010, Civil Rights Commission hearing, Chris Hill, an eyewitness, explained under oath that he
spoke with the male Republican poll watcher inside the precinct. "He was definitely shook up," Mr. Hill testified.
"And he told me that he was called a race traitor by [King Samir Shabazz] and that he was threatened if he
stepped outside of the building, there would be hell to pay."
Surely the Obama administration prosecuted King Samir Shabazz and Mr. Jackson for voter intimidation.
Wrong. When the administration ignored late-term George W. Bush administration charges of Voting Rights
Act violations, Federal District Judge Stewart Dalzell in Philadelphia issued a default ruling against King Samir
Shabazz, Mr. Jackson, the New Black Panther Party and its chairman, Malik Zulu Shabazz Although career
federal prosecutors won this case they were overruled by political appointees in President Obama's Justice
Department who ordered them to dismiss the complaints against all parties except King Samir Shabazz. This
situation is even more outrageous, given the unvarnished bigotry of those involved. (i.e. "You want freedom, you
gonna have to kill some crackers," "You gonna have to kill some of they babies.")
Why would the supposedly ethnically transcendent Obama administration distribute free passes to the black
equivalent of Ku Klux Klansmen? J. Christian Adams, until recently a career attorney in the Voting Section of the
Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, testified under oath on July 6 about an increasingly radical Justice
Department before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. According to Mr. Adams, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Julie Fernandes last November instructed prosecutors on the "motor voter" law that governs voter registration -
Mr. Adams recalls hearing Ms. Fernandes, an Obama political appointee, say: "We have no interest in enforcing
this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it." Mr.
Adams also testified: "I was told by Voting Section management that cases are not going to be brought against
black defendants [for] the benefit of white victims."
Mr. Adams, who resigned from Justice in protest on June 1, encapsulated the Obama administration's moral
bankruptcy in this case: "We abetted wrongdoers and abandoned law-abiding citizens."
SPENDING OUR WAY TO PROSPERITY
The co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the
nation's fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer "that will destroy the country from
within" unless checked by tough action in Washington.
Bowles said that unlike the current economic crisis, which was largely unforeseen before it hit in fall 2008, the
coming fiscal calamity is staring the country in the face. "This one is as clear as a bell," he said. "This debt is like a
cancer."
"We can't grow our way out of this," Bowles said. "We could have decades of double-digit growth and not grow
our way out of this enormous debt problem. We can't tax our way out. . . . The reality is we've got to do exactly
what you all do every day as governors. We've got to cut spending or increase revenues or do some combination
of that."
Too bad. I was kind of hoping I could try this with my checking account.
AS THE WORLD TURNS…
The 831 researchers who will contribute to the next round of assessments of climate science and policy options
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been sent a letter admonishing them to “keep a distance
from the media” and send any press inquiries about the work of their author groups to supervisors.
Edward R. Carr, an associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina who will work on the
assessment of climate impacts and adaptation options, complained about the letter in a post on his blog under the
heading “ Apparently we have learned nothing….” He warned that the panel appears stuck in a “bunker
mentality” that will do little to build its credibility after a trying year of attacks by foes of restrictions on greenhouse
gases and skeptics of climate science.
In other words, don’t give the public any more information that could be used to discredit our false hypothesis
and phoney science. Sounds like a climate-change version of “Don’t ask. – Don’t tell.” Don’t tell Al Gore. Come
to think of it….don’t ask him either.
There’s more….plenty more. But I’ve got to go throw up, now.
posting, sometimes it’s better to sit back and take a broader look at the “big picture.” Consider these news items,
for example:
FRANKEN-FURTERS
The six-month election recount that turned former "Saturday Night Live" clown Al Franken into a U.S. senator
may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
That's the finding of a study conducted by Minnesota Majority, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in
Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race. The final recount vote in the race showed
Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes. That’s fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were
counted.
The report said that in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, 899 suspected felons had been matched
on the county's voting records, and the review showed 289 voters were conclusively matched to felon records. In
Ramsey, 460 names on voting records were matched with felon lists, and a further review found 52 were
conclusive matches.
KILLING CRACKERS
Voters at a precinct on Philadelphia's Fairmont Street witnessed unusual sights and sounds on Election Day
Nov. 4, 2008. Two members of the New Black Panther Party, King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, stood within
15 feet of this polling station dressed in military-style black jackets, black berets and black combat boots. King
Samir Shabazz wielded a 2-foot-long night stick. "Cracker, you are about to be ruled by a black man," one of the
New Black Panthers told a white voter. They taunted others as "white devils." A black couple who served as
Republican poll watchers said they felt endangered when the Panthers called them "race traitors."
At an April 23, 2010, Civil Rights Commission hearing, Chris Hill, an eyewitness, explained under oath that he
spoke with the male Republican poll watcher inside the precinct. "He was definitely shook up," Mr. Hill testified.
"And he told me that he was called a race traitor by [King Samir Shabazz] and that he was threatened if he
stepped outside of the building, there would be hell to pay."
Surely the Obama administration prosecuted King Samir Shabazz and Mr. Jackson for voter intimidation.
Wrong. When the administration ignored late-term George W. Bush administration charges of Voting Rights
Act violations, Federal District Judge Stewart Dalzell in Philadelphia issued a default ruling against King Samir
Shabazz, Mr. Jackson, the New Black Panther Party and its chairman, Malik Zulu Shabazz Although career
federal prosecutors won this case they were overruled by political appointees in President Obama's Justice
Department who ordered them to dismiss the complaints against all parties except King Samir Shabazz. This
situation is even more outrageous, given the unvarnished bigotry of those involved. (i.e. "You want freedom, you
gonna have to kill some crackers," "You gonna have to kill some of they babies.")
Why would the supposedly ethnically transcendent Obama administration distribute free passes to the black
equivalent of Ku Klux Klansmen? J. Christian Adams, until recently a career attorney in the Voting Section of the
Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, testified under oath on July 6 about an increasingly radical Justice
Department before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. According to Mr. Adams, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Julie Fernandes last November instructed prosecutors on the "motor voter" law that governs voter registration -
Mr. Adams recalls hearing Ms. Fernandes, an Obama political appointee, say: "We have no interest in enforcing
this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it." Mr.
Adams also testified: "I was told by Voting Section management that cases are not going to be brought against
black defendants [for] the benefit of white victims."
Mr. Adams, who resigned from Justice in protest on June 1, encapsulated the Obama administration's moral
bankruptcy in this case: "We abetted wrongdoers and abandoned law-abiding citizens."
SPENDING OUR WAY TO PROSPERITY
The co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the
nation's fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer "that will destroy the country from
within" unless checked by tough action in Washington.
Bowles said that unlike the current economic crisis, which was largely unforeseen before it hit in fall 2008, the
coming fiscal calamity is staring the country in the face. "This one is as clear as a bell," he said. "This debt is like a
cancer."
"We can't grow our way out of this," Bowles said. "We could have decades of double-digit growth and not grow
our way out of this enormous debt problem. We can't tax our way out. . . . The reality is we've got to do exactly
what you all do every day as governors. We've got to cut spending or increase revenues or do some combination
of that."
Too bad. I was kind of hoping I could try this with my checking account.
AS THE WORLD TURNS…
The 831 researchers who will contribute to the next round of assessments of climate science and policy options
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been sent a letter admonishing them to “keep a distance
from the media” and send any press inquiries about the work of their author groups to supervisors.
Edward R. Carr, an associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina who will work on the
assessment of climate impacts and adaptation options, complained about the letter in a post on his blog under the
heading “ Apparently we have learned nothing….” He warned that the panel appears stuck in a “bunker
mentality” that will do little to build its credibility after a trying year of attacks by foes of restrictions on greenhouse
gases and skeptics of climate science.
In other words, don’t give the public any more information that could be used to discredit our false hypothesis
and phoney science. Sounds like a climate-change version of “Don’t ask. – Don’t tell.” Don’t tell Al Gore. Come
to think of it….don’t ask him either.
There’s more….plenty more. But I’ve got to go throw up, now.