01.03.08
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Democrats, Eminently Occidental, History, Iraq, Republicans, moonbats, racism, stupidity, voting at 19:32 by Toby Petzold
Hillary thinks she’s above showing a little leg, but she’s wrong. Get feminized, woman, or forget about the Oval Office.
It’ll be funny if the Democrats actually make an essentially unknown black man their nominee just because he’s opposed to a war that he and they don’t have sense enough to recognize as historically positive for Arab/Muslim democracy and for American business. Wouldn’t that be something like conceding the bankruptcy of their position on this war and going ahead with a choice that says, “Look at us! We stood by our convictions and made a minority our nominee just so we could look ourselves in the eye again.”?
The System won’t let Hillary lose this nomination. Bill won’t allow it.
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12.31.07
Posted in America, Democrats, Republicans, personal, voting at 18:49 by Toby Petzold
Because the Election of 2008 will be the next election to matter as none have ever mattered before, I will vote in the Republican primary. There is someone to vote for, not against, so no protest vote in the Democratic primary from me.
I don’t have a particular favorite, although I usually find myself rooting for Giuliani. I think he’d be a fine choice, but there’s a lot of negativity from some about his personal life. It may be a drag on him in the general.
I’d vote for Romney, if need be. McCain, certainly. In fact, I don’t know why McCain fell so far out of favor if it wasn’t the immigration thing. I trust him with my country, though. But candidates like Thompson, Paul, and Tancredo are not serious. And I’d never vote for Huckabee.
There are no Democrats I’d vote for in the general with the possible exception of Dodd. The rest of them are either communists, incompetents, or mentally ill. Can you imagine having to listen to Joe Biden for the next four or five years? Yecchhh!
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10.17.07
Posted in America, Big Media, Bush Administration, Democrats, Unexplained Mysteries, voting at 20:00 by Toby Petzold
Do you know what a shit-eating grin is? I don’t know if that’s a Southernism or an Americanism or what, but some of us know a shit-eating grin when we see it.
I know I do. Like when I see today’s headlines at the various Big Media sites quoting yet another major poll to the effect that President Bush is at an all-time low approval rating of 24 percent. Then comes —usually— the less remarked-upon approval rating of the Democratically-controlled United States Congress: eleven percent.
Eleven percent? Is that what they call an outlier —or some harrowing glance into the Robespierrean abyss of the electorate’s disdain? I mean, the Elections of 2006 were all about the Democratic Mandate, right? So what the fuck? Lost so soon? Talk about King George’s sorry numbers all you want, but the Congress meets the approval of eleven percent of the people and it’s something to downplay. Well, that either shows the inadequacies of the science of polling or it bodes ill for The Hegemon.
But what such numbers definitely mean is that Big Media won’t tell you about them half as much as they’ll tell you about Bush’s supposedly Nixonian standing with the public.
Because it fits the narrative better that way, see.
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04.10.07
Posted in America, Big Media, stupidity, voting at 23:10 by Toby Petzold
This story is in tomorrow’s New York Times:
WASHINGTON, April 10 — A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times.
Instead, the panel, the Election Assistance Commission, issued a report that said the pervasiveness of fraud was open to debate.
Isn’t that somehow perverse? To imply in the lead of a news story on the degree to which voter fraud exists that a government panel is distorting the truth by reporting to the public that a case can be made either way? It’s a worthless conclusion in any event, but why is this news?
The revised version echoes complaints made by Republican politicians, who have long suggested that voter fraud is widespread and justifies the voter identification laws that have been passed in at least two dozen states.
Democrats say the threat is overstated and have opposed voter identification laws, which they say disenfranchise the poor, members of minority groups and the elderly, who are less likely to have photo IDs and are more likely to be Democrats.
So, basically, what makes this a news story is that a panel of probably conservative —although that is still open to debate!— government commissioners disagreed with a panel of probably liberal experts and decided to issue a report that said something that the New York Times finds to be yet another example of Bushitler’s crushing of dissent.
Never mind that it is a widely-shared perception in all phases of the political spectrum —from normal patriotic citizen to degenerate studbrow— that voter fraud is a problem. When I hear about voting early and often on campus up in Madison and a precinct chair buying the votes of the homeless with six-packs or some rock, I figure there’s a problem with voter fraud —and I’m not wrong to want to see it end.
The only sure way to stop fraud is for people to identify themselves as themselves. This crap about how it’s wrong to expect someone who’s come to vote to prove that he or she has the right to vote is a stupid and immoral position to take. Voting matters. It should matter to those who believe this to take seriously the process of voting. If you do not imbue the process with standards and regulations, you absolutely devalue the worth of voting.
Every state, county, city, and hamlet in this country needs to take care of the process. You’re not going to merely sample the public like some anonymous count of heads, you fucking enemies of the individual, and issue an edict on where things stand among The People; you are going to insist on accountability through these perfectly reasonable measures of identifying voters. That’s what is right and that is what is happening, whatever the so-called experts and the New York Fucking Times say about it.
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11.07.06
Posted in America, voting at 20:01 by Toby Petzold
Bob Menendez wins in New Jersey, but the guy is dirty. He’ll be a great punching bag for people wanting to talk a lot about corruption in the Democratic Party of that state.
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Posted in America, voting at 19:54 by Toby Petzold
Holy crap! Santorum is getting absolutely shredded up in Pennsylvania.
That’s what you get for fetishizing the dead, moron.
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Posted in America, Texas, voting at 19:30 by Toby Petzold
It’s only a small percentage of the precincts reporting, but damn! Chris Bell, Democratic nominee for the Governorship of Texas, is only seven points behind the incumbent Rick Perry?! Wow. I am surprised.
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Posted in America, voting at 18:53 by Toby Petzold
What happens when the dog finally catches the car?
Nancy Pelosi becomes the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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08.03.06
Posted in Democrats, voting at 00:17 by Toby Petzold
On the subject of the UN’s usual anti-Israel resolution nonsense, Democratic Congressman John Dingell said on Tuesday to a local news station in Detroit (emphases mine):
DINGELL: First of all, our problem is that we must be a fair and honest broker and a friend to all parties. The resolution didn’t make us that. We have to have the trust of both of the people of Israel and the people of the Arab countries around it, in order to help resolve the problem. If we don’t, the possibilities of regional war, calamitous situation with regard to israel [sic] which has 5 million people amidst a billion and a half Arabs are a real potential for calamity. Having said at that, what we have to do is to see to it that finally we begin to address the problems that exist to abate the difficulties that are preventing a– a honest solution to the problem and a negotiated end. It takes– it takes a lot of work to get the trust that it takes to do this. The resolution did not instill that kind of trust and the end result would be quite frankly, the real solution to the problems that exist in the middle east would probably have been and probably will be put off.
ANCHOR: Overall majority of your colleagues didn’t see it that way and some would suggest that if– even though there are obviously a lot of issues with Lebanon and with Palestinian cause wrapped up in this, that this largely boils down to israel [sic] against Hezbollah and Hezbollah is a group that the United States has deemed a terrorist organization, that there’s only one side for the Americans to come down on in this fight.
DINGELL: Well, we don’t, first of all, I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.
ANCHOR: You’re not against Hezbollah?
DINGELL: No, I happen to be — I happen to be against violence, I think the United States has to bring resolution to this matter. Now, I condemn Hezbollah as does everybody else, for the violence, but I think if we’ve got to talk to them and if we don’t — if we don’t get ourselves in a position where we can talk to both sides and bring both sides together, the killing and the blood let is going to continue.
Dingell’s equivocations are embarrassing enough, but one must understand that this particular Dhimmicrat is a US Congressman from Dearborn, Michigan —home of the second largest concentration of Arabs in the United States.
So, see, he’s not so much against Hizballah as he is against, you know, “violence.”
Fucking wanker.
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06.02.06
Posted in Big Brother, moonbats, voting at 00:59 by Toby Petzold
My friend Steve Soto at The Left Coaster brings us a mammoth Rolling Stone article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the theft of the 1960 2004 Election.
Turns out, there was a giant conspiracy involving Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, Diebold, and the Illuminati:
Traditionally, anyone in Ohio who reported to a polling station in their county could obtain a provisional ballot. But Blackwell decided to toss out the ballots of anyone who showed up at the wrong precinct — a move guaranteed to disenfranchise Democrats who live in urban areas crowded with multiple polling places. On October 14th, Judge [James] Carr overruled the order, but Blackwell appealed. In court, he was supported by his friend and campaign contributor Tom Noe, who joined the case as an intervenor on behalf of the secretary of state. He also enjoyed the backing of Attorney General John Ashcroft, who filed an amicus brief in support of Blackwell’s position — marking the first time in American history that the Justice Department had gone to court to block the right of voters to vote. The Sixth Circuit, stacked with four judges appointed by George W. Bush, sided with Blackwell.
Blackwell insists that his decision kept the election clean. ”If we had allowed this notion of ‘voters without borders’ to exist,” he says, ”it would have opened the door to massive fraud.” But even Republicans were shocked by the move. DeForest Soaries, the GOP chairman of the Election Assistance Commission — the federal agency set up to implement the Help America Vote Act — upbraided Blackwell, saying that the commission disagreed with his decision to deny ballots to voters who showed up at the wrong precinct. ”The purpose of provisional ballots is to not turn anyone away from the polls,” Soaries explained. ”We want as many votes to count as possible.”
What Kennedy fails to mention —besides the almost stunning degree of electoral fraud that his own grandfather, father, and uncles committed in 1960— is that voting is a proactive endeavor. It is, by its very nature, an act requiring affirmative measures: you must register to vote. You must vote where you are eligible. You must be able to prove your own identity and eligibility to vote. You really ought to know what you are voting for and the reasons you might have for doing so, but that’s just me dreaming, baby. Just dreaming and thinking of the agora and the rule of the deme.
But back to business: Kennedy’s post mortem deserves to have a wide audience. That’s what Soto and other [center-Leftists] think —and so do I. Maybe for different reasons, but let us have transparency and thoughtfulness. Let us have dissent and redress.
And let’s have a debate. Is exit-polling and its clinical sibling —sampling— the same as a head count? I don’t think so. Maybe we haven’t yet acknowledged what living in the age of electronic voting asks and demands of us as knowable, trackable, and responsible individuals, but that day will come.
In the meantime, just gimme a receipt. When I take my (very) petty cash from an ATM, I get a receipt. So when I vote for the election of the President of the United States, I want a receipt for that, too. Okay?
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