Voter Intimidation?...

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During the last four election days at the Stuarts Draft polling place I have had the same older gentleman challenge the placement of campaign signs outside of the polling place entrance door. The first year he was very adamant about the placement of the signs and the "Republican" volunteers outside of the "No Campaigning" zone but did not question placement of the single "Democratic" volunteer or her signs. I took the opportunity to show this older gentleman the above sign positioned by the polling workers and that none of the campaign signs or volunteers were anywhere within this restricted zone...

It happens every election day since and I still instruct the older gentleman to read the sign...

Yesterday it was reported that the Voter Intimidation case regarding the incident that happened during the 2008 Presidential election in Philadelphia showing members of the Black Panthers outside of a polling place, one brandishing a night stick and "violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms" has now been dismissed.

"Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews."

The Washington Times ask a interesting question in: What if there were KU Klux Klan members and they stood outside of polling places in military uniforms, with nightsticks, confronting voters arriving to the polling place?...

"The flip side of this scenario is occurring right now. The culprits weren't Klansmen; they belonged to the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. One of the defendants, Jerry Jackson, is an elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party when the violations occurred. Rather conveniently, the Obama administration has asked that the cases against Mr. Jackson, two other defendants and the party be dropped."

Ronald Reagan "The Speech" ~45 Years ago~

Ben Cline ~Effinger Volunteer Fire Dept Carnival & Parade~ 2009

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Had the opportunity to help out Delegate Ben Cline (24th District) and walk the Effinger Volunteer Fire Dept. Carnival and Parade held on Friday, May 22nd in Effinger VA.

Have to say that I had never been to Effinger VA. before and the parade route is one of the shortest I have ever seen but there was an impressive turnout with both sides of the parade route packed by people from the surrounding communities. Delegate Cline was very well received and was approached by many people along the route wishing to shake his hand and say hello...

Being a "Fireman's" parade there were many units from surrounding communities and I have always enjoyed talking with the Buena Vista Swiftwater Rescue team...

Ben worked the crowd and spent most of his time talking with those who approached him on local issues and to thank him for his efforts in Richmond. The Rockbridge Weekly also had coverage of the event....

Ben with several of the volunteers who came out to support him and the local Republican Party during this event... The float that they put together also represented Bob McDonnell who is running for Virginia Governor and Bill Bolling who is running for re-election as Lt. Governor...

I had the opportunity to speak with several people regarding the McDonnell and Bolling campaigns and there is strong interest and support for both of these guys and the positions they are seeking...

Vice-President Dick Cheney....

Being the first vice president who had also served as secretary of defense, naturally my duties tended toward national security. I focused on those challenges day to day, mostly free from the usual political distractions. I had the advantage of being a vice president content with the responsibilities I had, and going about my work with no higher ambition. Today, I'm an even freer man. Your kind invitation brings me here as a private citizen - a career in politics behind me, no elections to win or lose, and no favor to seek.

Our administration always faced its share of criticism, and from some quarters it was always intense. That was especially so in the later years of our term, when the dangers were as serious as ever, but the sense of general alarm after September 11th, 2001 was a fading memory. Part of our responsibility, as we saw it, was not to forget the terrible harm that had been done to America ... and not to let 9/11 become the prelude to something much bigger and far worse.

That attack itself was, of course, the most devastating strike in a series of terrorist plots carried out against Americans at home and abroad. In 1993, terrorists bombed the World Trade Center, hoping to bring down the towers with a blast from below. The attacks continued in 1995, with the bombing of U.S. facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the killing of servicemen at Khobar Towers in 1996; the attack on our embassies in East Africa in 1998; the murder of American sailors on the USS Cole in 2000; and then the hijackings of 9/11, and all the grief and loss we suffered on that day.

To make certain our nation country never again faced such a day of horror, we developed a comprehensive strategy, beginning with far greater homeland security to make the United States a harder target. But since wars cannot be won on the defensive, we moved decisively against the terrorists in their hideouts and sanctuaries, and committed to using every asset to take down their networks. We decided, as well, to confront the regimes that sponsored terrorists, and to go after those who provide sanctuary, funding, and weapons to enemies of the United States. We turned special attention to regimes that had the capacity to build weapons of mass destruction, and might transfer such weapons to terrorists.

It is a fact that only detainees of the highest intelligence value were ever subjected to enhanced interrogation. You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists. One of them was Khalid Sheikh Muhammed - the mastermind of 9/11, who has also boasted about beheading Daniel Pearl.

Even before the interrogation program began, and throughout its operation, it was closely reviewed to ensure that every method used was in full compliance with the Constitution, statutes, and treaty obligations. On numerous occasions, leading members of Congress, including the current speaker of the House, were briefed on the program and on the methods.

To put things in perspective, suppose that on the evening of 9/11, President Bush and I had promised that for as long as we held office - which was to be another 2,689 days - there would never be another terrorist attack inside this country. Talk about hubris - it would have seemed a rash and irresponsible thing to say. People would have doubted that we even understood the enormity of what had just happened. Everyone had a very bad feeling about all of this, and felt certain that the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Shanksville were only the beginning of the violence.

For all that we've lost in this conflict, the United States has never lost its moral bearings. And when the moral reckoning turns to the men known as high-value terrorists, I can assure you they were neither innocent nor victims. As for those who asked them questions and got answers: they did the right thing, they made our country safer, and a lot of Americans are alive today because of them.

Bob McDonnell ~A Jobs Governor~

Virginia Governor Tim Kaine looking at $225 Million budget shortfall... Maybe now we can cut wasteful lottery spending?

Virginia Democratic Party Governor, and Democratic Party National Chairman on the side, Tim Kaine is looking at a $225 million shortfall in the Virginia state budget as reported here...

He has called for budget cuts to close that gap but maybe if we were not in the habit of paying Donald Trump $250,000 to use his face on a VA lottery ticket, or the $860,000 for the use of "Deal or No Deal" logo, we would not be in this situation... Republican Delegate (24th district) has called for the cutback of outrageous advertising such as this several times but our "friends" in Richmond have always protected this spending in the past....

Al Gore... Turning "GREEN" into $GREEN$...

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When Gore left office in January 2001, he was said to have a net worth in the neighborhood of $2 million. A mere eight years later, estimates are that he is now worth about $100 million. It seems it's easy being green, at least for some.

It appears that Al Gore has turned his loss in 2000, YES he did lose the election no matter how many ways you count (or not count) the votes, into a profitable "Green Industry"... But as the debate continues, no matter how many times the "Democrats" and Gore claim that the Global Warming debate is over (They have even changed it to "Global Change now), it appears now that the only true global change that took place was in how billions will be spent on Cap & Trade supported with bogus computer models and one-sided facts... Fortunately Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn (Tenn) asked some of the much needed questions regarding Gore's True intentions ...

Blackburn then asked the $100 million question: "Is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?" Gore gave the stock answer that "the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us, and I have invested in it but every penny that I have made I have put right into a nonprofit, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge."

And then Gore had some Stumble-Stutter problems in appearing in front of a congressional hearing on global warming when taking some questions from Representative Steve Scalise from Louisiana...

And then there is the article where George Will advises Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer not to worry to much about some shrinking glaciers and remember back to many of the "Global Change" horror stories of the 1970's...


While worrying about Montana's receding glaciers, Schweitzer, who is 50, should also worry about the fact that when he was 20 he was told to be worried, very worried, about global cooling.


Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation


Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age.


The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool."


Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said "may mark the return to another ice age.


The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."


It appears Al Gore has learned and used a very important factor in business and politics...

Marketing, Marketing, Marketing...

Bob McDonnell looking a bit busier...

Follow more over at Rightside for Bob

Estimates on Oil & Natgas over 25 years old...

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Data regarding the estimated Oil and Natural Gas reserves available in the United States as well as offshore are more than 25 years old. Just in the Gulf of Mexico where limited drilling has been allowed they now estimate that there is over (8) eight times the amount of oil then what was estimated 25+ years ago...

Bearing Drift has an interesting Podcast regarding this at their site...

Russian floating "Nuke" plants drilling for oil?...

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Now let me get this right. Russian "floating nuclear reactors" to provide power for drilling operations in Arctic areas that Moscow claims they have drilling rights to... Investors Business Daily has a great article on how the Russians plan to drill for oil and Natural gas in the Artic regions just like the ones that Congress prevents us from drilling for our known resources...

Let's see.

Russians drilling to the North of us...

China and Cuba drilling to the South of us...

And the Democratic Party controlled Congress preventing

us from drilling for our own resources off the coast of Virginia...