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This morning I voted in Precinct 92 for Lorgio in the Conservative Party Primary. It took 30 minutes because the ballot for the scanner was 3/8" too wide. The folks working there were unprepared to give me an affadavit ballot -- there were none for any of the political parties -- so they improvised by using the form intended for the scanner.

If you call a burglar alarm dealer in California for a GSM alarm system, you will find out that you will have to obtain the burglar`s permission to record his voice if he says anything while he burgles your house. - California law- cannot broadcast voice recording via GSM without subject`s permission - cannot record voice without subject`s permission- Ergo- voice recognition app`s cannot be used in court to prove someone burgled your house- California moonbats at work using taxes for idiotic applications.

Asymmetrical warfare was supposed to benefit the insurgents. For the price of a few flying lessons a gang of jihadis brought down the World Trade Center,a terrorist with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and powdered Tang can blow up an airplane,and a few pounds of plutonium can cripple a major city. Meet the Reverend Terry Jones, asymmetrical warrior. It appears that pinpricks can produce chain reactions in the Islamic world. The threat may be termed asymmetrical because Islam is more vulnerable to theological war than Christianity (or for that matter Judaism). As the youngest of the major religions (apart from...

Benedict XVI wants it that way, at the Masses he celebrates. But very few bishops and priests are imitating him. Yet this is one reason why churches were given ornate floors. A guide to the discovery of their significanceROME, September 13, 2010 – The image above is a partial panorama of the immense mosaic that covers the floor of the cathedral of Otranto, on the southeast coast of Italy. Walking across it from the entrance to the sanctuary, the faithful have as a guide the tree of salvation history, a history that is sacred and profane at once, with episodes...

Sometimes, when people get emotional while discussing radical Islam, they tend to paint Muslims with far too broad a brush. There are millions of decent, hard working, patriotic Muslims in this country which explains why, as late as 2000, they were voting 78% Republican. Unfortunately, we hear from those people far too seldom while the terrorists, radical Islamist shills at CAIR, and the dirtbag building the Ground Zero Mosque seem to grab all the headlines. That makes it easy to forget that there are American Muslims out there loudly and forcefully speaking out against terrorism. Moreover, across the world, the...

Krugman: Slap Tariffs On China, And Let Them Stop Buying Our Debt Joe Weisenthal | Sep. 14, 2010, 4:48 AM | 1,276 | comment 21 In his latest NYT op-ed, Paul Krugman takes a break from worrying about the GOP and spending to return to another one of his big issues -- Chinese currency manipulation. Japan's leaders, he notes, have rightfully been concerned about Chinese debt buying, and the effect that has on pushing up the yen (thus killing exports), and he wonders why we can't get the same level of outrage here. Basically, there are two reasons why American...

Nearly 40 years before the Obama White House denounced the WikiLeaks website for publishing classified documents, another president, Richard Nixon, was even more obsessed with the same phenomenon. Only Nixon and his top aides went to far greater lengths to deal with the problem: They launched an extraordinary campaign to smear and discredit the journalist who, more than anyone else, was bedeviling them by publishing government secrets: newspaper columnist Jack Anderson. The White House obsession with Anderson — whose "Washington Merry Go-Round" column was the WikiLeaks of its day — is detailed in a new book being published this month,...

Rauf on the Ropes An Islamic community center at Ground Zero seems increasingly unlikely. 13 September 2010 The white flag hasn’t reached the top of the flagpole yet, but Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf all but surrendered on Monday morning in his battle to build a Muslim interfaith community center with a prayer room two blocks from Ground Zero. At an unusual meeting Monday morning at the Council on Foreign Relations in midtown Manhattan, Rauf said that he wanted to find a “solution” to the furious imbroglio over the planned center, which opponents say is inappropriate, insensitive to the memory of...

In yet another attempt to avoid being judged by tangible standards like everyone else, some colleges are fighting legislation designed to hold them accountable for their efforts. “For-profit colleges, under attack in Congress and faced with regulation that could ravage their revenues, are staging an aggressive, but increasingly hopeless, campaign to ward off legislation and defeat a proposed rule,” Kelly Field reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 10, 2010. “In recent weeks, their representatives have filed thousands of comments criticizing the Education Department’s ‘gainful employment’ rule, which would cut off federal student aid to programs whose graduates...

Good Stimulus vs. Bad Stimulus, an Example I am willing and pay taxes to support the operation of our State and Federal Government. If I got to pay less I’d save the extra money, right now I’m saving for new kitchen appliance. The OBAMA Concept is to take and buy something HE thinks I need. Generally he picks wrong. In my 35 year old ECON101 this was called a Demand vs. Command Economy.

EXCERPT In the speech, he recalls a conversation with his mother about his slipping grades, how he hadn't started filling out college applications and how he was being "casual" about his future. He started to tell her he didn't need to hear that, but Obama says she cut him off, gave him a hard stare and asked if he remembered what it was like to put in a little effort. Obama says hearing that from his mother jolted him. "But eventually, her words had their intended effect," he says. "I got serious about my studies. I made an effort. And...

I post this because you need to know. It is a well done piece with actual video of the ambush that took the life of Sergeant Josh Brennan and the courageous action Sergeant Sal Giunta took to save his life. I was stunned. It is, as he says, the kind of courage all in the US military have. He is the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since Vietnam and it is so only through the grace of God and his military training. Please take the time to watch this excellent report by ABC’s Martha Raditz all the...

43,000 Workers Set to Vote in Bitter Union Faceoff Starting this week, about 43,000 Kaiser employees up and down California will choose between the giant Service Employees International Union and the pint-sized NUHW, whose leaders broke away from the larger union early last year. Balloting is by mail. The stakes are huge, beyond the wards and clinics of the roughly 300 Kaiser locations taking part in the vote.

One of the most common self-assessments of the left is that conservatives rarely see nuances in moral questions, while liberals always do. That this is a false conceit can be demonstrated with regard to almost any position held by the left. There is no nuance in liberal positions on abortion, race-based affirmative action, capital punishment, embryonic stem cell research or just about any other social issue. Two such issues are the current Cordoba House Islamic center controversy and Americans' perceptions of Islam. To liberals commenting on these issues, all that needs to be said are two things: First, Islam is...

('Cause color of skin is so much more important than content of character) In the fall of 2005, Alister Martin seemed the most unlikely candidate for Harvard Medical School. Laid up in the hospital with "my face so swollen my mother didn't recognize me," he says, the high-school senior was recovering from a brutal gang attack. The situation had escalated to a point that law enforcement advised Martin's mother, a Haitian immigrant, to pull her son from Neptune (N.J.) High School to avoid further trouble. So Martin's mom secured a $15,000 loan and sent her son to the private Bollettieri...

The Tea- Party has finally come to Comanche County. And so I suppose this is my cue to finally get involved. But before I do I would like to address a few things. In the first place its important to recognize that not all of the “founding fathers” were patriots. There was quite a large contingency of men during those formative years that were not in favor of liberty for mankind, nor for low taxation, nor for a limited government. Ben Franklin at one point put fourth the idea of doing away with the states entirely and having a single...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has expressed a willingness to ban protesters from burning the Koran as the modern day equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater.The Supreme Court has ruled burning the American flag in protest is protected speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution.Breyer spoke to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's Good Morning America today:But Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told me on "GMA" that he's not prepared to conclude that -- in the internet age -- the First Amendment condones Koran burning.“Holmes said it doesn’t mean you can shout 'fire' in a crowded theater,” Breyer...

Here, then, are 27 zingers Republican candidates might sprinkle in their speeches. 1. “Here is an economics lesson for President Obama and congressional Democrats: You can’t be ‘for jobs’ and against those who create them.” 2. “Saying government can ‘spend its way to prosperity’ is like saying you can ‘eat yourself skinny.’” 3. “I refuse to put my faith in a government that can’t plug a hole.” 4. “We need leadership that’s as committed to getting this economy moving as it is about building a mosque at Ground Zero.” 5. “If ignorance is bliss, why do Harry Reid and Nancy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bGrmhF3KPA Jim's update: As we near the end of our second week with no TV, no movies, no video games, no social networking and no mp3 players, I am thinking about one of the few television shows that I watched regularly. It's a smartly written and often hilarious comedy program and I watched every episode of the first five seasons. The clarity that this experiment has brought me has allowed me to assess just how appropriate it is for me, as a Christian, to soak my mind in such fare. For all of its artistic excellence, this program is like...

The Nanny State is Underrated by ‘Homer Simpson’ Americans Sunstein is Not a Socialist He Just Wants Gov to Control How Much You Can Buy Sunstein Wants Superpower President, Just Go Around that Pesky Constitution