ugh!

I don’t know what’s worse…seeing a radical Leftist win the White House, or having to hear all the sob stories about how ‘inspirational’ a moment this is. But, its much worse than it appears. Voters all across coal country voted for a Marxist who wants to bankrupt the industry that is their livelihood. Al Franken, the jackass “comedian”? Yeah, the people of Minnesota have elected him to the United States Senate. John Murtha, the Pennsylvania representative who called our Marines cold-blooded murderers while labeling his own constiuents racists and rednecks? Yep, he won re-election…by a lot.

But, as they say, the people have spoken. John McCain, for his part, faced an uphill climb from the start. With an unpopular Republican President, an unpopular war, and a sagging economy, the deck was stacked against him…add to that a hostile media and a young, charismatic opponent, and he had no better than even odds of winning even at the height of his candidacy. The GOP did him no favors, either…

Regardless, Barack Obama is now President-elect. I can’t say I wish him well (in terms of getting his policies enacted), nor am I going to promise to give him a benefit of the doubt that the Left never bothered to extend to George W. Bush. This was a popularity contest, and voters opted for bumper sticker slogans and soaring rhetoric over experience and substance. They decided it was more important to feel good about electing a black man as President than to consider the man’s past, his record, and his plans for this country. America took a giant step tonight, but I fear it was in a wrong and radical direction.

UPDATE: The Minnesota Senate race is too close to call, and probably headed for a recount, but as of now Norm Coleman is ahead of Al Franken…albeit barely. Franken losing would be a small silver lining, anyway, and I hope these results hold up.

…should be ignored, but they’re starting to trickle in, and surprisingly, the numbers aren’t terrible for McCain. Exit polls can be horribly wrong-in 2004, they predicted a Kerry landslide-so take the following with a huge grain of salt:

FL, OH, IN, NC are too close to call. The numbers on PA depend on who you’re reading, but its anywhere from +4 Obama to +15. The percentage of new voters is lower than predicted, as is black turnout.

Why is this (potentially) ok news? Because exit polls always skew Democrat. If they’re showing too close to call in those states with Democrat oversampling…hmmmm. Not only that, but they estimate that Obama voters are much more likely to want to talk to an exit pollster in the first place. Now, all this could be wrong and Obama wins in a landslide, but stay tuned…and go vote if you still haven’t and can!

UPDATE: Looks like Mr. Hope ‘n Change will win by a pretty convincing margin.

I wish he had stood in for McCain during the debates:

GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in more than half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status.

I think the Democratic strategy this year is “Do what it takes to win. By the time it’s sorted out, it will be too late.”

It was the most memorable time of my life. It was a touching moment. Because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I help him, he’s gonna help me.

And just where do you thing your gas money and morgage payment are going to come from?  I never thought this day would ever happen in America either, and it’s still not too late to prevent it. Vote McCain!

I still think McCain could still pull it off.

Warner’s gonna beat Gilmore.

Goodlatte will crush Rasoul.

Locally:

Ney wins for treasurer,

Degner, Chenault, and Baugh for Hburg city council.

Barb takes commissioner of Revenue.

Purcell beats Way for Dayton Mayor.

Botkin, McNeal, Long and Rhodes(he gets a name boost from Republitarian) on Dayton Council.

No will win on the food tax.

Heh. An Obama campaign office in Las Vegas:

Breaking tonight:

A new report just released — hours before the polls open on Election Day — exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy.

The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel hired by the state Legislature.

Both investigations found that Palin was within her rights to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

But the new report says the Legislature’s investigator was wrong to conclude that Palin abused her power by allowing aides and her husband, Todd, to pressure Monegan and others to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten.Palin was accused of firing Monegan after Wooten stayed on the job.

The Palins have argued that Wooten was a loose cannon who had tasered his stepson, drank beer in his patrol car, and threatened Palin’s father, and that their complaints that he shouldn’t be on the force were justified.

The Troopergate matter became sharply politicized after Palin was announced as Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate in Tuesday’s election.

The report, released at a Monday afternoon press conference at the Hotel Captain Cook, presents the findings and recommendations of Anchorage lawyer Timothy Petumenos, hired as independent counsel for the Personnel Board to examine several complaints against Palin.

Petumenos wrote the Legislature’s special counsel, former state prosecutor Steve Branchflower, used the wrong state law as the basis for his conclusions and also misconstrued the evidence.

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When the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the Republicans win the presidency. When they lose, the Dems take the White House. This has held true for the last 17 out of 18 elections to give them over 94% accuracy.

GO REDSKINS!

Heh. Looks as if some college students registered to vote in Virginia and also requested absentee ballots from they were previously registered. And a list of the potential defrauders has been made and sent to registrars and electoral boards.

From The Contemporary Conservative:

“In a State which just three years ago had a statewide election decided by 367 votes out of over two million cast, this is an extremely troubling revelation,” said Wade. Wade’s request to general registrars and local electoral boards in Richmond, Montgomery County, Charlottesville, Fairfax County, Norfolk, and other localities with large student populations, calls for the listed students to be challenged if they present themselves to vote in Virginia on Election Day.

Va. Code 24.2-651 requires that election officials “shall challenge the vote of any person who is listed on the pollbook but is known or suspected not to be a qualified voter” on account of having “previously voted in this election.” Section 24.2-651 still would permit the challenged students to vote in Virginia, but only after signing an affidavit, subject to felony penalties for making false statements, that they have not previously voted in this election, and that they will not vote in this election at any other voting place. “After the election,” Wade explained, “we are going to compare voting records from the two States, and we absolutely will turn over to the State Police the names and addresses of any students who voted twice
– once in Virginia and once elsewhere.”

Go vote! ONE TIME!

I think I want to get one of these. $34.08 including shipping; can’t beat that.

Oh really? And just how long did you plan on living?

I don’t understand how a person can think like this or why so many people would support this kind of (im)morality where a living breathing baby doesn’t have a right to be “properly cared for”.

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New Jersey– McCain 48%, Obama 43%, Undecided 7% (Undecideds breaking for mcCain)

Michigan– McCain 44%, Obama 42%, Undecided 10%

California– Obama 44%, McCain 43%, Undecided 9%, Barr 3%

Pennsylvania– McCain 55%, Obama 33%, Undecided 10%

If anyone have a fuller version I would love to hear it. Also does anyone know who Karl is?

Does God assign a lesser value to the unborn and therefore not consider it murder?

First let’s look at the verses.

22 “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

First notice there is no actual mention of the baby dying; death is not mentioned until verse 23 where penalty is discussed. Only of being born. The Hebrew words translated to mean “gives birth prematurely” (some versions translate this as miscarriage) are Yalad(bring forth, went, give birth, bear, become father of, children) Yatsa’ (bring forth, came, came forth). Neither of these words suggest death and in fact are used many times to describe a living creature. I know of only one passage where one of those words is used in connectin with death. Numbers 12:12 and death is specifically named with another word (Muwth). Yatsa’ is only used to describe the dead one being expelled, not to describe death. There is nothing in this passage that implies the baby is dead; only that is has been born.

If God had meant a dead miscarried baby he could have used the Hebrew words for that rather than words for a live birth. He has atleast two words at his disposal for this purpose (nephel and shakol). He didn’t use them, and I think He said what He meant.

So if men fight and the woman is hit and goes into labor and a child is born “but there is no serious injury”–the baby doesn’t die, the woman doesn’t die, no one is disfigured–then there is a fine for causing the premature birth. Other wise if there is serious injury; life for life, eye for eye etc. This passage doesn’t give a lesser punishment for causing a baby to die; it gives the same.

This really is worth 40 minutes of you life. If you don’t think you have 40 minutes, get creative. Turn the volume up and listen while you do dishes, fold laundry, change light bulbs, grade papers… whatever. 40 minutes might seem like a long time but Pastor Kevin Strite is an easy speaker to listen to and it goes by quickly.

It’s best when you hear it as it was said, but since I know some people won’t take the time to listen I’m going to pull out some highlights and give a summary. These are not my ideas, though I wish they were. There are either direct quotes or a paraphrase of what the sermon contains. Please do go listen.

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Are you listening, Pennsylvania? From an interview Barack Obama gave to the San Francisco chronicle in January of this year (h/t Hot Air):

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster.

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Republitarian has another meltdown.

By now we”ve all heard the familiar refrain from the Obama campaign that, contrary to claims made by McCain/Palin, they intend to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. Sounds good…except for a few details the Wall Street Journal was kind enough to point out:

It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase “tax credit.” Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals.

Only Houdini himself could manage to cut taxes for 95% when only 60% or so pay taxes in the first place. Some would argue this is mere semantics, tax cuts versus tax credits, but the distinction is important…these “credits” will go to folks who don’t pay income taxes in the first place: Read the rest of this entry »

…asks the former home of Dan “even if the documents are fake, the story is true” Rather and current bedrock of the Obamedia, CBS News. It’s a must read:

Obama has already proposed a new stimulus package of $188 billion over two years. His tax cuts will cost $85 billion a year. His “army of new teachers”: $18 billion; Renewable energy: $15 billion. CBS News and various independent experts estimate Obama’s total first year spending could exceed $280 billion.

Still Obama repeated his claim he can find the money to pay for every proposal.

“I’ve offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost,” he has said.

The fact is the savings Obama has identified do not cover his spending. According to a CBS News estimate, he’s around $90 billion short.

WHAT?!?! I thought everything was “revenue neutral”, as the Messiah mentioned in at least one of the debates. He wasn’t lying, was he? CBS, or at least this intrepid reporter who will probably find himself exiled to Siberia soon, seems to think so. His healthcare proposal? Read the rest of this entry »