Election Frauds

Five Democrats, including the Chairman of the St. Louis Democrat party were convicted of vote fraud. Oddly, almost every newspaper that carried the Jim Suhr, Associated Press story, fails to include these two critical paragraphs.

State records showed that tens of thousands of dollars [$67,000 to be precise] were transferred from the St. Clair County Democratic party to committee members in East St. Louis days before the Nov. 2 election. Party leaders said it was for legitimate expenses, including rides to the polls for people without cars.

AND,

In March, three other precinct committee members and a precinct worker each pleaded guilty to a related count of vote buying. They are awaiting sentencing.

And, not so incidentally, you have to go to Yahoo news to get the complete AP story. As of 3:00 pm PT, Google only carried one story on it. Nor is there much media attention on Ralph Nader's election coordinator's conviction for fraud, nor the trials in Louisiana for election fraud.

A former Newsday publisher (1986-1994) was arrested for possession of child porn. "The indictment charges Johnson allegedly downloaded at least two movie files titled "real child rape" and "luciamin," both of which contained images of child pornography, from a Web site outside New York."

The slime ball.

Leftwing Newspaper Guild

Linda Foley, president of The Newspaper Guild, on "right-wing hysteria" after her the-US-military-are-targeting-journalists-remarks was indignant about the new free press of the internet.

I gave one interview, to Editor & Publisher, figuring it was a credible publication that reached most Guild members in one way or another. But my cold shoulder didn't stop the right-wing media machine from blowing its whistle and barreling down the tracks anyway. They had a video webcast clip of my remarks, and they could air them!

The ! is hers. The real indignation is that her remarks could be remarked upon. For the Left that hasn't been their experience for the last 40 years as they could count on the See No Evil leftwing media to ignore the inconvenient reality.

Newsday fraud arrests

Sounds like a happy retirement. At least if you read the headline. The headline is "Circulation scam figure selling home" Louis Sito, as Newsday notes, selling his home and "leaving town as well" and moving "South." By "South" you wonder if it is Brazil, considering that Sito is one of the few circulation figures at Newsday not indicted for fraud. At least not yet, which makes you wonder if he isn't shopping for a home in a non-extradictable country.

You have to read wayyyy down the article, however, to note that Sito is accused of getting kickbacks and "loans" from subcontractors who helped perpetuate the scam fraud. Less clear, and neither the Newsday reporter or editor, thought to mention was why Sito's attorney has so many, ah, odd connections.

Durbin the Dunce

T. Bevan's commentary on Dick Durbin's partisan crassness.

DICK DURBIN'S TORTUROUS ANALOGY: Consider the following statement:

"We sat on our knees for an hour. Then they began slapping us on the back of our necks, real hard, and then they started pouring hot wax down our back.'"

If this described something that had happened at Gitmo, Dick Durbin would have decried it as a despicable form of torture that "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others— that had no concern for human beings." Since this didn't happen at Gitmo, however, but is instead a description of a fraternity hazing incident, an analogy comparing Delta House with Auschwitz would look rather silly - just as Durbin looked on Tuesday.

In Wisconsin, the Assembly has approved a ban on the morning-after pill on state college campuses. Republicans control both the Assembly and the Senate, but the Democrat governor has promised to veto the bill. "Republican Rep. Daniel LeMahieu introduced the bill after a health clinic serving UW-Madison students published ads in campus newspapers inviting students to call for prescriptions for the drug to use on spring break."

As he points out, they aren't going to change the lifestyle of students, "But we can tell the university that you are not going to condone it, you are not going to participate in it, and you are not going to use our tax dollars to do it."

It's about time the grownups got to tell the universities to wise up.

From DrudgeReport

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I just like to laugh about the MSM meltdown.

Italian comedy

UPDATE: A victory for the Catholic church. Despite the intentions of the Internationalist cabal to override Italian votes with, among others, Canadians voting as Italians, the referendum failed to get 50 percent turnout. The turnout was 26 percent.

The hopes and aspirations of the Internationalists who would like to destroy national sovereignty and thereby eliminate another balance and check on their power are riding in an Italian election this weekend.

Under an Italian law passed in 2002, Italians abroad "descended from male Italian immigrants" - no matter how long ago - have full Italian citizenship and voting rights. This weekend's election is a referendum on artificial insemination that appears to be a test of the influence of non-residing "“Italians in the world" many of whom have never even been to Italy. While the Catholic church is asking the faithful to avoid the election in order to defeat it with a low turnout (50 percent is required,) the vote of the "Italians of the world" may change the dynamic. But the real crisis may be later, rather than sooner.

That law, which will soon create deputies and senators in the Italian parliament who are elected by people with Italian blood in foreign countries, has sparked a crisis in the Canadian government. Never before in modern history has a foreign nation tried to elect representatives on foreign soil.

Whole voting districts were established in Italy for the "Italians in the world" and Canadian voters have been implored to vote as "most of the 130,000 Canadians who have received Italian dual citizenship or passports were mailed ballot forms and were required to mail ballots to their consulate by Thursday night for the vote."

This just might turn out to be the solution to a demographic disaster for Europeans whose own populations are woefully outnumbered by immigrant invaders imported to disguise a serious decline in reproductive stability. Why any of this should create a crisis for Canadian officials is anyone's guess and the writer never explains the supposed angst. It isn't as if the voting was reciprocal. Maybe they are worrying that Italians will be angered by the Canadian contingent intrusion into their politics.

Don't blow Africa's chance, Bono warns EU

The headline says it all. Skip down to Geldorf's contribution to world peace. Bob Geldorf has his own advice.

Responding to comments by the US president, George Bush, that corruption in Africa had to be addressed as a high priority, the Live 8 organiser urged leaders to "get off the corruption thing" and fulfil their long-held promises.

Yeah. Just keep that money pouring in.

What next? Financial advice from McScrooge and scientific advice from the Power Rangers?

It's always our fault

From the New York Times this bit of dishonesty:

The Bush administration, in a move that is straining relations with the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, has once again rebuffed Germany's bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, American and European officials said Wednesday.

You mean, before this, relations were good with Germany?!!! This is another example of how the New York Times knowingly distorts the truth, playing political games. To back up their ridiculous assertions they rely on -- get this -- "several other [unnamed, of course] European and Asian diplomats involved in the intensifying jockeying over Security Council membership said they got the impression from top administration officials that the Bush administration opposes German membership..."

Those "unnamed" diplomats. As for the U.S. opposing German membership, maybe. Maybe not. But why would the U.S. agree to it now? At the exact same time that Gerhard Schröder and Greens Party member and Socialist Joschka Fischer are lame ducks, why would the U.S. prop up either of them by making concessions? Neither is in any position or has any intention of pushing for any genuine "reform" of the United Nations, certainly not the kind that the Bush administration is advocating. That is exactly the reason the New York Times wants them added.

And then there is this wierdness.

Several diplomats said they were puzzled that the United States had not developed an alternate proposal to the one by Japan, Germany, India and Brazil.

Instead, the United States has focused on improving management of the office of the secretary general, setting up new mechanisms for reconstruction of countries torn by conflict, a new treaty to combat terrorism, a voluntary fund to promote democracy and reforming the Human Rights Commission to prevent countries like Sudan from sitting on it and preventing action.

Sounds like more admirable goals than making the Security Council even less responsive with the addition of a Leftwing German government that repeatedly demonstrates rabidly anti-American sentiment when it suits them. "Reform" to the New York Times is conceding to the Left. What else is new? And the whole article is a cover for the German Left because they failed to get president Bush to agree and this way the Socialist German government can claim "It's their fault! They never intended to help us gain a permanent seat on the Security Council." I am happy that president Bush didn't help them. Cause it thwarts the New York Times, a newspaper nearly as rabidly anti-American as the Taliban.

If this story doesn't outrage you, I don't know what will.

Frankly, I am in love with this guy.

Just confirms what we thought

No surprise to those of us who visit the CBC site or watch the nightly news, but the Fraser Institute confirms it.

The CBC's television news coverage of the United States is consistently marked by emotional criticism, rather than a rational consideration of US policy based on Canadian national interests, according to The Canadian released today by The Fraser Institute.

The study covered 2002. Obviously, they didn't study the war in Iraq period when the CBC, as the rest of our MSM and Canadian Lefty media, went ballistic.

European superiority no doubt. A woman is suspected of having killed two babies and possibly more, the tiny corpses hidden in buckets of concrete and others wrapped in plastic in a freezer.

If tried and convicted of murder, the woman could face at least 10 years in prison, Austria's minimum standard sentence for homicide. Austria has no death penalty.

But prosecutors in the province of Styria, where Graz is the regional capital, suggested Monday she could face a lesser sentence, noting that the punishment for killing a newborn baby is five years' imprisonment. [Emphasis mine.]

Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail worries that Americans are religious zealots because they -- gasp -- "Americans profess unquestioning belief in God and are far more willing to mix faith and politics than people in other countries, AP-Ipsos polling found."

Even if you are sceptical that a poll of "about 1000" people can reliably represent any more than the collective opinions of about 1000 people, and you accept no link to the poll to question the date, the time of the poll, the methodology, or the questions, it's no great surprise that the purpose of the poll was to question the input of religious leaders into politics. This, no doubt, is a prelude to passage of same-sex marriage in Canada in defiance of the Canadian public. Cutting off the debate as it were.

David Warren on the EU 'Constitution' observes that "Meaningless Non".

The whole point of the proposed Constitution is to remove existing obstacles to the wheelings of the vast European bureaucracy, -- to make things run smoother-- as one advocate after another impatiently explained to the French electorate. Real democracy is an obstacle to any bureaucracy; can be guaranteed to put spanners in the machinery of control.

AND,

More than an economy is at issue, however. The aspiration to “streamline” a society from above -- which means in practice micro-managing the myriad human lives from a great height -- is alive and well far beyond Europe. The Americans get a taste of it in the power of their courts to re-interpret their Constitution, and overrule Congress.

We have had a good taste of it here, recently, as our ruling Liberal Party selectively ignored votes of confidence in the House of Commons. Or as we have “gay marriage” imposed on us, over the objections of a large majority of the population. Voting will not change anything. You have to take to the streets the way they did in Kiev.

That's the crux of the power play by the Eurocrats and the Democrats who resent any reform of our courts, the last refuge of the American socialists in our MSM, academia, and the Howard Dean/Hillary Clinton leftwings.

Little lies

The Evening Standard's version of history. "Nine countries have voted Yes." Not exactly true. Eight countries have ratified the EU "Constitution" by the expediency of their parliament approving it. Only Spain has actually ratified the Constitution by popular vote.

But, then, they knew that.