Pakistan should acknowledge the Pakistani military association of Terrorists' home

Pakistan should acknowledge the ISI association of the 3
young terrorists and openly invite substantiation of a formal
link to the ISI or ISI organizations while cooperating with all Indian efforts.

This will serve to inspire trust, and demonstrate goodwill.

Politicians need to ramp up the rhetoric against radical
Islam and let allied countries like India know we strongly
condemn this violent un-Godly act. Nowhere else do you find
this violence on civilians. We must speak out strongly and
steadily against this needless violence which demonstrates
nothing but base human contempt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7757031.stm
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said earlier he believed that a group based outside India was behind the killings and senior Indian politicians have said the only surviving gunman to be captured is from Pakistan.

A claim of responsibility for this week's attacks was made by a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen - a reference to a mainly Muslim region of India.

According to a statement leaked to Indian newspapers, the one alleged militant captured alive, named as Azam Amir Qasab, said the Mumbai militants had received training from an Islamist group once backed by Pakistani intelligence, Lashkar-e-Toiba.

Pakistan banned the group in 2002 at US insistence.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/india.hotel/?iref=mpstoryview

"They planned everything," he said of the attackers. "I believe the first thing they did, they shot a sniffer dog and his handler. They went through the kitchen."

The 105-year-old hotel was one of nine sites attacked by gunmen in a 60-hour wave of terror that killed at least 183 people and injured hundreds more before it ended in a standoff at the hotel Saturday morning.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3qjRfGh67VM&refer=home
Singh called a meeting for today in New Delhi with all the political parties in Parliament to discuss the measures. In Washington yesterday, President George W. Bush pledged U.S. help to investigate the assault by 10 gunmen on the Taj Mahal
Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels, a Jewish center and restaurant.
Indian Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said nine militants were killed. More than 295 people were injured, M.L. Kumawat, secretary of internal security at the Home Ministry, told reporters in New Delhi yesterday. S. Jadhav, an official at the city’s disaster management unit, put the death toll at 195.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3qjRfGh67VM&refer=home

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/022196.php

Self-absorbed jackass rationalizing murder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXX__iJJvXc

How long can we stupidly tolerate attacks and challenges
upon each new president's arrival? They aren't even waiting
for the inauguration this time. The same thing happened in
1993 in both India and in NY with the 1st WTC bombing when
Clinton was inaugurated. Carter was challenged directly by
Iran. Lest you trust our government to do the right thing lookup the phrase
Obama and Rashid Khalidi, the Hamas terrorist that Obama was filmed TOASTING at a dinner in the year 2000, and the Ayers, a terrorist couple, who installed Obama in Chicago politics.
Read what Obama has written.

I hope the young surviving Holtzberg may grow up with as
little trauma as possible.

Some terrorists may still roam free:
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Nov302008/national20081129103738.asp

Hope:
http://news.aol.com/article/muslims-condemn-mumbai-attacks-worry/263463?cid=13

The article below outlines the geography well but is sachrine and gullible
as to the past claim by similar criminals that they represent anyone in any legitimate way.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/30/mumbai-terror-attacks-india

21-year-old Pakistani, Ajmal Amir Kasab

Two other militants have been named. Like Kasab, according
to the Indian media reports, they are said to be from the
Multan region, southern Punjab. They, too, are said to be
members of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba
(Army of the Pure) and to have followed a five-month
training period to prepare them for the attack. The charge
of the group's involvement, denied by its spokesmen, has
explosive political consequences for the volatile region and
must be treated with caution. In the long-running contest
between India and its neighbour, propaganda and
misinformation is far from rare. But if the details now
emerging are confirmed, the link to Pakistan may spark war.

For though it is widely acknowledged that Pakistan's
civilian government has limited control over local militant
groups, it is clear that Pakistan's military and security
establishment does.

Lashkar-e-Taiba was originally founded with the support of
the Pakistani military intelligence service, the ISI, to
fight as 'deniable' proxies in the contested territory of
Kashmir, part of a decades-old strategy by the militarily
weaker Pakistan to 'bleed' its bigger rival. The ISI also
has connections with Jaish-e-Mohammed, the second group that
New Delhi security officials has accused of involvement in
the Mumbai attacks.

For the moment little is known about the three men named
yesterday or their accomplices. But their place of origin
comes as no surprise to experts. Both Lashkar-e-Taiba and
Jaish-e-Mohammed draw the majority of their recruits from
the southern Punjab. Last week The Observer travelled to the
twin towns of Multan and Bahawalpur, the centres of the
region, to investigate the reality of the groups' power on
the ground, their relations with the Pakistani intelligence
services and the factors which drive young men, possibly
including the Mumbai gunmen, to join them.

Trace a line from where US special forces battle Taliban
fighters in the corner of empty desert where the Afghan,
Pakistani and Iranian frontiers meet, follow it through the
badlands of the Pakistani North West Frontier and on through
the bomb-blasted cities of northern Pakistan and down
through Delhi, attacked in September, to shell-shocked
Mumbai, and one thing becomes clear: this zone has displaced
the Middle East as the new central front in the struggle
against Islamic militancy. The southern Punjab falls on the
line's centre point. There may be doubt over the identity of
the attackers, but there is none that Multan and Bahawalpur
and villages such as Faridkot are in the Indians' sights.

For most militants in the region the story - and that of
Azam Amir Kasab is unlikely to be very different - starts at
school. The southern Punjab has one of the highest
concentrations of religious schools or madrassas in south
Asia. Most teach the ultra-conservative Deobandi strand of
Islam that is also followed by the Afghan Taliban and,
crucially in this desperately poor land, offers free
classes, board and lodging to students.

In Bahawalpur the Jaish-e-Mohammed group, believed
responsible for a string of brutal attacks across south
Asia, including the murder of Jewish American journalist
Daniel Pearl, has been linked to two such madrassas. One is
the headquarters of the group - a semi-fortified and
forbidding complex in the centre of the town. The other is
the Dar-ul-Uloom Medina, where the brother-in-law of Rashid
Rauf, the Bahawalpur-based suspected British militant
thought to have been killed in an American missile attack
eight days ago, is a teacher. Surrounded by some of the 700
students, he told The Observer that 'jihad' was the duty of
all his young charges.

The pupils at the more radical Bahawalpur and Multan schools
grow up soaked in extremist ideology. The most senior cleric
in Bahawalpur, Maulana Riaz Chugti, said his students could
only go 'for training or to fight' after their studies or
when the schools were shut for the holy month of Ramadan.

'To fight in Afghanistan or Kashmir and to struggle against
the forces who are against Islam is our religious duty,'
Chugti, who oversees the education of 40,000 students, told
The Observer.

In Bahawalpur both the effects and the limits of the recent
reversal of policy by the ISI, the powerful Pakistani
military intelligence service, are evident. A crackdown on
the militant groups was launched after they were blamed for
a bloody attack on the Indian parliament in 2001 which
almost brought India and Pakistan to open war. The groups,
previously seen as a strategic asset, were suddenly seen as,
at least for the moment, a liability. When their operatives
were linked to plots to assassinate the then President, and
evidence of collusion with al-Qaeda itself became clear, the
pressure mounted on the ISI to rein in their former
protégés.

'The militants have had to lower their profile,' said one
local security official. 'They are no longer recruiting or
preaching or raising funds openly. Things are much more
difficult for them. If they recruit at all they do it
individual by individual, not en masse like before. There is
no production line.'

But the groups - along with break-away outfits with their
roots in sectarian Shia-Sunni violence in the region - still
have a significant presence in the region, particularly in
remote villages such as that of Azam Amir Kasab. 'They may
be semi-retired, but in my village there are 300 men who
have fought in Afghanistan and have training and can be
activated with one phone call,' one local former militant
said. That fighters for one operation should come from the
same place was not surprising. 'When I went to Afghanistan I
went with five guys who I knew from school,' he said.

The young men of the southern Punjab have been found across
a broad swath of south Asia and even further afield. In
Kabul in August, The Observer interviewed Abit, a
23-year-old from Bahawalpur who had surrendered to Afghan
police seconds before he was supposed to blow himself up in
a huge truck bomb. Other militants from the town have been
found as far away as Bangladesh. Lashkar-e-Taiba members
have even been located in Iraq.

The groups are also of great interest to British
intelligence services, who fear their key role as
intermediaries between young volunteers from the UK's Muslim
community - such as Rauf - and al-Qaeda leaders based in the
volatile tribal zones along Pakistan's western frontier. The
groups, the sources say, have a UK support network to supply
funding.


Update: 5 terrorists at large
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5265938.ece

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Al Franken and Norm Coleman face Minnesota Canvassing Board

http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/1359/
Mark Elias, a recount lawyer for Franken:
I think we can all agree that there are real voters that have been improperly disenfranchised
that I think we can all agree upon.
I wake up every morning and read or hear on the news stories of real people who did not have their ballots counted even though they were lawfully cast.

"Lawfully cast" - They were not lawfully cast - they were rejected. - Where is the repect for
the process? Do you honor the decision of election judges or not, Democrats? Where is the
respect for the work of the election judges and county reports that say these ballots were
properly, legally rejected? Where?

The board members are Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (the SOS, http://www.sos.state.mn.us, oversees elections among other things while the Campaign Finance Board www.cfboard.state.mn.us oversees candidates' campaign finance disclosures), Kathleen Gearin, a Ramsey County District Court judge, Ramsey County Judge Edward Cleary, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson.
County attorneys opinion: Be directed to MN Statutue 204c.48 - correction of obvious errors when both candidates agree.

At the lower center is an embedded Video of the board's November 26 2008 deliberation and the actual motion to reject the rejected ballots.

Zestro

The internet quality - in particular blogs - has improved to the point where we can defend against such threats as the corrupting attitude that allowed the Housing crisis to happen through public shame. Local Minnesota blogs and national ones such as Ace of Spades, Red State, LGF, etc contribute and foster balance, perspective, reason and insight to public thought.

A way to learn critical thought might be critiquing our 6th grade math teachers through post-Cartesian Math theory.

I had written post-Cartesian Math as a teenager under the pseudonym Jay Dixon. Ambiguity is removed from math theory with post-Cartesian Math.


Post-Cartesian Math forces us to pick up the pieces and reassemble them into a new way of thinking.
We recognize the 0-is-nothing metaphor and the 3 uses of 0 - as a natural number in the natural number system - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 etc (for example 100.2, 1.102, 1.10, or 101.2), as a space filler in the decimal point fraction system (for example .01 or .002), and as a meaningless symbol in the decimal point fraction system (for example 0.1 or 05.6)

Post-Cartesian numeral systems are natural number systems. 0 is ten (forget everything you learned about the Hexidecimal system for the moment, where A is ten), A is eleven, B is twelve, et cetera.
The PC number systems have a base and an initiating digit at which the leftward digit is incremented.

Base 0, 0 as initiating digit is here:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 etc

Base 0, 1 as initiating digit is here:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 11 12 etc

Base 0, 9 as initiating digit is here:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 10 11 12 etc

The binary system in PC Math:
Base 2, 2 as initiating digit is here:
1 12 11 122 121 112 111 1222

Base 2, 1 as initiating digit is here:
1 2 11 12 21 22 111 112 121 122 211 212 221 222

Notice the only numerals that match up are the numerals that contain all 1's, such as three and seven.

PC Hex:
Base F, F as initiating digit:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 A B C D E 1F 11 12 ...

Base F, 1 as initiating digit:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 A B C D E F 11 12 ...

Why do we need to re-arrange or re-define the meaning of A-F in the Hex system?
To lend consistency and logic to the zestro numeral system. We can't present Zestro as a demonstration of how the distinction of natural numbers (as opposed to the negative or point decimal fraction systems) may be reflected, represented, or preserved in a unique numeral system such as Base 0 1 As Initiating Digit ( Zestro) if the logical extension of that same natural-number numeral system (Base F, n as Initiating Digit, Base 8, n as initiating Digit, Base 2, n as Initiating Digit, or any "Base n" PC Math system where n is A-F) does not consist of 0 as meaning precisely the same as it means in Zestro - the natural number ten.

If you don't like Zestro or post-Cartesian Math you might call it post-Napoleon Math since it is a youthful teen-age creation like the movie Napoleon Dynamite and the original Napoleon is credited with spreading Cartesian Math principles throughout the world.

http://www.herkimershideaway.org/writings/frmath.htm
Napoleon was a strong advocate of education and made efforts to ensure that mathematics became a permanent part of the French School curriculum. As a young man, he completed his studies at the Military School of Paris with superior grades in mathematics, earning him the commission of second lieutenant of the Royal Artillery. Recognized for his excellence in mathematics, he was also appointed to the mathematics section of the French National Institute. Prior to Napoleon's time, French schools concentrated mainly on literature and languages.

Zestro is connected to "Old Iraq" or Babylonia, in that the natural numbers were used.

British colonists and math antiquities experts of the past decades and centuries may have been accused of projecting Cartesian interpretations onto translated Babylonian math.

General third-world resentment against Britian for establishing divisive arbitrary borders, and exporting tourist attractions to National museums such as Acropolis pieces, may remain insurmountable despite Britian's best diplomacy partly because the British failed to immediately provide a neutral post-Cartesian explanation of Babylonian natural number math in colonial times that suitably dignified and protected the Babylonian image and didn't flavor the preserved ancient Babylonian thought, which might today serve as the basis of an Iraqi national identity, with 18th century European thought. I received a response from a British Babylonian author in the 80's or 90's whom I wrote to regarding his interpretation of ancient Babylonian math texts, that was more defensive of his work than I thought was necessary. That indicates to me he had been attacked in such a way before.

Post-Cartesian Math might help us gain insight, perspective, or a critical attitude with which we can better approach and evaluate various attacks on systems such as the Bail-out craze or a Jim Jones type of leadership (search on Kool Aid Jim Jones). PC Math, if established incorrectly, might comprise the ultimate attack on any existing number based system. Like everything good, PC Math should be measured critically, while self-regulating and maintaining a healthy direction.
Like scrappy post-Cartesian Math, public and private sector policy should also be handled carefully. Ambiguity must be removed and our thinking on government policy in general reassambled with a concern only for the franchise of government and proper custody of public and private sectors.

Ambiguity might serve in relationships and be bad in Government Sponsored Enterprises halfway between the public and private sectors.

The first DLL's I created were for the Zestro number system. The programming required for Zestro Math makes a great technical language-learning cirriculum.

In the past decades as I developed Zestro, I never wanted Zestro to be associated with anti-Christianity groups such as illuminati, Mithra, etc because I am more attitude oriented and secular, preferring to fully support Christianity as a secular, non-practicing, Council of Nicea (like diverse Babylon in it's Christian diversity) Untitarian.

I never wanted Zestro to be associated with the various touchy-feely math teaching approaches fostered partially by Bush education policy in the 80's and 90's. I didn't want to be marked as liberal by a conservative Allen Quist education ideology with which I agree 100%. I will be writing a critique of Quist's excellent book, America's Schools, and demonstrate where Zestro might be inserted into a Quist-inspired cirricula.

What good is it?
It enhances perception and might help highlight naturally occuring illogic better. For example we can talk all you want about Instant Run-Off Voting (IRV) but the fact remains that pre-emptively obtaining additional Run-off votes violates the one-person one-vote principle and it is not necessarily a good thing if everyone casts their Run-off vote instantly in ignorance of who lost and who won after the first ballot. That's the key common assumption. PC Math is consistent with the principles that will preserve this nation.

I want to thank Phil Kleineschay for helping me in the intial stages with both with generous resources and encouragement.

Some old 20th century math books teach a concept that replaced the concept of carrying and borrowing. This evident flexibility supports the validity of post-Cartesian Math.
Finally there is a semantical, grammatical theory that goes with post-Cartesian Math which identifies 6 knowledge metaphors.
They are used in mathematical terms such as "divided by" and the description of other advanced math terms.



A Footnote:
A critic has said the natural number count of Zestro, the name of the Base 0, 1 As Initiating Digit numeral system, should start with the numeral 11 (one) since the 1 would trigger the leftward increment right away.

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 21 22 ...

This might be called the "strict constructionist" version of post-Cartesian Math with no single digit numerals in Zestro and where only numeral systems with eleven (which is A in PC Math) or more digits and an initiating digit greater than eleven would ever contain numerals with a stand-alone 0. Both versions of PC Math contain the digits 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 A B C D E F etc. in that order.

The existing Zestro numeral system, as published in 1989, where 00 means 110 (one hundred and ten) and 000 means 1110 (one thousand one hundred and ten) dramatically demonstrates 0 as a natural number which has meaning while the decimal point fraction system in Zestro does not exist.

Jamie J Delton
St. Paul, MN 55102
Nov 23, 2008

Exceptional Gift Idea #2 - Amazon Kindle

A blogger recommended this. The link includes a video intro.

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA

$359 online.

Exceptional Gift Idea for Windows XP, Service Pack 2 owner

http://neatco.com

This product has no drivers for 64-bit Vista yet but promises 64-bit support (assuming that means Vista and not Linux!) by 12/23/08: http://neatco.com/customer-support. If you have 32-bit Windows XP SP 2 or above, this product will simplify your life. I installed it at work and bought my own. Installation Tip: Allow 15 -30 minutes and do not even bother with the install CD. The installation program tells you to go to the website even if you have the minimum qualifying operating system, Windows XP SP2. My experience was the CD install failed on XP SP 2 and XP SP 3, but the website's downloadable install program worked.
The product serves an amazing array of functions - it's wand-like scanner has very few if any moving parts and is simple to use. It acquires power from the USB, something I wish all products would do. As a black and white scanner it excels. The OCR Optical character recognition software enables you to organize receipts, business card info, and pamphlet info into a database. The previous two posts' pictures are Neat Receipt scans. Available at OfficeMax. Price: about $226.

United Properties Goes Green - admits impact of green bag 11 times that of plastic bag

My colleagues arrived at work to find this bag and insert.
Note item 10, Social Responsibility. "A reusable bag only needs 11 uses to have a lower impact then [sic] using 11 plastic bags." The author admits the creation of this bag damaged the environment as much as 11 of the very plastic bags it claims to supplant! Ha!

I owned a blue dyed bag from Greece made of a similar material except it was twice as thick, with a thin plastic laminate over the cloth, and larger. After 1.5 years of use the plastic laminate wore away and the cloth frayed and tore. The bag above might not last much more than 11 uses. It is very thin. The bright beige will soil quickly. In addition the bag is about 1.5 feet square - too small for a grocery run if you happen to get a gallon of milk, soda or paper towels.

Walgreens leverages Internet for Seniors

http://www.walgreens.com/pharmacy/medicare_d/free_report.jsp

Walgreens leverages Internet for Seniors.
The Gap Coverage referred to in the ad above is the Part D "doughnut hole".
This was a well intentioned reform by Bush that, like many of his Presidential acts, he seldom gets credit for, because he did not adhere to fiscal principles even before the War.
Unseen in the scan is the disclaimer "Sample" indicating this is a sample report. Get your report at http://www.walgreens.com/pharmacy/medicare_d/free_report.jsp

Presidential Election post-mortem

Let me just throw 3 points out there:

1
Republicans should clarify that Sarah Palin and Republican women are uniquely qualified to win our trust in them as managers of government, over and above mayoral and gubernatorial experience. Democrat women not only fear government unions (more pernicious than private unions), they don't even talk of government unions. It's to the point now where Democrat women might gauge informed republicans' strength and gender bias by what must be a uniform amount of indignation perceived at the reckless, disenfranchising allegiance between labor and politicians who are weak managers. And yet Democrat women politicians don't perceive their consistent submission to government unions as a weakness or as compromising a managerial role. Think for a moment of EFCA or Card Check as the government union people, who control Democrat politicians, flouting their ability to retain loyalty with ridiculously counter-productive policy. Even George McGovern took note. EFCA is dangerous legislation sure to come up next session. EFCA will destroy small business.

2 issues republicans should own -

1
The Mark Olson type of issue (a local former Republican politician who lost the Republicans a seat). Potential fraud in marketing prescription psychiatry drugs - such as demonstrated in recent Senator Grassley work. The recent cases in the article below might be seen as Republican-associated "Big Pharma", which ironically dominates liberal academia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00080.htm

2
Add anti-regulation to Joe the Plumber's anti-tax position. More or less regulation doesn't matter - the small business impact is what's important. Federal regulations expect borderline miracle work out of small-business entrapreneurs such as coming up with creative recycling solutions, or, in the 1970's, re-habbing old houses with creatively achieved air safety, maintenence, and energy efficiency features. Retain government regulation only where it's most needed (regulation itself is not the problem). If potential small business owners such as Joe the Plumber see too much regulation or if they see small business unduly taxed, they won't start-up business and so jobs can't be created.

Yet anti-Regulation might be seen by voters as "Big Oil". It is perceived as benefiting big companies for "greed". We need to control this issue, define what we expect to achieve.

60 minutes on Nov 9 showed recycling companies with no creative use for old CRT monitors and other e-waste which they are paid to dispose of properly.
Regulations penalize export of e-waste. 42 recycling companies failed a federal integrity test ("administered" by government sting agents) where they were asked to sell monitors or some electronic waste to foreigners.
A company should setup here in America to extract the valuable metals from e-waste and sell the re-usables on eBay or maintain computer labs and super-stores for community use. Such a company needs to be be paid well to meet stiff, hard to find landfill fees for the remaining commercial e-waste and maintain a clean extraction factory.

Search words include Brandon Richter, Executive Recycling Colorado, Jim Puckett's Basel Action Network, Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, Guiyu China, poly-brominated carbons. 60 Minutes tracked the guy's shipping container of CRT monitors to Tacomah Washington, Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, and Guiyu China.

We need a Presidential candidate to lend coherence to federal regulations and policy and support small business. This would mesh well with a platform that enforces current immigration policy.

We stand with Obama

http://www.scsuscholars.com/2008/11/recession-not-yet.html
One can only hope that all for the country goes well without hurting our security. Remember, when you're #1, everyone comes after you. And, if your leader has no backbone, cannot make decisions, is careless with words, etc. all will target you. O, watch out. Your life, as well as ours and those of your friends (Rezko - convicted felon, Ayers - avowed anti-American, and Wright - questionable Christian pastor) now hang in the balance - that is dependent on the decisions you and your buddies will make. Our enemies care naught for political affiliation - they only respect strength. If you show weakness, we all pay.

What dramatic event will serve as the lesson for future voters as the impression of a murderous genocidal regime with a well known 1930's dictatorial leader, Stalin, locked in a Cold War with our country for decades, wears away? If the dramatic event that transpired 9/11/2001 cannot serve as a reminder of Reagan's "peace through strength" then what will?
We cannot endanger our men and women overseas by forgetting the lessons of the past. I share Janet's cynical insight into the worst leaders of the world and hope they get little attention paid to them by President Obama to their entreaties relative to the attention our allies and trade partners receive.
Here is a related post from John H:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/022040.php

Here is a wonderful inspirational edict by Paul:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/022039.php

Norm Coleman's election victory expected to be certified

I can't WAIT to delete my Al Franken Google Alert. In the meantime I notice finally someone else noticed a pattern Franken shared in his malicious jokes and rhetoric about gays and catholics:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-al-franken-anti-catholic-bigot.html

C. S. Lewis in his book The Screwtape Letters describes the real agenda of Franken’s “humor” best. In this book his character, who is a senior evil spirit, says:

"But Flippancy is the best of all. In the first place it is very economical. Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippant people the Joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every serious subject is discussed in a manner which implies that they have already found a ridiculous side to it. If prolonged, the habit of Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy [God] that I know, and it is quite free from the dangers inherent in the other sources of laughter. It is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it."

Norm Coleman is a good man. I admire anyone who successfully governed St. Paul, Minnesota and left it better. And it is remarkable that throughout Delay's K-Street project in the House, Norm in the Senate maintained his own integrity so well.
I believe the scheduled certification date for Norm Coleman's victory over Al Franken is November 18, 2008:
http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=9&recordid=2625

Nuclear, Hydrogen Tech; Palin-bashing "Conservatives"

$25M for a local power municipal source for 20,000 homes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/09/miniature-nuclear-reactors-los-alamos

Local affordable hydrogen module for cars:
http://www.hydrogenfuelforcars.com/
There is a long waiting list. Hydrogen vapors (Brown Gas) injected into fuel line for improved Mileage Rate!

Sarah Palin's Message to young women.Scroll down for last video below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7717309.stm

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Warning! - Offensive Olbermann video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uDdY974FWs
I equate Sarah Silverman's comments at (4:38) here to some less overt but equally repugnant anti-Palin comments of Nicolle Wallace, Steve Schmidt, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, David Frum, and Kathleen Parker.
Chris Buckley, Colin Powell, and Scott McClellan might also be categorized in the same category with Silverman since they have given no explanation as to why or how their Republican "principles" are reconciled with their Obama endorsements.
Local attorney John Gilmore with http://www.stpaulrepublicans.org/ said it best on Sue Jeffers' 1st hour 11/8/08:
http://www.ktlkfm.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=suejeffers.xml
These are people who purport to think deeply about Republican party and conservative principles and have informed us that with the Palin pick, they wouldn't support the McCain ticket. ...You can't vote for the most liberal senator in the senate with 0 experience and claim to be a conservative. ...clear dividing line between people who get Sarah and those who don't. And the people who don't turn around and tell us about our party. No. ....

Sue and John go on to conduct the most coherent discussion of Minnesota politics I've heard. Global Warming Scam and Healthcare are deal-breakers (Sue Jeffers).

Ann Coulter, Ace, LGF RedState, Michelle Malkin and others share their view on Palin.
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=282

Expect to see my Palin-Power t-shirt worn in protest at this misguided, half baked, ill-thought-out lurching towards socialism and passive condoning of federal building bombing and SDS-genocide on the part of some in the Republican party.

http://beltwayblips.com/video/ayers_weathermen_planned_re_education_genocide/

Fairness Doctrine

Perhaps the more important lesson from the Fannie Freddie mess is that GSE's - government sponsored enterprises - do not work because, like the constitutional amendment in MN imposing a tax, people don't realize how it slowly undermines the very foundation of our young American experiment, the United States of America, of which we are custodians and franchisees.
http://www.looktruenorth.com/elections/us-congressional-races/110-congressional-district-6/5679-the-threat-of-the-fairness-doctrine-is-very-real.html

The interviewer in this video understands that. Chuck Schumer does not.
The insidious insistence that because the government curtails porno on government-furnished airwave standards, we must accept it's judgements on what is fair and balanced commercial political content, is demonstrated here.

Investigation of St. Louis County Called for

An investigation into the consistently late election result reports of St. Louis county has been called for by a commenter at MinnesotaDemocratsExposed.com.
This is long overdue. Has St. Louis county been last to report every year? As far as I can recall it has.

http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2008/11/07/coleman-for-us-senate-press-release-as-huge-chunks-of-votes-appear-and-disappear-coleman-campaign-files-data-practices-request-with-county-auditors-and-secretary-of-state/#comments

November 7th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

West Metro:

If it was a hand count that had to be recorded maybe we can eventually buy that mistake of 100 after all that was the explanation that Pine county has tried to make. But the one from Saint Louis County rings very wrong:

* They have electronic scanners which are suppose to send in a report. Even if the hand wrote down the same wrong number twice (both Franken and Obama got 100 votes - did the rest of the candidates like Oberstar, the state house candidate get 100 votes also another question for the auditor of Saint Louis county to check out)

* Somebody explained to the Star Tribune when a test scan was made the date was wrong. Based on the explanation Powerline reported the dates aren’t adding up.

* Okay lets see election days was November 4th. You do a review on the 5th. Okay you do a double check during normal business hours on the 6th. This list isn’t updated until after 7 p.m. on the 6th? This is just like Dulth (I assume the home office of the Saint Louis county auditor) which I assume that uses opitcal scanning machines can’t get their votes to be listed until after 2 a.m and needs three hours to get about 30 precints listed on the Secretary of State’s website (I know because I was up the whole night checking and seeing just how slow Duluth was reporting) on the fifth. It was like they were trying to get their precints reported last on purpose! Why report last unless you were trying to create the votes that Franken needed to win. Otherwise their results should’ve been in hours earlier. Dulth and the Saint Louis auditor unlike the comment made by Jeff have not been acting honest and should be forced to answer tough questions.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN


Both the VERY improbable Mountain Iron Precinct One numbers and the St. Louis county's Buhl numbers should not be allowed until a more thorough review.
http://politicsinminnesota.com/2008/nov07/1376/recount-breaking-news-mountain-iron-precinct-one

http://www.lakeelmoleader.com/articles/index.cfm?id=8601

Past Democrat Fraud an indicator of the outcome of Minnesota Senate vote total "adjustments"?

Is past Democrat fraud in 2000 or 2004 an indicator of the outcome of 2008 Minnesota Senate vote total "adjustments"?

It is important yet painful that we hear this type of story. This one is from local forum contributor Lee Surma:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mn-politics/messages/topic/5PhnkIxcV9ha7RMJ0PB6v

I talked to someone a few years back who was an election
judge in a small town in Northwest Minnesota. Thinking I
was a lefty the person was bragging about how 100% of the
80 or so registered voters magically voted. At the end of
the day they filled out the remaining ballets and sent
them through the machine. The people who didn't show were
going to vote Democrat anyway so they were providing a
service. Does anyone look at numbers like the percentage
registered to actual voted? Is there any routine spot
checking and calls to registered voters who voted?

There are several numbers the Minnesota Secretary of State, in charge of elections, could relatively easily put online since they come from the same machine "tapes" which are the source of the current online totals.
These additional numbers would then show us in which precincts anomalies occurred, such as 100% turnout, so that county residents may confirm it.
Two additional numbers that should be online are total ballots submitted to the machine and total same-day registered voters (not just those registered as of 7AM 11/4 who appear on the roster).

From these numbers we would be more able to extrapolate the other numbers such as the blank votes and over-votes which may be the only other significant numbers on the machine tape.
Over-votes are when more than 1 candidate is chosen in a 1 seat race; by default the machine spits out such ballots unless the election judge over-rides the default machine behavior by inserting the ballot while 2 keys are held down.

Having additional numbers online may have caught the St. Louis county error earlier, in which a precinct in Buhl did not ever call their Senate results in yet the county was reported as 100% complete anyway.

Update:
http://politicsinminnesota.com/2008/nov07/1376/recount-breaking-news-mountain-iron-precinct-one

Uncorrected election results still changing by the hour:
http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?M=S&R=all&P=A&Races=''

Al Franken and allies attempt to steal Norm's victory

Thur 11/6 4:33PM Norm 1211077 Al 1210487 (590)

We need to restore the original vote results as they were when 100% of the precincts first reported Wednesday morning. Then we need to get a complete explanation of Ritchie's new numbers.

The counts on the Minnesota Secretary of State Election website, http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?M=S&R=all&P=A&Races= , have changed at least 12 times from Wednesday 11/5 when 100% precincts were first said to have been complete, to now, Friday 11/7.
These Thursday and Friday changes I recorded on jpg images:

Thur
11/6 1:56PM
Norm 1211538
Al 1211197

(341)

Thur
11/6 4:07PM
Norm 1211542
Al 1211206

(336)

Thur
11/6 4:33PM
Norm 1211077
Al 1210487

(590)


Thur
11/6 5:08PM
Norm 1211542
Al 1211206

(336)


Thur
11/6 10:09PM
Norm 1211542
Al 1211306
(236)


Fri
11/7 12:29PM
Norm 1211540
Al 1211301

(239)

Clearly, the precinct numbers were not 100% complete Wednesday morning, as Ritchie claimed.

Here is the first evidence of potential criminal activity on behalf of Al Franken and his allies:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/022024.php

Obama is a friend to foreign interests and foe to US Coal interests

Great strategy, Obama: Let's bankrupt US companies who want to refine coal, the most plentiful US resource; America's answer to Middle East oil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ

This IS consistent with Democrat thugs who want to confiscate a local St. Paul resource-rich land on the pretext the gas it emits is environmentally hazardous.
Yeah, right.
Transparency is needed at the county and municipal levels to curtail the audacious zeal with which Minnesota Democrats confiscate land. Leagues and Associations such as http://www.lmnc.org which maintain non-public email lists should be put on notice that we need to repeal portions of the forfeiture code, including the code 280.001, that are related to disclosure.
http://deltondigest.blogspot.com/2008/06/minnesotan-tax-forfeiture-reform-needed.html
Arthur West, local level transparency Hero:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/370562_sunshine12.html

The government cannot continue to bully it's way into the oil coal and gas industries.

Obama is a friend to foreign interests:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/021953.php

A lesson in self-respect - Vote McCain for President!

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/021952.php
We now know that Obama has substantial relations with a rabidly anti-American black militant, an unrepetent "New Left" terrorist, and a former spokesperson for an Arab terrorist organization
....
No self-respecting country would elect as president a man who spent 20 years taking spiritual guidance from a pastor who openly hates the country. And no country that loses its self respect can anticipate a bright future.
Plus don't forget the mutually beneficial ACORN relationship and Obama's membership in the New Party.

Disabled Exploited by Democrat Caregivers

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/29/report-another-case-of-disabled-voters-coached-into-supporting-obama/

Message from Fred Thompson, 2008 Republican presidential candidate

Message from Fred.
If you listen to one internet video this campaign season, let it be a Fred Thompson video.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31761_A_Message_from_Fred_Thompson

Tom Ryther is disgusted and disappointed with his profession.
Why not report on this for example:
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=70

Minnesota Democrat head Brian Melendez uses profanity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90bSiDs1Wuc

Brian should apologize.

Melendez running from EFCA debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyB3bB0wQas&feature=related

Likely Obama collaborator dedicated book to Assassin Sirhan Sirhan

Likely Obama collaborator dedicated book to Assassin Sirhan Sirhan
The same person who likely ghost-wrote Dreams of my Father with Obama dedicated another book, Praire Fire, to assassin Sirhan Sirhan.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31776_LGF_Exclusive-_Bill_Ayers_Prairie_Fire_in_PDF_Form

Towards end is the evidence on the collaboration:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/i-am-bill.html