Tea Party Stands In The Door To Larger GOP Tent

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Friday November 09, 2012 · 7:17 AM PST

2012/11/09 · 07:17

The GOP wisely sent out former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a national interview to talk about the party. Her opening response to the question of where the GOP goes from here was, "We need a bigger tent".
http://videxplorer.com/...

I'll give her props for admitting the obvious, but even Rush Limbaugh has finally admitted the same ("We are outnumbered and losing ground. It is impossible to beat Santa Claus.")
http://www.youtube.com/...

This notion that if the GOP tweaked its message a little they could expand their base is ludicrous. They are talking like the prison boss in Cool Hand Luke, "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

Romney already tried lying and, although it gave him a bounce after the first debate, ended in defeat. No, as Al Sharpton said on election night, ethnic groups vote for politicians whose policies address their concerns. How does the GOP reach out to Latino voters? Immigration reform would be a start. There's a problem though and that problem constitutes an inherent flaw to effecting any sort of big tent strategy in the GOP. That flaw is the Tea Party, the GOP storm troopers. They guard the door to the GOP tent. Fox News was instrumental in bringing the Tea Party into full bloom. In a perverse way, I'd like to thank Fox News for their contributions to shaping the agenda of the Republican Party. Their children, the Tea Partiers, are driving the GOP bus off the cliff. Good riddance.

Good News, I'm An Honorary Black Person

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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 11:32 AM PST

2012/11/07 · 11:32

Key & Peele of Comedy Central have inducted all white Obama voters into the club. Caution: language is not completely PC if that offends you.

Update: And considering I'm not an honorary member of the club, I guess these student riots down at Ole Miss are also directed at me.
http://videxplorer.com/...

Howard Dean finally says it, Only Way Obama Losses Is Voter Suppression

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 3:35 PM PST

2012/11/06 · 15:35

Howard Dean is refreshingly honest. It's a trait that is necessarily useful on the campaign trail though.

Electronic Voting Machine Changing Vote From Obama To Romney

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 7:25 AM PST

2012/11/06 · 07:25

Just unbelievable. The video was apparently shot on a cellphone in Pennsylvania.
http://videxplorer.com/...

I posted this link over at the St. Louis Post Dispatch message board and was met with immediate push back from the right. Here are some of their comments.

"IT HAS HAPPENED COUNTLESS TIME GOING THE OPPOSITE WAY, ALL LIBERALS SAID WAS EITHER TOO BAD, OR NOTHING AT ALL. the simple response at the polls when this happens should be to automaticly shut this machine down until it can be re-calibrated.

"Agreed. The machine should be recalibrated, tested, and if still not working correctly, shut down and not used for polling. "

"It's an uncalibrated screen. If they just touched slightly lower it would be fine. Nothing to see here. "

Those responses came in less than a minute after I posted. All very similar. All saying it was just some standard technical issue. The last poster adds the jedi mind trick "Nothing to see here. [Move along.]" Makes one wonder if the response was coordinated or just a bunch of right leaning citizens with the same interest in squelching online conversation regarding election fraud and who just happened to be cruising the same message board at the instant I posted.

KKK Spray Painted On Homes in Minority St. Louis Neighborhood Last Night, Voter Intimidation?

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Monday November 05, 2012 · 10:40 AM PST

2012/11/05 · 10:40

The crime happened in Richmond Heights, an inner ring community just outside of the city boundary. Not to suggest that there are not racists in St. Louis but I don't recall an occurrence such as this anywhere in the city for the past 20 years. The time of this seems very, very odd. So some skinhead got drunk on a Sunday night and decided to spray paint homes with 'KKK' in a black neighborhood? Just a spur of the moment, random thing? They caught the guy so I am interest to follow the story in the future to hear more on the motivation. Here is video from the local news station if anyone is interested. They interview a few of the residents in the effected neighborhood.
http://videxplorer.com/...

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Tip of the hat to jenesq for pointing out the correct suburb as Richmond Heights as opposed to Maryland Heights.

Generals Endorse Romney - Who Does Obama Have? (humor)

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Monday November 05, 2012 · 8:22 AM PST

2012/11/05 · 08:22

Obama is sitting on some pretty good cards.

Todd 'Legitimate Rape' Akin Has Been Arrested At Least Eight Times

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Sunday November 04, 2012 · 9:24 AM PST

2012/11/04 · 09:24

Here is the story from the Washington Post. That article neglects to specify what Todd was doing when arrested. This HuffPo Article makes it clear it was protesting abortion clinics. When I was young being raised Catholic, my parents took me to stand in a church protest outside an abortion clinic. We held signs. Chanted. Nobody got arrested. I don't even recall seeing the police ... but it was a long time ago. Todd Akin was obviously being more aggressive with his actions to get arrested ... eight times.

This is America. People have free speech rights but you are to confine yourself to acting within the law. I have no problem with those who wish to engage in non-violent civil disobedience but I do have a problem if my US Senator is a protester. Every government official takes an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States. Todd Akin has made it clear he disagrees with the laws to such an extent that his willing to break them over and over again. While Roe v. Wade is in effect, how does Todd Akin truthfully take an oath to uphold the laws of the United States?

Election 2012, Will Fraud Be Held In Check?

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Saturday November 03, 2012 · 7:38 PM PDT

2012/11/03 · 19:38

User War On Error has an excellent diary up with a rundown on all the election fraud cases state by state. The alleged fraud for this cycle stretches back into the primary with several notable cases against Ron Paul voters. Much of the attention this time around has been focused on Strategic Allied Consulting and it's founder, Republican operative Nathan Sprou and User sinnyc has an excellent diary on that topic. Sproul has ties to Karl Rove, surprise, surpise.

But here's the issue, will 2012 be different? Nate Silver currently has Obama with an 83.7% chance of winning the 2012 presidential election, with Romney projected to win 232 electorial votes. It appears Romney's only hope is fraud. Note that Virginia and Coloarod have been hotbeds of Republican voter fraud activity. Those are both currently in the Obama column. Romney needs both. He also needs Ohio. Nate currenly project Obama with an 83% chance of winning Ohio. There was this alarming report: Ohio Secretary of State accused of installing suspicious software on voting machines. Fox News goes the opposite direction regarding Ohio, Complaints crop up in Ohio of early voting machines marking Romney votes for Obama. That's the reverse of the Simpsons spoof of Homer trying to vote for Obama. Have a hard time believing the Obama people are in the electronic election fraud business but who can say. DOJ better have agent out in those three states and especially Ohio. There will be a battle, legal and illegal, in those states. I hope sentiments of this video are correct and we are not about to experience another 2000 or 2004.

Romney better look out on his right, Jesus has entered the race as a write-in candidate

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Friday November 02, 2012 · 9:16 PM PDT

2012/11/02 · 21:16

Jesus 2012. Apparently Jesus, through a select group of his chosen people (read Evangelicals) here on earth, has decided to enter the race for president of the United States of America. Here is their aptly named website, http://votingforjesus.com/

The impetus for the campaign appears to be that the chosen ones view both Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney as Satan's candidates. God doesn't have a horse in the race so Jesus (the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father) has stepped in to fill the void. Word on the street is that they have 160,000 electronic signatures for the candidacy of Jesus. http://videxplorer.com/...

I have to imagine that these people live in states where their protest votes will not matter; however, I might be wrong in that assumption. A few states that were thought to be safe Romney red states have turned purple. I wonder if this could get legs right at the worst time for Gov. Romney?

Secret Cold War chemical testing done against residents of St. Louis

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Friday November 02, 2012 · 12:07 PM PDT

2012/11/02 · 12:07

The US Government admits that chemical test were done in the 1960's and 1970's in inner city neighborhoods; however, they claim the tests merely involved ZnCdS particles, which are not by themselves biowarfare agents. One may ask why the military felt it necessary to release chemical clouds into inner city neighborhoods in the first place (in St. Louis, the gases were released at the old Pruitt Igoe housing complex that was later imploded). The government response is that they were testing the wind patterns of major cities to see where chemicals would spread if the Russians hit us with something like a dirty bomb (or at least that is my interpretation of what they have said). But a local sociology professor is suggesting that the chemical cocktails released by the military on US soil were far more dangerous. She suggest the possibility that they were laced with radiation particles. I'm not sure what evidence the sociology professor (at a local community college) has though.
http://videxplorer.com/...

Also, there are complaints from residents who lived in the areas gassed of high cancer rates years later. This Fox New article has quotes from a local resident to that effect.
http://www.foxnews.com/...

Anybody else see ads for 'Sexy Iranian Girls' on their DailyKos profile page?

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Friday November 02, 2012 · 8:54 AM PDT

2012/11/02 · 08:54

Or does "AdChoices" for some reason seem to think I am on the prowl for young Muslim girls? Notice how the ad says "Women & Girls", which seems to imply they are trafficking young females.
http://www.flickr.com/...

I did visit the aljazeera website this morning but, you know, I was unaware that put me in a special advertisement category. BTW, I am not suggesting this ad is in any way the fault of DailyKos. I know they use a service who selects the ads to be placed on the pages.

Update: As explained in a comment below, the above was a bit tongue in cheek but it has me racking my brain for the connection specifically to Iranian women. That seemed rather targeted. The answer came to me. I have been posting a series of videos to another site about Iranian women fighting the Ahmadinejad regime (sparked by the stolen election of 2009). In particular, I posted the six episodes of the Frontline documentary about the 2009 assassination of Neda Soltan, a young attractive Iranian protester. This is the first episode if anybody isn't familiar with the story (it was big news a few years back).
http://videxplorer.com/...

Oh yeah, and I Facebook liked the Neda Soltan video. I guess I have practically screamed for the Iranian girls ad, come to to think of it!

Chris Matthews compares Rush Limbaugh to the "Squeal Like A Pig" Guy From Deliverance

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Friday November 02, 2012 · 12:36 AM PDT

2012/11/02 · 00:36

Ouch! Matthews was reacting to Rush's comments today bad-mouthing Chris Christie for touring New Jersey with Obama. Rush went so far as to suggest there was some sort of bromance going on between Christie and Obama. A desperate comment.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/...

On the extremely low chance someone is not familiar with the Ned Beatty scene in Deliverance.
http://www.youtube.com/...

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