Friday, October 31, 2008
I wonder who she means?
Received in my e-mail from a Loyal Reader…
"You have to pinch yourself – a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And it’s considered impolite to say so!”
- Melanie Philips, The Spectator ( UK ) 10/14/08
Not just “impolite”, my dear. Racist.
Quick rundown
I want to post the “official rules” of the Election contest we currently have running, just so there is no misunderstanding.
First, as I have already pointed out, any ties go to the earlier entry.
Second, the possibility that there may be recounts or protested votes (and resultant lawsuits) may affect the results, and there is not a damned thing I can do about it. If there is such a contested result, I will do my damnedest to determine the posted results, so as to award the prize(s) sooner, rather than later.
Third, just as in previous contests, prize money will be mailed out to any actual mailing address you wish, in the form of US Postal Service money orders, in American currency. (Your address is kept utterly confidential, and retained only as long as is needed to mail the money, whereupon I delete the e-mail. A mail drop in a different city, or a PO Box, is perfectly acceptable.)
Finally, if any really hard decisions need to be made, I may consult others, but I am not bound by their advice. Any decisions are final, even if perceived to be utterly arbitrary. (Hey, it’s my money, right?) Three prizes of $50 each shall be awarded to whomever was closest (and earliest) in guessing the actual results of the election held this Tuesday.
Pray for quick results and no arguments. 
Live-Blogging the Election
I’ll start around 6:30 or so on Tuesday, and I’ll go until 11:30 or so. Just a reminder, and if anyone wants to Digg this......and link to it....
In other words, spread the word. Let’s see if we can get a lot of traffic moving through the Rants.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Dream Cabinets
I’ve heard some badinage whilst out and about, and I’m curious to know what you guys think.
Pick a side, and tell us who you think that candidate would choose to fill the various Executive Department Secretariats (State, Treasury, Defense, etc.)
Be funny, be profane, be serious, be depressed. Just be.
Helo Takes On The System, Part 2,038
What the hell!?
I’m signing a bunch of paperwork for a small shack of a house that I’m buying. As I made it about five pages into stack of paper that I have to go through, I noticed something funny. First, it asked whether I was Hispanic or non-Hispanic. A few pages later, it has a Housing Financial Discrimination Act (of 1977) notice that I have to sign. In that form, it goes into detail about how it’s illegal to discriminate against me based on race.
What the hell?
First it wants to know if I’m Hispanic. I’m guessing that is because they want Hispanic people to have houses. It doesn’t ask if I’m black. It doesn’t ask if I’m any of the more than two-dozen types of Asians that I’ve come across in my life. It sure as hell doesn’t ask if I’m white. It just wants to know if I’m Hispanic.
Based on the fact that the lenders were pressured to give out loans based on race, and that many of those people who couldn’t afford homes and got the loans solely based on the fact that they were not white, how does this make any sense? And isn’t that a clear violation of the Housing Financial Discrimination Act (of 1977)? I’m guessing that if you tell someone they can’t afford a place because they’re a certain race, which in turn would be illegal based on that form, the same goes in reverse if you tell someone that you’ll help them out based on race, and toss all the non-Hispanics to the curb.
And we wonder why our entire financial system is in distress.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Okay, here’s the list
Too late to change anything, of course. I just want the list to be reiterated…
Astronomizer (10/14 4:49PM) - 275-263 Obama wins.
RonK (10/15 5:14AM) - 274-264 McCain wins (remaining entry too vague)
Laddy (10/22 8:31AM) - 273-265 McCain wins, Senate 59D/39R/2I, House 247D/188R
Justin (10/22 9:13AM) - 282-256 McCain wins, Senate - 58D/40R/2I, House - 240D/195R
texas (10/22 11:47AM) - 271-267 McCain wins, House 236R-199D
oneisnotprime (10/22 12:01PM) - 269-269 tie (no winner selected), Senate 57D/41R/2I, House 245D/190R
John Cross (10/22 2:54PM) - 300-235 Obama wins, Senate 56D/42R/2I, House 250D/185R
INCITEMarsh (10/22 7:08PM) - 273-265 McCain wins*, Senate 58D/40R/2I*, House 263D/172R
Best of luck to you all, and we shall see who wins. I put the guesses below the fold in a slightly different manner, to make it easier to determine a winner in the respective categories.
* - duplicated entry
Reinaldo Arenas, Castro, and Michael Moore’s Sicko
A true history of a Cuban dissident
DonnaK from Moorewatch asked us over at the VO if we wouldn’t mind spreading around a post that she wrote last year that I found to be a brilliantly written work detailing the life and death of Reinaldo Arenas, his tortured imprisonment and escape from Castro’s regime, and a revealing look at shameless liberal apologists for that regime up to Michael Moore. It’s lengthy, but a story that everyone should read if they do not fully understand the soul-destroying horrors of Communism.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Open Thread Monday
Go for it.
On this edition of Open Thread Monday, you get to post your best one-line comments about what would happen if we took the media out of politics and made the presidential candidates stand on their own two feet.
And if that doesn’t work, you can talk about guy stuff.
Just an FYI
"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
I just received the official statistics, and there are a grand total of 8,108 registered voters in the seven precincts under my care this election cycle. The Registrar says that the expected voter turnout will be roughly 75-80% of those, with about 33-35% being early voting (vote by mail, mail-in and early electronic voting at selected sites around the county). That means we can expect 3,200-3,500 voters through the doors.
Some beneficial changes to the local voters - there will be six election officers instead of the previous four, the little signs that used to sort the voters by last name (A-L & M-Z) now have little stands that make them easier to see from the back of the line (so that the voter need not waste time in the wrong line), and six voting booths instead of five, plus the “Accessible Voting Unit” (electronic touch-screen/bilingual audio voting).
Please don’t forget to get out and vote (one week from tomorrow), and if you are feeling especially helpful, contact your local veteran’s associations to see if any vets need a ride to the polls.
Also, this is the last warning you will get about the contest, which ends tomorrow night at 8pm Pacific.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Since I’m not allowed
to comment on the candidate’s views on the issues of the day, I am going to offer the candidate, in his own words, with no input from me.
Reality versus Politics
”A rising tide lifts all boats”—John Kennedy
“When we lift all the boats, the tide will rise”—Barack Obama, speaking in Colorado
You can figure out which aphorism is false-to-fact for yourself.
See the post immediately below this one…..
....and add this to the post I wrote a few days ago.
It leads me to as a question of any person who is thinking of voting for Obama, or, rather, not voting for McCain at this point:
“If someone wanted to date your daughter, or rent a house from you, or do work for you personally or as an employee, and you even suspected that he had the relationships, associates, and past that Barack Obama has been demonstrated to have, would you ever say ‘Yes’ to that person? And, if there would be any doubt in your mind about someone like that, why in the hell would you put them into the Presidency of the United States?”
Seriously....why? And if there are any readers of Drumwaster’s Rants that believe that Obama should be President, please put why in the comments of this post.
Jew Bash 2008
… with your host, Barack Obama!
As long as you’re a liberal black presidential candidate, you can have tea and crumpets with terrorists, donate a bunch of cash to the PLO, and have the LA Times refuse to give the video tape with you toasting a former PLO operative to anyone else. In fact, they’ll probable deny it exists. Must be nice.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Campaign Fraud
I knew it...
Jim Treacher did some digging and found out who has really been pitching all of that money into Obama’s campaign. Click here to find out.
The “Fairness Doctrine” nonsense
Dems have a plan for legislation after the elections, especially if Obama happens to win, called the “Fairness Doctrine”.
This is a plan to force the radio stations who have conservatives on talk radio programs to present “opposing points of view” by requiring equal amounts of time for Democrats and Republicans to espouse their points of view.
One problem, though, I notice. All of their efforts seem to be directed at one segment of the POV-espousing broadcast spectrum - talk radio. They are not interested in correcting to the extreme imbalance in editorial bias on any of the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC), the Cable News channels (CNN, MSNBC, all of them other than FoxNews, I note), the print media (NYT, LAT, WaPo, etc.), nor the overwhelming majority of so-called “celebrity” endorsements. Apparently those are “protected speech” under such a Fairness plan…
But now they are arguing for “Net Neutrality” - doing the same thing to the Internet. (Apparently, there are not enough people supporting the liberal point of view on the web. Snicker, guffaw, chortle.)
I have no problem with a fairness doctrine, but it must apply to all aspects of media - newspapers, television networks, cable news programs, and even talk radio. That means that ABCNNBCBS must give Republicans equal opportunity to refute the erroneous claims being advanced, MSNBC must give Ann Coulter her own hour-long program to counter Keith Olbermann and Air America has to give time to Mark Levin or Rush Limbaugh. The New York Times must run exactly as many conservative columnists as liberal ones. Only celebrities that can provide another celebrity (with an equivalent Q-rating) who disagrees with him/her will be allowed to comment on political events, candidates or issues, and with exactly the same amount of time to each.
You want “fairness” on the Internet, you liberal asshats? You want to force me to provide a sidebar with posts from someone at the other end of the political spectrum? Then you pay half my bills, and provide half the prize money for the contests, and I’ll think about it. But as long as anybody with Internet access can afford blog space (especially considering the fact that it is FREE for anyone who knows what to look for), this is MY demesnes, and I do not suffer fools gladly.
You want fairness, then we will have fairness, but across the board, not just in the one or two areas where you don’t already have an overwhelming majority. Either that, or be prepared to duck and cover, because I won’t stand for it.
And I’m not the only one.