Al Franken is trying to steal the Minnesota election to the U.S. Senate. Ann Coulter will give you a full pitcher of Wicked Ale if you read her article. Apparently the Minnesota Bigmouth Bass Tournament is now underway. Skol!

The cleanest state meets the pushiest person

The cleanest state meets the pushiest person
Posted: December 03, 2008
6:11 pm Eastern

© 2008

Until now, Minnesota was always famous for its clean elections. Indeed, Democratic consultant Bob Beckel recently attested to the honesty of Minnesota’s elections, joking: “Believe me. I’ve tried. I’ve tried every way around the system out there, and it doesn’t work.”

But that was before Minnesota encountered the pushiest, most aggressive, most unscrupulous person who has ever sought public office, Al Franken.

On Election Day, Franken lost the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota to the Republican incumbent, Sen. Norm Coleman, by 725 votes. But over the next week, Democratic counties keep discovering new votes for Franken and subtracting votes from Coleman, claiming to be correcting “typos.”

In all, Franken picked up 459 votes and Coleman lost 60 votes from these alleged “corrections.”

As the inestimable economist John Lott pointed out, the “corrections” in the Senate race generated more new votes for Franken than all the votes added by corrections in every race in the entire state – presidential
, congressional, state house, sanitation commissioner and dogcatcher – combined.

And yet the left-wing, George Soros-backed secretary of state
, Mark Ritchie, stoutly defended the statistically impossible “corrected” votes. There’s something fishy going on in Minnesota besides the annual bigmouth bass tournament.

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From what I read the United States is now guaranteeing $7.4 trillion in loans and bailouts and there is no end to this rising figure in sight. Our whole national debt since the nation was born is only $10 trillion. So if what they are doing does not work they could easily double the national debt in a year or two and we would meanwhile still be in a depression. Under those conditions the dollar would be finished in the world and America would be finished as a viable nation.

These people are betting the whole farm that they can get corporations and banks back in the black. If they continue to lose money many trillions of dollars will have to be created out of thin air and the dollar will be devalued until it reaches the price of toilet paper.

I think you should be informed about what the issues are and what is really going on. The Fed and the Treasury have been given unlimited money to go “all in” on this last bet to save our economy and they are putting up the whole USA as their collateral.

It was high stake gambling that got us in this mess in the first place. Almost all banks and investment institutions were gambling 20 to 50 times the value of their corporations on hedge funds and derivatives. They kept almost nothing in reserve to cover their loses thinking they could not lose. They borrowed twenty to fifty times what their corporations were worth in order to play at the tables. When the sub-prime market tanked and they lost a few bets they were too leveraged to cover them and they were bankrupted.  Since almost all financial corporations are now in the same boat they are all going bankrupt. The recession and tight lending is also making even the non speculators go bankrupt because so much wealth was removed from the system that these corporations cannot pay or even borrow money to keep their contract commitments. So the government is now stepping in and covering all corporate debt by the government. However, the government has no real money so they are using trillions of dollars of taxpayer IOU’s.

Those who gambled created huge bubbles that should never have been blown. The deflating of the bubbles is removing much wealth that really existed only because of unrealistic profit expectation. The government should have let these go out of business because once the government gets involved they insure and encourage additional unrealistic speculations.

If the government losses this final bet and the economic system keep deflating it will bankrupt the government of the United States and our government will either default on its debts or they will have to pay off their debtors with monopoly money causing a hyper-inflationary spiral that will bring a hyper-inflationary depression that could only be stopped by complete economic collapse and more depression. That is why they are in a panic.

If the government wins the bet it will be sort of business like usual but the loans from the government still have to be paid back and corporations can only do this by rasing prices, cutting workforce, and cutting pay and benefits. Thus, they will reduce the standard of living for stock holders, wage earners and pensioners and that of course lowers government tax revenues. So government deficits would stay high bringing higher interest rates for anyone still stupid enough to risk lending to the United States. If the United States keeps spending more than it collects, sooner rather than later it will bring a devaluation of the dollar and lower standards of living in the United States.

It is rather strange to me that the same people who allowed, encouraged and participated in the leveraging and speculation of banks and corporations are the same people that the government is now trusting to fix the problem. That is also true of Obama’s economic team. These are the same people with the same thinking that helped cause the problem in the first place. Now we should all trust them to go to the roulette wheel and bet the farm that the ball will fall on black? The facts are, if it falls on red we are finished as a viable nation in this world and if it falls on white it does not mean there will not be another worse crises a little down the road.

One thing I find incredible is the man who ran on “change” is putting all the same establishment people into power. You cannot get real change from the entrenched establishment elite. If they knew anything we would not be in this crises. Instead of leadership in a Democrat controlled Congress you now have a Congress that is giving out their responsibilities and unlimited power to Treasury bureaucrats and a Federal Reserve bank that is owned by the very banks it is bailing out?

One way of making Obama change is to give him a dollar. He will give you ninety cents worth of promises and ten cents in change. I always warn about “Lips Law”. Which says, that whatever a politician promises when running for office you will get the opposite after he takes office.

Obama promised change but you will get the same tired Democrat polices of the liberal Left. Probably much like that of Jimmy Carter. Obama’s slogan was “yes we can” but he will find out that he cannot with all those negative thinking people in the United States. Therefore, I predict that by the last year of his first term. That Obama will establish a national year of positive thinking.

Everyone will be told Oprah’s “Secret” that we get what we believe and what we speak in existence. Then for the next year you will only be allowed to say positive things about Obama so he can get reelected unopposed. In his second term he will create a new position more powerful that Hilary’s. It will be called Secretary of Divine Counsel. All hail Oprah and her divine earthly creation Obama. OO

I am adding this paragraph and link to a speech Dick Morris made because his speech really explains everything I said and more in a way that anyone should be able to understand. Believe me he gives a pretty scary picture. Like future hyper-stagflation, and a national health care system that will ration health care for the elderly even after Obama is out of the picture. Morris also thinks Obama will make the same tax mistakes of Herbert Hover. He says you are absolutely giving Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid a total blank check to pass anything in the world without debate if they get the 60 seats in the Senate. He thinks the runoff in Georgia will decide that. I guess Morris thinks Minnesota will be stolen in the recount. I say they already have the 60 votes necessary to not have debate because the two independents will vote with the Democrats and if necessary the Democrats will just change the rules of the Senate.

Ann Coulter gives her unique perspectives on the 2008 elections.

The reign of lame falls mainly on McCain

This was such an enormous Democratic year that even John Murtha won his congressional seat in Pennsylvania after calling his constituents racists. It turns out they’re not racists – they’re retards. Question: What exactly would one have to say to alienate Pennsylvanians? That Joe Paterno should retire?

For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.

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These morons think they can just keep printing money and dump it in banks as the solution to the economic crises. Whole nations already are being slaughtered by inflation as I speak and the impact of these inflationary actions have not even hit yet and won’t for about a year or two. The inflationary impact of creating money out of nothing and the deflationary effect of a world going into recession and more government regulation and higher taxes ought to put on a good battle for the next few years. What will win out? Will the world economic collapse come from a new depression or from inflation? The world economic Gurus are walking a high wire on Wall Street in the eye of a hurricane it does not even matter what direction the wind comes from next it is certainly coming. Economic collapse through inflation or depression is still economic collapse.

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The morons in the eurozone have just been given another reminder that continuing to create excessive amounts of money and credit is suicide-by-inflation, as the UK found that last month’s inflation hit 5.2% year-over-year – the highest it’s been for over 16 years! Yikes!

So, price inflation is the highest it’s been in a couple of decades, and at the high end of inflation throughout history, and yet these European halfwits are shoveling more money into the economy with every corrupt fascist idea that they can come up with? They must have American economists on their staffs! Hahahaha!

“The US Federal Reserve
announced it was making unlimited amounts of dollar funds available offshore to be distributed by the European Central Bank, Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank.” Gaahhh!

The Fed is now giving foreigners “unlimited amounts of dollar funds”, and yet I cannot get another dollar with which to turn my ordinary burger-and-fries dinner into a Grande Feast of double fries and two perfectly-fried all-beef patties? What in the hell is going on here?

The reason is because we have fiat dollars and unrestrained fractional-reserve banking, and as Mr Ackerman attests, “The dollar is already completely, fundamentally, wholly, absolutely and irrefutably WORTHLESS. And the US is b-a-n-k-r-u-p-t. This means that the dollar’s value is purely a figment of the herd’s imagination.”

Instead, this guy says, “Forget inflation, guys.” Forget it! My mouth was hanging open in disbelief at those words, and he says that what is happening “is serious, the real McCoy, and you don’t have to worry about little things like inflation. Global growth will slow down, commodities will be weaker for awhile, and inflation is a thing of the past.”

He actually said, “little things like inflation”! Inflation, the thing that destroys whole economies, is a “little thing”? Hahaha! This is indeed news!

I figure that he is almost certainly wrong, in that, inflation not merely “a thing of the past”, but rather, it is going to get worse and worse and destroy us all, definitely starting within next nine months to a year as all of these trillions of new dollars being created and spent by the Treasury and the Fed starts working their sinewy, cancerous way through the economy, making prices rise and rise, portending calamity, like a big pimple on the end of your nose.

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I don’t normally post movie reviews but “An American Triumph” grounded in Judeo-Christian ethic sounds like a movie that is a lot of fun. Especially since it exposes the Far Left for the demented people they are and it is also gives them a taste of there own medicine.

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The plot revolves around a retelling of the Scrooge story, this time on Independence Day. A leftist documentary filmmaker named Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) plots, with MoveAlong.org, to abolish the Fourth of July. Soon, he is visited by three spirits who show him what the world would be like if the United States had never waged war. While hostile critics will call it an apology for warmongering, it cannot be stereotyped with such a simplistic, not to mention inhuman, message. One film soldier tells protestors he, too, opposes war, but it is sometimes inevitable. The film’s true message is that there is evil in the world, and it must be opposed by moral good backed by might.

This moral clarity, grounded in the Judeo-Christian ethic, may alone explain why such movies are never made in Hollywood.

However, the real attraction is not the message but the jokes. The trailer does not do the film justice. Producer David Zucker did the audience a favor by not making a conservative film with jokes but a comedy that happens to be conservative. Suicide bombers as a whole are made the object of scorn. One of the terror leaders remarks, “It is getting harder and harder to find suicide bombers, and all the really good ones are gone.” Muslim sexual morés also take a grazing hit. The al-Qaeda recruiting video, done in the style of 1950s and ‘60s educational film strips, is not to be missed. By far the funniest moment is the screening of Rosie O’Connell’s documentary about radical Christians, which makes reference to an Episcopalian suicide bomber.

Perhaps this points to the movie’s most politically consequential motif: it fittingly depicts, in a comic format, how the radical Left has moved into the mainstream of the Democratic Party. In the film, Malone introduces former president Jimmy Carter at a MoveAlong.org rally, just as Michael Moore shared the real-life Carter’s box at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and as Al Gore made his post-9/11 political rebound bellowing red-faced rants at MoveOn.org rallies. For making this point, this author has himself been parodied (but not nearly as well as this ensemble does the Left).

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Not only do ignoramuses like Joe Biden and Katie Couric not even know that FDR was not President in 1929 they fail to understand that the Great depression did not end anywhere near 1929. In fact, it started in the 1930’s and it lasted for over a decade through most of FDR’s Presidency, It took the military expansion for World War II to get us out of the great depression. Also Joe Biden said FDR went on TV in 1929. There was no TV in those days.

In another article, 14 lies or wrong statements were documented from Joe Biden in his Vice Presidential debate with Sarah Palin. He seems to either have no clue on the facts or he is purposely deceptive.

This article also points out the fact that Joe Biden was only one of five senators who voted against the Alaskan pipeline. Think of the situation we would be in now had that pipeline not been built. Can you imagine Joe Biden sitting and advising the President and constantly getting the facts he tells him wrong.

Both Katie Couric and Joe Biden richly deserve my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club award for obvious reasons.

Here is some additional information on the record of Joe Biden

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Being interviewed by Katie Couric on the “CBS Evening News,” Biden said: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

For those of you who aren’t hard-core history buffs, Biden not only named the wrong president during the 1929 stock market crash, he also claimed a president who wasn’t president during the stock market crash went on TV before Americans had TVs.

Other than that, the statement holds up pretty well. At least Biden managed to avoid mentioning any “clean” Negroes he had met.

Couric was nearly moved to tears by the brilliance of Biden’s brain-damaged remark. She was especially intrigued by Biden’s claim that FDR had said the new iPhone was the bomb!

Here is Couric’s full response to Biden’s bizarre outburst about FDR (a) being president and (b) going on TV in 1929: “Relating to the fears of the average American is one of Biden’s strong suits.”

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The insights of Ann Coulter on the Democrats, their profound knowledge of the Bible and their community organizer forefather Saul. (No Jesus was not a community organizer like radical socialist Saul Alinsky or Barack Obama, nor were real Americans.)

Obama: Lucifer Is My Homeboy – HUMAN EVENTS

Obama: Lucifer Is My Homeboy
by Ann Coulter

It’s another election season, so that means it’s time for Democrats to start uttering wild malapropisms about the Bible to pretend they believe in God!

In 2000, we had Al Gore inverting a Christian parable into something nearly satanic. Defending his nutty ideas about the Earth during one of the debates, Gore said: “In my faith tradition, it’s written in the book of Matthew, where your heart is, there is your treasure also.” And that, he said, is why we should treasure the environment.

First of all, people who say “faith tradition” instead of “religion” are always phony-baloney, “Christmas and Easter”-type believers.

Then in 2004, Democratic presidential candidate and future Trivial Pursuit answer Howard Dean told an interviewer that his favorite part of the New Testament was the Book of Job. The reporter should have asked him if that was his favorite book in all three testaments.

David Freddoso’s magnificent new book, The Case Against Barack Obama describes the forefather to “community organizers” like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — the famed Saul Alinsky.

Alinsky is sort of the George Washington of “community organizers.” If there were an America-hater’s Mount Rushmore, Saul Alinsky would be on it. He tried to hire Hillary to work for him right out of Wellesley. A generation later, those who had trained with Alinsky did hire Obama as a community organizer.

In Freddoso’s book , he quotes from the dedication in the first edition of Alinsky’s seminal book, “Rules for Radicals,” where Alinsky wrote:

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

Sarah Palin might be just the lucky break the Democrats need. As a staunch pro-lifer, Palin could give Democrats an excuse to steer away from topics they know nothing about, like the Bible , and onto a subject they know chapter and verse, like abortion.

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This article on the Democratic national coronation of their “O”mniscient One in Denver is just too good and too true not to post. Now will Obama’s false prophet “O”prah also be revealed?

The mile lie club

The scene on the final evening of the Democratic convention next week is bound to be a gripping one: Some 75,000 people will be in the stands awaiting healing and anointing in the packed but expansive confines of Denver’s Invesco Field.

The entire event has forced the Broncos to make contingency plans for an alternate place to play their home football games just in case the entire stadium is swept away during the pretribulation rapture on the night of 28 August in the year marked by the gathered faithful as 48 B.C. (Barack’s Coming, two score and 8 years ago)

As tens of thousands clamor for their savior – the Benny Hinn of wealth redistribution – the high-decibel chants of “Obama” will be broken only by the orgasmic screeches of writhing members of the mainstream media. The tingle up Chris Matthews’ leg will hurt so unbearably good that “Hardball” will, for one brief and shining moment, be the most apropos program title in the world.

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I now have five rescued dogs which cost me about $2500 a year. Could the multi-billion dollar Helmsley estate (Leona Helmsley dog foundation?) send me a check for $30,000 for my out of pocket expenses for taking care of them all their lives? Additional grants for my time, goodwill and past rescue efforts will be accepted. Contact Don Koenig at my website email address.

Leona Helmsley’s multibillion-dollar estate may go to dogs — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Her instructions, specified in a two-page “mission statement,” are that the entire trust, valued at $5 billion to $8 billion and amounting to virtually all her estate, be used for the care and welfare of dogs, according to two people who have seen the document and who described it on condition of anonymity.

There are many ways the trustees could spend the Helmsley money on dogs. National groups like the Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have programs dedicated to dogs, and many smaller local groups rescue abandoned and abused dogs. Or the trustees could use the trust’s money to finance veterinary schools or research on canine diseases.

Ann Coulter knows you can’t fuel all the people all of the time. Democrats think they can fuel us but we know they really don’t want to fuel this energy problem or they would have allowed drilling years ago and we would have the fuel. The Democrats say “We can’t drill our way out of this crisis” and all Obama followers should be saying “yes we can” but instead they fail step one in their audacity of hope.

You Can’t Fuel All of the People All of the Time – HUMAN EVENTS

Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!

In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, “We can’t drill our way out of this crisis.”

What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, “You can’t eat your way out of being hungry!” “You can’t water your way out of drought!” “You can’t sleep your way out of tiredness!” “You can’t drink yourself out of dehydration!”

Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn’t going to increase the supply of oil?

It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race. It’s the only solution they can think of to deal with the beastly traffic on the LIE (Long Island Expressway).

How do liberals propose we acquire the energy required for the economic activity and production that results in light appearing when they flick a switch? The larger enterprise involved in producing that little miracle eludes them.

Moreover, what was going on five years ago? Why didn’t anyone propose drilling back then?

Say, you know what we need? We need a class of people paid to anticipate national crises and plan solutions in advance. It would be such an important job, the taxpayers would pay them salaries so they wouldn’t have to worry about making a living and could just sit around anticipating crises.

If only we had had such a group — let’s call them “elected representatives” — they could have proposed drilling five years ago!