Franken Fraud Continues into the New Year and shows little sign off stopping without a court order. As the system works to ensure a Franken win (he lost on election night), there is little hope for the Senate Democrats to do the right thing.

“Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.”

The citizens of MN are being cheated. The Democrats have always been the party of sleaze, they just find it humorous when the right complains. These tactics must be stopped. There are now MORE BALLOTS than VOTERS:

“Under Minnesotalaw, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as "duplicate" and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote.”

Just how is this not condemned by the left – the so called party of the people? Not to be outdone, the party wants to blur the law :” Meanwhile, Minnesota’s other Senator, Amy Klobuchar, is already saying her fellow Democrats should seat Mr. Franken when the 111th Congress begins this week if the Canvassing Board certifies him as the winner. This contradicts Minnesotalaw, which says the state cannot award a certificate of election if one party contests the results.” Just so it looks like Coleman has really lost.

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    I must say that it has been a fast turn around for Obama and his supporters. So far he has managed to anger or upset just about someone from every group that supported him in the election. Whether it is his choice for speaker (Warren) or his lack of support for down ticket candidates or his refusal to speak out on issues.

    Many of his supporters have been critical of his appointments thus far, pointing out that there is a lack of hardcore left appointments. Some have even set up a business to cash in on the anger towards Obama. With the hopes for Obama so out of reality, one knows that there will be a huge fall in his popularity. the question does remain with me, how long will the media continue the fawning?

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    Yesterday was my last chance to get near the Da Vinci Notebook currently on loan to the High. The kind folks at the Victoria and Albert Museum had loaned a trove of artifacts to the high for an exhibition that closed yesterday. I was so excited to see the book that I tended to rush through the rest of the exhibit - only really taking notice of the bone box (requiary) that was also on display.

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IDF on the Offensive:

From Robert Levin:
Aside from the blatant and consistent anti-antisemitism that characterizes so much of modern Arab culture, a new wrinkle has been added, courtesy of Iran.  The last two battles in this war that has raged hot and cold since 1947 involve Iranian puppets–Hezbollah and Hamas.  There has been questions by the pundits–why would Hamas provoke such a response, why would they begin a fight that they simply cannot win?  The answers from the same pundits is that this episode is no different than any other episode over the past sixty years.

Still, the question is ‘why now?’.  Because of the nature of puppet organizations.  Outside of terror money, that is, a steady stream of ‘charitable’ contributions from Iran, there is absolutely nothing happening in both southern Lebanon and Gaza.  Both Hezbollah and Hamas have a way of discouraging economic activity.  This means that whenever Iran pulls the strings, the puppets must do as they are told, and, according to history, the quasi-civilian/operatives/

soldiers supporting Hamas and Hezbollah be damned. ( This is probably not as much of a metaphor as I would like to think.)

And like the battle with Hezbollah, Iran gave the orders to attack, to provoke an Israeli response–not as a pure act of war, as in ‘we can probably win’, but as an act that would solve an Iranian domestic problem.  In the case of Hezbollah, the UN was threatening Iran with imminent sanctions over their refusal to cooperate and dismantle their nuclear program.  The battle started, lasted for three weeks, and the sanctions never again came close to a vote by the security council.  The battle proved to be a great and successful distraction.

The present situation is equally as clear.  The price of oil is dropping faster than OPEC can cut production.  Chavez just stole Venezuala’s gold mines to make up for the loss of oil revenue.  The price of oil is so low that many countries have already passed the break even point, that is, they are losing money each barrel sold.  Nothing drives up the price of oil like Israel taking common sense actions of self-defense.

Both Hamas and Iran are going to lose this one because, in the case of Hamas, they will militarily get beat.  In the case of Iran, the previous highs in oil sent the world economy spinning and destroyed billions and billions in assets.  Simply put, the world’s great consumer, we, the US, the holder-upper of the world’s economy, simply can’t shoulder more gas increases.  The reason the demand for oil has dropped is that there are far fewer folks driving to and from work, and the others who do work are staying home and not using their credit cards.  Higher oil prices will now cause greater unemployment, which will mean more folks will be staying home instead of commuting, and factories across India and China will be forced to close, which means demand for oil will continue to drop.

In the meantime the Obama administration will be putting quite a bit of emphasis on developing other fuels–this, I believe, will be the core of his foreign policy.

The Oil Party in the deserts seems to be coming to a close.  I’m not saddened one bit.

The war in Gaza has been a long time coming. As the world quietly ignored the constant barrage of terror reigning down upon the Israelis, Hamas was emboldened. The havoc and misery caused by non-stop shelling and the fear on immediate death has finally brought the Israeli government to the brink and now the feel they must act. It is a shame that the world now rushes to condemn the Israelis.

What country would allow the terror that Israel does? What country would try to ignore the constant terror and threats? Hamas has a pipeline of funds and weapons from Iran– the same Iran whose leaders call for the destruction of Israel. The same Iran that ha shelped to destroy Lebanon and works with Syria to disrupt the region is at work in Israel. Now is the time for all good people to stand against the terror and work with Israe lto ensure that no profit shall ever be made by these actions.

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Light going for now, back with a bunch tomorrow…

Ann Coulter is always awesome:

A Classic from Ann Coulter, it is still true today…

I am starting to wonder why I bother with Kathleen parker anymore. It does seem that anytime I decide to read her column, it is just another anti-Palin screed. This time Parker hopes to show why Caroline Kennedy’s Senate ambitions are stronger than Palin’s. I am starting to wonder what Palin did to Parker to cause so much animosity. Or is Parker’s 15 minutes of fame up now that the country is moving further away from the election. Is her one trick now too old for The Daily Show and CBS?

I must say right now that I used to enjoy Parker and her columns. Now it seems that the tedious and vile hatred of Palin has sacked her common sense. Never before has a VP nomination caused such an emotive response this long after an election. Parker’s sustained rhetoric sheds no new light on to Palin, as even a disinterested observer can see that she brought a net positive to McCain’s quixotic campaign. McCain was never going to win. Most conservatives knew that since 2000. The very lot that implored the McCain nomination were the first rats to jump ship. (It seems that no candidate is moderate enough for the squishes…).

For my taste, there are way too many Republicans that want the GOP to become a US Tory party and join the UKbranch. Trouble there is that the Tories are quite content to be in opposition for eternity. These people believe that the GOP must abandon principle for moderation, reach out to special lobbies and conform to popular sentiment (they do this without admitting that popular sentiment is shaped by the liberal forces in media).

I believe that we should reach out to special interests. Yet, unlike the moderate folks, I believe that we should explain just how limited government and conservative ideals will benefit these groups and spread freedom.

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