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al-Qaeda’s High Hopes

Give-Em-Help-Harry!

Above are two links of interest, what with today being the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, and these days Harry Reid is waving his yellow-trimmed WHITE FLAG as hard as he can, but too many Americans actually want to help free the Iraqis, so we’re not surrendering any time soon.

And above that, al-Qaeda’s hopes of duplicating the ’success’ of the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, with blatant disregard for the reality of that very offensive:the offensive was a military disaster for communist forces, and only benefited the Communists because it shaped mainland American opinion against freedom and self-determination for the Vietnamese, quickly triggering the kind of surrender Harry Reid and his loathsome friends are seeking.

That very retreat from victory, AFTER victory, and BECAUSE OF media distortions (see Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite et. al.) made it very difficult for America to be trusted, for the next 40 years, and a Vietnam-like betrayal of Iraqis (or Afghanis or South Koreans or others) today would seal, would END, the American experiment. Who could trust us again? Who could DARE ASK FOR HELP knowing we would demand sacrifice of them, but when the going got tough, would ourselves get going?

So America seems to have learned its lesson this time, as the “al-Qaeda Tet Offensive”
was launched in August of last year, and mercilessly smashed soon after that!

Too many Americans KNOW about Tet, and KNOW the horrors of communism, and KNOW the communist/might-makes-right bludgeon of al-Qaedist Shari’ah law, and will do all in their power to stop Wahabbi-Salafist zealots from ruining America’s chance to turn toward al-Qaim and al-Mahdi, in The Bab and Baha’u'llah.

Tet Offensive crippled the North Vietnamese army, decisively and swiftly! al-Qaeda? Bring it on!

  Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a gun on herself last year in Iraq, attempted to kill herself Monday evening. In so doing, the 25-year-old Army reservist joined a record number of soldiers who have committed or tried to commit suicide after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

By WILSON RING Associated Press Writer

Motorists passed easily through border checkpoints Thursday as tougher identification standards for U.S. and Canadian citizens went into effect without the backups and confusion some travelers had feared.

People entering the country will no longer be allowed to simply declare to immigration officers at border crossings that they are citizens. Instead, those 19 and older will have to show proof of citizenship a passport, trusted traveler card or a birth certificate and government-issued ID such as a driver’s license.

By WILLIAM C. MANN Associated Press Writer

Authoritarian rulers are violating human rights around the world and getting away with it largely because the U.S., European and other established democracies accept their claims that holding elections makes them democratic, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report Thursday.

Do you see any incongruity, any hypocrisy, Mr McCaindidate, in stripping America of its border an yet demanding that YOU be allowed to keep YOUR skin? After all, human skin IS the border between YOU and all other non-you, isn’t it?

And you, Mrs Climpon, do you see the injustice in taking from the productive (by force of law and by force) to give to the unproductive? Some of them being CAREER unproductive? and some being second-generation career-welfare recipients? Does that seem FAIR to you? If it does, why would you think for a moment that such a deranged value-judgment capacity should not disqualify you immediately from consideration for service to America?

Back to you, Sir, the McCain & Able candidate… is your continued, PUBLIC inclusion of no-barrier, ReConquista anti-Americans in your campaign going to prove troublesome in the future?

And finally, Ma’am, as the cuckolded wife of America’s only philandering-felon “President”, do you see any difficulty in reaching out to the principled, constant and chaste majority among America’s often-silent ‘flyover’ country?

Where DO you stand, Candidate?

In the city of Vallejo, California, east of San Francisco, a local drama is taking place:

Cloutier is suing to be reinstated as mayor and to have the original results of the election, prior to the recount, be considered valid…

…Cloutier was sworn in as mayor on Dec. 4 after winning the machine count in the Nov. 6 election by five votes. A few days later, a manual recount revealed Davis had won by two votes; he was sworn in as mayor a week afterward.

I recently received this email (emphasis added):

The following is sent to you on behalf of Friends of Gary Cloutier:

Doing the right thing is not always easy. That is why I filed a contest to dispute the recount results in the Vallejo Mayor’s race. On Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4 p.m. at 733 Tennessee Street in Vallejo , I intend to hold a public meeting to disclose all I know about this election and contest, and to seek funds to pay for this effort. Here’s why I have taken this action.

The day after county officials told me they had “counted every ballot”, and that I lost the election by three votes, the Registrar called my campaign manager to report that they had found a ballot marked in my favor “in the trash,” and the margin of victory was no longer three but two votes.

In a memo dated December 20, 2007, county officials advised the Board of Supervisors of an eleven vote discrepancy between the machine (under which I was sworn in as Mayor by five votes) and the hand recount. The Board was told that most “but not all” of the discrepancies could “reasonably be explained.”

The Board of Supervisors was further told that in a staff recount of the board recount in four out of the 47 Vallejo precincts, the recount was incorrect in two and that I “most likely” received one of those votes. If 2 of the 4 precincts were wrong, one has to wonder what the outcome would be if all the precincts were recounted.

We saw what happened in 2001 when the Supreme Court ordered a halt to the recount in Florida and stole the elections for the Republicans. It is time to stop bureaucrats and judges from pushing the voters around! I have advanced $26,000 to attorneys who specialize in election law to file a contest against Osby Davis who is, unfortunately, and as a result of procedure required by law, the named defendant. I am advised that the attorneys’ fees may reach $100,000 to get to the bottom of what happened in this election and to seek a fair outcome for all. That is why I need your help. You may send your donations to Friends of Gary Cloutier, Box 713 , Vallejo , California 94590 or go to: http://GARYFORMAYOR07.COM for more information or to make a donation by Pay Pal.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Very truly yours,

Gary Cloutier

Both Cloutier and Davis are liberals, although I have not been able to confirm their political party affiliations.  However, consider that Vallejo voters are 60% registered Democrat (versus 17% Republican), and Solano county voters are 49% Democrat (versus 29% Republican), and it becomes difficult to substantiate claims of bias, particularly anything even remotely like ”what happened in 2001 when the Supreme Court ordered a halt to the recount in Florida and stole the elections for the Republicans.”  There may, indeed, have been errors or even incompetence in the count and/or the recount (although personally I have seen no convincing evidence of that), but if this was a planned conspiracy it’s a pretty pathetic one.

Mr. Cloutier was kind enough to post the complaint for his lawsuit on his website.  I note that, although Cloutier claims that his lawsuit is intended “to get to the bottom of what happened in this election and to seek a fair outcome for all,” the complaint, in fact, asks the court to declare Mr. Cloutier the lawful mayor, or, in the alternative, to annul the election and order a special election to fill the vacancy.

So here we have a liberal seeing conspiracies among other liberals to steal an election for another liberal, and still finding a way to implicate Republicans.  Classic.

By Rhonda L. Rundle

In a move that appears to doom an intense year-long health-care reorganization effort by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, a far-reaching $14.7 billion plan to overhaul California’s health-care system failed to pass out of a state Senate committee.