Hey, check out our new Caption Contest!

This is the 45th world famous FOTM Caption Contest!

Here’s the pic (click to enlarge):

FLPOS Mooch visits Little Rock Air Force Base, AR, Feb. 9, 2012, to  announce efforts to improve the nutrition of food served in all U.S. military bases. (Photo by White House photog Sonya N. Hebert)

You know the drill:

• The winner of the Caption Contest will get a gorgeous Award Certificate of Excellence and a year’s free subscription to FOTM!
• FOTM writers will vote for the winner.
• Any captions proffered by FOTM writers, no matter how brilliant (ha ha), will not be considered.

This contest will be closed in a week, at the end of next Monday, April 29, 2013.

To get the contest going, here’s my caption:

Soldier on right: “You can shove your nutritious food, along with the thousands of “lost” 2012 military votes, where the sun don’t shine.”

For the winner of our last Caption Contest, go here!

~Eowyn

Providing voter ID “disenfranchise” poor, elderly and minority

Arkansas governor vetoes voter photo ID bill

TVH11: Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe vetoed legislation Monday that would have required voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot, saying the measure was “an expensive solution in search of a problem” and would establish a requirement impairing the right to vote.

State law currently requires poll workers to ask for identification, but voters can still cast a ballot if they don’t have one. A new Republican majority at the Legislature said that restricting access to the polls would reduce voter fraud. The bill’s opponents said the measure would unfairly disenfranchise poor, elderly and minority voters. It would have exempted voters who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

Legislators can override Beebe’s veto with a simple majority vote.

Under the proposal, Arkansas would have provided free photo IDs to voters who don’t have one, costing the state an estimated $300,000. The requirement would not be enforced until funding is available for the IDs or Jan. 1, 2014, whichever occurs last.

Beebe, a Democrat who formerly served as attorney general, issued the opinion shortly after Attorney General Dustin McDaniel released an advisory opinion saying he couldn’t predict whether a court would find the restriction unconstitutional. But Beebe said any new voting restrictions should be justified “by the most compelling of reasons.”

“This is particularly so when the citizens, whose right to vote is most likely to be impaired, are those citizens who experience the most difficulty voting in the first place: the elderly and the poor,” Beebe wrote in his veto letter. “A compelling justification should likewise be shown when the citizens most likely to be affected include minorities who have in the past been the target of officially sanctioned efforts to bar or discourage them from participating in the electoral process.”

Beebe also said Arkansas would be placed on the hook for ongoing expenses. “At a time when some argue for the reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy and for reduced government spending, I find it ironic to be presented with a bill that increases government bureaucracy and increases government expenditures, all to address a need that has not been demonstrated,” Beebe wrote. “I cannot approve such an unnecessary measure that would negatively impact one of our most precious rights as citizens.”

Under the current law, if voters refuse to show an ID card they may vote a provisional ballot that must later be verified by election workers. Under the proposed law, voters could still file a provisional ballot but it would not be counted until they provided an ID to county election officials or, before noon on the Monday following an election, signed an affidavit stating they are indigent or have a religious objection to being photographed.

Republicans around the country have been pushing for similar laws, though the measures have faced court challenges. Voter ID laws in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have been blocked.

Arkansas Republicans had pushed for voter ID requirements for years, but the measure failed to reach the governor’s desk under Democratic majorities. Republicans last November won control of the Legislature for the first time in 138 years and have enjoyed a number of successes, including the passage of stricter anti-abortion laws and broader gun rights.

The Republican-led Legislature already has overridden Beebe’s vetoes of two abortion restrictions, including one that would ban the procedure 12 weeks into a pregnancy.

Sen. Bryan King, the Republican behind the bill, did not immediately return a call seeking comment but has previously said he’d seek an override if Beebe rejected the measure.

“In order to ensure the fairness and integrity of Arkansas elections, we look forward to overriding this veto in the days to come,” state Republican Party Chairman Doyle Webb said.

If the override is successful, Arkansas would join four other states with a strict photo ID requirement for voters, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Virginia lawmakers have sent that state’s governor a similar photo ID bill. Similar restrictions by Texas and South Carolina have been rejected by the federal government under the Voting Rights Act, and Mississippi is waiting for federal approval of its photo ID law.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas has called the requirement unconstitutional, and its executive director said the group was looking at its options after lawmakers gave the measure final approval.

Opponents of the measure had unsuccessfully challenged the way it was approved in the Legislature, saying it changed Arkansas’ voter-registration system and therefore needed a two-thirds vote in both chambers to pass. The Senate rejected that recommendation from its Rules Committee shortly before giving the measure final approval last week. A House panel had rejected the same argument earlier in the month.

Black lawmakers in both chambers have spoken out against the bill, comparing it to poll taxes levied during the Jim Crow era.

“I think it’s going to have impact on a lot of voters, not just African American voters,” said Sen. Stephanie Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, who voted against the proposal. “When you look at the historical context of voting rights in the context and in Arkansas, you can’t just dismiss that. That’s why we have such a strong law.”

Beebe’s office has said the governor’s concerns centered on whether it imposed a new qualification for voters, not on the procedural questions about how many votes it needed to pass.

It is rare for Arkansas voters to cast provisional votes, and even rarer for them to be counted. In the 2008 and 2010 general elections, less than one-quarter of 1 percent of Arkansas ballots were cast provisionally, and fewer than half of those were ultimately counted. Final data for the 2012 election was not immediately available.

If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the government…you might live in a country founded by geniuses, run by idiots.

DCG

‘Wasted Away Again In Obumma Ville’

~Steve~                             H/T My Pal Jean

Will Dems Pay for Passing Obamacare in 2014?

Disaster for Dems

ObamaCare & the 2014 vote

• By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
• Last Updated: 12:09 AM, March 25, 2013
• Posted: 10:42 PM, March 24, 2013

Betsy McCaughey

Democrats hope to retake the House of Representatives in next year’s elections. They won’t — and they’ll have themselves to blame, because 2014 is when ObamaCare kicks in.

With a vengeance.

The authors of the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 election. Some popular provisions went into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent’s plan until age 26. And the White House granted 1,472 waivers to various companies and unions, exempting them from insurance reforms so they wouldn’t drop coverage for employees and members before the presidential contest.

AFP/Getty Images

Kiss of death: ObamaCare’s disastrous impact means Nancy Pelosi, here being greeted by the president last year, won’t be speaker again soon.

Yet a majority of voters on Election Day still opposed the health law (though, obviously, it wasn’t the deciding issue in the presidential race). And opinion will only sour more as the law takes full force starting in January.

People in their 20s and 30s will be clobbered — their health-insurance premiums will double (or more), insurers report. Nineteen percent of the president’s 2012 voters came from this age group. The biggest problem: The Obama law forces insurers to charge young, healthy people more to cover the cost of insuring the middle-aged and those with pre-existing conditions.

Middle-aged folks will benefit somewhat from overcharging the young, but the law’s mandatory benefits package and its billions in new taxes on insurers will drive up costs enough that overall premiums for a family of five will start at $20,000 (before subsidies, if any). Oh — and that doesn’t count the penalty for each smoker, roughly $3,000 a head.

(Subsidies may help some people cover sky-high premiums, though not the smoking penalty — but the letter of the law makes those subsidies unavailable in many states. The federal courts will eventually decide the issue.)

Many workers in industries such as retail, hospitality and home care will lose on-the-job health coverage, forecasts the ADP Research Institute — and many will also be demoted to part-time status because of ObamaCare.

Why? The president’s health law mandates that all employers with 50 or more full-time workers provide its “essential benefit package” if they offer insurance — and that package costs about twice what these industries now offer. Many employers will drop coverage, and pay the (smaller) fine; others will try to avoid that 50-employee limit by using more people part-time.

Even the government’s actuaries admit fewer people will get coverage at work after the employer mandate goes into effect than if the law had not passed.

You will find the rest of the article at this link.

I am praying Betsy McCaughey is right, as it appears the current congress cannot bring itself to even throw a speed bump in front of Obama’s health care plan from Hell. Okay, it really is not Obama’s plan, as it was written many moons ago and has been sitting in a rusty file cabinet ever since, but he will be forever associated with it.

There is just one teeny, tiny problem, though, as filling out an Obamacare application will include an opportunity to register to vote.

That could end up being a double edged sword given the low-information electorate we now have in this country.

And do not even get me started on the potential for voter fraud.

-Dave

I Don’t Drink Anymore, I Don’t Drink Any Less. :D

 

~Steve~

Obama poll worker and feminist nun charged with 2012 vote fraud in Ohio

Still in denial that there was voter fraud in the 2012 election?

Hamilton County is the third most populous county in the State of Ohio, located in the southwest corner of the state. The county seat is Cincinnati. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 802,374, which is a decrease of 5.1% from 845,303 in 2000. The county is named for the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.

As a result of an investigation by Ohio’s Hamilton County Board of Elections, three people are facing charges related to improper voting in last November’s pivotal elections that ensured another four years for the POS.
One of the three is not just a nun, but the dean of the College of Mount St. Joseph’s arts and humanities department.

Those charged are:

1. Russell Glassop, 75, Symmes Township, illegal voting, a charge that carries up to 18 months in prison. He is accused of voting on behalf of his deceased wife. She requested an absentee ballot, but died before the ballot was mailed.

Melowese Richardson

2. Melowese Richardson, 58, Madisonville, eight counts of illegal voting, charges that carry up to 12 years in prison. Richardson is an Obama supporter and a poll worker when the fraud took place who has since been fired. She has admitted on camera to a local TV station for voting twice in last November’s presidential election: “Yes, I voted twice. [But there] was no intent on my part to commit any voter fraud. I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States.” Richardson is also indicted for allegedly voting at least six times on behalf of relatives in various elections in 2008 and 2011. One of the relatives is a granddaughter, India Richardson, who told Fox News that her grandmother did indeed vote in her name, saying that “it wasn’t a big deal.”

Sister Marguerite Kloos

3. Sister Marguerite Kloos, 54, of Delhi Township: Accused of illegal voting, a charge that carries up to 18 months in prison. Kloos told investigators that she filled out an absentee ballot for a nun (Sister Rose Marie Hewitt) who had died a month before last November’s election, forging her signature and mailing it to the Board of Elections as a vote.

While news reports did not identify Sister Kloos’ political party identification, there is little doubt she’s a Democrat given the following from her faculty profile:

“Dr. Kloos has taught a number of interdisciplinary courses drawing on eco-theology, a first passion from her undergraduate studies in environmental studies. She has also done research in feminist methodologies for cross-cultural spiritual care.”

Kloos was not indicted but faces what is known as an information, because her lawyer contacted prosecutors and she agreed to cooperate and plead guilty. Kloos has resigned as the dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, but the college’s Faculty Directory page still lists her as dean. Kloos continues as an associate professor of religious and pastoral studies.

In a statement about Kloos, the college said, “As a valued member of the Mount community, our thoughts are with her during this difficult time. We respect her privacy and will not comment further on this matter at this time.” Ironically, Mount St. Joseph’s website proclaims its commitment to “ethical leadership”: “At the Mount, ethical leadership is an intentional, living manifestation of our culture of ethics and service.”

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said, “Elections are a serious business and the foundation of our democracy. Individual votes may not seem important, but this could not be further from the truth.” Three additional cases remain under investigation.

Some questions linger about 50 people who cast an absentee ballot and then voted on a provisional ballot, said Hamilton County Board of Elections Chairman Tim Burke, a Democrat. But Democratic Board of Elections members say there is nothing wrong with that because only one vote counted. The process worked to make sure each person only got one vote, they say. Republican Board of Elections members argue there is a conflict in state law about whether that’s allowed.

The investigation into voter fraud by the Hamilton County Board of Elections is part of a statewide review ordered by Secretary of State John Husted, a Republican, who had called on all 88 counties to review complaints of fraud, as well as voter disenfranchisement.

Husted said in a written statement: “Every voter must play by the rules, and if they don’t they will be held accountable. For voters to have confidence in our elections, we must prosecute every case of voter fraud in Ohio.”

[Sources: FoxNews, Cincinnati.com]

Thank you, Mr. Husted. I just wish the secretaries of state of other States are as conscientious.

What Ohio’s Secretary of State John Husted has shown, however, is that we can do something about vote fraud, despite that stupid 1982 legal agreement (“Consent Decree) that the Republican National Committee (RNC) made with the Democratic National Committee, in which the RNC agreed not to prevent or challenge vote fraud in voting districts with a “significant” minority population. (See “Why the GOP won’t challenge vote fraud,” Nov. 15, 2012.)

See also:

• “Obama 2012 campaign conspired to register 11,000 in NC against state law,” Feb. 23, 2013.
• “22 signs of Democrat Voter Fraud in 2012 Election,” Nov. 20, 2012.
• “What You Can Do About Vote Fraud,” Nov. 17, 2012: For the names of your state’s attorney general, to write to request your AG conduct an investigation into possible vote fraud in your state.

~Eowyn

The Best Ever Lay Off Letter.

 

~Steve~                           H/T   Jean

Castrati Senate Republicans cede power to Obama

Head eunuch: Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

House Republicans have passed two alternatives to the sequester cuts, which the POS in the White House threatens to veto. At the same time, the Republican eunuchs in the Senate have refused to consider either of the House measures.

Politico reports that Senate Repubs are now taking one step further in their wimpy eunuchness — they are circulating a draft bill that cedes power to Obama to make spending cuts. Politico’s Manu Raju and David Rogers write:

Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.

The five-page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party. Having railed against Senate Democrats for not passing a budget, Republicans are now proposing that Congress surrender an important piece of its Constitutional “power of the purse” for the last seven months of this fiscal year.

Read the rest of the Politico article here.

H/t Patriot Action Network

If you’re still registered Republican and think the GOP has value, please see my post “Why the GOP won’t challenge vote fraud,” Nov. 15, 2012.

~Eowyn

Why do they not see?

A recent essay by a blogger who calls himself Monty Pelerin struck a chord in me. Monty Pelerin is the pseudonym of a former CFO in the corporate finance field, with a Ph.D. in economics.

Pelerin’s essay “Why Don’t People See?” asks a question I and many of us also have asked: Why is it that so many seem blind to the problems that we see so clearly?

Here’s Pelerin’s essay of Feb. 18, 2013:

I meet people that still believe that the world is fine. They believe things like:

• The US government has plenty of money.
• Government cares for its citizens.
• The economy cannot crash.
• We are not in a recession (Depression).
• The lives of their children will be better than their own.
• The government can continue to print money to fund promises they cannot afford.

Despite these untenable beliefs, these are not stupid people. Many are professionals who do quite well — doctors, lawyers, dentists, college professors, etc. They are not  zombies, our walking dead, who have no idea about what is happening around them no less  the way things work in an economy, society or the world. It is our educated who should care yet seem to be oblivious to what lies ahead.

The ignorance and/or lack of concern of this group is perplexing and maddening. They are certainly capable of understanding. It is also in their interests to comprehend, as they are the ones who will lose the most. How doe one open their eyes? What can they be shown to arouse them from their ignorance?

Sadly, I don’t have answers to these frustrating questions. It is not that others have not presented the information as much as these people refuse to acknowledge the implications. Are they all too busy? Are they idiot savants who are geniuses in their fields but not very smart away from it? Warnings come from many sources and from many different perspectives, yet they do not seem to penetrate the minds of those most capable of effecting change.

From a self-interest standpoint, this productive group should be the most concerned. After all, they are ground zero for the Socialist schemes that are destroying society. They are the ones that will be crushed in the redistribution dreams of our political class. Will they awaken too late? Or, will many of them just withdraw their productivity by retiring early, emigrating, etc.?

I don’t have answers to these questions, but I do know that this professional class is about to become prey for our predatory State. And, when that happens, they will hurt be but not nearly as much as the rest of us.

Indeed, why are so many oblivious to and in denial about America’s stark economic realities? — those of:

• A national debt of over $16.579 TRILLION, and increasing by the second. That debt is now more than 106% of our GDP (gross domestic product).
• This gargantuan debt will have to be paid off by working Americans, but fewer and fewer of us actually work. More than 8 million working-age adults have dropped out of the labor force under Obama. Today, 4 out of every 10 working-age Americans don’t work.
• Meanwhile, our dependency on government grows by the day. Government welfare and entitlement programs now make up as much as 35% of personal incomes.
• At the same time, more and more Americans (51%!) pay no federal income taxes.

The only difference between Pelerin and me is his question is narrower in scope than mine. Pelerin’s concerns are mainly about America’s economic problems, whereas in my view, our country’s problems transcend the economic to include the political and especially the cultural.

Politically, the federal government under Obama has become one where, instead of a division of powers among three branches, the Executive is dominant, with Obama ruling by executive orders, like kings and emperors once ruled through edicts.

Congress, the legislative branch, seems unable to address our economic problems but only exacerbates them with the passage of Obamacare (that leads to higher insurance premiums, fewer doctors, death panels, and a greater burden for small businesses) and the reprehensible National Defense Authorization Act (that authorizes the arrest without charge and indefinite detention of U.S. citizens).

The Supreme Court is also adrift, too timid to even hear cases that concern Obama’s eligibility and his strange Connecticut-issued Social Security number. That is, assuming the Supreme Court justices even saw the documents concerning those cases to begin with.

Did you know that clerks of the Supreme Court never forwarded to the justices the pleadings and documents submitted by plaintiffs and attorneys? The faceless clerks also removed cases from the electronic docket, as well as reported conferences of justices which never took place.

French philosopher and statesman Count Joseph Marie Maistre (1763-1821) once said, “Every nation has the government it deserves.” Subtending the economy and government is America’s culture, now thoroughly corrupted from decades of moral relativism do-as-you-will narcissistic amorality. Patriotism has become a dirty word: As many as 33% in a 2010 poll said they wanted the American flag banned.

John Adams wrote that “The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.” By that yardstick, the American family is in trouble.

Although every evidence we have points to marriage being good for not just the married, but for children and society as well, the percentage of married Americans is at a lowest recorded level. Between 2000 and 2009, the share of young adults ages 25 to 34 who are married dropped 10 percentage points, from 55% to 45%.

There is an epidemic of fatherless children — 30% of U.S. children live apart from their fathers. That 30% will account for 63% of teen suicides, 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions, 71% of high-school dropouts, 75% of children in chemical-abuse centers, 80% of rapists, 85% of youths in prison, 85% of children who exhibit behavioral disorders, and 90% of homeless and runaway children.

So, how do we account for the blindness of so many? Why do they not see what you and I so clearly see?

Is it willful ignorance? Have they been brainwashed by the Establishment Media? (but how do we account for the media’s blindness?) Is it stupidity? Is it a narrow and short-sighted selfishness? Or is it the terrible darkness of spiritual blindness?

“…you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.” -Ezekiel 12:2

“…because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” -2 Thessalonians 2:10b-11

~Eowyn

Obama 2012 campaign conspired to register 11,000 in NC against state law

Only those who have eyes but refuse to see, and ears but refuse to hear, ignore the massive vote fraud that was perpetrated across America in the pivotal 2012 election.

As examples, there were:

• 59 voting divisions in the city of Philadelphia where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote.
• Reports of voting machines repeatedly switching votes from Romney to Obama.
• Counties with voter registration rates of more than 100%.
• Reports of people unable to vote because records allegedly (and erroneously) showed they had already voted.
• Reports of Obama voters being bussed in from outside the state.
• An Obama campaign worker recorded on tape helping someone to register to vote in more than one state.
• Tens of thousands of military overseas ballots being lost or delivered late.

For more, see “22 signs of Democrat Voter Fraud in 2012 Election,”

Despite all these reports and signs of vote fraud, neither the Romney campaign nor the Republican National Committee (RNC) did anything to expose the fraud or challenge the alleged election results.

If you’re wondering why and don’t know about a strange legal agreement signed by the RNC 30 years ago, the 1982 Consent Decree, in which the RNC agreed not to prevent or challenge vote fraud, see my post of Nov. 15, 2012, “Why the GOP won’t challenge vote fraud”.

And so it’s up to the American people and citizens groups to do the job of the useless Republican Party.

One such group is the Civitas Institute, a conservative organization in North Carolina dedicated to “The vision … of a North Carolina whose citizens enjoy liberty and prosperity derived from limited government, personal responsibility and civic engagement.”

James Simpson reports for Examiner.com, Feb. 20, 2013, that North Carolina does not allow online voting. But the Civitas Institute discovered that the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) and the Obama 2012 Campaign conspired to register at least 11,000 people via the Internet in violation of state law. SBE staff authorized an Obama campaign website, Gottaregister.com, to use a web-based registration program.

Civitas has confirmed this through records requests filed with all of North Carolina’s 100 counties. The counting is not yet complete.

Currently California, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Nevada, Maryland, and New York allow some form of online voter registration. North Carolina and many other states do not. For obvious reasons, this method is fraught with vulnerabilities to fraud.

Another, still on-going, study by Civitas Institute finds that 832 people over 112 voted by absentee ballot in 2012, but there are only 330 people over 110 in all of the U.S. according to the 2010 census. 68.5% of those amazing over-112-years-old Americans were Democrats (SURPRISE!), 27.5% Republicans, and 4% unaffiliated. A glitch causes ballots to default to January 1, 1900 when voters do not enter their birth date, which accounts for most of this. This is just one of many problems with NC voter rolls, which are in a shambles and vulnerable to fraudulent votes.

Simpson concludes:

“the Obama administration…have shown themselves over and over to be completely contemptuous of the law – from vote fraud to Fast-n-Furious; from Benghazi-gate to recess appointments and unconstitutional executive orders, the list is endless. As I described in a WorldNetDaily article last November, the Obama administration was willing to use whatever means at its disposal to win this election, legal and illegal. Up until now, my assumption has been that, while they plainly engaged in vote fraud in some circumstances, it wasn’t enough to throw the election. Depending upon whether or not they used tricks like this nationwide – and they probably did – they may have in fact stolen this election.”

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“…the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) and the Obama 2012 Campaign conspired to register at least 11,000 people via the Internet in violation of state law.”

GASP!!! That’s a conspiracy!!!

Just tell that to the next pretentious media personality snootily dismissing by deriding those looney “conspiracy theorists.”

H/t Obama Release Your Records

~Eowyn