Anyone live within driving distance of Somerset Pennsylvania? It’s a beautiful place to visit and a group of motorcyclists from Indianapolis is already going.
Tom Burnett Senior and Alec Rawls are buying full page color ads in the Somerset Daily American for both Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th, so anyone who makes the trip will have a ready made protest sign waiting for them. Just buy a newspaper, tape the ad to a piece of cardboard, and let the massed national media know what side you are on.
That’s right. With Laura Bush and Michelle Obama both attending, it’s going to be a media circus, and a rare opportunity to force coverage of our issue. Just self-organize. Ad-holders will show a core of united opposition (and the media might even be forced to read our brief expose).
A PDF of the ad will be posted in another blogburst next week for anyone who wants to make signs ahead of time. There is also a set of small posters that were put together for a previous talk by Mr. Burnett. Just print with tiling to make the finished product as large or small as you want:
If you haven’t been to Shanksville before, there really is no lovelier place on earth than an open field in that sprawling Sherwood Forest that is Western Pennsylvania. Drink it in. There is something in the air at that patriots’ grave.
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Video from today’s range trip didn’t turn out so good – evidently the “Time Lapse” setting was selected on my camera and reduced the videos to 2 seconds each.
9:41pm: Murkowski will hold a press conference in twenty minutes. 9:40pm: Being generous, let’s say there are 7000 valid GOP votes left to be counted. Murkowski would need 61% of them to win. She’s done.
Big Government says, “the trend in the count of absentee ballots makes it virtually impossible that Sen. Murkowski will overtake Joe Miller in the GOP Senate Primary.”
Dear Abby, Dear Abby …
My feet are too long
My hair’s falling out and my rights are all wrong
My friends they all tell me they’re no friends at all
Won’t you write me a letter, Won’t you give me a call
Signed Bewildered
Bewildered, Bewildered…
[Chorus:] You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain’t what you ain’t
So listen up Buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Dear Abby, Dear Abby…
My fountain pen leaks
My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks
Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed
If it weren’t so expensive I’d wish I were dead
Signed Unhappy
Unhappy, Unhappy… [Repeat Chorus]
Dear Abby, Dear Abby…
You won’t believe this
My stomach makes noises whenever I kiss
My girlfriend tells me It’s all in my head
But my stomach tells me to write you instead
Signed Noise-maker
Noise-maker, Noise-maker … [Repeat Chorus]
Dear Abby, Dear Abby…
Well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed Just Married
The federal government’s Clean Water Act contains guideline to reduce the amount of nitrogen and phosphates that are introduced into municipal sewage treatment facilities. As of July 1, phosphates are now banned as an ingredient of dishwasher detergent in 16 states.
Manufacturers’ new offerings can be expected to turn aluminum utensils black, fade the patterns on fine china, and leave powdery residue on everything else.
Help lines have reportedly been set up for customers who wonder why the detergent products are no longer effective.
The 16 states are:
Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
Evidently manufacturers cannot formulate custom blends for specific states’ requirements. Phosphate-free detergents are all there is to be found in Texas and other states that are not part of the ban.
The nanny state seems hell-bent on returning the country to the 18th century where people had to make their own soap.
I use it to track flights and arrivals to pick people up at the airport. It even shows arrival gates – an important feature in an airport like DFW where gates can be a quarter-mile apart.
Last month I (I am quoting Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor- Ed.) touted the possibility that Tea Party candidate Joe Miller could upset Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican Senate primary, possibly turning another safe GOP seat into a race. I think I subsequently concluded that it wasn’t going to happen. But now it looks like it’s happening.
“Edward Teller” at Open Left has been very excited about the candidacy of Democratic nominee Scott McAdams. Any chance of an upset here? If so, it’s just incredible to me that the GOP establishment keeps letting its base put safe seats in play.
Note to Jonathan: The GOP can protect it’s seats by supporting candidates who are worthy of our support.
In what could become one of the biggest political upsets of the year, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski trailed her tea-party-backed opponent by a small margin Wednesday in Alaska’s GOP primary with thousands of votes yet to be counted.
Attorney Joe Miller, who also had the backing of former Gov. Sarah Palin, led Murkowski by less than 3 percentage points with 98 percent of precincts reporting. Thousands of absentee ballots have not yet been added to the tally from Tuesday’s vote — a process that could take up to two weeks to tabulate.
To be fair, it wasn’t entirely Sarah Palin’s endorsement that led to Joe Miller’s victory. It was coverage on the Mark Levin Show that convinced me to support Joe’s campaign.
Last month I traveled to Alaska, met with Joe’s campaign officers in Anchorage and asked Joe’s Research Director ‘fact check’ my first post on his campaign right there in his office!
Joe Miller is the kind of Constitutional, strong on guns Second Amendment candidate that earns my active support every time.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is battling for her political life this morning against Republican primary challenger Joe Miller, the Tea Party-backed candidate who had a slim lead as ballots continued to be counted overnight. Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, led from when the first returns came in Tuesday night, and was on the verge of pulling off one of the biggest election upsets ever in Alaska. With 84 percent of Alaska’s precincts reporting around 2 a.m., Miller had 45,188 votes to 42,633 for Murkowski.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is in danger of becoming the third incumbent senator to lose in the 2010 election cycle.
Attorney Joe Miller appears on the verge of a stunning upset in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary but the race has not been officially called and could be headed for a recount.
The Tea Party-backed candidate leads Murkowski by less than 3,000 votes with 77 percent of precincts reporting.
Alaska’s Tea Party Senatorial Primary (from TownHall.com)
Posted by : John Hanlon at 10:02 PM
It seems odd to question how much of an effect the tea party will have in this Tuesday’s Alaskan Senatorial primary. Alaska’s own former Governor Sarah Palin is a well-known tea party supporter, and the former vice presidential candidate’s endorsements have certainly helped many Republican candidates in primaries this year. However, in the Alaskan Senatorial primary, Palin’s endorsed candidate Joe Miller will be facing an extremely tough challenge in hoping to beat incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Senator Murkowski is well-known around the state and has been in office since 2002. She was originally appointed to the position by her father, former Governor Frank Murkowski. Later on, though, the senior Murkowski was replaced as Governor by a young former mayor named Sarah Palin. However, as a Washington Post article recently noted, Senator Murkowski is well-liked in the state and even noted that “the first name in Alaskan Republican politics is still Murkowski. Actually, it’s Lisa.”
In late June, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza analyzed the Murkowski-Miller race. He noted that “On the surface, Sen. Lisa Murkowski — a pro-abortion rights, member of GOP leadership and supporter of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is an obvious target” for the tea party but that “beating an incumbent — even in a tumultuous election cycle like this one — is never as easy proposition…”
This Tuesday, the Alaskan Senatorial primary race comes to a conclusion. I expect a lot of commentators to focus on the results of this election, noting whether or not Palin’s endorsement of Miller was helpful to him in this tough primary race. Regardless of outcome, this will definitely be an interesting race to watch.
A critical election for U.S. Senate is just 4 days away and constitutional conservatives across America need to rally together to support Conservative Republican Joe Miller for U.S. Senate in Alaska. Joe is up against the political establishment and special interests in Alaska, and I can tell you first hand that my own family has had to face such battles before. It’s not easy, and Joe needs your help.
Fortunately the Tea Party Express has stepped up to the plate, spending over $400,000 already in the battle to support Joe Miller. The problem is that Joe’s opponent has received millions of dollars from the political establishment in this race alone. We must level the playing field. So I am asking you to please make a contribution to this campaign. I don’t typically send out emails asking people to support fundraising drives. But today the Tea Party Express received the results from their latest polling which they graciously shared with me. The results show that we have gained 25% for Joe Miller in just the past 2 ½ weeks. We’ve got the momentum, and victory is within reach, but there is no time to waste. We must act now.
At a time where our leaders in Washington have failed us we desperately need new leaders who have the courage and guts to stand up to the special interests and the political establishment. Joe Miller has the background, experience, and commitment to the constitution that is desperately lacking in Washington. A West Point graduate and Bronze Star recipient, Joe is also a constitutional scholar, serving as the youngest federal magistrate in Alaska history.
Joe Miller is a principled conservative who stands on his beliefs, he doesn’t change his views based on which way the political winds are blowing and he can’t be bought off.
So would you please consider making a contribution to the Tea Party Express’ campaign in support of Joe Miller. We’re trying to raise $150,000 in the next 48 hours. I know we can reach this goal if enough of you step forward and make a generous contribution. You can contribute by clicking – here.
Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortune and sacred honor for this Republic. I hope you’ll sacrifice a contribution to help elect a Constitutional Conservative like Joe Miller to the U.S. Senate.
Blackwater Worldwide (now call Xe Services) has agreed to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of U.S. export rules.
The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops in southern Sudan and providing sniper training for police in Taiwan
The privately held company, based in North Carolina, is up for sale.
[Exclusive] US opposes Seoul’s bid to sell old rifles
The U.S. government is opposing Korea’s bid to sell thousands of aging U.S. combat rifles to American gun collectors.
By Jung Sung-ki
The U.S. government opposed South Korea’s bid to sell hundreds of thousands of aging U.S. combat rifles to American gun collectors, a senior government official said Thursday.
The ministry announced the plan last September as part of efforts to boost its defense budget, saying the export of the M1 Garand and carbine rifles would start by the end of 2009.
The U.S. administration put the brakes on the plan, citing “problems” that could be caused by the importation of the rifles.
The problems the U.S. government cited were somewhat ambiguous, said an official at the Ministry of National Defense on condition of anonymity.
“The U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions,” the official told The Korea Times.
“We’re still looking into the reason why the U.S. administration is objecting to the sale of the rifles and seeking ways to resolve the problems raised,” he said.
Critics say the ministry pushed to sell the firearms in a hasty manner without enough consultation with the U.S. beforehand, as calls were growing to increase defense expenditure.
The Seoul government sought to sell the outdated U.S guns back to the United States.
A total of 86,000 M1 rifles and another 22,000 carbines were to be sold, as the weapons have been mothballed for about five decades in military warehouses. The per-unit price of the M1 rifle is about $220 and the carbine is more than $140, according to the ministry.
M1s were made first in 1926 and used in World War II and the 1954-1975 Vietnam War. The carbines were first produced in 1941 and used during the 1950-1953 Korean War.
Murkowski, the sitting U.S. (RINO) Senator, had 2244 on July 31. By August 14, she had added only 84. Four days later she is really surging (LOL), having added a whopping 13, for a grand total of 2341.
For the past 18 days, Miller has been beating her on Facebook by a factor of nearly 20-1 (1888-97)
For the past four days, as the election approaches, Joe Miller is destroying her by a factor of approaching 100-1 (922-13). This is only explicable as a surge in support.
Facebook numbers are not scientific but neither are primary polls, especially those bought and paid for by Democrat hacks like Ethan Berkowitz. The Facebook race reflects that the level of interest in Miller’s campaign is far greater than in Murkowski, and the gap is widening as the election approaches. Miller is peaking at the right time.
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Joementum!
VOTE Alaska! on August 24, 2010 – Early in Person voting has already begun!
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