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Oregon Still Fails To Meet Federal Standards

Not that it matters to me, as I have a passport and passcard, so I don't need to rely on a stupid Oregon driver's license for real identification. The nutty Democratics who've been running the state for nearly four decades have a real antipathy toward the concept, though - so they work hard to ensure that everybody can vote whether they're entitled to do so or not.

Our Democrat overlords (most of whom are from out of state, as in, they came here from back east) really hate laws and things like the oath of office. They believe that they should get to pick and choose which laws - if any - they will abide by.

So: death penalty? Nope, not enforced by the last two governors despite the fact that they swear to enforce all laws.

Sanctuary cities? You bet. Hell no, we won't cooperate with ICE. Amid much crowing and hoopla, they passed a law allowing illegal aliens to get driver's cards - which Oregon voters immediately shot down.

Claiming a budget crisis and demanding more taxes, they nonetheless push for "voter-owned elections", in which taxpayer funds are used to pay for political campaigns. Portland City Council passed that, despite being unable to repair potholes in streets. When voters got the chance to give their input via the ballot, they shot that sucker down, too. And yet, politicians are pushing for "VOE2".

Voters killed the public employee union-written Measure 97 last year, which would have imposed a tax on corporate gross receipts (not profits). We recognized that it was a sales tax on everything from food to medicine to energy and more. Guess what the Democratics are now trying to impose via legislation?

With $1.5 billion more in revenue this biennium over the last biennium, they still claim that there's a $1.4 billion "budget shortfall", so they need more money.

No. What they need is to live within their means - and quit looking for ways to steal more of our money.

They're considering a bill that would "allow" Oregonians to pay an additional $20 to obtain a driver's license that complies with federal security requirements. No. Learn to adhere to our laws for a change.

That's why I renewed the passport; Oregon government simply can't be trusted. And every now and then, I have to take a flight somewhere. Or I might want to drive up into Canada. And as of next year, and Oregon driver's license won't be sufficient for either. But by golly, they're working on offering a "third gender" on Oregon driver's licenses!

That's the really important thing.

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Oregon Democratics: Proudly Promoting Voter Fraud For Two Decades

And now they want to take it nationwide. Despite their claims, there is no "growing tide of voter suppression". No boys and girls, if I have to present identification to take a plane ride, to get a pass for parks admission, or to cash a check, it is not "voter suppression" to require the same at election time.

Voter Fraud?

Voter fraud, an issue that Republicans have been saying is a larger problem than most think while Democrats have continued to downplay the issue is now on full display. On Friday, Connecticut state Representative Christina “Tita” Ayala, 31 years old, who represents Bridgeport was arrested on 19 counts of voter fraud. The Connecticut State Attorney’s office said that she is accused of voting in various local and state elections where she does not live.

But everybody knows this doesn't happen! Democratic keep telling you that you're an idiot if you believe that. Oh, by the way, the Russians stole the election.

It's Going To Be A Great New Year!

The loony leader of Idaho's Democrats is running for chair of the DNC, and there's a chance that she might get it! Here's what she "thinks":

“One of the big issues that I talk about is we have to figure out how to run elections when we have the opposite political party that’s really throwing the rules out the window. They’re disenfranchising voters by trying to keep them from polling places and make voting harder, they’re using fake news, Russians hacked our election — I mean, the issues that we had in this election are not the issues of yesteryear’s elections. We have seen unprecedented things happen that we are going to have to figure out solutions for.”

“This is my life. I don’t have work. I am here to save democracy,” she says, without a hint of irony.

She even has that smug, self-satisfied look that so typically defines the dedicated Leftist. She'd be perfect for the job!

Yeah, the Wascally Wepublicans are "throwing out the rules" - as if Democratics have ever followed rules of any sort - and "disenfranchising" voters by insisting that they be alive and legal citizens who are entitled to vote in the first place (when Obama's DoJ discovered that the Florida Secretary of State was purging voter registrations of dead people last year, they issued an injunction and demanded that he stop). That's how Democratics interpret "rules".

"Fake News!" "Russian Hackers!"

Really, this loon hits every dog-whistle note the Democratics have been able to manufacture to date; most sane people recognize that the purveyors of "fake news" are aligned with the Democratics, and they also recognize that Russian hackers had nothing to do with the election results - had that actually been the case, Trump would have won the vote in connected California, but instead, the Occupied Territories of California and New York City went all in for Pantsuit.

One can only hope that she gets the nod to helm the DNC. If that happens, 2017 and beyond look to be tremendous for the rest of us.

Now Barry's claiming he could've walked away with a third term, had he been allowed to run. Really? When did the Constitution ever stop him?

President George Washington started the American tradition to limit the term for the executive office to two terms. Every president followed this tradition until President Franklin D. Roosevelt was selfish enough to break the tradition and run for a third term in 1940. In response, Congress and the states formalized the two-term tradition with the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in 1947 (ratified in 1951).

"Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale." Martin Jacques.

Barry doesn't realize that Pantsuit lost because middle-class Americans (what's left of us) didn't want to see a continuation of his stupid policies, and given the choice between that - under someone known to be corrupt as opposed to merely inept - they chose the lesser of two weasels.

Best wishes for a Happy New Year!

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White, Liberal, Racists

These people are incredibly stupid, and undeniably racist. They just don't understand what they are.

The level of ignorance and smugness is overpowering.

Fake News In The News

Fake News seems to be a hot topic at present, and one laden with irony; none other than Brian Williams, who lost his well-compensated gig as a television anchor after it emerged that he had periodically enhanced the dangers he faced in the field, last week bemoaned the emergence of "fake news" despite his many contributions to the newly-discovered problem. And another frequent contributor to "fake news", who recently lost her bid for the presidency, took to Capitol Hill to denounce "fake news" as a threat to national security - although that wasn't a problem when she was "dodging live fire" in Bosnia or blaming Benghazi on an obscure Youtube video or blaming her husband's impeachment on a "vast right-wing conspiracy". The irony seems to escape them.

Now, the hot stories involve how president Trump is going to run his "reality television" show from the White House - a story which appears to be false - and that Russian hackers threw the election to Ferret-top by feeding emails to Wikileaks (which Wikileaks denies), and how the CIA has evidence of this (except as Washington Post later noted, they don't). As well, Rock-Solid Reid (a.k.a. Hairy Reed), who thankfully is outta the Senate, is now claiming that the FBI "covered up" evidence of Russian interference in the last election.

Let's get real, shall we? It would be difficult for hackers to swing an election, in view of the fact that, as in Oregon, most state election systems are air-gapped - as in, not connected to the Internet. And we actually have evidence that dead people are, in many cases, able to vote along with other supposedly ineligible voters - in California alone, it has emerged that dead people somehow voted in multiple elections - but that doesn't bother Democratics. Conspiracy theories bother them; actual voter fraud, not so much.

In response to allegations of possible voter fraud involving dead people and foreigners who are not citizens but registered to vote anyway, Ken Detzner, the Florida Secretary of State began cleaning up the voter registration lists in his state.  During the process, they found 53,000 dead people that were still registered to vote throughout the state and Detzner issued instructions to have them removed from the voter rolls along with any persons identified to be non-citizens.

When the news reached Washington DC, the Democratic controlled Department of Justice, immediately reacted and issued orders instructing Detzner to stop purging the voting records.

Chicago is well-known for its turnout of dead voters.

When the FAA approved the expansion of O'Hare Airport, Democratics were aghast because the new runway was built through a cemetery, disenfranchising hundreds of reliably Democrat voters.

But...but...Russian hackers!

It's time for them to call off the boogeyman promoters and get real. And until they clean up their act in the area of voter fraud, which has been well-documented for years, they have no business bringing in conspiracy theories.

But "Rigged Elections" Was An Insane Republican Thing!

Right up until it wasn't apparently. With Trump elected, Leftists are melting down. They demand a recount!

Well, Jill Stein does, anyway. And she did receive a whopping 1% of the vote, so there's that.

The effort was spearheaded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who echoed arguments that Russia may have hacked US voting machines to interfere with the outcome of the November 8 election.

Speculation that electronic voting machines could be hacked has largely been debunked, primarily because the machines are not connected to the internet.

But hey, according to Jill, those sneaky Russkies could've found a way!

During a raucous election campaign in which Trump routinely trumpeted unsubstantiated claims of a "rigged" election, Clinton frequently chided that rhetoric and called on Trump to accept the eventual outcome.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot....

Preppers, Paranoia, And Poly Ticks

How bad is this election? So bad that a lot of folks are securing their food supplies in anticipation of widespread riots and possible power grid outages. And they're by no means wild-eyed rural survivalists, digging holes in the woods and stashing their caches; many are urban preppers: teachers, bankers, and the like.

"Frederick Reddie," a 41-year-old "urban prepper" from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is stocking up on staples like rice and peanut butter and working on expanding his 6-month supply of emergency food to two years. He has to use a pseudonym to protect his supply from any future hungry neighbors, he told NBC News.

"Ready Freddie" (crazy little thing called food). Most of them aren't going the rice and peanut butter route, though; they're buying freeze-dried MRE stuff by the case. Or by the bucket:

Big name retailers are in on the game. Costco sells a 1-month supply of 390 servings in plastic gallon buckets for $114.99. Wal-Mart has a bucket deal, too.

Food that's stable and edible for a quarter of a century is a good thing to have on hand anyway, just in case of natural disaster. It seems kind of silly to be stocking up over an election, however.  That said, I do have several large propane tanks out in the shed, along with big water jugs, a camp stove, air mattresses, inflators, hand-crank lanterns, and enough dry alder to last for weeks. We live in earthquake country, and the Spring Break quake back in the 80s, while only a 5.4 tremblor, was still enough to get my attention.

Those freeze-dried meals are all well and good, but you still need water to hydrate them, and a stove to heat them with. We're not going to be eating cold MREs for a month or more....

Speaking of turmoil, we have our own little bit of that going on here in Oregon:

Oregon Secretary of State Jeanne P. Atkins today asked the Oregon Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate reports of automated calls telling registered voters that their ballots won't be counted.

"We are not sure who is behind these calls, but we take this type of voter suppression activity very seriously," said Secretary of State Jeanne P. Atkins.

Oopsie, it turns out that there wasn't any "voter suppression": those calls were made after Oregon's Democrat SoS gave Republicans a list of inactive voters. Since they're listed as inactive, they don't get a ballot sent to them. The calls were made to inform inactives that they can still vote:

State Republican Party Chair Bill Currier issued a statement tonight, saying state elected Democrats had mischaracterized the calls. "The polls have tightened significantly and a day of reckoning for our political opponents who have been running the state for 30 years is at hand," Currier said. "Of course they are going to dislike our efforts to get more Republicans voting and some may even go so far as to suppress our efforts to end their grip on power."

Here's the text of the calls:

"Voter registration records have been reviewed in your county and there is a possibility that you or someone in your household may have had their voter registration marked inactive. If you have not received your ballot yet, this may be the reason.  The Oregon Republican Party wants you to be able to vote in next Tuesday's election. In the 2010 election, Republican Chris Dudley lost his race for governor by just over 1 percent.  Last May, another Republican race ended in a tie vote, and was literally decided by a dice roll.  Don't let our state's future be determined by a roll of the dice.   You may be the deciding vote. Contact your county elections office immediately.  By going directly to the elections office, you can reactivate your registration, pick up your ballot, and vote on the spot."

Doesn't look like "voter suppression" to me - but that's an accusation that Democratics frequently lob at Republicans.

 

What Voter Fraud?

There is no voter fraud in America. And we have always been at war with EastAsia.

Nothing to see here, folks, move along.

Whatever It Takes

Willamette Valley Democratics reached a new low with the Oregon voter's pamphlet this year:

The bitter fight over Measure 97, which would impose a gross receipts tax on large corporations, is entering its final stages. But a new controversy has emerged in recent days with the arrival of the state Voters’ Pamphlet. In Deschutes County, and perhaps elsewhere, arguments against the measure are separated by a voluminous insert devoted to county races.

“The problem was that on Measure 97, all the arguments in favor are at the beginning, and there are no arguments in opposition until you look at the very, very back of the pamphlet,” said Donna Young, a voter in Bend. There should at least have been a note saying, “continued on page such and such,” she said.

In the version of the Voters’ Pamphlet distributed to Deschutes County households, the section on Measure 97 features an assessment by the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review Commission, a majority of whom support the measure, followed by four pages of arguments in support of the measure. Then comes a 24-page section devoted to Deschutes County elections. After the county insert, there appear 2½ additional pages of arguments in support of Measure 97 and all of the arguments in opposition — about 17 pages’ worth.

The separation is not intentional, said Molly Woon, communications director for the secretary of state’s office Sunday. The placement of the county insert is different for every county, she said, and officials are concerned primarily with the “logistics of getting it in there.”

“We just plop it in the middle,” she said.

Maybe they should "just plop it" at the end, instead. But no - that would make it more difficult for them to swing the election measure in the direction they favor. You can't blame them, because the separation of pro and con arguments on the measure surely wouldn't be intentional, because they're Democratics, and pure as wind-driven snow. Curiously, the Multnomah County version of the voter's pamphlet for our district has all arguments , pro and con on Measure 97 at the back of the guide - not split up as they did in other Counties. So it very obviously was intentional, and County-dependent.