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Flap is truly shocked that the left-leaning Ventura County Star editorial board would actually endorse a Republican incumbent Assemblywoman.

Twice now in four years, The Star Editorial Board has endorsed Democrat Ferial Masry, a remarkable woman who has run unsuccessfully against incumbent Republican Assemblywoman Audra Strickland in the 37th Assembly District.

This year — the last for which Ms. Strickland can run for the Assembly before she is termed out in 2010 — The Star Editorial Board is endorsing Ms. Strickland.

We continue to admire Ms. Masry, 59, a high school teacher in the San Fernando Valley, for her common-sense approach to governance, democratic ideals and grasp of the issues. She would make an outstanding legislator.

However, voters have twice chosen Ms. Strickland over Ms. Masry to represent them in the 37th Assembly District, which includes Camarillo, Ojai, Fillmore, Santa Paula, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley. This year, the Republican registration lead in the 37th Assembly District has been whittled down to 7 percentage points from 11 four years ago — still relatively safe for a Republican.

Flap bets the Ventura County Star is acknowledging that the 37th Assembly District is a GOP “SAFE” one and why fight a rising tide in a sinking boat.

The real prize is, of course, the California State Senate District which Audra’s husband, Tony, is seeking.

There is no way the Ventura County Star will endorse Tony Strickland in that race and Flap bets the editorial is especially scathing – even for the VC Star.

The Sarah Palin “HANGED” Effigy has been pulled down.

An effigy of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been taken down from a West Hollywood home, after the homeowner discussed the situation with the city’s mayor.

The mannequin hanging by a noose was part of a larger Halloween display that included an effigy of John McCain coming out of the chimney surrounded by fake flames. The display has drawn national attention and a visit from the Secret Service, which decided there was no threat.

Earlier in the afternoon, neighbors covered up the Palin mannequin with sheets, in what was described as a friendly protest.

Later a handful of protesters were joined by an SUV with an effigy labeled “Chad,” after the display’s creator, Chad Morrisette.

Local politicians and city officials, including Supervisor Mike Antonovich, called the images offensive and urged their removal.

Creator Chad Morrissette decided to remove the figures after discussing the situation with West Hollywood Mayor Jeffrey Prang, Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

“My understanding is that the mayor had a long talk with the man and convinced him to bring it down. The homeowner began to realize what they had done caused a little more of a reaction than they had hoped for,” Whitmore said.

Actually, there is another reason why this gay West Hollywood homeowner removed the display: California Proposition 8 – Protect Traditional Marriage Constitutional Amendment that is on the ballot next Tuesday.

West Hollywood is a predominantly homosexual enclave in Los Angeles County. The hatred for Sarah Palin runs deep in the gay community because she supports Proposition 8 (redefining marriage as between a man and a woman) and a federal Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

But, the No on 8 Committee has been on the down-lo on the consequences of gay marriage and any public display of the intense hatred for Sarah Palin is self-defeating. Flap bets this was the gist of the conversation Chad Morrissette had with West Hollywood’s Mayor.

Interesting to note the display was removed prior to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval where Flap is positive there will be many men dressed up as Sarah Palin – hanged or otherwise.

The good ol’ boys at Red State Update have the goods – watch below:

Flap’s favorite graph: ‘Cuda stickin’ it to McCain. As George Will certainly did this morning in the Washington Post.

But, who cares about that, RIGHT?

The Columbus Dispatch : Checks on ‘Joe’ more extensive than first acknowledged

A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on “Joe the Plumber” were more extensive than it first acknowledged. Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system. The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote. Jones-Kelley made the revelations in a letter to Ohio Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland, who demanded answers on why state officials checked out Wurzelbacher. Harris called the multiple records checks “questionable” and said he awaits more answers. “It’s kind of like Big Brother is looking in your pocket,” he said. 

++++++ Big Brother? – just wait until the Obama Administration, brother.
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West Hollywood Sarah Palin effigy taken down | Los Angeles Times
A California couple who hung a controversial effigy of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin from a noose off the side of their house have removed the display under pressure from city officials. ChadMichael Morrisette, the man who constructed the mannequin as part of a Halloween display, told The Times that he decided to remove the Palin mannequin on Wednesday after meeting with West Hollywood Mayor Jeffrey Prang. Originally he’d vowed to keep the display up until Saturday. Earlier in the day, about half a dozen of Morrisette’s neighbors had protested the display and tried to block it from the view of passing motorists, according to Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
++++++++ Did they take it down because of California Proposition 8 and the attention it was bringing to West Hollywood’s Gay Carnaval on Friday. Too late, morons.
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Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango – Times Online
Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story. Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

+++++++ Nice and a contributor as well.Hey Barry how about sharing the wealth for your own family…
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Palin Stumps with Joe the Plumber, Mocks the LA Times – Washingtonpost.com
“This associate, Rashid Khalidi, he — in addition being a political ally of Barack Obama — is a former spokesperson for Palestinian Liberation Organization,” Palin continued, brushing aside Khalidi’s denial that he was ever a PLO spokesman. “The twist here is there’s a videotape of a party for this person. A celebration of him. Barack was there. Some very derogatory things were said there of Israel and America’s support for that great nation. Among other things, Israel was described there as the perpetrator of terrorism rather than the victim. What we don’t know is how Barack Obama responded to these slurs on a country that he professes to support, and the reason we don’t know is the newspaper that has this tape, the Los Angeles Times, refuses to release it.” Then, the Alaska governor openly mocked the L.A. Times as pandering to Obama (the paper has said it cannot release the tape because it received it from a source on condition that it not be published and intends to honor that com
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Tip: Two quotes from the Obama-Khalidi videotape
Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.” It would be really controversial if it got out. Tha’s why they will not even let a transcript get out.

+++++++ Will someone at the LA Times sneek the video out?
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Hidin’ Biden: Reining In a Voluble No. 2 – TIME
It would have been nice to ask that question of Biden himself, but a campaign spokesman told me the Senator was suffering from a cold that made it a strain to give interviews. (I didn’t glean evidence of any symptoms during the four speeches that I watched him give over two days.) The spokesman also said Biden would consider it “presumptuous” to talk about how he would perform the job for which he is running. Or maybe it simply wasn’t in the script.

+++++++ Hiding the GAFFE machine……
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John Murtha is running scared; new internal poll shows virtual dead heat – Michelle Malkin
The momentum has shifted. National media and politicos are paying attention. Veterans are standing up against the troop-slandering incumbent. The polls are tightening. (A new one posted at GrassrootsPA shows a virtual dead heat: MURTHA 45.5% RUSSELL 43.7%.) And John Murtha is squealing like the pig he is. Here he is cursing his head off and attacking Russell as a carpetbagger. House Democrats have pitched in funds to try and bail him out of his self-created mess.

+++++++ So goes Murtha may go McCain in Pennsylvania.
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California Catholic Daily – “Do not betray the trust the public has placed in you”
Despite a personal plea from the auxiliary bishop of San Diego and a large demonstration by supporters of traditional marriage outside their chambers, the San Diego City Council voted on Monday afternoon to oppose Proposition 8, which would outlaw same-sex marriages in California.

++++++ Should California Proposition 8 fail, the Homosexual lobby will begin the push for more forced relgious re-education. Watch Catholic services end adoption services in California.
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Is This Much-Touted Democratic Wave Skipping Certain Districts? – Geraghty
Patrick Ruffini echoes the theme of this post — that for what’s supposed to be a terrible cycle for Republicans, they’re poised to knock off some Democratic incumbents, something they couldn’t do at all in 2006 — and points to another House races where the GOP is overperforming. In Georgia, Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott is only up by 5 percent, and is way below 50 percent. A couple readers responded to yesterday’s post by pointing to anecdotal evidence that their Democratic congressman is in trouble. In most cases, I’ll believe it when I see it, but it’s interesting that we’re being told that it’s a Democratic wave election, but the wave isn’t showing up in certain districts — and these are districts in swing states like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Florida. Ruffini is right — “If you’re a no name challenger who gets 40 to 45 percent next Tuesday, you’re in excellent position to come back in 2010.”

++++++ Indeed GOP losses have started to bottom out in this cycle.

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Actually, the quote from Sarah Palin on 2012 was “I’m not doing this for naught.” Here is Wolf Blitzer on CNN mis-reading the Palin interview over at ABC News with Elizabeth Vargas.

Here is the quote that is that is creating a FLAP, apparently within Team McCain.

ELIZABETH VARGAS: If it doesn’t go your way on Tuesday … 2012?

GOV SARAH PALIN: I’m just … thinkin’ that it’s gonna go our way on Tuesday, November 4. I truly believe that the wisdom of … of the people will be revealed on that day. As they enter that voting booth, they will understand the stark contrast between the two tickets. …

VARGAS: But the point being that you haven’t been so bruised by some of the double standard, the sexism on the campaign trail, to say, “I’ve had it. I’m going back to Alaska.”

PALIN: Absolutely not. I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we’ve taken, that … that would … bring this whole … I’m not doin’ this for naught.

Frankly, any observer of American politics can read Palin’s statement as one of stead fast defiance (the ‘Cuda) of the harsh treatment she and her family has received or one of future ambition.

Flap has already written about Palin’s future ambition and her future is bright. This will likely be John McCain’s last campaign win or lose on Tuesday.

So, what is the surprise at Team McCain? The media has been twisting and misconstruing McCain-Palin statements the entire cycle. Flap thinks they are a bit too sensitive.

Sarah Palin was talking about not giving up and slinking back home to Alaska. In other words she was saying: illegitimi non carborundum. Now, if you want to construe an ambitious meaning to her statement…..

OK.