• Hannah-Beth Jackson,  Tony Strickland

    Tony Strickland’s Lead Shrinks Today in California State Senate Race

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    Former California Assembly Members Tony Strickland and Hannah-Beth Jackson candidates for California State Senate District 19

    Ventura County Elections updated their vote totals today whereas Santa Barbara County and Los Angeles County did not.

    According to Flap’s math Republican Tony Strickland continues to lead by 1,164 votes versus 1,390 votes yesterday.

    The raw figures:

    Santa Barbara County:

    • Hannah-Beth Jackson: 73,351 (72,693) (#’s from last Friday) + 658
    • Tony Strickland: 58,497 (58,166) + 331

    Los Angeles County:

    • Hannah-Beth Jackson: 12,193 (12,083) + 110
    • Tony Strickland: 16,660 (16,493) + 167

    Ventura County:

    • Hannah-Beth Jackson: 119,780 [116,730 #’s from yesterday] +3,050 – 52%  ; (115,477) + 1,253
    • Tony Strickland: 131,331 [128,507] + 2,824 – 48% ;  (126,922) + 1,585

    Tony Strickland’s lead contracted today as returns from Ventura County (provisional ballots) broke for Hannah-Beth Jackson by four points (52-48%). There were an additional 5,874 ballots counted today which should leave around 5,000 or so to be counted.

    Flap does not know whether there will be any further updates from either Santa Barbara or Los Angeles County. Also, it is unknown whether Ventura County will update tomorrow – Flap doubts it.

    If Los Angeles County and Santa Barbara County are finished and Ventura County ballots break either for Tony Strickland or slightly for Hannah-Beth Jackson (e.g. 52-48%) Strickland wins by over 950 votes.

    As, I said before, it is POSSIBLE, but highly UNLIKELY, that Hannah-Beth Jackson can make up a vote deficit of 1,164 with around 5,000 to count.

    Stay tuned……..


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  • Gay Marriage

    Los Angeles Film Festival Director and California Proposition 8 Supporter Richard Raddon Resigns

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    LA Film Festival’s Rich Raddon and Film Independent Executive Director Dawn Hudson

    The Hollywood BLACKLIST over California Proposition 8 that restored the traditional definition of marriage (one man and one woman) has begun.

    Under mounting pressure, LA Film Festival director Richard Raddon has ankled his post.

    Raddon and Film Independent (FIND), the festival’s parent org, have faced a barrage of protests over Raddon’s contribution to the successful Yes on Prop 8 campaign that banned same-sex marriage in California.

    After bloggers published his name, culled from public records of donors, Raddon tendered his first resignation on Nov. 13 to Film Independent’s board of directors, which was not accepted. Film Independent then released a statement saying, in part, “Our organization does not police the personal, religious, or political choices of any employee, member, or filmmaker.”

    Yet Internet message boards and other published reports kept the issue at the center of a growing protest movement that has targeted “Yes on 8” donors including the Mormon church and Cinemark Theaters, whose CEO was a contributor.

    On Monday, Raddon submitted a second resignation. Those close to the org described Monday’s conference call with the board of directors as emotional. While Raddon’s contribution had caused some internal angst, he was well liked within the org.

    On Tuesday, Film Independent issued a statement saying “With great reluctance, Film Independent has accepted Richard Raddon’s resignation. Rich’s service to the independent film community and to Film Independent has been nothing less than extraordinary. He has always shown complete commitment to our core principles of equality and diversity during his long tenure.”

    Raddon, a devout Mormon who took the reins of the fest in 2000, said, “I have always held the belief that all people, no matter race, religion, or sexual orientation are entitled to equal rights. I prefer to keep the details around my contribution through my church a private matter. But I am profoundly sorry for the negative attention that my actions have drawn to Film Independent and for the hurt and pain that is being experienced in the GLBT community.”

    The oh so tolerant anti-Proposition 8 mob has another notch on their belt.

    Who will be the next victim?

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    Gay Marriage Proponents Boycotting Lassen’s Natural Foods & Vitamins Over Proposition 8?

    El Coyote Mexican Cafe Bullied Into $500 Donation to Homosexual Advocacy Group – JIZYA

    El Coyote Mexican Cafe Bullied Into $500 Donation to Homosexual Advocacy Group


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  • California,  Death Penalty

    California Executions May Resume By the End of 2008? NO They Won’t

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    In this photo released of Benjamin Vaughn, lower right, with his greatuncle Clarence Ray Allen, lower left, and Allen’s son Roger Allen,upper left, and his wife, Dell Ray Allen, upper right, inside San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Monday, Jan. 16, 2006, before the execution of Allen. Allen, 76, was sentenced to death for ordering the slaying of three people at a Fresno, Calif., market while he was behind bars in 1980 for another murder. The last California execution.

    Back in April there was some hope that the State of California would resume the death penalty for the slime of the earth so convicted of capital crimes.

    Remember that executions were halted in California by Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel who ruled that the three drug cocktail for lethal injections was unconstiutional – “cruel and unusal punishment.”

    The United States Supreme Court overruled Judge Fogel in a different case and in so doing paved the way for a resumption of the California death penalty.

    Or not.

    There will be no executions by California in the near future.

    An appellate court has ruled the state failed to follow required procedures in fashioning a revised protocol for administering lethal injections.

    The revised protocol was not vetted through a period of public notice and comment, as required by the state’s Administrative Procedures Act, a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled Friday.

    The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s failure to comply invalidated the protocol, the panel concluded.

    The ruling leaves the state with two options: send the protocol through the notice and comment process or appeal to the California Supreme Court, which may or may not agree to review the matter.

    Of course, ending California executions was BS in the first place with declaring that lethal injections were cruel and unusual punishment. But, what is the excuse from the Arnold Schwarzenegger Administration this time?

    Guess they are too incompetent to follow the rules.

    In the meantime, murderers like Michael Angelo Morales languish on death row at San Quentin.

    So, Judge Fogel’s BS order halting the California death penalty remains until the State of California follows the law and gains approval of a revised protocol for executing these capital criminals.

    Stay tuned……

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    California Executions May Resume By the End of 2008

    Michael Morales Watch: US Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection Executions

    Michael Morales Watch: Lethal Injection Hearings Delayed Again

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Halts Construction of San Quentin Death Chamber

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: New San Quentin Death Chamber Under Construction

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger Proposes Revised 5-Point Lethal Injection Protocol

    Michael Morales Watch: Judge
    Jeremy Fogel Rules – California Method of Lethal Injection Violates a
    Constitutional Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Postponed INDEFINITELY

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Tonight?

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Delayed by Doctor Walk Out

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: United States Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Morales Execution

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency Petition

    Michael Angelo Moreno Watch: State Agrees to Place Anesthesia Expert in Death Chamber

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Lawyers Withdraw Allegedly Faked Juror Statements Supporting Their Clemency Bid

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Federal Judge May Delay Execution

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Ventura County Judge Asks California Governor Schwarzenegger for Clemency

    Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Kenneth Starr to Assist Death Row Clemency Bid


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  • Sarah Palin,  Saxby Chambliss

    Sarah Palin to CLOSE Saxby Chambliss Race for Georgia U.S. Senate

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    Alaska Governor Sarah Palin campaigning in Iowa, October 25, 2008

    Sarah Palin hits the GOP road again to campaign the day before the Georgia U.S. Senate run-off election.

    Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will make multiple campaign appearances on behalf of Sen. Saxby Chambliss next week in Georgia, serving as the political closer for the GOP senator who is battling to win a second term.

    This is Palin’s first campaign appearance on behalf of another Republican candidate since losing her bid to become the nation’s first woman to serve as vice president.

    Palin will attend a fundraiser on Sunday night, then appear at multiple campaign stops on Monday in an effort to rally the GOP base to turn out to vote for Chambliss. The incumbent Republican is facing a strong challenge from Democrat Jim Martin. A runoff is scheduled for next Tuesday, after neither candidate received the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win on Election Day.

    Run-off elections are ALL about turnout and if there is anyone who can motivate GOP base voters to go to the polls next Tuesday, it is Sarah Palin.

    Sarah Palin is the CLOSER.

    The GOP needs this seat to maintain its ability to filibuster heinous Democrat initiatives in the Senate and Palin is happy to oblige as the darling of the RIGHT.


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  • GOP,  Katon Dawson,  Republican National Committee

    Should South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson Withdraw as a Candidate for Chair of the Republican National Committee?

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    South Carolina Republican Chairman Katon Dawson

    The answer is YES.

    Double YES

    Three Strikes and you are OUT.

    State GOP chairman Katon Dawson, who is campaigning to lead the national Republican Party organization, has resigned a 12-year membership in a whites-only Columbia country club.

    Dawson said last week his continued membership at Forest Lake Club could become a distraction to his efforts to help win elections for Republicans in South Carolina.

    With the upcoming inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States does the Republican Party want to deal with this “BAGGAGE.” Not really a winning message, is it?

    Gee, POTUS would NOT be allowed to play golf there?

    Katon Dawson should withdraw his candidacy.


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  • United States

    United States to Decline and Breakup?

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    Matt Drudge screams the headline and some Russian anlayst has this:

    A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.

    Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.”

    The paper said Panarin’s dire predictions for the U.S. economy, initially made at an international conference in Australia 10 years ago at a time when the economy appeared strong, have been given more credence by this year’s events.

    When asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said: “It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world’s financial regulator.”

    When asked who would replace the U.S. in regulating world markets, he said: “Two countries could assume this role: China, with its vast reserves, and Russia, which could play the role of a regulator in Eurasia.”

    Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: “A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”

    He also cited the “vulnerable political setup”, “lack of unified national laws”, and “divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions.”

    He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts – the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.

    He even suggested that “we could claim Alaska – it was only granted on lease, after all.” Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored several books on information warfare.

    Developing…

    Wishful thinking by a MORON.

    • Yes, the United States is in a financial crisis.
    • Yes, the government will bail out the auto makers and other major industries.
    • Yes, the USA has too much debt.
    • Yes, the United States is too dependent on foreign sources of oil.

    But……the American people understand that our democratic republic form of government works and that together we stand, divided we fall.


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  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir November 25, 2008 – Can You Say Bias? I Knew You Could

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    NOW, that “The One” has been elected Obama does NOT need any damn media questioning his decisions or appointments. And, he does NOT need any NUTROOTS questioning his left-wing credentials.

    Obama has the e-mail and cell phone text messaging capabilities to communicate to the flock without them.

    YES HE CAN AND WILL.

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    The Day By Day Archive


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  • Del.icio.us Links

    links for 2008-11-25

    • California officials are planning to investigate whether the Mormon church gave an accurate accounting of its role in the campaign that succeeded in getting a same-sex marriage ban approved in the state.

      The action by the California Fair Political Practices Commission came in response to a complaint filed two weeks ago by a gay rights activist. Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, accuses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of failing to report the value of the work it did to support Proposition 8.

      Roman Porter, the agency's executive director, said Monday that the decision to open an investigation does not mean staff members have determined there was any wrongdoing, only that Karger's complaint merits further inquiry.
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      Payback time……

    • ABC News has learned that Dr. Susan Rice has emerged as the leading candidate to be President-elect Obama's nominee as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

      Neither Dr. Rice nor the Obama Transition Team had any comment. The usual caveats apply — nothing is yet a done deal, nothing has been officially offered or accepted, national security team announcements will not come until after Thanksgiving.

      Dr. Rice, a member of President Bill Clinton's National Security Council and a former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was involved in President-elect Obama's campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser.
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      Another Clinton Administration official……

    • Now, the association says the surprising vice presidential nod Palin received is already helped stimulate interest.

      So far responses are up 20 percent from last year.
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      Alaska cruises are spectcular I am told.

      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Alan Colmes will relinquish his role as co-host of Hannity & Colmes at the end of the year.

      In announcing his decision, Colmes said, “I approached Bill Shine (FNC’s Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network. Although it’s bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I’m proud that both Sean (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years.”

      Colmes will continue to have a presence on FNC as he will serve as a liberal commentator on a variety of FOX News programming, including Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room and continue hosting his radio program, The Alan Colmes Show on FOX Talk, a division of FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program.
      Sorry to see him go…..

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    • Channeling her inner rock star, attorney Gloria Allred threw her arms into the air to the cheers of more than a thousand who rallied outside the state Capitol on Saturday in hopes of overturning Proposition 8.

      The high-profile lawyer promised she'd help to ensure that same-sex couples have the right to marry by working to invalidate the controversial proposition.

      Allred, who declared that gay rights activists had a "good chance" of persuading the state Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8, was among several speakers at the Capitol rally.

      Saturday's rally – three days after the California court announced it would hear the constitutional challenge to Proposition 8 – was the third in Sacramento in as many weeks. It drew between 1,500 and 1,800 people to the Capitol's west steps.
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      Another Flop for a gay marriage rally. No support…..

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    • Opponents of Proposition 8 might have to go back to the ballot to reverse the ban on same-sex marriage, speakers told a crowd of about 5,000 at a loud and enthusiastic gay-rights rally in front of the state Capitol on Saturday.
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      Aniother flop. Flap is e-mailed that there were less than 3000 present.
      (tags: gaymarriage)
    • Speaking on ABC's "This Week," David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist, said the president-elect is weighing whether to let the cuts for the wealthy expire on Dec. 31, 2010, as provided in current law. Such a delay would permit Obama to avoid raising taxes during a recession.

      If accurate, this is fabulous news for several reasons. For starters, it means Obama will be avoiding the bad decision of taking money out of taxpayers' pockets at the exact moment the U.S. economy needs it the most. Second, if you're going to raise taxes, you want to do it far away from Election Day as possible. Obama and the Democrats, politically, would be best off raising taxes as early as possible. Congressional Republicans can, even from the minority, spend much of the summer and fall of 2010 loudly arguing in favor of extending the tax cuts — in what will be, at best, an economy that just emerged from a recession, or an economy still sluggishly plodding or worse.
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      Tax cut for whom?

    • Federal regulators approved a radical plan to stabilize Citigroup in an arrangement in which the government could soak up billions of dollars in losses at the struggling bank, the government announced late Sunday night.
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      Is Bank of America next?
    • Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years.
      That amount, more than the nation has spent over the past six years in Iraq, would rival the sum Congress committed last month to rescuing the country's financial system. It would also be one of the biggest public spending programs aimed at jolting the economy since President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
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      And, where is the $$$ coming from?