The latest news from the Rasmussen Tracking Poll is very encouraging for McCain.
Obama's favorable-unfavorable is 46 to 51, its all time low, demonstrating no ability yet to stanch the bleeding. No wonder they trotted out Bill Richardson with his Fu Man Chu beard.
But here is really evidence of what has happened with white voters:
Arkansas: McCain leads Clinton 50-43. McCain leads Obama by 59-30.
Kentucky: McCain leads Clinton 53-43. He destroys Obama 64-28.
Lower middle income whites have deserted Obama. In one Pennsylvania poll, Clinton now leads Obama by 26. She has now taken the lead from him in North Carolina. Rasmussen national numbers: Clinton 46, Obama 44.
Head to head general: McCain 49, Obama 41; McCain 49, Clinton 43.
No question that Hillary is the stronger general election candidate. She is more competitive in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida. Obama does better than Hillary in states Dems will lose anyway: Georgia, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska.
Other good news:
Only Arkansas among Southern states was really in play. Now McCain leads even Clinton there.
McCain is very well-positioned in Florida: Sen. Lieberman will get Jewish votes for him, veterans, Cubans, northern Panhandle whites don't like Obama or Clinton.
Virginia is suprisingly strong for McCain, who holds solid leads over both Dems.
The Dims will have to nominate Hillary to have any chance in the general. Unfortunately for them, B*O can still legitimately claim to be the "people's choice."
Denver is going to make Chicago '68 look like an Osmond concert.
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Obama does better than Hillary in states Dems will lose anyway: Georgia, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska.
Here's an interesting analysis that, as a spambot, I can't post of why Hussein does well in some states and not so in others. Looks like he's started his debate.
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"Denver is going to make Chicago '68 look like an Osmond concert."
What's the downside, AC?
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Down side? It will be hard to persuade rioters to attack the media shills. We can always hope though.
There is also the wear and tear on our armor when Bush has to roll them north from Fort Carson to restore order.
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Under the Posse Comitatus Act, federal troops cannot be used for law enforcement. Sorry, but it is a city and state problem, unless it turns into a general insurrection. The (Democratic) governor could call out the Colorado National Guard, though.
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The Colorado National Guard Special Forces units could cut their way through the liberal morons with only a bunch of wet spaghetti.
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If a riot is so serious that it might rate federal intervention, what is it but a general insurrection?
Flakes and conspira-loons say one thing, but the courts and Congress have a different view. Federal troops have been deployed in civil disturbances many times since the passage of Posse Comitatus, notably in Detroit in 1968 and again in Los Angeles in 1992. Actions taken under the Insurrection Act (which these would be) have always been exempt from Posse Comitatus. Posse Comitatus is often misrepresented by conspiracy theorists and other flakes but the case law and history are clear. The translation is often rendered as "power of the people" by conspiracy flakes, for example, but "power of the county" is more accurate.
That is, federal troops cannot be used at the behest of any local or state officials or the federal law enforcement establishment without Presidential authorization under the Insurrection Act.
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It is also worth remembering that Posse Comitatus is a statute and not an article of the Constitution.
Misunderstanding of this act is so prevalent that I have even heard various idiots claim that it prevents the military from confronting invaders on American soil.
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Chew on this Rambler. Its amazing when the military is used by liberals or for liberal objectives no one seems to mention Posse Comitatus. The truth is that Posse Comitatus was passed by the Donks in 1878 so the federal troops would be removed from the voting stations in the south. Instead of 'protecting' civil liberties, it was used to eliminate the civil rights of blacks for nearly a hundred years.
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#10. Col Gov. Bill Ritter said from the beginning he would not stump for a candidate. He is one of Democratic 10 governors who have not committed to either Clinton or Obama.
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Wouldn't it be funny if the dems had to take out catastrophe insurance to get a city to host their conventions in the future?
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The Dems are gonna have an accelerated depreciation field trip in Denver this summer.
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I have one word for the Donks: don't mess with Denver.
Camp George West is between Lakewood and Golden, and is the state's Emergency Command Post. I'm sure it will be manned 24/7 during the convention. It's also the largest Army National Guard arsenal in the state, with Bradleys, Strykers, and at least a company of M1A1 tanks. About half of Colorado's National Guard personnel have served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Buckley Air National Guard Base, on the eastern edge of Aurora (a Denver suburb) hosts an ANG squadron of F-16s, plus at least a squadron of Army National Guard helicopters.
Fort Carson is home to the 10th Special Forces Group. Biggs Army Airfield has about 400 aircraft, including Apaches and Blackhawks.
There are more than 85,000 retired military living in Denver. There are another 35,000 in Colorado Springs.
Colorado has a statute that allows the governor to call upon ALL police in the state during an emergency. That's a BUNCH.
Buckley, DIA, Peterson, and the airport in Pueblo are all capable of handling the largest aircraft in the US inventory. Fort Riley, Kansas, one of the nation's largest Army posts, isn't that far away.
Most Coloradans have at least one firearm in their homes, and a third probably have something that will stop an elk or a bear. Elk and bear are harder to kill than humans.
At least half of Coloradans have an "attitude" about people coming here and messing up their state. It's a nice way to get your teeth violently removed. This is still a rodeo state and a cowboy state - don't let all that skiing and snowboarding confuse you.
My suggestion to the Donks is "Be nice, or stay home."
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I think I'd better triple my popcorn order, OP. :-D
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OP, as one who considers himself a "part-time" cowboy or rodeo junkie AND a snow-skier, I resent your remark that we can't be both! Colorado is one of my fave destinations, in that you can get the feel of Texas (very independent), but also enjoy some of the "creature comforts" that liberals love (Starbucks, GREAT food, etc.).
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NEW YORK, March 20 -- In the latest revelation of a series of gubernatorial sex scandals, Gov. David A. Paterson has admitted he might have billed a hotel tryst with his lover to his campaign, listing the expenditure as "constituent services."
"I'm just looking after my constituents! One of 'em, anyways"
The New York Daily News reported today that Paterson occasionally used campaign funds to cover personal expenses and misreported the purpose of that spending. The newspaper said he generally reimbursed the campaign for those charges. But Paterson acknowledged in an interview with the Daily News that he might not have reimbursed at least one payment.
The Daily News also found that in 2002, Paterson's campaign paid $500 for "professional services" to Lila Kirton, 49, a high-ranking state employee with whom Paterson had an extramarital affair.
I'll bet she was a 'professional' ...
Shortly after he was sworn in as governor, Paterson told reporters that he had had affairs with several women but said he never "knowingly" broke the law by diverting campaign funds toward his liaisons.
But he told the Daily News on Wednesday that while he was Senate minority leader, from 2002 to 2006, he once used a campaign credit card to pay for a room for a meeting with a woman at the Quality Hotel, now the Days Inn, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. "I do remember that there was a time I might have had to use the [campaign] card because my other [personal] card didn't work," he said, adding that the room cost about $100.
Sure, happens all the time, your personal card doesn't work so you pull out the taxpayers' card. Easy mistake to make ...
Records show the campaign paid a $103.87 Quality Hotel bill Dec. 20, 2002, and noted the expense as "constituent services," according to the Daily News.
Paterson said he "believed" he'd reimbursed the campaign for the room, but the Daily News could find no record of such a payment. "If I didn't, I will do it now," he said.
Now that you've been caught ...
The campaign paid for three other Quality Hotel stays, including two in September 2001 and one in September 2003, the Daily News reported, although the paper did not say these payments involved liaisons with women.
Paterson said a different $500 payment to Kirton was to reimburse her contributions on his behalf to Carl McCall, then the Democratic candidate for governor. "She went to a fund-raiser that I couldn't go to. She went there and paid to get in. And we paid back for it," Paterson told the Daily News.
Such an expenditure might have been illegal, as a pass-through political donation on another person's behalf. "We know it wasn't a pass-through," because she made no contribution to Carl McCall, said Henry Berger, a counsel for the Paterson campaign.
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The Daily News also found that in 2002, Paterson's campaign paid $500 for "professional services" to Lila Kirton, 49, a high-ranking state employee with whom Paterson had an extramarital affair.
Are all high-ranking state employees prostitutes, or just Lila here? Hmm? At $500 a pop for "professional services", keep the night job.
Paterson isn't having "affairs", he's just paying hookers for sex, Concerned Constituents or not.
"An act of betrayal," said James Carville, an adviser to the Clintons.
"[Bill] Richardson's endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic," Carville said.
Under this analogy, Hillary is Jesus and Pennsylvania Easter morning. This may be a rhetorical overreach, James.
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Democrat Theology: "We are God your betters; bow down before us and worship us."
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The implosion continues... there simply isn't enough butter to keep up with my popcorn intake. My doctor will not be pleased.
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The only reason Carvile wears a tie is to keep his foreskin from snapping up over his face.
The man is a grade A jerk. One of the few people in the world I would punch square in the face, upon sight, and laugh about it.
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Mary Matlin married ol cueball Carville. Never could figure this--Oh well; not my problem. Whenever Carville appears on TV, I use it as an opportunity to drain the kidneys.
CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth still warming?"
Morocco called on Algeria on Thursday to normalise relations between the North African neighbours and reopen the border closed 14 years ago. Rabat's move came two days after Morocco and Algeria-backed Western Sahara's Polisario independence movement ended a fourth round of talks near New York without narrowing differences on Africa's longest-running territorial dispute.
Morocco's government regards thawing ties with Algeria as the key to end the deadlock over the dispute with Polisario. "The Kingdom of Morocco calls with a brotherly friendship and total sincerity for a normalisation of the bilateral relations and the re-opening of the border between the two countries," said the Foreign Ministry in a statement. Algeria closed the border in 1994 after Rabat accused its security forces of involvement in a Marrakesh hotel shooting.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe warned the opposition on Friday against Kenyan-style violence if they lose next week's election, saying security forces stood ready to crush such protests. The 84-year-old leader faces a stiff challenge from former ally Simba Makoni and long time rival Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), amid a desperate economic crisis.
Mugabe said security forces would put down any violence similar to clashes in Kenya that killed more than 1,200 people after the opposition challenged the results of an election in December. "If Tsvangirai and his (MDC) group have such plans, they must stand warned," Mugabe told about 20,000 cheering supporters in his rural home area of Zvimba, 100 km north-west of Harare. "That will never happen here, never, never. We will never allow it. We have enough security forces to handle that."
Political analysts say Mugabe, who earlier this year looked assured of an easy re-election, faces a serious bid from Makoni, who says he is working with some senior officials of the ruling ZANU-PF party and a resurgent Tsvangirai.
Tsvangirai on Thursday accused Mugabe of abusing his position to win next week's poll by invoking presidential powers to amend electoral laws to allow police officers -- whose superiors have publicly backed Mugabe -- to assist illiterate and disabled voters in polling booths. Previously, the law did not allow police officers within 100 metres (yards) of polling stations.
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abusing his position to win next week's poll by invoking presidential powers to amend electoral laws to allow Super Deligates police officers -- whose superiors have publicly backed Mugabe -- to assist illiterate and disabled voters in polling booths.
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'God damn Zimbabwe, they must have done something real bad to deserve even the thought of another sunrise with zanu-pf in charge'. (Thunder from the pulpit of Fever). The election result has already been decided by the Chinese, and, after all, Zimboland has nothing to boycott.
(Xinhua) -- Government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are prepared to disarm Rwandan rebels on its soil in a few weeks, a top DRC military official said Sunday.
Dieudonne Kayembe, the DRC Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff, said the Congolese army is poised to take action in the provinces of South Kivu and North Kivu, to force members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) to give up their arms.
Kayembe said in the eastern city of Goma that the DRC will unwaveringly implement November's Joint Nairobi Communique, under which DRC and Rwanda agreed to work together against threats to peace and stability in the region. The FDLR includes former Rwandan military groups responsible for carrying out the 100-day genocide in 1994, which killed an estimated 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis and Hutus.
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Detained former premier and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia refused to become a voter as the government what she said detained her illegally.
Emerging from the sub-jail yesterday, her lawyer Ahmed Azam Khan told reporters that Khaleda Zia said the government detained her illegally and so she wouldn't become a voter in protest. Jail authorities had gone to the sub-jail with voter registration forms twice for making her voter, but she refused to register.
Twice more than she deserved.
Another former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, also detained in another sub-jail nearby, has become voter from Dhanmondi area.
Ahmed Azam said the BNP chairperson is concerned over price hike of essentials and termed it a great crisis for the nation. The family counsel of Khaleda Zia said she urged the caretaker government to send abroad her two detained sons for treatment.
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Sounds suspiciously like "Vote for ME, and you'll go free".
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Doctors at Square Hospital found severe hearing problems of detained Awami League President Sheikh Hasina after doing several medical tests. Hasina has been undergoing treatment at the hospital since March 11. "We have found problems in both of her ears after doing different tests," said Dr Sarwar-e-Alam during a press conference at the hospital yesterday. He said she has problems in her eyes as well.
He said the medical team formed at the hospital to examine Hasina's health would make formal recommendations about her health to the jail authorities on Sunday. The recommendations would be made final after doing some more medical tests today and tomorrow, he added.
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Nine months after the general elections, Belgium's new government was finally sworn-in Thursday with Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme appointed as the country's new prime minister. King Albert II swore in the new administration in the royal palace in the afternoon. Leterme, whose party was the biggest winner in the polls in June, succeeded Guy Verhofstadt as prime minister.
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I'm beginning to wonder about McPeak. He doesn't sound to be tightly wrapped right now, he is making statements that don't sound like they have been thought over as they might be from a senior military officer.
Difference of opinion is one this but these remarks sound like they are coming from a second level political hack.
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Frank G, your lack of outrage over the Clintons refusing to release their tax returns and administrative papers are noteworthy. Your mild temperament at Bill Clinton inviting J. Wright to the White House for soothing, after his romp with Monica, smacks of being a hypocrit! Your feelings about McCain from before Iowa has certainly changed...and yes I checked the archives! But I understand; It's easier to focus on one persons 'blackness', than several peoples 'whiteness'! Rush Limbaugh has done the same! Just to put this in perspective!
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snm has drunken from the O'koolaid. He's a true believer. Politicians generally all con men/women. Obama is not the exception. But people have a need to believe. They project themselves on to these types and in doing so sell themselves on to whom they commit. As my o'man used to say [considering this time of the year], there was only one perfect human and we crucified him [literally, but along with a few hundred thousand by the Roman record].
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Frank G, your lack of outrage over the Clintons refusing to release their tax returns and administrative papers are noteworthy. Your mild temperament at Bill Clinton inviting J. Wright to the White House for soothing, after his romp with Monica, smacks of being a hypocrit! Your feelings about McCain from before Iowa has certainly changed...and yes I checked the archives! But I understand; It's easier to focus on one persons 'blackness', than several peoples 'whiteness'! Rush Limbaugh has done the same! Just to put this in perspective!
Where precisely were you and O'bama when the Hildebeest was having those people run over by tanks in Waco?
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yes, dipshit, I supported Hunter and Thompson. I will however, now support McCain, because at his worst he's still better than the racist and ethically challenged candidates you front for. I have no love for Clinton or his victim-wife, and yes, they should release the records. I have no time to do your work for you. Get your own ass out and do the outrage thang - me, I'm kicking back, like McCain, and enjoying watching you losers fight.....I'm even having a beverage or two and watching hoops while I kick your ass rhetorically - Have a nice day
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Richardson is Hispanic--like Geraldo I suppose? His mother must have been Hispanic. This donk race is getting interesting with all the mud slinging and subterfuge. A train wreck in the making. Makes one realize why the donks are not fit to run the country. Bunch of damn infantile jerks. My mother-in-law, who is Jewish has always voted Democrat. She said she will probably vote for McCain. I have been married 30 years and have never known her to vote Republican. Please pass some more popcorn.
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Eris, the goddess discord, doth reign. Three thousand years since the another great show and drama and human behavior remains the same. From wiki -
The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War. The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.
She therefore (in a fragment from the Kypria as part of a plan hatched by Zeus and Themis) tossed into the party the Apple of Discord, a golden apple inscribed Kallisti "For the most beautiful one", or "To the Fairest One" provoking the goddesses to begin quarreling about the appropriate recipient.
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"I sing to you of the wrath of Achilles the Hillary..."
I made up some platters of vegetables with Gorgonzola dip (I like it better than bleu cheese), for those whose arterial plaque levels are reaching the danger point. For those of you with another citizenship, we are looking forward as much as you to the day after our election in November, when life gets back to normal, however less amusing it may be. ;-)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The latest news from the Rasmussen Tracking Poll is very encouraging for McCain. 
NEW YORK, March 20 -- In the latest revelation of a series of gubernatorial sex scandals, Gov. David A. Paterson has admitted he might have billed a hotel tryst with his lover to his campaign, listing the expenditure as "constituent services."
CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe warned the opposition on Friday against Kenyan-style violence if they lose next week's election, saying security forces stood ready to crush such protests. The 84-year-old leader faces a stiff challenge from former ally Simba Makoni and long time rival Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), amid a desperate economic crisis. 
Nine months after the general elections, Belgium's new government was finally sworn-in Thursday with Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme appointed as the country's new prime minister. King Albert II swore in the new administration in the royal palace in the afternoon. Leterme, whose party was the biggest winner in the polls in June, succeeded Guy Verhofstadt as prime minister.
