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-Lurid Crime Tales-
He fought in World War II. He died in 2014. And he just registered to vote in Va.
Awful lot of these reports all of a sudden.
[WASHINGTONPOST] The FBI and local police are investigating how at least 19 dead Virginians were recently re-registered to vote in this critical swing state.

One case came to light after relatives of a deceased man received a note congratulating him for registering, Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha Garst said Thursday.

"His family members were very distraught," said Garst, who confirmed the existence of the FBI and police investigation but said she could provide few details because the case is ongoing.

All 19 were initially registered as voters in the Shenandoah Valley city of Harrisonburg, although a clerk double-checking the entries later raised questions about one. She recognized the name of Richard Allen Claybrook Sr., who died in 2014 at age 87, because his son is a well-known local judge. She happened to recall that the judge’s father had died.

"He was a retired Fairfax County elementary school principal and had fought in World War II," said his son, retired Harrisonburg General District Court Judge Richard Allen Claybrook Jr. "So our family is very disgusted that they would pick his name, because he was such a law-abiding citizen devoted to public service."

All of the forms had been submitted by a private group that was working to register voters on the campus of James Madison University, according to the Harrisonburg registrar’s office. The group was not identified. No charges have been filed.

Republicans in the state House of Delegates, who in recent years have supported tighter voter ID laws, held a conference call with news hounds to call attention to the investigation.

"Oftentimes we hear our fellow wardheelers suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia, or it’s a myth," House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) said. "This is proof that voter fraud not only exists but is ongoing and is a threat to the integrity of our elections."

House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Richard always was a scrapper.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2016 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The group was not identified. No charges have been filed.

I can see at least 5 possibilities from this list of James Madison University campus organizations.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2016 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Was his name Lazarus by any chance? Was he registered as a Dem? The Donk slogan is "Dead Lives Matter" (at election time).
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead

And this is proof, how? I suppose it was inadvertent? Just how does that happen? F*&king lying thieving Democrats
Posted by: Frank G || 09/30/2016 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  When ever fraudulent registrations are found, the Democrats play innocent and say it's not election fraud because "no votes were cast". Except the purpose of those registrations is to allow votes to be cast for them -- likely by absentee ballot or early voting.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/30/2016 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead.

By that same logic, if I'm caught with the plans to rob a bank, but I don't actually rob the bank, I haven't committed a crime. Of course, only a Democrat can rationalize this stuff.
Posted by: Raj || 09/30/2016 14:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Conspiracy to commit a crime is also a crime.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/30/2016 18:22 Comments || Top||

#8  The man was a patriot and a veteran of WW2. Surely mere death shouldn't rob him of his vote!
The person who registered him and intended to submit his absentee ballot would doubtless have used an ouija board to do so.
Nothing to see here.
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 09/30/2016 23:04 Comments || Top||


Democrats Trying To Ban Fox News Using FEC
[CITIZEN-ACTION] The Democrats have a strong hold on the media and now they just want to get rid of the competition all together. The top ranking Democrats on the Federal Election Commission are trying to set the stage to stop companies with foreign investors from covering American politics.

Fox News is the only major cable network that has more than 5% ownership from foreign investors. The decision would also hurt the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
The ban would keep the news agencies "from funding expenditures, independent expenditures, or electioneering communications."

The ban would mean that the only major conservative leaning news outlet in America would be banned from talking about politics.

If this happens, then more liberal news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC would continue to operate as normal. The only views you would get in the media would be liberal views.

We already know that Obama is turning over the Internet in an irreversible action to an international group and now they want to completely eliminate Republican views from television.

So far in this election the media has showed its bias, but so has Facebook and Google. Both of the Internet giants have been caught censoring information on Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Quincy Adams ...
while promoting negative information on Trump.

As of right now, the Democrats are laying the groundwork needed to have complete control over the media, and it doesn’t seem like anyone is stopping them.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Democrats are Stalinist totalitarians, through and through. They want the same relationship with U.S. news media that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had with Pravda and Izvestia: total control of the news.

If they could have things their way, they would make criticizing the Democratic Party a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment or death. And they will, if we let them.
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/30/2016 5:39 Comments || Top||

#2  But the democrats have no issues with a Mexican billionaire owning the New York Times.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/30/2016 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3   But the democrats have no issues with a Mexican billionaire owning the New York Times.

Yes. Some furrin ownership is furriner than others. Got it?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/30/2016 6:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Fox news is weak tea. It boggles the mind that even such a minor deviation from the party line causes such consternation among the Left. One is reminded of the 30's Bolsheviks.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/30/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#5  The Democrats have a strong hold choke hold on the {MSM} media How about an investigation of the link between Dems and the propaganda arm of the Dem Party, the MSM?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2016 8:24 Comments || Top||

#6  They have been trying to ban Fox news and the Drudge report for years.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/30/2016 9:02 Comments || Top||

#7  How about candidates or their interests having received foreign $ be banned from elective office?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/30/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Fox news is weak tea. It boggles the mind that even such a minor deviation from the party line causes such consternation among the Left.

Smashing symbols and erasing the past is fundamental to collectivism.

Wait, sounds like who?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2016 10:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Smashing symbols and erasing the past is fundamental to collectivism.

Funny... its the same for Islam. No wonder the Dems love the terrorists...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/30/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
FBI investigates hackers targeting Democrat phones
[IsraelTimes] A month after party institutions hacked by Russians, more unnamed officials reported to come under cyber attack.

The FBI suspects foreign hackers have attempted to break into phones belonging to members of the Democratic Party, among them unnamed elected officials, Rooters quoted government sources as saying Tuesday.

The cyberattacks took place in the past month, and Sherlocks suspect that like August’s hack of party servers, Russian hackers may be behind the incident.

It wasn’t clear from the report whether the hacks were successful or not.
Given the Clinton group's historic disinterest in security of any sort beyond protection from annoyance by those who disagree with them, the odds are high the hacker succeeded.
The attacks came a month after House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
told fellow Democrats she was the target of "an electronic Watergate break-in" targeting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democratic Party entities. As a result, a mix of personal and official information of Democratic members and hundreds of congressional staff, purportedly from a hack of the DCCC, was posted online, she said.

A hacker who calls himself Guccifer 2.0 took credit for posting the information. He had grabbed credit for the recent hack of Democratic National Committee emails, which roiled the Democratic National Convention last month. While Guccifer 2.0 has described himself as a Romanian hacker and denies working for Russia, online Sherlocks assert that he is linked to Russia.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Trump administration needs to flush the top leadership of DOJ. A reorganized FBI needs to take the next steps, having a "real" investigation of the Clinton organized crime syndicate. It's a start, it might take 8 or more years to clean up BHO's and HRC's mess.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2016 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Only one problem with that John,

Every single alphabet agency's leadership in DC is a part of the criminal cabal. Whoever does try to clean up the mess may very well end their presidency in the same way Kennedy did.

Then demoncratic party isn't a political party. It is a criminal organization.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/30/2016 9:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Co-Corpse Obama Eulogizes Peres
Posted by: Grunter || 09/30/2016 08:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "He was a man who tried to solve the 'Jewish Problem'"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2016 13:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Bill Clinton Tries To Wear A Yarmulke At Shimon Peres’ Funeral:
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/30/2016 19:36 Comments || Top||

#3  looks like he just took his dust mask
off his nose and slid it up
on top
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/30/2016 21:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Dunno'. Maybe he thought he was pledging to a frat?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/30/2016 22:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Chelsea Clinton: Marijuana Can Kill
"...and that's why Daddy didn't inhale!"
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The more I hear about her, the more I think Hillary repaid Bill in kind.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2016 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, he inhaled. Might explain Bill's sperm count or the lack thereof.
Posted by: Glith Bucket9951 || 09/30/2016 3:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Sgt. Stadanko to the green courtesy phone...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/30/2016 6:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Old photo. The Webb square chin has been modified since the photo was taken.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2016 6:54 Comments || Top||

#5  A spitting image of her old man.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2016 8:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Slightly OT (HT: Weasel Zippers):

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/30/2016 10:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Who?
Posted by: newc || 09/30/2016 14:14 Comments || Top||

#8  It can kill? Like her mother?
Posted by: Crusader || 09/30/2016 14:53 Comments || Top||

#9  This sounds as if she's trying to send the millennials towards the third party ticket. What's up with that?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/30/2016 15:54 Comments || Top||

#10  You be the judge.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2016 16:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Is she being a rebel against the Dem's weed use? Interesting development.
Posted by: Chusotch Dingle8011 || 09/30/2016 16:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Thought that too, CD8011.

Maybe she stole some of mom's meds when she stopped in the other day.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2016 18:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Well, her mother DOES kill...
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/30/2016 21:53 Comments || Top||



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