Whoops! But better in a primary than the real thing in November.
[Examiner] Election officials discovered 10,000 uncounted mail-in ballots over the weekend in Texas's most populous county after the first-in-the-nation 2022 primary last week.
Two close Democratic primary races, one for a state House seat and another for Texas attorney general, hang in the balance. The ballots, 6,000 for Democrats and 4,000 for Republicans, were scanned into the tabulation computer, but they were not added to the unofficial final results, Harris County officials announced Sunday.
"While we understand the seriousness of this error, the ability to identify and correct this issue is a result of a lengthy and rigorous process and is a positive example of the process ultimately working as it should," the county, which includes most of Houston, said in a statement obtained by the Texas Tribune.
Candis Houston, who is trailing incumbent state Rep. Harold Dutton Jr. by 136 votes in the Democratic primary, has already conceded the race. Dutton was baffled that so many ballots had gone missing without anyone noticing.
"It seems to me that somebody should’ve known that 10,000 ballots were missing," Dutton said. "If 10,000 ballots were missing and nobody knew that, God help us."
Joe Jaworski, former mayor of Galveston, Texas, leads civil rights attorney Lee Merritt by 1,418 votes in the race to become the Democratic nominee for attorney general. Although Jaworski claimed victory Friday, Merritt has not conceded, and it remains unclear who will receive the second spot in a runoff planned for May. Incumbent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will also face a runoff election after failing to secure at least 50% of the vote in the Lone Star State’s Republican primary.
Among the other complications reported for the March 1 primary in Harris County were delays caused by 1,600 damaged ballot sheets, two voting locations reporting minor technical difficulties with their machines, and a shortage of election workers.
In addition, as a consequence of stricter new voting rules, thousands of mail-in ballots lacking proper identification were sent back, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
How many of those went to real people at real addresses?
#3
According to the Dems, the most honest election in the history of the universe.
Sure is a lot of opposition to looking at the evidence or changing the outcome of 2020 election. A whole lot of cheating occurred. Straighten out the 2020 election or the 2022 and 2024 elections (and future elections) won't mean zip.
Dems can't win on policy, so they cheat.
Hell, our elections are no better than Russian elections or any of the banana republics.
#9
Since most of the ballots are Donk, it looks more like incompetence than malfeasance.... unless, of course, the Donk ballots were for the wrong jackass....
He and President Trump disagree on some important things, but unlike Mitt Romney he continues to work for change in the right direction.
[WashingtonExaminer] The political nonprofit organization run by former Vice President Mike Pence is launching a $10 million advertising campaign pressuring more than a dozen House Democrats to embrace American energy independence amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Advancing American Freedom is targeting 16 incumbent House Democrats across 11 states with a 30-second spot linking President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... ’s energy agenda to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The ad, running on broadcast and cable television and digital platforms, claims Biden’s decision to accede to the demands of "radical environmentalists" and cancel the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States helped Russian strongman Vladimir Putin
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[Breitbart] Nine out of the top ten states with the most expensive cost of gas per gallon are led by Democrats, according to a report from the Republican Governors Association (RGA).
"The new data comes just days after 25 Republican governors called on the White House to reverse energy policies that have kneecapped America’s domestic energy production," according to the organization. "Experts say the rising cost of gas is related to the effect Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has on foreign oil supplies the Biden Administration has come to rely on."
The RGA cited data from the American Automobile Association (AAA) on the most expensive average costs of gas per gallon (as of Monday morning):
California ($5.28)
Hawaii (4.69)
Nevada ($4.52)
Oregon ($4.46)
Washington ($4.40)
Illinois ($4.26)
Connecticut ($4.21)
New York ($4.20)
Pennsylvania ($4.17)
In contrast, nine out of the top ten states that have the lowest average cost of gas per gallon (as of Monday morning) are led by Republicans.
Missouri ($3.63)
Oklahoma ($3.65)
Arkansas ($3.69)
South Dakota ($3.70)
Iowa ($3.72)
Texas ($3.73)
Nebraska ($3.73)
North Dakota ($3.73)
Wyoming ($3.74)
"Democrat governors are silent as more than two dozen Republican governors have called on Joe Biden to restore American energy independence and ease the burdens felt by every hard working American family," RGA Communications Director Jesse Hunt said in a statement. "Amid record high inflation, the last thing American families need is even higher costs at the pump due to Democrat incompetence at home and now abroad. Voters are quickly finding out, if they hadn’t already, that life under Democrat control in their states is completely unaffordable."
#3
NN2N1 the amount deducted from my Social Security went up more than the amount Social Security did. I am now getting less than before the Social Security increase.
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Oil (wti) is almost $125/bar as of now.
If the price stays this high, it tanks the economy by late summer.
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#5
As I think B has mentioned, Joe Bidet is caught in the monkey trap. He's fiercely grasping the green walnut even though his hand is stuck in the bottle. He will not give up his green base even when his approval ranting drops into the teens.
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#6
The Saudis won't come to Biden's puppeteers' rescue. Now they are going begging to Iran and Venezuela. At least they will understand each other, in a low-life to low-life way.
That 800,000 bpd capacity of the cancelled Keystone 2 pipeline sure would be handy right about now.
#10
What I love is that the liberals in California didn't seem to realize that Electric vehicles don't buy gas but do use the roads. So tesla's are everywhere, tax revenue dropped, and road repairs lacked funding, and now they are looking into some kind of tax per mile driven without any discussion of removing the gas taxes to balance things. no wonder everyone with any sense is leaving.
#12
Fine. But most EBT card users prefer White Claw. Or Colt 45 Malt Liquoah, soul brothah...
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#13
Cali plans to prove you can have infinitely high taxes, no infrastructure and the best quality of life on the planet. It will be a grim, ugly failure, but at least they have a plan.
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"Purchasing oil from Venezuela is a State Department op to give aid to Maduro's opponents and overthrow the government so the US can install it puppets!"
#15
He will not give up his green base even when his approval ranting drops into the teens.
He can't. That was the price he paid for Bernie dropping out of the primaries.
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As I recall, only a few US refineries can handle the heavy Venezuelan oil. Are they still online? If not, it's no quick fix.
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Cali plans to prove you can have infinitely high taxes, no infrastructure and the best quality of life on the planet. It will be a grim, ugly failure, but at least they have a plan.
It's still quite nice here...if you can afford it. The only way it will ever be affordable for all the people who want to live here is to turn it into a Third World shit hole and Newsom is doing his damndest to do just that.
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As I recall, only a few US refineries can handle the heavy Venezuelan oil. Are they still online?
[LegalInsurrection] Democrat election lawyer Mark Elias predicted Democrats would try to keep Republicans off ballots using J6 as an excuse, and a North Carolina activist group took up the call. But a federal judge rejected the attempt.
With unpopular policies that drive inflation, laser focus on socio-cultural destruction that only a tiny (but vocal) portion of their own party cares about, and a hugely unpopular president and vice president, Democrats are giving up on winning elections at the polls and have turned to, among other tactics, trying to use their ridiculous faux hysteria about J6 to disqualify Republicans from running for office.
North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn was targeted for such a move based on his speaking at a public event on January 6, 2021. The crazy left is attempting to argue that his giving a speech "amounted to an insurrection."
A judge just blocked this ridiculous attempt to block Cawthorn from running for office.
WRAL reports:
A federal judge Friday blocked an effort to keep U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn off North Carolina ballot this year, saying the state’s election board can’t proceed with an inquiry that would have delved his role leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Chief District Court Judge Richard Myers said he couldn’t allow the challenge, filed by attorneys looking to label the first-term Republican as an insurrectionist who should be legally barred from the ballot, to move forward. The courts, Myers said, must protect the soapbox, the ballot box and the jury box.
"When those fail, that’s when people proceed to the ammunition box," said Myers, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... The next step remains unclear. The North Carolina State Board of Elections could appeal Myers’ decision, but the legal team representing the board declined to say whether the board will do so. An elections board front man said the board was reviewing the court’s decision, which came down a bit before 12:30 p.m.
The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has more in their article, "Judge Blocks Effort to Disqualify Cawthorn from Ballot as ’Insurrectionist’: A district judge ruled that the Amnesty Act of 1872, which forgave confederates, overruled a clause in the 14th Amendment barring ’insurrectionists’ from Congress."
#1
One of the biggest mistakes the "right" ever made in this country was to back off of actively confronting people advocating communism (and "socialism" among those who wished to pretend they were kinder than communists).
Had we continued to pummel their ridiculous economic theories, we wouldn't be where we are today. Instead of continuing to confront they're nonsense, we were collectively "nice".
As a result, we're now at the point where the left can argue that we should cease the use of fossil fuels and replace them with the power of unicorn farts and its considered "rude" to argue that the people advocating such nonsense are intellectually stupid and insane.
The push to allow all sorts of madness to be given "equal footing" without pushback has lead us to the place where economic fraud, election fraud and legal fraud are treated as if they were all just "differences of opinion".
#2
One of the biggest mistakes the "right" ever made in this country was to back off of actively confronting people advocating communism
The the Wall came down there should have been a reckoning. Period.
As for the Bolsheviks who've taken over the former Donk party, they need to be reminded of the three boxes. Soap box, ballot box, ammo box. Look at the Ukrainian citizens are doing to the Russian Army. You are demoralizing the one we had that was somewhat tactically effective and placing 'politically correct' rather than effective people in charge. That is what you are going to send against Americans? Cause your virtual world is going to change real quick.
#3
It's "foot in the door." The same people screeching about any efforts to de-certify the 2020 election will be having spontaneous orgasms if they judge shop this into a friendly court say halfway through Cawthorn's next term.
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#4
...I believe SCOTUS Roberts established a precedent when he told Trump that his appeal was 'overcome by events'. Of course, our imperial judiciary has a habit of flip flopping depending upon the applicant.
[FreeBeacon] The biggest individual backer of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... district attorney Chesa Boudin's (D.) recall fight is a tech billionaire who was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with illegally selling $1.3 billion in cryptocurrency.
#1
Do I think every idiot breaking the law needs to be locked up?
NO! Just every felony level and socially violent/mentally harmful one should be.
The Petty crime idiots should be put to Weekend Community Clean-up and other community services. Why waste on average $158.00 a day on the NON-Violent.
With that said there should be a LAW that requires DA'a to indite ALL Felony level crimes
when the evidence points to a person. Plus a law that requires they seek a MANDATORY sentence. Unless presented a GUILTY Plea, only then a reduced sentence equal to 3/4's of the mandatory sentencing. NOTE: Excluding Murder charges
BUT NO WAY IN HELL,
a slap on the wrist or released despite clear guilt, without charges.
#2
In an idea world, the punishment would fit the crime. That would still leave room for lots of exotic solutions. Most petty criminals have a very low tolerance for the fear, frustration and misery they cause. As for the monsters, there's always a scarier monster to introduce them to.
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#3
How many states are looking to amend their laws to establish 'dereliction of duty' for those charge with enforcing the law?
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 tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
