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As the kerfuffle over SB-1062 dies down, politics march on here at ground zero in Arizona. The GOP runs the key Executive Branch offices such as governor and Secretary of State but, more importantly in many respects, also the state legislature, and as long as they do state politics will continue to be dominated by clusterfucks and cleanups. But Arizona has issues with their statewide federal elected officials too. The current manifestation is not McCain, Flake, nor even the Pleistocene era brainfart known as Trent Franks.
No, today's issue is the once and forever self proclaimed liberal Democrat, Kyrsten Sinema. The transformation of Sinema, who aggressively sold herself as progressive liberal when seeking election, to a conservative Blue Dog toadie of the Minority centrist Dem leadership has been nothing short of astounding, especially for those of us who reside in her district and voted for her in 2012. She completely betrayed her base constituents in Arizona District 9. That is mostly a story for another day though, today's story is not about discrete policy issues, but wholesale admission of the deceptive nature of Kyrsten Sinema's incursion into AZ-9 to start with.
The baseline is this: Thursday, longtime Arizona Democratic Congressman Ed Pastor of AZ-7 announced his decision to retire and not seek reelection in 2014. Local politicians, from seemingly forever Maricopa Board of Supervisor's member Mary Rose Wilcox to new and fairly refreshing voices like state legislature member Ruben Gallego, were literally stepping over one another to announce they would be running for Pastor's seat. They are almost all minorities vying to represent a solidly minority district. And this is no small thing, as most all of them have to give up their current position to do so under Arizona's "resign to run" law.
I was asked early on Thursday, not long after Pastor's announcement, by a friend who supports liberal Dems nationwide, about Kyrsten Sinema jumping in. I thought it was a joke question and said so. Because it was crazy talk. The joke, however, was squarely on me and her other constituents in AZ-09. Yeah, Kysten Sinema, who pledged herself to AZ-09, started lusting after AZ-07 the second it was announced available.
Not that Kyrsten Sinema (see her Twitter feed, which is a litany of everything but her contemplated district switch) or her managers/spokespeople will admit it, or even address the subject, but she was ready to walk from second one. How do we know? Because the Arizona Republic/12 News (via the excellent Brahm Resnik) got a copy of an email to Sinema's inside staff proving it.
So, why is this a big deal? Because it shows that, for first term congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, her own raw narcissistic ambition, in a dynamic situation, immediately trumps loyalty to her constituents →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
Even while the Florida legislature struggles to undo the damage from the blatantly partisan changes in Florida's voting law enacted shortly after Rick Scott's 2010 election as governor, new evidence is emerging on improper and illegal collusion by Republicans in drawing Florida's new legislative districts, despite a 2010 constitutional amendment preventing such actions. Here's the latest from the Tampa Bay Times:
Florida legislative leaders appear to have authorized staff members to use private email accounts and had "brainstorming meetings" with Republican Party consultants to attempt to draw favorable political districts, despite a constitutional ban on such coordination.
Republican Sens. Andy Gardiner of Orlando and Jack Latvala of Clearwater sent emails using private email accounts to the RPOF consultants.
"What does this do to my district?" Gardiner asked in an email to Bainter after the Fair Districts coalition submitted a substitute map during the Senate's special session on redistricting in April.
Bainter replied, "In fact very good. But I have to tell you, this map is little more than a hatchet job cutting all kinds of stuff up."
And yet, the constitutional amendment passed in 2010 was meant to prevent exactly this kind of collusion to help one party:
This damning evidence of partisan collusion comes on the heels of even more evidence relating to the Republican bill that aimed to suppress Democratic votes by cutting early voting hours across the state in the 2012 election. It turns out that Democratic precincts also were understaffed and underequipped to the point that more than 200,000 voters gave up in frustration in November and left the long lines before voting. Unsurprisingly, this analysis showed that the problem affected Democrats more than Republicans:
In Florida, he concluded, the lost voters appeared to favor President Barack Obama. Of the 201,000 "missing" votes, 108,000 likely would have voted for Obama and 93,000 for Republican Mitt Romney, he said.
This suggests that Obama's margin over Romney in Florida could have been roughly 15,000 votes higher than it was. Obama carried the state by 74,309 votes out of more than 8.4 million cast.
Had the vote in 2012 been as close as it was in 2000, this Republican ratfucking of voting clearly would have delivered Florida to Romney and undoubtedly was the primary reason the changes were made.
It's little wonder then, that Rick Scott has done a complete about-face and now is trying to erase his role in suppressing Democratic votes while "championing" restoration of the same early voting days he played an instrumental role in eliminating. And his Secretary of State is joining in on the attempt to re-write history as he claims that the effort to fix the voting law Scott and Detzner's fellow Republicans gutted is now a nonpartisan effort with only fairness in mind:
Gov. Rick Scott's elections adviser urged legislators on Monday to return to 14 days of early voting in Florida and to add locations to avoid repeating the chaos that plagued voting in 2012.
Testifying before a House committee, Secretary of State Ken Detzner largely echoed the views of county election supervisors. They want to offer from eight to 14 days of early voting, including on the Sunday before Election Day, and at more sites, including courthouses and civic centers.
"The bottom line is, voter confidence must be restored,'' Detzner said. "Supervisors of elections and county commissions must take it upon themselves to oversee elections through responsible leadership and administration."
For years, elections officials and Democratic legislators have tried to increase the sites used for early voting.
Sadly, we learn from today's New York Times that Florida's Republicans are not alone. It turns out that Democrats waited longer to vote than Republicans in much of the country:
Several recent polls and studies suggest that long waiting times in some places depressed turnout in 2012 and that lines were longest in cities, where Democrats outnumber Republicans. In a New York Times/CBS News poll taken shortly after Election Day, 18 percent of Democrats said they waited at least a half-hour to vote, compared with 11 percent of independents and 9 percent of Republicans.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis determined that blacks and Hispanics waited nearly twice as long in line to vote on average than whites. Florida had the nation's longest lines, at 45 minutes, followed by the District of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, according to Charles Stewart III, the political science professor who conducted the analysis.
So much for the concept of free and fair elections. Despite all the blathering about preventing voter fraud, it is crystal clear that Republicans controlling state legislatures across the country put much time and effort into suppressing Democratic votes. Will voters ever wake up to this hijacking of our electoral system, or will the abuses only continue to get worse?
Yesterday, just a few hours before Charlie Crist was set to deliver what would be damning testimony in a US Senate hearing on the 2012 voting debacle in Florida, Rick Scott appeared on CNN and suddenly reversed himself on the issue of early voting.
Recall that the Florida legislature passed a horrible bill shortly after Scott narrowly won the 2010 election, cutting early voting days from 14 to 8, restricting registration efforts and purging voter lists so dramatically that the Department of Justice intervened on several issues in the law. Scott stood firm in supporting it. Just a few days before the election, as ridiculously long lines were reported in early voting, AP had this report:
Florida Democrats say they've filed a federal lawsuit asking for the state's early voting period to be extended.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott has stood firm against giving Florida residents more time to vote before Tuesday.
On Saturday, some Floridians waited for hours on the last day of early voting. State officials say nearly 4 million early and absentee votes have been cast.
Scott and state officials have insisted there were no reasons to keep polls open beyond the eight days authorized in state law. The GOP-controlled Florida Legislature last year cut the number of early-voting days from a maximum of 14 days to eight. That reduction was upheld by federal courts.
As can be seen in the video above, Scott avoided mentioning his role in passing and signing the bill that created this year's fiasco until called out by Soledad O'Brien. He tried to sound like a reasonable person proposing reasonable changes that will improve the situation, completely ignoring his role as an extremist who was instrumental in attempting to suppress the votes of hundreds of thousands of minorities in Florida.
Also yesterday, a Quinnipiac University poll provided some context for why Scott would find it necessary to reverse himself. His approval rating is strongly negative, while Charlie Crist, who recently joined the Democratic Party, retains an overall favorable rating, as does Alex Sink, who narrowly lost to Scott in 2010 but has already faded from voter recognition. From the poll:
Florida voters disapprove 45 – 36 percent of the job Gov. Rick Scott is doing, continuing his almost two-year run of negative scores, and, as he enters the second half of his term, voters say 52 – 30 percent that he does not deserve a second four-year term, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
"Gov. Rick Scott's ratings with voters are just plain awful. The numbers cannot be sugar-coated," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "When voters in a politician's own party want him to be challenged in a primary by another candidate, it's difficult to see it as anything but outright rejection.
Crist, elected governor in 2006 as a Republican, has a 47 – 33 percent favorability rating from all voters, including 65 – 10 percent among Democrats and 48 – 33 percent among independents, with a negative 28 – 56 percent among Republicans.
By comparison, Scott is viewed favorably by 31 percent and unfavorably by 43 percent of all Florida voters. His ratings by party are 55 – 18 percent among Republicans, with negatives of 16 – 60 percent among Democrats and 25 – 48 percent among independent voters.
Ms. Sink is viewed favorably by 27 percent, and unfavorably by 14 percent, with 57 percent who haven't heard enough about her to form an opinion.
Marc Caputo, in the Miami Herald, reports on Crist's appearance later Wednesday in the Senate:
In a prelude to a long and bitter campaign, former Gov. Charlie Crist pointedly criticized Gov. Rick Scott during a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday over an elections law that led to voting troubles and helped turn Florida into a "late-night TV joke."
Crist suggested that Scott was the one to blame because he signed the election law in 2011 and, this year, the governor refused to extend in-person early voting hours despite lines that stretched for hours and discouraged many South Floridians from voting.
Crist contrasted that record with his own as governor in 2008, when he extended early voting hours.
"As Gov. Scott refused to take action to ease the lines, in some cases, those lines extended to six and seven hours," Crist testified.
"The outcome of these decisions was quite obvious," Crist said. "Florida, which four years earlier was a model for efficiency, became once again a late-night TV joke."
Writing in the Gainesville Sun, Lloyd Dunkelberger brings us a prominent Democrat's reaction to Scott's sudden reversal:
Scott's comments stunned Democrats, who had been harshly critical of Scott and the Republicans for the shortened early voting period as well as other provisions in the 2011 election law that they said were designed to suppress Democratic voters at the polls.
"It's bordering on an alternative reality," said former state Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, who wrote Scott urging him to extend the early voting hours after witnessing lines of voters waiting six to seven hours in Miami-Dade County. "He and his colleagues in the Legislature created precisely what happened.
"It was done purposely and willfully and now to pretend like they were surprised by it is utterly ridiculous."
Given the polling on Scott's popularity, it would appear that many Florida voters join Gelber in blaming Scott for the voting fiasco last month.
A little over an hour ago, there was some rather notable news tweeted out by CNN:
Intel cte's @SenFeinstein will give up the chair and move to Judiciary, source tells @CapitolHillCNN. @SenatorReid to announce today
I have talked to both sources at both the Senate Judiciary Committee and Personnel offices and have yet to hear a denial. This is, then, significant news as to a complete reshuffling of key Majority Senate Leadership assuming it continues to bear out.
First off, a tenured Senator like Feinstein does not leave a high value Committee Chairmanship without another, or something higher, on the offer. CNN said she it is to "move to Judiciary". But DiFi has long been a member of the SJC, that can only portend she will then become Chairman of Judiciary.
Ryan Grim at Huffington Post has also picked up this shuffle, and beat me to the punch by a few minutes:
If Feinstein does take over leadership of the Judiciary Committee, that could ease the passage in the Senate of a renewed assault weapons ban, which was passed under President Bill Clinton in 1994 but expired in 2004. The shooting rampage on Friday in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 children and six adults were murdered by a gunman with a military-style assault weapon and high-capacity magazines, has renewed calls for stricter gun control legislation.
On Tuesday, speaking in the Capitol before the party's weekly caucus lunch, Feinstein told reporters who had asked her whether she will jump to Judiciary, "Keep tuned. I think it is [going to become open], and I think it'll happen."
On Monday, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) who was the chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, passed away at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Now that Inouye's post is empty, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is rumored to be looking at taking over Appropriations — in turn opening up the leadership slot at Judiciary. Feinstein could then move from her current spot as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee to chair Judiciary.
That is good, fast reporting and coincides with what I can discern. And Appropriations Chair is a long time traditional home for the Senate Pro-Tem, which Pat Leahy became with yesterday's passing of Inouye.
So, what about SSCI? Next in line would, by seniority, be Jay Rockefeller. But, as Mother Jones' Nick Baumann pointed out, Rockefeller gave up leadership at Intel nearly three years ago to take over the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee helm, and there is no reason to think he would double back. That gave a brief glimmer of hope that Ron Wyden might get the nod at SSCI, but HuffPo's Grim, in a tweet, thinks he is more likely to take over the helm of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for the outgoing Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, who did not seek reelection. That would mean the next senior Democrat on SSCI as Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.
Now, if I were Wyden, I would want the SSCI job over Energy. It is likely most progressives would like him there as well, which is why the smart money likely says Reid talks him into the Energy Chair.
So, we are into the Congressional equivalent of Formula One silly season; i.e. the end of the year shuffling of drivers before the season is really over. The one real wildcard here is Wyden.
Displaying the logic that saw him "retire" from the military with a $5000 fine for torture that in effect served as a plea deal to allow him to avoid up to eleven years in a military prison, proclaim that 78 to 81 Democratic members of Congress are communists (as seen in the YouTube) and to conduct a Town Hall meeting where he had radio host Nicole Sandler arrested for daring to ask a question he didn't like, Allen West finally got St. Lucie County to recount all of the early ballots from the election he narrowly lost to Patrick Murphy in Florida's newly drawn 18th Congressional District, only to continue not to concede, even when his vote deficit increased from a margin of 0.58% of votes cast to 0.65%. With the revised figures from St. Lucie County, West now trails Murphy by 2146 votes and the margin is well outside the 0.50% margin or less that is needed to trigger a legally mandated recount.
Of course, since this is Florida, the "recount" didn't exactly proceed normally. The county was required to submit its final vote totals by noon on Sunday, but did not finish the recount until mid-afternoon. As soon as the noon deadline passed, the Murphy campaign declared victory because Florida law states that if a county misses the deadline for certification, the preliminary numbers become final. The West campaign initially considered applying for an emergency exemption to the noon Sunday deadline, but the Miami Herald noted that the results of the recount make that unlikely:
Before the county finally released the results of the recount, West's attorneys toyed with trying to ascertain an emergency prevented the timely filing, a tall task given the way the law is written. Because Murphy made a net gain of 274 votes, the issue was likely moot. But West's campaign showed no immediate sign of backing down or offering a concession.
Going back to the Palm Beach Post article, we see that there are additional irregularities:
The results from one precinct could not be fully uploaded during the recount, said St. Lucie County Commissioner Tod Mowery, a canvassing board member. Even though the data were manually entered and the rest of the results were sent to state officials, the board could not certify the results because of the problems with the single cartridge.
[West campaign manager Tim] Edson had his own questions. Among them: Preliminary totals showed 900 voters cast ballots in Precinct 93, where only seven voters are registered, Edson said. Another lingering concern is the West team's request to view the poll sign-in sheets from Election Day. Edson said they had received some sign-in sheets from Palm Beach County but none from St. Lucie County. West's campaign wants to compare the number of signatures on the poll sign-in sheets to the computer tabulations.
"Today's actions cast an even greater cloud of suspicion over the results of St. Lucie County than existed before," Edson said in a statement. "This election is far from over."
No explanation has been offered for the 900 votes showing up from a precinct where only 7 voters are registered, but that seems to me to be very likely the result of errors by poorly trained poll workers. A precinct with only 7 registered voters certainly would not have its own polling station, so it seems likely that poll workers gave incorrect ballots to voters from adjacent precincts who voted at the same polling place. In fact, they may have even done this in desperation if the supply of ballots for another precinct ran out.
The additional drama underlying all of the recount madness in St. Lucie County is that the County Supervisor of Elections is hospitalized. Again from the Palm Beach Post:
Noticeably absent Sunday was Gertrude Walker, the St. Lucie County supervisor of elections. Walker was hospitalized last week amid legal wrangling over whether the ballots should be recounted.
West's only option for continuing the fight at this point from a legal standpoint appears to be a formal "contest" of the election, but no announcement has been made as of this writing.
There is one further note that ties the West imbroglio to other current headlines. In January of last year, a strange Op-Ed appeared in the Wall Street Journal calling for David Petraeus to get a fifth star. I did a bit of digging, and found that the people behind this push were from a group called Vets for Freedom, who pushed a number of military veterans for public office. The headliner of their group of candidates at that time was Allen West, but the push by this group to get Petraeus a fifth star certainly looked to me that the move was seen by them as a part of their overall plan to eventually prepare Petraeus for a presidential bid. Interestingly, the website for the group shows the candidates they supported in the 2010 election, but shows nothing for 2012. I'm guessing that they have moved on to working under another name. And now both of their headliners are languishing in humiliating defeats, so they face huge obstacles of rehabilitating their "best" candidates.
A great deal of the country breathed a sigh of relief and assumed finality and normalcy in the election after last night. And, at first, such was the case in Maricopa County, Arizona. But then it was revealed there were uncounted ballots, a LOT of uncounted ballots. Sources close to the Arizona Democratic Party and Adios Arpaio reported the uncounted votes as follows:
· – 200,000 early ballots were mailed in but not yet counted
· – 100,000 early ballots dropped at polls have not been counted
· – 80,000 ballots machines cannot read
· – 100,000 "provisional and conditional provisional.
That is, to say the least, a LOT of uncounted votes. 500,000 is especially disconcerting considering the controversial Sheriff, Joe Arpaio "won" reelection by 489,952 votes to 401,574 for challenger Paul Penzone.
Furthermore, another critical election for US House of Representatives District AZ-9, between up and coming Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Vernon Parker is separated by only 2,715 votes, with Sinema currently in the lead.
There are a lot fewer ballots out of the nearly 500,000 at issue within the limited bounds of AZ-9 for Sinema and Parker, probably most of them in one of the two early ballot categories.
But ALL of the outstanding ballots, including the 180,000 plus provisional and "hard to machine read" ballots are in play as to the Arpaio/Penzone race, and the majority of the provisionals and "hard to machine reads" are feared to be from precincts of predominantly Hispanic and other minority population, including the incredibly large number of voters recently registered by the Adios Arpaio effort.
Either way the results come out, these are votes that should, and must, be accounted for and counted in the most open and transparent manner possible.
Now precisely what precincts the uncounted ballots are respectively out of, and where the trends from those precincts would indicate a proper counting would take the overall vote, is not yet clear. It is something the County Recorder Helen Purcell and/or Secretary of State Ken Bennett's office might well get done – or at least you would think so. But, this is a weird county in a crazy state, so it cannot be taken for granted in any regard. 500,000 uncounted ballots in an election with an extant margin of 88,378 between Arpaio challenger Penzone, is fairly significant.
Reportedly, the counting of "early ballots" will commence forthwith, but the counting of provisionals and disputeds will not commence until next Monday. Pursuant to Arizona law, ARS 16-249, "The secretary of state shall certify the election results to the state party committee chairmen of the parties that have candidates on the presidential preference ballot on or before the second Monday following the election."
Adios Arpaio registered a lot of new voters, especially in the immigrant areas most affected by the deleterious policies of Arpaio. Other Latino and Democratic groups registered a whole lot more new voters. These newly registered voters deserve to have the state insure their votes are counted. It may not be enough to get rid of Arpaio, but it will affect Kyrsten Sinema and other downticket local elections. And it is the least that can be done for the newly registered participants in democracy.
[UPDATE: The latest count appears to be just over 460,000 total uncounted ballots in Maricopa County]
Last we heard from the top leadership of my local Democratic Party in this blog, it was telling women at a women's political event that they had to support 61-year old (though not particularly angry) Steve Pestka because "he's with us on everything else" but choice.
As we were waiting for the Senator to speak, a top county Democrat was sitting several rows behind me trying to convince some of the women not to support Trevor Thomas. "There is absolutely no way he can win," the guy said (the polling says he's wrong, and I suspect he knows that). In addition to saying a gay man can't win, he also said a pro-choice person can't win in the district (his listeners pointed out that Stabenow herself had won the district; so have at least two other pro-choice candidates). Then he described Steven Pestka, using the line Michigan Democrats used to defend Bart Stupak as he was rolling back access to choice for women across the country.
He's with us on everything else.
But the really appalling comment, uttered by a man at a women's event, was this:
I need to win this year.
If the guy were reasonably intelligent, he might have said, "we need to win the gavel back for Nancy Pelosi." But he couldn't even muster a "we need to win" this year. Nope. It was "I need to win this year," and that's why women have to suck it up and vote for someone who has attacked their autonomy in the past.
Today, the head of the local party, Jim Rinck, is spinning yesterday's results by promising demographics will eventually make Grand Rapids more Democratic.
Kent County Democratic Party chairman Jim Rinck said several factors contributed to the final tally – and he sees a trend toward a growing number of Democratic voters in the GOP stronghold.
"Like it or not, reality comes even to Kent County," he said. "We are running out of angry old white men in this country. And they're the constituents of the Kent County Republican Party."
Sadly, Rinck was not asked why, then, the party pushed an older white man as their congressional candidate. That candidate lost to the rather young Justin Amash by almost 9 points.
That's particularly unfortunate given the explanation one woman offered in the article for why she even decided to vote this year: Republican attacks on women and gays.
Brianna Holben, 20, cast her vote for Barack Obama Tuesday. Despite being her first-time voting, Holben said she didn't have a real urge to participate until women's reproductive rights and the funding of organizations like Planned Parenthood became part of the campaign.
Holben, a student at Grand Rapids Community College, also said picked Obama because Democrats, in general, are more supportive of gay marriage than Republicans.
"I have a lot of friends in the gay community," she said. "If we live in a free country, I don't believe a person's religious beliefs should affect someone's ability to pick who they marry."
Holben might well agree with what Rinck says–the Republicans are the party of old white men. But not with what Rinck did–push an older white man rather than openly gay, women's rights champion, Trevor Thomas, they opposed.
That is, Rinck seems to understand, abstractly, what Democrats need to do to win. But he did the exact opposite this year.
There was a lot of chatter last night about how unsuccessful millionaires and billionaires have been at buying political seats for themselves, with Linda McMahon now having spent $100M to lose two elections in Connecticut. The exception–Mike Bloomberg in NYC–in a sense proves the rule, since he did it as an Independent.
But there's another example of that rule which might be just as interesting going forward.
In MI, we had 6 statewide referenda this year: 3 pertaining to labor, 1 on renewable energy, 1 on taxes, and 1 effort by a local businessman, Matty Moroun, to cement his business monopoly in the state constitution.
Moroun owns the Ambassador Bridge, currently the only bridge from Detroit to Canada (there is a tunnel–which can't carry commercial traffic–out of Detroit and another bridge crossing about 30 miles Northeast that is convenient from areas north of Detroit, like Southfield). Moroun's bridge, which is the busiest trade border crossing in North America, is a big bottleneck (it's not unusual for even cars to wait 45 minutes, and trucks often have longer waits). And it makes him rich.
Governor Snyder worked with Canada to craft another bridge plan that was publicly funded–largely by Canada. Seeing his cash cow threatened, Moroun used the referendum process to try to protect his monopoly. He paid signature gatherers and then spent $33 million on ads to pass an initiative that would require a referendum before building any publicly supported international bridge.
This proposal would:
- Require the approval of a majority of voters at a statewide election and in each municipality where "new international bridges or tunnels for motor vehicles" are to be located before the State of Michigan may expend state funds or resources for acquiring land, designing, soliciting bids for, constructing, financing, or promoting new international bridges or tunnels.
- Create a definition of "new international bridges or tunnels for motor vehicles" that means, "any bridge or tunnel which is not open to the public and serving traffic as of January 1, 2012."
Moroun's TV ads have been on for 6 months, and utterly dominated the campaign season (indeed, utterly dominated TV advertising generally). The bridge ads have been a running joke here in MI, though earlier polls showed it fairly close.
It failed, however, along with every other initiative (the closest one was the referendum affirming Snyder's new Emergency Manager law). Voters rejected it by a 60-40 margin.
There will be a lot of discussion about the super-rich trying to buy our political process. It has very rarely worked for individuals–not for Linda McMahon, not for Meg Whitman, not for Dick DeVos (though of course the Kochs have been better at buying politics, if not seats). But it's not just political seats these very rich are trying to buy: Matt Moroun also treated out democratic process like his own personal investment game.
Thus far that effort failed. Let's hope it stays that way.
If you haven't already done so, stop reading this and go vote. Seriously. I'll wait. This post will be here when you get back.
At the Presidential level, our election has come down to a corporatist hack who ran his earlier primary campaign as a progressive only to govern as a power-mad accumulator of executive powers while doling out "Get Out of Jail Free" cards to torturers and banksters running against a vulture capitalist who didn't even pretend to disclose how he avoided his patriotic duty to pay taxes and surrounded himself with many of the failed neocon warmongers of the previous administration. Yes, there is the route of the protest vote shouted into the abyss, as well, but there will be the mathematical argument to be made later showing how protest votes enabled the eventual corrupt winner.
The act of voting itself is particularly endangered during this cycle. We have hints that hinky software may be in place, just waiting for the Ohio Secretary of State to flip enough votes to put his guy over the top. We have Florida's Governor and legislature doing everything they can to suppress the votes of those with whom they disagree. We have reports of "poll watchers" ready to be deployed to minority precincts with the aim to suppress more votes by folks who aren't white and conservative.
Despite all that, we still have people braving lines hours long to cast their votes. There are still millions who believe there is something in this democracy thing where the citizens get a real voice at the ballot box. As long as that belief persists in such large numbers, there is still hope that it can be turned around.
I don't pretend to have the answers for how we can get back to a democracy that functions more fully for the benefit of the people. Corporations and the wealthy right now have a free run of a fixed economy that is slanted to funnel money to them and feed the rest of the country on the crumbs. Until our Congress is forced to put into place a tax scheme that levels the playing field instead of tilting it to the powerful, that picture simply won't change.
But that is one leveraging point. Every single member of the House is up for re-election every two years. My district will finally be ridding itself of the blight of Cliff Stearns, who lost in the primary this year. I'm hoping that JR Gaillot will pull an upset of Ted Yoho as large as Yoho's upset of Stearns was, but if he doesn't, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to spend a lot of time over the coming two years documenting and doing everything I can to broadcast the failings of our new Tea Party congressman.
And that's where you can have some fun, too. Congress has a dismal approval rating and yet individual members of Congress are always overwhelming favorites to win re-election. Perhaps if we all spend more time documenting and broadcasting the individual failures of our own congresscritters we can start to turn the tide and voters will begin to associate the failings of Congress with their own representative. Make your representative own the failure that is Congress.
Pay attention to what is going on. Write letters to the editor, pointing out the failings in real time. Show just how craven these "representatives" are and do your best to create huge problems for them to overcome in their next quest for re-election. You will still be battling the huge money advantage that incumbents have, but by investing time now and throughout the coming term, you just might gain critical leverage that will be hard to overcome with a late barrage of cash and negative advertising.
America, indeed the nation, is in a financial and legal moribund lurch. No longer, if there ever was, is there taxpayer money and ethics left on balance to be wasted on entrenched politicians sucking at our tit. You say your's is the worst? Well, then you do not live in Maricopa County Arizona, the home of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
It is time for Sheriff Joe to go. ADIOS ARPAIO! There is a fiscal, legal and moral case to do so.
My friend Tim Murphy, of Mother Jones, laid out the "bizarre" freak show nature of Arpaio's current reelection campaign in superb detail. But only part of the story was told, understandable as there is SO much to tell in the Arpaio saga. Here is the rest of, or at least some of the rest of, the story.
Joe Arpaio did not magically come to be Sheriff of Maricopa County. It happened because the two previous occupants of the Sheriff's Office were, shall we say, problematic on their own. There was Dick Godbehere, who was, prior to being Sheriff of the fourth largest county in the United States, literally a lawn mower repairman. No, I kid you not. And he served with the same level of sophistication you would expect of a lawn mower repairman.
Then came Tom Agnos, who was supposed to return "professionalism" to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). But Agnos was a subservient Sun City resident who led the MCSO into not just the biggest cock-up in Maricopa county law enforcement history, but one of national and international proportion. The Buddhist Temple Murder Case where nine buddhist monks and acolytes were lined up and shot in the back of the head, execution style, at the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist Temple on the west side of Phoenix.
It was out of the Buddhist Temple Murders Joe Arpaio came to be. A group of prominent Phoenix trial attorneys, both criminal and civil, wanted an alternative to Tom Agnos and the whitewashing coverup he was conducting on one of the greatest coerced false confession cases in world history. The group of trial lawyers coalesced around the upstart primary candidacy of a local travel agent with a colorful background. Yep, one Joseph Arpaio.
Joseph Arpaio promised that initial group of trial lawyers he would clean up the MCSO, release the damning internal report of the gross misconduct that had occurred in the Temple Murder Case under Tom Agnos, which lead to at least four false and heinously coerced confessions, and that he would refuse, under all circumstances, to serve more than one term in office. It was a promise made and, obviously, a promise long ago broken.
To be fair, Arpaio did release the internal report on the Temple Murder Case, which led to five plus million dollar settlement for some of the most wrongfully arrested souls in American history. But with that promise kept within a short time of taking office, Joe Arpaio breached the solid promise he made to the people who gave him the seed funding carrying him into office. And Arpaio has made a mockery of his word, as a man, ever since by repeatedly running for office and sinking Maricopa County into depths of depravity and fiscal distress beyond comprehension, from the vantage of the MCSO.
Arpaio's false pretenses to get elected have turned into the fodder of liability for the county he was supposedly elected to serve and protect.
How deep has Arpaio's liability effected the taxpayers, and residents, of Maricopa County? To the tune of at least $50 Million dollars. AT LEAST. Because that figure not only does not count the costs of defense, and they are usually astronomical in the larger cases against Arpaio, because he never admits responsibility, but also does not consider Maricopa County is self insured and may not, necessarily, publicly disclose all smaller payouts. There may, or may not, be a lot more payout, or a lot more, we just don't know.
So, what is the ledger to date? Here it is is in all its sick glory. $50 Million dollars of unnecessary payout, all because of a man, who promised, and who was initially sponsored, and brought to election, by a group who wanted change and the diametric opposite of what came to be.
Here is the worse part: the $50 Million figure is, by all appearances, devoid of the real and hard actual costs of defending all the action on which payout was made in that spreadsheet. Hard costs are known in the legal world as attorney fees, court costs, expert witness fees, service costs, evidentiary laboratory fees – in short, fees that can add up to millions in, and among, themselves, irrespective of the underlying root liability payouts. In short, the $50 Million you see in the ledger is but a fraction of the real cost of Joe Arpaio's criminally and civilly negligent insolence as Sheriff of Maricopa County. Nor does the figure, of course, include the losses that already should have come from the Deborah Braillard case, much less the Matty Atensio case.
Who is Matthew Atensio represented by? That would be by one prime example of tort liability counterbalance to egregious wrongdoing, Michael Manning. Who is Michael Manning? Well, Manning is the grinning man in the photograph above, with the somewhat soullessly dumbfounded Joe Arpaio at a charity fundraiser. Manning has a right to grin at the sight of the "Toughest Sheriff In America", because Michael Manning, alone, has taken the greatest portion of the nearly $50 Million (and very much increasingly counting) toll on the taxpayers of Maricopa County, the narcissistic propaganda obsessed figurine Joe Arpaio has cost. And Manning and fellow Phoenix attorney Joel B. Robbins, have laid the wood to Sheriff Joe, and the worst is yet to com in the form of the Atensio litigation and other compelling cases (not to mention Braillard which should have settled and, now, instead awaits a larger jury verdict on already determined damages).
You think the moral and tort liability train fueled and paid by the taxpayers and citizens of Maricopa County has sailed into the sunset? Oh no. There are mountains of liability and taxpayer's coffer's payouts on the horizon. The only question is if the residents and voters of Maricopa County will wake up and end the madness now, or whether they will give yet another term of office to the Most Liable and Wasteful Sheriff In American History".
The dedicated folks at "Adios Arpaio" have done yeoman's work in identifying, registering, and encouraging tens of thousands, if not more of, not just latino, but voters of all colors and stripes, to vote in this election. A heroic effort.
But where does that leave the citizens of Maricopa County? Arguably still short against the self promoting dynamo that is Sheriff Joe Arpaio. It is a living monument to the benign destruction caused by hyped belligerence, ignorance and apathy in a designated and restricted electorate. Joseph Arpaio came into office as the the promised one term agent of well meaning, and will leave, to the shame of Maricopa County as perhaps the most disgraceful official ever elected in the county. The only question is, whether that is now or four years from now.
Will morality and justice be delayed? By the real signs on the ground in Arizona, as opposed to national hype, probably no. It will, nevertheless, be an everlasting blemish on the character of the electorate of Maricopa County. It wasn't as if you, and actually we, didn't know.
The better question is what becomes of the righteous Adios Arpaio movement? Honestly, if this level of awareness and action had been brought here in relation, early on, to the Scott Norberg deaths at the Maricopa County Jail facilities run by Joe Arpaio, perhaps soooo much more death, destruction and liability could have been avoided. Not to detract from anything, everything, existing now, that did not then, in the way of putting a stop to Arpaio, is it enough? No, likely the current effort, much less this post, is not.
But, then, let it not be said there was not effort and argument made between then and now. There is a man, Arpaio, who should be removed from office and, if the electorate's voice is willing to suffer exactly that, a remedy for the corpse of Matty Atensio, who died for Jesus's sins, but so far, apparently, not Arpaio's sins. Like an imperious "Wall Street Bankster".
Where is the bullshit in Maricopa County going to end? Will the truth of the civil, criminal and moral liability of "The Toughest Sheriff in Town" be exposed? Only the voters of Arizona, who are not half as stupid as generally portrayed, will decide.
I sincerely hope intelligence and discretion win out over appearance and material duplicity. But, then again, such would not seem to be the characteristic of the modern Arizona electorate. It is a screwed up place in a screwed up time.
But, if the Leader of the Free World, Barack Obama,much less Joe Biden, cannot even be bothered to haul at least one of their self serving ass here to Arizona, when the election and morals are on the line, in a state in the process of turning from Red to Blue under the absentee watch, then why exactly should lifelong Democrats here give a flying fuck about the national ticket? Seriously, tell me why?
So, there is no national action, to even respectably mention, in Arizona. Arizona has been left to fend for itself as being useless and worthless by a craven two party system of two hollow jackasses but, even more significantly, by a national press system of court jester reporters, stenographers, and thin skinned puppet stringed mopes who cannot tell the difference between themselves and the common political flaming jackasses they cover. There is a national press who shouts "Semper Fi" while selling out everything they were trained and hired to do. I know several will read this, the question is who among them will adopt it, who will ignore it, and who will whine like pathetic thin skinned poseurs? Boo yah bitches, I am waiting. Show us your colors; if you cannot now in the heat of battle, then when? Answer up.
Which leaves us where we entered, with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio is a blight upon Maricopa County. Unelect him. Adios Arpaio.
There are further vignettes to be painted regarding Arpaio. Here are a couple of particularly poignant ones. Arpaio And Thomas: The Most Unethical Sheriff And Prosecutor In America Conspire To Abuse Power And Obstruct Justice oh, and not to mention the seminal "House Judiciary Cuffs Joe Arpaio, The Most Abusive Sheriff In America". Read and know both if you want to know Sheriff Joe.
Unelect this guy!


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There are times when the truth concerning what actually happens in every procured abortion becomes obvious and the Nation is shaken out of its complacency. Perhaps the House of Horrors found in Philadelphia will be one of those moments. What was hidden is now being revealed. The truth is what "Doctor" Gosnell did is no different than what is done in every procured abortion. The only difference is that it is hidden from view. Continue Reading
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4 years ago
The liberals came out in force to respond to this article which every American needs to read. I've sent it to all on my contact list. Thank you Deacon for constantly dealing in truth. I showed the article to two of my co-workers who said they had no idea that this could happen in the U.S. We need to open the eyes of those around us to the truth of what happens to the helpless in this country, education is the key. Jennifer, great comment. God forgive us, have mercy on us.
4 years ago
Deacon Fornier, another great article. You have the sick children of the Liberal Establishment going nuts here. The Left-wing News Media has kept this story quiet. The Liberal sicko's that come on this website actually salivate over this kind of news. The greater evil than what we are reading and hearing is the Stone Silence from the USCCB.
4 years ago
To those of you who think were bigots, OPEN YOUR EYES!!!! I hear all this talk of how without abortion rights abortions would just happen in back alleys, Guess what? After Roe vs Wade many back alley abortionists moved into medical facilities and didn't clean up. There are many reports from within the abortion clinics were the doctor will scan with an ultrasound again and again until he gets the result he wants so he can do an abortion and make money. Abortions are not done out of necessity, 90% are done because of convenence. After R.V.W. abortion rose as the most used form of birth control so there wasn't nearly as many abortions then as there is now. Our constitution, guarantees "unenumerated rights" only to add further support to the three "inalienables", Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. So to the blogger identified Alistair, where is your compassion. I respect fully your right to think what you want, but that doesn't change the fact that abortion, and it's proponents are 100% defacto morally, constitutionally, and factually wrong.
Now, I'd like to address Lee. Once again, no disrespect to your views. Yet I intend to show them wrong on the grounds of one objective truth. That truth is our constitution and all constitutions and democracies as ours were founded on the belief in alienable rights. When Thomas Jefferson was asked were these rights come from, he could only point to one source, GOD. So even though our great land endorses no one religion, it does endorse sacred, self- evident rights, that, if violated, will cause the fall of all rights. First, it's just the unborn, but whats to stop the killing of the elderly, and the unborn. If I'm not mistaken Peter Singer endorses the euthanasia of the mentally handicapped. It is the same evil as when the Nazis killed all those who were not blond haired blue eyed. So, I'm not saying Pro-Choice people are Nazis, I'm just saying they are gravely mistaken on the meaning of "civil rights". We must fight to end abortion now, because really the price is paid by all in the end. -
4 years ago
I am amazed there are so many who read the articles on this web site and refuse to accept truth. Human life begins at conception. Read Luke 1:31 The angel Gabriel made the news very clear to Mary.
. I will continue to pray for those who do not accept the truth that life begins at conception and that Our Lord will send them sufficient grace for a desire for a conversion of heart. -
4 years ago
Thank you, Deacon, for yet another excellent article which points out the need to recriminalize abortion and reinstitute laws which protect all human life, especially from the sadistic murderers like this abortion provider. He reminds me of the sadistic Dr. Mengeles of the Nazi death camps. When whole groups of people had their "right to life" legally removed the crazy practitioners of torture and death as the answer emerged. It always works like that when people call evil a good. I think abortion supporters are becoming desperate because almost everyone is sickened by them and the evil they try to defend. Their arguments don't hold water when used to defend any other crime either.
4 years ago
Well said, Well said.
One point that does get missed often - we mourn for the murdered fetuses, but should we not also mourn for the tortured souls of the mothers and abortion providers?
In the end, we can assume that the fetuses are destined for heaven, and have been spared the opportunity to sin. (I would not use this argument as a justification for their murder, but rather as a point that these children are now safe in the Father's home.)
The goal of everyone should be to get ourselves and our "neighbors" into heaven! Our "neighbor" includes the mother, the nurse, the doctor, the politician and the blogger. As much as I want to lash at them I am reminded that I am nowhere near perfect either, and yet Christ says I am priceless. If mine is priceless, so is theirs.
And Yes, the murderous act of abortion is a grave sin, which is all the more reason to pray not just for the children but for the conspirators in their murderer as well.
Let us pray - hard! -
4 years ago
Well said. Well said.
One point that does get missed often - we mourn for the murdered fetuses, but should we not also mourn for the tortured souls of the mothers and abortion providers?
In the end, we can assume that the fetuses are destined for heaven, and have been spared the opportunity to sin. (I would not use this argument as a justification for their murder, but rather as a point that these children are now safe in the Father's home.)
The goal of everyone should be to get ourselves and our "neighbors" into heaven! Our "neighbor" includes the mother, the nurse, the doctor, the politician and the blogger. As much as I want to lash at them I am reminded that I am nowhere near perfect either, and yet Christ says I am priceless. If mine is priceless, so is theirs.
And Yes, the murderous act of abortion is a grave sin, which is all the more reason to pray not just for the children but for the conspirators in their murderer as well.
4 years ago
Recently a study was published where: as the rate of the use of contraception increased so did abortion. Contraception is the beginning of the abortion mentality: separating sex from procreation. A couple uses contraception, expects not to get pregnant, then sees the pregnancy as a failure.
My heart was beating only 4 weeks after I was conceived. My mother did not have the right to kill me then or ever. -
4 years ago
These comments are astounding. It's the Church's fault that this butcher was murdering babies? Birth control would solve this? The law should allow late-term abortions so killing them outside the womb wouldn't be necessary? Women "pay for the privilege?!?" No further proof is needed beyond these absurd and selfish comments to show the depraved and twisted logic of abortion. James, be careful how you start defining a "fully functional human being" because someday age or disease or injury might classify you otherwise. What "human attributes" are required to merit life? An egg may not be a chicken, but thank God we're not chickens. We are made in the image and likeness of God, and once the miracle of conception has taken place, a new human being has been formed. Period. Size, development, intelligence, function, independence, and appearance have nothing to do with inherent humanity. Lee, this abomination IS abortion! What difference does it make that the babies were killed outside the womb? If he had severed their heads from their spinal cords in the womb, how would that make it any less atrocious? It wouldn't. Location means nothing. I'm waiting for a statement from NARAL and Planned Parenthood defending this monster because by the "logic" of abortion they should. He simply killed a baby and "terminated a pregnancy." So what if he did it on a table outside the womb. The end result is the same, so what's the big deal? And I've got news for you: every abortionist is in it for personal profit. They don't do abortions for free. It's not about helping women; it's about money. Human life is human life is human life. There is no arbitrary line after which the child in the womb is suddenly more human than before. Every procured abortion murders a human being. May God open the eyes of the blind...
4 years ago
Alistair - Jesus also preached about the coming judgment. 'What-so-ever you did not unto the least of these my brothers and sisters you did not to me.' Jesus warned also of hell 'where their worm will not die and the fire will not quench.' 'Broad is the way, and many there are that take it that leads to perdition, narrow the way, and few there are who seek it, that leads to everlasting life.' 'Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.'
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I've made several cheescake recipes and like them all, but have never found a recipe for the heavy, dense NY style cheesecake that I love. Can anyone help? Thanks |
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Here ya go! Secret Lindy's-Style New York Cheesecake Cookie Pastry Crust Beat the butter and sugar in a medium mixing bowl with electric mixer on Filling Beat the cream cheese in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed Put it together Place the pan on a baking sheet. Serve it up! Remove the sides of the springform pan. |
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Should I be worried about frost? That's about 4 degrees over...
Sometimes I find that if I water the plants well right before dark, a light frost won't hurt them. I will move my plants in or cover with a blanket but I have some things planted out...tuberous begonias, some dahlia bulbs, impatiens, lobelia, gladiolus bulbs about 1 foot tall already. After tonight we have lows of the 50's again but I want to get through this night as well as I can. My tomatoes and quite a few other annual flowers are not planted so I can bring them in. What would you do to prepare? |
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I would do nothing...but bring in what you can. Often covering stuff damages them more than taking a chanch on frost. It won't frost....I said so!! LOL! But I believe the last frost date for your area is May 20th....so...let that be a lesson...Ma Nature will get you if you don't follow the rules! Seriously....I would chance it. Linda C |
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The Rockies rode the right arm -- and the bat, of Ubaldo Jimenez to victory on Saturday. The right-hander was sharp through five innings. He gave up three runs on eight hits while walking two and striking out five. His line was not a great representation of the way he pitched. For the first time at Coors Field in 2011, Jimenez looked like he was dominant again.
His numbers would have been better, however, Jimenez was forced to leave the game in the sixth inning after giving up two base hits. Concerns arose when his first three fastballs of the inning failed to hit 90 MPH on the radar gun. Even with his velocity well below where it was in 2010, Jimenez throwing fastballs in the upper-80's was a major cause for concern.
After he exited, with what turned out to be a minor calf cramp, Matt Lindstrom came in and gave up a double that scored both of Jimenez's men.
While Jimenez looked sharp on the mound, his greatest damage came in the bottom of the second inning, when Tigers starter Phil Coke pitched around Chris Iannetta with two on and two out. Without giving him the intentional pass, Coke made sure not to put anything near the strike zone for Iannetta to do damage with.
Jimenez, hitless on the season, drove the first pitch he saw back up the middle, scoring two runs and giving the Rockies the lead.
Even if Jimenez never finds his velocity back near 100 MPH, seeing sharp movement on his pitches is a very encouraging sign. Without that movement, and without the velocity, the Dominican is simply another Major League pitcher, nothing worth fearing the way he was in 2010.
Beyond Jimenez, new Rockies continue to contribute. After knocking his first Major League home run on Friday night, Chris Nelson provided on encore. His 408-foot shot to left-center in the sixth inning minimized the damage created by the two runs given up in the top half. It also proved to be the game-winner, as Huston Street allowed a run in the ninth following the first two outs.
Every member of the Rockies offense contributed. From top to bottom, if the player didn't log a hit, they got on base via the walk. That is how baseball games are won, when the entire lineup is contributing in some way or another.
With the win, the Rockies are back to .500. They need to seize the opportunity as a fresh start. They are playing well, having a chance to finish their longest homestand of the season with a 7-3 mark, they need to simply build on each win.
If they are able to get a few games over .500, they can stay in a position to make up some ground when the Giants and Diamondbacks falter above them. Playing team baseball, where everyone contributes, is a huge start.
On the defensive side, fundamental baseball needs to continue to be played. On Saturday, the Rockies executed three plays perfectly that contributed greatly to the win. In the fourth inning with runners on first and third and no one out, Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki and Chris Iannetta executed a sound play to get the out at first on a ground ball, then get the runner going to second base in a run down long enough for the runner at third to commit to going to the plate. At that point, Tulo gunned the ball to Iannetta who put the tag on to save a run.
Later, with Lindstrom on the mound, Lance Raburn launched a bases loaded double to right-center that looked like it would tie up the game. Instead, Ryan Spilborghs made a perfect throw to Tulowitzki, who made a perfect relay throw to the plate to nail Jhonny Peralta, who was trying to score from first.
That type of defense is what the Rockies have been missing. Throughout May, someone would drop the ball on those types of plays, or the throw would be off-line. A good fundamental team makes those plays. Without that defense, the Rockies probably walk away with the loss on Saturday. Instead, the get the win, and with a win on Sunday against Justin Verlander, the Rockies would leave town with a sweep of a first place team, something to build on moving forward.


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Tips on How to Spot Bad Credit Loans Scams
Currently one of the biggest scams in North America is the bad credit loans scam. It's a particularly unpleasant phenomenon because the people behind these scams are taking advantage of those in need of help the most.What happens is, a legitimate appearing financial company offers people with bad credit a loan, often times these loans are "guaranteed" in spite of of the client's credit history. In other words, even if they have a bad credit or no credit, they are supposedly guaranteed to get a loan. All they need to do is pay an upfront "security deposit" for the loan because of their bad credit history. Unfortunately, the loan never comes and the security deposit vanishes into thin air.
Unemployed consumers with bills to pay and no access to credit, seek in desperation alternative ways for credit. Many are relieved when they find "financial companies" who give them a loan with "bad credit history" or "no credit history" the relief quickly turns into anger when they realize they've been scammed and will not only not get the loan they were promised, but have also lost their "fee" or "security deposit".
Sometimes it can be hard to detect these scammers, but here are some tips to help you distinguish between legitimate financial companies and frauds.
Tips To Detect Bad Credit Loans Fraud
- The company asks for a fee upfront. It is illegal to ask for upfront payment for a loan in Canada.
- Never give out your personal or financial information over the phone or the Internet unless you know the company. This information could also be used for Identity Theft.
- Legitimate lenders never "guarantee" or say that you will get a loan before you even apply.
- Search for the company online along with the word "scam". You'd be surprised what you could find. If the company is local, try to visit their office.
- Call the company's number to make sure you're dealing with the company you think you are. Also, don't forget to check with the Better Business Bureau to see the company's record.
Bad Credit Debt
Bad credit debt can be defined as any form of debt with a high interest rate for things you don't really need. One example would be to purchase a luxury car on a credit card that you can't really afford.
The worst form of bad credit debt is credit card debt because of the excessively high interest rates. It's easy to get sucked in by credit cards and it is by far the way most people acquire bad credit debt.
What's the quickest way to recover from bad credit debt? Paying credit card debt down or paying it off completely. And the best way to pay credit card debt down is start with the card with the highest interest rate. Then, focus on the debt with the next highest rate until you've paid off all of the debt.
Are you a victim of a Bad Credit Bad Loans Scam?
- Call Project Phonebusters toll-free at 1-888-495-8501 in Canada.
- You can also call the Competition Bureau at 1-800-348-5358.
- Contact local Policy as well as Federal Policy (RCMP and FBI)
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Creating Scare to get Cheap Publicity in Cyber Security Space
How to Manipulate Newshounds (Naive Press Reporters)
CRPCC Team
21 October 2007
Mumbai Police has informed in writing that there is no move to install any monitoring or surveillance tools, which includes Keyloggers in Cyber cafes in Mumbai. This clarification has come in response to a RTI query by the President of Association of Cyber cafe Owners (APIAP).
On August 29, 2007, Mid-day, Mumbai published a story by Vinod Kumar Menon titled – "Virtual khabris to zoom-in on terrorists", stating that Mumbai Police is installing Keyloggers in 500 cyber cafes in the city to track down terrorists, quoting one Mr. Vijay Mukhi, claimed to be President of the Foundation for Information Security and Technology. The story further said that the Mumbai police are in dialogue with M/s Micro Technologies for procuring a software called CARMS (Cyber Access Remote Monitoring System), a powerful monitoring tool that seeks to curb cyber crime. And so on….
See the news at http://www.mid-day.com/news/city/2007/august/163165.htm
There was a hot discussion on this many blogs and news groups for atleast 2 weeks.
Based on the news, Mr. Ashish Saboo, President of Association of Public ICT Tools Access Provider (APIAP - http://www.apiap.org/), an industry association of Cyber Café Owners, asked following information from Mumbai police under The Right To Information Act (RTI) on 12/09/2007.
- What is the number of Cyber cafes registered with Mumbai police as on 29th August 2007?
- Clarify on any authorization given by Mumbai Police to the Foundation for Information Security and Technology headed by Mr. Vijay Mukhi to make public statement on policy matters or conduct inquiries on procurement of services or material for a consideration.
- Any notice issued to install a monitoring surveillance tools in each cyber café. If yes, under what clause / rule of which act / law, the notice is served.
- The nature of dialogue with M/s Micro Technologies for procuring software called CRAMS.
Mumbai Police responded with letter reference no 2622/MaAa05/2007 dated 10/10/2007 under seal and signatures of Mr. K P Gavit, ACP and Information officer (Crimes) at Mumbai Police Commissioner's Office, Mumbai (CRPCC has a copy of this RTI response).
The response from Mumbai police is from two departments, viz (1) Cyber Crimes Investigation Cell (CCIC) and (2) Theatre Branch (TB), as below –
Query-1 : Response – CCIC says -This information can be made available from desk-10 of Theatre Branch, Commissioner of Police Compound. TB says – Mumbai Police Commissioner's Office has given establishment letters to 38 Cyber cafés as on 29 August 2007.
Query-2 : Response – CCIC says – No authorization has been by Mumbai Police to the foundation for information security and technology headed by Mr. Vijay Mukhi to make public statements on policy matters or conduct inquiries on procurement of service or material for a consideration. TB says – This inquiry does not concern this office.
Query-3 : Response – CCIC says – No notice from this office has been issued to install a monitoring surveillance tools in each Cyber Café. TB says – We have not given any notice or enquiry of this type.
Query-4 : Response – CCIC says – No dialogue has been made by this office with M/s Micro Technologies for procuring software called CRAMS. TB says – We have no contact or dialogue with any such company.
Now, the readers are requested to compare the news report with RTI enquiry response. Mr. Ashish Saboo has done a commendable job as the President of Association of Cyber Café Owners. Though, RTI enquiry could have been more broader and sharper to seek more information, but this enquiry provides sufficient information to any person to decide the veracity of news item (of Mid-day) and make hypothesis on the motive to publish this news-item at the cost Police credibility.
Some questions remain still un-answered. Readers can make their own value judgment.
- What is the motive of Mr. Vijay Mukhi to make this type of statement?
- Can it also be attributed as surrogate publicity by M/s Micro Technologies in league with Mr. Vijay Mukhi and the reporter?
- Is the press so naïve?
- What are the credentials of Mr. Vijay Mukhi and Foundation for Information Security and Technology in the field of Information Security?
Further, the next big question will be -
- Will Mumbai Police take any action against Mr. Vijay Mukhi and/or his foundation for Information Security and Technology and/or the Mid-day to provide wrong information to public, create scare, malign the name of Mumbai police, etc.
- Will Mid-day publish a public apology and take any action against it's naive reporter?


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February 29th, 2012As well as the pressures of modern day living, more than ever people would like to be able to work from a domestic residence. There are numerous home based franchise opportunities and other businesses that have the flexibility for being administered from your home office.
Of course there could be quite a number of benefits to this lifestyle option:-
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If you have an interest in researching a number of the work-from-home opportunities available to you, you can start by browsing some of the home based franchises available via online franchise directories. After you have checked out a number of the choices available you could then go to your bank and take a look at finance possibilities. Get in touch with the franchisor and visit them to look at their setup and also obtain a listing of their franchisees which you could speak with for views on the franchise system. Furthermore, its also recommended to seek advice from a franchising legal expert who can advise about the legal implications of entering into a franchise contract.


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- 12-24-2011, 03:04 PM Thread Author #1
How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
I bought a new Photon 4g and had the store transfer my old Palm Pre contacts (189 contacts). That worked fine other than some formatting problems and lost notes. But when I added my gmail account to the Photon all hell broke loose.
Most, but not all of my contacts were doubled on my phone to 349 total. But even the doubles didn't make sense. Some were identical doubles and some were partial contacts. My gmail contacts were unchanged at 189, there was no problem there. I had no choice but to go through every contact on my phone and manually delete/correct them.
When I was done I was left with the original 189 contacts on my phone. I thought everything was fine until I got on my computer to send a few emails. I found out most of my contacts had been completely and totally deleted in gmail! I now have 189 contacts in perfect condition on my phone, but only 56 contacts in gmail. WTF!!!!!
So I've searched all the threads pertaining to this problem on Android Central and have had no luck finding out how to fix this. It appears all my settings are correct and I've manually sync'd several times with no luck.
I'm at the point were my only solution seems to be that I have to manually type 133 contacts back into gmail by hand. That would really suck.
Am I missing something? Is there an easier way? And why do my phone contacts refuse to appear in gmail? I'm afraid if I make any changes to contacts on my phone they won't change in gmail and I'll have to remember to enter the changes manually in gmail too.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
Contacts/Settings/Contact Storage. Make sure Google is selected as the place to store new contacts.
- 12-25-2011, 12:17 PM Thread Author #3
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
on your phone: go to contacts and hit menu > export contacts. Copy the CSV file created from the sd card onto computer.
on your computer: Log into gmail in browser. Select the word "mail" with drop down arrow (above compose). Select contacts. Select import. Import CSV file from above.[CENTER][URL="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KPSmith/posts"]Follow me on Google + - 12-29-2011, 04:29 PM #5
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
I feel your pain
I have and had the same problem.
If you take your Pre to Sprint they will move all you contacts and numbers over but that still does not explain why gmail does not save them. If you look at your contacts you will see that your missing 133 are now motorola contacts - 12-30-2011, 04:00 AM Thread Author #6
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
Thanks for the suggestions, but it turned out to be a disaster.
I moved all my phone contacts to gmail contacts. That worked. But, it turns out that it moved all "Other Contacts" into "My Contacts". I now have 234 total contacts on gmail. I thought no big deal, I can handle that. Then, I looked at my phone and it DOUBLED my contacts AGAIN!!! Some were even TRIPLED!!! And others that were there before are now missing. WTF!!! I now have 356 phone contacts.
Now I'm afraid if I delete the doubles and triples out of my phone, it'll wipe out most of the contacts again in gmail. It's a vicious circle that keeps getting worse with each solution I try. - 12-30-2011, 04:04 AM Thread Author #7
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
What has been your solution to this point? It appears the only solution is to add, delete, and change contacts ONLY in gmail. What good is that if you aren't near a computer when someone gives you a change or new contact? Not only do you have to make the change in your phone, but you now have to remember to make the same change on a computer the next time you're in front of one. That's ridiculous.
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
Sucks man. I had a similar situation. I had three contact sources: Palm Pre contacts, gmail and exchange work account. Everything work fine on my Palm Pre, never had a single issue with contacts getting mixed up or confused. Then I "upgraded" to the Photon. From day one I started having issues where it seemed confusing to me what the heck the phone was doing with the contacts and how to tell each account apart. One big problem was whne I would edit or create a contact on the phone it would not sync them back up to my exchange acount. WFT? SO somewhere here on A.C. (not this thread) I read to back up my contacts to a csv file and import them. HUGE MISTAKE! I chose to import the new contacts I created (I think they were considered Motorola contacts) to my exchange acount from the phone. I did this on a Friday afternoon and by Monday morning when I logged into Outlook I noticed I had over 10,000 contacts. Originally I had about 300 or so. As I observed it kept multipling my contacts every so often adding an additional 300 to the exchange acount. I called my company IT support and was told there are known Motorola to exchange defects/bugs especially in the area of contacts and that I should have gotten "anything other than a Motorola phone." I called Motorola support and got the run around with a level-1 suppoort guy for an hour trying this and that until I gave up.
End outcome? I manage all my contacts from Outlook on my computer and sync them down to my "smartphone." What a PITA! Last and only Motorola phone for me."Abracadabra Holmes"
-Cal Naughton, Jr. - 01-02-2012, 11:38 PM #11
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
Have you tried joining the contacts. It was a little tricky to find how to do it but once you find it then the contacts can befire joined together regardlesas the source...ie msn, yahoo, aol. Choose the default main contact number. Then sync it with google and all is sync. I do still have issues with outlook contacts and facebook. Those issues are that since Android doesn't narratively sync with these types of accounts that any changes made through outlook or facebook dont transfer over and vise versa. The only way ive found to fix or get the updated info is to split the contact....ie facebook info. Then it will update.....then rejoin it. Yes PITA but once done its all in gmail contacts.
- 01-03-2012, 03:38 AM Thread Author #12
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
There's no way that I know of "joining" or 'merging' the contacts in the Photon. My contacts aren't duplicated currently in Gmail because I've already merged them. There are only duplicates on my phone.
And I'm fearful of deleting the duplicates in my phone because the last time I did that they also deleted the same contacts from Gmail. - 01-03-2012, 07:18 AM #13
Try this.
Sent from my phone on Tapatalk. Please excuse typos! - 01-03-2012, 08:36 AM #14
While in contacts tap and hold the contact. Menu will pop up ....tap edit. Once there ....tap the menu button (capacitive button bottom left ). You will see a symbol that says join. Tap it.....it will give you what it thinks you want. If those choices are what you dont need tap in all contacts and scroll through to desired contact. Tap it an hit save.....done. Also a hint.....when joining the contacts the one you choose first to join will carry the contact name. For example .....if you have two contacts ...one Fred Jones and the other Fred Man Jones .....which are the same people. If you tap and hold on Fred Jones first and join the Fred Man Jones the contact will be labeled Fred Jones. - 01-06-2012, 04:45 PM Thread Author #15
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
Thanks Statdoc and Wayne173.
I decided to use Wayne173's suggestion even though it's far more time consuming. If it didn't work, I was going to use Statdoc's nuclear option. But since Wayne173's technique worked, I just stuck to doing each entry by hand. It was a pain, but it worked.
Thank you both! - 01-06-2012, 06:45 PM #16
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
Here's something similar. If you have an android phone, you have a Google account. Go here: https://www.google.com/contacts_v2/#contacts You can add, remove and edit contacts here. Have your phone sync your contacts with your Google account and nothing else, do not try to import contacts from a file (My LG Optimus S had the same problem with multiple contacts trying to sync from a file)
Also: https://www.google.com/dashboard/ (basically every account you have on Google in one convenient place) - 10-29-2013, 09:35 PM #17
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
statdoc said, "Contacts/Settings/Contact Storage. Make sure Google is selected as the place to store new contacts."
There's no "Contact Storage" setting on my phone (Moto Defy XT557D, Republic Wireless Android 2.3.7). Settings has only six options:
[Search] [New Contact] [Display Options]
[Accounts] [Import/Export] [Delete contacts]
Under [Accounts] there's only one account, shown as my gmail address. It also says "Sync is ON."
It is VERY annoying that it seems to pick some contacts at random, and put them in phone-only storage, and there's apparently no way to move them back to the normal, sync'd storage! I don't want ANYTHING in "phone-only storage." The whole point of sync-ing with gmail contacts is so that ALL of the same contacts are in both places.
I've done the export-to-SD and re-import trick, and it seems to have increased the number of contacts, but I still find some contacts in "phone only storage." Those contacts are NOT visible on the gmail contacts page.
HOW can I get this stupid thing to work? - 10-29-2013, 09:52 PM #18
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
Wayne173 says, "You will see a symbol that says join. Tap it.....it will give you what it thinks you want. If those choices are what you dont need tap in all contacts and scroll through to desired contact. ..."
Unfortunately, that usually doesn't work, for either of two reasons:
1. The stupid Contacts manager hides most of my contacts. You can't scroll to them because they don't appear in the contact list. The only way to find them is to search for them and then when they aren't found touch "Search for all contacts" -- and that option isn't available for "join."
2. "Join" only makes sense if there's already another contact for the same person. I might not want to "join" this "phone-only" contact with some other contact, I might just want it to show up in gmail contacts.
Of course, "search for all contacts" doesn't really mean "search for all contacts," it means "search through all contacts" for the name that I just entered.
It's amazing to me how buggy this stuff is, with millions of people using it!
I just want ALL my contacts to appear in the contacts list, on both the phone and on gmail contacts. That shouldn't be hard! - 11-05-2013, 03:48 PM #19
Re: How come contacts on my phone don't show up in gmail?
I completely agree with this post and seem to have exactly the same situation (the phone is LG-P500 Android 2.3.3).
Is there no way to move a contact to gmail from phone storage at least manually?
P.S. OK, I got the manual export/import way. I went to the Settings -> Display Options and unchecked the Google contacts to be displayed leaving only phone and SIM contacts. Then I opened the contacts list, Settings -> Import/Export -> Export to SD card, again settings, select all contacts and export. Then I went back to Settings -> Display Options and unchecked phone and SIM contacts and checked Google contacts (probably unnecessary, just telling what I did). And then Settings -> Import and chose Google contacts to import to. Now I'm thinking maybe to delete the Phone contacts completely.
In order to create a new contact in the Google phonebook, when creating a new contact, at the very top (above name and surname fields) you must select the type of contact, which by default is Phone (even if I've disabled Phone and SIM in the display settings). -


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We've come to our final 2012 Gummy Awards category: Favorite Viral Videos. It seems like just yesterday we were getting the celebration going with Favorite TV shows, and it literally was just yesterday when we revealed the winners for Favorite Movies, but now we've reached the beautiful end and possibly the most exciting category of all. The sparkling wine is very nearly flat, all the balloons are slowly falling to the floor, and almost everyone is looking at their phones waiting for the Viral Videos winners to be announced so they can give their kisses goodbye and go wait in the car while their partner grabs their coat from the "coatroom" upstairs. And we're almost there! BRING ON THE LIST! BRING ON THE LIST! This list is an easy and rewarding one, compared with both the TV and Movie lists, because every single viral video on this list is going to be a good viral video that we can all enjoy. No arguing about plot holes or about character development or if the food was realistic looking enough or whatever people argue about with TV and movies. Just a straight of good list of dumb stuff that everybody can enjoy. Is the number one video your favorite viral video of 2012? Maybe not. But can you agree that it is certainly one of the best? YES. And if you can't, you can get outta town, you old stick in the mud. Let's get to the winners!
6. Two Children Singing Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" With Empty Butter Containers
3. Jurassic Park Theme Song (Melodica Cover)
1. Drunk Man Sings "Kiss From A Rose" To His Cat
10. Saxophone Bikini Beach
09. This Is How We Do It
08. My Video For Briona
07. Moves Like Chandler
06. Two Children Singing Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" With Empty Butter Containers
05. Mr. Wizard Is A Dick – The Supercut
04. Krispy Kreme – The Baddest
03. Jurassic Park Theme Song (Melodica Cover)
02. "Hot Cheetos & Takis"
01. Drunk Man Sings "Kiss From A Rose" To His Cat
Ah, "Drunk Man Sings "Kiss From A Rose" To His Cat" earns a well-deserved spot at the top, while my personal nightmare favorite "My Video For Briona" comes in closer to the end. No matter what spot these precious diamonds were placed in the Gummy crown, one thing for sure is that they — Jurassic Park Theme Song (Melodica Cover), Krispy Kreme, the whole gang — will never be forgotten. Great job, viral videos. Great job, 2012 Gummy Awards. We'll see you next year!
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Juliette and her first hardcore song was robbed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU6U-8LP1DY
If you want to see the 2012 winners as voted by everyone's moms, just click here: http://stereogum.com/907341/the-gummy-awards-your-favorite-viral-videos-of-2011/the-gummy-awards/.
This list is bullshit. Where are the two cute twin babies and their secret dancing twin language?
And neigh a single goat? Or puppy? Or otter?
This list is built on lies. (Except for Krispy Kreme.)
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Stereogum linked me here, I feel lost and confused. But djfreshie! YAY!
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