{"id":7065,"date":"2010-10-30T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2010-10-30T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T20:17:33","slug":"2010-youre-not-for-sharia-law-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/10\/30\/2010-youre-not-for-sharia-law-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"2010:  You&#8217;re not for Sharia Law, are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paranoics Question of the Day:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-issues-fake-terror-alert-on-eve-of-elections.html\">How does the threat of Terror help Obama in terms of the Election, <\/a>seeing as it lights up the lizard brain against &#8220;Hussein&#8221; &#8212; the &#8220;Weak on Terror&#8221; angle at play?\u00c2\u00a0 Is this the two-party duopoly at work, Obama working for the hidden cause of electing his supposed partisan opponents in order to affect a false dichotemy setting up the Police State.:<br \/>\n<em>As we predicted on four separate occasions would happen, the Obama White House has deliberately contrived a fake terror scare on the eve of the mid-term elections in an effort to subdue the rampaging political appetite for anti-big government candidates that threatens to sweep aside establishment incumbents next week.<br \/>\n<\/em>The Big Government &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; Replacements taking the place of the Big Government Incumbents?<br \/>\nWhere do they stand on the Oklahoma measure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OKLAHOMA.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>When you go into the ballot box <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/10\/26\/oklahoma-senate-candidate-jim-rogers-has-a-name-but-not-much\/\">to mark your vote for the Democratic candidate, Jim Rogers<br \/>\n<\/a><em>Rogers has no campaign website, <\/em><em>doesn&#8217;t do fund-raising<\/em><em> &#8212; he has spent less than $700 on his 2010 race &#8212; and mostly walks the streets with a handmade sign in the working-class Oklahoma City suburb where he lives. He told the <\/em><em>Associated Press<\/em><em> that his top priority is to stop the outsourcing of jobs overseas and rein in the national debt but is otherwise a <\/em><em>blank slate<\/em><em>.<br \/>\nEfforts to reach Rogers through his <\/em><em>Facebook page<\/em><em> elicited a response six hours later from someone writing, &#8220;I know it&#8217;s a pain, but Mr. Rogers mainly conducts interviews through the mail,&#8221; and listed an address in Midwest City, Okla. The person added that, &#8220;He would likely consent to a phone interview as well, but I don&#8217;t have that information available as this page is mostly an informational page from articles.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/10\/26\/is-jim-rogers-married\/\">Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim Rogers is taking a stand<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Rogers has refused comment on any aspect of his personal life.<\/em><br \/>\nYeah, I too am tired of people making issue with, for instance, whether the Delaware candidate was naked and making out with someone years and years ago.<br \/>\nOne take-away from this piece:<br \/>\n<em>A spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Democratic Party, Megan Dubray, says the match-up is &#8220;not a serious race&#8221; and says the focus is on the much more competitive governor&#8217;s race.<br \/>\n<\/em>Where the Democrat trails in the polls by 20 plus points.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when you do that, be sure to go to the big issue on the ballot for Oklahoma voters\u00c2\u00a0to decide &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0whether or not to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2010\/10\/29\/sharia-islamic-law-may-be-banned-in-oklahoma\/\">amend the state Constitution to Ban Sharia Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Supporters of the initiative to ban Sharia, the Times reports, concede that they do not know of a single case of Sharia being used in the Sooner State, which has about 15,000 Muslims.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oklahoma does not have that problem yet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Republican state Rep. Rex Duncan, who authored the ballot measure \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But why wait until it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the courts?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;s a logical fallacy in there somewhere, but I can&#8217;t put my finger on it.<br \/>\nThe polling data is from July, and seems to suggest a majority but possibly not a super-majority (I&#8217;m assuming what it takes for Constitutional Amendment.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINNESOTA.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/10\/29\/tea-party-leader-rep-keith-ellison-should-be-dumped-because-he\/\">The Tea Party all about Fiscal matters, part 4,978<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>But when asked if he would vote for a Muslim candidate who was a conservative, Phillips replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/em><!-- surphace end --><\/p>\n<p><strong>WISCONSIN<br \/>\n<\/strong>It is worth mentioning that in the last minute &#8220;Restricted Map&#8221; loop that Obama is taking for politicking to spur voter turn-out, Russ Feingold and Wisconsin have fallen off the map, and the Democratic &#8220;Salvage&#8221; operation goes on down.\u00c2\u00a0 Senator Ron Johnson, it is presumed.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nDevoid of Obama stumping, we get an endorsement from Bob Barr.<br \/>\nMaybe this shouldn&#8217;t freeze the minds of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=433x493009\">Democratic Underground posters <\/a>as much as it does.\u00c2\u00a0 Go back to the 1998 Impeachment fight, where Bob Barr was the floor leader in the House.\u00c2\u00a0 And, back to a blog post from 2005 off of a New Republic essay<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nMaybe the ultimate Feingold heresy came during the 1998-1999 Clinton impeachment fight. When Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia offered a resolution to dismiss the charges against the president, every Democrat voted for the resolution but one: Feingold . Again, the issue was process. Feingold argued that Republicans deserved a chance to make their case and put it to a vote and that the Byrd resolution would \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in appearance, and in fact, improperly short-circuit this trial\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153call the fairness of the process into question.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The vote was a disaster among his Democratic constituents, according to the Wisconsin Democratic Party chairwoman, who told The Washington Post: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting a lot of very upset people calling. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Elderly people crying, other people yelling. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just mad as hell.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Feingold ultimately voted against impeachment.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I point to a part of the Christopher Hitchens \u00c2\u00a0anti-Clinton book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1859842844\/102-5410404-2149705?v=glance&amp;n=283155&amp;n=507846&amp;s=books&amp;v=glance\">No One\u00c2\u00a0Left to Lie To<\/a>, where a single Democratic Senator is having a trouble of conscience about how to vote on the Vote to Impeach Clinton, and is confiding in Chritopher Hitchens. He ultimately votes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but I had wondered who the hell this could possibly be. I thought the only two Senators that would be travelling in Chritopher Hitchens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s circle would be Russ\u00c2\u00a0 Feingold and Paul Wellstone (today, his cheerleading for the Iraq War has him the other camp)\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 does this signify anything? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know.<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n(Point of reference: in the pages offered online, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vFUJ6Sc1I88C&amp;pg=PA20&amp;lpg=PA20&amp;dq=%22No+One+Left%22+%22Christopher+Hitchens%22+%22Feingold%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=giI-XzfI5w&amp;sig=GTmjDNAWs3cfkOLAPI2UEfI1-Gg&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=4GjMTLP7LZLmsQPbnqzRDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">we see Feingold referenced as &#8220;the only member of the Senate who is entitled to call himself and &#8216;Independent<\/a>&#8220;.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOUISIANA<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=38frpvDAprQ&amp;\">Awkward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IDAHO.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>This might be the weirdest of Nate Silver&#8217;s maps.\u00c2\u00a0 You have two candidates, the incumbent &#8220;Democrat&#8221; Walt Minnick and the Republican challenger Labrador tied at 48.6 percent in the projections, <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2010\/forecasts\/house\/idaho\/1\">with each at an even 50 percent chance of winning<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd you have the list of polls.\u00c2\u00a0 All of them with Minnick leading.<br \/>\nThe number skew is obviously political climate and Idaho electorate.<br \/>\nWhere he enjoys the support of, um, <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaingoatreport.typepad.com\/the_mountaingoat_report\/2010\/10\/minnicks-pathetic-racism.html\">this group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALASKA .<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0So it goes<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>In a movement one pro-Sarah Palin website is calling \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Operation Alaska Chaos,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at least 100 people filed paperwork Thursday to register as write-in candidates in the U.S. Senate election, according to the Division of Elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A stream of would-be senators filtered through the elections office in Midtown Anchorage late in the day, many saying the effort is meant to protest an order by the Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday allowing a list of write-in candidates to be shown to voters who ask for assistance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The court action is expected to aid Sen. Lisa Murkowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s write-in bid and amounts to electioneering by the state, say supporters of Republican nominee Joe Miller. The idea of a mass registration is to create a long list of potential write-in choices and make it harder for voters to find Murkowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Paranoics Question of the Day: How does the threat of Terror help Obama in terms of the Election, seeing as it lights up the lizard brain against &#8220;Hussein&#8221; &#8212; the &#8220;Weak on Terror&#8221; angle at play?\u00c2\u00a0 Is this the two-party duopoly at work, Obama working for the hidden cause of electing his supposed partisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}