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To: steve harris who wrote (285920)	10/22/2010 1:32:38 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I thought Juan Williams blew up the World Trade Center Towers. Check with NPR.

To: steve harris who wrote (285920)	10/22/2010 1:34:54 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

wrong poster. that's Skeeter Bug's assertion. you might want to add him to your buddy list.

To: steve harris who wrote (285920)	10/22/2010 1:44:51 PM
From: Valuepro	Respond to of 306849

LMAOROTF

To: steve harris who wrote (285920)	10/22/2010 5:24:48 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Reports: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Broke Laws at Polling Place, Harassed Poll Watchers ........................................................ Friday, October 22, 2010 freerepublic.com There are two reports that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) violated electioneering laws inside a polling place and harassed poll watchers at the Acres Home Multiservice Community Center on October 18th. Liberty Pundits has two eyewitness anonymous sources, a poll watcher and an election clerk, who describe Rep. Jackson Lee speaking with and shaking hands of voters inside a polling place located in the same building as her district office and getting in the faces of poll watchers KPRC 950 host Michael Berry (@28:45) interviewed Houston poll watcher Catherine Engelbrecht of King Street Patriots/True The Vote on October 19th about what was relayed to her by poll watcher Marcia Ferguson. Engelbrecht said that the poll watcher complained to the election judge that Jackson Lee was violating the law by campaigning inside the polling place by shaking hands with voters waiting in line to vote. Engelbrecht did not know the whole story of what happened other than the poll watcher complaining. Liberty Pundits had a fuller account from their sources who asked for anonymity for their safety: So the source, a poll watcher, went into the room housing the voting booths and there stood Congresswoman Lee shaking hands with voters and greeting others–clearly electioneering. The poll watcher then went to one of the clerks and asked the presiding judge to take care of it. While this occurred, the poll watcher heard Lee loudly say to the crowd in the voting area,”I’ve heard a lot of complaints about voter intimidation by poll watchers. I am not going to allow voter intimidation.” The poll watcher started writing the incident down. Lee then went to the poll watcher and asked,”What’s your name? Who do you represent?” A poll watcher is not allowed to speak in the polling area, so directed Congresswoman Lee to the presiding judge. The poll watcher said that Congresswoman Lee indicated that she wanted names to report to the Department of Justice for voter intimidation. The presiding judge asked Congresswoman Lee to leave. ... This account is backed up by another worker there, an election clerk, who also wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. He relayed concern for his safety. The election clerk described the poll watchers as timid. He said that they stayed out of the way, were quiet and and did not talk to any voters. He confirms that Congresswoman Lee was, in fact, back near the voting booths and talking to the presiding judge but he did not overhear her conversation but saw her from a distance. He estimated that Sheila Jackson Lee was within 10 feet of the voting machines but was not herself voting. He also witnessed Congresswoman Lee talking to the poll watcher but again, could not hear the contents of the conversation. The clerk corroborated the poll watcher’s report that there were consistent election law violations in the polling places. There have been no reports in the media about this reported egregious violation of the law by by a U.S. Congresswoman.

To: steve harris who wrote (285920)	10/25/2010 2:48:37 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Va. Dem Candidate Jim Moran to Veteran: Military Service Isn't Public Service ............................................................ by Amanda Marshall \| October 22, 2010 politics.blogs.foxnews.com Twenty-four years in the military doesn't count as public service, at least according to Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran. In a video that's gone viral online, Moran is heard telling a Democratic gathering earlier this month that his opponent, Republican Patrick Murray, is just another unqualified GOP candidate. "What [Republicans] do is find candidates, usually stealth candidates, that haven't been in office, haven't served or performed in any kind of public service," Moran said. "My opponent is typical, frankly." The trouble is, Murray is a retired Army colonel with 24 years of service--including combat in Iraq. The idea that such an extensive military record doesn't qualify as "public service" has left a sour taste in Murray's mouth. "It is unconscionable to me how a member of Congress from a District with so many Veterans, who also sits on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, could make such shameful and offensive comments about the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform," Murray wrote on his campaign blog Friday."This kind of disrespect to our service members not only offends me, but is insensitive to the sacrifices made by our dedicated military families as well." Moran responded Friday, telling local news outlet WJLA that he simply misspoke, and his constituents know that's not what he meant. The Murray campaign points out that the congressman had the same sort of explaining to do earlier this month, when he claimed an endorsement from the Disabled American Veterans Association and a high rating from the Military Officer's Association. The latter organization reportedly asked Moran to cease using its name in support of his campaign efforts. The military community is not known for making political rebuffs; it was relatively quiet when Connecticut Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal (D) was revealed to have exaggerated his service in Vietnam. But in a district that is home to hundreds of military families from surrounding bases--and the Pentagon--Moran's remarks may evince a rebuttal in a form much sharper than words on Election Day: votes. Read more: politics.blogs.foxnews.com

To: steve harris who wrote (285920)	10/25/2010 3:12:48 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Fighting Fire with Quotas - A federal judge’s dangerous crusade against the FDNY City Journal ^ \| 24 October 2010 \| Heather Mac Donald city-journal.org A fierce constitutional battle is being waged between an out-of-control federal judge determined to impose racial quotas on New York City’s fire department and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, equally determined to resist race-based hiring. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis appointed himself the city’s de facto fire commissioner last week by enjoining the department from hiring any new firefighters without his approval—and he will give his approval only to the racial hiring schemes he has already tried to foist on the department. Mayor Bloomberg has courageously refused to cave in to the judge’s quota demands—a stance vanishingly rare in today’s politically correct world. His refusal is justified, both legally and as a matter of policy. Judge Garaufis’s rulings have been capricious and biased, creating new law while ignoring facts that undercut his radical new doctrines. And Garaufis’s ultimate goal—to craft a future hiring process based on racial considerations—would put the city’s residents at risk by making skin color as important a qualification for firefighters as actual preparedness. Since 2007, Garaufis has presided over a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters. The suit charged the FDNY with discrimination against blacks, in light of blacks’ low representation—4 percent—in the FDNY, compared with their representation in the city population—24 percent. (Hispanics were eventually added to the category of alleged discrimination victims.) The only evidence the plaintiffs could muster for such discrimination was blacks’ lower pass rate than whites on the FDNY’s entrance exam. Under the misguided legal theory of “disparate impact,” however, an employer can be found guilty of discrimination simply if minority applicants don’t score as well as whites on a job test. . .