This is kind of an interesting story from the standpoint of how the Clintons tend to spin things.

A fellow who had bombs strapped to him with duct tape took Clinton campaign workers from the New Hampshire office hostage. The fellow has several aliases, but the article identifies him as “Leeland Eisenberg”.

He thinks there is a ‘chimp’ chip planted inside his head…some have said he’s a paranoid schizophrenic off his meds. Regardless, he took at least four people hostage, but surrendered to police.

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Error 500 Internal Server Error

Cao’s blog, my home blog and the place where I do the majority of my writing, is down for an undetermined length of time since my readers and then I, encountered the dreaded 500 Internal Server Error this morning.

There is no easy fix to this, as it appears.  The problem has been handed off to the hosting company, and I hope they can figure out what is wrong in order to get CB back online.

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Ya know, just in case the ED pill guys stop by….Al Gore climate change site hacked! Then again, Al isn’t getting any younger…

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In a cruel twist of ironic fate, the well know (or little known, depends on where you stand on the issue) “Ecowarrior” hit an iceberg and spilled 40,000 gallons on oil in the “priistine” environment the wackos….er, environmentalists, where trying to protect……

for more go to:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_112707/content/01125107.guest.html

 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/780

Notice the news is mostly out of Canada…..where are you MSNBC, CNN, and other liberal outlets?

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth fighting for is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his won personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. 

- John Stuart Mill 

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A money bundler for Hillary Clinton in South Texas named Alonzo Cantu has, according to the Washington Post, raised some $640,000 in Hidalgo County, Texas–an area along the Mexican border in which one would be being very kind in describing as ‘not exactly the Hamptons’. In the same area, over the same timeframe. Barack Obama has raised $2,086.

Lee Cary looks closely at the Cantu story, and recalls that it evokes the ghosts of LBJ’s 1947 stolen election in Duval County, also in South Texas:

Meanwhile, this story reminds those of us who live in Texas of another political campaign here back in 1947. The Senatorial election that year was between a legend in Texas politics and a young congressman from Austin. The legend, Coke Stevenson, had been the Speaker of the Texas House, Lieutenant Governor, and twice elected Governor. The congressman was Lyndon Johnson.

When the Texas Election Bureau closed on Election Day, Stevenson led by 854 votes. But the counting wasn’t done, and neither was the voting. Resolution of the contested results would be a precursor of the 2000 Presidential Election drama in Florida, except more crudely complicated. Johnson eventually won by 87 votes in an election where 988,295 votes were allegedly cast. “Allegedly” is the operative word.

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Johnson’s big vote bundler was George Berham Parr, who solely controlled the Democratic Party machine in Duvall and Jim Hogg Counties, just north of Hidalgo County. Parr also exercised significant influence in other Southeast Texas border counties including Webb, Cameron, Nueces, and Hidalgo. Caro quotes the description of Parr, El Patron, written by a Corpus Christi Caller-Times reporter named James M. Rowe, who knew Rio Grande Valley politics well:

It is not easy for the average person to imagine what it was like…to oppose Boss Parr in his own county. A word from him was sufficient to get a man fired from his job or denied welfare payments or surplus commodities distributed to the needy. Merchants who opposed him faced the sudden loss of most of their trade. Little farmer and ranchers were intimated by the pistoleros. (p.185)

Parr’s most ominous pistolero was his six-gun totting enforcer, Luis Salas. Days after the polls closed, Salas added 200 votes for Johnson to Ballot Box 13 in Jim Webb County. The fact that all the votes were recorded in the same handwriting was a clue. But the box was never examined by those who adjudicated the election results; it had disappeared by then.

Revised returns gave Johnson a 3,000 vote margin of victory in Hidalgo County. In the six Southeast Texas border-area counties most heavily influenced by the Boss Parr machine, Johnson tallied 10,323 votes to Stevenson’s 1,329. In Parr’s home county of Duvall, it was Johnson 2,908 - Stevenson 38. It all makes the chads and dimples show of South Florida look like child’s play.

So what does this have to do with Hillary’s McAllen bundler?

In 60 years, Election Day practices have changed considerably in Texas. Today, it’s not easy anymore to use patronage and intimidation to stuff ballot boxes. But, when that kind of money, $640,000, comes from that many donors in what a Washington Post writer describes as a “border town of stucco bungalows and weed-covered farm lots,” it does raise eyebrows from those who know the Democrat political history of Southeast Texas, and who remember the stealth donors from NYC’s Chinatown.

Good point, that. Read the whole thing.