Fair Tax Blogburst, by Terry Dillard:

With this heated election approaching faster than one could imagine, we thought it would be a time to throw the FT BB into the debates to see where each of our respective candidates reside in these matters.

We have grown fast and have expanded further than Terry and I anticipated in such a short time, which should prove to be interesting as we will hopefully see. Since we have members of numerous states, and numerous districts of the House of Representatives, let us see where the incumbents and their challengers reside when it comes to the Fair Tax.

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Crossposted from Stop The ACLU:

Liberals always act shocked and astonished that conservatives believe that an organization claiming to be the guardian of religious liberty is actually is actually America's number one religious censor. They will spout off token cases where the ACLU veered from its normal path of hostility toward Christian religious expression to defend free speech. They have a handful of cases they try to convince us with. However, the ACLU's history can easily be looked at and the cases against religious expression far outweigh these token cases. If the ACLU were consistent in its positions on religious liberty despite the religion their defense on the issue would be much easier. However, many cases point out that it isn't religion in general the ACLU fight, but the Christian religion in particular. more...

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Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA). Do you know him? Do you know of him? According to Kit Jarrell, he's a liar. But I did already say he's an elected official, so you really already knew that, didn't you?

Oh, and he's using the fraudulent information to appear on the ballot as a veteran. Sure, Democrats respect our military veterans...as long as it will get them money and/or power.

A politician lies and says anything to get elected or to get money to spend. A stateman says the truth, no matter who will be "offended" or what the result will be. We need statesmen, NOT politicians.

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If you live in Mecklenburg county, feel free to vote early and often. You can vote now without providing any identification, and you can vote any day you like with the "early voting." Feel free to vote more than once if you like, no one will stop you. Oh, and if you're not registered, don't let that stop you, because you can vote without even being registered, thanks to the North Carolina voting laws -- seriously.

If you do choose to vote one or more times, you can vote for Jim Puckett. He's a good guy, seriously. I know him and he's a real straight shooter. His latest ad on YouTube (at least until it's deemed "offensive" by the ultra-liberals at Google) can be found here. It's a play on MasterCard's "priceless" ads, and it's a good one -- oh, and it's compeltely factual, showing liberals for what they truly are: "I make no apology for raising taxes."

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Have you seen the recent happenings in Germany related to education? Oh, the left in America would absolutely LOVE this to happen here. Seriously. I'm not trying to be funny or exaggerate at all:

On Friday 20 October 2006 at around 7:30 a.m. the children of a home educating family Â… were brought under duress to school by police

Of course, remember, the education establishment in America is also honestly NOT interested in education. Their primary purpose is to spend money and secure teacher jobs (to be paid with MORE government money). In case you didn't know, the amount of money given to all government (public) schools in America depends DIRECTLY upon how many students attend. Therefore, the more students you have at your school, the more money you get. Homeschoolers are the enemy to the state.

Go ahead and elect Democrats and watch them crush this enemy, too.

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In North Carolina, the Socialist Unions who absolutely despise freedom are throwing around a lot of money to elect Democrats, at least according to the news report. However, that's not quite accurate. You see, Democrats have already gerrymandered the state to the point where it is absolutely impossible (barring a major event, like a civil war) for the Republicans to win. Everyone knows that, even the unions. So why would they be spending lots of money?

Because they're trying to buy votes. They know the Democrats will win in the state, so they are currently making a push to buy things like higher minimum wages and easier access to stupid workers.

If we had freedom, these unions wouldn't be able to lobby and give tons of cash to the state. Know where that money comes from? The state. The majority of union members in North Carolina WORK FOR THE STATE. So they're taking their money and using it to lobby the state for more government and more money. In a free republic, the government would be the absolute SMALLEST employer in the state, not the largest. Instead, we have a self-propagating system where they work for the state and take their money to bribe politicians to give them more money so they can give more money to the politicians.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

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Where's your sign?

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Need some good music to listen to as you watch your country disappear in front of your eyes? Try listening to The Anchor Babies. It's free!

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Regular readers here know that we have been closely following the case where two border patrol agents have been arrested, tried, and now sentenced for TRYING TO ENFORCE THE BORDER. We have asked that Bush pardon the agents and have suggested that if he did, there would be a HUGE wave of Republican support for the election this year.

Now it can be reported that Bush has absolutely no intention to pardon those agents and he apparently strongly supports their arrest and punishment FOR TRYING TO ENFORCE THE BORDER. He says that to even consider pardoning them is "nonsensical."

Unfortunately, there's no one else to turn to in government. If Americans want a southern border, we're going to have to make and support it ourself, because the United States government has ZERO desire for any borders.

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In case you're in North Carolina and needed to know which judges are Republicans (and not bleeding heart liberals), here's the list for Mecklenburg County:

You need to have these names before going into the voting booth, as they will not have "Republican" by their names (because the Democrats realized that people were voting for Republican judges too much, so they took the party affiliation off the ballot).

The Republican Judicial candidates are:

* Rusty Duke
* Ann Marie Calabria
* Eric Levinson
* Mark Martin
* Kris Bailey
* Donna Stroud
* Richard Boner
* Lisa Bell
* Martha Curran (Clerk of Mecklenburg Superior Court)

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The Greensboro Paper weighs in on the Chief Justice election. As you might expect from the vast majority of North Carolina print newspapers, they endorse the Democrat. And in doing so, they expose their strong bias. The editorial actually says

This is a moderate-conservative court, and Parker fits comfortably into its centrist core

This editorial is more of the same. If you want someone who will actually enforce the laws that are on the books (even though they're written by socialists), then you should vote for Judge Rusty Duke for Chief Justice.

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This week's Tarheel Tavern is up at Terra Sig Illata. Head on over and take a peek.

In case you've never seen it before, the Tarheel Tavern is a weekly carnival of posts from blogs in and about North Carolina. There's some new folks each week, and there's regulars who manage to have a post in there each and every week. So if you're from or interested in North Carolina, have a look.

Also, this week's Second Amendment Carnival is posted as well. Do I even need to suggest you visit that one?

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It's Mole Day! Celebrate!

We're #6.02 x 10^23!

Play pin the nose on the mole!

Yay!

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Beheadings Aren't Just For Islamists Anymore

By Toni at Bear Creek Ledger

Those pro-illegal aliens should be paying attention to what's happening with the drug cartels south of the border. This is what we in the US have to look forward to if there isn't something done to control our southern borders.

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Why Judge Duke?

Judge Rusty Duke is a conservative who as Chief Justice of our Supreme Court will uphold the Constitution of our state and protect the safety and property rights of our families.

Judge Rusty Duke has served as a trial judge for seventeen years, working with Clerks of Court, Sheriffs, and other law enforcement officers, lawyers and prosecutors.

Judge Rusty Duke opposes judicial activism that seeks to change social policy by judicial interpretation.

Judge Rusty Duke will work to keep the judiciary independent of the legislative and executive branches of government, as contemplated by the North Carolina State Constitution, and to make the courts more efficient.

Married for 33 years with three children, Judge Rusty Duke knows firsthand the stresses modern families face - and believes the traditional family is the foundation of our culture.

Learn more at www.rustyduke.com

This posting is neither paid for, supported by, nor coordinated with the Rusty Duke Campaign. It's just a semi-free citizen trying to exercise what's left of freedom of speech in North Carolina.

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The recently invisible governor of North Carolina (and I'm sure it's not because his buddy and pal, Jim Black, is being investigated by the feds and his pals are getting convicted of crimes) announced some results of the recent state monopoly on gambling.

“The real lottery winners are our schoolchildren across the state who have greater access to pre-k classes, smaller class size, safe, modern school buildings and college scholarships"

1. Access to pre-k classes. What does this accomplish? Absolutely zero. Studies have shown again and again that students who receive these government-sponsored pre-k classes do not show ANY increase in knowledge, education, or performance at all. Quite literally, the ONLY thing accomplished by these classes is a government-paid-for babysitting service so the parents can go back to work a year earlier and the taxpayers can foot the bill. Literally.

2. Smaller class size. Once again, there are zero studies that show ANY benefit at all from smaller class sizes. But that doesn't matter because people think that it helps and is better. IT IS NOT. It does not help any with education, performance or testing. Zero increase in actual education. Once again, the ONLY benefit this provides is more employment for teachers and more money spent on buildings to BUILD more classes. No educational benefit AT ALL.

3. Safe, modern school buildings. I'm sure there's more than a few people who might argue about the "safe" part of that one. But yet again, there is NO evidence that ANY type of building increases the learning of students. Just because they are in a freshly painted building, they do not learn more. There are NO measurable increases in education, learning, or knowledge at all based on ANY buildings used. Instead, the only result of this is more government spending to BUILD those buildings.

4. College Scholarships. So the government gives money to students so they can give money to the state to attend school. Seriously. The scholarships are for state schools -- the money paid GOES TO THE STATE. The state gave them the money. What kind of con job is this? If the state didn't give them the money, costs would be LESS because people couldn't afford it. So yes, again, ZERO increase in knowledge, education, or anything -- other than government spending.

So, now Governor Easley has finally admitted the sole and entire purpose for the education system in North Carolina -- to increase government spending. And at that, they are very, very successful. The government-run education system is HONESTLY not interested in "education" in the traditional sense -- they are interested in spending money, and absolutely NOTHING else.

Keep that in mind next time you shuttle your kids off to the "government" education center. They are there ONLY to get the government to spend more money. That's what governor Easley, Democrat, says.

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This weekend you won't find the Ogre at The Renaissance Festival. Instead, he's gone fishing for the last trip of the year. But you can still go to the festival and pretend Ogre's there. Just find a big hairy green guy drinking beer and that will have to be a suitable replacement. Next weekend I'll be there at the opening cannon shot, and should be taking the camera for pictures and reviews.

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1 Big hairy green guy? Drinking beeah? Blueberry beeah?? Have a good weekend Ogre!

Posted by: Raven at October 21, 2006 11:01 PM (QopLx)

2 It's October. Time to switch over to Pumpkin beer.

Posted by: Ogre at October 21, 2006 11:06 PM (196ug)

3 Catch anything?

Posted by: AlwaysOnWatch at October 23, 2006 01:21 PM (GIL7z)

4 Nadda.

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Well, according to the NC NAACP, it's time to start another race war. Racist Julius Chambers said that the members of NC NAACP are not doing enough to ensure that black children get more education than white children and that he's going to work to beat down white children so black children can have more.

Viewing all people by their skin color, he said that it's unfair that all black people are stupid and cannot get jobs, so they have to live in poor areas. He said it's not right that black people choose not to live in suburbs and instead live in the inner city. He said that taxpayers should give carloads of cash to all stupid black people who are too dumb to work.

He continued to complain that "historically black" schools have stupid idiots going to school who cannot pass standardized tests, but it would compensate for their stupidity if the state of North Carolina gave them a lot of money so they wouldn't have to work (beacause they're too dumb to work, anyway). He said it's not the fault of the students or their parents, it's the fault of white people who have money.

Now don't get mad at me -- Racist Julius Chambers is the one who claimed all this, not me. I'm just reporting on what he said (and reading between the lines a little bit). I strongly disagree with him. I think people can succeed and learn regardless of the color of their skin.

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Yes, really. In North Carolina, if you would like to run for election to be a judge, you, too, might be forced to pay to fund your opponent's election campaign. Oh, and if you refuse to pay? The North Carolina Bar Association will revoke your license and then you will be ineligible to run for office.

This is just another perverted side effect of the so-called "public financing laws" that are nothing but an absolute crushing of freedom of speech. Folks, money DOES equal free speech, even if you don't want it to. When you FORCE someone to pay for someone else's election, you ARE crushing freedom of speech.

So far, it appears the North Carolina State Bar Association is completely in support of the law that requires lawyers to fund their opposition's election campaigns. The courts have yet to weigh in, and they don't particularly want to. Then again, it will be literally impossible to find an impartial judge to rule in the case, because those very same judges who could rule would ALREADY BE RECIPIENTS of the extortion fees.

Freedom of Speech is gone in North Carolina. Too bad we don't have a law that protects freedom of speech.

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