Dodged a bullet !

Dear Fellow Business Owners:
>>
>> As a business owner who employs 120 people, we have resigned ourselves to
>> the fact that Barack Obama will be our next president, and that our taxes
>> and fees will go up in a BIG way.
>>
>> To compensate for these increases, we figure that the Customer will have
>> to
>> see an increase in our fees to them of about 8-10%. We will also have to
>> lay off 25 of our employees. This really bothered us as we believe we are
>> family here and didn’t know how to choose who will have to go. So, this
>> is
>> what we did.
>>
>> We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers
>> on
>> our employees cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be
>> laid off.
>>
>> We can’t think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have
>> a
>> better idea, let me know.
>>
>> We are sending this letter to all business owners that we know.

We are selling all our stocks , bonds, 401k , and taking money out of U.S banks today

Obama Paid for this election with the help of Acorn

I reported a situation in California yesterday regarding the registered voter logs.I am concerned. California usually goes Democrat however we had many controversial propositions on our ballots so a few votes stolen here and there can make a BIG difference in the passage or rejection of these propositions.

I will repost.
Note: we ‘accidently’ caught many more such voters (who were mis-categorized) throughout the day.

How did we catch them? They looked like college aged students (black, white, asian, latino, male, female) and since we are not allowed by California law to ask them for id- we had conversations with them-when time permitted.

We were very fortunate in that we had steady stream of voters throughout the day instead of mile-long lines-so we had the time to engage in small talk with some of the people in our polling place. I heard other California polling places were not so lucky.

If it came out in conversation that they were first time voters, we asked for id.

There were so many teens and adults voting at our polling place that we didnt recognize from our community too. Were these voters listed as new or inactive? No. They were listed as ACTIVE (A) so we could not ask for id.

Several poll worker friends of mine in California reported similar incidents where new voters were listed as active.

I have no idea how many first time voters (adults and youth) slipped through that we did not catch so that we could ask to see their id. I have been a pollworker for several years in my community.

The number of new faces that I saw at the polls-really surprised me. I am very active in my community and belong to many different organizations.

There were people at the polls that I dont recall ever seeing anywhere in my community-and please dont infer I am being racist- the ‘new’ voters I am talking about included various races and age groups.

There could be MANY reasons for this however…the voter registration logs were inaccurate and that concerns me.

There were blue colored reports at the end of the registration book (supplementary reports) which listed the names of new voters or voters who registered at the last minute.

However the official main copy of the registration log did not accurately indicate who was voting for the first time so we didnt know who to ask for id. We caught many mislabeled NEW voters on our log who were listed as ACTIVE instead of NEW.

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MY POST FROM YESTERDAY TO NQ.

I am volunteering as poll worker in California.
I am on a break right now.

Our polls opened 7 am pacific time.

In California-voters do not have to show identification UNLESS they are first time voters (newly registered).

So far, five new voters came in to vote and we would not have known that they were new voters if we had not chatted with them. you see, on our voting logs, they were referenced with the letter “A” indicating they are active voters.

We are not required to ask for id from Active voters.

In California, all new voters are supposed to have the letter “N” next to their name in our voter log, That is the only way we (poll workers) will know to ask them for ID. Otherwise-by law- unless they have the letter “N” next to their names, we are not allowed to ask them for id.

So…hypothetically, ANYONE can come in to vote using someone else’s name-I would not know them from Adam, and if their name was on my registered voters log, they could cast a vote-even if they NEVER voted before in my district or my state. I would not know to ask them for id to verify their identity because they do not have the letter “N” (for ‘New’) next to their name.

Our precinct will report this to the California Secretary of State as well as all appropriate agencies out here but I want to know if anything similiar is going on nationwide.

Like I said, we have caught 5 such cases (up through 9 am) completely by accident so far .

Anything similar going on anywhere else?

Does anyone have anything else to report?

Susan, Larry, can we have an open thread here on NQ where voters or pollworkers can report observations including any voting anomalies?

I hope that Republicans actually care about those in uniform enough to actually fight for them as hard as they fought Clinton over his sex life.

How ’bout this:

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

sauve qui peut…

Busloads of young AAs were bussed in, and they tied up the location all day long. No one knew who they were, their registrations were challenged, etc.
Longtime residents waited for hours to cast their vote, and many eventually just turned away. It got ugly, the police were called, Fox News was called, the Voter Fraud hotline was called, so many people were called and yet there was no resolution.

This occurred to my friend’s daughter. I believe it was on local TV, there may even be a youTube of it, I will have to research and if there is one I will post it.

As she related the tale to me late last night, the first thought that came to mind was: this is what happened at the Dem caucuses.

If I find video I will relay to Dr. Long, there clearly was voter intimidation occurring.

UNIFORMS – Will underwear adrift and saggy shorts, knit caps be de rigeur?

MUSIC – How DOES one march to Fat Boy Slim and Jay-Z?

RANKS – Will we have a HNIC, a NWTH, etc.?

Yes, there’s much fun to be had, speculating upon these and other topics. I estimate that by March of ‘09, Buyer’s Remorse will be upon the land.

Remember those Youngstown steelworkers who called themselves Reagan Democrats? Wonder how they fared in the First Reagan Recession, when all those sheet and tube mills were dynamited?

Do you think anyone at the Steelworkers’ union rolled up that, “ELECT A UNION PRESIDENT PRESIDENT!” banner and shoved it up the Leadership’s ass about 1983?

Lock and Load, Dream Babies. And remember, the Hitler Jugend gave us a Pope, right?

Strong coffee, and lots of it.

Also plenty of facial tissues, as the poor watcher will be bored to tears.