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6:15 PM (4 hours ago)Stunner. SEIU Offshoot ‘Mi Familia Vota’ Caught With 6,000 Bogus Colorado Voter Registrationsfrom Gateway Pundit by Jim HoftDo you remember when Barack Obama said:


“The SEIU Agenda Is My Agenda”?

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Now we know why.

The same SEIU offshoot group that is accused of turning in thousands of bogus voter registrations in Arizona has come under fire in Colorado.


Mi Familia Vota is accused of turning in 6,000 bogus voter registrations in Colorado.

The Denver Post reported:



A federal judge declined to force the secretary of state to reactivate approximately 6,000 new voters whose registrations were canceled under Colorado’s 20-day rule.



In a decision issued Monday, Senior U.S. District Judge John L. Kane denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that was requested by several labor and voting-rights groups.



When a new voter registers in Colorado, the secretary of state mails a nonforwardable notice of disposition that the voter’s registration has been received. If the notice comes back undeliverable in the mail, then clerks deem the voter’s registration inactive within 20 days.



Melody Mirbaba, an assistant attorney general, argued that the 20-day rule is designed to stop voter fraud and duplicate registrations.



James Finberg, an attorney representing voting and labor groups, said voters are harmed because sometimes the voter cards are returned through no fault of their own.



He said some voters have filled out their address incorrectly on forms; clerks sometimes make errors when inputting the new data; and postal workers also make mistakes in delivering the voter cards.



But Mirbaba argued that inactive voters can still show up at the polls and vote on a provisional ballot until their addresses can be verified…



…The motion for the preliminary injunction is one of several federal challenges regarding purged voters filed against the secretary of state by Common Cause of Colorado, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and the Service Employees International Union.



Of course, the fact that a SEIU group is turning in thousands of bogus voter registrations surprises no one.



Add starLikeShareShare with noteEmailKeep unreadAdd tags6:00 PM (4 hours ago)Iran's War in Iraqfrom The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog by John TabinThe headlines out of today's Wikileaks document dump mostly focus on civilian casualties and abuses by the Iraqi government, and while that's understandable, the documents that fill in details about Iranian operations in Iraq shouldn't be lost in the shuffle. Here's the New York Times write-up on that aspect of the story.



UPDATE: And here's the NYT story on the document that indicates that the American hikers held hostage in Iran were picked up on the Iraqi side of the border.







Add starLikeShareShare with noteEmailKeep unreadAdd tags5:55 PM (4 hours ago)Hit Piece Backfires… Sleazy Carnahan Camp Caught in Web of Liesfrom Gateway Pundit by Jim HoftAnyone who has worked on a campaign knows that the story the Carnahan camp is feeding the press on their sleazy Ed Martin hit piece cannot be true. Paid political operatives do not disobey the political wishes of their clients. The Missouri Record looks at the facts behind Sleazegate…



“Did Russ Carnahan Just Pull a Jeff Smith?”



Please help Ed Martin defeat this shameless politician by donating to his campaign here.



Update from Reboot Congress:



Complete video from Ed Martin’s press conference on Thursday:

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The key quote from the video comes from Marie Kenyon. Marie is a life-long Democrat who worked with Ed at the Archdiocese. Here’s part of her statement:



What was said about Ed in the video is simply not true. Anyone who knows the Catholic church knows lay employees have no say-so, no responsibility whatsoever in priestly claimants. They just don’t.



Add starLikeShareShare with noteEmailKeep unreadAdd tags5:19 PM (5 hours ago)"Coo Coo" Marlinfrom Rebel With A Clue by JimmySadly, little attention has been paid to Clifton "Coo-Coo" Marlin, one of the sport's stars from the 1960s and 1970s when major sponsors and national media exposure was nearly nonexistent. Coo-Coo started racing in 1953 at Nashville Speedway and competed in NASCAR Grand National stock cars, which is now the Busch Series, and competed in 165 Cup races where he won $307,142. His last race was at Talladega Super Speedway in 1980. According to Sterling Marlin, his father finished third three times and nearly won the 1974 and 1975 Daytona 500.



Nashville is where Coo-Coo won four championships (1959, '63, '65, '66) and ranks fourth with 39 career victories. Coo Coo ran his last race at Talladega in 1980. In 1987 he, along with driver “Bullet” Bob Reuther and promoter Bill Donoho, became the first three inductees in the Tennessee Motor Sports Hall of Fame. It was a proud day for all the Marlins.



For a low buck operation, he made a good showing. He won a Daytona 125 in 1973 and had several Top-5 finishes in the Daytona 500. Daytona and Talladega were his two favorite tracks.Though it would be some 18 years before he would enter the major leagues of stock car racing on a fairly regular basis, Coo Coo remembers the first big-time race he entered, an event held around 1950.“I drove up to Nashville and got me a Hudson Hornet,” he says. “We put straight exhausts on it and a seatbelt in it. Then I drove it south to Decatur, Alabama, taped up the headlights and raced it. I think I got third there. After the race, we untaped the lights and drove to a curb service place for something to eat, then drove it on home.” In 1959 Coo Coo won his first driving title at the fairgrounds, driving a ’34 Ford Flathead for Carl Wood. He repeated the accomplishment in 1962 and then again in ’66 and ’67. That record of four track championships will stand forever as the Nashville Fairgrounds track finishes its last year of operation.



Back in 1974, Coo Coo was dominating the Daytona 500 in a '73 Chevy that he and Sterling spent tireless hours preparing. However in the waning laps, NASCAR officials black-flagged Coo Coo because they thought they saw a loose lug nut on his car. Unfortunately, the pit stop inspection revealed no loose lug nut and ultimately allowed Richard Petty to win the race instead of Coo Coo, who had to settle for a fourth-place finish.



Coo Coo made 165 Winston Cup starts, in a racing career that spanned from 1947 to 1980.

Add starLikeShareShare with noteEmailKeep unreadAdd tags5:18 PM (5 hours ago)Just My Opinionfrom Rebel With A Clue by JimmyThe devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was a bad blow to the people of the South and the rest of America. A lot of history has been reduced to memories and a lot of good people have lost all they ever had except those memories. The media is our biggest enemy in most situations. It seems to me they are good at reporting what will sell instead of the whole story. People are offering their homes to evacuees while watching the news reports on looting, rape, robbery, and ungrateful people biting the hand that feeds them by trading the debit cards given to them for food to drug dealers, or making up a story to get assistance when you weren’t really there and never lost anything due to this disaster. The list goes on and on, and this list is causing a lot of folks to turn away from offering help, or to be ridiculed for offering shelter to the ones that really need help from us now.



It all puts me in mind of the textbook version of the reason for the War for Southern Independence. Textbooks teach that the War was fought to free slaves who were beaten and mistreated by Confederate landowners and how their lives were so much better in the Northern states where "slavery did not exist". Truth here is slavery was a part of life in that era, Southern slaves for the most part were treated well and a lot of these slaves fought for the Confederacy of their own free will. The South did not fight to preserve slavery. Southerners of all race and color fought together to preserve their way of life and to protect their families from the devastation of the Northern storm wiping out everything they had except for their memories.



This Hurricane is going to go down in history as the worst ever, it will read how the people turned on each other and robbed, raped, and pillaged their way into the history books. The good people who helped them out, gave food and shelter, reunited families, or gave them a shoulder to cry on over their losses will be only briefly mentioned if they are mentioned at all.



Good media coverage or History written by the victors, Kind of all sounds the same.





God save us from ourselves.

Deo Vindice

Add starLikeShareShare with noteEmailKeep unreadAdd tags5:18 PM (5 hours ago)Pumpkintown & The Oolenoy Valleyfrom Rebel With A Clue by Jimmy

Samuel Edens and Rebecca Chastain are my 4th Great Grandparents. Samuel was born in Virginia in 1777, and is credited as one of the early settlers of the Oolenoy Valley of South Carolina which includes Pumpkintown. Rebecca is the Great Granddaughter of Pierre “Peter” Chastain my 7th Great Grandfather.



Samuel and Rebecca Edens raised 5 children. Margaret “Polly” Edens wife of Jesse Adams, William Elford “Dr. Bill” Edens who married Mary McClure, Mary Ester Edens (my 3rd Great grandmother) the wife of Pascal Sutherland, Malinda Edens who married Rev. Tyre Lewis Roper the longest serving minister of the Oolenoy Baptist Church, and Alexander L. Edens who married Margaret Keith the Great Granddaughter of Cornelius Keith.



Dr. Pierre “Peter” Chastain was born in 1659 in a village near Charost, France. He along with his wife Susanne Renaud, and their five children fled France to Switzerland in 1696 to escape severe religious persecution. From Switzerland they went to Holland then on to England where with a group of French Huguenots they boarded a ship for America.



On July 12th 1700 after a voyage of almost three months the London ship Mary and Ann landed near the Jamestown settlement in Virginia. Peter and his family did not stop there, they continued on and settled in an area that came to be known as Manakin Town, in the Goochland County, Virginia area. Peter was a Medical Doctor, Farmer, and also served as one of the original 12 vestrymen of the Manakin Town Anglican Church which was founded in 1701 and still exists today.



Manakin Town Anglican Church of 1895

Susanne and three of the Chastain children died that first winter mostly due to the fact that they arrived and settled here so late in the year that they did not have time to grow substantial crops to supply food for the harsh winter.

Peter married Anne Brian Soblet (my 7th Great Grandmother) and to this marriage my 6th Great Grandfather Peter Chastain Jr. was born beginning a long line of Chastains that came to settle in the Pendleton District of South Carolina.



Late in the year of 1728 Dr. Pierre “Peter” Chastain Sr. died in Manakin Town, Goochland County, Virginia. He was survived by three sons and four daughters.His Tombstone Picture tells the story of his immigration to America.



Peter Chastain Jr’s son John Chastain Sr. was one of the founders and also the first minister of the Oolenoy Baptist Church in present day Pickens County, South Carolina just south of the Pumpkintown Community, his communion table and pulpit from the Oolenoy Baptist Church still exist today. It is said that John's preaching voice was so loud and clear that he was given the nickname of “Ten Shilling Bell”.



Oolenoy Baptist Church and the Oolenoy Baptist Church Cemetery

John married Mary O’Bryan from Ireland, around 1763 and raised eleven children with her. Mary died in 1795 and John in 1805 they are both buried in the Chastain Family Cemetery in Pickens County, South Carolina.



Cornelius Keith was born in Loch Lamond Scotland in 1715 and is credited in the story of being the Scotchman who traded a pony to Cherokee Chief Woolenoy for land which is now the Oolenoy Valley and all fishing and hunting rights in the area. The W was dropped from the Chiefs name to create the name Oolenoy. A Historical marker in Pumpkintown, SC gives credit to the naming of the town to an anonymous traveler awed by the site of the Oolenoy Valley covered with Huge yellow Pumpkins, The marker also states many tourists who visited nearby Table Rock Mountain often stayed at (my 4th great grand uncle) William Sutherland's inn at Pumpkintown. Another story gives credit to a group of men sitting around arguing over what to call the town when one jumped up and said “Quit arguing and just call her Punkintown” and the name stuck. Either way Pumpkintown, SC was established before 1800 and is still going strong.



Driving in to Pumpkintown and up the road The Pumpkintown Opry on Hwy 11

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