Allison and Jeff went to the homecoming festivities at our school this past weekend. I took this picture of them as Allison was heading over to her friends house to get dressed. Jeff went to a pre dance BBQ with a bunch of his friends and they all went to the dance as a group.
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Jenny Hatch
PS A clue as to which one is real…It has to do with a certain senator who lied about the nature of his first wifes death to score political points with the democratic base. What else has Joe Biden LIED about??
Sarah Smile!
“Two days after the crash, Herlihy, a neighbor of the Bidens in the late 1960s who still considers the senator “a friend,” told the paper that there was no evidence that Dunn “was speeding, drinking or driving a truck with faulty brakes.” No criminal charges related to the crash were ever filed against Dunn, who lived in North East, Md.
Hamill, one of seven children, was 8 years old at the time of the accident. She remembers her father watching news reports of the crash while wearing a sling to support a shoulder injury he suffered in the accident.
She said Dunn was always “solemn” around the Christmas holidays. Years later, when her brother planned to get married on Dec. 18, Dunn told the family “I don’t celebrate on that day,” Hamill said.
“We’re not trying to equate Sen. Biden’s loss to my father’s heartache,” Hamill said. “But we wanted it to be known that our father never forgot that tragic day.”
Hamill said it wasn’t until the Inside Edition report that she became aware that the Delaware senator had said alcohol played a role in the accident. Dunn did not consume any alcohol the day of the crash, Hamill said.
She said she immediately called Biden’s office after being contacted by Inside Edition and is waiting for the senator’s response.
“The family feels these statements are both hurtful and untrue and we didn’t know where they originated from,” Hamill said.
As Hamill watched a recording of the Inside Edition report Wednesday, she gasped when the clip of Biden’s comments from Iowa came on screen.”
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Judith Reisman:
The outright loathing often displayed for Todd and Sarah Palin’s refusal to abort Trig Palin and to welcome their surprise grandchild begins, in many ways in the 1950s.
After winning World War II, Americans saluted life, babies, pregnancy and large families. Other, more urbane nations often mocked us as a “child-centered” society. We were.
Children in big families generally had to learn to share and work, was the idea. These youngsters would become adult taxpayers, men and women who would build, support and protect America.
By the late 1950s however, women who saw motherhood as service to society and who dreamed of scores of little kids to nurture, were suddenly caught in the crosshairs.
A new wind had blown in from academe. Chic “mental health” professionals were suddenly sneering at homemakers, even part-time working moms, accusing them of “momism” and “smother love,” that was producing weak sons and aggressive daughters.
I had been ignoring the sneering columns in the press and ladies magazines about motherhood being parasitical and wasting women’s talent. I had four great daughters and worked part time as a songwriter and television performer.
Wherever my “little women” and I wandered, we were greeted by admiring glances and benevolent looks. That changed so suddenly I can remember the day I saw motherhood mutate from reverence to resentment.
It was August 1963. I had dismissed the doomsday warnings in the press that overpopulation was going to cause starvation and famine. As I walked down a grassy slope holding my littlest child’s hand, an irate voice behind me shouted, “Don’t you know how to prevent that?”
I turned and knew those glaring eyes and spiteful words were meant for me. I should have “prevented” one, or all of my four daughters.
Almost overnight I started to hear censure of my reproductive behavior. Even the public body language subtly changed. Few folks smiled upon my happy little troupe any longer.
Jenny Hatch with my nephew Jonah, a few hours after his birth!
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Does Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin have that elusive “Teflon” quality?
The two most successful politicians in recent political history — former presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — had one very important thing in common: negative stories rarely stuck to them.
This so-called “Teflon” quality allowed both men to weather political storms that would have destroyed most politicians and to emerge at the end of their political lives beloved by large swaths of the American public.
In the three weeks since Sarah Palin was introduced by John McCain as his vice presidential running mate, the little-known Alaska governor’s ability to remain popular with voters even while being pilloried in the press over a series of missteps large and small has baffled and mystified Democratic strategists who have wondered privately whether she has that Teflon quality all politicians covet.
A series of national polls conducted since the Palin pick in late August have revealed sterling favorabilty ratings that have — by and large — held up through her public vetting.
Go Sarah Go!!!
Jenny Hatch
Fox Hannity Interviews Sarah Palin Day 1 Part 1
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The danger of vote fraud
Phyllis Schlafly warns of community organizers dishonestly adding to election rolls
By Phyllis Schlafly
The most provocative line in the Democratic national platform adopted in Denver is: “We oppose laws that require identification in order to vote or register to vote.” Since it’s routine to show an ID in order to board a plane and do dozens of other very ordinary things, what’s the big deal about showing an ID to exercise the most important privilege of citizenship?
That question is answered in the new book by John Fund called “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.” Honest elections absolutely depend on preventing the stuffing of the ballot box by people who are not eligible to vote.
Among those who are not eligible to vote are those who are dead, who are not residents of the precincts where they vote, who are registered to vote in another state, who are underage and especially those who are not citizens. Votes cast by any of those can cancel out your vote and, in close elections, decide the winner.
Fund describes how easy it is for unscrupulous politicians to buy voter impersonators with a little cash and get them to cast illegal votes. The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals explained “the extreme difficulty of apprehending a voter impersonator. He enters the polling place, gives a name that is not his own, votes and leaves. If later it is discovered that the name he gave is that of a dead person, no one at the polling place will remember the face of the person who gave that name.”
The Democrats have hysterically fought against voter ID laws in Congress, in state legislatures and in the courts, taking what they thought was their best case, the Indiana law, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They lost there because they ran into liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, who, hailing from Chicago, was acquainted with many “flagrant examples” of election fraud going back to Mayor Richard Daley’s shenanigans that swung Illinois to John F. Kennedy in 1960.
The National Voter Registration Act (known as the Motor Voter Law), the very first law signed by President Bill Clinton, imposed fraud-friendly rules on the states by requiring them to offer registration to anyone who applies for a driver’s license, to offer mail-in registration with no identification needed, and to make it very difficult to purge dead and moved-away voters from registration rolls. The voter rolls in many U.S. cities now contain more names than the U.S. Census lists as residents over age 18.
The Motor Voter Law, according to Fund, “has fueled an explosion of phantom voters.” In the four years after passage, nearly 26 million names were added to the voter rolls nationwide. One investigation in Indiana showed that hundreds of thousands of names were people who had died, moved away or gone to prison.
Missouri Secretary of State Matt Blunt’s report on the 2000 election showed how the Motor Voter Law facilitated fraud in one district. He reported that votes were illegally cast by 14 who were dead, 68 who voted twice, 79 who were registered from vacant lots, 62 who were federal felons, 52 who were state felons and an undetermined number who were registered from drop-sites where multiple fake names were registered to one person.
Fund’s book makes fascinating reading because of his descriptions of many specific examples of vote fraud that actually determined the outcome of elections. Fund describes in detail some of the more outrageous examples of recent vote fraud in Chicago, Indiana, St. Louis, Seattle, Milwaukee, Mississippi and Georgia.
Fund believes that the biggest opportunity for vote fraud this year is the registration tactics of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). ACORN is a classic Saul Alinsky-style community-organizing group, and it has received hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars as well as corporate donations.
It’s no surprise ACORN is closely associated with Barack Obama. Right after graduating from the Harvard Law School, Obama was recruited by ACORN to run a successful voter registration drive for an ACORN affiliate, Project Vote.
ACORN claims that, along with Project Vote, it registered 1.15 million new voters in 2004 and deployed 4,000 get-out-the-vote workers on Election Day.
The job of handling legitimate voters is tremendously complicated by phony registrations and by the tactic of filing new registrations on the last possible day when there is not adequate time to verify them.
In 2008, Obama was a major supporter of a Democratic housing bill that provided $200 million to community groups (such as ACORN) that are counseling homeowners facing foreclosure. ACORN is pledging to spend $35 million this year registering persons who will vote.
With the 2008 elections as close as they are predicted to be, Obama’s best chance to win is to flood new names on the registration rolls who may or may not be eligible voters. It is more important than ever that voter ID be used in order to make sure that ballot boxes are not stuffed by voter impersonators.
Jenny Hatch
Benjamin Franklin: “A republic, if they can keep it”
