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Wednesday Battleground Open Comments

It seems that Battleground Texas may have some battles other than changing Texas blue. James O’Keefe’s videos have spawned some legal problems for the movement.
If you haven’t seen the video in question, here it is:

It shows BT workers violating election laws by illegally copying personal information from voter registration forms. They are prohibited from doing this – but since when have election laws ever stopped a Democrat?
Maybe now…Dewhurst is demanding action, and BT is now under legal scrutiny.

Shortly after Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst demanded action by the Texas Secretary of State and Attorney General’s offices, Bexar County District Attorney Susan D. Reed was handed three official voter registration complaints as a result of Battleground Texas’ (BGTX) campaign activities late Friday.

And Abbott is being a class act, and following ethics laws.

Given the statistical likelihood that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott will face State Senator Wendy Davis in the 2014 General Election, the sitting AG opted to recuse himself from any official investigation into potentially illegal campaign tactics carried out by his opponent’s field support team.

So Battleground Texas is facing legal issues. Not that they care much. They’d rather blame their problems on the messenger. Kind of like crying “Look over there! SQUIRREL!”

Since the initial revelation of San Antonio-based field operatives for BGTX were caught on camera allegedly conspiring to commit violations of the Texas Election Code by harvesting “confidential” voter data, Battleground Texas’ tone and response has hardly changed. A spokesperson for the political outfit continued to personally attack Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe without direct refutation of the charges.
“The allegations are based on footage by admitted criminal James O’Keefe whose partisan Republican antics of doctoring videos are well known,” Ellis Brachman, claimed. Brachman added that Battleground Texas’ legal team was currently working on a response to “expos[ing] these claims as utterly without foundation in Texas law.”

This could get fun, folks. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen anyone hoisted on their own petard.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    First!
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    You Have No Rights.

    “I’m allowed to do this,” he told the officer.
    “Get it out of my face,” the officer replied.
    “I have my rights,” the man said.
    “You have no rights,” the officer said.
    But the man didn’t stop rolling and was once again aggressively approached.

  3. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    This could get fun, folks. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen anyone hoisted on their own petard.

    Nothing ever happens to them. They have a kindred spirit in the Attorney General. They rebrand and continue on their merry collectivist ways. When you pull off their purple SEIU t-shirts they’re all Bolsheviks underneath.
    Speaking of Holder, he’s now told all the states attorneys general they can ignore the laws they swore an oath to uphold.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Too Cool! This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood. Hey, she can test my blood anytime. 😈

  5. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Another idiot tries to manage nature without really understanding it, a la Gore:
    Big walls to thwart tornadoes

    One scientist thinks we can protect parts of the central USA from ferocious tornadoes by building several gigantic walls across Tornado Alley:
    “If we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest …. one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in south Texas and Louisiana, we will diminish the tornado threats in the Tornado Alley forever,” according to physicist Rongjia Tao of Temple University.
    The walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide, he said. Tao is presenting his research next week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver.

    Naysayers abound. Aside from the cost of $60 billion per 100 miles (according to Tao’s estimates) and huge engineering challenges, “it wouldn’t work,” tornado researcher Harold Brooks of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla., said in an e-mail.
    Brooks said that China has deadly tornadoes despite the east-west mountain ranges there. In addition, he said, tornadoes still occur in parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri despite the presence there of smaller east-west mountain ranges similar in size to Tao’s proposed walls.
    “If his hypothesis was true, we’d already have the thing he wants to build naturally,” Brooks said.
    “This is essentially a case of a physicist, who may be very good in his sub-discipline, talking about a subject about which he is abysmally ignorant,” Brooks said.

    But I can still see some bureaucrat wanting to try this. I mean, we have to put people to work, don’t we?

  6. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #4 – potentially revolutionary!!

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    But I can still see some bureaucrat wanting to try this.

    Because we have to DO SOMETHING about the serious tornado problem to protect the chirrenzes.

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Interesting video on the Loretta Fuddy death.

  9. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    GOOD thing no one at Chez Harp had to drive to work this morning. Our garage door broke a cable this morning and the Overhead Door Co can’t get here until tomorrow. We also can’t get the door to disengage or close. It’s all jammed up, but fortunately, only raised about a foot rather than really wide open.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #4
    That is way cool. Hubby may actually NOT resist going to the doctor now….

  11. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Especially if that gorgeous phlebotomist is supervising…
    🙂

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I actually sort of agree with Joe “The Dipschizzle” Biden on this:

    HEADLINE: Biden: New voter ID laws tied to ‘hatred’

    Yes, Joe, voter ID laws are tied to hatred, hatred of people more than once, dead people voting, voting in the wrong district, stealing others votes, etc. In short, the voter ID laws are tied to people who hate election fraud, but you are opposed to voter ID laws so that must mean you are in favor of election fraud, right Joe?

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    What in my comment could have possibly irritated the moderation button?

  14. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #5 Tedtam
    What a hoot. Unless American Physical Society (APS) has added a fantasy section to the meeting just for fun, this presentation is ripe for the Cold Fusion File of Off-Balance Ideas. The reaction will be interesting to watch.
    Perhaps Temple U. gets lots of federal grants and needs to float an oblique climate change fantasy at a meeting of pretty much serious scientists to keep the $$ coming. Could be the author is a post-doc who aspires to faculty status or is already on the faculty ladder and aspires to advancement. Or, it could be he/she drew the short straw in the departmental meeting when the budget was being worried over. 🙂

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #5 TT: After further consideration, that wall will be extremely effective at stopping tornadoes, the tornado of illegal immigration from the south that is. A wall 1000 feet high and 150 feet wide, patrolled by guards will absolutely stop the vast majority of the illegals heading north.

  16. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I guess I am on the s*&$ list as I have 2 in the spit bucket.

  17. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Margaret Sanger would be so proud.

    HEADLINE:In Mississippi, 72% of the Babies Aborted Are Black –

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bonecrusher –
    Don’t go getting your panties in a wad over the spit bucket. Sometimes stuff lands there, and I actually have a job that I’m supposed to be performing, so it sometimes takes me (us) a while to see the notice about moderating a comment. I was in the middle of pulling some maps for Hubby.

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Don’t go getting your panties in a wad over the spit bucket.

    Underwear is in fine shape, thank you. I don’t understand what put them there in the first place so that I can avoid the offending word(s) in the future. When I saw several in a row hit there I figured something was amiss.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s no accident that “Israel Apartheid Week,” an annual two-week extravaganza that began this week, focuses on Western college campuses. It’s not just because that’s where young, impressionable future leaders can be found. It’s also because, as a new study reveals, the educated mainstream is the mainstay of good old-fashioned anti-Semitism in today’s West. That counterintuitive finding explains why college campuses are such fertile ground for attacks on the Jewish state.
    Prof. Monika Schwarz-Friesel of the Technical University of Berlin reached this conclusion after studying 10 years’ worth of hate mail–14,000 letters, emails, and faxes in all–sent to the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Israeli embassy in Berlin. In an interview published in Haaretz yesterday, she said she fully expected to discover that most of it came from right-wing extremists. But in fact, right-wing extremists accounted for a mere 3 percent, while over 60 percent came from educated members of “the social mainstream – professors, Ph.Ds, lawyers, priests, university and high-school students,” she said. Nor were there any significant differences between right-wing extremists’ letters and those of the educated mainstream, Schwarz-Friesel said: “The difference is only in the style and the rhetoric, but the ideas are the same.”

  21. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Hey, that would make a good Geico Commercial ….
    “Well, did you know that over 60% of anti-Semitic hate mail comes from “enlightened” and “progressive” left-wing elitists?
    …if the whole world didn’t already know it and just didn’t give a damn.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    “Well, did you know that over 60% of anti-Semitic hate mail comes from “enlightened” and “progressive” left-wing elitists?

    Which poses a fascinating series of somewhat inconsistent positions:
    Israel includes wimminzes in the armed services, while the Pals/muzzies only use them for suicide bombers and baby factories – anything other and they are not as prized as a goat.
    Israel allows for freedom of thought, the Pals/muzzies not so much.
    Israel tolerates teh gehys, the Pals/muzzies not so much.
    Israel is in the forefront in many high-tech ventures and medicines, the Pals/muzzies not so much.
    Israel is very active in making their environment better, the Pals/muzzies not so much. All one needs to confirm this is to tour Israel and see the stark difference between a filthy, litter strewn, barren muzzy town and a clean, well planted, green Jewish town.
    One would think that the lefty’s would tend to admire the tolerance and green-ness of Israel over that of the Pals/muzzies because that is the way they are here. Their opposition to Israel has much more to do with their opposition to The Elohim of Israel and their fidelity to the evil one than anything else.

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    further to the so-called anti-apartheid thingie, why izzit that no outcry is ever made by the left when it is the Jews and Christians who are targeted in muzzy dominated countries?

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Heather MacDonald at her best.
    On the fraud of rampant sexual assault on campuses:

    The materials accompanying the new sexual-assault task force recycle the usual feminist claims about campus rape: an “estimated 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted at college,” proclaims a White House press release. Such an assault rate would represent a crime wave unprecedented in civilized history. By comparison, the 2012 rape rate in New Orleans and its immediately surrounding parishes was .0234 percent; the rate for all violent crimes in New Orleans in 2012 was .48 percent.

    To which one can only respond: Hear, hear! A return to an ethic where manhood consisted of treating women with special courtesy would be a victory for civilization, not just for college co-eds. The chivalric ideal recognizes two ineluctable truths: men and women are different, and the sexual battlefield is tilted in favor of males. On average, males are less emotionally affected by casual sex; if given the opportunity for a series of one-off sexual encounters with no further consequences, they will tend to seize it and never look back. Females on average will never be able to match them at this game, despite the prominence of such sexual dumb shows as Miley Cyrus’s twerking display. The less that a culture signals that men have a special duty toward the fairer sex, the more likely it is that the allegedly no-strings-attached couplings that have replaced courtship will produce doubts, anguish, and recriminations on the part of the female partner and unrestrained boorishness on the part of the male.

  25. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #23
    I think it’s for the same reason why freckleface Samantha Powers blames Daniel Pearl for being beheaded by muslims. They shouldna be there and they won’t be slaughtered.

  26. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Via Ace:
    Drink Deeply Of The Life Enriching Tears Of An Anti-Israeli Student.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Great stuff, Sarge.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Wherein number 1 is bad and number 50 is good.
    Texas, sadly, is number 11.
    Pension Liability State Rankings from Walter Russell Mead.

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hey bonez
    It is what i do.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    OHHHHHHHHH

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    bunsonburner obviously ready for the picnic season.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #26 Sarge: That was so enriching and uplifting :>) One of my favorite comments:

    Truly funny. Nothing gets bellylaughs for me — deep, schadenfreuding mirth — than weeping, wailing leftists. May our future be filled with them.

    Oh yeah baby!

  33. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I might change my stance on Illegal Immigration.
    If I understand this correctly, the new Democrat position is that if we do things their way, we all get a maid and a landscaper.
    Which makes it even easier for me to quit my job and pursue my dream of making dioramas for the Museum Of The Main Gate At Fort Sill.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This came from Drudge and is troubling in the appearance of censorship by the courts.

    HEADLINE: Google ordered to remove anti-Islamic film from YouTube

    The line reader actress claims that she has an independant copyright to her performance in the film, and she does not like the end product, therefore they must take the film down. UH, no, the actress was paid to perform a part and the copyright belongs to the owners of the film. From the comments section if/when this makes it to SCOTUS;

    The socialist and communist Democrats who run the 9th circuit are aligned with Muslims so, of course, they voted to reject free speech against their axis of evil pals. The Supreme Court should reverse – if Kennedy isn’t on his period when it is decided.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A recording of DICK Armey called me personally to urge me to vote for John Cronyn.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That’s the fourth Cronyn call today. I guess the only way to stop the calls is to go vote.

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I voted against Dewkrist and Cornholio, let’s see this run-off and a severe head slap to the ‘stablishment and perhaps a wake-up call therein.
    /not holding me breath.

  38. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I always wait and vote on The Day. Just in case there are any 11th hour surprises.

  39. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    That’s the fourth Cronyn call today. I guess the only way to stop the calls is to go vote.

    Nope We are still getting calls. Oh wait i have not voted.
    Never mind

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The unmitigated gall…these people have no shame.

    Within minutes of taking the stand in her trial for alleged drug-driving today, Kerry Kennedy invoked the name of her father, Robert F. Kennedy, and noted that he was killed while running for president.
    “Daddy was the attorney general during the civil rights movement,” Kerry Kennedy said after taking the stand today, explaining to jurors why she grew up in Virginia.
    “I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8,” she said. Asked how he died, Kennedy said, “He was killed while running for president.”

  41. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I also voted against George P. Boosh because I have had quite enough of that clan.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby is bringing home a houseguest again. The last time he was here with his cute but excessively annoying dog, I almost blew a gasket. Hubby wanted to put him back on the couch – right in the middle of my living space – but I told him no, he’s staying in the large, unfinished master bath upstairs. I have a shower curtain at the doorway so he has some privacy, he has an air mattress bed, a small “table” by the bed, a chair to sit in, some reading material, and a lamp near his mattress so he can turn it off and get to the bed without bumping into things. Hubby agreed. I think once he sees how “homey” I’ve tried to make the space, it won’t be so bad. Hopefully, house guest will make use of this space instead of always intruding into my schedule/life/space. I am quite happy to sit and say nothing when I’m downstairs (shocker to you all, I’m sure!), but this guy never shuts the wiss up. I am praying that he will like his new bedroom and make use of it. Often.
    And I won’t have to go to jail.

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh 43
    No more Boosh for me either.

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Who is this house guest? Relative? And how long does he stay?

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Gay activists have met their match with Muslim barbers

    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2012/11/20121118-104255.html

  46. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #45

    But in the case of the Muslim barbers, the gay activists have met their match. If the test is who can be the most offended or most politically correct, a lesbian’s just not going to cut it.

    Besides, the gay activists are not likely to saw your head off.

  47. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Who is this house guest? Relative? And how long does he stay?

    If memory serves, he’s a VW mechanic. I have no idea if he has a home.

  48. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    As expected, Gov Brewer caved and vetoed the Arizona bill.
    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ARIZONA_GAY_RIGHTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-26-19-52-59

  49. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Speaking of VW’s I saw a dune buggy for sale here in the Clear Lake area last week. It was a real one, shortened floor pan with wire floorboards, no “girly-man” fiberglass body. The engine looked stock with a little chrome, a Holley 2 barrel and dual headers, no Tee-Pee header though… 🙁 It didn’t have a price on it and I have no idea how much it would be worth, assuming it was in good mechanical shape. Many moons ago I had the chance to by a VW rail (full chassis) with a roller cam, a Porsche tranny and Recaro seats for $3500! FWIW; a new Chevy would have been about $16000 at the time.

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the dune buggy, I noticed that it didn’t have dual rear parking brakes, I’ve never seen a dune buggy without them, that way you can use the brakes like you would on a tractor to transfer the power to the wheel that was not spinning, not to mention the power slides! 😀
    What ever you do, don’t go riding a dune buggy with Frankie Hobbs at the wheel! Ground/sky/ground/sky…….

  51. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #50
    Just weld the spiders!

  52. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    You dune buggy boys kilt thah blog tonight, I see.
    🙂
    Nitey nite.

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