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Seriously, some people are unhinged during this election cycle.

(H/T - Election Journal)

The Vice Presidential debate pulled in an estimated 69.9 million viewers on Thursday making it the third most watched debate in history.   It was only bested by the 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and the 1992 second presidential debate between George Bush (41), Ross Perot and Bill Clinton.  (Though word is still out that Thursday’s VP debate could top that)

Unless you’re a political hack (and if you read this site, then you probably are) you may have turned off the TV after the debate and thought to yourself, that was a great debate and I’m sure everything they said was true.  Well, for Joe Biden, he got fourteen lies in during the debate that most people probably missed.  According to Tucker Bounds, the McCain-Palin spokesperson:

“Joe Biden graduated from his trademark verbal gaffe to outright lie in tonight’s debate. Each time Senator Biden was on his heels, he looked directly into the camera and lied — more than a dozen times by our count. He lied about John McCain’s record, his own record, and Barak Obama’s dangerous policies.

So what were those lies?

1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.

2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.

3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”

4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.

5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.

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Election Journal is reporting of a car wash in Gary that is giving away free car washes to those who provide a “voter receipt” on November 4th and 5th.  Sounds simple enough.  The car wash proprietor also happens to be an Obama supporter.  Nothing wrong there either.  But Election Journal raises some interesting questions.

The proprietor is offering free washes on November 4th and 5th to voters producing a voter receipt. While the car wash seems to have endorsed a candidate, the advertisement does not expressly require support in order to redeem ones free wash. That said, you have to wonder if the offer would be honored if a car bared the opponents bumper sticker.

Either way, it seems doubtful that this is legal:

I can’t see anything specifically wrong here, but it could bare watching should anyone be turned away just because of who they support in the general election.

(H/T - Redstate)

I’ve been watching some so-called non-political efforts to attack Gov. Daniel’s agenda through the courts (now that the Democrats have all but abandoned their nominee).

It’s led me to look at some other “groups” in and around Indiana.  Our favorite thus far has been the Indiana Home Care Task Force.  A friend of HA passed on the attached document, passed out by this “task force”, to us (seen at the bottom of the post).  It was being circulated in Kokomo (and most likely in a number of other places) in an attempt to encourage welfare recipients to complain to the Feds about FSSA.

But when you Google the Indiana Home Care Task Force you don’t find a website.  There is no reference to what constitutes a member of this organization.  However, you get a lot of references to John Cardwell, who seems to be using this “task force” to cause problems all over the state.  But clearly the Indianapolis Star and others who have quoted Cardwell have failed to do their homework.  It turns out the “task force” is a one-man shell game only the founders of Enron could have accomplished.  Let’s look at the closest thing we could find to a membership roster as reported in the Kokomo Perspective: Legislative Commission coming to Kokomo:

Within the Task Force, organizations such as United Senior Action, Indiana Alliance for Retired Americans, ACLU, The Generations Project, and Hoosiers First have taken a leading role in addressing the privatization issue.

I took a look at these groups out of interest.

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Polls continue to indicate that Jill Long Thompson’s campaign is pretty much finished.

Big labor, however, which bankrolled her efforts to the tune of over a million dollars (and even pledged a blank check that apparently bounced), isn’t done yet.

They’re not finished with Mitch Daniels and his free market program. Not by a long shot. If Mitch is reelected, his policies of involving the private sector to make the (previously heavily-unionized) public sector more efficient will continue. And they’ll likely start to catch on in other states, given success here.

If that happens, these unions can kiss their millions in mandatory payroll deductions, otherwise known as union dues, goodbye.

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There was plenty of laughter at the expense of high profile Republicans at the most recent Thomas Marshall dinner up in Whitley County.  Doesn’t surprise me.  Cheap shots about Governor Sarah Palin’s experience were taken by Columbia City mayor Jim Fleck, who apparently decided that being head of a the Harvard Law review was enough to warrant that Barack Obama was qualified enough to be President.  That’s to be expected.  Democrats to this day can’t point to any one legislative accomplishment by Senator Obama, so they ridicule someone who actually does have to make a decision every once in a while.

(Speaking of decision avoidance, wasn’t it Senator Obama who was scolded by President Bush to come to Washington to work on the economic crisis?  Yeah, he’s ready to be president.  But I digress…)

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This video effectively kills dead the spin the Democrats have been putting forward that this entire thing is due to Republicans blindly favoring deregulation.

The Republicans in this video are calling for more regulation (you don’t see that very often), and the Democrats are insisting that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are just fine.

Of course, a few weeks ago we found out–to our woe–how “just fine” they were, and how wrong the Democrats were.

Around 3:17 there is a money clip of Republican Congressman Christopher Shays calls out the Democrats opposing the plan for taking campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie and their lobbyists.

You just can’t make this stuff up…

Meet “The Yogurt Connection.” In the 1980s, it was the largest marijuana-smuggling ring in history. Started around 1975, it spanned eleven states and shipped 125 tons of marijuana valued at anywhere between $50 and $100 million from Columbia, Jamaica, and Thailand. And it was operated out of (believe it or not) Indianapolis, Indiana.

The drug ring was operated by Linda Leary and her two sons, Richard and Paul Heilbrunn. The Yogurt Connection (a term coined by prosecutors at their trial) got its name from the yogurt franchise that the family owned.

Mrs. Leary and her sons were high class dealers. They sold drugs on the side and circulated, their dealing unknown, at the highest levels of Indianapolis society. Paul Heilbrunn was a broker and a financier. He wrote a column for a local business news magazine (his business acumen helped to launder the gang’s drug money in various Caribbean and Latin American banks). The family made frequent loans to such places as a radio station and a cable company (and even to that ubiquitous hotel room staple, the Indianapolis Dining Guide).

Leary was the head of the Indy League of Women Voters and was president of the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women. She held fundraisers for the Indianapolis Zoo and publicly supported the drug enforcement policies and good government campaigns of Dick Lugar, who was then the mayor of Indianapolis.

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Ah, the miracle of Google.

Meet Carl Liebowitz, a lawyer and “promoter of tax shelters.” In 1984, a grand jury started looking into the legalities of Liebowitz’s tax shelters. Two years later, Liebowitz became concerned that his business partner, Gary Van Waeyenberghe, was going to testify against him before the grand jury.

So Carl Liebowitz went to a guy named Donald Wrobel and hired him for a hit on his partner’s life. Wrobel tried to murder the partner, failed, and was eventually arrested. Wrobel and Liebowitz were eventually convicted.

Court documents indicate that Liebowitz lured his partner to a phone booth to receive a call from him at an appointed hour. Wrobel, armed with a rifle and a pistol, was hiding nearby. The phone in the booth rang. Liebowitz, on the call, spoke to his partner, saying, “I hear you’ve been talking to the feds.” At that moment, Wrobel fired at the phone booth, shattering the glass, but missing Van Waeyenberghe.

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A little investigative blogging by The Jawa Report indicates interesting ties between Obama’s chief media strategist, David Axelrod (the supposed master of phony grass roots campaigns, known as “astroturfing”), and the smearing of Sarah Palin.

That’s supposed to be transcending politics? By creating innovative and new ways to spread lies and conduct personal smears against your political opponents?

UPDATE: The aforementioned link has been updated. Overnight, in the wake of the posting, efforts began by whoever had the various accounts on YouTube and other sites to delete those accounts and eliminate all traces of their activities in smearing Sarah Palin. Ace has more. It’s never the act itself that gets you, as the saying goes, it’s the coverup.

From Hot Air:

Back we go to this tedious subject about which few voters much care but which The One, lacking any compelling evidence that he’ll bring a new type of politics to Washington, loves to invoke as proof of his immaculate Change-iness. Unlike the insiders, you see, he doesn’t take money from federally registered lobbyists or special interests, and from now on neither will the Democratic Party. Except that he does sometimes take money from federally registered lobbyists; and so does the Democratic Party, per its congressional reelection committees; and he’s overflowing with cash from employees of special interests, including employees of those dastardly oil companies; oh, and needless to say, he misleads voters about all of this by choosing his words very, very carefully even while he’s busy tossing out zingers about McCain’s lobbyist “old boys network.” (Get it?)

But if none of those earlier posts penetrated and you’re looking for a concise, all-in-one recap of The One’s cynicism on this point, dive into Matthew Cooper’s piece for Portfolio.

He takes money from lobbyists’ spouses too, and even has federally registered lobbyists working for his campaign — but as volunteers, not paid employees, so that’s cool. The worst part is, his stance on this isn’t even the most glaring example of his opportunistic hypocrisy on “reform” issues, so since we’re dredging up old posts to revisit, go ahead and re-read this one too. The guy’s a poseur. Case closed.

Barack Obama has spent his entire political career accomodating shady politicians (the Chicago machines of Stroger and Daley), cozying up to crooked special interests (Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, the Pritzkers, numerous others that donated to his campaigns and got earmarks or other favors back), and affiliating with characters of extremism (Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright) and disrepute (Tony Rezko).

And even his rhetoric on not taking money from lobbyists or having them associated with his campaign rings empty. Change you can’t believe in.