Strib Pro Quo

And in news that surprises absolutely no one who’s been paying attention over the last few months, the Minneapolis StarTribune, which owns a bunch of land its board chair Mike Sweeney wants to sell for a Vikings stadium, officially backs Tom Horner, the candidate who has made building a new Vikings stadium a centerpiece of his campaign (and the candidate whose firm that he founded and ran until three months ago, Himle Horner, has the Vikings for clients).

Oh, and they like his regressive tax plan to tax the poor and middle classes much better than Dayton’s plan to tax the rich.

Just call it Strib Pro Quo.

UPDATE: Nick Coleman (who writes for the Strib) says it all in one Tweet:

“Liberal” MN papers endorse Horner (Strib) http://tinyurl.com/2665mgg & 6of9 GOPs for MN Lxr (PP) http://tinyurl.com/ojoyvl Liberal? Ha!

I second the ‘Ha!’. No paper DJ Tice runs is ‘liberal’.

UN coverup alleged in Haiti

Kevin Pina:

The United Nations has been sitting on evidence that implicates a powerful Haitian senator in the assassination of a popular priest in 1994. The only known video testimony of an eyewitness to the brutal killing of Father Jean-Marie Vincent was recorded by a UN official in 2005 and has not seen the light of day since. HIP recently received a copy of the video in an anonymous package that included a note stating, “The UN has no interest in pursuing this case or revealing this evidence despite the statements of this eyewitness that Youri Latortue was the triggerman that shot and killed Father Jean-Marie Vincent on August 28, 1994.” The note concluded, “It is a travesty of justice that the UN has been withholding this testimony from the public. They are supposed to be impartial but Latortue has powerful friends in the US Embassy who view him as an asset since his role following the ouster of Aristide in 2004.”

I bet that Pope Ratzinger is screaming bloody murder. The Catholic Church protects its priests. Right?

And Bill Clinton? He’s a staunch defender of human rights. Right?

The sad thing is that in Third World countries, even a priest can be murdered with total impunity by the politically-connected. Some might say that, bit by bit, every day that we are silent in the face of such abuses of power, the United States becomes a Third World country. When that day comes, who will speak for us?

The Brooklyn Space Program

Ever wonder what would happen if you put an HD camera, an iPhone with GPS, a small parachute, and some hand warmers into a styrofoam container with an LED beacon and then attached the container to a weather balloon:

Now you know:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/15091562

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

This is just fabulous.

Stop voter fraud!

Bradblog:

The Connecticut State Election Commission announced this morning in Hartford that “it cannot make a full and fair determination of the allegations” against Ann Coulter who was alleged to have committed voter fraud twice in the state by voting illegally from her residence in New York City while being registered at her parents home in the Nutmeg State…

Coulter is contending in turn, that as a 41 and 43 year-old Constitutional attorney and best-selling author living in New York City and having moved away from “her childhood home in New Canaan” decades earlier — where she originally registered to vote in 1980 at the age of 19 — in 2002 and 2004, even after having purchased her $1.5 million condominium in NYC, her parents house was still her “bona fide residence”.

It’s a shame Daniel Jarvis Brown, the NY resident still registered at his “childhood home” in Connecticut, as we detailed last year, didn’t have attorneys smart enough to help him make that same claim when he agreed to settle virtually identical charges against him a year or two ago…
However, she told them, “her residences in New York City, even the one that she purchased in 2003 and appears to own to this day, were secured by necessity and…she had no personal and/or permanent connection to them like she had to the residence in New Canaan.”

But that’s not what she stated publicly when facing voter fraud charges in Florida.

Moreover, the document notes that Coulter’s parents have since died, and her childhood home in Connecticut “is held in a trust administered by a relative.” In short, she never moved back to Connecticut after moving out of her parents home decades ago.

However, Coulter’s own admissions, voting record, and even tax records in the state of Florida would suggest that she simply lied to the CT investigators to evade the rule of law. Again

I guess people with two faces get to vote twice. This is the kind of shenanigans would have gotten any attorney without her level of privilege disbarred, and possibly embarred.

Friday Cat Blogging

Cats in the sun.

The Cutest Tiny Dog In The World

Is right here:

Doggie!

GOTV

Especially in midterms, every vote counts. The votes of about 1 American in 10 will determine who controls Congress. Project Vote looks to me like the main game in town.

Solar Roadways Wins $50,000 From GE

And they have a shot at winning a lot more:

The Ecomagination Challenge, however, isn’t an all-out victory for the Brusaws yet. GE has yet to announce the winners of their innovation awards in five categories, each carrying an award of $100,000. And the real money from the challenge rests on GE’s selection of ideas to officially sponsor, an announcement that could place up to $200 million in Solar Roadways’ coffers. With that kind of money, the Brusaws could begin to implement their idea on a small scale.

“That’s the announcement that we’re really waiting for,” Brusaw said. “But still, the $50,000 is a great start.”

It certainly would be. I’ve been following the Solar Roadways people for a while now, and it’s getting closer to reality with each passing day.

Shoving It Under The Rug

I’m not surprised to see the corporate mass media try to minimize the foreign donations story. They’ve spent more time (199,000 hits per Google) on the mistress of a man whose political career ended three years ago than on the mistress of the man who still is South Carolina’s governor (46,600 hits), even though both men were at once time seriously considered to be presidential candidate material.

And there are only 19,000 Google hits for “katrina leung parlor maid republican”, even though the story concerns, at its root, how a longtime deep-cover spy for Communist China was not only a chief officer of and fundraiser for the California Republican Party, but was the mistress of James Smith, the FBI agent who was the key actor in movement Republican judge Louis Freeh’s effort to gin up the “Chinagate” fauxgate against Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

But look! Over there! Rielle Hunter had a bowel movement! Quick, get the exclusive!

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