missouri

Not a first for me, but I have been threatened against blogging on illicit activities of corrupt public officials; this time being "warned" by an attorney from the Missouri Attorney General's office that "harassment" charges could be filed against me by "an aggressive prosecutor."

You see, there are a lot of things that Chris Koster (D) doesn't want you to know about.

Yes, the man is a crime boss that openly embraces all manner of illicit activity.

And I would like to tell you about it.

Give the people the information, and let them make up their minds for themselves.

"You appear to be toeing the line there, Mr. (Paleo-Skeptic)."

Well, I really have no intention of toeing the line.

I intend to jump up and down on the line, hang my d!ck out over the line, and take a good-sized p!ss over the line.

I have already spoken with my attorney, and he assured me that there is nothing illegal in publishing documents which are a matter of public record.

I just sent off an e-mail to Henke.  However he wants to handle this is fine with me.

I'm hoping he's game, because I'm starting to like this now.

This should be good.

There are a few issues that I have had going on in Missouri for some time.  Some of the material is a bit personal in nature, but I am willing to forego some portion of my natural right to privacy in order to bring the attendant issues to the public eye that they might receive the level of awareness they certainly deserve.

In short, I have been the victim of malicious litigation, through the free legal services of a 501(c)(3) organization.  This organization has not been in compliance with the statutory requirements for 501(c)(3) organizations for the past four years.

Nevertheless, they receive a thumbs-up from the Missouri Attorney General, Chris Koster (D).

This manner of state-sponsored terrorism has been given carte blanche by the Attorney General to engage in any number of criminal activities-- evidence tampering and false declarations, abuse of process and malicious prosecution, violations of the ethics rules regarding the conduct of attorneys and violations of the best practices standards for representation by charitable organizations set by the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, misappropriation of resources, assisting in fraud and violations of federal law, solicitation of perjured testimony, and other actions both criminal and unethical.

Now, the managing attorney for the 501(c)(3) just so happens to be a member of the Board of Education for the (non-accredited) St. Louis Public Schools.

And this organization just so happens to have been a joint venture between two other groups, one of them a Jewish women's group.  And I have begun to notice that various Jewish women's groups happen to be involved in some of the most invasive and pernicious of progressive causes, and usually under the guise of actually helping something, while the primary practical effect seems, for all the world, to be making matters worse.

I'm no conspiracy buff.  Not even slightly.

But there's something really weird going on when the AG starts advocating criminal activity.

Here follows the text of an e-mail exchange between myself and Koster's office:

Me:

As per our telephone conversation, I had this verified with a consultant (a professor of political science), and Chris Koster personally is indeed ultimately responsible for the policies, procedures, and activities of his office.

Were this a matter of a teacher facing an ethics complaint, then this would be a serious matter, and it would be taken seriously.

If Koster's office chooses to place the complaint on the backburner for the next 3 years or so, and twiddle their thumbs rather than engage in any form of substantive action, then that can well be taken as an indication of how seriously Koster, personally, takes criminal activity funded at the taxpayer's expense to be. 

On the other hand, if the Attorney General sees no issue at persons substantially altering their appearance for the sake of forwarding a claim of mistaken identity in a Missouri court, then perhaps this should be done in all cases. Just saying.

Koster's office: 

This matter has been referred to one of our attorneys for his review. The paperwork should make its way to him in a few days. I do not know whether or not he will contact you personally or not, he may he may not. When or if I hear anything from him I will let you know. Please be aware our office cannot be aware that any kind of action will be taken. You may wish to speak with a private attorney to see what recourse you may have. I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but just be aware our office will review it but we cannot make any promises.

Darned right it's not what I want to hear!

Didn't you read the transcript?

If you did, then why haven't you got a clue yet that I do have an attorney?

And secondly, did you not understand that this was a complaint against a charitable organization, which actively solicits tax-free donations for the purpose of engaging in criminal activity?

And I'm wondering if the people of Missouri really meant to elect the stupidest person possible to be their Attorney General.

First in a series here.  More to come.

It should be entertaining.

Until you start thinking about the ex-Mo AG, Jay Nixon, who now sits in the Governor's chair.

I would like to put a stop to that too.

It’s not going to take very long either. With the mood in the country going from angry to ugly, other states are considering similar laws of their own, given the resentment that was pretty much universally present when Harry, Nancy and Obama pushed an illegitimate, vast and ill-considered morass of close to 3,000 pages of absolute political psycho-babble through, against the specific wishes of the vast majority of the American people. All the king’s horses and all the king’s spin couldn’t cram that genie back in the bottle.

Senator Jane Cunningham and supporters watch the results in Missouri.

The American people, constantly reminded by the National Patriot movement, haven’t gone back into their between-elections somnambulism. They are remembering… and remembering every cheap and unconstitutional stunt the Demarxist Clown College has perpetrated. Putting it mildly, they are peed. No amount of Bush-hating vituperation will buy the MaoBama Demarxists out of this one.

The lies and spin are falling flat, and the Missouri Law passed by the astounding rate of 70%. Arizona, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio and Oklahoma, to mention a few, but altogether there are twenty nine states contemplating similar laws. Perhaps, someday, when the history of the new American revolution is written, they will say that Arizona and Missouri fired the first shots across Obama’s bow.

Another Democrat incumbent went down in flames again today as Democrat Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick of Michigan was soundly defeated in the Democrat primary. Yes, the country is in a very anti-incumbent mood.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

For those silly ones who regard government as a moral institution, an article in the business section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1 March 2009 may provide some problem in reconciling their delusion with reality. The article “Missouri could win in shell game” describes the Missouri legislators as a pack of con artists engaging in shell games with Federal bailout money. Republicans and Democrats are engaged in activities, which in this land of two laws, one for the politicians and another for the citizen, would be invite a visit from the FBI if the average guy tried the same con. But be not concerned. Senator Victor “Bagman” Callahan thinks there is “…enough to go around for everyone.” By everyone, of course, he means the politically connected, not the fools who actually pay taxes. Thank goodness there is $4 billion for the gang to split up. Imagine if it had only been $3 billion. Morals are cheap in the Missouri legislature but not that cheap. Missouri legislators, who are busy trying to con the con artists, seem to have let their mathematics slip. Missouri is getting $4 billion out of an $800 billion “beggar the children bill.” That is only 0.05% of the loot. But Missouri has almost 6 million folks out of an estimated 300 million Americans or almost 2% of the population. Shouldn’t there be a more equitable distribution of the swag?      The article suggests the felonies will result in a win-win for “conservative” Republicans and Democrats. What the benefit is to the taxpayer is left to the imagination. Don’t pay taxes, don’t worry. Running the government printing presses will set the classic conditions for inflation, too many dollars chasing too few goods. The “stimulus” bill will only stimulate production of taxes and money to cover the trillion dollar debts “as far as the eye can see.” Fortunately the naïve innocents of the Missouri legislature have consultants from the National Conference of State legislators to advise them on the running of scams. “It’s all a matter of appearance,” stated one consultant who had the wit unlike the Missouri legislators to go nameless – just in case someone decides to make a Federal case out of a little graft, corruption and misappropriation of Federal funds. After all didn’t Obama say if the bailout money was misused he would see that the miscreants would suffer? Perhaps the legislators are expected that Obama to expire just like so many others.   Senator Callahan shows he knows as much about economics as he does about morality. “I’m happy we’re not in South Carolina. And I hope, by the way, we get some of that moron’s money.” The senator, who is a living example of why Mark Twain thought idiot and politician were redundant terms, obviously believes pixies bring the money to Washington and unicorns bring it to the wise folk for their enjoyment. It is not “that moron’s money”; it is not Callahan’s money; it is not even Obama’s money. It is the taxpayers’ money. Jay Nixon, who apparently believes that sins of the father should be visited upon the son, has said apparently with satisfaction our children and grandchildren will be paying off the Obama debts. But that is the hope of these politicians – that the bill comes due long after they have left office. At the end of the day Missouri voters will wish their politicians had the sense that South Carolina’s does.

A lot of old time Republican senators have decided to hang up their cleats, or may decide to do so in the coming months.

Already deciding to retire are Mel Martinez (Florida); Sam Brownback (Kansas) and this week Kit Bond (Missouri).

There is also a rumor on RedState that Ohio's George Voinovich may step down at term's end.    

All things being equal, we are usually better off running an incumbent, but unless we adopt a Weekend at Bernie's  strategy the day will come to replace incumbents.

The future of the Republican party will depend on who gets to step up in these races.

Promoted.  This is an interesting approach to stopping card check, preserving the secret ballot and expanding the authority of States to set their own policy.  - Jon Henke

The misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will take away the secret ballot for potential union members and force them to openly declare their preferences for or against a union, causing that worker to be easily open to intimidation by union thugs. This is a law currently in the table in Congress, one that Barack Obama has pledged to push through regardless of how it eliminates one of the oldest democratic rights there is.

But, now Missouri is trying to head off the possible federal enactment of "card check" (the provision that eliminates the secret ballot) by legislating that a secret ballot is protected by state law.

So, the question remains, can a state law supersede a federal law?

A lot of tears have been shed, apparently, in anguish and fear over the "Truth Squads" in Missouri. Why so scared? The CBS affiliate who ran the story, opened by saying ""The Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad." That is false.

The factually challenged Michael Barone, as well as Drudge and Limbaugh (and consequently right wing blogs) reported that ""[St Louis Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce] are threatening to bring criminal libel charges against anyone who levels what turns out to be false criticisms of their chosen candidate for president." Setting aside the fact that what they say is totally false, "criminal libel"? There is no "criminal libel" in Missouri.

The story being pushed is that Bob McCulloch and Jennifer Joyce have threatened to silence criticism of Obama with threats of criminal prosecution. That is completely false.

Soon-to-be-ex-Governor Matt Blunt whined that ""What Obama and his helpers are doing is ... abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment." Totally untrue.

What Bob McCulloch actually said was " "... if they're not going to tell the truth then somebody's got to step up and say, 'wait a minute that's not true' ..."

That's it. Wow. Imagine that - pointing out lies and correcting the record. What a threat to the first amendment, eh?

So, hopefully this will allow all of those who are "terrified" by the continuous lies Limbaugh and company spoon feed their so-willing-to-believe-anything audience to sleep a bit easier tonight. Unclench your hands. Take a deep breath. Hug your ferret and rest easy.

And seriously, aren't you tired of your overlords scaring you all the time?

On thenextright.com, there were a series of blogs talking about the importance of the states in the Big Ten Conference. After reading that series, having time to reflect, and the commencing of the shortest general election campaign in history, I felt that it would be appropriate to point out another conference: The states in the Big 12 Conference.

I am not doing this blog series to put down the Big Ten (though I’m not sure I’d want to be a math major from the 11-team league), but I am doing this to show that the Big 12 states will play a central role in the 2008 Presidential Election. I should also point out that there are a number of reasons that the Big 12 may be overlooked in favor of its sister conference to the east.
 

1. The Big 12 is made up of smaller media markets compared to the Big 10. The five biggest media markets in the Big Ten are Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Cleveland, and St. Louis. The ones in the Big 12 are Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, St. Louis, Denver, and Kansas City. The St. Louis-area is included twice because it sits on the border of Big Ten state Illinois and Big 12 state Missouri.

    

2. The volume of electoral votes in Big 12 states is largely concentrated in one state. Outside of Texas (three of the six largest Big 12 cities are in Texas), no other Big 12 state has 12 or more electoral votes. The Big Ten region has four states with more than 12 electoral votes. Of course, the larger pot gets the most attention.
    

In short, the size of the composition of voters from the two regions draws large attention to the Big Ten and away from the Big 12. However, size isn’t the only thing that matters. Consider that George W. Bush, on his way to 286 electoral votes in 2004 won every Big 12 state. While the race came down to Ohio, imagine what his chances would have been if he had lost Iowa and Colorado. Take away Missouri as well as Iowa and Colorado and John Kerry is President.

Also, consider that the last time that a Democrat won three of the seven states was Bill Clinton in 1992. Clinton won 370 electoral votes and won Colorado, Iowa, and Missouri. Meanwhile, the last time that a Democrat swept the Big 12 states was in 1964 with Lyndon Johnson’s landslide win over Barry Goldwater. In short, the Big 12 is an important hold for Republicans and a chance to win an election for Democrats.

The states that make up the region are Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. As of today, it appears that Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas are likely to go for John McCain. For the purposes of this blog series, I want to focus in the coming days on the three swing states from this group: Colorado, Iowa, and Missouri.