Friday, 27 October 2006

Northup has Five Times the Money

Coming into the last two weeks of the campaign the cash on hand numbers are staggering. Yarmuth has $165,000 cash on hand while Northup has almost $900,000. That is a disparity that will will make it difficult for Yarmuth to gain any ground on Northup down the stretch.

Once again we see the amateurishness of the Yarmuth team compared to team Northup. While Northup's team budgeted to have money for the stretch run, Yarmuth's team has squandered the money they did have and are now facing a short fall for the last two weeks.

It is Northup's ability to run a professional campaign intelligently that has convinced me she will win the race handily.

Posted by elendil at 5:37 PM in Kentucky Politics

Abramson with Huge Lead on Downard

The Courier-Journal is running a bluegrass poll result that shows Abramson with a 71 percent to 18 percent lead on Downard. I have a hard time believing these numbers. Any Republican in Jefferson County should get at least 30% of the vote as a baseline. Where did they randomly select these people from? Exclusively from the Bardstown Rd corridor and West End?

I will be interested to see the details of this poll. If the same poll shows Yarmuth with a 5 or 6 point lead over Northup then this poll is a complete joke and nothing more than a propaganda piece put forth by the Courier right before the election. Even so, this is not good for Downard. I suspect Abramson will win comfortably around 62 to 35. If that happens we will get to hear more about Abramson for Governor. Ugh!

Posted by elendil at 5:15 PM in Kentucky Politics

Iran's Quds Day

Many on the left of the political spectrum dismiss or downplay the danger posed by the Islamic fascists around the world. They believe that if we just leave and retreat back to our own shores that they will leave us alone.

Well, let's take a look at the activities from the recent Qud's day in Iran to see how they celebrated to get a feel for their sentiment.

It is disturbing when the entire leadership of one nation, along with hundreds of thousands of its citizens, comes out with celebrations and parades every year that call for the annihilation of another country.

It is more twisted that no world leaders or international bodies, including the United Nations, have denounced the activities surrounding Quds Day, an Iranian holiday introduced by Ayatollah Khomeini that is marked on the last Friday of Ramadan.

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However, this year's revelries focused both on calling for the annihilation of America and embracing Iran's nuclear program.The celebrations included proclamations by the country's leaders and activities for university students and artists.

Isfahan University's Mechanical Energy College took first place in a Quds Day competition for its design of a pilotless plane that can be used for "suicide attacks."

The director of the Iranian Broadcasting Organization of Music Production, Mohammad Mirzamani, composed a symphony dedicated to "the victory over the Zionist regime,"

First place went to the engineers who came up with a way to remotely control planes so as to crash them into buildings! What a frightening thought, and to think it is sponsored by any state. And to think that by leaving them alone they will abandon all of this hatred? This entire celebration border's on the surreal.

This is the same type of lunacy that came from Hitler before he seized control of Germany.

Just like the 1930's there are those who refuse to see the threat right in front of their faces, Back then it was fascism, today it is radical Islam. And much like Chamberlain did back then, there are those who would rather appease our enemies rather than confront them directly. Today, the appeasers can be found on political left. Which is why the upcoming election is so critical. We need people in control of government who see the threat for what it is.

Come on, you are overstating the threat posed by Iran? Am I?

I know that Iran is not the next Germany. They don't have the resources and capability to build a war machine of comparable quality. But they do have the resources necessary to create nuclear weapons. If they obtain such a weapon they will control a tremendous fury with which they can unleash upon the world.

Many didn't take Hitler at his word when he said he wanted to exterminate the Jews. That mistake cost millions of innocent lives. Can we afford to do the same again today?

Posted by elendil at 1:31 AM in National Politics