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<\/a><\/p>\nThere\u2019s E3 today and tomorrow but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be going. I may get up the gumption to go to Steve Leon\u2019s Show Stoppers tonight, but that\u2019s a fight into traffic. We\u2019ll see. Probably not. I\u2019m having trouble getting that interested in what\u2019s going on in electronic entertainment. Everything is getting bigger, faster, and better, and one of these days I\u2019ll probably get in on some of it, but just now my problem is getting some words down on paper \u2013 well, into bits on a drive, and that just goes to show that I started in the writing racket when it was words on paper. Ah. Well.<\/p>\n
The crucial election today is in Wisconsin. The Republicans will have to win about 5% more vote because we can expect fraud and deception in plenty. The stakes are very high here. Recall shouldn\u2019t be a contest on fund raising, which is what it amounts to. Those who can afford to get the recall on the ballot will be able to devil those who don\u2019t so that eventually you have a one party state. It\u2019s not quite the same as having the bully boys beat up people or feed tham castor oil, but the effect is pretty well the same. The result will be that those with the money \u2013 or with paid union workers who can go gather signatures \u2013 will be able to drive those who can\u2019t out of political life.<\/p>\n
Given that this usually means increasing deficits and greater entitlements, and that isn\u2019t sustainable \u2013 see Greece as an example \u2013 which will mean \u2013 well, what? <\/p>\n
We now have more people getting benefits from government than paying taxes. <\/p>\n
It can\u2019t go one forever. When something can\u2019t go on forever, it will stop. What comes then? Well, traditionally, you get a friend of the people to become emperor. <\/p>\n
More death by drone. The wars of assassination by UAV continue. And the price of do it yourself drones continues to fall. We live in interesting times.<\/p>\n Lines out the door in Wisconsin. Heavy turnout. My guess is that the media would be making a great deal more of this if it were thought that this is indicative of a heavy vote for recall, and thus it indicates the recall\u2019s failure. We can always hope.<\/p>\n Niven and I went up the hill yesterday, and I remain a bit tired. I need to do that more often. It\u2019s good for me, but it does tend to wear me out. And it\u2019s lunch time.<\/p>\n It\u2019s official. By at least 8 percentage points, the recall in Wisconsin has been defeated. I am sure there are many boxes of uncounted ballots ready to be discovered, enough to swing the election to the Democrats even by two percentage points, but this is just too large for them to overcome. Obama and the socialists have lost and the Republic has won this bout.<\/p>\n Wisconsin went heavily for Obama in 2008. It is a state key to his reelection, and he seems to have lost it, first in 2010 when the Democrats lost the state house, and now after the all out effort to recall the governor, by even more. A blue state no more. The Republic may survive after all. If that sounds excessive, apologies; but I am exhilarated. I had hoped for this, and all the indications \u2013 including the mainstream media\u2019s reluctance to talk about what was happening \u2013 pointed to a larger victory this time than in 2010, but it was not certain. And as I said, there is little doubt that there are undiscovered boxes of ballots \u2013 now not ever to be discovered \u2013 in reserve had the vote been close. Or perhaps I am paranoid, and being too hard on the Democrats? But I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n Onward to November. It may be a good year for the Republic. And it is just possible that candidate Romney will take some heart from this. He is the least establishment oriented of the establishment Republicans, and his has the right instincts and principles, and he said<\/p>\n "Tonight voters said ‘no’ to the tired, liberal ideas of yesterday, and ‘yes’ to fiscal responsibility and a new direction. I look forward to working with Governor Walker to help build a better, brighter future for all Americans," he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Could it be that he means it? This was a maximum effort mission for the public employee unions and the Democrats, and in a state that they had won in 2008. <\/p>\n So it was a good day.<\/p>\n View 727 Tuesday, June 05, 2012 There\u2019s E3 today and tomorrow but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be going. I may get up the gumption to go to Steve Leon\u2019s Show Stoppers tonight, but that\u2019s a fight into traffic. We\u2019ll see. Probably not. I\u2019m having trouble getting that interested in what\u2019s \u2026 Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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