True the Vote’s initiative game plan is to get concerned citizens actively involved in the election process to combat voter fraud. While fraudulent votes are a main worry anywhere, unwatched polls, corrupted judges and clerks are also a main, but underreported, venue for fraud. The True the Vote initiative provides resources, instructions and the training to ensure that those Americans concerned enough to get actively involved in the election process, know their legal requirements and rights at the polling place.

Watching the voter fraud occurring in minority communities and hearing the horror stories of poll watcher witnesses, it is becoming rapidly apparent to this reporter that the majority of the judges and clerks within these communities in question have partisan ties to the Democratic Party.

There are several positions that concerned citizens in Texas can apply for, some of which are paid : Precinct Chair, Deputy Voter Registrar, Presiding Judge, Alternate Judge, Clerk, Poll Watchers and Judges Booth Controllers (JBC), who operate the machine which give out the voter access code to vote.

For those position other than poll watchers, the King Street Patriots started with True the Vote Boot Camp in September which they described as, “…a preparatory course to teach fundamental polling place procedures, focusing on identifying voter fraud or intimidation. Attendees will be instructed in the proper procedures to identify, report, and document, illegal behaviors in the polling place and surrounding area classes “

Their boot camp was followed in October with training provided by Harris County itself featuring election law and E-Slate training.

Volunteers wishing to be poll watchers could attend Texas election law classes at the King Street Patriots’ headquarters from September through October. Instructors Alan and Colleen Vera, provided handouts, testing, guidance and on-line attendance from bloggers as far away as Hawaii.

I spoke with Catherine Engelbrecht, who is head of the King Street Patriots, and she stated that they have trained over a thousand poll watchers through True the Vote. Other states can look at what the King Street Patriots have accomplished through their True the Vote initiative and modify it to accommodate their own state’s election laws.

In the 2008 election 43,000 false registrations were manufactured by ACORN enabling Al Franken to win by only 225 votes, thereby giving control of the Senate to Democrats and paving the way to socialist takeover of American healthcare.

Already in this election we are seeing signs of massive voter fraud across the country. In South Carolina a voter reported that even with election staff assistance his 4 attempts to vote straight Republican resulted in a straight Democratic ticket:

Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff.

“They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the Republicans came up and I voted.” P. Christine Smith, Sun Journal

Las Vegas voters are discovering that local election officials have made their voting easier by having Harry Reid’s name pre-selected:

Controversy arose after Boulder City resident Joyce Ferrara complained to FOX5 that when she went to vote for GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle, Reid’s name was already checked.

“Something’s not right,” Ferrara said. She claimed her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen. [for the original report and video visit Fox Vegas News]

In Texas some precincts make it even easier to vote Democratic by taking the Republican names off the ticket entirely:

In Dallas County, it was reported yesterday that in a few locations, Eddie Bernice Johnson’s name was the only name on the ballot for CD 30. Somehow Stephen Broden’s name was not on the ballot. Dallas County is being very cooperative in investigating this claim, and we should have more information soon on this. I will report back as facts develop.

In Harris County (Houston) two locations reported problems in the Texas Legislative District 148 race between incumbent Democrat Jessica Ferrar and her Republican challenger Fernando Herrera. Several people reported not being able to find Fernando Herrera’s name on the ballot. It was not clear if they saw Jessica Ferrar’s name or if the entire race was missing from their ballot. This has also been reported to Harris County for investigation. Texas GOP Vote

For the past two years Americans have suffered as they have watched Saturday Night Live broadcasting live from the US Senate, and it appears that more “shenanigans” are in store in the next two years. If you thought the Democrats were going to lie down and let the Tea Party Express roll over them, you are sadly mistaken.

The biggest attack came directly from the Obama Administration’s oxymoronic Department of Justice in response to a letter sent by the King Street Patriots alerting the department of what they had found. Instead of thanking the group for exposing how the Democratic party is blatantly using black communities centered around Houston as tools to commit voter fraud, the DOJ is suing the King Street Patriots for “voter intimidation” based solely on trumped-up accusations coming from outraged democratic operatives complaining that they find the mere presence of the poll watchers, many of whom are elderly women, “threatening”.

The accusations are specious but have now provided a jumping off point for left leaning news and opinion outlets to attack the King Street Patriots organization as a racist group with suspect funding. The local ABC affiliate, Channel 13, even speculated on their evening news broadcast that the King Street Patriots would soon be facing jail time. Democratic congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee, whose 18th congressional district polling places are not used to actual scrutiny, demanded and got the King Street Patriot’s financial records in order to somehow expose the locally-funded-through-private-citizen donation group as being ban rolled by some imagined billionaire with an agenda much like leftist organizations themselves are funded by the likes of a George Soros , Ted Turner, or Stephen Rockefeller.

Catherine Engelbrecht, head of the King Street Patriots, said, “I was just in stunned disbelief that a station I grew up watching would take a completely fallacious statement as damaging as “going to jail” is and broadcast it with abandon. Where’s the accountability?”

The NAACP has also joined in on this latest example of leftist psychological warfare with the following statement from their, Co-Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Political Participation Group, Kristen Clarke, who stated that “There doesn’t seem to be a color blind approach to many of these so called ballot integrity efforts and poll watching initiatives that are underway. The reports that we are hearing about are very troubling…largely assigned to monitor African American and Latino voters.”

The online Mother Jones website is following the national leftist trend of “Voter fraud, what voter fraud?” by dismissing the King Street Patriots’ verified evidence. In the Mother Jones article, Has Voter Intimidation Already Begun? Mother Jones intimates that the King Street Patriots is manufacturing hysteria and that there is little if any cause for concern on the right but the left has to worry about voters being scared away at the polls. ( http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/10/has-voter-intimidation-already-begun )

Talking Point Memo/TPMMuckracker reports that racist emails are being sent out in the name of Kings Street Patriot and that a site called Press (Talk88) has reproduced what they claim is one of those emails forwarded to them from TPM. Stylistically, the barely literate rantings are more indicative of what one finds at the Daily KOS or Democratic Underground and the King Street Patriots are shocked but not surprised at the calumny.

“It’s outrageous. “ stated Catherine Engelbrecht as she called TPM‘s libelous bluff. “We believe these emails to be a complete fabrication and if they have those emails, let’s see them. Until they produce them, they have NO basis for their story and need to retract it.”

Somehow Eric Holder and the Justice Department have failed to enforce the MOVE act. Could it be because the majority of overseas servicemen are likely conservative voters? The NIP asserts that if the servicemen were Democratic voters the DOJ would be all over the states to comply. For this administration selective law enforcement is all about skewing elections in their own favor.

For example the DOJ has an official policy of not prosecuting voter intimidation in cases where whites are involved. Witness the case of the Blank Panthers (video below) who received a default judgement for failing to appear in court. This was prior to Obama’s inauguration. All was left was sentencing, but when Holder was appointed Attorney General he dropped the case. Whistleblower J. Christian Adams, former DOJ attorney was interviewed on Fox News by Megyn Kelly this July:

Adams: It’s the easiest case I ever had at the Justice Department. There was no doubt in anybody’s mind, at least not the people working hard on the case [but] we were told drop the charges against the New Black Panther Party.

Kelly: Do you believe that the DOJ has a policy now of not pursuing cases if the defendant is black and victim is white?

Adams: Particularly in voting. In voting, that will be the case over the next few years. There’s no doubt about it.

Is it really just an issue black vs white?

Perhaps someone needs to remind Holder that there are plenty of blacks serving in our military. But of course he knows that. It’s not about blacks or whites, it’s all about power. Democratic power. The power of a ruling elite that seeks domination over a supposedly free people. While the DOJ fiddles, servicemen in harm’s way don’t even get to vote in this election and thugs intimidating voters back at home score Get-Out-of-Jail-Free cards courtesy of Eric Holder. Perhaps the DOJ needs a new name that doesn’t include the word “Justice.”

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Fox News.

This is too mind-boggling for the NIP to comment upon, so we’ll let you make your own judgement after watching the June 30th interview:

Congratulations Peggy for showing us why the left is so hard to deal with. Could it be that others on the left are like you, woefully ignorant of facts but still more than willing to opine based on their feelings and political orientation?

Judge Stephen C. Robinson

PORT CHESTER, NY: Port Chester has 30,000 residents and nearly half are Hispanics. The village is run by six elected trustees, none of whom have been Hispanic. The Federal court says that the dim-witted people in this village should have elected an Hispanic to the village trustees by now and since they haven’t, federal judge Stephen Robinson has torn up the traditional one man, one vote system that our country has used since its founding and directed that each citizen vote up to six times beginning as early as five days before the election day.

Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation…

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas. Jim Fitzgerald, AP

Some voters have given all their votes to one candidate in the hopes to help stack the deck, presumably much to the satisfaction of Judge Robinson. The election is now going on and final results aren’t in yet. This election scheme could be the one that finally puts Alfred E. Neuman into office.

What if the newly rigged system fails to elect a Hispanic? We here at the NIP certainly hope that Judge Robinson will throw out the election and just go up to Port Chester and pick the trustees he wants. That’s how they do it in Iran, Venezuela and other more modern countries.

However, this type of decadent, inartistic slovenliness gets repetitiously boring after a while and a teen’s radar is exquisitely tuned to winnowing out the bogus from the merely banal. So what’s a poor teen looking for someone to pattern themselves after supposed to do? Our past heroes and heroines are either excoriated for not being politically correct, if they are even mentioned at all, or are considered so out-of-date as to be irrelevant. In fact, what with all this eco-greenie Gaia worship going on in our public schools, humans themselves are not only not held up as something worth while but actively despised for their respective and collective carbon footprints. Even that current socialist secular living saint, President Obama, is proving to have feet of clay for them because BP oil is still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico soiling US beaches, destroying Louisiana tide water ecosystems and killing untold numbers of marine and animal life all while he goes on yet another vacation and/or tees off at the nearest golf course.

One thing that I doubt anyone on the educational, environmentalist Left has bothered to remember, if they ever knew it to begin with, is that Nature abhors a vacuum whether it is in spatial form or between one’s ears. When one has nothing worth evaluating on the noodle, all types of silliness gets planted and takes root. Now socialism can’t really exist when the populace is actually educated so ignorance by humanity for Leftists is control-freak bliss. However, socialists NEVER seem to grasp that human nature is constant and therefore not perfectible within artificial, secular constructs.

Unfortunately for all of us, a folly of human nature is that it is prone to memes, the more nonsensical sometimes the better especially when one is no longer grounded historically, religiously or culturally and therefore adrift and bored out of one’s skull. It is how fads, crazes and cultural inanities get so widespread. It’s why some people anthropomorphize their pets into children, yearn to become blue skinned Na’avi, or reinvent the wheel when all they had to do was a little research.

The latest cultural wheel reinvention is happening right now in Texas schools where “wolf packs” of up to 20 teens come to school sporting fangs, slit iris yellow contact lenses and furry tails, yes, tails attached to their bumms. Influenced by Benicio Del Toro’s role and make-up in the movie, Twilight and The Wolfman, not to mention all the pro-werewolf comics, animated cartoons and TV shows that have inundated their lives these past years, Texas teens are howling with delight although they don’t want to be feared.

Evidently playing Hallowe’en dress-up year round gives them a feeling of “belonging” to a group as evidenced by what 15 year old “pack leader”, Deikitsen “Lupus” Manley of San Antonio’s Brandeis High School claims:

Human wolves have been around a lot longer than characters in Twilight. It gives us a sense of belonging. You gain friends and you belong and indulge your wild side.

And where are the parents in all this? Pam, Deikitsen’s mother, made excuses for her son’s childish play-acting lack of public dignity by saying, “As soon as he walks in the door, he is supposed to take out the fangs, and lose the lenses and tail. They’re good kids. It takes courage to stand up and be who you want to be.”

Uh…since when did “werewolf” become a career choice? Does that mean Deikitsen will father a litter with his future mate? Can he get a job without his rabies shots or drive a car without his dog license?

This werewolf craze is not just in Texas although the costuming seems to be confined to that state for now. A young teen of my acquaintance in Oregon is obsessed with lycanthropes and does nothing but draw them all day. At an age when she should be showing interest in the real world, she’s instead drawing such blood-curdling creatures that I expressed real concern about the state of her mental health to her mother, who replied, “Oh, she’s just allowing her internal rage to vent through her art.”

Say what? That kid utterly skates through life with everything handed to her on a silver platter. She is totally without any personal responsibilities or discipline and would forget to breathe if it wasn’t an automatic reflex. Is being stuck for years drawing the same Japanese-inspired manga style gothic horror cartoons a venting mechanism for a typical, government-controlled public school student bereft of all intellectual curiosity and desire for learning?

(British social commentator, prison physician and writer, Theodore Dalrymple, theorized that the normalcy of cursing in even what passes for normal speech now is a prime example of the inarticulate rage one experiences when confronted with complex emotions hamstrung by a limited vocabulary thanks to substandard, government-run state schools.)

So what looks on the surface to be another cyclic generational teen fad ala Michael Landon or Michael J. Fox has a troubling undercurrent of mental instability. Lest anyone think that it’s just teens that fall prey to this fad, young adults are joining in but with even scarier undertones. Someone calling herself “Wolfie Blackheart” found what she claimed was a dead dog, cut off its head and boiled it making sure to post her culinary skills on the web for all to see.

When her exercise in really graphic photo journalism came to the attention of the local police, Wolfie went in to that default mode as exhibited by the Texas teens about not needing to be feared because, “I would never kill a canine. I am a canine.”

Obama Golfs While Poland Mourns

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE: While 38 million Poles mourned the tragic deaths of their President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and dozens of top Polish government officials, last Sunday Barack Obama decided it was an opportune time to take in his 32nd round of golf since becoming President. President Obama is as good at offending our allies as he is in bowing to our enemies.

Last month Obama snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the White House. Barack Obama was mad that the Israelis did not fall in line with Obama’s order to cease settlements in Jerusalem, their nation’s capital. Obama’s dictate was meant to show the Arab world his power over the Israelis. The NIP further speculates that their disagreement also extended to Obama’s buying time for the Iranians to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.

A newly declassified Pentagon report warns that Iran will have ICBM capacity to strike the US with nuclear weapons within five years. Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that this administration has no effective plan or policy to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons. Iran’s regime has repeatedly made clear their desire to wipe Israel off the map, and with ICBMs able to reach the US could attacks on the Great Satan be far behind?

Last year Obama cancelled Poland’s missile shield, exposing Eastern Europe to Iran’s nuclear threat. With Iran’s nukes looming and US striking capacity just a few years away, it may soon be time for Poland to golf while the US mourns.

Obama, being sensitive to criticism, scheduled his trip to Florida today to not only shore up support for his NASA cuts but to shine the spotlight away from thousands of Tea Party protests all over the country on this tax day. NASA is one of the many non-entitlement programs that Obama is cutting to finance his socialistic dream.

I interviewed Dick Gordon, command module pilot of Apollo 12 today after the President’s speech. When asked what he thought of the speech he answered, “Not much. The President was long on rhetoric but short on specifics. Wait until the Russians are the only game in town. Their $50 million fee to the space station will escalate.”

Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon was interviewed today by Neil Cavuto after the speech. Cernan stated, “I have concerns about the future of this country. I’m not on board with Obama’s transformation of America. The President’s vision is a vision to nowhere. Nothing has changed today after I heard the President. You can take parts of his glib presentation today and add them up and there is no defiinition, no detail, there’s no real destination, no focus.”

Cernan wrote an open letter to President Obama with Neil Armstrong and James Lovell that graphically warns us of the dire consequences of the decisions made by this administration:

The United States entered into the challenge of space exploration under President Eisenhower’s first term, however, it was the Soviet Union who excelled in those early years. Under the bold vision of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, and with the overwhelming approval of the American people, we rapidly closed the gap in the final third; of the 20th century, and became the world leader in space exploration.

America’s space accomplishments earned the respect and admiration of the world. Science probes were unlocking the secrets of the cosmos; space technology was providing instantaneous worldwide communication; orbital sentinels were helping man understand the vagaries of nature. Above all else, the people around the world were inspired by the human exploration of space and the expanding of man’s frontier. It suggested that what had been thought to be impossible was now within reach. Students were inspired to prepare themselves to be a part of this new age. No government program in modern history has been so effective in motivating the young to do “what has never been done before.”

World leadership in space was not achieved easily. In the first half-century of the space age, our country made a significant financial investment, thousands of Americans dedicated themselves to the effort, and some gave their lives to achieve the dream of a nation. In the latter part of the first half century of the space age, Americans and their international partners focused primarily on exploiting the near frontiers of space with the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

As a result of the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, it was concluded that our space policy required a new strategic vision. Extensive studies and analysis led to this new mandate: meet our existing commitments, return to our exploration roots, return to the moon, and prepare to venture further outward to the asteroids and to Mars. The program was named “Constellation.” In the ensuing years, this plan was endorsed by two Presidents of different parties and approved by both Democratic and Republican congresses.

The Columbia Accident Board had given NASA a number of recommendations fundamental to the Constellation architecture which were duly incorporated. The Ares rocket family was patterned after the Von Braun Modular concept so essential to the success of the Saturn 1B and the Saturn 5. A number of components in the Ares 1 rocket would become the foundation of the very large heavy lift Ares V, thus reducing the total development costs substantially. After the Ares 1 becomes operational, the only major new components necessary for the Ares V would be the larger propellant tanks to support the heavy lift requirements.

The design and the production of the flight components and infrastructure to implement this vision was well underway. Detailed planning of all the major sectors of the program had begun. Enthusiasm within NASA and throughout the country was very high.

When President Obama recently released his budget for NASA, he proposed a slight increase in total funding, substantial research and technology development, an extension of the International Space Station operation until 2020, long range planning for a new but undefined heavy lift rocket and significant funding for the development of commercial access to low earth orbit.

Although some of these proposals have merit, the accompanying decision to cancel the Constellation program, its Ares 1 and Ares V rockets, and the Orion spacecraft, is devastating.

America’s only path to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station will now be subject to an agreement with Russia to purchase space on their Soyuz (at a price of over 50 million dollars per seat with significant increases expected in the near future) until we have the capacity to provide transportation for ourselves. The availability of a commercial transport to orbit as envisioned in the President’s proposal cannot be predicted with any certainty, but is likely to take substantially longer and be more expensive than we would hope.

It appears that we will have wasted our current $10-plus billion investment in Constellation and, equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded.

For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. While the President’s plan envisages humans traveling away from Earth and perhaps toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years

Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. America must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. If it does, we should institute a program which will give us the very best chance of achieving that goal.

Neil Armstrong, Commander, Apollo 11

James Lovell, Commander, Apollo 13

Eugene Cernan, Commander, Apollo 17

It’s time we stop listening to politicians and start listening to those in the know.