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While some of this could be chalked up to the Law of Unintended Consequences (the failure to see and understand that when you fiddle with complex systems, they will paddle you back), it is ONLY because American society (and Western Civilization in general) has accepted millions of deaths of unborn children.  It has become acceptable – and soul numbing.  And because of the precedent, we now are seeing it at the other end of life (reformatted, emphasis mine):

About one-year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state’s assisted-suicide bill into law. It fully went into effect this June, with the opening of the first clinic. While there is no data on the number of California assisted-suicides, Oregon recorded over 130 last year as part of their legalized physician-assisted death program. Now, one young mother says her insurance company denied her coverage for chemotherapy treatment after originally agreeing to provide the fiscal support for it, but indicated it would be willing to pay for assisted suicide instead. . . .

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Of course, it’s in Illinois (reformatted, emphasis mine)!

Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats. Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library. “I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” Moynihan said. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat.”

Hmm, it was explained that it was a “simple” calibration error.  Ayup, sure thing.  Curious thing, though – it seems this “machine flu” was caught in Amarillo, Texas, too (reformatted, emphasis mine):

…It’s not as common to see the stories I’ve been seeing today. Two voters from Canyon posted the experience they had while voting. Apparently, when these voters chose the straight Republican option, the ballot selected Clinton/Kaine instead of Trump/Pence. The same story has been reported in Dallas.

And another anecdote from Texas:

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And in this case, follow the money coming from Federal employees and going to which Presidential candidate?  A report from The Hill (reformatted, emphasis mine): Government workers shun Trump, give big money to Clinton

“Government employees are, on balance, more moderate or more liberal as opposed to the general population,” Schultz said. “Not across the board, but in general.” Government employees are “more likely to believe in government as opposed to, let’s say, a privatization program,” he added, “programs that we would view as hostile to government.”

• State Department, which Clinton once led, saw more than 99 percent of contributions going to Clinton.

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Nest thermostats offline in massive outage during U.S. heatwave

Nest outage cuts remote users off from Dropcams, thermostats

Being a techie, I always wanted a “connected” home and started way back when X10 was the cool thing to play with.  Not exactly robust, sometimes glitchy to run and control.  I did give it up but always thought about picking it up again.  But when I read that a Government official, Carol Browning,  thought the advent of Smart Meters was license to have Govt change the relationship between electricity consumers and their power generator, I gave up on that REALLY quickly:

And so [we will be] giving people and companies a role in the management of how we use electricity.

Notice the collective “we” and then the “giving” part – it’s as if Gubmit

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“In the end, it was the candidate, Hillary Clinton, the future president of the United States, who wanted ducks on the ground,”

James O’Keefe, who founded Project Veritas and has been a long time friend of the ‘Grok, has now released the third video in his series of investigative videos of what goes on behind the scenes of the Democrat Party campaigns dealing with those whose stock in trade is dirty tricks (we have them here and here). Sure, there are those on the Left that completely dismiss this from “editing” but just the reactions of the Dems to the content are showing that they are absolutely going bonkers in damage control.  Scott Foval has been fired and Robert Creamer (the husband of US Representative  Jan Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL and proud Democrat Socialist (more the Socialist than Democrat but I might be splitting hairs on that) and visited the White House over 300 times and directly with Obama 40 or so times) have both already been canned. Oh yeah, the latter is a convicted felon – so WHY was he at the WH? More on that later- the video (emphasis mine):

Part III of the undercover Project Veritas Action investigation dives further into the back room dealings of Democratic politics. It exposes prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change. And, it’s all disguised as a duck. In this video, several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Democracy Partners founder directly implicating Hillary Clinton in FEC violations.

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Conservative Review has this summary of the Democrat Party in light of the Wikileaks email dumps and Project Veritas’s expose of Democrat operatives openly bragging about inciting violence during campaigns (gee, and I only thought that happened in Banana Republics):

1. Democrats have embraced violence as a campaign tactic. In fact, they have no problem with people being seriously hurt as long as their political goals are met. Free speech means nothing to the Democrats, and they will use violence to suppress any speech with which they disagree.
2. Democrats have embraced voter fraud by “bussing people in,” and have done so for decades. The integrity of elections are a big joke to Democrats.
3. Democrats will sell access to power for donations to their campaigns or foundations. Power to the people is a big joke to them. Power to those willing to pay them off is what really matters.
4. Democrats don’t believe in process. It’s a common misconception that the far-left wants a big, powerful government. They don’t. The Wikileaks emails show that the Democrats want a big, powerful government that serves their needs. The State Department, the FEC, the DOJ and other government agencies were all targets of the Clinton influence operation. The Clintons, in conjunction with their Democratic Party connections, are more than content to destroy anyone — employed by the government or not — who gets in their way.

Note that while EVERY Democrats keeps

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I keep looking in wonderment at all the angst of the Left when Chris Wallace of Fox asked Trump if he’d accept the the result of November’s election and he wouldn’t answer.  My gosh, you’da thunk that he already hit the Big Red Button.  To quote Hillary, at least in 2.5 weeks from now, “What difference does it make now?”.

Sure, he can litigate it if there are rampant stories of voter fraud (which does exist) or other malfeasance and I think he should and I bet that’s what he meant.  But that’s not the point.  So what if The Donald boards Trump One, atweeting away at Flash speed?  So what if he continues to call into every radio show / TV show of record?

It won’t stop

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