The Pardu's 12 Days Of Christmas

Nice sounds for your reading and the original lyrics below our political version

__________________The Progressive Influence___________________

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A landslide election for US History. 

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Obama and Biden,
And landslide for US History. 

On the third day of Christmas,

my true love sent to me

Three seething Senators, 

Obama, Biden, and Rice,

And landslide election for US History.

On the fourth day of Christmas, 

my true love sent to me 

Four whining Romneys, 

Three seething Senators, 

Obama, Biden, and Rice,

And a landslide election for US History.

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Five angry Billionaires, 

Four whining Romneys, 

Three seething Senators, 

Obama, Biden, and Rice,

And a landslide election for US History.

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six Fox New Hosts a-lying,
Five angry Billionaires,
Four whining Romneys,
Three seething Senators,
Obama, Biden, and Rice,
And a landslide election for US History.

On the seventh day of Christmas, 

my true love sent to me 

Seven GOP pundits a-brimming, 

Six Fox New Hosts a-lying, 

Five angry Billionaires, 

Four whining Romneys, 

Three seething Senators, 

Obama, Biden, and Rice,

And a landslide election for US History.

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eight campaign staff a-milking, 

Seven GOP pundits a-brimming, 

Six Fox New Hosts a-lying, 

Five angry Billionaires, 

Four whining Romneys, 

Three seething Senators, 

Obama, Biden, and Rice,

And a landslide election for US History. 

On the ninth day of Christmas, 

my true love sent to me 

Nine Herman Cains dancing, 

Eight campaign staff a-milking, 

Seven GOP pundits a-brimming, 

Six Fox New Hosts a-lying, 

Five angry Billionaires, 

Four whining Romneys, 

Three seething Senators, 

Obama, Biden, and Rice,

And a landslide election for US History.

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Tea Party members a-leaping, 

Nine Herman Cains dancing, 

Eight campaign staff a-milking, 

Seven GOP pundits a-brimming, 

Six Fox New Hosts a-lying, 

Five angry Billionaires, 

Four whining Romneys, 

Three seething Senators, 

Obama, Biden, and Rice,

And a landslide election for US History.

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eleven Congressional pipers piping,
Tea Party members a-leaping,
Nine Herman Cains dancing,
Eight campaign staff a-milking,
Seven GOP pundits a-brimming,
Six Fox New Hosts a-lying,
Five angry Billionaires,
Four whining Romneys,
Three seething Senators,
Obama, Biden, and Rice,
And a landslide election for US History.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, 
my true love sent to me
Democrat drummers drumming,
Eleven Congressional pipers piping,
Tea Party members a-leaping,
Nine Herman Cains dancing,
Eight campaign staff a-milking,
Seven GOP pundits a-brimming,
Six Fox New Hosts a-lying,
Five angry Billionaires,
Four whining Romneys,
Three seething Senators,
Obama, Biden, and Rice,
And a landslide election for US History.

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The meaning behind the lyrics

5 Golden Rings refers to the first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying refers to the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
8 Maids A-milking refers to the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing refers to the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping refers to the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping refers to the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming refers to the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed

The Twelve Days of Christmas (12 Days of Christmas) : Lyrics

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On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree! 

The Twelve Days of Christmas (12 Days of Christmas) – lyrics

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Elizabeth Warren A Legislator to Watch!

The following Huffington Post pieces simply great news.

One day the GOP will see the errors in their ways. If McConnell had shown one small degree of cooperation with President Obama, Ms. Warren would have been confirmed as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Obama Administration. After her  non-confirmation withdrawal, she ran for the Massachusetts Senate Seat vacated as a result of Ted Kennedy's death. Scott Brown won the special election seat, and was defeated by Warren on November 6th.  

Even before Warren takes her Senate seat, her impact starts to manifest. Her assignment to the Senate Banking Committee, is a lesson to the obstructionist GOP.  The lesson, "your obstructionist moves  have backfired."

Elizabeth Warren Wins Senate Banking Committee Seat: Sources

The Huffington Post  |  By Ryan Grim Posted: 12/04/2012 9:36 am EST Updated: 12/04/2012 9:55 am EST

WASHINGTON -- Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will be tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It's a victory for progressives who battled to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other banking regulations.

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The White House Was Our Destiny!

KultureKritic Dot Com has published an intriguing piece about the aftermath of the November 6th elections.  The piece mentions Mitt Romney's boredom and his wandering loss of things to do. The article focused on one who would have been "Queen" of the nation: Ann Romney.

If you have followed any news reports on MSNBC, read any articles in middle-ground or progressive print media, you know the Romney Campaign, family and GOP operatives were flabbergasted with their loss the evening of the 6th.  So, flabbergasted  Mitt Romney did not even have a concession speech. If you stayed up late that evening you know the election was factually over by 11:15PM. Around 1:20AM the next morning, Mitt Romney came to a Massachusetts stage and spoke the shortest concession speech in US History. The speech was gracious, professional albeit a bit whiny,  but it was obvious it was thrown together after the 11:00PM hour.  "Oh, I so wanted to be your president", "Ann would have made a great First Lady".  Well, he spoke to a partisan crowd and 47 per cent of the electorate.  His comments fell on deaf ears for the remainder of the electorate, and the loss also bode very well for the nation.

The Romney's are American wealthy aristocracy, and their expectations were so obvious they hired accordingly.  They hired staff as elitist, they planned as elitist, and they failed as elitist.  We should not be surprised by the aftermath. 

According the KultureKritic Ann Romney may have consumed a small fortune in tissues post election.  She felt ordained (entitled) to the White House and the campaign was a mere exercise in formality. Election night was to simply serve as a preclude to grand Balls on inauguration day. A day fit for her newly ordained status as "Queen" of America. 

We ask, what is it about the uber wealthy that does not deep introspection?  Do they not know behavior or actions as those the following would be noticed by millions. Millions who really do not worship the greedy, self-serving and elitist "Hunger Game" like wealthy.

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Let's take a journey through Ann of America summer and fall of 2012.

"By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. They said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses." 

KultureKritic (Stop It)

In an interview early this evening with Radio Iowa, Ann. Romney addressed her fellow Republicans who’ve criticized her husband.

“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,” Ann Romney said. “This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.” (audio via Radio Iowa)

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The North Africa Post (Military service for ordinary Americans vs the Romney's Mormon Missions)

During her appearance on The View television show, Mrs. Romney unwittingly gave clarity to this family doctrine. She tried to equate the Mormon mission service of Mitt, Tagg, Josh, Matt and the others with the sometimes life-threatening service in the military.

" He was serving his mission" Was the comment from Ann Romney. "

"His mission". I do this day do not understand how the Mormon Church was the only church organization to secure exemption from serving in the military base don a church mission. 

Whoopi Goldberg, I believe baited Mrs. Romney into the following set of comments.

The North Africa Post continues...

During her appearance on The View television show, Mrs. Romney unwittingly gave clarity to this family doctrine. She tried to equate the Mormon mission service of Mitt, Tagg, Josh, Matt and the others with the sometimes life-threatening service in the military.

Remember that candidate Romney promises to keep the US military strong, just not with any Romneys at risk. Ann explained: “My five boys and my husband did serve missions; did not serve in the military. But the thing that I love, and I will tell you this… ” she interrrupted herself but then continued. “… You all know as mothers, when you are raising children, that one of the most selfish periods of their life is about (ages) 18, 19, 20,” chuckled Mrs. Romney, trying to warm her interviewers and the New York City studio audience. 

She failed. See, Mitt Romney’s religious mission in France coincided with the Vietnam War. New Yorkers buried 4,120 Vietnam casualties, according to TheWall-USA.com. During Mr. Romney’s 30 months in France (the last six in Paris), Americans lost 33,886 soldiers, also posted on TheWall-USA.com. In all, 58,220 Americans died, according to archives.com. Not one of the healthy Romney males put on the uniform of the good ole USA. Looking for converts in France (and Costa Rica in Craig’s case), well how does that compare, Mrs. Romney?

My five sons have also served missions. None served in the military, but I do have one son (Ben) that feels he is giving back to his country in a significant way where he is a doctor and he is now taking care of veterans. So, you know, we find different ways of serving,” she said to internationally-acclaimed interviewer Barbara Walters and co-hostess Whoopi Goldberg, who opened the prickly discussion. 

Mitt Romney’s different way of serving? Spending 2 1/2 years in France; the closing months of it in a $12-million Paris mansion. In fact, 4 of the five Romney sons as teenagers opted for France. There, each Romney could have lamented the perils of … um … over-indulging in specialty cheeses and oven-fresh baguettes.

In Mitt’s case, from mid-1966 until late 1968, his contemporaries were guarding against something other than taking on too many calories. They were heavy in battle in the jungles of Vietnam while he was sleeping in the luxurious Mormon mansion in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Specifically, 3 Rue de Lota.

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 Ann Romney "You people".

I learned many years ago, if one has nothing to hide, attacks take on less meaning.  In her inimitable way, Ann Romney showed the epitome of 'elitism".  "Attacks".  She exhibited contempt for questions and concerns by labeling  issues "Attacks".  While at the very same time her husband's campaign was labeling attack after attack at ta sitting president. I will add, those attacks were as guttural as any I have even seen in the course of a political campaign   But, I sometimes forget, Barack Obama is the very first African-American President.  (In hindsight I see the word "attacks"' was a campaign ploy as Mitt Romney used it repeatedly in the third Presidential Debate). 

Mitt and Ann Romney would serve in the White House comparable to any national leader who would have a wife who spoke, "Let them eat cake". Well, the learned reader knows that Maria Antoinette spoke of a French Bread called " Brioche". Actually Mario Antoinette did not speak the words, but for sake of folklore ("Let them eat brioche") let's allow the misrepresented phrase to stand.

I am reminded by a segment of The Last Word and Jonathan Capeheart of Ann Romney's response to  question about the election. "It our turn."  She said :....it's our turn." 

The presidency is not a pass-around privilege like passing around the newspaper at the country club.  

Ezra Klein Explores Romney's Internal Polling Failures

A few of  Obama's Rockers...NARWHAL Team 

As we move away from the November 6th General elections a few items demand continued attention. First, Romney had not prepared a concession speech as he and his team felt confident he would win by a landslide.  Second, and I will not delve deep here, the business of gerrymandering that may have contributed to a Republican majority in the House of Representatives.  Romney's failed ORCA (Rove's system) has been reported on The Progressive Influence. As the article linked in the last sentence provides intriguing insight into the technical acumen of the Obama Campaign and the fails of the less adroit Romney Campaign, I have anxiously waited for television news data geeks to tackle the Romney data failure.

You might know Ezra Klein and his circle of data 'geek's would address the issue with the same thoroughness and detail as Klein devotes to his online web postings (The WONKBLOG).

The segment is 10:23 seconds long, but worth every second, if you are one who knows the value of competent political campaigns as indicators of potential for leading our nation.  Romney's campaign clearly showed he was not up for the job, his party is not focused on leadership of all the people, and money really cannot buy presidential elections.  Technology as part of a 'ground-game' will win every time   Romney had not ground game. He and his party relied on big money donors, lies, and use of the southern strategy to appeal to the 92% of the GOP voters who happen to be white Americans, and people who fell for the Fox News propaganda and Romney campaign mantra.

As we watched the general election campaigns moved towards November 6th, it became apparent the Romney camp was in way over its head. Their ticket was flawed, their message was esoteric at best, their agenda was dangerous to the economic health of the nation and their strategies were as outdated as bell bottom blue jeans on men. Yet, 47% of voters cast votes for the flawed ticket.

The Progressive Influence suggest the nation needs serious healing. Healing in this case can only be in the from of a lobotomy of the major of those 47% who voted for the Romney/Ryan Ticket.

Election 2012: Battle Of Polling Databases, ORCA vs. NARHWAL

The Horror of  a Loss!

It is almost as if reflecting back on past wars.  No war has been won (for that matter lost) without strategy and strategic execution that involved intelligence (AKA INTEL). And, to the winner of the INTEL wars goes the spoils.  Political campaigns are much like a form of war.  The presidential campaigns leading to November 6th elections, certainly involved war-like strategy.  Both success in INTEL execution and failure to execute was evident throughout the 2012 Campaign. The Obama Team was successful; the Romney team failed miserably. While success and failures span many campaign fronts, campaign use of technology was an area that the Obama campaign won handily. No war is won without effective INTEL. Details of behind the scenes technology wars are starting to come forth.

Election 2012 was perpetrated with assistance from technology born just ahead of the 2008 Elections.  The Obama Administration and software professionals continued development of what has come to be known as Project Narwhal (and DreamCatcher). Romney's Polling INTEL came to be known as ORCA. In the end Romney's  system failed. As stated in previous TPI pieces and restated below,  Anonymous claims to have interfered with ORCA. Ultimately, and regardless of failure the system failed miserably. 

A team of high tech software engineers trumped the Romney ORCA Team and they went about their mission with the precision of well planned and executed military strategy. Yet, I am certain not one of the team credits their success to military like acumen. 

Meet the Obama Narwhal Team.

Three of the 40 engineers. 

They'd been working 14-hour days, six or seven days a week, trying to reelect the president, and now everything had been broken at just the wrong time.

Narwhal: high-tech 

voter-targeting system, 
after the Arctic sea mammal.

Josh Thayer, the lead engineer of Narwhal, had just been informed that they'd lost another one of the services powering their software. That was bad: Narwhal was the code name for the data platform that underpinned the campaign and let it track voters and volunteers. If it broke, so would everything else. (The Atlantic)

Josh Taylor is a member of a team of elite, talented and committed software professionals (Specialist and technicians) who worked behind the scenes to re-elect a president. 

The Atlantic's  Alexis C. Madrigal  on November 16th, published an intriguing look at the innards of President Obama's technology team. It is impossible to fathom how President Obama could have garnered as many electoral votes as he factually won without the team of "30 somethings". 

Narwhal...

(The Atlantic) 

When the Nerds Go Marching In

         Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic

Excerpt 

The election was still 17 days away, and this was a live action role playing (LARPing!) exercise that the campaign's chief technology officer, Harper Reed, was inflicting on his team. "We worked through every possible disaster situation," Reed said. "We did three actual all-day sessions of destroying everything we had built." 

Hatch was playing the role of dungeon master, calling out devilishly complex scenarios that were designed to test each and every piece of their system as they entered the exponential traffic-growth phase of the election. Mark Trammell, an engineer who Reed hired after he left Twitter, saw a couple game days. He said they reminded him of his time in the Navy. "You ran firefighting drills over and over and over, to make sure that you not just know what you're doing," he said, "but you're calm because you know you can handle your shit." 

The team had elite and, for tech, senior talent — by which I mean that most of them were in their 30s — from Twitter, Google, Facebook, Craigslist, Quora, and some of Chicago's own software companies such as Orbitz and Threadless, where Reed had been CTO. But even these people, maybe *especially* these people, knew enough about technology not to trust it. "I think the Republicans fucked up in the hubris department," Reed told me. "I know we had the best technology team I've ever worked with, but we didn't know if it would work. I was incredibly confident it would work. I was betting a lot on it. We had time. We had resources. We had done what we thought would work, and it still could have broken. Something could have happened."

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(Immizen View)

Reported as early as Feb, 2012 in a Slate article titled “Obama’s White Whale”, project Narwhal, Obama’s top-secret campaign project until then, featuring high tech data integration and data mining techniques,promised to change the ways in which campaigns are fought and won.

(Slate Dot Com) Feb 15, 2012

.......as part of a project code-named Narwhal, Obama’s team is working to link once completely separate repositories of information so that every fact gathered about a voter is available to every arm of the campaign. Such information-sharing would allow the person who crafts a provocative email about contraception to send it only to women with whom canvassers have personally discussed reproductive views or whom data-mining targeters have pinpointed as likely to be friendly to Obama’s views on the issue.

 There are growing numbers of articles about the NARWHAL Vs. ORCA Systems, their missions and outcomes. I have posted a few links at article end.   I find the most informative a  piece about the two systems was written on November 12, 2012 by Tomi T. Ahoen, Orca meets Narwhal - How the Obama Ground Game Crushed Romney - A look behind the math.  

                                           

The article is very long and probably only suited for those who are enthralled with the inner workings of Presidential Elections Circa 2000 and forward.

Tomi T. Ahonen..... [Tread no farther if you abhor long reads]

Mario Piperni Does Allen West

Cross posted from MarioPiperniDotCom

Allan West Finally Gives It Up

NOVEMBER 20, 2012 BY MARIO PIPERNI 

The guy who once said to Democratic leaders…

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.

…is now history. After dragging out his election loss for two weeks, West finally came to grips with reality…sort of. This is what he wrote on his Facebook page yesterday.

While many questions remain unanswered, today I am announcing that I will take no further action to contest the outcome of this election.

I’m not sure what made me happier on election night – President Obama’s win or Allen West’s loss. It might very well have been the latter. If there was one Republican who embodied the complete tea-bagging, partisan, obstructionist, narrow-minded idiocy of the last two years, it was West.

And so, to the man who once said that he believed that 78 to 81 members of Democrats in Congress were members of the Communist Party, here is my own little farewell message to Mr. West.

Take your message of ignorance and hate, take your message of economic favoritism for the wealthy, take your message of enslaving the middle class somewhere else. You can take it to Fox, you can take it to talk radio, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, but get the hell out of Congress.

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NAACP African-American 2012 Poll Results

Enjoy while the caffeine kicks-in!!!!!

A morning report to go along with your Sumatra, Kenya AA, Tanzanian, French Roast, Kona Coast, Jamaica Blue Mountain, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Costa Rican, Espresso,  Moyobama Peruvian Organic, Indonesian Blend, Coffee Latte, Kauai Blend (often bitter), Colombian Red Lips, or your Folgers 100% Colombian.

http://www.naacp.org/

Anyone who followed the plethora of polls that proliferated over the last two years and culminated with the final result of the 2012 General Election, must have an interest in the African-American Vote.  I certainly have awaited a definitive set of results. The NAACP has published the Black vote poll results from a representative group of respondents.  Frankly, I would love to see a poll with many more thousands of respondents, but as poll go the results are informative.

The poll results are both satisfying for the political wonk and disconcerting a bit as the respondents look to the future.  Satisfying in overall vote participation and the extent to which the vote crosses critical state boundaries.  Disconcerting as the results point to a state of concern once Barack Obama is no longer at the core of Democratic politics.  

NAACP 2012 Battleground Poll from NAACP

The NAACP and top pollsters, including Latino Decisions, polled voters on the issues that matter to them, their family and community for the NAACP Battleground Poll. Sixteen hundred African American voters and likely voters from Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Georgia were interviewed.  NAACP President and CEO, Benjamin Todd Jealous had this to say about the polls results:

This data underscores the decisive role we played in key battleground states.  It reveals opportunities for the GOP to improve its relationship with our community, and suggests the Democratic Party should not assume it will see the 2008 and 2012 levels of Black turnout in 2016.

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Anonymous Claims To Have Killed Karl Rove's ORCA

Cross posted from Motley New Dot Net and linked to Occupy For Accountability Dot Org

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License

{NOTE: Of course, we at the TPI have no way of knowing the extent to which the following is 100% accurate.  We will never know. If ANONYMOUS actually published the letter below and hacked into Karl Rove's servers, the following could be the full extent of what we will ever read. If Rove's organization knows the hacked  ORCA as true, he will never admit the attack, and damned certain will never admit to the ORCA nor being hacked.  There is one point that follows which is undeniable. Rove certainly freaked out on election night and a seasoned operative like Rove has to know elections swing as was the case in Ohio. The prospect  really does make me wonder. And, there-in lie my reasoning for publishing the following.  Whether we believe the story or not, we have to admit it is intriguing reading. Below, Benjamin T, Moore provides a non-technical explanation of how ANONYMOUS may have (if true) dealt with Rove's ORCA}

Anonymous Claims to Have Hacked into Karl Rove, ORCA Thus Stopping His Vote-Switching 

As expected, any Romney supporter (with heavy financing), was shocked at the final outcome from November 6th, the night President Obama retained his seat. We have all heard the whining, crying, finger-pointing, foul, and so on and so on. But there were a couple of items which stood out more than others.

We all know that Karl Rove flipped out on FOX News when they announced Obama won Ohio. The video is below if you haven’t seen it. Basically, Rove just could NOT understand what was happening, which is what I expected. Although he did have a very shocked “the sun just rose in the west” look on his face, and that is what surprised me. Even more shocking was hearing many top supporters and chiefs cry that Romney was supposed to win with a landslide. That is NOT what the polls had been showing the entire time.

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Karl Rove Questions Ohio Call for Obama Victory

Linked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2V59zUdLwXg

These cyber “protectors of what’s right” – who refers to themselves as “The Protectors” – said that they had been following the digital structure of Rove’s operation and of ORCA, a Republican get out the vote software application. After finding open “doors” in the systems, they created a “password protected firewall” called “The Great Oz,” and installed it on servers that Rove planned to use on election night to re-route and change election results “from three states.”

“ORCA Killer” was launched at 10am EST followed by “The Great Oz” at 8pm EST on November 6th. Both sides watched as ORCA crashed and failed throughout Election Day. Rove even mentions computer problems while on FOX News that night. Rove’s computer techs tried 105 times to penetrate “The Great Oz” using different means and passwords.

Is this what happened to Kerry back in 2004 in Ohio when he ran against Bush? A server went down for approximately 90 minutes. When it crashed, Kerry was clearly in the lead. When it finally booted back up, Bush had taken the lead. How? Read on for a theory.

The Ohio Computer Crash in 2004

On the night of 2-3 November, 2004, the computer designated to count Ohio votes was cut out of the loop. Its web address was diverted to a private company in Chattanooga, TN, named SMARTech.

The web redirection on Election Night of 2004 went a step beyond this: Not only did the official website of the Ohio Department of State look just right, but it had the right address: http://election.sos.state.oh.us . Any citizen or press service looking for real time election results from the state of Ohio would have been directed here. In every sense, this SMARTech site became the official vote tabulation for the state of Ohio.

SMARTech leases computer servers to the Republican National Committee, and the 12-digit ISP address to which the Ohio Department of State was diverted for the 2004 vote count falls between two ranges known to be leased to the RNC. This raises the suspicion that it was an RNC computer, impersonating the state of Ohio computer, that performed the official vote tabulation in 2004. This diversion is so unusual (and brazen!) a ruse, that it is inconceivable that it happened without Blackwell’s explicit consent.

Perhaps Anonymous decided that these spoiled rich boys could no longer have their thieving, cheating way any longer. Here is the letter which was supposedly put out by Anonymous explaining how they hacked the hack. LOVE IT!!!  Oh, click on the image to pull up a PDF file.

• Supposed ANONYMOUS letter about hacking Karl Rove's computer servers.(CLICK for larger view)

  
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  Motley News Dot Net read more.
  
  Occupy For Accountability Dot Org reports Anonymous warned Rove about use of his system two weeks prior to the election.
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  THANK YOU ANONYMOUS!!!

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    During the weeks running up to election night, I was asked by numerous people if I thought President Obama was going to win. My response was a qualified "yes!" The reason it was *qualified* was because I have been aware of "Black Box Voting Fraud." If you do not know what that is, Google it. In brief, it has been proven that these electronic voting systems we've gone to can be hacked rather easily.

    
    

    There is even a documentary about this showing how it is done. Furthermore, in almost every jurisdiction where these systems have been put in place, a law has been passed to immediately *destroy* the hard copy records of votes so that *only* the digital records remain. WHY??? The reasons are rather obvious... if you get to a situation requiring a recount, you just hit the "tabulate key" and the computer spits out the exact same results as the last time. Thus, no actual recount occurs. Nobody actually looks at the hard copy paper ballots, it is all digital. A virus or a skilled hacker can make the vote come out any way you want it to for a fee.

    
    

    WHY MY CONCERN

    
    

    In order for this scheme to work successfully, you *NEED* to make people believe that the election is *close.* When people *believe* that the outcome could have gone either way, they are less likely to contest the results and do a forensic investigation on the machines if the results go against them.

    
    

    I watched poll after poll - usually conservative polls - showing that the race was extremely tight and some *always* put Romney ahead by a point or two. This concerned me because this was the *EXACT* scenario I envisioned necessary to pull off electronic voting fraud. I am a fan of Nate Silver's 538 Blog which has proven it's self the most accurate and reliable polling site for several election cycles now. Nate Silver - who was proven exactly right - didn't even have Romney close. Gallup, Rasmussen and other's always had Romney extremely close or ahead. Both positions could not be correct. Numbers are numbers and there are only so many things you can do to them before you begin erasing the actual numbers and putting the ones you want in place.

    
    

    Nate Silver shows his numbers and explains his methodology clearly. His approach is highly transparent. Anyone can fact check him and do the calculations for themselves. Not so much with some of the other polling sites and in particular those sites that showed a close race or a Romney lead. So, yes, looking at the way things were shaping up... I had some concerns!

    
    

    GUARDIAN ANGELS???

    
    

    It seems that I was not alone in my suspicions and concerns. The Hacker Group known as Anonymous was watching and working behind the scenes as well. They had discovered a piece of software known as ORCA that had been inserted by Karl Rove's operation in what is known as a "man in the middle" attack. The man in the middle attack works like this. Say you're mailing a letter to someone and you place your letter in mailbox to send it to them. Unbeknown to you, *I* own that mailbox. I collect your letter, read it, change it and send it on to whomever you're corresponding with. They *THINK* their letter is from you, but it is really from me. They respond. When their letter gets to *my* mailbox, I open it, read it and change it and send it on to you. The end result is you and your friend *believe* you're communicating directly with one another, when in essence you're communicating with me.

    
    

    This is what ORCA was designed to do. The votes from the Ohio precincts were being sent into Ohio's election tabulation center... or so they thought. Orca was designed to redirect those precinct results to RNC computers located in Tennessee. There the numbers could be changed to show a Romney win and *NOBODY* would have been the wiser.

    
    

    The Hacker group Anonymous stepped in and blocked ORCA by placing a firewall into the software thus preventing ORCA from functioning or being accessed by Karl Rove and his team of miscreants. This is why Karl was so shocked on election night. This is why he disputed Ohio because he *knew*... or as it turns out, he *THOUGHT* he knew that the fix was in. This is also why Mitt Romney was in shock! He had been assured that he was going to be the winner. He had already *paid* for the election.

    
    

    I'm not religious... but I will say, "THANK GOD FOR ANONYMOUS!" I love you guys!!!!

    
    

    The Progressive Influence. "If the report is true  I join Mr. Moore in....ANONYMOUS I love you guys!"