FOX PROLEFEED APPEARS TO HAVE ADOPTED THE SAME TACTIC OF ITS BRITISH "RED TOP" COUSINS OF THE SUN AND NEWS OF THE WORLD in offerig big-big money to such willing to offer the biggest "whoppers" of "voter fraud" stories to further reinforce their desire to restrict electoral franchise solely to an "elect***entitled as of right" who can be easily manipulated into voting Straight Republican, and constantly.

Otherwise known as White Male Low Church Christian Freeholders.

RawStory.com broke the news last evening, with an update added subsequently:

Fox News has now set out to find the evidence of fraud that the Bush Department of Justice could not, whipping up their audience with the threat of non-citizens "getting a fake ID, a driver's license, or a social security card and voting in this year's election."

"If you think there's voter fraud where you live, or there are other election problems, we at Fox News want to know about it," Shawn told viewers. "You can email us. ... voterfraud@foxnews.com."

Shawn's proposed remedy is "legislation that would prevent illegals and other ineligible voters from going into the voting booth," although he acknowledged sadly that "even if states do act, it may be too late for the upcoming presidential election."

Update: In a comment on this RAW STORY article, Brad Friedman of BradBlog suggested, "You heard 'em, kids. Fox is looking for voter fraud! Feel free to email them this link documenting the no-uncertain-terms case of Ann Coulter having committed voter fraud in Palm Beach County, Florida! ... Let 'em know I sent you, in case they have any further questions. I'll be happy to speak to them, and help 'em root out those voter fraud criminals!"

At his blog, Friedman has charged that Coulter "knowingly lied about her address on her voter registration form in Palm Beach County, Florida; proceeded to break the law again by knowingly voting at the wrong precinct; then lied about it repeatedly; hired a former Bush attorney to protect her ass; and even called in her FBI ex-boyfriend to save her bacon when it looked like the Palm Beach County Sheriff might actually have the balls to bring charges."

Coulter appears frequently on Fox News Channel to expound upon campaign politics.

(For "other ineligible voters," Fox Prolefeed wants you and me thinking "chronic and habitual welfare cases," "known troublemakers," "inferior" National Minorities and "heathen noncomformists," especially so Jews and Muslims along with suchlike others "not in comunion with Low Church Christianity"--as in Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians [especially so Cumberland Presbyterians], Seventh-Day Adventists, Assemblies of G-d, Jehovah's Witnesses and others in the Fundamentalist or Primitive brand of theology whose theology emphasises fanatical hellfire-and-brimstone excesses to the point of risking serious psychoemotional harm in worshippers.)

In other words, those of you in serious financial difficulty, those with a history of mental disorders, alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, gamblers, spendthrifts, "habitual criminals" and other weird and unwholesome types need not apply, as such are traditionally regarded as highly incredible sources of information by law enforcement agencies.

Especially so the kind motivated by selfish greed above all else, which may belie serious psychoemotional problems, come to think of it.

YES, READERS, THIS IS THE 500TH POSTING HERE TO THE EXAGGERATOR SINCE YOUR CORRESPONDENT LAUNCHED SAME to essentially supplant the daily phosdex @ the end of last year.

And no doubt about it:

In the nearly five months since I've launched this blog, it's seen some 5,000+ hits and plenty of attention--which can be put down to careful search-engine optimisation (and monthly resubmission to search engines through a submission aggregator), not-so-shameless self-promotion on certain message boards, and the use of BlogMad as a way to attract further hits--or try to.

And for that, Your Correspondent thanks you for making The Exaggerator what it's been in such a short time ... and would welcome your further continued support.

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WHICH EXPLAINS ANOTHER IMPORTANT AREA FOR THIS BLOG as could use some improvement: Financial, as much as moral, support.

In the interest of supplementing Your Correspondent's income from disability benefits, online shopping is incorporated into this blog's left-hand-side bar, as well as a Virtual Tip Jar for the odd donation of whatever spare change, so to speak, you might want to contribute.

Alas for it! neither has produced any significant or measurable results.

So, with that in mind, Your Correspondent would like those of you visitors having online shopping to do to get it done here, so long as you're here @ this weblog in the first place. You'd be killing two birds with one stone, so to speak, and doing this weblog a great favour. Especially those among you seeing online shopping as a way to save fuel as much as bedlam and confusion, even with fuel approaching $4/gallon in some areas of the country.

Or what otherwise stands in the way of getting your online shopping done @ this weblog?

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ANOTHER WORTHWHILE WAY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS BLOG, as long as I'm @ it, would be subscribing to the RSS feed for this weblog, which you can use in many interesting and worthwhile ways, among them:

• Receiving a daily e-mail brief of the latest postings to this blog;
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Especially so the "hard-core" fans of blogging and satirically-inclined blogs who want another worthwhile blog they can subscribe to in their e-mail every day.

In case you lose interest, you can always unsubscribe @ any time.

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ONCE AGAIN, YOUR CORRESPONDENT WOULD LIKE TO SAY "THANK YOU" FOR YOUR PATRONAGE AND DEVOTION TO THE EXAGGERATOR all this time it's been around in the Secular-Progressive Blogosphere.

And would welcome your continued and continuing patronage and support--especially from the online shopping angle; that right there would be especially welcome, and don't try to misinterpret this as suggesting I'm "cyberbegging" or suchlike (cf. Dunkin' Donuts kowtowing to the Dark Satanic Mills of Conservative Propaganda in pulling an ad for their iced coffees showing Rachel Ray wearing a paisley-print scarf which such specimens of Zealotry and True Belief interpreted as a Muslim-stylee kaffiyah in the Palestinian stylee); rather, think of it as a vote of confidence and trust in this weblog.

If you like it ... why not tell a friend to look this blog over? Look for the "tell a friend" link on the left-hand sidebar, complete--and send. I can certainly welcome all the support I can get, especially new blogheads from across the Information Stuporbahn. 

FOLKS, YOU OUGHT TO SEE THE FOLLOWING VIDEO FOR YOURSELF, FEATURING PLENTY OF ACELA EXPRESS AND AMTRAK REGIONAL ACTION, to convince yourself that we, as a presumably "morally superior" society, have become too complacent in our air-mindedness.

Perhaps a little too complacent, in fact:

And the song which backs this video is right: "Please don't knock it until you ride it!"

(Or what otherwise stands in the way?)

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NOT MANY KNOW THIS, BUT THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF AN EXTENDED SUMMER-LONG BREAK FROM SCHOOL DATES BACK TO THE DAYS OF ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES, when society was along more agrarian lines than we have now.

Back then, parents insisted that their children remain on the farm during the summer months so they could help with farm chores all the more.

Hence, the three-month break in classes from about June until September, includive.

Which, to parents, can be easily a blessing or an unholy terror, depending on parental attitudes.

As Summer Vacation comes upon the land once again, Your Correspondent has to wonder just how many parents will insist that their children leave their houses after breakfast, and not return home until around the supper hour, replete with the inevitable patsies and bromides about the parents "needing some time to themselves without [the kids] laying around the house all day" watching TV, playing video games and otherwise "leading an idle, immoral or dissolute lifestyle."

And as if to reinforce the message, said parental units will more than likely issue loaded prepaid debit cards with the insistence that the kids "make wise use of their time" @ the local mall hanging around in idleness themselves, all the while avoiding attracting the attention of mall security and/or suspiciously nosy shop owners.

Or even issuing season passes for amusement, theme or water fun parks in the hope that "wise use of time" will be thus made, along with the debit card to cover meals and gifts--which, in some cases, will likely mean the parents dropping the kids off @ the main gate just after opening for the day, and not returning to pick them up (if @ all) until just before supper.

The insistence of the parents being inevitable: They just don't want the kids "wasting time needlessly" around the house all summer long. Let alone the kids raising suspicions among management of shopping malls, amusement or water parks, even local transportation authorities about "suspicious behaviours" on the part of kids essentially left to their own devices by essentially dysfunctional parents having no logical excuse than to spend quality time with their kids together for once; hence, coaching them on all manner of answers to give The Proper Channels in case they start "asking suspicious questions" sometime during season, to further avoid "attracting suspicions" as could fall upon the parents themselves.

Answers as may only raise questions in and of themselves.

Is the real concern they have, perhaps, the fear that they might be caught downloading child pornography off the Information Stuporbahn by the kids themselves, who, in their turn, will likely "nark" on the parents to the police?

Or that the parents "need to have some privacy" for the "company" they have as turns out being rather weird and unwholesome, and "don't want the kids in the way" otherwise?

(Let alone the likelihood of the kids returning home just before supper, as per instructions--only to find a loud and chaotic police raid converging upon their house, whereupon the kids break down and explain all, right down to the details of coached answers, to police officers on scene.) 

AS THE 2008 SUMMER TOURIST SEASON GETS UNDERWAY IN THE ONCE AND FUTURE WATERPARK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, otherwise known as Wisconsin Dells, it appears likely that a battle royale may be emerging between rival promotional organisations trying to attract the shoobie dollars.

All because of what the bylaws of the Visitor and Convention Bureau, the established tourism-promotion agency there, regard as "unacceptable" practices for member businesses (especially motels and resorts) such as selling tickets for guests to major attractions or otherwise offering such as part of the room rate.

Which, in turn, has prompted the rival Wisconsin Dells-Lake Delton Chamber of Commerce (revived recently after several years' hiatus) to accuse the Bureau of forcing their members to play by their rules, or else "suffer the consequences"--with some claiming that Bureau practices forced many to quit the innkeeping trade out of fear of intimidation.

(Perhaps it may be stretching things to imagine the Bureau establishing connexions with the likes of Cosa Nostra, triads, yakuza, Latin American drugs cartels or even "citizen militia" groups with weird and unwholesome connexions themselves to handle the pis aller for the Bureau in case coercion doesn't exactly work.)

In any case, such will leave shoobies "in the crossfire," so to speak, wondering whose marketing should be regarded as Offisieël Toeris Informasie--and leaving such wondering whether it would be simply better to try and badger "locals" on the streets of Wisconsin Dells and/or Lake Delton for recommndations in an attempt @ neutrality.

Let alone choosing to go to Six Flags Great America or Valleyfair instead.

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IN ANY CASE, AS ONE WHO HAPPENS TO BE RATHER FOND OF WISCONSIN DELLS HIMSELF, Your Correspondent would like to suggest where, before push comes to shove (and especially if such translates into Extreme Ultraviolence), both factions might want to, for starters, take a listen to the NightBeat episode "Tong War."

(For those unacquainted with Old Time Radio, NightBeat was a newspaper drama series as aired on NBC from 1950 to 1952. Its star, Frank Lovejoy, starred as Randy Stone, a reporter for the fictional Chicago Star walking the Windy City's streets of nights looking for human-interest stories to fill his column. Many who have studied Old Time Radio in its twilight years will like to draw comparisons between NightBeat and Dragnet--the latter based on actual police cases out of Los Angeles, starring Jack Webb--for their portrayal of the gritty realism of postwar urban America with refreshing frankness and honesty.

(The episode in question, as first aired in April of 1950, had Our Intrepid Reporter caught in Chicago's traditional Chinatown district on Wentworth Avenue in the face of a tense scenario as threatened to spill over into ultraviolence between rival Chinese businessmens' associations, known commonly as "tongs," provoked by Organised Crime. And just as "zero hour" neared, it emerged that the underlying cause of the threatened tong war was the fact of two business partners--members of rival tongs, it turned out--having only enough money to bury one of them back in China because of misfortune and business reversals. Having decided to late Fate settle the matter, the two ate rice cakes and drank rice wine until one such snuffed it by way of one rice cake having been poisoned.

(And just before the end, the one who wound up snuffing it cited a Confucian proverb: "Even the tiger and the deer and can drink from the same stream.")

As for the resolution, might I suggest something in the way of a healthy "grudge match" in the sporting stylee as winds up translating into a Mexican Standoff scenario (which sees neither side having a clear advantage vis-a-vis winning) which would require one or the other having to make concessions and bring about peace before serious ultraviolence ensues.

Mud wrestling, perhaps?

Or maybe Turkish olive-oil wrestling?

All-night matches of Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble?

Poker, 500, gin rummy, sheepshead?

Better yet: Boogie-board surfing competition, in keeping with the Waterpark Capital image....

In any event, such might want to be settled in such matter as the two would deem apropos over the week of the July 4th holiday; the better for distractionary press attention from as much the annual Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Championships as Indecision 2008.

And milk it for all the attention that would impress even 79 Wistful Vista, come to think of it--especially before the shoobie trade starts fleeing in droves, in particular Kankerdom (who, traditionally, prefer "shoobie traps" like Wisconsin Dells as much as their British brethren prefer Blackpool).