America’s path
Our great nation has come a long way, and in a positive way, under God’s guidance. Now, however, it appears we are retreating without his direction.
We started out under bondage, but moved forward in spiritual faith and with hope and great courage. We sought and fought for liberty and abundance, not without much struggle and sacrifice. America achieved liberty and justice for all, and immeasurable abundance.
So what happened? Americans became complacent, and our apathy is bringing us back into bondage. It will assuredly become worse unless we urgently seek the Almighty’s guidance once more.
Please seek his will in the upcoming election. And pray for America.
BONNIE DAVIS
Winston-Salem
A national memorial
How does one contribute to the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa.? The article (“Flight 93 memorial isn’t fully funded,” Sept. 9) did not give this information, only that Oct. 1 was the deadline for Alcoa Foundation’s matching program.
One can’t help but wonder how many (if any) of the congressional members and workers in the Capitol Building as well as the occupants and workers at the White House have contributed to this memorial. For surely that plane was heading for one of those destinations.
BARBARA FYNE WOOD
Winston-Salem
For information about donating to the memorial, go online to www.honorflight93.org/ or phone 202.354.6488. — the editor.
Finish the Thought
Saturday, we asked readers to complete the sentence: “The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both in a state of flux because ...”
“... they are not moored to mainstream America.”
DEB PHILLIPS
“... political parties are made up of factions. At one time, one faction will gain an upper hand over other factions ideologically or in the leadership role. Then the pendulum of power will swing to the other direction. Presently, the Republican Party is dominated by the tea-party wing in the Congress and the state houses and swept aside the establishment congressional candidates in the GOP primaries.
On the other hand, the Democratic Party saw a surge of youthful progressives galvanized to its banner in 2008 election. However, many were disappointed to see little change in Washington and business as usual on Wall Street and their enthusiasm toward the Democrats was damped considerably. At this moment, the Democrats are more solidly behind President Obama than the establishment Republicans behind Gov. Romney. It is nothing unusual to see political parties in a state of flux for it is in the nature of the game.”
BOON T. LEE
“... the Democratic Party is trying to regain seats taken by tea-party candidates and the Republican Party is trying to regain seats taken by tea-party candidates.”
MARK LAWSON
“… they only care about getting reelected, themselves and the big money that fills their pockets and not their constituents. Until we have term limits this will never change.”
TOM WALKER
“… neither will allow the other to get credit for passing a good law, even when they agree it is good.”
RON LOWRY
“... neither party actually cares about anything but getting re-elected.”
WILLIAM SAMS
“…they are both walking in the same direction, toward socialism. Whether it’s the left foot or the right, they both are complicit in enslaving the American taxpayer. Taking the hard-earned fruits of our labor, more and more, and distributing to those who they feel deserve or will help them in their next election.
“The American taxpayer has become merely a sharecropper on Uncle Sam’s plantation. The state of flux is how they can steal more and call it by another name, program or entitlement.
“And we rebelled against the King of England why?”
MARK POWERS
“... because the exit ramp to a state of reason is closed for repairs.”
JAN HUGOSSON
“… the liberal Winston-Salem Journal has deemed them so.”
DON WOLFE
“…for a number of reasons. First, the moderate wings of both parties started looking like each other and they had to go to the lunatic fringes to differentiate themselves.
“Second, when they are alone with their thoughts, the political leaders recognize how they have failed and hurt our country.
“Third, they have made their primary goal reelection and therefore have made pandering an art form.
“Finally, they know the disaster they have created can and will destroy our country unless something is done, but their desire to stay in office has surgically removed their guts and backbone.
“Term limits and a third party is the answer.”
KEN HOGLUND
It's so much easier to clean up after a jackass than it is an elephant. Both produce some shit, but the elephant in copious amounts.
ReplyDeleteAmerica's path. Your sentiment is understandable. However we will have to get used to worshipping the One true master of our destiny for the next couple of decades. That man sits in the big chair at the Marriner S. Eccles building in Washington,DC.
ReplyDelete“The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both in a state of flux because ...” Neither knows how to stop with the debauching of our currency for political favor.
ReplyDeleteTests on the gun used to kill Trayvon Martin show traces of George Zimmerman's DNA but none that matches the teen, according to evidence released today by Florida prosecutors handling the case.
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This oughta get the legal idiots, like Rush, going. What? No DNA.....
200,000 military votes didn't get counted in 2010, and Obama loved it. Because that's probably almost 200,000 votes against the Democrats that didn't get registered.
ReplyDeleteObama takes away $20 million from a program to correct this abomination in military voting, and you know he's happy. Many in the military won't be able to register their votes against Obama in 2012 either.
Democrats are just scummy. People that put their lives on the line for our country can't get their votes counted?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-09-19/paper-electronic-voting-risks/57809046/1
Who says our voting system isn't corrupted? Rush? Pleeeeeease!
DeleteI see your reading comprehension has not improved.
DeleteI call it like I see it Bob.
DeleteAt least I put my reference up, what does Rush do. He cites all this stuff that supposedly Pew said with no references.
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DeleteHow about you posting your version of what the article said?
Deleteas soon as I see the text of Obama's apology
DeleteI'm talking about his true feelings Bob. Anytime a Republicans vote doesn't get counted, you know he's happy. Come on?
DeleteObama has been fighting integrity in voting for years through the use of his 'Justice' Department. Let's face it!
DeleteI don't know that Bucky and anyone but Obama who claims they do know is just pissin' into the wind.
DeleteThese Rush type people claim to know everything. But when you listen to their babble, they're clearly out of touch. Something they accuse Romney of. It's really ironic.
DeleteI sure hope Mitt knows the Electorate Slide.
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DeleteIt's not looking good for the old boy, I'll admit it.
DeleteThings could change quickly though. People are starting to get cold feet about Obama.
At this stage, Carter led Reagan 44 to 40. Hmmmmmmmmm?
obviously a lot more undecideds at that point in 1980, today not so much and the next polls coming out will be after the 47% victims remark. Did you know that a lot of disabled veterans and military in combat zones pay no federal income tax?
Delete7,000 millionaires paid no federal income taxes, and 13,000 people making between $500,000 and a million paid no income taxes. I wonder how those pobrecitos put food on the table.
DeleteI think he was talking about the free loaders Bob.
DeleteIt's one thing if you pulled your weight through military service or another job where you paid into the system for 30 or more years, or were truly disabled through no fault of your own, but we've got millions of free loaders, that learned how to game the system early, and they never tried to work even though they could.
yes, there are freeloaders, but his comments that the 47% feel like they are victims and that government should give them free health care, food, and shelter just emphasizes how out of touch he is. His father started out on Welfare in his younger years, according to his mother. 53% pay federal income taxes, 23% pay no federal income taxes but pay payroll taxes, which means they have a job (for instance a family of 5 with and income of $50,000 would owe no federal income tax, the price it costs to have lunch with Romney), about 15% are seniors, some who work part-time jobs to supplement their SS but owe no taxes, about 6% make under 20k, students that owe no taxes because of loans etc, YES there are freeloaders, no one denies that and like people who have sex in public places, I hope they get caught.
DeleteI see these people coming into the grocery store with these 'cards'. They look like credit cards, but they're not. Are these the new food stamps, Bob?
DeleteI'm just wondering because I see these people getting out of cars that are awfully fancy.
'Poor' in America appears to have turned into a big scam. And Obama is encouraging these folks to do it.
DeleteHave you ever heard an African American say, 'I'm going to get mine'. I sure have.
Yes, they are red, white, and blue American Flag. I drive a nice Jeep that I payed for in 2002. My sister paid for my dentures. Since all my savings and other assets are long gone, I live on 13k a year which makes me eligible for $16 dollars/month in food assistance and I do it quite well because I know how to plan, buy, and eat cheaply and nutritiously. I'm still the most fortunate man I know and I love my country. Had I been born elsewhere, I am confident I would not be here today. Sure we have lot's of problems, but compared to other countries around the world, not so much. We'll get er done. We've faced much worse and have always come out stronger.
DeleteThey have the gaul to print up food stamps cards in red/white/blue? Who started that Obama?
DeleteThey are issued by the state. I have no idea what is on the cards in other states.
DeleteFoxNews is reporting that Bush pulled a boner. He apparently released a man from Guantanamo that participated in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya.
ReplyDeleteBoy, that's refreshing. Getting the truth out even if it impacts negatively on Republicans. You sure wouldn't see that from CNN, they'd would bury it if Obama did it.
CNN, the most liberal name in news.
Does anyone besides Bucky watch CNN?
DeleteI'll bet you don't, because you're in the backwoods. And good for you.
DeleteI didn't even watch the DNC in Charlotte and the only mornin' joe I get now is the pot of coffee I fix when I get to the carriage house each morning to post. And thanks, this is a dream come true.
DeleteAs always, Dunce leaps into the middle of an issue that he knows absolutely nothing about.
Delete1. The most recent survey of military voters shows that 32% identify themselves as “conservative” (and most of those are not talking about the foaming at the mouth juvenile hysteria of the Dunce), 23% identify as “liberal” and 45% identify as “moderate”. That is actually a little more moderate than the population as a whole according to the latest survey.
2. The program that the USA Today article refers to was mandated by Congress ten years ago. It should have been implemented long before now, but was repeatedly delayed by the Cheney/Rumsfeld administration, for a variety of reasons, some valid and some political.
3. The chief cause of delay is the focus on electronic voting via the internet, which so far is nowhere near secure enough to go into operation. Ironic that Dunce is always nattering about “fraud” but wants to forge ahead with a system that almost guarantees fraud.
In Texas they have a saying about bigmouths…all hat and no cattle. Here we could just say all mouth and no brain.
CNN? I don't watch television at all...every study ever done shows that TV watching lowers your IQ...which explains part of Dunce's problem. And it's not so much what you watch as the nature of watching, which is passive rather than the active mental efoort of reading.
DeleteAs proven over and over by various studies, TV news from any source is far less accurate than the print media. And of course, morons who babble on about "the liberal media" who actually know nothing about the media simply make me laugh.
That would be "effort".
DeleteMost military personnel vote Republican. That's a 'well known fact' by people who aren't psychotics.
DeleteBy the way, did you take your meds today, Rush?
If you haven't, start beating on your bars, they'll come shortly.
DeleteDunce seems to know a lot of "well known facts" that are only well known by him. Actually, no one knows how "the military" votes, because voting is by secret ballot, and since "the military vote" is pretty much insignificant, nobody is going to undertake the cost of polling them.
DeleteThe point is that there is no "military vote"...just the American vote.
Sure, Rush, and you're a conservative, Republican that doesn't believe in gay marriage.
DeleteYou just love making a fool out of yourself, don't you?
"People are starting to get cold feet about Obama."
ReplyDeleteAnother "fact" that only Dunce knows.
Funny that the polls are heading in the other direction, and don't even reflect yet Romney's latest idiocy.
Dunce knows because a "friend" (laughable idea) told him so. When he says "friend" he means his constant radio companion Rush Limbaugh.
People I know have said they've heard enough. They were going to vote for Obama, but after all of his failures on the economy, and now foreign policy. They are just saying 'no' to voting for Obama, a la Nancy Reagan's no campaign to drugs.
DeleteI know, I'm saying no. I might even say hell no when I vote.
Good AM, folks! And a fine AM, it is, with more than a hint of impending autumn in the air.
ReplyDeleteLeftover from yesterday re Noonan/centrist party: I haven't paid much attention to Peggy's musings, but will look closer now. As for replacing the R party, as an elderly LTE authoress noted earlier this week, the party moved away from me. I have said before that courageous moderates need to break away, but both moderates and courage seem to be in short supply.
I note OT's suggestion that WJC would be moderate enough for such a party. Leaving aside my distaste for him, that's probably right, as he was a pragmatist about doing what he needed to be reelected. However, the distaff side of his household is another matter. Mrs. Clinton is much more leftward than she is packaged by handlers and press.
Well, re autumn, it's about time. Which congressional committee do I complain to about this past summer? If Congress passes a bill outlawing global climate change, will next summer be cooler?
DeleteAs to Ms. Clinton, to paraphrase Mark Twain, I think that the rumors of her running in 2016 have been greatly exaggerated. It could happen, but I doubt it. We shall see.
You're right as usual Stab. H.Clinton has a raging liberal inside of that seemly controlled package.
DeleteShe's a lot like Rush, she could blow at anytime.
Stab, you're right at usual and you advocate doing nothing, well according to Bucky.
DeleteUsual is not always.
DeleteBob, what are you complaining about? I've turned my focus off of you, and some of your perverse ideas?
no complaints, no worries, just takin' it one day at a time.
DeleteAs if to underscore Mitt Romney's indifference to the 47 percent, his Republican Party colleagues in the US Senate used a procedural vote Wednesday to block a $1 billion bipartisan bill that would have given tens of thousands of jobless military vets the opportunity to work.
ReplyDeleteInspired by President Obama's State of the Union Address challenge to get veterans working, the Veterans Job Corps bill would have created a program to fast-track 20,000 former service members into federal jobs as law enforcement officers, first responders, and parks workers. The legislation "was one of the few pieces of legislation [to] make it through Congress, which has been mired in partisan gridlock for the last two years," reports Stars & Stripes' Leo Shane. A few enthusiastic Republicans even added several provisions to the bill, including measures to increase internet access for job-seeking vets and to aid them in their transitions from military life. "Once it incorporated ideas from both sides of the aisle, I thought it would be an easy sell," Tom Tarantino, a war vets' lobbyist, told the Washington Post Wednesday.
1 billion? They also blocked a bill back in March that would have ended about $2 billion in subsidies to oil companies. Money that could go to providing 40,000 jobs to jobless vets.
Shameful.
DeleteBut our treatment of veterans has been shameful for decades and I'm afraid that that treatment has been bipartisan.
I began visiting veteran's hospitals a few months after I came home from Viet Nam. Conditions were universally disgusting. Many years and much effort later, things are better, but nowhere near optimal.
Next chance you get, go visit one. The guys and gals will appreciate a sympathetic ear. there are nearby veteran's facilities in:
Asheville, NC
Beckley, WV
Durham, NC
Fayetteville, NC
Hampton, VA
Richmond, VA
Salem, VA
Salisbury, NC
What's shameful is Democrats trying to keep our military personnels' votes from being counted.
DeleteRemember Holder's antic in Ohio, suing over extending the voting time for military personnel?
Democrats are just disgusting. I guess that why Rush fits in so well with the party.
Yes, I remember well. The suit wasn't to stop extending the voting time, but to allow all citizens to have extended voting time. The Republican Secretary of State in Ohio ended up apologizing.
DeleteThe apology was insincere...he was afraid he might get cited for contempt. He's still fighting to restrict voting in democratic districts. Pure sleaze.
DeleteAs to the case itself, yet another example of Dunce's willingness to jump into the deep end of any pool before looking. Better be careful, one day there might be a great white bear waiting to leer at his sorry end.
Normal citizens aren't in another country being shot at Bob.
DeleteSounds like you just like fighting with me?
The reason they want to make more time for Democrats to vote, is because most of them are so irresponsible that they won't take time to vote.
DeleteAnd those fighting will tell you that they fight for the rights and privileges of ALL citizens.
DeleteUnlike the Republican Senate that fights for the rights of Big Oil Subsidies but blocks jobs for vets.
DeleteTim Pawlenty has quit as co-chair of the Romney Campaign.
ReplyDeleteRats leaving the sinking ship.
DeleteOf course the Romney rats get picked up not by a dinghy but a solid gold yacht.
DeleteYes, he is going to become one of Wall Streets top lobbyists, leading the Financial Services Roundtable.
DeleteWe like to live in style, unlike you liberal vermin.
DeletePawlenty leaving. That would be a moderate rat bailing out, somewhat telling to me.
ReplyDeleteI agree re HRC running in 2016, not likely. However, I think she would find a lamp to throw at her husband if he strayed from Dems to moderate. His so doing would pull a lot of weight. My feelings notwithstanding, he is still very influential.
Hmmm, I'm right as usual to do nothing. I'll run that one by my employer :)
The SoS job seems to have worn Mrs. Clinton down, as it would any person who tackles that job. I get the feeling that if she were to run, she would be a shoo-in because she would get a large majority of the women vote who have now seen that someone other than a caucasian male can win the presidency. Even an aunt of mine who volunteers at the G-boro R office every election cycle said she would be willing to vote for Hillary. Both she and my mom were fretting this past weekend that we will probably see Latino and Asian males elected POTUS before a woman gets into office.
DeleteHolder and the Justice Department are being blasted by the Inspector General on Fast and Furious.
ReplyDeleteMore to come. There are reportedly documents at the White House about Fast and Furious. Hmmmmmm?
If Obama is reelected, he'll probably be impeached too.
IG about Holder's Justice Department-'A Pattern of Serious Failures'
DeleteOh geez! Four more years of his nonsense. I hope the American people wake up.
Actually the IG cleared AG Holder of any wrongdoing unlike ISSA who is a car thief.
DeleteThe report and the investigation say Holder didn't know.
DeleteHolder 'really' didn't know?
If you believe that, you believe that the economy will turn around if Obama is reelected.
Looks like the Obama Administration has been caught lying again. Official admits the attack on the U.S. Embassy was a terrorist attack, not a spontaneous attack as a result of a film.
ReplyDeleteThat Obama and his people are really smooth, except when they start lying.
Sorta like Rush.
DeleteIt was both, you dumbass. The Al Qaeda attack was ordered a few days earlier.
DeleteWhen it became obvious that a mob was going to demonstrate at the embassy, the Al Qaeda guys decided that that would make good cover, so tagged along and got their job done in the confusion.
If you got your info from legitimate sources rather than nutcase websites, you would already know that.
Keep on showing your butt...although i seriously doubt that there is anyone anywhere who would want to see it...even the guys down at the Y.
You don't like the truth do you Rush? Hee Hee
DeleteA smattering of protesters arrived at the consulate late in the morning. As the crowd grew throughout the day, the Al Qaeda team known as the Ansar al Shariah Brigade, headed by Mohammad Ali al-Zahawy, which is based in the eastern Libyan town of Derna, realized that the protest would make a good cover for their already planned attack.
DeleteTaking advantage of the noise and confusion, they took up positions and carried out their attack exactly as planned, with the result that we have already reported.
Libyan authorities have several members of the Ansar al Shaiah Brigade in custody.
DebkaFile
U.S. Flags burning in Pakistan.
ReplyDeleteI hope Obama doesn't try to 'improve' the US's image anymore.
Seems like Obama better take some governmental driving lessons. He's got reverse confused with 'forward'.
DeleteThe U.S. funnels billions of dollars to these radical Muslim countries, and Obama smiles while doing so.
DeleteDunce is amazing...
DeleteYou can expose his BS lie by lie by lie all day and he just keeps on yapping...like one of those annoying little dogs.
If you stamp your foot at them they'll shut up and pee all over themselves.
Rush, your problem is that you can't change the truth to make it come out the way you want.
DeleteDon't confuse BS with the truth. Okay? You may have some of the people in here fooled, but I've got your number.
You really do like making a fool of yourself, don't you Rush?
The Paki flag burning is as much over us bumping off Bin Laden as anything. The stoopid video was just a match to gasoline. Can't blame our image on Obama. Bin Laden needed killing, outrage by Pakis et al be damned.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm outraged too, just not sure about what. I'll think of something.
DeleteUnless anyone has a better suggestion, I'm going to burn a South Carolina flag.
The Pakis are mad because we got Bin Laden from under their noses, but they are mad because they don't like U.S. policies in their country.
DeleteOf course, our two forum Einsteins said that Obama/U.S. don't have any foreign policies that would make Muslims mad.
That's good for a big chuckle.
It's also false. No one in this forum has said any of the such.
DeleteIt was implied Bob. Just as good in my book. Remember when you asked me to list the Obama policies? Rush did too.
DeleteR-e-m-e-m-b-e-r?
Implied is just as good?
DeleteMoron.
The Republican Party has gone from a state of flux to flummox.
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: Theological. "America achieved liberty and justice for all" - unfortunately, the amount of liberty and justice one has in this country is still determined by one's bank account way too often.
LTE 2: Good info to have and a worthwhile charity.
Finish the thought: sorry, but can't help but bring up the gerrymandering card again which encourages candidates to target the core 3-5% of voters. Naturally, having parties dominated by ideologues will turn off the majority of voters in both parties leaving them to look for alternatives. The Ron Paul tussle at the RNC revealed some serious discord within the R party. At the local level, the 2010 loss, Perdue leaving after one term, and the flap over the D state chairman shows the NC D party to be in a state of disarray. Mostly decent answers for a change with a few myopic posters still clinging to the "liberal"/"conservative" bs. Kudos to Ms. Hugosson for her line :-D
Top 10 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon on your software development team:
ReplyDelete10) "This code is a piece of crap! You have no honor!"
9) "A TRUE Klingon warrior does not comment on his code!"
8) "By filing this bug you have questioned my family honor. Prepare to die!"
7) "You question the worthiness of my Code?! I should kill you where you stand!"
6) "Our competitors are without honor!"
5) "Specs are for the weak and timid!"
4) "This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual Pentium processors if I am to do battle with this code!"
3) "Perhaps it IS a good day to Die! I say we ship it!"
2) "My program has just dumped Stova Core!"
1) "Behold, the keyboard of Kahless! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"
and much much more at: HERE
Must have worked with quite a few Klingons, because I've heard just about all of them. In fact, I've said a couple of them myself (particularly #'s 9,8,7,5,4,3 and 1). Hmm...guess I am a Klingon after all.
DeleteRep. Maxine Waters faces ethics hearing
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She's a good Rush-like Democrat.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/09/20/waters-ethics-hearing/70000789/1
Gallup: Obama 47 Romney 47
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/Obama-Romney.aspx
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I'll bet some of those liberal chickens will really be squawking if they end up over at Chick-fil-A after the election.
Strange how it came out to precisely 47? Hee Hee
Deletea poll of registered voters, but if you check the polls of likely voters, it's quite a different story, especially in Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. I wouldn't start county my chick-fil-a's before they hatch. Although “People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately” Oscar Wilde
DeleteHere we go! First you liked registered voter polls, and not likely, now you like likely?
DeleteWhy am I not surprised?
Priceless. lol.
DeleteFrom twitter:
ReplyDeletepourmecoffee @pourmecoffee
Probably not a good sign that people take a more empirical approach to choosing a fantasy football team than a government.
Hi Wordly. I didn't repeat the N.C. poll numbers today.
DeleteRegarding your post. I wish they would. Romney would win easily if they did.
DeleteAs I said before...yap, yap, yap.
ReplyDeleteEternally mindless motormouth.
I like to keep the truth on the surface, Rush. With all of the BS that you throw up in the air, it's hard to see your name, and the comments, that are scrawled on most bathroom walls.
DeleteBucky, a national poll that shows a tie doesn't mean much. Polls from states like PA, MI, FL, OH, and other so-called battleground states are more telling re the Electoral College, and the tale favors Obama right now. Again, I'm certainly not cheerleading for Obama, but as previously noted, I believe in reality. The critical states lean toward him, in the main. Even VA has a leftward tilt at the moment. My cats could run a better campaign than his organization.
ReplyDeleteWell, Stab, 'ol pal. I'll take any good news that comes along at this point.
DeleteWhite House Press Secretary Jay Carney, after insisting for more than a week that the White House had no evidence to suggest the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was anything but a 'spontaneous' act, concedes that it was an act of terror.
ReplyDelete_________
This guy Carney reminds me of Rush. No wait, Rush would have never admitted he lied.
Repeat, repeat, repeat...ad nauseum.
DeleteI was a bit unclear in my post above re cats and campaign. I was referring to Romney's, though Obama's has been lackluster, except for some convention highlights. Doesn't matter at the moment. All he needs to do if Romney keeps flailing is to duck the press conferences and run the clock.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the R's will see the light and put things together in 4 years, or collapse and a more moderate Phoenix centrist party arise. Not holding my breath.
Bucky, that news is probably a false dawn. I think at this time, Obama is energizing voters, if languidly. Or perhaps Romney is energizing voters the wrong way. Obama has a better ground operation. The R's have the dough for ads, but the ads have a saturation point that I think voters are beginning to reach, and the negative ads may discourage voters, though the Obama ads are no better, either, in that regard.
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ReplyDeleteU.S. Senate leaning toward Republican control after 2012 election.
Deletehttp://www.examiner.com/article/latest-polls-show-u-s-senate-shifting-sharply-for-republican-majority?CID=obinsite
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That means Obama won't be able to pass a farm tractor in the Senate. Hee Hee.....there's good news if you look for it.
HofR will probably stay Republican. So it's not looking all THAT bad.
DeleteThe Examiner, yet another crackpot website...Dunce's meat and potatos, er I mean chemical chicken and goop.
DeleteThey've figured out a way to make their polls come out however they want them to...just delete any poll that shows a Democrat leading.
As a result, they show Romney already having won the electoral college with 332 votes and the Republicans winning control of the Senate, both laughable jokes.
The real polls (RCP, the only non-partisan poll analysis site) just put Wisconsin into the President's count, giving him 247 electoral votes to Romneys 191. The President is leading in 7 of the 8 remaining toss-up states and needs only 23 more votes from them to make the 270 mark. Romney would have to take 79 of the remaining 100 electoral votes to win and is trailing by a significant amount in Ohio and Virginia, which have 31 votes between them.
In the Senate, the Democrats have 48 seats, the Republicans 44. The Democrats have good leads in two of the remaining seats and could easily get 2 more, for 52. The best that the Republicans can do is 49, which would require a miracle, because they woulf have to win Missouri (Aiken) and Massachusetts, where they trail by 5. Having a majority in the Senate is meaningless, because either side needs a super majority of 60 to avoid the filibuster, something that poor Dunce has no idea about.
And as already pointed out, the national numbers are meaningless, just as they were in 1982. Dunce points out that at this point back then, Carter was leading in the national poll...what he fails to understand is that Reagan already had a substantial lead in the electoral vote.
Add to that that the President's poll numbers are rising while Mitty's are sinking and this could easily turn into a route.
Dunce chooses crackpot websites because they are the only ones which reflect his crackpot views. It won't work, sad sack.
Right at the moment, Warren is polling ahead of Scott Brown, who is the kind of R we need.
ReplyDeleteShe's a dizzy, intellectual bimbo. Let's hope the people of Mass. wake up and realize that.
DeleteActually, she is a smart, solid thinker...something that is beyond Dunce's ken. Of course, his real problem is that she is a woman, the sort of beast that sets Dunce's knees to knocking and his bowels to loosening.
DeleteI agree that Brown is just exactly the kind of R that we need, but we will be all right there whoever wins.
NYT FiveThirtyEight Blog
DeleteSeptember 20, 2012, 12:02 AM96 Comments
Senate Forecast: What Has Gone Wrong for G.O.P. Candidates?
By NATE SILVER
The trend in the presidential race has been difficult to discern lately. President Obama has very probably gained ground since the conventions, but it’s hard to say exactly how much, and how quickly his bounce is eroding.
There are no such ambiguities in the race for control of the Senate, however. Polls show key races shifting decisively toward the Democrats, with the Republican position deteriorating almost by the day.
Since we published our initial Senate forecast on Tuesday, Republicans have seen an additional decline in their standing in two major races.
Two polls of Virginia published on Wednesday gave the Democrat, the former Gov. Tim Kaine, leads of 4 and 7 percentage points over the Republican, the former Senator George Allen. The FiveThirtyEight forecast model now gives Mr. Kaine roughly a 75 percent chance of winning the seat on the strength of the new polls, up from about 60 percent in Tuesday’s forecast.
Thank you, Wordly. Tim Kaine is one of the ones that I had in mind, and an excellent choice...it would be nice to replace a football coach with an actual citizen.
DeleteAnother promising race is in Wisconsin, where the GOP is offering aging former governor Tommy Thompson against the younger and more energetic Tammy Baldwin. Thompson began with a huge lead, but the latest polls put Baldwin slightly ahead.
Let's hope that her new broom sweeps clean.
Paris Hilton:
ReplyDeleteThe Hollywood socialite said, "Gay guys are the horniest people in the world," called them "disgusting" and suggested "most of them probably have AIDS" in the short conversation secretly recorded by a New York cab driver two weeks ago, according to RadarOnline.
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Well, she got one part right, for sure. They are horny rascals.
Why do we give a hoot in Hell what Paris Hilton says? It amazes me that we are so shallow that a spoiled loafer like her attracts any attention past the dance floors on which she drunkenly stumbles. You can add Lindsay Lohan and Bob Kardashian's inflated daughters to that category as well.
ReplyDeleteGee, Stab, who are those people you just named? Do I need a TV to find out?
DeleteJust kidding, I know who they are, because even serious websites and publications carry stories about them, so they are unavoidable.
In fact, I just saw a headline that said that one or the other of them just did (yet another?) hit and run or something. And I even know that poor Bruce Jenner, who was once a highly regarded athlete, is somehow involved with the Kardashian fools.
Sad to say, but those stories wouldn't run if an awful lot of people didn't read them. Could that be one of the reasons that we are in the mess we're in?
Some people, and all parrots, never outgrow middle school.
"Secretly recorded"?
Delete"New York cab driver"?
"RadarOnline"?
Up next: "sewer.org - swimming with the offal"
Several of us having sneeringly referred to the "American Idol" nation, with such things being at the forefront of American consciousness, along with football pools and fantasy football, etc. The decline of newspapers,neutral or otherwise, hasn't helped, along with the profusion of cable channels.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest loss is personal contact with the neighbors.
DeleteWhen my friends and I were growing up in Ardmore, each evening after dinner, in good weather, our parents gathered on one front porch or another, and while we kids played on the front lawn, the adults held discussions with each other…gossip, current events, politics, whatever came up.
They were Democrats, Republicans, Dixiecrats and who knows what…they were Christians, Jews, Catholics and who knows what…but most of all they were neighbors…they had to deal with each other every day, so they didn't talk trash to each other like the Dunces of the world do now.
And despite the endless energy of children, there came a point each evening when we were sitting on the front steps replenishing our bodies with freshly made glasses of lemonade. In those days, children were truly to be seen and not heard, so we had little choice but to listen to what the adults were saying…so the tradition of discussion and tolerance that the Founding Fathers had hoped to be founding was passed on to us.
But we were the last generation so brought up. Today's suburban lifestyle, combined with TV, the internet, Facebook, computer games, organized youth sports, etc has fractured the old neighbor to neighbor lifestyle, and made it easy to hate anyone who you cannot see.
That is the nation's true loss.
I agree, OT. My early childhood was in Ardmore. Kids don't have that now.
ReplyDeleteRe Senate: Romney is losing independents, and his coat tails are pulling them away from Senate candidates. This is blisteringly obvious. The campaign is toxic. The R Senate candidates best reposition themselves.
ReplyDeleteLinda Lingle, Republican candidate for the US Senate from Hawaii:
Delete'I am not a rubber stamp for the national party and I am not responsible for the statements of Mitt Romney. With that said, I do not agree with his characterization of all individuals who are receiving government assistance, as I know many of them are driven, hard-working individuals who are actively working to better the situation of their ‘ohana. It is not fair to place these individuals into any one category. The people of Hawaii know I don’t believe in labels and I know they don’t either.'
Nevada Senator Dean Heller, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, Virginia Senator George Allen and Connecticut Senate aspirant Linda McMahon have all made similar statements in attempts to distance themselves from Mitty's foolish remarks.
I do not remember anything like this happening in my lifetime. It is a telling response to a tone deaf Presidential candidate.
Lingle has no chance anyway. She is trailing Rep. Maizie Hirono by nearly 20 points. But the others, all early favorites, may go down as well.