A road less traveled on the Tuesday OPEN thread
Shot by Dan Friday on Prospect Road on Mill Mountain
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost
Folks, if you haven’t taken a stroll up the “old road” on Mill Mountain (Prospect Road) you owe it to yourself to do it soon.
May 15, 2012 - 10:00 AM
Looks like the governor is having trouble with his own legislators.
http://www.ask4direct.com/InfoRead.asp?id=WESR&InfoID=801193
Looks like the dems are conceding the race to Walker. Can’t wait to watch Ed Shultz on election night and Dan, maybe we can find you some medication.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/exclusive-wisconsin-dems-furious-with-dnc-for-refusing-to-invest-big-money-in-walker-recall/2012/05/14/gIQAj6lxOU_blog.html
Terps, two returns
Under Walker, Wisconsin has lost more jobs than any other state. The ones who will be needing meds if he survives recall are the people who live there. I suggest thorazine, combined with a super duper antiacid.
2. Interesting, I read that as an indication the Dems are very confident of victory.
#1 And then there’s this, Ron:
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/may/15/12/house-of-delegates-rejects-thorne-begland-for-judg-ar-1914948/
What bigots the social right wingers are. Bob Marshall is the king turd.
Dan
Looks like you may need the medication sooner than I thought. Why are the people of Wisconsin so stupid to reelect Walker when he is obviously so evil? I thought public sector union bosses were saints. Why has the public turned on them?
You take some very nice pictures, Dan.
Voter fraud? Yessiree – by of course, Republican minions…
Jill LaVine, Sacramento County’s registrar of voters, has turned over evidence of what she called registration fraud to the California Secretary of State’s Office. She said that at least one-fourth of the 31,000 registration cards submitted by Harris [owner of Momentum Political Services with an extensive criminal history] and her circulators since September have been rejected for inaccuracies.
Momentum Political Services was hired by the Republican Party of Sacramento County to conduct voter registration drives. LaVine said her office found numerous examples of people of having their political party affiliation switched to Republican against their wishes.
The Republican Party of Sacramento County paid Harris $5 for each voter registered to the party, Harris said. Those are the only payments that circulators receive during registration drives, yet they are supposed to remain neutral about which party a potential voter selects. In a three-month period ending in February, Republicans paid Momentum Political Services about $54,000, federal election records show.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/13/4486043/public-eye-bounty-hunting-at-heart.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/scott-keadle-nc-birther-_n_1517464.html
They’re starting to figure out what a fail position this is.
Richard Beason
Maybe Dan can share his meds with you. Check out the latest poll. Walker is ROLLING!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/governor/wi/wisconsin_governor_recall_election_walker_vs_barrett-3056.html
Haven’t strolled that road in a long time but 50 plus years ago when there were not so many things to entertain one, friends and I would spend a Saturday morning walking up the mountain. We would eat our packed lunch and head back down. In those days the railing top was of a flat board placed at a slight angle for rain runoff. We often walked the rail coming back down. What dare devils we were.
This is TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. The Boston Globe has retracted the “FALSEHOOD” that they reported about Elizabeth Warren being 1/32 Cherokee. Yep, she is going to have to live with the disgrace of being all white the rest of her life.
http://networkedblogs.com/xFddK
“Left Coast” thinking?
From LA times:
http://tinyurl.com/7pmd487
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It’s time to serve up some big incentives to curb obesity
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Something has to be done.
I know, I know: People should be able to eat whatever they want, and government officials have no business passing nanny-state rules that meddle in basic notions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, blah, blah, blah.
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Dr. Tony Iton, senior vice president of the health-focused California Endowment, appears in the documentary. He told me that government policies have created an “obesogenic society” by encouraging use of cars to commute to and from suburbs, and not putting enough resources into public transportation and recreation.
“We already have a nanny state, but it’s moving society in the wrong direction,” Iton said. “We are in the business of encouraging obesity with our public policies. We should get out of that business.”
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Someone help me out here. Why would public transportation to commute from the suburbs v. commuting by car from the suburbs reduce obesity?
Do we really need regulation of food and drink by content of the items? How? Government restrictions on portions or some kind of goverment price setting? A dedicated tax on tax on “bad” foods earmarked for wellness programs or to subsidize organic fruits and vegetables? A graduated tax based on portions with excess caloric content compared to the recommendation for a healthful lifestyle? Government mandated higher insurance rates for the overweight?
What “public policies” would you change?
Taliban Bob Marshall thinks that a gay prosecutor who speaks his mind on gay rights is unfit to uphold the laws of Virginia from the bench. Should a judge who is divorced oversee divorce cases?
Wow, this is a big switch. Must have been the Ann Romney thing… or Gay marriage..or both
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/05/shock-poll-romney-now-leads-among-women/613771
A tragic but true story.
http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-man-executed-texas-probe-says-051125159.html
Terps,
IT seems like the DNC is just doesn’t HAVE the money for the Walker race. They are finding a shortfall in monies needed for their OTHER lost cause…the Obama Campaign.
terps:
“Why are the people of Wisconsin so stupid to reelect Walker when he is obviously so evil?”
Think what you want of Walker, he certainly has one crowning achievement that a lot of Wisconsinians are thankful for.
Here is hoping the investigation about Walker and his dealings comes to light very soon. Beside his right hand man Tim Russell who has a several felony’s on him and his friend Kevin Kauanaugh who got caught putting his finger in the cookie jar to the tune of $42,232 from the Military Order of the Purple Heart. Can you say low?
Looking at who this guy has on his team makes one think of what John Dean said who worked for Nixon, “More Nixonian the Nixon” His days are numbered maybe that is why he is setting up his legal defense fund .
The news that JP Morgan Chase lost $2 billion speculating proves that banks are still gambling with the US economy and that these practices need to be made illegal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/mitt-romney-gay-marriage_n_1516200.html
What did he expect?
Bill Hudson
The only chance you have to beat Walker is if he is caught having cheated on a job application posing as a minority. Oh wait….cheating is ok now because a liberal did it.
Obama’s chickens coming home to roost? ROTFLMAO
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_bribe_to_silence_wright_io9jneobl3fUF0cb7LpcNM
btw…the 1/32 cherokee thing is a hoax. The Boston globe was forced to retract.
http://networkedblogs.com/xFddK
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html
Sharon, PP, for your viewing pleasure. This is RCP gently letting Romney know that it’s all over.
Right, Walker, because the NY Post is such a respected tabloid.
Terps, please find a new record to play.
terps and PP are in a race to the death to see who can cite the most blogs as “sources”.
#22 It is not I doing the investigation but the FBI doing some of that work. He is far from overwhelming winning this one I think, no matter how much the big money he is getting. But I don’t know what it is but when I see that guys picture I am thinking he looks a lot like a fascist. He has a lot in common with them.
Kristen, no blog link given from me today so that’s a fallacy.
Latest polls are changing. 8 point swing from women alone..
By the way, RCP page shows that in the Last 4 national polls, Romney leads in 3 of those.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html#polls
Like I said earlier, do I see a trend?
@26 – Well this source seems “respectable” here.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/14/book_obama_confidant_try_to_bribe_rev_jeremiah_wright.html
Like I said Chickens coming home…
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/05/14/for-record/20uQnW6yCV3uOL2bRDfseK/story.html
27. Kristen
My apologies. Here is the raw boston globe retraction of the falsehood they reported about Elizabeth warren being 1/32 Cherokee. Can I now get you all to admit she is a cheater?
PP, RCP’s map shows the only stat that matters…that Obama is kicking Romney’s butt in the electoral college. Nothing else matters. And all Obama needs from the “toss up” states is 17 of the 115 available, whereas Romney would need 100 of 115. Not likely.
There’s a trend all right… and it’s all Obama.
And as for the link, sorry…I didn’t realize that a piece called “Washington Secrets” with a smirky little cartoon guy was considered a hard news piece. My mistake.
“Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in the May 1 Metro section and the accompanying headline incorrectly described the 1894 document that was purported to list Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother as a Cherokee. The document, alluded to in a family newsletter found by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, was an application for a marriage license, not the license itself. Neither the society nor the Globe has seen the primary document, whose existence has not been proven. ”
Wrong, terps. They used the wrong name for the document…it was an “application” not a “license”. It is nothing even close to a “retraction”. This is the third time in 2 days you’ve done this…do you even read the stuff you link? Because this is fail.
Wow Walker…a RWer writes a hit piece on Obama, shills it on Hannity, and all of this means…what?
This is this guy’s claiming in his own book. That’s all. You act like RCP is reporting it themselves. You righties are having a difficult time processing your reading lately.
Pistol Pete -Don’t pop the champagne cork yet…
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows the gender gap continuing. In the nationwide poll, women prefer Obama by 8 percentage points. Men prefer Romney by 3 points.
The USA TODAY/Gallup survey of 1,012 adults was taken Thursday through Sunday. It has an error margin of +/-4 points.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/05/obama-campaign-complain-about-poll-that-shows-romney-leading/1#.T7KsqVLzYs4
Kristen, when is the Election? Oh yea, November 6!
Today is May 15, 2012 for you information.
10. Terps, are you looking at the same polls as you cite? Walker is slightly ahead in some, behind in some. All within the margin of error. Seems pretty close according to your stats.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dog-collar_n_1517687.html?ref=election-2012-blog&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl8%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D160980
The GOP is all klass.
Kristen – I guess its because we don’t have those high-cheekbones that will get you into Harvard.
I’m sure its all just lies… right. Somehow we’ve persuaded Wright to turn on his student. That’s the ticket.
#31 Right after you admit your lies, terps.
Crickets.
Seriously, has the tin foil leached into your brains? There is no other explanation.
#33 Oops, Kristen, you mean that terps in lying YET AGAIN by calling it a retraction? Why am I not stunned that terps has been caught making stuff up once more?
Wow, the right-wing kooks have gone REALLY nuts on this thread. Guess they’re trying to make up for the absence of troll suzie on this one.
terps wanted us to believe it was a retraction. That’s why he didn’t cut and paste tha text of the correction into his comment.
It’s so bizarre. Why bother posting a link then lying about what it says? “Hey…it didn’t work the first 23 times…maybe this time it will!”
Walker…you want to talk about books? Let’s talk about Colin Powell’s book which recounts how President Cheney ginned up the entire rationale for the invasion of Iraq out of whole cloth. Sound good?
33) Kristen..
The Boston Globe referenced a marriage license to prove Warren is 1/32 Cherokee. The Globe has never seen that license and it’s “existence has not been proven.”
Now, is that the proof you are using to prove the blond haired, blue eyed professor is a Cherokee Indian? The liberal Globe rag threw Warren a lifeline by publishing a lie when they knew it was a lie. When the dustup blew over, they buried the retraction deep in the paper. It worked, and it is typical of the liberal press circling the wagons for one of their own.
Dan
If that’s not a retraction, then I’ve never seen a retraction. They referenced a license that they never saw and probably never existed. They had to retract that assertion. That is a retraction(and a lie.)
Off topic entirely, but for those of you that like games, you may want to check out: http://www.sporcle.com/
It has some fun word games/trivia stuff.
Correction: Because of a reporting error, a posting in the May 14 Dan Casey blog incorrectly cited blog poster “terps” as using thinking that was alluded to as “honest interpretation”. The text of terps’ original posting, ghostwritten by the Virginia Ailes-Rove Obfuscation Society, was an application of distortionary magnification, not honest interpretation itself. Neither the blog’s host nor its’ readers have seen honest interpretation from terps, and its’ existence in the terps/Ailes/Rove nexus has not been proven.
I wonder how this will play out.
http://tinyurl.com/7pmqbtu
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Club for Growth Says GOP Freshmen Not Tea Party Enough
By Jonathan Strong
Roll Call Staff
May 15, 2012, 2:05 p.m.
Updated: 3:32 p.m.
The Club for Growth, a conservative group known for funding primary challenges against incumbent Republicans, released a report today unloading on GOP House freshmen for straying from the “tea party” ideals on which they campaigned.
The report, based on the group’s annual vote scorecard, aggressively challenged the freshmen for their alleged ideological failures, including calling out some of the biggest names in the class.
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Terps and Walker, this has been fully explained and to keep beating a dead horse proves your own mettle not hers!
I must say that is “compelling” evidence that people did not want Rev. Wright to spew his radical positions while Obama was campaigning. I know I am shocked, shocked to see that people will offer to pay money for people to be quiet, stay hidden, endorse or not embarrass a friend or politician. Certainly never been done before! Truly an eye opener, that one.
I cannot fathom that anyone would think Rev. Wright and his forceful point of view would scare anyone into not voting for Obama. Can you? It certainly wasn’t made into a campaign issue, was it?
Walker, in general, people that desperate then, and that desperate now, feel like they are going to lose. I sincerely hope history repeats itself for you.
Dundun Dahhh – Here he comes to save the day! faster than Dan Casey’s Spin, more powerful than an Obama sticker on a Prius, and able to leap the Truth in a single bound! Look – up in the sky its…. GDAD!
All kidding aside – Dan, do you have any shots of you or other folks biking at Carvins Cove, or of the trail there – that you would be willing to let someone print in a publication, giving you credit as photographer of course? I need a shot for my monthly rag and am coming up with bubkis. The photo here reminded me that you sometimes take shots while out riding and they are usually pretty nice.
This would be an amazing breakthrough.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/research/index.html
Testing a Drug That May Stop Alzheimer’s Before It Starts
By PAM BELLUCK
A clinical trial of Crenezumab, made by Genentech, will focus largely on people in a large Colombian family who are genetically destined to suffer from the disease but who do not yet have any symptoms.
terps, they initially called it a marriage license. They corrected that to a marriage license application.
that was the sum total of the correction.
Proving once again that you did not bother to look at the link I offered yesterday, Terps. Who knew?
This link has a copy of the license and the application (neither has any mention of Indian/Cherokee), BUT it also includes the 2006 Newsletter which offers the “family lore” that she based her belief on.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/14/elizabeth-warrens-genealogical-challenge-113019
It also references the first Census where “Inidan” is a choice as being 1880. I do not make things up.
Once again, she may have been misled and made a mistake in repeating “family lore”, but she has committed no fraud, no deceit and certainly not “cheated”.
Now if you want to discuss Willard Romney bullying and assaulting homosexual classmates, which has witnesses. You let me know.
Sorry, typo on “Indian”.
Retraction= Fox news gets caught in a lie
Correction= liberal rag gets caught in a lie
Top political analyst predicts Romney wins in a landslide.
http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2012/04/27/limbaugh-romney-will-win-landslide
This is why Rush is Rush and the rest of the MSM clown car is what they are.
“Rush is Rush”
“And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.”
Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx.
#60 SNORT!
So an “Entertainer” calls for a Romney win. Big Whup…
Babes for Rush….hahahahahah!
“… plus it’s like-minded people. It’s some of the finest intellectual stimulation… This what my guests tell me: It’s some of the best intellectual stimulation they get all year. They’re with friends. They know it’s self-contained and private. They’re free to say whatever they want to say — and, unless I talk about it, nobody’s gonna hear about it. “
This is from the very first paragraph in the article suz linked to. This, folks, is the intellectual vacuum where this “top political analyst” hatches his faultless visions like operation chaos. This asshattery is the cancer that’s consuming the right‘s brain and turning them into intellectual zombies. The fact that somebody would read this nonsense and than actually be so clueless as to provide a link to it so others can also witness what a gullible slap-monkey the original poster is speaks volumes about how misguided the right has become.
Kristen, one the best and brightest on this board, correctly called it quite some time ago when she described rush’s ability to impact political races; “…he couldn’t deliver the vote if he wrapped it in bacon and gave it away at a NASCAR race”. Except for the ten rubes that had to suffer through this fool’s misguided diatribe, that is.
#53 Walker, I’m always glad to come to the rescue when terps posts yet another lie — which seems to be getting more and more frequent these days. He’s nearly as bad as suzie now, although not quite.
terps, I have excellent reading comprehension and all the Globe did was change the name of the document cited. To say otherwise is lying. It’s tiresome and you sound silly.
The moron of the month award goes to the man in Stockholm NY, who asked his friend to shoot him in the leg so he would know what it felt like to be shot.
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/pd-new-york-man-shoots-friend-at-his-request
Debbie..He may be the moron for asking for
someone to shoot him…
But we have a certain troll here who comes in
almost daily that shoots themselves in what they call a head..
and marvels at the fact people want said troll to stop
for humane reasons.
Rush Limbaugh is to the Republican party like a a disease-riddled tick on a rabid dog…