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Shot by Dan on Grandin Road

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
Johnny Cash

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  1. E. Duane | November 11, 2012 at 11:24 am

    Deterring people from going to the Market Area to spend money. I attempted to go down to the market area after the parade Saturday….Was willing to park a couple of blocks away and walk with my dog. Like on Franklin Road between Jefferson Street and Williamson Road….Everywhere had “NO PARKING SATURDAY” Towing enforced.

    I thought certainly if I parked there would be no problem and I would not get towed, but I simply could not afford to take that risk. My first thought was why would they not have put a time on the signs? The signs were hand written to begin with…..Would this have been to complicated, “NO PARKING SATURDAY TILL 1 PM” ? So I said to hell with it and went over to the Grandin Road area where we spent our money and had lunch. Just another typical screw up…..

  2. Face It | November 11, 2012 at 11:58 am

    Question of the next 1,000:

    How does an egalitarian like Dan Casey reconcile his belief in human racial equality with Darwinian evolutionary theroy?

    (A: He says whatever his employer and readers will least be offended by or he is out of a job, hahahaha!)

    But all kidding aside, how do you reconcile it Mr. Casey?

  3. dave | November 11, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    For the rioght wing nuts like Jeff the Dodo and Leon who jumped on the Petraeus resignation as part of some Benghazi coverup conspiracy, the acting head of the Cia will still testify Thursday and here’s what some members of that commttee, both Conservative Republicans and likberal democrats have to say about that resignation and about Petraeus’ikely testimony.

    http://news.yahoo.com/senators-petraeus-eventually-testify-libya-113932477–politics.html

  4. Debbie | November 11, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    E. Duane, parking in the parking garage across from Thelma’s is free on Saturday’s until 4:00.

  5. dave | November 11, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    Can’t wait to hear ho the Dodos, Leons, Gomers, and Suzies will manage to find fault with this one.

    http://news.yahoo.com/obama-honors-sacrifice-made-nations-veterans-170913013.html

  6. Shrillary | November 11, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    Face It
    What the heck does being an “egalitarian” have to do with with “Darwinian evolutionary theroy [sic]“? .

    Egalitarian = Of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
    Noun: A person who advocates or supports such a principle.

    Darwin: “Charles Darwin avoided dealing with human origins in his “On the Origin of Species”(1859). But in “Descent of Man”(1871), he explained human physical traits in the context of primate evolution, correctly “identified our African origins and stressed that human variation does not fall into a few racial categories. [He] offered “adaptive explanations for some variable human traits like skin color, but many human traits seemed to confer no physical advantage”. Darwin developed his “theory of sexual selection to account for their evolution.”

    Darwin was an anthropologist who was proven correct in his Theory of Evolution – which has nothing to do with egalitarianism.

    It is hard letting unfettered ignorance and stupidity go by with no response. Here’s a useful hint: it helps to read.

  7. Suzie | November 11, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Can’t wait to hear ho the Dodos, Leons, Gomers, and Suzies will manage to find fault with this one.

    So why is he cutting their funding? Why is he closing bases?

  8. scott whitaker | November 11, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    I also think parking is free in the Wachovia Tower lot on Saturdays.

  9. Suzie | November 11, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    A lot of Republicans woke up Wednesday realizing the game is rigged. We beat their guy all over the park, clearly. To everyone. Even the libs in here were calling it for Romney. Dan and the libs wouldn’t even respond to my last offer for them to reverse their backing out of our bet.

    But what this means is most of the political issues we talk about in here are irrelevant from now on. Benghazi, Afghanistan, the deficit, government spending…none of it matters anymore. The ONLY thing that matters are the free goodies, and there’s no competing with that. Not when we’ve surpassed the 50% Leech Index.

    880 to 13 showed me that.

  10. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    Comment by Suzie — November 11, 2012 @ 2:45 pm

    Die große Lüge [a.k.a. Rants & Raves - w /lies] has lost so bad on other threads she/he has started over here.

    Hoping to out last / to wear down the opposition?

  11. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    http://tinyurl.com/b79ldwg

    **
    The Republican Party’s electoral map problem

    By Chris Cillizza, Updated: Sunday, November 11, 1:21 PM

    Republicans have a major electoral map problem.

    Amid all of the agita and handwringing about the campaign Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ran, the reality is that the former Massachusetts governor was operating on an in­cred­ibly narrow electoral map that made his only path to victory something close to a total sweep of the most closely-contested states. That problem isn’t unique to Romney and, along with the party’s demographic disadvantages, is the biggest issue facing Republicans as the party tries to regroup for 2016, 2020 and beyond.

    Let’s start with an examination of the electoral math.

    In the last six presidential elections — including 2012 — the Democratic nominee has averaged 327 electoral votes while the Republican nominee has averaged just 210.

    SNIP
    **

  12. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    http://tinyurl.com/a9cevyw

    **
    ANALYSIS

    Nonwhite voters and cultural shifts make 2012 election pivotal

    Obama’s reelection saw a new electoral coalition solidify, even though it wasn’t a landslide. For that, blame the economy.

    WASHINGTON — The standard narrative of Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney runs something like this:

    The president struck first, using a barrage of television advertising in key states to depict Romney as an out-of-touch plutocrat. Romney stumbled through a poorly planned late-summer trip to Europe and hosted a lackluster convention where he was upstaged by Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.

    SNIP

    All that is true. Yet it misses the essence of what happened.

    The 2012 election marked the point at which a new American electoral coalition solidified its hold on politics, one built on the country’s growing nonwhite population and on cultural changes that have given younger voters of all races a far different outlook on political issues from that of their elders.

    The impact could be seen not just in Obama’s reelection and Democratic successes in the Senate, but also in statewide referendums on same-sex marriage in which advocates of equal rights for gays and lesbians unexpectedly won four out of four. In 2004, conservatives put marriage referendums on the ballot in hopes of boosting their prospects; just eight years later, the political impact had completely reversed.

    SNIP
    **

  13. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    http://tinyurl.com/benp59m

    **
    TRENDING: Romney’s Hispanic chairman says candidate made mistakes

    CNN’s Kevin Liptak

    (CNN) – The man who led Mitt Romney’s outreach to Hispanic voters said Sunday the candidate “made some mistakes” during his campaign that ultimately led to a precipitous drop in Latino support.

    Carlos Gutierrez, the former secretary of commerce, blamed the Republican primary process, which he said forced Romney to harden his immigration stance in an appeal to the far-right wing of the Republican Party.

    “Mitt Romney made some mistakes,” Gutierrez told CNN senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “I think he is an extraordinary man, and I think he made an extraordinary candidate. I think Mitt Romney’s comments are a symptom. I think the disease is the fact that the far right of the party controls the primary process.”

    SNIP
    **

  14. Shrillary | November 11, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    Comment by Suzie — November 11, 2012 @ 2:02 pm
    “So why is he cutting their funding? Why is he closing bases?”

    Another Sunday another LIE by the cafeteria “Catholic”…

    GOP Blocks Passage of Veterans Conservation Jobs Bill …..

    “Eager to shoot down President Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate REPUBLICAN on Wednesday BLOCKED A MEASURE THAT WOULD HAVE PROVIDED $1 BILLION OVER FIVE YEARS TO HELP VETERANS FIND WORK IN THEIR COMMUNITIES” [my caps for the dimwitted]
    http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/veterans-jobs-bill-blocked-in-the-senate/
    or,

    GOP BLOCKS VETERANS JOBS BILL WITH BUDGET VOTE
    09/19/12 11:35 AM ET
    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250391-gop-kills-veterans-jobs-bill-with-budget-vote
    or,
    REPUBLICANS SHELVE OBAMA’S PROPOSED VETERANS JOBS CORPSSeptember 19, 2012
    http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/19/news/la-pn-obama-veterans-jobs-corps-senate-20120919

    And lest we forget what Romney/Ryan’s budget plan would have done for America’s veterans:

    “Compensation payments for disabled veterans (which average less than $13,000 a year) would be cut by one-fifth to one-third, as would pensions for low-income veterans (which average about $11,000 a year) and SSI benefits for poor aged and disabled individuals (which average about $6,000 a year and leave poor elderly and disabled people well below the poverty line).”
    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3658

  15. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Even faux is starting to get it (the shell shocked disbelief / denial of good old Die große Lüge not withstanding).

    http://tinyurl.com/b27bc2w

    **
    Obama Victory Proof that the Sleeping Latino Giant is Wide Awake

    By Elizabeth Llorente

    Published November 08, 2012

    The record, double-digit turnout by Latino voters on Tuesday – seen by experts as tipping the election in favor of President Barack Obama – shows that the long-dubbed Sleeping Giant is wide awake.

    “It’s unequivocally clear now that the road to the White House goes through Hispanic neighborhoods,” said Clarissa Martinez, director of civic engagement and immigration at the National council of La Raza, or NCLR, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil right group.

    “Our community cares deeply about restoring the American Dream for all, expanding economic opportunity, and resolving immigration once and for all. The real work on common sense solutions begins now, and Latinos will be a powerful ally in moving the nation forward together.”

    SNIP
    **

    BTW, Suzie, are you claiming that the Roman Catholic Church is not a significant factor for Latino voters?

  16. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    [sarcasm font]
    And from the extreme left-wing WSJ:
    [sarcasm font]

    http://tinyurl.com/aqb3jlj

    **
    Republicans Reconsider Immigration Laws

    After Hispanic Voters Helped Propel Obama’s Win, GOP Legislators Rethink Party’s Stance; Skeptics See an Uphill Battle

    By PETER NICHOLAS

    House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans in Congress said Thursday that they want to consider broad changes to immigration laws next year, after an election in which Hispanic voters turned out in force to help President Barack Obama win a second term.

    SNIP

    Exit polls of Tuesday’s election showed that Mr. Romney won less than 30% of the Hispanic vote, a factor in his defeat in Colorado, Virginia and likely in Florida, where he trailed by a margin small enough that the Associated Press on Thursday hadn’t yet declared a winner.

    Mr. Romney had presented himself as an advocate of legal immigration but staked out a position to the right of his rivals during the Republican primaries, criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for supporting in-state college tuition benefits for illegal immigrants and Newt Gingrich for saying some longtime illegal immigrants should gain legal status. He also called for “self-deportation” of illegal immigrants.

    SNIP
    **

    ——–

    Think there is any chance of criminalizing the act of hiring undocumented workers — i.e., make the incentive to hire undocumented workers go away and in turn make the major incentive for illegal immigration dry up?

    As I have posted before, IMHO, a few felony convictions (w/ prison time, big fines, lose of voting rights, etc) for those doing the hiring will greatly reduce the problem.

    Nah. Given the partisan divisions in Congress, such a logical law would be doomed.

    BTW, did your Hispanic gardener ever come back, Suzie?

  17. Shrillary | November 11, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Quite a big one, even for most ill informed, no?

    “A lot of Republicans woke up Wednesday realizing the game is rigged. We beat their guy all over the park, clearly. To everyone. Even the libs in here were calling it for Romney. Dan and the libs wouldn’t even respond to my last offer for them to reverse their backing out of our bet.” Comment by Suzie — November 11, 2012 @ 2:45 pm

    I am a Democrat, I am a proud Liberal, and I never once believed nor posted that Rmoney would win …you see, I believe in MATH and POLLING SCIENCE and I NEVER BELIEVED THE RW noise machine…since you did you can’t now complain about being a loser and try to create the illusion that Liberals joined you in your wrongheaded opinion…they didn’t.

  18. Art Hill | November 11, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    From WaPo, Karl Rove wasn’t the only one wrong.

  19. Debbie | November 11, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Anyone who is trying to get Suzie to admit to being wrong might as well give up. It’s not going to happen. She/He has NEVER acknowledged being wrong about anything. Even when confronted with undeniable evidence, She/He will not admit it.

  20. Art Hill | November 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    From American Prospect, Obama Wins the Future

  21. Cold n P | November 11, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    I was hoping to read some interesting commentary by the Gonzo’s but it seems the blog is still infected by a nasty virus. Good thing its a football day!

    What a great country; Football, Freedom and Obama is president. Life is good.

    I’ll just check back tomorrow to see if that nasty virus thingy is gone.

    I’m going to try not feeding it. I heard if you don’t feed a virus it goes away. Is that right? Worth a try anyway.

  22. Mike Scott | November 11, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    Face It

    “How does an egalitarian like Dan Casey reconcile his belief in human racial equality with Darwinian evolutionary theroy?”

    I think you mean theory, don’t you?

    It sounds as if you question presupposes that evolutionary theory endorses some form of racism. It doesn’t, although it sounds is some voices inside or outside your head think it must. Egalitarian philosophies derive from human ideas, not from evolutionary “theroy”. How you would confuse the two is a mystery that you’ll have to explain.

    Lemme guess, Darwin said things we now view as racist, so evolution implies or endorses racism. Don’t let me put words in your mouth though.

  23. gdad | November 11, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    #7 “So why is he cutting their funding? Why is he closing bases?”

    Because we’re shutting down the useless wars Bush started and because the country needs to cut spending.

    Wow, that was easy.

  24. gdad | November 11, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    #9 Most of the libs here who saw it trending toward Romney later saw it moving back to Obama. Dan and others pointed that out numerous times during the week you were wherever you were. By the weekend before the election, it was clear Obama was back in the lead. Heck, Romney kept returning to places like Virginia, which three weeks before the election he had started to think he had locked.

  25. william | November 11, 2012 at 6:52 pm

    i have heard all the b-s about Petraus being the most outstanding general in modern times……how could we forget General Colin Powell….the re-pub-likens will hammer this to death…..instead of solving the problems this country has…..when it really is a man making a mistake that ruined an otherwise honorable service….such a shame

  26. Mike Scott | November 11, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    Suzie@9

    You know, we all knew it was coming and even before Mitt lost the election this blog was busy speculating on what manner of angry explanation you’d fabricate to explain why the demographics of this country don’t fit your personal narrative of America. You haven’t disappointed. I say your meltdown has met or exceeded the expectations we had of you. This is not an insignificant achievement. You’ve set a high bar for rationalization, delusion and wackaloonery, but this election has taken you new heights. What’s even better is prospect of President Obama having a successful second term in working to reduce the deficit by raising revenues on people (allegedly) like you.

    Your worst nightmare just got a new four year contract to haunt your dreams. Probably going to result in two, count’m two supreme court justices, and they will almost certainly not share your views on many topics. That reality has gotta hurt. Full implementation of Obamacare…ouch. Gay marriage becoming more and more common….who woulda thunkit? Worse still, a more secular country as young people continue to think for themselves and turn way from fundamentalist points of view.

    It’s tough, and no one would blame you a bit if you made and extra trip down the fried food side of the Golden Corral never ending buffet and then lingered awhile to dip angel food cake in the chocolate fountain. You deserve a time out. It’s been a really hard week.

    Until you can take that break, Chocolate rain …..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8tOoID7CXI

  27. gdad | November 11, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    #18 Yeah right, Mitch. Repubs kept the House only because redistricting rigged it. Not because the people have any faith in Rethugs.

  28. Sandi Saunders | November 11, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    Oh quit making stuff up, being a proven loser has made you even more crazed. I said long ago that Willard Romney would never be President of this nation and I never said otherwise. I quite often referred to the possibility as a “miracle” if it were to happen.

  29. Shrillary | November 11, 2012 at 7:47 pm

    And the piling on continues…

    November 11, 2012
    Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol says that Republicans in Congress should “take Obama’s offer” to raise taxes on the wealthy because the GOP shouldn’t “fall on its sword to defend a bunch of millionaires.”

    During a panel on Fox News Sunday, Kristol predicted that “Republicans will have to give in much more than they think” because of President Barack Obama’s overwhelming electoral defeat of Mitt Romney.
    http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/kristol-gop-dont-fall-your-sword-defend-mill

  30. Dave | November 11, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    Suzie in #9: Even the libs in here were calling it for Romney.

    If you look at the election prediction page at

    http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2012/11/pick-the-winner-in-tuesdays-election-and-win-a-prize/

    you’ll see that only 10 of the 44 prognosticators predicted Romney would win. Those picking Romney were Paddy O’Ryan, Henry, Mickey Johnson, RP, Michael, Leanna, mike O, Maloof, Dr. Sheldon Cooper, and charlie. The median of their predicted electoral votes was 308 EVs for Romney.

    The median (and mode) of the predicted electoral votes by the 34 who picked Obama was 303.

    I could be wrong but I don’t recognize any of the 10 Romney pickers as “libs”.

  31. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Re: Comment by Debbie — November 11, 2012 @ 5:10 pm

    Debbie,

    Yup. Don’t expect it.

    See my comment #12 @ http://tinyurl.com/bxmgesz for a comparison of personalities and principles, if not authoritarian values — not that they are excluded.

    Suzie’s primary rules appear to be: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in her enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame her/him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”

    Dang. I must have read something like that somewhere. Oh yeah. Hitler as His Associates Know Him (OSS report, p.51).

  32. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    And the beat goes on: http://tinyurl.com/bbert6b

    **
    Election causes angst for House GOP

    By JAKE SHERMAN | 11/11/12 7:04 PM EST

    Last week’s Republican bloodbath is causing angst in a series of House leadership elections.

    The GOP’s problems with women — laid bare by last week’s elections — is the main undertone in the battle for head of the Homeland Security Committee between Reps. Mike Rogers of Alabama and Candice Miller of Michigan. That race, combined with the contest for head of the Republican Conference, is becoming a proxy for a larger discussion about a dearth of Republican women in power in the House.

    To a person, key Republicans privately concede that Rogers has done everything right to become chairman. The same people also say Miller is likely to get the gavel. If so, she would be the only woman to chair a committee.

    “They don’t have to pick me just because I’m a woman,” Miller said in an interview with POLITICO. “I would tell you this, if my name was Bob Miller, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.” She said she thinks she would have it locked up already.

    SNIP
    **

  33. Shrillary | November 11, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    Republicans do not view their policies as the cause of their losses this election cycle, instead, it’s “how they sell their policies”. According to Chas Krauthammer, “The problem here for Republicans is not policy but delicacy – speaking about culturally sensitive and philosophically complex issues with reflection and prudence.”

    That’s right, speaking to women about rape being “legitimate” or God’s “gift” is the right message, it just needs to be spoken more “delicately”. And they wonder why they lost.

  34. Sandi Saunders | November 11, 2012 at 8:46 pm

    Suzie is more than aware of the role she plays here and appears to relish it. I think it is the anonymity. Normal people not having the cover of anonymity would never stay.

  35. Steve C | November 11, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    Dave H, its just attention seeking behavior. If you don’t respond to her she goes totally ape-s*%t and mentions you in a totally unrelated post. It kills her if you ignore her dopey rants.

  36. Art Hill | November 11, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    @31

    Jethrene is Hitler? Time for a new gravatar!

  37. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    Re: Comment by Steve C — November 11, 2012 @ 8:53 pm

    Yup.

    For quite awhile I made a point of not replying directly to her/his comments — albeit for some of that time I did reply to others’ comments to him/her. I’ll likely move back into that mode, shortly.

    However, she/he is so batty right now that it is fun winding him/her up tight and watching her/him frail. Or to mix metaphors, trolling the troll, right now, is way too easy.

    The main downside to playing him/her is that other folk here might misread the comments and think that my actual positions on some political issues are not what they actual are — or worst they might think I am attacking the positions of folk other than Die große Lüge, a.k.a. Rants & Raves (w /lies), most-ill-informed, the-resident-troll, etc. So, I should quit.

    Don’t be fooled. My comments are simply a reflection of my contempt of Suzie and have been aimed at her/him, alone — and it has been fun.

  38. Dave Hicks | November 11, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    Re: Comment by Shrillary — November 11, 2012 @ 8:45 pm

    Yup. Right on the mark.

  39. Suzie | November 11, 2012 at 10:09 pm

    I could be wrong but I don’t recognize any of the 10 Romney pickers as “libs”.

    Granddad called it for Romney a week or two before that silly thread. Dan thought Romney would win, too, because he was afraid to confirm the wager I had with him and two others that he had earlier tried to weasel out of.

  40. Suzie | November 11, 2012 at 10:10 pm

    Don’t be fooled. My comments are simply a reflection of my contempt of Suzie and have been aimed at her/him, alone

    Dave H has been spitting mad ever since I called him out as an old man with his nightly meds in a row on the shelf

  41. Suzie | November 11, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    http://news.yahoo.com/congress-wants-answers-petraeus-affair-220023247–politics.html

    Shazam! The WH knew about the Petraeus affair for months, but didn’t release the information until election night. You don’t suppose they covered it up? Noooooo.

  42. Dan Casey | November 12, 2012 at 12:32 am

    “Granddad called it for Romney a week or two before that silly thread. Dan thought Romney would win, too, because he was afraid to confirm the wager I had with him and two others that he had earlier tried to weasel out of.”

    gdad said he thought Romney would win. I didn’t, and I don’t recall any post by you seeking to confirm our wager (on Virginia). As far, it was confirmed when we made it, which was way back. Then you welched — no surprise.

  43. dave | November 12, 2012 at 4:28 am

    Suzie

    He’s cutting bases and weapons systems because the Pwentagon says we don’t need them all and that many of therm are redundant. He’s cutting bases because manmy of them continue to exist only because they are prok barrel spending for certain conservative repuiblican (and democrat) kembers of congress. He’s cutting bases because the world has changed and we don’t need to masintasin ther kind of army that we wend in 150000 troops to occupy a country as Bush stupidly did in Iraq and half assed committed us to in Afghanistan, leaving Obama to try to finish what he started and allow us t extricate ourselves efficiently. He’s cuttiong weapons systems because many of them are duplicative and unneeeded and not even wanted by the Pentagon. He’s cutting weapons systems because we don’t need to be able to destroy the eaertn 10000 times over when 1000- times is certawinly sufficient. He’s cutting defense systems because we don’t need to be buying anymore $500 hsmmers or %$1000 toilet seats. And he’s cutting bases and defense spending because we eill never get control of the ddeficit or the debt until we make some realistic decisions about the grtoss overspending we do every year on a defense budget which is lasrger than that of the next ten largest military powers in the world.
    And finally, he is cutting bases and the defense budget because we have multiple areas at home where that money could be better spent to the benefit of the American people.

  44. dave | November 12, 2012 at 4:38 am

    Suzie ( or as Dave Hicks says old rants and raves with lies)

    “Granddad called it for Romney a week or two before that silly thread. Dan thought Romney would win, too, because he was afraid to confirm the wager I had with him and two others that he had earlier tried to weasel out of.”

    Here’s one “lib” who never called it for Romney or thought he had a chance. As a matter of fact on that “silly thread” I predicted the exact number of Obama electoral votes and was within 1% of his margins of victory in Va. and in Roanoke. Why was that? Because like the Obama camapaign and Bill Clinton, I understand basic math, a quality which deluded Republicans have managed to conveniently ignore throughout this campaign. And at least 95% of trhe other “libs” on here as well as some wingnuts predicted an Obama victory of varying degrees.
    So once again, as is customary here) you are more full of it than the turkey that will grace my table on Thanksgiving Day. Only what you are full of is not nearly as palatable.

  45. Contrasuzie | November 12, 2012 at 6:56 am

    I love it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is still President…and Screwzie is pissed off about it.

  46. Kristen | November 12, 2012 at 7:49 am

    How exciting. The nut balls have found a new pair of boxers to climb down in. Must feel like old times.

    Petraeus is a dog. Would not have guessed that looking at him.

  47. gdad | November 12, 2012 at 8:35 am

    #39 suzie lying again. In fact I never “called it” for Romney. I did say after the second debate that although I hoped I was wrong, I had begun to think Romney might win. I said long, long ago that Romney was the only serious Repub contender who could beat Obama and for a brief time I thought he was going to do it. Note that I made no prediction whatsoever in Dan’s contest because at that point, I just wasn’t sure who was going to win.

    suzie, OTOH, declared that without a doubt, Romney would win in a landslide. She swallowed the right-wing malarkey whole. What a gullible fool.

  48. Shrillary | November 12, 2012 at 9:26 am

    Anyone else ever notice that most ill-informed/Elly May Clampett/Suzie always accuses anyone who disagrees or calls out the lies, of using “meds”? Since the republican candidates lost in a landslide, it has mentioned “meds” numerous times throughout its different posts on different threads.

    Methinks it has outed itself – only someone intimately involved in “meds” thinks everyone else uses them…probably accounts for the grandiose predictions and mood swings and incoherence…

  49. Ron May | November 12, 2012 at 10:26 am

    Shazam! The WH knew about the Petraeus affair for months, but didn’t release the information until election night. You don’t suppose they covered it up? Noooooo.

    Comment by Suzie — November 11, 2012 @ 10:45 pm

    Did you actually read the article you linked SuzieQ? See the quote below from your link and tell me how many months ago Election Night was. James Clapper is the Director of National Intelligence at the White House. No where in the article you linked does it indicate the White House was notified months ago of this situation. But then again you’ve never been too concerned about the truth.

    “Clapper was told by the Justice Department of the Petraeus investigation at about 5 p.m. on Election Day, and then called Petraeus and urged him to resign, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.”

  50. Dave Hicks | November 12, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    Re: Comment by Shrillary — November 12, 2012 @ 9:26 am

    Bingo.

    Classic Psychological projection bias — the psychological defense mechanism wherein Elly May subconsciously denies his/her own actions, attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which she/he then ascribed to other people.

  51. Kristen | November 12, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Based on what I’ve been reading, I think I’m the only person who didn’t know Petraeus was screwing around.

  52. Dave Hicks | November 12, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    Re: Comment by Shrillary — November 12, 2012 @ 9:26 am

    And

    Comment by Dave Hicks — November 12, 2012 @ 12:36 pm

    —–

    An afterthought. I wonder how much all declaring of wrong doing based on the seeing scant evidence of it is also psychological projection based on what Elly May would do / actually does do.

  53. Suzie | November 12, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    suzie lying again. In fact I never “called it” for Romney. I did say after the second debate that although I hoped I was wrong, I had begun to think Romney might win

    Same thing, moron. Gee, so because you said you “hoped” 0bama would win it makes a difference?

  54. Suzie | November 12, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    No where in the article you linked does it indicate the White House was notified months ago of this situation. But then again you’ve never been too concerned about the truth.

    “Clapper was told by the Justice Department of the Petraeus investigation at about 5 p.m. on Election Day, and then called Petraeus and urged him to resign, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.”

    Liberal Ron, If you think 0bama didn’t know about his own CIA Director having an affair when the FBI had been investigating it for six months, you really are a naive, stupid man.

  55. Art Hill | November 12, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Ron,

    The Petraeus kerfuffle goes nowhere. Eric Cantor was told two weeks before the election and did nothing.

  56. Shrillary | November 12, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    Elly May Clampett is back to the “loser” behavior… irrational statements, fact-less statements, name calling,same old same old…

  57. gdad | November 12, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    #53 This is getting right funny, suzie. Keep it up. Great entertainment.

  58. Ron May | November 12, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    I agree Art Hill. Cantor’s knowledge I didn’t hear about until after my earlier post. Obviously he didn’t think much of it.

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