Scout will be your guest driver this evening. Or just take turns at the wheel. NO VIOLENCE. Also no bogarting of the ferrets. Posts in the van belong to their posters, not to anyone else at First Draft. The good scotch is under the front passenger seat. Van’s pulled into the gas station to fuel up for next week. See you then! A. Continue reading VP Debate Crack Van is ALIVE!
To this, is up now at Sexy Feminist. This was a tough one. But I can’t tell you all, all day long, to shout what’s important to you from the rooftops and damn the consequences, if I’m not willing to do the same. A. Continue reading The Backstory
The semi-final, kinda, sorta official numbers are in and I nailed the Presidential election. I considered doing some humble bragging but if Jude can call himself awesome, I can brag about getting it right.Time to quote, uh, me: I think all the remaining “swing states” are swinging Obama’s way. I feel very good about all my state picks except for Florida. I think the Prez is gonna win there but since Florida is the world’s largest outdoor political insane asylum, I cannot be sure. But the wind is at O’s back and about to blow Weathervane Willard away. Tonight’s tally … Continue reading I am one prognosticating motherfucker
It comes from Mass. Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren: “I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago – until the Republicans brought them back.” That oughta rate at least 4 tomahawk chops… Continue reading Sensible quote of the day
Today’s earworm is a classic. Here’s a live version fromLive Rustat The Cow Palace in Daly City, CA. I wuz there, and with a full head of hair, which is more than I can say for. I do, however, have more hair than Doc. A very minor triumph indeed: Continue reading Saturday Night Music: When You Dance I Can Really Love
The ghost of Jimmy Darmody haunts the third episode of Season 3.Nucky sees a very young and very blonde Jimmy several times throughout the episode. He’s a cute youngun with a bullet hole in his head. Notice the picture above wherein Nucky looks as if he has seen a ghost and he has: the Jimmy apparition is one of the boy’s choir. We see Nucky and Jillian together for the first time since the former whacked the latter’s son. But only at a distance: Jillian glares and Nucky glowers as he drops my man Gyp off at her fancy bordello. … Continue reading Boardwalk Empire Thread: Bone For Tuna
I have a Halloween costume party to go to in a few weeks and I usually don’t dress up for Halloween. When I was little, though, my mom made all my costumes, and I think I was a cow one year. I know I was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. I’ll have to go back to the pictures. Did you dress up for Halloween? What was your favorite costume? A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
I usually write a fairly long post about one malaka. I’m going to try something different and do some quick hitting, un-hyperlinked comments about the 5 biggest jerks of the cycle in ascending order. 5. The Rape Caucus: It may be time for the wingers to either come up with a different policy or at least gussy their horrible policies up in a better ball gown. The satin prom dress that they’re using now ain’t working. For some reason, people do not like idle chit chat about forcing women to carry their rapist’s child to term. Imagine that. Rape is … Continue reading Malakas Of The Week: 2012 Election Edition
I’ll let this one speak for itself: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Best Title Ever
Surprise, surprise!
There’s just too much Freeper wail and fail for just one thread, so Ms. A has given me permission to do a two-parter, with the conclusion coming up Monday morning.
Without further ado, let’s get to the :
ELECTION DAY November 6, 2012 ***LIVE THREAD I***
FREE REPUBLIC!!!
| 11-6-12
| Free Republic
Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:18:47 AM byRKBA Democrat
The polls are open on the east coast!!
From this morning’s election day prayer thread:
“Heavenly
Father may you forgive this nation and its people for the many awful
sins that we have commited against you. We do not deserve the wonderful
ways we have been blessed and please forgive us for our
indifference,neglect and complacency towards you. (snip)May you smash every crooked deed
GOD SMASH!
as evil men and women try to hold
onto power and may this be so convincing that everyone knows that your
hand is in this.
Kibitzer – could you please yank the power cord to the Irony Alarm? Thank yew.
Then we may bring the light of your Gospel to our
people who do not know you and to the nations of the world.May
you block and undo every policy and piece of legislation they have
passed that is harmful to this nation.
God has veto power? Or just an unending and eternal filibuster?
May you make every policy they
make fail and may you turn the hearts of the multitudes against them.
May you thwart every evil deed they try to divide this nation with. May
you bring their own mischief upon them ten fold. May you punish those in
our government who are lawless traitors and enemies of the Constitution
by exposing themand deliver them into our hands for justice.And this we humbly ask in Jesus name. AMEN!”
To: RKBA DemocratI’m in although I probably won’t be able to load it after about 10 a.m. CDT.
To: HokieMomGetting ready for this wonderful day; washing hair; singing in the shower—We’re going to wash that man right out of our hair…
To: CalvaryJohn“… an astounding lack of Obama voters.”Obama voters wake up around noon.
To: EnoshYup once they have to drag themselves up to go pick up welfare or food stamps or the cops raid the house.
To: chessplayer
Britt Hume just said with a straight face that the electorate is
56% women and 44 % men. We may as well go to bed now. Men can’t overcome
the stupidity of so many stupid women.
To: RKBA DemocratGees! Listening to FNC it seems like OZero is having a good night
so far – but these are all based on exit polls and some early voting
nothing from today’s votes! I hope this does not turn into a bad dream!38
posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:11:25 PM
byRed_Devil 232
(VietVet – USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: GQuagmireThanks for nothing, Christie. O’Reilly is saying obama gained far
more by Sandy than what he lost by Benghazi, and that if obama wins it
will be because of Sandy. O’Reilly has all but called the election for
obama.
To: comebacknewtThat Dam* O’Reilly said that if Mitt loses Ohio it is all over
for him and Obama wins. Now…great to say that…when so many in the
country haven’t voted yet where the polls are still open. O’Reilly makes
me sick.
To: StAnDeliverO’Reilly is so effin stupid he thinks Hurricane Sandy will be
determinative. It is patently obvious that his reading of the exit polls
is that Obama is going to win.
This one’s dedicated to Karl Rover, Sheldon Adelson, Paul Ryan and all the folks at Fox News. Bite me. Continue reading Friday Night Music: Loser
It took 10 years but people are finally starting to talk about it honestly: Then, this week, Paton blamed the continuing budget problems on pensions – on the very employees doing the work in the field every day – the very employees who hear complaints in the community about how “this used to be such a great newspaper – it’s so thin now, there’s nothing worth reading in it – the online version is so buried under popups and other glitzy ads that you can’t even find the news anymore and it’s just not worth bothering.” This, we heard in … Continue reading Killing Print on Purpose
No post this week, folks – RSI issue (apparently called “mouse finger”) on my right index. I was going to take this week off anyway, and this just made it vital instead of a vacation. Yes, I know – people everywhere are going through REAL medical isses – horrors that make mine look like a – well, a sore knuckle joint, but that’s hard to internalize when you can’t unbutton your own jeans, Fortunately, Barbara has the mothering instincts of the best of us, and the patience to put up with my whining. Back next Monday, promise. Here’s the BrilloBeast … Continue reading “I’m not like other people – pain HURTS me.”
Claire understands how I feel right now: A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: Post-Election Exhaustion Edition
(Or… If a terminator can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too…) As much as I didn’t want to write about the election, I found this question scratching at the corner of my mind. In two of the previous states where I made my home, Republicans rejected the candidates of their own party in favor of Democrats.Missouri put Claire McCaskill back in the senate whileIndiana elected Joe Donnelly instead of Tea Party candidate (and owner of serial killer eyes) Richard Mourdock. In both cases, these guys said something horrifically stupid involving rape during the campaign and in … Continue reading Is there hope?
This snippet from NBC News’s First Read is more or less the cherry on the shit sundae that was Willard’s campaign: From the momentMitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked. “Fiscally conservative,” sighed one aide the next day. Cheap and tacky is what it really is. It’s charming that they treat their own people like … Continue reading Tacky
Here’s a swell picture of Della when she was a young and sweet kitten. Those days are long gone: I guess you’re used to seeing my deteroriating housekeeping skills by now. Not sure why the shoe is next to the chair when it’s clearly not a sneaker Oh well, since we were talking about bygone days, here’s a tune from the pride of Glagow: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Della Street Flashback
It was a vintage weekend for zany campaign snapshots. The one of the Prez being lifted by the burly dude was pretty swell but this may be the political picture of the century thus far: Talk about begging for a caption contest. Here’s my contribution, which is an hommage to The Wild One: Biden: What are you rebelling against? Biker: What you got? Continue reading Caption This: Joey the Shark Edition
What the fuck? That is my question. What the fuck? Does he think this will help him win swing states? Because Rubio or a chick would have been more interesting there. Two dudes, so Caucasian as to be transparent, who hate poor people and think the reason the middle class isn’t the upper class is that the middle class is lazy. I’m not seeing the Romney-mentum in this decision. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread: Paul Ryan
I understood that Tennessee and I would never see eye-to-eye after a few visits to the place. I made it to one meeting on time because it was on one side of a time zone while I missed a meeting the next time I went down there because it was on the other side of a time zone. One state, two time zones. Pick a fucking side. You did it in the Civil War. You can do it now. In the midst of a visit about three years ago, I found myself ambling down some street in Nashville and nothing … Continue reading Pry my turtle from my cold, dead hands, Tennessee!
In case anyone is paying attention, I’ve decided to add movie posters and lobby cards to my PFT arsenal since I’ve been doing this feature so long. I’m also tired of typing the word, detour. It’s been two days since we did not elect our first robot President, so I decided to post Robby the Robot. Of course, Robby is more lifelike than Willard Mittbot Romney: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Forbidden Planet
And stuff: 2. They may be focused on their own social media activity. Because of the above, if you hire a young person to manage your social media, you may also need to need to worry about how they’re actually spending their time. Will you need to be monitoring them? There really is nothing old people like better than complaining about young people. It is like the Olympics for us. The entire story is about how hiring stupid people to do stupid shit because you think they’re hip based on their ages is wrong. And, yeah. But the problem isn’t … Continue reading Don’t Hire Young People Because They’re Young!
Not so hot off the wires from my boy Kevin Allman: While President Barack Obama was soundly thumped statewide by GOP challenger Mitt Romney in yesterday’s election — Romney received 57.8 percent of Louisiana’s presidential vote, while Obama got only 40.6 percent —the numbers in Orleans Parish told a story of a deep blue dot in a deep red state. Obama received 80.3 percent of the vote in Orleans, while Romney took only 17.8 percent, according to next-day statistics from the Louisiana Secretary of State’s website. That percentage bested Obama’s showing in some of the country’s most liberal West Coast … Continue reading NOLA Blue
FromAlbum4 The world’s littlest violin might not be enough —this guy needs a dose of sad trombones, too. And if you have the chance, check out the other posts to see thefull tantrum basking inall its rich glory. And when you look at his manly, Galtian “qualifications,” you find them rife with government…that is, unless there’s a private market in “missile technology” I’m unaware of. His chosen school, Seattle University, is a Jesuit institution…which means a tax-free ride on everyone else’s shoulders…though you can easily and conveniently apply for federal financial aid by visiting their website. And I’ll bet S.U. … Continue reading Atlas Has a Pity Party
Oh, good.Let them crap all over Christie.He’s only their best chance of winning in four years. He only took a major national disaster and managed not to act like an incompetent bag of assholes like every other Republican on the planet, and actually seems to appeal to people on a personal level, so let’s burn him to the ground. I get that it was awkward to have Christie say nice things about Obama, but maybe he would have said nice things about Mitt too, if Mitt had been useful in any way. If Mitt had called him up and said … Continue reading Light A Fire In Your New Shoes
Remember how it was all gonna be too much? Remember how in 2004 gay rights, if Democrats embraced them, would doom all candidates forever because some matron somewhere found ass sex icky? Reproductive rights, because we all knew that sluts were a terrible constituency to support? Opposition to Iraq and Afghanistan, because hippies are smelly? Immigration reform, because Chris Matthews’ racist uncle would never vote for us then? Yeah. We’re done with that now. We’re not going back to that. It’s over. Sometime around the DNC Democrats grew a fucking spine and decided that if they were going to be … Continue reading We Won’t Go Back
Hey, not all of the elites were swilling champagne for Romney last weekend.Some have given up on the country entirely: July 9 (Reuters) – Denise Rich, the wealthy socialite and former wife of pardoned billionaire trader Marc Rich, has given up her U.S. citizenship – and, with it, much of her U.S. tax bill. Rich, 68, a Grammy-nominated songwriter and glossy figure in Democratic and European royalty circles, renounced her American passport in November, according to her lawyer. Her maiden name, Denise Eisenberg, appeared in the Federal Register on April 30 in a quarterly list of Americans who renounced their … Continue reading Goodbye
Requiring insurance plans to cover contraception is just like dissolving the Catholic Church in England so Henry VII can marry a harlot: Making the connection to the Fortnight crystal-clear, the archbishop emphasized: “St. Thomas More could be said to represent that conscientious private employer or employee who seeks to avoid doing or facilitating moral evil in course of daily work while striving to live and work in accord with the demands of social justice. He stands for those who go about their daily work in accord with their faith . . . and those who understand how dangerous it is … Continue reading Witness for the Persecution
Thus spake President Obama in his soaring, Sorensenesque victory speech. It was reminiscent of the 2004 keynote speech that brought him to national attention as well as the best one by far of the 2012 re-election campaign. Last night’s Crack Van was the best ever. It started in the afternoon with what Athenae called “almost an editor’s meeting” with her, Scout and me and ended up with around 50 vanners. I felt like a virtual camp counselor at times in calming some folks down: the traumas of close losses in 2000 and 2004 still linger with many. Me, I’m still … Continue reading “The best is yet to come”
My favorite of Scout’s excellentphotos. From the President’s remarks last night (this morning): That’s why we do this. That’s what politics can be. That’s why elections matter. It’s not small, it’s big. It’s important. Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. We have our own opinions. Each of us has deeply held beliefs. And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up controversy. That won’t change after tonight. And it shouldn’t. These arguments we have are a mark of our liberty, … Continue reading ‘The Arguments We Have Are a Mark of Our Liberty’