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Conjugal Duelists

From Charles Harper, Revolted Woman: Past, Present, and to Come (1894):

In Germany, during mediaeval times, domestic differences were settled by judicial duels between man and wife, and a regular code for their proper conduct was observed. ‘The woman must be so prepared,’ so the instructions run, ‘that a sleeve of her chemise extend a small ell beyond her hand like a little sack: there indeed is put a stone weighing iii pounds; and she has nothing else but her chemise, and that is bound together between the legs with a lace. Then the man makes himself ready in the pit over against his wife. He is buried therein up to the girdle, and one hand is bound at the elbow to the side.’

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  1. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Apparently Jesus was a Hipster.

  2. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I think I’m not voting for different reasons than Stefan.

    Of course, just as my reasons are different than Stefan’s or yours or Squawk’s. Point being, even from vastly different perspectives, more and more people are reaching the same conclusion.

  3. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Boy, I’m glad I missed the whole “H” dust-up:

    In Britain, H owes its name to the Normans, who brought their letter “hache” with them in 1066. Hache is the source of our word “hatchet”: probably because a lower-case H looks a lot like an axe. It has certainly caused a lot of trouble over the years. A century ago people dropping their h’s were described in the Times as “h-less socialists.” In ancient Rome, they were snooty not about people who dropped their Hs but about those who picked up extra ones. Catullus wrote a nasty little poem about Arrius (H’arrius he called him), who littered his sentences with Hs because he wanted to sound more Greek. Almost two thousand years later we are still split, and pronouncing H two ways: “aitch”, which is posh and “right”; and “haitch”, which is not posh and thus “wrong”. The two variants used to mark the religious divide in Northern Ireland – aitch was Protestant, haitch was Catholic, and getting it wrong could be a dangerous business.

  4. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    #1, sounds ideal for people whose only reason for going to church is to make them feel good about doing what they’ve been doing.

  5. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #4 As I was reading that article, it reminded me of your conversation with acquaintances who attended one of the “Six Flags Over Jesus” churches. “Church without all that God stuff.”

  6. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Heh… sad but true. Can’t have God getting in the way of our church now, can we?

  7. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    What universe did I wake up in this morning? Conjugal dueling? No thanks. Then I could not read #1. The woman (?) looked repulsive and I had no interest in knowing anything about her. So far the winning theme is “H” – silent or spoken?
    Arp42
    🙂

  8. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #1 Hamous
    Wow, what a nightmare that lasts 24 hours. But Michelle Antoinette might find her interesting as a White House guest.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the portal to ballot stealing is open…..

  10. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #2 Anarchists/minarchists scare me. I always refer to a George Washington quote: “Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” Where I most disagree with Molyneux is who is responsible for our screwed up government. He blames some shadowy conspiracy. I blame we the people. McCain and Romney weren’t the nominees in 2008 & 2012 because of some vast milquetoast conspiracy. They received the most votes in their respective primaries. Yeah, I know the primary system is structured so that it’s basically over by the time Texas votes, but that doesn’t explain away all the votes they got leading up to our primary. Side note: Personally, I’d like to see a national primary month. Require that all presidential primaries occur in August of each election year. That gives them two months for campaigning for the general election.
    I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: the American people will remain complacent until they suffer real pain. Great Depression/Dust Bowl pain. “Sugar and shoes are a luxury” pain. “Shirts made out of sack cloth” pain. “Beans for every meal” pain.

  11. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I bet that “preacher lady” wouldn’t need to have her husband handicapped as in the illustration.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #1: An “ear tickler” for sure.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mike Rowe wins again.

    Still Bailey persisted: The GOP “talked JOBS,JOBS, JOBS and all they’ve done is help their rich cronies, obstruct job making bills, make higher education unaffordable for everyone BUT their rich supporters!!”
    But Rowe kept at it, never once losing sight of his main point.
    “I get it. The Republicans are bad. (I know this because you have use both CAPS and exclamation points!!) You have identified the GOP and their rich friends as the cause of a great many problems. You are certainly not alone,” Rowe wrote.
    “But frankly, I don’t find your analysis to be all that persuasive. For one thing, millions of conservatives are far from rich. And millions of liberals are far from poor. Does the government have a huge role to play? Sure. But ultimately, the way out of this is not through D.C. The buck no longer stops there. It stops with us. It has to,” he added.

    Love that guy!

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Another nail in the coffin of the gorebullwarmongerterds:

    HEADLINE: Global warming ‘pause’ may last for 20 more years and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover
    Study says warmer temperatures are largely due to natural 300-year cycles
    Actual increase in last 17 years lower than almost every prediction
    Scientists likened continuing pause to a Mexican wave in a stadium

    It will be amusing to watch the slimy bastiges try to squirm out of the reality of empirical data vs the ridiculous models. How much longer will it be until we are in the 95% confidence range that the models are garbage – and every decision based on those faulty models tossed out?

  15. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Where I most disagree with Molyneux is who is responsible for our screwed up government. He blames some shadowy conspiracy. I blame we the people. McCain and Romney weren’t the nominees in 2008 & 2012 because of some vast milquetoast conspiracy. They received the most votes in their respective primaries.

    I’m between the two of you on that point. I’m with you that ultimately voters decided what they decided. But pragmatically speaking, most voters are sheep and are heavily influenced by the amount of money spent on a campaign. That money came from somewhere, and mostly not from workaday schmucks like us. There are people pulling the strings, but voters generally lack the cognitive ability to see past that and vote for politicians who would better represent them.

  16. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It’s Guy Fawkes Day, y’all.

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    #1

    It meets in the parish hall of an Episcopal church.

    No sheet.

  18. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    …but voters generally lack the cognitive ability to see past that and vote for politicians who would better represent them.

    Right. But I can’t excuse their stupidity.

  19. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    But pragmatically speaking, most voters are sheep and are heavily influenced by the amount of money spent on a campaign. That money came from somewhere, and mostly not from workaday schmucks like us. There are people pulling the strings, but voters generally lack the cognitive ability to see past that and vote for politicians who would better represent them.

    And what has Doooood won, Don Pardo?
    Ignoring the pre-primary Party machinations is the biggest mistake anyone can make in determining whether or not change can be made and whether or not you’re going to be part of that. When your choices are those that are given to you, they aren’t real choices. There are good candidates who could run but who don’t because they can’t get the financial support of the party money men, paid pundits, and media management infrastructure.
    But the fact that Mitch McConnell, John McCain, and other Establishment leaders have put targets on the backs of the Tea Party is proof that things can be changed and are changing.

  20. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Right. But I can’t excuse their stupidity.

    When the Party decides that they are going to attack one candidate because he is a threat (hello Ted Cruz and Mike Lee), to the extent that he no longer becomes a viable choice, don’t blame the voter for making the bad ones.

  21. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    This is probably the best commentary I’ve read on Pope Francis and the “progressive” cherry-picked interpretation of his words.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Right. But I can’t excuse their stupidity.

    If soup company A declares that it’s soup will cure cancer, aids and toenail fungus in their advertising over public airwaves, one can rest assured that the federal truth in advertising nazis will be all over them for false advertising – and rightfully so.
    Shameless lying sack-O-crapola politician O declares that his plan will let anyone who likes their insurance will be able to keep it. The lying politician knew the statement to be blatantly false when he made it yet he continued to make it over the public airwaves – where is the penalty? Why izzit that the truth in advertising standards do not apply to the lying sacks of garbage who are supposed to represent us? IF the aforementioned liars were subject to the same criminal and civil penalties that we peons in the private sector are routinely threatened with, then the impunity with which they spew these lies will decrease.
    I, for one, am darned sick and tired of our politicians being held to a different standard than we peons. I am tired of their exemption from being required to follow the laws of the land, like those whom they are supposed to serve. They are supposed to be public servants not tyrannical rulers.

  23. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    When the Party decides that they are going to attack one candidate because he is a threat (hello Ted Cruz and Mike Lee), to the extent that he no longer becomes a viable choice, don’t blame the voter for making the bad ones.

    That would be a valid argument if Ted Cruz and Mike Lee hadn’t won in their respective primaries and general elections despite being attacked mercilessly by their party leadership. What it tells me is that the majority of voters in Texas and Utah aren’t as stupid as other parts of the country.

  24. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    That would be a valid argument if Ted Cruz and Mike Lee hadn’t won in their respective primaries and general elections despite being attacked mercilessly by their party leadership. What it tells me is that the majority of voters in Texas and Utah aren’t as stupid as other parts of the country.

    Its a valid argument in that it illustrates how things have and are changing. The vehemence with which Cruz was attacked cannot be denied, as well as the fact that its been done before, but with better effect.

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The vehemence with which Cruz was attacked cannot be denied, as well as the fact that its been done before, but with better effect.

    Sarah Palin comes to mind.

  26. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The vehemence with which Cruz was attacked cannot be denied,

    Who’s denying it? And yet, he won.

  27. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Seriously, dude.
    The success in fighting back against the Party is a new thing, made possible by the Internet and Social Media. The irony is that a few years ago, party hacks and paid pundits thought they could use this medium as a means of controlling us by feeding us information directly.

  28. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Who’s denying it? And yet, he won.

    He won by forcing a run off in which he received fewer votes than the Party’s Chosen One. This was made possible by the Tea Party fighting back against the Party using their own media network, rather than relying on the one the party controls.
    Once the People realized that they did, in fact and finally have a choice, they made it.

  29. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Had it not been for the Tea Party and Social Media, nobody would know who Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are.
    Because the frikkin Party sure wouldn’t have made it possible. They don’t want people to have those kind of choices.

  30. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Seriously, dude.
    The success in fighting back against the Party is a new thing

    I thought you wanted to be serious.

  31. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I thought you wanted to be serious.

    Please.
    The success is new, because we have new tools. The fight is not new.

  32. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The 1964 Republican presidential nominee would be disappointed to know he was part of teh ‘Stablishment all along, as would the 1980 winner.
    You didn’t invent the concept of bucking the party bosses. You just happen to be present during the most recent successes.

  33. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    But pragmatically speaking, most voters are sheep and are heavily influenced by the amount of money spent on a campaign.

    Short answer…… it is a popularity contest.
    I am convinced that the term “issues voters” is nothing more than a mask for folks that want to seem important in there own minds. I have met very few “issues voters” that could actually articulate what “their” candidate actually stood for or for that matter articulate what their candidates plans where to further “their “agenda”.
    “He is anti-abortion”
    Okay what is he gonna do about it?
    /insert crickets here……………………
    What we call political awareness today is founded on 40 second sound bites and TMZ gotchas. 99% of todays voters think that their political action is forwarding the latest email or whatever that is a forward of another forward of a NIGYSOB that in the long run does mean squat. But by gawwwwggguuuuhhhh they are involved cause they listen to the radiot.
    I dropped out of this bovine processed hay when I got my fill of NIGYSOB political commercials. I chuckle at the weak calls for Obama’s impeachment that have begun circulating (again). It ain’t gonna happen. Now before you say Yeah cause the “R”s ain’t got the spine or that the Senate is full of Demorats, that is the wrong answer. It is because the American people ain’t demanding it. There was a time when the call was gaining strength and getting louder but ALL the talk show hosts talked the sheeple out of demanding Obama’s day in court. Impeaching Obama COULD have happened at one time but “we the comrades” were talked out of it,
    So as far as i am concerned I will just continue to enjoy reading all the forwards of how Obama was seen speaking with a boogie hanging from his nose and all the other gotchas.
    BTW was there any policy commercials for the Houston Mayor’s race between the main candidates. All i seem to remember is some guy not paying his taxes and how his tax woes began after he sued the IRS. And didn’t Mayor Parker’s main opposition promise “we were gonna talk”?

  34. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    You didn’t invent the concept of bucking the party bosses. You just happen to be present during part of the most recent successes.
    Fixtit

  35. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    re: link in #21
    I always enjoy rediscovering the writings of Bishop Fulton Sheen:

    There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness. This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God’s. And hence the Church in her history, due reparation made, has always welcomed the heretic back into the treasury of her souls, but never his heresy into the treasury of her wisdom.

  36. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Something useful. A flowchart of Obama’s lies.
    http://keithhennessey.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/keep-your-plan-flowchart.png
    h/t Instapundit
    Morning all.

  37. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Something else from Instapundit you can read while not voting. This is interesting.
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/11/23/the-myth-of-americans-poor-life-expectancy/

  38. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    I voted – WHY?
    ’cause I wanted to……………no more / no less

  39. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I voted – WHY?
    ’cause I wanted to……………no more / no less

    One thing you’ll never see me do is tell anyone they shouldn’t vote. It’s a personal choice I’ve made in this case based on the futility of past votes.

  40. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s Guy Fawkes Day.

    Innit that the dude what tried to steal the Bastille or sumpin?
    😉

  41. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I voted – WHY?
    ’cause I wanted to……………no more / no less

    You’re just an establishment tool.

  42. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #41 – yaddayaddayadda……….. 🙂

  43. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I voted – WHY?
    ’cause I wanted to……………no more / no less

    If it feels good……….. do it.
    LOL Not ONCE have I ever said anyone should not vote, nor have I lampooned anyone that does vote. On the other hand I have argued my reasoning why i no longer fill in all the blanks.

  44. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #43 – aha!

    no longer fill in all the blanks

    Therein lies the ‘rub’ – I’ve been known to skip a box or 2……………….

  45. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You gonna believe The Lightbringer or your lying eyes?

  46. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    And now, for something completely different.

  47. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Will echo Hamous’ and Squawk’s thoughts: that I choose not to vote infers no disrespect towards those who do choose to vote. It is a personal decision and one that I did not make lightly nor without a certain amount of trepidation.

  48. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #45 Pyro: from your linkie:

    “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen in the future,” Obama told voters on April Fool’s Day, 2010, after the law was signed.

    Ya see, he pranked us all, it was April Fool’s Day and we didn’t figger it out. . . . .

  49. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Short answer…… it is a popularity contest.

    Agreed. That and the fact that most seem to view it as a sports team kind of thing where it’s all in or all out. For me, if you don’t represent my beliefs in core areas, you aren’t getting my vote just because you’re a bit less bad than the other team.

    Right. But I can’t excuse their stupidity.

    Nor can I. But the fact remains that the popularity contest is heavily swayed by campaign bucks so large that neither you nor I nor anyone around these parts makes anywhere close to a significant contribution.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #46 Sarge:
    very cool indeed.

  51. HeadShaker Avatar
    HeadShaker

    The news is unreadable/unwatchable, and most Americans are morons. Carry on! 🙂

  52. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Heh
    With friends like this……. Man you got friends 🙂

  53. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Headshaker: Doc, it hurts when I do this.
    Doctor: Well then, don’t do that!

  54. HeadShaker Avatar
    HeadShaker

    My father used to tell that joke all the time. Another one of his favorites:
    Patient: Doc, I have a problem, I can’t remember one thing to the next.
    Doctor: How long has this been going on?
    Patient: How long has what been going on?
    😉

  55. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    My favorite, although it doesn’t translate well to written word
    Patient: Doctor, what’s wrong with me? Sometimes I feel like a tee pee and sometimes I feel like a wigwam.

  56. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Fox News goes hip hop? Stuff yo.

  57. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #55: You’re obviously two tents

  58. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Guy walks into Walgreen’s and asks the pharmacist for a special ointment for his rash.
    Pharmacist: Sure, walk this way.
    Guy: If I could walk that way, I wouldn’t need the ointment.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Super Dave and friends.

  60. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Patient: Doc, it hurts when I press on my nose, and it hurt when I press on my elbow, and it hurts when I press on my knee
    Doctor: You silly Aggie, you have a broken finger.

  61. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    There’s a call for Virginia to retro-retrocede it’s DC land back to the district.

  62. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Just ditched my cable TV service a few weeks back. The news still sucks but on the bright side, I’m not paying for it now. Diverted the $100 / month I was spending on the cable TV into a gym membership for me and Dooood Jr. and a Netflix acct. Oh yeah, and an array of antennas and associated paraphernalia.

  63. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Can’t help w/ the moron part though. Pretty well stuck w/ that.

  64. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #59: Who says those kanuks don’t know how to have fun?

  65. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Now as I’ve said before, economics will put me to sleep faster than watching golf on television. But reading this blather from Nobel prize-winning economist Paulie K, I think he’s criticizing Germany, first for not having a deficit, and second for not giving away their surplus to the loser nations that do. Am I reading this right?

  66. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Am I reading this right?

    Sadly, yes. The bearded road-apple is as predictable as the sun coming up in the east each day.

  67. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The bearded road-apple

    I wonder ifn his wife’s name is Meadow Muffin?

  68. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Hey hey, now! He prefers to be referred to as Krugtron the Invincible.

  69. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #59 Shannon: All I can say is the subtitles were in french.

  70. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Bearded road-apple: The comparison is grossly unfair, road-apples can be used as fertilizer, therefore they are worth a s#!t, not so for the other.

  71. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    59/69
    That reminds me of an incident a few years back. We were sitting under the live oaks at my cousin’s house enjoying the day when his 17 year old son took off on his four-wheeler heading for the swamps around Lake Harney. About an hour later he came trudging up the road on foot. He didn’t say a word, just went to the back and hopped in his Bronco and took off back down the road. About 30 minutes later he came trudging back up the road on foot, walked around to the barn, hopped on the tractor, and started heading back down the road. At this point his dad jumped up and put a stop to the madness.

  72. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #71 Hamous
    LOL. Please finish the tale.

  73. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Please finish the tale.

    We ended up pulling the whole mess out with my truck and a longer snatch rope.

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    73
    I stuck a 4WD pickup and a tractor.
    A real badge of honor, I tell ya.

  75. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I stuck a 4WD pickup and a tractor.

    Did it start off with “here, hold my beer and watch this”?

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    74
    In the same area I stuck an auger.
    I finally learned to stay away from that grayish-black clay with the pale, white streaks running through it.

  77. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    ‘Taint nuthin.
    I watched a 5 Ton Truck pull an M-60 tank out of the mud.
    ‘Twas a fair piece inside the Main Gate at Fort Sill.

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I didn’t vote, but only because i forgot my registration.
    I really wanted to cancel out harper’s vote on Prop. 6.
    I may still make it.

  79. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    grayish-black clay with the pale, white streaks running through it.

    I have gotten into that stuff before, really slippery and it stinks.

  80. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #66 – you just disparaged all respectable road apples worldwide! 🙂

  81. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Yeah, I’m not sure how to even comment on this one.

  82. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If I recall correctly, Shannon stuck a tractor, then a 4WD pickup and then another tractor.
    (Then he called me.)
    He’s still mildly famous in Austin County for that feat.

  83. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Yeah, I’m not sure how to even comment on this one.

    Outrageous, despicable, pandering BS. A sign of desperation in the face of a groundswell of opposition now that people’s eyes are starting to open.
    The ‘you can keep your health care policy if you like it’ lie was one too many. Now that he is lying to cover the lies he told, more and more people are starting to call BS on the whole thing. Now they are going back and looking at the previous lies and kicking themselves for believing them in the first place.
    The article is nothing but an act of desperation, I linked to a similar article out of Australia or NZ a couple of days ago, about gun control and the culprit was raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacism once agian.

  84. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He’s lying, Adee. Stop laughing.

  85. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is very cool.
    A couple of young Houston entrepreneurs started up an oil & gas drilling safety company with their own proprietary inventions.
    Today, they won Startup of the Year for 2013 at a ceremony held by the Wall Street Journal in New York. They were chosen from hundreds of nominees across the USA.
    Meet Rebellion Photonics.

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    By the time the neighbors brought some tractors over to help, I may have lost count of the number of tractors involved.

  87. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I almost feel sorry for Jay Carney.

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Despite the crushing burden of having to present a photo ID, I managed to make it to the polls and cancel out harper’s Prop. 6 vote.
    I feel better now.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    87
    If he was on fire, I wouldn’t…….

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Presidential press secretaries are the lowest form life on the planet.
    And this one gets a personal bye on Obamacare.
    Screw him.

  91. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Because she’s so hot, Dana Perino has an exemption.

  92. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I also liked Tony Snow (RIP).

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Scott McClellan, son of Carole Keaton Strayhorn Rylander, was a real winner.
    Second only to Harriet Myers as the worst appointee of the recent past.

  94. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Looks like Cuccinelli is kicking McAuliffe’s butt.
    So far. Until the stolen votes arrive.

  95. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    UPDATE (8:06pm EST) McAuliffe flips Prince Edward County, outside of Richmond. With 100% of precincts reporting, McAuliffe has 50.3%, Cuccinelli 42.4% and Sarvis 7.3%. In 2009, Bob McDonnell carried the county with 55% of the vote.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/05/Early-Reports-on-Turnout-for-Virginia-Governor-s-Election-A-Trickle

    On yesterday’s radio program, Glenn encouraged Virginia voters to do their homework and know who they are voting for in the contentious gubernatorial race. A three-way race is underway between the President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden backed Democrat, Terry McAuliffe, the TEA Party supported Republican, Ken Cuccinelli, and the candidate running on the libertarian line, Robert Sarvis.
    Sarvis has amassed so much support and fractured the Republican, conservative, libertarian voting block so greatly, McAuliffe may very well come out on top in today’s election. While Glenn was certainly not opposed to third-party candidates, he warned his listeners in Virginia to understand who they were voting for before heading to the ballot boxes.
    Glenn was primarily referring to Sarvis and some of the bizarre stances he has taken on issues in the past. From raising taxes to rejecting the Austrian-type economics, Sarvis does not sound like your proto-typical libertarian. And, as it turns out, it was a major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler, Joe Liemandt, who helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Sarvis on the ballot.

    http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/11/05/va-libertarian-gubernatorial-candidate-funded-by-an-obama-campaign-bundler/

  96. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #88;

    Despite the crushing burden of having to present a photo ID, I managed to make it to the polls and cancel out harper’s Prop. 6 vote.
    I feel better now.

    Ditto that on all points.

  97. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wounded warrior, full of win.
    /trying to stop the grin

  98. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Short answer…… it is a popularity contest.

    So you, like, gotta be popular to win? Neat concept. (I’m being *mostly* facetious, don’t take this *primarily* as a gotchya moment, especially in the similitude of canines. 🙂 )

  99. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Setup, pure and simple.

  100. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    OK

  101. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    McAuliffe is closing in.
    Dang it.
    All that money is paying off.

  102. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’m pretty sure Griff has run in and lost every two years for some position in every Houston election since I moved here in 1981.

  103. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    94 Tedtam says:
    November 5, 2013 at 7:16 pm
    Looks like Cuccinelli is kicking McAuliffe’s butt.
    So far. Until the stolen votes arrive.

    Don’t get your hopes up.
    Ace called it at 6:55 PM

    Virginia Governor
    81%IN
    CALL- McAuliffe has won based on bellweather county results
    R Ken Cuccinelli 47.2%
    D Terry McAuliffe 45.9%
    L Robert Sarvis 6.9%

  104. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    88 Shannon says:

    Despite the crushing burden of having to present a photo ID, I managed to make it to the polls and cancel out harper’s Prop. 6 vote.
    I feel better now.

    So you voted NO on Prop 6 to cancel me out, huh? And how could you drive to a voting location w/o your driver’s license? Huh?

  105. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    UPDATE (9:31pm EST) If the Fox projections holds, McAuliffe will win the Governor’s mansion with 47% of the vote. (!) Cuccinelli and the Libertarian Robert Sarvis, combined, have the support of 53% of Virginians.

    From Breitbart.

  106. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sorry, not Prop 6, but Amendment 6.
    I drove home, retrieved my registration and returned to town to vote.
    I already had my license.

  107. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I drove an electric cart at Kroger this morning. It was very zippy, steers easily and can turn on a dime. The only no-no is accelerating and turning at the same time. I did that several times and it shakes the basket as you over-correct. I’ll do better next time.
    David pushed a regular cart behind me for all the heavy items like bird seed, the dog kibble we feed to raccoons and possums, cat litter, canned cat food, etc. He ended up carrying all the stuff inside, heavy, light and regular — and it was very hard on him. We were both exhausted by the time everything was put away. His occasional exposure to grocery shopping is usually a list with maybe 3 items and a total of 3-4 mins inside the store.
    While we were out, my new taller walker was delivered and David had it assembled by the time I got up from a 2 hour nap. Then he decided to move the tennis balls from the shorter walker and in pulling off the balls, also removed the bottom caps which are now inside the tennis balls. I’ll take the stuff with me to The Gulag in the morning to see if they know how to get those caps out so the balls can then be used on the new walker. It makes the walker so much quieter, and no risk of leaving marks on flooring.

  108. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    McAuliffe will win the Governor’s mansion with 47% of the vote

    We got eight years of Slick Willie when he won with 43%.

  109. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Looks like the Dim plan to kill Cuccinelli by funding the Libertarian has worked.

  110. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You said you were voting against the Water issue. I voted for it.

  111. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #109

    Looks like the Dim plan to kill Cuccinelli by funding the Libertarian has worked.

    I don’t know about you, but all this swirling is making me dizzy.

  112. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Looks like the Dome will be conceding tonight and the Katy ISD Thunderdome may not come to fruition. I’m shocked in both cases.

  113. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Last numbers I saw had the katy stadium ahead comfortably.

  114. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I bet Virginians will begin a movement in earnest to give the city of Alexandria and Arlington County back to DC now that the Poor Man’s Slick Willie has been elected because of them.

  115. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #113 Last results I saw had it 52-48 against.

  116. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just saw new numbers on Katy. It’s losing!
    That is pretty shocking.

  117. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    You said you were voting against the Water issue. I voted for it.

    Oops, I assumed mharper voted for it. I voted against it.

  118. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Terry McAuliffe is poised to defeat AG Cucinelli in the VA Governor’s race. McAuliffe has skated on scandal after scandal from American Pioneer Savings Bank, to Global Crossing, to GreenTech, to his passive investment in a fraudulent investment scheme in Rhode Island. His claim to fame, and only known success, is raising money for Democrats. Congrats, Virginia. You are electing a snake.
    —JD

    http://patterico.com/2013/11/05/virginia-gov-election/

  119. phil Avatar
    phil

    Virginia has arrived.
    And to think I just downloaded the book of the same name to read again.
    Voter fraud is alive and well in good ole Banana Republic USA.

  120. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Well crap. My streak may be brokwen. Looks like the dome 217M got nixed. That still does not guarantee The wrecking ball. By law even that has to go before the votoids.

  121. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    “There is no other plan to re-purpose the dome,” Ed Emmett, the Harris County Judge and presiding officer of the Harris County Commissioner’s Court said after the votes came in. “It is a decision that will have to be made by the commissioners court.”

    Hunker Down Emmett is already scheming to override the wishes of the voters.

  122. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #116 – ‘Shocking’ that just MAYBE there are enough of us FED UP with High School level “Coliseums”?

  123. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    My high school football stadium had wooden bleachers. It was also where my graduation ceremony was held.

  124. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I used to be an optimist before I became a realist. I used yo believe the American defectorate always seemed to make right when major screw ups occurred. That was before obamaco got reelected. And I look at Virginia and just shake my cranium in sadness. We are sooooo screwed.

  125. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Weren’t much fancy bout my high school stadium either. Wooden bleacher seating on concrete. We shared a stadium with our cross town rivals. Seemed okay to us, no need for some semi-pro stadium

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