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Cuccinelli blames his defeat on the RINOs.

A campaign strategist for Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli said that the national GOP abandoned the campaign in its final days.
At the end of the race, Cuccinelli was closing in on Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who eked out a two-point victory on Tuesday despite exit polls that showed McAuliffe was up by seven points.
According to the Washington Post, Chris La Civita said that financial support from national Republican sources dried up on October 1.

In spite of the abandonment by the GOP establishment, and the tons of cash and support by the Dems for McAuliffe, it is probably causing a lot of shorts to be put into the laundry with the very narrow margin of victory. It took the Clintons, the Obamas, AND millions in cash to pull off the squeaker.
But I really don’t like that swirling feeling….

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    First!!!
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I read some where, (Wall Street Journal maybe?) that one of Obama’s big money bundlers was giving $$$ to the independent dude to pull votes away from Cuccinelli. As close as it was the demoncRATS could have stole enough votes in the northern counties to win. I flipped the tube over to Wuss Blister/Dennis the Menace last night and early on he was somewhat worried but after McAuliffe squeaked out a victory he was beside himself, drooling over the win.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #2 they were also real excited about Christie’s win in Jersey, because they’d LOVE to see him go up against Hitlery and get his plow cleaned. In that race it would a socialist/communist against a demoCRAP lite…..SPITS~ 🙁

  4. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Here is why I believe we are no longer represented. Yes, the voters do bear some responsibility, but certainly not all of it. The record speaks for itself. Past performance is indeed indicative of future returns in the case of politicians (h/t to Squawk). Disgusted to see Ted Poe’s name on the list of ‘Ayes’, but it reinforces for me why I no longer bother voting.

  5. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The ex-chief of staff for House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) helped Democrat Terry McAuliffe beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia’s gubernatorial election race.
    Boyd Marcus, the chief of staff for Cantor until 2003—who later teamed with another GOP operative Ray Allen to found the firm Marcus Allen, which Cantor employed until earlier this year—joined the McAuliffe campaign after Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, with whom Marcus campaigned, did not win the GOP nominee in Virginia.
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    Former Republican National Committee finance chairman Dwight Schar supported him, too. “As a Republican and especially as a Virginia businessman, I am supporting Terry McAuliffe for Governor,” Schar said in a statement posted on McAuliffe’s website. “Terry is going to work with both parties to enact mainstream solutions that reduce traffic, improve our schools, and develop our workforce for the global marketplace. Ken Cuccinelli’s ideological agenda has divided Virginians and blocked progress on education and transportation for long enough.”
    Judy Ford Wason, a GOP strategist who worked for outgoing Republican Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, endorsed McAuliffe, as well. “We saw this earlier this year when he [McAuliffe] rallied support for Governor McDonnell’s bipartisan transportation compromise, and we continue to see this as Terry travels across the state meeting with business and community leaders regardless of political affiliation to discuss mainstream ways to grow our economy and create jobs in the Commonwealth,” Wason said in a statement posted on McAuliffe’s website. “With six grandchildren I want to be sure that young Virginians will be able to look forward to exciting job opportunities and a great quality of life. I believe that as Governor Terry will work to ensure that Virginia is a leader in the global economy and that our citizens and communities prosper.”
    Former Virginia Sen. John Chichester, once the GOP president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, also endorsed McAuliffe, as did former state GOP Sen. Russ Potts, former Virginia GOP delegates Vince Callahan, Katherine Waddell and Jim Dillard. Each one of those Republicans issued statements distributed by the McAuliffe campaign.
    snip
    In addition to all of those GOP establishment figures who were key operatives for Cantor, McDonnell, the RNC, and actual state GOP lawmakers, national RNC chairman Reince Priebus spent Tuesday in New Jersey to back up Chris Christie, whose re-election was never in question, rather than in Virginia using his celebrity to get out the vote in Cuccinelli’s nail-biter race.
    Among these GOP establishment figures connected to Republicans who helped McAuliffe—particularly Priebus and Cantor—many support comprehensive immigration reform. Pro-amnesty activists have pledged they would use a McAuliffe victory to promote their national cause.

  6. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    When we gonna blow up the Dome?

  7. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    2 Super Dave says:
    November 6, 2013 at 5:36 am
    I read some where, (Wall Street Journal maybe?) that one of Obama’s big money bundlers was giving $$$ to the independent dude to pull votes away from Cuccinelli. As close as it was the demoncRATS could have stole enough votes in the northern counties to win. I flipped the tube over to Wuss Blister/Dennis the Menace last night and early on he was somewhat worried but after McAuliffe squeaked out a victory he was beside himself, drooling over the win.

    Sarvis wouldn’t even gotten onto the ballot without his money.
    The take away here is this:
    The conservative candidate came to within 50K votes of winning and did it having to fight both Parties.

  8. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    They said he was “unelectable.” The RNC put only $3 million into this race. Ken was outspent by a margin of something between 4:1 and 10:1, if you believe the Associated Press.
    The Democrats poured everything into trying to lie to voters and portray Cuccinelli as an extremist — and they barely pulled this one out.
    Would another $3 million have swung 50,000 votes? The Republicans, starting with Bill Bolling, who undercut Cuccinelli as unelectable have egg all over their faces.
    This was a winnable election. How did we give this away to Terry McAuliffe? Some serious soul-searching should be taking place among the anti-tea-party faction.

  9. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    So.
    The Party puts a comparatively piddling amount of money into this race, consultants for Party bosses went to work for the Democrat, and the RNC chair campaigned for a guy everybody knew was going to walk away with his race.
    Tell me again why its a bad idea to form a third party—-
    Oh yeah.
    Its because Conservatives need the Republican Party to elect candidates, there’s no other avenue open to us.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The a**holes at the RNC are trying to make an example of Cuccinelli for future potential candidates.
    If you don’t do as we say, we’re going to pull funding and work to defeat you.

  11. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #4
    I’m with commenter Neil Bob on this one. Derivatives aren’t the problem. They’re just a way of bundling risky loans then finding an investor willing to take the risk. The real problem is the federal government forcing banks to loan money to people who shouldn’t be able to get loans, then bailing out the banks when the loans default.
    Now granted, that may be a distinction without a difference, and the problem is still crony capitalism. But somebody elects those congressmen. I for one will never vote for anyone that voted to bail out the “too big to fail” banks, GM, Chrysler, TARP, etc. and I think anyone that does is stupid. Which brings me back to my original point.
    Next up:
    1. The federal government forcing insurance companies to issue policies with bad risk pools.
    2. The federal government forcing doctors to service the policies at costs the government sets.

  12. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. At 6 it was 72 and now is 68. Fog on the moors is moderate as in we can see the houses behind us and across the street but not distinctly. Looks like the advance guard of the rain is around Bryan now. Bring on that front but without the deluges.
    Looks like those who bothered to vote were cautious about approving new spending and pretty much confined approval to genuinely useful projects. Fort Bend County’s road and bridge bond proposal won handily, but the tremendous growth in the western end of the county makes road improvements vital to relieve traffic jams at rush hours that strangle movement east in the morning and west in the evening. Fulshear is booming in just a few years much to everyone’s amazement, going from ~700 to right at 5,000 and projected heading to 20,000 a few years hence. Confess that I liked Fulshear better before the boom got going and only a few country large lot subdivisions graced its outskirts.

  13. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    One of the local stations mentioned Roy Hofheinz’s daughter was in tears last night. Maybe she should pony up some of the judge’s money as a seed to start collecting private donations.

  14. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Texpat 10
    I seem to remember in days of old that was the way things were run. Party discipline was maintained by committee appointments, pork distribution (or lack of), and campaign support. Not so much for either party these days.
    1. Pork is becoming a diminishing resource as the budget gets tighter.
    2. The PACs actually control most of the campaign money these days. Where we they with Cuccinelli?
    3. Considering the tone of things today..having the national party “against” you is not such a bad thing if you spin it correctly.
    FWIW and IMHO both of these candidates were pathetic! McAullife comes of as sleazy when he says “Good Morning” and on any normal day could have been beaten by a cadaever. Cuccinelli should have devoted a little time to watching old campaign footage from Ronald Reagan.
    More than one of the Tea Party office holders should consider taking a Dale Carnegie course or two. Politics is a sales job.
    Simple

  15. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    So Prop 6 “Water for Texas Children” passed 3 to 1. Shows you can get anything you want if you claim it is for the children.

  16. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    2. The PACs actually control most of the campaign money these days. Where we they with Cuccinelli?

    Bullschizzle.
    The Democrat Party spent $20 million on the race, while the RNC spent $3 million. Cuchinelli got most of his money from outside groups. He had to. He was abandoned by a party that wanted him to lose so that they could tell everybody that moderates like Fatso can win big while Evil Tea Baggers will cost them elections.

  17. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I’m going to add here that the RNC is currently swimming in cash, while the Democrat Party has been having less success in fundraising and still has $17 million in debt from the last campaign.
    The GOP had the money to spend. They spent it on Fatso and in defeating a Tea Party candidate in Alabama.

  18. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    the cracker from last nite:

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

    Ours had aluminum ones. The Napa County fairgrounds bought them for us so we could more easily move them out of the way.
    They were in the pit area of the sprint car track. The field was in the infield of the track.
    Commencement was “big” enough that we used the grandstands. Graduates sat in the box seats, looking up into the stands.

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It was almost amusing watching Alan The Alien Combs trying to defend the big lie on Fox just now. Almost. He actually claimed that O had no idea that the ins companies would cancel so many policies?!? Friggen really, seeing as how it was part of the plan?
    Everybody now knows that the current occupant is a serial liar as are his sychophants in the LSM. The real question is now will this knowledge change any positions?

  20. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Derivatives aren’t the problem. They’re just a way of bundling risky loans then finding an investor willing to take the risk. The real problem is the federal government forcing banks to loan money to people who shouldn’t be able to get loans, then bailing out the banks when the loans default.

    That’s the root of the problem. The rest of the problem is the “too big to fail” canard.
    If an entity becomes so big that its failure risks the economy, then break it up. Split the investment banks off from the commercial banks. The split them again if needed.

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The Democrat Party spent $20 million on the race, while the RNC spent $3 million. Cuchinelli got most of his money from outside groups. He had to. He was abandoned by a party that wanted him to lose so that they could tell everybody that moderates like Fatso can win big while Evil Tea Baggers will cost them elections.

    The problem is not the money, who controls it, or even who gives it. It is the American people, the electorate
    1. That are becoming more gubment dependent
    2. Ain’t doing their homework
    3. Are too damn lazy to vet the candidates for themselves and vote for the shiniest hip slick and cool candidate.
    Until we see a mass change of heart in this country we are going to continue to get what we got. This mess had its Genesis loooonnnnnnggggg before Obama was even a twinkle in his Daddy’s eye. We did not get here overnight. Yes the blame lays squarely at the electorates feet.
    The electorate allowed this happen because when things were going all hot guns and things were good, we saw our ELECTED representatives do crap that was wrong yet we continued to reward them with another turn in office. All in the name of political expediency.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This is what happens when you believe big government can and should take care of you, and should control the economy.

    Gonzalez is on a list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have tumors removed at one of Venezuela’s biggest medical facilities, Maracay’s Central Hospital. But like legions of the sick across the country, she’s been neglected by a health care system doctors say is collapsing after years of deterioration.
    Doctors at the hospital sent home 300 cancer patients last month when supply shortages and overtaxed equipment made it impossible for them to perform non-emergency surgeries.

    No system is perfect, but there has been no system as effective in caring for its people and building an economy than capitalism. Everyone taking care of their own business, managing their own affairs, is more effective at taking care of everyone’s business and managing their own affairs than someone else (or a group of someones else) making decisions for the populace.
    But this won’t be a major story in our news – our media socialists haven’t learned from history yet.

  23. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    before Obama was even a twinkle in his Daddy’s eye

    He doesn’t have one.
    He’s a space alien.

  24. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Of course we all could be wrong and this guy could be right:

    Corruption? You haven’t heard the half of it. Let me tell you about corruption. The f****** US government demolished the World Trade Center with 3 underground nukes and blamed their own dirty deed on some Muslims in order to start this whole phoney ‘War of Terror’. Don’t believe me? Well, just read the info at http://pastebin.com/NPiutkdZ and decide for yourself.

    Or maybe this guy:

    welcome to the jew world order

  25. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Bwahahaha

    I know the very notion that the WTC was brought down by nukes is utterly preposterous but go check the definition of ‘Ground Zero’ in the old dictionaries you have at home. You’ll find that there would only be one definition and that would be something like:
    ‘the point directly above, below, or at which a nuclear explosion occurs’.
    After 9/11, the US government sent people round to every bookshop and public library on the planet to replace ALL the dictionaries with amended versions which have an expanded meaning of ‘Ground Zero’. The new versions (even of old editions) have 2 extra meanings which are:
    2: the center or origin of rapid, intense, or violent activity or change
    3: the very beginning : SQUARE ONE

  26. HeadShaker Avatar
    HeadShaker

    We are living in a simulation. Enjoy your day.

  27. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Wednesday “Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww” moment
    Michigan Football Team Embraces Special Player
    QUICK Yall go watch before CBS rips the dern thing down again…………

  28. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    We are living in the future
    I’ll tell you how I know
    I read it in the paper
    Fifteen years ago
    We’re all driving rocket ships
    And talking with our minds
    And wearing turquoise jewelry
    And standing in soup lines
    We’re standing in soup lines

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just flying the astral plane, baby.

  30. HeadShaker Avatar
    HeadShaker

    HaHa HaHa

  31. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    #11,

    Now granted, that may be a distinction without a difference, and the problem is still crony capitalism.

    Yes. While I agree that derivatives are not directly the problem, the gubmint will always end up bailing out the too big to fails when the derivatives detonate, regardless of how many everyday people oppose said bailouts. As far as banks being forced to make bad loans, I have yet to see evidence of that. In fact, Ritholtz has debunked that one ad nauseum. For every idiot taking a bad loan there was an idiot banker willing to make it.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Blue sky in Washington County. And coolish.

  33. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I have yet to see evidence of that.

    Community Reinvestment Act – it was set up to “encourage” FDIC member banks to make loans in economically depressed areas. The “encouragement” was accomplished by federal agencies auditing the banks to assure compliance with the CRA. No bank wants to be accused of “red-lining” so the encouragement could better be described as coercion.

  34. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    the encouragement could better be described as coercion

    or extortion
    Nice bank ya got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.

  35. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Community Reinvestment Act

    As I say, the role of the CRA was insignificant in the 2008 crash. Check the numbers for yourself. Not to say I agree with the CRA, but it was not the culprit. Dig through Ritholtz’s archives. I’ve done it and posted links here several times in the past. There is as much logical integrity in blaming the CRA for the crash as there is in claiming that 9/11 was an inside job.

  36. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Looks like the front just blew through here.
    Should get quieter soon. The airplanes will start taking off to the north.

  37. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    If the folks running the party want the tea partiers to support their preferred candidates — when they’re the nominee, at least — it should work the other way around as well. It now appears that Cuccinelli, a flawed candidate running against an even more flawed human being, could have pulled this thing out if he’d had more help at the end. In fairness, the Republican Governor’s Association did help Cuccinelli, but it came too early. The RNC treated him like a write-off. I can understand that temptation when Cuccinelli looked like a sure loser. But I don’t understand why, when ObamaCare became a big issue, the RNC couldn’t have done more. I’m sure it’s hard to ramp up at the last second. But so what? Things are going to be hard in lots of ways for as far as the eye can see. Hard can’t be an excuse anymore. As for the more moderate Republican donors who stayed away from Cuccinelli, I certainly don’t think they’re obliged to give money to anyone or anything they disagree with. So maybe they’re pro-choice. Maybe they call themselves “socially liberal but fiscally conservative” (don’t get me started). Fine. But on the issues that make them Republican, McAuliffe will still be far more of a disaster than Cuccinelli ever would have been. McAuliffe says his first priority for the legislative session is accepting the expanded Medicare option under ObamaCare. That’s bad enough, but does anyone doubt that another, equally important, priority of his will be to prepare the ground for a Clinton candidacy should she run? Even if she doesn’t, McAuliffe in the statehouse is terrible news for every kind of Republican. McAuliffe is not a policy person. He’s not a “statesman.” He’s a purely political hack moneyman. And he’s going to use his skills as best he can to put Virginia in the Democrats’ column in 2016.
    For all the talk about how the base needs to cooperate with the establishment more, it’s worth remembering that the base almost always does its part on Election Day. Its the establishment that is less reliable in returning the favor.

    Good points though I don’t know what he means by Cuccinelli being a “flawed” candidate” (I simply don’t know much about him).
    And Now, The Airing of Grievances

  38. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #35 I don’t recall seeing any links but I’d be happy to reevaluate my position given the evidence. I do know that changes to the CRA in the mid 90s made it impossible for banks not to make bad loans.

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Today marks my 54th lap around the sun, plus I have the day off :>)

  40. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Today marks my 54th lap around the sun

    Since the sun is tens of millions of miles away, you’re in good shape there Bonecrusher. 🙂
    Happy Birthday!!!

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Dang, Bones must be whupped! One lap around the Sun would wipe me out!
    If I actually lived long enough to run a full lap around the Sun.
    Not likely.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just introduced OH3 to the joys of Carol Burnett. She had never heard of her.
    She was also unfamiliar with Lucille Ball.
    Deprived.

  43. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Fatso to Tea Party:
    “Now that I’m Chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association, I‘m going to make sure that Lindsay Graham gets re-elected.”

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Happy Birthday!

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Blue skies were short-lived. Overcast now, with radar showing showers headed this way.

  46. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    38 Hamous,
    And don’t forget;

    Some economists state that the 1999 legislation spearheaded by Senator Phil Gramm (R Texas) and signed into law by President Clinton – the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act — was significantly to blame for the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis and 2008 global economic crisis. The Act is most widely known for repealing portions of the Glass–Steagall Act, which had regulated the financial services industry. The Act passed the House and Senate by an overwhelming majority on November 4, 1999.

    It takes a village of idiots to really make things worse…..Never under estimate the ability of an idiot to make a bad situation worse. ….Nothing is truly idiot proof.
    Simple

  47. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Happy birthday Bonecrusher.
    On another thought. I have pretty much given up watching professional sports for a variety of reasons. This article though addresses one of the main reasons I don’t pay attention to sports.

    Hobey Baker, a turn-of-the-century athlete, is all but forgotten today—a revealing case of cultural amnesia. What Baker represented, and what he still represents, is in short supply in our time: an athlete whose success is determined by his moral integrity, not by the number of wins he stacks up or by the sums of money he earns.

    http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/In-the-arena-7745
    h/t instapundit

  48. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I do know that changes to the CRA in the mid 90s made it impossible for banks not to make bad loans.

    The CRA set the precedent that the govt could force strongly influence banks to make loans that were questionable; this was jammed through under Jimmah Cawtah. I don’t think anyone can disagree that it was done in an attempt to buy votes from the vunnables. In the 90’s Slick Willie upped the ante on the banks as the camel’s nose was now under the tent. If the banks balked, there would be he!! to pay with numerous audits and findings of “irregularities”. These same tactics pushed protection money campaign contributions into the D coffers when it was not in the interests of the banks to do so. In order to keep the banks in line a gift was given to them in the form of a non-insurance insurance policy known as a credit default swap. These financial instruments were insurance policies, yet they were not treated as insurance policies in that there were no reserve requirements to be maintained in case of default. The credit default swaps total dollar value skyrocketed to 10X the global economic output with nothing to back up the face value of the swaps. When the market finally started to correct, which it always does, their were several countries that went bankrupt, like Iceland and Ireland got smacked real hard as well.
    The BS started with the CRA, and went ballistic with the CDS scheme.

  49. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I didn’t expect rain until this afternoon, but we drove home from my exercises in a pretty good downpour. I am exhausted; “take a break” time at Chez Arper.

  50. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    48 Boney,
    I almost forgot:

    Gramm’s support was later critical in the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which kept derivatives transactions, including those involving credit default swaps, free of government regulation.

    Simple

  51. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Happy Birthday Bonecrusher

  52. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Micheal Barone notes that exit polling in VA shows that the Establishment cry of “Those dirty Tea Baggers cost us the election with their danged ol’ shut down.” is a bunch of crap:

    2. The government shutdown didn’t much hurt Republicans.
    Northern Virginia was perhaps more impacted by the shutdown than any other part of the country. Yet when the exit poll asked who was more to blame, 47 percent of voters said Republicans in Congress and 46 percent said Obama. Considering that individuals almost always poll better than groups of people—particularly Republicans (or, for that matter, Democrats) in Congress, this is a devastating result for Obama.

    He also notes that Obamacare hurt Terrymac and that millenials are abandoning the Democrats.
    In Colorado we have an example of what can happen when the Party unites with the grass roots it is able to defeat Democrat money.
    In the meantime, the Establishment is elevating a man who believes it is more virtuous to compromise with the other Party than with the Conservative wing of his own.

  53. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Thanks, y’all for the birthday wishes.

  54. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    wisdom from my inbox:

    A king who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in
    all circumstances would always say, “My king, do not be discouraged,
    because everything God does is perfect. He makes no mistakes!”
    One day, they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked
    the king. His slave managed to kill the animal, but could not prevent
    his majesty from losing a finger. Furious and without showing his gratitude for being saved, the
    nobleman asked, “Is God good? If He was good, I would not have been attacked and lost my finger.”
    The slave replied: “My king, despite all these things, I can only
    tell you that God is good, and he knows why these things happened.
    What God does is perfect. He is never wrong!”
    Outraged by the response, the king ordered the arrest of his slave.
    Later, the king left for another hunt, this time alone. He was
    captured by savages who engaged in human sacrifices.
    On the altar and ready to sacrifice the nobleman, the savages
    discovered that their victim did not have one of his fingers.
    According to them, only a whole person with all his/her parts intact
    could be offered to the gods.The king without a finger was deemed an abominable sacrifice for their
    gods. So, they released the king.
    Upon his return to the palace, the king authorized the release of his
    slave. He received the slave affectionately. “God was really good to
    me! I was almost killed by the wild men, but for lack of a single
    finger, I was let go! But I have a question: If God is so good, why
    did he allow me to put you in jail?”
    The slave answered, “My king, if I had gone with you on this hunt, I
    would have been sacrificed instead because I have no missing finger.
    Remember, everything God does is perfect. He is never wrong. He made
    you keep me in jail so I would not be with you on the hunt.”
    Often we complain about life, and negative things that happen to us,
    forgetting that nothing is random and that everything has a purpose.
    Every morning, offer your day to God; don’t be in a rush.
    Ask God to inspire your thoughts, guide your actions, and ease your
    feelings. And do not be afraid. God is never wrong!
    You know why this message is for you? I do not know, but God knows,
    because He never makes mistakes.
    What you do with this message is up to you. May God put in your heart
    the desire to send it to someone. God knows why He chose you to
    receive this message. Please bless someone with it.
    God is never wrong!
    When you feel like you are drowning in life,
    don’t worry—-Your Lifeguard walks on water.

    When you feel like things just could not be worse, go read the book of Job. Job was a righteous man, GOD said so several times in the first two chapters, yet he went through difficulty which we can not even imagine and he never lost his faith in GOD in spite of his circumstances. We would be blessed beyond measure if we would maintain that kind of faith.

  55. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sorry Bonez I could not find one that said your name. 🙂

  56. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Assuming justice prevails (the defendants are apparently scrambling for an out of court settlement), David Eckert should pretty much own the City of Deming, NM; Luna County, NM; Hidalgo, County, NM; and the Gila Regional Medical Center in addition to seeing several LEO’s, a Deputy DA, and a couple of doctors turned into destitute prisoners.

  57. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #39 – Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnny HAPPY Returns!!
    #40 – Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll – if ole Sol decided to “flame out” we’re only safe for 9 minutes and 20 odd seconds or so……………….(speed of light being pretty dang fast and all…..)

  58. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Well I been through the desert on a calf with no hooves
    it felt good to be back in the grooves.
    La…la…lalalala…lala…la…la…la.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    56 wb
    Sheesh.
    I’ll remember to not clinch my buttocks when traveling NM.

  60. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #58 cracker-boy
    I wunner if that means he’s non-kosher?

  61. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #59 shannon
    He’s asking for actual & punitive damages (natch) PLUS treble damages (I assume due to RICO-like conditions)
    I hope he takes them all, individually and severally to the cleaners. Plus he makes an arguable case in the complaint for several counts of battery against the individual officers and doctors.

  62. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I’ll remember to not clinch my buttocks when traveling NM.

    Geez mine are clinchin just reading that story…………………

  63. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And then the hospital had the audacity to send him the bill.

  64. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    #38,
    Here you go. Out of curiosity, can you provide me with specific information about the changes to CRA in the mid-90s which made it impossible for banks to not make bad loans?
    As I understand it, CRA was enacted in 1977. So I find it hard to believe that it took 30 years for that bad legislation to manifest itself. Also, CRA was enacted in the US, yet the “crisis” in real estate was worldwide. How is that?

  65. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The hole thing makes a pretty good case for the decriminalization of all drugs. This sort of thing would simply stop as there would no longer be any need or excuse.
    Let’s be realistic about the issue, those who are going to do dope are going to do it anyway legal or not, and those who aren’t won’t legal or not. Are drugs destructive, absolutely; should people do them, absolutely not; what is next: telling people how much soda they can buy at one time, penalizing smokers of tobacco, restricting the amount of fat in food?
    I am much more in favor of personal responsibility and putting an end to the nanny state. If someone is determined to burn themselves out on drugs, the legal status of said drugs will not change the ultimate outcome. The illegality of the drugs simply gives the cops/feds /authoritahs a vehicle with which to ignore the constitution and get away with it.

  66. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    As originally enacted in 1977, the CRA vaguely mandated regulators to consider whether an insured bank was serving the needs of the “whole” community. For 16 years, the act was invoked rather infrequently, but 1993 marked a decisive turn in its enforcement. What changed? Substantial media and political attention was showered upon a 1992 Boston Federal Reserve Bank study of discrimination in home mortgage lending. This study concluded that, while there was no overt discrimination in banks’ allocation of mortgage funds, loan officers gave whites preferential treatment. The methodology of the study has since been questioned, but at the time it was highly influential with regulators and members of the incoming Clinton administration; in 1993, bank regulators initiated a major effort to reform the CRA regulations.
    In 1995, the regulators created new rules that sought to establish objective criteria for determining whether a bank was meeting CRA standards. Examiners no longer had the discretion they once had. For banks, simply proving that they were looking for qualified buyers wasn’t enough. Banks now had to show that they had actually made a requisite number of loans to low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers. The new regulations also required the use of “innovative or flexible” lending practices to address credit needs of LMI borrowers and neighborhoods. Thus, a law that was originally intended to encourage banks to use safe and sound practices in lending now required them to be “innovative” and “flexible.” In other words, it called for the relaxation of lending standards, and it was the bank regulators who were expected to enforce these relaxed standards.

    More here
    Note that the author doesn’t say that the bad home loans were responsible for the crash, but that the relaxation of standards in loans as a result of the CRA changes carried over to the prime loan market, and that led to the housing bubble, then the burst.

  67. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #65 bone
    It goes way beyond decriminalization of drugs. I think in this case, the drug thing was simply the easiest tool to use for something much worse.
    If it were only drugs, they would have simply permanently seized his car or found someone with more of value to harass. Also, they would have stopped after the first (or second at most) search. I can’t imagine a scenario where what he went through could be construed as anything remotely reasonable.

  68. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Need a break?
    http://www.chonday.com/Videos/amfresdogty1

  69. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I can’t imagine a scenario where what he went through could be construed as anything remotely reasonable.

    My point exactly, the entire episode was outrageously unreasonable. Without the fig leaf of the WOD there would be no cover what-so-ever for this kind of behavior. Without the fig leaf of WOD, this kind of behavior would result in a firing squad and rightfully so.
    Did the cops use the fig leaf of WOD to harass this guy, absolutely. Was the ulitimate goal harassment, absolutely, the WOD simply made it much easier.

  70. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #68 Texakanukianite: Try training a cat to do even one of those tricks.
    Smart doggies:>)

  71. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    http://www.chonday.com/Videos/leinhoseeffect1

  72. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    …the relaxation of standards in loans as a result of the CRA changes carried over to the prime loan market, and that led to the housing bubble, then the burst.

    Sounds like quite a logical leap to me. “Carried over” how? My point remains that for every under qualified recipient of a loan there was a banker willing to make it without being forced to in the legal sense. And I still don’t see how any of this managed to affect the real estate market outside the US. I remain unconvinced that the CRA played any meaningful role in the bubble. Now Glass-Steagall repeal and ridiculously low interest rates on the other hand…

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    However, data provided by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) reveal that loans covered by the CRA accounted for only a fraction of mortgage lending to lower-income borrowers and neighborhoods. This is especially true of higher-priced, or subprime, mortgages.1 CRA assessment-area lending accounted for only nine percent of higher-priced loans to lower-income borrowers and neighborhoods, while independent mortgage companies accounted for the majority. Further, the subprime share of assessment-area loans made to lower-income borrowers and lower-income neighborhoods was lower than the subprime share for all loans made between 2004 and 2006….
    There are many causes to the collapse of the housing market and the recent financial turmoil, but the contribution of the CRA appears marginal. While banks did engage in subprime lending in their assessment areas, they did so at a lower rate than the market in general and accounted for only a small fraction of subprime loans to lower-income borrowers and lower- income neighborhoods. The data suggest that far from being forced into risky corners of the market, the institutions under the scrutiny of the CRA were crowded out by unregulated lenders.

  74. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My point remains that for every under qualified recipient of a loan there was a banker willing to make it without being forced to in the legal sense.

    They were being coerced by the threat of repeated anal exams by the federal banking regulators. Was it legal probably not, the coercion was there non-the-less. The Collateralized Debt Obligations were a vehicle into which questionable loans were bundled along with solid loans; these were then sold as a sound investment ‘backed up by real estate’. The bankers were able to make the loans and earn thier closing costs, then sell the loan and not be at risk. If the banks were required to hold a certain percentage of all the loans they made, they would have likely pushed back harder against the feds. A banker who was required to hold the loan would be much less likely to make a loan to a high risk client.
    It seems that you are stuck on the ‘legal’ aspect of it and are ignoring the ‘pressure’ side.
    When the Clintons came to power, abuse of the system became the norm. The CRA was morphed into a hammer with which to bludgeon/threaten banks to make decisions that they would not make without the coercion.

  75. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Happy birthday, Bones. I didn’t spot the jogging around the sun chat as a birthday announcement.
    😳

  76. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Y’all are probly right on the CRA/subprime/bubblicious thingie. Ima horrible person anyway.

    hamous: Good lord. A “therapy calf”??? Turn him into veal cutlets already!
    rla5d: @hamous You’re just a terrible person, aren’t you. YOU should be made into veal.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You’re a little long in the tooth for veal.

  78. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    and the wrong friggen breed.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That calf was named Stumpy?

  80. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    hamous: the mutton of veal

  81. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    That calf was named Stumpy?

    Twinkletoes

  82. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    List of companies that signed a letter to Boehner demanding Amnesty:
    http://www.patriotnetdaily.com/2013/11/06/boycott-list-of-companies-pushing-for-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens/

  83. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    US tornado count on pace to shatter the record low set last year.
    I guess that combined with the current hurricane lows, we should go out and burn some fossil fuels.

  84. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Global Warming caused Hero to lose his hooves.

  85. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health care program in decades, but the Obama administration has ruled that neither the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies on behalf of low-income people are “federal health care programs.”
    The surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs, stripping law enforcement of a powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care programs, like Medicare.

  86. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #82: Those companies are demonstrating the same kind of greed and short-sightedness that caused the labor unions to spring into existance. Those labor unions became that which made them non-competitive.

  87. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    http://nationalreport.net/evidence-voter-fraud-found-virginia-governors-race/
    Wonder if this will actually be investigated/reported and possibly acted upon?

  88. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I’m probably horrible too, cuz I’m definitely down with veal. Yummmmmm…

  89. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    20 Ridiculously Specific Online Dating Sites That Actually Exist

  90. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Yummmmmm…

    That’s what I said!

    hamous: @rla5d
    It’s a COW. We eat cows every day. You’re a terrible person for wanting this animal to suffer living a life without hooves just so you can feel good about yourself. Wiener schnitzel! Then turn his hide into a baseball glove for some poor inner city kid that can’t afford one. I’ll bet that, ironically, you’re a Wendy Davis supporter too.

  91. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #87 M42: I would like to see a run-off election seeing as how, according to the report no candidate got 50% +1 vote. Wide spread voter fraud and intimidation, what a friggen surprise.

  92. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I just checked the radar and with the exception of the storms hugging the lower Texas coast, it looks like no more rain for us. That line along the coast could go our to sea or train up the coast and really soak the area. I am guessing that it will go out to sea.

  93. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Veal with coconut Ta Tas?
    ……………….I’ll pass 🙂

  94. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I don’t know what I was thinking ridiculing and ctiricizing Obamacare. After reading the latest from Sebilius, I’ve decided to go right now and sign up myself and all my loved ones.
    Sebelius: Possible for convicted felons to become Obamacare navigators [VIDEO]
    👿

  95. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    It’s a COW EIEIO

  96. HeadShaker Avatar
    HeadShaker

    So what happens when ObamaCareless does not sign up the minimum number needed to fund the program? It appears inevitable. I really haven’t seen what the consequences are, will it really collapse under itself or will they just rob Peter to pay Paul? Oh wait, isn’t that what they’re doing already? You wonder why I shake my head.

  97. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    If you need a big smile moment, watch this!
    DADDEEEE!!!! Gwory gwory!

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    EAT MOR CHIKIN

  99. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    #74,

    It seems that you are stuck on the ‘legal’ aspect of it and are ignoring the ‘pressure’ side.

    Nope, not at all. I simply see it differently than you. If someone pressures me to do something I consider to be ethically wrong, I do my best to resist the pressure, both in my personal and professional life. I have no sympathy whatsoever for those who don’t. Add to that the likelihood that these same bankers who were being pressured gave copious amounts of lobbyist money to elect those who were pressuring them and you can probably imagine my complete lack of concern for the plight of the poor, pressured bankers.
    Further, you still haven’t addressed how this pressure applied here in the US affected the worldwide real estate market. Short answer: it didn’t. The simple reality is that banks took on ridiculous risks in pursuit of profits and got “stuck”. Only they didn’t get stuck, we did. Unless of course you think using your tax dollars to bail out large financial institutions who made bad decisions is actually a good thing. I’m pretty sure you and most everyone else here doesn’t consider that to be a good thing though.
    If you really want to look at the origins of this, look at the history of the Glass-Steagall Act. Why an act designed to keep traditional banking separate from securities was deliberately undermined shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act in 1999 did indeed happen under Bill Clinton, but its sponsors were Republicans. It has a lot less to do with left vs. right than it does with the political class vs. everyday schmucks like us.

  100. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More funny laughing baby stuff.
    Okay, be honest – you laughed, didn’t you?
    😀

  101. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Okay, be honest – you laughed, didn’t you?

    Yup! As for dad, if he couldn’t laugh having quads… well… not really sure what he could do. Props to that guy.

  102. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #100 TT: As if they didn’t have enough going on, there were at least 2 weiner dogs in the house in addition to the 17 chirrenzes.

  103. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Lordy I’m soooooooooooo GLAD my 2 are 31 & 33 !!

  104. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    31 & 33?
    Oh I really needed to hear that.

  105. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Lordy I’m soooooooooooo GLAD my 2 are 31 & 33 !!

    My two are 25 and 28!! Time flies! 😀

  106. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The best sound in the world is a baby’s giggle.

  107. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    86 Bonehead,
    I would agree with you that the era of the trade unions is over and that they have become bloated and greedy. The unions IMHO no longer work for the benefit of their members unless by accident.
    Where I part company with your statement!
    Labor Unions first came about as a means for workers to improve their pay, but just as important to correct egregious working conditions. To wit:
    1. 80 hour workweeks
    2. Child Labor
    3. workplace safety
    4. hazardous atmospheres and exposures.
    Child Labor no longer exists, but you can still find sweatshop labor conditions in a very few US businesses. Today, you really have to go offshore to find the same sweatshop conditions that were commonplace here a century ago.
    Workplace Safety is considerably improved, but not close to being optimum.
    The workers had only themselves to make things better a century ago as the politicians were firmly in the pockets of powerful interests.
    Simple

  108. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    105 Dave,
    Try raising a 9-year old grand daughter at the age of 65. I will be in underground housing when this one makes to her thirties.
    Simple

  109. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    This should make your day!
    Read This

  110. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    A five year old is attempting to become the youngest person to thru hike the Appalachian Trail.
    He’s doing what’s called “flip-flopping” where you start in the middle of the trail (Harpers Ferry, VA), then hike north bound (NOBO) to the northern terminus at Katahdin Mountain in Baxter State Park in ME, then go back to Harpers Ferry and hike southbound (SOBO) to Springer Mountain in GA. This strategy allows one to get the worst part of the trail done during the best weather and also insures one makes it to Katahdin before Baxter State Park closes due to winter weather (that can be as early as the middle of September).
    He’s completed 1600 miles, which leaves less than 600 to go. If he maintains the normal daily distance thru hikers achieve after being conditioned to the trail, he’s got about 30-40 days left before he’s done. He’ll have to go back to Shenandoah National Forest to do that section as it was closed during the shutdown (because, you know, you can’t walk in the woods without the government).
    He’s got a website that is as cute as a freaking newborn puppy.

  111. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Happy Birthday Bonecrusher and many more. 🙂

  112. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    “I am pro-life,” she said

  113. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Cute, maybe.
    But not as cute as this:

    Or the crazy one over there gushing about LD, AB, Miss Sunshine, and lots of other letters.

  114. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sarge #110;
    That’s awesome!!!

  115. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Sometimes puppies aren’t much fun.

  116. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Clay may have been birthplace of life, new study suggests
    Hmmm. Why does that sound familiar?

  117. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    /Day 44

  118. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Guns & Ammo, “the world’s most widely read firearms magazine,” is under fire from angry readers over a shocking editorial published in the December issue supporting gun control.
    “Way too many gun owners still seem to believe that any regulation of the right to keep and bear arms is an infringement,” contributing editor Dick Metcalf wrote in a column titled “Let’s Talk Limits.” “The fact is, all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be.”
    Because of the Second Amendment, Metcalf argues, “all U.S. citizens have a right to keep and bear arms, but I do not believe that they have a right to use them irresponsibly.”

    Guns & Ammo shocks readers with editorial calling for gun control

  119. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Clay may have been birthplace of life, new study suggests
    Hmmm. Why does that sound familiar?

    Gumby? 😉

    7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

    Genesis 2

  120. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Squawk #117;
    Send pics, please. 🙂

  121. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I liked the humor but didn’t care much for including the religious icons. (Ironic after my Gumby comment, I know).

  122. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    The breathless burbling about how Chris Christie’s victory “shows the path forward for the GOP” conveniently ignores his inability to turn New Jersey red for anyone but himself. Before election day, the New Jersey media didn’t see any reason for the Dems to worry about a Christie victory, as they enjoy a 48-32 majority in the Assembly and a 24-16 lead in the state Senate. While these numbers may change, early reports indicate most incumbents will be reelected. The New Jersey media reported that most polls indicate support for Christie won’t help any down-ballot Republicans. In 2009, Christie’s coat-tail effect was negligible too, resulting in only one new Assembly seat for the Republicans.
    Like Schwarzenegger, Christie is a useful idiot for the Democrats—a needy, politically correct, ruling-class Republican who is trending liberal on everything from “climate change” to gay marriage to size-of-government issues. Christie loves the liberal limelight—a trait that will only intensify over time. The Democrats know a Trojan Horse when they see one.
    Of course, establishment Republicans—the same geniuses who parachuted Schwarzenegger into office to the long-term detriment of their party—will ooh and ahh over Christie’s victory and argue that Tuesday’s results, in which the moderate in New Jersey won and the conservative in Virginia lost, illustrate the wisdom of ideological flexibility and the value of distance from the Tea Party. Never mind that Cuccinelli, who ran a lame and scared campaign, had made a point of avoiding Ted Cruz, even though it was Cruz’s brave stance against Obamacare and the consequences of its buffoonish rollout that ended up making the race much closer than anyone expected.
    “In the clearest sign yet of the potent effect of the government shutdown on the Virginia governor’s race, Republican Ken Cuccinelli avoided being photographed with Ted Cruz at a gala they headlined here Saturday night—even leaving before the Texas senator rose to speak,” reported Politico in early October. Republicans who behave in this craven fashion don’t deserve to win. Cuccinelli didn’t lose because he hewed to the Tea Party line; he lost because he didn’t. Had he played up his conservatism instead of running away from it while lashing McAuliffe as a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage socialist, he might have galvanized conservatives and won the race.

    Good points. This alsomay be one example of what Jonah Goldberg meant by Cuccinelli was a “flawed candidate’.
    Look to Cruz, Not to Christie

  123. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Thursday oc up.

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