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Thursday, November 4. 2010

Thurs morning S&M links


A spanking is what was administered to the Dems on Tuesday, minus (or not) the fun sado-masochistic eroticism. (Don't ever try to tell me that you've never had kinky thoughts.) Pic is from Vintage Spanking.


Still strange in CT - who won?


First they came for my Happy Meals...


"Soft tyranny"


TNR: The Gates Foundation's Delusional Techno-Messianism


GOP sweeps FL, wins Maine (!) governorship


Wins keep coming in


Harsanyi:



No matter what happens, for now, we can look forward to two glorious years of hyper-partisan acrimonious gridlock: Washington's most moral and productive state.



Gridlock is good.


Wherein Ace gets a taste of Politics 101


Opinion: Why Are Voters Only 'Angry' When They're Tossing Dems Out?


Well, who says it?


SDA: Bits you might have missed


Including Alabama


North Carolina: The strangest beast in all of politics


NRO: New York Wrap


As hopeless as CA


How did Harry Reid do it?


He won ugly.


Podhoretz: No time to celebrate- GOP remarkably sober at win


Us, too.

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So the Conn Sec. of State just makes up a number and declares a winner? She has declared an "unofficial" winner? Isn't her job to declare the official winner?

What the Hell?
#1 NJSoldier on 2010-11-04 08:34 (Reply)
Apparently so. Yesterday morning at 6 AM Foley had a comfortable, but narrow lead and by noon, Malloy was "unofficially" the winner as declared by Bysiewicz.

I'm sure that its all on the up and up, but....
#1.1 Tom Francis on 2010-11-04 10:13 (Reply)
It's not structurally a good deal when wealthy people spend huge amounts on charity, in any case.

The benefit of wealth is that the wealthy spend only a tiny percentage of their income on consumption. The rest is capital, and capital is what makes the ditch digger with power equipment earn more than the ditch digger with a shovel.

The wealthy get to decide where to invest, based on some chance of a return, and that's what grows the economy and raises the standard of living.

If instead they have delusions of charity, that charity comes out of capital, and almost certainly hurts more than it helps. If it helps at all!
#2 rhhardin (Link) on 2010-11-04 08:40 (Reply)
Seems to me THIS is the year that shows we're a post-racial country. This is a headline that should be trumpeted.

Alabama and N Carolina have Republican legislatures. The era of the "blue dog democrat" is gone. Conservatives no longer have to hide b/c of the Republican involvement in eliminating slavery and pushing civil rights.

That's the story of this election. Eugene Robinson, Leonard Pitts, Al Sharpton...they've all been discredited.
#3 DrTorch on 2010-11-04 08:53 (Reply)
Geez, I wish you'd put pics like that below the fold. I love to read you blog, but would prefer not to be fired for it.
#4 Artemis on 2010-11-04 09:47 (Reply)
Agreed. I have to scroll past this really fast.

BTW, your site got banned from a gov't facility in UT, as it's considered pornography. I think it was the Apple Pie picture.
#4.1 DrTorch on 2010-11-04 11:45 (Reply)
How did Harry Reid do it?

Question is why so many girls who ain't angels are being pushed to the front lines of GOP.

In New Mexico it was a no brainer deciding who to pull for, as both Candidates were girls.

While ole Susanna be no angle she ain't a Demonrat who rode the tail of one of Dems' lousiest lieing thieves, Wiley Billy-Dick Richardson.

Having a Palin endorsement couldn't even put our tejana down.
#5 Leag on 2010-11-04 10:50 (Reply)
MOM!
#6 buddy larsen on 2010-11-04 11:49 (Reply)
and Aunt Cindy.
#6.1 arcs on 2010-11-04 13:19 (Reply)
There now, Boo, 'memberin' MF anthem?

Well, she talks to all the servants
About man and God and law
Everybody says
She’s the brains behind pa
She’s sixty-eight, but she says she’s twenty-four
#6.2 Leag on 2010-11-04 13:48 (Reply)
San Francisco plans to ban Happy Meals toys. By what right? By what authority? A Happy Meals toy is an expression of speech, as surely as burning a flag or advertising on a car. It is commercial speech, subject to a few laws about truthfulness, but it is still speech and therefore protected.
If McDonald's restaurants in SF were to shut down for three days, it might please the board but it will anger many residents. Who might then vote for reasonable humans and not this crowd. I'd make this a litmus test: if you voted for this ban, I will never vote for you.
#7 Geoff Brown on 2010-11-04 14:12 (Reply)
Three days? They should make a statement, shut down, lay off all their San Fran employees, and never come back. So should every other decent business. You can not have a conscience and still do business in or with San Fran. I would sooner do business with the Taliban.
#7.1 BOYCOTTT SAN FRANCISCO on 2010-11-07 15:46 (Reply)
Geoff, me boy, settle down.

MacDonalds ain't goin' to close and what do yall have against fruits, anyhoo?
#8 Leag on 2010-11-04 14:46 (Reply)
Victory is just so damned sexy! This is going to leave a mark...
#9 twolaneflash on 2010-11-04 21:32 (Reply)

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