Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, shaking up the contest for the second day in a row after exiting the race Saturday.
Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. The move was expected to consolidate GOP voters behind Hoffman on Tuesday.
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Okay, looks like I was napping and missed a thread. Go me. :p
ReplyDelete/and no, I am not hung over...
Okey dokey, I'll say it again.
ReplyDeleteBasically, Hoffman is not a shoe-in. He is running under the auspices of the Conservative Party. He owes the Republicans exactly nada and he just pissed off the Republican district operatives BIG TIME. Expect a lot of behind the scenes backstabbing and a lot of deals being cut - expecially with the unions (why do you think a RINO supported card-check?) Pataki pretty much eviscerated the Republican Party in NY so that now a Rockefeller Republican looks like Mike Huckabee to those people.
Frankly, if my name resembled "scuzzy favors," I'd think twice about running for office.
ReplyDeleteThe Democrat endorsed the Democrat.
ReplyDelete/Nothing to see here. Just move on ...
Wow, how much money did the RNC spend on this womans election?
ReplyDeleteWow, here's a great song and video. Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the repub party in the district can justify not backing Hoffman, as their 'R' candidate is now supporting the other party.
ReplyDeleteSnowcrash: Obviously way too much. Then again 5 bucks would have been too much...
ReplyDeletePaladinPhil said...
ReplyDeleteOkay, looks like I was napping and missed a thread. Go me. :p
/and no, I am not hung over...
License and registration please.
"Supporter of Democrat Policies Supports Democrat"
ReplyDeleteIn other news, research has discovered that water is likely very wet, and that the sun will very likely rise in the east tomorrow.
I am really sorry to say it, but this is what moderate Republicans do. When push comes to shove they support Democrats or change party, look at Specter. She has to be an embarassment to anyone (Newt) who came out and supported her for Party unity.
ReplyDeletePi Guy said...
ReplyDeleteIn other news, research has discovered that water is likely very wet, and that the sun will very likely rise in the east tomorrow.
Research, besmearch. None of this is true because I say/believe so.
--unidentified democrat in office with power
Just don't dare call her a RINO.
ReplyDelete/ya teabagging Creationist wingnuts
Can we call her a cab?
ReplyDeleteSo she supports the stimulus, card check, cap & trade, and Obamacare. Big deal.
ReplyDelete/what good Republican doesn't?
In other news, research has discovered that water is likely very wet, and that the sun will very likely rise in the east tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteIT'S BECAUSE OF TEH GLOBAL WARMZING!!1! I IZ HAZ TEH PROOF!!1!
Can we call her a cab?
ReplyDeleteSure. But let's get her a cover for that grill.
snowcrash
ReplyDeleteShe has to be an embarassment to anyone (Newt) who came out and supported her for Party unity.
You're misunderstanding Newt's reasoning. His thinking was the the local party leaders know their local politcs better than the people at the national level, and if they thought Dede was a winner, their judgement should be respected. Because when all is said and done, he was looking at the Republican body count.
Now, you may not AGREE with that reasoning. I certainly didn't because she'd still vote like a Democrat.
Commercial lender CIT has just filed Chap. 11
ReplyDeleteThat means the commercial real estate market is about to go belly up.
You know all those little strip malls on the edge of town?
Invest in lumber. They're about to be boarded up.
via Fox
Phil,
ReplyDeleteThank you.
This is for you
Invest in lumber. They're about to be boarded up.
ReplyDelete'rats blame Bush in 3... 2... 1...
*sniff* thanks NY Nana. It's that time of year again too, isn't it?
ReplyDelete/as if we shouldn't remember them all the time
When there's blood on the streets, buy real estate.
ReplyDelete'The Matrix' producer in talks to make Prophet Mohammad film
ReplyDeleteA film about the Prophet Mohammad backed by the producer of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" is under discussion, a Qatar media firm said on Sunday, aiming to create an English-language blockbuster for the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.
Filming of the $150 million movie is set to start in 2011, with Barrie Osborne as its producer, Alnoor Holdings said.
Alnoor said the film - in which the Prophet would not be depicted, in accordance with Islamic strictures - was in development and talks were being held with studios, talent agencies and distributors in the United States and Britain.
/let the riots begin
Hi everyone. I am trying out my new laptop. Running Windows 7. Still learning how it all works but damn this thing is fast.
ReplyDeleteDede Scuzzbean endorses Democrat?
ReplyDeleteWhy am I not surprised?
Bears win!
ReplyDeleteErik - um, your post is in Chinese. No one can read it. Who made your computer's software?/
ReplyDeletemidwestgak said...
ReplyDeleteErik - um, your post is in Chinese. No one can read it. Who made your computer's software?/
Oh shit I hope I can take it back to the corner store and get a refund.
Phil,
ReplyDelete'It's that time of year again too, isn't it?'
Sadly, it seems to be getting worse...as they see The One for the weakling, dithering fool as no obstacle to their devastating increase in fatalities.
Canada is our closest ally, and The One probably can't even spell it.
May G-d bless all of the troops who are fighting the just fight.
/If the 3 AM phone call ever came? The One would be hiding under the bed in fetal position, cuddling his teddy bear, while Michelle handled it.
NY Nana said...
ReplyDeletePhil,
'It's that time of year again too, isn't it?'
Sadly, it seems to be getting worse...as they see The One for the weakling, dithering fool as no obstacle to their devastating increase in fatalities.
The word "dithering" has really attached itself to 0bama. Take a look at this:
Google search: dithering Obama
@Attila, that Thomas Sowell article on the economics of healthcare you posted in the previous thread is a must-read. I vote for "threading".
ReplyDeleteFF
ReplyDeleteglad you liked it. (EVERYTHING the man says is threadworthy!)
It's 3AM And The Prime Minister Of Israel Is Calling
ReplyDelete/Obama ain't taking the call
Once a crafty Democrat captured the White House
ReplyDeleteSat in the shade of a Rose Garden tree
When asked what to do 'bout the troops in Afghanistan
Said, "I'm just a Dithering Obama, that's me."
Dithering Obama, Dithering Obama
Can't make decisions, his brain is like mush
Dithering Obama, Dithering Obama
Don't know what to do? Just blame it on Bush.
Pi Guy
ReplyDeleteGreat job! Yes, he is a dithering idiot...also a blithering idiot.
(Spew alert warning! ;)
doppelganglander
ReplyDeleteHey, I needed a spew alert warning on that one! Fresca™ is dripping all over my monitor. Luckily it's sugar-free.
Well, the Palis aren't happy that Obama isn't forcing a complete "settlement" freeze on Israel, and they won't talk without one.
ReplyDeleteArticle here
So much for Obama's peace prize.
Excellent ditty, doppel!
ReplyDeleteThank you buzz! I bow at the feet of the master!
ReplyDelete"I hear America singing--the varied carols I hear"
ReplyDelete--Walt Whitman
Mighty quiet around these parts. Are you guys sleepin'? [Hikes up pants like an old man] ; )
ReplyDeleteSo much for Obama's peace prize.
ReplyDeleteYou mean 'popularity contest award', don't you?
Why is Bare ronery?
ReplyDelete(Psssssst: We're almost certainly 'moving' tomorrow morning.)
ReplyDeleteNot sleeping.
ReplyDeleteEating pumpkin pie loaded with whipped cream and reading Sowell.
/And basking in the glory that the Bucs did not lose today.
Hey, let's use Scozzfava as a RINO acid test. So many people abuse the acronym ... let's have her as the poster child.
ReplyDeleteOLT, he took Friday off from work to work on C2, and spent all day yesterday alone in his (admittedly very cool) apartment doing the same...I couldn't get over there to help so he changed his display name to give me a hard time. : )
ReplyDeleteCC: Please keep me informed of the new location, or anything related to it I need to know.
ReplyDeleteWhite House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said on ABC's "This Week" that Democrats would "love" to have the Republican candidate back Owens.
ReplyDelete"It's rather telling when the Republican Party forces out a moderate Republican and it says, I think, a great deal about where the Republican Party is right now," she said.
Well, when Valerie "Truth to Power" Jarrett says someone is a "moderate" that pretty much clinches it that Doodie Scuzzyfavabeans is a tin-foil-wearing Marxist-Leninist wingnut.
CC: That's exciting! I guess I should check my email for instructions on how to use my sooper seekrit decoder ring.
ReplyDeleteEating pumpkin pie loaded with whipped cream and reading Sowell.
ReplyDeleteSounds worthwhile!
If Bare is truly ronery, Hillary Clinton will appear to him ... I have seen this happen ...
ReplyDeleteThe time a man spends eating pumpkin pie is not deducted from his lifespan.
ReplyDelete/
But it is added to his beltspan.
*yawn*
ReplyDeleteI'm pooped. Just finished cutting up a leg of lamb and freezing it. Now time to do the same to a duck.
There's something about cleaning the meat from the bone with a sharp knife that makes the world seem all that much brighter.
. . .
oh dear -- I bet the Igors will pick that up, won't they, to discredit my political commentary.
I made a pumpkin pie yesterday. Getting on time to have me a piece or five.
ReplyDelete"Igors"?
ReplyDeleteDid I miss a phrase-coining?
/been up to my arse in duties this weekend
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteI made a pumpkin pie yesterday. Getting on time to have me a piece or five.
Cannibals, of course, do not eat pumpkin pie.
But they do get pumped over kin pie.
No pie here. Two pounds of white beans, a hambone, and several cups of assorted murdered carrots, onions, and celery.
ReplyDeleteIgor -- hunchy backed minions who, at the biddings of their masters, go gathering parts from other blogs to be sewn into monsters.
ReplyDeleteDopple, I'm glad you brought that up.
ReplyDeleteI'll make a bigger announcement about this so everyone will see it, but what will happen is this:
Each of you will get an email from "membership" at correspondencecommittee; in it, you'll get a temporary password you can log in with, and a link to the log in page. Once you get it, you can log in, go to "My C2" (on the right side of the screen, near the bottom) and change your password and security question.
And that's it.
There will be very little besides a welcome thread there to start with (though I'm hoping to ask Pi for something special in his history forum - Pi, I'll email you!), but that will give everyone a chance to see our concept and kind of relax...like one of those days when you move into a new house and get Chinese takeout and sit on the floor eating it with a pair of chopsticks by the glow of your only unpacked lamp. : )
buzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteCannibals, of course, do not eat pumpkin pie.
But they do get pumped over kin pie.
I'd fire back a "mincemeat" pun, but all I came up with was kind of ... well ...
Mmm pumpkin pie. I will trade you 1/2 of an apple cinnamon bundt cake for same amt of pie.
ReplyDeleteCC
ReplyDelete(Psssssst: We're almost certainly 'moving' tomorrow morning.)
youse guys goona post a link or sumthin?
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteIgor -- hunchy backed minions who, at the biddings of their masters, go gathering parts from other blogs to be sewn into monsters.
I LIKE that. Bravo!
OLT: It's all part of the daily grind.
ReplyDeleteI'd fire back a "mincemeat" pun, but all I came up with was kind of ... well ...
ReplyDeleteLight in the Meatloaf-ers?
Nothing here for a while, then I look away for a few minutes, and boom.
ReplyDeleteSo when do we get instructions for the new place?
Cha-cha diagrams!
ReplyDeleteLucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteLight in the Meatloaf-ers?
Something along the line of cannibal pies and "men's-meat", but then I realized that that was subject to wild misinterpretation ...
Oh, and if anyone has trouble with anything in the registration process, we'll get you in one way or another - don't worry.
ReplyDeletePinkie is unavailable for much of tomorrow, but Bare and I will be around (though he will be at work until late afternoon).
We'll have Blogspot open too, tomorrow. It's going to be our backup site, so it will always remain up for announcments, with comments going to moderation (in other words, not publishing unless approved).
So when do we get instructions for the new place?
ReplyDeleteThey're in a brown paper sack in a locker at the train station. You'll get a call with the locker number and information regarding where the key may be found.
Shepherd's pie made with real shepherd...
ReplyDeleteLucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteLight in the Meatloaf-ers?
Kosh's Shadow says
Eddie? He seemed pretty heavy to me.
Another slice, anyone?
CC - Sowell is a very educational read for people like me. And pumpkin pie with whipped cream is just ... very ...
ReplyDelete/Warming up for Thanksgiving.
The daily grind is all well and good. I'm still punch-drunk from yesterday's schedule which included three hours of drill team dance rehearsal (yours truly will be on the 50 yard line next Friday night playing a greaser dancing with a swell babe) and three hours of Boy Scout door-to-door popcorn sales.
ReplyDelete/whew
Kosh, most likely tomorrow morning.
ReplyDeleteBare is getting the few remaining bugs taken care of today. The commenting system is zippy and functioning pretty well - just a couple of things to figure out.
We're going to be short on news for the next 48 hours or so, but we figure you guys will understand why.
Shepherd's pie made with real shepherd...
ReplyDeleteLOL
subject to wild misinterpretation ...
ReplyDeleteReferences to plump juicy sausage between soft buns could be misinterpreted?
buzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteShepherd's pie made with real shepherd...
Lucky batsard. Mom only buys us imitation shepherd.
youse guys goona post a link or sumthin?
ReplyDeleteWe're gonna send you an email! A personal touch! ; )
C² will there be avatars? If so, I'll need to get one ready.
ReplyDeleteIf not, I believe you said there'd be tag lines, so I'm ready with that one; an appropriate comment for a Vorlon and Shadow.
My tag line:
ReplyDeleteYou're it.
Forget the tag lines. Will there be conga lines?
ReplyDeleteCC: Please keep me informed of the new location, or anything related to it I need to know.
ReplyDeleteOf course! I didn't buy Pink a fifty-dollar steak for getting you in here just to leave you behind, you know. ; )
buzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteForget the tag lines. Will there be conga lines?
It's the ObamaNation. Bread lines.
/no soup for you
How about "indoor alpine lift lines"?
ReplyDeleteOf course, if there are tag lines, I hereby claim "Oh, yeah? Sez you!" in my name.
ReplyDeleteKing Ferdinand and Queen Isabella will have to get their own tag line.
OLT, our H.S. drill team is the Lariettes and when the dads perform with them they are the Larry's. Fun half time show.
ReplyDeleteLucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteReferences to plump juicy sausage between soft buns could be misinterpreted?
I've been taken to task over MUCH less, believe me.
This just landed in my inbox from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
ReplyDeleteLate yesterday news broke that the moderate Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, candidate in the hard-fought special election in New York's 23rd Congressional district, had been driven out and the Republican party was throwing their weight behind the Palin/Limbaugh/Glen Beck endorsed radical tea party candidate instead.
Today, the moderate Republican threw her support behind our proud Democratic candidate Bill Owens.
It has never been clearer that the Republican Party has been hijacked by extreme right wing ideologues with a radical agenda that would effectively dismantle Social Security and Medicare, and are out of step with a vast majority of Americans.
*snore*
Kosh, another good question.
ReplyDeleteThere will be avatars, and they will need to be square. They will display 35/35 pixels, like the ones on Blogspot.
If anyone has difficulty with making something with those dimensions, let me know and I'll see what I can do to help you out. I can do it quickly and easily if I know what you want.
It's the ObamaNation. Bread lines.
ReplyDeleteBut it will be organic boutique bread!
Enjoy your crust.
The DNC is on crack, isn't it?
ReplyDeletesnowcrash said...
ReplyDeleteOLT, our H.S. drill team is the Lariettes and when the dads perform with them they are the Larry's. Fun half time show.
Well, they're the Charms, and at these prices I'm obviously a Chump.
/
I went to J.F. Dobie H.S., the Longhorns. We had Lariettes, too
The tag lines! Yes, we had them, and they displayed on each comment - but we decided they cluttered the cells too much (blame me and my love for minimalist design), so we removed them - but they will display on your personal profile page (viewable when someone clicks on your avatar).
ReplyDeleteAnd here I am, the last known human with the electronics that still flash 12:00 being given computer instructions to find her way home.
ReplyDelete/ack!
Atilla: I in no way support a truly "radical right wing agenda," such as, say, Ron Paul and his acolytes--but I am prepared to say that a few radical right wingers thrown into the mix merely would act to balance the vast number of radical leftwingers we currently have running around loose.
ReplyDeleteI NEEEEEEED (not want) coffee...I'll be back in a second, and I'll try to answer all your questions. BRB.
ReplyDeleteCorre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteThere will be avatars, and they will need to be square. They will display 35/35 pixels, like the ones on Blogspot.
If anyone has difficulty with making something with those dimensions, let me know and I'll see what I can do to help you out. I can do it quickly and easily if I know what you want.
The Goddess Liberty with the flag of Texas draped over one shoulder, striding through a battlefield with a flaming sword, seraphim attendant.
/ah, gonna need that before the TPR reports, yeah ...
buzz
ReplyDeletebut I am prepared to say that a few radical right wingers thrown into the mix merely would act to balance the vast number of radical leftwingers we currently have running around loose.
Well, you think Ron Paul andBernie Sanders balance each other out?
I don't
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteThe DNC is on crack, isn't it?
They're addicted to sniffing their own farts, and their heads are so far up their asses that they don't need wineglasses.
Atilla: I think they're both unbalanced--but I think some people who are really committed to slashing government programs are needed to counter the people who are hell-bent on bloating them up, and I figure that each will operate to cancel out some of the other's more outre lunacies.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if I'm wrong, we're really in for it.
But what if we want to stay here?
ReplyDelete/blogspot rocks!
The Goddess Liberty with the flag of Texas draped over one shoulder, striding through a battlefield with a flaming sword, seraphim attendant.
ReplyDelete/ah, gonna need that before the TPR reports, yeah ...
LOL (I'm going to be in a field smashing a PC with a baseball bat if that's what's going to happen!)
K/B...a whole new commenting system went up last night - feels much more solid, to me - but we can stay here if you want. : )
ReplyDeleteCorre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteK/B...a whole new commenting system went up last night - feels much more solid, to me - but we can stay here if you want. : )
/if we move, how will our stalkers know what we're up to?
Killian, how cool is that!
ReplyDeleteCC - what's up with your Packers?
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I post this there will be a new thread, arg
Killian Bundy said...
ReplyDelete/if we move, how will our stalkers know what we're up to?
If they're worth a stalker salary, they'll figure it out ...
One more contribution and then I'm off for the night.
ReplyDeleteHappiness is the Freedom to Prosper
William Inboden: When we put together this Prosperity Index and were thinking about the foundations of prosperity, we started with the definition of prosperity as being both money and the quality of life. Quality of life we measure by how people answer survey questions like, "Are you satisfied with your life?" or, "Are you very happy?"
So, taking those two outcomes -- of does the economy grow and generate more wealth and are the people becoming happier and having a high quality of life -- we then asked ourselves what are the different factors that go into that. What are the foundations or component parts that help create those good outcomes. And when we did all of our statistical analysis we came up with nine different component parts. They are: economic fundamentals, entrepreneurship and innovation, democratic institutions, education, health, safety and security, governance, personal freedom, and social capital.
[ ]
Inboden: We are aware of a particular model that some countries are trying to develop now where they will, say, grow the economy and increase their income but also maintain very tight control by the government, not allowing citizens their freedom of speech, their freedom of worship, their freedom of assembly. That also seems to have a negative effect on the strength of families and communities and it may work for a few years where, whether it is because of oil revenues or low-cost manufacture and exports, a country like Russia and China can have some narrow success there.
But what our study seems to show, and we try to use data going back 40 years, is that over time that model will not work, that all of these different freedoms and goods need to go together, and a country that tries to only have one and to squeeze out the others will inevitably find that it can't even achieve a sustainable economic growth.
'nite everybody......
Oh yeah, KB - that reminds me:
ReplyDeleteOriginally, our plan was to keep all comments from being viewed by the public for a period of time, just to help us establish the character of the forum (and to make moderation easier to handle)...but we've decided that's no longer necessary, since we've basically done that here and the community has been so cooperative on our policy.
So comments will be open to public viewing. Registration, of course, will be closed - but people will be able to read your commments.
We can have the occasional private thread if you all want one, but we're not really seeing a need for that.
Unless I hear a ton of blowback on this, I'll assume you're all good with it.
C², the only need I see for a private closed thread is paranoia. I don't see us being that way so let it all hang out.
ReplyDelete/I am sure Running Bare would like that....
CC - what's up with your Packers?
ReplyDeleteCan't even think about it right now, my friend.
LOL P2
ReplyDeleteNew open thread going up in something like two minutes.
ReplyDeleteCC, bummer. The thought of yanking chains for a little while is very attractive to me.
ReplyDeleteI want my ton of blow back!
ReplyDelete--Tony Montana
CC - Registration by invitation. That does cut down on the need for monitorization. That's not a word, but it rhymes. kinda.
ReplyDeleteLOL snowcrash - well, we'll see. ; )
ReplyDeleteWe just feel like half the appeal of the site is seeing what you guys are saying, because that's the entertainment of it...there probably wouldn't be any real point to reading C2 if people could only see the thread topics.
Registration by invitation cuts down on moderation. LOL gak, by jove, I think you've got it!
ReplyDeleteLOL buzz
ReplyDeleteCC, ignore me. I am not a malicious person but I do have my moments. LOL
ReplyDeletesnowcrash said...
ReplyDeleteCC, ignore me. I am not a malicious person but I do have my moments. LOL
Yeah, but I am. I'll pick up your slack.
/Malevolent, too
/Mean, even
snowcrash said...
ReplyDeleteCC, ignore me. I am not a malicious person but I do have my moments. LOL
If your didn't you wouldn't be human. Every now and then we have to laugh at someone elses' misfortune.
/probably going to get raked about that statement.
: )
ReplyDeleteI love you guys.
OK, I read that as "/probably going to get NAKED about that statement".
ReplyDelete/have to quit hanging out with Bare