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“I’m so glad we had that storm last week”

| November 7, 2012 | 34 Comments
“I’m so glad we had that storm last week”

ROS sends us a video of Chris Matthews expressing his pleasure that there are more dead people in the world and we had that storm last week, because it catapulted Obama into the lead; You can see Rachel Maddow try to stop him from making his blunt point, although he’s not that far off. Not […]

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Election Night Live Blog

| November 6, 2012 | 66 Comments
Election Night Live Blog

All are welcome, come on in after 8:00pm Election Returns Here is a list of poll closing times across the nation on Nov. 6, 2012. All times are ET. 7:00 pm: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia 7:30 pm: North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia 8:00 pm: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, […]

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Live blog at TAH tonight

| November 6, 2012 | 44 Comments
Live blog at TAH tonight

Real life is intruding on my blogging time today, so I wanted to get this out before the next of shit gets dumped on me. But, we’re live blogging the election returns tonight. I’ll probably get everything set up by 8:30 pm. BooRadley said I should ask for volunteers early who might want to help […]

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Rolling Thunder supports Romney

| November 6, 2012 | 7 Comments
Rolling Thunder supports Romney

I know this is bound to anger some of the members and attract some trolls, but the Washington Times reports that the membership of the group Rolling Thunder which sponsors the annual rally in DC, arguably the largest annual rally in the Capital has voted to endorse Mitt Romney’s candidacy for the president. I doubt […]

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Recent-era veterans surge in Congress

| November 6, 2012 | 9 Comments
Recent-era veterans surge in Congress

According to Stars & Stripes‘ Joyce Tsai, after decades of declining numbers of veterans in Congress, recent era veterans are set to surge there this election season; Currently 92 members of the House are veterans, Lynn said. Of the 189 veterans who have received their party’s Congressional nomination this year, between 92 to 100 are […]

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“Get Out the Vet” to face down voter intimidation

| November 6, 2012 | 84 Comments
“Get Out the Vet” to face down voter intimidation

Former special operations troops are going into Philadelphia today to counteract the effect of any Black Panther folks who might be tempted to repeat their performance of the last election there and try to intimidate voters since the Justice Department doesn’t seem willing to protect voters, according to the Philly Post; Former Navy Captain Benjamin […]

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Last minute endorsements

| November 5, 2012 | 16 Comments
Last minute endorsements

500 retired flag officers are sponsoring an ad in the Washington Times today endorsing Mitt Romney for President. In plain terms the officers, who paid for the ad themselves, said they support Mr. Romney: “We, the undersigned, proudly support Governor Mitt Romney as our nation’s next president and commander-in-chief.” The ad then goes on to […]

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Everybody Knows, That the World Is Full of Stupid People . . .

| November 5, 2012 | 18 Comments
Everybody Knows, That the World Is Full of Stupid People . . .

And now we know where at least one of them lives:  Henderson, NV. Nevada, like many states, allows early voting.  Seems as if one lady in Henderson – Roxanne Reuben – decided she’d take advantage and vote early.  She did. She apparently liked the experience.  In fact, apparently she liked it so much she tried […]

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