1) Obama might lose reelection.
2) It's the 2012 Mayan thingy.
3) Because America didn't sign on to the Kyoto treaty.
4) Funding cutbacks to NPR and PBS.
5) Supreme Court may overturn Obamacare.
6) In support of the "Occupy" movement.
7) Those darned raccoons!
8) Really desperate to impress girls.
9) It's the fault of the Joos.
#1
I thought they realized that BO's proposed cuts to our ground forces made it more likely that a future US president would have to use nukes. But then I saw the global warmening thingy.
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01/11/2012 8:55 Comments ||
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#2
10) We might actually have to show results and work for a living!!!??
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
01/11/2012 17:22 Comments ||
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#5
IIRC, it's been within 5 minutes of midnight since before I was born.
Which was a long, long time ago.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
01/11/2012 18:21 Comments ||
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#6
Fund raising time at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and doing this is cheaper than having a new bunch of tote bags made up to reward the rubes?
#9
Doomed !, were all DOOMED ! I tell ya. I'd like to tell Obama to buggar off but who am I. I think I have found the best explanation yet. I still haven't figured out who I am. This is where it all started once upon a time a long long time ago in a land far far away. Is that an echo?!*#.
[Dawn] THAT Pervez Perv Musharraf`s ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... rally in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Sunday wasn`t much of a success goes without saying. Television showed the reality, and flags and buntings failed to hide the lack of popular enthusiasm. Coming after Imran Khan`s ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... much larger rally last month, the small crowd must have been embarrassing for the former president-general. But this was his first Bloody Karachi rally, so let us wait for more such episodes of `enlightened moderation` Addressing the people from Dubai via telephone, the former president repeated what he considered were his economic achievements and attacked those in power for failing to build on the gains.
More significantly, as head of the All Pakistain Moslem League, he declared that he would land in Bloody Karachi between Jan 27 and Jan 30 to begin his election campaign.
There are voices clamouring for a ban on his entry, and the Sindh government says it will arresthim on arrival for his alleged involvement in many cases. Why not let the law take its own course? The man knows the consequences of his arrest and trial, and if he still chooses to return to Pakistain his friends and enemies should welcome the opportunity for him to go through due process.
The key issue is whether the people want him in parliament or in power. There is nothing to suggest that the people of Pakistain would vote for a former dictator whose democratic credentials they have reason to suspect, given that he usurped power and held a fraudulent referendum among other undemocratic steps that included making arbitrary changes to the constitution and persecuting the opposition. By voting overwhelmingly in favour of the PPP and PML-N in the 2008 election when he was still in power, the people made their preferences clear. What chance does Gen Musharraf have now? Let him stand in the people`s court.
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There is nothing to suggest that the people of Pakistan would vote for a former dictator whose democratic credentials they have reason to suspect.
Um, a military coup d'etat is not democratic.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey ||
01/11/2012 17:39 Comments ||
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A Lord Garth Opinion
Almost everyone else who followed the 2012 NH Primary followed the R.side. I followed the D. side. The reason I did this, other than to be different, was that, although much of the 2012 vote is based on whether voters like the R. nominee more than the D. nominee. The vote is also based on whether voters even care. Furthermore, the vote totals for an incumbent President are a metric that is much more robust than most polls because the sample is so large (even if only in one state). Thus I report, in abbreviated form, the NH D. 2012 Presidential primary:
Obama 45,008; with 82% of the vote. No nationally known candidate opposed Obama.
Contrast this to the 1996 NH Presidential D. primary, when a D. was running for a second term. The results, in abbreviated form:
Clinton 76,754k; with 95% of the vote
His closest competitor was long ago comedian Pat Paulson with 921 votes. His closest nationally known competitor was Lyndon LaRouche with 390.
Even assuming a number of D. voters cast ballots in the R. Primary (which is possible given that Huntsman received 40,000 votes), this obviously shows an enormous lack of enthusiasm for Obama among his own party.
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01/11/2012 10:20 ||
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So 18% of New Hampshire's registered Democrats felt strongly enough about it that they went out of their way to make a meaningless vote against Pesident Obama instead of staying home and making a cup of tea? It is going to be an interesting election!
Thank you for writing this up for us, Lord Garth. :-)
#2
I look at it like he got a little more than half of what Slick Willie did in '96.
Posted by: Bobby ||
01/11/2012 18:16 Comments ||
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To be fair (not that anyone has ever accused me of that) a fair number of Democrats crossed over and voted for either Paul or Huntsman.
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I probably should have pointed out that Obama had to overcome the candidacy of Vermin Supreme who was running to stop zombies by implementing time travel.
In retrospect, it is surprising that Vermin only received about 900 votes.
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Not surprising at all - Ron Paul was on the ballot. Not all Paul's supporters are nuts, but he does attract his share ....
#7
Eff Pharaoh! Eff the Won! Eff Chi-town thug POTUS, it'll Come back 'round... 'Cause Him be/wuz
Born under a bad sign (Our Lil Pharaoh had it ruff..)
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all
Hard luck and trouble is my only friend
I been on my own ever since I was ten
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all
I can't read, haven't learned how to write
My whole life has been one big fight
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all
I ain't lyin'
If it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no kind-a luck
If it wasn't for real bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all
Wine and women is all I crave
A big legged woman is
gonna carry me to my grave
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all
Yeah, my bad luck boy
Been havin' bad luck all of my days, yes
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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