In NH, Palin’s endorsement a boon in primary, a risk in the general
Kelly Ayotte, former NH attorney general and now candidate for the U.S. Senate
Like Karen Handel here in Georgia, Republican Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire has been endorsed as a “Mama Grizzly” by Sarah Palin in Ayotte’s campaign for the GOP Senate nomination.
That endorsement is likely to help Ayotte considerably in the primary, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling. In their survey conducted July 23-25, 48 percent of New Hampshire conservatives said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by Palin, while 18 percent said a Palin endorsement would be a turnoff.
Last week, I questioned how much credit Palin should be given for pushing Handel to her first-place finish in the Republican gubernatorial primary here in Georgia (Handel still faces an Aug. 10 runoff with Nathan Deal.) The polling results out of New Hampshire suggest that I might have been mistaken — Palin may indeed have been a difference maker.
However, if you dig a little deeper into the PPP crosstabs, you find that Palin’s endorsement cuts both ways. Overall, 51 percent of NH voters say that a Palin endorsement would make them less likely to vote for a candidate, while just 26 percent say a Palin endorsement would make them more supportive. Among self-described NH moderates, just 14 percent see a Palin endorsement as positive, while 65 percent see it as a problem. And according to PPP, moderates make up 47 percent of the NH electorate.
In April, well before the Palin endorsement, Ayotte’s favorable/unfavorable numbers among NH independents stood at 35/23. By last week, they had fallen to 33/38. Ayotte still has a lead over Democrat Paul Hodes, but according to PPP it has closed from 47-40 in April to 45-42. (As of July 12, Rasmussen put Ayotte up over Hodes by 49-37%.)
PS: Here’s the gender breakdown on the effect of a Palin endorsement question:
…….More likely……Less likely
Men…….30……………..48
Women…22……………..53
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RW-(the original)
July 27th, 2010
6:09 pm
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RW-(the original)
July 27th, 2010
6:10 pm
Sorry, Andy.
Scooter
July 27th, 2010
6:10 pm
Ok,I need some help here as usual! If Harry ain’t nif, who is he?
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
6:10 pm
“Has a real identity crisis, doesn’t he?”
Yep…and the poor thing just can NOT help displaying the same personality every time.
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
6:12 pm
“If Harry ain’t nif, who is he?”
Wasn’t it LA who was posting as “Fred” the other day? Too bad there’s no “cross blog” search…that rant about evolution would be dead give-away. I think he posted pretty much that same baloney late last week.
Scarecrow
July 27th, 2010
6:13 pm
Jay, after reading some of these “POSTS” — when did the people in GA become so hateful about the needs and concerns of their fellow citizens. Some of the people in GA (and other states) have come upon hard times and need help and the resources that the Federal and State governments provide — but these “folks” on your blog would rather seem them homeless, hungry and begging on the streets!! What happened to compassion. Peadawg do you attend any kind of religious facility? You are just mean and unforgiving!
Mick
July 27th, 2010
6:14 pm
I noticed that del had to duck out quickly when I asked if he is refusing his social security. Anyone who arguments against that program, and this is just my opinion, is – NUTZ
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
6:14 pm
BTW, Josef…should we open a book on how long it takes him to come back and boast we have nothing else to talk about but him?
RW-(the original)
July 27th, 2010
6:14 pm
DoggoneGA,
Just pick out some relevant text and tell google only to search this site.
Jay
July 27th, 2010
6:15 pm
The deficit ballooned because the Great Recession slashed revenues and drove up costs, events that were already well under way by 2007 and would have occurred regardless of who controlled Congress. TARP, you recall, was passed at Bush’s urging.
The one thing that would have been different had the GOP still controlled Washington would have been the stimulus package. But Republicans would still have put together a stimulus — doing nothing would not have been an option under the circumstances. Their version of the stimulus would have been much more heavily weighted toward tax cuts, which in turn would have put still more money in the hands of those who already had a lot of money and were refusing to spend it.
As a result, the GOP stimulus would have failed, the economy would be even worse than it is now and thus the deficit would be even bigger.
All standard economics that even most conservative economists would acknowledge, if only in private.
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
6:16 pm
“Just pick out some relevant text and tell google only to search this site”
Oh yeah! Forgot about being able to do that! Thanks.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
6:19 pm
Doggone
At least he doesn’t suffer from multiple personality disorder, eh?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 27th, 2010
6:21 pm
Yeah and the cow jumped over the moon.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, some of us realize that the US entitlement system, wholly devised by dummycrats, is no better than a Madoff Ponzi scheme with the one difference being that the dummycrats aren’t in jail.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 27th, 2010
6:26 pm
The rebound in profits ought to be a good omen. It frees companies to be more aggressive. They’re sitting on huge cash reserves: a record of $838 billion for industrial companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index (companies like Apple, Boeing and Caterpillar) at the end of March, up 26 percent from a year earlier. “They have the wherewithal to do whatever they want — hire; make new investments; raise dividends; do mergers and acquisitions,” says S&P’s Howard Silverblatt. Historically, higher profits lead to higher employment, says Mark Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com.
Watch what happens when the Repugs do get their tax cuts.
Government revenue isn’t everything, oh wait, yeah it is, to a socialist anyway…
stands for decibels
July 27th, 2010
6:27 pm
Someone mention SS? Hadda pass this along before departing for the evening…
One big mystery to me about the catfood commission is that there are people who think that all they need to do is find some “fix” which will allow Social Security to be scored as “solvent” for 75 years and then we’ll all join hands and sing and all political controversy about the issue will disappear forever.
The people on the Right want to destroy Social Security and steal all the money. That’s their goal. And if something the catfood commission proposes is actually passed, they’ll get right back to work on their goals.
kayaker 71
July 27th, 2010
6:29 pm
original topic,
If this Mama Grizzley is so inconsequential in the upcoming 2010 election, why does Bookman have so many threads about this dumb, uninformed, ditzo from Alaska who doesn’t have a clue? Why does it become necessary to demonize this woman, yet again, for what she believes? I haven’t seen a Republican candidate yet who has shunned her endorsement like some of the Demos that have pretended that Bozo didn’t exist. Now, who has the political power here and who is in the driver’s seat? If you don’t have that figured out yet Bookman, your head is in the sand.
stands for decibels
July 27th, 2010
6:34 pm
If this Mama Grizzley is so inconsequential in the upcoming 2010 election
Jay was arguing the opposite.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 27th, 2010
6:36 pm
standsfordingbats- Considering that Social “Security” is mostly forcefully coerced from people who earned it and given to people who haven’t earned it, your usage of the word “stolen” is rather obtuse, just sayin…
stands for decibels
July 27th, 2010
6:39 pm
Aww. Is Andy having another bad day?
You’ll cash your SS checks (ok, they’ll probably be direct-deposited) just like every whiny-ass crybaby conservadroid posting here, and you’ll be glad it’s there for you. And if you live to actuarial expectations, you’ll discover it was a pretty good deal, considering what you’d contributed.
Pleasant evening, all.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 27th, 2010
6:39 pm
Well, I’m with Harry Whathisname on this Black Panther thing. It would scare me to death to go to the polls with one of Those People standing there with a big baton in his hand. Unless I was with about 40 other godly rednecks and maybe five or six big pot-bellied White cops and a couple deputies. Things have been turned upside down in the past few years and I don’t like it one bit. Use to be Those People knowed their place, and it wasn’t at the polls. Unless they could pass a reading test and owned some property. We are going against God’s Will. We’ll always be better than them because we were born that way.
That’s my opinion and it’s very true. Have a good night everybody. Even you librul heathens.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
6:41 pm
Doggone
I think Harry was here last p.m. under at least 3 aliases…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 27th, 2010
6:41 pm
standsfordingbats- In fact, I will increase my Tithing conversely to what ever pittance you libs stick in the mail.
Just the facts, m’am.
Scooter
July 27th, 2010
6:42 pm
kayaker 71
July 27th, 2010
6:29 pm
I think the Libs hatred for Palin is making her more revelent and they don’t even realize it. IMO
RW-(the original)
July 27th, 2010
6:44 pm
I keep posting this over and over.
That’s for sure.
RW-(the original)
July 27th, 2010
6:45 pm
That was a mighty quick ejection.
Dave R.
July 27th, 2010
6:46 pm
Jay @ 6:15: “As a result, the GOP stimulus would have failed, the economy would be even worse than it is now and thus the deficit would be even bigger.”
As opposed to the Democrat stimulus which has failed MISERABLY, Jay?
If the GOP were in charge, there would be no health care reform, which is costing firms future capital, there would be a smaller deficit, because they would have sent far less than almost a trillion bucks, and there would be no financial reform, which caused firms to wait on investments to their businesses.
Sorry, Jay, you missed the boat again, because you don’t understand how the free market reacts to government intervention.
casual observer
July 27th, 2010
6:46 pm
The word BOO! Has been replaced in the Lib dictionary with the word Palin!
Nothing frightens them more. It is Hilarious.
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
6:48 pm
“At least he doesn’t suffer from multiple personality disorder, eh?”
That he doesn’t! Different name, same person…every time.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
6:50 pm
casual observer
Did you catch the drive by using the monniker “not so casual observer?”
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
6:51 pm
Doggone
Count down on the “nothing better to talk about” post…?
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
6:52 pm
“Nothing frightens them more”
Frightening? Not to me. But she IS good for a laugh now and then. And a good laugh is good for ya.
Scooter
July 27th, 2010
6:53 pm
Ok,so I take nobody knows who Harry really is. Except Jay of course!
getalife
July 27th, 2010
6:54 pm
A decent reality show.
The Palins.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
6:56 pm
Scooter
Not even Harry knows who Harry is in name…
Scout
July 27th, 2010
6:56 pm
Jay:
Since you’re talking about that area of the country:
1) NEW HAMPSHIRE: “No license is required to ‘openly’ carry a firearm while on foot.”
2) VERMONT: “Vermont allows the concealed or open carrying of firearms without any permit requirement. Vermont law does not distinguish between residents and non-residents of the state; both have the same right to carry while in Vermont.
AND HERE IS THE REASON:
“The Vermont constitution of 1793, based partly on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, guarantees certain freedoms and rights to the citizens: “That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State — and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.”
F. Sinkwich
July 27th, 2010
6:57 pm
I’m heartened to read that Jay realizes that an Obama endorsement of his candidate of choice Barnes would be catastrophic to Barnes’ candidacy.
Yet Palin’s endorsement of Handel seemed to help her.
Gee, why is that?
Gee, why is that?
Scout
July 27th, 2010
6:58 pm
P.S. NEW HAMPSHIRE’S MOTTO:
“LIVE FREE OR DIE”
@@
July 27th, 2010
6:59 pm
Aahhwww, this is sad. President Obama will not be showing up, in person, to address the Boy Scouts of America on the occasion of their 100th anniversary.
He’s gonna make a live appearance with his girl scouts on The View.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
6:59 pm
Scooter
Perhaps he’s from the zoo…
Which zoo?
‘ow would I know which zoo, I’m not the Bruin
Who’s he?
Oh, he knows everything!
I wouldn’t like that, It would take all the mystery out of life.
(with apologies to monty python…)
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:01 pm
F Sinkwich
I caught a glimpse of that Barnes thingie scrolling through earlier…did Jay ever say why he thought that?
F. Sinkwich
July 27th, 2010
7:02 pm
@@,
He’s a girly-man, fer sure.
Ever seen him throw a baseball?
F. Sinkwich
July 27th, 2010
7:03 pm
josef, didn’t see specifics. But its true.
@@
July 27th, 2010
7:04 pm
When Harry Met jay’s Sallies.
Sorry, josef…couldn’t resist.
(ISH)
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:05 pm
F Sinkwich
Yes, it is…I’m just interested in what Jay has to say about why…
Scout
July 27th, 2010
7:05 pm
@@:
It’s not sad ………….. it’s pathetic !
“And so he bowed.”
@@
July 27th, 2010
7:05 pm
Yes Sinkwich, I did see him throw that baseball. Saw Dennis Miller too.
I can throw better than both of ‘em.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:06 pm
@@
That’s a good one!
Del
July 27th, 2010
7:10 pm
I really have to hand it to Callahan. I think he logged off just before I did around 6:00pm and his spirit lived on for what appears to be over one hour. He stirred things up and the lib’s were beside themselves. Good job of getting goats on here.
Jay
July 27th, 2010
7:10 pm
Really? You need that explained?
Palin’s endorsements have been useful because they’ve come in primary races, where the party faithful and already convinced turn out to vote. As the NH poll suggests, they would be much less useful and maybe even damaging in a general election.
And that’s what Barnes is now in — a general election, where endorsements from fellow Democrats don’t really help much.
@@
July 27th, 2010
7:10 pm
Scout:
It’s not sad ………….. it’s pathetic !
It really is, especially considering how many minorities participate in the program. Our church sponsors a troop. I’d say 85% are minorities. Many from single-parent households where the Mom is looking for male role models to assist them in raising their sons.
F. Sinkwich
July 27th, 2010
7:13 pm
josef, I think Jay believes that Georgians are neanderthals — he doesn’t understand how anyone can’t enthusiastically support someone as smart, erudite, educated, articulate, and wonderful as the Messiah, Obama.
He thinks it’s because Georgians back-woods, trailer-park, white-trash, hood-wearing stoopid.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:14 pm
JAY
Not to mention flag boy has to not alienate those unwashed white masses? He ain’t goin’ nowhere fast without ‘em…same with his p*ssyfootin’ on gay stuff…
Dave R.
July 27th, 2010
7:15 pm
Especially when that endorsement is from a President who is 0-fer just about every candidate he’s backed.
Just sayin’. . . .
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:15 pm
F Sinkwich
I don’t know how much he actually thinks that himself, but he sure doesn’t challeng his (our) own kind when they go off on it, either…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 27th, 2010
7:16 pm
Ask yourself, who is Fulton County’s most recently elected US Senator and who did Palin endorse?
Dave R.
July 27th, 2010
7:16 pm
“Flag-boy”, josef?
Mehtinks you don’t like the gentleman from the use of that moniker.
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
7:16 pm
“Count down on the “nothing better to talk about” post…?”
80 minutes
Soothsayer
July 27th, 2010
7:17 pm
The old environment of originating mortgages and business loans with modest margins is full of competition and thus not very profitable; there is no way for the U.S. financial system to reap the kinds of staggering profits it has become accustomed to from “old style” banking, credit creation and lending.
Thus the Central State’s political leaders are trying desperately to do the impossible: to limit the opportunities for profitable windfall exploitation without undermining the entire narrow financial ecology upon which all the sector’s huge profits depend.
Exquisitely sensitive to the possibility that limiting the sources of profit–the shadow banking system, the leverage, the derivatives–might end up killing off the highly specialized species of finance which feeds their re-election campaigns, the politicos have engaged in a convoluted facsimile of reform which leaves the ecology open for exploitation by money-center and investment banks even as it attempts to rein in the most extreme exploitation.
But the foundation of the financial sector’s gigantic profits are not broad–they are very narrow. The financial sector does not depend on the sprawling U.S. economy for most of its profits–it depends on a narrow slice of fecund financial territory that would wither under transparency and strict regulation.
The irony is that State manipulation and a studied lack of oversight enabled the blossoming of this highly specialized species of profit, and now State manipulation threatens to undermine it.
But Nature itself may foil the plans of both the supremely specialized financial sector and its State toadies. The financial sector is now so specialized and so dependent on dwindling sources of profit that even State manipulation cannot broaden its withering supply of financial fodder.
Dave R.
July 27th, 2010
7:18 pm
OK, Whiner, I’m not getting that last one. Fulton County doesn’t have a U.S. Senator, and Palin wasn’t handing out endorsements the last go-around..
Del
July 27th, 2010
7:19 pm
Oh no, another cut and paste.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:20 pm
DAVE
That twit wore me to a low thin gravey with the way he behaved during that…I never thought that flag was appropriate myself, but the way he and the rest of the jackasses went about it put a bad taste in my mouth that’s still there everytime I see or hear from one of ‘em…
Soothsayer
July 27th, 2010
7:22 pm
Asteroid could threaten Earth in 2182
I don’t know about you, but this has got me worried something aweful.
F. Sinkwich
July 27th, 2010
7:22 pm
Dave R., you have more patience than I have to respond to that stupidity
Jay
July 27th, 2010
7:22 pm
Frank, tell you what. You speak for yourself, and I’ll do the same, and we’ll get along fine.
Nothing I have ever said or written could be construed to support the ugly words you’re trying to stuff in my mouth.
F. Sinkwich
July 27th, 2010
7:25 pm
I got carried away, Jay, sorry.
But I do interpret your views as elitist from time to time.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:27 pm
JAY
If you’re referring to the part about trailer trash etc as putting words in your mouth, I’ll grant you that but you don’t challenge it when others do either and silence there can be read as such…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 27th, 2010
7:27 pm
Dave R.- Fulton County certainly does have a US Senator and not only did Palin endorse him, she came to Gwinnett and held a rally for him.
Check it out, my man.
Jay
July 27th, 2010
7:28 pm
The people I come from wouldn’t stand for elitist, Frank.
MAC
July 27th, 2010
7:28 pm
Jay, you need rehab for your Palin addiction.
You keep trying to tell us why she doesn’t matter and yet you write ANOTHER column about her.
You’re like the kid in the school yard who tries to act mean by punching the arm of a girl because he really has a crush on her.
You don’t care for her political views but you’d have withdrawal if she went away.
And she doesn’t even know who you are.
Jay
July 27th, 2010
7:29 pm
I’ve left that in your capable hands, Josef.
Doggone/GA
July 27th, 2010
7:30 pm
“the Messiah, Obama”
I’m still trying to figure out why those on the “right” think Obama is the Messiah.
@@
July 27th, 2010
7:31 pm
If that asteroid hits, global warming will be a thing of the past.
The war between VOLCANOES and ASTEROIDS!!!!!
Jay
July 27th, 2010
7:35 pm
Well gee, Mac, Palin comes in and reportedly alters the course of the GOP gubernatorial primary, and I guess I’m not supposed to mention it?
That puzzles me. I often get a similar reaction when I post about Newt or Mitt or Huckabee, as if it’s somehow impolite to actually write about the top national Republicans. Are you folks embarrassed by them? Is that it?
If you don’t want her mentioned, don’t nominate her for vice president and celebrate her as the “queenmaker” of your party and name her as the most popular national figure in your party. Don’t let Fox give her a contract and put her on TV so often.
I didn’t do all that. The “liberal media” didn’t do that. The Republican base and its media wing did it.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:35 pm
Jay
I appreciate that, and you have never challenged me for so doing, either…and given what you have shared of your background, I can see where you would make the case that they “wouldn’t stand for it” in you being an elitist. But you do run in elitist circles (and so do I, so I’m not hurling charges that can’t be hurled at me) and you know as well as I do what they’re like when it comes to “those people.” I guess you might say I (and perhaps the few others here who join with me) would like to have a little support there from time to time from someone whose word carries more weight…
Jay
July 27th, 2010
7:37 pm
Josef, I do NOT run in elitist circles. I stay as far from them as I can, as my friends will attest. They’d roar to hear themselves described as an elitist circle.
md
July 27th, 2010
7:38 pm
Darn, missed the downstairs thread where Jay didn’t have it right. Wall St wasn’t alone, and “Main St” might not be as poor if they hadn’t spent everything they made and then some on bigger houses and all the crap they could get to put in them. The entire country forgot the definition of “savings”.
As for as the comment about a gop stimuluas not working……pure speculation, as it never happened.
But if we did still have a gop congress, the perception would be totally different. Balanced gov’t has a way of soothing the business conscious – this crap we have now sure doesn’t.
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
July 27th, 2010
7:41 pm
Charlie Rangal belongs in federal prison.
Tony Heyward should be his biatch…..
@@
July 27th, 2010
7:42 pm
Doggone:
In referring to Obama as the messiah, the right’s use of the term is sarcastic. You may wanna refer back to some of your own “true believers”
By Max Blumenthal: In their quest for a savior, progressives discovered Barack Obama. “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views,” Obama proclaimed in his book, The Audacity of Hope. As Obama’s primary battle against Hillary Clinton intensified, his rhetoric and the language of his supporters grew increasingly messianic. At a rally in South Carolina, Oprah Winfrey referred to Obama as “The One,” a fusion of Jesus and Neo from The Matrix. When Obama defeated Clinton in Iowa, he quoted from a Hopi Indian End Times prophecy that had become popular among New Agers: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Moved to the point of ecstasy by Obama’s victory speech, Ezra Klein declared the candidate, “not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of the word over flesh… Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our higher selves.”
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:42 pm
I will agree that Sarah has set herself up as a public figure open to pot shots–and L-rd knows, she is certainly obliging. But did she not get the media exposure she’s given for free, she wouldn’t be as considerable an influence as she appears to be. What I find intriguing is that her “enemies” are so petulant in their attacks and no one is asking themselves why she has the following she has…she is speaking to something in the American psyche that, I feel, is deserving of analysis beyond the often not so witty one-liners. I think what it is, is that she IS us and we really had rather not admit that that’s who we are…
MAC
July 27th, 2010
7:42 pm
I like Palin. Mention her all you want. I don’t care if she’s presidential timber or not. She still has a voice and a point of view and it carries some influence. Much more influence than most of the intelligensia pundits on the right and the left.
I’m just commenting on the way you minimize her yet continue to be fascinated by her. By all means….indulge away.
Soothsayer
July 27th, 2010
7:42 pm
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local forces of their communities. The newly formed tribes expanded to encompass the relatives and friends of the police.
The dollar had collapsed as world reserve currency in 2012 when the worsening economic depression made it clear to Washington’s creditors that the federal budget deficit was too large to be financed except by the printing of money.
With the dollar’s demise, import prices skyrocketed. As Americans were unable to afford foreign-made goods, the transnational corporations that were producing offshore for US markets were bankrupted, further eroding the government’s revenue base.
The government was forced to print money in order to pay its bills, causing domestic prices to rise rapidly. Faced with hyperinflation, Washington took recourse in terminating Social Security and Medicare and followed up by confiscating the remnants of private pensions. This provided a one-year respite, but with no more resources to confiscate, money creation and hyperinflation resumed.
Organized food deliveries broke down when the government fought hyperinflation with fixed prices and the mandate that all purchases and sales had to be in US paper currency. Unwilling to trade appreciating goods for depreciating paper, goods disappeared from stores.
Washington responded as Lenin had done during the “war communism” period of Soviet history. The government sent troops to confiscate goods for distribution in kind to the population. This was a temporary stop-gap until existing stocks were depleted, as future production was discouraged. Much of the confiscated stocks became the property of the troops who seized the goods.
Goods reappeared in markets under the protection of local warlords. Transactions were conducted in barter and in gold, silver, and copper coins.
GOD! What a nightmare!!! It’s nice to wake up and find out it’s not really true!
md
July 27th, 2010
7:42 pm
“If you don’t want her mentioned, don’t nominate her for vice president and celebrate her as the “queenmaker” of your party and name her as the most popular national figure in your party. Don’t let Fox give her a contract and put her on TV so often.
I didn’t do all that. The “liberal media” didn’t do that. The Republican base and its media wing did it.”
For the most part, wrong on all counts. McCain put her up as VP and Fox hired her, neither by vote of the electorate.
Dusty
July 27th, 2010
7:43 pm
WHAT/ WHAT// Doggone/Ga is not a man??? OH oh.. You sure??
May I have the army boots? I want to give ‘em to RedNeck for his wife.
And who’s stuffing words in Bookman’s mouth??? Whoever it is ought to be ashamed. Ugly words???. Been going on for ages. But it’s not his fault. Nothing ever is!! He’s a Daddy Grizzly for sure. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Jay
July 27th, 2010
7:44 pm
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some hamburgers to throw on the grill.
Or as mes amis say, “les biftecks à Hambourgeoise.”
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
July 27th, 2010
7:45 pm
Wyclef Jean for President of Haiti — GOOD IDEA !!!!!!
Soothsayer
July 27th, 2010
7:46 pm
“Josef, I do NOT run in elitist circles. I stay as far from them as I can, as my friends will attest. They’d roar to hear themselves described as an elitist circle.”
Come on, Jay! I know I’ve seen you at Zesto’s more than a few times!
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:47 pm
JAY
Please accept my apologies. I was not clear enough there. I should have said “professionally.” I am sincere in this apology. I have seen and heard enough “slips” to know that in your time off you are, indeed, a regular guy and that is one of the reasons I like you and, well, will jump to your defense when there are those hereabouts who attack you personally on those things.
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July 27th, 2010
7:53 pm
Where is Hillbilly Deluxe?
Paging Hillbilly….paging Hillbilly.
Please report to the principal’s office.
AmVet
July 27th, 2010
7:54 pm
HC,
‘A man’s gotta know his
limitationsirritations.’Yowzers, the cons have some twisted knickers this evening. Must have grizzly hemorrhoids! But from the no surprises here category, that childish act of speaking for others seldom changes.
The funny thing about trolls is how they lack testicular fortitude to the point where they will not choose a moniker and stick with it, punk. At least for more than about a day. Yet, their transparent dumbassedness (I know, one of my made up words) always gives them away anywho! (another one) Just look at that poor schmuck Grand Forks. The boy actually feigned not knowing who LA and whodat were. Now that is the definition of pathetic. Are these people even adults?
And just as bad are his couple of ideological cousins here who go over to Wingfield and kiss his ___ there and feed their shared right-wing Cult of Victimhood. Now that’s really pathetic!
I too am glad that Sister Sarah has ascended to the throne of right wing royalty. She as much as anybody clearly defines what more of George W. Bush would look like. And due to our collective ADHD, it is imperative that the nation never forget…
Dusty
July 27th, 2010
7:54 pm
Oh quit snifflin’, Josef. Here’s a Kleenex.
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
7:57 pm
DUSTY
Blessed are the pacemakers…
Thanks for the kleenex, but why do you say I’m sniffling…for real, why?
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
July 27th, 2010
7:57 pm
That dang Palin lady and her cabal…..
Can I make a silly poem?
Karen Handel has a scandal….
We all knew somebody would try to light a few roman candles…..
Deal is a nasty meal.
Yuck..I have no rhyme.
Barnes is the worst possible choice.
He thinks the voters of Georgia have given up assembling and raising their voice.
The voters of Georgia are EFF’D when it comes to governor this November.
Please draft Clark Howard.
Dusty
July 27th, 2010
7:59 pm
Oh gee AmVet,
“can’t choose a moniker and stick eith it , Punk!,”",, That’s a good one. remember all the old “monikers “you once used. You trying to forget or something?? Does “Huge” strike a bell?
Oh well. A little dementia never hurt anybody!!
@@
July 27th, 2010
8:00 pm
AmVet:
What’s really pathetic is you’re over at Kyle’s spying on Grand Forks and I.
Pretty pathetic, wouldn’t you agree?
You wouldn’t, perchance, be using a different name over there, would ‘ya?
Naaahhhhh, everyone knows YOU would never do that. Believe you me….that would be a HUGE mistake.
Schirt!
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
8:00 pm
AmVet
Speaking strictly as a linguist, dumbassedness is a perfectly legitimate word given the structural patterns and freedom the Germanic languages affords its speakers to put together new lexical usages as the need arises!
Dusty
July 27th, 2010
8:03 pm
Josef,
Because you used up six lines fawning over Jay. That’s why. He has not developed a halo yet.
@@
July 27th, 2010
8:03 pm
Grand Forks and me…make that me.
josef makes me nervous.
Soothsayer
July 27th, 2010
8:08 pm
“When Money Dies: the Nightmare of The Weimar Hyper-Inflation” has just been reprinted. Written by former Tory MEP Adam Fergusson — endorsed by Warren Buffett as a must-read — it is a vivid account drawn from the diaries of those who lived through the turmoil in Germany, Austria, and Hungary as the empires were broken up.
Near civil war between town and country was a pervasive feature of this break-down in social order. Large mobs of half-starved and vindictive townsmen descended on villages to seize food from farmers accused of hoarding. The diary of one young woman described the scene at her cousin’s farm.
“In the cart I saw three slaughtered pigs. The cowshed was drenched in blood. One cow had been slaughtered where it stood and the meat torn from its bones. The monsters had slit the udder of the finest milch [milk] cow, so that she had to be put out of her misery immediately. In the granary, a rag soaked with petrol was still smouldering to show what these beasts had intended,” she wrote.
Grand pianos became a currency or sorts as pauperized members of the civil service elites traded the symbols of their old status for a sack of potatoes and a side of bacon. There is a harrowing moment when each middle-class families first starts to undertand that its gilt-edged securities and War Loan will never recover. Irreversible ruin lies ahead. Elderly couples gassed themselves in their apartments.
Foreigners with dollars, pounds, Swiss francs, or Czech crowns lived in opulence. They were hated. “Times made us cynical. Everybody saw an enemy in everybody else,” said Erna von Pustau, daughter of a Hamburg fish merchant.
Great numbers of people failed to see it coming. “My relations and friends were stupid. They didn’t understand what inflation meant. Our solicitors were no better. My mother’s bank manager gave her appalling advice,” said one well-connected woman.
There is NO WAY any of this can happen here, right? I mean, everything’s under control. ISN’T IT? I mean, our government KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE DOING, RIGHT?
Just tell me I can still buy food at the “SUPER MARKET” and everything will be all right. Won’t it?
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
8:09 pm
DUSTY
Fawning lines? Because I’m honest enough to say how I feel? I think if you go back over what I said that led into this, you’ll see that I am not in an a33 kissing mood on him tonight…he doesn’t bite the hand that feeds him and parrots the party line in the professional arena, but I HAVE seen and heard from him things that do tell me in his time off he is a regular guy…I mean, he hunts and fishes, drinks beer and probably scratches his b*lls when he thinks nobody’s looking and he probably pees in the kitchen sink when the Missus ain’t home…
josef nix
July 27th, 2010
8:12 pm
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Don’t let me make you nervous…there’s nothing quite so funny to me here as are the grammar and spelling police…even OREP (who makes ME nervous) makes his “errors…”