An early, disguised hint of Petraeus affair?
UPDATE deserving of a “Seriously?!”
From the Washington Post:
“The collapse of the dazzling career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman whom he was having an affair with sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.
The recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the sender, according to the officials. The FBI investigation traced the threats to Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and a Petraeus biographer, and uncovered explicit e-mails between Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials said….
The identity of the woman who received the e-mails was not disclosed, and the nature of her relationship with Petraeus is unknown. The law enforcement officials said the e-mails indicated that Broadwell perceived the other woman as a threat to her relationship with Petraeus.”
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Back in July, the “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Magazine published a strange, anonymous letter that in hindsight probably set many a tongue wagging in Washington, D.C., and is doing so again in light of recent news events.
Here’s the letter:
My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progress is seen worldwide as a demonstration of American leadership. (This might seem hyperbolic, but it is not an exaggeration.) I have met with him on several occasions, and he has been gracious. (I doubt if he is aware of my knowledge.) I have watched the affair intensify over the last year, and I have also benefited from his generosity. He is engaged in work that I am passionate about and is absolutely the right person for the job. I strongly feel that exposing the affair will create a major distraction that would adversely impact the success of an important effort. My issue: Should I acknowledge this affair and finally force closure? Should I suffer in silence for the next year or two for a project I feel must succeed? Should I be “true to my heart” and walk away from the entire miserable situation and put the episode behind me?
NAME WITHHELD
As Chuck Klosterman, author of the ethics column, noted in his perceptive response, “The fact that you’re willing to accept your wife’s infidelity for some greater political good is beyond honorable. In fact, it’s so over-the-top honorable that I’m not sure I believe your motives are real. Part of me wonders why you’re even posing this question, particularly in a column that is printed in The New York Times… I halfway suspect you’re writing this letter because you want specific people to read this column and deduce who is involved and what’s really going on behind closed doors (without actually addressing the conflict in person). That’s not ethical, either.”
– Jay Bookman
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Georgia
November 10th, 2012
12:18 pm
Stay firsty my friends.
Banderson
November 10th, 2012
12:19 pm
Aw, that could have been from any one of hundreds of husbands.
harvey
November 10th, 2012
12:21 pm
I am not sure why this is a big deal. There is so much immorality in this country anyway, and he has outed himself, so what! I would bet money that most of the men in high office in Washington cheat on their wives. We only know about the few that get caught.
Georgia
November 10th, 2012
12:25 pm
Wow, what a bombshell. The husband knew. How it must have hurt so much that he was driven to write the letter in obvious delerium over his beautiful wife’s hormonal histrionics. We’ve all been there. We’ve all been left holding the big bag of sheet at the end of a relationship, with our guts on the floor. It’s better not to have loved at all, then to suffer the hormonal histrionics of a true horn dog that you couldn’t have imagined she was actually like that. Life is not worth living if your experience is the pain of witnessing your partner’s hormonal histrionics.
DebbieDoRight - I am Woman...........FEAR ME!!!!
November 10th, 2012
12:26 pm
Its a big deal because the conned are about to make it seem as big as Watergate. Just watch Fox News from now until February – every other word out of their mouths will be Petreaus.
DebbieDoRight - I am Woman...........FEAR ME!!!!
November 10th, 2012
12:28 pm
Oh well, it’s a beautiful day and I’m off to the park to get some sunshine!
Later Gators.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 10th, 2012
12:28 pm
Well, it’s as plain as the nose of your face this letter writer ain’t a good solid GA redneck. Now a redneck, if he come across evidence his wife was cheating on him, sure as heck wouldn’t write a letter to a newspaper column editor. No, the redneck would grab a couple weapons and head over to where this guy lived. That is, after shooting his low-down, lyin’, cheatin’ wife 10 or 12 times. Then he’d probly burn the guy’s trailer down after shooting the guy like a mad dog and get into a big chase with a bunch of cops and make them shoot him.
Seems to me this guy ain’t a real Manly Man. He could come down here and learn a thing or two.
Have a good Saturday everybody.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
12:29 pm
Grasping at straws…….
getalife
November 10th, 2012
12:29 pm
” I have also benefited from his generosity”
He pimped his wife.
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
12:32 pm
“He pimped his wife”
Even if only be default
JKL2
November 10th, 2012
12:33 pm
No worries. Plenty of room to stack the blame for Benghazi on those narrow shoulders General Betrayus.
It’s a shame you don’t have a (D) behind your name. If you did, the media headline would be “what he does in his personal life is none of your business. He can “compartmentalize”.
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
12:36 pm
Jay
May I ask, how in the hell did you find this? I haven’t been paying close attention to this issue, but has this been put out anywhere else? If not, I may have to crown you “Super Sleuth of the Year” if these two events are one and the same.
Ennis
November 10th, 2012
12:36 pm
I think there is more to this than what’s put forth. Extra-martial affairs in Washington D C are as common as peaches in Georgia. Now that he has resigned, he doesn’t have to go before the senate investigating committee on the Bengazi cover-up. I don’t have any proof (so don’t ask ) just a gut thing.
Pizzaman
November 10th, 2012
12:40 pm
The too old, too fat, too white, too male GOP will, like everything else, say it was “kept secret” to “influence” the election. They couldn’t manufacture a win with the economy, the debt, gitmo, Benghazi or anything else.
When those they elected they are finally forced to dump grover and tear up their allegiance to a person and live up to their Constitutional oath’s (support and defend) they will come to the table and approve appropriate tax increases and spending cuts.
Till then we’ll all have to live with what happens.
BTW: Congrats Mitch McC. You got rid of the President. He can’t run again.
indigo
November 10th, 2012
12:40 pm
Jay, I’m sure if Karl Rove, Glen Beck, Hannity, Rush etc. etc. etc. read your post, they’ll outdo themselves in yelling CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY WE KNEW IT WAS A DIRTY OBAMA CONSPIRACY ALL ALONG!!!!!!!
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
12:40 pm
“I don’t have any proof (so don’t ask ) just a gut thing.”
You may not have proof, but surely you have a reason for thinking that. So, for what REASON do you think he won’t have to testify?
Jm
November 10th, 2012
12:40 pm
Hmmm
Could be a lot of people.
Could be some dude who’s wife is now boinking Bill. Clinton.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
12:41 pm
cnn reported this.
Some folks have open marriages because most folks cheat and they know it.
Mr. Snarky
November 10th, 2012
12:42 pm
What a nice distraction for the cons! They can spend hours working out the fantastic conspiracy theories rather than paying attention to real news.
Jay
November 10th, 2012
12:43 pm
Bro, no credit to me. Credit “crowdsourcing.”
Somebody out there remembered reading the letter and posted the possible link on Twitter this morning. Other folks took a look and said “Holy ($)#*(#!!!”
Which was my reaction as well.
Ennis
November 10th, 2012
12:44 pm
He’s now out of the loop.
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
12:46 pm
One thing’s for sure…if her husband DID write that, he just forfeited any sympathy he might have gotten for being a “deceived husband”
getalife
November 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
Also, heard trump say that most have mistresses in Washington and I thought if this is true, corporate media is worse than I thought.
I don’t think corporate media should pal around with pols and slobber all over them.
I think they should do their job and report how many others have mistresses.
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
12:49 pm
Jay
Ok. I don’t do the Twitter thing, so I would have missed that link. That’s some serious “crowdsourcing” though. Seems as though that will be a valuable tool for the media going forward.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
12:51 pm
I think the husband should file for divorce after she gets paid for the book and future appearances on dancing with the stars.
Then he will get his pimp money.
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
12:51 pm
“I think they should do their job and report how many others have mistresses”
Maybe it’s mutual silence conspiracy
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
12:54 pm
“Then he will get his pimp money”
Nah, he doesn’t have to wait that long. He just needs to have a share of future earnings provision in the divorce settlement. Of course, it might be a question of whether he’ll actually collect, but that would be true in any case.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
12:55 pm
“Maybe it’s mutual silence conspiracy”
Reminds me of the so called “mafia”
Perhaps the next Godfather movie should be about government.
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
“Perhaps the next Godfather movie should be about government”
Yeah, but who would watch…when we can see it all for free played out on the ‘net and in the news?
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
12:59 pm
I figure he was outed by one of his fellow Generals. After all, his rise in rank and position was rather meteoric, enabling him to pass Generals in what was his current rank but senior by time in grade as well as Generals up to two paygrades higher. I can guarantee these personnel were not happy by General Petraeus being given the opportunity over one of the more senior Generals.
clem
November 10th, 2012
1:00 pm
BANGhazi!
JamVet
November 10th, 2012
1:03 pm
Here is that creepy interview from early this year…
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-25-2012/paula-broadwell
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:04 pm
“COVERT OPERATION: SEX UNDER THE DESK” drudgey
Jay
November 10th, 2012
1:05 pm
Doggone, I “know” a number of stories involving top folks in Georgia politics, BUT:
1.) While I may believe I know, I don’t know to the degree of certainty required for publication, which involves witnesses willing to go on the record, independent verification, etc. It is absolutely better to let 30 such situations go unreported than to falsely accuse people.
2. In some cases, there’s no public-policy issues involved, as there would be in sleeping with lobbyists, sleeping with subordinates, sexual harassment, etc. It’s just people being people, meaning that they make mistakes just like everyone else. As far as I’m concerned, that’s their business and problem, not mine.
In other cases, it DOES involve such compromising situations, but unfortunately, Rule One still applies. I am aware of one situation in particular that bugs the hell out of me, but so far can’t get on the record and probably never will.
If that changes, you’ll know.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:09 pm
Jay,
Just spill it for “family values”
If they are hypocrites, the public should know.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:10 pm
What’s the big deal Jay.
Hillary did the same thing for Billy Boy ………… the “cause” was greater than his infidelity !
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:12 pm
The problem with many of these appointments is they bring in someone who has absolutely no idea of what they are “really” supposed to do or anything about the agency and of course career employees resent that ………….. therefore, you are not going to get by with anything.
There are pros and cons of course but overall I believe it’s better for heads of agencies to come from within the agency ………………. CIA, FBI, USSS, etc., etc.
Political appointments are not a good trade off for experience.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:12 pm
There you go again scout,
Did it make you feel better like rove’s mathabation?
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
1:14 pm
Jay: When I was covering NASCAR I also covered ARCA (a lower series). I was told the first day I started covering the series that Ray Evernham was sleeping with his driver, Erin Crocker. I never reported it nor did any one else. WHat did it have to do with racing? But then his Cup series driver, Jeremy Mayfield gets his fee fees hurt and outs Ray to the whole world. He (Mayfiled) would have a better car if Ray wasn’t having an affair blah blah blah……….. suddenly it was ‘big news” as probably Bro or any other posters here familiar with NASCAR can tell you.
Was I wrong in not saying anything? I saw drivers with all KINDS of women. Heck before I started writing about NASCAR I was friends with a lady that was a “track lizard.” I’m STILL friends with her. The stories she told me…….. she also got me access and interviews with a lot of people. I never saw who she was or wasn’t sleeping with a story.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:18 pm
Fred,
They got married so it was not a story.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:19 pm
The difference between a soldier and a politician:
Soldier: “I showed ‘extremely poor judgment’ …”
Politician: “I did not have sex with ‘that woman’ … “
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
1:19 pm
get: Did they? I got disgusted with NASCAR and not only quit reporting on it, I quit following it at all.
TaxPayer
November 10th, 2012
1:20 pm
Murdoch has managed to gain publicity in the recent past with the outing of his company’s use of such pieces of information on select persons. I would not be surprised to learn that there are many others that take advantage of such opportunities for whatever the motive, money or power or something else. I do wonder how often the motive is one of pure ethics or morality.
Jay
November 10th, 2012
1:21 pm
And as I recall, Fred, Mr. Mayfield later had his own visit with Mr. Karma, correct?
TaxPayer
November 10th, 2012
1:22 pm
By the way, I saw that Glenn Richardson’s attempt to return to office was a failure. Awwww.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:24 pm
Fred,
Yes and living happily ever after.
The old boy meets girl at work is not a story.
Jeremy’s meth problems are a story.
A driver playing hard and dying of aides was a story.
Not much drama in Nascar these days unless you have some dirt you are withholding from us like Jay.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:24 pm
I wonder if the Mrs. has the general peeling potatoes today ?
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
1:26 pm
Yes Jay, he did. And NO ONE was sorry. But was I wrong for not “reporting” the story?
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
1:27 pm
“If that changes, you’ll know”
I wasn’t talking about that sort of situation. I was thinking more of “I’ll keep quiet about YOUR affair, if you keep quiet about MINE”
I don’t have any illusions about people in the news media being any less susceptible to temptation than anyone else.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:27 pm
Fred,
What disgusted you to leave Nascar?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
1:28 pm
Clever of Petraeus to have started that affair some time ago knowing it would eventually get him out of testifying about Benghazi
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:29 pm
There’s something called a “Congressional Subpoena”.
sirwinston
November 10th, 2012
1:30 pm
We have heard and seen a lot of men more than women resign over other affairs and money; the two big things. Army has a lot of problems as well as the President of these United States who has admitted to the same. While we all think that these are openly accepted, it is not and now, time comes when more of the this is about to happen. this is just to easy and very sudden.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:31 pm
scout,
He is under investigation by the FBI which is highly unusual.
You will know it is the culture when congress writes amnesty.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:38 pm
Speaks for itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlUS5-ag_g
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:40 pm
P.S.
Could be worse general !
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:42 pm
I just got wanked.
Fred,
I thought Jeff Gordon was gay until he married his first wife then cheated on her with his second wife.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
1:42 pm
Tick…tick…tick….
Red card?
Or yellow?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:42 pm
“I was a lib, I have changed my mine (sic). I just received an email with a pink slip included!”
There will be a lot more of those …………. and if it “has to be” may it be those who voted for Obama.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:43 pm
Goal !
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:44 pm
Yeah, I got fired for being retired.
JamVet
November 10th, 2012
1:45 pm
Slick Willy?
Small potatoes, Mr. Quayle.
When Ollie didn’t go to prison (and Mssrs. “high crimes and misdemeanors” Reagan and Bush removed from office) everything after that became likewise.
Corruption and lawlessness can all be lawyered away now…
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
1:45 pm
get: I’m firmly convinced that NASCAR does all it can do to fix results. Remember how after Dale Earnhardt died the cars of DEI mysteriously were faster than any other cars? If anyone reports badly about NASCAR or a team reveals a scandal they are black balled. I personally know a couple of reporters who are not allowed on any NASCAR property and any teams that are found to have talked to them suddenly start failing inspections.
The best drivers aren’t in the cars, the drivers with the most money are. There are many more reasons, there’s no point in covering them here. I will say though that our website was one of the very few not owned by NASCAR or ESPN or another major news organization to have NASCAR credentials to all races, tracks and events. ESPN noticed us and made some offers. I had a little following and Jayski picked me up.
But you know how I am, I was close to being banned. I was working on some stuff that would definitely have gotten me black balled had I been able to finish it. But like Jay said, you have to have the collaboration good enough to go to trial and some of my sources chickened out at the last minute so all i was left with was “unproven allegations.” The season is long and I missed my family after a couple of years. I don’t fly so i drove to the races. I covered Cup, Trucks, Nationwide, ARCA, some IRL, Hooters Procup when it was still alive and a local series called GAS (Georgia Asphalt Series). LOL I was covering Joey Logano when he was 15 years old driving in Hooters Procup. I was friends with Brad Kesolowski’s family, not him so much but his brother especially, (I picked the wrong brother to support lol).
It was fun but frustrating as well. I’m not good at not telling the whole story……..
Jm
November 10th, 2012
1:49 pm
Sales of “all in” are probably going way up
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
1:49 pm
I thought Jeff Gordon was gay until he married his first wife then cheated on her with his second wife.
That sound like something Del would make up. There was barely a shred of proof in that lol.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
1:52 pm
I just got wanked.
NAME-JACKING is an offensive where the results end in banishment.
I wonder if Jay will reveal the culprit.
Miss Understood
November 10th, 2012
1:53 pm
In case anyone was wondering:
Popular Vote
Obama Romney
Total 61,710,131 58,504,025
Percent 50.5% 47.9%
Texas would now like to seceede:
Peter Morrison, Texas GOP Official, Calls For ‘Amicable Divorce’ From ‘Maggots’ Who Voted For Obama
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
1:53 pm
LOL Romney purchased 25 grand worth of victory fireworks.
http://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romneys-disastrous-ground-game-7-other-behind-113000893–election.html
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:53 pm
Fred,
Well, it was an interesting job.
I don’t think it is in Nascar’s interests for one driver to win 6 years in a row. I think teams will always find a way to cheat like the gop does in politics.
I think if a reporter can prove Jimmy Johnson is cheating, it should be told. We have steroid cheating in most sports so it would not surprise me if Jimmy is cheating.
pete
November 10th, 2012
1:54 pm
Ahhhh….that is why he has been hanging around Bill Clinton so mush lately.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:55 pm
“is an offensive” ?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
1:56 pm
“so mush lately” ?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
1:56 pm
Ahhhh….that is why he has been hanging around Bill Clinton so mush lately.
Good thing he wasn’t “hanging around” David Vitter.
Otherwise he would’ve been caught in a hotel room wearing a diaper.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
1:56 pm
Miss understood.
Louisiana has a petition to leave the union peacefully.
It has 2600 signatures.
Way short of what is needed so Texas is no different.
They talk a lot of crap.
Georgia
November 10th, 2012
1:59 pm
A 3% popular vote victory is landslide territory. That’s a convincing win. See, and nobody’s doing anything about getting even with the rasmussens and the roves and the entire right poltical machine. America. We need to get even for what Rush et al just put us through. Even.
Even.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:00 pm
get: It was a fun though tiring, job. The season is too long and too sanitized. It would have been more fun back in the days BEFORE Brian France. In the days of Rusty Wallace, Ricky Rudd, Dale Jared, Sterling Marlin ect…. back when drivers had personalities and weren’t’ robots. Back when Brian France wasn’t stealing every penny he could steal from the teams sponsors ect………
getalife
November 10th, 2012
2:00 pm
At least the General was not caught toe tapping.
JamVet
November 10th, 2012
2:01 pm
Tea crazed meltdowns. Interesting.
They talk a lot of crap.
You couldn’t pay me to live there. (Sorry, Paul.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:03 pm
oh and getalife? The pay sucked. I financed the whole thing lol.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
2:05 pm
Fred,
Yeah, at least get paid.
Jay
November 10th, 2012
2:06 pm
Red Card for the namejacker. He’s been here long enough to know better.
So you won’t be seeing any more posts from Mr. “I’m going to fire 100 people …”
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:07 pm
Sweet. Syracuse is beating hell out of Louisville, 31-13. Now we won’t have a weak sister undefeated team mucking up the works.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
2:08 pm
Fred,
So that leaves five undefeated teams?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
2:14 pm
Red Card for the namejacker.
That’s only one since election night, and you put the o/u at 4.
I took the under. (the o/u on today’s Ga. vs. Auburn game is 52 — again take the under.)
What did I win?
Child, please
November 10th, 2012
2:15 pm
Writes anonymously to a Dear Abby type about ‘what to do about my wife’s affair’? The “project” is a pretty weak descriptor of “CIA Director”.
But you do have to absolutely love the irony of the book title “All In”…Leno, Letterman any of those types hit on that one last night?
Jay
November 10th, 2012
2:16 pm
Kamchak, it appears I miscalculated. I guess I failed to account for all those who “self-deported” from the blog.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
2:18 pm
Posted by Brother AmVet last night:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-25-2012/paula-broadwell
Jay
November 10th, 2012
2:18 pm
Child, would pulling our chestnuts out of Afghanistan qualify as that project? Because that’s when the affair in question began.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
2:19 pm
Kamchak, it appears I miscalculated.
How Rovian of you.
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
2:26 pm
I was told the first day I started covering the series that Ray Evernham was sleeping with his driver, Erin Crocker.
Erin may not have been good on race day or even qualifying day. She, however, always took the “pole position” back at the shop.
Then, I missed somebody get Bobby Cox’d.
So you won’t be seeing any more posts from Mr. “I’m going to fire 100 people …”
I guess he’s got “99 problems but Jay’s Blog ain’t one”….
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:31 pm
So Jay, those who are “missing” really ARE gone and haven’t just change user names?
If that’s the case we sure inherited a bunch of sock puppets from somewhere……..
Man this is terrible. The girls are gone, have been gone since yesterday, so I could go “get wild” or something and I’m too lazy to go anywhere. I’m blogging while watching football on my computer. I’m too lazy to even go get beer.
Will someone go get me some beer and deliver it please? I’ll feed you. I have lamb stew and chili……….. I could get some tuna out of the freezer and grill it for you……. or a burger….. or bring your meat of choice and I’ll do it up on the egg.
JamVet
November 10th, 2012
2:33 pm
From the FWIW department, I thought four was way too high, as well.
But I was hoping it wasn’t! (grin)
Bring it back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHJH0ETi8D4
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
2:34 pm
Fred
You feeling better? You finally get over that which ailed you?
Georgia
November 10th, 2012
2:35 pm
In defense of name jacking. Name jacking would put an end to the abuse of this blog as a chat room. Why have names at all? Just contribute to the discussion. Stay on topic. This would end the bickering back and forth that totally has ruined blogdom. Who cares who said it? Is anyone here really proud of the comments they’ve made? Has the discussion ever been advanced? Ever? Miami and VIrginia gots a football game going. fourth quarter. wow.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:35 pm
getalife: Sorry, I forgot to answer you. I was on the phone when you posted. There are 5 undefeated teams if you count probation baby Ohio State, but only 4 if you are talking about BCS eligible. It’s going to suck when Georgia beats Alabama because that will mean an SEC team doesn’t make the playoff game even though we ARE the best. People are tired of us and a 1 loss SEC team isn’t going to trump 2 undefeated teams from weak conferences.
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
2:37 pm
Leno, Letterman any of those types hit on that one last night?
I’m not sure how Leno does his schedule but Letterman generally tapes his Thursday and Friday shows on Thursday so he would have missed it for now. I’m pretty sure it’ll still be fertile ground on Monday though.
Is SNL new tonight?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
2:37 pm
Holy crap on a crutch!
The collapse of the dazzling career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.
The recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the sender, according to the officials. The FBI investigation traced the threats to Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and Petraeus biographer, and uncovered explicit e-mails between Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials said.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:37 pm
Kam; i still have a little hack but it’s a dry one. Other than that I’m fine, just feeling really lazy for some reason lol. I mean how much energy would it take to call someone and then go sit at a sports bar drinking beer and watching sports?
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
2:38 pm
Why have names at all? Just contribute to the discussion.
If you don’t identify the poster by some means, how do you know there are different people contributing to the discussion vs one person having an entire debate with himself/herself?
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
2:39 pm
It’s going to suck when Georgia beats Alabama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKm5xQyD2vE
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:39 pm
Miami and VIrginia gots a football game going. fourth quarter. wow.
So what’s the score in the toilet bowl lol?
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
2:41 pm
…vs one person having an entire debate with himself/herself?
Haven’t a few journalists been caught doing just that?
Dang, I guess I’m going to have to go get Fred’s beer. Be back later….
getalife
November 10th, 2012
2:43 pm
Fred,
Yeah SEC domination does get old like Jimmy Johnson winning but we have the best recruiting and the best players. If they want to compete against the best, get a SEC scholarship and play football.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:43 pm
Woo Hoo. RW coming through in the pinch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmcJWPYcr1I
JOHN LONGENECKER
November 10th, 2012
2:47 pm
Nov 10. Hello.
As I see it, some men enjoy relationships with women.
Some women enjoy relationships with men. I want to be in love, but I want my freedom to, they often say.
Getting married puts the breaks on wonderful,
marvelous, facinating, deep relationships,
and friendships between men and women.
I see life full of freedom. Restrictions on who we love,
or how many we love are normal, traditional, standard.
What a waste of the wonderfulness of life.
Sexuality is such a spectacular gift from a woman to a man.
Sex and love are just amazing. I still love and admire each woman
who was ever generous enough to spend their time with me
as my girlfriend. I truly love each one with unconditional love
to this day. Each moved on. Most got married. Some are friends
today. I love them all so much it fills my heart with joy.
I love to hear their voice when they call. For the meaning of
life is found in my love for woman. I was never a player, never a playboy,
I just truly loved women since I fell for Collette in the second grade.
JOHN LONGENECKER
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
2:55 pm
UL Lafayette leading Florida in the 4th quarter.
LOl It’s funny, I can watch 4 games at the same time on my computer but not on my tv. I need to hook my a computer up to my tv……
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
3:00 pm
UPDATE deserving of a “Seriously?!”
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Jay
November 10th, 2012
3:00 pm
Fred, I’ve seen no sign that they’ve returned under a different guise.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
3:01 pm
Is it true that Mrs. Petraeus has contacted Lifetime for a future episode of “My Life Is A Lifetime Movie”?
Jm
November 10th, 2012
3:06 pm
That Stewart interview takes on a whole new dimension in light of, um, new facts
getalife
November 10th, 2012
3:08 pm
I am guilty of cheating but warned all girlfriends that I will probably cheat on them and they would cheat on me. This line got me many stripper girlfriends so I am the last person to cast stones at this glass house.
I believe the French are correct with it is a personal problem but we drew the line in the sand on cheating because of “family values”.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 10th, 2012
3:10 pm
The collapse of the dazzling career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.
Well, this just goes to show that no matter how cool the people having a affair think they are, one of them is likely to go haywire sooner or later and probly the woman. My buddy Jim Earl says it just proves how true some lines wrote by a guy named Nash is:
Hogamas, higamus
Man is polygamous.
Higamus, hogamas
Woman’s monogamous.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
3:12 pm
Wow. Florida is doing the best job they know how to lose this game. They just got sacked. Down 6 to ULL? Just damn. 20-13 in the 4th quarter.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
3:14 pm
So, now there are two mistresses?
The plot thickens.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
3:17 pm
Getalife
Yawp
Soap opera
getalife
November 10th, 2012
3:19 pm
Jm,
How many more women will step up to get their fifteen minutes and money from the movie?
Hypocrisy
November 10th, 2012
3:27 pm
0311
Classy comment about Obama voters and layoffs.
You must be one bitter man
barking frog
November 10th, 2012
3:29 pm
Paula was embedded with Petraeus for a year in Afghanistan.
She was upset because he wouldn’t let her take sniper training.
Petraeus was smarter than I give him credit for. Don’t want to
dump a woman that’s a sniper
barking frog
November 10th, 2012
3:31 pm
Bloomberg/Trump 2016. They put the ass in class.
weetamoe
November 10th, 2012
3:39 pm
I read it in the times long ago. Too bad these opinionators employed by the AJC have missed so many interesting pieces of information found in the Public Editor columns at that paper. Affairs, adultery, gossip—those bits of *news* have little or no effect on us. The Times has had a few honest PE’s and their fights with the news section are sometimes enlightening. It seems most of the media report about half of the news we should be receiving. Maybe that is one reason so many reporters are considered merely democrats with a byline. Oh, umm, Jesse Jr is about to do a little jail time. Too bad it is for the wrong reason.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
3:41 pm
Holy crap. What a Hollywood ending to the Florida game. They asshats pulled off the win………
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
3:42 pm
Oh, umm, Jesse Jr is about to do a little jail time. Too bad it is for the wrong reason.
What’s he doing time for and what is the “right” reason? For being black?
barking frog
November 10th, 2012
3:43 pm
For Petraeus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMu24ItpJN0&feature=fvsr
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
3:44 pm
Exclusive: Jackson Jr. Plea Deal Includes Resignation, Pleading Guilty To Misuse Of Funds…
drudgey spam
weetamoe
November 10th, 2012
3:49 pm
ooops! regarding sex under the desk. FBI outraged decision to resign delayed until after the election to spare pres. More to come, I guess, but not for me.
T. Robert Black
November 10th, 2012
3:50 pm
Before they published her name, I found this picture on the web, and I had no doubt. What does you think?
http://www.inspiredwomanonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DSC05247.jpg
weetamoe
November 10th, 2012
3:51 pm
I do not understand fred’s logic.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
3:54 pm
COVERT OPERATION: SEX UNDER THE DESK
drudgey spam
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
3:56 pm
I think Mr. Black that your bandwidth has been exceeded
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
3:56 pm
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Apache Server at http://www.inspiredwomanonline.com Port 80
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
3:57 pm
I do not understand fred’s logic.
There’s your sign.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
3:57 pm
weetamoe
November 10th, 2012
3:51 pm
I do not understand fred’s logic.
++++++++++++++++++
There is no logic it’s a damn question. Answer it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
4:02 pm
Many losing candidates became elder statesmen of their parties. What lessons will Romney have to teach his party? The art of crawling uselessly? How to contemn 47 percent of Americans less privileged and beautiful than his family? How to repudiate the past while damaging the future? It is said that he will write a book. Really? Does he want to relive a five-year-long experience of degradation? What can be worse than to sell your soul and find it not valuable enough to get anything for it? His friends can only hope he is too morally obtuse to realize that crushing truth. Losing elections is one thing. But the greater loss, the real loss, is the loss of honor.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:06 pm
14-zip Texas A&M over Bama. You reckon Brocephus has crapped his pants yet? There is still 7:59 in the first QUARTER left and Bama is down 14 points………
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:08 pm
Kam: I have to check with the boss, but do you want to check out Stats tomorrow for the Falcons game? Maybe some others may want to go as well…….. it was called one of the top 10 sports bars in the Country by some magazine. I want to check it out sometime.
http://www.statsatl.com/statsatl/index.php/our-story
Jack ®
November 10th, 2012
4:09 pm
Apparently the general’s girlfriend gives great book.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:09 pm
LOL Someone forgot to tell A&M that they were gonna get their asses whooped just by Alabama driving in their driveway……….
stands for decibels
November 10th, 2012
4:15 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/us/politics/florida-to-address-delays-as-it-confirms-obama-victory.html
They finally finished counting–Obama wins by 74,000 votes in FL.
I certainly hope that Rick Scott is held accountable for the misery he put so many voters through this time around.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
4:17 pm
Fred,
Nice bar.
We showed them how to beat Alabama.
Jack,
It appears the General’s girlfriend scared the crap out of his new girlfriend.
The General went out with a bang.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
Fred
Really interesting place, although it’s kinda pricey. My biggest concern about downtown is parking
stands for decibels
November 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
Too bad it is for the wrong reason.
Yeah, I guess I’d also like to know what the “right” reason would be to put this man in jail. Please to explain.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
getalife: I read about it in some article, I forget who by, it was ranked as one of the top ten sports bars in the US.
Also it would seem the General went out with TWO bangs (at least)……..
stands for decibels
November 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
Cool story about plans to, possibly, provide a route for hikers from the AT to the headwaters of the Hooch, so they could potentially hike from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ga-river-appalachian-hikers-coast-17689518#.UJ7FCYaULPM
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:28 pm
Kam: They validate parking for up to 3 hours. Their draft beer is no more expensive than Local 7 (although more than I like). As far as food is concerned? LOL Eat before you go. I will. but we could do something else if you want. I don’t care for going downtown much, but I want to check this place out at some point.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:29 pm
21-0 Texas A&M. Still first quarter.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
whoops. Dimwit missed the extra point.It’s *only* 20-0
guy
November 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
Jamvet,I owe you an apology for a previous post I wrote. It’s really not that important to the average citizen who the president is anyway.What’s important is for all in Washington to begin to get our fiscal house in order.If we don’t very soon,it will become a nightmare. Take care and good luck!
getalife
November 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
Bro,
Yikes, the Aggies are playing their best football.
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
21-0 Texas A&M. Still first quarter
Huda Thunkit!
Against a potent offense, Al looks awfully sub-prime.
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
4:38 pm
Is “the affair” the Mother of all Distractions”…?
Who wanted him out of that job…??
Who “alerted” the FBI, and why couldn’t Pet squash the investigation..??
Mick
November 10th, 2012
4:43 pm
Man, broadwells husband is a loser, does any guy want to be a cuckold? Taking one for the team? Sorry, some things shouldn’t be compromised…
Plus the hurricanes suk!! Go fins
nelson
November 10th, 2012
4:44 pm
I will have to research this. It sounds like clandestine intrigue destined for a best seller in the NY Times. This is so over the top even James Bond would have an issue with this murky plot CIA,FBI,it is all there. The husband seems to have sacrificed all for country.
the red herring
November 10th, 2012
4:45 pm
well the dems let their top dog bill clinton slide on the same issues—even to the point of outright lying about it and not knowing the definition of the word “is”…. so if the POTUS can get by then why is it necessary for a general to step down. possible answer—to prevent him from having to testify on the killing of the american ambassador and seals. if you think the timing of this was coincidental then you are either naive or stupid.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
4:46 pm
Taking one for the team? Sorry, some things shouldn’t be compromised…
I agree.
Hubby should nuke her ass, fight for custody of the kids, and kick her punk ass to the curb.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:47 pm
the red herring
November 10th, 2012
4:45 pm
well the dems let their top dog bill clinton slide on the same issues—even to the point of outright lying about it and not knowing the definition of the word “is”…. so if the POTUS can get by then why is it necessary for a general to step down. possible answer—to prevent him from having to testify on the killing of the american ambassador and seals. if you think the timing of this was coincidental then you are either naive or stupid.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Were you born an idiot or are you just being deliberately obtuse?
josef
November 10th, 2012
4:48 pm
FRED
Left something for L’il Bit at St. Elsewhere…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
possible answer—to prevent him from having to testify on the killing of the american ambassador and seals.
Yeah, Petraeus started maybe two affairs over a year ago just so he wouldn’t have to testify about an incident that hadn’t even happened yet.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
Bro is living a nightmare
Bad day for him so far
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
Yeah, Petraeus started maybe two affairs over a year ago just so he wouldn’t have to testify about an incident that hadn’t even happened yet.
Remember the particular class of morons you are dealing with here Kam. they listen to and believe word for word, talk radio and FOX lies. That is the story they have been told now so of COURSE it’s true……
josef
November 10th, 2012
4:53 pm
My comment on the topique du weekend?
Breeders is messy…:-)
More seriously though (ha!), it this is what’s on the yap-yap burner, it’s a good day…
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
4:55 pm
josef: That is SO awesome. Thanks. I’ll make sure she reads it all. I knew you would come through.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
5:00 pm
Remember the particular class of morons you are dealing with here Kam. they listen to and believe word for word, talk radio and FOX lies. That is the story they have been told now so of COURSE it’s true……
Didn’t we do a thread about this very thing?
I seem to recall it was just after the election and it had to do with believing the rightwing media’s prediction about Romney’s landslide….
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
5:00 pm
Jm
November 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
Bro is living a nightmare
Bad day for him so far
++++++++++++++++++++++++
As a Dawg fan I can honestly say I feel for him……….
I just can’t reach him.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:01 pm
“That sound like something Del would make up”
Oh yeah, from the guy who posted when he first started blogging here that he made combat jumps on seven continents, that he was a HALO qualified airborne infantryman and that he had a photographic memory that allows him to memorize almost everything, that he was a mathematics wizard even though a fellow blogger called him out by offering him the opportunity to prove his boasted gift by solving a proposed mathematical problem, which then had him just fading away for that evening in non-response. Mr. Credibility…sure. Truly pathetic profile of a failed man.
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
5:04 pm
Brosephus,
They’re just taunting you now because they know if they wait until the game is over the taunt “A&M actually had a lead earlier” wouldn’t have quite the bite.
Fred,
Your beer is iced down on the dock with a note asking my neighbors to leave a couple of them for you.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
5:04 pm
Didn’t we do a thread about this very thing?
I seem to recall it was just after the election and it had to do with believing the rightwing media’s prediction about Romney’s landslide….
Yeah, and your point? Those idiots were doubling down on the stupid AFTER their ideas were so forcefully and publicly rejected what makes you think they grew brains in less than a week after taht lol? You just can’t cure stupid.
On another note: If you have a laptop and are on a good connection, the stream from NBC sports on this Alabama game is AWESOME. I’m watching and blogging while waiting for Brother O who was SUPPOSED to be here 5 hours ago lol.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
5:07 pm
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:01 pm
“That sound like something Del would make up”
Oh yeah, from the guy who posted when he first started blogging here that he made combat jumps on seven continents, that he was a HALO qualified airborne infantryman and that he had a photographic memory that allows him to memorize almost everything, that he was a mathematics wizard even though a fellow blogger called him out by offering him the opportunity to prove his boasted gift by solving a proposed mathematical problem, which then had him just fading away for that evening in non-response. Mr. Credibility…sure. Truly pathetic profile of a failed man.
+++++++++++++++++
Thanks Dellie. You actually got a FEW of those things correct. The rest were lies you made up, but that’s usual for you. Well you either made them up or got the lies from Doomy. He, like you, isn’t very bright either, especially when he’s been drinking.
So how are them pain pills doing you? Are you an addict yet like your God Rush?
Excuse me if I laugh at you and don’t take anything you say seriously. Go beat up some little girls in your trailer park, that seems to be your speed…….
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
5:08 pm
RW: Thanks.
josef
November 10th, 2012
5:09 pm
FRED
My pleasure…
Hey, DEL
Still not talking to me, I see…you sweet thang!
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
5:09 pm
nice. Touchdown Bama. 14-20 (assuming the asshat makes the PAT). What a great game. i’m really surprised at how well A&M has done in their first year i the SEC. What a great addition.
stands for decibels
November 10th, 2012
5:09 pm
” The husband seems to have sacrificed all for country.”
meh, I am with the NYTimes ethisist on this. The husband was probably trying to work some angle. the whole thing stinks on ice.
josef
November 10th, 2012
5:11 pm
FRED
Buford Puffer does not live in a trailer park…they wouldn’t let him in…they DO have standards, you know!
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
5:11 pm
Hey, DEL
Still not talking to me, I see…you sweet thang!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You make him shiver in antici………………………………………………………………
pation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc80tFJpTuo
Mick
November 10th, 2012
5:12 pm
I need to remind some couch fainters that petraeus may have resigned but that doesn’t grant him immunity to testify, unless of course you’re karl rove…
You don't say
November 10th, 2012
5:14 pm
Buford Puffer
When parents tell their kids do not talk to strangers, I’m sure anyone called Buford Puffer would fit that bill.
Krystal'sBalls
November 10th, 2012
5:16 pm
Dayyyyuuuummm General playa, playa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvrKzmkdBTI
On a sidenote… outside of the various levels of POLITICAL INSANITY of some of Jay’s posters, I realize some of you muhfos are actually pretty interesting people.
Fred ™
November 10th, 2012
5:17 pm
Well Brother O FINALLY showed up. Gotta split. Ya’ll be chilly. Even you Dellie.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:19 pm
Okay fred, what did I get correct and what were the lies? Don’t try to hide behind joseph, he can’t help you. Tell us the wars you fought in and your combat units. Can’t do that? I know you can’t.
josef
November 10th, 2012
5:19 pm
FRED
Are you saying we shouldn’t judge a book by its “cover…”
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:20 pm
Did Fred beat retreat? He’s done that before.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:23 pm
Fred, I don’t beat up little girls not even you.
josef
November 10th, 2012
5:25 pm
DEL, Wa-do (both meanings of the word!)
Fred? Hide behind me? Oh, I don’t think so. And even in the unlikely case he were there, I don’t think he’d be hiding…except maybe from Unmentionable. He don’t cotton to folks taking too much interest in his good thang!
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:25 pm
Well Fred done fled.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:30 pm
josef, I’ve never really had any problem with you except you insulted my family, which was probably unintended. By the way the little girl is being recognized as a gifted student.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
5:34 pm
Do you think he deserves a dishonorable discharge?
Ew
getalife
November 10th, 2012
5:39 pm
del,
We are fighting the war to stop the gop from destroying our country again and we are winning.
Thomas
November 10th, 2012
5:44 pm
I wrote the letter about my then super model wife who actually was suffocated during sex with the gov’t official.. I was not concerned about my wife’s sexual prowess as I, at the time, began dating Jennifer Aniston on the side The gov’t official referenced is Chris Christe. My then super model wife never stood a chance.
More to follow
tonyindc
November 10th, 2012
5:45 pm
seriously, jay? you really get paid to just cut and past from real reports? where do i sign up for such a cushy, no-brain job? heh…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
5:46 pm
where do i sign up for such a cushy, no-brain job?
blogspot.com
josef
November 10th, 2012
5:49 pm
Wa-do Del
Nope. You’re the one who insulted mine..on more than one occasion…I know you were probably in your cups, but that doesn’t excuse it. You think you’re better than me and have made that clear. As for your Lil Bit..mazel tov! Be justfiably proud there…
getalife
November 10th, 2012
5:56 pm
tony,
We get a lot of Jay envy here and all the blogs are talking about this bombshell.
American politics is the best reality show.
del,
Congrats on the honor student.
Your wife must be very smart.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:57 pm
josef,
I’m very proud of her and children from a previous marriage…I wish you well but I don’t offer you any apology.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
5:58 pm
“Your wife must be very smart”
get, you’ve called that one right.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
5:59 pm
Frank Luntz: Fox Viewers “Ought To Be Outraged Because, Day In And Day Out, They Were Told” Romney Would Win
Heh, heh, heh.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
6:01 pm
“Frank Luntz: Fox Viewers “Ought To Be Outraged Because, Day In And Day Out, They Were Told” Romney Would Win ”
gop civil war
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:03 pm
Wa-do Del
Why the hell would I want an apology? And, no, you don’t wish me well…like I’ve said, you’ve made that abundantly clear on a number of occasions…but the voters in several states certainly did, and for that I am grateful. It gives me a nice fuzzy feeling. It also takes the steam out of that one you kept bringing up about when it was put to a vote, the voters rejected it…
Mick
November 10th, 2012
6:04 pm
Yeah, del doesn’t do apologies because in his world he does not care if he offends, its just a blog, so deal with it…
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
6:06 pm
Frank Luntz: Fox Viewers “Ought To Be Outraged Because, Day In And Day Out, They Were Told” Romney Would Win
But they’re not…they’re addicted to their “Fair & Foe nee”
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
6:06 pm
Stand by libs…Americas about to change very soon and it won’t be ideologically left wing. We’ll all be feeling pain in the not to distant future and it will be on Obama’s watch.
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:08 pm
Fox lied and the GOP died…
getalife
November 10th, 2012
6:13 pm
“Carville: GOP routed by reality” cnn.
Welcome to the real world cons and read his book.
He predicted this victory and gop civil war in his book .
He is credible but your media lied to your face.
Your media punked you.
Mick
November 10th, 2012
6:13 pm
Yes, predictions are a dime a dozen but you can’t give them away when previous ones bear no fruit…
paulo977
November 10th, 2012
6:14 pm
Jam Vet
______________________________________________
I have also come ” From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNhD0oS5pk
Dunwoody Granny
November 10th, 2012
6:16 pm
Thanks for finding this, Jay. At least this gives us some clarity on why he would make a public confession and still resign.
While I think they were smart to “take this out with the trash,” I don’t think it will die completely over the weekend.
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
6:16 pm
Josef:
I think that old flatulater ought to just retire from the Crusades….
take up something less stressful, like bingo.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
6:17 pm
Getalife
I’ve said GOP is probably going to be a permanent minority for a good long while….
getalife
November 10th, 2012
6:17 pm
Mick,
It is based on the 2008 election.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/opinion/carville-buckwalter-poza-election/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29
Jm
November 10th, 2012
6:21 pm
If bro gets on the blog later, wasted, we know why
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:21 pm
PAULO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pHtqkoMR-k
Mick
November 10th, 2012
6:21 pm
getalife
No , I was referring to del’s seriously wrong predictions the past two weeks…
Dunwoody Granny
November 10th, 2012
6:23 pm
From the It Had To Happen Sooner or Later Department:
ABC’s website has an article headlined, “Paula Broadwell Spent Year Embedded With Petraeus.”
Jay
November 10th, 2012
6:23 pm
“Stand by libs…Americas about to change very soon and it won’t be ideologically left wing.”
Recon, you were also predicting a Romney victory, were you not? In this case, however, I agree somewhat. American certainly is changing — it is always doing so — but not in the direction you wish. You could dismiss one Obama victory as an accident of sorts. Back to back victories, under these economic conditions, are much harder to explain away.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
6:25 pm
mick, if you disregard the dire financial condition of this country, you’re too far steeped in ignorance for acknowledgement on this blog or anywhere. I hope for your sake that’s not true.
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:28 pm
IMAM
“…are much harder to explain away”
Not really, ineoiauo, Romney sold his soul to the right wing lunatic fringe and lost the middle ground. .
Jm
November 10th, 2012
6:30 pm
Recon
I hate to agree with Jay
But there are several core Republican principles that mean GOP is going to be in the doghouse for a long while
I agree with some of those principles, and disagree with others, but the main issue is those principles are going to turn off too much of the electorate to win a majority
Possibly for a long long time
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
6:30 pm
Romney sold his soul to the right wing lunatic fringe and lost the middle ground.
It was required to get the nomination.
Mick
November 10th, 2012
6:31 pm
recon
Actually, I take it quite seriously and think everyone should go back to clinton tax levels. One of the most important reasons romney could never work for me is that his math was more than fuzzy – it just didn’t add up. I trust the president’s approach, along with the majority…
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:32 pm
getalife
Don’t know if you’ve been following it or not, but there seems to be something of a sea change going on in Syria as the radicalization of the rebels AND the Hussein regime are being rejected by more and more of the common folks…now, if they can just get organized…
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
6:33 pm
Jay,
I’ve said several times that the Democrats waged a far better campaign and of course in the swing states that handed the election to Obama. That’s a concession to the facts. On the other hand I’ve said the national vote did not provide Obama and Democrats a mandate and that’s a fact. Are you opining otherwise?
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:34 pm
K’CHAK
“It was required to get the nomination.”
And a fat lot of good it did him or the party.
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:36 pm
That “mandate” thingie…when for decades barely half the eligible voters even bother to go to the polls, none of them have a mandate…or even for that matter, a strong plurality…
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
6:39 pm
“And a fat lot of good it did him or the party”
And what have they learned from it? That American voters are too stupid to understand their message. Won’t break my heart if they keep thinking that through a few election cycles.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
6:41 pm
Jm,
We still have this inconvenient truth that the economy is in reverse and the deficit keeps growing. That fact has been a lifestyle changer for many Americans and it’s becoming a communicable disease, which will be effecting many more. Economics like war is a political game changer and we’re face with both along with the latter looming larger each day.
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:43 pm
IMAM
Since you’re here…Unmentionable has a question for you. Do you not think that Obama’s speech on DOMA repeal and support for “gay marriage” didn’t have its effect in the votes cast in favor of equality? A profile in courage, giving others the courage to do the right thing?
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
6:43 pm
I don’t see any big change or disaster coming. There will be a compromise on the fiscal cliff and we will continue our slow growth pattern.
Prediction of have always been wrong. This one will be wrong also.
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
6:45 pm
That American voters are too stupid to understand their message.
____
No, the American voters were too smart to accept the message of Romeny and the right wing. They made the right choice.
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
6:46 pm
“none of them have a mandate…or even for that matter, a strong plurality…”
I don’t know that I agree with that 100%, because it’s not the non-voters that matter…it’s the voters. But with the country so nearly evenly divided…what PASSES for a “mandate” might need to be re-evaluated.
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
6:48 pm
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:43 pm
___
I think that is correct. Obama’s position helped. (I think that’s what you meant. Having trouble with your double negative.) Decided to answer, Jay may be on a bathroom or beer break.
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
6:48 pm
“No, the American voters were too smart to accept the message of Romeny and the right wing. They made the right choice”
I didn’t say I agreed with it…that’s just what THEY took away from this election.
Mick
November 10th, 2012
6:50 pm
**We still have this inconvenient truth that the economy is in reverse and the deficit keeps growing**
Your republicans in congress are complicit with that. My 401k is doing quite nicely thank you. I thank the majority of americans from saving us from another round of tax cuts for the wealthy. Obama had a superior team, doesn’t that tell you something???
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
6:50 pm
Happy Times are not here again folks. Will the Obama administration be a strong administration that will turn us around? I’m far from being convinced it will, but I hope many of you are right and I’m wrong. Believe me I sincerely hope I’m wrong.
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
6:51 pm
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
6:48 pm
____
I don’t seem to be able to understand anybody on there.
But: Do you not think. . it didn’t have an effect.” is too much for me. It’s been a long day. Wonderful fall day, but long.
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
6:53 pm
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
6:48 pm
______
I see your point. And agree with it. One of them said they need to educate the public and do away with the public schools. Or something like that.
They will never learn.
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:53 pm
Doggone
Neither party bothers to address the non voters…and they are the plurality…why don’t they bother? Has anybody seriously asked them?
*******
There are a lot of “inconvenient” truths and neither party is exempt from ignoring them. For the GOP it is the social agenda they propose and which increasingly the younger generation finds distasteful if not dangerous…it does not bode well for the future of the GOP…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
6:53 pm
…because it’s not the non-voters that matter…it’s the voters.
No voters sent a message too.
What they heard from Romney wasn’t enough to make them vote for him, and I think it was pretty obvious that this was an election for the incumbent.
When the GOP can nominate someone like Huntsman, then you will see the non voters start to get up and vote.
That’s their message.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
6:55 pm
Recon, yes we are going to be stuck with 4 more years of subpar growth at best,probably a recession as well
But what’s done is done
I’m just trying to plan accordingly
Buying hard assets, moving money offshore
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:55 pm
OSCAR
Yeah, that double negative… are you OREP in drag?
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
6:55 pm
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
6:50 pm
______
Nobody has a 100 per cent correct prediction rate. The unexpected can always happan and predictions can just be wrong.
Agree we should hope for the best. And prepare for the worst.
——– JR Ewing.
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
6:55 pm
SEC string of National Championship participation appears to be in severe trouble. On the bright side, UGA can secure a date in the dome with a victory over Auburn.
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
6:56 pm
“What they heard from Romney wasn’t enough to make them vote for him”
But the same could be said for Obama.
“When the GOP can nominate someone like Huntsman, then you will see the non voters start to get up and vote”
At this point in time…I think he would stand a better chance running as an Independent, or even as a Democrat…than he would as a Republican.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
6:56 pm
Mick,
My bad.
Tough loss to Virginia.
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
6:57 pm
are you OREP in drag?
______
Don’t know about OREP. Must have been before I started reading these comments. Is that a former member of the grammar police?
getalife
November 10th, 2012
6:57 pm
The gop cut and ran from reality.
They should disband.
Jay
November 10th, 2012
6:57 pm
Josef, in a general sense, no. I think it probably had that effect among many voters in the black community, but I’d be dubious about a similar impact outside that community.
josef
November 10th, 2012
6:58 pm
OSCAR
Incidentally, that question came from Jay and his sister Maureen Dowd’s pooh-pooh of said speech saying he was “no profile in courage.” I disagreed with them and the memo they (and several others) must have received on that…
Oscar
November 10th, 2012
7:01 pm
Beautiful fall afternoon and I feel a nap coming on. Later.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
7:01 pm
But the same could be said for Obama.
Not as an incumbent.
I think Obama got his turnout in 2008.
The non voters gave the incumbent a tacit approval and it’s up to the challenger to provide the impetus for change, and this is what Romney failed to do.
josef
November 10th, 2012
7:03 pm
JAY
Really? I might agree with you to an extent on, say Washington, and even the race thingie in Maryland (a big surprise to me, btw), but not so much in Minnesota and Maine or the Senator elect Baldwin. I do think it played a significant role there. I do know that I’ve heard more than one person say, “well, like Obama said…”
Doggone/GA
November 10th, 2012
7:05 pm
“The non voters gave the incumbent a tacit approval”
Well, I’m not sure I agree…but, since they didn’t vote, we can only guess at the reason why anyway.
josef
November 10th, 2012
7:06 pm
OSCAR
OREP is Old Retired English Professor…you never know when he might come in! He’s always out there watching and waiting…haven’t heard from him in a while. I hope he’s all right. BTW he’s a lot of fun and really does know his stuff…
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:08 pm
Uh oh
Something just got broken in bro’s house
josef
November 10th, 2012
7:09 pm
JAY
And, for the record. If that was the effect in the Black community, and I’m certainly willing to grant it. then it was, indeed, a profile in courage since, as you remember, my argument against you and Maureen, et al, was that this was where he stood to lose the most, but went ahead and did the right thing.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
7:09 pm
Jm,
You’re wise to do so, many will be following suit.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:10 pm
They should exit poll the non-voters
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:11 pm
Recon
Yeah, a weak economy still sux though, even after taking those steps
josef
November 10th, 2012
7:13 pm
Buy low, sell high, invest in manufacturers of stuff..
AND OLD TIMERS
I haven’t gone over to Kyle’s, but how’s Sister Dusty doing…?
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
7:14 pm
Bama loses
getalife
November 10th, 2012
7:14 pm
Alabama loses.
Sorry Bro.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:14 pm
I don’t want to be around the brocephus house right now
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:15 pm
Tide went out
josef
November 10th, 2012
7:16 pm
“What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
–Rhett Butler
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
7:16 pm
They should exit poll the non-voters
PEW polled them b4 the election.
Wasn’t even close….BO got over 50%, the Cayman Dude only 24%
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:16 pm
Wow aggies
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
7:18 pm
I guess miracles don’t happen two weeks in a row
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:19 pm
What an ending
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
7:19 pm
What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
–Rhett Butler
That’s no secret to the banksters in Europe……
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:19 pm
Welcome to the SEC A&M
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:20 pm
Josef
Rhett was wrong
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
7:21 pm
Alabama looks very average against an outstanding QB.
Jm
November 10th, 2012
7:22 pm
“UPDATE deserving of a “Seriously?!””
Yep. Seriously.
josef
November 10th, 2012
7:25 pm
Jm
Really? He, Scarlet, their Carpetbag-Scalawag confrères and their descendants might argue with that…
DebbieDoRight - I am Woman...........FEAR ME!!!!
November 10th, 2012
7:37 pm
josef: Fox lied and the GOP died…
Classic!!!
JamVet
November 10th, 2012
7:44 pm
Kam, your 4:02 was a great read.
Fortunately unfit to lead Mitt never got the chance…
Class move, guy.
Thanks.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
7:45 pm
Big economic issues in the immediate future. Obama may end up wishing very soon that he wasn’t reelected. Win or lose, Republicans should understand that tough economic love is the best turn around medicine for our country.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
7:48 pm
JamVet,
Thank you for your Marine Corps happy birthday greeting downstairs. Semper Fi and go Air Force.
DebbieDoRight - I am Woman...........FEAR ME!!!!
November 10th, 2012
7:51 pm
DG: And what have they learned from it? That American voters are too stupid to understand their message.
ARRGGGGHH that’s what makes me so angry!! The GOP reminds me of this guy. Really great looking, great body and a sweet talk; but the b@###stard was a pig!
He NEVER LISTENED! He only pretended to listen to wait until i was finished speaking so that he could repeat the same things he said before.
When i didn’t go along with his bullcrap, to him it was because i didn’t understand the message!
The GOP reminds me of them — they’re not listening and they don’t WANT to change.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
7:53 pm
Brother AmVet
I learned a new word out of that: contemn.
JamVet
November 10th, 2012
7:54 pm
Hiya, Paulo! Rock on, brother.
Corn-ary Cornhuskers use more T-Magic for another big second half come from behind win. I think I smell Roses!
Dope, women and gays win.
Right wing extremism and intransigence take a straight right to the chin and go down for the mandatory eight count.
Don’t fear the future, cons. Join us in making it “a more perfect union”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dRJhy_CeEc
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
7:58 pm
Too bad for Bama fans. Go Dawgs.
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:00 pm
“Don’t fear the future, cons. Join us”
Never!!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
8:06 pm
Gasoline today: $3.17 a gallon and falling.
A far cry from $6 a gallon.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
8:06 pm
“Never!!!”
They lied to your face.
Disband your party.
Man up.
JamVet
November 10th, 2012
8:09 pm
Cool word, Kam. I like being a contemner! (makes me feel all high and mighty!)
Del. I rag on Marines all the time, but I still respect them!
No worries, con. You weren’t invited. I invited cons, not neocons…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZilu4ApCI0
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
8:11 pm
BTW, Hugo Lindgren says the letter we’re theoretically discussing isn’t about the Patraeus affair.
josef
November 10th, 2012
8:14 pm
RW
Picky, picky. Spoil sport.
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:15 pm
Yeah, that $3.17 is a pleasant surprise.No sense talking about the election It’s a done deal Getalife. We are about to go through some uncharted waters, so to speak politically. The Republican Congress is probably going to have to go against a lot of the Republican mainstays in order to save the Union. Sad, but it must be done. You know. Give and take. Let’s see how flexible the Dems are in this matter.
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
8:15 pm
Back to football. Who suspected that the way to the SEC Championship game was through Auburn for both the West and East?
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:16 pm
Oh Yeah. UGA 28 Auburn 9 2nd quarter.
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:17 pm
Auburn 0
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
8:18 pm
josef,
I never took you for one to shoot the messenger.
Besides Hugo works for the Times so who’s going to believe that scoundrel anyway?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
8:19 pm
“Don’t fear the future, cons. Join us”
Never!!!
Followed by:
Sad, but it must be done. You know. Give and take. Let’s see how flexible the Dems are in this matter.
Too funny!
DebbieDoRight - I am Woman...........FEAR ME!!!!
November 10th, 2012
8:19 pm
Posted from Kam’s link (earlier) from one of the bloggers — felt it had to be repeated (emphasis are mine):
The list goes on and on on how not to alienate those you claim you wish to serve. One can’t be the CEO president and ask that we become your employees. That’s not the relationship most Americans want with their president.
One can’t dismiss repeated requests for more information (e.g., financial) and expect that voters will forget that they asked and you refused. One can’t know that your five sons are sitting on a $100 million trust fund and that you ask other fathers and mothers to send their sons and daughters off to fight Iraq and Russia
And one should never know that you think them weak, unreliable, and lazy because they no longer go to an office, a factory, or a school to work because they’ve either worked 30 years or had a disability that prevented them from doing so, or was laid off because their jobs were outsourced to another country…..and on, and on, and on.
Democrats and Republicans, and any potential third party candidates can all learn a valuable lesson from Mr. Romney. You probably shouldn’t run for the nation’s highest office if you don’t like and respect your fellow countrymen and women simply because they don’t neatly and nicely fit your possibly skewed view of the world.
Americans don’t need another “boss” in the White House, they need someone who has their back (a popular Obama refrain, but it’s true).
I think Mr. Romney will inevitably come to the conclusion that Americans didn’t realize what it had in him; Americans, for their part, have indeed concluded that Mr. Romney didn’t have IT in him.
josef
November 10th, 2012
8:20 pm
RW
Ooops…
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:21 pm
Threaded fastener yourself kamchuk.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
8:22 pm
Orange,
So, you giving them a free pass for disrespecting you and lying to you.
This does not help us hold them accountable for their horrible actions.
At least you are willing to compromise .
guy
November 10th, 2012
8:23 pm
Jamvet,Thanks!
getalife
November 10th, 2012
8:24 pm
RW,
Who was it about then?
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:24 pm
Getalife, How did they lie to me? You have your beliefs and so do I.
Old Retired English Professor
November 10th, 2012
8:28 pm
OREP is Old Retired English Professor…you never know when he might come in! He’s always out there watching and waiting…haven’t heard from him in a while. I hope he’s all right. BTW he’s a lot of fun and really does know his stuff…
Why, thank you, Josef. I’m still here, keeping an eye on you and your quarrels. Right now I’m more concerned about G Mare, who underwent surgery at the beginning of this week. She’s a very pleasant addition to this blog, and I’d like to know that she came through surgery all right.
BTW, my sympathies to Bro and Thulsa, who can now join the rest of us in rooting for losers.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
8:28 pm
Orange,
They told you mitt would win and help the middle class and lied about everything. They ignored facts and reality.
Come on cons.
Set them straight.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
8:29 pm
I am invariably disappointed by the attractiveness of the “other woman” when a major figure gets outed for adultery #ScarlettJohanssonorGTFO
Heh, heh, heh.
Recon 0311 2533
November 10th, 2012
8:30 pm
God bless United States Veterans and in particular those of you who have fought and are fighting our war against radical Islamic terrorism. Semper Fi….Happy Veterans Day.
josef
November 10th, 2012
8:31 pm
OREP
I’ll extend her your best wishes…good to hear from you…
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:32 pm
Getalife, How do you know? He didn’t get elected, so we will never know. I don’t think he will run again. Do you?
getalife
November 10th, 2012
8:37 pm
orange,
Never mind.
josef,
Tell her the hardest part is done and now get better everyday.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
8:40 pm
del,
After this past decade of wars, everyday is Veterans Day.
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
8:42 pm
Who was it about then?
getalife,
That’s what his Twitter stalkers are asking him now. I hope he realized the slippery slope he stepped out on by commenting at all.
.
paulo977
November 10th, 2012
8:42 pm
josef …..”change going on in Syria as the radicalization of the rebels AND the Hussein regime are being rejected by more and more of the common folks…now, if they can just get organized…”
_____________________________________________________________
It will happen BUT it will take time ……..as we wait , wait , wait!!!
Orange12
November 10th, 2012
8:47 pm
Does anybody think Bama falls out of the top 5?
getalife
November 10th, 2012
8:49 pm
RW,
Did he respond?
paulo977
November 10th, 2012
8:51 pm
Oscar….” One of them said they need to educate the public and do away with the public schools. Or something like that.
They will never learn.
____________________________________________________
This is GA where learning through the years has been painfully s…..l…o….w , on these matters !!
RW-(the original)
November 10th, 2012
9:00 pm
Did he respond?
I doubt it but I have no idea.
Orange12,
I don’t think Alabama could drop any lower than 4 after tonight and maybe not that far.
Gmare
November 10th, 2012
9:16 pm
Thanks for the kind words, OREP. The surgery was successful but the recovery is a b—h. Will catch up with y’all soon.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 10th, 2012
9:39 pm
NAME WITHHELD – its sooo obvious –
his/her name id Bengazi Alabama
HAHHAHAHAHAHA
Ed
November 10th, 2012
9:41 pm
It appears that someone closer to the government official than the husband wrote the letter published by the New York Times. The writer appeared to be very interested in the ongoing project, knew what was required of the person doing the work, and realized the significance of the project. This is an indicator that someone with regular access to the government official and a similiar background wrote the letter.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
9:52 pm
Gmare,
They said to stay still and not sit up to heal up.
So, I sat up and said make me a sandwich.
Get well.
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
9:55 pm
They said to stay still and not sit up to heal up.
just bein’ nosy….
what kind of surgery was it..?
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
9:57 pm
Just got home, and I appreciate the concern. All is well at Casa de Brosephus. Unlike some, I know how to accept a loss and move on without whining.
Texas A&M was simply the better team today. Catch y’all later as it’s lights out time here.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
9:58 pm
Tundra Dude,
Open heart aortic valve replacement surgery.
Gmare
November 10th, 2012
10:00 pm
Colon, fortunately not cancer. Word to everyone: get regullar colonoscopies!
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
10:01 pm
Open heart aortic valve replacement surgery
oh, wow…
sounds like u had something similar, too?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
10:01 pm
Unlike some, I know how to accept a loss and move on without whining.
At the end of the play, personal foul, fifteen yards from the spot of the foul, first down!
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
10:03 pm
getalife:
oh, You had ht valve, she had colon, think I got it, now….
getalife
November 10th, 2012
10:05 pm
Tundra,
It was nothing.
A bump in the road.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
10:07 pm
Tundra Dude,
Yep. I thought you asked about my surgery.
My bad.
Brosephus™
November 10th, 2012
10:07 pm
Kamchak
———-
GMare
Good to hear from you.
Now, I’m really gone……
Tundra Dude
November 10th, 2012
10:08 pm
getalife
Tundra, It was nothing
Think they had to open the chest, just like for bypass op…?
Jm
November 10th, 2012
10:13 pm
Someone should check on bro
He may need an intervention
getalife
November 10th, 2012
10:13 pm
Tundra Dude,
Yup. Left a nice scar.
Ann Landers
November 10th, 2012
10:19 pm
Dear Abby,
My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progress is seen worldwide as a demonstration of American leadership. (This might seem hyperbolic, but it is not an exaggeration.) I have met with him on several occasions, and he has been gracious. (I doubt if he is aware of my knowledge.) I have watched the affair intensify over the last year, and I have also benefited from his generosity. He is engaged in work that I am passionate about and is absolutely the right person for the job. I strongly feel that exposing the affair will create a major distraction that would adversely impact the success of an important effort. My issue: Should I acknowledge this affair and finally force closure? Should I suffer in silence for the next year or two for a project I feel must succeed? Should I be “true to my heart” and walk away from the entire miserable situation and put the episode behind me?
– NAME WITHHELD
NAME WITHHELD
I would sit on that info until after the upcoming election. Obama has enough problems on his plate, and he needs to concentrate on doing the job he was elected to do. We have the media in our pocket anyway, but we don’t want to take any chances. Be a good comrade for the mother country.
- Abby
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 10th, 2012
10:26 pm
NAME WITHHELD NAME WITHELD
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain’t what you ain’t
So listen up Buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
pete
November 10th, 2012
10:42 pm
Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day, a day we celebrate and honor those brave Americans who sacrificed their time to serve our country. Well… 49% of our country.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
10:47 pm
CAT FIGHT !!!
“The collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
10:49 pm
“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.”
Ronald Reagan
pete
November 10th, 2012
10:53 pm
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801 – aka Numbers Guy
This ought to be good. Gonna sit back and enjoy this one.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
10:58 pm
“But the freedom that they fought for and the country grand they wrought for is their monument today and for aye.”
Arthur Koestler
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 10th, 2012
10:58 pm
pete:
Yep ………… this “could” be bigger than Watergate because people died.
kayaker 71
November 10th, 2012
11:01 pm
We attended a Veterans Day celebration today in Williamson, GA, a small town about 6 mi SE of Griffin. In addition to the many older aircraft there were displays of WWII gear, vehicles and exhibits. The highlight of the day was about half an hour one on one with a WWII veteran who had flown artillery spotter missions for General George Patton. Another gentleman in his early 90s flew P-51 fighter escort missions for B-17s and yet another spent about two years in a Stalag german prison camp after being shot down and surviving. The one thing all of these men seemed to have in common was their love of country and their patriotism. Nothing, even their families, seemed to have the status of the country that they fought and suffered for. Let us pause next Monday to thank these individuals for their sacrifice and their service to our country…….. they are indeed people that we should hold in our prayers.
pete
November 10th, 2012
11:03 pm
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
Would be nice to see a full scale investigation, but I am not expecting that. This administration will throw a few Lt’s under the bus, and then say the investigation is complete, and he has a country to ruin…I mean run.
This d-bag is pathetic!
YouLibs
November 10th, 2012
11:05 pm
getalife
Congrats on another LSU win. That’s my boy Zachary Rich.
I was stunned by those four bad games because I know what he can do. I expected a natty this year but that’s out of reach now. They’ll finish top ten (maybe five) and be strong contenders next year.
But so will Bama and UGA.
pete
November 10th, 2012
11:06 pm
kayaker 71
Well said my friend.
Aim High!
YouLibs
November 10th, 2012
11:06 pm
pete, you’re just ate up with afflictive emotions. They take years off of your life and make you look ugly.
pete
November 10th, 2012
11:17 pm
YouLibs,
Not sure about that ‘afflictive emotion’ stuff, and I do appreciate your concern for my health. I will keep this in mind while I watch the democrats dog and pony show.
getalife
November 10th, 2012
11:23 pm
Thanks YouLibs.
I agree.
pete and scout,
Way to hold this republican accountable for his actions.
Never, ever demand accountability for the Dems.
pete
November 10th, 2012
11:33 pm
This Oregon-Cal game is pretty good…so far. Think I am going to grab a beer and watch it. Don’t nobody go all crazy and junk while I am gone.
Morality?
November 10th, 2012
11:38 pm
All Patrus had to do was lie under oath like Slick Willie and he would have got off scott free.
Morality?
November 10th, 2012
11:40 pm
Congrats to the Dawgs for winning the SEC East by crushing Aubarn.
Morality?
November 10th, 2012
11:42 pm
Bye Bye Chizik………….
YouLibs
November 10th, 2012
11:52 pm
pete
I just have this natural tendency to worry about people who are making it too hard on themselves.
Our side makes Romney look really, really bad. Your side makes Obama look really, really bad.
The truth is that they are both very motivated men who wanted to have an opportunity to lead this country, probably for a variety of reasons, some good and some bad. Obama won.
I think he won because he moved rapidly toward the center after he was sworn in, and nursed us through the worst economic illness of almost a century. Pundits said, in large numbers, that the recovery might very well take a decade.
He was thrust into the executive position at one of the worst moments in our country’s history. I have been infuriated at his post-inaugural swerve to the right, but in sum, looking at the results of this election, I think it reflects badly on you that you give him so little credit for what he has accomplished in his relatively brief adult lifetime.
JustWondering
November 11th, 2012
12:13 am
“The recipient of the e-mails was so frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the sender, according to the officials.” I doubt she was “so frightened” and does not an e-mail indicate a sender?
The FBI knew all this months ago and I do not believe Obama just found out about this.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
12:22 am
Congrats to the Georgia Bulldogs for winning their division.
Mary Elizabeth
November 11th, 2012
12:29 am
GMare, so happy for you that you did not have a malignancy. Be well!
Getalife, I am happy, also, for your survival. And, keep up the good work!
getalife
November 11th, 2012
12:46 am
Mary Elizabeth,
Thank you for those kind words.
Jack ®
November 11th, 2012
5:49 am
Might the frightened woman be a well known movie star?
Mary Elizabeth
November 11th, 2012
6:40 am
Getalife, 12:46 am
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
7:26 am
Jack ®
November 11th, 2012
5:49 am
Might the frightened woman be a well known movie star?
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Lindsay Lohan?
godless heathen
November 11th, 2012
7:57 am
That Daily Show interview that Jam linked to at 1:03 Saturday is just too rich. In the first minute we have “embedded” and the General telling her to “go for it.”
godless heathen
November 11th, 2012
8:04 am
I can see how the General would allow her to be embedded. If tall, thin, attractive, athletic, and intelligent is what you go for, I mean.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
8:26 am
GH: Did you watch the push up clip?
Georgia
November 11th, 2012
8:32 am
The FBI became suspicious by Patraeus’ reaction when they asked for a copy of Santiago’s transfer order. Patraeus told them he’d only comply if they asked him nicely. He insisted that he eats breakfast 400 yards from strippers who are trained to do him. (insert emoticon of guy chomping a cigar)
larry
November 11th, 2012
8:33 am
this “could” be bigger than Watergate because people died
For 39 years, the Repubs have been looking for their ” Watergate”
And they will look for another 39 years. Bless their hearts.
indigo
November 11th, 2012
8:38 am
I wonder when con leaders will declare that Romney lost the election because of voter ID fraud?
Georgia
November 11th, 2012
8:57 am
Broadwell is a, well, broad. A fine lassie indeed. Now, remember that astronut (sic)? She wore diapers nonstop to confront her romantic rival? Broadwell only flamed a rival online. I wonder what she was wearing, though, when she threatened to scratch the other woman’s eyes out. Lets just think about it. It was probably late at night, and she may have had a few shaken-not-stirred stiff ones. (hic). The odds are she was wearing a crotchless body stocking with a Victoria’s Secret front-snapped sportsbra. Probably nine inch heels. Black. Yes. Okay, now the onus is on Hugh Heffner to get a staple-piercing in this total babe’s navel.
Begging here.
John Coctosen
November 11th, 2012
9:01 am
First, his first wife looked like ass. Second, marriage is just a fleeting commitment anyway. All of my favorite stars get divorced so really what does it matter. Plus, Patreus is a hack from the Bush Admin so he was probably corrupt anyway. I’m glad he’s gone to be truthful. The last thing we need is a Bush guy testifying about Benghazi b/c you know he would lie to make Obama look bad. Plus, he’s super wealthy due to speaking engagements. He should pay his fair share. It’s not fair that he makes that much speaking while in uniform. These rich guys didn’t earn their money, they steal it from the hard work of others. See ya, Patrenis!
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:02 am
Well I’ll be dammed. It’s Veterans Day.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
9:03 am
Happy Veterans Day to all who’ve served and are serving with particular recognition of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:07 am
Free meal at Golden Corral tomorrow for all vets. They do it every year, although I’ve never been. Here’s a nice article on it.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/10/2475372/tar-heel-of-the-week-golden-corrals.html
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:09 am
Here is a list of goodies for vets:
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-bargain-hunter/2012/11/09/more-deals-for-veterans-day/
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-bargain-hunter/2012/11/08/veterans-day-deals/
Georgia
November 11th, 2012
9:10 am
Paramour!
Don’t you just love writing copy? I never dreamed when I was mispelling words and writing malaprops in fifth grade that I would one day be the Q of edited copy.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:15 am
How much of that stuff did you take Georgia? Are you peaking yet?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 11th, 2012
9:15 am
Fred
Veterans deserve much more…I’d never been to Golden Corral but some years ago, the North Point location was the largest grossing restaurant in the state…took one of my kids there…fascinating experience despite the food:-)
Given the fact that our troops IMO haven’t been sent to a necessary war since 1942, I think they deserve more than access to the food trough…if they don’t already pay taxes, they deserve lifetime exception..federal , state, local, and property..
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:27 am
Stevie Ray: Golden Corral is awesome. If you don’t eat healthy there it is your own fault. Their food is consistent from location to location and always hot and fresh. The breakfast they do is phenomenal as well. Again, if you don’t have a healthy breakfast it’s because you chose not to.
I haven’t been to one in years, and it’s never my first (or even 5th lol) choice, but if I’m with someone or a group and they decide to go to Golden Corral I won’t “not go” as I will with other places lol.
As to the no tax for veterans: But then your buddies at FOX and talk radio will call them moochers.
independent thinker
November 11th, 2012
9:29 am
To distract from their total collapse and humiliation this past week, I am sure the right wing big mouths will figure out how this is Clinton and Obama’s fault. When is Darrell Issa going to start a new witchunt over Petreus doing what most to the GOP does behind closed doors?
I would love to hear Newt’s comments since he is an expert on infidelity.
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2012
9:30 am
Mornin’.
Just a drive-by before heading off to my house o’ worship, and a question.
I’ve railed against those who post using deliberately trollish screen names.
However, I have been thinking of switching my screen name over at Kyle’s, at least for the next month or so, to “Fiscal Clifford, the Big Red Dog.”
Trollish? I report, you decide.
laterz…
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:31 am
LOL dB, just don’t do the puppy years………..
GT
November 11th, 2012
9:35 am
Are we living in a sick world of what, where people think any of these mega ego maniacs are worth watching your wife sacrificed to the betterment of a nation that would probably do very well without whomever. I have said many times and will continue to say gay marriage is not the undoing of this country, the undoing of the institution of marriage which bubbles into the undoing of family, the casualness of this execution, is exactly what is killing this country. We are all human is the catchall for this, but for a man to take another man’s wife, the mother of his sons and that same man be responsible for the decisions of life or death to thousands. ,moral decisions, is highly unacceptable. This same breach of logic and thinking will show up in other matters and weaken this country.
TaxPayer
November 11th, 2012
9:42 am
Don’t forget to mark your territory, dB.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 11th, 2012
9:43 am
FRED
I think what Romney said about the 47%er’s was stupid and the least. However, I don’t see that as exactly what he meant in his collosal gaffe, not matter who (Left of FOX) take ill advantage of it…I still think the intent was to suggest that he conceded (most) of the votes in the income range of folks not paying taxes..to suggest that he specifically meant SS, Veterans, and others that are the common allegations by the majority of those on this blog is ridiculous..despite what he said..
I don’t view it as much different than what BO said about “building this..” except in this instance, his speechwriter left an opening as he didn’t correct until end of next paragraph..
All rather petty and typically hyperbolic, exaggerated, and sensationalized way of an electorate led around by the nose by pundits..
We all know neither meant what they said or didn’t say..
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 11th, 2012
9:45 am
GT
Agreed, there is a big difference when incumbent spouses and kids get hurt needlessly..what kind of man would stand for this…regardless of who the half-culprit is…the wife is as culpable and may have been at the helm…who knows..
Sad..
godless heathen
November 11th, 2012
9:52 am
GH: Did you watch the push up clip?
No where was that?
And Happy Veteran’s Day to all the vets. Thanks for your service.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:53 am
We all know neither meant what they said or didn’t say..
No I don’t know that. He showed contempt for every American NOT in his income bracket. He showed contempt for the military. He deliberately used that stupid assed talk radio phrase because that lie has been repeated so often that he believes it. He was too stupid to see just exactly WHO the 47% are just as all you who use it are. It’s irrelevent WHO they are because it’s a talk radio/FOX talking point and therefore beyond reproof. you folks repeat those things like they came down from a mountain engraved on stone tablets by God himself……. which I guess in a way they have since the Republican God, Rush, has signed off on them…….
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
9:56 am
GH; On the same page as that interview that Jam linked (which I didn’t see until you redirected me there lol) there were some more clips. One of them said “Pushup contest” or something. Although it says 5 minutes, it’s really the whole interview so you have to move the counter ahead to 7:12 to see the last 5 minutes. Jon Daily and Broadwell, (and her husband ironically) have a contest for charity. It was kind of funny.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 11th, 2012
10:02 am
FRED
To be clear, I’m not a big supporter of FOX or any other news outlet…they are all biased but I do watch both with about the same (MSNBC, major networks) so if you are trying to categorize this by the traditional FOX, anti left agenda, please don’t.
Those on the lunatic fringe of either party anally analyse every word..up to and including puncutation…since hate and divisiveness rule with these folks, anything they can get to further class divide and sensational crap is the primary goal..
No way either meant, from the heart, the interpretation as suggested by the respective biased media…the election is over…it appears neither lost material votes as a result of either gaffe…Romney was correct in the respect that he would get no support from that demographic..the text supports this position, and BO was correct in the respect (despite poor wording knowing the media bloodhounds) that according to his party’s platform for decades, thinks big government should get kudos for the success of any and all..
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
10:02 am
Go to bed a respected General and DCIA. Get up an unemployed POS. Sad.
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
10:03 am
Does anybody think Bama falls out of the top 5?
They should. The luster in Tuscaloosa is off.
71, that was an awesome post last night. Salute!
And what I write next is NOT about me, I just want to relay the story.
I have three different customers who send me the most awesome Veteran’s Day cards.
These three ladies all rock! One is an attorney who helps veterans and families with their benefits and the other two are just great people, business owners and Americans.
Man, has the world changed since I got my discharge on January 1, 1977!
I never encountered any animosity by civilians (other than for the nine months that I was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi – another story and a shameful one at that) but vets were just kind of ignored/tolerated back then.
Now?
The VA rocks the healthcare scene and without trying to get too political, Americans *see* the “handiwork” of our war-mongering administrations up close and personal.
AGAIN, this is not about me. But find a vet or active duty military family near you and see what you can do to help.
Then, we all win.
(Go Big Red!)
Skip
November 11th, 2012
10:04 am
I get a free meal at Golden Corral and Mitt doesn’t. I win.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
November 11th, 2012
10:06 am
FRED,
I watched the video and has anyone brought up the humor in her choice of titles? They do resemble each other physically.
Anyhow, is there a reason you appear to have an unusually consistent woodrow attacking FOX news? It’s the media man…what do you expect? IMO the more attention we give the idea that media is news just suggests we are falling into the pundit BS traps that produce sensational and half-truthed commentary…can’t beleive the number of folks who believe most of what they hear from all the biased “news’ sources..
Gotta go…be good..
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
10:11 am
I attack FOX because they AREN’T media. They are opinion and lies masquerading as media.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
10:14 am
Jam: I’m not sure how far they fall, but fall they should. It’s tough to predict late season losses and how far they drop.
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
10:25 am
Skip and all vets,
In addition…(check for details and which locations are participating)
Olive Garden Restaurants (Monday)
Applebee’s
Chili’s
TGI Fridays (Riverdale only?)
Hooters
Texas Roadhouse (Monday)
Subway
Krispy Kreme
Denny’s (Monday)
That is all.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
10:26 am
Jam: See my 9:09
Morality?
November 11th, 2012
10:28 am
Could you imagine Bill Clinton resigning over dishonor to his wife…… 1st of all you have to HAVE morals to have dishonor.
Morality?
November 11th, 2012
10:30 am
Just want to thank all vets for their service to the USA. Hopefully we will be out of the winless war in Afghanistan soon. What a waste of lives and money.
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
10:40 am
Fred, salute!
When I was younger and could really put it away, I would have hit up all of them!
Now, I’m a heavy weight light weight!
Brosephus™
November 11th, 2012
10:57 am
Romney was correct in the respect that he would get no support from that demographic..
Which demographic?? You talking about the 47% that don’t have a fed income tax liability?? If you’re talking about that group, then you and Romney both need to go back and look at the political leanings of the groups that belong to the 47%.
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For all who’ve served, Thank you!!
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
11:05 am
Salute to all Veterans !
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
11:09 am
Mitt Romney has proven finally what GW Bush indicated.
Wealthy and stupid are not mutually exclusive.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
11:10 am
Remember, when we get 4 more years of subpar growth, you voted for it
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
11:16 am
Jm
Won’t subpar growth be a lot higher than it used to be ?
indigo
November 11th, 2012
11:22 am
GT – 9:35
Thank you, Mr. Perfect.
Georgia
November 11th, 2012
11:27 am
Veterans’ Day. My dad. Air Force. Flew Gooney Birds in ‘Nam. Jugs in ‘44. Sabers in ‘51. He said he never landed or took off in Vietnam without someone on the ground throwing up small arms junk at him. Bravest man I ever knew. I could probably take a couple of incidents of flak before I put in for ground duty. He served an entire year in Nam in 1969-1970. He did his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. He never wavered in his faith in both God and Country. He was conservative. He was disappointed in me, of course, and when I played his nurse for the last six months of his life, he let me know every single day just what a total failure he thought I was/am. But it didn’t matter. It was me or a nursing home, and no veteran, who flew combat missions in three wars, is going to a nursing home if I can help it. It was a privilege to assist him, make him comfortable, cook his breakfasts and dinners, (he rarely wanted lunch), and just plain appreciate him.
Thanks Veterans of America.
DannyX
November 11th, 2012
11:28 am
“Could you imagine Bill Clinton resigning over dishonor to his wife…… 1st of all you have to HAVE morals to have dishonor.”
And yet Newt Gingrich easily won the Republican primary here in Georgia.
Also, the diaper wearing Senator Vitter easily won re-election in La. I guess Republicans have no morals.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
11:39 am
“I guess Republicans have no morals.”
They don’t practice what they preach
paulo977
November 11th, 2012
11:51 am
MICK …..
______________________
Thought you would like this
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/gop-denial-2012-11/
1164 more days
November 11th, 2012
11:51 am
You heard it first here LOL
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
12:06 pm
1164 days for what?
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
12:15 pm
Georgia,
You’re certainly no failure. God Bless
Georgia
November 11th, 2012
12:19 pm
Broadwell interviewed Patraeus for her book. Was her first question, “Boxers or Briefs?”
Jefferson
November 11th, 2012
12:32 pm
To make political hay of this solves little.
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
12:39 pm
1164, welcome back. I was wondering where you’d been!
Georgia, you are a good son. You should be proud of what you did. I don’t even know you and I am…
I have prayed for America, I was made for America
It’s in my blood and in my bones
By the dawn’s early light, by all I know is right
We’re going to reap what we have sown
As if freedom was a question of might
As if loyalty was black and white
You hear people say it all the time
“My country wrong or right”
I want to know what that’s got to do
With what it takes to find out what’s true
With everyone from the President on down
Trying to keep it from you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKBRVGnfWM
Mary Elizabeth
November 11th, 2012
12:44 pm
In appreciation of all veterans, today, including all of those veterans who contribute to this blog, and in memory of my father, brother, uncles and aunt, cousins, as well as my two husbands, I say, “Thank you. Well done. Much appreciated.”
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 11th, 2012
1:12 pm
Well, it was just a couple years on Guam and I’m awful glad I was there before it was in danger of tipping over, but I served. Anyhow, happy Veterans Day and thanks to my fellow vets. My years were a introduction to getting my azz kicked, and if you’re a solid Republican today, you’re thankful what you got Tuesday wasn’t anything new to you.
Have a good Sabbath everybody and if you’re a man be sure and keep it in your pants. You see what straying from the straight and narrow did for this Petraeus. There’s all kind of tempting women out there and they’ll grab your soul and send you to a dark place quicker than a New York minute.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
1:26 pm
Happy Veterans Day and enjoy the food.
Welcome to the surgery club GMare.
Several here are in that club.
Get well and blog soon.
Carl
November 11th, 2012
1:48 pm
Since this was known for at least two months prior to the election, what wait until after the President is re-elected to resign?
The Most Interesting Man in the World
November 11th, 2012
1:50 pm
Stay thirsty my friend.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
1:54 pm
You knew about this 2 months ago Carl? Why didn’t you speak up?
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
1:56 pm
Is Hillary going to resign? Does anyone know? I don’t recall hearing about her plans for this second term of the Obama presidency. What better job could she get? Maybe she will wait until one of the Senate positions in New York is up for election and toss her hat in then……….
Thomas Heyward Jr
November 11th, 2012
1:57 pm
As a veteran, I would like to sincerely give thanks to all of the working folks who paid my way through colledge, provided food and shelter, and kept me in decent automobiles ………..while I “served”.
.
Considering the TSA, the FBI, the CIA, the DEA, the ATF, the NSA, the ubiquitious SWAT teams, warrentless phone tapping, NDAA, the Patriot Act, road checks/radars, Obama/Romney, (and their respective supporters), SOP Nationwide unrinanyliss,Coorporatized HealthCare, empire, Kill-lists, etc……………I would like to apologize for your wasted money.
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Wave that flag until you’re blue in the face,
there’re isn’t any freedom here.
.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
1:59 pm
“there’re isn’t any freedom here.”
You are free to post that crap.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:01 pm
Fred,
Yes she is retiring from politics.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
2:02 pm
Fred
She always maintained that she would retire.
She’ll probably stick around to help out her replacement.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:04 pm
Fred,
Kerry or Rice will replace her.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:04 pm
“Since this was known for at least two months prior to the election, what wait until after the President is re-elected to resign?”
Well, Patraeus knew about it even longer than that. But the answer to your question seems easy to me: to keep it from becoming part of the campaigning when it had nothing to do with either candidate.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:05 pm
Wave that flag until you’re blue in the face,
there’re isn’t any freedom here.
You need money for a ticket? Luggage? Help packing? A ride to the airport? I’ll happily give you any or all if your traitorous ass will renounce your citizenship and LEAVE never to come back. I’m tired of you traitors bringing down my Country and trashing our President. Go away happy, go away sad, go away mad, I don’t care, just get your traitorous ass out of here.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:06 pm
thanks. Gosh I hope it’s not Kerry. I never liked that little lap poodle for rich women……….
deegee
November 11th, 2012
2:07 pm
I really think that the people that worked closely with Patraeus and witnessed his goo-goo eyes when in the presence of his “biographer” knew exactly what was going on between them. I’m sure it was water cooler conversation for long before the FBI got involved. Trying to understand what goes on in the brain of a four star general that throws away his career and his reputation for a piece of azz is way too much for me.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:08 pm
Fred – you overuse that word traitor until it’s coming to have no real meaning here. Criticizing this country is NOT being a traitor, no matter how much you wish it was.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:10 pm
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:08 pm
Fred – you overuse that word traitor until it’s coming to have no real meaning here. Criticizing this country is NOT being a traitor, no matter how much you wish it was.
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Thank you for your input. I don’t know how I have lived without your sage wisdom. I didn’t realize I was supposed to run all my posts past you for editing. I don’t have to pay you for the unwanted service do I?
Until you grow the sense to understand what I am doing, you probably shouldn’t criticize it.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:13 pm
“Until you grow the sense to understand what I am doing, you probably shouldn’t criticize it”
Criticizing YOU isn’t traitorous either.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:17 pm
Oh, and BTW “Until you grow the sense to understand what I am doing” reeks of “you’re too stupid to understand my message”
Now…where have I heard THAT before?
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:23 pm
Good game Falcons.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:27 pm
“KRISTOL CAVES: HIGHER TAXES ON RICH ‘WON’T KILL THE COUNTRY’” P
Reality is setting in.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
2:28 pm
Good game Falcons.
The saints may break our streak getalife.But I hope not!
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:28 pm
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:17 pm
Oh, and BTW “Until you grow the sense to understand what I am doing” reeks of “you’re too stupid to understand my message”
Now…where have I heard THAT before?
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You have stated that you lack the ability to understand things that shouldn’t be taken literally and don’t see most jokes on this site. Those are your own words, not mine. As such and given your post it would seem that obvipous that no, you really DON’T have the ability to understand what I am doing. I have no desire to ’splain it to you. Target someone else for your daily fight. I’m not interested. I will also continue to post exactly what I want to whether it has your approval or not. Thanks for the concern though, I’m touched.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:30 pm
“Until you grow the sense to understand what I am doing, you probably shouldn’t criticize it”
Criticizing YOU isn’t traitorous either.
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No one said it was. Here you go again putting words in my mouth. You really should stop doing that, you aren’t very good at it. You seem much better at jumping to conclusions so maybe stick to your strong suit……..
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:32 pm
“You have stated that you lack the ability to understand things that shouldn’t be taken literally and don’t see most jokes on this site”
So, I got it…whenever I see you call someone a traitor I can take it that your joking. Glad you explained that. Now I can pay even less attention when you say that. Thanks for the explanation.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:35 pm
Real Scooter,
It will be a close one.
The Saints are improving with every game.
I think we will win one and the Falcons will win one this year.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:35 pm
Amen getalife, a really good game. I just wish Roddy would catch some TD passes lol, he’s on my fantasy team.
indigo
November 11th, 2012
2:36 pm
Fred
I used to think you were a big pain in the neck. Now, I have a much lower opinion of you.
Thomas Heyward Jr
November 11th, 2012
2:36 pm
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:05 pm
Wave that flag until you’re blue in the face,
there’re isn’t any freedom here.
You need money for a ticket? Luggage? Help packing? A ride to the airport? I’ll happily give you any or all if your traitorous ass will renounce your citizenship and LEAVE never to come back. I’m tired of you traitors bringing down my Country and trashing our President. Go away happy, go away sad, go away mad, I don’t care, just get your traitorous ass out of here.
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I’m not going anywhere.
And the future will tell who’s a traitor.
AN Obama/Bush war criminal supporter…………or the decent folks.
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Live it.learn it………know it.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:37 pm
Fred,
Look like a tight end scoring game.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:37 pm
So, I got it…whenever I see you call someone a traitor I can take it that your joking. Glad you explained that. Now I can pay even less attention when you say that. Thanks for the explanation.
Nope, you don’t “got it” unless you are talking about an attitude and that you have plenty of. You keep exhibiting that not only can’t you understand, you don’t want to. You just want to fight. Maybe you should invest in a first person shooter to help channel your hostility.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
2:38 pm
I think we will win one and the Falcons will win one this year.
I think you have it nailed getalife.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:41 pm
“Nope, you don’t “got it” unless you are talking about an attitude and that you have plenty of”
Said the pot to the kettle. You more or less quoted me as saying I have a very literal mind and don’t always get jokes. That is true. So why even bring it up if you WEREN’T joking. I will take you at your word. You said I don’t always get jokes, therefore you were joking.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:42 pm
Real Scooter,
I am hoping to see the Falcons play in the Super Bowl this year.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:43 pm
I’m not going anywhere.
And the future will tell who’s a traitor.
AN Obama/Bush war criminal supporter…………or the decent folks.
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Live it.learn it………know it.
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I see. Our Commander in Chief, our President, the most powerful man in the world is the traitor. Yeah, you folks have been saying that for almost 4 years now. Does it make you feel like a real man to get on the internet and diminish our President like this? Do you somehow think it makes us as a nation look grand when you and your talk show/fox puppet masters do it all the time? Somehow you are NOT emboldening terrorists? I mean if you have so little respect for our Country and the highest office in our Country, why would a terrorist?
Naw, I’d say it’s YOU who are the terrorist, the one who has done nothing but attempt to destroy our Country and demean us for the last 4 years. You will NEVER do anything to help this Country unless some asshat who is acceptable to your puppet masters is elected, which the way things are looking will be never. Instead you will work against us.
And thanks to our Constitution, your treachery is legal. Ain’t life grand? I think it is, but you are probably too obtuse and filled with hate to see the irony.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
2:45 pm
I used to think you were a big pain in the neck. Now, I have a much lower opinion of you.
I think you should sit down and have a beer or two with Fred before you reach that conclusion.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:47 pm
You said I don’t always get jokes, therefore you were joking.
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Post the WHOLE quote, not just parts of it. There is a whole world out there that is oblique. Lessons that can be learned by emphasizing the absurd. Look up the definition or Irony.
Here I’ll post it for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:49 pm
indigo
November 11th, 2012
2:36 pm
Fred
I used to think you were a big pain in the neck. Now, I have a much lower opinion of you.
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Thank you. I never gave you a thought at all so I can’t say I’m all crushed or anything.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
2:49 pm
I am hoping to see the Falcons play in the Super Bowl this year.
Me too getalife.I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
2:50 pm
Man, couldn’t you Saints wait til NEXT week to get your crap together lol?
It’s funny because there is a lot of animosity between the two teams, but I like the Saints every week EXCEPT when they are playing the Falcons………
Thomas Heyward Jr
November 11th, 2012
2:50 pm
Fred ™ —–
And thanks to our Constitution, your treachery is legal. Ain’t life grand? I think it is, but you are probably too obtuse and filled with hate to see the irony.
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I’ll leave the hate to you mooooslim bashers, neo-cons/progressives, and statists.
The majority of people only want to be left alone.
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And as far as irony………..i never kilt commies like you bragged about..the same commies that are our biggest creditors now.
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I suppose THAT was to protect our freedoms.
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lol
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give it up dude.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:53 pm
“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony”
It’s possible to overuse irony too…until is loses it’s meaning.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:55 pm
Thomas,
Your party is to blame on loss of freedom.
Why blame others ?
To make yourself feel better?
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 11th, 2012
2:58 pm
chin up, cons.
you’ll always have AM radio and Leave It To Beaver reruns on cable.
the rest of us are moving forward.
next time, you’ll listen to the crazy indian.
you ain’t seen nothin – just wait til after December 2012
getalife
November 11th, 2012
2:58 pm
Fred,
We have a conspiracy theory against the NFL not wanting the Saints to play in the Super Bowl because it is in New Orleans.
The NFL stacked the deck against the Saints this year.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
3:01 pm
Fred,
I think the Falcons may have to pull another rabbit out of the hat to get by the Saints today.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
3:02 pm
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
2:53 pm
“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony”
It’s possible to overuse irony too…until is loses it’s meaning.
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It’s possible to over use nagging as well.
Or perhaps one of these “traitors” will see my over use and realize how completely and utterly stupid they sound. One never knows. you try YOUR way, and I’ll stick with mine.
I personally like putting stupid back in the faces of the stupid. I love to see how much more stupid they will use in *defense* of their original stupidity. Look at Thomas for instance. Look at his 2:50. Can you see even a shred of lucidity in that response? If so explain it to me. I see a post so stupid that there IS no way to respond to it. One can only shake a head in wonder……………
getalife
November 11th, 2012
3:05 pm
Real Scooter,
I will not count Ryan out.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
3:05 pm
Real Scootter: It’s gonna take more than a rabbit the way it;’s looking now. And to make things worse, I have Eli Manning as my QB and he just tossed a pick 6 bringing HIS point total for the day down to 3.38. Last week he only gave me 3.0. I lost to the worst team in our fantasy league lol.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
3:15 pm
I don’t know about all that fantasy stuff Fred but see getalife’s 3:05
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
3:24 pm
Tony Gonzales is just awesome. He’s like 300 years old, I think he has grand kids playing in the NFL and he is STILL tough as hell. I’m about to get him on my team I think the guy who has him wants to trade him and Crabtree to me for Gronkowski.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
3:25 pm
RS: This is my first year doing fantasy. I’m only doing so so because I’m a Falcons fan not so much of a pro football fan. I only watch the Falcons consistently. Unlike college where I’ll watch everything i can.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
3:35 pm
“Paula Broadwell, the woman reported to be having an affair with CIA Director David Petraeus, sent harassing emails to State Department official, the AP reported.
Jill Kelley, the woman who received emails from Broadwell that prompted her to alert FBI, reportedly works as a State Department military liaison” AP
All the facts will drip out on this one.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
3:36 pm
Unlike college where I’ll watch everything i can.
Same here Fred.I’m even one of those wierdos that would rather watch the little league world series than the pro series!
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
3:37 pm
“All the facts will drip out on this one”
Indeed they will. CNN is now reporting that Cantor knew of the affair
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/11/us/petraeus-cia-resignation/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
getalife
November 11th, 2012
3:44 pm
“CNN is now reporting that Cantor knew of the affair”
Wow, could have used that to defeat his reelection.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
3:48 pm
“Wow, could have used that to defeat his reelection”
I’m not sure I get that. Do you mean Cantor’s re-election?
getalife
November 11th, 2012
3:51 pm
“Cantor’s re-election?
Yes.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
3:51 pm
Damn. what a close game. Even IF we score Brees will have almost 2 whole minutes to answer. What a nail biter.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
3:54 pm
“Yes”
Ok, thanks…and it works both ways. It could have been used to prevent Patraeous being reappointed too. Mutual stand-off, I think.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
3:54 pm
Time to pull that rabbit out Fred!!!!
getalife
November 11th, 2012
4:04 pm
Saints win.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
4:05 pm
Wow. Roddy White quits running on what should have been a TD and Gonzales uncharacteristically misses an easy catch to end the drive and the game.
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
4:05 pm
Great game though.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
4:06 pm
Only the Saints could have broke our streak getalife. Great game wasn’t it? Whew!
getalife
November 11th, 2012
4:12 pm
That was great NFL football.
Real Scootter
November 11th, 2012
4:16 pm
NASCAR time!!!!! Kyle Busch in the lead. Any other rednecks here besides me? lol
getalife
November 11th, 2012
4:19 pm
Alabama lost, LSU won, Louisiana Tech won and headed to a bowl game, Ragin Cajuns almost beat Florida and the Saints win.
Louisiana football had a good week.
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:24 pm
Yow! Bad attitude time on the blog…not that that’s a bad thing when you’re a reactionary like I am.
Now, the word “traitor.” That is patently absurd and hyperbole run amok. Treachery or treacherous? Possibly in the speaker’s opinion, but traitor is a very serious charge and in a country like ours has always had a very, very high bar. Not to bring up the Wah-uh, but even there the charge of treason was not brought to official determination.
As soon as I hear one “side” or the other hurling the charge, my automatic reaction is to put whoever is making the charge on my dumbass list headed, Girlfriend, Please with the sub categories such as silly twit, ignoramus, crackhead, etc.
Otherwise, how the hell are ya?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
4:27 pm
“That is patently absurd and hyperbole run amok”
but Josef…he’s just being IRONIC. Didn’t you see his explanation?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
4:29 pm
Otherwise, how the hell are ya?
F*cking fabulous, and yourself?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 11th, 2012
4:29 pm
Before the Benghazi debacle and his affair(s) Petraeus ran to the sound of the guns. Now he runs from them.
HEADLINE: “New details in Petraeus scandal: Woman who received threatening emails revealed”
“A senior military official said the woman is a State Department’s liaison to the military’s Joint Special Operations Command.
The official identified her as 37-year-old Jill Kelley, in Tampa, Fla., according to the Associated Press.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/11/new-details-in-petraeus-scandal-fbi-whistleblower-talked-first-to-house/#ixzz2Bx4i4EyS
getalife
November 11th, 2012
4:31 pm
josef,
What about the petition by the great State of Louisiana to peacefully leave the union?
Are the 2600 Americans that signed that petition traitors?
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
4:32 pm
I just had the most awesome experience.
Ran into the local Kroger and on the way out stopped to give a few bucks to the guys collecting money for veterans. This older gentleman (turns out he was born in 1925, like my mom) and I got to talking and he told me that he served with Patton AND in the Pacific. When I told him that I was a vet (but nothing like him!) he shook my hand and put his arm around my shoulders as I saluted him.
I know the word gets overused sometimes, but to me, he is an American hero!
And my life is richer for having shared a couple of moments of it with him…
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:33 pm
Doggone..
Actually, no, I didn’t see it or even who used it first and in what context, not do I plan to look back and find out. The word itself jumped out and this time it was Girlfriend, Please/subcategory nasty attitude, probably alcohol or drug induced…
getalife
November 11th, 2012
4:36 pm
josef,
How about trump calling for a revolution over the election results?
Is he a traitor.
Or the gop official saying they should “divorce” our government?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
4:36 pm
“I didn’t see it or even who used it first and in what context, not do I plan to look back and find out”
Well, let’s just say he doesn’t take criticism very well! I don’t like the use of the word cavalierly either. To me it connotes an intent to harm, or actual harm, to this country. There’s nothing in someone criticizin this country, or even vowing to leave it, that comes even close to harm to the country.
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:38 pm
Getalife
Didn’t know about it, but I’ve no real problem with bringing it to public debate since Uncle Sam’s Redheaded step children sure didn’t have a lot of chance to say what they thought in how they came in to begin with…but, then, that was the age of slavery when people were bought and sold as a market product…
Comme les Québécois diraient, je me souviens!
Fred ™
November 11th, 2012
4:40 pm
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:33 pm
Doggone..
Actually, no, I didn’t see it or even who used it first and in what context, not do I plan to look back and find out. The word itself jumped out and this time it was Girlfriend, Please/subcategory nasty attitude, probably alcohol or drug induced…
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You should research it then before you jump to judgement. Doggone lacks the wit to understand, it’s too “subtle” and not literal enough. Two days in a row she has decided I’m her daily bitch at target, I wonder if tomorrow will be a third. Maybe her cycle it off. (THAT will set her off lol, I can hear her head spinning from here).
You could check out my 3:02. Or not. I’m going upstairs now for some girl time and NOT crazy girl time………. sweet little girl child time. SOMEONE has a recipe and school lesson to read lol.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
4:42 pm
“Doggone lacks the wit to understand, it’s too “subtle” and not literal enough”
See, I’m too stupid to understand his message.
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:43 pm
getalife
As you know, I don’t hold Citizen Trump is very high esteem, but this is, after all, a revolutionary republic lest we forget…one of the reasons that bar is set so high..
A divorce? That’s what Judah P told Jeff Davis to call it…no charge of treason against the latter…that charge, though, was certainly in the works for the scion, of as Andrew Johnson called him, “from a race of traitors.” Was it Cantor calling for a “divorce?” If it was, he might be more careful…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 11th, 2012
4:44 pm
Veteran’s Day Tribute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pubDy0KOPMI
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
4:45 pm
“but this is, after all, a revolutionary republic lest we forget…one of the reasons that bar is set so high..”
I agree. As I see it, calling for a revolution is not treasonous. Actually starting one would be. But then I’m firmly in the “actions speak louder than words” camp.
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:46 pm
K’chak
In a fine fettle of a mood…
That’s why G-d invented icons…
FRED
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:48 pm
“That’s why G-d invented icons…”
That’s supposed to be addressed to Fred…
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:50 pm
DOGGONE
It’s treason only if you lose…otherwise it’s national heroes!
But one of the things we do lose sight of is that there is revolution against the current regime and there is revolution against the state. Two different balls of wax.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
4:52 pm
“Was it Cantor calling for a “divorce?”
No, but Doggone/GA posted cnn reported he knew about the Patreaus affair.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
4:53 pm
“Two different balls of wax.”
I would say in attitude, maybe…but if it comes down to actual armed revolution, they they would be the same thing. But definitely not all “revolutions” are armed, by a long shot. (so to speak!)
appleseed
November 11th, 2012
4:54 pm
All In
Broadwell
drip out
You kidding me?
josef
November 11th, 2012
4:57 pm
DOGGONE
I would agree…this is one of those places a Venn diagram is of use!
getalife
I’m avoiding this latest teapot tempest like the plague…much ado about nothing…
getalife
November 11th, 2012
5:01 pm
“But one of the things we do lose sight of is that there is revolution against the current regime and there is revolution against the state. Two different balls of wax.”
Spoken like a true Rebel.
I have to call bs on that one.
They are the same.
Tundra Dude
November 11th, 2012
5:01 pm
getalife:
Great Saint game
(can’t keep a good team down, forever)
getalife
November 11th, 2012
5:03 pm
“getalife:
Great Saint game
(can’t keep a good team down, forever)”
It was a great game but think the Falcons will win the next one at home.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
5:06 pm
“much ado about nothing…”
Best reality show on television.
I think we will get accountability on this one.
josef
November 11th, 2012
5:14 pm
getalife
That’s a true rebel with a lower case “r,” proud descendant of long lines thereof as the Spanish gitanos say “de las cuartro costas.” There are revolutions which, most optimistically, are peaceful efforts to change/alter the actual government of the state without altering the framework of the state and there are those, most often not quite so peaceful, which aim to alter the framework of the state itself. The former can, and often does, degenerate into the latter. We see the prime example of that in Syria now and it is turning into a battle between those opposed to and revolting against the regime (government) and those who would alter the framework of the state itself, the Shariahist inspired.
josef
November 11th, 2012
5:15 pm
getalife
And which kind of Rebel with an upper case am I? The Philip Phillips kind…
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
5:23 pm
So, the Falcons lose and soon we’ll see if UGA’s pansy schedule comes back to bite them in the arse…
Mr_B
November 11th, 2012
5:35 pm
josef: I would submit that an attempt to alter a regime rather than the structure of the state would be more accurately described as a coup d’etat.
But what do I know?
josef
November 11th, 2012
5:40 pm
ZamVet
“….UGA’s pansy schedule…”
Homophobic bigot! The dictionary is your friend as you have often made a point of…
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
n. Any of various plants of the genera Achimenes or Viola, especially V. tricolor or its hybrids, having flowers with velvety petals of various colors.
n. A deep to strong violet.
n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a man or boy who is considered effeminate.
n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
josef
November 11th, 2012
5:42 pm
Mr B
Shalom.
“A coup d’état typically uses the extant government’s power to assume political control of the country. In Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, military historian Edward Luttwak states that “[a] coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.” The armed forces, whether military or paramilitary, are not a defining factor of a coup d’état.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d‘%C3%A9tat
getalife
November 11th, 2012
6:00 pm
josef,
“There are revolutions which, most optimistically, are peaceful efforts to change/alter the actual government of the state without altering the framework of the state.”
Those are movements not revolutions.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
6:07 pm
trump and all gop losers can self deport instead of calling for a revolution.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
6:10 pm
“Those are movements not revolutions”
Not by this definition:
“an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. “
josef
November 11th, 2012
6:10 pm
getalife
No. That’s parsing. A movement need not be a revolution. A revolution is generally predicated on a movement, the latter being the earlier steps of the former. Movement and revolution are broad terms. We can have the labor movement, the gay rights movement, the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, etc. We can have the industrial revolution, the revolution of rising expectations, the technological revolution, A rebellion is another thing, we can have the youth rebellion of the 1960s, the War of the Rebellion, the Catholic Rebellion in Ulster,etc. etc, The aims are to alter the fabric of the society and to fundamentally change to government/regime, but not the fundamental structure/framework of the state.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
6:11 pm
“trump and all gop losers can self deport instead of calling for a revolution”
Heck, let ‘em call. Keep ‘em busy. Doesn’t matter how much they “call” they aren’t going to get one. It’s all a ploy to keep themselves in the news anyway.
Georgia
November 11th, 2012
6:12 pm
If the second woman in Tampa was not a paramour of Patraeus, then we need to focus a microscope on Broadwell. Who is this person?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
6:19 pm
“If the second woman in Tampa was not a paramour of Patraeus, then we need to focus a microscope on Broadwell. Who is this person?”
Too early to tell, maybe…but if she was jealous, that’s not neccessarily proof the she was correct in her suspicions.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
6:39 pm
“It’s all a ploy to keep themselves in the news anyway.”
I know.
Sad that it works.
josef
November 11th, 2012
6:39 pm
QUESTIONS
I’ve not been “following” this one at all…would somebody tell me:
(1) Why should I?
(2) What sets this one apart?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 11th, 2012
6:46 pm
Well, I’m kinda disappointed by the press coverage of this Petraeus affair. I don’t need to know anymore about the who or the when or the where. But I’d sure like to know about the how. Can’t they get this Ken What’s-his-name to do a investigation? I mean, was there cigars involved? A good solid Republican wants to know and he don’t give a hang if it costs a few million bucks.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
6:47 pm
josef,
Facts will drip out for a while so if you follow politics, the answer is yes.
It is a movie in progress.
Pretty good movie so far.
Banderson
November 11th, 2012
6:48 pm
josef
1. It’s got a mixture of sex and power – good tv movie stuff
2. The events aren’t that interesting, but the conspiracy theories posited are entertaining
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
6:49 pm
(1) Why should I?
4 out of 5 historians are following this.
(2) What sets this one apart?
Those are MAJOR historians.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
6:52 pm
We don’t know the ending of the movie yet.
It is a pretty big political bombshell.
josef
November 11th, 2012
7:01 pm
Okay, so, it’s a second rate. Grade B Christine Keeler story?
K’Chak
one of your better ones…
josef
November 11th, 2012
7:06 pm
So, I would be advised to wait for the movie? Who’s being considered for the lead roles? Who’s directing?
getalife
November 11th, 2012
7:16 pm
If cantor knew, who else knew?
All of the gop?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:21 pm
“All of the gop?”
and kept quiet about it all through this campaign? I’d find that hard to believe.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:21 pm
With the facts coming out it is clear Petraeus used extreme poor judgement and the Obama administration’s DOJ sat on this until after the election. We don’t know at this point when the president was informed but congressional leadership wasn’t told in a timely manner nor as far as we know now was the president but that’s uncertain. This is very troubling and the public needs to know. It’s the duty of congress to find out and divulge the truth regardless of how far up the chain it goes.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
7:24 pm
So, I would be advised to wait for the movie?
Who’s being considered for the lead roles?
Petraus — Tommy Lee Jones
Broadwell — Lindsay Lohan
Jill Kelly — To be determined
Who’s directing?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
7:26 pm
Oops
Who’s directing?
Clint Eastwood
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:27 pm
“and the Obama administration’s DOJ ”
What evidence do you have of that?
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:28 pm
This is no joke people, it’s very serious. We don’t know at this point if there’s linkage to Benghazi but Americans died and we can’t discount that tragedy.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
7:31 pm
With the facts coming out it is clear Petraeus used extreme poor judgement and the Obama administration’s DOJ sat on this until after the election.
Another “rush to judgment” by Fox conspiracy groupies….
I am sure that, absent this newest “conspiracy”, the conned would have had readily accepted a second Obama term.
josef
November 11th, 2012
7:33 pm
K’chak
With that line-up, I think I WILL wait for the movie…
Wa-do Del
A link to Benghazi…post please…
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2012
7:33 pm
just don’t do the puppy years…
Ok, Fred, I got the joke (wonder if anyone else did.)
I hadn’t thought about Clifford’s Puppy Days in many years, but it actually makes me a little sad to think about it now. They had this great franchise, then their star voice up and dies, and they tried to make a go of it as a “prequel” series…
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:34 pm
“What evidence do you have of that?”
Oh, please we know that the investigation had been going on well before the election and the what, when, why and how is in the early stage of what hopefully will be a comprehensive investigative inquiry.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:35 pm
“I am sure that, absent this newest “conspiracy”, the conned would have had readily accepted a second Obama term”
Yeah, and the best part is we already know that if no connection to Benghazi is found…they’ll just claim it was suppressed. They have the best of both worlds. There’s a conspiracy no matter what happens!
josef
November 11th, 2012
7:36 pm
Wa-do Del
Nevermind…I found it…
http://wikitravel.org/en/Benghazi
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:39 pm
“Oh, please we know that the investigation had been going on well before the election and the what, when, why and how is in the early stage of what hopefully will be a comprehensive investigative inquiry.”
In other words you don’t have ANY evidence that the DOJ “sat” on this…you just WANT it to be true. See what I said above about having the best of both worlds and thank you for verifying it for me.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:40 pm
Can’t believe the numb skulls on here who think this is a trivial matter.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
7:40 pm
4 more years of stagnation
Wonderful
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:42 pm
“Can’t believe the numb skulls on here who think this is a trivial matter”
And who, exactly, said it was trivial?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:43 pm
“4 more years of stagnation”
Beats “taking the country back” to a depression.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:44 pm
“In other words you don’t have ANY evidence that the DOJ “sat” on this”
No…but you don’t have any evidence that they did not. It’s a matter of investigation regardless of your very premature biased opinion.
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2012
7:44 pm
Yeah, if it were trivial, it wouldn’t be worth joking about. Sheesh.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
7:44 pm
First we have the birthers. Then we have jobbers, skew-ers, and ring-ers.
Anyone want to take a stab at naming this new group of conspiracy nuts?
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2012
7:46 pm
There’s a conspiracy no matter what happens!
Why should the next four years be different from the previous four?
josef
November 11th, 2012
7:46 pm
K’chak
Dumb F*ckers?
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
7:46 pm
Benghazi…Petraeus…should keep em crazy until 2016.
Thanks for playing…again…cons.
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2012
7:47 pm
but you don’t have any evidence that they did not.
Do you have any evidence that a giant red dog DOESN’T live on Birdwell Island? WELL??
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:47 pm
“And who, exactly, said it was trivial?”
Well you seem to be discounting it. Do you think this warrants a full congressional investigative inquiry?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
7:47 pm
I can’t believe the numb skulls on here who think everything is to be overblown in import because of their whiney political goals.
Doggone….but but but… Obama is “sitting on the evidence right”?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:47 pm
“No…but you don’t have any evidence that they did not”
Nor do I need any. The investigations and reports will answer that one way or the other. I am content to wait and not postulate ahead of the evidence.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:49 pm
“Well you seem to be discounting it”
Nope, just the conspiracy theorists trying to milk it.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
7:49 pm
Doggone 7:43
We’ll see how things look in January
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:50 pm
“Doggone….but but but… Obama is “sitting on the evidence right”?”
You’ll have to get with Recon about that…he certainly seems to think so…on no evidence whatsover expect his own wish that it was true.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:50 pm
The libs don’t care about national security, only politics.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
7:50 pm
David McCullough
Teaching degrees for undergrad should be banned
Amen
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:51 pm
“We’ll see how things look in January”
And what do you expect to happen in January?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:51 pm
“The libs don’t care about national security, only politics”
Got proof?
josef
November 11th, 2012
7:53 pm
Somebody fill me in. What is “it” relative to an affair and sitting on “it?”
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
7:53 pm
Have any of the bat crap crazy ‘gates’ the cons have ginned up against Obama turned out to be anything other than bs?
Why should ANYONE believe you?
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:53 pm
Doggone, doggone won’t answer my 7:47 question.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
7:55 pm
Doggone
I expect Obama’s ideology will hurt the economy
If fiscal cliff happens, Obama failure, economy hurt
If Obama gets everything he wants, including higher taxes on the rich and no real other reforms, the economy will be hurt
Obama is bad for America, but he’s here for the next four years….
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
7:55 pm
“Got proof?”
You’re certainly helping to prove it.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:56 pm
“Doggone, doggone won’t answer my 7:47 question”
Sure I will, since you insist. No, not at this time. I think they should stay out of it until the FBI finishes their investigation.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
7:56 pm
God bless term limits
josef
November 11th, 2012
7:56 pm
JM
“Teaching degrees for undergrad should be banned”
A certificate from a normal school and literally standing examination before a board of examiners ought to be sufficient.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:57 pm
“Somebody fill me in. What is “it” relative to an affair and sitting on “it?””
As best I can tell..some perceived connection between the Patraeous affair and Benghazi. At this point in time there doesn’t appear to BE any such connection, so…of course…that is proof that a connection exists. Right?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:58 pm
“I expect Obama’s ideology will hurt the economy”
By January?! Man, that’ll be some QUICK action.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
7:59 pm
… including higher taxes on the rich and no real other reforms, the economy will be hurt
Loooong before you were born, we had higher tax rates and we got along just fine.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
7:59 pm
“You’re certainly helping to prove it”
Remember, just because you WISH something was true it’s not evidence that it is.
josef
November 11th, 2012
8:00 pm
DOGGONE
So, was Petraeus getting his dangles dingled when the attack was going on? Is there any film in real time?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
8:00 pm
Hmmm…. so Issa and the GOP are “libs”? They revealed classified info.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
8:01 pm
I think the Ftroopers need a feinting couch wing in their little post.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
8:01 pm
Pretty sure the gop leadership knew if cantor knew.
It is a national security issue.
Fire them.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:01 pm
“So, was Petraeus getting his dangles dingled when the attack was going on? Is there any film in real time”
You;ll have to ask Recon…he seems to see a connection
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
8:02 pm
If there is a soiled blue dress involved, i am interested. otherwise…not so much…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
8:02 pm
That should be “fainting” but “feinting” works as well
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
8:04 pm
That should be “fainting” but “feinting” works as well
I noticed that too, and I agree.
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2012
8:06 pm
Unsurprisingly, Rassy and Gallup performed the crappiest in the last 21 days of the general election, among the heavy hitters…
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-polls-fared-best-and-worst-in-the-2012-presidential-race/
I don’t suppose I should expect the corporate media’s complicity in focusing on their BS national polling in order to make the race seem closer than it really was, to result in anyone getting fired or humiliated. (besides the guys who lost their races, of course.)
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:08 pm
Josef 7:56 agrreed
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:08 pm
” I think they should stay out of it until the FBI finishes their investigation.”
The FBI concluded during the course of there investigation over what’s been reported as several weeks and perhaps months that Petraeus was having an extramarital affair that involved the possibility of two women but we don’t know if or why the Administration leadership wasn’t informed. We have learned that congressional leadership was not informed as they should have been by law. Do you have another version that proves why it’s still an ongoing FBI investigation that would preclude congress from being informed?
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
8:11 pm
Cons will hang onto benghazi like a starving dog on a pork chop…hoping…praying that it plays out like their mendacious fantasies…
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:11 pm
“Remember, just because you WISH something was true it’s not evidence that it is.”
Now what do you assume I’m “wishing” and what proof do you have for your assumption?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
8:12 pm
We have learned that congressional leadership was not informed as they should have been by law.
Really?
The first knowledge of the affair outside the FBI came from an agency whistle-blower who contacted a Capitol Hill Republican who told House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., got a tip from a friend who knew the whistle-blower, as reported by The New York Times.
Sources tell Fox News that Reichert talked to the whistle-blower, then referred him to Cantor. The whistle-blower talked to the majority leader’s office, then to Cantor directly. The whistle-blower — who purportedly was concerned about a possible national security breach — was then put in touch with FBI Director Robert Mueller.
“Our office stands by the accuracy of the New York Times article as it pertains to Rep. Reichert,” the congressman’s office said Sunday.” We have no further comment about our involvement.”
Cantor staffers said they didn’t immediately tell the House Intelligence Committee or chamber leaders because they didn’t know whether the tip was credible. So they turned it over to the FBI.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/11/new-details-in-petraeus-scandal-fbi-whistleblower-talked-first-to-house/
getalife
November 11th, 2012
8:13 pm
del,
cantor knew so the gop leadership knew. Heads should roll.
Lets get back to facts do matter.
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
8:13 pm
Faketriots are just setting themselves up to be disappointed again.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:13 pm
“Do you have another version that proves why it’s still an ongoing FBI investigation that would preclude congress from being informed?”
Sure…because they haven’t finished it yet.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:14 pm
Kam it’s not 1950 anymore
Time has advanced except for you maybe
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:15 pm
“Now what do you assume I’m “wishing” and what proof do you have for your assumption”
Sorry, I’m not stupid enough to get caught up in circular arguments. You’ll have to do better than that.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 11th, 2012
8:16 pm
well, the bengazi teleprompter is the golden acorn
in this kenyanmuslin scandal-gate. Its so obvious, sheeple, duh
getalife
November 11th, 2012
8:18 pm
The General was getting “interviewed” at the time of the attack.
Happy cons?
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:20 pm
PBS veterans day ceremony – nice
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
8:21 pm
Gotta go…Faye is ‘on’
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:21 pm
“Sorry, I’m not stupid enough to get caught up in circular arguments. You’ll have to do better than that.”
I’m not calling you stupid, you’re leaving that yourself as an open question, but I will call you evasive.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:21 pm
Though different than previous ceremonies
Very different
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
8:22 pm
Make that Faith…MOMMA!
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:22 pm
“I’m not calling you stupid, you’re leaving that yourself as an open question, but I will call you evasive”
That was NOT a better try. Maybe you need to get some rest so you can get back on your game.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
8:25 pm
I’m not calling you stupid
Well THAT is certainly good…because 9 out of 10 bloggers have already closed the question on you. The 10th is just plain insane.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:25 pm
Colin Powell on
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:26 pm
Cantor’s spokespeople said they didn’t know if the information was creditable. They wisely declined to publicize that information. Of course we’ve learned it was indeed true.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 11th, 2012
8:26 pm
Gen Petraeus- (D) caption on Fox in 3, 2, 1…
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:26 pm
The discussion here is so trite relative to the real world
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:28 pm
“Well THAT is certainly good…because 9 out of 10 bloggers have already closed the question on you. The 10th is just plain insane.”
Well now that is most certainly a stupid remark, but typical.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:30 pm
Jm,
The libs haven’t provided and cogent argument as to why this issue isn’t serious and relevant.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:32 pm
“The libs haven’t provided and cogent argument as to why this issue isn’t serious and relevant”
See, we don’t have to. YOU claim it is…it’s up to YOU to provide the evidence.
paulo977
November 11th, 2012
8:34 pm
Josef…”Somebody fill me in. What is “it” relative to an affair and sitting on “it?”
______________________________________________________
Help ..I’m confused ….who sat on whose what ?!!!!!!!!!
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:38 pm
“it’s up to YOU to provide the evidence.”
No, it’s up to congress and it appears that both sides of the aisle recognize their reponsibility to seek out the evidence and make a determination.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:40 pm
“No, it’s up to congress ”
You vastly overestimate your importance. Last time I checked it was not the responsibility of Congress to verify OR refute you conspiracy theories.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:43 pm
” Last time I checked it was not the responsibility of Congress to verify OR refute you conspiracy theories.”
Unfortunately, you have by that comment proven yourself stupid to the extent I now must accept that as fact. End of discussion, have a pleasant evening.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
8:44 pm
del,
You need new gop leaders.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:44 pm
“End of discussion, have a pleasant evening.”
Yep, declare victory and then run like a beaten dog. Sleep well, maybe your game will be better after a good night’s sleep.
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
8:46 pm
Carlos Gutierrez, the former secretary of commerce, blamed the Republican primary process, which he said forced Romney to harden his immigration stance in an appeal to the far-right wing of the Republican Party.
I think the disease is the fact that the far right of the party controls the primary process.”
Yep…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
8:47 pm
No, it’s up to congress and it appears that both sides of the aisle recognize their reponsibility to seek out the evidence and make a determination
To recap: Well now that is most certainly a stupid remark, but typical.
Congress provides evidence now too? I guess that will make their hearings easier. We know Issa refused to hear evidence contrary to his position before, so now he can just make it up (or has already done so)
You don't say
November 11th, 2012
8:47 pm
“Unfortunately, you have by that comment proven yourself stupid to the extent I now must accept that as fact. End of discussion, have a pleasant evening”
Comments from a bitter individual. I’m sure the week has been tough, especially if he had been touting a Romney win as many gullible right wingers were doing leading up to the election.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:49 pm
“Yep, declare victory and then run like a beaten dog. ”
Oh just let it go
For once
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:50 pm
“Comments from a bitter individual”
Yeah, it’s harder than usual right now for them to take that we can see through their smoke screens.
Mick
November 11th, 2012
8:51 pm
Funny how some people always seem to want to get to the bottom of every situation with the angle that there’s a coverup lurking?
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
8:51 pm
(CNN) — In 2009, we wrote a book, “40 More Years: How Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation.” Building on Ruy Teixeira and John Judis’ 2002 tour de force “The Emerging Democratic Majority” predicting the 2008 election, we argued that America’s diversifying and increasingly liberal youth voters would secure a lasting Democratic majority.
Some analyses have tried to make 2012 about single women or educated white women or some other narrow slice of the electorate. They’re thinking small. The big picture is this: Democrats are continuing to win big with the demographic groups that are growing; Republicans are still struggling to increase support with shrinking base voter groups.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/opinion/carville-buckwalter-poza-election/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:51 pm
Doggone, proved an inadequacy for debate is there anyone else that thinks that the Petraeus revelations are unworthy of congressional investigations?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:52 pm
“Oh just let it go”
Why should I? Did I call him stupid? No, I didn’t. And he’s the one who ran off, not me.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
8:52 pm
Oh just let it go
For once
Your elders are talking now, sonny.
Best you should stay at the children’s table now.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
Would have been an excellent October surprise.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
“Doggone, proved an inadequacy for debate is there anyone else that thinks that the Petraeus revelations are unworthy of congressional investigations?”
Awww, isn’t that sweet. He just can’t tear himself away after all. And then has to lie about what I said. As I said babe, you need a GOOD night’s sleep to get back on your game.
Mick
November 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
**Oh just let it go**
“He who exalts himself shall be humbled, while he who humbles himself shall be exalted”…
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:54 pm
Doggone 8:52
No, you just called him a dog
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
8:55 pm
Doggone, I’m terribly sorry for you but this too shall pass.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
8:56 pm
“No, you just called him a dog”
Since I call myself that too, am I supposed to be upset about it?
getalife
November 11th, 2012
8:56 pm
del,
They will play politics with it.
You should know that.
Jm
November 11th, 2012
8:57 pm
Recon
I frankly could not care one iota about Petraeus’ personal failings now that he’s gone
We have far more worrisome events on the horizon that our prez is likely, though not definitely, going to fail on
Such as a nuclear Iran and the fiscal cliff
Save your ammo, there will be plenty of better shots to take
You don't say
November 11th, 2012
8:57 pm
Someone must be on a weekend bender.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
9:00 pm
“Save your ammo, there will be plenty of better shots to take”
Jm, I’ve always take them where I’ve seen them but this one was too easy and in my mind very important. Having said that on balance you’re right.
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
9:01 pm
(CNN) — As televised theater, it was hard to beat. As political prognostication, it was a head-scratching moment. As partisan warfare, it was nothing short of audacious.
But Karl Rove’s insistence that Barack Obama had not carried Ohio — despite the call by his own network, Fox News, that the president had done just that — represented something larger. It captured, for some long and awkward moments, the refusal of some in the media-and-politics game to accept reality.
As if his reputation was not already sullied enough?
The man is matched only by the equally bizarre Donald Trump and his childish “disgusting injustice” observation about the results of Tuesday night…
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:01 pm
del,
Do you feel any shame that this republican General did something to resign in disgrace?
Lord Help Us
November 11th, 2012
9:03 pm
Well, this is, i suppose, more important than the ’scandal’ about Obama’s birth certificate…
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:05 pm
“Well, this is, i suppose, more important than the ’scandal’ about Obama’s birth certificate”
it is, at least, more titillating
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
9:06 pm
Anything to cover up that drone attack on that Wisconsin wedding party.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:08 pm
I bet del’s first thought was how will this get our President.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
9:08 pm
Speaking of birthers…. The petition to fire Trump from Macys”
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:10 pm
“I bet del’s first thought was how will this get our President”
That was pretty apparent
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
9:11 pm
Moderates, who comprise 41% of the electorate, voted against Romney by a very considerable 15%.
BHO – 56%, WMR – 41%.
You don't say
November 11th, 2012
9:14 pm
Some want this scandal to sink the President, but do not have the intellectual honesty to come out and say it
As long as their narrative doesn’t come to fruition; the conspiracies, implications and crying will continue.
Just glad that isn’t my life. Those people are sad and pathetic
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
9:16 pm
getalife,
This is an American shame as Petraeus was put into the leadership position of an agency principally tasked with providing intelligence gathering critical to our national security by President Obama. General Petraeus failed this country with his indiscreet dalliance just as Clinton did while functioning as president of the United States. Both their actions left the door open to potential compromise that puts into jeopardy our national security.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:19 pm
del,
It is not about President Clinton so don’t drag his name into this scandal to make you feel better.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:22 pm
“It is not about President Clinton so don’t drag his name into this scandal to make you feel better”
It won’t surprise me if this turns out to be the embarrassment that Clinton was, and not the shame that Recon thinks it will be.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
9:23 pm
getalife,
Like it or not the analogy is there of two high level government officials who put into jeopardy our national security by their indiscreet actions.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:24 pm
“Like it or not the analogy is there of two high level government officials who put into jeopardy our national security by their indiscreet actions”
Not quite. Both had that potential. One has been proven not to have. It remains to be seen if the other has or not.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 11th, 2012
9:27 pm
Hmmmmm… The Speaker of the House (Newt), third in line, to the Presidency does not count, right?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 11th, 2012
9:29 pm
Hmmmmm… The Speaker of the House (Newt), third in line, to the Presidency does not count, right?
IOKIYAR
Tundra Dude
November 11th, 2012
9:29 pm
I bet del’s first thought was how will this get our President.
I think he’s frustrated, that entire R party suffers from ED, (electile dysfunction)
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:29 pm
del,
It is about General Patraeus and you played politics like congress would do.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
9:31 pm
“Not quite. Both had that potential. One has been proven not to have”
Not so fast as we really don’t know and best possible case is that he didn’t but his selfish narcissism could have potentially done so. Presidents like CIA directors must have self discipline at a much higher level.
Ask And Ye Shall Receive
November 11th, 2012
9:31 pm
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/11/rep-king-says-petraeus-story-just-doesnt-add-up/?hpt=hp_t1
Jm
November 11th, 2012
9:32 pm
Tundra
You live in Alaska or drive a gas hog?
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:33 pm
Mindless deflection of blame to the other side to make yourself feel better is called deflectabation.
Don’t do that in public del.
How about some accountability instead?
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
9:35 pm
getalife,
Bloviating doesn’t win arguments. You should have learned that by now.
Recon 0311 2533
November 11th, 2012
9:38 pm
Of course bloviating did win an election, so we have to acknowledge that fact. Taps, y’all
You don't say
November 11th, 2012
9:39 pm
Bloviating doesn’t win arguments
Yet you have been doing all evening
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:39 pm
del,
Why didn’t cantor call for his resignation in October?
Did he follow procedures or prolong them until after the election.?
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
9:39 pm
getalife
I told you the prez was a tricky man. He has Dems defending a Republican
and Repubs attacking a Repub. That is more tricky than gennifer flowers
was for Clinton.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:40 pm
“Of course bloviating did win an election”
And lost one
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:44 pm
“He has Dems defending a Republican and Repubs attacking a Repub”
That’s an amusing way to put it, but actually I’ve seen very little “defending” of the General. Mostly it’s been more along the lines of “let’s wait for all the information to come in”
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:45 pm
frog,
He knows how to play the game.
A centrist capitalist trying to level the playing field so others have a shot at the American dream is a pretty good President.
The easy way out is just govern for the wealthy to make sure they get everything they want like spoiled children.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 11th, 2012
9:46 pm
‘ that entire R party suffers from ED, (electile dysfunction)’
but they didn’t have an election lasting more than 4 hrs
it was over sooner than that
ahhhh, i think we may be onto something here…..
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 11th, 2012
9:49 pm
deflecterbation – dude, you should be in hollywood
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
9:50 pm
getalife
He will massacre the repubs with this especially if Cantor or others was
covering it up. I suspect Petraeus was visited and told he could reveal or he would be revealed.
Georgia
November 11th, 2012
9:52 pm
Broadwell could be this total out of control monster who came on so strong to Patraeus, that he was skin deep within minutes of their first private meeting, and there simply was nothing he could have done to get out of it. We’ve all been there. Some babe suddenly and without warning deliberately takes her clothes off in our office, or garage, or the back seat of our car at the drive in. I mean, it’s not our fault, is it? hell no. I can’t wait till we get more news about this.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:53 pm
“I suspect Petraeus was visited and told he could reveal or he would be revealed”
That wouldn’t surprise me either. What’s going to be interesting is to see if they play games with approving the nominee for the post.
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
9:55 pm
Georgia
Yes I know. It has happened to me but i am much better looking than
the General.
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
9:57 pm
doggone/gA
it is full time games in DC.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
9:57 pm
Thanks St Simons.
frog,
The facts will drip out so lets see what happens.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2012
9:59 pm
I’ve got an early day tomorrow…night all
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
10:00 pm
getalife
drip is becoming a gusher.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 11th, 2012
10:07 pm
Recon:
“Jm,
The libs haven’t provided and cogent argument as to why this issue isn’t serious and relevant.”
I have to disagree. It might tarnish Obama’s legacy. Therefore, it has to remain irrelevant.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
10:10 pm
scout,
So, he is a good President with no scandals.
Get over it.
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
10:10 pm
getalife
the prez used the cryin indian trick to put him over the top.
tricky.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
10:14 pm
frog,
The one tear move?
Nah, the gop are horrible and deserved to lose.
Ask And Ye Shall Receive
November 11th, 2012
10:17 pm
NOTE: The Republican points out that reports indicate the White House learned of this at 5PM on Election Day, upon receipt of a phone call from the FBI.
(CNN) – The top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the length of the FBI’s investigation into David Petraeus’ extramarital affair raises serious questions about the government’s response to potentially comprised intelligence.
Rep. Peter King, who made the remarks on CNN’s “State of the Union,” joined Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in expressing concern over how the FBI and other federal agencies handled the investigation into the former CIA director’s affair, and specifically why members of Congress with oversight over intelligence and homeland security weren’t briefed on the discoveries.
“I have questions about the whole matter,” Rep. Peter King told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley, pointing to reports that the White House first learned of the affair in a phone call from the FBI to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper at 5 p.m. on election night.
barking frog
November 11th, 2012
10:19 pm
getalife
yep. the repubs are o.k. they just didn’t get quite enough votes.
all the campaign rhetoric was just rhetoric. many people like
obamacare.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 11th, 2012
10:29 pm
THE PLOT THICKENS
HEADLINE(NEWSMAX): “FBI Suppressed Petraeus Scandal to Protect President”
“Ronald Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. — FBI agents investigating CIA Director David Petraeus’s affair were shocked when told by bureau officials that despite the national security implications, no action would be taken on their findings until after the presidential election: Only then would President Obama ask for Petraeus’ resignation.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/petraeus-affair-fbi-investigation/2012/11/11/id/463697
Rabbit
November 11th, 2012
10:30 pm
Marital infidelity is a detriment to families when there is deception. Many marriages, however, are more like roommate arrangements and infidelity is pretty much inevitable. Hard to pass judgment without knowing the inner workings of the relationship. I think we are way too interested in the common case. That said:
When a member of the intelligence community adds a secret relationship to his resume, that is a matter of national security. Families of intelligence officers are generally well known to the community before a clearance is granted. Petraus knew better and his judgment shows a level of incompetence we heretofore did not know. He wants a new partner, divorce and introduce the new partner. Spies can’t keep secrets from their fellow spies. Bad for business.
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
10:36 pm
Scout, why do you think that the Republicans, especially the most extremist – Walsh, West, Allen, Akin, Mourdoch among other various and sundry tea party types – got shellacked so badly last Tuesday?
JamVet
November 11th, 2012
10:40 pm
“We sent (women) running back to the Democratic Party because they think we’re nutty,” Rep. Steve LaTourette (R – Ohio) said of comments about rape by Mourdock of Indiana and Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, conservatives who both lost Senate races Tuesday in states won by Romney.
What War on Women?
Ask And Ye Shall Receive
November 11th, 2012
10:58 pm
Ronald Kessler, writing for Newsmax.com:
“In my recently published book, “The Secrets of the FBI,” FBI Director Mueller gave me unprecedented access to the bureau, including to agents who told me normally classified details of how FBI agents break into homes and offices to plant bugging devices in terrorist, espionage, Mafia, and political corruption cases.
In my opinion, Mueller is a man of impeccable integrity. He would not have acquiesced to delaying action on the bureau’s findings unless ordered to do so by the attorney general or by the president.”
A direct quote from a source cited previously.
The credibility train stopped when I read this.
getalife
November 11th, 2012
11:03 pm
scout still thinks rw media is the truth.
Still living in la la land.
Poor thing.
Banderson
November 11th, 2012
11:22 pm
The big question will be – What did Eric Cantor know and when did he know it?
Thank goodness for Vegas and legal gambling
November 12th, 2012
1:04 am
Thanks UGA for covering against Auburn!
Waiting in Vegas to catch my red eye back to the Atl! 2012 has been a great year! 7 wins @ 50k per bet minus IRS take. Got to make as much as I can before the new tax plan kicks in!
What a way to make a secondary income!
Bob
November 12th, 2012
4:00 am
Cantor lives in a log cabin.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
5:50 am
mornin’.
If you want some idea of why I viscerally hate most of the shiny, pre-digested corporate media that has the audacity to consider its product to be “news analysis”:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/11/sunday-shows-ignore-the-most-important-economic/191335
Four of the five major Sunday morning political shows ignored the issue of job creation and economic growth, which economists and voters say are the most important economic issues facing the nation. Instead, the economic discussion on the November 11 editions of these shows focused almost exclusively on the debate over how to achieve deficit reduction.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
5:56 am
THE PLOT THICKENS
I guess the CIA director brouhaha will be good to keep the sore losers busy for a coupla-three weeks while their masters go back to work robbing them.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 12th, 2012
5:57 am
Good Monday morning everyone. I couldn’t resist this…
http://cheezburger.com/6745808384
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
6:04 am
Paraphrasing Wilde: One would have to have a heart of stone to watch this video of sad white people without laughing.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
6:06 am
Corbin, I think we get one more business day of gloating and then that’s it, right? (Dunno about you but I suspended overt gloating immediately after the results were in and for the next couple days so’s not to be unseemly.)
Orange12
November 12th, 2012
6:23 am
Let’s see how well you like the “Snake Oil Salesman” after a couple of more months or better, years. If the country can last that long.
Jm
November 12th, 2012
6:32 am
“Frustrated residents joined lawmakers in calling for a shakeup of the Long Island Power Authority as 100,000 of the state agency’s customers remain blacked out two weeks after Hurricane Sandy.
The state-owned authority’s customers accounted for about two-thirds of the 166,500 homes and businesses still without power yesterday after Sandy and a subsequent snowstorm affected more than 8.6 million, according to the U.S. Energy Department.”
Government at it’s best.
You know, Jay says Republicans bash and destroy faith in government. Frankly, faith in government is not deserved.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 12th, 2012
6:53 am
Stands,
You are correct, of course, and I so do want to be a “good winner”, but I’m only human. We must spike no more footballs if we want bi-partisanship, right?
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
7:15 am
Let’s see how well you like the “Snake Oil Salesman” after a couple of more months or better, years. If the country can last that long.
Uh…………….. You guys have already been saying that for four years.
Time for a new lament…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikLlgs6GY9Q
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
7:18 am
Frankly, faith in government is not deserved.
Sounds like somebody wants a perfect utopia.
Alas, they are in the wrong species, planet and time…
Rightwing Troll
November 12th, 2012
7:18 am
Of course it does Scout… of course it does… There’s definitely something getting thicker in here… but it ain’t the “plot”…
Will this be Watergate number 9?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:21 am
Jm – so … if a home has been flooded and that has caused damage to the circuit, that’s government’s fault?
if there are no powerlines up, that’s government’s fault?
christ on a cracker, you are so quick to jump on the government, you really don’t bother to read all the facts first, are you?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sandy-power-outages-long-island-power-authority-20121110,0,4681908.story
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:23 am
“Sounds like somebody wants a perfect utopia. ” … where nothing ever floods or burns down or is completely devastated …
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:28 am
All I can say is that I feel sorry for Petraeus’s wife … I mean, going through this kind of crap must be bad enough on a personal level … but to have to go through it on the public stage – gah.
And his kids (his daughter only recently got married, herself)
awful. just awful.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 12th, 2012
7:35 am
USinUK,
God’s first mistake. A basic design flaw in man. Not enough blood capacity for both heads at the same time.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
7:36 am
If the country can last that long.
Yeah, I’m getting a LOT of that from right wing friends/acquaintances of late. I guess it’s to be expected, but seriously (and I’m sure you’ve heard this before) — if I could survive a second term of Bush, you can certainly survive a second term of Obama. Breathe… in, and out…
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
7:38 am
but to have to go through it on the public stage – gah.
thus, my initial reaction to hearing of this, back on Friday.
And really, that’s pretty much all I’ve had to say about it, absent some solid related public-policy facts (which frankly are in short supply.)
Bosch
November 12th, 2012
7:39 am
Hi blog peeps….sooooo….did I miss much? Anything been going on lately?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:41 am
BOSCH!!!!
have missed the hell out of you, my friend!!
you missed a fun week last week
I hope this new bidness of yours is worth it
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 12th, 2012
7:41 am
Bosch! Welcome back! I changed my Nom de Blog so you don’t know me…but I know you. See any good clowns lately?
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 12th, 2012
7:42 am
…besides the political ones on TV…heh,heh
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
7:43 am
if there are no powerlines up, that’s government’s fault?
Last night, I watched this guy being interviewed on CSPAN
http://www.booktv.org/Program/13883/After+Words+David+Cay+Johnston+The+Fine+Print+How+Big+Companies+Use+Plain+English+to+Rob+You+Blind+hosted+by+Jayne+ODonnell+USA+Today+Money+Reporter.aspx
(I really tried to watch football, but I’m getting totally turned off even the pro version of this gladiatorial nastiness).
Apparently there’s a very interesting loophole that basically absolves at least some American power companies from having to replace power poles on their own dime any more often than something like seven hundred years, if I heard right…
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:43 am
“And really, that’s pretty much all I’ve had to say about it, absent some solid related public-policy facts (which frankly are in short supply.)”
zackly.
although I will say this – the woman he chose to have the affair with sounds like a bunny boiler (honestly, sending threatening messages to someone in the FBI??? WTF???!!!)
sirwinston
November 12th, 2012
7:43 am
No one really knows why the cia director resigned. What he said perhaps was the truth and than news medias start a lot of guessing. to much hearsay adds fires to the blaze but to keep it going many keep adding fuel with hopes that it somehow comes back to the President and blames might somehow fall in the wrong laps while in so many cases that we really don’t know the real truth. CIA directors often do not get caught in the catch-22. I am sure this is not one of them. He told the truth and the bottom line we fail to accepted it and want something else negative since we live and see a lot of things here in America….negative.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:44 am
“See any good clowns lately?
”
hee hee … besides Unca Karl melting down on FOX???
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
7:46 am
There’s definitely something getting thicker in here… but it ain’t the “plot”…
I believe the anatomical term for this item is “neurocranium”.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:47 am
“No one really knows why the cia director resigned.”
um.
yeah.
we pretty much do.
and by “we”, I mean anyone who reads the news.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
7:49 am
besides Unca Karl melting down on FOX??
UnU, being that you are a faithful TBoggian I assume you saw that video I linkeed @ 6.04, but if not, the moment you want is at around the 1.55 mark, which synchs up perfectly with Randy Newman’s lyrics.
Paul
November 12th, 2012
7:50 am
Hey there, Boschman!
It’s been Star Night at the Asylum, as usual.
Gotta warn you, though. Lots of newbies may have lots of questions for you. I’ve been attributing all sorts of quotes to you.
It’s amazing how some religious cons reconsider their position when I tell them about your pagan nekkid dance group ceremony in the middle of a field in the moonlight….
Some of the more timid say “nah…. but I do think I may investigate this Episcopalopian thing…”
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
7:50 am
sounds like a bunny boiler
“Bunny boiler.” Saving that for use at an appropriate time, with an appropriately-aged audience.
Bosch
November 12th, 2012
7:51 am
Hi ya USin UK! So, yeah, missed y’all too, I came on early Wednesday after Romney’s speech to see whose heads had a sploded. Got to say hey to Mrs.G! Um, so, yeah, last week some things happened, no?
Seriously, purposefully held off on the blog. Didn’t need the added stress, saw enough of that on FB. Geez, some seriously angry folks out there.
Clowns Corbin (who are you, really?) yes, plenty. Most have been totally depressed and wanting to move to another country, then I have to gently remind them how we are the lessest Socialist country around, except for places like Somalia…
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 12th, 2012
7:53 am
Bosch,
Who am I? Let’s just say I got tired of being one of the more “normal” ones here…
Gale
November 12th, 2012
7:53 am
Fuel to the fire is right. My sister was repeating right wing nonsense about Petraeus resigning so he would not be called to testify on the Bengazi attack. Honestly, some people really have blinders on what news they see.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
7:53 am
I can’t believe I didn’t include this cautionary song for the CIA director, from the fabulous (and totally hawt) Aimee Mann, on Friday night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0l05K6_WQ8
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:53 am
“how we are the lessest Socialist country around, except for places like Somalia…”
dude. I’ll help ‘em pack!!
“Geez, some seriously angry folks out there.”
no kidding … the days leading up to last Tuesday were a serious kind of insane (then, there was Tuesday, itself and the Great Mural Poutrage!!!)
Bosch
November 12th, 2012
7:55 am
Hi ya Paul! Thanks for keeping me alive.
The Episcopal Church welcomes all, and I’ve been doing a lot of nekkid dancing lately- how DO you think Obama won??
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
7:55 am
Hiya Boschie!
Hope life is great for you and yours!
Hint: Corbin seems to be a pretty normal guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWvKDSwvls
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:56 am
dB – 7:49 – yeah. I saw the video. I didn’t like it, much. I mean, it’s one thing to mock the talking heads and their blind adherence to All Things Mittens … they’re public figures (and many of them should have known better than to trust something like “unskewedpolls.com” … I mean, really)
but, to mock supporters … that was a step too far for me, today. they supported the guy they thought was the right man for president. I don’t agree with their opinion, but I’m sure as hell not going to mock their disappointment.
But I do love me some Randy Newman.
Bosch
November 12th, 2012
7:56 am
Corbin-got ya!
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
7:57 am
dB – love me some Amee Mann, too!
Bosch
November 12th, 2012
7:58 am
Hate to blog and run, but I’ll be back later. The pups say hello too!
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 12th, 2012
8:00 am
So the CIA director got caught in a little extra marital slap and tickle…and the “lady” in question has classified material on her computer…
I am not amused.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 12th, 2012
8:00 am
So the CIA director got caught in a little extra marital slap and tickle…and the “lady” in question has classified material on her computer…
I am not amused.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
8:00 am
but, to mock supporters … that was a step too far for me
Well, I daresay, safely distant from the a$$holiest of them, that’s a luxury you can afford. You don’t have neighbors who persist in leaving their flipping ROMNEY/RYAN signs up in their yards, practically begging to be defaced at this point.
Gale
November 12th, 2012
8:00 am
Well gosh, in and out. I was hoping to see some thoughts from Bosch.
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:01 am
ED (electile dysfunction)… deflectabation… deflecterbation… mathurbation…
Jay should start his own glossary of terms for this site…
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 12th, 2012
8:01 am
Oh my! A double!
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:04 am
BOSCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wassup bro?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
8:05 am
“Well, I daresay, safely distant from the a$$holiest of them, that’s a luxury you can afford.”
you forget … FB brings you closer to some of them than you might wish.
“You don’t have neighbors who persist in leaving their flipping ROMNEY/RYAN signs up in their yards, practically begging to be defaced at this point.”
hahahahaha … oh,my … I think you need to creep over there in the middle of the night and staple a small addendum to the bottom … “LOST”
Thomas Heyward Jr
November 12th, 2012
8:08 am
When you’re hopped-up on free government Viagara, and you’re thousands of miles away from your wife for monthes at a time…………what’s a man poe to do?
.
Until ya’ll have walked a mile in General Petraues’ underwear, then ye shouldn’t cast aspercions.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
8:08 am
a small addendum to the bottom … “LOST”
See, I could never just leave it at that.
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
8:09 am
I must admit Aimee’s voice does kinda knock me out, stands. So many female singers now with those “little girl” voices; hers is sultry and oh so fine…
From one of my dear Todd Rundgren friends
The time after an election is always emotional. Over my lifetime of political activism, there have been times I’ve personally been elated and times I’ve personally been heartbroken. That’s the way a democracy works and that’s why we love it. To those who are sad, I’m sorry you are hurting and I definitely know how it feels–of course we’ve ALL been on both sides of victory celebrations. Now we must move forward together, as one Union. We must love one another. Love is the Answer.
It sure is, sweet Jean…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u37z8W5w8Do
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
8:10 am
also too:
FB brings you closer to some of them than you might wish.
I’ve had to temporarily shut off status updates from a couple of especially noxious ones, for fear I might take the bait and post something that I’ll surely regret.
Peace
November 12th, 2012
8:10 am
Doesn’t it sound a bit unusual that the FBI would be devoting agency resources to investigate allegations of ‘harassing’ emails between two females, only to discover and disclose that one of the women was having an affair with Director of the CIA? Lo and behold this discovery, along with Petraeus’ resignation and Hillary’s anticipated departure, will likely mean that neither will testify in the Benghazi hearings. Like other scenarios within the Obama administration, this one stinks to high heaven.
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
8:12 am
Saw the most ironic thing yesterday when I went to visit a friend who is not well. When I left her neighborhood, I saw directly across the street, one lonely, last Romney/Ryan sign.
Right in front a cemetery…
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:12 am
Until ya’ll have walked a mile in General Petraues’ underwear, then ye shouldn’t cast aspercions.
And until you know what people here have done in their lives, you shouldn’t cast them yourself.
Paul
November 12th, 2012
8:14 am
Bosch
“how DO you think Obama won??”
I’ll resist the urge to say “well, he got more votes…”
You know me, I’d have to say it’s a multivariate thing (Word of the Day!)
Everything from the neocon self-indulgent primary that those outside the Republican base saw as a reason for revulsion, not attraction, to Democrats simply out-maneuvering the acquisitions guru; to muddled messages, including the influence of superpacs miscalculating what would resonate; to not opening up early and staying with what seemed obvious (Obama’s a good guy, but look at the economy, the deficit, he just wasn’t up to the task so let’s thank him and retire him); to not anticipating and quickly countering the overarching themes of candidate definition the Democrats employed; to the Party’s tendency, when it sees messaging isn’t working (particularly on the social issues) to become more entrenched and insular, not introspective and adaptable (I guess these guys really don’t believe in evolution as response to change and adaptability to survive); to their power brokers and media being more concerned with ratings and money than with charting a course to victory that has appeal to more than a minority percent of the populace; to… oh, how long to go on?
So they can adapt and survive or dig in and dwindle. I’m guessing after a whole lot of public self-flagellation one faction will emerge and drag most, kicking and screaming, into the new political reality while the Coulters and Bozells and Hannities and the like will disengage and run alongside, screaming invective and upping their book and speakers’ fees.
indigo
November 12th, 2012
8:16 am
JamVet – 7:18
Saying those who believe “faith in Government is not deserved” equates to wanting a “perfet utopia” is like adding one + one and getting eleven.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
8:16 am
dB – hope this makes you feel better:
http://imgur.com/8Ghd8
Gale
November 12th, 2012
8:16 am
Since when does a past official get immunity from a Congressional hearing? I seem to remember Greenspan being called in to discuss the financial meltdown that started while he was the head of the Fed.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 12th, 2012
8:17 am
“When you’re hopped-up on free government Viagara, and you’re thousands of miles away from your wife for monthes at a time…………what’s a man poe to do?”
Either take a cold shower, slip some saltpeter in your coffee, take matters into your own hands or man up and be faithful.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
8:17 am
“Until ya’ll have walked a mile in General Petraues’ underwear, then ye shouldn’t cast aspercions.”
until you can spell aspersions, you really shouldn’t use big words.
Paul
November 12th, 2012
8:17 am
Bosch
When you return: Corbin? Just think ‘ab”.
Not as in “six-pack abs” but as a prefix to what some would consider normal.
Paul
November 12th, 2012
8:18 am
BROSEPHUS!
Top of the morning to you from Aggieland!
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
8:19 am
dB – “I’ve had to temporarily shut off status updates from a couple of especially noxious ones, for fear I might take the bait and post something that I’ll surely regret.”
I let some go … corrected others … otherwise, I just let the scrolly bar do its work.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 12th, 2012
8:19 am
Peace
“along with Petraeus’ resignation and Hillary’s anticipated departure, will likely mean that neither will testify in the Benghazi hearings”
oh please
If King wants them at his hearing…they’ll be there
Paul
November 12th, 2012
8:20 am
“I saw directly across the street, one lonely, last Romney/Ryan sign.
Right in front a cemetery…”
JamVet, you oughta’ send a pic of that to The Jay Leno Show.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
8:21 am
I must admit Aimee’s voice does kinda knock me out, stands.
To say nothing of her lyrics, which can cut right to the bone.
If you’ve ever listened to (say) Labrador and not gotten at least a little teared up, you probably don’t have a soul worth selling.
and UnU @ 8.18, ha ha.
stands for decibels
November 12th, 2012
8:22 am
likely mean that neither will testify in the Benghazi hearings.
You can just hear the little Tinker-Toy wheels turning, can’t you?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
8:23 am
Paul – “Not as in “six-pack abs” but as a prefix to what some would consider normal.”
you mean … like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH97lImrr0Q
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:24 am
Top of the morning to you from Aggieland!
They came, they saw, and they whooped ass!!! I’m happy that Bama made it through the past 3 weeks with only one loss. That was the roughest part of their schedule. They faced Miss St, LSU, and then A&M without the benefit of a bye week. Over the past month, those four teams have had to face each other. For them to all remain in the top 10 in BCS rankings is astounding to me.
Gale
November 12th, 2012
8:25 am
I confess I let the negative noise on FB get the better of me and started a regular firestorm between me and another friend and my family. I got really tired of seeing the flag upside down. It finally got quiet. I was disappointed though, that none of them joined me in a donation to a Disabled Vets organization yesterday. The patriotism was apparently single faceted.
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:26 am
I take that back as Miss St. is not in the BCS rankings anymore. There had to be one sacrificial lamb, and it was the Bulldogs that fell on the grenade.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 12th, 2012
8:28 am
USinUK,
The reports of my death (and brain) were greatly exaggerated…
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:28 am
Tom Price Sheetz!!!!!!
Paul
November 12th, 2012
8:30 am
USinUK
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m glad Mrs. Paul was up or my laughing would have raised her from a dead sleep!
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
8:30 am
dB – “To say nothing of her lyrics, which can cut right to the bone. ”
one of the best singer-songwriters around, say I.
Cosby
November 12th, 2012
8:30 am
Big deal, sounds as if this is a distraction to pressing issues. We have what by most consider an elder Statesman – William Jefferson Clinton, taht dod the same multiple times including rape, lied to a Federal judge, but is still reveered by those in Washington and by most illerate voters. So much liers graft and corruptin out of DC and this administration, The USA is truly a third world country..a sad sad situation.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 12th, 2012
8:31 am
Paul – 8:30 – my job here is done!
Paul
November 12th, 2012
8:33 am
Brosephus
Yes, it is.
I gave to say, I think a number of the fans thought “A and What?!!? These newcomers? We’ll give them a proper introduction to the SEC.”
Then it was like Independence Day’s opening salvo.
Can you believe Manziel’s a redshirt freshman? And A&M was not even his first or second choice? And the coach did some wonderful things at Houston. They’re going to be a team to watch, I think.
Jay
November 12th, 2012
8:36 am
“but is still reveered by those in Washington and by most illerate voters. So much liers graft and corruptin out of DC and this administration,
Cosby, for credibility reasons, it is probably not wise to sneer at “illerate voters” in a post containing so many typos and misspellings.
Also, sheets.
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:37 am
Paul
I had been watching them, and Manziel’s good. Seems as though both he and Mettenberger brought their “A” game against the Tide. We got beaten twice, but lady luck helped us against LSU.
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
8:45 am
indigo, and your failure to recognize that every single thing that does not go perfectly in this country is somehow the fault of our government – according to the right wing extremists in the GOP – is folly.
Wake up!
Hating Uncle Sam is only going to get you more results like Tuesday night.
He is your partner, not your enemy.
And that partnership between the public and private has worked great, for the most part, for over 200 years. But now, the very people and “monied interests” that Thomas Jefferson warned us about, don’t want to play nice. They want to run the show. And you Republicans want to let them!!!
To hell with them and their attempts to take away OUR sovereignty.
And in spite of what that sell out of a loser said, corporations are NOT people, my friend…
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
8:46 am
William Jefferson Clinton, taht dod the same multiple times including rape, lied to a Federal judge, but is still reveered by those in Washington and by most illerate voters. So much liers graft and corruptin out of DC and this administration
Shorter version: DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT!!!!!!
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
8:48 am
Cosby, with that many spelling errors and mangled sentences, YOU berate people for being illiterate?
And no, you are dead wrong.
The Unites States of America is not a third world country.
Get up off of your fainting couch and quit trying to pretend/wish it was one.
THAT is a real loser proposition for you Republicans, going forward…
Look before I leap...
November 12th, 2012
8:53 am
Cosby’s post at 8:30 has to be one of the most amusing examples of irony seen here in days.
alex
November 12th, 2012
8:58 am
@Jamvet, still laughing about the deaths in our consulate?—back to the sewer with you……..,you, in particular , have NO right to instruct anyone about Jefferson, sovereignty or any other poly sci concepts you may have learned in high school.
alex
November 12th, 2012
9:01 am
I don’t know who Cosby is, mabye he/she is a disabled vet, mabye they care more about “concept” than spelling, just mabye piling on is unkind then MABYE that is what this post has become a bunch of revengeful, angry people..move to substance over style…
Brosephus™
November 12th, 2012
9:06 am
alex
You don’t try to bash someone as illiterate by showing your own shortcomings. I don’t care who you are. Sometimes, it’s just best to keep things to yourself.
Look before I leap...
November 12th, 2012
9:12 am
“MABYE”
It just gets better and better.
Many of the regular posters here, on both sides of the ideological divide, have contributed substance AND style. It is difficult to take someone seriously who writes like a 3rd grade dropout.
Especially when they attempt to call some out for being illiterate.
Glass houses and stones and all that, eh?
Thank goodness for Vegas and legal gambling
November 12th, 2012
9:21 am
My apology for taking up a space on this blog!
My flight has landed from Vegas with a nice chunk of cash in my bag. Tired of the government taking so much from my winnings but it is what it is.
My friend just informed me that I blogged on the wrong site, I needed to post on Kyles instead. His posters are conservative, business like, they understand entrepreneurial people. His posters believe in taking risks for the good of individualism, not parity for the 47%’s!
Love Vegas, especially when you leave with $ in your pocket!
Good luck Dems / Libs!
JamVet
November 12th, 2012
9:31 am
alex, get mommy to change your diapers, OK?
or don’t and just continue to enjoy your own smell!
Gotta go make money and keep the Obama recovery rolling along!
later…
skipper
November 12th, 2012
10:37 am
I’m really going to make enemies, but I saw a picture or Petreaus’ wife, and she could “haint” an eight-story hotel by herself! Good Heavens, it is one thing to be ugly, but to be ugly AND let yourself go? She probably field-dresses at 250, and not more than 5-feet tall! The man had to do what he had to do………look at Kennedy., and he was married to a beauty.
CashIn
November 12th, 2012
3:03 pm
broadwell’s husband — knew about the affair, but put up with his wife whoring around with the general for the $2-3 million she brought in from her book. He loves the green—nothing wrong with that.