Post election open thread–thank goodness! No more election commercials. Fimian is giving his good night speech. It is/was a very close race. Will there be a recount? Did he concede? Not really.
Fimian thanked Corey personally. Hmmmmm…is Corey Fimian’s new bff?
I expect there will be a post mortum. I would be interested to hear what ideas people have rather than what they hate.
Connolly is in the lead but not by much.
So, here we are, 2010, and THIS election is a “referendum” on the governance of President Obama. Are we so sure? Didn’t we hear that about the 2004 win of Bush, that Republicans were saying it was a “referendum” on the current Bush policies.
O.K., so stay with me, move ahead to the 2006 election and take over of the house and senate by democrats. It was a “referendum” on the Bush white house, at least that is what the left said. It’s funny, what I recall the Right punditry saying was that it was simply an election cycle and we should not read too much into it.
Now, fast forward to 2008 and the overwhelming win of President Obama. His win was a “referendum” on Republicans! Republicans were so pissed at Bush that they decided to stay home (kind of what is being said about democrat voters in 2010). A “real” conservative was not on the ballot. Somehow McCain did not count as a real conservative, but hey, I’m considered a leftie commie these days so what do I know!
Now……yep, let’s fast forward again to 2010 and THIS election , really, this one for sure, is truly a referendum on the current administration, no joke. Unless, of course, maybe there really is no such thing as a referendum. Am I the only one noticing something funny? The right will claim if they win it’s a referendum, and guess what, the left will claim it is just an election cycle.
Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth……OY VEY, I am getting such a headache!
So, what does this tell us? It tells us nothing. Well, for me, actually, it suggests that no matter who is in office, they need to remember that their is an entire electorate that just wants to make sure that their concerns are never forgotten. Politicians need to just do what they believe is the best policy and hope, in the end, they used their noggin to the best of their ability. They did their due diligence in fact finding, listened to different points of view, and made a decision they could be satisfied with, even IF they do not get re-elected.
As the evening unfolds, I hope posters here will keep this thread full of current wins and losses.
Greetings from West Virginia. I took a few days off while the kids are out of school for teacher work days and went leaf watching. Except the leaves really are bi-polar this year. Some are green, some of the right color, some trees are half and half and some have lost all leaves. There is no consistency. I have seen nothing spectacular.
October just ended and it was a warmer than usual month–again. The past 8 months have, on average, shown temperatures 2.5 degrees above normal, according to the national weather service. October was 2.7 degrees above normal October temperatures. The report was released just a few hours before the first freeze warning of the year.
Tonight there will be frost. I think it is already below freezing where I am. I can remember 30 years ago we had always had frost by Halloween. Flowers weren’t still blooming this late in the year. It was generally freezing on Halloween night. What is causing this? Why has our growing season extended by nearly a month?
By the way, the internet sucks and my cell phone doesn’t work.
Robert Fred Mejia will probably be going to jail for about 10 years. Someone else will be driving his Ferarri. Mejiea tooled all over Montgomery County while trying to impress others. According to the Washington Post:
Stretching over at least two years, Mejia would slip into the disguise of federal immigration agent “Jimmy Rico.” He wore combat boots, a thigh holster, and a shirt and hat bearing the letters ICE, for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He used a different car, one that looked like a police cruiser.
And for the right price – generally thousands of dollars – he and his conspirators offered citizenship and legalization papers to at least 90 people who thought they were getting the real thing.
Old “Jimmy” Rico seemed to forget his roots. Judge Weinstein reminded him of what he had done to his own people. This scumbag will be put on hold for 10 years and he will have time to think about his misdeeds. A fake ICE agent indeed! Actually I have heard several people laughingly suggest they get T-shirts made up that say I.C.E. Perhaps these jokesters might want to reconsider that dumb idea.
