!8 more days until the election. 12 more days until Halloween. Do you plan on getting more or less candy for the Trick-or-Treaters? We get fewer kids each year, it seems.
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Halloween candy has worked out to the same number of bags the last couple of years. Slight bump in the number of younger kids last year than the two years before. What I have been seeing more of is older teenagers dressing up and coming around. Lots of porch lights on in my neighborhood, so why not? Hey, if I was 17 I would dress up and head out for the freebies too! Even had a couple of 20somethings come around 🙂
Did the 20 somethings remember to say please and thank you?
“Mr. Reagan came to Washington to tell America that it is
OK to get as many Milky Ways on Halloween as you can
and keep them all for yourself….. But I’m a liberal,
I keep my Milky Ways, but give any licorice sticks to the poor.”
Garrison Keillor
We are being murdered today. Just murdered and clawed to death by bears.
I LOVE this time of year. My favorite Halloween comedy bit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XqhwI0zcY
Do you dress up when you take your kids around?
I love this time of year also. I think I need a caldron out front this year.
I’ve been manning the house the last couple years. My wife likes to take the boys around. I don’t get dressed up, but I do like Halloween. I actually love the last third of the year. The boys’ costumes came this week (Buzz and Woody), and I’ve got plenty left over to buy candy. BTW, is it just me, or is buying candy getting to be an expensive proposition?
VEry expensive. Mr. Howler buys it for our house and he spends $25-$30 bucks and that isn’t even buying the real high end stuff. I ordered 130 pieces off of Amazon today for $15. Its Hershey supposedly. I hope he doesn’t have to go out to Giant for more.
Pokie, you should dress up and scare the crap out of people knocking on the door.
“I think I need a caldron out front this year.”
What, to match the one in your kitchen? (Snicker)
You are mistaking me for someone who cooks.
No wonder Mr. Howler is grumpy, serving little Hansel and Gretel under/over cooked must have done much wonders for his disposition.
You guys should live in a real spooky neighborhood and then you wouldn’t have to feed the hungry goblins – they’d be too scared to knock on your door. (Being a good capitalist, I keep money on hand if any of the monsters show up.) I’ve had two trick-or-treaters in the last 30 years and their parents called ahead to warn me that they were on their way. Being an art major, I decided to decorate anyway for DH and me. The cats can bat the skeletons and the dog can eat a toy- if he dares!
Should we drive by?
My son said all the kids think our house is haunted anyway. ho ho ho
I don’t give out candy. It’s too much like socialism.
😉
@marinm
Not really…it’s YOUR candy…not someone else’s. It’s charity.
We are often not home so we put out a bowl full of candy and use the honor system. It usually works quite well ( except that one year…….they did leave the bowl though.
I don’t think those in my neighborhood are very honorable. There are some older kids.
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/315474
No more attack ads! No more robo calls! Arghhh!
(But imagine this has been a season of huge profits for TV stations
covering the Virginia market)
“Since 1926 stocks have racked up an average annual return
of 15.4% when a Democrat is in the White House versus
7.8% under Republican presidents.”
(WSJ 10-19-2012)
That sure makes MY job easier. Thanks Steve.
@marinm
Darn tootin! No redistribution of wealth here.
Walking around my little cul-de-sac, I dress up in a trenchcoat with a fedora
pulled down my forehead. carrying a martini glass. Neighbors, expecting me,
are ready!
Man with firm under contract to Va. GOP charged with voter registration fraud
By Maggie Fazeli Fardand Ben Pershing,
Published: October 19
The Washington Post
Democrats launched a fresh round of attacks on Republicans over the issue of voter fraud Friday after a man working for a firm under contract to the Republican Party of Virginia was accused of discarding state voter registration forms.
Colin Small, 23, of Phoenixville, Pa., was arrested Thursday by sheriff’s deputies in Rockingham County, in the state’s Shenandoah Valley, on 13 charges of voter registration fraud. The alleged crime happened Monday, when a business owner in Harrisonburg, Va., reported that someone had discarded eight voter registration forms behind his store.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/republican-campaign-worker-charged-with-voter-registration-fraud/2012/10/19/c07cc378-1a01-11e2-94aa-9240e72ee00b_story.html
This is despicable, repulsive and disgusting. Repugs do not respect the constitutional rights of Americans. They are the party of igorance, tyranny and anti-americanism. They are everything our founding father despised.
Democrats are bringing out the big guns, now. Sandra Fluke did a campaign stop outside a sak-n-save in Reno. 10 people showed up.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20121020/NEWS19/310200053/Fluke-takes-center-stage-in-Reno?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|NEWS19
You gotta figure crowd-control is an issue, here!
@Starryflights
There was a whole thread about………oh, nevermind. BTW, I have it on good authority that there is no such thing as voter fraud!
“Repugs do not respect the constitutional rights of Americans. They are the party of igorance, tyranny and anti-americanism. They are everything our founding father despised.”
God forbid we conservatives say something harsh. Slow gets reprimanded daily.
He doesn’t get reprimanded for things like that. (inserting Democrat in place of repub)
Who died and made you Margaret? (of Dennis the Menace fame)
Secondly, I am going going to sit here and baby sit the blog so every word pleases everyone. I didn’t even see the remarks.
Where is your ignore button? As for conservatives saying something harsh, the rudeness and noise occurs daily and I am not pointing a finger in any particular direction.
George McGovern has died.
A great humanitarian who after flyging bombers in Italy during WWII,
became one of the staunchest peace lovers Congress has ever had.
Rest in peace!
RIP Senator McGovern.
It’s a sign of love 🙂
Yes it must be. I can think of no other reason for such tolerance.
My wish list for tomorrow’s debate would include a discussion about the symptoms of “Ob-amnesia”.
You might have Ob-amnesia if you:
Opposed every intelligence measure used to determine OBL’s whereabouts, such as renditions, when you were Senator during the Bush years;
When you became President, you immediately used your own Justice Department to try to prosecute the Americans who were charged with obtaining that intelligence;
And when you issued the “kill” order, you preened and crowed endlessly about it, and:
You quietly had the charges dropped against those Americans just weeks before the election.
Now THAT was some politically expedient flip-flopping!
This morning, The Virginian-Pilot and The Waynesboro News Virginian both endorsed Tim Kaine, coming right off the heels of The Washington Post’s endorsement last week. Kaine has now been endorsed by the two largest papers in the state, in addition to The News Virginian, which has a history of supporting Republican candidates — including George Allen in 2006!
@Emma
I really hope you don’t vote for Obama. It would be hypocritical beyond imagining!
Maybe he shouldn’t mention that Bin Laden had been taken out. nah. The one thing he has always acknowledged is that it was Bush’s fight also.
One thing in Obama’s favor even if what Emma wrote is totally true–when people get in office they often find out more information and adjust their thinking based on that fluid information.
Romney doesn’t have that reasoning. His Romnesia is because he will say or do anything for a vote. Obama didn’t need your vote when he altered his positions on some things. Sometimes political reality is a powerful force.
If you want to feel old, Spike (James Marster) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is now 50 years old. Geez!!! He also is an American, not a Brit. Anthony Stewart Head is the real Brit. He will turn 59 early next year. Buffy is timeless but Ringer didn’t get renewed. That was a pretty decent show.
Sarah Michelle Gellar is 35.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october202012/marines-beirut-rs.php
Another sad day – almost 30 years ago.
People seem to think these things are rare. They aren’t really, sad to say. Its dangerous business. Much confusion and chaos is involved.
This would explain why newspapers are all but dead. And while I’m thinking on it…bye-bye Newsweek, you hunk-o-junk leftist rag!
Having a newspaper endorse Obama is like Candy Crowley endorsing Obama…..no surprise at all.
Back in olden days the Newsweek was considered conservative and Time liberal. US News and World Report was like uber-con.
Sorry, Kaine, Obama, all the same to me.
See, and Moon knows I’m really smiling when I say it’s a sign of love. We just disagree, that’s all…no big deal (really).
A little reality check here. Mr. Howler just went into the doughnut hole with his medications. He will be there for 3 months until the new calendar year begins. His one rx now costs $121 instead of $40. Without obama care it would cost about $240 for a month’s supply. He takes 8 rx’s. Can you imagine if you were watching a real tight budget on that or living on social security only?
On a related endorsement note. Obama has picked up the endorsements of Castro, Chavez, and Putin!
@SlowpokeRodriguez
“Democrats are bringing out the big guns, now. Sandra Fluke did a campaign stop outside a sak-n-save in Reno. 10 people showed up.”
We’re they all male and had ‘expectations’? 😉
If they panned to the crowd was there a guy wearing a shirt that says, “Free Mamograms! I’ll take a squeeze..”
There used to be a similar T-shirt about testicles.
@marinm
The “rally” came to an abrupt end when Fluke was mistakenly arrested for prostitution after repeatedly asking different men to buy her some contraceptives.
Since I can only go deeper in the gutter with that last comment I’ll up the convo some by saying THIS is a war on science..
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/1022/Earthquake-predictions-and-a-triumph-of-scientific-illiteracy-in-an-Italian-court
Today, a court in the central Italian city of L’Aquila, 380 years after that miscarriage of justice, sentenced six scientists and a government bureaucrat to six years in jail on manslaughter charges for their failure to predict a 2009 earthquake that left more than 300 people dead.
…and here is a gimmie to the left wing of the blog re our future Governor and the above war on science.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/2010/10/simplicity_itself_if_somebody.html
Everything you need to know about the left is clearly demonstrated here:
http://freebeacon.com/msnbcs-morning-joe-crowd-boos-9-year-old-girl-for-supporting-mitt-romney/
Funny you should mention that. I was watching and you mischaracterize what happened.
You, who throws wild punches at every turn, really have no room to talk.
The Morning Joe crowd was very supportive of the girl and Joe cheered her. A couple people who couldn’t see her in the background booed Romney, not the kid. Don’t be such an old woman. The kid was enjoying it. Mika was hugging her. it was not an unfriendly crowd. It was 5:30 am in a bar in Boga Raton. Give it a rest.
@momma mouse pokie
Do all REpublicans get as hysterical as you do?
Face it, you know I’m right. Considering it was an MSNBC crowd, that little girl is lucky to have not been assaulted.
@poker, you might be right. Morning Joe is a VERY Republican crowd. Mika is the only semi democrat on the show.
Obviously….that explains the booing. You still haven’t figured out that everybody who isn’t hyper-left isn’t stupid, huh?
well, I would hope not! not in to the self-loathing stuff.
Big topic today, or should be, is the White House emails received during the Benghazi attack. Now that the attack is over mister president, what are you going to do next? Why, I’m going to Las Vegas! (sorry Disney World)
Logic of the Left: The president states that the nation will not tolerate terrorism while giving the rose garden address on 12 Sept, and the Left declares that he was specifically referring to the Benghazi attack. (I guess he forgot to tell his White House spokesman before he left for Vegas) Next, the president states that the military isn’t in the era of horses and bayonets on national TV, and the Left declares that he was only speaking of military technology in general. Sooooooooooooooo … which is it?
I seem to remember saying this exact same thing. That Congress was inventing the sequestration so that THEY would be forced to “fix things.” And then they would realize that “hey!, WE don’t have to do ANYTHING. And the sequestration will get blamed.”
Carney said:
What the President said last night was a reiteration of what his position has long been, which is that the sequester, which was designed and passed by Congress, was never meant to become policy. It was never meant to be implemented. It’s a designed trigger, a forcing mechanism to compel Congress to make the difficult decisions required to reach a balanced deficit reduction package.
Problem is that the President can’t stop it. And Congress won’t act. It doesn’t want the blame or hard work.
I thought it was the result of a stalemate, put in place by the fact that all 6 Republicans on the Super Committee had taken a pledge not to raise taxes. That pretty much ruled out any compromise.
Obama wants to continue the illegal immigration phenomenon; tens of millions of low-end jobs taken away from our lower-class and increasing wage disparity. He seems to have no new ideas and engages in personal attacks and cheap sloganeering constantly. He seems very content with America’s current state, drifting towards haves and have-nots and a need to enable 47% of us towards not even being expected to pay Federal income tax.
Romney wants to reimplement the Bush approach. He will surely increase the deficit hugely in an attempt to stimulate short-term growth. He will devalue everything that we have, and build more staggering debt for our children. He won’t use the tax code to stimulate growth in America rather than elsewhere, which will be great for China et al. He covers this up by blathering about how we’re going to force China to stop playing games with their currency, which is a great example of a false non-starter issue that people campaign on but could not possibly implement.
Neither is a serious man. I don’t want a vote for whichever wins on my conscience.
Romney will be at Battlefield High School on Sunday.
Obama will be in Prince William County on Monday. I don’t know the time or place. I finally called EJ with the City of Manassas Democrats because I could NOT find a phone number for the PWC Democrats.
That sort of explains why they never can elect democrats. No phone number. Who can get hold of them?
@Moon-howler
“That sort of explains why they never can elect democrats. No phone number. Who can get hold of them?”
Yup. That’s the reason!
Its a major reason. Are you blind to the fact that there are a lot of democrats in this county? why do you think that Romney and Obama are both putting in major appearances not once but twice? It isn’t the proximity to Washington. I have lived here many years. It is only in the past 10 years that we have gotten this kind of attention. I can remember driving to Richmond to see Clinton in 1992. That’s as close as it got.
Anybody see this? Jim Moran’s son resigns from campaign after his advice on voter fraud was caught on videotape by James O’Keefe.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57539706/congressmans-son-resigns-after-voter-fraud-video/
He should resign. He shouldn’t have even been talking to the guy. Meanwhile, James O’Keefe is still an AH and a deceitful little scum bag.
Too bad Jim’s kid had to jump on the scumbag bandwagon. He should know better. O’Keefe doesn’t.
Domestic Terrorism charge:
The man, who authorities say shot an unarmed security guard while trying to get inside the conservative Family Research Council in August, has been indicted on new charges, including committing an act of terrorism, according to D.C.’s U.S. attorney’s office.
Prosecutors said the superceding grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday against Floyd Lee Corkins II is the first time a suspect has been charged under the District’s Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002. Corkins could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison on that charge alone.
From the WaPo
@Moon-howler
” Are you blind to the fact that there are a lot of democrats in this county?”
No. That was a very silly thing to say. Yes, there are a lot of democrats in this county but how many serve on the BOCS. Not counting the liberal republicans. I was pointing out that they lose not because of lack of a phone number but maybe just maybe because on a county level their policies suck?
Why would you say that? I actually find that incredibly offensive. I found Ann Wheeler’s politics to be excellent and well balanced, just to name one person who has run recently. She ran a good race in a district that is heavily Republican.
The candidates often have lost in the past because, in part, the local support simply isn’t there. Frankly, if you held one of your guns to my head, I couldn’t name you 5 official members of the Democratic party in PWC and Manassas. I could name you 50 Republicans. The Republicans are well organized, visible, very vocal.
I actually don’t think there are enough local Democrats in elected office for you to be able to assess their effectiveness.
It might be helpful to be able to reach the Democrats. I emailed the chair and got a number if anyone is interested.
It should be all over their website. It isn’t. Hopefully that will be corrected by today.
So do we look at a Sarah Palin comment? OR maybe the voters are more interested in the fact that Obama admits he has absolutely no regrets about ignoring the economy during his first two “super-majority” years in his interview with the Des Moines Register. Another 4 years of this clown?
Whaat is it you wanted him to do that he didn’t do, Slowpoke? Did you write and tell him of your great scheme?
Stick to topic.
Slow, on this blog? What do you think? I’m going with Palin for sure. Obama is sacred territory.