My friends Roger and June went to Australia for this event, a full solar eclipse. You could not see it from Europe or the United States. Has everyone recovered from the election and the storms? What is our next round of excitement?
From the Associated Press :
Virginia’s attorney general says a Hampton judge lacked jurisdiction to order the release of an imprisoned man whose accuser recanted her sexual assault allegation.
Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, says Jonathan Montgomery’s case is a tragedy. But he says in an email today that Circuit Judge Randolph West’s order exonerating Montgomery and vacating the final two years of his sentence is void under state law. He says Montgomery probably needs to petition the Virginia Court of Appeals for a writ of actual innocence, which Cuccinelli will support.
Montgomery’s father, David Montgomery, says his son should be released immediately. He says the attorney general’s office is holding an innocent man captive.
Most Republicans I know have defiantly told me that there is no war on women. Literally, I agree. Figuratively I strongly disagree.
First off, I usually give Republicans credit, with great fanfare, for having the best control of the sound-bites and the bumper sticker slogans. They are just better at it that Democrats and like-minded people. Not in this case– the women snatched the sound bite and owned it. War on Women is ours and we will use it as we please. We own it.
There isn’t a person in the world who can realistically deny that women had a great deal to do with the outcome of the election. I don’t just mean the presidential election–that was probably the least significant. The war on women showed up in senatorial and congressional races all over this country and the women most definitely threw the some of the bastards out.
Has the military had a love affair with General Petraeus? Do we worship our military guys? Is Petraeus any worse than any of his predecessors who fell short of our expectations?
Has Petraeus’ behavior made us less secure? Has he let America down? Do we really care who “does” whom?
Jon Stewart had some uncanny ability to predict the future. The video is from January 2012.
Not to pile on Petraeus but he committed the first sin of fooling around. Never fool around with someone who has less to lose than you do. Secondly, he let his ego get in the way of his goals. Thirdly, there is absolutely nothing worse than a jealous women or a jealous dog. Both protect their own self-interests with equal fervour.
According to the Washington Post:
For Broadwell, who is also married, the startling turn of events has reportedly been painful as well. After writing a best-selling and highly laudatory book about Petraeus, she appears to have initiated the series of events that led to his public humiliation. Investigators say threatening e-mails from Broadwell to another woman led to the discovery of the affair between the biographer and her subject. It is an outcome made more poignant because she has been — and remains — zealous in her devotion to the general, friends and colleagues say.
“She was relentlessly pro-Petraeus,” said a longtime Afghan policy expert who met Broadwell in Kabul. “There was no room for a conversation of shortcomings of the Petraeus theology. She wasn’t a reporter. She struck me as an acolyte.”
Those who worked for Petraeus continued to express discomfort with Broadwell’s level of access and how she flaunted it in their faces.
From Salon.com
Peter Morrison, treasurer of the Hardin County Republican Party in Texas, suggests in his newsletter that the state should have an “amicable divorce” from the “maggots” who re-elected Obama.
Morrison posted on his Facebook page his post-election thoughts: “We must contest every single inch of ground and delay the baby-murdering, tax-raising socialists at every opportunity. But in due time, the maggots will have eaten every morsel of flesh off of the rotting corpse of the Republic, and therein lies our opportunity.”
“Texas was once its own country, and many Texans already think in nationalist terms about their state,” Morrison continued. “We need to do everything possible to encourage a long-term shift in thinking on this issue. Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government? Let each go her own way in peace, sign a free trade agreement among the states and we can avoid this gut-wrenching spectacle every four years.”
Veterans Day –November 11, 2012
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month hostilities ended in 1918 and WWI was officially over. Nations around the world observe Remembrance Day or Armistice Day to honor those who served in this terrible war.
American Armistice Day is better known as Veterans Day. All veterans who have served in the United States military are honored on this day.
To all of our veterans, especially our Moonhowlings Veterans, thank you for your service. Your efforts to keep us free will not be forgotten.
The Veterans Day Posters dating back to 1978 can be found at THIS LINK.
This is a rousing tune dedicated to all those who have served: past, present future!
Bet you can’t keep your feet still.
In my middle of the night search I found 2 tributes to Veterans that I just couldn’t say no to. Yea, they brought tears to my eyes.
Theme from Band of Brothers
Music –theme from Arrmageddon
I am reminded of an old Bobby Vinton record, ” Blue on Blue” …Blue on Blue, leart ache on heart ache…so on and so forth.
What’s the Cooch to do? He is the darling of the Religious Right and darling of the Tea Party. Ooops, big cross over on the old Venn Diagram with that one. Where does Tuesday’s election leave that bad-boy attorney general?
From the Washington Post:
Firebrand conservative Kenneth Cuccinelli, now attorney general, is running, upsetting the state Republican establishment that badly wants mild-mannered and reliable Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling as its gubernatorial candidate.
Cuccinelli, who has gained national attention for his strong positions against climate change, homosexuals and abortion, had been riding the Tea Party wave of distrust and resentment of government and mainstream politicians.
I am getting tired of the racist of the day. I couldn’t resist this one however. This stupid young woman is like a clone of someone I used to consider a friend. Why would a person claim to not be a racist? What do they consider a racist? I used to be very uncomfortable calling people racists except in the most extreme circumstances. It seems to be getting easier with each passing day.
News keeps getting worse for Denise Helms, the 22-year-old California woman whose racist, threatening Facebook status about President Barack Obama went viral this week. Helms has since been fired from her job at a Turlock, Calif., Cold Stone Creamery, and the Secret Service is now looking into her comments.
“Another 4 years of this (N-word),” Helms wrote on her Facebook Tuesday night. “Maybe he will get assassinated this term.”
Hampden-Sydney College, an all-male school in central Virginia, is investigating an election-night incident in which a group of students upset about President Obama’s reelection set off fireworks, threw bottles and then shouted racial epithets at members of a minority student organization, officials said Thursday.
Some in the group also threatened violence against the Minority Student Union members, college officials said, but there was no physical contact. Officials said about 40 students were involved, but it was unclear how many were active and how many were bystanders.
Tonight an email came for me from an old friend who apparently is suffering from election regret.
What surprises me is that people aren’t embarrassed to send this kind of email.
Are people really that bitter about the Obama victory?
Are we really this racist of a society?
The north east gets slammed by another storm–this time a nor’easter. Give it a rest, Mother Nature.
How much more can the east coast take? Once again, the D.C. area dodged a bullet.
More election post-mortem goes on. What advice do you have for the Republican Party?
Is the brand broken? Is there a Republican message problem?
Some footage will live forever. Faux News had a big meltdown over the Obama win.
Megyn Kelly turned to Karl Rove who denied that Ohio had been called for Obama and said those immortal words:
Is this math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better or is this real?
Those words really do sum up what Fox News is all about.
O’Reilly’s words really will also never be forgotten. Its really about being an old white man.
