In this photo, a women struts her stuff on stage at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Pick the one you think I mean.
Sorry Beiber fans.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Now that the Republicans have Mitt Romney out of the way, the real race will begin for 2016 (the one they knew they'd be competing in anyway): Rubio Heads to Iowa
Sorry Mitt, all your friends had a backup plan.
Now that the Republicans have Mitt Romney out of the way, the real race will begin for 2016 (the one they knew they'd be competing in anyway): Rubio Heads to Iowa
Romney was 'shellshocked' that he lost on election night..
Jan Crawford of CBS news writes:
They just couldn’t believe they had been so wrong. And maybe they weren’t: There was Karl Rove on Fox saying Ohio wasn’t settled, so campaign aides decided to wait. They didn’t want to have to withdraw their concession, like Al Gore did in 2000, and they thought maybe the suburbs of Columbus and Cincinnati, which hadn’t been reported, could make a difference.
But then came Colorado for the president and Florida also was looking tougher than anyone had imagined.
"We just felt, ‘where’s our path?’" said a senior adviser. "There wasn’t one."
Romney then said what they knew: it was over.
His personal assistant, Garrett Jackson, called his counterpart on Mr. Obama’s staff, Marvin Nicholson. “Is your boss available?” Jackson asked.
Romney was stoic as he talked to the president, an aide said, but his wife Ann cried. Running mate Paul Ryan seemed genuinely shocked, the adviser said. Ryan’s wife Janna also was shaken and cried softly.
They were this shocked?
Obviously Mitt forgot about the primary debates when every other candidate told him and other Republicans that he would lose. And maybe he ignored changing demographics? And maybe he didn’t realize how many people would note his constantly evolving positions on issues.
Maybe the GOP should have went for the gusto and nominated Ron Paul just to see how that would have worked.
Instead they went the safe route, as they did with Bob Dole against Clinton in 1996. A repeat of the 90s is here.
Fair to say Romney will not run again? I think so.
Romney was 'shellshocked' that he lost on election night..
Expect to see this photo in lots of places around the web .. This is Valeria Lukyonova. She is being billed as the real life BARBIE. Oh, and the photo you are looking at is real. It’s her. Not photoshopped, either.
It sort of makes me physically ill, how about you?
Oh and when she’s not busy having somehow way too much money to be able to do all this, she travels in her astral body. That must be fun.
think there will be a movie about obama one day just like there is about lincoln tomorrow?
Great question, but FLAWED! You assume that 200 years from now movies will still exist. By then we are going to be way beyond even virtual reality. We may even be able to re-create time. Or time travel..
So if we do time travel, then people from 200 years from now and here right now today. And maybe TODAY they are making the movie … ? Eh?
Pretty amazing stuff: There is a 'super earth' in a 6-planet system, and it may just have oceans and life
My thought.. if there are oceans and life, are the oceans huge and the life massive?
Pretty amazing stuff: There is a 'super earth' in a 6-planet system, and it may just have oceans and life
From Sandy to a white out.. Parts of the Northeast look like this today. Amazing stuff, weather can be. Sadly power is still out and the storm led to even MORE power outages … there are some warmer days coming up over the next few, so let’s hope that power crews get this mess cleaned up so the rest of the mess can be cleaned.
By the way, Charles Hack took this photograph for the Jersey Journal showing snow covered streets in Hoboken.. pretty picture. But too much misery ongoing to enjoy it.
Some thirsty Thursday headlines.
University of Mississippi seeing anti-Obama protests.. escalation in tension, including racial slurs and arrests taking place..
Nor’Easter sucker punches Sandy-hit areas of The Northeast Coast.. snow falls, as much as 8 inches+.. New York City was hit was 4 inches of snow—the earliest on record for the Big Apple..
Staten Island’s FEMA office closed due to snow…
Man fights the city just to have a garden!
Major earthquake hits off the coast of Guatemala.. 7.4 magnitude..
4.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of California and Oregon..
6.3 quake Vancouver Island..
Geologists now say that East Coast earthquakes have the ability to travel farther..
Monsanto and others spent $45 million to defeat Prop 37 in California—and money won..
Grand NEW flag will have to be made: Puerto Rico votes for Statehood.. How will the 50 states respond?
Newly discovered tools have forced a rethink of how smart early humans actually were..
SUPER EARTH discovered in star’s habitable zone! But no major pronouncement has been made, as scientists are cautious about the earthlike planet so far..
Doctors ‘stunned’ that a laptop has cooked a male’s sperm.. After ceasing use of his laptop, they have a child.
Exercising for just ten minutes a day can extend life..
Time can fly when you’re having fun, but now scientists have learned perhaps why.. even more, they say that they have discovered how to make time pass faster..
Study claims that the universe has almost stopped making new stars..
Rumors over Sawyer: Was Diane drunk on election night or just tired?
Google’s logo: Bram Stoker’s 165th Birthday celebrated..
Experts say 1 in three men cannot see his penis..
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The GOP lament: Was it Chris Christie's fault!?
Robert Costa wrote a NATIONAL REVIEW article today, linked above, about the election results. What caused Romney to lose?
The quote on NJ Gov Chris Christie that caught my attention:
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, the adviser adds, is persona non grata in Romney’s inner circle. “He went out of his way to embrace the president during the final week of the campaign,” the adviser says. “It wasn’t necessary and it hurt us. Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and Chris Christie undermined the Republican message.”
Maybe Christie’s embrace of Obama hurt Romney. Maybe Chris Christie crying after Bruce Springsteen called hurt Romney. But in the end it helped his citizens, and quite frankly, it helped Chris Christie.
Think about it.. Your state just went through a disaster of monumental proportions. Entire towns are gone. An entire coastline is changed. What else CAN YOU DO but ask the President of the federal purse for help? What else can you do but put politics aside..? You have no option.
And on the political flipside? It’s a win-win for Chris Christie. Obama in office for four more years, and after 8 years of a presidency it’s easier for a different party to win.. In 2016, I bet Chris Christie runs for the presidency.. Romney losing this year allows him to do that. Obama being out of office by then allows him to have a weaker field to run against. And he will win in 2016. I say it now. Put it on the record.
ON this date, a date after 11/6/12, I say Chris Christie will win in 2016. Unless the Mayan calender ends in December and the world gets decimated by the mighty hand of the higher power. Otherwise Christie/Rand Paul (you read that right) wins in 2016 against …Clinton/Biden!
So sayseth the Coalspeaker. So sayseth the lord.
He certainly has legs big enough to fill the shoes.
The GOP lament: Was it Chris Christie's fault!?
Post-election-celebration: Now the hard part. Figuring out what, if anything, actually changed. Billions of dollars were spent. For...? What?
The election is over. WE CAN ALL UNITE and be thankful for that. The campaign mudslinging gets tiresome—even boring. The negative ads were so plentiful this year that, frankly, people stopped noticing them. It was just frightening images of President Obama and Governor Romney set Armageddon style music. But it’s over. We have a winner. And it happened long before many thought it would. No recount. No hanging chads. No computer glitches of concern—well, there were but as usual the media ignored the problems with electronic machines.
But what has changed?
Before the election yesterday, Democrats controlled the Senate, Democrats had the White House, and Republicans had the House.
After the election today? Democrats control the Senate, Democrats have the White House, and Republicans have the House.
This after billions of dollars spent on advertising!?
Billions of dollars spent to … keep everything the same?
I am not a money-man, a banker, or a fiscal prophet. But if someone told me to spend a billion bucks just to keep my house, my job, my car, and make no changes, I’d turn the cheek and take a risk by not doing it.
Our elections are getting expensive. The Supreme Court decision years back allowing corporations to give more ensured that. Are we getting more for the money, though? We certainly had our TV airwaves taken over by candidates this year. Billions upon billions of dollars spent while Hurricane Sandy victims still are without running water, electricity, and food. Billions of dollars on a campaign while wars continue.. while poverty abounds.. while people are working three jobs instead of two just to make ends meet. Billions of bucks on the campaign.
Just to keep the status quo.
And speaking of status quo, not to be glum while America parties, there is something coming on January 1 2013 that few are concerned about: The fiscal cliff. The moment when taxes increase for everyone in this nation all at one time. When government spending has issues.. when people’s deductions get affected.. when life fiscally as we know it changes. And Congress, the Senate, and the White House are fully aware of the impending financial doom. The cliff is fast approaching. Billions of dollars were spent to make certain that the SAME PLAYERS would be in Washington that brought us to the edge of this mess. As of right now, no serious attempts have yet been made to correct the problem, or divert it from happening. A lame duck session of Congress is coming. Maybe they will come up with a magic solution? Or just keep doing things as they have been done.
No changes.
Status quo.
It’s tough to say just yet what, if anything, will change as a result of President Obama’s re-election.
The nation is slightly divided. A pretty evenly split popular vote, though the President did have a resounding victory on the Electoral College map.
If I had to make any prediction about what changed, I’d say this: Republicans will have to deeply analyze their message and determine what they could do about it. Was Romney just a flawed candidate? Was Santorum right ..was Gingrich right..was Bachmann right? They all said Romney could not beat a sitting President. And Chris Christie sat this one out. Maybe he was thinking Romney loses, too, setting up a 2016 run (or walk for him) to the White House? Or maybe the Ron Paul wing of the party needs some more press. Or maybe the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, and others, need to be brought into the big tent of media coverage that only covers two parties?
I don’t know.
But what I do know is that today, just like November 5 2012, everything feels quite the same..
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
11:12 pm OHIO CALLED..
Chicago is going wild at Obama headquarters.. Other nets have not called yet..
I was wrong.. Obama did not win North Carolina
President Obama will win the swing state of Wisconsin and Mitt Romney will win the swing state of North Carolina..
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