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Clinton lost Alabama 50-43. While Clinton lost Alabama 62-34.
Relevance? I swear to God, you're becoming as annoying as sugar bear.
If there is a concerted write in effort, and if the write in gets more than 25% of the vote, I'll give $100 to the charity of your choice. As an added bonus, if the write in gets more than 25% and Jones does not win, I'll give another $100.
In the 2014 election that you seem so proud of, the D write in got less than 3%. As other elections showed, D support in AL is at least 12X that. Write ins simply do not get a lot of support. Ever.
Every indication was that Nixon would have won those states by larger margins without Wallace on the ballot.
Probably 99% had been around marijuana and probably 99% had used it at least once. Your generation was really dropping the ball :-D
Hell, I haven't smoked dope since 1979 (when that is what we called it). Talk about a Decline.
Well, almost never.
That ain't a great indicator for the theory that segregationists didn't flock to the Republicans starting with Nixon. Though maybe that is not your theory, it might be DMN's or somebody else's. Apologies if so
I don't think this'll happen, because I don't think the Alabama (R)s care if Moore's been molesting the kiddies. The Republicans have an enormous advantage in Alabama. They don't need to be seriously concerned about vote splitting. That's just an obviously pathetic fig leaf to cover up that they don't care about a little kiddie-diddling.
Which turned out great for just about everybody, it should be noted.
The laboratories of democracy!!
While that's a fair cop to tar them with, I don't think it's accurate. I think they just care more about the seat staying R at any cost. And if Moore wins and gets expelled, then they have aother crack at the whole "lets try to elect a non-kiddie didler R" thing.
Which would be a reasonable position to take in a seat that leaned (R), but not in Alabama, where the electoral danger in supporting a write-in vote is negligible. And, if the polling is any indication, may well be less than sticking with Moore.
it may have been negligible in the recent past, but it is not now. Polls show the race as close, and it may get closer as more shoes drop (allegations and condemnations from party leaders). Any non-negligible support for a write in all but assures a Jones victory. What happened in 2014 and 2016 is not relevant now.
* * * * *
Oh Alabama
The devil fools
With the best laid plan
Love,
Roy
I went looking for the rest of the quote- what are the other reasons? But that's it. The pdf only has the one paragraph, with no other ballot denial reasons published. Apparently the other reasons for denying ballot access are known only to Mr Lathan.
But given the context of Mr Lathan's quote, I guess "groping 14 year old girls" is not a reason for denying ballot access. Looking good, GOP.
And the latest non-denial denial would have more credibility if was actually a denial, rather than all about Allred.
I graduated in the 80s. A minority smoked, but I was around it at times. I never tried it at the time. I can honestly say I have never broke the laws of the US regarding marijuana. I did try it in Amsterdam. Not a huge fan.
I last lit up on the roof of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis before friends & I headed over to The Last Place on Earth to see Guided by Voices. Google tells me that would've been early fall of 1999.
#SoHipIHateMyself
This is nuts - 2016 and 2014 are the distant past? No, something like ~10% of the Alabama electorate are Republican voters who're, under the circumstances, feeling compelled to support the Democrat. The political landscape of Alabama is not fundamentally different from last year.
No, that is literally the opposite I am saying. 2014 and 2016 are the recent past.
A bit overstated for the 70's college crowd.
I was at MIT, 73-77, Law School, 77-80.
It was very widely known, but not as widely used.
When I was at MIT, we would celebrate the anniversary of J. Edgar's death with a massive pot party on the Great Lawn, the major courtyard there. The Anniversary was actually a date randomly chosen in May for the event, the first really good day. At least twice, I chose it by putting an advertisement/notice in what was then the "alternative" Student Newspaper. We got a good turn out, no trouble from cops or administration, but far from a 99% turnout, to say the least. Still, everyone knew about.
A little fun from the memory hole...
I was at MIT, 73-77, Law School, 77-80
Yeah, I tend to exaggerate. OTOH I was Michigan State, undergraduate, 1975-79, and marijuana was decriminalized in East Lansing (at least) during those years. The vast majority of people I knew at the time did smoke. But I did not really know a lot of conservative or strait-laced people, so this is one undergraduate's impression. I always tend to underestimate the percentage of the religious element, for instance, who are truly teetotal across the board. I was a campus Catholic and I assume that our pastor, Father Jake, in tie-dyed vestments and sandals, was a total stoner.
Won't you let me walk you home from school?
Won't you let me meet you at the pool?
Maybe Friday I can
Get tickets for the dance
And I'll take you, ooh ooh
Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
Tell him what we said 'bout Paint It Black
Rock and roll is here to stay
Come inside where it's okay
And I'll shake you, ooh ooh
Won't you tell me what you're thinking of?
Would you be an outlaw for my love?
If it's so, well let me know
If it's no, well I can go
I won't make you, ooh ooh
Bell/Chilton
I've always loved this song. Seems to capture that age perfectly. It's hard to write a love song about a 13 year-old that isn't creepy, but this one manages it. Of course, both people in the song are 13 years old, that's the key.
Were you trying to get the ducks high?
You're making me wistful. But come on, it's the Great (Killian) Court, not Lawn. The Lawn is my other alma mater.
Marijuana was an extremely exotic thing that only a handful of committed bohemians knew about, as far as she remembers.
D'oh. I even called it the Great Court in the last ad I posted.
Yes, context is a huge part of one's impressions. I remember visiting my son at college in Austin, awhile back now, and him showing me a bong to try to scandalize me. This is a bong, pops. And I'm like, oh please.
I don't think that either of my parents smoked, but my father (a theater director in the '70s) knew the smell, talked about weed, and was unsurprised that his actors were toking. I would sooner venture that my grandmother smoked reefer, in 1920s Chicago. She ran with some fast crowds. But others of my devout Catholic ancestors I'm sure never heard of the stuff.
In December. Who carries their yearbook around in December? Maybe the folks who are sharing marijuana stories from the same period can elaborate here.
What's a yearbook, man.
I find that hard to believe (not that I'm calling you a liar or delusional). I'm from Louisiana, have lived all my life in So. La., and when I was a freshman at USL in '66-'67, I knew of no one who smoked grass. I dropped out at the end of the Spring '69 semester, and, still, I knew of no one who did. When I went back in the Fall of '71, everyone was doing it. It was that cataclysmic. Mid-80's? Where was this in La.?
LA Tech
I'm from Louisiana, have lived all my life in So. La.
Me too (Lake Charles), well, until I moved to Dallas in 1989. To this day, I've never seen anyone I know smoke pot or use any other illegal drugs.
Seems at least reasonably meaty to me. You've got Bannon, Conway, Parscale, Kushner, and Hicks having undeclared knowledge of campaign contact with a known Russian cutout, as well as Donald Sr. tweeting about the release of a new batch of Clinton e-mails ("“Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!”) fifteen minutes after the following exchange between Donald Jr. and Wikileaks:
Walk down the street in the Bay Area and you're more likely to smell marijuana than tobacco smoke. No exaggeration.
same here.
Well, I never knew there was that much difference between Lake Charles and Lafayette. (Now, LA Tech I know nothing of.) But, the drinking, that's something that's second nature in La. My father sent me to the corner store (I'm from Eunice) to get him a six-pack when I was like 12 or 13. The grocer asked me if that was for my dad. I said it sure was, he rang the purchase up, and that was the last time I ever was "carded" growing up.
That's the way it was in Ann Arbor in the late 1980s. Some of the weed was not good though, so I am told.
It's not like Trump doesn't try to smile. It's just that his face is only capable of Lovecraftian expressions of unspeakable horror.
And 2 days later Trump tweeted the link. But perhaps he was morally obligated to.
In other news, and evoking McCoy, we put our house on the market because we found a house we liked well enough to put in an offer, conditional on the sale of ours. My first experience at this late adult date with either. Anyhow, the point of the story, attempting not to be too gauche, is that we made an offer this morning that was 92% of their full ask on a house, and today the counter was at 99.5% full ask, a basic "fuck you". I mean, we went in knowing the circumstances meant we easily might never step foot in that house again, don't get attached (has almost all the positives for us); but it's a bit of an irritation when the first time you try people are just going to be straight dicks.
Assume Moore is innocent. How could he defend himself from such allegations in the press?
A lot of it depends upon political capital. Ted Kennedy survived Chappaquiddick on the family name, Bill Clinton on his incumbency and charisma. And they were guilty. Somebody like John Kerry was sunk by swiftboating, John McCain by a rumor campaign in 2000.
Again, it's politics. The truth is largely beside the point. You have to win what amounts to a propaganda battle. Look at what's happened in these Hollywood scandals. You can apologize, but only at the cost of career ruin.
Say it's all true, like with Bill Clinton. You deny to tbe cows come home and blame the VRWC. Doesn't mean they weren't out to get you.
You fight if you want to survive. Give ground and you're dead meat, guilty or not.
I'll see them all in hell. Me and Teddy.
How about starting with not admitting to dating HS girls when he was an adult?
This really does not speak well of Alabama's press.
Is that the market? My dad never budges on these things, from either side.
In Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara is sixteen when the men come a-court'n.
Great, great point, very pertinent. And don't forget, Eve wasn't even 2 seconds old when she strutted her stuff for a 23-ribbed Adam.
In the Bay Area, people post a price they have no intention of selling at. It's considered a guideline as to where to start the bidding war. Houses trading a couple hundred grand over the price on the sign out front is normal. IT's happened on my block in the last month.
When we first moved here we found a great house. I offered to pay the list and they said no. I was livid and actually talked to a lawyer who kindly informed me that this is A) not illegal and B) standard in these parts, and he didn't even bill me for the conversation. I've been here 17 years so I'm used to it by now but I still dislike it. When we sold our first house here I insisted on listing at a price we would accept. The agent thought I was naive but I wouldn't budge. Ended up getting a bid a few grand above that & accepeted it, but at least I felt ethically in the clear.
Plus The New Yorker. Which is now largely the flip side of The American Spectator....
Damn, read the first paragraph. Plus mall cops. Full of hearsay first to last. More pathetic than I could have imagined before reading it.
You help immunize a target printing horseshit like that.
I wish I could say I was shocked.
Naive is a nice word.
Also high school in the late 90's. But in Germany, where the legal drinking age is 16. And everybody starts at 14*.
*(insert Moore joke here)
Heh.
You know, I think I'll take Assange as the next guy to get the Weinstein treatment.
Apparently you have trouble reading. I'll type slower.
2 days later Trump tweeted the link. The NYT did not make that up.
Sheet, little Putin Puppet Assange has been on blast for rape charges far before this latest news cycle.
I'm willing to believe the guy was a creep. To this day, he looks like a creep and acts like one, too. But I hate a politcal smear job. Always have. Publicly defended Clinton against impeachment in an op-ed.
Lindsay Graham still disgusts me.
Lol. This story is absolves Trump more than it implicates him. All of this reaching out from WikiLeaks produced almost no back and forth.
It smells like a setup, actually.
;)
it's not a smear job genius, it's women speaking out. The current climate has made them feel safe doing so. I don't blame them for waiting until now.
Except for tweeting the link they asked him to.
Can the liberal media PROVE Wikileaks wasn't working for a Crooked Hillary?
Oh sure, and thanks for the encouragement. I'm not such a rube, really, but we're in northern NY, Utica/Rome, and while of course houses might go for list they almost always sell under, sometimes quite a bit. C'est la vie.
After you predicted Clinton would still win FLA long after the writing was on the wall, how long did it take you to recover from the alcohol poisoning?
That piece was shite. I question not your literacy, but that people bother to read the links posted here at all. Twitter is so much quicker.
That's pretty funny.
The DJT, Jr. meeting invitation from the nutty Russian lawyer very much looks like a Fusion operation. Has been reported.
I do remember a few fleeting images, but I haven't tbought about it in a long time before today.
More vivid is the memory of the septurgenarian who grabbed my junk 15 years ago. Like it was yesterday. But that's because it's ridiculous. And it happened in a town whose slogan is Incest Is Best.
Joe, do you ever get tired of engaging him? I guarantee he's much easier on the eyes when you have him on ignore.
Yes, I'm guessing those two charges are just the beginning. The times have changed, and Ecuador may start to question their decision.
Moore has lost Ted Cruz.
When you're too sleazy for Ted Cruz, it's probably time to pack it in.
I see. So which part are you denying happened? That Wikileaks asked DJTJr to ask his father to plug them in a tweet, or that Trump Sr. shortly after plugged them in a tweet? Denying that either happened is insane, but I'm curious where you go with this.
But, speaking of Alabama's press, check out this tweet. They didn't miss everything. (But Strange and the NRSC did.)
The Hill
EDIT: I'm not being sarcastic or pretend naive; I literally don't understand what your complaint is. A house listing price is not a price tag at a store; it's a guideline as to what the homeowner is looking for so you know how to bid. Obviously listing a price that's far too low may turn out to be a bad business decision, but what's the problem you have with it?
check out how cuomo did in the democratic primary a couple years ago outside the urban areas where he's got huge influence. he lost in those areas to someone who had no money, only grassroots support. he won overall 2/3 of the democratic support - but he probably should have had 85-90% of that vote.
and teachout's (real name, no joke!) main selling point was "i'm not cuomo, and we're not going common core".
if the republicans ran someone with partially liberal social positions and competent, they'd crush him. they'd get all the republicans in the state, and all the dems / indies who can't stand cuomo.
EDIT: cuomo established the woman's equality party...google why.
That Alabama rep citing the "deficit and debt" among major issues facing America?
How's he voting on this tax bill?
Last week my wife asked me if I'd want to smoke if/when pot is legalized and I said no. A few years back she had, after an abstinence of about 30 years, decided to get some weed. The next summer we finally got around to using it. And I found that it still made the muscles in my neck and upper back tense up in a really uncomfortable fashion. So whatever the rest of you do, I likely won't be re-enacting my misspent youth once the reefer is legally available.
This is the kind of thing that's bad, moral panic giving way to revenge across the board. Send in the drones!
I wonder if you actually read those Swedish accusations against Assange..
More than 2 decades as a bond trader, where failing to deal at a posted level will often result in regulatory fines or (worse) ostracism by the rest of the street has molded by opinion of what honest & fair dealing is.
And don't get me wrong, we're sharks & we swim in that tank every day fighting for the last nickel. But we're honest sharks.
Moore held a "press conference" (his term) where he took no questions and announced that he had no idea who this girl was, no idea what the restaurant that she worked at was... and failed to explain how his signature got in her yearbook.
Tension and discomfort are common reactions to sativa strains. Paranoia too. Try indica strains, much more mellow.
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