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“Both Aprill and Streckfus said they had asked Roady directly about the issue. Roady denied any arrangement.

“I know that some people in the audience thought it was set up, but I talked to Celia [Roady],” Aprill said. “It was not a set up. And I believe Celia. I’ve known Celia for years.” “

Oh what a tangled web you weave...

So in addition to looking like a doofus from a Saturday Night Live skit, this woman has now lost two friends she has worked with “for years”.

The only hope for Roady will be to repentof her lies and ask forgiveness from Aprill and Streckfus ... and from God ... and then change her name to Toady.

“They buy artworks and other useless paraphenalia ...”

Can you name some of the artworks they are currently buying? Or do you mean they bought artworks 500 years ago and you’re still nursing that grudge?

People like you remind me of a Calvinist firend of mine. His father’s congregation met in (literally) a tin roof shack and they were so proud of its lack of ronamentation and poverty. His family lived in a beautiful house and they had two all-leather chairs in their living room which he admitted cost 1,000 pounds EACH. That was in 1987.

So they didn’t “waste” a penny on God’s run-down old house but they sure spent a pretty penny on their own.

“IRS: Please indicate any and all places you plan to go with that kidney, who will be present, their political philosophy and the purpose of the meeting. “

Hilarious!!

Well put.

Good point!

Great story!! The only problem is that Falwell should not have gone public with the decision to award the scholarship because it will piss off the “authorities” and they’ll be even more harsh with the kid.

Did you see the name of the town where this took place??

It’s basically a hostage situation. they won’t allow airports to go private. And why not? So they can cut off our travel unless we give them more money.

“By the time he returned all investigations had been closed.”

“ALL” investigations? How many investigations were there? And did they just close themselves, as indicated by her use of the passive voice, or did someone close them?

My normal reaction in cases like this is WTF???

But in this case I can be more specific: WTFF???

Excellent quotes!

And yes, I guessed that you weren’t endorsing it.

This is an article??

It reads like a stream of consciousness from a guy playing with a model he doesn’t understand.

I want to hear someone ask this at a press conference.

Even if it were true, it would only explain the way OUT.

On the way back in, the Homeland “Security” folks at immigration would have had to look at his actual passport. They could have scanned the green card. If there were a red flag on it, shouldn’t they have asked where he’d been? Whatever passport he had, it should have had Russian entry and exit stamps.

WTF??

Whenever I travel on business to LONDON they scan my passport, look at the stamps and ask me what I was doing there. Is that scanner connected to ANYTHING??

One more point: what was the NAME of the airline employee who didn’t scan his greencard (they scan my passport when I travel) but DECIDED to type it in and then ACCIDENTALLY misspelled the name??

The whole thing is very suspicious. I don’t think a drug dealer kills someone over drugs or money ... and then leaves the drugs AND the money behind. More likely there was something more ... personal ... involved and then he sprinkled the dead guys’ drugs around to throw police off the scent.

“...even occupy Buffalo was there in support.
There is an Occupy Buffalo???!!!

I thought the objective was to Escape Buffalo...”

Hilarious!!!

If they kill the terrorist, all Hell will not break loose, it will just become a bit more crowded.

““They drive new cars all the time, like Porsches, Range Rovers, all the time. They change cars all the time,”

Follow the money.

Correction: If his son is killed, Hell will not break loose; it will just get a little more crowded.

Great news!

By the way, the FoxNews election website is really lagging the Florida Sec. of State website on their reporting.

Look here instead:

http://enight.elections.myflorida.com/FederalOffices/President/

Also, if you look at County Reporting Status, you’ll see that Fox is overstating the precincts reporting:

http://enight.elections.myflorida.com/CountyReportingStatus/

Anyway, right now it is tied with the panhandle still to come.

Old news. Check this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2956032/posts?page=37

Old news. Check this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2956032/posts?page=37

Thank you for highly useful information.

You beat me to it! I was just doing EXACTLY the same analysis and coming up with EXACTLY the same conclusion. And note, these are the first real hard facts of this election.

Now let me add something to your analysis. If we assume that the extra Republican enthusiasm in this county plays out across the country, then R’s will outperform their registration by 5%. Since the D’s have a 3.5% advantage in registration, that would mean an overall R+1.5% electorate!! If that happens you can take any poll you have ever seen and add at least 3.5% and as much as 10% for Romney!

This matches very neatly with what the folks at Unskewed Polls predicted yesterday:

“The current electorate is made up of 36.9 percent registered Democrats, 33.3 percent registered Republicans and 29.8 percent independent voters. This is based on current and recent survey data from the various QStarNews polls and surveys.

Because of higher enthusiasm levels on the Republican side, the actual makeup of the voters that participate in the 2012 election is projected to be 36.4 percent Democrats, 36.1 Republicans and 27.5 percent independents. From this electorate, the popular vote is projected to be 51.4 percent for Romney and 47.9 percent for Obama.”

http://unskewedpolls.com/2012electorate_2.cfm

If Pasco county is representative. you can even add 1 or 2% to Romney’s totals!!

Please also include any relevant information about the political breakdown of your area!

PLEASE heed this advice!! If we don't know the political breakdown of the town, reports of long lines are pointless and uniformative.

Just voted in Warren County, OH. Large lines compared to even 2010. This bodes well for Romney and the GOP since this is a deeply conservative district, likely > 70%.

Great post thanks!

When making reports about your location please indicate the nature of your location (heavy GOP leaning area or heavy Dem leaning, for example)

Excellent advice!!

Good point

I saw this about 2 days after the “you didn’t build it” comment.

Is the news that they are putting it up on TV now whereas before it was only on youtube?

If the New York Times believed this rubbish they would not have needed to bury it on page A7:

“A version of this article appeared in print on October 26, 2012, on page A7 of the New York edition with the headline: Panetta Says Risk Impeded Deployment To Benghazi.”

A7 tells you the NYT is scared of this story. They might as well have titled it:

“Serious Journalists Say Benghazi is Not an Issue.”

And not only did they endorse Romney, they wrote perhaps the most devastatingly concise critique of Obama's whole presidency that I have seen from any source:

Yes, the jobless numbers from September showed a drop to 7.8 percent unemployed, the first time in almost four years that it’s been below 8 percent. But the numbers are deceiving because more than 4 million Americans have given up looking for work since January 2009.

Behind those numbers are the faces of your neighbors, your family members, perhaps even yourself. Good people who want to work, but who cannot find jobs because job creators have lost faith in the nation’s economic direction.

Scroll down to the comments below the article. Someone named EmJayEs had the most hilarious reply I have ever to an online comment:

“5:34 PM EDT triumph wrote:
So basically, Romney changed from conservative (in order to win the nomination) to centrist (in order to win the election).
What happens if he actually wins?
Which Romney will we get?

5:35 PM EDT EmJayEs responds:
The one that’s not Obama.”

“This thread is a magnet for the handwringers.”

And here I am like a moth circling a flame!!

Very interesting article.

I used to be a low-level poll taker in the early 1980’s and I was kind of surprised by how many people were willing to sit through a poll back then. But:

1. Our polls were shorter.
2. There were far, far fewer marketing calls back then; the idea of a do not call registry didn’t exist.
3. This will sound like a comment that applies more to the 1950’s than the 1980’s, but people were still in the habit back then of dropping everything for a phone call, much more so than today when people still do that but it is considered rude to the other people in the room. The phone just didn’t ring all day long.

You can order it right here on Amazon, along with a whole collection of the world's shortest books:

Looks like you can already buy it on Amazon ;) along with some other world's shortest books:

Thanks.

“Well it’s a cooked poll that massively undersampled independents and oversampled democrats (39D/32R/25I).”

Does anyone know the 2008 and 2004 turnout numbers by party in Ohio?

partial birth babay killing is insane. Even the pagan Romans and the Greeks couldn’t do the deed of crushing a baby’s skull, and instead they left their babies to die of exposure.

I don’t usually quote wikipedia but this is a good summary from the article on infanticide:

“Babies would often be rejected if they were illegitimate, unhealthy or deformed, the wrong sex (female for example), or too great a burden on the family. These babies would not be directly killed, but put in a clay pot or jar and deserted outside the front door or on the roadway. In ancient Greek religion, this practice took the responsibility away from the parents because the child would die of natural causes, for example hunger, asphyxiation or exposure to the elements.”

Nice insight, thanks

She should apologize immediately.

Excellent point. I never thought of that.

Maybe this is the big news of this election? 2/3 of people who already voted tell a pollster that they voted for Obama ... but in reality less than 50% of these same folks really did vote for him? Maybe 5 or 10% of the electorate just doesn’t want to tell a pollster they support Romney.

Excellent response!

The main thing that doesn’t work in the narrative is that the actual question the guy asked was a really harsh one for Obama, which Obama didn’t even answer.

The guy actually asked why the requests BEFORE the attack had been denied. Obama answered about what he did AFTER the attack.

So an alternate theory would be that Obama knew there would be at least ONE question on Libya, and no matter what the question was, if it included the word Libya, he was going to try to lay a trap for Romney reagarding the “act of terror” phrase. He might have had one of his staffers prompt a CNN person that it would be good for them to review (and bring) the transcript in case the issue came up.

Does anyone know if Obama was contesting MO? Was he showing ads? Did he recently pull them to focus resources on OH?

I agree, although I do think the DUI swung a few percent of the votes and landed us in the whole Florida mess.

But don’t forget the previous October surprise:

“And it was on the Friday before the 1992 election that—in one of the most disgraceful acts in the history of American justice—Lawrence Walsh, special prosecutor in the Iran-Contra scandal, re-indicted former defense secretary Casper Weinberger and directly implicated President Bush in the indictment although that was totally irrelevant to the indictment itself. The indictment was later dismissed on statute-of-limitations grounds (and Bush gave Weinberger a full pardon to prevent any further shenanigans from Walsh). Even Lanny Davis, later special counsel to President Clinton called the action, “bizarre.””

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/08/03/jobs-and-the-election/

“I think when you have a blog called economic colapse you’re kind of disposed to look for the worst.”

Superb!!

Excellent analysis thanks.

Can I ask you to add some CO 2006 absentee/early voting data for comparison?

Also, if anyone has some extra time on their hands today, it would be great to see how each of these statistics looked in 2000 or 2004.

Excellent reply!!

It could be a national ad or ...

it could be because, at this point, the Obama people are a lot more confident about winning the Electoral College than winning the popular vote. That’s largely because they think the auto bailout gives them a lock on Ohio.

So, FWIW, i think they might be trying to reduce their losing margin on the popular vote, or perhaps reduce their chances of losing the popular vote.