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Middle Class New Yorkers Are Eating Out of Garbage Dumpsters. Do you see why I said it was stupid to believe "Hurricane Sandy would be good for Obama!"
[ H/t Drudge Report for the image that should clearly show all of you that, no, Hurricane Sandy was NOT politically good for Barack Obama and Democrats ]
Honestly, I don't like calling people stupid…but for the last few days we've seen all the usual fear porn mongers on conservative sites frantically claiming that "Hurricane Sandy would be good for Obama!" or that "Because of Hurricane Sandy Obama will win the election!". The people who are writing this stuff are either stupid…or are they are deliberately lying to their readers just to drive up web traffic and freak people out for fun. A lot of you out there read that stuff on either AceofSpades or HotAir or Breitbart (Andrew Breitbart would truly be ashamed of what happened to his websites and who is writing there now) or wherever and were reduced to quivering puddles by brushes with frost-fingered fear. I have no idea why you believe the fear mongers, but you choose to…and I only hope you see how wrong these people all are.
Please do not allow the fear mongers to keep panicking you by letting them toy with your emotions for their own fun and profit.
I told you from the beginning that Democrats are incompetent and their response to Hurricane Sandy will be inept, as everything the last four years with them in control has been. Barack Obama has no idea what he is doing and most of the team he brought with him to Washington from Chicago are buffoons. They have not done a single thing right in four years, and they were not able to do anything right in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. I told you that by Friday of this week people in the one-party-rule Democrat enclaves affected by the path of Hurricane Sandy would be FURIOUS because the slow-moving and incompetent public sector unions there would not restore order quickly…and conditions would look like those in a horror movie. This is how things will be in New York and New Jersey until the spring, folks…and certainly until after the election next Tuesday.
Today, we learn that well-dressed middle class New Yorkers are EATING OUT OF GARBAGE DUMPSTERS because Democrats have not restored basic services in a city they completely control and a state they control.
Do you understand the ramifications of this?
It's only been a day or two since Sandy and this is already happening. By next Tuesday, there will be full-on riots in New York over food, water, electricity, heat, and basic shelter. These riots will actually happen, unlike the ones the fear mongers insist will take place when Obama loses. It is not a far step for middle class people to make from eating garbage out of dumpsters to killing each other for food in Manhattan. It has gone all kinds of Escape from New York out there…on Barack Obama's watch.
Contrary to the fear porn you read by Ace, Allahpundit, Ben Shapiro, and others this is a VERY BAD THING FOR BARACK OBAMA.
Democrats are showing they have no idea how to handle any crisis…and people who heard for the last seven years what a monster George W. Bush was because of Katrina are now scratching their heads and wondering why on Earth Democrats can't get it together with Sandy.
Seriously, open your eyes and just read the stories that Drudge is flashing today…about the chaos and ineptitude Democrats are manifesting in New York and New Jersey in the storm's wake.
Then, sit down and think about every single conservative writer or pundit who claimed that "Hurricane Sandy will win Obama the election!".
If these people scared you with fear porn over this…when you are now clearly seeing that these were just outright lies…then you need to decide if you want to spend the rest of this election believing any of these people and their fear porn anymore. That's up to you, but I hope you are honest with yourself and you can admit if you were taken in by all the cries of "SHARK! SHARK! GET OUT OF THE WATER!" that had your heart racing and your bodies gasping for air because Ace, Allahpundit, Ben Shapiro, and the others told you to panic…and today you see there was no reason to panic and they had just played you for a fool.
They did this to both drive up their web traffic and also to see how freaked out they could get you…and for a lot of you it worked. Going forward, you need to decide if you're going to go running for the beach, knocking over old people and small children, the next time the fear porn peddlers shout "SHARK!" in the last days before November 6th.
Stop letting these guys direct emotional terrorism at you and please calm down and think about these stories before they give you heart attacks.
Barack Obama is going to lose. Nothing can save him. The election will not even be close.
And come November 7th, when you see you had no reason to be terrified…I really hope you give all the guys who scared the stuffing out of you for the last two months a piece of your mind so that they are prevented from pulling this stunt on you ever again.
FURTHER READING (h/t Drudge):
* Gas and food shortages to last in New York until after the election
* Fistfights and guns drawn in chaos caused by Democrat inaction in Sandy's wake
* Troopers forced to guard gas stations
* Red Cross an absolute disgrace
* Leftist elite party and drink champagne while fellow New Yorkers starve
* Power will not be restored to MILLIONS until after November 11th
If you think this is going to cause anyone to vote for Democrats then you are out of your damn mind. And any conservative writer pushing that apocryphal fear porn needs to lose his job and his platform that allows him to scare the bejeebus out of people with stupid lies like this.
UPDATE: Check this out: CATASTROPHIC damage to NYC subways.
So, my boyfriend Justin is an architect and one of the classes he took in school had something to do with transportation systems and urban planning.
He watched the video that's embedded in the story above, the one about the catastrophic damage to the subways. Justin says there's no way they are going to get the subways functioning again FOR A YEAR. "All of that track is going to need to be replaced because the water would have bent it when it rushed through the tunnels. It will not be safe to run trains on that, they'd derail".
Here in Chicago, there is a "subway" called the "El", because part of it is Elevated. One of the lines is called the Red Line, and it runs north and south…from way up past Boystown near Evanstown and then down to the depths of the Southside. Sox Stadium is roughly 3/4 or so from the end of the line…and all the track that's south of Sox Stadium is being replaced next year…with the entire line south of Sox Stadium being shut down FOR A YEAR so it can be fixed.
It "catastrophic damage" doesn't mean that the New York Subway system will be down for a year, then I don't know what "catastrophic" means.
None of this will be talked about before the election, but New Yorkers are not stupid. They know the subways flooded and there will be massive damage. None of those trains are coming back into service soon. If they were back running by next summer, I would be surprised.
Just for fun, I had Justin email one of his old professors from school — the one who taught the class on transportation systems — and the guy wouldn't guess how long it would take to fix but he said that "they will need to replace all of it and it will not be done quickly".
Factor in the unions that deliberately drag jobs out to last longer so the unions earn more, and New Yorkers will have to adjust to life without subways for a year. I really think that will be true.
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"… Catholic voters have shifted dramatically towards Mitt Romney.
In September, the left and the media were exultant when the Pew poll seemed to show a surge for Obama among Catholic voters. He led by fifteen points, 54-39.
Today, that bubble has burst completely, and Obama is back down to a two-point lead, 48-46. (Few headlines this time from the mainstream media.)
Among white Catholics, Romney has jumped to a 14-point lead (54-40) after being tied with Obama in September in the poll.
"… in 2008, Obama won Catholics by 9 percent (54 to 45) and lost white Catholics by just 5 percent (47 to 52).
"In 2004, the Catholic vote went narrowly to Bush overall (more widely among white Catholics), and in 2000 it went narrowly to Gore (and narrowly to Bush among white Catholics).
"The 14-point lead Romney currently enjoys among white Catholics is almost without precedent.
"Catholic voters are abandoning Obama for the same reason many other voters are: the sluggish economy, Romney's strong performance in the presidential debates; Obama's dishonesty and failure in Benghazi.
"Yet Catholic voters have reason to feel particularly aggrieved, given the Obama administration's battle with the Catholic church over the mandate in Obamacare that employers cover abortion drugs and contraceptives.
"Those grievances came to the fore particularly sharply in mid-October, after the Vice Presidential debate between incumbent Democrat Joe Biden and Republican challenger Paul Ryan (both Catholics).
"Ryan brought up the conflict between the administration and the church over Obamacare:
"They're infringing upon our first freedom, the freedom of religion, by infringing on Catholic charities, Catholic churches, Catholic hospitals."
"Biden's response was total denial…
"Ryan responded simply: "If they agree with you, then why would they keep… suing you?"
"The church responded at greater length, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops publicly disputing Biden's "fact":
"The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain "religious employers." That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to "Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital," or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served."
"That extraordinary rebuke drove home the degree to which the Obama administration has adopted a confrontational path with institutional Catholicism. And it seems to have amplified the benefit of the debates, for Romney and Ryan, among Catholic voters.
"Obama's collapse among Catholic voters, and especially white Catholics, also suggests that the 2012 election is about much more than the economy, even if the economy is the most important issue…
"Two of the states in which Romney is suddenly competitive have unemployment rates that are below the national average. Likewise in Ohio, which also has many Catholic voters…
"The debates did much to establish Romney and Ryan as legitimate alternatives, but also reminded the Catholic community it has no reason to trust the Obama/Biden ticket with another four years. And the numbers show it."
Speaking as a practicing Catholic I can say personally that the thought that Obama is trying to take away my right to practice my faith is much more a reason for me to vote for Romney than the economy.
Yes, the economy matters very much to me and my family but my husband worked in the manufacturing trade all his life and we have been through so many recessions, lay offs, and outsourcing that we have learned how to survive hard times. In fact most of those hard times have been some of our best times because it gave us more time together.
I do not want to live in a country though that takes away my Constitutional rights to free speech, the right to practice my faith, or other freedoms we enjoyed in this country until Obama became President.
Column and comments are awesome — as usual!!
As usual, as always…THANKS Kevin, Tamminator and everyone on Hillbuzz! We'll be celebrating together very soon.
Jules —
Keep letting me know the crazy things the fear porn mongers are saying so we can nip that in the bud.
If we prevent the fear from spreading, we take away the last thing Democrats have as a weapon.
Those who spread fear need to suffer professional consequences after November 7th.
Please talk about the "Good unemployment report puts Obama over the top."
"Those who spread fear need to suffer professional consequences after November 7th."
Can we start with the polling organizations, Kevin?
I do not understand people who don't plan. After watching Katrina footage on TV my biggest take-away was, "Ain't no one gonna help us if something bad happens." So I buy bottled water and non-perishable food and TOILET PAPER! when it's on sale. I must have a year's worth of canned tuna fish! LOL! I had to have a dead tree taken down and when the guys offered to take the pieces away I said, "Hell no!" and had it cut into firewood.
I get that living in a city, especially New York, means you probably can't store as much as I can keep here, but for goodness sakes! When you heard the storm was coming didn't it dawn on you to have more than one day's worth of water?!? This was the case with one of my friends who lives in lower Manhattan. I mean honestly, just the thought of having to walk down 24 flights of stairs – plus back UP with heavy bags of food (if you can even FIND the food) – would have prompted me to stock up.
Over the years I discovered that the most important "prep" of all was to make good friends with my neighbors. I know … I know … that's the LAST thing New Yorkers would ever do! A pity …
I'm not a survivalist nor a pack-rat by any means. However, when I heard Hurricane Katrina was going to be big one, I made sure I had all my cars gassed up, enough non-perishable food to last us a week, and made sure my bicycles were in good shape. When the hurricane hit, 97% of Jackson, MS was out of power. I spent the week riding my bike around when I wanted to go out. I would point and laugh at all the people waiting in que for gas that may or may not come.
OK, let's start with FOX, and proof that you are right in saying they are not any different from the MSM about fear porn:
This would appear to be objective data, but I can't square this with Gallup's finding that Romney leads by 7 points among early voters: (http://www.gallup.com/poll/158420/registered-voters-already-cast-ballots.aspx) – Note that they buried the lede (or "lead" for those who prefer an updated spelling) so you'll need to scroll down to get to the really important data. WHY WOULD FOX NOT MENTION THIS VERY SALIENT DATA in this story about early voting? Are they trying to appeal to a broader audience – or keep people glued to the tee-vee? YES the "media formerly known as mainstream" MUST be held accountable for skewing the news!
I'm in desperate need of a pep talk concerning all those polls saying that both Obama and Romney are tied. I'm not reading them, and I'm taking Rush's advice by staying away from ALL news. I'm listening to Rush and reading HillBuzz and occasionally checking Drudge, and that's it. I saw the poll numbers on Drudge, then I came here. What can you tell us about the poll numbers?
Thanks in advance. You're helping me through this difficult time. And let me add that I CAN'T WAIT TO VOTE!
Simple. The polling organizations are projecting a higher Democrat turnout than in 2008.
Back on planet Earth….
Same here, I have turned the TV off, I cannot take it anymore! Even Fox! I find myself screaming at the TV, not good for the blood pressure and my poor little dogs get scared and run away!
I don't know why I thought your comment was so funny, but I remembered screaming at the Tee Vee, and watching my old dog run to the couch.
The poll numbers are just plain BS. The good news is that it is Mitt Romney trending upward. It's not Barrack Hussein Obama. Do not watch any Fox or any news program. Even Rush can be somewhat depressing sometimes, but I would stick with him over anyone else. Keep reading Kevin and you will make it through. It's only 4 days as I write this.
More good news. Mitt Romney just put $6,000,000,000 into Pa. He's going there this weekend or at least they are working on some sort of a rally. Apparently he thinks he can win it as some polls have him ahead. It's looking good. Cheer up, this is going to happen. You've mad it this far, you can make it for the short time that is left.
Will Obama be able to keep this quiet until after the election?
The worst part of this is he wants to use tax payer money to get them to delay the announcement until after the election!
Lockheed Martin is laying off 123,000 workers just weeks before Christmas.
This needs to go far and wide before Early Voting starts.
The President is trying to hold off any announcement until after the election. This will make a significant increase to the questionable 7.8 % Unemployment number.
Lockheed is going to lay off 123,000 defense workers due to Obama's downsizing of the military. This hit the Drudge report yesterday. This is true! I checked it on Google
The law requires Lockheed to give 60-day notice to all to-be-fired employees within 60 days. That drop dead date would be November 1st. Since this would be devastating for his reelection, Obama has promised that our government would cover all Lockheed severance packages to fired employees if Lockheed would not release the names and locations of those losing their jobs until after the election! Do you have any idea how many millions that will cost the taxpayer? Thank you Obama!!
This posting is from a defense contract newspaper called The Hill. You can read the details below:
This has been news in Virginia for some time. The Hill is a leftist political newspaper, FYI, that is widely read on . . . Capitol Hill.
Several of my conservative friends have this info on their facebook pages– with a map showing which states are losing workers, and how many. Including the maybe now in play PA.
I've got some fear porn Kevin. I just saw someone post on FB that Mayor Bloomberg has endorsed Obama for a 2nd term. Idiot. (Actually they both are.) I immediately jumped over to Drudge to confirm but couldn't find anything there yet.
It was on Drudge this afternoon I saw the headline but din't read the article.
Yes, Bloomberg did endorse Obama today and I find the timing quite interesting. Follow the money, as Rush says.
He did, because apparently contraception and "climate change" are more important than jobs…
Endorse away, Bloomie. Who on earth that isn't already in the bag for Obama gives a rat's behind what Bloomberg thinks? Frankly, even most New Yorkers are tired of him, and that number is only going to go up as it gets worse there.
That endorsement goes right in the stinker pile with Chavez, Castro, etc.
The rich Obama supporters in NYC are all living in luxury right now. Why don't we petition Mayor Doomberg to forcibly redistribute their food and clean water to the disadvantaged? Seems only fair since they want to steal MY money.
OK, what on earth is the matter with these people in New York and New Jersey? Eating out of dumpsters? Really? All they have to do is figure out a way to get uptown (and I heard the buses are running) and they have restaurants and hotels, etc., open and ready. After all, Bette Midler and her lefty friends had no trouble having a lavish Halloween party last night, complete with paparazzi. The article said that the power is on uptown, and the hotels and restaurants are open. And since most people cannot get INTO the city, I doubt they have a ton of business.
Second thing, there was PLENTY of warning about this storm, where it would hit, how bad it would be, and it turned out EXACTLY the way the predictions said it would. So why was anyone taken by surprise, or not prepared with food and bottled water to last for several days?
Why is it that in the Midwest we can have a tornado or a flood or some other type of natural disaster and we don't start eating our young if the power is out for more than a couple of hours, but in NYC there is panic and mayhem if they are made to suffer the slightest inconvenience? These people always talk about how they are so tough, they rule the world, blah, blah, blah. Do you think this type of nonsense would be going on in Wisconsin if there was a tornado? In Kansas? In Georgia?
As for the gas lines, again, anyone who has ever lived near an area where there might be a hurricane coming, knows that you buy gas early and often BEFORE the weather event, because it will be several days after the hurricane before there will be any more gas. And why people practically riot because a gas station runs out, OR because a gas station cannot pump the gas because they don't have ELECTRICITY is beyond me. Are these people really so stupid that they think they're pumping raw gas out of the earth or something? Again, when the roads are closed or impassable, you cannot get the gas trucks IN to the areas where gas is needed. Relax. They'll come. And from what I've read you don't have to go that far from the worst of the storm damage to find places with electricity. I think that's rather remarkable.
Another subject. Staten Island. Um, isn't it an ISLAND??? Didn't they evacuate that place? Did they not realize this storm could be a BAD thing – especially when they were predicting 12 ft storm surges. I thought a lot of Staten Island was in the Zone A flood zone that was supposed to be evacuated by Sunday night. Again, why are they whining?????
C'mon DG, it's been two whole days. Do you want them to starve?
The "spirit" of Andrew Breitbart truly resides in you Kevin.
Noone else in this country had the cajones to pick up the torch dropped by Andrew and shed light on what the media is actually doing.
I've been able to encourage others within my circle because of you.
it's unbelieveable the amount of doubt that has been planted in peoples minds.Good,intelligent people.
Outstanding post. You are completely right about Andrew's spirit being with Kevin. Both of them are inspirational forces in my life.
Thank you for everything you guys do here at HB.
KD says: "By next Tuesday, there will be full-on riots in New York over food, water, electricity, heat, and basic shelter."
And don't forget gasoline.
In fact, it's already started.
I read an article linked on Drudge about how people were getting into altercations and brandishing weapons over fuel.
It's gonna get ugly in New York. Those people don't know the first thing about getting through a hurricane. I'm from New Orleans. I've seen plenty of them and I lived through hurricanes 'Georges' in 1998 & 'Katrina' in 2005. When you live on the Gulf Coast, you know how to prepare and get through it.
People pull together down there because it's a natural disaster that effects everyone, but it's sort of expected as one of the 'hazards' of living down there.
People up North get snowblowers because they know it's eventually gonna snow. People on the Gulf Coast get survival rations and generators because they know there will be, at some point, a hurricane.
Gotham is gonna have a hard time handling this. They're just not used to it. It's gonna be weeks before any semblence of order is restored and in the meantime, people are gonna get violent.
Keep them in your prayers.
A weeks notice and they are already out of food. They don't know how to make a toilet flush with flood water. No batteries or candles. Food is just a mile away. These people are helpless and hopeless.
I heard an electrical contract pull his men after some of the feral inmates started to use them for target practice. The only reason you would shoot at men trying to restore power would be so you could continue looting.
A week before Sandy made land fall I told my genius son in Boston to fill up the car, get three cases of bottled water, batteries, and enough food for a week. He laughed and said a week is like an eon to a physicist. An IQ of 170 and dumber than a box of rocks.
Tired warrior-your last 2 sentences about your son really made me LOL! As I am always saying my grandmother who only finished 6th grade (in 1912) and my grandfather, a farmer who only finished 8th grade, together had enough survival skills to weather any storm. Skills I wish I had. Yet the elite academics who abound in the Northeast scoff at such uneducated people. Grandma and Grandpa could have beaten the pants off any of those NewYorkers in a survival throw down-even when they were in their 80s!
My father didn't finish the 6th grade, he had to work the farm. He could walk into a forest with a pocket knife and walk out six months later, 10 lbs. heavier and wearing new buckskins.
When I was 14 we were cutting some glass to repair some old leaded glass windows with 19th century glass, so we couldn't waste any. My dad was figuring multiple complex angles in his head. I asked him where he learned how to do that and he said he taught himself. That's when I realized how smart my dad really was.
My father's earliest memory was being about four and helping out in the wheat field when a storm blew up. Grandpa gathered the kids into the barn and soon realized that the barn was coming apart There was fist sized hail falling outside. Dad remembers his father lifting the huge barn door off it's track getting all the kids to lock arms around him under it. He walked them across the barnyard to the root cellar. My dad said he could never forget the sound of the hail hitting the top of that door.
I was the first person in my family to go to college. But, my dad would say, "The longer you go to college, the dumber you get." That was his way of explaining the difference between wisdom and common sense versus book learning and a fancy degree.
Intelligence and common sense are two different things.
Exactly! I have three kids. my sons are absolute geniuses not bragging just a fact. (My wife swears they are all mine but I have doubts.) My daughter is a teacher I would say she is average. If I ever had to hand a loaded gun to any of my kids. I would give it to Amanda, because she would carefully put it away. While either of my two geniuses would pull the trigger first just to see if it was loaded.
Sounds like Sheldon Cooper off The Big Bang Theory, he is an actual genius but has zero street smarts.
Witness some of the educated nuts in most of the college's faculties.
He teaches chemistry at Harvard. Your point is proven. He is a wonderful dad though. I think being a father is helping him relate to regular humans.
Here in OK, we ALL prepare when we know something like, say, the horrendous 2007 ice storm is coming. (There are some pretty awe-inspiring pictures of that ice storm online — Google it if you happen to get a chance). Everyone here has spare food, water, batteries, candles, small propane heaters, etc., on hand. In 2007, we were without power in the dead of winter for TWO WEEKS, but aside from a few generators being stolen, everyone got along. Neighbors cut huge fallen tree branches (as well as entire fallen trees), into firewood-size pieces if the people down the street didn't own a chainsaw. Those who got their power back earlier invited others to stay in their homes and fed them until their own power was restored.
Same principle with the May 3, 1999 tornado. We were only without power for about a week afterward in my locale, but because there are so many storm-type disasters here, everyone was prepared with extra food, water, and other necessities, not to mention having a plan. (Having a contingency plan came in handy when the National Guard wouldn't let thousands of people back into their own neighborhoods because they hadn't yet picked up one of the orange construction-paper passes that the NG issued).
We didn't riot on either of those occasions, or a host of others, because we're so inured to storms of every conceivable description and intensity. Nor did we eat from dumpsters, riot, start fires, or kill each other. Preparation — BEFOREHAND — is key. In fact, most of us here kind of laughed at Bloomberg when he closed down NYC in panicked anticipation of another hurricane (not sure of the name — Irene? Last year?). If I remember correctly, the top wind speeds were something like 75 mph. Once you've lived through 318 mph, with softball-sized hail, exploding gas lines and torrential rains, anything less just doesn't do much terror-wise.
Sorry for lengthiness — think how gabby I'd be with a second glass of wine!
speak at length, you are among friends here.
Benjamin Franklin said, "we are all born ignorant, but it takes a lot of work to remain stupid."
Having lived most of my adult life in FL and been through about 5 or 6 hurricanes (I can't even remember all their names without looking them up!). I learned long ago to keep things ready to batten down, and have all my "important stuff" in abundant stock always. 10 to15 days without electricity, access to stores, ATMs, even water, is a pain, but it's very doable if you're ready for it.
I hung out on some threads on various political forums just prior to Sandy's landing, after feeling her blow past us a few days before. I couldn't believe some of the dumb, off-the-wall and utterly clueless questions I was reading from the people up north. But, fortunately for them, THEY WERE ASKING… and getting good answers, learning what to do, and hopefully getting ready, before disaster struck. But only a small percentage of people are on forums, and asking questions. So it's no surprise that only a small percentage were ready.
I did a similar post earlier today. You see, our area was hit hard twice a little over a year ago and I saw government "help" firsthand. Thankfully my family is always prepared, so we did not need any rescue, but many thousands in this community did – and they HATED how it rolled out. The government (Fed) took most of the blame for falling short on assistance.
First thing is that the "help" treat the residents like idiots, and tend to treat them as if they are a pain in the ass. The police, etc. are more rude than ever and seemed to take delight in pushing people around and abusing their authority. FEMA = useless and clueless. But them have themselves some beautiful huge trailers and buses which they travel in quite at their ease and in comfort.
Residents had irresponsible and ridiculous expectations I must say. Not all of course, but enough. So many seemed to think that it could all be fixed by someone else, and in like, two fricken days.
But many just looked about them at what needed to be done, and began to do it themselves – then they went on to help their neighbors. That's why the world didn't hear about OUR horrible floods and devastating storms. We didn't whollop each other over a can of gas or a bottle of water. Heck – we had a super serious wind storm a few months ago which blew a tree over onto a neighbors garage. My husband was over there at first light offering to cut up the tree if he could keep the wood. She was thrilled, he was thrilled – everyone saved hundreds of dollars and the work was done that same day!
I know it's a different situation in the big cities – but that is precisely why those people need to prepare a few days before the storm hits. Sigh.
I too see this hurting obama – he was stupid enough to run in there proclaiming himself the man for the job, and assured the people that they would be helped by hisself right away! It's bound to be a hot mess, there is no way to avoid that, and so it will naturally be blamed on the one man who promised to fix everything. I do think Christie is a douche though. Self serving, self promoting, 2016 presidential candidate. I believe he shot himself in the foot with his day of obama lovin. I'm fine with that.
Thanks Kevin, you are the only writer that has mentioned the travesty that has befell Breitbart's Big Sites…..(Andrew Breitbart would truly be ashamed of what happened to his websites and who is writing there now)….the prickish Shapiro, etal have made BB's a real disaster. I've really enjoyed your ChiTown insights as well as the encouraging treatise of the campaign.
I hit at least 100 sites a day and I always go there via RSS on my bookmark toolbar (even here to HB). Even though I've reported the issue to them via e-mail multiple times, the geniuses at breitbart.com can't even figure out how to get that to work (I always get the message" live bookmark failed to load").
I rarely go there anymore. I agree that AB would be mortified about what's going on with his sites. I still miss him everyday.
MotherGoos —
Why doesn't their RSS thing work?
That seems like an easy thing to fix.
NYT's Nate Silver: 79% chance Obama victory. MSNBC's Krystal Ball (that's right): Obama 300+ Electoral votes. With apologies to Rod Serling: "Nate and Krystal were walking through another dimension, a dimension not of sight and sound but of mind. They looked, and the signpost up ahead said: "Next stop — The Unemployment Line."
Krystal Ball ran a hopeless campaign against a very popular GOP Congressman, Rob Wittman (VA-1) in 2010.
"defeated by a margin of 63.90% to 34.76%" according to Wikipedia.
It would appear she specializes in lost causes. Not surprised to find that she's now working at MSNBC.
At a press conference today Chucky Schumer, Kristin Gillibrand, and James Molinaro got together to rip the Red Cross for not working fast enough. At no point did any of these useless democrat politicians break a sweat and start collecting food for the same people who voted for them. Notice they also failed to mention FEMA or Obama. This is how democrats now think.
Richard J. Dailey your party has lost it's soul..
I suggest you all read it and send it to all your friends and see if they notice the hypocrisy.
Andrea Mitchell ripped Romney the other day, for collecting food to put on his bus, have it picked up & distributed. She said he should use the Red Cross and stay out of the way! I think most people have a difference of opinion with her. Mitt did the right thing.
My dad said that during WWII, it was the Salvation Army, NOT the Red Cross, that was always first on the scene. I will NOT give to the Red Cross because of the outrageous salaries given to their executives. I will, however, give to the Salvation Army because they are run very efficiently.
This is what I remember. The troops said the Salvation Army and the USO were there for them.
I saw Franklin Graham (Billy Graham's son ) on Greta the other night. He has a charity called Samaritans Purse. They had three semis ready to roll out as soon as they would be allowed into these ravages areas. They are going to work with area churches to help clean up the mess. It is worth looking into if you want to give to others besides Salvation Army.
I've donated to Samaritan's Purse many times. It's a great organization that offers VERY practical supplies and necessities to those in need!
I highly recommend donating to them!
OK, Let me get this straight: one whole day after the storm, three whole days after the storm began, people are out of food ??? Somehow, I just don't believe that. The average household generally has a week or more of canned and stored food. . .
These people KNEW a storm was coming, KNEW that bad weather was coming anyway (gee, WINTER SNOWSTORMS, anyone ???) and did ZERO preparation ???
I hate to say it, but if they're THAT dumb. . . let Darwin take 'em. . . .
You know what, I am not the best planner or shopper in the world. My friend Abbey in Cleveland has me beat…she has like a year's supply of stuff saved up. I have probably two or three (MAYBE four) months' of provisions. I also have food we can eat if there is no electric or gas, because we live in an old building and in the time I've been there the lights, gas, and water have all gone out for one reason or another at least twice. So, I always have something I can make for Justin and myself if need be.
He may not like it, but he can eat it and have a meal until the power and gas is restored.
So, unless someone's whole house was destroyed (or just their kitchen and pantry) I don't know how they could be out of food and reduced to eating garbage so soon either. I would go a week before I think I'd even be hungry enough to start thinking about looking through garbage. I think I would hunt and kill animals before that.
I don't want to judge the dumpster divers, but I don't understand how they can be this far gone this fast. What are they going to do next week, because order will not be restored by then.
In my neighborhood we we have people like this. You know they're cooking because Jimmy John's just pulled up.
Seriously, if you don't have some sort of emergency food supply with a hurricane coming you are not a competent adult.
I swear, for people who don't know me I might sound like a scold or nag but I called everyone I knew in NYC and told them "TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY. THIS IS NOT THE NEWS LYING AGAIN. GET AWAY FROM NEW YORK". I did that before Irene too.
And I nagged these people to buy enough food for a few weeks…all stuff they could eat in the dark with no way to cook if need be. Canned soup, canned fruit, canned veggies, canned chili…and also those ready-to-eat meals that are made by Hormel that can sit in the cupboard (I actually really like these and eat them when Justin's out of town visiting his parents and I don't want to cook; you can eat them cold if you want…there's a turkey one, a pot roast one, etc).
Bottled water, canned and ready to eat foods, nothing that needs refridgeration in case that goes out. I told them all to cook any meat they had and eat it in the days before the hurricane so it would not go bad.
A few of them didn't listen because they said "Irene wasn't bad so I didn't think this would be". I swear, Justin would be tempted to not pay attention either if a storm was coming and I'd have to fight him to get prepared…and I would win and then later he'd admit he should have listened.
It is so much better to be prepared and have a bunch of extra cans in your kitchen for a while than to be sorry you didn't stock up.
If you have a fondue pot with a can of sterno fuel you don't have to eat those canned foods cold. We have a gas stove but I got my fondue pot out Monday night just in case we couldn't cook on the stove.
Those fondue sets are very inexpensive at places like Bed Bath and Beyond.
I lived in NYC the summer I graduated from high school. I worked as a summer runner on the NYSE. I stayed with my uncle in his apartment and was shocked that there was no A/C. The building was too old to support the amount of electricity needed to supply every apartment if they had a window unit.
People in NYC are use to eating out A LOT. Most people have nothing but some beer/ wine/ vodka in the fridge and maybe some stale crackers and chips in the pantry. When I was in the city my uncle had nothing but leftover takeout, ketchup and pickles in the fridge. Take out and delivery is the staple. Most people even have to go out for coffee in the morning that is how un self-sufficient they are.
If I know a storm is coming I stock up on water, gas, food, batteries, candles, and ammo ( I AM in Texas after all :))
You are neither a scold nor nag. You mentioned in an earlier thread that your relationship with Justin was akin to a big brother. You're just trying to be a big brother to your readers. To thine own self be true.
Kevin et al. . .
I've been though BAD hurricanes. Hurricane Agnes, 1972 ?? 8-foot rapids in the street in front of my house. Cellar flooded up INTO the first floor, and eroded the foundation out from under our house. I was 11, and a few days earlier, I had surgery. We had no power or water for a week, and yet, without any abnormal preparation, we ate fine. Sure, it was cold cereal, powdered milk, and lots of PB&J sandwiches, and all the cold cuts in the house for the first day or two after. . . but we were fine. We survived easily.
Now, my wife is a couponer, so we have, on the average, 3 months supply of any shelvable grocery item, and generally a months' worth of meat. OUR Preps ?? Last week, we didn't recycle any milk or 2Liter soda bottles: all were washed, filled with water, and placed in the freezers (we have 2) to freeze and act as "cold resevoirs", to keep things frozen for up to a week. And we dug out the extra flashlights, candles, and lanterns, and the extra batteries. One whole hour. We spent more time putting yard stuff and our Romney and Allen yard signs inside, than we did "preparing" for the storm.
Oh, and we kept a BBQ lighter near the stove (the burners are lit by a sparker. . .
And even IF we had extended power out, we could easily go two weeks without power if necessary, we'd just break out the cases of MREs and Datrex Bars (I used to live in the Extreme North, and you ALWAYS carried an Arctic Bag and a few days emergency rations, just in case you got stuck in a snow-drift. . . .)
I do the cold reservoir thing too.
I have 6 two-liter soda bottles filled with water frozen solid in the freezer. I use them as a cold reservoir because back in 2003 or whenever it was that we had the blackout in the Midwest, my apartment lost power for three days. And I never want to have to worry about food going bad with no cold. I also, in the summer, put one or two of these under a blanket and I use them as cold packs to cool off when I sleep and the apartment is too hot. We don't have central air and I won't waste electricity on a window unit, so I use the frozen bottles as old fashioned air conditioning.
I bought a little table-top stove from a resale shop that uses rubbing alcohol for fuel.
You can buy that stuff buy the bottle cheap and it keeps forever.
Plus it burns clean.
I have two (twin) nephews who live in SoHo, very highly educated, an architect and an accountant. They have all their groceries delivered when they need them and order food delivered from various restaurants when they're hungry. I'm sure that there is no excess food in their apartment at this moment.
My feeling is a lot of New Yorkers have this type of lifestyle and have been expecting it to continue because, after all they live in Manhattan and that's life there.
Considering a New Yorker friend's reaction to small town take-out delivery having stopping hours was "You can't get Thai food at 3am? That is so sad." I can believe it.
This is what Gothamites used to do in the face of disaster:
The Northeast has the highest concentration of colleges and universities, and the highest number of people with advanced degrees… and yet, when push comes to shove, when the rubber meets the road, when common sense calls, they're dumb as rocks!
Good Ole' Ben Franklin would have been beating the living $#!% out of them and the MSM were he around today.
I lived five years in NYC and three in the DC Beltway… Met the proudest people on Earth. Yet, they weren't ready for a storm that most Texans, Floridians and others in the Gulf Coast and Puerto Rico have the most sense to prepare for! And yet they call those in flyover country "dumb". Go figure.
Occpuy Wallstreet wanted this. They had not a grasp on single iota of the true horror anarchy and communism they so desire, but they do now. The entire city will now suffer and see just how horrible it is when you rely on the government to fix all your problems, and when the "evil corporations" are not able to provide the services and products those morons take for granted. Food, gas, power, water…
Couldn't have happened to a more appropriate group of people.
The one positive aspect of this, it will wash the occupy movement right out of NYC as if God just flushed the toilet.
'We are Katrina': Brooklyn's rage as 'Manhattan gets all relief efforts,' residents are 'scrounging for food like animals'
At a 12-unit apartment building at West 23rd near Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, several tenants are huddled together in one room where human waste is spilling out of the toilet.
Many more stories at Daily News site. Also incredible videos of dumpster diving on hate to plug them but can't get link) NBC.
Gee, does Obama hate white people? What will Kanye say?
Apparently Kanye and Kim Kardashian were partying it up somewhere for Halloween…guess Kanye hates white people too.
At a 12-unit apartment building at West 23rd near Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, several tenants are huddled together in one room where human waste is spilling out of the toilet. They need help, and are at a loss explaining why assistance is getting to them faster.
"We have no food or water. Why isn't anyone helping us," asked tenant Aeising Cancel.
"We are scavenging for food like animals," said another tenant Jeffery Francis. "We are in a crisis and no one will help us. Look at us. We are misery. Everyone cares about Manhattan. No one is looking out for us. Nothing. We are Katrina."
At an apartment building at 3024 W 23rd the power is still out and residents are out of food.
"The food is gone. We are scrapping for food. One person found a sandwich and we split it four ways," said resident 58-year-old Albert Miller. "I'm just happy to be alive. We are praying a lot right now. Praying for help. We keep telling ourselves it is going to get better. It has to get better, right?"
No, NY you are NOT Katrina or NewO–most people in America love New Orleans and despise you, as you despise us. Your finest moment was 9/11/01–and you have successfully defiled that with all the insane disfunctionality over the Memorial and Site and the Mosque, as well as electing the worst mayor in America. Looks like you're stuck with him as Mayor for Life — you deserve each other.
First off, I guess I don't read enough. I'm not seeing the fear porn on the sites I visit. I do visit Ace, usually for the ONT, and contrary to what you're saying, that site has been nothing but pro R/R of late. They even have a guy that goes by the sobriquet "DaveinFL" that gives multiple, daily poll tracks, all of which illustrate a strong R/R position. I don't see this "fear" stuff at Malkin or Powers either. Further, Gay Patriot also trumpets for Romney. Admittedly, I don't often look at Brietbart anymore for obvious reasons.
It's interesting watching the "shruggles" in the NE, especially in light if what previous commenters have pointed out about self-sufficiency. It just goes to prove that as a nation, those of us in fly-over country know how to take care of ourselves and our own. I don't feel the least bit sympathetic to those who can only look to the Government for succor. And those twerps faulting the Red Cross really have no clue whatsoever.
Thank you for all of your hard work Sir. Keep it up and keep the faith.
You don't think this is Eeyorish of Ace?
Don't you see how it's always so wah-wahhh over there?
No Sir. Not when this is a subheading:
Today, Republicans lead by 18%.
Absentees are a small slice of the voting population, but they are suggestive of determination to vote in the broader population.
These stories are heartbreaking. Many people are living in third world conditions. Don't know what else to say except it's awful.
I'm sure many will remember that just days after Katrina, celebs organized a TV telethon for the victims. Nothing like that is being planned today. But Bette Midler thought it was appropriate to host an extravagant Halloween party.
Meanwhile, New Yorkers are eating out of garbage cans, people are fighting to get a gallon of gas, and thousands of people have no home.
NBC and HBO are doing a telethon tomorrow.
Oh, "Let them eat cake"… and all that jazz…
We all know what can happen when the poor Manhattans find out about that…
So, yesterday, here in Southern Alabama, I stop at the local Dollar store because wife needed trash bags. I figure, in and out no problem. Then started looking at prices and grabbed a cart. Tuna fish, rice, sardines, pasta, napkins, trash bags, milk, buttermilk, butter, water, even tortellini. Nine grocery bags, total bill 59 bucks. And now, the rest of the story:
While checking out the man behind me starts spewing at the mouth about how he's never voted and how votes don't count. When I had had enough I said, "Sir, you may be right, my one vote may not amount to much, but if you don't vote, you automatically are not allowed to complain. While you are pontificating Sir, look at the food I'm buying, canned goods and dried goods. If my one vote doesn't help win this election, then I have a Plan B. You have nothing, not even participation."
Here's a good one from Breitbart – the opposite of fear porn:
Good find Jules!
Jimmy Carter, Part Deux:
I remember the gas lines in the mid 70's. They weren't pretty.
Neither will these be.
Uh Oh…..looks like another "suicide" surrounding the oblamer administration……..
Moochelle being romanced by bathhouse barry right under the headline on Drudge. There is a reason for this.
Saw that pix on Drudge. Turned my stomach. Appalling. Now that was "political porn" if I ever saw any.
I recall that some of the brilliant masterminds of MSNBC were mocking the Romney efforts to collect food, water, clothes and blankets. They advised that "the Red Cross needs money and blood" not those items.
What does the Red Cross do when there is no food to be had at any price? I would imagine that the folks that are "dumpster diving" have enough money to eat, yet there's nothing to buy.
Before I retired, I had the occasion to work with FEMA (Hurricane Ike) and had the chance to observe the incredible waste and lack of direction. The "bigwigs", living in luxury hotels far from the devastation, were busy having photo ops with the press while everything went to hell.
Don't trust in anyone other than yourself, family, friends and neighbors!
I have a friend who used to volunteer with the Red Cross in Florida. They are so incompetent that she never donated another dime to them and warns everybody off.
I am from Oklahoma. When I first saw the devastation Sandy was leaving behind, I just knew this was going to happen. The people in the N.E. just had no idea what was coming and they are far from being prepared for a disaster. They had several days warning and apparently didn't pay attention and prepare.
And, for adults not to know how to flush a dang toilet with flood water makes me fear for my country. What have we become?
It is difficult to realize that people are as clueless as these people! They had a week's warning of what this storm was going to be. They were told to prepare……. These are the people who think they are smart enough to tell the rest of us how to live??
Romney did the right thing when he gathered up food and water and supplies, rather than just sending money to the Red Cross!
Glenn Beck said this afternoon that his organization sent two trucks with supplies to churchs up there and they were the first trucks in that area with food and water, and the churchs were getting it out where it was needed.
Have to feel sorry for these people, because they didn't and don't seem to know how to take care of themselves. Katrina may look good before this is over!
I don't know if I feel sorry for them. I'm an urban dweller (Philadelphia). Grew up here, spent all but two years of my life here– two years in college in Albuquerque, NM. We were prepared for this storm, and Irene, and any other issues. We have a little bit of food, a lot of water, know to fill the pitchers/bottles/tub and sinks before it's too late. Have batteries candles, flashlights, sleeping bags, lots of wood (we live in a semi-detached house with a fireplace), and canned goods should we run out of the meat from our half a pig and quarter of a steer we have in our freezer. No generator– but the ability to cook/smoke on a grill, or over a fire and we're adding a camp stove with fuel shortly. Also have the means to defend ourselves if necessary.
Someone mentioned toilet paper– we don't have enough of that and I'll rectify shortly.
I don't mean to be insensitive but why didn't they evacuate? We had to leave for both Rita and Ike, we took no chances. We came back when it was declared safe; trees off the roads, power lines cleared, ect. IF you are going to "ride it out" you should have prepared yourself.
It is rather difficult to evacuate when you have no car, which is the case for the majority of New Yorkers. That's why Bloomberg et al blew it by not ordering evacuations until 7.5 hours before the subways shut down.
It just frosted my cookies to hear the leftest go after Romney for collecting items for the victims of Sandy.
After Katrina there was a news report on how your contributions to relief agencies are spent. When you give to the United Way – they first rebuild their organization and then distribute what is left to those in need. The Red Cross always takes the first 10% of each dollar and puts it into their coffers (for paid salaries, advertising, etc.) the remaining 90% is then given out. The only organization that gives 100% of your donation to those in need is the Salvation Army. This was according to the news report. There might be other organizations that give all but Salvation Army was the only one that they reported on.
Now you know why the Red Cross only wants cash donations. Toilet paper and canned food does not pay for their upkeep.
Our family goal is to have a 3 month supply of what we need to survive. I have a large pantry and we keep it stock. I work for the school district and do not have a paycheck in the summer so we have relied many times on our food storage. I am able to grind my stored wheat and make bread from scratch and in an emergency I will share with my neighbors.
Twice a year, usually when the time changes in the fall and spring, I purchase items for our emergency kits, This includes crackers, canned meat, canned fruit, etc. If we have not used our emergency kit then I set it out for a day of marathon TV and I purchase items for the next 6 months.
Small correction to your headline Kevin:
"Obama is not good for Obama's Re-election"
As I read the headlines on Drudge tonight and watched the news, I yelled out to my husband, "OMG, Kevin was right"! He looked over at me and said, "who is Kevin?" LOL!! But I am amazed! You hit the nail on the head. It has only been 2 days!! These poor people are not going to be able to handle this situation. I will admit I was having a weak moment yesterday as Obama flew in on AF ONE and had his love in with Christie. But I have come to my senses today! Thank you Kevin!
My husband used to do the same thing when my son and I talked about what Kevin said. Now he knows, but to make us happy will say, "Kevin who?"
Saw today in the Philly Daily News on our drive home from speech therapy for youngest– full page of Christie and Obama shaking hands with the headline, "Thick and Thin". Thick over Christie (who makes me look slim and that's a feat– I'm telling you) and thin over Obama. Explained to Oldest Son the double entendre– besides the obvious fat and skinny joke– that "thick and thin" means you stick together through the bitter end and this a Leftist Democrat racist paper pushing fear porn to the White and Asian folk that still read them, that Republicans are deserting Romney. His comment– tell Kevin! Report the fear porn… And I'm sure he was right on Alex Jones as soon as we came home.
I call my parents everyday to give them an update to what my friend Kevin is saying….:) And then when I hear things on other sites my mom will say "what does your friend Kevin think"…….
My Dad is now starting to read HillBuzz.
Thank you Kevin for making me be somewhat calm and collected during this election.
Wish I could link this clip.
Obama left them behind! Hungry dumpster diving in NYC.
This is Katrina redux.
Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard and occasional pundit on Fox News was on a local radio show this morning. When asked who he thought would win, he said that a week ago he would have said Romney, but now, with Sandy, he wasn't so sure. I almost threw the radio out the window. Really, what a cloistered Beltway bubble type. There are millions of people across the US who are suffering, and all politics is local. They see Obama jumping in, pledging to help, and the thought that goes through their minds is, "what about me? If it is so easy to get things going, why didn't he help my community/industry, etc.". How any of them thought this would help Obama is beyond me.
Grrrr….et tu Steve Hayes? Is no one immune to the peddling of the fear porn? : (
Kevin, I am so glad I discovered your site a few weeks ago…I am a staunch conservative but I live in Southern California so you know how that is working out for me! I do get a little spooked by the fear porn that you so decry but have already voted, my vote hasn't been depressed, but this election is still a nail biter for me.
New York has become a defining moment.
When you surrender your personal responsibility to government you are no longer free, you are now a slave.
This is what happens when the slaves expect the government to protect them from their own stupidity.
This is why democrats are evil, they have created a new modern slavery.
Wait…are you saying that Chicago is going to close the section of El that primarily serves the black community for a year? Wow. My parents live out near Midway, hadn't said a word to me about it.
By the way, my classification system was flashing red last week on Sandy…too bad for those not prepared – no excuse.
Tracy —
The Red Line will be shut down from Sox Stadium (35th Street) to 95/Dan Ryan. So yes, the part that serves the black community will be shut down for a year. There was a big to-do about this. It closes in Feburary, I think. The alternative was to shut it down every weekend for four years.
There are going to be buses and free rides in the affected area for the year.
It only took six years to build the transcontinental railroad. They didn't have to use union labor.
I still love how Obama called in the intercontinental railroad.
I bet to this day he doesn't know why that's funny.
The tough part is holding your breath for that stretch from San Francisco to Tokyo.
Thank you for this post today….. It was just what I needed to read. I admit, I was getting anxious today but your article set my perspective straight.
Thank you!
They eat out of dumpsters all the time in Greece, 4 more years of Obama and you will be too.
Oh but wait! They're holding the NY City Marathon this Sunday! The lefties on FB are saying that New Yorkers will be thrilled, because it will show the world how resilient and "strong" they are, and it'll lift them up. It brings a LOT of money (millions) into NY, but instead of the marathon, which will take resources that could be better used to HELP people in need in NY, IMO, it would be a better idea to just donate the money to an organization of their choice. Of course their illustrious Mayor Bloomburg is, in essence, saying "the show must go on"…. or perhaps "let them eat cake". http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/sports/officials-defend-decision-to-run-new-york-city-marathon-in-storms-aftermath.html?pagewanted=all
They're going to have to run the marathon to get food and water.
Doing penance! I will NOT be an Eeyore! I WILL NOT be an Eeyore! I WILL NOT be an Eeyore!!!
When I saw The Daily Show talking about how the government reaction to Hurricane Sandy is what a "competent" government reaction looked like I shook my head.
Jon Stewart please get your head out of Obama's butt and take a look at your crumbling city where the rich aren't trying to continue their lives like their aren't people scrounging through trash for food.
This is a DISASTER.
So New York and New Jersey will go for Obama no matter what, but low voter turnout there could flip local elections. Because I don't think the democrats will show up, but republicans will come despite this.
Heck we might even get some New York democrats at this point. The government is supposed to be taking care of it and it is failing them.
I knew this storm would either really help or really hurt obama. Couldn't decide which.
Your article put it into perspective. Thanks!
Remember today is the first of the month. Last week many of these folks food stamp cards were either drained or nearly drained. Funds were deposited in the cards today but the store shelves are empty.
Kevin is right- the entitlement class is going to start rooting big time!
Eeeeek! We had to turn off bill o'reilly. He wants to be soooooo evenhanded he annoys the heck out of us.
Yes, can barely watch him anymore. : )
What Drama Queens. Who is actually starving in two days? Who runs out of random food in the house in that long?
People around here run to the grocery store and buy essentials at the first prediction of snow, and it almost never actually snows. I know people make fun of the south for that, but I guarantee nobody will be dumpster diving two days after a bad storm!
I have no choice. I have four children and a husband. We have to stock up because we will not have our babies starving. When we had to evacuate we had babies who were still depending on bottles and milk. We packed so much water and powdered milk. How can people not prepare?
You are a good mom and a smart person.
Other people don't think about what happens like that.
It's a crying shame.
People also buy the stupidest stuff. Why was all the milk gone in the grocery stores here where I live in PA? except Wawa was fully stocked (we love Wawa around here!) But why do people rush out for milk? It is going to be the first thing to spoil if the power goes out.
We were down in DC for a weekend of sightseeing. Cut things short Sunday AM and decided it was time to head home (just outside Philly). The rain was starting but we had plenty of time to get all the furniture on our deck into the garage, along with flower pots, etc. Then I told my hubby I was headed to the grocery store to stock up. I usually have a stash of extra canned goods in the basement but had let our supply get depleted so I figured I'd go and see what I could find. There was plenty of canned soup, canned chicken, rice, crackers, all the nonperishable things-but NO MILK. People are seriously stupid. I bought a 3 pack of boxed (non refrigerated) Hershey's chocolate milk for little honey badger if things got really desperate and we lost power for a few days.
My plan if the power went out was to immediately take the ice cream and mix it with the remaining milk (who needs an electric blender when you have a wisk) and make milkshakes. I bought some fresh fruit, including strawberries and after finding a container of fondue chocolate for dipping I melted that in the microwave while we had power and we had chocolate covered strawberries for dessert
People were also buying up meat and I couldn't understand why. It just happened our store had a deal on canned tomatoes and chicken broth and I stocked up and even saved money.
I was the only one with a full shopping cart. Most people seemed like they were in a daze and only had a couple things in their cart-milk, lunch meat and bread. Sheesh people-get a clue.
I did laugh at the one woman I saw with 4 boxes of Captain Crunch cereal in her cart-that was all. It probably lasts forever and it still tastes good dry.
Meat makes sense for a couple of days (obviously kept fairly cool, or boiled and kept in the constantly covered pot) – and if you salt it, you can keep it for months in a cool, (fairly) clean, non-smelly room. (NB: The handling of the meat until properly salted must be clean – after that it can handle some dust or such things…)
Obviously, when you then are to use some of the meat, you need to boil it up a few times, changing the water each time (until it tastes more like meat than salt…), and it won't have the same qualities as fresh meat – but with some good vegetables (with or without potatoes…), you can get a pretty good stew or soup out of it.
But whether the "preppers" actually had the sense to do the right things with the meat, is anybody's guess…
Your post prompted me to share what I've been doing lately, fermenting foods to preserve them. All it takes is salt, water (spices) and time. You can ferment many foods and they will keep for months or years, as well as provide a boost to your immune system through the probiotics they make. Someone was posting above about buying milk in a crisis…you can turn that milk into kefir or sour cream as well.
Here is a website where I got many ideas:
I think if you had jars and salt you could take all the foods in your fridge and find a way to preserve them for a later crisis.
Remember today is the first of the month. Last week many of these folks food stamp cards were either drained or nearly drained. Funds were deposited in the cards today but the store shelves are empty.
Kevin is right- the entitlement class is going to start roiting big time!
Youngstown —
That's not how food stamps work in Chicago.
Here in Illinois, they are called EBT…electronic benefits transaction (I think).
They start on the day you apply for them. So if you applied on the 10th, they'd start on the 10th and renew on the 10th. If you applied on the 22nd, they'd renew on the 22nd every month.
Every six months you have to do an interview on the phone to keep getting them…and once a year I think they make you reapply.
I looked all this up on a forum once and was surprised it was not the same day reloading for everyone. I also asked the checkout ladies at a few grocery stores and then told me there is no longer a big rush on the first of the month because everyone's cards reload at different times now.
This was, I think, to avoid the mad dash at the first of the month that used to happen years ago.
Wonders never cease !
A sign that some Chicago authority actually can show some sense – or is it a state-wide decision ?
Found your website a few weeks ago and it keeps me alive!!! You write beautifully, easy and from the heart.
Thank you
Clip of the Dumspter Divers Obama left behind.
Just something I wanted to point something out.
Three days after Katrina:
There were already cruise ships taking on board refugees,
Helicopters were dropping food into flooded areas
FEMA had tons of food coming in from the north.
Gov. Perry had a caravan of buses on the way from Texas to evacuate the Super-dome
Bush released gas from the strategic reserve
This was all Bush's fault.
Three days after Sandy and………
The one thing I've noticed. More than half of Manhattan has food, power and water. On Halloween night Bette Midler had a party uptown. I would have cancelled the party and told my friends to donate anything they could to help their neighbors. That's just me.
If a hurricane hit here in Georgia, I would already have enough food and water and everything else to live for at least 6 months. But we're just uneducated rednecks y'all. LOL
A big thanks to Hillbuzz… knowing all this stuff enables me to be armed, so to speak, when all the worriers climb back out to the ledge. Friends don't like it that I am not wringing my hands.
You need better friends!
I'll be your friend. You are just the sort of person I like.
Ditto, thank you Kevin.
My son, the one with Asperger's, has been fixated on the polls and giving me the occasional tongue-lashing for giving credence to anecdotal evidence — not scientific, you know. Well, I have just been keeping calm and repeating that I am confident and throwing out the occasional ground report of the day … this evening, he made a verbal slip and as much as admitted that Romney is going to win this thing … I hope my good attitude helped with his better attitude … and if so, you deserve the credit, Kevin. This election has been such an education for me!
See, I can understand your son not getting it though. My ex boyfriend Harvey was Aspie. I can see how they'd look at polls in the paper and get stuck on the belief that if they were printed or put on tee vee they must be true. My ex was like that. He couldn't understand it was propaganda. Maybe your son is like that.
Aspies can't help it so I always cut them big breaks.
Explain to him how the figures in the polls are biased due to over-sampling of Democrats, show him the math done by Unskewed Polls, and I think he'll switch.
I live in New Orleans. We just had a hurricane in September and no power for a week in 100+ degree weather and humidity. ROUGH but people didn't lose it, though the ineptitude of our power company was inexcusable. We could watch the mold grow on the walls after 5 days. I won't lie, it sucked, but we made it thanks to many businesses being prepared with generators and just having basic hurricane survival skills overall. Plus most folks were courteous and somehow everyone retained some sense of humor.
In New Orleans, more alcohol was sold than water pre-Isaac! But hey, we all knew to stock up on gas, batteries, candles, food and toilet paper of course!
Okay, wait until the NE folks start having their fridge's meltdown! There are sure to be some riots on that alone!
Thanks for the info, Kevin. You were the only journalist right on this. Im not prone to flattery but your insight is amazing. I'd like your take on the following:
1). What, if any, will be the ramifications for Chris Christie regarding his actions the past few days???
2). Is there any chance the folks in NYC will turn against the democrats long term due to what they're suffering through now????
Lastly a ground report from Youngstown (although I'm sure you're getting sick of them!). 1) I talk to the presidents of local trade unions here quite a bit. Although it may be hard to believe there is a huge rift between trade unions and public sector unions. Because of fracking the trades here are working unlimited overtime and are VERY aware of Obama's attempts to get the EPA to crack down on fraking. I enjoy living so I can't tell you what trades the presidents represent but they all stated: "public employees should not have been permitted to organize. They're in the AFL-CIO & they flood the union conventions with delegates who vote for a bunch of lefty shit that gets the public to hate unions.". Trades will go solid Romney because of fracking, coal, and guns.
I also monitor two local talk radio stations. One has a show hosted exclusively by blacks & the are solidly behind Romney & state, day after day, the same things that the Think Squad tells you. The other is a white lefty- he's only getting calls from Romney voters & he ends up hanging up on 80% of them & has been reduced to playing Collin Powell's endorsement of Obama over & over- He's losing it & I don't think he realizes that he's making the case for Romney!
No, the rift is easy to believe. George Meany, the head of the AFL in the early '60s, told President Kennedy that it was a Very Bad Idea to let government employees unionize. There's no bounds to what they can demand.
And I say that as a career Federal Civil Servant – nonunionized, like 77% of the Federal workforce.
I'm actually surprised that I haven't seen anyone blame Bush yet.
I will admit that I've been taken in by fear porn the last few days. Even Rush has backed off his optimistic tone. In fact, I've turned him off several times over the last few days. Michael Medved is still fairly optimistic, but he was the same way in 2008 with McCain, so I go in circles with myself.
I guess I'm hoping for the best, but prepared for the worst.
Bullshit. You obviously don't listen to Rush. Michael Medved? RINO and apologist. Can't listen to him, and his ratings have tanked.
Agree, Medved is a total phony RINO.
He worked for a socialist candidate on their campaign after he dropped out of law school after one year.
Now he purports to be a conservative. NOT.
Yup, Rush was telling people to turn off the TV if they tend to get nervous.
RIght on, Tamminator. It's frustrating to see so many people who collapse like toilet paper in the rain. Turn off the damn TV already! Spend a little time away from the Internet! Dear God!
This is Obama's Hurricane Katrina moment.
Did you notice the blonde woman in that picture? Looks like she's laughing.
I still think that picture is of some of those in NYC who do that for FUN!
- @Devon,
Completely off topic but no other way to reach you. I saw a comment posted on HotAir that claimed they say a Tweet saying Romney would be coming to Lower Makefield this Sunday. I'm trying to get some truth to it and also trying to sort out where in the township the event would be.
What's really interesting is to see the reaction of the rest of the country to the troubles in NYC. It seems like there's a lot less sympathy and a lot more "Well, duh" than usual. Also, I suspect that the fact most non-New Yorkers have the (accurate) impression that New Yorkers look down on them is not leading the rest of the country to be overly generous. Maybe you all are seeing more "let's pull together and help New York" than I am, but it just doesn't seem to be as big of a deal west of the Deleware.
On a related note, it's interesting that the most devastated and neglected part of NYC is Staten Island, which is both working class and (relatively) Republican-leaning.
People HAVE been trying to help New York. They're being turned away! Several links have been posted in this thread to news articles detailing how power crews from outside New York were turned away, for the capital crime of being non-union. Romney's efforts to get much-needed supplies to New Yorkers are being mocked and derided. And the beat goes on. And on. And on.
It's just stupidity to not be prepared, especially when one lives in such a vulnerable location. They're sitting ducks for all kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made. Notwithstanding, Americans HAVE pulled together, and ARE prepared to help New York. However, New York (Manhattanites in particular) doesn't seem to want the help of those they consider "beneath them".
Somewhere some lefty is wishing they were watching glenn beck three years ago… i feel bad for them because truly we had years of warning but the elite media ignored it. These people are just now discovering they have been lied to.
First step toward Romney/Ryan Victory!
Breaking: US citizens in Israel vote 85% Romney, 14% Obama (UPDATED WITH FULL RESULTS)
The Vote Must Go On! No postponement of election.
New Jersey to deploy military trucks to serve as polling places
Now, that's the perfect way to guarantee the New Black Panther Party won't intimidate anyone at the polls!
You can't believe how many "senior citizens", who don't use computers and only watch the MSM, have NEVER heard of the Blank Panther voter intimidation from 2008. I have a lot of seniors as customers and only one has even heard of it, but never saw any of the videos.
The MSM in this country would put PRAVDA to shame! And they're still falling for the "Republicans will take away Social Security and Medicare in 2 Years" ads that the Democrats are running here in Pa.
On another note about the Salvation Army. Whenever there is a local housefire, they are the first to respond. They are there to provide hot soup, coffee, and a warm heating bus for the volunteer firefighters who may have ice hanging from their faces. They call them the "Sally Wagon". This is of course, in addition to assisting any victims of the fire.
I have made my donation to the Salvation Army for Hurricane Sandy victims. Red Cross salaries are too excessive for my purse.
Another reason why Sandy is bad news for Obama.
Fisker Electric Cars Explode In Flames After Being Flooded In New York
Fisker is an electric car company that got a half-billion dollars from the Obama administration to produce hugely expensive, extremely unreliable vehicles.
Amazing Broadway musical comes to NYC!
NYers fight over a fish head…
Romney is going to Pennsylvania on Sunday! He is supposed to hold a rally in the suburbs outside Philadelphia. The firewall has been BREACHED! Former Gov. Tom Ridge predicted on air that Romney will take PA!
Any idea where he'll be. Can't find anything about his appearance locally or on his site. Thanks.
Hey Kevin –
My husband is a long haul truck driver and we live in California. He is taking a load from So Cal to Boise Idaho and told me he saw lots of Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on cars all through Nevada. And in the eleven hours of driving, he saw only one Obama/Biden Bumper sticker and it was placed in the back window… like it was temporary…so that when they loose, it will be easier to remove.
Just thought you'd find that interesting ….
Oh… and I agree … FOX news is an eeyore and Greta is the worst.
I just read that Glen Beck's charity is somewhere in New York (sorry I forgot the area) and he has hooked up with a Church and another group he works with. Glen's charity is the first source of help that this area has even seen. Red Cross is no where, FEMA is also no show. No food, water, electricity, gangs roaming the street and ransacking stores. People are in their apartments afraid and alone. Bad bad.
Kevin, a big Bravo Zulu (that's Navy-speak for Good Job) on the prediction.
This is going to get very, very ugly. Hurricane Katrina, or worse – and Bush's response to that one cost the Republicans dearly. The Propaganda Press can try to cover up Libya, but they can't hide THIS.
I am surprised that the tunnels weren't sealed, though. I know the major tunnels in the Norfolk, VA, area have watertight storm doors, precisely to keep from being flooded in a hurricane.
I saw a Romney sign at a neighbors house on my street. There are many Romney signs. He is a Jewish doctor who never has signs and I would bet he is or was Democrat. He had a Romney sign up.
I feel bad for many of the people in NJ/NY but the local towns and city workers are a joke. Get generators hooked up to grocery stores, get trucks to deliver food and people can buy food. FEMA can bring in bottled water. It is not that hard.
This stuff was pre-staged and ready to go when Bush was President before storms in FL, LA, Miss, AL. Trucks were rolling as soon as the storm blew through. Jeb Bush is a Rove/Christie RINO but he did a decent job in FL during the hurricanes when he was gov.
So Florida and other places in the south have lost electricity for a week and in some cases almost a month. There was no panic, dumpster diving. People were not happy but they came up with solutions. Cities and towns issued permits that day to get generators hooked up at food stores and gas stations.
And just as you predicted Kevin, the Unions play their thuggish lumpy hand:
Now the fear-porners at National Review are saying Romney's losing Ohio because of the union vote, and that's why he's going after PA.
I'd like some of these people sentenced to MSNBC on a loop, post-election.
Obama went to NYC for a photo op.
Yes, he really thinks we're that stupid.
This is what comes of the "wait for the authorities" mentality. There is no reason for people to be out of food or water. They are in this fix because of lack of preparation and have no one to blame but themselves. Keep in mind that a lot of us have already voted and we did not vote for Obama. The Benghazi story is starting to really break. CBS has a story on it. I try and keep speculation out of it and just ask people why Obama can't explain what he knew and when he learned of it
Anyone with Internet can call for Romney from home. If you are worried about the election, what are you waiting for? Get out there and fight!
"On Halloween night Bette Midler had a party uptown. I would have cancelled the party and told my friends to donate anything they could to help their neighbors. That's just me."
Had to quote this — one of a few that I found in this thread. God. I adored Bette for YEARS. Adored. Worshipped. Quoted at length! But ever since Barack came to power, she's been so virulently anti-Repub/Conservative that I can't bear to watch her anymore. And that breaks my heart.
I feel the same about Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Paul McCartney and Roger Waters.
Used to love them, spent money for their products and concerts and now can't stand any of them.
KEVIN DUJAN!!!!! You called it! Now, it might be a mayor who turned them away, more details needed… It's STILL stupid.
My uncle works at one of the polling places here in Texas. This New Yorker comes in and demands a ballot.
They can't find him on the list. He says he's not registered, but wants to register now. He waves around a utility bill and demands a vote. They firmly tell him that it's past the deadline to register and if he's not on the list then he can't vote.
He throws a big fit about how he has a utility bill and storms out of their yelling how is vote is being "suppressed".
Even dumber the local town paper even let this idiot have a letter to the editor where he screamed how he was denied a "vote.
So stupid. You HAVE TO REGISTER moron! You missed the deadline. So blame yourself!
But this is going on even in Texas.
Be prepared. This is what is going to happen. In VA we are ready for them. They get to vote, or not depending on the registrar's ability to check on them. We are in constant contact with him out at the polls. We have poll watchers coming in and it is beginning to look as if they are targeting Conservative areas and sending in their goons to make trouble and then carrying it to the press.
One of the reasons I volunteered to work at the polls was to see how this stuff is working or not working. We are ready for contingencies. The puzzle pieces are beginning to fit, but we are ready. Overwhelm the system with Republicans getting out and voting. Staying home and not voting is not an option.
No union workers denied entry to help.
Also did you see how Andrea Mitchell(biotchcow) excoriated Mitt Romney for buying water and food and handing them out? She said he should have given the Red Cross money instead. Well we all know 1) the Red Cross keeps a good percentage for it executives who earn according to my last investigation more than $500K a yr
2) The Red Cross HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET TO THESE PEOPLE in time
3) Mitt probably already silently gave $1m to the Red Cross
4) Mitt asked for any campaign donations to be sent to the Red Cross
And now non union workers are told to leave when people have died. This is egregious.
These DemoKKKraps are the SCUM of the earth. Absolute low down SCUM.
I found this on Fox Nation!
I have only been following your blog for a couple of weeks and I have been a fan ever since. Please, keep up the good work!
The dumpster divers are making me laugh. I have no sympathy for any of the idiots who didn't prepare. I live in WA and my earthquake kit is a construction job box. I realize in the city a person can't have a kit like that, but they could stock up and stuff it where ever they could find room. I would have extra food and water under every piece of furniture. My son calls me a squirrel and my friends laugh at me, but I told them if we get hit by an earthquake, don't come crying to me—I have a gun and lots of bullets too!
Because we never know when a disaster may strike or just that the power may go out…I have a suggestion that should be in every emergency kit…It is a portable butane gas camp stove. Amazon has them for around $25 and the fuel is in canisters that are the size of a spray paint can. I have two of them and keep them in my hall closet..I even cooked Christmas dinner on them a couple of years ago. (just crack a window to be one the safe side) I also have a Coleman battery lantern that I keep hanging from my pot rack over my island in the kitchen. If you don't have a generator, you may be cold but at least you can have hot food.
I have a friend that moved from Alaska last year to West Virginia. I talked to her yesterday and they had over 3 feet of snow with more falling. She at least has wood heat, but I real feel for those that don't.
The bogey man of Intrade seems to be bothering a lot of people. if you go and have a look at their forum for this election, you'll see it's owned (figuratively) by leftists. If anyone so much as mentions Romney's name, they get attacked by packs of rabid lefties. On lots of sites, you'll see leftists crowing about Intrade, and how that shows Obama will win. It's got to the point where an unofficial forum has been started by Intrade regulars who bet on the usual stuff, sick of the leftist takeover of their election forum.
It only took one bet to push Romney from 40% to 48% on Intrade couple of weeks back. So ignore Intrade. It's safe to assume the Obama trades are dominated by them as well, rather than regular gamblers. They think they can make some easy money.
A lot of this seems to truly come down to what area you live in. The NE overall is simply not prepared for this kind of situation, and in turn you get stories like we are getting now. I feel for them and I do cut them slack in this, but still– when you have advanced warning and have the means and ability to prepare (or evacuate), no excuse for not doing it. It's not like it's a tornado or earthquake where you get little to no warning. It is a shame some have to learn the hard way.
Further south you get, particularly along the Atlantic coast, many people are used to this and know the drill. Stock up on canned goods, boxed non-perishables, bottled water, lots of batteries, a generator if you can afford it and know how to safely use it, fill up the cars with gas before the storm hits to avoid the fiasco NJ and co. are now faced with, etc. As they say, "If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself."
We were slammed by a hurricane less than 10 years ago (have gotten others including Sandy since then, but not as bad). No power for 3 weeks. Three weeks! And that was with the help of many crews from other states. Colleges and all major businesses were shut down for a couple weeks+, major flooding damage, etc. etc. One lone McDonald's opened 5 days after the storm, followed by a TGI-type place over a week after. FEMA in all of its inept glory took 3 days before they even showed up with a few bags of ice and water. Yet I recall no stories of dumpster diving and very, very minimal reports of looting. And I'm in a major population center of the state.
Beck is right too– the churches will be the ones to help these people most, not the RC or the gov. They almost always are. Relying on either of those two entities to do much of anything is asking for a headache.
Uhhh the subway is running in many if not most areas. Still down in Manhattan, but people are riding the subway. Just so ya know.
"Fear porn" or the-sky-is-falling syndrome coming from the right is pathetic no matter whether it's believed by the purveyors or not. I'm sure it's scared a lot of people unneccessarily. A poster on another site said it better than I ever could so I will quote him:
If a leftist ever passing one of his pet policies is your definition of "in decline", then the US has been "in decline" since Thomas Jefferson. However, in the meantime it conquered the world, freed mankind, built the richest society in human history, and the freest and fairest, literally gave man wings, and saw off the deadliest tyrannies in human history. If you are not aware of and grateful for American exceptionalism and greatness, then we don't "just disagree".
Was America destroyed by Woodrow Wilson or the progressive era? No. Was it destroyed by the great depression or the new deal? No. Was it destroyed by world wars or the big government needed to fight them? No. Was it destroyed by domestic treason, men giving atom bombs to Joe Stalin deliberately? No. Was it destroyed by defeatism, by the destruction of patriot presidents because they made pacifists look bad? No. Was it destroyed by rampant inflation, oil shocks, presidential paralysis and inaction in the face of terrorism? No. And it isn't going to be destroyed by a superficial lightweight from Chicago trying to play ward politics at the national level with money he doesn't have.
You simply have no realistic assessment of the scale of the forces in play, or what we overcame to get here. None of what we are up against now even ranks. It takes abject cowardice to be daunted by this pack of nitwits and their trivial concerns. What is actually going on, instead, is that the right has decided to compete with the left in the 21st century doom mongers sweepstakes. It doing so it has abandoned its own best traditions and its trademark sense of proportion and confidence in our traditions. And why? Roughly, because it thinks screaming louder that the sky is falling is good rhetoric.
It is dumb rhetoric, and the mountebanks of the world will always scream it louder.
The Hay Ride is right! We need to make this go Viral!!!
The NYC marathon under normal circumstances will bring such confusion to the traffic in the city. Now, conduct that marathon now, and you'll have blood pressures go through the roof for the city's residents. This event requires an enormous level of logistical support. But, if you follow the money, you know that the city is counting on the money from those who have paid for registration fee for this. When Chicago hosts the marathon, I make it a point to stay away from the city.
While I agree that some out there that yell SHARK are doing so to drive traffic and sow doubt, I think others are doing so because they are genuinely fearful. As conservative we have been shocked and disappointed in the past, and over the last decade we've truly come to understand the moral bankruptcy of the lefty movement. I honestly believe some are doing this as a defense mechanism, not out of malicious intent.
Who Thought a Marxist Muslim in the White House Was a Good Idea?
Playing on the sensibilities of Americans, who thought it was time to elect a Black man (or ½ Black) as President of the United States, the Marxist element in this country lied their way to the top with Barack Obama.
Marxism and Islam are the two worst enemies of freedom and progress. These two invasive cancerous philosophies are embodied together in our 44th president. The meteoric rise of an unknown, unaccomplished, inexperienced affirmative action scholar and politician could only have been accomplished by design.
Unfortunately, the media, that used to be the protector of the rights of the individual, like the presstitutes they have become, sold themselves for a mess of pottage. Hopefully, it was a misguided do good attitude that led so many journalists and newscasters to go along with the shellacking of the American public with "hope and change."
From the beginning, anyone who wasn't caught up in the euphoria of a man with black skin ascending to the highest office in the land, could see that based on his writings and previous activities, Barack Obama was not going to be good for the country.
Unfortunately, the media and other social planners involved, made certain that the Republican candidate was the weakest and least likely to be elected of the potential pool. Those who voted for McCain as a vote against a radical Islamic Marxist, had to vote holding their nose.
It became obvious, even before the 2008 election, that even if he wasn't Muslim, his sympathies were with radical Islam. It was even more obvious that he is, like he has clearly written in his various books, a confirmed Marxist. His parents and grandparents were Marxist, why would anyone think he might have espoused American ideals of liberty and opportunity somewhere along the way.
But since we are a nation of fairminded individuals who want to give everyone an equal chance, we went along with the empty rhetoric and empty suit of Barack Obama. Even before the inauguration, it was obvious the direction he was going to pursue. It's a good thing that the 2010 midterm elections slowed down his headlong rush to socialist America.
After the fiasco in Benghazi, it is obvious where Obama's allegiances lie. Instead of rescuing the besieged Americans, he decided not to hurt his radical Islamic brothers. Refusing to call out the new radical Islamic government he helped to install in Egypt for their failure to protect American property, that whole event has been quietly brushed under the carpet of media silence. We have what we voted for, plain and simple.
The degradation of America's position internationally, the mistrust of allies around the world, a socialized medical system that will no longer be responsive to the needs of the people, forcing every person to buy medical insurance and thus enriching insurance companies who really don't need government intervention to continue fleecing the people who buy their services, a ruined economy, $16 trillion national debt, a nation divided along racial and economic lines, and a host of government programs/regulation/bureaucracy.
Now it is time to see that putting someone who embodies the twin relics of failed policy, Marxism and Islam, back in power in Washington for four more years, would be national suicide. When Obama told Putin's aide on an unknown open microphone, that he would have much more latitude to work with him when he didn't have to worry about re-election, he wasn't talking about making the world safer for the little guy. He was saying just what it sounded like, that he and Putin could work more closely together to create a Marxist world.
The saying "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" applies in this election. Any American who loves the ideals of freedom and equal opportunity will not vote for Barack Obama for re-election. Within the next decade, we will have a Black president we can be proud of, but it won't be Barack Hussein Obama, the Marxist Muslim who has fooled us once.
I posted this on Nate Silver's 538 blog today:
538= O +80% to win, with caveat: O like team leading by field goal with 3 mins left. Really? Has 538 noticed the smart guy is investing his valuable time Sunday in a state he's supposed to lose (Pennsylvania) and the not-so-smart guy is stuck 3 out of 4 days defending a state he has already lost (Ohio)? The smart guy is running up the score while 538 diddles with halftime statistics. The airhead Sunday morning jocks do a better job guessing NFL winners. 538's five minutes of fame will soon be at an end.
I commented here 4 years ago during the disastrous McCain campaign. I remember you're "no Eeyores allowed" post and I tried to adhere to it, but really, McCain. And this year, I might be the most pessimistic guy out there due to two things: 1) I put nothing-nothing-past the Chicago machine to keep Barry in office; and 2) the thought of what this country would be like after four more years of SCOAMF puts knots in my stomachs.
I've seen all the smart guys like Barone predicting a Romney win and I understand and generally agree with their points. But something is really bothering me about this election and I cannot start cheerleading. Yet. If Romney, say, wins PA, I'll be running around the streets naked because it will be over early. But I don't see it.
Call me Eeyore and ban me if you must, but this election has me tied up inside so badly that I don't know what to do. If I become optimistic and Romney loses, the loss will be even more crushing.
BTW, I really want Nate Silver to be gainfully employed as a street sweeper on November 7. Let's make that happen.
Geek, just have faith. It's gonna happen. Romney is going to win BIG.
Believe, and vote and encourage your friends to vote for someone who can turn the ship around.
Do not lose faith.


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Ever look at your Xbox 360 controller and wish it were, I don't know, more blingy? Well, that's all about to change next month. Come August, Microsoft will be releasing a new gold controller for the Xbox 360 Chrome series.
Yes, it's shiny and gold. Actually, if you keep up with different Xbox releases, the new gold controller seems to be very similar to the one that was released a while back with the limited edition Star Wars 360. The D-pad on the gold controller is obviously the improved version, and the cover has a reflective finish like all the other Chrome controllers released thus far.
The controller will be available exclusively at GameStop and Microsoft Stores for $54.99 USD, in the US. No exact release date yet.

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