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Speeding in front of the 2A girls' pack and making a name for her home school, freshman Josephine Bush put the fresh-faced Telluride team on the map with her remarkable 10th place finish. Bush smoked the 5K course in 20:22.81, leaving most of her 75-person field behind in her pursuit of a State Championship medal.
"It was the biggest event ever," Bush said of Saturday's race, which hosted upwards of 1,000 high school runners from 2A through 5A division schools. "There were hundreds of people at the starting line and people all along the course… Motivationally, it helped you stay in the game since there was always someone there to cheer for you."
And staying in the game was Bush's goal on Saturday. Fresh off a strong race at the Regional Championships in Delta last weekend, where she placed fourth, Bush trotted to the starting line on Saturday ready to make a dash for State Meet distinction.
Asked about Bush's chances prior to the race, Coach Keith Hampton maintained that he felt confident she could finish in the top 20, "with an outside chance at cracking the top ten."
"Jo specializes in sprint events during track, but she clearly is also a strong distance runner," Hampton said following Bush's State Meet performance, where she fought hard for her 10th place finish.
As the gun went off, Bush used her speed to move into the top 10, crossing the quarter-mile mark in seventh place. She had dropped to 13th place by the two-mile mark, and maintained that position until the final 250 meters when she gave her parents and coach something to really cheer about – a dogged sprint to the finish, climbing the final short hill with determination to pull away from the pack.
Bush's top 10 placing at such a high-level event was made even more impressive by the fact that she had competed in only four other races this season; A calf injury had sidelined her for the month leading up to the final meets of the year. And, as if a strong state showing wasn't enough for this athlete, Bush returned home to help carry her club soccer team to a 3-3 tie with Cortez and 1-0 victory over Montrose on Sunday.
Bush said she was a little tired Sunday afternoon.
Also competing in Fort Collins for THS were freshman Ty Williams and sophomore Colton Rogers. Senior Kirk Holstrom qualified for the meet but was not able to run due to a conflict with the ACT test.
Williams entered Saturday's race still reeling after his speedy finish at Regionals, where he placed third overall. Despite what Hampton called a "very strong depth of competition" in the 2A boys field, he felt Williams had a good shot at breaking into the top 20. Once again, Hampton's instincts proved correct, with Williams crossing the finish line in 18:22.82, to take 19th place.
"Ty ran a great race," said Hampton "He showed a lot of guts getting out fast in the first mile to try and grab a top place. He fought hard over the last mile to maintain his position. He will be a force to contend with in Colorado distance running over the next three years."
Teammate Rogers struggled with cramps all through Saturday's race. He came into the first mile in 31st place, but the cramp caused him to slow and he ultimately crossed the finish in 60th. "It was disappointing," said Hampton. "Colton is an excellent runner. Bad days are a part of sports, you just hope they don't happen in these types of races."


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DAHLONEGA, GA – The North Georgia softball team will host their fourth consecutive NCAA Super Regional this coming weekend, as they welcome Flagler College into Dahlonega for a trip to the 2012 College World Series.
The top-seeded Saints (48-8) went 3-0 over the past weekend, taking down King College, Columbus State and Augusta State to punch their ticket to another Super Regional.
They will play host to Flagler (37-17), who was the No. 7-seed in the Armstrong Regional went 3-0 taking down the host Pirates and the No. 3-seed Lenoir-Rhyne twice.
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The Black-backed Jackal is endemic to Africa, found in two separate subpopulations: one in East Africa; and one in southern Africa. The species is generally widespread. Black-backed Jackals are relatively unspecialized canids and well suited for an opportunistic lifestyle in a wide variety of habitats. The species is persecuted for its role as livestock killers and as rabies vectors. However, population control efforts appear largely ineffective and probably only succeed in producing a temporary reduction in local numbers.
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|The Black-backed Jackal is endemic to Africa. This species has a disjunct distribution range, and is found in two separate populations, one in East Africa, and the other in southern Africa. Ansell (1960) notes that this species is entirely absent from Zambia and it is absent through much of central and equatorial Africa. The disjunct distribution of this species is similar to that of other endemic African species adapted to dry conditions (e.g., Aardwolf Proteles cristatus and Bat-eared Fox Otocyon megalotis). The two Black-backed Jackal ranges are separated by as much as 1,000 km and their discontinuous distribution suggests that regions of dry Acacia bush and savanna, the preferred habitat of this species, once connected south-west Africa and the Horn of Africa.
Fossils of Black-backed Jackals have been found in deposits in South Africa dating to at least two million years ago (Hendey 1974), but fossil remains have never been found north of Ethiopia suggesting that they have always been restricted to sub-Saharan Africa.
Native:Angola (Angola); Botswana; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Kenya; Lesotho; Mozambique; Namibia; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Zimbabwe
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Regional estimates of abundance are not available. However, Black-backed Jackals are generally widespread and, in Namibia and South Africa, they are common in protected areas where suitable habitat occurs. They occur in many livestock producing areas, where they are considered vermin, but despite strenuous control measures in many farming areas of southern Africa this species is still relatively abundant.
In the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, Rowe-Rowe (1982) found densities of one jackal/2.5–2.9 km², while J.A.J. Nel et al. (unpubl.) recorded linear densities along the Namib Desert Coast of Namibia that varied from 0.1–0.53 jackal/km² along food-scarce beaches along the Skeleton Coast, to 7.0–9.0/km² at the food-rich seal rookery at Cape Cross, reaching a maximum of 16.0–32.0/km² along the centre of the seal rookery.
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|Black-backed Jackals are found in a wide variety of habitats including arid coastal desert (Dreyer and Nel 1990), montane grassland (Rowe-Rowe 1982), arid savanna and scrubland (Skinner and Smithers 1990), open savanna (Wyman 1967; Kingdon 1977; Lamprecht 1978; Moehlman 1983; Fuller et al. 1989; Estes 1991), woodland savanna mosaics (Smithers 1971; Loveridge and Macdonald 2002) and farmland. In general, Black-backed Jackals show a preference for open habitats tending to avoid dense vegetation (Pienaar 1969). In KwaZulu-Natal, they are recorded from sea level to more than 3,000 m asl. in the Drakensberg, and in localities receiving more than 2,000 mm of rainfall (Rowe-Rowe 1982, 1992). Where more than one jackal species occur in sympatry the habitat is partitioned. The trend is for Black-backed Jackals to use preferentially either the open grassland (when sympatric with Side-striped Jackal; Loveridge 1999) or wooded savanna (when sympatric with Golden and Side-striped Jackals; Fuller et al. 1989). In western Zimbabwe, habitat partitioning was mediated by aggressive encounters in which Black-backed Jackals displaced Side-striped Jackals from grassland habitats (Loveridge 1999).
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|Black-backed Jackals are persecuted for their role as livestock killers and as rabies vectors. Population control efforts appear largely ineffective and probably only succeed in producing a temporary reduction in local numbers. There is no significant trade in jackal products, although body parts are used in traditional African medicine.
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The species is not included in the CITES Appendices and has no legal protection outside protected areas. It is known to occur in protected areas throughout its range (see Sillero-Zubiri et al. (2004) for a summary).
Occurrence in captivity
Black-backed Jackals have been maintained in captivity for use in experiments testing rabies vaccine (Bingham et al. 1995).
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Incredible Shop! – What a hidden treasure! Brides, don't go to Sacramento, or anywhere else until you've been to A Beautiful Bride! Designer gowns at great prices! What is this shop doing in our little town! The owner and staff are super nice and helpful. They can take care of the entire wedding party. This wedding planning can be so stressful until you find a shop like this. Snaps to Fran and Christine for being so knowledgeable in covering all the details. Thanks to Mary too for providing such incredible quality and service. You really made everyone of us feel so special. I and my bridal party are coming back for every formal occasion!
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Best bridal shop! – By far, this is the classiest and best bridal shop I've ever visited! They carry the latest in designer wedding gowns, bridesmaids and flowergirl dresses, formalwear, prom gowns, shoes, tuxes, jewelry, accessories, etc. What really made my shopping enjoyable was the extremely friendly and courteous staff. I was dreading looking for my wedding stuff but found it all here and had fun doing it. They made me feel special and didn't set any limit on how many items I could try on. Everything is out of their bags, so I could touch and see the gowns and accessories easily. Very upbeat atmosphere, classy and not stuffy. This place is a delightful change from David's and other shops in town, and carries far more beautiful things. I'm going back later for my Christmas ball dress, too!
Unable to fit dresses or add – I am a bridesmaid in my brother's wedding, I live in Tucson, he and his bride live in Reno, we decided to order bridesmaids dresses through A Beautiful Bride. I was measured at a bridal salon in Tucson with the designer and style of the dress known. In "real life" I am a size 10 or 12. When I was measured the woman told me that I should order a size 14 or 16 since bridesmaid dresses run small.
When my soon-to-be sister-in-law took my measurements to A Beautiful Bride they said I should order an 18 or 20. She called me, I am not an expert but that seemed a bit big, I opted for the 18 and am now paying an additional $50 to have it altered at another bridal salon in Tucson, shrunk to a more appropriate size. This is a different salon than the one I was measured at and they also said according to my measurements I should have ordered a 14 or 16. Not ok.
Issue two is that when we went to pick up the bridesmaid dresses the OWNER took half an hour to determine what was still owed on the dresses. She could not figure out how much was paid on which of the two dresses, how much as tax, etc. She added and readded figures on post-it (not a form designated for such things) it looked like, and was, an amateure move. I don't know if we paid the right amount, or were over or under charged. And the owner became upset with me when I asked how the total was determine (I had to report back to parents for reimbursement :-)). Plus, since they ordered me an 18 (which is a + size) there was an additional $20 fee for extra material which we were not told about when ordering. This information would have also helped get the correct size as I am not a "+ size."
I understand the shop was recently sold before this happened so older, positive reviews many no longer be valid, I would STAY AWAY if you want headache free shopping.
A Bride's Heaven... – I personally loved this Bridal Botique...they have THE most beautiful and unique gowns at this store...and Fran is the most helpful, sweetest woman ever...helped me, my mother, and my assistant to all agree on a gown- a miracle! I went for the 1st time today to look for my gown for my wedding in December and was surprised to find the gown of my dreams. The manager was kind, as well as the other lady with the beautiful eyes that was steaming and organizing... Don't believe the hype...this place is 1st class...the other "cheapy" places don't even come close!!!!
Best Customer Service in Town – My original experience with A Beautiful Bride was renting a Selix Tuxedo for my Wedding. Not only were the staff very knowledgable and attentive, they made me feel right at home. Now everytime anyone I know needs a tux for a formal event I always send them straight to A Beautiful Bride. I would recommed this store to anyone looking for the best service from presale to follow up.
Bridesmaids are not worthy I guess – I walked into look at Bridesmaid dresses to help my friend pick them out for her wedding. I wouldn't say they were rude. But they didn't take time for me. They asked if I was getting married. I said no and from then on they ignorred me. I needed to order three dresses and have them in by April which means I probably would have to pay more for faster shipping. But apparently that wasn't any worry to them. I ended up ordering the dresses online and they'll be here in time with no extra fee.
Remarkable service – Julie at the Beautiful Bride was definitely the nicest person I had met while I was out shopping for my wedding dress with my mom. We had gone to three other bridal shops and just did not get the same service. Julies store had the perfect dress for me with the perfect price. It was definitely meant to be. She also made it very easy on us with all of her recommendations and who we should use for my wedding. Everyone that was involved in my wedding was fantastic. Thanks Julie and Beautiful Bride for your hard work.
I must say things have been better – Since my ordeal in "A Beautiful Bride" I must say, I have had a much better experience working with Julie & Fran. My fiancee will not retract his review. However, Julie and I have worked things out to a certain degree. She still stood by her policy of No Refunds, but did have a talk with her employee that ruined my day.
We are still purchasing our dresses there and am Happy to say Julie and I have remained friends. We have spoke numerous times and she is trying and has tried to make it a Beautiful experience for us. I would recommend shopping with "A Beautiful Bride" either thru Julie or Fran anytime.
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Not at all impressive – I went in to find a dress for a dance. The girl didn't make time for me at all. I walked right out, seeing as she didn't have time to help me.
LOVE THIS SHOP/LOVE THE OWNER/LOVE IT ALL!! – I went in to browse and met Julie, the owner of the store, who is not only personable but incredibly involved in the process of making your dreams come true! When we came in they were so incredibly kind. I found my gown on the first try but everyone wanted me to keep looking to make sure that I loved my gown and though it is a lot of work to get someone in and out of the gowns, Jan, the woman that was helping us, insisted that I do this too. After I chose my gown she said that I should try it on one last time to make sure! Honestly, I will be sad when my wedding is over and I no longer have a real reason to come in and say "hi!" Visit this store, it will only take stress off of your big day!
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Of the various cycling goodies that were on display last week at the 2011 International Taipei Bicycle Show, one that stood out for its ingenuity was the Amxma Simple One folding bike. Made by Taiwan's Long Antelope Enterprise Company, the Simple One is for the most part just like any other folding bicycle – what makes it special is the fact that when it's folded up, it can be wheeled into your local grocery store and used as a shopping cart.
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Long Antelope suggests that the bike could also be used more like a shipping dolly, with the basket folded down and large objects such as boxes strapped to it.
Judging by some of the videos on the Amxma website, it looks like one would have to be a little careful when using the bicycle as a cart. The pedals and hinge stick out to the back right at shin level, requiring users to stand to one side when pushing it, or to lean in over top of it.
The Simple One has 20-inch wheels, an aluminum frame, and comes equipped with an 8- or 27-speed drivetrain (although some sources also list a 16-speed). A version with a custom basket for carrying small pets is in the works, as is an electric-assist model. There is currently no word on price or availability outside of China.
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21st March, 2011 @ 12:45 pm PDT
I can't see this taking over from the car as a supermarket shopping vehicle but just think of the difference if it did if in only a little way. I watched a supermarket car park gridlock situation a short while ago. Yet about six people on bicycles came and went without hindrance or delay. Big oaks from little acorns do grow!Alan Sturk
22nd March, 2011 @ 11:37 am PDT
What a design disaster. the british Brompton rungs rings round this piece of downmarket, supermarket rubbish. the Brompton has been in production for some 20 years, and is a range of proven quality built bomb proof designs that have been used and tested all over the world by anybody and everybody. It has 16'' wheels and folds to just a 20'' package i.e. much smaller and if you leave it the bike semi-folded with its frame fitted bag still attached it will hold considerably more and more stable and can be towed or pushed along ''airport suitcase'' style. The video caption ''chingrish'' was a giggle though!!p3ter
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Bespoke Investment Group co-founder Paul Hickey specializes in analyzing market data and has studied spinoff performance.
"Overall, the companies that are spun off are doing better than the companies getting rid of them," Hickey said. "The child does better than the parent."
He said investors who bought into the parent company may have a certain mandate and may not want to hold the more growth-oriented name of the spinoff.
"You tend to see weakness early on as people sell it, and they're not familiar with the company," he said. "After a couple of weeks, the child usually outperforms the parent by fairly wide margin."
The Beacon Spin-Off Index tracks the performance of spun-off companies. It's made up of companies that have been spun off from their parent companies in the previous 30 months and are traded on major U.S. exchanges like the NYSE or Nasdaq. Index members are assigned a modified weighting based on market value, and the index is updated every six months with new members.
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Julie Morris, a research analyst for Beacon Trust, has analyzed the performance of spinoffs and found that they historically tend to outperform their parent companies by about 22 percent in their first year. She pointed out that if you look at spinoffs' performance versus the broader market, the returns also are impressive. Beacon Trust, which owns the Spin-Off Index, is a subsidiary of The Provident Bank.
On average, those spinoffs also beat the S&P 500 by about 18 percent in their first two years as independent companies, Morris said.
For example, she pointed to oil and gas refiner Phillips 66, which was spun off from ConocoPhillips in May 2012. Since then, Phillips 66 shares have risen 74 percent. Meanwhile, ConocoPhillips shares have risen 17 percent. Other index constituents have had similar performance stories.
There are a number of reasons for the general outperformance, one being the more pointed focus on managing a simpler business. Sometimes, managers at spinoffs also have incentive compensation plans that are tied directly to company performance. That extra motivation could have a marked impact.
That's not to say that just blindly buying any spinoff will make money for investors. History has been littered with instances where those companies don't end up doing well. One such laggard is water technology company Xylem, which was spun off from ITT in October 2011. ITT shares have surged 124 percent since then; Xylem has fallen 9 percent in that same period.
However, since the inception of the index in 2006, the index overall has performed relatively well. It has outperformed the S&P 500 each year except 2008. There are risks associated with any kind of investing.
(Read more: Beware: Market valuation looks like 2007 again)
Morris says that companies tend to sell off in the days after they've been spun off. That's when shareholders often sell their spinoff shares to raise cash.
And, if the spinoff isn't part of an index that its former parent company was, there could be selling pressure on those shares, too. The Beacon Spin-off Index accounts for this by not including a spinoff in the index until it has been a standalone company for six months. There's also an inherent risk when investing in spinoffs, as they don't have a track record of their own or a long trading history.
For those believing Morris' story about spin-off investing, there is an exchange-traded fund that tracks the performance of this index, the Guggenheim Spin-Off ETF, around since December 2006.
Morris said spun off companies are more difficult to understand and often trade at a discount.
She also said that because spin-offs don't get as much attention from analysts, there tend to be opportunities to find pricing discrepancies to capitalize on.
As with all investments, there are risks and investors should certainly consult their financial advisors, but spinoff investing could be an area to pay attention to, regardless of whether you're bullish or bearish on the thesis.
—By CNBC's Dominic Chu (Follow Dominic on Twitter: @TheDomino)


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Thanks! Does it matter in which order you multiply, and I think you forgot STAB.
Order only matters if you're doing precise damage calculations where rounding is involved.
Can somebody tell me how to participate in VGC 2013? I'm from Greece, so there are no Nationals for my country. And yeah, I have no idea what to do.
The European events are "open to all players in good standing," so you can just go to whichever one is most convenient for you. The regionals will be in the spring, so we'll have more specific details when that time gets closer.
Alright. And with "go to whichever one is most convenient for you" what do you mean? I mean will the battles be conducted via Wi-Fi or will I have to travel to a specific place?
It's VGC - an official competition. It can give you a free pass to the World's in Vancouver. I think it's worth travelling. Every year it's a different place, last year in Europe Nationals were held in 5 countries - Germany, UK, Spain, Italy and France. The details haven't been revealed yet but it's known you can travel to any Regionals in Europe if you own a legal European cartridge.
Ok. Thanks a lot guys.
Why is it illegal to have wide guard and ice punch on swampert?
Currently, it isn't possible for Swampert to learn both Wide Guard, a 5th gen Breed Move, and Ice Punch, a Tutor move, at the same time. While it becomes possible with BW2, changes introduced in BW2 aren't eligible for the upcoming October Regionals.
When I want to EV train a Pokemon does it matter if I catch it or if I breed it?
No, the EVs will affect your Pokemon in the same way but you have to remember about IVs which also have influence on your Pokemon's stats - it's possible to RNG a Pokemon when you catch it or when you breed it and after the moment you get it it's not possible to change IVs in a legal way.
Hey guys!
There's a local tourney coming up here in México City with VGC rules, but I kinda lost ability in all this time I've been inactive; I have two weeks to prepare for this, but I've got no team and no knowledge of the metagame...
Anyone willing to help me? I'd really aprecciate(or however it is written) it.
Oh, and don't worry about RNGing or anything, I can just get them from pokechek :P
^ Here you can find out that the next round of VGC tutoring starts tomorrow. For more information check out this forum.
For the Regional Tournaments, do your Pokemon need to be in the Battle Box?
Yes spino they must be in your battle box.
Do the dates when Pokemon are captured or hatched affect their legitimacy for official tournaments? Specifically, does it matter if a Pokemon has a capture/hatch date in the future? I'm referring to Pokemon captured/hatched in regular game play with the DS timer set in the future (or to a date before the Pokemon existed in the games). Many thanks.
No the dates don't matter at all. Even if the Pokemon was caught in the year 2040 it won't be flagged at all if it is perfectly legitimate.
I would NEVER cheat in VGC, but would BREEDING WITH, NOT USING RNGed Pokemon pass the hack check?
Trying to get a Pikachu
Breed with perfect IVed Good natured Pikachus that were created through Pokegen
Make them breed
Use their offspring in VGC
Then would the offspring pass the hack checks?
RNG and Pokégen are two completely different things. The former is allowed, the latter is not. If you want to learn about RNG, you can check out Smogon's guide and the threads in the Wi-Fi forum, or if you don't think you'll be able to learn that in time then I recommend checking out this thread (even if you'd rather breed the Pokémon yourself, you can probably find good parents from one of the users there - I'd suggest starting with the ones that have Pokécheck links, since the ribbons it adds are irrelevant if you're breeding).
Why do people change their teams, from Regional to Nats, and Nats to worlds? And which kind of team works best for each?
Well, in some cases you'll be facing some of the same people in Regionals, as you do in Nats. It can put you in a disadvantage if you run into a rematch situation while running the same team, as the opponent will know most of the tricks to your team before you even start the battle. I should know, because it happened to me.
Teams with a bit of a one-shot surprise gimmick to them can be effective for best of 1 matches. But since the regionals have a best of 3 top cut to them now, you're best off trying to run a team with some more consistancy for all tournament levels.
There's also the fact that, as months pass, different strategies become more common, so people change their team either to make use of newly popularised strategies or to counter them. For instance, at UK nationals there was barely a successful team that didn't include Zapdos, while at worlds I'm not sure if I saw any at all.
Hi. BW2 are on the way and i need a surfer with a competitive moveset (preferably mixed sweeper/attacker-Plz consider tutor moves)
i was thinking:
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP/252 Sp. Atk/4 Def
Nature: Bold/Modest
Hyper Voice-Tutored Special STAB
Surf-Hits rock types and is very (overly) neutral in coverage
Psyshock-Makes the set "mixed" Again however, too neutral,
but does kill fighting types
Calm Mind-The crux! Turns Audino super super bulky & offers a shot at attacking
I ran the moves by a type coverage calc, and Normal/Water/Psychic only hits 197
Pokemon for SE damage :/
But if I replace Psyshock with flamethrower, Shadow Ball/T-bolt, i'll lose that mix factor...Your say?
Also, I was thinking Simipour...
Simipour@Expert Belt
Nature: Hasty
Ice Beam
??? (Superpower, but then jellicent walls you...Crunch/SP, idk)
Work Up
252 Sp atk/252 speed/4 atk
Btw, ik Audino gets work up, but that takes bulk away and forces me to
split its already pretty bad base 60 offenses ...
Unless you're building your team around it (in which case you should already know what you want to use), Surf really isn't a good move to just throw in, since unlike Earthquake Water immunities are a lot harder to come by and you don't want to have to constantly Protect just to be able to attack without hurting your partner. And Audino has no business being used as an offensive Pokémon.
Its meant to be bulky too. I already said,
there are better coverage moves than Surf, but you
need it. Also, who'd you use for a mixed attacker sporting
surf? I'm stumped on this...
My team is:
if that helps........


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Golly folks, do you suppose there was some voter fraud the dems are so famous for?
I feel like they figured out how to steal votes, whether it was through manipulation of the machines, the EV, or however, that's my belief.I truly despise what happened. I really don't believe what happened.
Libtards spent the last 4 years generating voter registrations they could use for ballot box stuffing, When you have billions and there is no downside you can produce a lot of votes, without having to get the voters to come out and support you..When such traitors start getting taken outside to the back of the courthouse by a sheriffs' deputy who then puts a round through their head (after a fair trial, of course) you'll see such behavior drop off.
Good, sober people are losing confidence in the integrity of the voting process. This is extremely dangerous.
Still so upset with the result. My friend and I were just saying how big Mitt won in the red states. When you saw his stops thousands of folk were there.
No.....they just turned out more voters looking for their ObamaPhone.These are exit POLLS, not real data. They have a margin of error and are impossible to validate. You will never win in a court of law with polls.
This is truly a cliche about elections, being crooked, but, I just could not believe that Romney all of a sudden was losing NC, Florida, Virginia (where he has been ahead all night). It seemed that Rasmuusen and Gallup, the two most respected pollsters, got it wrong and every other poll had it right. I still believe they knew how to puts votes in machines or something... the Dems created I believe.
I said it last night. There needs to be an independent investigation. It may not help after Romney's concession, but it will help to delegitimize the Won. There is no way he could have won this election without stealing it.Keep praying hard for a miracle. If God doesn't intervene for us, we'll never recover from this.
A physician friend who votes at the same place I do told me today that when he started the voting process yesterday, the ballot was marked for Obama. He couldn't erase or reverse it, and finally had to ask the guy in charge of the poling place to erase the obama vote. How many of us would make the effort? This is surreal.
All this leaves me wondering if Venezuela's last election was less crooked than ours...
We know the dems cheat. That is in their DNA.But it is actually more frightening to think that there are really that many welfare takers and uninformed (or in favor of abortion, illegals, higher costs & taxes) folks that could vote for the idiot boy.
Voter fraud.
Machines in key states were rigged; the enemy started working on this 4 years ago.Illegals voted. Others voted more than once. Mail-in ballots were falsified.Our descent into Tyranny will soon accelerate. Evil will Rule.America has been given over to Darkness.
Back in my kid advertising account exec days, when I had to keep spreadsheets with pencil and green paper, my smart account supervisor told me to always eyeball the calculations, no matter how carefully made, for something called logic. The split nature of the results and the way they were reported don't meet the eyeball test. I do wish Romney had pressed for recounts, although I think their fatal error of the campaign was the loss of momentum experienced with Hurricane Sandy.I keep thinking--what if Romney had bought national TV (net and cable) time late last week, to deliver a final message of change and recovery--and as part of it places where aid could be donated. What if the Romney people had forestalled Christie's big hug with Obama by flying Romney or Ryan into NJ--or making it very clear that if Christie invited Obama in that he may as well leave the Republican party. (Look for Christie to go 'independent' or Democrat in 2013, if he doesn't wind up in Washington.)But what can you do when God gives you one final test, one more challenge and we fail it?
Christie goes to Att.General and Eric to Supreme Court!
You can't look at the exit polls, they just tell you about the people that voted. 2 million McCain supporters didn't vote this time. Just like in 06, Evangelicals stayed home. Think back to all of the Mormon hatred that use to exist here at L.com those people didn't change their hearts, they just stayed home.
#16 is right. Romney got 2.5 million fewer votes than McCain. Someone stayed home and I suspect it was Evangelicals who let anti-Mormon bigotry get the best of them. I hope I'm wrong, but I cannot for the life of me imagine anyone voting for McCain, yet staying home this time. If there's another explanation, I'd like to hear it.Now 0bama got 9 million fewer votes than he did in '08. That I expected. But the GOP drop off totally defies all logic.
I don't believe for a second that more people voted for McCain than Romney. Everyone I spoke to, eveything I read pointed to a very high turnout. Obama won like Chavez, Putin, and Saddam won.
The Muslims declared war on America decades ago and it took us until 9/11/01 to realize that we were at war. The progressives are at war with us and I still don't think we have realized it yet. When the republicans realize we're at war, maybe something will improve on our side. This is a cold war, a cold civil war.
Evangelicals (I am one) did not stay home, especially after the Billy Graham ad hit. As for Romney getting fewer votes than McCain in 2008, get real. 2008 was when conservatives stayed home. It doesn't add up.
If this reaction to a stolen election keeps building to say.. Dec 21, 2012.. the Mayans may have been right. We will be released from whatever peril comes our way and ascend to higher spiritual beings. Would love to have my chin stick up higher than obambis..just once.
It was rigged. They have been planning it for a long time. I believe the Republicans were involved. My first red flag was no campaigning. Just enough to keep the cover. I kept asking this over and over. Why not? You don't have to watch Fox or the others to know this. Republicans came on with Democrats to keep us distracted while possibly Sec of States were busy setting up the fraud. They keep knocking off conservatives one by one. Why wasn't Ted Cruz who swears he is a conservative knocked off? Simple, he isn't. Obama has never run anything but an illegal election. Obama is the perfect idiot just like Hitler to be the front for this. He intentionally has not let us know who he is to mainly keep us distracted. Yes, he should be investigated. The entire thing is a crock and no it's not the voters fault both sides. It is the fault of the government, bankers, businessmen and one world government. They can't take over unless they destroy America. I can now see why their was little campaigning. The fix was in.
Remember also that a very large number of the MilitaryDid not get their ballots..I do not think that they would have voted for the man who let some Americans die in Benghazi!
I will N.E.V.E.R. donate again to any political candidate as long as I live. What a waste of my hard earned and stretched-to-the-limit-budgeted money. NEVER again.
I'm about as weary of hearing the Mormon card played as I am with the race card. Of course there were Conservatives who sat this one out - the anger after the McLame campaign led many (and we knew them here) to say that they would never be used again as pawns for the RNC. I agree that fraud could be a factor (perhaps even THE factor), but any loss of Conservative voters was a message to the RNC as much as it was a repudiation of a weakly conservative candidate.I do hope some legal group investigates these results - especially the loss of military ballots in a suspicious plane crash.Ramona (the Pest)
#22 is onto something. The Republican candidates in Missouri did absolutely no campaigning. Akin was the only Republican heard of and that was negative from both sides. Romney won the state but many of the other races went Democrat which doesn't make much sense either. The results just look really odd to me.
I seem to have missed the election results for the hotly contested senate seats, house seats and governors races. Does anyone know the new count for Rep/Dem in senate and house?
I think the DNC machine looked at all the missing names in the registers they could find (in the key states), then plugged in "all Dem party" ballots with those names that didn't show this time. They could still be filling in fake signatures right now as we type.
re #17 -- I have another explanation. He is considered by the Righteous Right to be a flip-flopper, a RINO, &/or a moderate. They voted for McCain last time holding their nose, & were bitterly disappointed. They are mad at the GOP for continuing to give us candidates too close to a Dem, so this time they stayed home to teach them a lesson.There may be a small percentage that wouldn't vote for a Mormon, but there is an even more complex reason for that. It has to do with having a "gut", and critical thinking abilities, which some believe is drummed-out of young Mormon men. I voted for him this time & in the last election, but I've heard discussions about that.
Was it Karl Marx who said "It doesn't matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes". As I understand, a lot of the voting machine companies are owned by George Soros. Would he have any interest in having Obama win?I think there was massive voter fraud. I think there was at least some of each type of fraud mentioned in this topic.
I agree with #20. I am a Christian and didn't want Romney to get the nominee as I am not a fan of Mormons having lived among them all my life, but I didn't want Obama in again so I voted as did many of my friends. We are not responsible for his loss. I'd like to know why he was string in the first debate, semi-strong in the second and totally a rollover in the third? I would have thought too with all the Mormons in those swing states, he would have had a good ground game just from his church. And speaking of Mormons, how did Love lose in UT, a solidly Mormon state?
In Houston, a woman that used to live at one of our properties told us why she voted a straight democrat ticket, when she was a Romney supporter. The bus driver that picked up everyone at the nursing home to go vote, told them the Republicans planned on killing the Medicare they all received for their medical problems and they all would be kicked out on the street if the republicans won, so they needed to vote straight democrat to save the money they are all getting.She was very upset when she was talking to our employees, especially after we told her the bus driver was lying to them.
I am, for the first time in my life, proudly trying on tin foil hats and buying into a kooky conspiracy theory - because the kooky theory that they managed to steal 5-10-15 million votes is ridiculous, but makes more sense than anything else I can think of.Beam me up Scotty.....
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There was massive voter fraud, no doubt. We have been sold out, no doubt. But it saddens me even more that people are starting to blame the Christians. I was thinking earlier this morning that the RINO's and others would do this.Nothing happens on earth that God does not allow. I prayed hard that he would intervene and that the fraud would be rendered useless. That did not happen. I fear that God's judgement is finally being unleashed on America. For how many years can a nation slaughter innocent babies, to mention just one sinister aspect of decline, and not pay a price?
In 2008, O got over 69 million votes, McCain got almost 60 million votes. Romney received 58 million.I cannot comprehend how over 2 million McCain voters stayed at home and how we did not receive at least 65 million votes for Romney with the economy as bad as it is.Something is wrong.
I'm having a tough time getting accurate reporting for the actual vote count.69 million votes in 2008 and 9 million less this time for obama leaves 60 million for obama. McCain got 60 million in 2008 and Romney got the 58 million, then it's just a short hop to throw in a couple extra million to get obama across the line.Voter machines by the hundreds we know of switched votes. Add a few trunks full of phony early ballots and the fix is in. It took only a million switches and ballots and you get the 2 million advantage. There have been more than that identified by my count in the last election. The demns sharpened their tools for this election.I can see no way this election went the way it did.
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Don't blame the evangelicals, huge churches were on a 40 days of fasting and prayer and had huge rallies for Romney. What about Ron Paul supporters, would they make up the difference? Somehow, I can't believe they would be receptive to voting for Romney, when they were so bitter at the end. So, Ron Paulers out there, are you the ones that showed us who is boss?? If not, there was voter fraud, it does not feel right and the Chicago mafia was busy, busy in this election. When everyone is shaking their heads and are so shocked, common sense tells you something is wrong!
Where is #22 from? Why the suspicions about Ted Cruz? The answer is that he was elected from Texas and Texas is not Ohio, Michigan, or Wisconsin. We are not full of unionized thugs who run our elections. We do have some problems in our border counties and in Shiela Jackson Lee's district, but for the most of the state, it is still mostly sane.We are expecting more "revenge" and "punish our enemies" coming from Washington, Obama, and Valerie Jarrett.
One more thing, if voter fraud is the answer, then it is a bridge too far to blame Repubs, this was straight from George Soros and the Chicago Mafia. With all the time and money, they figured out the game plan to steal the election like their socialist playbook reveals. How is it proved? That's the problem.


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