tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post113228700942099568..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: Shifting Sands - 7 New Jersey Senate Seat in Playambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132369362342311272005-11-18T20:02:00.000-07:002005-11-18T20:02:00.000-07:00Thanks, Jedrury, I'll correct it. Thomas Keating w...Thanks, Jedrury, I'll correct it. Thomas Keating was McCain's love if I remember correctly. Odd the tricks the mind plays.Rick Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082425215912372067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132368027097228832005-11-18T19:40:00.000-07:002005-11-18T19:40:00.000-07:00The name is Thomas Kean is not, not Keating,The name is Thomas Kean is not, not Keating,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132358609140762632005-11-18T17:03:00.000-07:002005-11-18T17:03:00.000-07:00A giant machine that takes the citizens' dollars a...A giant machine that takes the citizens' dollars at virtual gunpoint and returns them as forty or fifty cents worth of services, retaining the difference to fund the unneeded half of the payroll and/or four of eight hours unworked or double-paid--that is, the Democratic party--is certain to be institutionally tolerant of less-than-perfectly-efficient spending. So, there's your proof, the outrage is ALL politics--masquerading as citizenship. Fooey.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132356851249865712005-11-18T16:34:00.000-07:002005-11-18T16:34:00.000-07:00And the party which built, maintains, and fiercely...And the party which built, maintains, and fiercely protects a huge civil-service structure that year-in-and-year-out returns less than half the work product per dollar as the private sector, has little standing to preach efficiency to an emergency operation with a shooting enemy, such as OIF.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132354708834016972005-11-18T15:58:00.000-07:002005-11-18T15:58:00.000-07:00OIF is part of an effort to change the dynamics of...OIF is part of an effort to change the dynamics of a lethally flawed set of power relationships that sitting atop the world's fuel tank was well on its way to firing up another BIG war. <BR/><BR/>To crawl around in the aftermath of huge, exigent actions looking for anything and everything that can't be proven to've been 100% optimal,in order to misrepresent them as conspiracies to do in the nation in favor of haliburton or somesuch, is small, obvious, pathetic, unworthy of your party's history, and a shitty way to say 'thanks', Mark.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132348580159746032005-11-18T14:16:00.000-07:002005-11-18T14:16:00.000-07:00Didn't something like 48,000 snowbirds from NJ vot...Didn't something like 48,000 snowbirds from NJ vote in Florida also?<BR/><BR/>mark:<BR/><BR/>When Clinton gives the evidence to Bush I guess he can tell the rest of us all about it.<BR/><BR/>After all Bill not only said the stuff was definitely there he guranteed us Saddam would use them.<BR/><BR/>This is what makes Democrats such a joke.<BR/><BR/>Think Bush's numbers are bad? Last I heard the Democrats are polling at 25% approval and 70% disaproval.<BR/><BR/>woo hoo!<BR/><BR/>The Republicans should never have impeached Clinton, it only made the Democrats nuttier than they already were.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132340445073575542005-11-18T12:00:00.000-07:002005-11-18T12:00:00.000-07:00Mark, that last sentence would look really cool in...Mark, that last sentence would look really cool in crayon. With little floral designs around the border, hanging on the bulletin board in Miss Smith's 4th grade classroom.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132335220021610032005-11-18T10:33:00.000-07:002005-11-18T10:33:00.000-07:00Think maybe those "Make Him Spend it ALL" bumper-s...Think maybe those "Make Him Spend it ALL" bumper-stickers may've stung a little?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132334808589550872005-11-18T10:26:00.000-07:002005-11-18T10:26:00.000-07:00Knuck,I won't be calling New Jersey until after th...Knuck,<BR/><BR/>I won't be calling New Jersey until after the lawsuits after the election. Keating running is a great move though, buying ad time in Philly and NYC is rather expensive and watching Dem fund levels drop is a hobby that I find very entertaining. <BR/><BR/>Corzine might find another rich fool but paying $60 mil to cast useless votes is someting for which even he didn't care.Rick Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082425215912372067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132334218277580392005-11-18T10:16:00.000-07:002005-11-18T10:16:00.000-07:00Knuck, there's a motel billboard--facing east on t...Knuck, there's a motel billboard--facing east on the westbound side of I10 a half-hour or so from New Mexico, that says "The Sun Has RIZ, And the Sun Has SET, and You Ain't Out of Texas YET!"buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132333258394599202005-11-18T10:00:00.000-07:002005-11-18T10:00:00.000-07:00Well, it's pretty clear that the garden state grow...Well, it's pretty clear that the garden state grows enough albatross for EVERYbody's neck.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132328695251893322005-11-18T08:44:00.000-07:002005-11-18T08:44:00.000-07:00Eric,You're right about the lower Dem turnout that...Eric,<BR/><BR/>You're right about the lower Dem turnout that comes from denying the dead their God given right to effective represntation. I forgot that one. It's probaly only worth a quarter to a half a percent but in a tight race it could make the difference.<BR/><BR/>We know that Reps can win statewide races in New Jersey. Whitman is the last prominent example of that. Even if Keating loses he's going to bleed the Dems wrt money unless Corzine finds another moneybags candidate who wants to spend $60 mil to be able to cast meaningless votes.Rick Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082425215912372067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132326623212066142005-11-18T08:10:00.000-07:002005-11-18T08:10:00.000-07:00You have to understand, buddy, NJ is a deeply corr...You have to understand, buddy, NJ is a deeply corrupt state. markg8 might whine about 'suppressing' the vote in Newark, but when thousands of dead people are still voting (Democratic, that is), in the state, its pretty much a moot point.<BR/><BR/>The only reason Torricelli got dumped was because it wasn't possible to put any sort of face on it. Unlike say, coming up with Lautenberg at the last minute, and managing through the machine to get him elected, despite it all being against the law. But that doesn't matter a great deal in NJ. As you can see.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02521739006999750126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132325489359691182005-11-18T07:51:00.000-07:002005-11-18T07:51:00.000-07:00Where did all this current bad behavior come from,...Where did all this current bad behavior come from, after all, other than a couple decades of rationalizing that the other side did something like whatever it is, "first"?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132325283789506732005-11-18T07:48:00.000-07:002005-11-18T07:48:00.000-07:00You're right--they did such an excellent job of ma...You're right--they did such an excellent job of making a virtue of neccessity that the whole issue of legality became 'technical' and 'controversial' and pretty much legless, as the well-known campaign-winner stepped up and took the situation in hand. <BR/><BR/>Personalities and PR successes aside, tho, no one can say that the precedent set isn't a step backward in political evolution.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1132323272232594382005-11-18T07:14:00.000-07:002005-11-18T07:14:00.000-07:00Well, while we're airing recent local dirty laundr...Well, while we're airing recent local dirty laundry, lets not forget the Toricelli/Lautenberg handoff which--tho SCOTUS declined to hear it--was expressly forbidden by state law, but went ahead anyway, apparently on the strength of a thitherto unknown legal principle now popularly known as "Fuggitaboudit".buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.com