Imagine if in 2004 Bush lost 40% of the Republican primary vote in several state to a convict, an unknown and uncommitted. The media would not stop talking about it. It would be proof that Bush was in trouble and was doomed in November. Well this has happened to Obama. last month in West Virginia , a convicted felon got 40% of the vote. Last night in Kentucky, uncommitted got 40% of the vote. Even more humiliating in Arkansas an unknown lawyer named John Wolfe got 41% of the vote. Under normal circumstances this would be considered devastating politically. But since our media worships Obama as a divine Pharaoh, they are downplaying these results.
President Obama lost more than 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s Arkansas and Kentucky Democratic primaries, despite little-to-no opposition.
Obama lost 42 percent of the vote to the “uncommitted” option in Kentucky and more than 40 percent to little-known attorney John Wolfe in Arkansas — the latest example of the incumbent president failing to win significant shares of votes in uncompetitive contests.
But it’s not the first time the president has taken less than 60 percent of the vote in a primary this year.
He ceded 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia to an incarcerated man in Texas named Keith Judd, and in Oklahoma, Obama lost several counties and won just 57 percent of the vote.
There’s no spinning these results. They are bad news for the Pharaoh. The media will do all they can to prop up the tottering Pharaonic regime, but the people have had enough with the phony god-king.
Tags: Arkansas, Democratic Primary, Kentucky
Yes but a prg pundit has already labeled these Democratic voters as racist, who don’t want to allow a half black man another term as president.
“No Preference” got a lot of Democrat Primary votes in North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, too.
I think it was 20% overall that voted “No Preference,” but it was much higher in some individual counties.
cracks are starting to appear all over the place…that weakens the entire structure…and what of the money?, what happens when that starts to dry up?….looking good so far, even Colin Powell knows he fucked up
@ heysoos:
Yeah -- cracks!!
His primary results against a prisoner and things like “uncommitted” and “no preference” are rather unimpressive, considering he’s an incumbent running against nothing and no one in his own party’s primaries.
cmu engineering on the other hand is no laughing matter
@ Buffalobob:
That’s got to be a hard stretch to make. These aren’t the knuckle dragging GOP voters who did this, these are the enlightened progressive voters from the party that put him into the spotlight in the first place. Not to mention that without the entirety of the Democrat votes, he never would have been elected in the first place. Each and every one of these 40% had to have voted for the Zero in 2008. Good luck with the racist Democrat from the red neck south meme.
@ Eliana:
It was 42%, and that ain’t good. No way to spin this, that’s why it isn’t being reported really at all.
@ Flyovercountry:
Oh yeah!! I forgot that’s where it ended up.
42% of the Dems in NC voted “No Preference” (and it was on the ballot -- it wasn’t just Obama alone so that non-votes counted as “No Preference”).
The NC Ballot said Obama OR “No Preference” -- and “No Preference” got 42% of the Dem Primary vote.
This is huge.
@ Flyovercountry:
@ Eliana:
@ coldwarrior:
@ heysoos:
@ Buffalobob:
Hey the picture is what Obama fans will feel after November 6th.
@ Eliana:
I thought we were talking about Kentucky. North Carolina too? Wow!
Flyovercountry wrote:
Actually, Obama lost Kentucky by 16 points in ’08 and is a fairly dependable Republican State in National elections, though the Statehouse is occupied by Democrats.
We don’t call is racism as much as “Bluegrass Enlightenment”.
@ Rodan:
one and done is gonna blow some minds…a bigger story than his election, in my opinion
@ Flyovercountry:
I’ll have to check again on NC if you were talking about Kentucky.
I know it was kind of shocking in NC.
All opposition to chairman O is raaaaccist!
What other explanation can there be? Obama is working sooo hard for the greater good. In between well earned rounds of golf, vacations, and deli runs, of course. Just surrender your freedom, liberty, wallet, free will and trust the one! All will be well. All will be well.
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@ MacDuff:
While that is true, as it is of West Virginia and even Arkansas, we are not talking of a general election here. The only people voting in this election come exclusively from one side of the aisle and not the other. I am not suggesting that the Zero won those states, but that he won by huge margin those people voting in this primary.
Of the people nationally who self identified as Democrats in 2008, he had to have polled at least 93%. Now suddenly they are racists, when they weren’t before? as I said, good luck with that.
@ citizen_q:
Bambi has finally taken the hint about the over-the-top Michelle vacations from now until the next election, though.
She’d still be doing one after another after another after another if not for some people reminding Bambi that it’s like fiddling while Rome burns or telling the American taxpayers to eat cake.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Don’t forget Louisiana only 11% of democrats showed up to vote for bho in the primarys. Only 11%!
@ Flyovercountry:
They will twist it somehow!
but hey, at least Obambi is keeping one promise
As Promised, Electricity Rates Skyrocket Under the Obama Plan
Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a shocking drop in power sector coal consumption in the first quarter of 2012. Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36 percent of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6 percent just one year ago.
Last week PJM Interconnection, the company that operates the electric grid for 13 states (Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia) held its 2015 capacity auction. These are the first real, market prices that take Obama’s most recent anti-coal regulations into account, and they prove that he is keeping his 2008 campaign promise to make electricity prices “necessarily skyrocket.”
The market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity – almost all natural gas – was $136 per megawatt. That’s eight times higher than the price for 2012, which was just $16 per megawatt. In the mid-Atlantic area covering New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and DC the new price is $167 per megawatt. For the northern Ohio territory served by FirstEnergy, the price is a shocking $357 per megawatt.
Why the massive price increases? Andy Ott from PJM stated the obvious: “Capacity prices were higher than last year’s because of retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations which go into effect in 2015.” Northern Ohio is suffering from more forced coal-plant retirements than the rest of the region, hence the even higher price.
These are not computer models or projections or estimates. These are the actual prices that electric distributors have agreed to pay for new capacity. The costs will be passed on to consumers at the retail level.
we are so fucked!
If Baby Doc Baraq can’t win a second term he’ll just steal it. He know the Gutless Old Party won’t do a damn thing to stop him.
@ rain of lead:
Romney needs to be pounding THIS 24/7
@ Eliana:
I have been wondering why it has been sooo long since she last took another well deserved break from her toil at the White House.
@ Rodan:
It’s the racist tea-party’s fault.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/23/maxine-waters-mean-spirited-tea-party-coming-after-me-because-im-trying-to-help-people-of-color/
Lily wrote:
They remember his stellar performance during the BP oil spill.
@ rain of lead:
From 16 dollars a megawatt to 136 dollars a megawatt!!! Good night in heaven and yes obama said this. Think about it. We will be using candles and washing clothes in a scrub bucket.
Oh and lets not forget him making sure the Canadian pipe-line doesn’t come this way. Even though Congress over rode him on this…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
There is no love for bho here in Louisiana. Only the fringe element will vote for him here.
rain of lead wrote:
Romney has a target rich environment with which he can highlight obama’s war on our country. I won’t call it failure, because he is purposefully setting out to destroy our country. Failure implies unintended results. He wants energy prices to skyrocket, from his own lips. He wants nationalized healthcare, again from his own lips.
If anything he has been too successful and the effects of his plans are being felt just a little too early. The frogs may jump out of the pot before being boiled because he raised the heat too quickly.
Flyovercountry wrote:
All true. When an incumbent President can only garner 58% of the Democrat vote in a primary where he’s running unopposed, that’s bad mojo any way you look at it.
In 2008, he had luck, the media and the mystique. In 2012, his luck’s run out, the media won’t be nearly as reliable and the mystique is looking a lot like those phony Greek columns.
@ citizen_q:
@ Lily:
People of Color gets on under my skin. Everyone except Albinos have color. Charles Johnson is an Albino so he doesn’t count.
@ Rodan:
It does me too. This has really gone too far. Certain people are better than other people.
What is going on in our country is nothing but a divide a conquer mentality and it is making me sick.
Rodan wrote:
Black people have been changing what they prefer to be called since the 60s (or before). I wish they’d just pick something and stick with it.
Another crack in the structure?
Motley Crue bassist is over Obama
@ Lily:
If I wanted America to fail, I would vote demoncrap.
If I wanted America to fail I would let such luminaries as nancy had work done pelosi, lunch-box joe, or schmuck schumer inform we how I should live my life.
@ Eliana:
Rock ‘n Roll isn’t liberal and it takes some perspective to figure that out.
MacDuff wrote:
If you call them by the term they use among themselves, they’ll kill you.
Hyperion can provide one hell of a lot of power if the feds wouls get out of the way…nuclear power is the only viable alternative to gas and oil at this point…
http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Hyperion-hopes-mini-nuclear-reactors-will-power-the-world/3153/
Rodan wrote:
And here I thought you posted The Unknown Comic! 8)
@ MacDuff:
The joke is in other countries Most American Blacks would be considered Mix Raced.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
When in Jamaica, I’ve oft heard my countrymen refer to native Jamaicans, who are neither African or American as “African American”.
@ Lily:
I wrote to Lobo on the last thread, That I think the Bin Laden Movie will have Will SMith staring as Obama personally leading the raid and killing Osama with his bare hands.
@ MacDuff:
rock and roll was a newborn in the Eisenhower years…it was, from the beginning, the music of anti-establishment…it became of age in the Kennedy years, and matured through that decade….R/R is apolitical, unless one tries to connect a bunch of disconnected dots
@ MacDuff:
I don’t think the Jamaicans appreciate that too much.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Non-Crackas? 8)
Rodan wrote:
Chuck is a “Person of Pallor”
MacDuff wrote:
quite the insult…most Jamaicans, by far, see themselves as nothing more than Jamaican…they have no affinity, per se, for Afro-Americans
@ Macker:
That takes me back a ways.
@ heysoos:
I have Jamaican friends and agree with that statement 100%. They just view themselves as Jamaicans. There are even White Jamaicans and East Indian Jamaicans. One day Americans will think that way.
Ratcheting up his controversial proposal for revitalizing America’s cities, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday suggested that the federal government “deliberately force” large municipalities to take in immigrants as the only hope for salvaging their battered economies.
Another gem from the article:
Could he be talking about Detroit?
Bloomberg aught to be fitted with a straight-jacket and heavily medicated. He is a danger to others.
@ The Osprey:
He’s a friend of Terrorists and 9/11 truthers.
@ citizen_q:
By Immigrants, he means Muslims. He’s not talking about Asians, Hispanics or Indians.
Rodan wrote:
I have met a few time and partied with Butch Steward, of Sandals notariety…he’s pure white, the richest man in the Caribbean, and most blacks regard him as a savior of sorts..he has spent decades developing resorts and this provides jobs for the locals…he cannot pay them the equivalent of US wages but he takes good care of his people…he is 100% Jamaican and 100% white….Jamaica is a rainbow of color and race…black/Chinese Jamaicans are the most beautiful women in the world
Rodan wrote:
LOL!!
Rodan wrote:
Hey, Americans think they’re all Jamaicans too.
@ heysoos:
Most of the Caribbean and Latin America is that. I wish we had that mindset here. One day.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Good pint! Reggae Music is popular.
heysoos wrote:
Indeed, it is apolitical. My point was that its nature is more in tune with conservatism (actually, libertarianism) than statist liberalism. Mine was a philosophical statement than a political one.
@ MacDuff:
American society by nature tends to be more Libertarian.
heysoos wrote:
And they don’t have a fixation on race, which is refreshing.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I have visited Jamaica since the early 70′s…I own property above Cave, near Whitehouse on the south coast…I have met a lot a people through the years, expats, natives, itinerant types…seen Negril go from rags to riches, traveled all over and watched the devolpement as the years go by…I have paid for labor and protection, smuggled weed, watched kids grow up, considered Jamaicans family…but guess what…no amt of any of that stuff will ever make you Jamaican…the old Rastas laugh at the wayward kids that go down there….you can know and love somebody for twenty years and they will still steal your cement, or boombox or whatever you own…no matter what you do, or who you are, you will never be a Jamaican…in spirit is the best you’ll ever do
@ heysoos:
You have to be born there.
Rodan wrote:
True.
@ MacDuff:
By nature Americans abhor Statists. But the Statists of the left and the Statists of the “Right” have been able to take advantage of people’s fears and push Big Government. If Americans truly realize how much power the government has compared to 100 years ago, their jaw would drop.
The sad part is many on the Left and the Right love the Nanny state. Too often What Progressives and Conservatives disagree about is what that Nanny State will do.
heysoos wrote:
Actually, “rock and roll” began as an outgrowth of scaled-down Western Swing bands and the sort of late combo swing exemplified by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, or some of Slim Gaillard’s late-Forties/early-Fifties stuff.
Both types of music exhibit the same simplified playing and the same reliance on saxophones and electric guitars that you find in early rock’n'roll.
WWII had killed off the big swing bands; shortage of personnel during the war years and the expense of keeping so many people on the payroll, coupled with smaller venues, made the big bands uneconomical. Small combos became the norm. On top of that, jazz started getting weird and unpleasant; the music that had ruled as happy dance music for twenty years suddenly went be-bop. Be-bop may be interesting to listen to, but it’s not happy and it’s not danceable. Rock ‘n’ roll, which grew out of the black and white roots I mentioned above, took up the slack.
“Anti-establishment music?” No, not really. Just the new kids’ music that replaced a jazz grown up and gone dreary—even though rock often relied on old jazz or blues standards, even past the early years.
“My wife’s gone to the West Indies.”
“Jamaica?”
“No, she went of her own accord.”
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Good one!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
SO where does Charles Johnson’s Jazz Fusion stuff fit in? Was that an attempt to make Jazz more upbeat?
Slang for “crazy old loon nut bag” =’s “Tim Wirth”
Of some note:
Tim Wirth, who with Al Gore got James Hanson the top climate job at NASA.
Well he worked with Republicans John Heinz of Pa. and Alan Simpson R-Wy on climate issues.
Two Party Evil Money Cult.@ taxfreekiller:
@ taxfreekiller:
Have you been following the Brent Kimberlin stuff? It seems Charles was pals with a terrorist.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I think it was the adults at the time considered R/R anti-establishment…new, promiscuous music that made way for a new lingo, dress styles, and generally evil bahavior
Charles Johnson has no pals only people he uses.@ Rodan:
@ taxfreekiller:
Yup and he used the wrong people. There’s an Omerta at LGF about this.
@ taxfreekiller:
Ain’t that the truth. I love that he didn’t like us, even back then. My favorite Breitbart moment during the radio interview with Rodan was when he said Charles just didn’t “get” conservatives, he couldn’t figure out why they were so nice and dressed so well.
*snicker*
heysoos wrote:
And in the 60s, the damned adults started listening to the children….and they’re still listening.
Rodan wrote:
“Fusion Jazz” = balloon-squeeze music. You know that awful screeching sound that you get when you squeeze/rub a half-inflated balloon? That’s what “fusion jazz” always sounds like to me.
The beauty of early jazz was the incredible discipline and control that the musicians had. Listen to one of Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers records from about 1927; it sounds almost like a car-crash, but then you realize that everything is tightly controlled, each musician playing off of and weaving in and out among the others. When you hear five or six really great bands from the peak period of jazz playing the same song in five or six completely different ways, you get an idea of just what these guys were capable of. Then you get a Spike Jones record, which sends them up brilliantly, and which also is an incredibly tight performance that is scripted to sound like it’s just a bunch of guys clowning around.
“Fusion jazz” is none of that; it’s self-indulgent, interminable drivel, in which drooling stoners burble repetitively over and over again with no apparent purpose. It’s done by people who really are stupid enough to believe that those casual-sounding performances by the earlier artists were done casually.
The tragic thing is that “fusion jazz” players have been around so long that most of today’s music audience thinks that’s what jazz actually is. They don’t know what the real thing sounds like, and have been so conditioned by the ugliness of “fusion” to run in the other direction when they hear the word “jazz” that they never get a chance to find out.
heysoos wrote:
If you don’t think that jazz—and before it, ragtime, and after it, swing/jitterbug—were all damned in their day for new lingo, dress styles, promiscuity, and generally evil behavior, you need to go back and do some listenin’.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
So interesting, buzzsawmonkey.
Thanks for the explanation.
{{{Eliana}}}! We miss you lady!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
An art teacher of mine used to say that “Avant Garde is the last refuge for the untalented”. That was pretty blasphemous in the late 60s, but I think he had it figured out.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Don’t forget Orange Overall!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
it’s just a term, where the wasn’t one before…do you consider the Crusaders interminable drivel?…they have been
labeled crossover/fusion jazz since their inception…it’s just a descriptor
@ MacDuff:
That’s true. Then those Avant Garde artists blame the fans for not appreciating cutting edge. They don’t realize, they suck!
@ m:
I think he was a Marxist the whole time and just rode the 9/11 Bandwagon and then his head got gassed with Rathergate.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I think you are trying to expand on the subject…of course I never said that…all music is evolution, even the earliest country blues…certainly in it’s earliest days R/R was considered by many as more devils/race music…an idea that had been around forever…not sure what your point is
heysoos wrote:
I don’t know them. I’m what they call a “moldy fig,” and proud of it; I like the stuff from the mid-Twenties, when the early jazz ensembles started to give way to the solo artistry around the same time electric recording came in, through the swing era and into the late Forties. There’s other good stuff on both sides of that twenty-thirty year span, but for my money that was the greatest period of songwriting and overall musicianship in the history of the US.
@ m:
{{{m}}}
Hi!!
I’m glad to be back! I’ve been crazy busy in Israel since I got here, but things are settling down a bit for me now.
MacDuff wrote:
One of the ironies of modern “art” is that it demands government support. A so-called avant garde that must rely upon government funds is, by definition, not avant garde.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I just laugh at the whole “Hipster” movement. I was in South Beach a few days back and just laughed at the fake Hipster.
@ Rodan:
What is the “Hipster” movement?
Rodan wrote:
I think he did too. It is amazing his transformation. I also think he thought bho was the big new deal and was going to try and ride his coat-tails to popularity. *snap* Big mistake. I could never imagine me changing long held views just because of a politican. Cj was hating on bho right up to the election. And guess what bho is just as horrible as everyone thought he would be.
@ Eliana:
That’s great Eliana!!!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Joe Sample, Wilton Fender, and Stix Hooper, all world class players, started this commercial crossover that most people just call fusion…it’s a real thing…and of course they probably all studied those earlier players you mention…music is growth, and there are labels for everything…Ive seen the Crusaders a few times, they are extremely tight and professional…monster musicians and if the public calls them a fusion band, it’s okay with me….in no way does it add or subtract from their performance
the Crusaders….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV28lBjo4TU
@ 49 citizen_q: Bloomberg is a dumbass. His head has always been tranzinational when it comes to immigrants. All the workers of the world should be interchangeable units to him. He’s not willing to give a dime of his money up to provide a competitive salary to workers in his business.
Obama’s
1. War on Women
2 War on Mexico
3. War on Arizona
4. War on Mexico
5. War on Coal
6. War on Oil
7. War on the 2nd amendment
Everytime Romney’s religion is questioned by the MSM a superpac should highlight a Rev. Wright ad. connect the innuendo to Islam
WoW it’s treasonous now…it must be treasonous when I have to show my I.D. to cash a check, or get a drivers license or rent a hotel room or ……the list is long.
“treasonous” acts.
Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm said on her Current TV show Tuesday evening that voter suppression efforts across the country could be considered as
Granholm took a swipe at the Republican Party, feeling their push for tougher voter eligibility laws and limiting early voting is an obvious attack on the Democratic party’s key base.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/23/former-dem-gov-jennifer-granholm-republicans-voter-id-drive-is-treasonous/
@ Lily: Just goes to show governors can be idiots and unable to think without their handlers around.
@ darkwords:
War on Freedom of Religion
War on Freedom of Speech
@ Lily:
I’m from MI…Granholm is an idiot…not fit for a governorship or any other office….she’s a Canadian hack that came down here to make money…highly unliked in MI
@ heysoos:
Explains her being Current TV.
@ Lily:
don’t know a thing about that…but she did catch the eye of the BO admin earlier…there was rumor of a cabinet job last I heard…if you want to track a Marxist, she’s one to follow
heysoos wrote:
They’re clearly highly skilled, and well integrated with each other. That’s what makes it so sad; I’m sorry, but that track is just boring. It doesn’t go anywhere, just babbles along at the same tempo like a mountain stream with cymbals. You can’t dance to it; you can’t whistle it; you can’t sing it. You can’t even dumb it down to make half-decent elevator music.
a couple of year ago…BO came to Kalamazoo and did a high school graduation speech…my niece was there as a senior student…supposedly there was some ‘contest’ to win his attention and her essay won the prize…I suspect Granholm to be behind that whole gig
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Yep. Art must have a certain degree of acceptance to make it viable. If the government’s funding it, acceptance isn’t necessary and crap is the result -- crucifixes is jars of urine and the like. Art and “free expression” are two different things; art is a discipline, “free expression” is inherently undisciplined.
heysoos wrote:
Good for your niece, but gawd that sentence sounds creepy as hell.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I just picked it off the top…and I appreciate the feedback…I also appreciate (hugely) that you are a fan of an an almost lost gender and that you understand and promote the stuff that is your expertise…I’m a monster Delta blues fan…it’s incumbent almost that we promote that stuff when we can…the history of American music between the turn of the century until television is a remarkable story
@ MacDuff:
yeah…imagine what creepy drool it takes for BO to visit you
my niece is mixed race as well….makes you wonder
@ Eliana:
Hipsters are people who follow any trend. They think they are better than everyone because they are enlightened.