The Goat Pen

Yeah, the stretch of I-10 on the overpass between Mobile and Spanish Fort is very dangerous as well. I wouldn't take the risk if there was even a hint of fog.

AlabamAlum wrote:

And on a semi-related note, I was able to hit 136 on I-10 on the bridge between Lafayette and Baton Rouge last week. It was about 6:30 in the morning and traffic was about as light as you can get on that stretch of interstate. I'm thankful that there wasn't any fog. Kind of rainy, though. Thank god for the performance package.

There was recently a 40-car pile-up in Lousisana due to fog. Two died. A friend of mine worked the scene. Said it was the worst he's seen.

He lives in Alabama. How bad can it really get?

He lives in Lousiana.

if Gingrich wasn't stupid enough already, now in desperation he is floating the idea of Sarah Palin as VP, which he isn't even allowed to promote until he has the nomination.

dude really is a wild card.

Okay, someone needs to take away my car keys. That's all I have to say on the subject.

As for Gingrich, why would any true-blue Repub waste their vote with him? He's full of shit and a piss-poor politician. The Grand Ole Party's best chance is Romney, at this point. Enough with the foolishness.

Hizzy III wrote:
And on a semi-related note, I was able to hit 136 on I-10 on the bridge between Lafayette and Baton Rouge last week. It was about 6:30 in the morning and traffic was about as light as you can get on that stretch of interstate. I'm thankful that there wasn't any fog. Kind of rainy, though. Thank god for the performance package.

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You were that mother fucker that passed me. I wanted to run you off the road, but you were already past me

Hizzy III wrote:Okay, someone needs to take away my car keys. That's all I have to say on the subject.

As for Gingrich, why would any true-blue Repub waste their vote with him? He's full of shit and a piss-poor politician. The Grand Ole Party's best chance is Romney, at this point. Enough with the foolishness.

I won't argue that but its Obama and Obama Lite as your choices then. And given our presidents hawkishness on foreign policy, I'm not sure which is which

Foreign policy? Is Bin Laden not still dead?

thats what I'm saying. The nobel peace prize winning president busted off a cap in Osama's noggin.

its going to be hard for Romney to be more hawkish than Obama without declaring nuclear war on Iran.

Romney doesn't believe we should have left Iraq. No idea at all about a timetable to leave Afghanistan. It may be hard to be more hawkish than Obama, but based on what he's been saying, he will be. He's said nothing at all that is to the left of Obama on foreign policy.

I don't know many Romney specifics, as far as policy. He's a good criticizer and the media has spent the past 4 mos focusing on personality and policy, so I'm interested to see what he will say come money time.

That contribution listing is not surprising. Romney is a finance guy and I bet plenty of guys who once worked for Bain are now at Citi or Goldman or KKR or Blackstone or UBS (and their shitty investment divisions) and so on and so on.

If Romney gets elected, banks will have more freedom than ever. I will tell you all, if his election chances look strong coming into next September, then start dumping cash into equities, because the market will soar slightly going into October and go nuts through the rest of the 4th quarter if he wins (and I don't see him winning).

I don't think the media has focused much on Romney's policies at all. On economics, he mainly says that he'll repeal whatever Obama passed, that Obama is not a leader, and that he knows how to create jobs. He also says that he can work across political lines (fat chance. Romney's biggest goal will be to get re-elected and there will be 40 Democrats doing everything in the Senate to prevent that from happening- I really think in the present climate, the best time to get anything done is the first two months after you are elected and the first year of your second term). On foreign policy, whatever Obama's done, it's not enough and he should do more. Oh yeah, go Israel.

On social issues, whatever is the opposite of what he said in Massachusetts.

Excellent last sentence.

I re-read what I wrote and realized I was multi-tasking looking at the Iowa v Okie game and the Clips v Bulls game, and did not capture what I wanted to say. So, I'm taking a mulligan...

"I don't know many Romney specifics, as far as policy. He's a good criticizer of the President and uses that as the basis for all of his general policy rhetoric, but the media has spent the past 4 mos focusing on personality and not really policy, so I'm interested to see what he will say come money time."

he has pretty much been given a pass because the GOP has been in "anyone but Romney" mode, now they are in ...wait, did we say anyone? well hell, we didn't mean Ron Paul, we LOVE Mitt Romney" so just before the New Hampshire Primary, Romney is going to start getting vetted.

Plus his strategy was to let the others flame out and not get busted on in the press by giving interviews. Now he is out there and he doesn't like being reminded of his flip flopping and liberal rules.

I also think Christie is going to backfire on him. Christie was wildly popular back when Herman Cain was looking like the best option but now people are going to be reminded that Christie is a mixed bag of fiscal cutter and liberal thinker.

I know this sounds like horseshit, but it really does strike a chord with me. I could live without the divine image stuff but there is alot of truth to this. It also helps explains the Ron Paul or nobody mentality the Paulbots have. This is from Lew Rockwell - the man Ron Paul is trying to provide cover for in writing those offensive newsletters.

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There are two kinds of human beings. Those who want power, and those who want freedom. You can tell which one’s which very easily. Those who want freedom are straight-edged. They are consistent, principled, and you can feel their human soul when they speak to you. There’s a continuum out there of human souls somewhere in spiritual cyberspace, and when you come into contact with one of these souls, you know immediately, because souls are by definition free. You sense sincerity, realness, consistency, a free human being. If you’re a man who seeks freedom and you come into contact with a real human soul, you become instantly addicted and you swallow up anything you can get your hands on. You want to unite immediately, no matter what you disagree on. There are people in the freedom movement that don’t exactly like Israel, especially me being a “settler” and I don’t care. If they want freedom, I sense it and my human drive for individualism suddenly turns into an intense desire to unite into a collective – but a collective of free individuals. It’s a beautiful dialectic, and it doesn’t matter what we agree or disagree on, as long as we agree on freedom.

You get hooked on Ron Paul and you desperately seek more and more, any video you can find from the past, any speeches you missed, anything he said that you haven’t heard yet, even though you’ve heard it a thousand times already in different words. You can’t help yourself. The voracious hunger to be able to use your God-given freedom takes you over entirely. It’s like you suddenly realize you’re human and the Divine Image with which God created you comes alive and catches fire.

But something else happens to you. Once you get hooked on Ron Paul, you can no longer bear to listen to a man who wants power, and you become instantly disgusted when they start saying words. Before, they were just boring. Now they’re revolting. Listening to Romney or Gingrich or Bush or Obama makes you sick and you don’t know how Ron Paul gets through those debates without getting nauseous. You see a political veneer in these politicians that’s so transparent it’s like a ghost flapping its ethereal tongue at you. You can’t bear it.

What’s so maddening about hearing Romney or Gingrich talk is that there’s someone standing there saying things, but there’s no soul in it. These are not free men. These are power men. Not that Romney or Gingrich don’t have souls. They do. They are men just like you and I. But they have practically forfeited their souls to try and attain power, to control others with spin and talking points and contradictory statements like “I want to cut the budget and expand the military!” and they’ll say it with a polished tone and a straight face, just like a soulless recording. Their humanity is so buried under the mountain of lies they have told themselves, that neither they themselves nor you can even sense their souls in the human continuum. The scene of a human body speaking but no soul communicating can drive a free man mad.

that's almost as scarey as the crap the oboma minions were spouting in '08.

Yet recent polls show the president leading all his rivals: an average of two points ahead of Mitt Romney, eight points over Ron Paul and nine points over Newt Gingrich, according to RealClearPolitics.com. No doubt some rather flawed personalities play a part in that; but so does the notion that something has gone badly wrong with the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Rather than answering the call for a credible right-of-centre, pro-business party to provide independents, including this newspaper, with a choice in November, it is saddling its candidate with a set of ideas that are cranky, extreme and backward-looking.

That matters far beyond this election—and indeed America’s shores. Across the West nations are struggling to reform government. At their best the Republicans have combined a muscular foreign policy with sound economics, individualism and entrepreneurial pragmatism. It is in everybody’s interests that they become champions of such policies again. That is not impossible, but there is a lot of catching up to do.

http://www.economist.com/node/21542180

When will the Repubs realize they are wasting their time?

Republicans have combined a muscular foreign policy with sound economics, individualism and entrepreneurial pragmatism. It is in everybody’s interests that they become champions of such policies again.

that is a big part of what got their ass kicked in 2008