By: Finrod (Diary)  |  August 1st at 12:49 PM  | 

Quinnipiac University has a new poll out of Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania: President Barack Obama hits the magic 50 percent mark against Gov. Mitt Romney among likely voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with wide support for his plan to hike federal income taxes on upper-income voters, according to a Quinnipiac University/ CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll released today. This is the first | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  June 28th at 10:47 AM  | 

In case you just woke up, the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare 5-4. What does this tell us? The courts aren’t going to rescue this country from its own stupidity, it’s a job we have to do for ourselves. Even if Mitt Romney isn’t a favorite of yours (he sure isn’t one of mine), we need a Republican President and a Republican Congress that we can | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  April 12th at 11:15 AM  | 

I keep seeing Romney supporters saying how we need to get behind and support Romney so we can defeat Obama in the general election. The problem I’m seeing is that pretty much it’s the only reason they’re giving, and while it’s a respectable reason, it’s not a motivating reason. Romney has spent the entire primary season burning his bridges with the Base, and it’s our | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  March 21st at 12:41 PM  | 

While I realize many books could be written with the subject I’ve chosen here, I’m referring to one thing in particular. It’s a sad, sad day when I’m forced to agree with the likes of whine factories like thinkprogress when it comes to the fellow that will likely be our nominee, Mitt Romney. His communications director just handed our opponents a dagger with which to | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  February 24th at 02:19 PM  | 

Peggy Noonan can be hit or miss with her writings, but on this item she’s got it exactly right: I keep thinking of what a sage old pol, a veteran former GOP governor, said two weeks ago. He turned to me in conversation and said, “By the way, don’t call it a brokered convention. That’s what the media and the Democrats will call it because | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  November 4th at 12:14 PM  | 

I will vote for Rick Perry in the general election if he is the Republican nominee for President. I will vote for Newt Gingrich in the general election if he is the Republican nominee for President. I will vote for Mitt Romney in the general election if he is the Republican nominee for President. I will of course vote for Herman Cain in the general | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  October 13th at 04:25 PM  | 

The Other McCain is reporting that Cesar Conda, Marco Rubio’s senatorial chief of staff who worked for the Mitt Romney 2008 campaign, was a “major force” in pushing for Florida to move up its 2012 Presidential primary to January 31. An earlier primary would shorten the campaign schedule and thus help the better-funded campaigns, of which Romney’s is certainly the best-funded. This is some serious | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  September 11th at 02:39 AM  | 

I apologize for the shortness of this diary, but I don’t really need to say any more than this: It’s 10 years after 9/11, we’ve had no more attacks of any significance, and Osama bin Laden is dead. We win.

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  July 26th at 12:42 AM  | 

I had a horrible thought tonight. It’s possible for Barack Obama to give the government an extra $2.67 trillion in debt limit space, while doing something that Republicans would not really be able to criticize him for doing. Namely, breaking the Social Security lockbox and repudiating the IOUs the government wrote to itself. Obama could say that the lockbox is a myth, that Social Security | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  July 14th at 01:58 AM  | 

Or as The Other McCain put it: They Told Me If I Voted For McCain, Minorities Would Be Thrashed And Denied Justice, And They Were Right! Despite there being video evidence of Kenneth Gladney being beaten viciously by SEIU goons, and the fact that they admitted to beating him up in open court, a jury took only 40 minutes to declare them Not Guilty. I | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  June 28th at 03:43 AM  | 

I’m tired of people here (and throughout the political spectrum, for that matter) pushing the meme that Republican X “can’t defeat Obama”. So I’m going to go through several candidates and give reasons why each one can defeat Obama: Mitt Romney can defeat Barack Obama. Yes, Romney gives up the natural Republican edge of hanging ObamaCare around his neck thanks to Massachusetts and RomneyCare. However, | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  April 14th at 01:02 PM  | 

Rasmussen has released the results of polling Obama vs a list of Republicans for the 2012 election. What do those numbers say? Well, nothing terribly conclusive, but it depends on how you look at them. First of all, the raw numbers, given with the R number first and Obama second: Romney: 40-45, Palin: 38-48, Huckabee: 43-43, Gingrich: 37-49, Paul: 34-42, Pawlenty: 35-45, Daniels: 32-45, Cain: | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  September 28th at 08:42 PM  | 

Meghan McCain has learned the hard way that tweets in Las Vegas don’t stay in Las Vegas: Students at Juniata College got a lesson in dirty, sexy changes in plans. Best-selling author Meghan McCain canceled her lecture there Friday “for several unforeseen professional responsibilities,” according to her publicist. Instead, the author of “Dirty Sexy Politics,” who is the daughter of Sen. John McCain, partied with | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  July 6th at 02:51 PM  | 

I hadn’t even realized that these two share a birthday until I saw them both in the wikipedia entry for July 6. President George W. Bush is 64 today, and First Lady Nancy Reagan is 89. Kudos to them both for their public service to our country, and may they both have many more birthdays to come.

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 09:48 AM  | 

Personally, I was shocked that ABC didn’t find a way to work their narrative into the first paragraph in this story: The Secret Service is investigating two Twitter users who, apparently angered by the passage of the health care reform bill, took to the Internet Sunday to call for the assassination of President Obama. “ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the Assassinations and Lincoln & Kennedy. We’ll | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 07:17 PM  | 

For those of you that hadn’t heard, former VP Dick Cheney is in the hospital after having another mild heart attack. My idea expressed in the subject is stolen directly from HillBuzz, so I’ll quote them here: It would be great if you sent Dick Cheney a postcard today, wishing him a speedy recovery, and thanking him for standing up for America and speaking out | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  January 26th at 02:18 AM  | 

RS McCain put me onto this story originally. Cynthia Yockey has been leading the charge on this one, I’ll let her explain: The Daily Kos and Democratic Underground have outed Kevin DuJan as the owner of the blog, Hill Buzz. They are smearing him with the false charge that that he is a racist. They are urging their readers to destroy his career and attack | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  January 16th at 11:30 PM  | 

When I first ran across this story, I couldn’t help but not want either side to win: A federal court in Philadelphia may make it legal for teens to send naked pictures of each other using cellphones. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will hear arguments today in Philadelphia from the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania that would ban a district | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  January 13th at 01:20 AM  | 

It’s looking very likely that google.cn is going to shut down for good. From Google’s blog (bolding added): Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  December 31st at 03:19 PM  | 

Recently I happened across this ridiculous article over at The Register, which had the ominous headline: Thomas the Tank Engine drives ‘conservative political ideology’ The article begins: Research by the University of Alberta has chillingly revealed that kids’ TV show Thomas and Friends may be engendering a “conservative political ideology” in future generations – a repressive mindset which “punishes individual initiative, opposes critique and change, | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  November 30th at 04:38 PM  | 

I’ve long been frustrated with companies that abuse the legal system and never suffer any consequences for it *cough*RIAA*cough*MPAA*cough*. But today comes the story of a New York City judge in Brooklyn, Noach Dear, who decided to do something about it. Backstory: a Mr. Hoyte was harassed by a collections agency that had the wrong Mr. Hoyte and instead of believing him that he wasn’t | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  October 15th at 01:11 PM  | 

Figured I’d get this one in a bit earlier this week. Last week’s scores: Erick Brockway: 10 Finrod: 9 Bye Week Teams: Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami, San Francisco Sunday, October 18 Houston at Cincinnati Detroit at Green Bay Baltimore at Minnesota NY Giants at New Orleans Cleveland at Pittsburgh Carolina at Tampa Bay Kansas City at Washington St. Louis at Jacksonville Arizona at Seattle Philadelphia at | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  October 11th at 02:07 AM  | 

Last week’s results: Husker 13 Finrod 11 Erick Brockway 10 Alberta 10 Bye Week: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego Sunday, October 11 Cleveland at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Detroit Dallas at Kansas City Minnesota at St. Louis Oakland at NY Giants Tampa Bay at Philadelphia Washington at Carolina Cincinnati at Baltimore Atlanta at San Francisco Jacksonville at Seattle Houston at Arizona New England at | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  October 4th at 03:04 AM  | 

Getting this in at the last minute. We’re on an honor system so go ahead and post your picks even if the games have already started. Bye week: Atlanta, Philadelphia, Arizona, Carolina Sunday, October 4 Baltimore at New England Tampa Bay at Washington Tennessee at Jacksonville Oakland at Houston Detroit at Chicago Cincinnati at Cleveland Seattle at Indianapolis NY Giants at Kansas City NY Jets | Read More »

By: Finrod (Diary)  |  September 25th at 04:17 PM  | 

Since I’m the only person that picked both weeks so far, it’s pretty pointless to post yearly summaries, so I’m not. Last week’s summary: danasdaddy: 13 Finrod: 6 Week 3 games: Sunday, September 27th Washington at Detroit Green Bay at St. Louis San Francisco at Minnesota Atlanta at New England Tennessee at NY Jets Kansas City at Philadelphia NY Giants at Tampa Bay Cleveland at | Read More »