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Are_grits_groceries's JournalOh to be greeted like this when asking for cuddles!
https://vine.co/v/bJqjVjdqMQ7Who could resist?
Cantor's loss is not a bellweather for national elections nor for a lot of other areas.
The Tea Party has been up to this shite since they formed. If they don't like an incumbent, they find one of their own to run in a primary. Since they are loons, these candidates are usually living on the RW edge of the Earth where they can watch for dragons.
In some areas, McConnell in KY and Graham in SC, the Tea Party crashed completely. There are other places where they still hold sway and were aided and abetted by the mainstream GOP in coming to power. The gerrymandering that went on for House seats in some cases set up some seats that could be tossed.
Cantor's district was one of these. You set up a localized area such as a House District with a dedicated concentration of Loons and you are asking for trouble especially in midterms. Midterms historically have low turnout. This is the perfect situation for a smaller group that can and will mobilize its members to affect the vote. They are impervious to money and ads.
This was a perfect storm and few can see all of the trends coming together to form such an historic event until it's too late. There are so many ifs that have to come together and some aren't apparent until near the formation.
The Tea Party isn't dead but it hasn't it made some miraculous comeback that will once again catapult them into national players unless those on the state level ignore them in Presidential primaries. That is another setup ripe for upset if the warning isn't 't heeded.
If it had not been Cantor, this would gave been a surprising blip. The Tea Party could care less if he was Majority Leader or Ayn Rand herself.
Tracy Morgan is in critical condition after wreck on NJ Turnpike:
@ShimonPro:
Limo bus that Tracy Morgan was rear ended by tractor trailer causing it to overturn, according to @NJSP 1 person killed.
Morgan is critical
@contessabrewer:
ICU docs treating @RealTracyMorgan & others at Robert Wood Johnson University hospital. Crash still causing major delays on NJ Turnpike.(She works for NBC in NYC)
CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/07/showbiz/tracy-morgan-hospitalized/
My 2 caretakers-Tater and Moonpie:
Tater and Moonpie
They are doing their best to help me out in their own kitten way. They employ different methods of therapy.
One method is the tried and true "snuggles and cuddles."
Another method is to race around the apartment at 200 paws/hr at any moment. My bed is part of the NASCAT race course. I asked how this helped, and they gave me the side-eye and said,"Can't hurt."
A third method is to overturn objects or make mysterious noises in different areas. Thus actually is a good method because it makes me get up and move.
I miss Mousie and Scat so much. Something will catch my eye and I'll just start to cry. I know it will get better as time passes.
Sigh.......
How to cut down a tree.
(I got this in an email)
He and one of his co-workers were driving by and had to circle the block.
It's a guy cutting down a tree in his backyard. The house is located on
Third Avenue across from the Library.
Keith also said the cops showed up telling the guy he couldn't do what he
Was doing. He told them to go to hell, it's his property and his tree.
One Darwin Award coming up.
9000 bodies etched into the Normandy sand:
@HistoricalPics:
9000 bodies etched into the Normandy sand representing the dead on 1st day landings
#DDay70 via @davesleney
My Daddy landed on D-Day+6 with his artillery unit.
Remember these phrases?
I also liked the terse "Five-O".
Anybody remember Mannix? I loved that detective.
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