It feels like a Monday Evening…
Posted: November 12, 2012 Filed under: 2012 elections | Tags: Belize, John McAfee, succession, We the People 17 Comments
…So here is your evening reads.
<———– Hmmm, I thought Rubens was Flemish?
Gotta love that Rubenesque Pug…
I honestly don’t have much for you tonight. My head hurts, and the Relpax ain’t doing the trick this time. The only things I have for you tonight is this weird story out of Belize…and the news that “We the People” are petitioning the White House to succeed from the nation.
First the movie of the week drama making headlines on the Techno News sites. Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated)
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say. According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force’s Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull, who was gunned down Saturday night at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye.
Details remain sketchy so far, but residents say that Faull was a well-liked builder who hailed originally from California Florida. The two men had been at odds for some time. Last Wednesday, Faull filed a formal complaint against McAfee with the mayor’s office, asserting that McAfee had fired off guns and exhibited “roguish behavior.” Their final disagreement apparently involved dogs.
Read the rest of that story, far out! I would imagine that the dude who brought us McAfee antivirus has paranoid tendencies already, but John McAfee seems to be getting high on bath salts…and other “stuff.” Ooof!
For those who may be high on a variety of things like, racism, crazy, anger and idiotness…I bring you: ‘We the People’ Petitions Filed in Nineteen States Seeking Permission to Secede from the Union
In the aftermath of last week’s presidential election, residents in at least nineteen states have put up petitions on the government’s “We the People” petitioning website seeking the right to secede from the rest of the country.
While the petitions themselves may not be significant, the reaction could be.
Petitions for secession filed from Louisiana and Texas have already received well over 10,000 signatures. Per the website’s own rules, petitions that garner 25,000 signatures or more within 30 days require a response from the Obama administration.
Similar petitions from Alabama, Tennessee, and, interestingly, Oregon, are also gaining traction, with each receiving thousands of supporters over the weekend alone.
Other states in which residents have expressed an interest in going their own way include Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Missouri.
As unilateral secession was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, it remains to be seen if this movement is more than a toothless temper tantrum thrown by armchair revolutionaries.
Armchair revolutionaries? Rich assholes with rodent pelts for hair? Neo-cons looking for the south to rise again? Sugar and flour hording Preppers saving themselves from Obamageddon?
After Obama Victory, A Petition For States To Secede On The White House Website
Here is one response to the secessionist from Atlanta Journal Constitution: Dear people signing secessionist petitions . . . | Kyle Wingfield
Stop. Just stop.
I’ve just got one thing to say to them…
That is all I can get out tonight…have a pleasant evening!
This is a muthafukkin’ loooozzzzer open thread…
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Ugh…;)
It won’t work for Texas … they are about to turn into a blue state in about 10 years.
Well, isn’t this interesting: Dismissal of Whistleblower’s Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Grants US Officials Greater Immunity for Torture | The Dissenter
I’m with you JJ. This is a muthafukkin’ loooozzzzer open thread… After getting locked out of my house today doing a good deed, I’m just pissed and I have to many people to yell at. But I thank you for showing up.
On a another note, did anybody think or was it just me that Andrea Mitchell acted like someone has been assassinated when she broke the Petraeus story? I knew who Petraeus was in the Bush years.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/the-sins-of-general-david-petraeus
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/petraeus-cult-2/
I read some of the comments for the pro secessionist movement. They are lost souls who really haven’t figured out yet that they have been taken for a ride by the Republican party and get all of their news from Fox. I had to reply that they had already tried that once. It really didn’t end well for them. It is funny that all of the states are “takers” not “makers” of the federal government. I would also love to see it happen. Lets withdrawal all military bases, the Coast Guard, Medicaid, forfeit social security and medicare. Just let their ass sit in the ocean after a hurricane or in their hovel of a house after a tornado. They think that they will have the oil. Sorry to say it is not their oil, but BP’s, and Exxon Mobil’s oil. Of course they all want “free trade agreements” too. They are suffering from the vapors emanating from the noxious fumes of one the Koch brother’s plants
We had visitations from a bunch of them from South Carolina about 2 weeks ago. They’re pathetic losers.
Did you mean noxious fumes emanating from the Koch brothers pants?
I apologize to everyone, I could not resist.
Some wingnuts are still a bit distraught over the election outcome. Wow.
Phoenix New Times: Holly Solomon Blames Husband for Obama’s Re-Election, Allegedly Rams Him With Her Car
Well, Rachel just said that Kerry is rumored to take over at DOD, and Susan Rice will replace Hillary. Brennan from counter-terrorism will be offered CIA head. If he turns it down, the acting director will be offered the job. If Kerry goes to DOD, MA is facing another election with, no doubt, Scott Brown signing up. The fun never ends.
I heard Deval Patrick had dinner last night with Obama. He’s make an interesting candidate against Brown. 🙂
I’d rather have Brown as a governor than as a Senator (neither may be an even better choice but that depends on who he will be running against). Brown would be much more damaging in the Senate as another member of a GOP sabotage team, but in the governors chair he’d be held in place by a veto-proof Dem state senate majority.
Personally I imagine Brown’s “nice guy” image is tarnished now, due to the campaign he ran against Warren. He should be vulnerable to a good Dem candidate.
WTF, just how long would this crap last, I mean lets make it so they never evah get one penny in foreign aid…………….Let’s see, maybe 13 states have economies bigger than that of Greece…….California could make it on it’s on, Texas could likely make it, and maybe Ga. and North Carolina has a better economy than Greece…………..Otherwise, let’s cancel all payments on the borders and let them start their own country, without any possibility of foreign aid. Let them all live in Arizona, they’ll still be counting the ballots as the signatures are being gathered.
25,000……………25,000, wow.
Motives Questioned in F.B.I. Inquiry of Petraeus E-Mails
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/us/timeline-shows-fbi-discovered-petraeus-affair-in-summer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
This just get weirder. Now the agent who started the investigation was a friend of the lady in Tampa, had sent her shirtless photos, and seems to have had a political agenda.
For a prediction of the future, we should watch the GOP in California to see if they survive or die.
LATimes: GOP might never again hold power in California
California dreamin’