Meanwhile, in Texas...

[Perd Hapley]

A German football team by the name of Greg Abbot has made Wendy Davis his dazed and impotent Brazil.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/wendy-davis-trounced-by-greg-abbott-in-texas-guv-race-112519.html

[AmbulanceDriver]

Fistful, as a Brazilian....  I hate you for reminding me of that match.........   

[Perd Hapley]

  Not so much.




Don't be hatin!

[Jamisjockey]

I would have likely died of shock if that race went the other way.
The libs were running nasty attack ads on him day and night.  I didn't think too many Texans would respond to that *expletive deleted*it.

[KD5NRH]

The libs were running nasty attack ads on him day and night.  I didn't think too many Texans would respond to that *expletive deleted* it.

Pretty much.  Just disappointed that he won't be going on any morning jog/coyote hunts.  I mean, where are the gun makers going to find inspiration now?

[Jamisjockey]

And for the record, Texans elected a disabled man with a Hispanic wife to be the gov.  The Dems choice.....a petite attractive blonde woman.  But we're the ones who don't embrace diversity....

[K Frame]

Fistful, as a Brazilian....  I hate you for reminding me of that match.........  

You have a Brazilian? Too much information!

Nice to see that it was a 20 point spread. That race was a nasty, nasty one.

Edited for violating the nick naming policy

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/11/06/wendy_davis_lost_big_and_took_texas_democrats_with_her.html

Amanda Marcotte, et al, face the facts. Sort of. She still tries to claim that it's not a total loss. 


And I just love this: anti-abortion Tea Party gal has Wendy's old seat.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/11/05/konni_burton_the_texas_pro_life_tea_party_activist_who_took_wendy_davis.html

[dogmush]

And for the record, Texans elected a disabled man with a Hispanic wife to be the gov.  The Dems choice.....a petite attractive blonde woman.  But we're the ones who don't embrace diversity....

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/opvfek/minority-retort

I really like how at the end of this clip they still try to play it down. 

[Brad Johnson]

A German football team by the name of Greg Abbot has made Wendy Davis his dazed and impotent Brazil.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/wendy-davis-trounced-by-greg-abbott-in-texas-guv-race-112519.html

The comments are good for a laugh or ten.

Brad

[MechAg94]

I would have likely died of shock if that race went the other way.
The libs were running nasty attack ads on him day and night.  I didn't think too many Texans would respond to that *expletive deleted* it.

The nastiness was all from one side.  Some were saying even Democrats were turned off by it. 

From the beginning it was obvious that she was a light weight that had such a questionable past it was pathetic.  The idea that Democrats were going to turn Texas blue given that and the state of our economy versus the nation was laughable. 

[Scout26]

Saw on Twitchy (Michelle Malkin's site) that one of Ms. Davis campaign staffers went to twitter to release her inner BSC.   While she tried to delete them later, the interwebz is forever.

While for most people that would be a career killer, I predict she'll be hired on in the next go around by a candidate (most likely a D) that agrees with her comment to "kill all the babies".

 

[Stand_watie]

... and the state of our economy versus the nation was laughable. 

Think about what our economy could be if much of the rest of the nation weren't hurting from the meltdown and we weren't spending a zillion dollars on solyndra type baloney? Fracking input/output putting new good jobs (biggest since tech in 80's) for us and new shoes for kids on the table (three new 80-100k jobs just at my tiny little plant) in 5 years.

 BTW have you caught the Lockheed Martin blurb about compact fusion, and if you have, do you have an opinion about whether the  scenario is anyway plausible or just wishful thinking? I'm not a hard math/science guy so I can't read the baloney from possibility, and we all know the journalists reporting it aren't either.

[MechAg94]

I don't remember the cold fusion thing well.  There weren't many details were their?  I can't claim to be have much special knowledge on that stuff. 

[roo_ster]

Not sure how they are bottling sunshine this time, but I am reminded of a ditty...

The cold fusion'll come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
there'll be cold fusion

The cold fusion'll come out tomorrow
So you got to hang on till' tomorrow, atom decay!
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow
You're always a decade--or two!--awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[AJ Dual]

There is the first crack in the dam of some peer-reviewed reproduced LENR test results.

Lots of heat, 3-4x the Wattage input into the core, there's not much radiation, however, the isotopic balance of the feed metals completely changes. 

If anyone remembers the XKDC comic showing the bar chart of various energy sources, with fission off the end of the page and folded up in a pile, this wouldn't be that much, but it is several times taller than any of the other bars. Assuming there still isn't some sort of goofy "gotcha" that's throwing everyone astray.

[makattak]

There is the first crack in the dam of some peer-reviewed reproduced LENR test results.

Lots of heat, 3-4x the Wattage input into the core, there's not much radiation, however, the isotopic balance of the feed metals completely changes. 

If anyone remembers the XKDC comic showing the bar chart of various energy sources, with fission off the end of the page and folded up in a pile, this wouldn't be that much, but it is several times taller than any of the other bars. Assuming there still isn't some sort of goofy "gotcha" that's throwing everyone astray.