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How about some not-about-the-election items?

c/o Cuz BD. I haven't had a chance to watch this yet,
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Researcher Discusses the Role of Family Fragmentation in Domestic Violence

Video (6 min)

Nothing we didn't know, of course.

"She said when you get right down to it all you have is family."

Got all dusty here in the office suddenly, Pete. Sad and happy for you. Twenty years is a lifetime.

My older (the middle) brother has been estranged from his mother, his siblings, his kids, for a long, long time. I kept trying to be friends with him, until I couldn't take the rejection any more. Sometimes I think Mom hangs on (turned 94 this year) hoping he'll have a change of heart. She says (having lost her older brother to an accident when they were youngsters), "I once thought having your child die before you is the worst that could happen to a mother. Now I know there's worse."

Two good posts, chrissy. I like the way you pulled together various material, much of it hidden down in comments.

sven10077: "We're electing by ballet now? I'm in I am FINALLY IN! //Rahm Emmanuelle"

Another thing I like about this place. If I ever do think of some clever retort, at least one, usually more than one, someone else will beat me to it. I can just cruise on lurk.

[Oot oot eet eet mashes banana into screen]

AT LAST! Rebooted the cell and finally got some 4GLTE instead of smoke signals. Got the ONT reloaded to read the Vic/Gran/MP4 network news. Now, how do I put all this hair I pulled out back in? (A question for Plugs Biden?)

J.J. Sefton: "The silent majority VOTED, dumbasses."

Great thing about this place: if I ever think of something actually worth saying, someone will probably beat me to it!

Doggone it. Once again I'm having trouble getting a good cell connection. Usually, I can wander around the house and pick up 3 or 4G somewhere, but lately not.

Haven't been able to reload the ONT yet, and have had trouble just reloading this page.

Can someone loan me a cup of signal strength?

1. Sure is inconvenient those days when I have to play hide n seek with Vic News.

2. By Sefton's count, tomorrow and the next day are the halfway point.

3. Morning, Glories!

You all have my permission to celebrate victory by eating Chik-Fil-A!

No matter how I try, I cannot get away from pix of that awful Dunham thing. aggghh Can't look away fast enough.

Please, friend Maetenloch, never do that again. It's cruel.

I need to go meditate on one of the morning painting posts, and possibly apply strong drink, to try to purge the image. Be back in a few hours.

"Don't drive like my brother."
"Don't drive like my brother."

This is a most excellent tribute. Thanks, bob!

Spin, supplemental:

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c/o Kemberlee Kaye at Legal Insurrection
(not Weasel Zippers!)

I may have to stop doing this. I started out with four "spin" items, and I'm up to #10. And I could probably go on 'til 2016!

Tom Brokaw has it all figure out. It's not stupidity or stoned or slavery. It's Xenophobia! "He suggested that Americans are shunning illegal immigrants because they are fearful of losing the America they’ve known." Gotta admit, it's not Xenophobia, but he's half right. Americans would like to keep citizenship meaningful.

CNS News, c/o Weasel Zippers

Spin #9, c/o Weasel Zippers whom I'm mining pretty heavily today!

We all know who the real victor of Tuesday's elections was: HILLARY!

(This is surreal.)

Spin #8, The Hill, c/o Weasel Zippers

Oh, maybe it wasn't that they were stoned. Maybe they were just stupid and Republicans are so slick and deceptive. Because, obviously, nobody with a clear, intelligent mind would ever vote Republican!

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, said that voters headed to the polls with major concerns about their economic health. Republicans delivered a strong economic message, he said, and Democrats didn’t. [...]

“They may have been duped into voting for people who won’t give them that,” he said.

Spin, #7 c/o Weasel Zippers

And just what has Donna Brazile been smoking to say that the reason the Republicans got elected was because voters were stoned?

Actually, there may be something to that, now that I think about it. She means Democrats who meant to vote Dem…

In my potheadiest days, I could never be that stoned. But, they say, the stuff is 20x stronger nowadays. Yeah, sure. That must be it.

Spin etc #6

I hate to even mention this guy because, as Dan Butcher at Pundit Press says, "This guy gives Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) a run for the money on who makes the craziest statements."

Rangel: “I meant that they used to call themselves ‘slave-holding states.’ They’ve been frustrated with the Emancipation Proclamation. They became Republicans, then Tea party people."

Like that racist, slavery-supporting Tim Scott, right?

Spin, spin, spin #5

Of course, we all know that DemocRats are the only ones that support women and minorities. If one is a Republican, one cannot be a real [insert identity group here], just a "token," used by the evil rich white man.

Pundit Press has some examples of what some members of the Party of the Prince of Lies have to say about Mia Love. Token, of course. Aunt Tom. (???) And worse.

Spin, spin, spin # (where was I?) #4

Not sure if this is really spin. It's outright reversing the message, without any nuance, so it's either pure lying or pure insanity.

"Following the shellacking that voters handed gun control candidates on November 4, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts emerged to say that her group has 'the momentum' and their push for control will continue."

I thought the "brain dead voters" headline was a little unfair, unless I'm missing something. Not that they aren't, but that it's understandable, regardless, that someone who dies just before the election should garner a lot of votes — especially the early votes.

But it does illustrate another reason to discourage early voting. Also, things like the news about who was working with the IRS to suppress conservatives, which news came out on election morning.