I voted and didn't get a damn sticker

I voted and didn't get a damn sticker

Over the past few years I've enjoyed taking my son with me to the voting booth, this however was more intriquing because at age 10 he is more attentive to what is happening around him and being that he is on the Autism Spectrum is pretty damn cool. He reminded that his school in 2012 had picked Mitt Romney and this year they choose Donnie Trump (yeah he calls him that because of me) and proceeded to tell me how he feels about this election.

I'm not one to bloviate to whom I voted for, that's for me and I have to live with that choice for the next 4 years. But I will contest I have never in my years of voting never votes straight ticket and never will. The only issue today was ConJay's cheerleading with each choice I marked.

As ConJay and I walked into the local elementary school to vote I could see the anxiety in his face as we entered the hallway and his first response was "Where the bake sale dad? There's always a bake sale and campaign posters everywhere" Yes he was correct gone were the tables of parents and children selling bake goods in the hallway, lights were dimmed and the absence of any political posters made for a very subdued feeling as if we just walked into a dungeon.

I handed my voter registration card and driver license to one lady who acted in shock that I had both pieces of ID with me and as she scrolled through the index box looking for my info I scanned the room and counted a total of five poll workers doing their due diligence in being non-partisan while helping each voter. With a tug of my arm, I looked down and my son whispered "I hope 'so-so' loses." With a shake of my head, I told ConJay it's not polite to say such things (more for the reason I didn't want a verbal confrontation with any soul nearby).

Within seconds a poll female poll worker appeared on my left, learing over my shoulder as my card was pulled from the index box. "Here you are" she exclaimed and began scanning a binder to find my name, verifying the info and write the #111 next to my name. Every election I swear I'm always #111 in line to vote.

I laughed, with information in front of her, she misspelled my name and had to initial the corrections as she handed all my info to the gentleman beside her to verify as well.

Next came the walk with another poll worker to the booth who placed a cartridge in the machine and asked "do you need any help on how to operate the unit?" With a sigh I simply answered "I'm good, if I need help I'll ask thank you." Surprisingly the poll worker stood near as I scanned the room again and noticed one poll worker sitting in the corner who seemed as if he'd rather be carving a piece of wood then sitting staring at people.

So it began, and with each selective area from President to Senate to Attorney General to whether it should be mandatory for judges to retire by the age of 75, ConJay either asked about a selection, why that person had no opponent or simply pump his arm in approval of the selection. Again shaking my head, I had to remind him to be calm and collected so he wouldn't upset anyone. As I looked up, took a deep breath the nearby poll worker smiled at us in approval of respecting others around us.

As we verified our selections ConJay asked if he could pressed the big red "VOTE" button to complete. Of course I allowed him to do so and no one disapproved of the action, then again if they had I would've told them to mind their own selections.

As we walked out, ConJay made the bold statement of "Dad I guess they didn't sell any cookies because both candidates stink right?"

CHEERS!


 Todd Morgan Kelly

Where’s the Nostradamus vision for Election Day freebies?!

It’s expected that the Media will be drowning viewers & listeners with the dreaded Exit Polls stats all day on Election Day, but maybe they should’ve paid attention to the Nostradamus Election 2016 prediction special on History Channel to save some cold hard cash for the day and instead let us know where all the cool freebies will be served.

Wait, does that mean someone who committed voter fraud could get double freebies? Scoundrels!

Honestly those freebies aren’t gonna make anyone feel any better after this debacle of an election cycle unless one is able to get a Bakers dozen on alcohol. But instead of stuffing our faces with freebies either with glee or gloom maybe we should be gambling on our next four years of Hillary or Donnie.

No not by holding your nose and closing your eyes in the voting booth, but by calling a bookie and trying to make some cash because you’re gonna need it come January 20 2017.

Hey wait that’s a Friday!!! Oh the bars will be making cash that day

According to the British site Betfair there has already been over $130 million wagered on the Nov 8th 2016 outcome (compared to the 2012 total of $50 million). This is also the same site that took in close to $160 million on the Brexit vote. Per CNBC, our European buddies are taking some enjoyment on placing wagers on Hillary & Donnie:

UK-based Betfair, internet betting exchange
Clinton - 83 percent
Trump - 18 percent

UK-based Ladbrokes, online betting platform
Clinton - 83 percent
Trump - 22 percent

Ireland's Paddy Power, bookmaker
Clinton - 83 percent
Trump - 18 percent

It sure does seem like the gamblers have an itch for Hillary, with some saying it’s a landslide. Other sites like Oddsharks.com, Presidentialelectionodds.net and a few others collectively have Hillary at 75% at gaining her entitled throne and Donnie sitting like a jester at 23.5%.

However if you want to run away on Nov 9th after the election results are final, the ZipCar freebie is only to get you to the polls, not Canada.

CHEERS!

Are you ready for the vitriol of the Electoral College on Nov 9?

Just a few quick thoughts concerning Election Day results; what happens if Donnie wins the popular vote but not the Electoral College?

It’s a rather funny thought when the fact is both Hillary and Donnie are the most unpopular Major Party candidates in a lifetime, well my lifetime. So winning the popular vote could be considered not being picked last during recess dodge ball.

If this does happen, one could expect the cries of foul coming from the Right or just the Donnie supporters and we only have to look to Al Gore to see how the Right told the Left to shut up, stop whining and accept the results. The argument over the dysfunction of the Electoral College will be the larger headline on Wednesday Nov 9 without a doubt.

It’s not surprising that Hillary’s poll numbers dropped after Comey’s letter released a week ago stating a new batch of 650k emails were found on Huma and hubby Anthony’s laptops and how they might contain “something, possibly nothing” but we just wanted people to know just in case. As the Media had to mention this repeatedly for a week, was it a surprise that over the weekend Comey released the results of the latest investigation as “these aren’t the emails you’re looking for. Move along. Move along” A few hours after Comey’s latest announcement, the Media and the court of social media scoffed at Comey’s latest letter bomb with “How is it possible for the FBI to scan through 650k emails so quickly?”

Enter Ed Snowden, yes whistleblower Ed Snowden to answer the question. It’s an algorithm and if you can’t figure that out please unplug your Commodore 64.

If Hillary does lose, the Media will have a field trip debating FBI Comey’s “we got something/maybe nothing” storyline concerning the “not so new” Hillary emails as to whether it had any effect on the election outcome.

Regardless of which candidate wins, personally I don’t think I can handle four years of a “Cankles/Kackle” or “Infantile/Pestiferous” of either administration. Grant it, the growth of pro/anti social media memes will grow substantially and Congressional gridlock will resume just like the past 8 years.

CHEERS!

This election cycle is the "I'm Rubber You're Glue" tour of petulant little children

This election cycle is the "I'm Rubber You're Glue" tour of petulant little children on both sides of the political aisle, yet neither side can see thru their own bullshit to believe it's within their own party. We'd rather believe the other side of political thought are the true scoundrels when a story shows the hypocrisy one's automatic response is "that's a political plant, there's no such person....." or "that person was a member in name only"

No scratch that, as society as a whole.

So why am I saying this? Well truth hurts but obviously many are pain free when examples a re explained.

Someone captures video of a homeless lady taking a stand against vandalism by protecting Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star with people harassing, mocking and pushing her and all people think of is "Look at the hypocrisy of these liberals! They're only interested in certain forms of Freedom of speech." Here's the fun thing, how dos one know they are liberals, because as of Monday morning those that were mocking were now called "Never Trumpers" which last I checked was created and populated by many Republicans. But let's break it down further:

1. Aren't most Americans hypocrites when it comes to Freedom of Speech? Simple answer: YES.

2. The video demonstrates how low society has come that people would rather stand by and watch idiots humiliate this person then stand up and protect her from others.

3. There's no prestige about having a Hollywood star. Any celebrity, reality star, pseudo-celebrity can get a Hollywood Star, they just have to be nominated by someone/anyone and pay the $30K

Funny how politics circles overlap. But only side can be batshit

We are so consumed by fossil fuels that people wave their collective hand of the story about Native Americans trying to protect their sacred burial land (private land no less) from an oil pipeline in North Dakota, but excited that the Bundy Boys were cleared of any wrong doing when they caused a month long stand off by taking Malheur National Wildlife refuge by gunpoint with a bunch of their besties, one which died for not listening to police orders to stop when being apprehended.

1. I'm waiting for a pipeline to go thru a cemetery and see people freak out about how their family can't rest in peace. These Native Americans are protecting their land, their history, while doing so have been pepper sprayed and arrested.

2. The Bundy's committed a crime, period. They took over federal land and equipment at gunpoint, that's a federal crime. Yet now we get to worry about copycats lurking behind trees.

3. Moral of this story is simple, as long as capitalism prevails and the government looks like fools, it's a win..... for the moment

Just like any disruption we only agree with what we feel is right. A person or group history should not be a wall to capitalism yet I do recall people cheering Vera Cokking for fighting Donnie and Bob Guccione to Jersey State Supreme Court for their decades long attempts to buy and use eminent domain of her property.

But my fav story is that of James O'Keefe was able to get two high ranking members of the liberal group Democracy Partners to admit they were part of the problem, if not the reason, for the Donnie Chicago rally riots a few months back. Absolutely that is a deplorable action, yet there's more to the story.

1. Not only were Democracy Partners linked to the Chicago rally riots and one of them receiving a check from the Clinton campaign, they also had connections to Breitbart News. Yes the very same Breitbart News that has been a Donnie hotspot since he announced his intentions in 2015.

2. The link between Breitbart and DP is a simple one; collusion. Breitbart and DP worked together to help disrupt Donnie's primary opponents

3. Yes there is a third here, Project Veritas got paid $10 grand by the Trump Foundation a month prior to announcing his campaign. Can you guess who created Project Veritas? That's correct, James O'Keefe

Yet you don't care about parts 2 & 3 of the story, it's only the first part of the story that caught your eye and that's all the info needed in the 15 minutes of recess the mind allows. Funny how politics circles overlap. But only side can be batshit crazy and the other be pillars of the community.

The thing is I know many Liberals and Conservatives. I enjoy the company and conversation of both, however only one side takes greater offense to a story they object too, plus the lack of humor doesn't help. See Liberals can laugh when they are the joke and they don't circle wagons the way Conservatives do, basically what I'm saying is the term "Butt Hurt" describes Conservatives doubly.

CHEERS

Not a darn worth a difference between Boomers and Millenials

There is only so much a person can stomach when talking/reading/writing about Donnie and Hillary, eventually one needs to decompress especially in the mayhem that has turned into the 2016 campaign season. With that said, it leads me too three articles that have major cause for the mayhem in concerns of generations and the wave of misinformation one receives on the interweb.

We hear all the time how Millennial are screwing things up, we’ll get to that in a bit, however I’ve been saying for awhile now we should be blaming the Baby Boomers for today’s problems and WAPO’s Dana Milbank’s makes the point as too why?

Grant it that in Milbank’s 10/25 opinion page (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2016/10/25/7d0c6a62-9aef-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html?utm_term=.94c98b48a3f5) he is talking about the blame of the “Boomer Presidency” and how they created today’s debacle of Trump/Clinton. He just says it with eloquence then I.

Think about it.

They are the first coddled generation as their parents, considered the greatest generation lived through 2 Wars and the Great Depression. Their parents didn’t want their child to end up in factories, coal mines or mills. Their parents pushed them to go to college and aspire as the world grew too fast for them to keep up.

The Baby Boomers pushed for the majority of the very same social programs they are currently against. They didn’t care who paid for it they expected government to do it for free. Now (!) they realize it’s they who are paying for it and are looking for “Slash/Burn” tactics while blaming younger generations for the problems.

They believed in Freedom of whatever, be it Speech, Sex and Religion. Today many want youth to shut up, believe in only one religion and monogamy is the only way.

It was they who perfected the protest and oh boy did they protest about everything, sometimes peacefully and other times with a form of violence.

They are, well, they were today’s Millennial.

Which leads me to another article titled “Dumb American Youth” by Townhall's Walter E. Williams (http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2016/10/26/dumb-american-youth-n2236346). Williams, like his counterpart Milbank, draws his ire to a generation as a major obstacle we will have to endeavor for many years to come, so his choice was the youngest voter, the Millennial.

No doubt today’s Millennial like their Baby Boomer grandparents have been overly coddled by mom, dad, grammie and pappy. So can you blame them for being a group of deeply sensitive, ignorant know-it-all, conceited lot of people?

They are the product of a society created by the Baby Boomers but have pushed those beliefs near the cliff’s edge. One should understand why so many favored Bernie Sanders entitlement world it was bred into them by their family tree.

Both generations have way too much in common but are too dense to look in the mirror, especially when politics are involved. Or should I say how they get their political info?

There has been a mass exodus of sorts from the traditional Media by both Baby Boomers and Millennial as the MSM is considered either to Liberal, one-sighted or too limited on info due to some higher management policy one story lead. Due to that thought, it has led many to search the interwed for their info or the love affair of political partisan commentary.

We don’t have time to read the story, we need to have it spork-fed to us while we drive or sit a minuscule cubicle at the office. It has led to the inundation of hyperpartisan websites with their partisan talking points is leading to generations of misinformation. You can find hundreds of such just on a Facebook or Google search.

Of course why wouldn’t someone want to go to a site called “procon.com” or “liberaloasis.com” to find your partisan Conservative/Liberal view or if you do not have a candidate of choice and see “so-so” has more Facebooks followers you may be inclined to skip the rest and stick with that person. These sites are doing exactly what people hate MSM does; manipulate the facts to their own liking.

See hyperpartisan and MSM are equal to that of Baby Boomers and Millennial, they won’t admit it but they are all the same, one giant hot mess screwing things up for the rest of us.

People need to pay attention to the meat of the story; the facts! Honestly there is about a paragraph worth of difference between an article on FOX and CNN, but it’s who is telling the story that justifies the reader/viewer belief in the source. But if a partisan site is telling the story, well it’s gotta be straight to the core, right?

Bullshit! Everyone knows the cardinal media jingle “If it bleeds it leads” so why wouldn’t any partisan source actually throw a whole lot of yellow journalism into the mix to keep you coming back.

Now I’ve already broken my cardinal jingle of never writing more than a person can read during the average crap…

CHEERS! And wash your hands dammit

How many have a debate hangover this morning?

How many have a debate hangover this morning? I only ask because I believe there was a lot of drinking around 'Murica last night during the final Presidential debate as it went from a calm demeanor to the regularly scheduled chaos we've come accustomed too as of late

I give FOX’s Chris Wallace huge kudos for being the example of how a moderator should be portrayed. Yes there were times when Hillary and Donnie went off the rails with interruptions or off topic and he did his best to rein them in, yet it was the substance of the questions that he did his expected best. However, as I’ve said during every debate, there is a real need for shock collars on candidates and kill switches on the microphones to help keep certain decorum of the individuals.

I'm truly thinking of starting a write-in campaign to the Presidential Debate Committee concerning debates as I have had better debates with my 10 year old about time limits on his Xbox 1! #killswitchoncandidatemicrophones

Everyone who watched has their favorite moment, but for some reason the “Nasty Girl” interruption as well as Donnie’s “non-committal” comment are making the rounds for those that Monday Morning QB the debates.

One, if Donnie could’ve called Hillary a “bitch” he would’ve but I don’t see the huge fuss over the statement another then it being another example of Donnie not knowing or being able to control his mouth.

Secondly, the “non-committal” over the election results should’ve been expected, so why the surprise? Other than it shows (again) how he and Mikey Pence are not on the same page because Mikey had stated earlier that “they” will accept the outcome.

Hillary or “Robo-Hillary/Hillary-bot” was her normal self. I’d say she had “Resting Bitch Face” but Botox doesn’t allow such expressions.

In the end, there is no way the 3rd debate helped the undecided voter make a decision! All the supporters or haters are gonna vote their will, the undecided’s will hold their collective breathe, raise their nose in the air and blindly make a choice while reciting a bible verse or something of encouragement!

One the topic of voter fraud that always makes the news weeks before Election Day, Fox News’ Chris Stiwalt stated it best with “Donnie is down by 8 points of the whole country was Chicago there's not enough voter fraud to make up that difference.” Now that doesn’t mean there will fraud, but it means that if going by the polling numbers, the amount needed would be impossible to happen. Yeah there’s fraud, Texas is currently going thru an investigation too which they are finding the “problem” is happening with write-in balloting where one person is witnessing multiple ballots when law states a person can only witness one ballot. Per the investigation the issue is deep at locations such as Nursing Homes where a nurse is witnessing multiple patient ballots. So why not pat for a Notary official to go to these locations and stamp each ballot?

I do have one question concerning the Election Day results; What are the chances of Donnie appearing on the following WWE Raw after Election Day as a thank you to Linda McMahon's $6 million contribution to his campaign and support PAC's if he wins?

In the end, I'm so proud to have two childish immature non-mannered moronic people running to want to represent the US
CHEERS

3rd Debate already a waste before it starts

Donnie tells Newsmax he plans on spending a large amount of Wednesday's debate defending sexual accusations and less about policy

NO! you don't have to spend any time defending yourself unless asked, simple answer and walk away. We've heard enough about it. I'm tired of all the childish bullshit this election cycle has brought and I ain't just talking about Donnie. We’ve gotten little substance on policy from both Hillary and Donnie because they are too busy dragging mud on the debate floor.

The Main Stream Media, the Partisan websites, the commentators, every single one of them are to blame in making this, quite possibly, the dirtiest nastiest elections since Andrew Jackson had to defend wife Rachel!

Donnie needs to get on track, finish strong and talk policy, and not waste time with playground antics like inviting Bill Clinton accusers or the Mrs Smith who lost her son at Benghazi. It makes him look more like PT Barnum then a serious candidate. Yet people applaud

What if Hillary invited all the Donnie accusers or all 3,500 contractors and Trump U participants who have a lawsuit against him to the next debate? People would scream “Cheap Clinton tactic” or worse.

Think about it, whichever gets the nomination come Nov 8, they will get very little down considering the GOP will still hold the House and possibly slip into victory to keep the Senate. GRIDLOCK! Hillary will get little done because the GOP will spend her entire term in committee arguing her emails. If Donnie wins, well he’s pissed off pretty much everyone in Congress that he’ll have little support plus he could be the first president busy defending himself due to all the current lawsuits against him.

Too many have cried how they cannot wait for this election to finally be over, but there will not be a collective sigh after Nov 8. Nope there will be much anger because the result will not be accepted and we will spend the next 4 years counting down the days with boiling hate.

Yep we deserved every ounce of pain this election has brought us, beginning to end

CHEERS!