The unthinkable has happened.
James Joyner has lost his wife. she was only 41 years old; and they have two very young children.
She has passed away from unknown, at this time, causes.
Needless to say, there’s going to be a bunch of prayers needed.
God Bless Him and the Children.
via ABC News:
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Anyone that would disparage this sort of story —- ought to be shot.
Others: ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report, The Lonely Conservative and Hot Air
Proving once again that not everyone that believes in freedom of speech is always brilliant.
Nathan Shafer – A reasonable guy, when he is not threatening public officials!
Via KLTV:
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – A South Carolina man is accused of threatening the life of Gov. Nikki Haley on Facebook, but he claims he was only making a point about free speech.
When 26-year-old Nathan Shafer heard about the arrests of 19 Occupy Columbia members outside the State House last Wednesday, he did what lots of people do when they get angry — he vented about it on the Internet. He saw Gov. Haley’s Facebook post about the arrests and Haley’s comment that she “appreciate[s] freedom of speech,” and that’s when authorities say Shafer crossed the line.
“I hope someone murders you before I do,” Shafer said he commented on the post. “How’s that for freedom of speech?”
The next day, Shafer says two State Law Enforcement Division agents visited him in Charlotte to discuss the comment. Shafer says he retracted and deleted his statement, promised he wasn’t serious and apologized to the Haley family.
Still, Shafer says SLED agents called him again on Tuesday and told him he’ll be prosecuted for the alleged threat. Shafer turned himself in at noon on Wednesday at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
“I just think the whole situation is completely ridiculous and blown out of proportion,” Shafer wrote shortly before his arrest.
Threatening to kill someone, on a public Facebook Page, is NOT what I would consider reasonable.
Yeah, he was making a point; his point got him landed in jail too; where he’ll be feeling the point of some gay man’s penis in his rectum. (Sorry to be graphic, but I was….heh…making a point! 
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I do not know quite how to start this, so I will just write. People like me, who have Attention Deficit Disorder, tend to shun things that disinterest them. Right now politics is very high on that list. My friends, I am just going to be brutally honest. I am not impressed at all, with any of these candidates. They might have some honest intentions, but right now, the Republican Party looks like a silly freak show.
Honestly, does the Republican National Committee believe that any of these people have a snowballs chance in hell of beating the current President? Let me be blunt, No, none of them do, at all. I mean, look at what we have here; we have a wide-eyed girl from Minnesota, who looks like an escapee from a shrieking harpy PTA club. We have a flip-flopping Mormon Moron, who wrote the foundation for Obamacare. We have a one-man minstrel show, whom, on his good days; makes the entire black race look like the buffoons that people like David Duke say that they actually are. You have a serial philanderer, who, like the 43 President of the United States, wants to keep America at perpetual state of war. You have a Roman Catholic, who is an utter bigot and a terminal a-hole, which should not even be in politics, much less a Father to those children that he has. You also have a senile old isolationist, who also happens to be an anti-Semite and a racist bigot.
Oh, there are others too; but these are the ones, that anyone remotely gives a remote care about; and frankly, they all stink. Folks, if this is the best that the Republican Party can do, we as a nation are freaking screwed. What will happen is this; the GOP will select the most moderate candidate that they can pick; most likely Romney, and that person will run against Obama and lose, just as McCain did. The Republican Party and the Conservatives who vote for that party have been pining for a Ronald Reagan type and sorry; there just is not one in this fold at all.
Ronald Reagan is dead, his type of Conservatism that lead the GOP to victory in the 1980’s is dead and is now replaced with this idiot tripe that the Republican Party is now pimping out to its people as Conservatism. Ronald Reagan struck the right balance and set the right tone; and was able to win his own base and the moderates in the Democratic Party and much of the independents as well. Aside from the lone senile isolationist, the rest of these idiots who are running are running on a divisive platform that will do nothing to unite the Country, and are running on a “God Mandate” political agenda. I am a Christian and I am a Conservative, but these people who seem to believe that they are on a mission from their supposed gods to defeat the President of the United States in an election worry me very much so. Religion and politics just do not mix, and the very wrong-headed “God and Country” movement of the 1980’s was living proof of that.
Frankly, folks, I am just darned bored of it all; politics, especially on the right, has turned into a freak show anymore and I just really am not into it anymore.
By the way —-Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families, from mine.
I know for some reason, I am supposed to be shocked about this.
Via the Daily Caller:
Top Democrats are aggressively pushing the claim that Republicans’ worries about voter fraud are an insincere excuse to suppress voting by African-Americans and Hispanics.
But former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South.
On Nov. 14, progressive Democratic Reps. John Conyers, Steny Hoyer, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Ellison, Steve Cohen, Marcia Fudge and Emanuel Clearer, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus — along with representatives from several advocacy groups — held a meeting to complain about what they say is the danger posed by laws that require voters to identify themselves.
Artur Davis is unimpressed.
“What I have seen in my state, in my region, is the the most aggressive practitioners of voter-fraud are local machines who are tied lock, stock and barrel to the special interests in their communities — the landfills, the casino operators — and they’re cooking the [ballot] boxes on election day, they’re manufacturing absentee ballots, they’re voting [in the names of] people named Donald Duck, because they want to control politics and thwart progress,” he told TheDC.
“People who are progressives have no business defending those individuals.”
Anyone want to take bets on how long it is that this man turns up dead from “Natural Cases?”
Just sayin’ 
Others: Business Insider and NewsBusters.org blogs
I have to laugh when I see stuff like this here.
This comes from the WSJ, two Democratic Pollsters are in full on, “We have to save our Party!” mode:
When Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson accepted the reality that they could not effectively govern the nation if they sought re-election to the White House, both men took the moral high ground and decided against running for a new term as president. President Obama is facing a similar reality—and he must reach the same conclusion.
He should abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative, one capable not only of saving the Democratic Party, but more important, of governing effectively and in a way that preserves the most important of the president’s accomplishments. He should step aside for the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Never before has there been such an obvious potential successor—one who has been a loyal and effective member of the president’s administration, who has the stature to take on the office, and who is the only leader capable of uniting the country around a bipartisan economic and foreign policy.
Certainly, Mr. Obama could still win re-election in 2012. Even with his all-time low job approval ratings (and even worse ratings on handling the economy) the president could eke out a victory in November. But the kind of campaign required for the president’s political survival would make it almost impossible for him to govern—not only during the campaign, but throughout a second term.
Boy, you can almost see the sweat on the top of their lips and hear the panicky quiver in their voices. Let me clue the liberals who dare to actually read this blog; Hillary would not be any better at all. She would not be any better of a leader. We would still be in this sucky economy and still have all the problems that we have now.
So, all of this idiotic nonsense about Hillary is just overly stupid. Plus too, Hillary has made it clear that once her Secretary of State term is up, she is out of politics for good. So, all of this wishing and asking and such is for naught.
Sorry Democrats, you voted this turkey in and now you get to watch him get trounced in the election of 2012.
Even the most cynical person and biggest of Ron Paul fan must think that this is funny. I bet Dr Paul would. 
Via HotAir.com:
I guess the trolls and stalkers have discovered my new site. So, until further notice, the comments section is set as follows:
I won’t moderate stuff, because I do believe in freedom of speech; but I do not believe in the right to stalk me anonymously.
For what it is worth; the comment, I believe, came from some of the people on the right, who dislike me.
I get this in the comments section.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “A message of goodwill“:
Hey cocksmoker, what happened to your website? Mommy quit giving you the money to pay the host? Tell all these peeps about how you live in mommys basement and have to do drugs cuz you are a tard.
Nice, just when I try being nice to the other side, this crap pops up. Guess I’ll have to lock down the comments section.
Why I see it, you don’t have the balls to say who you are, then you are not worth a crap in my book. Cowardly pricks.
For the record, this is what happened to my old site.
