Among “conservative” opinion-shapers — at least those on my Twitter feed — the charges against Cain themselves are tantamount to a conviction.
Later, of course, these same stalwart conservatives will write very very conservative pieces in which they’ll rail passionately against the left’s grievance industry. They’ll bravely champion the need for tort reform. They’ll make references to Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork, and bark at the “leftwing media’s” attempts to run down conservatives.
But for now? Man down! Get the steel-toed boots!
It’s Why They Call Them “The Stupid Party”…
“Another observation, conservatives.”……
The charges? Or his muffed responses?
Because the Tribbles over at #hhrs think that bad answers to gotcha questions are indices of a candidate’s qualifications to be POTUS.
They prolly think the “debate” performances speak to governing ability, too.
Cripes, political campaigns are useless as vetting tools.
The operative word being “tools.”
Cripes, political campaigns are useless as vetting tools.
Remember what wonderful OPTICS got us.
Where is nishi when we need her?
Seems to me we can boil the fuss down to “We are wise. He is not.”
Who is “we”, and what is “wise” are terms, by definition, left hanging.
Cain’s virtue thus far, if virtue he has, has been to turn to “the people”, who make no such claim, for him or against him, but do make a claim concerning their own lives, and concerning their own governance. That latter is something Mr Cain appears to understand better than his many detractors.
Carin: I love that you raise chickens. Do you need special zoning for that or can anyone pick up some chicks?
It is nothing personal Jeff, but if it benefits their guy, they are all for kicking a competitor when he is down. Espeicially when he is challenging the status quo.
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Where my father lives, people seem to be allowed to keep a few chickens around. I’m not sure if it’s legal, but no one complains.
Usually it is legal in most suburban settings if you do not have too many. What usually hangs you up is covenants from your Home Owners Association…
Oh wait, I thought you were discussing having Church meetings at your home! You mean chickens.
di,
Here in the Cities, you need a small animal permit. To get the permit, you need 80% of your neighbors within 100′ (including 100% of the neighbors immediately adjacent to your property) to sign off that they don’t object. The coop has to be in the yard (not in your dwelling), and they only grant licenses to single-family homes and duplexes.
It’s kind of a pain in the ass, but I can understand where the cops and the health department wouldn’t want to respond to complaints every 48 hours.
Now, if we could just get a similar permit scheme for “conservative” pundits…
Hopefully choking to death inside a massive ziploc.
A neighbor went around talking to everyone when she first moved in because she wanted to keep bees. Neither I nor my friend/landlord wanted that. They never showed up, but I didn’t know about the adjacency issue. We are right across the alley from her.
I always promised I’d sue if they showed up.
Now, if she wanted to keep chickens, that would be fine with me.
We have enough bees in the neighborhood that I don’t think I’d notice if the neighbors added a few more. Hell, I wish I could force the little buggers to get a permit before they take up residence in my exterior walls…
nishi is probably busy doing nishi stuff but if she was here I’d linker up my example tunes for her what I been listening to like this one I think she would love it a lot
nishi is probably busy doing nishi stuff
Busy
breedingspawning the master race, eh?she’s very precocious
cranky-d: I’d rather have bees next door than chickens. Are you allergic to them, or in killer bee territory?
But then, I’ve thought about keeping some bees, if I had land. The only way I’d ever keep chickens is if it were that or starvation.
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She’s very matchless.
A few chickens are actually easy. Not that much chicken crap. You do not need a rooster to have eggs (just chicks) and if you have neighbors close by they probably will not enjoy them crowing. They eat all your kitchen scraps (I don’t give them the chicken left overs, but they go for the egg shells), and the eggs are awesome. The more green stuff you give them, the better the eggs. They just need a safe place to roost at night out of wind, rain and varmints (they can take it prety cold if they stay dry) and it is a good idea for them to have a fenced run.
If you have a lot of them, however, get ready to shovel some shit.
I never raised bees, but a few friends of mine have. The honey is great (although my attempt at mead making was disappointing). I am not sure how many stings you have to go through to get it though.
I just don’t like bees, and bees hate me. However, my friend/landlord does have a very bad reaction to bee stings.
No killer bees in MN. The winters are too long and cold for them to survive, as killer bees don’t store as much honey as their non-murderous fellows.