Tradesports is a UK-based online futures trading market (well… gambling site, really) where you can trade options on just about anything and everything from stocks to sporting events to political races. And look what race hit the most active list today:
Hmm. Ohio’s corrupt Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is currently down 20 points in the polls in his race for the governor’s mansion.
I don’t want to sound paranoid or anything, but you gotta wonder why anybody would want to bet anything on Blackwell, even at 20 to 1 odds… unless, of course, you thought you knew something. Kinda like those savvy investors who shorted American Airlines on September 9, 2001.
I’m just sayin’.
It’s obvious JCH beat everyone to the punch on this thread.
Jesus, “My Naked Sister” and “Chicks with Dicks” that’s right up Rev. Haggard and JCH’s alley.
“I never had an gay sexual relationship with that man” said Rev. Haggard.
Yeahhhhhhh, right. Another Christian Conservative caught up in another sex scandal. Fuck, was he drunk, molested by a priest, never choked the guy? Whats the EXCUSE this time fuckwads?
It’s interesting to see that the House GOP is on there too, meaning that this site is prediciting them to maintain their majority. Either that or I’m just reading it wrong. (I don’t gamble.)
It’ll come down to how much voter fraud happens. We already know there is some going on. Lets just hope they can’t steal a 4th consecutive election.
Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!! Ted Haggard!! Mark Foley!!
Mr. Preznit, the Reverend Haggard is on one…
That British site is one of the best recommendations I’ve seen for laws against Internet gambling.
The above being said, if I were into such things I sure as hell wouldn’t put any of my money down against Blackwell “winning”.
I think you’re reading it wrong. It says there’s about a 5% chance of GOP winning.
by Goldy, 11/02/2006, 4:05 PM
“I don’t want to sound paranoid or anything, but you gotta wonder why anybody would want to bet anything on Blackwell, even at 20 to 1 odds… unless, of course, you thought you knew something. Kinda like those savvy investors who shorted American Airlines on September 9, 2001.
I’m just sayin’.”
It figures a
socialistprogressive wouldn’t understand how markets work, and would assume that there’s some conspiracy at work behind the scenes.The bid/ask is 4-1. The pressure is on the selling side.
The all time high is 40.0. Anyone who bought at that price is trying to get out what’s left of their “investment”.
Volume doesn’t necessarily imply buying on speculation of the price going up.
Also, there is a time premium on an investment that has an end date. Since this “investment” will be worthless on Nov. 8th, so as the time the gets closer to the expiration date, the price falls.
goldy,
You really are making no sense. Yelling stupid stuff doesn’t turn it into truth. slow down, there’s enuf good material without claiming wierd area 51 stuff.
New Polls are out, and things look bad for the wingnuts:
For I-933, the initiative loses either way. It is down 22% yes to 46% no with 33% undecided when no description is given, and it is down 41% yes to 45% no with 13% undecided when a description is given. The margin of error is 5%.
I-920 also loses either way. It is down 23% yes to 40% no with 37% undecided when no description is given, and it is down 40% yes to 51% no and 9% undecided when a description is given. The margin of error is 5%.
http://hominidviews.com/?p=631
More bad news from more polls:
The Washington Poll was done under auspices of the Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sex at the University of Washington. It was administered by Pacific Market Research, interviewing 700 voters with an error margin of plus or minus 3.7 percent.
The poll showed Cantwell with a 53-41 lead over Republican challenger Mike McGavick. Among voters certain of their Senate choice, Cantwell lead 48-37.
The Owens-Johnson race is a lot more fluid. The incumbent leads by 37-31, including those leaning toward one candidate or the other. Still, a whopping 31 percent were undecided in the court contest.
Initiative 920, repeal of the state inheritance tax, trails by a 32-53 margin. Initiative 933, the so-called “takings” measure, trails 39-51. Only Initiative 937, requiring utilities to draw on alternative energy sources, is in the lead. I-937 is ahead by 52-33, but only 40 percent of those surveyed said they were certain to vote for it.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.....108255.asp
This same site has the Washington 8th CD race very competitive: GOP at 62.0, DEM at 37.0.
The Washington Senate race isn’t even close: DEM at 92.2, GOP at 8.0
I guess those are the last completed trades.
Ted Haggard, previously mentioned here, just fucking resigned from the National Association of Evangelicals due to the rumors of his employing a gay escort named Mike Jones (and doing meth). Jones claims to have saved voicemails from the pastor, who still denies it all, but this is still weird fucking news.
http://wonkette.com/politics/t.....212086.php
Is there anyone who is a Republican and straight?
Come on JCH, we are all waiting, what are your tapes of you and Ted Haggard like?
More bad news for the GOP:
Democrats detect a pattern in Sen. George Allen’s campaign advertising schedule which suggests to them the incumbent is running out of money and is relying on an infusion from nat’l Republicans to reach parity with challenger James Webb.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljou.....ens_1.html
Well lookie here. Who’s using pictures of flag-draped coffins to win a political campaign?
A Republican, of course.
What say you wingnuts?
Klake’s hero gets outed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15536263/
The moral majority is neither!
I don’t believe all this stuff about the minister. It’s all political.
Teds denial i never got cornhole bye that man !!!
26#
Give me a break Demercrate can’t do the political stuff thats the republicans thing.
The only time we have any fun is when ussialy ever other day some republican gets cought: pardon the pun .. with there pants down.
hahahahahahaaa
Poor Ted
I wonder what his wife and 5 kids are thinking tonight.
That would be a shit load of child support if his wife leaves him
Wouldn’t that be great
Key Evangelical quits amid gay sex claim
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The leader of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man in monthly trysts over the past three years.
The Rev. Ted Haggard, a married father of five who has been called one of the most influential evangelical Christians in the nation, denied the allegations. His accuser refused to share voice mails that
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....ource=mypi
Wingnuts – your masters are taking too long to serve you with the latest spin on Dear Leader’s dear advisor on “moral” and “spiritual” matters.
(crickets)
“Homosexual activity, like adulterous relationships, is clearly condemned in the Scriptures,” the evangelicals association says on its Web site. The Bible says homosexuality is a sin that “brings grave consequences in this life and excludes one from the Kingdom of God.”
But you see wingnuts we understand. It was the guy Pastor Ted was doing it to who was the homosexual.
The Reverend was merely “ministering” or administering or whatever.
And let us not forget – advising the Preznit on matters of morality and spiritual conduct.
FTC @ 32,33:
1) Rush hits the airwaves at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Look for a plausible explanation for all of this on the blog by 10.
2) Gay sex isn’t a sin as long as you’re topping. Once you’re a bottom, you are making the Baby Jesus cry and will burn in hell unless you beg for forgiveness. Leviticus never got into oral sex, so I think that’s OK too.
More great news about red wine.
You acan eat as many big mac as you want as long as you wash it down with a box of red wine .
WOO HOO
Everything you need to know about Kerry:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....sp?id=1485
Jones, whose allegations were first aired on KHOW-AM radio in Denver, claimed Haggard paid him to have sex nearly every month over three years. Jones also said Haggard snorted methamphetamine before their sexual encounters to heighten his experience
That’s what I don’t get wingnuts. If Pastor Ted is NOT a homosexual why did he use poppers to intensify his “ministry”.
Gee in the old days it was amyl nitrate – now it’s meth? That stuff will rot your brains and most def affect the advice such a man with said lifestyle might convey to the Preznit in the White House!!!
Once a month for three years did Pastor Ted minister in this fashion. Have pity for the man. Think of his private hell. Did he not think to call upon his God to deliver him?
34#
dame that homosexual stuff is complicated
darcy burner is on ch9 on kpls connect if any you wonks wana tune in .
oh my the meth thing is true
this is just so sorted and awfull I guess that why the liberal medea has been talking about it at all to night on the tv
I guess they got protect the childreen or something
there is sweet darcy in the flesh right there on ch 9
I wonder if Ted’s meth dealer will be coming forward next?
Or maybe he makes his own ?
are you guys calling darcy on the TV?
wow shes smart and pretty
Hey Rabbit – Somewhere along the line, you fell off MTR’s prescription for success. Where did it happen?
1) Get an education. Never stop going to school
2) Get a good job with a good company.
3) Show up every day and work your ass off.
4) Spend less than you make.
5) Invest the savings wisely.
Obviously it’s too late for you. You’re now “stuck in greenlake” with no hope. But maybe you can help some of your fellow moonbats so they can avoid the same pitiful fate as you.
Tell us, what happened? Was it lack of education? Lack of drive? Lack of initiative? Did you not show up? Did you just kind of float along in the rocking chair of gummint security? Were you stoopid with spending? Were you stoopid with investments?
We’d all like to know… you’re obviously a bright guy… but you really fucked up somewhere along the line… what happened?
jsa – I get it now.. I’m sure the wingnuts will parse it out further.
I really wanna no…
Shud jon cary git a perpel hart fer shotin hisself inna foots?
Bet Welsher –
Pay the fucking gambling debt you owe to Goldy and…
seek spiritual advice from one of your Dear Leader’s most trusted advisors – the Reverend Ted Haggard.
Time to place your bets on the latest Gay Conservative Scandal (Blow and Ho-vember):
1) How long until Ted Haggard blames his relationship with JCH on:
a) Booze
b) Drugs
c) Blow
d) Being molested by a clergyman
e) Being molested by his Republican Congressman
f) Liberals
2) How long until Ted Haggard turns himself into rehab?
3) How long until Ted Haggard goes to one of those groups that claims they can “convert” Homosexuals?
4) Will Bush come out and say he supports his dear friend in his time of need?
5) When will Bush stop taking his weekly call from Ted Haggard?
6) When will Bush come out of the closet?
7) When will we have a straight Republican Sex Scandal?
8) When will we find a straight Republican?
Winners get to spank JCH.
And whi hasn’t liarfuckingcantwell disdance herselfs from jon carys “joke”. Cud it bee she agree wif him?
anywun who wood lye about miminum wage wud also lye abut Irak…
WHY SEATTLE TIMES IS A BUSH LEAGUE PAPER
Compare the editorials in today’s Seattle Times and New York Times and you’ll understand why the intelligent, educated parts of the country consider our fair city a cultural backwater.
Here’s what Frank Blethen/Kate Riley et al. said:
“Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was late out of the gate in offering an apology for his dumb remark earlier this week, but he finally gave one yesterday to the men and women in the U.S. military … the issue is not whether a person makes a mistake, but how he or she handles it … an apology should come quickly. Kerry’s came belatedly. …
“Democrat Kerry, who nine days out of 10 is not funny anyway, said, ‘You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.’
“His prepared text showed he meant to say those who aren’t academically well-prepared might end up getting the country stuck in a war, as President Bush has done. … That position held a few hours, then Kerry said he meant no offense to our troops …. (M)ilitary men and women … may have fewer choices in life. They deserve better. Kerry’s apology, however belated, was appropriate.”
http://tinyurl.com/yds9wt
Here’s what the New York Times said:
“Editorial
“The Great Divider
“Published: November 2, 2006
“As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.
“In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.
“In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.
“Mr. Bush has been pushing these divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Kerry warned college students that the punishment for not learning your lessons was to “get stuck in Iraq.” In context, it was obviously an attempt to disparage Mr. Bush’s intelligence. That’s impolitic and impolite, but it’s not as bad as Mr. Bush’s response. Knowing full well what Mr. Kerry meant, the president and his team cried out that the senator was disparaging the troops. It was a depressing replay of the way the Bush campaign Swift-boated Americans in 2004 into believing that Mr. Kerry, who went to war, was a coward and Mr. Bush, who stayed home, was a hero.
“It’s not the least bit surprising or objectionable that Mr. Bush would hit the trail hard at this point, trying to salvage his party’s control of Congress and, by extension, his last two years in office. And we’re not naïve enough to believe that either party has been running a positive campaign that focuses on the issues.
“But when candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.
“This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.”
http://tinyurl.com/y7c3m3
The New York Times got the focus — and facts — right. Frank and Kate et al., you suck.
Loser Yellowback:
Pay your bets!
And when you finally grow some balls and serve your country, then you can complain about a bad joke told by a decorated war hero.
Yellowback, why do you hate your country and the troops so much?
The foregoing editorials are excerpted under the Fair Use doctrine. Yes that’s what I said excerpted. I didn’t reproduce the entire NY Times, only one editorial. That’s an excerpt, not the whole paper. For copyright info, click on the links.
7) When will we have a straight Republican Sex Scandal?
I think some Republican pervert was already caught forcing sex on a female page. There’s no end to it. When the Dems take over it’s all going to come out.
I could have quoted the whole Seattle Times editorial, and if Frank doesn’t like it he can sic his lawyers on me, but it’s more fun to quote it selectively and make them look bad!
43#
Can I spank him with a crow bar?
I simply do not believe that you guys can be as anti irak as you claim. When bubba was prez, jon cary, the smartest woman in the world, the inventor of the internet, and dozens of other dems were all on record as saying SH needed to be removed.
So when GWB decides to take him out after we were attacked by cowardly facists assholes, all of a sudden you guys jump to the side of our enemies. There is no difference whatsover between a jon cary speeeech and the president of iran. No difference at all between OBL videos and speeches given by The Smartest Woman In The World.
Let’s say things were different. That we let iran developed nukes. That we let the taliban continue. That we let attacks continue while turning the other cheek. That we let SH build WMDs and train terrorists. All stuff you guys support through your words and actions…. You’d all say that was OK? I don’t think so… you’d be screaming about it… and you’d be right.
I’m not buying it… I think that even kook moonbats that live here on HA don’t REALLY think that way. I just think that you’re so pissed off that you have no power that you’ll team up with America’s enemies to regain power.
Am I right? This is really just a tactic in a pathetic attempt to regain power. Right? I mean… you don’t REALLY think a nazi like Nancy Pelosi represents mainstream America… do you?
Gee whiz! This new Republican gay sex scandal couldn’t have come at a more inconvenient time.
Still like hardball?
51 – I don’t care what you believe and I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think until:
you pay the fucking gambling debt you owe to Goldy…
It’s that simple. Now pay it.
Great. In other words, you can’t win the debate.
Thought so.
Fucking idiot…
Bet welsher – your last post was so stupid and ignorant of the history behind Iraq and the politics involved it was pathetic.
But I’m not going to talk about anything with you until you settle your gambling debt. You’re a fucking hypocrite until you do that.
When you’ve honored your obligation I and others will take you apart.
MTR @ 51:
Straw men abound.
1) Who wanted the taliban to stay in power? You can’t go an attack countries just because you don’t like their government. It’s just like running a city. The neighbors have bad taste in music and dress funny? Not much you can do. The neighbors play their bad music at 3 a.m.? Call the cops and give them a stern talking to. The neighbors bring torches over and try to burn your house down? Call the SWAT team. That’s pretty much how it worked with Afghanistan and the Taliban too.
2) Last I checked, Iran is still developing nukes. How’s that working out?
3) SH had no WMDs. The box he was pinned in, as annoying as it was for everyone, was working. All the grownups figured that while it would be better if he was gone, nobody had a good way to replace him. The expectation was that chaos and civil war would follow.
4) The only terrorists in Iraq were in the North (what some people call Kurdistan). This was run as an independent country. Remember the no-fly-zones? Saddam could not project military or administrative force in this area. I wouldn’t say that terrorists were able to establish a foothold there because of American intervention, but that is kind of how it worked out.
And yes, Clinton signed an executive order supporting regime change in Iraq. The operating difference is that Clinton did not particularly want to project American force to make that happen. Once Saddam was overthrown, we’d be responsible for running the place, and all the grownups said that would be a messy process that was likely to fail. So the policy was to fund an Iraqi resistance outside the country and hope they got their shit together enough to form a realistic internal opposition. It never happened.
There’s this fine point between thinking something should be done, and actually doing that thing. While everyone likes decisive action, some things are ill-advised.
Tell you what Mr. Professional Engineer. I think it would be a mighty fine idea if we built a bridge over to the Olympic Peninsula. Since we don’t have the tax money available to build one of those cool concrete floating pontoon things, I’m going to take a bunch of galvanized pipe, put two coats of Rust-Oleum on it, anchor those down to the bottom of the Sound using a few cinderblocks, and then put a bunch of untreated 2x4s on top of this edifice to use as a roadbed.
Some politicians just talk and talk, but I’m gonna do something damnit. Since you like action so much, you’ll get to be the first passenger on the JSA Memorial Cross-Sound Bridge. What do you think?
Loser yellowback:
You show you have no honor by not paying your bets, and you have the gaul (since we know you have no balls) to call Speaker Pelosi a NAZI?
Do you know how foolish that makes you sound?
Yes, even worse than normal, which is saying a lot.
Mark the Redneck. WOW, this guy seems so childish. I thought horses ass was for adults, not 14 year old pansies. What is that about welsher? Or do you mean ‘wisher’ like he wishes he had a 3 inch dick?
Really Goldie?
Since donk control the crime ridden cities (remember my post regarding most ohio cities in the top 20% of worst crime cities), how will he control that vote again?
Shorter version of above….
Had enough? Vote Democratic.
40 MTR
I think people whose hero says the world’s stupidest things should pause and think before criticizing Kerry’s verbal gaffe.
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....ms2004.htm
13 JDB
Wow. That poll also shows Christine Gregoire with 66% approval.
20 Art
It’s so “political” that he admitted to some of the charges to his church elders, has resigned the presidency of the AEA, and has stepped down as pastor. That’s how “political” it is.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ss03m.html
Hey righties – read it and weep!
This will ruin any attempt Merle Haggard may have had at a late comeback career. People will confuse Merle with Ted as “That country singer/preacher man who solicits male-prostitutes” Thanks a lot Ted!
Republicans WIN next week!!! Thank you, John “Hate The Troops” Kerry!!!!!!
22 million Rush listeners and 22 million vets and their families will ALL vote Republican next week!!!
Hey illegals and felons!!!! Police, Border Patrol and the Minutemen will be at EVERY poll!!! Sorry, Dems!! NO MORE VOTER FRAUD!!!!!!
JCH:
Come on John Craig, we want to know the details of you and the Rev. Haggard. Why (other than your syphilis) are you posting delusional rants instead of telling us about your weekend tweaking and getting schtuped by Haggard? When you gave Haggard a massage, was it with your sphincter? Did you wear a sailor suit and call him Haggard Tookie?
JCH prays for the opportunity to bottom for The Rev, but he’ll have to wait until Ken Hutcherson cums.