Nice To See the Punditocracy Routed Horse, Foot, And Guns, Tonight, My Friends

[The Magistrate]

Begging your indulgence for a semi-serious moment....

"God save all here!"

[Broken_Hero]

1. ...........

:thumbsup:

:D

[Joe Fields]

2. God's going to have to...

because there isn't a contender with a serious chance at becoming our next president who will.

[The Magistrate]

4. It Has Been Prophesied, Sir

"God looks after drunks, fools, and the United States of America."

[Joe Fields]

13. I guess that is why I'm still standing.

[The Magistrate]

15. It Has been Of Assistance To Me, Sir, On Several Occassions

"Fortune favors the bold."

[KitchenWitch]

3. Heads are exploding, Sir, but we have it all under control!

:hi:

[The Magistrate]

5. Glad To Hear It, Ma'am

An entertaining spectacle all around....

"To a bloody war and a sickly season!"

[KitchenWitch]

8. Just as long as it is not REAL drama in my life, we are all cool

When the fires came within a mile of my house back in October, I figured I have had enough real life drama for about 10 years.

[The Magistrate]

9. That Would Do It, Ma'am

We woke up one winter morning years ago to a raging fire in the building across the gangway from us, It had started in a kitchen and the gas line was feeding it: the thing was hot enough it melted the ice and snow to puddles. Quite a jolt.

[KitchenWitch]

10. Yikes!

Our air quality was really bad for like 3 weeks after the fire. I guess since almost the whole southern half of the state was burning, the smoke and ash had to go somewhere. The week of the fire, I maybe got a grand total of 10 hours sleep.

[bridgit]

6. Naw, it's all going to work out just fine you'll see...

We have G_d on our side O8)

[The Magistrate]

7. Hopefully, Ma'am, We Are On Her Side

[Robeson]

11. I'm sorry, is something going on I'm not aware of....

...what's so special about tonight, other than the fact that I used my gift certificates I got for x-mas...;-)

[The Magistrate]

12. What Did You Get With Them, Sir?

[Robeson]

14. Four books, and four CD's....

...books: The Pirates Laffite by William Davis, The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt, The Judgment of Paris by Gore Vidal, and Maus by Art Spiegleman.

CD's: Push the Button by The Chemical Brothers, None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock, The OuternationalSound by The Thievery Corporation, and The Understanding by Royskopp.

What else was going on tonight, that I missed.... ;-)

[The Magistrate]

16. A Nice Haul, Sir

We got the grandsons a chess set, and they show some promise at it....

[Robeson]

17. Thanks, I think so, too...

...I feel rather Laffite-ish with this nights "haul"...

[enigmatic]

18. Since Chris Dodd has dropped out, I've decided to vote thrird party

Love-22 For President!



http://www.love22.com/

[The Magistrate]

20. Is He Passing Out Money, Sir?

That has been known to work....

"Go into the street and give the first man you meet a lecture towards moral improvement, and the next a shilling, and see which calls you friend."

[Quantess]

19. Hello, I'm not sure what this is all about.

So I rounded up horse, foot, and guns.

[The Magistrate]

21. Byzantine, Ma'am?

That would be my guess, anyway, about the tenth or eleventh century.

If the banner is hand-painted and not a decal, it is superb work for the scale, which looks to be 25mm to my eye.

[Quantess]

22. LOL! The Byzantine era was all I could round up, sir.

:rofl:

[The Magistrate]

23. They Deserve A Better Reputation Than They Have Preserved, Ma'am

The place lasted a very respectable length of time, and in Belisarius produced the master general of our era.

[Quantess]

24. Oh?

[The Magistrate]

25. You Have Me Stumped, Ma'am: I Recognize Nothing There But Romanesque Armor

[Quantess]

26. I did a google image search for

Belisarius, whatever that means!

[The Magistrate]

27. Who Painted That, Ma'am?

He commanded Byzantine forces against the Persians, and against the Goths in Italy. He won more victories with slenderer forces and fewer casualties to his men than any other of history's Great Captains. My recollection of details is pretty rusty, but Basil Liddel-Hart, the leading strategic theorist of the last century, thought the world of him, and that is more than enough for me.

[Quantess]

28. Hi Magstrate! I just found it on a google image search.

http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/FrenchPainting/Detail.cfm?IRN=126578&ViewID=2

[Wetzelbill]

29. I kind of got my ass kicked too

Not overly bad, but I made a big analysis on the polls on myspace yesterday. Good thing nobody ever reads my bulletins. It could have been embarassing. Then again, pundits have no shame about being wrong 90 percent of the time, so why should I? :)

[The Magistrate]

30. I Guessed Wrong, Too, Sir

I called it for Sen. Obama, but with a margin of less than five percent, this morning: you can ask my wife....

I was also wrong about Fred: I predicted last year when he was first talked up he would not get a single vote in a primary, and he seems to have got a thousand or so.....

[Wetzelbill]

31. yeah glad to see Fred exceed expectations...

It's good to see him getting up around noon and hitting the trail hard enough to underwhelm everybody into giving him some pity votes. The man's a damn prodigy that's for sure.