A big shout out to Dennis Hof who overcame the severe handicap of being dead to win election in District 36 of the Nevada State Assembly.
District 36 sits inside Nye County, Nevada. The county’s principal city, Pahrump, is a solid hour’s drive east to Las Vegas. It is home to 36,000 Nevadans, wedged on the Nevada-California border and ominously and perhaps auspiciously, Death Valley lies nearby. Pahrump became noteworthy (at least to me) as a part-setting and general den of inequity for the television drama, Get Shorty.
Hof enjoyed his 72nd birthday celebrations three weeks ago in Pahrump in the company of porn star Ron Jeremy, and recently pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and died the following day.
Death became Dead Dennis. He not only won but won in a landslide. The obvious conclusion is the Democrat candidate, Lesia Romanov, may not have been entirely compelling. But here’s the rub — Hof, in a state of the deepest repose, was seen as a better candidate dead than alive.
The denizens of District 36 were not altogether comfortable casting a vote for a man who owned seven legal brothels.
But dead he was just fine, and the punters came out and voted for him in droves. Dead Dennis received 68 per cent of the vote. Had Still Vaguely in the Vertical Dennis run, it may have gone down to the wire.
What’s next? A dead Abe Lincoln to emerge from his tomb in Springfield Illinois? Dead Thomas Jefferson and dead George Washington to battle it out in Virginia’s sixth district for another shot at the title?
Worse things could happen.
Full column here.
Jean Baptiste says:
November 17, 2018 at 2:57 PM
“I don’t think you understand anything Carl.”
Well ……., if you care to even occasionally offer commentary on here that is meaningful, material, worthwhile and relevant, I’ll have a crack at it JB.
Just one or two every now and then until you get the gist of it me old mate.😉
Um you mean something you can understand. Sure, no problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YalBsd56iTQ
POTUS Trump arrives in California, Mr. Insider to survey the Fire ravaged areas of the State.
Many dead and many more missing.
At times like this, the Commander-In-Chief becomes the “Comforter-In-Chief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JooKUrSe9HI
“Comforter in Chief” The idiot couldn’t even remember the name of the town.
Nasty Trump believes that Californians would’ve had less fire damage if they had raked their leaves more! 😕
What a dead-set flake.
cotc. How is that possible you have noted through your “belief” system numerous times the earth is only 4600 years old.
What on earth are you on about Dismayed?? Cloud cuckoo land I’d expect.
“…would not know a fiduciary duty if it bit them on their bonuses…”
hyuk hyuk who writes his material?
https://theglass-pyramid.com/2018/11/18/auction-action-17-11-the-royal-commission-is-back/
Good to see Hodgman get a right royal serve in the Weekend Magazine – full colour 4 page spread.
Secret deals all over the place that could probably do with some investigative journalism. Follow the brown paper bags type of thing.
He’s going to see his arse next state election.
And the Chinese icebreaker arrived at their Hobart base this weekend. Another interesting deal no doubt.
Dismal would be excited. A full on oil rig is to sit in the Derwent being repaired for 3 months wonderfully debasing the landscape.. A reminder of the fossil fuel industry – and maybe another of Hodgnan’s secret deals Some think it may serve as an ugly base pylon for the controversial cablecar up kunanyi/Mt Wellington. That’s another dodgy development proposal that turned the recent city council election upside down. Giving away public land to private developers to make a pisspot full of money. We now have a Green Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor.
Yvonne I have worked on that Diamond Monarch rig several years ago. That rig has been in Australian waters for the last couple of years all its ballast water will be Bass straight water. It was cleared back in 2016 to come into Australian waters. 80% of its crew are Australian. NOPSEMA have kept a close eye on it for Environmental compliance. No dirty deals, the rigs do maintenance between contracts. It will bring economic activity with local firms getting contracts to do some of the work, The news stated it already had tourists stopping and looking bringing more economic activity into town. Regardless of the subject your obsession with me comes out.
Oh you should be so lucky to have anyone obssessed with you, Gary. Sorry, I don’t imagine it will happen.
Oh no, a metal tower!
I wouldn’t worry too much about O&G onshore in Tassie Boa, it’s quite unprospective, almost no suitable geology.
Oh but they are unsightly. Wait till Boa cops our zip line between the main peaks on Cradle Mountain, with the interactive eco cafes / iconic Tassie pie shop at each end. I’ll have to send her a season pass to mollify her.
The way things are going, JB, your eco cafe zip line would not surprise me at all. Been chatting to Hodgman have you?
Perhaps you persuaded him to quietly rezone it to “full-on recreational funpark”? How much did that cost?
Thanks goodness for small mercies.
My Musical hero, ELVIS has just been given the US’s Highest Civilian Honour, Mr. Insider the “Medal of Freedom”, by Potus Trump.
He was one of 7 who received this Honour and its been a long time coming as ELVIS has been dead for 41 years………… or has he? He would be 83yo now if alive, which he may be!
https://tinyurl.com/yd8ynqd7
Elvis should also receive a posthumous academy award for his contribution to the film industry, Henry. His performance in the semi-autobiographical “G.I. Blues” has been credited as a seminal work, informing the careers of Robert DeNiro, Tom Cruise, John Cazale, Angela Lansbury and Chris Rock to name just a few. And if that wasn’t enough, his dual/duel role (one blonde, the other brunette) in that timeless classic “Kissin’ Cousins” should have sealed the deal years back.
btw. did Prince Philip receive anything?
Very funny. Of course he didn’t write it or produce it, he just acted in it, very badly. If he informed the careers of those you have named it would be in the category of “what not to do”. Nothing wrong with that of course.
He worked for the CIA didn’t he?
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Bassman! Strange really as most people seem to take drugs willingly.
The trainee treasurers Lies about Negative Gearing Fact checked and proven false again.
https://tinyurl.com/ycfk2fp2
Remember, Hockey said negative gearing and family trusts were RORTS…seems they are suddenly not now. When the Looters lose the election watch them suddenly come out with “We always believed in global warming, renewable energy and a carbon tax”…easily the worst most incompetent bunch of L Platers the nation has seen since Federation. It is amazing the number of highly intelligent people on this blog who will vote for them.
Fixing to get some crowd funding up to raise a posse and bust this fella outa the calaboose. Reckon we oughta ship him off to some nice place what we don’t have no extradition treaty with.
read:https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/bourke-st-trolley-man-charged-after-handing-himself-in-to-police/news-story/32f5852ec486a9174347073aaafb8580
Count me in pardner. Cheers
Perhaps he should be renamed ”off his trolley man”?
So …., now let’s see ……., a local hero voluntarily hands himself in to the law enforcement authorities, and you want to “bust” him out JB. In other words your cunning plan is to seemingly burst in to wherever he may be presently domiciled of his own volition, flash a fistful of moolah, kidnap him and whisk him off to some distant desert island. My only question is, would you be taking his shopping trolley as well?
You are a funny fellow me old mate.
Oops! I forgot you are a creationist. No old bean, I wasn’t planning to do any of those things. It was what they call “a joke.”
But! You have inspired me to call down the crowd funding seriously, ostensibly to do those things but then flee with the loot seeking refugee status in a country with which we have no extradition treaty. Theres too many crazy old coots in this country, they are doing my head in. A country with running water , not absolutely necessary , would be an advantage.
Just so long as you keep clear of those Greenland ice cubes JB. It’d be no joke you getting frostbitten tootsies.
And as for your misguided “creationist” quip, I’ve always suspected you struggle to interpret circumlocutory comment. Your rash responses on here frequently put a bull at a gate in the shade. Probably as a result of your mild subconscious attempts to covertly overcompensate. But nevertheless I’d get it checked out me old mate.
So! MO taken into consideration, you are a creationist then?
Bella, I’ve noticed a few of your recent posts espousing hatred and contempt. I wont accept its part of your MO, and besides, its not good for your soul.
Only thinking of you.
Regards
Carl
Where’s Carl
https://www.google.com.au/search?source=hp&ei=H-_wW_3QJZSl9QPb5rCABw&q=image+of+saints&oq=iamage+of+Sainbt&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i13l10.3010.8076..11428…2.0..0.230.2906.0j16j2……0….1..gws-wiz…..6..0j35i39j0i131i67j0i131j0i67j0i10j0i13i10j33i160.DgslXSHS3mY
3 Hail Mary’s and a Glory B will do Toaster
Thank-you for thinking of me in your usual kind way Carl.
In all honesty mate, I am okay, but is it “espousing contempt & hatred” if I want to see Japan’s whaling ships torpedoed & sunk without trace, cos that’s where I’m currently at?
Sending a big hug, Bella 💚
Penny,
You appear to have excellent insight not only into Bill Shortens personal life and motivations but also and extraordinary knowledge of the demographics of our major cities. I commend you.
1./ Do you actually think the PM regardless of party should not visit the scene of a terrorist attack and visit and pay respect to the victims? I’d say Howard never knew a single person killed in Port Arthur but he still involved himself. At the time he was applauded for it from both sides and from that came one of the most tremendous and courageous law reforms in Australian history. Don’t talk to me about balance Penny. I’m fiscally, industrially, environmentally and on most law and order to the right. On social issues about centre. I’d don’t try to hide what I am behind a veneer of ‘someone told me this’ or ‘All my friends in Melbourne said’
2./ you know those thousands of apartments in the inner cities of our capitals do you actually think people don’t live in them? Are they all air b n b?
Bollocks! You’re always pretending to have inside information from your “contacts” in the know.
I don’t have contac ts in the know. On some subjects such as Qld politics, law and order and some related issues I’m in the know!
OKaaaaay, if you’re in the know but have no contacts in the know, where do you get your “in the know” from? Your imagination or out of a horses arse?
Razor:
1/ That’s standard corporate MO. Don’t go and you’ll be pilloried moreso. he’s just such a dork it doesn’t go over well. I agree that Howard was actually quite good at it.
2/ Docklands is very empty by all reports. A modern oddity.
You are a good man Razor…a total Gregory peck
We love youse all!
Morrisson would have been slated if he had not gone – by the very same folk here who slated him for going. Quite funny.
Too much slating is not enough for that effing Muppet!
Hang on Razor, make up your mind, in one post you say that the only votes that count are out there in the “burbs” and now you say that people in the apartments in the middle of inner city Melbourne do count.
With regard to John Howard and Port Arthur I thought his reaction to that was absolutely statesman like, so don’t try and compare the situations. Once again you misread (deliberately I think) my statements. My friends in Melbourne and Victoria if you want to be pedantic were horrified about Morrison’s visit to Pellegrinis, but that’s not me hiding behind their statements, that’s what they told me. I neither know nor care what your friends in Melbourne think about Morrison as you don’t care about what my friends think. And of course I repeat what “someone” has told me, for a start if I tell you all that my friend “Jane Smith” told me this certain fact it would not only be as boring as bat shit, but irrelevant. Bit like you saying you know all about Haneef, but would lose your job if you repeated it. If you can’t tell us don’t mention it.
You once told me to be careful about what I say about the situation in Malaysia…..no I don’t have to be careful because even though there is now greater freedom of press here , even before when the Najib government was in power there was information freely available out there outlining the corrupt goings on of the BN government. Shame Australia doesn’ t have the same type of media outlet
Does that qualify as a hissy fit?