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Wednesday, 1 December 2010
12 Days of Christmas! Win a Dutch by Design tea set!
On the first day of Christmas, Domestic Sluttery gave to me... a bathing girls tea set from Dutch by Design!
Hurrah! It's December 1st! This means advent calendars, counting shopping days, putting the tree up and Sluttery Christmas! Yay! We've got 12 days of Christmas presents to share with you. You know the drill by now, right? We give you a present every day, and then on day 12, we do something very very special indeed. But you'll have to wait to find out what that is, we like surprises.
We're kicking off with this fabulous tea set from the fabulous homewares shop Dutch by Design (check out their amazing chandeliers). It's not just the pretty little cups that have bathing girls, but the teapot too!
Pretty isn't it? I like that the saucers have little lingerie drawings on them. The tea set is worth around £60, and one will go to a very lucky home. All you have to do is leave a comment below telling everyone what your favourite Christmas tipple is. That's it! As it's the first competition of the month, you'll also get an extra entry for retweeting if you're on Twitter (only once, we don't like spamming).
The competition will close at 8pm tonight, so you've got time to enter even if you're working hard all day. We'll pick a winner at random and announce the winner tomorrow. And of course, tell you what the next prize is. The winner will even get an exclusive Christmas treat from us. Well go on! Get entering, or we'll keep the set for ourselves!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
The small print (yawn): The competition will close at 8pm December 1st. This prize can be delivered worldwide, yay! You must also leave a name as well to make sure we know who you are! If you're anon your entry won't count. We're not allowed to enter our own competitions, but I am quite partial to a mug of spicy hot cider. We wish we could enter our competitions. Humph.
272 comments:
My favourite Christmas tipple has to be mulled wine!ReplyDelete
Peppermint hot chocolate with a towering pile of whipped cream!ReplyDelete
Spiced vodka and tonic. Mmmmm...ReplyDelete
- Janine H1 December 2010 at 12:06
My favourite tipple is a nice creamy liqueur, so something like Baileys or White Choc from Vom Fass, consumed while sitting in the most outlandish jumper that I can find!ReplyDelete
(Probably knitted by my Mum!)
Baileys (consumed alongside a tin of Quality Street whilst watching the epic Eastenders xmas episode)ReplyDelete
Has to be Baileys :)ReplyDelete
Has to be the sherry while making the trifle - one glass for the trifle.... one for me - and so it continues....ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 12:07
I want to lie and say something festive, but the truth is my favourite Christmas tipple is still a cup of tea. Just perhaps with a mince pie resting on the saucer.ReplyDelete
Amaretto, Cointreau and Cranberry juice. Divine, but dangerously alcoholic!ReplyDelete
this is a beautiful tea set!ReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas drink is a nice red wine.
Brandy. It's the only time of year it's acceptable to drink at breakfast too- yay!ReplyDelete
I'm hard pressed to pick between warm spiced cider or a strong smoky tea. Or a hot toddy!
I guess I'd go for a Northumbrian blend tea sweetened with honey and topped off with lemon. Back you evil winter germs and cold!
Amaretto and cognac!!! yummers.ReplyDelete
Oh, definitely hot spiced apple juice with a dash of whiskey! I haven't had it in aaaages - it's usually available at the market in Meeting House Square in Dublin, and to my uncultured mind, is the best possible use for whiskey.ReplyDelete
While living on these dark shores, mulled wine - super spicy - is definitely my fave.
MMMM it's got to be a Southern Comfort and Ginger Ale....the ginger reminds me of Christmas because it tends to be the only time I drink it and the Southern Comfort because it warms you up inside :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 12:09
My favourite Christmas tipple has to be Baileys. Baileys in coffee. Baileys in hot chocolate. Baileys over your minced pies. Straight Baileys over an ice cube (or spoonful of snow from the front garden if you're lacking an ice tray). Always Baileys.ReplyDelete
advocaat and lemonade (snowballs) only drink them at xmas and theyre yummy :)ReplyDelete
Have rt'd also @xxladyluck13xx
Warm apple juice cannot be beaten. But if you want something stronger, you can always add a shot of winter pimms to it.ReplyDelete
Emily Wearmouth
- Davina G1 December 2010 at 12:09
Has to be Pimms Winter in front of the fireReplyDelete
- Samantha F1 December 2010 at 12:10
My favourite Christmas tipple this year will be Disaronno and Coke :D But a nice German Gluhwwein wouldn't go amiss either!
Port and lemonade - a new one for me, only discovered last year. But it's definitely being resurrected this year! Might even pour it out of a teapot, too!ReplyDelete
What, I have to pick just one? I can't decide between mulled cider with nutmeg, cinnamon and brandy or a bloody mary with winter spiced vodka. Then there is sloe gin drunk neat from a hipflask on the beach on Christmas Morning.ReplyDelete
Hot chocolate laced with a touch of baileys in a huge girly mug piled high with cream and marshmallows! Yum!ReplyDelete
I have a new exciting Christmas drink - gingerbread latte (God bless my coffee machine) with whiskey in it. It is BRILLIANT and everybody should try it, even if it means sneaking a hip flask into starbucks.ReplyDelete
Glühwein, no doubt.ReplyDelete
Christmas has TRULY arrived when you're wrapping up the last of the presents on Xmas eve with a cognac to keep out the cold and you start Xmas day breakfast with a Bucks Fizz!ReplyDelete
- abby bookham1 December 2010 at 12:13
I am not really a drinker but its hard to say no to a glass of ProseccoReplyDelete
A glass of port whilst making the gravy (with port in)!ReplyDelete
- Jenn MW1 December 2010 at 12:14
My favourite X-Mas tipple is egg nog!ReplyDelete
Betty's Spiced Christmas tea.. http://www.bettys.co.uk/product/Spiced-Christmas-Tisane-20-Sheer-Leaf-Tea-Bags,18973,129.aspxReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 12:15
my favourite christmas tipple?? Do I have to choose?? I think I'll take Mulled Cider ( or at a push, mulled wine!) Great prize ladies!ReplyDelete
It has to be a very classic and traditional winter Purl cocktail:ReplyDelete
Cloudy Apple Juice
Cinnamon stick
Angostura Bitters
Star anise
AMAZING and available to try at the moment at Purl in Marylebone - bonus!
Mulled wine with a sprinkling of cinnamon...and hot organic apple juice with a sprinkling of cinammon. If you don't fancy cinnamon with the hot apple juice, throw in a small sprig of fresh rosemary or mint leaves and leave to infuse. Delish!ReplyDelete
- Larissa1 December 2010 at 12:16
The first glass of the Christmas Bailey's which I opened last night after a horrendous 2 hour journey home in the snow (should have taken 20 mins!ReplyDelete
- jackie1 December 2010 at 12:18
My favorite christmas tipple would be a cheeky So Co on the rocks! Also love Bailys on the rocks too! Lush!ReplyDelete
- Holly C1 December 2010 at 12:18
Guinness + tia maria = naughty but nice!ReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas Tipple is my grandparents as they are Mr and Mrs Tipples.ReplyDelete
Oh I have to choose one! Well other than the most necessary mulled wine (first one of the season swiftly approaching) this year I am thinking that Christmas Cocktails are in order... there will be whisky, ginger and spice sipped in front of a blazing fire..ReplyDelete
I discovered Taylor of Harrogates's Spiced Christmas Tea last week. Tastes like liquid mince pies, and perfect for a brew in that lovely teapot...ReplyDelete
- Georgina1 December 2010 at 12:20
It would have to be a steaming mulled wine. Heady and aromatic and delicious. Yes please!ReplyDelete
it is usually mulled wine, but myself and 'the girls' have started up a vodka-circle recently (who needs a knitting circle!). we're concocting various sweetie flavoured vodkas for one hell of a cheery christmas :oDReplyDelete
each of us is making up our vodka simply by tipping in our favourite sweets and leaving it to dissolve... so far we have pear drop, sherbet lemons, cola cube and sour apple! yum! try it!!!
I'd never be so rude as to refuse Mulled wine [in the cold of a Christmas market so the warmth permeated my gloves] but a winter pimms [where did this pring from, and what a fine, intuitive idea] with warm apple juice makes a scrumptious night cap!ReplyDelete
My absolute favourite tipple (hard to choose, I love so many) is sloe gin made by me from berries our family gathered from the local hedgerows two years before, soaked in sugar and gin for a year, then bottled and matured for a further year.ReplyDelete
Of course, one CAN drink it earlier and jolly nice it is too (and nicely jolly-making )but the maturer version is so much richer, the colour so much more jewel-like and the scent so much heavenlier that it really is worth the wait.
After all these years of hiding the truth about my true festive fancy... I can finally admit that my FAVOURITE Christmas drink is a sweet, dark nectar... SHERRY!!! Not only were you domestic-sluts tweeting about Sherry a little while ago, Women's Hour are discussing this nectar like drink today!!! I always **Knew** I was a trend setter! ;) *Cheers* xReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas tipple is Irish cream liqueur. Mmm... wish I had one right now!ReplyDelete
I just discovered my favourite at my local cinema - hot chocolate with a shot of ameretto, then whipped cream on top!ReplyDelete
I love mulled wine and mulled cider. So warming and festive! RT'd @misslongstockinReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas tipple is mulled cider. Drinking it at our local Christmas market whilst wrapped up in the largest scarf I can find in the evenings with my friends is what Chrsitmas is all about!ReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas tipple is Festive Cherry Pie - Amaretto, Cranberry juice & a jaunty cocktail cherry. Yum! Merry Sluttery Christmas everyone! Ali (@Perfumegirl74) xxReplyDelete
I be Rum me hearties.ReplyDelete
Nice glass of whisky. It's good for - bad days, celebration days, headaches, colds, stress, enjoying in company and quiet times alone. You can't go wrong.ReplyDelete
I'm not a drinker myself...but the year we added cherry brandy to the xmas puds/christmas cake mix was extremely tasty!ReplyDelete
There's nothing quite as festive as mulled wine. Although a glass of baileys while putting up the Christmas is tradition!ReplyDelete
Tea wise - Yorkshire with Chai AND rooibos (xmas xcess). Ales most of the day then g&t when family arrive.ReplyDelete
- Irrepressible Red1 December 2010 at 12:29
Mulled cranberry juice (if I'm feeling virtuous) with a shot of cointreau (if, more likely, I''m not!)ReplyDelete
Homemade Baileys using my Gran's receipe. So much nicer and with a much bigger kick! :-)ReplyDelete
Pick just one drink??ReplyDelete
From all the many and varied drinkies on offer at this festive time??
I have thought long and hard about this (well, for at least as long as it took to read all the other comments) and it has to be...
Yes, boring old, normal old tea.
Tea warms you up after your frosty Christmas morning walk, tea revives you on Boxing Day morning when you're feeling the previous day's excesses, tea goes perfectly with a big chunk of fruity, boozy Christmas cake, tea works for everyone in the whole family, tea makes you feel all virtuous for not choosing booze, tea is the drink of champions (probably).
so, here's to a nice cup of tea (hopefully made in my new Duth by Design teapot??)
MULLED WINE!!ReplyDelete
Duth by Design? who are they??ReplyDelete
Of course, I meant Dutch!
It has to be a Cosmopolitain. Mum and I make them every year and drink them while we peel the veg on christmas eve. Dad always wonders why he gets odd shaped veg in his christmas dinner :-)ReplyDelete
a lovely glass of drambuie, reminds me of my mum :)ReplyDelete
Nothing beats a good glass of red wine, any time of year. So that's my favourite Christmas tipple.ReplyDelete
Hello all!ReplyDelete
My favorite of all the tipples for Christmas is a double Amaretto with coke, and wedges (so you can then suck all the juice out later!) of orange. Sounds a little weird, but tastes a little like a chocolate orange (the best of all the christmas chocolates)! Truely scrumptious I promise!
Happy first of Christmas everyone
Penelope Patrick x x x
Christmas means its time to crack open my sloe gin, drunk either neat or with lemonade. Ding dong!ReplyDelete
Got to be a ridiculously calorific peppermint hot chocolate with cream and chocolate shavings :)ReplyDelete
Lovely tea set, good choice ladies xx
Hot chocolate with whipped cream, and Baileys. And I always leave a glass of mulled wine out for Santa, too.ReplyDelete
May not be original - looking at the other suggestions! - but Baileys hot chocolate (with extra chocolate), marshmallows, and maybe even cream with chocolate sprinkles... after all, it is cold outside so you need extra energy.ReplyDelete
Try this one girls -ReplyDelete
2 shots of Tia Maria,
top up with Orange juice -
Katy Clement xx
mmm a hot Chocolate with rum or baileys, just the right thing during the cold weather. Rum in black tea is quite nice too, but I guess the hot chocolate with a bit of rum would be my choice.ReplyDelete
- Rachael1 December 2010 at 12:42
Big, fat hot chocolate with veggie marshmallows.ReplyDelete
Difficult. I am rather partial to a magnum of Veuve Cliquot vinatge on Christmas Day, but then there is the mulled wine after walking the dogs...ReplyDelete
Veuve Cliquot vintage wins as that is the only time of year I splurge on the vintage.
Feliz Navidad!
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 12:57
Well, my dad makes a pretty mean Eggnog but I still prefer a well spiced Mulled Wine!ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas Domestic Sluttesses!
- Louise R1 December 2010 at 12:58
A Gin and Tonic whilst preparing the Brussel Sprouts for the Christmas feast is the only Christmas tipple for me...apparently there's a new Christmas flavoured Gin available this year too... yum yum!ReplyDelete
mine is always baileys and jamesons - yum yum!ReplyDelete
Pipping hot Mulled wine with lots of cinnamon! mmmm toasty!ReplyDelete
What can I say? I'm a seventies child so it has to be a Snowball of course!ReplyDelete
- Rachael1 December 2010 at 13:07
I've discovered straight sloe gin for the first time this year. That's definitely my fave :)ReplyDelete
Amaeretto with a squeeze of lime and a hint of regret xReplyDelete
I am also a late seventies/early eighties child... so I am joining the 'Snowball Fan Club'.ReplyDelete
It was my one opportunity of the year (when I was still knee high to a cerise and royal blue leg warmer) to drink alcohol... and it came in the form of a delicious, frothy snowball with a glacé cherry on a cocktail stick. If Mum wasn't looking, my sister and I would also add a scoop of ice-cream on top.
It reminds me of watching Jason And The Argonauts on Christmas Eve, and regalling the Christmas Tree festooned with hankies(?).
ND: Did anybody else's mum put cotton handkerchiefs on their Christmas tree?!?!
- Maggie Hill1 December 2010 at 13:30
It has to be Bailey's or a proper home-made mulled wine.......is it too early for one now??ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 13:39
Tia Maria and Baileys mixed together over some ice! Can't stand them on their own but mixed together = YUM!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 13:40
I can't decide between Baileys, Mulled Cider and Brandy Blazer. Baileys is acceptable to drink all day at Christmas but the other two are perfect for the evening when you have just come in from the freezing cold and need to warm up.. They smell so festive tooReplyDelete
Mmmm mulled wine....ReplyDelete
Last year we mulled some K cider. Refreshingly different.ReplyDelete
I love chai milk steamers at Christmas time - probably because four years ago when I was studying in Brighton, they made the 6.45am December trains bearable from London Victoria (where the AMT stand was that sold them). Mmmm!ReplyDelete
Tis the season for Sailor Jerry Spiced rum..that bottle gets sloshed in all my mincemeat & xmas pudding mixes as well as my mouth. Also very tempted to try spicing up some alcoholic ginger beer this year...ReplyDelete
Pimms Winter!! I love the smell of spiced apple goodness. Plus, we dont have it in the US - so it's a quintessential British winter treat!ReplyDelete
After careful consideration because I have many favourites, I have chosen Baileys Hot Chocolate - yummy.ReplyDelete
Ooo it's a close call - mulled wine, spiced cider and gingerbread lattes all up there! But I think mulled wine wins.ReplyDelete
It has to be port, sipped whilst snuggled up next to a roaring fire...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 14:17
Snowball! Advocat and lemonade. I love it at Christmas even though my boyfriend refuses to order it at the bar, he thinks I'm 30 going on 80. mmm snowball! xxReplyDelete
- Joanne1 December 2010 at 14:22
I only ever drink alcohol at Christmas and it is always Sherry - makes a change from the squillions of gallons of tea I drink the rest of the year. However I am making limoncello (from the Domestic Sluttery post a couple of weeks ago) for presents but I may keep a little back to sample myself this Christmas!ReplyDelete
It has to be Disaronno Amaretto - on ice in a good solid glass tumbler that needs both hands wrapped around it to lift!ReplyDelete
There's also a half pint of gin keeping schtum in the tea pot (for emergencies!)!
Baileys, I only ever drink it around Christmas so it always makes me feel very festive!ReplyDelete
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Oh, the choice! Mulled wine, or egg nogg lattes or cranberry and ameretto. Mmm... Bakewell tart in a glass.... :o) I think it has to be the latter for pure happiness factor!ReplyDelete
I love homemade Eggnog more than anything at Christmas :)ReplyDelete
Cointreau and lemonade, yum :)ReplyDelete
Oh oh oh, moscow mules for me!ReplyDelete
For me (living here in Germany), it's got to be Jagertee - it's a lovely tea, with a shot of some sort of clear Schnapps in it. It's a don't ask sort of thing for me - it's tasty and lovely when it's cold out, and as long as I don't know what is in it, all the better!ReplyDelete
Mulled wine, although when in Norway last year my boyfriend's parents taught me to appreciate the Christmas-y-ness of Akvavit!ReplyDelete
There's almost nothing better than a hot chocolate with a shot of amaretto. Oh and maybe some whipped cream on top - perfect!ReplyDelete
A very old fashioned port & lemonReplyDelete
Well I don't drink alcohol other than at Christian celebrations, so at Christmas I love having a Snowball! (Dutch Advocaat and Lemonade) What a treat!ReplyDelete
Can't choose between mulled wine, sherry and champagne...Oh, all right, mulled wine:-)ReplyDelete
I can't get enough of mulled cider. But will always end the night on champagne.ReplyDelete
- Annabel Quiroga1 December 2010 at 17:07
I know it is not a drink specific to Christmas but it has to be a tumbler filled with Baileys and 4 ice cubes... yes, four! Mmmm....ReplyDelete
For me its Snowballs all the way baby...Warninks Advocaat, lemonade and a touch of lime. My mum used to buy a bottle every Christmas and hide it in the wardrobe with the pressies so my dad wouldn't drink it before Christmas Eve.ReplyDelete
- Alexa C1 December 2010 at 17:23
It has to be a highlights white chocolate hot chocolate but made with full fat milk and baileys with squirty cream on the top! (plus because it's low calorie hot chocolate I think it makes me nearly as saintly as the angel on the top of my tree). xReplyDelete
There are so many to choose from but I have to go with eggnog and rum with a sprinkle of nutmeg. Not to be consumed in excessive quantities of course...that would ruin the office Xmas party for sure!ReplyDelete
Because we're the awesomely multi-faceted creatures we are, I believe we may all have a variety of "tipples."ReplyDelete
When I was young and impetuous, I favored Champagne no matter what.
As I matured, it was Disaronno on the rocks.
Now I love a good red wine-- preferably one had for under $10.00. (Yes, they DO still exsist ladies...)
Hmm that's a hard one! I'd have to go with warm cider I thinkReplyDelete
Personally I partake in a generous Advocaat and lemonade around the Christmas season, I think its in my blood- my granny used to drink one EVERY night without fail, what a legacy!ReplyDelete
I'm pregnant this year, so facing a very sober Christmas. My favourite non-boozy Christmas drink is a hot chocolate with cream, and cinammon and nutmeg sprinkled on the top. Yum!ReplyDelete
At this time of the year I bow to my German heritage and tipple on Rumtopf. It needs making in the summer (which requires a fair amount of forethought), you get a glut of summer berries, cover in sugar and top up with rum, then leave in a dark place in its ceramic pot until Christmas time. Or the end of November, if, like me, you get desperate. Yummy, rummy, fruity, spicy goodness, excellent with Lebkuchen or cheese and biscuits.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 17:55
Santa always leaves a large baileys with ice :)ReplyDelete
- @sharonkitten1 December 2010 at 17:55
Bucks fizz with bacon sandwiches for Christmas Day breakfast - heaven!ReplyDelete
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Christmas tipple has to be Baileys - in a baileys latte tho' with whipped cream on top!ReplyDelete
Luvin' the little ladies bathing in cups! cute xx
ooh - i did a little tweet too @josie301ReplyDelete
I popped along to the dutch by design site too and gosh do they have some cute stuffs! x
- Claire Gollings @ two for joy bakery1 December 2010 at 18:01
For a double booze hit (any excuse) it has to be hot spiced cider with a cheeky shot of spiced rum. Served in a tea pot! The Christmas karaoke soon gets going after a few teacup's full. Not that I need any motivation to sing last Christmas at the top of my lungs!!ReplyDelete
Call me old fashioned but it has to be a Snowball (Advocat & lemonade). They always remind me of my gran.ReplyDelete
A little bit of brandy in a warm glass of milk.ReplyDelete
It's got to be mulled wine hasn't it?ReplyDelete
I love the fact that everyone has a different recipe for it yet it's always delicious!
Vicki x
Spiced warm cider ... at the German Market .. yum !ReplyDelete
Mulled cider! Although, if it works out, I'm hoping the ginger and cardamon vodka I have infusing in a dark cupboard takes the top spot this xmas!ReplyDelete
Hot Buttered Rum - YUM!ReplyDelete
Homemade mulled wine all the way!ReplyDelete
Mulled wine, Ameretto, Baileys, all good. Can't beat a nice glass of bubbly though. Mmm! (or three...)ReplyDelete
Mine is Babysham, I'm a little bit mortified to admit that!ReplyDelete
Mulled wine - not from a kit or mulling bag but from fresh ingredients. Much better.ReplyDelete
I LOVE making Irish Coffees after Xmas dinner and getting the cream just right - but alas I don't like to drink them - so it's the V-Plan (aka Vodka) all the way for me.ReplyDelete
Mulled ciderReplyDelete
- claire1 December 2010 at 18:24
Probably a spiced apple martini. My brand new boyfriend made these for breakfast on christmas day. Thirteen years later my husband ad I start every christmas with this spicey boozy glass of vodka goodnessReplyDelete
Goldschlager and hot chocolate! How can you resist little pieces of gold floating in chocolate? A cup of heavenReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 18:30
Midori, pineapple and coconut cream. I'll drink it any time to be honest ;) . @KatDrayReplyDelete
- Ursula1 December 2010 at 18:31
Home made mulled wine. It's the only time of year we drink it.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 18:35
Mulled wineReplyDelete
Tweeted @bofferminx
my fave xmas tipple, Baileys on the rocks! simples! xReplyDelete
Yogi spice tea-ayurvedic magic especially if accompanied by a clementine and a mince pie.ReplyDelete
Hot chocolate with a shot of rum, whipped cream and chocolate shavings.ReplyDelete
- theamorousprawn1 December 2010 at 18:44
Ginger wine! Very warming on a cold, dark night.ReplyDelete
(@theamorousprawn on twitter)
Its a great festive dilema but im opting for:ReplyDelete
Hot Mocha with Baileys.
There's coffee, chocolate & alcohol, whats not to love whilst sat infront of the fire!
A full-bodied burgundy.ReplyDelete
- Lucy Dennison1 December 2010 at 19:08
Rainbow teaReplyDelete
Oooh you can't beat a lovely hot glass of mulled wine. But I'm also thinking that Miss Cay's limoncello is going to give that a run for its money! 3 weeks til tasting time! :)ReplyDelete
Mulled wine for me as well, need it at the moment its so cold!ReplyDelete
- Wendy Barbe1 December 2010 at 19:23
Warm milk with a shot of Tia Maria. Go on try it. It's like warm coffee milkshake. Lish.ReplyDelete
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Has to be a snowballReplyDelete
Eggnog, reminds me of Christmas time in the States! :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 19:27
Anything alcoholic usually does me :)ReplyDelete
- Karen Foster1 December 2010 at 19:28
Black Russian - over lots of ice - Yum!ReplyDelete
- Nicky Russell1 December 2010 at 19:30
Mulled Wine - Home made of course :)ReplyDelete
- Joanne1 December 2010 at 19:34
My favourite is either champagne, or vodka and orange.ReplyDelete
- Caroline1 December 2010 at 19:36
Tia Maria & Orange Juice, tastes like Terry's Choc OrangeReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 19:37
A Brandy and Baby-sham my mum gives me a few every year as I invite her up for Christmas every year. Its lovely and warms you up insideReplyDelete
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Baileys, its amazing :)ReplyDelete
I've tweeted (@jessycalouise)
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 19:38
Ooh my favourite tipple has to be Baileys with lots of ice!!!! Yummy!!!ReplyDelete
- Jen Rogers1 December 2010 at 19:39
I just love Baileys coffee flavour! Jen RogersReplyDelete
cup of tea!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 19:41
The usual. Vodka and lemonade! :oDReplyDelete
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- Kayleigh Rothwell1 December 2010 at 19:42
Snow balls are a must for christmas!ReplyDelete
I'm with Santa on this one & go for a sherry - always plenty knocking about this time of year - tend to leave the carrot thoughReplyDelete
A Christmas Cake Cocktail, equal measures of port and amaretto, over ice, with a maraschino cherry.....heavenly!ReplyDelete
- Lisa Pizzey1 December 2010 at 19:44
My favourite Christmas tipple is Bucks Fizz with breakfast on Christmas morning! xxReplyDelete
- Cheryl H1 December 2010 at 19:46
Home made mulled wine - can't beat it!ReplyDelete
Oh, or a nice glass of champagne. It would be rude not to.
Well, usually I love mulled wine or Bellinis but this year I will be drinking Sloe Vodka which I made back in September.ReplyDelete
Gluhwein has to be the winner for Christmas drinks. We went to the German markets in Edinburgh last night and had a 'Schneeman punch' - Gluhwein, amaretto, rum, cream and cinnamon. It certainly packed a punch and warmed us up in the snowy weather!!ReplyDelete
What we call a Blueberry Tea: a shot each of amaretto and Grand Marnier in a brandy snifter, with some nice hot Earl Grey tea on top.ReplyDelete
Sounds strange, but tastes great when you've come in from shovelling snow!
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 19:48
Its got to be tea!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 19:50
A big cup of milky sweet redbush tea . . . it's all I can face after all that festive food!ReplyDelete
i love a tequila sunrise with the heating on full blast - it makes me think that i'm spending christmas on a beach somewhere. if i win i promise to use this set to pour my tequila sunrise this year & send u photos of it being put to good use ;-)ReplyDelete
Hot chocolate here, sorry.ReplyDelete
- Louise Rogers1 December 2010 at 19:52
Ordinarily I love a mulled wine or a snowball. Christmas morning always calls for a glass of champagne with an hibiscus flower! However, this year I will be 8 months pregnant so the most exciting I'm likely to get is a hot chocolate!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 19:52
Bailey's...always reminds me of christmas morning....xReplyDelete
Just like The Gilmore Girls mine is candy cane flavoured coffee. Hard to get hold of over here but when you do it's sheer bliss.ReplyDelete
I've been known to try and replicate it with instant coffee and a few of Sainsbugger's humbugs come the summer months.
In my preggers state, all alcohol is terribly and sadly off limits. Makes me sick as a dog. My drinking nirvana is now a cup of hot orange squash. Lovely!ReplyDelete
Eggnog! Especially if it's said by kiwis!ReplyDelete
Love, Cate and Pari xxxxx
Ooooh , a smidge of sherry for me please. In a dainty old glass with scratches -ReplyDelete
I'm practicing for the days when I can embarrass my children and future grand-children with my Christmas spirit
Christmas was made for tipsy old ladies and sherry
Kir Royale,ReplyDelete
Delish any time of the day
Pippa in France :O)
- Linda Edstrand1 December 2010 at 19:59
Mulled Wine is my favourite Christmas tipple, goes perfect with cold winter nights, raisins, nuts and ginger biscuits.... mmmmmm tastyReplyDelete
I love sherry whilst helping my mum cook, so warming, reminds me of winter everytime i have a glass :)ReplyDelete
- Tracey Tibbles1 December 2010 at 20:00
Bailey over ice. Whilst building my tree like nowReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 20:00
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 20:01
This week, I was introduced to Champagne & Sloe Gin. Together.ReplyDelete
My friend's family have it before breakfast on Christmas Day, a tradition I am seriously considering adopting....hic...
That's it! No more comments! Thanks for playing everyone. xReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 20:54
dooley's mmmReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2010 at 21:01
My favourite tipple is Baileys! MmmmmReplyDelete
@emma1111111 (Twitter)
mulled wine with lots of cinnamonReplyDelete
Ameretto with Baileys CoffeeReplyDelete
hot choc with marshmallows and creamReplyDelete
Warm Amaretto, sounds gross but it's delishReplyDelete
I know I missed the deadline however I was volunteering for World Aids Day selling red ribbons so surely you could let me off???!ReplyDelete
Now I'm at home warming up with my favourite christmas tipple - warm cider with spiced rum. Bliss!
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Not actually a drink but my great grandmother used to mae fruit cake & turn it upside down, poke half a dozen holes in the bottom & top them up with rum, every time it was soaked up the rum would be topped up...ReplyDelete
It is definitely verging on a rather potent tipple after a week or so of this treatment!
Otherwise I have to go for the traditional big steaming saucepan of mulled wine!
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A nice glass of Jack Daniels - neat, no phaffing around with ice, and a small cup of excellent coffee as a chaser.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I'm too late but what the hell! Love the teaset.
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2 small acorn squash
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Cut 2 small acorn squash in half. Remove seeds and stringy portion.
Place halves in cooking pot, skin side down in layers. Add ½ cup water, if desired.
Cover and cook at Setting # 5 for 2 to 2 ½ hours or until tender. Just before serving season with salt, pepper and a pat of butter or margarine.
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I'm always worried that my iPhone will meet an untimely death from a wayward drop of rain so when I heard about the LifeProof iPhone case that bills itself as water proof, snow proof, dirt proof and shock proof I knew I had to try it out. Having just come back from a rain soaked trip where I found myself cowering under my umbrella and beneath awnings in an attempt to keep dry, water proof held special appeal. The only problem was getting up the nerve to actually test the thing.
There are videos on the LifeProof website detailing precisely how to put your phone into the case. They're very helpful but they made me a little nervous that if I did the slightest thing wrong, then my phone was a goner. The first step is testing the case while empty by submerging it in a sink full of water for an hour. I did this and when I took it out an hour later it was completely dry inside. Testing complete, I held my breath, closed my eyes, and tried it with my phone and was relieved to see that it worked perfectly.
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Audio quality was also very good, with no one I called noticing a difference in sound quality through the water proof acoustic vents of the LifeProof versus the traditional open spaces in my usual case. I also found the sound coming through to be clear and interference free while making calls and playing music.
The LifeProof iPhone case is lightweight and slim enough to use everyday, but is especially suited to those times you're at the beach, hiking, or in harsh environments that put your phone at risk. It retails for $79.99 and has a full range of accessories for mounting and carrying that make it a great case for those who want to enjoy the outdoors without worrying about the safety of their phone.
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Marybeth (KERRY WASHINGTON) is a pre-op transsexual working as a prostitute and living with her lover, Benny, a small time burglar. In spite of their lines of work, they live a somewhat normal life as a married couple. Marybeth works the streets in the hopes of saving enough money for her final sex change operation, so then she and Benny can be married.
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Name it. Change It.
Sexism & Equality Don't Mix!
Name It. Change It. is a non-partisan project of She Should Run and Women's Media Center. We are founded with the support of Political Parity, the Embrey Foundation, and the Barbara Lee Family Foundation.
Together, we work to end sexist and misogynistic coverage of women candidates by all members of the press—from bloggers to radio hosts to television pundits.
Widespread sexism in the media is one of the top problems facing women. A highly toxic media environment persists for women candidates, often negatively affecting their campaigns. The ever-changing media landscape creates an unmonitored echo chamber, often allowing damaging comments to exist without accountability.
We must erase the pervasiveness of sexism against all women candidates — irrespective of political party or level of office — across all media platforms in order to position women to achieve equality in public office. We will not stand by when media damage women's political futures with misogynistic remarks. When you attack one woman, you attack all women.
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John Connally
Quick Facts
|John B. Connally, John Bowden Connally, Jr.
|Military officer Soldier Politician Officer Lawyer Rancher
|United States of America
|Law Military Politics
|27 February 1917, Floresville, Wilson County, Texas, U.S.A.
|15 June 1993, Houston, Harris County, Texas, U.S.A. (aged 76 years)
|Star sign
|Democratic Party, Republican Party
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993), was an American politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Texas and as the 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury. He began his career as a Democrat but switched to the Republican Party in 1973.
Born in Floresville, Texas, Connally pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. During World War II, he served on the staff of James Forrestal and Dwight D. Eisenhower before transferring to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. After the war, he became an aide to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. When Johnson assumed the vice presidency in 1961, he convinced President John F. Kennedy to appoint Connally to the position of United States Secretary of the Navy. Connally left the Kennedy Administration in December 1961 to run for Governor of Texas, and he held that position from 1963 to 1969. Connally was seriously wounded in November 1963 during the assassination of Kennedy.
In 1971, Republican President Richard Nixon appointed Connally as his Treasury Secretary. In this position, Connally presided over the removal of the U.S. dollar from the gold standard, an event known as the Nixon shock. Connally stepped down from the Cabinet in 1972 to lead the Democrats for Nixon organization, which campaigned for Nixon's re-election. Connally was a candidate to replace Vice President Spiro Agnew after the latter resigned in 1973, but Nixon chose Gerald Ford instead. Connally sought the Republican nomination for president in the 1980 election, but withdrew from the race after the first set of primaries. Connally did not seek public office again after 1980 and died of pulmonary fibrosis in 1993.
Early life and education
Connally was born on February 27, 1917, into a large family in Floresville, the seat of Wilson County southeast of San Antonio. He was one of seven children born to Lela (née Wright) and John Bowden Connally, Sr., a dairy and tenant farmer. His six siblings included four brothers:
Golfrey, Merrill, Wayne, and Stanford Connally and two sisters: Carmen and Blanche. Connally attended Floresville High School and, upon graduation, was one of the few graduates who attended college. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the student body president and a member of the Friar Society. He subsequently graduated from the University of Texas School of Law and was admitted to the bar by examination.
Military service
Connally served in the United States Navy during World War II, first as an aide to James V. Forrestal, then as part of the planning staff for the invasion of North Africa by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He transferred to the South Pacific Theater, where he served with distinction. He was a fighter-plane director aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex and was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery. He was shifted to another Essex-class aircraft carrier, the USS Bennington and was awarded the Legion of Merit. He was also involved in the campaigns in the Gilbert, Marshall, Ryukyu, and Philippine islands. He was discharged in 1946 at the rank of lieutenant commander.
On his release from the navy, Connally practiced law in the Alvin Wirtz law firm, until Lyndon Baines Johnson, then a newly elected senator, persuaded him to return to Washington, D.C. to serve as a key aide. He had close ties with Johnson before his navy days and maintained them till the president's death in 1973.
Lawyer for Sid Richardson
Two of Connally's principal legal clients were the Texas oil tycoon Sid W. Richardson and Perry Bass, Richardson's nephew and partner, both of Fort Worth. Richardson's empire at the time was estimated at $200 million to $1 billion. Under Richardson's tutelage, Connally gained experience in a variety of enterprises and received tips on real estate purchases. The work required the Connallys to relocate to Fort Worth. When Richardson died in 1959, Connally was named to the lucrative position as co-executor of the estate.
Connally was also involved in a reported clandestine deal to place the Texas Democrat Robert Anderson on the 1956 Republican ticket as vice president. Though the idea fell through when Dwight Eisenhower retained Richard Nixon in the second slot, Anderson received a million dollars for his efforts and a subsequent appointment as treasury secretary, the same position that Connally would fill for Nixon fourteen years later in 1971. Moreover, in another coincidence, Anderson had been Eisenhower's first Navy secretary, the post that Connally filled for John F. Kennedy in 1961.
From Navy secretary to governor
At the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles, Connally led supporters of Senator Lyndon Johnson. He claimed that John F. Kennedy, if nominated and elected, would be unable to serve as president for a full term because of Addison's disease and dependence on cortisone. Kennedy, however, had wrapped up the needed delegates for nomination before the convention even opened. Kennedy realized that he could not be elected without support of traditional Southern Democrats, most of whom had backed Johnson. Therefore, Johnson was offered the vice-presidential nomination.
Secretary of the Navy
At Johnson's request, in 1961 President Kennedy named Connally Secretary of the Navy. Connally resigned eleven months later to run for the Texas governorship. During Connally's secretaryship, the Navy had a budget of $14 billion and more than 1.2 million workers–600,000 in uniform and 650,000 civilian–stationed at 222 bases in the United States and 53 abroad.
Connally directed the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea on a new kind of "gunboat diplomacy." The USS Forrestal landed in Naples, Italy, and brought gifts to children in an orphanage. Connally also ordered gifts: to a hospital in Cannes, France that treated children with bone diseases; to poor Greek children on the island of Rhodes; and for spastic children in Palermo, Italy. Presents were also sent to Turkish children in Cyprus and to a camp in Beirut for homeless Palestinian refugees. The Bay of Pigs incident occurred under his watch.
Connally fought hard to protect the Navy's role in the national space program, having vigorously opposed assigning most space research to the Air Force. Time termed Connally's year as Navy secretary "a first-rate appointment." Critics noted, however, that the brevity of Connally's tenure precluded any sustained or comprehensive achievements.
Running for governor
Connally announced two weeks before Christmas of 1961 that he was leaving the position of Navy secretary to return to Texas to seek the 1962 Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He would have to compete against the incumbent Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who was running for a fourth consecutive two-year term. Daniel was in political trouble following the enactment of a two-cent state sales tax in 1961, which had soured many voters on his administration. Daniel had let the tax become law without his signature but could have vetoed the measure. Former state Attorney General Will Wilson, who had run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1961, also entered the gubernatorial campaign and was particularly critical of Johnson, who he claimed engineered Connally's candidacy. Other primary candidates were highway commissioner Marshall Formby of Plainview, another party conservative, and General Edwin A. Walker, who made anti-communism the centerpiece of his campaign. Connally waged the most active campaign of any of the Democrats, traveling more than 22,000 miles across the state. He made forty-three major speeches and appeared on multiple statewide and local telecasts.
Connally ran as a conservative Democrat. He was placed in a primary runoff election against a liberal attorney from Houston favored by organized labor, Don Yarborough, no relation to Connally's long-term party nemesis U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough. After winning the runoff against Yarborough by a close vote, Connally faced a determined bid by the conservative Republican and oilfield equipment executive Jack Cox, also of Houston. Cox, a former state representative from his native Stephens County, had run unsuccessfully two years earlier in the Democratic primary against Daniel. Connally received 847,036 ballots (54 percent) to Cox's 715,025 (45.6 percent). In the campaign, Connally made an issue of Cox's switching to the Republican Party (GOP) the previous year. Eleven years later, Connally made the same switch. Cox, as it turned out, was the strongest Republican gubernatorial candidate in Texas since 1924. Not until 1972, when Henry Grover carried the GOP banner, did the Republicans make a better showing for governor.
Connally was a master campaign professional, having worked on several of Lyndon Johnson's campaigns. He believed in the entourage and advance men, the practice of having staff aides checking out events and having press interviews on the run to demonstrate Connally's heavy schedule of commitments. Biographer Charles Ashman claims that Connally would have aides telephone airports which he would shortly visit and ask to page him for an urgent message. Such manipulation, he believed, impressed airport patrons, many of whom would also be Texas voters.
Governor of Texas
Connally served as governor from 1963 until 1969. In the campaigns of 1964 and 1966, Connally defeated weak Republican challenges offered by Jack Crichton, a Dallas oil industrialist, and Thomas Everton Kennerly, Sr. (1903–2000), of Houston, respectively. He prevailed with margins of 73.8 percent and 72.8 percent, respectively, giving him greater influence with the nearly all-Democratic legislature.
Connally was governor during a time of great expansion of higher education in Texas. He signed into law the creation of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. He appointed regents who backed the entry of women into previously all-male Texas A&M University in College Station, having been prompted to take such action by State Senator William T. "Bill" Moore of Bryan, who in 1953 had first proposed the admission of women to the institution.
In 1965, Connally appointed Speaker Byron M. Tunnell to the Texas Railroad Commission, upon the retirement of 32-year veteran Ernest O. Thompson, a former mayor of Amarillo. This appointment enabled the future Connally business associate Ben Barnes of De Leon in Comanche County to succeed Tunnell and become the youngest Speaker in Texas history.
As governor, Connally promoted HemisFair '68, the world's fair held in San Antonio, he believed would net the state an additional $12 million in direct taxes. A permanent Institute of Texan Cultures museum was an outgrowth of the fair. It was designed to be "a dramatic showcase, not only to Texans, but to all the world, of the host of diverse peoples from many lands whose blood and dreams built our state."
There was some talk of Connally being selected as Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968, but the liberal Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine was instead chosen. Connally endorsed Humphrey and greeted the nominee at the Fort Worth airport and even reconciled for a month with intraparty rival Ralph Yarborough. Ashman, however, claims that Connally was "privately helping Nixon, recruiting a number of influential Texans, members of both parties, to work for the Republican candidate." Ben Barnes recounts a story that Connally shouted at Hubert Humphrey in a private meeting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and accused the vice president of being disloyal to President Johnson by trying to soft-pedal Johnson's position regarding Vietnam. Barnes said that the "tongue-lashing" Connally gave Humphrey was "an epic... He orally spanked that man as hard as I've ever seen anyone chastised. He either strengthened Hubert's backbone, or gave him some, or scared him half to death."
Connally was succeeded as governor by Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, a theater owner from Lubbock, who twice defeated the Republican attorney Paul Eggers in 1968 and 1970. Eggers, a friend and later associate of Republican Senator John G. Tower, served as general counsel in the Treasury Department from 1969–70, before Connally joined the Nixon Cabinet.
Kennedy assassination
On November 22, 1963, Connally was seriously wounded while riding in President Kennedy's car at Dealey Plaza in Dallas when the president was assassinated. He recovered from wounds in his chest, wrist and thigh. The ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission of 1963–64 concluded that President Kennedy was assassinated by 24 year old ex-marine Lee Harvey Oswald and that Oswald had acted entirely alone. Connally did not dispute this conclusion but did for the rest of his life question the single bullet theory. In 1966, he told the press, "I am convinced beyond any doubt that I was not struck by the first bullet," and added, "but just because I disagree with the Warren Commission on this one finding does not mean I disagree with their overall findings."
Secretary of the Treasury
In 1971, Republican President Nixon appointed the then Democrat Connally as Treasury Secretary. Before agreeing to take the appointment, however, Connally told Nixon that the president must find a position in the administration for George H. W. Bush, the Republican who had been defeated in November 1970 in a hard-fought U.S. Senate race against Democrat Lloyd M. Bentsen. Connally told Nixon that his taking the Treasury post would embarrass Bush, who had "labored in the vineyards" for Nixon's election as president, while Connally had supported Humphrey. Ben Barnes, then the lieutenant governor and originally a Connally ally, claims in his autobiography that Connally's insistence saved Bush's political career because the then former U.S. representative and twice-defeated Senate candidate relied on appointed offices to build a resume by which to seek the presidency in 1980 and again in 1988. Nixon hence named Bush as ambassador to the United Nations in order to secure Connally's services at Treasury. Barnes also said that he doubted George W. Bush could have become president in 2001 had Bush's father not first been given the string of federal appointments during the 1970s to strengthen the family's political viability.
Shortly after taking the Treasury post, Connally famously told a group of European finance ministers worried about the export of American inflation that the dollar "is our currency, but your problem."
Secretary Connally defended a $50 billion increase in the debt ceiling and a $35 to $40 billion budget deficit as an essential "fiscal stimulus" at a time when five million Americans were unemployed. He unveiled Nixon's program of raising the price of gold and formally devaluing the dollar—finally leaving the old gold standard entirely, a process begun in 1934 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Prices continued to increase during 1971, and Nixon allowed wage and price guidelines, which Congress had authorized on a stand-by basis, to be implemented. Connally later shied away from his role in recommending the failed wage and price controls, and announced guaranteed loans for the ailing Lockheed aircraft company. He also fought a lonely battle against growing balance-of-payment problems with the nation's trading partners, and undertook important foreign diplomatic trips for Nixon through his role as Treasury Secretary.
Historian Bruce Schulman wrote that Nixon was "awed" by the handsome, urbane Texan who was also a tough political fighter. Schulman added that Henry Kissinger, Nixon's National Security Advisor, noted that Connally was the only cabinet member that Nixon did not disparage behind his back, and that this was high praise indeed.
Democrats for Nixon
Connally stepped down as treasury secretary in 1972 to head "Democrats for Nixon", a group funded by Republicans. Connally's old mentor, Lyndon B. Johnson, stood behind Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern of South Dakota, although McGovern had long opposed Johnson's foreign and defense policies. It was the first time that Connally and Johnson were on opposite sides of a general election campaign. Connally's brother, Golfrey Connally, an economics professor at a junior college in San Antonio, also endorsed McGovern. Some evidence even suggests that Connally was "privately" for Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, not the Democratic candidate Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, for whom Johnson campaigned with considerable loyalty. During the war, Connally had served on Eisenhower's planning staff for the invasion of North Africa.
In the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Texas, Connally endorsed the Democratic Harold Barefoot Sanders, later a federal judge from Dallas, rather than the Republican incumbent John G. Tower, also of Dallas. Connally had considered running against Tower in 1966, but chose to run for a third term as governor. Tower then defeated a Connally ally, state Attorney General Waggoner Carr of Lubbock.
Tower, Nixon's choice in the Senate race, won handily over Sanders, but the Republican candidate for governor, Henry Grover of Houston, a victim of intraparty maneuvering, fell short and lost to Democrat Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde, a city in South Texas.
In January 1973, Johnson died of heart disease. He and Connally had been friends since 1938. Connally took part in eulogizing Johnson during interment services at the LBJ Ranch in Gillespie County, along with the Rev. Billy Graham, who officiated at the service. Millions around the world viewed Connally's eulogy as the most famous moment of the LBJ funeral, as it was a reminder that Connally was wounded in the assassination that made his mentor and fellow Texan president.
Party switch
In May 1973, Connally joined the Republican Party. When Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned five months later because of scandal, Connally was one of Nixon's potential choices to fill the vacancy. Nixon tapped Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., the House Minority Leader from Grand Rapids, Michigan, because he believed that the moderate Ford could be easily confirmed by both houses of Congress, as required by the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. A Connally nomination presumably could have been blocked by liberal Democratic opposition. The weakened Nixon did not want a fight for the vice-presidential selection.
Connally's party bolt left a sour taste in the mouth of at least one prominent Texas Democrat who stood with George McGovern in 1972: Bob Bullock, the Hillsboro native who served as Texas secretary of state, comptroller and lieutenant governor: "...I got some ideas on Mr. Connally. He ain't never done nothin' but get shot in Dallas. He got the silver bullet. He needs to come back here and get hisself [sic] shot once every six months. I attack Connally on his vanity. He's terribly bad [sic] vain, y'know..."
Indictment, trial and acquittal
In July 1974, Connally was indicted for allegedly pocketing $10,000 for influencing a milk price decision by Texas lawyer Jake Jacobsen. At his April 1975 trial, he called as character witnesses former First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Texas Senator Barbara Jordan (the first female, black state senator in Texas history), Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and Billy Graham. According to a November 1979 profile by Paul Burka in Texas Monthly magazine, "The case turned first on whether Connally would simultaneously be tried for perjury—some embarrassing inconsistencies had crept into his pretrial testimony—but his lawyer was able to prevent it, and then the issue came down to whether John Connally or Jake Jacobsen was telling the truth." On the strength of the defense's prominent character witnesses, Connally was acquitted.
Presidential run
Connally announced in January 1979 that he would seek the Republican nomination for President in 1980. He was considered a great orator and strong leader and was featured on the cover of Time with the heading "Hot on the Trail". His wheeler-dealer image remained a liability. Connally raised more money than any other candidate, but he was never able to overtake the popular conservative front runner Ronald Reagan of California. Connally spent his money nationally, while George H. W. Bush, who was from Houston like Connally, targeted his time and money in early states and won the Iowa caucus. The Houston political activist Clymer Wright rejected both Connally and Bush and served as Reagan's finance chairman in Texas. Bush's status as a challenger to Reagan was at first heightened by his victory in Iowa. Connally drew the backing of Republican State Representative Fred Agnich of Dallas, former president of Texas Instruments.
Connally focused on South Carolina, an early primary state in which he had the support of popular U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, but he lost there to Reagan 55 to 30 percent and withdrew from the contest. After spending $11 million during the campaign, Connally secured the support of only a single delegate, Ada Mills of Clarksville, Arkansas, who became nationally known for a brief time as the "$11 million delegate".
Connally quickly endorsed Reagan, appeared with the former governor at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, fundraisers, and other campaign events. He helped Reagan to win a narrow primary victory over Bush in Texas. During a press conference, Connally was asked if he thought Reagan was the best man to be president. Connally naughtily replied: "I think he's the second best man I can think of."
Connally said that he and Bush despised each other. The statement seemed to contradict Connally's earlier insistence that President Nixon name Bush to a post in the administration as a pre-condition for Connally's agreeing to become treasury secretary. Rumors also abounded in 1964 that Connally personally voted for Bush for senator because of his greater dislike for Bush's then-opponent, Senator Ralph Yarborough. Bad feeling between Yarborough and both Connally and Vice-President Johnson was evident in the early stages of President Kennedy's tour of Texas in November 1963. Among other things, it was widely reported at the time that Yarborough had refused to travel in Johnson's car, although, after Kennedy's intervention and Connally's agreement to give Yarborough a more prominent role in functions planned for Austin, he did so during the fatal motorcade in Dallas. Charles Keating once contributed to Connally's campaign for President.
Later years
In 1986, Connally filed for bankruptcy as a result of a string of business losses in Houston. In December 1990, Connally and Oscar Wyatt, chairman of the Coastal Oil Corporation, met with President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Hussein had been holding foreigners as hostages (or "guests" as Hussein called them) at strategic military sites in Iraq. After the meeting, Hussein agreed to release the hostages.
Connally was known as an immaculate dresser who wore expensive and stylish suits wherever he went. Biographer Charles Ashman related a story about Connally's carrying a cigarette lighter in his pocket and lighting cigarettes as a courtesy only for very wealthy men who might be inclined to contribute to his political causes or retain him as a consultant on business arrangements.
In one of his last political acts, Connally endorsed then Republican U.S. Representative Jack Fields of Houston in the special election called in May 1993 to fill the vacancy left by U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Houston. Bentsen was appointed Treasury Secretary in the new administration of Bill Clinton. Fields finished fourth in the special election and left Congress thereafter. Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, for whom Connally's daughter had been employed in the state treasurer's office, won the seat by a wide margin in the special election runoff against the appointed Democratic Senator Robert Krueger.
Connally died on June 15, 1993 of pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive scarring of the lungs. His funeral was held at the First United Methodist Church of Austin where he and his wife, Nellie Connally, had been members since their days living one block to the south in the Texas Governors Mansion, 1963–69. Former President Nixon left the bedside of his wife, Pat Nixon, who died a week later, and flew to Austin to attend Connally's funeral. His wife Nellie died in 2006. The Connallys are interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. When Connally died, forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht and the Assassination Archives and Research Center petitioned Attorney General Janet Reno to recover the remaining bullet fragments from Connally's body, contending that the fragments would disprove the Warren Commission's single-bullet, single-gunman conclusion. The Justice Department replied that it "...would have no legal authority to recover the fragments unless Connally's family gave [it] permission." Connally's family refused permission.
Interstate 410 in San Antonio is named the Connally Loop in his honor. The John B. Connally Middle School, part of Northside ISD also in San Antonio, is also named in his honor.
The Connally Memorial Medical Center in Floresville is named for John, Wayne, and Merrill Connally.
The John Connally Unit of the Texas Corrections Department south of Kenedy in Karnes County is named in his honor.
The Connally Plaza, including a life-sized statue of Connally, in downtown Houston.
The Texas A&M University System Offices, located in College Station, are housed in a building named in his honor.
John B. Connally High School, part of Pflugerville ISD in Austin, is also named in his honor.
In January 1964, Connally donated the suit he wore on November 22, 1963 to the Texas National Archives. The suit was displayed to the public until March 1964. In 2000, the TNA loaned the suit to the National Archives and Records Administration for examination purposes. From October 2013 to February 2014, the suit was featured as part of an exhibit at the Texas National Archives to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.


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If there's one thing we've learned from Twitter, it's that you never, ever want to upset Alec Baldwin. Now, NBC, the very network he appears on in 30 Rock, has incurred his wrath, and he's wasted no time in tweeting his revenge. Specifically, he's saying he's leaving NBC for good, which could be very, very bad news for fans of the only slightly less hot-headed Jack Donaghy.
The spat began this morning when NBC's Today Show "camped" outside his building. He thought they were trying to get an interview with him about his stalker, but it turns out they were just doing a live shot from outside. Anyway, he tweeted, "I haven't appeared on the Today Show in many years. But did they have to camp outside my apt?" And followed up with, "A story about stalking sure brings out the stalkers in the media. But, the Today Show?" Worse, he apparently didn't know they were coming, saying, "No one from NBC contacted me until the Today Show arrived at my apt." This led him to conclude with, "I think I'm leaving NBC just in time." Wait, noooo! We thought Alec was already confirmed for the next season of 30 Rock, but maybe we thought wrong. Or maybe this is one of his famous rash decisions that not even NBC knows about. We'll have to wait and see if he calms down and/or changes his mind, but for now the future looks very dull without Jack to dole out priceless life lessons like "Never go with a hippie to a second location." [Twitter]
The investigation into Whitney Houston's death has officially been closed, and no charges were filed against anyone. The tape of the 911 call from her hotel has also been released. It's pretty uneventful, just a hotel staff member saying there's a 46-year-old woman who's not breathing in one of their rooms. He did say, however, that he couldn't patch the 911 operator through to Whitney's room because the woman who'd called from there was "irate" and kept hanging up on it. Hmm. [E!, TMZ]
Well, it's finally happened. Mr. Big is off the market. No, he did not marry Carrie Bradshaw, because she's not actually a real person. (Sorry to burst your bubble.) Instead, Chris Noth married his fiancée, Tara Wilson. They've got a four-year-old son together and have been engaged since 2009. [LA Timesp]
Today may be a day that lives in infamy for all of your Harry Hunters out there. It seems Prince Harry is dating pop star Mollie King. She looks lovely, and they probably look lovely together. They are supposedly "head over heels" but let's wait a while until we're sure it's serious before we go into full meltdown mode, shall we? [Express]
Oh my Goddd, you guyz. Ryan Gosling took a walk in New York City today, and he didn't save even a single person's life while he was out. LAZY. He must be having an off day. Anyway, he did have lunch with a friend, and from the looks of it they went to Westville, which is one of my personal favorite restaurants. So, at the very least, we know he's got excellent taste in food. [HuffPo]
- Holy payday, Batman! It's being reported that Britney Spears is going to be paid $15 million to be a judge on the X-Factor. [E!]
- Taylor Swift appears to have a big ol' crush on One Direction singer Harry Styles. No official word on if the feeling is mutual, but if they get together, it could be so explosively amazing that the pop universe would spontaneously combust, and all we'd be left with is beautiful, pink, sparkly dust. [MTV]
- Speaking of One Direction, Justin Bieber apparently had to issue a teen beatdown on 1D star Niall Horan, after he "poured on the charm" for Selena Gomez at the Kids' Choice Awards. Justin stepped in and told Niall to step off. Oooh, dayum. [Hollywood Life]
- Please offer your sincere congratulations to Matt Lauer, who has been given the dubious honor of being named the most powerful person in news by The Hollywood Reporter. [Extra TV]
- Drew Barrymore has yet to actually say out loud to a member of the media that she is pregnant, but her belly seems to be doing the talking for her. [Radar]
- Salma Hayek wore a shirt that revealed her (very modest) bra when flashed with a camera. Can you believe the nerve of that women? Reason #53,298 that we should all be glad we're not hounded by the paparazzi. [Us]
- Rooney Mara changed her hair, and, no joke, she looks like a COMPLETELY different person. [E!]
- Scandal alert! Alexander Ludwig, of a little movie you might have heard of called The Hunger Games, was seen leaving the Sayers Club in Hollywood last night. The problem? He's only 19, and it's a 21 and over club. It appears they're in trouble for letting him in, since they're now being investigated California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. D'oh. [TMZ]


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Subtract and Branch if Negative
I got pretty bored over winter break, and decided I needed a project to keep me busy until class started. Well, there was one thing that I've been wanting to do for a long time. I have wanted to build a simple computer out of 7400 series logic chips. I only had about a week for the whole project, so the design had to be pretty spartan. I also wanted to use chips that I had on hand, though that didn't last for too long.
After thinking up a few different ideas, I finally remembered another project that I've been wanting to do: build a Subtract and Branch if Negative computer. That is, a computer whose only instruction is to subtract two numbers, store the result, and branch to an alternative memory location if the result is negative. This is very much like SBN on wikipedia.
If you don't care to look at the Wikipedia page, the subtract and branch if negative instruction turns out to be the only instruction you need to build a turing-complete computer. That is, this one instruction, given enough time and memory, can compute anything that a regular computer can. Of course, it's slow, inefficient, and a pain to program.
So I went about designing a simple microcomputer based on this instruction. First step, I needed to decide on some basic specifications for the processor:
Data Width: 8-Bits
Address Space: 16-Bits
Instruction Set: Subtract and Branch if Negative
After that, I could rough out a block diagram of the dataflow. Using the dataflow as a guide, I figured out what chips I could use in what blocks, how many I would need and how they connect to each other.
The dataflow was the easy part. More difficult is designing the control logic, which was going to be especially complicated because of the 8 and 16 bit busses. This is because it now requires two cycles to read in the address of an operand, and another cycle to read in the value of the operand. This needs to be done once for both operands, and then again when we need to load the new PC value if the instruction takes the branch.
The control sequence for the processor goes something like this:
- Load MAR.H; PC++
- Load MAR.L; PC++
- Load B
- Load MAR.H; PC++
- Load MAR.L; PC++
- Load A
- Store ALU Result; PC++
- Load PC.L
- If (ALU Result is negative) {Load PC}
So we have the control and the dataflow...what else? Input and output. There needs to be a way to load programs onto the device, and then a method of interacting with the running program.
I had initially thought about using a series of switches for loading programs into RAM. That was going to be incredibly tedious and time consuming, so I scratched that. Instead, I did some research on the Parallel port, and found it to be the perfect solution. It's easy to interface, easy to program and completely automated. This only required a few extra chips to interface the parallel port to the system bus on the microcomputer. Basically, it needs to be able to take control of the bus when it needs to program, and relinquish control when it's done.
Last bit of hardware, the human machine interface. I have to admit, it's pretty craptacular on this microcomputer. An 8-bit dipswitch and an 8-LED bargraph are all the I/O you get. However, this fits in with the overall strategy of making somewhat rediculous design decisions. There is however, at least one neat trick that can be done to expand the output capabilities.
The fabrication of this computer is another story. I had hoped I would be able to build it on a printed circuit board, that would have been wonderful. However, I had too many chips for the free version of Eagle CAD I had. Simply would not fit on the board. So I decided to use a pre-drilled perferated board with solder pads. Good enough, but wiring ended up taking most of the week. Luckily for you, you don't have to wait to see the finished product. The final stage of the microcomputer has two boards. The bottom board has the processor, memory, power supply and clock generator. The top board holds the batteries, has some blinky lights, dip switch and some simple address decode logic for memory-mapped IO.
To wire up all the parts, I used a lot of wire-wrap wire, solder and a wire-wrap tool. The leads on the parts were very short, so wire-wrapping was a real pain, but it seemed to be the best way to get the leads into place for soldering. It was slow going and took about four very full days to finish. On top of that, I had to test and debug different parts as I finished them. It can make you pretty nervous when you have to desolder several connections on one IC to make a fix.
If I do another 7400 series-based microcomputer, I will get a proper wire-wrap board.
Now that the darn thing is built, what to do? The work's not done yet. After building and debugging it, I still needed to be able to write, assemble and load programs. I needed to write an assembler and program loader.
The program loader actually turned out to be the easiest part of the whole project. Programming the parallel port on Linux was much easier than I expected. In fact, the loader program only had one bug in it the first time I tried it. Made the fix, tried it again, worked!
Now that I could load any data I wanted into the microcomputer's memory, I needed an easier way to program it. This meant developing a simple two-pass assembler. On top of that, I wanted it to have some built-in pseudo operations, so I could program and still keep my sanity. Programming this device with only using the low-level subtract and branch if negative instruction is not my cup of tea.
Eventually I hacked out a simple assembler that fit the bill. The assembly code looks like this:
sub i, imm(-10)
dec i
bltz i, loop
This little snippet is a simple loop. It subtracts -10 from i (which it assumes to be 0), setting up the number of iterations. Each iteration it decrements the loop index, and continues to loop as long as "i" is greater than or equal to zero.
Each instruction in that snippet is a pseudo-operation that is converted into SBN instructions by the assembler. Furthermore, each of those pseudo-ops can be converted into exactly one SBN instruction.
The "imm(-10)" bit of code allows me to operate with immediate values in my code. All it does is return the address of the value"-10" on the constant table. These keeps me from having to allocate a memory location for each constant I use in my code.
I now have everything I need to write a demo program. I wanted the microcomputer to do something unexpected. Something you wouldn't think it would be able to do. I think the most limiting part of it is it's input and output. I decided the demo would be an output-only program. This leaves me with eight blinky lights to do something cool with.
So, the most unexpected thing to do, would be to project an image with those eight lights. That's my thought anyways. I was set on displaying a smiley face using just those lights. How, you might ask, can that be done? Using persistance of vision.
If you've ever looked at a flashlight in the dark, you've probably noticed that it seems to leave a trail when you look at it. If you spin it in a circle fast enough, you might see a circle of light, neato. The idea behind displaying a smiley face on the eight lights is the same. If I move the lights, or use a mirror to move them, your eyes will see a trail marking where that light has been in your field of vision. If we setup a regular motion of a mirror, and display one line of the image at a time, we can display an entire 2D image using one line of eight lights.
So that's what I did. The program outputs one line of the desired image, blanks the lights for a split second, the next line is lit up, and so on. I took a picture of the effect with my camera. I don't have any mirrors yet, so I just panned the camera across the lights in the dark, it worked out really well. To show other people, I can just shake the lights up and down. Eventually, I would like to get a small mirror, motor and switch for synchronization. That seems a bit safer than shaking the fragile computer.
In the end what I got is an 8-Bit computer with one instruction, 32 KB of RAM and a clock speed of 250KHz. Though it takes nine cycles to execute one instruction, so in reality, it's executing about 28,000 instructions per second.


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In this area we provide two different kinds of Fight Klub User-Lists. First, a "FK Player-List" where you find all on openCards registrated FK players (use tab "Player-List"). Second a "FK Collector-List" where you find all on openCards registrated FK collectors (use tab "Collector-List"). You can add yourself to one of these lists while editing the "Game-Settings" of you profile .
Understandng of Locations
Locations are used in different areas on openCards for tournaments, groups and shops. In addition to the location section inside the "myOpenCards" area, where you can create new locations, you will find here special views to "FK locations" - locations, that are "connected" with FK because Groups, Shops and Tournaments are located there.
All these locations are based on certain adresses - on openCards we use that adress as basic information of a location. Behind that certian adress there could be a shop, a player group or a tournament location - or any combination of those. Therefore on openCards we understand the location as basic information that could be extended with additional information about shops, tournament locations and / or groups.
Furthermore a location is not necessarily associated with only one game like Fight Klub. Because of that a location could be added by any openCard member in the myOpenCards section. After that anyone can use this location for any game on openCards. According to this shops could be combined with different games that you can buy or play there. But here in the Fight Klub section we reduce all locations to those that are Fight Klub Locations - because you can buy Fight Klub cards there, play Fight Klub tournaments there or find Fight Klub player groups there.


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Recently my publisher asked me to write a guest post for their blog. It's up today, and it's called "A Christmas Wish." I'm reposting here for those interested.
This was a tough blog post to write. I've known for a while that the deadline was coming up, but honestly, had the worst time writing it. After the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I have felt like nothing I say holds significance. How, I asked myself, can I write about Christmas, when my heart feels like a leaden balloon in my chest? The pain that those parents and loved ones are suffering–and will continue to suffer–is unimaginable. I've thought of not much else these past days but fervent hope for their peace and ease.
My friend, the writer Kimberly Brock, and I talked about this. She, too, was asked to do a guest post earlier this week. Both of us had an admittably hard time writing. Hers is here; I think she does a great job addressing the mystery that surrounds this time of year.
But if there's a time of year meant for hope, a time meant for magic and for the promise of Light, it's this season.
So here's my post. It's nothing special, just childhood memories and a wish. I hope you enjoy it.
A Christmas Wish
Christmas magic.
It's something—a feeling, a spirit, a hope—that I've searched for, and inevitably found, every December since I was a child.
When I was very young, my parents made the magic. They filled our house with Christmas cheer: Johnny Mathis, John Denver and Bing Crosby on the record player and then the stereo; a house festooned with garland, candles and poinsettias; the everyday china exchanged for plates and mugs and bowls of Cuthbertson Christmas china; the lighting of the Advent calendar; the mistletoe hanging from the light fixture in the foyer; and the enormous Virginia pine Christmas tree. Today, that tree is a Fraser Fir, but it's still brilliantly lit with bubble lights and adorned with mine and my sister's hand-made ornaments, along with a precious few that have been in my father's family since the turn of the century. It stands next to an enormous real-wood fireplace, red, crocheted stockings hung at the fat wooden mantel, just waiting for Santa Claus. To this day, my sister's and my stockings are stretched inches longer than any of the others from years of being stuffed to the brim with goodies.
On Christmas Eve we'd head to church for the United Methodist celebration of the Moravian Love Feast. We'd sing Christmas carols, convene with friends, and hold our candles aloft as the entire sanctuary sang "Silent Night." I loved standing on the pew bench with my family, holding my candle high and watching the glow on the faces around me. After, we'd head home for Christmas Eve supper with my aunt's family and our best family friends: a tradition we still keep to this day. That very night, Santa would call the house, and all the kids would line up to hear just where his sleigh was at that very moment (usually over the Atlantic Ocean, Rudolph lighting the way through the fog).
Sheer magic.
Now, as an adult with a writing and teaching career, a family (including a husband, a dog, a three year-old daughter and a baby on the way), it takes a concerted effort to create that Christmas magic. I have to look for it—to make it happen, because I want my daughter to grow up as I was so lucky to: feeling that every day of December holds promise and magic.
I want her to be able—as I did as a child, a teenager, and still do—to stand outside in the dark of a cold Christmas Eve, and to look up at that mysterious sky with wonder and hope. I want her to feel in her bones a peace like no other. That is my most fervent Christmas wish, this year of all years. I wish it for all of us—for the community of Newtown, Connecticut, for all the world, for my family and for yours.
Tonight and every night, may we sleep in heavenly peace.


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The inflammatory attacks on Justice Antonin Scalia after the oral arguments in the Supreme Court in the Shelby County case last week show the desperation of the supporters of the "racial entitlement" that is Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Those attacks, and some of the disgusting political cartoons about Scalia and Jim Crow circulating on the Internet, are completely unfounded. Yet these attacks actually prove the truth of what Scalia said. At least one of the reasons why Congress renewed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in 2006 with such a high margin was because such vicious and unfair race-baiting is common, and politicians pay a heavy price for such attacks even when they don't deserve them.
Section 5 requires certain covered jurisdictions (mostly in the South) to get the pre-approval of the federal government before they can make any changes in their voting laws. It is a temporary provision that was supposed to last only five years. In its arguments supporting the provision, the government (through Solicitor General Donald Verrilli) made much of the fact that Congress has repeatedly and overwhelmingly voted to renew it.
Justice Scalia didn't think that overwhelming vote was "attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this." Instead, he thought it was attributable to "a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement.… Whenever a society adopts racial entitlement, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes." As the vicious, personal attacks on Scalia show, the only thing certain about talking honestly about the current benefits and burdens of Section 5 (or voting against its renewal) is the very type of venomous attacks and false claims of racism and Jim Crow to which Scalia has been subjected.
In fact, as I have pointed out elsewhere, Section 5 has been used as a "racial entitlement" by both major political parties for similar partisan purposes. Its requirement that race be taken into account in redistricting goes against our most basic principles of equal protection and equal treatment under the law. Yet that requirement has been used by Democrats to create racially gerrymandered districts that provide black and Hispanic legislators with virtually guaranteed incumbency protection and create safe Republican seats in the surrounding areas. Thus, Section 5 has been used as a racial spoils system by both parties to protect incumbents and create more safe seats for the two major parties even if it creates an apartheid-like redistricting system that segregates voters by race.
Chief Justice Roberts has also been unfairly criticized for pointing out that one of the worst states in the country with a large disparity between black and white voter turnout (which was the very basis for Section 5) is Massachusetts, which is not one of the states covered by Section 5. One of the states with the least disparity is Mississippi, a state that should supposedly remain covered under Section 5 because it is so prone to racism. Roberts has been disparaged for asking about these facts even though they were set forth in the opinion of the dissenting judge in the federal court of appeals decision in the Shelby case and were uncontested by any of the litigants. As Ilya Shapiro at the Cato Institute has explained, this information comes from the U.S. Census Bureau, which does extensive surveys after every federal election.
In fact, the Census Bureau's survey of the 2008 election shows that the percentage of black citizens who voted in the South was 66 percent, but it was only 58.6 percent in the Northeast. In 2004 (the last year of election information Congress had when it was voting on renewal in 2006), the Census survey reported that 58.9 percent of blacks voted in the South compared to only 56.2 percent in the Northeast.
No wonder Verrilli could not answer the Chief Justice's question about whether it was "the government's submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North?" Verrilli said "it is not, and I do not know the answer to that."
From the arguments and the critical comments in the media, many of the supporters of Section 5 seem to believe in the legal concept of "corruption of blood," which was outlawed by the Constitution. Apparently, the grandchildren of those who held office in the South in 1965 cannot be trusted today and are still responsible for the sins of their grandfathers. And (as outlined in the lower court decision) since the covered jurisdictions in the South today "have far more black officeholders as a proportion of the black population than do uncovered ones," the grandsons and granddaughters of those who fought in the civil rights movement also apparently cannot be trusted today as officeholders to refrain from the type of widespread, systematic, official discrimination that Section 5 was intended to stop.
What is clear from the criticism heaped on anyone who questions the constitutionality of Section 5—which the Supreme Court recognized in 1966 as an extraordinary intrusion into state sovereignty that was justified only by the unique and dire circumstances that existed at the time—is that one of Justice Scalia's other observations is absolutely correct: Unless the Supreme Court strikes down Section 5, "it will be reenacted in perpetuity."