The last leg to the contest to win a free Ranger Up 2nd Amendment t-shirt PLUS two items from the Flopping Aces store was the essays. Readers could send in essays, 400 words or less, about the relevance of the 2nd Amendment today.

Ok, we’re on the home stretch. The top 12 entries are now up below. Vote for your favorite and the top two get a free RangerUp 2nd Amendment shirt.

Pick the best caption for the below picture:

The below polls will close on Aug 11th at 8pm PST.

The essay’s for the third shirt and a few items from the Flopping Aces store will be up shortly. Read the rest of this entry »

**Don’t forget to vote on the first 5 polls here…those end tomorrow at 8pm PST**

Part II to the voting is now on for the rest of the entries from the contest to win this shirt:

Pick the best caption from each poll for the below picture:

The below polls will close on Aug 8th at 8pm PST.

Once the finalists have been chosen then we have one last vote and the top two will win a shirt each.

The essay’s for the third shirt and a few items from the Flopping Aces store will be up shortly. Read the rest of this entry »

The contest to win this shirt:

Is now on. The captions have been made for the below picture by the readers of Flopping Aces:

UPDATE

Closing the contest, lots of caption entries for you all to vote on and now received five essay entries. Will have the follow up poll up soon.

Good luck all.

RangerUp has graciously given up three of their new 2nd Amendment t-shirts for Flopping Aces to give away:

So the top two captions for this picture gets a free shirt:

And the kicker is I will give away the last shirt and any two items from the Flopping Aces store (ad is on the sidebar, check it out) to the one who writes the best essay (400 words or less) about how relevant the 2nd amendment is in today’s world (Please send the essay to floppingaces@gmail.com…). Place your captions in the comment section of this post. The readers will vote on who wins both contests.

Just a reminder…this was first posted Oct 5th

To make following your favorite discussions on Flopping Aces a bit easier to follow and enjoyable I’ve added this section called Active Discussions. It’s up on the top of the page or you can click here and bookmark it. An easy to read list of all the latest comments for all of Flopping Aces frequent commenters. Nothing to fancy but an easy way to keep up to date.

A few days ago ABC noted a list of the top 100 political blogs and Flopping Aces made the list. Number 62 to be exact, ahead of some might fine blogs (take it with a grain of salt tho….check it out, Hot Air and Ace of Spades didn’t make the list, wacky). The sad thing is that these blogs are pretty much the only source for information that would dare be critical of Obama seeing as how our msm display a embarrassing amount of bias for him. For example, Evan Thomas of Newsweek calling him some kind of god:

Granted, he is not calling him God but rather, literally, saying that compared to other men he is all-knowing and all-powerful.

Then we have Brian Williams who’s “unprecedented” access to the White House led him to produce an embarrassing lovefest for Obama. It was so bad even Jon Stewart, a man not know for unbiased opinions, had to make fun of it: Read the rest of this entry »

Today I came across a tweet by TommyXtopher:

Will be off the grid for awhile dealing with the fact that I just got fired by PoliticsDaily.com…

Yes, you read that correctly, an in-the-tank liberal media guy was fired. What is the world coming to?

In a recent article entitled “Bad Bunny“  Tommy takes on the Playboy’s vicious slam on conservative women. In response to the negative feedback generated by the article Playboy pulled the article. However, Caleb Howe captured screen shots – WARNING: NSFW! It is a good illustration of the new era of peace ushered in by the Obama administration.  Vile attacks on conservative women are commonplace in this new era.

While it is one thing to attack conservatives in with impunity, it is absolutely intolerable to go against another player in the Party. There is zero tolerance for dissent amongst Democrats and liberals – one strike and your out.

In an interview with NewsBusters, Christopher recounts his success as a writer for AOL:

As Christopher notes in the statement he released to NewsBusters he was a productive and successful writer for AOL. He is a well respected, widely read, and widely linked writer. His stories and opinions have been featured on Bill O’Reilly, Hot Air, Red State, The College Politico, The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, and even NewsBusters. It seems highly unlikely that AOL fired him for lack of performance and it is important to note that nobody has claimed that as of now.

With all of this it seems that coincidental timing is an extremely hard sell for why Tommy Christopher was fired by AOL News today. It appears that Christopher was intent on covering a story which he found to be particularly important but that Aol News had “internally decided” was off limits.

Has the fact that AOL’s parent company, Time Warner, has a business relationship with Playboy may have affected their editorial decisions? After all Time Warner is a major national distributor of Playboy TV through their cable company.

I have met Tommy personally and find I disagree with everything he says. To his credit, he has learned never to cross me and has personally apologized for his rude behavior during a past conversation.  As much as I disagree with him, I agree that he has a right to speak his mind – even if I believe he has lost his

I was surprised to see he included me in one of his recent articles. Tommy is a good writer and liberal, he is bound to rebound from this debacle.

Top Conservative Women I Love To Love

And the winner is Palmetto Mike by a large margin with the below caption. He gets any three items from the FA store. Congrats Mike.

The top finalists from the caption contest are in…pick the best one out of the bunch and the winner gets any three items from the Flopping Aces store. Polls close on Tuesday at 6:00pm PST

Pick the best caption out of each poll below. There were so many entries I didn’t want to just list them all, dividing them into groups seemed easier for everyone to read. So pick your favorite out of each group:
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That time again, we’re about to pass the 5 millionth visitor mark and to mark that milestone we’re putting up the caption contest…..put your best caption in the comments. Winner gets any three items from the Flopping Aces store. Limit two entries per person….if you have more then two in there its going to be me who picks which two goes in. Will close the entries on Sunday at 9pm PST.

For years and years I was labeled, harassed, attacked, and otherwise been the object of hatred. They called me a “NEOCON.” Why? Well, many opponents of success in Iraq said they called me “NEOCON” because I supported America’s effort to succeed in Iraq. They said that it was impossible to succeed; to stay in Iraq until it was secure and stable enough to ensure that a 3rd invasion wouldn’t be necessary after leaving.

Last night, it came to me: I am no longer a NEOCON. Today, I am a liberal. I am an Obama fan.

No! For real! Please, stop laughing…you might be one too.
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I Apologize to the readers for today’s headaches when trying to view the blog. Sometime after Word’s Miss California post some plugins started acting up. We’re not sure which one yet but we’ve narrowed it down to the ones that pulled the recent comments, counted the pageviews and gave the top 10 lists, which you now see are gone from the sidebar….for now.

These plugins never gave me problems before so it’s very suspicious. I’m not ready to say it was a hack at this point (granted, Word’s post seemed to piss off a few lefties who are now gleeful that the site was down) but my server guru is going through the log and tracking down the problem. Until then those items will not appear in the sidebar.

UPDATE

Today my server guy discovered that we were indeed hacked. I will explain more after a day or so to ensure we have a handle on the attack. Meanwhile the recent comments and a lot of the toys are gone from the sidebar. For recent comments please check out the Active Discussions page. I will re-enable those plugins after we’re certain they won’t cause problems.

UPDATE II

Whoakay, the scoop. Apparently during the last hack of the site almost a year ago a bot was placed on our server which allowed someone to hack into the site whenever they wanted. The domains used in the script originated from Russia so I have no idea what that is about but all that has been secured. Thankfully my web designer and server guru, Mike from Aria Interactive has been a godsend. He is quite the detective and has help root out all these hack attempts. You ever need a hosting service check these guys out.

Hopefully the comment stuff on the sidebar will be back up soon. The post count stuff has already gone back up. Thanks for your patience.