Overnight Open Thread And Weblog Award Reminder

To get you going feel free to contemplate this...

Blinded by the sun, John Favara ran over and killed the 12-year-old son of his neighbour in New York when the boy rode his mini-motorbike into the street on March 18, 1980.
To his great misfortune, the neighbour was John Gotti, who was soon to become the Godfather of the American Mafia. Four months later Mr Favara vanished.
...His body was never found, and prosecutors now believe that they know why. Almost 30 years later, an informant cited in court papers in an impending Mafia trial says that Mr Favara was murdered and disposed of in a barrel of acid. Charles Carneglia, the defendant, allegedly told the informant that acid was “the best method to use to avoid detection”.

Now, I'm not saying if you don't vote for Ace as the Best Conservative Blog in this year's Weblog Awards that's going to happen to you. I'm just asking, why take the chance?

You can vote once a day, everyday through the 13th. As of this posting Ace is in 2nd place to a Canadian blog. I really don't know how you people can let that happen and call yourselves Morons. Do you want the hobos laughing at you? No, I didn't think so. Vote!

Below the fold, a list of friends of the HQ that Gabe put together for your consideration as well.

The Anchoress is nominated in the Best Individual Blogger category.
Snapped Shot is nominated in the Best Photo Blog category.
Nice Deb is nominated in the Best Small Blog category.
This Ain't Hell, nominated for Best Military Blog.
Jammie Wearing Fool, nominated for Best Large Blog.

A couple more I'd like to offer up for your consideration...

OPFOR and Blackfive in the Milblog category.

The Stupid Shall Be Punished in the Up and Coming category. TSSBP is a Navy/submarine centric blog run by a Navy vet who is fighting cancer at the moment, so perhaps a few moron votes would offer some good cheer.

Posted by: DrewM. at 02:21 AM

Comments

1 "Dizzying Intellect" for Best Hidden Gem.

http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-hidden-gem/

Posted by: The Deacon at January 09, 2009 02:37 AM (7eTzA)

2 Is there any upside for winning these Wizbang awards?

Posted by: counter at January 09, 2009 02:51 AM (0xhgx)

3 Moron reporting for duty.
I will vote..again again again again

Posted by: sickinmass at January 09, 2009 02:53 AM (/i4dU)

4 I mean, Sitemeter already has this shit figured out right?

And, Wizbang? Gay.

Posted by: counter at January 09, 2009 02:56 AM (0xhgx)

5 If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve. Somebody get me a sandwich.

Posted by: Jones in CO at January 09, 2009 03:05 AM (KOkrW)

6 AoS; 37,000,000

Small Dead Animals: 11,000,000

So, if SDA wins, its quite obviously because they pimp more. That's why Wizbang keeps it open for a week.

With a better gift bag it'd be the daytime Emmy's.

Posted by: counter at January 09, 2009 03:11 AM (0xhgx)

7 Dude find out who's rigged it for fivethirtyeight and Cake Wrecks and get them to vote Ace, you'll win in a landslide. Both have many more votes then their whole category got last year already. Hell they got more votes than any other site in any category.

I'm voting like crazy though...

Posted by: Rocks at January 09, 2009 03:12 AM (7rbe9)

8 What does Ace get if he wins? A lifetime supply of hobos and Valu-Rite?

Posted by: Benson at January 09, 2009 03:17 AM (qzcNU)

9 I don't care about any stupid awards. I'm a little more concerned about this John Favara dude.

I mean, Jesus, like there aren't enough things out there that can kill you like cancer and airplane crashes and heart attacks and so on. Did he know his neighbor was John Gotti? Wouldn't you drive a little more carefully through your neighborhood if you knew you could piss off the Godfather? Wouldn't you do everything a little more carefully?

"Better slow down. That's Mr Gotti's house"

"Making too much noise last night? No, Mr. Gotti, you didn't make too much noise. I was planning to stay up till 3 am anyway"

"No Mr. Gotti, I was going to cut the lawn today. Yes, I realize it's a little long. I'll take care of it right now."

Posted by: JayC at January 09, 2009 03:23 AM (idZZ3)

10 I think it's kindddda obvious someone is screwing with these polls. A nobody besting Instapundit? Andi winning (he's been losing steam for years)?

I think someone reported that the libs are distributing software to vote multiple times.

I don't really give a shit (I bothered to vote for AoS anyway), but man some people really hate us folks.

Posted by: Shill at January 09, 2009 03:39 AM (8jYMc)

11 I hate that little slimy pos Nate Silver at 538, so I am sure he and his "brilliant statistical mind" figured out how to rig the vote counts. I wish someone would give him a good old fashioned ass-whuppin'. Ace-I'm voting, boss, I'm voting!

Posted by: di butler at January 09, 2009 03:53 AM (qPIRP)

12 The Canadian Blog has more true believers. Like Manly Rash and his crew. Of which I am a part.

I vote for Kate because Ace bailed on us ages ago with the bailout crud!

Posted by: Pipe Barackage at January 09, 2009 03:57 AM (Z9IOH)

13 Spiderman to save Obama from assassination attempt at Inaugural

Posted by: Jones in CO at January 09, 2009 04:20 AM (KOkrW)

14 I'm melting, melting.

Posted by: biscuiteater at January 09, 2009 04:25 AM (2JF/+)

15 What kind of moron runs over a mafia kingpin's son then doesn't get the hell out of the country? "Oh I ran over little Fredo, no need to worry, I'll just go in peacefully living next door to the boss of the Gambino crime family who's son I just killed, nothing bad will happen."

That dude should be a Darwin award winner, seriously, he's too stupid to live.

Posted by: Amos at January 09, 2009 04:30 AM (zu8+4)

16
i'm in chicago and never vote. i have people that take care of that, and will continue after i'm gone.

this canuckian is a girl. don't vote for her, girls have cooties

Posted by: sure hope that bailout check comes soon at January 09, 2009 05:51 AM (MSYce)

17 10 I think it's kindddda obvious someone is screwing with these polls. A nobody besting Instapundit? Andi winning (he's been losing steam for years)?

Wankette is directing the ACORN tactics. I hope the next time she takes it up the ass she won't shit right for months.

Ace, are you saying to LGF and SDA "nice blog youse guys got there, be a shame if somethin' was to happen to it"?

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be a blogger.. (cue Rags to Riches)

Posted by: kbdabear at January 09, 2009 06:12 AM (miw86)

18 Tim Blair is nominated in the Aussie category, and Watts Up With That? is nominated in the science blogs category.

And, of course, Fuck You, Penguin and Cake Wrecks are winning in the Pet Blog and Food Blog categories, respectively. Vote for them!

I think xkcd is the best in the Comics category, but many people like Day by Day, Garfield Minus Garfield, and Jesus and Mo, so you might want to vote there as well to support your favorite.

Rachel Lucas is also nominated in Best Individual Blogger. I've been alternating votes for her and for the Anchoress.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 09, 2009 06:22 AM (2NDqh)

19 I think xkcd is the best in the Comics category, but many people like Day by Day, Garfield Minus Garfield, and Jesus and Mo, so you might want to vote there as well to support your favorite.

Day by Day would pull way ahead if Chris Muir promised that he'll draw Damon pounding Jan doggie style if he wins.

Posted by: kbdabear at January 09, 2009 06:45 AM (miw86)

C'mon Morons. Vote like your booze and cheerleaders depended on it.

BTW, Fuck You Penguin^tm is stomping around like Godzilla..

Oh yeah, it's 0545 in Texas and OU still sucks.

Posted by: DaveDave at January 09, 2009 06:45 AM (tYYuN)

21 Kate at Small Dead Animals is swimming in a sea of Canadian "Progressives".

The left hates her like I've never seen before.

She has brought out the worst in today's "tolerant progressive left.

Why? Mainly because she's popular and tends to pop the comfy lefty coccoon thinking that they have a hegeonomy on the thinking.

Not to influence votes or anything, but while this site is one of my favourites, Kate at SDA is literally the pointy tip of the spear being thrown at the left in Canada.

Posted by: biff at January 09, 2009 06:58 AM (2SSKs)

22 SDA isn't just a blog, it's a way of life.

SDA forever!

Posted by: mungman at January 09, 2009 07:48 AM (wodCj)

23 So you're saying that if I don't vote for you, I'll disappear and mysteriously fall into a vat of acid? That must mean that if I do vote for you I'll die a tortured death of throat cancer in prison?

Posted by: turfmann at January 09, 2009 07:56 AM (yStT3)

24
From yesterday evening…

"That's ok, though, since your comments will soon be enhanced and improved.
Posted by: notropis. at January 09, 2009 01:59 AM (LDjL2)"
Yeah, notropis; an all that jive and manipulation from... <STRONG>a blog that has previously won a Webby”...?</STRONG>

You and your colleges must bivouac on that site daily; to plant big ones on Ace’s backside…to keep his morale and ego sated...?

Posted by: J_Gocht at January 09, 2009 08:08 AM (O5bmW)

25 Web cluture takes itself too seriously.

Posted by: Chas at January 09, 2009 08:20 AM (1XTjz)

26 Personally, I welcome our new Ace of Spades Overlord.

No t-shirt required. Just forget I even mentioned it.

Posted by: Ignore the Man in the Barrel at January 09, 2009 08:28 AM (oPAYR)

27 Ace,

Rumor has it that Kate is better looking than you are. Maybe that has something to do with it? :-)

And while you're at it, could you vote for me too? Thanks.

http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-midsize-blog/

Posted by: Carl in Jerusalem at January 09, 2009 08:35 AM (TZ/8D)

28 Not sure why the media plays the story like it is news. Witnesses saw him snatched, given the accident everybody knew what happened. Gotti was scum, Favara's relatives should kill his widow, eye for an eye. Vendetta is the Sicilian way, take revenge now.

Posted by: Sammy the Bull at January 09, 2009 08:40 AM (UCSmT)

Re Small Dead Animals (SDA), biff has it exactly right.

Unlike Canada's "progressives" on the left—four out of five of our political parties and virtually all of our public and private institutions, including the MSM—whose official philosophy is virulently anti-American (except, now, for Obama worship), Kate's site is an oasis of pro-American sentiment.

Most of us see the US as the best friend Canadians have and we're utterly ashamed of the American bashing of the brainwashed lefties, who pretty well run our country—into the ground. SDA is a beach head to reclaim our integrity as a country—from a European like, socialist Nanny State, where mediocrity and irresponsibility are regularly rewarded, to a society more like the one many of us grew up in, where responsibility trumped rights virtually every time and accountable citizens, who behaved like adults, made the decisions, rather than the present day “adult toddlers”, who use the country as a great big playpen—on the backs of the responsible Canadians, who pay. . . and pay . . . and pay the bills.

Canada also has government run Human Rights (sic) Commissions (HRCs), which cherry pick their victims—always on the right side of the political spectrum. These kangaroo courts, where due process is noticeably absent, strip their victims of their dignity, their money, and, finally, in their astonishingly totalitarian edicts, the victims’ free speech and, often, religious rights as well. (HRCs also act as a huge chill on politically incorrect expression.) For taking a bold stand against these jackboots of the state, Kate has been sued by one of their “Orcs”.

So, SDA is a most worthy opponent: I believe Ace of Spades HQ should be honoured to be in the same category!

Posted by: lookout at January 09, 2009 08:56 AM (obaz0)

30 There should be AOS t-shirts.

Posted by: Jones in CO at January 09, 2009 09:11 AM (KOkrW)

31 "Ace is in 2nd place to a Canadian blog."

I never vote in these things, but we can't allow that. Voting this time.

Posted by: rightwingprof at January 09, 2009 09:14 AM (52wuV)

32 WTF is up with the small blog catagory? Dreck like rumproast running away with the category?
The moron army needs to march over and vote for Nice Deb.

Also, I'm going savagepolitics over the stupid will be punished. How much can one post or read about subs (with all due respect to those who served on them)?

Posted by: turtle at January 09, 2009 10:04 AM (PIChw)

The New York Chicago Way

Vote early, Vote Often

And make sure get payed to play.

Posted by: Cromagnum at January 09, 2009 10:08 AM (UxAb/)

34 I was suspecting some foul play after comparing the Technorati authorities of Ace and SDA: Ace 1349, SMA: 344, because Wonkette and other lib blogs have been manipulating the voteing against their (perceived) enemies by throwing votes to their main competators, (as seen in my case, where they think I'm a PUMA because they support me) But I think Lookout has a good explanation which could account for the surge of supportive votes.

May the best blog win!

Also, for Best New blog, Uppity Woman, is getting the Wonkette treatment for being a PUMA, and is losing to a backwards unknown, but is still close enough to close the gap. Vote for Uppity Woman.

Posted by: Nice Deb at January 09, 2009 10:19 AM (4EZXz)

35
I keep hearing people laugh and joke about the Gotti story but remember John Favara had a wife and two kids. Just think how painful this must be for them.

Posted by: A Plover In Every Pot! at January 09, 2009 10:29 AM (R9nd6)

36 I'm voting every single day for you, Ace. Just remember that when we are all at the re-education camp and I need an extra ciggie...

Posted by: IC at January 09, 2009 10:49 AM (jZNCU)

37 Also remember that John Gotti was a piece of shit gangster who let his piece of shit kid run wild (he let a 12-year old kid ride a minibike in the street for fuck's sake!). Favara had an accident that would have ruined anyone's life, even if it had not been to a fucking psychopath's kid.

Posted by: Beppo at January 09, 2009 10:52 AM (Ka5Jh)

38 I voted for Ace because I knew it would piss off John McCain.

Posted by: t.ferg at January 09, 2009 10:58 AM (2YVh7)

Hi Nice Deb, I've been voting for you, too BTW, but the lefties voting for SDA to screw Ace (strategic voting) isn't cheating. But it's obvious that the no-name sites that are going great guns, like rumproast and 538 (or whatever the number is), are cheating with multiple-votes.

Most people here know to go for Tim Blair in the Aussie category, but Melanie Phillips for the UK and either Five Feet of Fury or Ezra Levant are the ones to choose for the Canadian best. (SDA, Five Feet of Fury and Ezra Levant are all facing right commission complaints as well as Mark Steyn.)

Posted by: andycanuck at January 09, 2009 11:00 AM (55TIb)

How to get Sullivan out of the top spots.

Hi all,

To help get that Sullivan pr*#k out of first and get around the vote once every 24hours rule do the following.

Google Windows developer tool bar. Download and install.

Go to site and vote. Then find the 'delete cookies for this domain' and 'clear cache for this domain' (usually under misc, but varies, can be found somewhere in the toolbar menu commands).

Vote again, and repeat, after all, we know they are!

Posted by: ProudInfidel at January 09, 2009 11:06 AM (ohZw2)

41 15 What kind of moron runs over a mafia kingpin's son then doesn't get the hell out of the country? "Oh I ran over little Fredo, no need to worry, I'll just go in peacefully living next door to the boss of the Gambino crime family who's son I just killed, nothing bad will happen."

That dude should be a Darwin award winner, seriously, he's too stupid to live.
Posted by: Amos at January 09, 2009 04:30 AM (zu8+4)

He was a friend of the family. He benefitted from association with crime, and he paid. It was a bad deal, but it wasn't like he was a random Joe who stumbled into a jackpot.

Posted by: Potosi Joel at January 09, 2009 11:08 AM (TPRbZ)

42 It is a pleasure an an honor to stick it to LGF and that retard, Charles Johnson give the venerable Ace and his wonderful menagerie of circus freaks my vote.

Seriously, this place is awesome. Even if you do pilfer half the articles from hotair, your sense of humor beats Allah's.

Posted by: Johnny at January 09, 2009 11:24 AM (D4i3P)

Hey, can we have a little moment of silence here? The Seattle P-I, AKA "DNC Tattler", is rumored to be going tits-up today. The ranks of the unemployed are about to be swelled by several DNC spokesmen (editors), Kerry / Carter / Clintoon / Obama shills (coumnists) and at least one would be matchbook-pirate-drawing winner (David Horsey). With all due respect...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

All we need now is a "Seattle P-I chokes to death regurgitating DNC talking-points and (B), but mostly due to regurgitating DNC talking-points" headline!

And upon actual confirmation, THE SKULL, OH GOD YES THE FUCKING HOLY FLAMING SKULL OF KARMA!!! Whew... I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: sherlock at January 09, 2009 11:28 AM (cq3pU)

44 Who was it we were supposed to vote for for best liberal blog again? Wasn't one of them a PUMA and less of an asshole than the rest?

Posted by: ol-dirty-/b/tard at January 09, 2009 11:36 AM (IoUF1)

45 15 What kind of moron runs over a mafia kingpin's son then doesn't get the hell out of the country? "Oh I ran over little Fredo, no need to worry, I'll just go in peacefully living next door to the boss of the Gambino crime family who's son I just killed, nothing bad will happen."

That dude should be a Darwin award winner, seriously, he's too stupid to live.

Frank Castle was at a tropical party. Far far away and the Saints' men still got him.

Posted by: Johnny at January 09, 2009 11:36 AM (D4i3P)

46 Who was it we were supposed to vote for for best liberal blog again? Wasn't one of them a PUMA and less of an asshole than the rest?

Yes! Vote for the Confluence.

Posted by: Nice Deb at January 09, 2009 11:43 AM (4EZXz)

47 Yes! Vote for the Confluence.

Posted by: Nice Deb at January 09, 2009 11:43 AM (4EZXz)

Done.

Posted by: ol-dirty-/b/tard at January 09, 2009 12:08 PM (IoUF1)

48 I already voted but I can't believe you morons haven't picked up on the FACT that George Soros distributed that piece od software that allows multiple voting on the same day. That's how Ohbamessiah got elected. Now pardon me while I assume an alternate ID before the internal security forces of BHO find me and give me an acid bath. Jes' sayin'.

Posted by: Kelly at January 09, 2009 01:42 PM (vtwwl)

49 The only way to respond upon having killed a mob boss' son is to apologize, in person, with a handshake.

The handshake being the proper time to activate the suicide vest...

Posted by: ThomasD at January 09, 2009 02:00 PM (21H5U)

50 I live next door to these fucking humps and Favara's biggest mistake was that he should have hit the father first.

Its a big fucking joke to people that dont know them or dont live in communities controlled by them.

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