March 06, 2014
— Ace Feast your eyes on all this Southern-ness.
When they're not busy making up false claims of Republican "dog whistles," they're eagerly crafting their own.
Update: Per a commenter at Jonah Goldberg's original post, NPR has now edited this clip so that they say "Democrats" instead of "Southern Democrats.
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Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 06, 2014 07:16 AM (BZAd3)
Posted by: Jimi Ray at March 06, 2014 07:16 AM (Aif/5)
Posted by: North Dakota at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (A0sHn)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (pHivF)
Posted by: joncelli at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (+/C3g)
There is something they are hiding from the rest of us.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (T2V/1)
Democrats Help Block Nominee For DOJ's Top Civil Rights Job"
Even the commentors on the NPR site are saying some of their orignal comments have been "disappeared".
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (8DWZQ)
Posted by: Seems legit at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (A98Xu)
Posted by: Joey Biden at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Barky & Holder Clown Show at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 11:18 AM (olDqf)
Not any more. They closed the factory near here a few years ago and moved it to Mexico. Now it's se Habla Cup
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (T2V/1)
Of course Montana is in the South? Don't you remember all of those monumental Civil War battles that took place near Billings and Helena? Syrias, you guys!
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (659DL)
Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (yhJhK)
Posted by: Barky & Holder Clown Show at March 06, 2014 11:19 AM (aDwsi)
For great justice!
Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (DrWcr)
I remember the Battle of Billings. I think there was a movie made about it with Matt Damon/Ben Affleck.
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Burnett at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (I67je)
Posted by: Seems legit at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (A98Xu)
Posted by: John Kerry at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: Mark Pryor (Ark.), at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: Andy at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (GpwJj)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:22 AM (zF6Iw)
Just when I thought she couldn't get any hotter...
Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: Sheriff Joe at March 06, 2014 07:23 AM (Aif/5)
Everyone who does not drink the Kool-Aid is dispensable.
They do realize they've just indicted the entire South- don't they?
It would be funny if, reminiscent of the Civil War Democrats and Republicans united to defeat...Democrats.
Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 07:23 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:23 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (Os+6p)
Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (rj3Rt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:22 AM (zF6Iw)
*cuts diamond with it*
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (GQ8sn)
South: All other states.
Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (yhJhK)
Posted by: Jules at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (omBWL)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (659DL)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (l3vZN)
I wonder if Southern Blacks are also considered racists against Blacks by NPR.
Southeeeerrrn! is the new Raciiiiist!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (gorVZ)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (8ZskC)
I wonder how many times this exact wording has been used in the past by "leaders" who history has categorized as evil.
*giving odds on - Many.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (BZAd3)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (yhJhK)
Posted by: no good deed at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (vBhbc)
Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (Kkb0b)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 11:27 AM (yhJhK)
Smokes. Takes it up the ass from Reggie. Smokes some more.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (Os+6p)
Edited for truthiness.
Posted by: Old Farts everywhere at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (DPkKe)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (aUQgu)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (hn5v5)
Posted by: Jay in PA at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (3LaGb)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: Bill at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (uvyrw)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (3iZoj)
Posted by: Gary from Providence, Unemployed and Entitled at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (yhJhK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: Alte Schüle at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (CwPO/)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 06, 2014 11:20 AM (659DL)
http://youtu.be/O17MA58P-QY
Posted by: Country Singer at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (L8r/r)
The vote, Obama said in that statement, was “a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.”
Bull. Shit.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (pt9WM)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (ZPrif)
It sorta is. Everything south of US 30 is indistinguishable from Kentucky, except there are places in Kentucky you can buy beer on Sundays.
Posted by: Joey Biden at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 11:27 AM (yhJhK)
Fills in his March Madness brackets. He's been working on them since April 2013.
Posted by: joncelli at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (eoeps)
You know the one:
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!
(Crossing my fingers that I avoided a barreling)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (yDmQD)
If it was really an important appointment to the President, the Gang of Whatever would have had John McCain find a way to support it. TFG didn't really care about this.
This was an effort to wind up the Democrat base, just like the repeated denunciations of the Koch Bros are political efforts to excite the base (#59 in campaign giving, behind every damn Democrat you can think of), and blaming business for their lack of hiring.
Posted by: MTF at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (LISuA)
Yeah, and I love this added tidbit:
UPDATE: Related: Shaheen dodges reporters after controversial vote. “New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen fled the scene of the vote Wednesday – following her decision to support President Obama’s controversial nominee for U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.” So it was “controversial” in that stronghold of the Old South, New Hampshire.
Adegbile defended a black man, and we don't like black people; that's the only reason it'd be controversial around here. Yep, we're just a bunch of old southerners up here in NH. We're basically Mississippi c.1843.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (Os+6p)
Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: HR at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:31 AM (4df7R)
MP4 says you are now a "Southern Belle".
*offers arm*
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GGCsk)
I believe the approved term is "Bible thumpers."
Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (DrWcr)
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roX70PAu3oA
Symphonie Fantastique fourth movement "March to the Scaffold" Hector Berlioz
Posted by: mrp at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (JBggj)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (kXoT0)
I just heard on the radio news that the Republicans filibustered the nomination. And that was on a Philly station where the murder happened and our Dem Mayor and DA came out against it and our PA Dem Senator voted against it.
See, can we finally put behind us the quaint idea that it really matter what we do or say?
Posted by: jeannebodine at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (2LJqa)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (3iZoj)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (u8GsB)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (aUQgu)
No.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (7ObY1)
*offers arm*
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GQ8sn)
Why I do declare! Thank you, kind sir. *accepts* Would you care to take a stroll 'round the peach orchard before having a nice tall glass of sweet tea?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (aDwsi)
I also enjoyed this press release by the leftwing "Leadership Conference" that condemned the use of the filibuster in defeating Adegbile.
http://www.civilrights.org/press/2014/debo-adegbile-filibuster.html
Posted by: dan-O at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (D0bIN)
This is starting to become scary. A bald faced lie, you can dismiss until everything is a lie.
When you start to suspect they really believe what they are saying, it's delusion.
We are being governed by insanely delusional, insanely dishonest politicians, and we (the voters) are not doing anything about it.
Eventually the simple instinct for self preservation has to kick in, and you decline to ride with the obviously incapacitated driver.
Posted by: Declined to self identify at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (/hRQu)
-libtard logic
Posted by: Adam_ME at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (J+jRf)
Posted by: Moe Syzlac at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (zYhdB)
Feast your eyes on all this Southern-ness.
We're all south of Canada, after all. Hellooooo, people.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: JEM at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (XO6WW)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (l3vZN)
Those of us with guns support states' rights, in general. Those without, well, I think the term useful idiots would be used by the centralized statists. Where I live there are a lot of soldiers from Ft. Belvoir and Marines at Quantico. Let's just say El Jefe would not be getting a lot of response from them.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:24 AM (GQ8sn)
Well, bless your heart. Have a gander:
http://tinyurl.com/o4d9qfy
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Typical Southerner at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (Aif/5)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (3iZoj)
Insty posted this, too. Apparently MWR is now a Southern belle.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:22 AM (zF6Iw)
*twirls parasol*
*titters behind lace handkerchief*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (aUQgu)
No."
Agreed
Posted by: J F'n Kerry, Shit on Shingle (SoS) at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (DPkKe)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:34 AM (4df7R)
Thank you ma'am, though I can't stay too long. I must get back to running the Northern blockade of Portsmouth so I can deliver crucial war supplies to our Southern allies.
*tips hat*
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Gary from Providence, Poet and Prevert at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (yhJhK)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (0z3kx)
Posted by: @ChickenKievParamus at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (CkjRf)
Posted by: Boo Boo at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (Q6pxP)
Posted by: ontherocks at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (ACXx7)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (HVff2)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (3iZoj)
LENA DUNHAM HIRED TO PEN REALITY TV STORYLINE FOR ARCHIE COMICS
Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene.
Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 11:37 AM (7ObY1)
They fucking ruin everything.
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (KbrNh)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (0z3kx)
"Wake up the neighbor....."
Still, cracks me up.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 11:33 AM (3iZoj)
Yes, unfortunately we don't have the certitude of them managing to shoot themselves in the head or managing, as Oliver did, to run himself over.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GGCsk)
Great. Now jwest can add that to "bible thumper."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (zF6Iw)
http://tinyurl.com/o4d9qfy
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:36 AM (zF6Iw)
Yes.
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (3iZoj)
To me NPR is actually a key building block in the impervious house of delusion inhabited by your stereotypical urban/coastal liberal. It makes them feel "smart", its tones and feel and flavor is culturally exactly what these people have been accustomed to considering "sophisticated .... educated ...." etc. I have many acquaintances (even family) who sort of rank in the "B-C" student category of life, and are quite innocent about public policy on any serious level, but boy do they feel smarter with NPR as their guide to "correct, smart" views of the world.
I believe NPR's influence - baleful influence - is outsized. Was shocked when doing some golf trips to the upper South out of the Beltway a few years back that the only "news" on the radio was usually NPR. Shocked, and depressed. There *is* really no news in the US, not any more. It's been pretty bad for a long long time, but it has become materially, catastrophically worse in the last 15 years.
Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (l3vZN)
*titters behind lace handkerchief* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014
======
Last I saw, she was sitting on the front porch, flirting with the Tarleton brothers.
Posted by: mrp at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (JBggj)
Why I do declare! Thank you, kind sir. *accepts* Would you care to take a stroll 'round the peach orchard before having a nice tall glass of sweet tea?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:34 AM (4df7R)
Close, MWR, but you would still be outed as a Yankee by this phrase. It's simply a nice tall glass of tea. The fact that it is sweet is a given.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (yDmQD)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (0z3kx)
And Duh!1 is still a dunce.
At best....
Posted by: backhoe at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: ontherocks at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (ACXx7)
* waits patiently *
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 11:34 AM (aDwsi)
You should see someone about your pathological obsession with, like, actual facts and stiff.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Schmuck Bait at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (/Crba)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (3iZoj)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (jlm/B)
Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 11:36 AM (GGCsk)
You should see it when the magnolias are in bloom. It's magical.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (hq5sb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Sphynx at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (OZmbA)
because. i don't have a clue what i'm trying to actually find when looking.
is there a page for that?
Posted by: willow at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (Em6d4)
I have a weird feeling in Lena Dunham's world, both Betty and Veronica are butch, and Moose is trying to open my squeakhole
Posted by: Jugghead at March 06, 2014 07:43 AM (Q6pxP)
Don't want to nitpick, but Hagel was appointed by the SCOAMF (and confirmed) approx one year ago. Gates was SecDef under Bush.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:43 AM (aUQgu)
Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at March 06, 2014 07:44 AM (mJFYI)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:44 AM (ZPrif)
Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene.
Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 11:37 AM (7ObY1)
rule34.xxx. Trust me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:44 AM (zF6Iw)
I twisted Barky’s arm behind his back and bent him over. Then I said, "Did he ram it up your button hole like this,” as I gave him the shaft.
Barky said, “Yes, but he didn’t use any grease!”
Posted by: Barney F. at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (zGaZT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (hq5sb)
Posted by: Hooper X at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (/Crba)
National Palestinian Radio
National Pacifist Radio
I have been on NPR air just twice. Once was sort of apolitical international-ish semi-narrow technical stuff about a foreign country's aerospace industry. The other was a full half-hour on the local live interview show. The second was quite illustrative. The show is normally a call-in show. The host, after a few minutes, got a very concerned look on his face, and signaled his producer that there would be no calls.
I am 100% certain it was because he was terrified what I would do to his typical callers, who no doubt were sputtering with outrage and disbelief at what they were hearing (a very straightforward, factual, direct-experience account and explanation of one of the major ongoing elements in one of our two wars following 9/11).
It's all there - the delusional framework, the (baseless) moral and intellectual certitude, the inability to deal with contrary (i.e. real) information or analysis.
Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (S+el1)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (hq5sb)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 11:45 AM (sjdRT)
Do you put cheese on your grits?
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (gBnkX)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (0HooB)
***
Short of making Biden moonlight the position? No. That's why he's there.
I can't wait to hear a guy who sounds like a village idiot with a fresh head wound explain why we're cutting the military down to nothing while the world is going batshit crazy.
Posted by: B at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (5OEha)
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:46 AM (GQ8sn)<
Don't all y'all?
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (sjdRT)
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roX70PAu3oA
Symphonie Fantastique fourth movement "March to the Scaffold" Hector Berlioz
Posted by: mrp
.................
As some of us have been saying for quite some time.. give the Dims enough rope...
In addition to O'Care, we need our candidates to keep hitting their Dem opponents on these votes and keep stressing their relationship with Prezzy Bozo who makes these appointments.
The same goes for EPA regs that the Dems now have realized are also gonna hurt them in the fall.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (Z7PrM)
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (/Crba)
And look like Ernie from Sesame Street.
And constantly take off her clothes.
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:48 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:48 AM (3iZoj)
Posted by: Adriane... at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 11:46 AM (ZPrif)
Big government benefits the establishment right every bit as much as it benefits the left.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (BZAd3)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (gBnkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (0z3kx)
Posted by: Philly Grits at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (A0sHn)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:51 AM (olDqf)
Since we're talking things Southern, I'll repeat my favorite Gone With the Wind story:
The author, Margaret Mitchell, was an honored guest at the film's premiere in Atlanta, seated next to Gable. When she saw the train station sequence, with hundreds of wounded extras stretching to the horizon and filling the frame, she turned to him and whispered, "Mah Gawd, if we'd-a had as many soldiers as that, we'd-a won the wah!"
Here's the scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us6LpxSkKYo
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (ZPrif)
A. The baboons will actually bathe.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (0z3kx)
.............
NPR doesn't get any direct funding.
The member stations do and pay some fees back to NPR for carrying it.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (Z7PrM)
Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2014 07:53 AM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:53 AM (NouFn)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:53 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: NPR at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (8mJcI)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (0z3kx)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (32Ze2)
Funny you mention Ms Hagan. Called her office before DOJ Civil Rights appointment vote, kinda sorta thinking she might use her head and vote no. Maybe she is dumber than Hagel after all.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (naUcP)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2014 07:55 AM (HVff2)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:55 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Lois Lerner at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (LISuA)
Last I saw, she was sitting on the front porch, flirting with the Tarleton brothers.
After they left, the Gatlin brothers came a-callin'. And there were three of them.
Posted by: Kenny Rogers at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (32Ze2)
Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (pt9WM)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (sjdRT)
I wrote a long-ish letter to Kay Hagan, explaining why I did not not want Hagel appointed. In return, I received solicitations for campaign money.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 11:48 AM (aDwsi)
I've sent letters and emails to Shaheen and Ayotte at various times. Every time I do I always start off and finish the letter with a statement along the lines of, "Look, I know this is being read by a staffer and isn't ever going to get to its intended recipient, so just sum up my points and stuff them under her door or tack them to her forehead with a Post-It note, okay?"
Depending on how I'm feeling, I may or may not use some profanity.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (4df7R)
http://tinyurl.com/lskgqyg
Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (aq/zi)
NPR says "A handful of *Senate* Democrats..." Not "Southern."
I had already posted a snarky comment over there before the error was pointed out. Either they re-recorded the opening, or NRO and the rest of us didn't hear it correctly.
It was still an awful, race-baiting report for other reasons.
Posted by: CJ at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (9KqcB)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (hq5sb)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Sphynx at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (OZmbA)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 11:41 AM (0z3kx)
That was one of my Mothers' favorite exclamations. Never knew where it came from until I saw GWTW (her favorite movie) for the first time, just recently.
It was never on TV when I was kid and missed all the more recent opportunities to see it. She laughed.
My mother's was Hells, bells, and shithouse mouse.
Go figure.
Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (DQZLr)
Anna, nice to see you so early in the day, with some WWII trivia. The USS Atlanta was one of the many casualties of the several Naval Battles of Guadalcanal, for which all interested must rush out and buy Hornfischer's "Neptune's Inferno". All his books are very good, but that one is literally a page-turner (at least for WWII geeks).
Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (afQnV)
NPR doesn't get any direct funding.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry
Like PBS, the Feds use the CPB as a bagman to fund NPR. And:
The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds. For fiscal year 2012, its appropriation was $445.2 million.
Thanks John!
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Vinney at March 06, 2014 07:59 AM (84gbM)
OT for a moment, but Ukraine has reared its ugly head again.
Thankfully, Barack Obama is on the case, along with the super-serious David Cameron. Happily Patrick Stewart is listening in to their call, as is a goat.
Posted by: MTF at March 06, 2014 08:00 AM (LISuA)
..........
It's a technicality. Yes, I agree NPR would not be in business without government funds.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 06, 2014 08:00 AM (Z7PrM)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 08:01 AM (3iZoj)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (pt9WM)
Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 06, 2014 11:54 AM (naUcP)
I read an article once about a restaurant near Atlanta that went through ~80 gallons of iced tea per week, 80% of which was sweet iced tea. The article also mentioned the restaurant used 50-60 pounds of sugar per week for the sweet tea. I did a little math and figured out the appropriate ratio was about a pound of sugar per gallon of sweet tea, and made it accordingly.
And for all of you northerners, there's a reason why you get a disgusted look on your face if you offer someone who wants sweet iced tea a glass of regular iced tea and a bowl of sugar. Properly made sweet tea is supersaturated by adding and dissolving the sugar while the tea is hot. You can never dissolve the proper amount of sugar into the tea after it has been chilled.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (+/C3g)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (hq5sb)
UPDATE: NPR apparently re-recorded the opening to change "Southern Democrats" to "Senate Democrats."
The also changed the reference to the nominee from "her" to "him." They had gotten the gender wrong. STILL, the report remains a race-baiting mess. Police v. Minorities.
Posted by: CJ at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (9KqcB)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 06, 2014 08:03 AM (gOoFi)
Not even *trying* to appear to govern at this point.
Hope he enjoys the golf in Key West this weekend!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2014 08:03 AM (aq/zi)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 08:04 AM (3iZoj)
Yeah....and I use both of heavily.
In my defense, though, a lot of people now are on drugs in CO.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2014 08:05 AM (aq/zi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 06, 2014 08:06 AM (gOoFi)
On D Day of Operation Watchtower, he mentions the transport Elliot getting hit and having to be sunk. But he omits any mention of the destroyer USS Jarvis, which was assigned as an escort for the transports, which was hit in the same air attack by a torpedo. The ship is not even listed in the Index.
Then later in August Admiral Turner dispatched USS Blue and USS Henley to disrupt the Tokyo Express. Again Hornfischer does not mention this battle or the loss of USS Blue to a Japanese torpedo.
So the book, while valuable, has issues.
Source: United States Destroyer Actions in World War II by Theodore Roscoe. United States Naval Institute Press 1953.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 08:08 AM (0z3kx)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 08:09 AM (aDwsi)
98ZJUSMC, well then, go thee (at some point) and borrow/buy all of Hornfischer's books, or at least: Neptune's Inferno, Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Leyte Gulf), and Ghost Ship (USS Houston, story of her POW survivors). And stay alert for Anna's WWII arcana, esp. on the ONT (others, too, occasionally even my own small self).
Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 08:10 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Dick "I'm a Dick" Durbin at March 06, 2014 08:12 AM (9ng2u)
Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 08:12 AM (L9et0)
He only served 11 months in jail for killing her.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 08:14 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: Jules at March 06, 2014 11:25 AM (omBWL)
He's really pissy about this because he takes everything personally. If we had a real opposition party, they could take advantage of that.
Posted by: Captain Hate at March 06, 2014 08:32 AM (NI2j4)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 06, 2014 08:33 AM (XO6WW)
Moyers refuses interviews on subject.
Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 12:12 PM (L9et0)
Somebody at Weekly Standard did it. Billy Boy was not happy about it.
Posted by: Captain Hate at March 06, 2014 08:34 AM (NI2j4)
"I AM an opposition party! I'm TOTALLY opposed to the my base!" — John Boehner
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 06, 2014 08:35 AM (XO6WW)
Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 08:41 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 06, 2014 08:44 AM (MuoQy)
black people; that's the only reason it'd be controversial around here.
Yep, we're just a bunch of old southerners up here in NH. We're
basically Mississippi c.1843.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:31 AM (4df7R)
MP4 says you are now a "Southern Belle".
*offers arm*
Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GQ8sn)
While we can't all be lucky enough to be born Southern Belle's, I hereby nominatify you all as Southern by the grace of my proclamation today.
Proclamation of Dame Christy, Queen, Sixth of March 2014 Eleventy
Note: Yankee Long Island husband, with last name no Southerner could initially pronounce much less spell, considers himself "Southern by the grace of God"(and me). We moved to Floriduh to be closer to my family in Mississippi when the boys were small. Husband now eats grits more than I do and says he is "fixin'" to do stuff. Good man I captured across enemy lines. I have trained him well.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Redneck Queen at March 06, 2014 08:48 AM (baL2B)
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1) Move tax day to election day. The people who object to that
are objecting precisely because they want to steal our money.
2) Print a family budget analog to the federal budget on every
IRS form.
How to get it passed:
a) A cadre of conservative House Reps should announce that until
this change is made, they absolve their constituents from following
federal tax law, because of the unconstitutional executive orders
that have modified the Obamacare tax.
b) The Reps should make speeches on the House floor urging tax
revolt.
c) The Reps should "Hire" all their constituents as part of their staff
for 1 penny per year to give them immunity.
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