1 Where's the ACLU?  Where's the ABA?  Protesting against this obvious govt STFU?

2 As I understand it, they are required by law to make these reports. We are in dangerous times with these idiot thugs in office.

3 I wonder if they are looking for any economic consultants?

4 They should testify in the nude.

5 Personally, I think we should push for a line item on payroll checks:
"Obamacare = XXX."
One that includes the full direct payments of both the employee and the employer - as well as the per capita slice of the associated overhead for complying with the regulations and shuffling the paperwork.

6
Well, if the corpoartions don't want to stick up for themselves...fuck 'em.

I'm done defending the creeps.

7 A hearty breakfast of beans and milk the day of the hearing will make C-SPAN's day.

8 Waxman!  He's a miserable pit bull.  Can't even wait a week, he's so damn anxious for his 15 minutes.

9
However...

Isn't it funny the same people who want to hold hearings and hold corporations accountable want to limit their free speech when it comes to election contributions.

10 And how many of these corporations donated lots of $ to Obama or the Dems?

I know it's annoying when politicians don't stay bought, but if they brought this on themselves, my sympathy meter will have a tough time registering even single digits.

11

Prosperity to Dimocrats:

Fuck You.

12 I want to see some captains of industry show up and tear Congress a new one, instead of cowering and apologizing for nothing, like they always do...

13 Get in your private corporate jet and fly to DC. Have 15 egg salad sandwiches and a fifth of tequila for breakfast  and go stand before the parliament of whores. Will this time itself for Easter week?

14 It could just be kabuki theater for the KOS Kiddies.

15 I'm so glad that the people in charge are focusing like a laser beam on job creation!

16
In related news, Hugo defends throwing his political enemies in prison. 

17 No documented cases of accelerator malfunction
Just super hardball tactics to drive Toyota into unprofitably
Ford, GM, Chrysler et al have the same allegations every year but no gov scrutiny
Nuff said

18 What about us...you know the suckers that are having our benefits cuts after 34 years working for them...dead

19 14 It could just be kabuki bukaki theater for the KOS Kiddies.




FIFY

20 Screw 'em - if the Dems don't like this disclosure then they should repeal Reg S-X and the other relevant provisions.

21 Does anyone know if there are legal restraints on the investigative powers of congress?  I don't see them in the Constitution.

22 Hide the decline!

23

FASBY?  SEC regulations?  Sarbanes-Oxley?

All must yield and bow to Obojangles and the Chicago Way!!!

Boy, what I would give to put a couple of M-80's up Waxmen's distended nostrils.

(unlit M-80's,that is:  God forbid anyone would ever dream of giving into the temptation cited on Ace's masthead)

God forbid.

 

24 Isn't it expensive for Deere and Cat to ship their products to overseas farms and construction sites? Instead of bitching about ObamaCare, wouldn't these execs better serve their customers by building their machines closer to where they'd be used?

25
Get in your private corporate jet and fly to DC. Have 15 egg salad sandwiches and a fifth of tequila for breakfast  and go stand before the parliament of whores. Will this time itself for Easter week?

Posted by: Pontius Pilate at March 27, 2010 05:41 PM (IrdrP)

And make sure to not put on any deoderant and jog up the capitol steps and get yourself all good and sweaty. Seems Harry Reid is highly allergic to the body odor of the proletariat.

26 It would be gratifying to see just one of the CEOs just lay into these frauds.  He could do what that fellow whose name escapes me did at the McCarthy hearings.  "Have you no decency left sir."  Even better, he should get Paul Ryan to act as his counsel.  Waxman would stroke out. 

27

 wouldn't these execs better serve their customers by building their machines closer to where they'd be used?

They already do this.

28 27, Ok then.

29 Wouldn't be surprised if that communist turd Waxman, the darling of SoCal Westside limousine liberals, tries to have the executives of those companies arrested when they are forced to testify.

We are entering a dangerous and frightening era when Congress and Osama Obama are held accountable for nothing, and those who oppose their traitorous schemes are demonized.

This could get ugly. I hope it comes to a head soon, however. The nation can't take a whole lot more of this shit.

30

This may be a trap for the Dims. These public corporations are required to do these things by securities law. They are legally liable if they do not make these adjuctments, and there is not a thing that Congress can do about it, with the narrowing majority that the Dims have. They can't tinker with the bill anymore.

This could be very interesting, since the companies are primarily liable to their stockholders. Republicans can use this to attack Obamacare and help drive it further down into the shitter.

31
re: Venezuela

"Alvarez Paz was charged with conspiracy, spreading false information and publicly inciting crime..."

We heard the Democrats this week laying the groundwork to do the same as Venezuela.

32 Contempt of Congress is the new badge of honor.

33

Posted by: SICKinmass at March 27, 2010 05:47 PM (1rflU)

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

34 Energy and Commerce Committee, eh?  In the hands of douchebags who believe in manufactured scarcity of Energy.  Commerce, OTOH, is acceptable to the extent the libs can confiscate its product.  Sadly, the Captains of Industry will probably grovel as they often do, happy to further cede the commanding heights to the douchebags. 

35 I'm reading a book called "The Forgotten Man", about the Great Depression and the left-wing socialist shenanigans the FDR administration engaged in - The Won is following the exact same playbook.  I mean, EXACT.  The intimidation of business, the baiting of the Supreme Court, the endless "nanny state" legislation. 
Amazing.  It's like ol' Franklin Delano is pulling The Dummy's string from the great beyond...

36

They already do this.

To paraphase John Paul Jones, they have not yet begun to offshore jobs.

37 Kulak production up 55% in this administration.

38 I pity these executives when they come up against the atom-splitting power of the mind of Barbara Boxer.

39 I'm serious. They should just sit there and fart. In fact, a contest regarding decibels, duration, melody, and deadliness is in order.

40 Posted by: SICKinmass at March 27, 2010 05:47 PM (1rflU)

Wow.  So, you're pissed, then...???

41 The Second Amendment is alive and well and still is the best damn friend we have to protect us from communism.

42 40 I pity these executives when they come up against the atom-splitting power of the mind of Barbara Boxer.





Just a tip, don't call the scrumt.. Mam

43

Odumbfuck is just trying to cut out the middle man.   CORPORATIONS are the middle man.

You see Stalin didn't allow.

Unions,
Corporations,
Dissent,

Bankers.
Free Speech,
or Freedom.

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

How did unions work out in Soviet Union?  
I love it when the Kenyan dumb fuck talks about being a strong advocate of the Free Market.   The fucker doesn't move his lips without lying.

 

44 I AM SO FUCKING MAD I COULD GO ON A KILLING SPREE AND FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO TASTE THEIR BLOOD ON MY LIPS, AND REVEL IN THE SATISFACTION THAT I SNUFFED OUT THEIR WORTHLESS LITTLE LIVES!!! FUCKING OXYGEN-THIEVING SCUM!!!!!

I WOULD EVEN BORROW A PAGE FROM VLAD THE IMPALER, AND DISPLAY THE HEADS OF THESE ASSHOLES HIGH ON STAKES. YOU GODDAMN FUCKING PIGFUCKERS!!! THIS IS GETTING FUCKING SICK!!!!!

Posted by: SICKinmass at March 27, 2010 05:47 PM (1rflU)

ace, ban him now !

45 And how many of these corporations donated lots of $ to Obama or the Dems?

26 Donors listing "Deere" as employer contributed $9,450 in 2008, mostly a guy from CA named Michael McGrady.  I don't know if the link will work.

The real money is probably in Democrat PACs.  Deere is a UAW shop and UAW only donates to Democrats.

46

Chavez sends endorsement of these behaviours in 5, 4, 3, ...

47 Isn't it expensive for Deere and Cat to ship their products to overseas farms and construction sites? Instead of bitching about ObamaCare, wouldn't these execs better serve their customers by building their machines closer to where they'd be used?

Do you not think they have made these calculations?  Every expense the feds start to add on, makes the company closer to moving their production facilities.

48 Will any of those CEO's have the balls to call Waxman on his 'dog and pony show'?  They might ask Henry "How many payrolls have you met?"  Hell, "Do you even PAY taxes?"

49

Firehorse, someday, when Ace holds a contest for the Alltime Stupidest Post , yours will get my vote.

If I had a dollar for every brain you don't have, I would have one dollar.

 

50
They should just sit there and fart.

In fact, a contest regarding decibels, duration, melody, and deadliness is in order.

Yeah, with those air scoops on the front of his face, Waxman would suffer first and most.  Good.

51 Ok, then.  When do we get to call these schmucks in Congress before a hearing of taxpayers to prove their bogus claims about how much money ObamaCare is going to save us?  Never?  What a country (we used to be).

52

To paraphase John Paul Jones, they have not yet begun to offshore jobs.

Then the dimbulbs can blame them for driving up the unemployment rate. A win for everybody. No?

53 How dare ye refuse to be eaten!

54

Posted by: SICKinmass at March 27, 2010 05:47 PM (1rflU)

 

Hi, I'm Bart Stupak and I'm running for Congress..

Is that a sharp stick?

55 Isn't it expensive for Deere and Cat to ship their products to overseas farms and construction sites?


Deere already manufactures in Brazil and India for overseas markets.  They also built an R&D center in India about five years ago.

Very easy to reconfigure one of those lines for what's left of the North American market.

56 Can't the companies tell Congress, thanks but no thanks?

57 "Senators, you may direct questions to our spokesman, Mr. John Bolton."

58 I AM SO FUCKING MAD I COULD GO ON A KILLING SPREE AND FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO TASTE THEIR BLOOD ON MY LIPS, AND REVEL IN THE SATISFACTION THAT I SNUFFED OUT THEIR WORTHLESS LITTLE LIVES!!! FUCKING OXYGEN-THIEVING SCUM!!!!!

I WOULD EVEN BORROW A PAGE FROM VLAD THE IMPALER, AND DISPLAY THE HEADS OF THESE ASSHOLES HIGH ON STAKES. YOU GODDAMN FUCKING PIGFUCKERS!!! THIS IS GETTING FUCKING SICK!!!!!

Posted by: SICKinmass at March 27, 2010 05:47 PM (1rflU)

Wait, did you just call us all the "n" word and spit on us?

59

"And how many of these corporations donated lots of $ to Obama or the Dems?"

And how many "lawyers" donated $$$$$$ to Obama, Dims, and the entire STFU, totalitarians, they've helped to elect, to deliver us, all, into serfdom?

60
Caterpillar has plants and dealerships all over the world because they sell their shit all over the world.

They don't build in, say, Belgium, because it's cheaper and then ship the units back to the US to sell, they build 'em in Belgium because they sell a shitload of units in Europe.

61 I hope the CEO's show up.  We can not have enough talk on how much this is going to cost the US in jobs, gdp, debt, less benefits, and higher premiums.

62 Not content with their victory, Democrats won't rest until they've beaten down anyone who points out the devastation caused by their anti-prosperity policies.

Do they really think they can stop the consequences of Obamacare with these bullying hearings?  Even if they don't announce this, everybody's still going to feel it when they lose their plans.

63 "Senators, you may direct questions to our spokesman, Mr. John Bolton antisocialist's ass."

Posted by: nickless at March 27, 2010 05:57 PM (MMC8r)

64

By all means, Waxman (and Stupak - now that's too good to be true) - hold show-trials all summer with major CEOs telling the public that they have to lay off workers, cut benefits and raise prices because the numbers of ObamaCare were totally made-up bullshit.

That's OK, Congress will just pass a law making those illegal, too.  Or moving your company overseas.  Laws can fix everything.

Cap and Trade and Amnesty are going to look so much better with a double-dip recession and 20% unemployment. 

Reality - the ultimate avenger.

65 Oh, yes: Rhetorical: What if Bush had done this?

66

Do you not think they have made these calculations? 

I do, yeah.

(Pardon my tone, but I'm already trying to position myself as a trustee at the camp. But don't worry, I'll take of youse guys.)

67

I hope you fuckhead congressmen aren't expecting your Internet to work for the next 6 months...

No more child porn downloads for you, Waxman!

68

"Senators, you may direct questions to our spokesman, Mr. John Bolton."

Posted by: nickless at March 27, 2010 05:57 PM (MMC8r)

I'll now direct all of my questions to our new director of Homeland Security, Sheriff Joseph Arpaio.

69 Even if they don't announce this, everybody's still going to feel it when they lose their plans.

That's after Barry's second Inaugural, right?

70
getting back to Venezuela...

we need the Republicans to repeal ALL hate thought crime laws, too.

71 "Senators, you may direct questions to our spokesman, Mr. John Bolton."

"He will be ably assisted by Dick Cheney and that large mass between his legs."  Questions?

72 Boxer is dumb enough to show up at a House meeting. The CEO's should arrive in SUVs and smoke Rush Limbaugh style during the hearing.

73 I hope they do this AND these CEO's actually tell it like it is and toss the shit sandwich right back on their laps.  They own it.  Now eat it.  If they actually go forward with this, I guarantee it will be behind closed doors, no CSPAN just like we had with the healthcare bill.

74 Refer your questions to our spokesman Darth Cheney.

75 I'll now direct all of my questions to our new director of Homeland Security, Sheriff Joseph Arpaio.

Would he not make the most kick-ass director of Homeland Security, ever? 

76 major CEOs telling the public that they have to lay off workers, cut benefits and raise prices because the numbers of ObamaCare were totally made-up bullshit. That's OK, Congress will just pass a law making those illegal, too.


Sounds like a book I read...some Russian chick...there was a railroad...

77 The CEO's should arrive in SUVs and smoke Rush Limbaugh style during the hearing.

Posted by: eman at March 27, 2010 06:01 PM (3fzoU)

They could vape the e-cigars and technically not be breaking any laws, unless they banned e-cigars already like New Jersey.

78

"You say "serfdom," I call it a vision consistent with the founders' intent."

And apparently promulagated by 90% of the "lawyers" in this country.

Hey, they're assured their dachas, among the elite, our betters.

79 Next the Dems will rush through a bill repealing Sarbannes-Oxley and whatever else may require these disclosures.  Watch.

80 These CEO's should show Congress all the respect they deserve. If in fact they bother to attend. Make them issue a subpeona, and then dare them to enforce it.

81 #73  That's after Barry's second Inaugural, right?

That's a scary thought, but the dumping is going to begin way before that theoretical second Inaugural.

82 Hmmm, maybe I didn't drink enough last night. 

Is there a "Fast Track to Citizenship" in China?

83

Rhetorical: What if Bush had done this?

I'm figuring there would have been calls for him to be hauled before an international court to face charges of crimes against the Workers and to be sentenced to execution by hanging civil, well-considered words of non-violent dissent.

84 Every time I see Waxman, I think of the Lost Boys and think this guy IS the Head Vampire.

85 80 I'll now direct all of my questions to our new director of Homeland Security, Sheriff Joseph Arpaio.

Would he not make the most kick-ass director of Homeland Security, ever? 

Posted by: antisocialist at March 27, 2010 06:02 PM (Rwudm)

As soon as he shoots down Gabe's nuke bomber.

86 32

This may be a trap for the Dims. These public corporations are required to do these things by securities law. They are legally liable if they do not make these adjuctments, and there is not a thing that Congress can do about it, with the narrowing majority that the Dims have. They can't tinker with the bill anymore.

This could be very interesting, since the companies are primarily liable to their stockholders. Republicans can use this to attack Obamacare and help drive it further down into the shitter.

I'm thinking that CEO's have a life they like. Consequently, they will fight to protect that life. So... if I had to show up for Kabuki Kongress Theater, I would have the best Non-Liberal Lawyers money could buy, and I would DESTROY the Kommittee that claims I am lying.

But then again, that's just me.

87 When the wife's place of employment had a feckless dickweasel coming in to give the 'you're all fucked talk' to the people they were going to lay off, one guy  Mickey Mouse ears and gloves to the meeting to show the snivelling wretch what he thought of him.

Sounds like an appropriate response to this shit.

88

As soon as he shoots down Gabe's nuke bomber.

Posted by: ATT at March 27, 2010 06:04 PM (YUwnj)

It shouldnt be hard to spot, it would be the most fabulous nuke bomber flying in the sky.



I keed, I keed.

89

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

 Posted by: gus

Tetris. That's it.

90

Not speaking truth to power is the new meme?

Remember, with hundreds of thousand of pages of Fed regulations, you are all guilty of something.  When we need to silence you, we'll decide which violation works best, and it's off to the gulag for you comrade!

None of this applies to elites however.

91 Could Waxman really be stupid enough to put this on the congressional record?

92 It's a trap!!!

93

I'm thinking that CEO's have a life they like. Consequently, they will fight to protect that life. So... if I had to show up for Kabuki Kongress Theater, I would have the best Non-Liberal Lawyers money could buy, and I would DESTROY the Kommittee that claims I am lying.

But then again, that's just me.

They're not you, so I expect them to show up and suck Congresscritter cock in hopes of getting whatever scraps fall from the table.  "Please, shut us down last!"

94

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

Rubik's Cube.

95 Much better Gabe. We gotta 'nuf to worry about rather than flogging the fuckers who actually perform the job that we ask them to perform. Am attributing this a.m.'s lapse in judgment to valurite. and a skinny gal with big breasts watching you as you wrote.. just released from Maricopa Co. custody.

(((Love, Hugs)))

96

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

Full auto AK-47

97 These people are truly bullies.

98

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

(and an AK, of course, but frickin' Santa's been bogartin' those.)

99 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

Vodka?  But it wasn't Val-U-Rite though so I can technically, it's not wanted then.

100 77 Boxer is dumb enough to show up at a House meeting.

The CEO's should arrive in SUVs Gulfstream V's and smoke Rush Limbaugh style during the hearing.

Posted by: eman at March 27, 2010 06:01 PM (3fzoU)

FTFY!

101 When's the last time that a hearing was anything other than a stage for posturing?

102 OT: linked at HotAir:

The Top  Six Bloggers and/or personalities that are Smart.

Number One.... wait for it...... Ace.

Am confused by the posting and do not know if this is good or snark.

/back to your regularly scheduled programming.

103

Come Monday, anyone who leaves their money in the stock market is a fool.  Ditto the bond market.  Ditto the money markets. Ditto real estate. 

Aside from commodities, that leaves cash, which will soon be worthless and bound for the mandatory backyard compost heaps coming to a Town Near You.

I stay cool as a rule, but sometimes Bad is Bad.

104
hahaha, this isn't the first time Cat and Obama have been tangled up.

Obama, being the fascist prick he is, toured a Cat plant during one of his campaign-style rallies for the Stimulus Scam and pretty *told* the Cat CEO he would be hiring more employees.

The Cat CEO announced a few days later Cat would be laying off people.

105 But, you see, it's going to bring costs down, so we find your "findings" to the contrary to be quite out of line. 

Perhaps you should reconsider your estimates?  Remember, costs are to go down under this plan. 

...this is a pretty fuckin' scary deal, guys. 

106

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

 Posted by: gus

Tetris. That's it.

Posted by: Z Ryan at March 27, 2010 06:06 PM (cMo6P)

Katarina Witt ?

107
They weren't commies when they invented vodka.  And in the USSR only the elites could get vodka, anyway.  The peasants drank putrid moonshine wood alcohol, I forget the name.

108

The Subcommittee for Oversight & Investigation doesn't have Waxman as a member. Ron Paul is a member, though.

/Not sure I have the right committee. Just want to see who the members are before they engage in these show trials.

109
Remeber the RUBIK'S CUBE?

110 Deere and Co PAC gave 32% to Democrats, 68% to Republicans.
Total dollar amount a third of what UAW gave to Democrats.

This is kind of fun.

111
well, apparently FireHose does...

112 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

Paulina Porizkova?

113

Where's the site that's collecting the overwhelming response/commitment from the "legal" community to push back against this obvious (Dim controlled) govt's attempt at stifling Free Speech?  Imposing "It's" will on the masses?

ACLU?  ABA?  Buehler?  Buehler?

Crickets chirping.

114

Right, so it's okay that come up with this stuff in secret behind closed doors, but when  businesses point out the real costs, congress demands complete disclosure and an explanation.

115 109

Come Monday, anyone who leaves their money in the stock market is a fool.  Ditto the bond market.  Ditto the money markets. Ditto real estate. 

Aside from commodities, that leaves cash, which will soon be worthless and bound for the mandatory backyard compost heaps coming to a Town Near You.

I stay cool as a rule, but sometimes Bad is Bad.

Posted by: effinayright at March 27, 2010 06:11 PM (3sB5l)

I concur...have taken advantage of selling in this 'bull rise'...guess I don't believe Obammy's hype.

116 Can't wait to talk to my elderly aunt... you know the Obama voter, retired AT&T worker who only last week was so happy with her retirement benefits including the health care package.   Voted Democrat all her life, who could have predicted that her vote would have such personal consequences?

117 #111  They can make the estimates go "down" on paper, but that's it.

118 112

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

 Posted by: gus

Tetris. That's it.

Posted by: Z Ryan at March 27, 2010 06:06 PM (cMo6P)

Borscht-flavored edible panties.

119 Come Monday, anyone who leaves their money in the stock market is a fool.  Ditto the bond market.  Ditto the money markets. Ditto real estate.

So Tuesday...too late?

120 Anna Kournikova

121 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

Posted by: gus at March 27, 2010 05:53 PM (Vqruj)

I want a particle board Yugo

122 108 It's for his ability to link to other sources.

123 They can make the estimates go "down" on paper, but that's it.

Exactly.  They can make paper say anything they want it to.  But heaven forbid that an employer, who makes money and keeps folks employed by dealing with reality, should find that the plan is a bit less rosy when implemented. 

124

Rollin' up the Hill,

Got K-Witt in my Zil,

Boyz packin a Four-Seven,

Stackin bloxx in Tetris heaven, ...

125 #127  I want a particle board Yugo

Or a Trabant. 

126 Waxman and Stuck on Stupak; what could go wrong with that?

127
Come Monday...

hmmm? Why does this...? What is...?

Oh yeah, right!

128 128 108 It's for his ability to link to other sources.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 27, 2010 06:17 PM (yfJ6g)

 

It's for his poster's ability to nuke southern Arizona.

129

fuck yeah

AoSHQ is #1 on Daily Caller's (whoever the fuck they are) list of  Goddmaned Bestest Fucking Blogs Ever in the History of the Universe..

...I think that's what it says anyhow...time to crack open a new bottle of Valu-Rite

tinyurl.com/y966z9a

130 so far, products we appreciate from commies includes games, guns and vodka.  Thats pretty good list for us morons, excepting for the lack of freedom and liberty.

Katrina Witt and Paulina Porizkova don't count as they are not products you can buy.  But I sure wish I could.

131
Come Monday, it'll be alright.

Come Monday, I'll be holding you tight.

132 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted:

Tetris? Automat Kalashnikov? Vodka? Yakov Smirnov? Mail Order Brides?

133 Or a Trabant. 

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at March 27, 2010 06:17 PM (otlXg)

Rather have a Yugo as it weighs less, easier workout when I have to push it up a hill

134 Fascist bastards!

135 The CEO's should arrive in SUVs and smoke Rush Limbaugh style during the hearing.

Posted by: eman

Um, that would pretty much play into the lib's cartoon propaganda against business and executives.

Best move? Send a letter. "We're too busy trying to save our companies and our employees. We'd be happy to show up once you stop destroying the US economy. Until then, piss off."

136

Anybody still know if I found the right list?

_{/The govt has way too many committees & subcommittees.}

137

"Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted."

How about a service?  Death to our oppessors?

138 There is also the kick ass band Rekevin. And DJ Vadim is also from Russia.

139

Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

 Posted by: gus

Martina Navratilova

140 138 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted

The Tsar Bomba.  What?  I want one, I didn't say it was available.

141

The Soviets had some great literature, though that was a reaction against communism. Um, they had (& still have) one of the best ballet companies on Earth. Does that count?

142

sickinmass - relax, man. Seriously.

Tell ya what. All the decay of our civilisation has, as I'm sure you know in your bones, accelerated. It really won't be long now before the monkey-men begin their rampage, taking every scrap they can find. And they will be the ones starving

143 #146 The Tsar Bomba.  What?  I want one, I didn't say it was available.

Was that the Soviet's "doomsday" device or just their biggest thermonuclear warhead?

144 Was that the Soviet's "doomsday" device or just their biggest thermonuclear warhead?

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at March 27, 2010 06:25 PM (otlXg)

Just their biggest nuke. The Doomsday Device was the system that had all of their nukes setup ready to launch

145

_{/The govt has way too many committees & subcommittees.}

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby

Understatement of the millennium.

146

Does that count?

Begrudgingly: Yes, that counts.

How about Punch Buggies? (I mean, naziism is really a form of communism.)

147

Dear Congress, We hate you. Please kill yourselves.

signed,

 

Everybody

148 This has got to be stopped. I hope the Reps are up to the task. Chilling.

149
Was that the Soviet's "doomsday" device or just their biggest thermonuclear warhead?

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at March 27, 2010 06:25 PM (otlXg)

Both. It was designed as a 100 mt shot, but scaled back to 50 mt for the Tsar Bomba test because the Russian scientists were literally scared of it and what it would do.


Keep in mind, our most powerful test ever was the Ivy Mike shot at 10.4 mt in 1952.


At any rate, the Tsar Bomba  was and still is the most powerful test ever.

150

At least bannan republics have, ya know, actual BANNANAS.

_{all we have is hope and change}

151 sock/off

152 152 Well, I know--but the list has seemingly doubled since 2004, probably since last yr.

153
Remeber when CLINT EASTWOOD stole that awseome Soviet jet-fighter the FIREFOX?

154 Best move? Send a letter. "We're too busy trying to save our companies and our employees. We'd be happy to show up once you stop destroying the US economy. Until then, piss off."

Damn it, this is why I'd love to be a CEO of something.  Just to do that.  Wll, and the salary, I guess.  Kind of like how Mackey, the Whole Foods CEO, blew minds when he came out against government-run healthcare. 

Too much political correctness; consumer (and the country as a whole) is ready for irreverent ass-kicking and a can-do attitude. 

155 155 I like a good 25+/- of them. Let's keep those. None of them are Dems or RINOs.

156 149

sickinmass - relax, man. Seriously.

I thought sickinmass was a chick?...hmmm

157

Posted by: Billie Jean King at March 27, 2010 06:30 PM (t72+4)

And I just thought you were that ugly dyke that beat Bobby Riggs.

I had no idea that you were a nuclear engineer...

158

good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight

Oh man, I almost spit out my milk on a member of congress!

159 It's time for them to go!

160 I cannot believe that letter. Holy-Sweet-Chicago-F-ing-Jesus!

Let me make sure I am getting this right:

Dear Corporate Demon Spawn,

It has come to our attention that your accounting and subsequent management decisions that impact your established, profitable company do not match the fairy-tale gumdrop land fantasy results that that we conspired to get by fraudulent accounting methods from the CBO.

Such insolence, especially in contradiction to our most sacred population control health care law, cannot be tolerated. Kindly present yourselves before our board of inquiry and be sure to turn over all of your accounting records to the $16,000 new IRS auditors before your arrival so that we can be certain that your mistakes will be properly noted and prosecuted.

Did you, a successful corporate executive, actually think that you could defy the will of His Majesty Obama? Who are you to question the Federal Government, founders of such magnificent institutions such as Medicaid, Medicare, the Postal Service and Amtrak! We even own GM, Chrysler and the majority of US banks! Again, I say, who are YOU to question us, your elected betters! You think that just because your financial  analysis uses  that unfathomable concept of 'math', with all your 'addition', 'subtraction' and 'income minus expense equals profit' nonsense; that you could question the projections of your Superiors? Ha! If your pathetic company were to run up mere millions in deficits, your shareholders would relegate you to obscurity! But, we, the Federal Government have deficits of trillions! I bet your 'math' doesn't even count that high! Not only have we not gone into bankruptcy, but we continue to spend away like we've we just got a free home from "Extreme Makeover". Far from obscurity, we command the networks to cover us each night with fawning adoration while the masses continue to elect us!

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!!

Love and Kisses.

Marklar Waxman

161 They should testify in the nude.

Posted by: eman at March 27, 2010 05:35 PM (3fzoU)

If they charged with a sex offense, they've got a lifetime supply of free Viagra.

162 Ouch.Zero just made 15 recess appointments.

163

And I just thought you were that ugly dyke that beat Bobby Riggs.

I had no idea that you were a nuclear engineer...

Posted by: TexasJew at March 27, 2010 06:34 PM (YUwnj)

Ugly, 'eh?

164 "At least bannan republics have, ya know, actual BANNANAS."

we appear to have gone bananas........ does that count for anything?

165 Holy shit... I'm sure this has been posted already, but AoSHQ is the smartest in the world!!!

166 Keep in mind, our most powerful test ever was the Ivy Mike shot at 10.4 mt in 1952.

You might want to look up the Castle series tests.  Ivy Mike was not the largest.

167 DUDE.

168 This is bucking unfelievable.

169 Butler for the win.

170 Apparently Tucker has a crush on Ace?

171 Tetris

172 Butler for the win. Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 27, 2010 06:43 PM (7VvJB) I knew Butler would be in the final four all the time????????????????

173 #174  Who did Ace bribe for that honor?

174
Keep in mind, our most powerful test ever was the Ivy Mike shot at 10.4 mt in 1952.

You might want to look up the Castle series tests.  Ivy Mike was not the largest.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 27, 2010 06:41 PM (SHKl9)

Yep, Castle Bravo, I forgot about that one. Still even that one pales in comparison to the TB test.

175

Tetris fans: Try Tiny Tetris.

(Go on Yahoo and Google it.)

176 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted

I've always wanted a bigass ZIS-111 like the one Uncle Joe was driven around in. I've seen the prewar Packards the ZIL was based on, but they don't have that good ol' commie panache.

Otherwise, gimme a Chaika like the one Nikita the K had. Put in a set of air horns that play the "Internationale" and gimme a shoe to bang on the windowsill as I drive past the proles....

177

Crap, the Billie Jean King sock really likes me.

178 What part of  "The Constitution is no longer in effect" do you folks not understand?

 Every right, every restriction on government, in that document has been subverted by legislation, by legal precedent or by executive order.

 You've even voted for the Republicans and/or Democrats who have done it to you. (...and those Republicans weren't all 'RINO's'.)

 Freedom is not a menu. You can't choose Social Security over Welfare and expect to remain free. You can't advocate for the restrictions on the freedoms of people you don't like while expecting your own freedoms to remain protected.

 morally, ethically, you can't expect to remain free by opposing social progressivism while supporting social conservatism. (Two sides of the same socialist coin and a false dilemma/false choice.)

179

At least bannan republics have, ya know, actual BANNANAS.

Yes, we have no BANNANAS. We have no BANNANAS todaaaaaaay!

180 Is it any wonder the ranking of #1 was released on the date of the Seattle meet-up?  It think not.  No wonder the Brazilians unleashed their syops on us.

181

Yes, we have no BANNANAS. We have no BANNANAS todaaaaaaay!

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 27, 2010 06:45 PM (mHQ7T)

Yes, but the good news is, Big Brother has just informed us that our rations for this month have been increased from 15 kilograms to 10 kilograms.

INGSOC !

182 183 Past about 9 megatons you don't get any greater effect.The blast just blows up through the atmosphere.We never bothered with anything bigger than 9 mt for that reason.In fact,several small bombs exploding close together is more effective than one big one againt area targets.

183 ace, ban him now !

Posted by: Analpundit at March 27, 2010 05:54 PM (t72+4)

That made me LOL, but maybe Analpoundit would have been funnier. I mean, he is a betamale.

184 Every question Noseholes asks them, they should just smile and answer FYNQ.

185

I've been working on a new speech, now this one is completely different, unlike any you bitter-clingers have evah heard,, take a gander and tell me what 'cha think......

Hope and change, blah, blah, blah, False choice, yada, yada, yada, Deficit reduction, uh, Let me be clear, blah, blah, yada, yada, Make no mistake, uh, uh, Unprecedented, blah, uh, yada, uh, This isn't about me, I, I, I, Hitting the reset button, uh yada, blah, yada, Reaching out to the other side of the aisle, uh, blah, yada, yada, Failed policies of the past, uh, uh, I, Teachable moment, blah, blah, blah, Tax cuts, I, uh, I, uh, Transparency (pause for applause) Accountability, yada, yada, uh, Stimulus uh, Shovel-ready jobs, yada, yada, I, Green jobs, blah, blah, I, uh, Saved or created, uh, I, blah, yada, yada, Recovery!!! (pause for applause) Jobs funded, uh, I, uh, It won't happen overnight, yada, yada, yada, Progress!!! (pause for applause) Cynics, blah,. blah, blah, As I've said before, uh, uh, Acted stupidly, yada, yada, blah, blah, Back from the brink!!! (pause for applause) No longer a Christian country, my muslim faith,, uh, yada, yada, yada, Non-defense, non-discretionary budget freeze, blah, blah, I, I, I, uh, Salary freeze for WH and political appointees, yada, yada, yada, Tax cuts and credits aimed at the middle and working classes!!! (pause for applause) Education funding, blah, blah, blah, I, I, Call for Don't Ask/Don't Tell repeal,, uh, uh, I, uh, Call for amnesty, uh, I uh, Call for legislative attack on the financial industry including cap and trade !!!! (pause for applause)........ Thank You CLEVLAND,,,, GOOD NIGHT!!!!

 

OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012'

(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)

-It's never too early to campaign-

186 176 DUDE.

I suppose this means we will have to clean up the hobo and scandi hair again for those 2 - 3 extra site hits.

187 Not content with their victory, Democrats won't rest until they've beaten down anyone who points out the devastation caused by their anti-prosperity policies.

The communists currently in charge of this country continue to overplay their hand. It will be their downfall.

188 re: Venezuela

"Alvarez Paz was charged with conspiracy, spreading false information and publicly inciting crime..."

This guy sounds like a regular Sarah Palin. I hope the good Venezuelans hung him in effigy, called his daughters whores and burned his church down.

189

"but maybe Analpoundit would have been funnier. I mean, he is a betamale."

You're being much too kind.

190 The DEMS are doing this because they know they have to fast track this HC bill because they have until November until the angry voters toss their asses out and much of Obama's dream gets gutted. They are consildating much of their power they can before time runs out.

191 ::shrugs::

Posted by: sickinmass at March 27, 2010 06:53 PM (1rflU)

Me too.

192 what we need to do is lock Gabe in a room and force him to play a Cho-Aniki game

193 On every new thread, I promise myself that I'll be deep and insightful. I promise myself that I'll overcome the fact that I grew up in a home with wheels and became a self-made, highly educated, worldly, free man.

But all I can ever come up with is:

Fuckin' Democrat candy-ass cocksuckers. Deport them to Cuba. Cuba needs more commies. Their stink of fear, funk, bongwater, and sandalwood is polluting my beautiful country.

I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the mesquite tree.

194 Posted by: Editor at March 27, 2010 06:40 PM (YX6i/)

Frickin' awesome!

195 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

AK-47.

196 The communists currently in charge of this country continue to overplay their hand. It will be their downfall.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at March 27, 2010 06:52 PM (554T5)

I hope you're right. The clerk at my liquor store was listening to Mark Levin's station (it was another guy, same message.) The show was about housing and whether the government should be involved so much in the mortgage market. With a thick Ukrainian accent, the man said, "The government is involved in everything these days, like former Soviet Union."

197
183 Past about 9 megatons you don't get any greater effect.The blast just blows up through the atmosphere.We never bothered with anything bigger than 9 mt for that reason.In fact,several small bombs exploding close together is more effective than one big one againt area targets.

Posted by: steevy at March 27, 2010 06:48 PM (44AGF)

Thats why we went to using nukes in the 400 k range dropping them at multiple locations within a selected target from our bombers and then the MIRV capability with our ICBM's because the damage was many times exponentially greater and more efficient than one huge yield weapon. The Russians followed suit shortly after.

198 Repeat my post from this morning regarding this subject:

I would love to see one of these big companies grow some balls and tell Pigsnout Waxhead that he can jam his committee up his ass and his nose.

I would like to see a challenge to their so-called subpoena power while we have a semi-neutral court.

The Constitution does not grant congress subpoena power. That is another one of those things manufactured by the super liberal court.  Congress is not the judicial branch and their investigations are nothing more than political horseshit.

199 169, that is some funny shit right there.

200

So, uh, this is bad huh?

But I'm still gettin' my free shit ain't I?

201 hee hee.  Hot Air linked to the Daily Call story.  Irony alert.

There may be as much as 6 or 7 extra hits to the site.

202 I seem to recall reading something about challenging his opponents in elections in court and then having them booted off the ballot and running unopposed.  This may account for why McCain had his birth certified.  Oddly enough, the other side didn't respond in kind.

The corporations should refuse to attend.  They are not government controlled and giving the government all this information is not necessary.  Rather the government should be forced to prove the corporations wrong.

203
giving the government all this information is not necessary.

It's going to be reported in their financials anyway.  Let pigsnout grandstand and keep smearing themselves with feces. 

204 Oh, they repealed the First Amendment on page 1740, subsection 1(c).

Too bad.

205 194, its a very good speech, but you might want to add one reference to someone fainting in the audience. "someone has fainted, please stand back and give him some air" blah,blah,blah.

206

This will be a boring witch hunt hearing.  They'll rail against the evil greedy CEO's and the CEO's will at best read a statement explaining the boring accounting rules involved. 

Something funny to me is that they want the workpapers and emails discussing this stuff.  One thing I've learned in 2 years doing internships is that if you don't know what the hell you're reading it's going to take forever to figure it out.  It's hard enough when you're inside a department to understand all the workpapers when you don't work with them personally, I can't imagine how much fun some poli sci majored interns are going to have going through that crap for the committee members.  The fact that they want the emails and workpapers makes me suspect it's a gotcha game where they'll be trolling for phrases to pull out of context.

207

Leftists pushing loons to take this fox poll on health care

http://tinyurl.com/yftgzuu

208

Leftists pushing loons to take this fox poll on health care

http://tinyurl.com/yftgzuu

Posted by: dagny at March 27, 2010 07:05 PM (x7Dmk)

Thanks for the link, I did my duty. Now, all the rest of you morons, gtf in there, now !

209
The fact that they want the emails and workpapers makes me suspect it's a gotcha game where they'll be trolling for phrases to pull out of context.

Yup.  Classic fishing expedition, the whole thing is an exercise in tyrannical bullshit.

210

It's time to start contacting business owners in Waxman's and Stupak's districts and see about organizing a recall of these two fools (and any of the other 'tards who agree with them).

I bet that 100,000 signatures to recall Stupak could be gathered by next Friday.  I no longer know no one in Michgan.

I'm checking my business card list to see if I know anyone in Waxman's district. So far, zero.  Perhaps someone else has a contact or two.

211

Waxman is a dumbass (duh) he's basically accusing them of lying about a report they are required to make by the FEC. Corporations usually don't like making reports of the fact that they just lost $1 Billion in profits for their share holders unless it's true and required by law.

I like his reference to the CBO, it's like he was saying hey let our guys add it up for you, they are great at making all that bad news go away.

212

Wow! Its almost like Obama and crew hate capitalism and are marxists?

OH WAIT, IT IS EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

213 Time for these guys to hold press conferences, show the letters, explain their problems, and refuse to show up in congress unless soebpena'd.

214

I wouldn't mind  T-72.

Yes, you can buy one.

215 Since The Left Wing Media can't be depended upon to suppress stories this big, the fascists had to find SOME way to stop momentum toward REPEAL before it gets moving.  They'll be "making examples" of anyone with the audacity to reveal the real cost of this shit sandwich.

216

Leftists pushing loons to take this fox poll on health care

http://tinyurl.com/yftgzuu

Voted.  No way it would be that close.

217 When Waxman is finally thrown out of office he can always get a job hunting for truffles.

218 In an ideal world, the execs would just go tell Henry the Mole-Man to go die in a fire in a gay bathhouse of his choice. Or at least show up driving on of those big 'ol Gaia-rapin' Caterpillar mining trucks the size of an office building...

219

>>This will be a boring witch hunt hearing.  They'll rail against the evil greedy CEO's and the CEO's will at best read a statement explaining the boring accounting rules involved. 

Yep. Wish we could whine about it for 50 years like the Marxists do about McCarthyism

220

Wow! Its almost like Obama and crew hate capitalism and are marxists?

OH WAIT, IT IS EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

Posted by: Dan at March 27, 2010 07:13 PM (1jzSs)

Wow! Its almost like Obama and crew hate capitalism and are marxists?

OH WAIT, IT IS EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

Posted by: Dan at March 27, 2010 07:13 PM (1jzSs)

You're wrong. Communists love capitalism. The inner party elites in Communist Russia lived like kings and were practically drowning in expensive western goods while their people were getting fed by western grain silos and waiting in line in subzero temperatures for hours on end for potatoes, light bulbs and toilet paper. They only hate the ones they dont have a direct line to the udders on so they can suckle the milk directly from the teat of the cash-cow, like the vampires they are. Thats why they love the Unionized industries that the SEIU and the UAW parasitically prey on. It keeps them in power and swimming in cash and victims.

Progressives are parasites on the flesh of humanity and without the provider, they would cease to exist. Communism and Socialism works pretty well right up until the point you run out of other peoples money.

221 The Cat CEO should armor up a D9 and go postal in DC.

222 Elections have consequences.

223
When Waxman is finally thrown out of office he can always get a job hunting for truffles.

Posted by: effinayright at March 27, 2010 07:18 PM (3sB5l)

...or scaring turds down toilets for those who have plumbing problems.

224

How do you like the lede in this MyWay "news" article:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.

 

Anyone know who the tool (Ben Feller) is who writes such crap?

225

I seriously doubt Waxman will be getting any internal emails unless he actually accuses them of breaking the law and supeona's them.

There isn't a lot of upside for a company or now companies to talk their own stock down unless all the senior management shorted their own company.

226 McCarthy was right.

So are we.

227 Interesting thing about that Fox News Poll.  If you vote yes and then click return to poll, you can vote again.  If you vote no and then click return to poll, its says thanks you already voted once.

228


Waxman could also get a job in a bakery rolling his face in dough to make ass cookies, if there ever was a demand for that sort of thing.

229 One of my Dem friends said this when I told him about it:  I see an expression of concern and a request for additional information that only the companies might have ready access to. Is the request the same as a subpoena or simply an invitation to enlighten?

Yeah, right.

230 Ass Cookies?

231

How do you like the lede in this MyWay "news" article:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.

 

Anyone know who the tool (Ben Feller) is who writes such crap?

Posted by: effinayright at March 27, 2010 07:26 PM (3sB5l)

Who the fuck does this dipshit writer think he is fooling?  Fed up with waiting???  He knew all along that he was going to make these appointments during this SCHEDULED Senate vacation period.  They still have majorities in both houses so to blame this on the GOP is lame.  I'm sure there were some RINO's that would've gone along for the ride like Sotomayor. 

232 I'd love to see the CEOs respond that unike Waxman and Stupak, their accountants actually bothered to read the bill.

233 Ben Feller is just an extension of the White House with writing like that.

234

Ok, which of you morons is dicking with the pudding in NY?

http://tinyurl.com/yjab7du

235

>>You're wrong. Communists love capitalism. The inner party elites in Communist Russia lived like kings and were practically drowning in expensive western goods while their people were getting fed by western grain silos and waiting in line in subzero temperatures for hours on end for potatoes, light bulbs and toilet paper.

This is probably why folks should make up their minds now to shut it all down, when needed, at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, remember if you own a business you can refuse to do business with anyone you want to. Take advantage of that fact in creative ways.

236 Yeah, right.

Posted by: incognito at March 27, 2010 07:30 PM (u6X4c)

That's why the "request" was from the oversight and investigations committee. They are all about concern and enlightenment.

237 Hey Captain.  Sotomayor is on the Supreme Court and a far leftist. How can she vote in the Senate?

238 OT for my sanity:

Anyone going to Lebowski Fest next weekend?

239 248 Hey Captain.  Sotomayor is on the Supreme Court and a far leftist. How can she vote in the Senate?

Posted by: Ronster at March 27, 2010 07:35 PM (Xu6d3)

I think he was referring to the confirmation process.  The Senate did approve Sotomayor with Republican's voting aye.

240 CDR M. Gotcha. Sometimes, no most times I'm just stupid.

241 I was merely talking about Obama saying that it was GOP'ers in the Senate that were holding their confirmations that he was forced to do these recess appointments.  I'm calling bullshit on that noise as Sotomayor made it through.

242 Haha

243

Gestapo!!

On a lighter note, moron meetup in San Antonio tonight. We'll tip a glass for all of you.

244 Dangit.  Bad sock.

245 Next thing you know they'll start arresting Fox News Exec.

Oh, wait this isn't Venezuela, not yet.

ONE more Supreme Court justice, and we are TOTALLY FUCKED.

246 Perhaps the time to have analyzed this turd of a bill would have been before it passed into law?  Oh nevermind.

247 Oh goody, 15 recess appointments.   Fortunately Obama is here to heal the nation or I might get peeved. 

248 I'd like to believe Judge Napolitano's comments in that article today but I have no faith that even the current Supreme Court would strike all or portions of this health care bill down.

249 As you all can plainly see Obama, the media,  and the democrats are attempting to completely destroy the opposition.

250

Anyone know who the tool (Ben Feller) is who writes such crap?

Posted by: effinayright at March 27, 2010 07:26 PM (3sB5l)

They got his name wrong in the byline. It's really Ben Dover.

251

This is probably why folks should make up their minds now to shut it all down, when needed, at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, remember if you own a business you can refuse to do business with anyone you want to. Take advantage of that fact in creative ways.

Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at March 27, 2010 07:33 PM (SMqnS)

The problem is, each and every regressive honestly believes they will be in the good graces and in the sanctum of the inner party somehow just like their beloved Al Gore, Sean Penn, Nancy Pelosi and Janeane Garofallo. In other words, each and every one them honestly believes they'll get to be camp guards.

Little do they know, they will be scrounging around in the wasteland competing  for meals just like the rest of the proletarians. Not to mention, a purge in a liberal regime tends to happen from the top down, see Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

252 Laughing my ass off remembering the parade of businessmen including Warren Buffett who eagerly awaited the coronation of the Obama-mao...Suckas!!!!!!  How fucking stupid can you get...I recommend these Execs study Alan Mullaly's presentation during the former Big Three Detroit show trials.  He didn't given an inch, and respectfully told them that he would keep his private jet, paycheck and, "no I don't need your fucking money!"  Way to go Ford!

253 Capt., CDR M or whatever, Now you're just fucking with me.

254 There's a lot of Ben Dover's in the journalism biz today.  Which one actually wrote it?

255 Someone rang?

256 Nah Ronster, I'm not messin' with ya.

257 Way to go Ford!

Posted by: Nozzle at March 27, 2010 07:43 PM (sE08M)

Yeah they have my business from now on. FU government moters

258 The Uber Rich get uber richer under crony capitalism. Buffett has nothing to worry about. Or Soros et al.

259

Yeah they have my business from now on. FU government moters

Posted by: robtr at March 27, 2010 07:47 PM (fwSHf)

I boycott communist labor. Toyota is made in USA and not by commie supporting thugs (UAW).

260 The uber rich get uber richer under any form of government, but they get there quicker with crony capitalism.

261 There's a lot of Ben Dover's in the journalism biz today.  Which one actually wrote it?

Posted by: CDR M at March 27, 2010 07:43 PM (cvmTR)

That would be Ben Dover MCXXIV.

Comes from a big family, that boy.

262 Nice, two of the recess appointments are 100% certified Union goons who will now work on the Labor Relations Board.

263
40 I pity these executives when they come up against the atom-splitting power of the mind of Barbara Boxer.

Just a small point, SENATORS, aka Boxer, CAN NOT speak at a HOUSE committee meeting.

It is against the rules.

One less idiot to speak.

264 I know Soros could care less but Buffet must be thinking what have I done and how do I preserve how this country operates so I can continue to do what I do well at.  He has to know that at some point, he will go under the bus as all of Obama's associates do when they are no longer useful to them.

265

Just catching up here......

Few things--

1. Is there even a doubt in anyone's mind that Obama will try to pack the court a la FDR?

2. Am I seriously the only person to see that TDC was mocking ace?? Did no one read the other contenders?? Ezra Klein, Nate Silver, and Yglesias? Srsly. When they'RE saying bloggers/personalities that are smart, it's like saying Jessica Simpson is smart because she finally figured out what Chicken of the Sea is.

3. And most important.....BUTLER BULLDOGS!!!

266

Regarding recess appointments.

This from Mesiahs mouth to our ears:

"Most of the men and women whose appointments I am announcing today were approved by Senate committees months ago, yet still await a vote of the Senate. At a time of economic emergency, two top appointees to the Department of Treasury have been held up for nearly six months. I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government."

267





The Uber Rich get uber richer under crony capitalism. Buffett has nothing to worry about. Or Soros et al.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 27, 2010 07:47 PM (dQdrY)

Not only that but I just read where Virginias Feb. job losses were the highest in the nation even though we are right next to D.C., the government is doing nothing but expanding and we practically have all of the major military bases. Plus, Norfolk was just notified it was losing a carrier group to Florida causing thousands of job losses in the tidewater area and severely affecting the economy there.

I'm sure that has nothing to do with the the people of Va. electing a Republican governor and his AG filing suit against them for Constitutional infringement after Ogabe's commiecare was signed into law..

Nah. of course not, what am I thinking.

268 2. Am I seriously the only person to see that TDC was mocking ace??

No, you're not.  That's why it was awesome.  The whole article was simply to set-up AoSHQ as the final punchline.  Just as we like it.

269

 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted

Liu Yi Fei

 

270

Buffett is a flaming hypocritical douchebag. During the campaign that asshole kept telling everyone who would listen that in 2008 his secretaries tax rate was higher than his. That was the same year the douchebag was telling us that the death tax was a good thing.

It was also the same year that the douche gave $40 Billion to the Gates foundation which moved his tax rate to 0 and also made $40 Billion of his money not subject to the death tax.

271

276 RE:

(1) We're screwed.

(2) You have to admit, Ace's link-fu is great. Maybe he'll be inspired to write more original material?

(3) Go team!

272 No, you're not.  That's why it was awesome.  The whole article was simply to set-up AoSHQ as the final punchline.  Just as we like it.

Posted by: Editor at March 27, 2010 07:57 PM (YX6i/)

Yeah! We don't call ourselves Morons for nothing!

273 The beatings will continue until morale improves.

274 Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 27, 2010 07:54 PM (IZzN7)

Dudette, I thought the piece was funny. Didn't seem snarky at all, just fish-nibbling.

Besides, I bet Ed (the rotund, pasty fat guy) and AP (the invisible, snarky guy) over at Tepid Air are gnashing their teeth over not being mentioned.

Chuckles Johnson is weeping bitterly, chanting "lo, how the mighty are fallen...."

275 If you can't trusy a guy like Warrren Buffet, whom can you trust?

276

logprof, this is directed your way. you seem good w/sports stats.

when's the last time (or has there ben instance) where a team in the Final Four plays in their hometown?

277

1. Is there even a doubt in anyone's mind that Obama will try to pack the court a la FDR?

He's from Chicago. Expect one of the conservative judges to suffer a mischief. It is just the way they roll.

278 My local news just reported on the hecklers at the McCain/Palin rally in Mesa, AZ.  They interviewed one of the hecklers who claimed they took him out by his hair and threw him on the ground.  Of course, that's not what the video showed.

279

The graph was funny as hell. I just didn't appreciate the company he's keeping. I don't come here for timeliness. I come here for Banhammer and Son of Banhammer.

But if you go back there read the last bit about Olbermann. That was some good shit. Ruth Someone (blanking on her last name......)

280

1. Is there even a doubt in anyone's mind that Obama will try to pack the court a la FDR?

He's from Chicago. Expect one of the conservative judges to suffer a mischief. It is just the way they roll.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 27, 2010 08:02 PM (dQdrY)

I can totally see a conservative justice on the bench in the very near future taking a very short ride in a really long black car if that answers your question.

281 Buffett's a one trick pony...He brought value investing to a high art never before seen...That's about it.  His politics are those of a pre-menstrual girl scout.

282

when's the last time (or has there ben instance) where a team in the Final Four plays in their hometown?

Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 27, 2010 08:01 PM (IZzN7)

--Hmmmm, I guess it depends on the difinition of "hometown."  I can;t say for sure, but I coulda sworn one year the Final Four was in KC and Kansas was in.  I'm also thinking (although I never saw it live) that Houston's Phi Slamma Jamma teams played a Final Four in Houston.  Good question.

Oh, and congrats Butler.  They're my team for the stretch.

283 #176

Dude, Ace steals from Cracked?
 
I thought it was Fark. 

Obviously this fucker doesn't count HA heists correctly.

284 Wow. This is just reprehensible. Talk about blatant thuggery. Why is it that corporate America and Wall Street overwhelmingly supported Obama in the past election? This is true Chicago politics taken to a national level. We must get this jerk out of the White House!

285

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? GOD-DAMN.

 

SONOFABITCH. They are trying to hold their heads above water.. fuckit.  Goddam.

286

288 He's from Chicago. Expect one of the conservative judges to suffer a mischief. It is just the way they roll.

You mean like arresting Alito for his "outburst", or worse than arrest?

287 If you can't trusy a guy like Warrren Buffet, whom can you trust?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 27, 2010 08:01 PM (jVKZG)

Who wrote the 2nd Ammendment? Deeds count. Words are just air.

288 Greg Anthony's on.  He's a conservative. Love him.

289

I'm less tacky - I'd send reclaimed TP, in a nice tidy UPS box, to Herr Waxmann...

Then, I'd get JT Rogers (Same guy that told $uper Je$$ie to STF down, layed down the smack, and told him to go shat in his hat for his attempted shake-down) to be our spokesman, and don't spare the ammo.

I too would like some brave corp CEO to lay into these blowhards, and pull up his Blackberry, hold it up and say:

"Technology is great - we use these things to stay in contact. With the push of a button, I can confirm a buy, sell, or to shut down my whole operation, liquidate our holdings, and put  ___ Thousand employees on the unemployment line. You actions are hindering my doing busness, paying saleries, and supporting my investors.

"You have no one to blame but your ass-hat-ness. Good day"

290 Oh, dang, I just read that again. How would they kill him? Poison? Falling out the 10th-story window of a 5-story bldg?

291
Besides, I bet Ed (the rotund, pasty fat guy) and AP (the invisible, snarky guy) over at Tepid Air are gnashing their teeth over not being mentioned.

But they were mentioned.  In the graphic. 

I didn't get the piece's humor, but I'm always happy to see AoSHQ mentioned. 

292

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? GOD-DAMN.

 

SONOFABITCH. They are trying to hold their heads above water.. fuckit.  Goddam.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 27, 2010 08:07 PM (Wh0W+)

We have no idea who you are talking about here Comrade in Tejas, if you're talking about who we think you are, just hold them below the water by the neck until you stop seeing bubbles.

293

Liu Yi Fei

with noodles, won ton soup, or pork fried ri...?

294
stupid wops did it to me again

295
What kind of school is Butler?
Are they worthy of our roots?

Or are they a shitty little lib school?

296 They interviewed one of the hecklers who claimed they took him out by his hair and threw him on the ground.  Of course, that's not what the video showed.

Posted by: incognito at March 27, 2010 08:04 PM (u6X4c)

They were just showing him some Nevada manners.

297

Ace -- You got SERVED!

http://yumurl.com/MkyvNa  (dailycaller.com)

298
/gets toe-tag ready...

299

Complete OT: As WV is playing UK right now, great moments in DUI history.

About a year before he was fired at UC, Huggins got pulled over for swerving  and when he was asked to recite the alphabet from E > P, it was an epic fail: E, F, G, H, I, K, L, N, Z.

This was course after they asked him out of the car and he proceeded to yak all over the car door.

Class act, that one.

 

300 Posted by: rae4palin at March 27, 2010 08:15 PM (G4RRM)

Thanks for playing, but you are caller #76.

301

Liu Yi Fei

with noodles, won ton soup, or pork fried ri...?

Chocolate and rice wine would go best, I believe.

302
It's coming down to a Kentucky vs Duke rematch.
This time the good guys will win.

303 Almost Urf Hour!!!!! I can't wait to... uh. sit in the dark and cry that no-one lurves the urf no mores

304

I thought sickinmass was a chick?...hmmm

Posted by: beerologist at March 27, 2010 06:33 PM (tgXx6)

sickinmass: Show us your tits!

305 296 well said. 

306

You should see how willfiully ignorant some of the papers here in Canada are.  Even the local tabloid, whose editorial stance is generally pretty conservative, posted this piece of O-credulity about Frum/the GOP/Health Control toay.

My favorite passage:

Many Canadians, perhaps most, have been bemused by the tenor of the debate down south. ObamaÂ’s plan extends health care to millions more Americans, but it is a far cry from a universal, state-run system.

To call it socialism, let alone a dictatorial abuse of power, or an invitation to “death panels,” all terms being bandied about online and on the talk shows, is worse than stupid. These are grotesque fabrications and exaggerations.

--Yeah, the concept of the socialist camel's nose under the tent eludes this guy, and he completely ignores many Democrats being on the record as saying this is a set-up for single-payer.  No curiosity, no skepticism at all, just believe what the Democrats and your media colleagues parrot.

307
a Kentucky vs Duke rematch.

Baylor looked a whole lot better than Duke did last night.  And I hate Baylor almost as much as I despise Duke.

308

This was course after they asked him out of the car and he proceeded to yak all over the car door.

Class act, that one.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 27, 2010 08:16 PM (IZzN7)

You lawyers are so hoity toity.

309 No subpoena?

Tell 'em to kiss off.

310 Oh, dang, I just read that again. How would they kill him? Poison? Falling out the 10th-story window of a 5-story bldg?

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 27, 2010 08:09 PM (yfJ6g)

Would it matter?

311
Didn't Huggins park in a lake at some point?  Or was that his dad?

312
I just saw a Save the Ta-Ta's sticker on the back of a Lexus in Cambridge.

It made me do a double-take. It had a little pink ribbon on it, too. So I assume it's a sticker for breast cancer awareness. Anyone else see that, before?

313

306  They didn't used to be. Lots of strong conservatives there. But someone got ahold of some Kool-Aid and deemed Justice Roberts too controversial to be graduation speaker this year.

His niece attends school there  and students wanetd him but the faculty threw a snit fit apparently. They tend not to invite politicians. Only two times before and they were locals--Sen Bayh and My Man Gov Mitch Daniels.

314 These motherfuckers are out of control

315 Shit, I forgot Earth Hour.  I'm going to turn off my gas fireplace so I can fire it up then.

316 Don't forget the 9.2 million military retirees and their families who will lose their Tricare health benefits because of this legislation.

They already voted against the amendment that would have prevented that. Right along party lines, pretty much.

This has got to be repealed.

317  No curiosity, no skepticism at all, just believe what the Democrats and your media colleagues parrot.

Posted by: logprof at March 27, 2010 08:18 PM (Mmw0q)

Barny Frank would be considered concervative in Canada.

318 Here's a video I did during the election.  Not totally relevant, but you know...

319 Shit, I forgot Earth Hour.  I'm going to turn off my gas fireplace so I can fire it up then.

Posted by: logprof at March 27, 2010 08:23 PM (Mmw0q)

Glad you reminded me, I have to giant floodlights in my backyard. This is the only time of year I use them.

320

Bob Thuggins is a disgrace to the NCAA and represents everything that's wretched about student-athletes in universities. When he was at UC there were years when his graduation rate was 0%.

And he was repeatedly pulled over for DUI.

Of course now when I see him I just laugh. I cannot get this mental image out of my head.

321
rejecting a brilliant and accomplished CHIEF JUSTICE of the Supreme Court.

Un-fuggin'-believable.

Talk about doing a disservice to the student body. Academia is a joke.

322

322 Would it matter?

Yes & no. If they did it in a more transparent manner, people would be more aware of what the govt is doing. Obama may be a Chicago politician, but he's not not as smart as his political forebears. In other words, he's a stupid dictator. (Though that's often the worst kind.)  

323 #324-yes. A bazillion times. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer ppl make them, I believe. The t-shirts are cute.

324
>>>This has got to be repealed.

And replaced with something more moderate and bipartisan.

325 In other words, he's a stupid dictator. (Though that's often the worst kind.)  

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 27, 2010 08:26 PM (yfJ6g)

He's a dictator-to-be with a few hundred billion dollars. He'll hire a professional.

326

Earth hour - HA!

Told the kids we were turning on every light in the house because global warming is a lie.  The weather always changes.  If you don't like it now, just wait, it will change.

327

The Susan G. Komen Fundation can fuck off.

There are other credible breast cancer awareness groups that aren't anti-Semitic. (There was a conference last year in Egypt and Jewish doctors were told to please tay home).

Those bitches no longer get a dime from me.

328

337 He's a dictator-to-be with a few hundred billion dollars. He'll hire a professional.

I'm really getting nervous now...We're freaking screwed.

329 O/T:  Durbin is a dick.

330
Komen...hmmm....?

Sounds German.

You suspect they're a secret Neo-Nazi front group?

331

Please tell me what time earth hour is scheduled. I wouldn't want to miss the festivities. I observe mountain daylight savings time so please make any necessary time conversions for me. My drool cup is full.

332

Shit, I forgot Earth Hour.  I'm going to turn off my gas fireplace so I can fire it up and throw tractor tires into it then.

Posted by: logprof at March 27, 2010 08:23 PM (Mmw0q)

FIFY

333
You know what? As a matter of fact when I took a second look at the Save the Ta-Tas sticker it said:

Save the Ta-Ta's
but not the joo ta-tas

334 339

The Susan G. Komen Fundation can fuck off.

There are other credible breast cancer awareness groups that aren't anti-Semitic. (There was a conference last year in Egypt and Jewish doctors were told to please tay home).

Those bitches no longer get a dime from me.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 27, 2010 08:31 PM (IZzN7)

 

Well, that sucks. Not that I give em money or anything.

335

I'm really getting nervous now...We're freaking screwed.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 27, 2010 08:32 PM (yfJ6g)

Good planners plan for the unlikely too. I don't have to think my untimely death is likely to buy insurance.

336 Light 'em up morons!  It's Earth Hour!

337

sadly, no time to read all the comments, but like Jonah Goldberg said (and I wanted to write a book on the same topic a few years earlier), they're fascists... maybe if waxman shaved his head and pelosi grew a moustache, more people would catch on.

LONG LIVE BARACKITUDINESS..!

338

At least banana republics have, ya know, actual BANANAS.

_{all we have is hope and change}

Posted by: Max Power at March 27, 2010 06:31 PM (q177U)

But The Precedent had such a great inauguration ...

339 Is Urf Hour at 9PM est?  i can start laundry then!

340 Consider this An elected President with training in Chicago politics and a community organizer par exellance; Add to that the effective control of the House and Senate (with a RINO or two wanting to preserve their impeccable bipartisan credentials and to keep getting the really good dinner invites); Add to that a thorough grounding in Marxist/Alinsky principles of governance; Add to that an unshakable belief that America is just another imperialist country, not necessarily an exceptional or Christian one at that; Add to that a belief, on the order of the divine right of Kings, that an Ivy League education imparts a more essential understanding of the universe than holding down real job or making a payroll; Add to that years of creating a legal environment where the Constitution has been abandoned and rarely taught; Add to that criminals, Communists, and extra-legal unelected czars effectively creating the working law of the land via regulation; Add to that the power of the IRS to destroy the non-conformist without having to comply with any legalities, and you may begin to understand the nature of things to come.

341 I live so far out in the sticks that now one will notice I'm giving the finger to Earth Hour. That sucks.

342

>>Please tell me what time earth hour is scheduled.

8:30-9:30 local time.

Why on the half hour, I dunno.

343

>>>I live so far out in the sticks that now one will notice I'm giving the finger to Earth Hour. That sucks.

Light some fires

344

As we've seen in the Soviet Union, central planning and free speech just don't go together.

Actually, it's getting almost impossible to say anything. You could argue that the execs were simply on board with Obama's policy that "now is not the time to make profits."

Anyway, in the future I'm sure we'll see a lot of happy pronouncements about just how much costs are going down for companies all across the country.

And they'll carry just as much weight as Duranty's pulitzer-prize winning reports in the NYT of record grain harvests in the Ukraine.

345 Cat's gross was 30,000 millions and now will have to pay an extra 100 million

346 Thank you fluffy bunny. You are a kind person.

347

Actually, I'm celebrating Human Achievement Hour. So I linked to Oil Exploration stuff on my Facebook.

I mean FK Urf Hour. The Norks celebrate that every fkn night

348 .Light 'em up morons!  It's Earth Hour!

Posted by: CDR M at March 27, 2010 08:42 PM (cvmTR)

Just fired up the pick-up tee-ruck Wendy and I plan on goin' beyond the palace where the hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard.

The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybodys out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide

349 Joseph McCarthy, please call your office.

350

Dear Dandy Andy Randy.

I just love your thoughtful comments. Fuck off.

351 341 O/T:  Durbin is a dick.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 27, 2010 08:33 PM (D2w1r)

That would be "Little" Dick Durbin

352 This is going around in email.   It's a little frightening to read:  "Now I 'd like to disperse a myth here - many of you think that US military would not fight civilians. I can't speak for all, but in my case - the moment you declare civil war, you're no longer civilians. The moment you attack the constitution, you're now enemies of that constitution. And I swore to defend and support and if necessary give my life for that Constitution and utilize every tool, technique, and weapon at my disposal to do so. And trust me, I'm not alone.

I hope some of you heed my words and cool the rhetoric and focus on achieving your goals diplomatically instead of physically. It would never want to receive a frag order to Maryland, or North Dakota, or Texas, but it is an order I will follow no matter how much it pains me to do so."

353
I live so far out in the sticks that now one will notice I'm giving the finger to Earth Hour. That sucks.

Posted by: Ronster at March 27, 2010 08:47 PM (Xu6d3)

Oh, we'll notice alright, it just depends on how many tires you can light bubby. If its in West Virginia you should be able to catch a whole mountain on fire, which we can all see from space.

354

Even if everyone in MoronNation® were to turn on every tv, radio, light, diswasher, washer, dryer et al, it still wouldn't amount to the energy used in lighting Teh Goracle's porch lights on his TN compound!

Memba that? Last year he left his outdoor lights on!!

355

Cat's gross was 30,000 millions

 

What's their Profits to Earnings ratio?

356 If memory serves, Verizon took a big loss abandoning a business footfrint in Venezuela rather than kowtowing to Chavez. I hope for a 'compare and contrast' from their execs in front of Congress.

357
>>>Cat's gross was 30,000 millions and now will have to pay an extra 100 million

okay, thanks, dunce.

358 30,000 millions

Posted by: Andy Rand at March 27, 2010 08:49 PM (mhD2v)

This is still America - though we've just been gang-raped and horribly disfigured by the Indonesian Imbecile and his Washington junta of useful idiots.  That's "30 billion" ... for now.

359 ... 100 hundred million dollars ...

360

Just threw a couple of plastic bags of styrofoam cups/plates in outdoor fireplace. Angry looks from neighbors. Air conditioner running full tilt/doors open. 7 tvs running. Washer/Dryer/Dishwasher/Tanning bed/Sauna all running, all lights on.

Ok, Ive done my part.

361 I hope the entire S&P 500 gets in the game. (That's 500 companies, Professor Biden). Interview them all, assholes, on TV. Every quarter, every company. Douchebags.

362 Cat's gross was 30,000 millions and now will have to pay an extra 100 million

Posted by: Andy Rand at March 27, 2010 08:49 PM (mhD2v)

Don't understand the difference between revenues and profits, I see.  Typical.

Go get some dental work.  You need it.

363 I like it that brilliant beyond comparison andy rand uses Caterpillars gross in his "argument". I could gross 100 mill and still lose money. What a fucktard.

364 Curious, I think that is a whack job who might be in the military or might not.  No unit is talking like that that I know of.  You and I both know the limits of US military use inside the United States.  This tool does not.

365 Cat's gross was 30,000 millions and now will have to pay an extra 100 million

Posted by: Andy Rand at March 27, 2010 08:49 PM (mhD2v)

I think you meant revenue was $30b, idiot.

Now go look up the meaning of "net profit."

They only have a 2.9% profit margin.

Lie much?

366 Cat's gross was 30,000 millions and now will have to pay an extra 100 million

You do know what 'gross' means, don't you, you herpe?

367

364 - @work, cannot read.

But, I don't doubt it.

368

>>  And I hate Baylor almost as much as I despise Duke.

OH! Fucketh thou.

369 WAXMAN's KANAROO COURT IS NOW IN SESSION ... and let that be a warning to any of you "citizens" that might dare speak out about the financial damage that ObamaCare is going to do to our already Obama-Ravaged economy.  Just STFU and you won;t have to sit and look at that squinty eyed little SOB.

370


In celebration of Eart Owwer, I plan on recreating the scene from Apocalypse Now in my backyard with all of those pretty lights over the river using my Honda Generator and a full compliment of gasoline, explosives, flares and heavy weaponry.

I love you Muther Urfffs !

371 OK, maybe I'm a little slow, but I don't see how Nosferatu and Stoolpack can possibly come out of this looking like anything other than retarded assholes. Am I missing something?

372
I love it. This is the Left:

"Obama TOLD you idiots it would SAVE you money. So stop complaining. Besides, you make enough money; you can afford to pay a little extra for your employee's health care."

373 Even if Obama ordered military units to engage with tea partiers, it would be an unlawful order.

374 Started teh laundry, turned on the lights and amused the puppehs.  DH is watching WVU and UK play.

375 377

Seriously. What a lauigher.
Keep falling for (or pimping for) dopes like that guy, Curious, and you'll end up as the KKKillgoreTrout of 2010.

376 384 Damn, I'm sorry I'm missing that!!

377

Who knows when the ONT is gonna come up, if ever.  Somebody please post this there if it hasn't made the Lifestyle news yet.

When Morons care enough to send the very best:

http://tinyurl.com/ycwhfc2

 

378 NOBODY expects the Spanish American Inquisition!!

379 Blazer. I will burn some tractor tires. They make a bigger footprint.

380
"Obama TOLD you idiots it would SAVE you money. So stop complaining. Besides, you make enough money; you can afford to pay a little extra for your employee's health care."

Can you explain to the little darling that this is actually because OBAMA is cutting the money for these people's healthcare?

381
oooh, a good episode of the old Battlestar Galactica is on -- the one where they meet up with the PEGASUS and Commander Kane, played by LLOYD BRIDGES.

382 AoSHQ is #1 on Daily Caller's (whoever the fuck they are)

That's the cutie pie Tucker Carlson.  I knew he had good taste.  sorry if someone else already posted the answer.....

383

>> You and I both know the limits of US military use inside the United States.  This tool does not.

I know it, too. And I know its been done before, not just in the Civil War. Of course the Demokrauts would argue precedent to back it up....

384 Took a ride in the Jeep; and am now doing laundry for fun, running the dishwasher, I've fired up the grill, all lights are on (inside and out) and have UFC on tv. Oh and Cat being bullied will be covered fairly (and commented on intelligently) in the rag known as the Peoria Journal Star in 3..2... *crickets*

385 "389 377

Seriously. What a lauigher.
Keep falling for (or pimping for) dopes like that guy, Curious, and you'll end up as the KKKillgoreTrout of 2010.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 27, 2010 09:05 PM (cGaVN)"

Who is Kilgore Trout?  Your implications is that I somehow agree with the guy??   Some lib website must have posted that letter and a lot of my dem/lib friends are circulating it now in email.  The very thought of the process of this democratic republic not working has never occurred to me.  What frightens me is that it apparently has occurred to them.

386 Bye Bye Kentucky

387 Wonderbar!!!

388

curious - don't let it bother you, even if true. I don't think we're gonna have any Ft Sumpter's on our side, tho maybe a Reichstag Fire.

If the guns come out, really, be of good cheer & get out of the way. It will not be any sort of set-piece battle, more like Serbia.

389
oh WTF?

Kentucky's gonna lose?

losers!

390 Just ONCE, will there be a CEO or whatever, to tell the Congress WHORES that the slicker than snail snot Senators work for US.  They are elected Public Servants.  Just ONCE remind them who they work for.  Then post that on YouTube.

391

............ and a lot of my dem/lib friends are circulating it now in email.

FYI. That should be your first clue. When libs are pushing something it is for a reason. They are the enemy.

392 You can fight back, or die on your knees. I'm giving to anyone with a chance to defeat a dem. It's self preservation. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good me do nothing." If you aren't working to stop this, go away. You have chosen your chains, live with them.

393 Okay, I don't know if "Sgt C" is real or not. He could be blowin' smoke for all I can tell.

What I want to know is this: what if he sees his CinC or Congress violating the Constitution? Is he ready to go to the mat then? Or is he one of the mindless military robots the lefty wackos seem to think dominate our forces? The latter is a bullshit notion, of course, but there might be a few. But if he's in that category, I suppose he would dutifully go after Americans who are trying to save their nation.

I wouldn't want to be a high-ranking officer when Osama Obama's intentions to destroy this country, which he hates with a passion, finally sink in. That would be a hell of a moment. What will they do?

I have unreserved admiration for our Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines (in any order you like). I would hate like hell to see them lined up against me. I think that may be what the Traitor-in-Chief wants to see.

If that day comes, and the Chicago Jesus issues the order, I would not want to be in the military. They'll have to decide who's right, and the answer would go against everything they -- and we -- have believed about the character of our presidents.

394 396 What channel. The Pegasus one was the best. The old one not the lesbian Battlestar Galactica.

395

That is why they call them horse races, Sgt. C.

If you find them honorable, carry out your orders. Others will follow where their honor leads.

396

Oh wow.

For anyone that was on the ONT last night, there's an ad on this page right now for Red Roof Inn and Denny's

397

If the guns come out, really, be of good cheer & get out of the way. It will not be any sort of set-piece battle, more like Serbia.

Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at March 27, 2010 09:16 PM (SMqnS)

Meh.  The dems would be toast pretty quickly.  Their only strengths are in the cities, which are easily isolated and starved (as most cities couldn't go very long without a steady and gigantic stream of supplies).  Outside of that, they have nothing.

398 Some lib website must have posted that letter and a lot of my dem/lib friends are circulating it now in email.

They do this knowing your political stance?  If so, I'm gonna say it again curious, you need new friends.  If I had any friends that knew where I stood politically and they sent me that kind of e-mail, it'd be the last time they sent me anything.

399 Kentucky fried chickens.

400 Punderbar!

401 @377

 Google: "Beyond Conspiracy: Police State America." Check the references and resources.

 That doesn't include all of the new legislation and executive orders and new DoD policies since that piece was first written.

 To dismiss unfounded conspiracy theories is one thing. To dismiss independently verifiable trends is foolishness.

402
BSG is on RTN, Adolph.

RTN is the Retro Television Network -- look it up to see if they have an air or cable affiliate in your area.

403
Democrats are corrupt assholes.

when can we all them COMMUNISTS?  Now seems as good a time as any.

404

412 - not what I meant. In Serbia, ROE was targeting leaders & media that supported the enemy.

I agree with blockading, BTW. No worries for me, altho I too live in the city

405 "413 Some lib website must have posted that letter and a lot of my dem/lib friends are circulating it now in email.

They do this knowing your political stance?  If so, I'm gonna say it again curious, you need new friends.  If I had any friends that knew where I stood politically and they sent me that kind of e-mail, it'd be the last time they sent me anything.

Posted by: Tami at March 27, 2010 09:19 PM (VuLos)"

The real problem is that I"m an independent and they can't stand that.  So they are like a recent person who quit smoking, they want everyone to quit smoking.  My friends want everyone to think as they do.  But it was sent on someone's list serv so they sent it to all their friends, hundreds of people.  Ironically, this is the guy who lost his first job out of college when he sent an email about the fact that he thought the big boss was having an affair with one of the little bosses to the entire company when he thought he was sending it to someone down the hall.  so he isn't that bright.

I did a little research and finally found it on this site, it's not a good site, o'really is always saying it is vile and I've never gone there until now.  Amazing what people print.

406

Well, at least the NCAAs are one thing 0bama hasn't sent ACORN/SEIU/Black Panther thugs to rig/clusterfuck.

But then I should not give him ideas. . . .

407

Hubby: "Quit turning the goddamn  sauna and tanning bed on, you're gonna throw the breaker!"

Spoilsport.

408 Demonazis is correct. They solve healthcare by forcing everyone to buy healthcare products no one wants. Fascism.

409 You can watch the basketball games on the ncaa website and it is very nice

410

Rushbabe, if you're still around my wife was put in charge by the law firm she's with of hosting a dinner and a fundraiser for the GOP and Cuccinelli will be the guest speaker at the event. Yours truly made sure he got himself invited too. If there are any questions or any letters of thanks you Va. morons would like to facilitate through me, feel welcome.

411 423 May I come to your house to tan? I don't feel like paying the tax increase just because Prez'nint Deez Nuts hates whitey.

412 425 You can watch the basketball games on the ncaa website and it is very nice

Posted by: curious at March 27, 2010 09:28 PM (p302b)

--Even though it was slow and jerky on my Internet there, the NCAAs were a godsend two years ago when I was in China.

413

412 - not what I meant. In Serbia, ROE was targeting leaders & media that supported the enemy.

I gotcha. (I had thought you meant a more chaotic, no holds barred style)  But, aren't those the sorts of tactics that any side would use, if they were serious about the fight? - and there's no question that the left is deadly serious. In any event, the left is much more top-heavy than the right and much more susceptible to such ROE.

I agree with blockading, BTW. No worries for me, altho I too live in the city

Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at March 27, 2010 09:23 PM (SMqnS)

I'm in a city, too - though not for much longer, I don't think.  But, if the shit hit the fan, the cities would go under, of their own weight, in seconds.

414 Meh.  The dems would be toast pretty quickly.  Their only strengths are in the cities, which are easily isolated and starved (as most cities couldn't go very long without a steady and gigantic stream of supplies).  Outside of that, they have nothing.

Are there a lot of electrical production facilities in Blue areas?  If not, they could be crippled with a few flipped switches.

415 Posted by: progressoverpeace at March 27, 2010 09:31 PM (Qp4DT)

Er ... I messed up the formatting - even after having manually set it in the html, the program switched it again behind my back.  I want that ROE for whomever wrote this message entry program.  Grrrrrrr.

416 West Virginia officially in the Final 4!

417 Kentucky losing is truly the cherry on top of this day (despite hating WV as much. Their fans aren't as insufferable as UK's).

418 Y not posted this in the other thread.  It's cool cause of the company with whom they include Ace.

419 House is lit up like Clark Griswold's.  Go Earf!

420 Cities today practice just in time delivery of food. The carnage would be swift.

421 Bracket fuckeruppers.

422 I wouldn't want to be a high-ranking officer when Osama Obama's intentions to destroy this country, which he hates with a passion, finally sink in. That would be a hell of a moment. What will they do?

Arrest him.

423 Casa de Steck lit up with every Super-Trooper 2000 we could find.  Take that Erf!

424

Sure, Lacey. *Bring the lotion.

 

 

*RedEye

425 San Francisco cocksuckahs!

426 Y not posted this in the other thread.  It's cool cause of the company with whom they include Ace.

Posted by: curious at March 27, 2010 09:33 PM (p302b)

You're caller # 137.  Play again.

427 100% incandescents, too. 

428 Wife just picked up some more incandescents at the store for our private hoard or for sale at the right price.

429 Posted by: Editor at March 27, 2010 09:37 PM (YX6i/)

sorry, just read it but think that Ace is so under appreciated, all the bloggers on AOSHQ are under appreciated.  Nice to see them get recognition twice, once for Gabe's fabulous series in counting the votes on the HC bill and this mention.

430 Rushbabe, if you're still around my wife was put in charge by the law firm she's with of hosting a dinner and a fundraiser for the GOP and Cuccinelli will be the guest speaker at the event. Yours truly made sure he got himself invited too. If there are any questions or any letters of thanks you Va. morons would like to facilitate through me, feel welcome.

Posted by: Blazer at March 27, 2010 09:29 PM (t72+4)

Blazer, thanks!  I tried calling in to Ask teh Governor on Thursday, but couldn't get through the entire hour.  I wanted to ask if McDonnell's admin is willing to go to court for state's rights -- to drill offshore.  Someone's gotta stop this dipshit in DC.  It might as well be VA.  Much obliged.

I'm rather shocked that a law firm in Richmond would put together a GOP fundraiser.  All of the ones I've worked for are major libtards.

431 Recognition?  Oh, that's so cute.

432 Arrest him.

Posted by: Editor at March 27, 2010 09:35 PM (YX6i/)

From your keyboard to... and all that.

If I were a JCS member, or someone ranking nearly as high, I'd be having my doubts about Papa Doc Obama's fitness to carry out his oath even now.

The military doesn't do well putting up with traitors, God bless 'em.

433 Can Cuccinelli's case win?

434 The Ace staff unionize or something? WTF?

435

>>Cities today practice just in time delivery of food. The carnage would be swift.

Good trucking infrastructure supports that. Shame if anything were to happen to it. And, truth be told, its why I've stocked up on nonperishable food 1:1 with ammo.

436 Glenn Dreck has his Christmas sweater on.

437 453

>>Cities today practice just in time delivery of food. The carnage would be swift.

Good trucking infrastructure supports that. Shame if anything were to happen to it. And, truth be told, its why I've stocked up on nonperishable food 1:1 with ammo.

Beans, Bullets, and Bandages!

438

>>The Ace staff unionize or something? WTF?

Urf Hour turned off the interweb servers

439 "454 Glenn Dreck has his Christmas sweater on.

Posted by: Flavius Julius at March 27, 2010 09:44 PM (IrdrP)"

I don't know why someone on his staff doesn't tell him how loud that sweater comes across on television.  Although I'm beginning to think it is his version of the red power tie.  

440  Cities today practice just in time delivery of food. The carnage would be swift.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 27, 2010 09:34 PM (dQdrY)

One of those survivalist blogs says the average grocery store would be picked clean in three days in an emergency.  Didn't say if that was a city or suburb deal, though.

441

One of those survivalist blogs says the average grocery store would be picked clean in three days in an emergency.  Didn't say if that was a city or suburb deal, though.

Posted by: RushBabe at March 27, 2010 09:47 PM (LKkE

In the city, add looting to the equation. 24 hours, tops.

442 458  For proof of that go try to buy some milk and bread when snow if forecast.

443 "One of those survivalist blogs says the average grocery store would be picked clean in three days in an emergency.  Didn't say if that was a city or suburb deal, though.

Posted by: RushBabe at March 27, 2010 09:47 PM (LKkE "

We just saw an example of that in Hawaii.  Within hours they were running out of gas and the stores were picked clean.  the Costcos were open and apparently this turned out quite well for them.  Even the one near the water stayed open a long time and finally they were forced to close.

444 http://iowntheworld.com/blog/ is en fuego today.  Be sure to scroll the whole way down to the FDR pix and the "There ought to be a tramp stamp tax." 

445 One of those survivalist blogs says the average grocery store would be picked clean in three days in an emergency.

Less than that.  I've lived in Florida.  Shit gets cleared out in less than 24 hours once the warnings go up.

On that note, I'm off to turn every appliance in the house up to eleventy in honor of Earf Hour.

446 Okay, can those who were bitching about Gabriel'spost earlier today at least thank him for this one?

447 thanks, Gabe

448 Tanks Gabe.

449 Batchelor guest discussing a 5% tax on elective cosmetic procedures.  Fascinating since plastic surgeons don't deal with insurance for this stuff at all.  They only deal with insurance for things that are referred from another physician like mole removal or treating someone after an accident.  The rest of their practice, which makes them very wealthy is the boob jobs and the nose jobs and the tummy tuck kind of stuff.   They are saying maybe it will put a crimp in the hollywood lifestyle.

450 Has anyone considered the loss of revenue to the government?  At 44% corporate tax, and $18B/yr lost profits to tax, we're starting to talk about some real money- nearly 8 billion a year.

451 Atta boy, Gabe.

452

No, you're not.  That's why it was awesome.  The whole article was simply to set-up AoSHQ as the final punchline.  Just as we like it.

The dig at the unbearable ygliguana was pretty sweet.

If political conversations were food, liberals would be fat men who wonder why their cotton candy and potato chips aren't satisfying.  High quantity doesn't make up for low quality.  I love hearing Jonah Goldburg, for example, argue on blogging heads.  The question is, does the pleasure outweight the pain of hearing a whiney douche on the other side.  Usually not.

453 400 "389 377

Maybe it's just me, but every time I see you post a "new" topic/link/meme it's always about how concerned you are about the mass proliferation of something that nobody but you has ever seen. Probably just a coincidence.
 

454 "472 400 "389 377

Maybe it's just me, but every time I see you post a "new" topic/link/meme it's always about how concerned you are about the mass proliferation of something that nobody but you has ever seen. Probably just a coincidence.
 

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 27, 2010 09:56 PM (cGaVN)"

Usually the stuff my friends send around in email are the talking points, this time I managed to find where it emanated and I posted the link.

Since you missed it, here it is.

Oh and btw, I rarely post of stuff like this...you should look up my posts.  Have never posted about the "mass proliferation" of anything, other than the new peep toe shoes and I didn't describe it that way.

455 Probably just a coincidence.
 

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 27, 2010 09:56 PM (cGaVN)

I like whoever has the evening shift better.

456

Now, if we could just do this to all the rest of the doody that Hollowood puts out...

http://tinyurl.com/ylrm9bw

Uma Thurman's opening day gross in UK for "Motherhood" is $131.

457 Ok, curious. If you say so, who am I to argue?

458 Evening you effin' morons/ettes.  Just survived dinner with a bunch of liberals. 

I bought a bottle of Wingnut Zinfandel to bring.  Seriously, there is such a thing.  Ended up bringing another bottle just because it's been a shitty week and I didn't want any chuckling at my expense.  Mr. D'oh successfully kept his politics to himself all evening, as did I. 

Now I can remove the duct tape that's been holding my head on my shoulders all evening. 

So, whazzup?  Ace up to anything "interesting" tonight? 

459 Where is Purple Avenger's electrical tips for the wise Saturday night post?

460 With apologies to our host, here are my notes on a speech from a conference I attended recently. The speaker told a way that the government is going to “help” us. HITECH is a provision of ARRA (the Porkulus bill) dedicated to increasing our use of EHRs. EHR means Electronic Health Record. In the context of this talk, EHR means both “individual medical record” as well as “software used to record this medical record.” [As background information here: there are a lot of software companies on the market providing EHRs or EMRs as they are also called (electronic medical records). These companies sell primarily to hospitals and other large organizations but also would like to sell into smaller practices. To date, the adoption rate is not high. The intentions are good: a good medical record can prevent the doctor from giving you drugs that have a bad effect with your other drugs, can give the doctor the complete picture of your health and history, and can eliminate duplicate tests.] HITECH provides a “stronger and more effective set of incentives” for the adoption of EHRs. Title 13 provides $2 billion to develop foundations for EHRs. Title 4 provides $23 billion in incentives to Medicare/Medicaid providers who adopt “meaningful EHRs.” At some point in the future (couple years?), there will be financial penalties, and they’ll be “much larger” than the incentives. “We’re here to stay.” They are working on rules for “meaningful use.” They’ve sent the proposed rules out for review (he didn’t specify who the reviewers are) and have received approx. 3000 comments. I think the final list is expected to be complete in 2012. Currently on the list: At least 80% of the patients seen or admitted must have at least one entry in an EHR. At least 80% of patients 13 years old or older must have smoking/non-smoking status recorded. There were other items on the list, but I didn’t write them down. There are plans to raise the bar in 2015, I think. Phrasing: we “plan to ratchet this up.” ALSO, physicians must submit quality measures re smoking, blood pressure, and more. For hospitals, there is an even larger set of quality measures (more than 30). EHRs must support standards when exchanging data. [As more background here, there is a large set of standards related to medical data. Some of these pertain to data formats. Various states have privacy & security laws as well. Some EHR vendors and other players in the software industry have been working at mechanisms by which your doctor can get your medical records from other facilities, subject to patient consent. The intentions are good. But I hope I don’t have to remind anyone about 1) defects in software, 2) Joe the Plumber’s experiences with Ohio state employees.] ALSO, EHRs must be certified by law. Politically it would not be feasible to simply mandate one particular vendor’s EHR, so we’re going with establishing a set of rules about what the EHR must do in order to be legally used by doctors who received Medicare/Medicaid $. HITECH (or maybe part of our recent “healthcare” bill) funds an extension center to provide EHR assistance. The speaker talked about some three-bed hospital in Alaska that doesn’t have the funding, the manpower, “or—frankly—the talent” to implement an EHR. This extension center will “help” that hospital. [I’m guessing that everyone knows each other in that town and that an EHR is monumental overkill, but hey that’s just me.] The speaker talked about NHIN—the National Health Information Network. Again the government is working on defining “meaningful use” for data exchange. We will need 50,000 MORE people THIS year and next to develop certification programs in healthcare IT (information technology). [The speaker has a PhD in healthcare IT, by the way.] We might be able to fill this need partly by hiring some people who have been laid off. The legislation (not sure which bit) provides $20 million (I think) for “beacon communities.” The goal is to identify 15 communities, address a community health concern that can be addressed with interoperable EHRs. This is to be announced. The goal is to evaluate the impact of data exchange. [Odd this, because the speaker started out by telling us unequivocally that data exchange Is A Good Thing.] The same legislation provides for Advanced Research Centers. To be announced soon. I didn’t write down a dollar figure. This is all “purely voluntary,” said the speaker. Also, the government “is adopting a free-market approach,” to pay for performance. [The speaker apparently doesn’t recognize that a free market requires multiple sellers acting freely, without rules established to eliminate all but one of the sellers.] The tenor of the entire talk was about convincing doctors. I never once heard the speaker mention the notion that perhaps the PATIENTS would not care for all this.

461

Jane, Ace is in Las Vegas and everyone else is celebrating Earth Hour. You should be too.

462

 

yeah purple avenger! show us your tits!

 

 

463 O/t:  Heh.  Ace's pal Chris Buckley wants another beating.

464 So, whazzup?  Ace up to anything "interesting" tonight? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 27, 2010 10:05 PM (UOM4

Ace is in Vegas partying with Sarah Palin, Andrew Breitbart and Ann Coulter.

465

So, whazzup? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 27, 2010 10:05 PM (UOM4

 

IOTW has an interesting bit on tramp stamps.

466 Has anyone considered the loss of revenue to the government?  At 44% corporate tax, and $18B/yr lost profits to tax, we're starting to talk about some real money- nearly 8 billion a year.

Posted by: Truman North at March 27, 2010 09:55 PM (FjC5u)

--A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon we're taking about apples and oranges.

467 Cities today practice just in time delivery of food. The carnage would be swift.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 27, 2010 09:34 PM (dQdrY)

Which is also why a monetary collapse (or any serious hit to the functionality of the currency) would be so devastating and destructive (even aside from its effects on the viability of the federal government, itself).  Then again, don't have a federal government anymore (as Washington acknowledges no limits to its power) but a feral government, but that's a whole other story ...

468 No, Do not be dishearten. We WIN! Why are they trying to spin this? If they are secure in power? You want food? You want fuel? where is that at? We have many more option then the enemies of the USA. It won't be easy and I hope it won't get violent, but we will win. Now or in the future. USSR couldn't beat the people hell the couldn't beat thae "Baltic States" or the Warsaw Pact. No we win. We are off our knees and we are pissed.

469 I was kidding, guys.  I checked in earlier today.  Can't wait for Ace's pics and stories.

The libs we were with all evening forgot about Earf Hour.  I should call them tomorrow and scold them for forgetting.  Heh.  We came home to a very well lit home. 

470 Whatever happened to that doctor/patient privacy stuff? Is that no longer operational?

471 "476 Ok, curious. If you say so, who am I to argue?

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 27, 2010 10:05 PM (cGaVN)"

I bought these today!  I love them!

472 Uhh, Mr Waxman, I couldn't get a hanger for my G-5 - may I use your left nostril?  I know Pelosi's SUV is in there, theres room.

Thank you.

473

Before I wander off into the blazing starburst that is Erf Owwwr, don't forget, Morons, Chris Wallace is hosting the Rubio/Crist beatdown on Fox News Sunday.  This piece is getting a lot of play, too.  Check out the side-by-side pix with Ronaldus Magnus toward the bottom.  Freaky deaky.  'Night, 'rons.

http://tinyurl.com/y9t7jn3

 

 

474 315

I thought sickinmass was a chick?...hmmm

sickinmass: Show us your tits genital cleft!

FI

475 I still have to wait 14 minutes before I can celebrate Urphf Hour. The anticipation is killing me.

476 I'm early,  On the capitalist hour

477 Ronster, why wait?  Power up.  I only wish we could have brought an old tire over to the libs house tonight to light in the backyard.  Hilarity would have ensued.

478 Yes you eco freeks I have "godlike power" I flip a switch and there is light.

479 Waxman truly is ManBearPig. 

480 Waxman truly is ManBearMolePig. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 27, 2010 10:22 PM (UOM4

It is pretty easy to see why he is a bitter lib.

481

Urf Hour came and went in my lily-white lib Mass. town.  I drove around a bit and couldn't see any change to lighting patterns --- not even from the uber-lib across the street.

Next time the idiots try this I will leave my outdoor Xmas lights up, and set up switches so they throb/pulse/flash while I play Rod Stewart's "Do You Think I'm Sexy" as loud as I can from  speakers perched on the windows.

For the entire hour.

(Yes, I am a Fiend in Human Form.)

482 Posted by: emeril at March 27, 2010 10:14 PM

Posting Waxman's letter to AT&T on my Facebook page (along with a snarky diminution of anyone who couldn't understand the ramifications of the State arguing against the Truth) was my big achievement for the day. Can't wait to see the righteous bawling of the State-o-philic Libs that populate my Friends list.

483 Let Congress have at em... 

I suspect it could easily end up as their 'Colonel North' moment. 

For those who are 'new', the Democrats tried to make a spectacle of Colonel North during the Reagan years about Iran Contra --  It totally blew up in their face and that was with the left wing PRESSSSident controlling all of the media. 

It's big gamble and its highly likely the Obamacrats would get totally ripped to shreds in today's YouTube/blog environment if one or more of the CEOs stood up for themselves and their respective companies and Obamacare.  It's not like the Obamacrats can totally scare anyone into believing they'll continue to control both houses of Congress next year....

  Plus, thanks to the Supreme Court, corporations can now play a bigger role in political contributions -- or have the Obamacrats forgot this minor fact? 

484

Paul Ryan bears an uncanny resemblance to Ellis Henican, the snarky leftist columnist for the failing leftist Long Island daily "Newsday" .

Compare this:

http://tinyurl.com/ykbf2zo

to this:

http://tinyurl.com/yky34r3

If Henican were ever to dye his hair he could cause a lotta mischief.

He appears on O'Reilly quite a lot.  Lately I've noticed he's toned down his snottiness, perhaps realizing he may lose his other gig (with the paper) entirely.

485 You mean those layoffs aren't Bush's fault?!?!?!?!  WTF.

486 Um, aren't companies required to report those kinds of charges/etc per Sarbanes-Oxley?  So..... are the Dems calling for de-regulation after bashing the business community for lack of regulations?  My head is starting to hurt.

487 Did Waxman and Stupak vote for SOX? to fund the SEC?

488 Waxman is living proof that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. I'm not talking about his looks either. Mom flushed the baby and kept the turd.

489 I really hope the Dims go thru with these hearings.  It is very likely that the email and discussions revolve around how to minimize the reported number and/or spread the hit out. 

490 that is truly disgusting.

folksÂ….if you ever need to debunk that gallup poll that says obamacare is favored 49/40, read this.

Democrats & Media Try To Shift Obamacare Opinion with Shaky one-day Gallup Poll http://bit.ly/bIA2RP

491

Blazer, thanks!  I tried calling in to Ask teh Governor on Thursday, but couldn't get through the entire hour.  I wanted to ask if McDonnell's admin is willing to go to court for state's rights -- to drill offshore.  Someone's gotta stop this dipshit in DC.  It might as well be VA.  Much obliged.

I'm rather shocked that a law firm in Richmond would put together a GOP fundraiser.  All of the ones I've worked for are major libtards.

Posted by: RushBabe at March 27, 2010 09:40 PM (LKkE

Yea, me too, but she went to work for an immigration law firm, that believe it or not is run by an Indian husband and wife team who facilitate legal immigration. and frown upon anything else.

And they are about as conservative as can be.

492 Some one was asking about T

493 Question for teh Moronz:

How does one go about researching a 2000+ page bill?

Specifically, I'm wondering if insurance companies are specifically barred from offering policies deemed unacceptable by congress.

Say I like the insurance that I currently have (individual market) and want to keep it. 

I like my current coverage so much that I'm willing to tell the IRS to go pound sand and fine me (good luck collecting) for not having "acceptable" coverage, if it comes to that.

I understand that the insurance companies are going to be required to provide 3 types of super-expensive, guaranteed issue, loaded full of bullshit mandates "insurance" benefit packages deemed "acceptable" by the HHS.

Is there anything that prevents them (legally) from continuing to offer policies that are underwritten for risk, have annual and lifetime caps, high deductibles, no first dollar coverage for aromatherapy etc.?

Or is it the case that all policies, must conform with whatever imbecilic mandates flatulate their way from D.C.?  Does this mean that my contract with my provider is nullified by this bill?

Where would be a good starting point to get a handle on this?

I understand that legal considerations aside it might not make much economical sense for my current provider to keep offering this sort of coverage (individual is a small market....for now) but I want to know whether or not they could if they so chose to.

Dunno, there might be a niche to be filled by a growing population that are not receiving health benefits through the work-place and yet would be more than willing to forgo any subsidy from the government that would rope them into government care...

494 Deety, read my post at 479. Onerous legislation is coming your way!!!

495

@27: "I AM SO FUCKING MAD I COULD GO ON A KILLING SPREE AND FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO TASTE THEIR BLOOD ON MY LIPS, AND REVEL IN THE SATISFACTION THAT I SNUFFED OUT THEIR WORTHLESS LITTLE LIVES!!! FUCKING OXYGEN-THIEVING SCUM!!!!!

I WOULD EVEN BORROW A PAGE FROM VLAD THE IMPALER, AND DISPLAY THE HEADS OF THESE ASSHOLES HIGH ON STAKES. YOU GODDAMN FUCKING PIGFUCKERS!!! THIS IS GETTING FUCKING SICK!!!!!"

Um, having re-read that post three times, I'm still a little unclear as to your feelings on this matter.....

496 "Lib Radio Host Calls For Deaths of Limbaugh, Beck and OÂ’ReillyÂ… Media Silent (Audio)"

I'm wondering if next they will be vilifying the CEO's of the companies speaking out about the monetary consequences for them in the tax bill.

497 The CEO's can't do any of the disrespectful things you all want them to do because that would make them racists.

498

@45: "Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted."

AK-47, SVD Dragunov, T-34/85, MiG-25, etc.

499 Deety, read my post at 479. Onerous legislation is coming your way!!!

Yeah, I've been kinda squicked out by this stuff since that funding was put into the spendulus bill last year.

It's going to be really interesting next time I go to the doctor's office and they try to get a history from me.

Official answer to every question: None of your goddamn business Helen Jones-Kelley!!!

Okay, can we talk now off the record?

500 @45: "Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted."

It was never invention that was really the big problem.  Communist countries - Russia and China in particular - never lacked for genius.  They had more than enough brilliant people to come up with important inventions.  The problem with Communism (and general leftist political ideas) is that they can never generate the industries necessary to support some new invention.  Complex industries cannot be willed into existence by some central committees.  Industrial development (new industries or adaptation of old ones) is something that it takes thousands of individual trials and errors to get right, to build a rigorous and flexible industry.  It's these dynamic requirements that leftists can't understand and that leftist/centralized theories ignore.

There were lots of theoretical inventions in the old USSR, but it was almost impossible to utilize them or develop them far beyond mere ideas - just as the Ukraine grew enough food for everyone, but half of it would rot on the way to market, because of the sorry, static state of Soviet industries.

Leftists are staticists.  They live in an unchanging, static world, where nothing happens, really, until the government does it, and then it only does exactly what the government wanted it to do.  These are simple-minded people and they generate simple-minded structures.

501 Yes, those dems want to nuke those companies drunk with power. Nuke'em!, right Gabe? Nuke those who try to protect our prosperity??? How those apples tasting?

502 Will Paul Ryan be invited?  Which GOP members will be at the hearing?

503
"We request your personal testimony at this hearing."

As my Dad used to say, "people in hell might request ice water, but that don't mean they are gonna get it."

504 Guess who's head of the Subcommittee?  Why Burt Stoolpak.

505 My letter back would involve saying something like shoving my boot up their collective ass then I would sign off by saying, now go fuck yourselves.  Then I would have it personally delivered to them by Guido and Rocco.

506 Please name a product that a Communist country invented that you wanted.

I have some Soviet era diesel model airplane engines that are pretty good, a Soviet era Spetnaz watch that was cheap and durable, my Makarov pistol is reliable, and the Chinese AK-47 is pretty well made.

507 Yeah, they didn't do jack shit to fight Obamacare.  Hell, Caterpillar even had a pep rally for Obama back during the stimulus fight.  This is how we learn.

508   Plus, thanks to the Supreme Court, corporations can now play a bigger role in political contributions -- or have the Obamacrats forgot this minor fact?

Thanks for reminding us, The SCOTUS gave corporate America a weapons to use aganist Obamacare. This is why the President is so sore about it, they can donate and put out ads against his policies.

509

As if their generation isn't irresponsible enough already, and as if it doesn't encourage them to be even more irresponsible by extending their unemployment benefits, now they will continue to receive healthcare under their parents' policy until they are 26, also. 

They're well on their way to becoming the Eloy that we read about in H.G.Wells' The Time Machine, a generation of wastrels, reminiscent of the generation that gave us lazy hippies.

To think that the scatterbrained imbeciles known as  52%ers replaced The Greatest Generation, and now we'll have to contend with the even more irresponsoble behavior of their even lazier children. The word, decadent, comes to mind.

510 Bart Stupak is a liar.

511 Waxman and the Dems are walking into a trap of their own making.

512 brian i voted for mccain/palin despite my misgivings about mcshame

513 Apparently the companies had to file these financial statements with the SEC for the end of that quarter. Sure funny how the pols got wind of it so soon tho...

514 This merely accelerates us toward the end-state, which MUST BE a return to the basic nature of this Republic:

Social security -- Gone.  Replaced by personal responsibility and families taking care of their own.

Medicare / Obamacare -- Gone!   replaced by the Free Market and the realization that eventually everyone's gotta die.

Gov't Sponsored Welfare / Food Stamps -- GONE!  Replaced by private, church-based, and (depending upon the individual state) state-gov't based charity.

Huge Federal Bureaucracy -- GONE!!!   Replaced by people with real and productive jobs.

The only question is, as we transit between here and there -- is the transition gonna be ugly and painful and peaceful -- or VERY ugly and QUITE painful and NOT peaceful.

The choice is theirs.

If you're a believer, prayer is recommended.

515 Nice business you got there.

Be a shame if something bad were to happen to it.

*thumps billy-club*

516 I can't wait 'til they subpoena Arizona and Virginia. That oughta be a real hoot.

517 Obamacare: You're gonna love it, or else! http://bit.ly/c0ZSZf

518 Hugo Chavez just shut the last tv telling the truth in Venzuela ... What's new about this crock of commies.

Next time America start your ballot selection with an American.

519 Want to know how surprising these effects are? They were predicted in advance. The Democrats were warned about them in advance---in November and December. The exact sequence of events, and why it would happen, was known to be inevitable in advance. And who did this predicting? The people the Democrats want to blame today---corporate execs, Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers? Nope. It was Obama buddies and health care law advocates AFL-CIO and American Benefits Council. In this letter: http://tinyurl.com/AFLCIOPredicts dated Dec. 10, 2009, AFL-CIO and ABC say: "Section 9012 would cease the current tax excludability of the 28 percent subsidy provided to employers who continue to provide prescription drug coverage to their retirees. If this provision becomes law, it will be highly destabilizing for retirees who rely upon employer sponsored drug coverage, it will impose a dramatic and immediate impact on company financial statements, and it will not raise the estimated federal revenue attributed to this change in tax law." Hey, that sounds like AT&T and the others! They go on: "The current tax treatment of the subsidy was included in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 precisely to encourage employers to continue sponsoring drug coverage for retirees – not only helping to preserve this important benefit, but also resulting in savings to the federal government by avoiding the necessity of many retirees to obtain Medicare Part D coverage. "It is clear that in drafting Section 9012, the Senate was not aware of, and therefore not able to take into consideration, the significant negative impact, required under Financial Account Standard No. 109, on the financial statements of companies currently providing retiree drug coverage. Regardless of the effective date of the provision, accounting rules dictate that immediately upon being signed into law, this deferred tax liability would have to be reflected on company financial statements. This would substantially increase liabilities for the very companies providing the most comprehensive coverage to current and future retirees. In the current economic environment, this would be particularly ill-advised and disruptive. Moreover, it would compel many employers to cease offering the coverage and require their retirees to obtain coverage through Medicare Part D, at considerably greater cost to the government." That it would happen cannot have been a surprise to the Democrats, including Waxman. They were precisely warned what would happen and that it would happen immediately upon passage of the deform bill. ABC said, in a bulletin dated Dec. 10, 2009 ( http://tinyurl.com/ABCCalculatesObamacareDamage ): "However, financial accounting requirements mandate that, regardless of the effective date of the tax, plan sponsors must immediately record the present value of decades of higher taxes. The applicable present values must be reflected in both the plan sponsors’ balance sheets and the plan sponsors’ net income statements as a single sum on the date of enactment.... The following chart clearly shows the dramatic, unintended financial impact on companies that provide these voluntary benefits to their retirees. The impact is compounded for companies that continue to support large legacy retiree populations." What the chart shows is that the law can cause a decrease in earnings of up to 83% on companies that were suckered into taking the tax break that HHS urged them to take to help them continue to offer their retirees prescription drug coverage when Medicare Part D was passed. And yes, HHS did urge companies to take the tax break; here is what they sent to companies to encourage them to do so: http://tinyurl.com/HHSPushesMdcrDSubsidy

520 Welcome to the USRA, or the United Socialist Republic of America, if you don't see things the way we progressive want, we will run you out of business with harassment, paperwork, taxes, regulation, and intimidation. Don't worry  comrade, in the long run you will learn to love it.

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I live in Waxman's district (30th District of California).  Please send his conservative challenger, Ari David, some $$.  Imagine liberal heads exploding if Waxman actually gets voted out.

<a href="http://www.aridavidforcongress.com">Ari David For Congress</a>

 

522 er ...  sorry about the messed up link.

523 The Dems want to hold the victims of ObamaCare accountable, but not themselves for inflicting this bullshit. "She was dressed provacatively, your honor, she asked for it."

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