April 27, 2010

Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms: Conservative Voters Much More Enthusiastic About Midterms Than Liberals
— Ace

Pollsters cannot account for this phenomenon, but they're 99% sure it's due to hate.

Sweet, sweet warming hate. Like a shot of good whiskey, or the joyful frisson one feels after setting fire to an immigrant's convenience store.

Also, young voters aren't very enthusiastic this year.

The fact that voters under age 50 -- and particularly those under 30 -- are less enthusiastic about voting this year is not a new phenomenon; voter turnout typically skews older. The current data, based on Gallup Daily tracking conducted April 1-25, confirm that so far, 2010 provides no exception to this traditional pattern.

...

Gallup Daily tracking data reinforce the value of younger voters for the Democrats, showing that 18- to 29-year-olds favor the Democratic candidate over the Republican candidate in their local districts by a 12-point margin. In contrast, the Republican candidate is on top among all groups of voters aged 30 and older.

This is several days old by now, but Gallup finds the narrowest partisan gap since 2005 -- just one point of difference, obliterating the Democrats' 10-12 point advantage between 2006 and 2008.

The six-point rise in Republican support since the first quarter of 2009 is due entirely to a growing proportion of independents who lean to the Republican Party, rather than an increase in the percentage of Americans who identify as Republicans outright. (Gallup measures party identification by first asking Americans whether they identify as Republicans, Democrats, or independents. Those who are independent or express no party preference are then asked whether they lean more toward the Democratic or the Republican Party.)

In fact, the 28% of Americans who initially identify as Republicans today is identical to the figure Gallup measured in early 2009, when the Democrats still had a double-digit advantage in support. Since then, there has been a three-point reduction in the proportion of Democratic identifiers, and a three-point decline in the percentage of Democratic-leaning independents.

To some extent, then, this represents simply conservative-tilting voters coming home after going crazy on acid for the 2006 and 2008 elections. Still, you need to get back what you had before you can think about getting more.


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1

or the joyful frisson one feels after setting fire to an immigrant's convenience store.

That's sooo last year.

Posted by: EC at April 27, 2010 10:13 AM (mAhn3)

2 But Mark Halperin at Slime Magazine said Barry's political genius will carry the day in November

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 27, 2010 10:14 AM (1Jaio)

3 We're going to have a whole generation of people whose reaction to elections is, "Voting?  Yeah, I tried that once.  I got Obama."

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:14 AM (W+GYq)

4 The whole point of the renewed amnesty push is to whip up the enthusiasm on the left, no matter how little chance it has of passage and no matter how ugly things get.  What a "healing" preisdent we have.

Posted by: buzz at April 27, 2010 10:14 AM (kwhut)

5

I drank a tall glass of hate this morning. It was most delicious with a teaspoon of honey.

Glorious!

 

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 10:15 AM (Vz9fl)

6 Who you going to believe?
The smiling anchor person, or some ugly green lines?

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at April 27, 2010 10:15 AM (dlp/c)

7 Gonna take us a lotta organizin' to get this done this year.  Rahm, get me Bertha's number.

Posted by: Obamunist at April 27, 2010 10:16 AM (e8YaH)

8 I'm enthusiastic all right....enthusiastic like an Inuit hunter standing in a seal breeding ground with a brand new Louisville Slugger.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 27, 2010 10:16 AM (ZSVyF)

9 I'm a liberal and I'm moist.

Posted by: Dirty, Dirty Whore at April 27, 2010 10:16 AM (c4QEz)

10 You redneck racist teabaggers are going to lose in November.  But I always win as long as there's cock.  I love cock.

Posted by: Polly Carboner at April 27, 2010 10:17 AM (VDgKF)

11 The enthusiasm gap is explained entirely thus:

Conservatives are enthused about voting because they see the possibility of turning the scoundrels out.

Liberals are dejected about voting because the best they could possibly hope for is getting the same scumbags back in.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:17 AM (W+GYq)

12 After the fight over immigration reform, can The White Party retain enough Uncle Toms to fight, fight, fight?

Naw.

Yes, I can say Uncle Tom! It makes me edgy! You are the racists! I say Uncle Tom and you are the racists! I have two black friends!!! I say "man" and "brother" around them a lot! They love it! I'm one of them!

Posted by: erg displaying his shitty taste in music with a reference to a faggoty punk band at April 27, 2010 10:17 AM (lNSC1)

13 Hate, and the abundant chemical effect of repeatedly dipping your balls in pudding.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 27, 2010 10:18 AM (Zj8fM)

14 Vote? Dude, I just got out of bed and I haven't even had some bud yet. I mean.......whoa. Shiny.

Posted by: Young Obama voter, around 1:00 p.m. at April 27, 2010 10:18 AM (RD7QR)

15 I'm enthusiastic all right....enthusiastic like an Inuit hunter a Labrador fur trader standing in a seal breeding ground with a brand new Louisville Slugger.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 27, 2010 02:16 PM (ZSVyF)

FIFY.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:18 AM (W+GYq)

16 yep, and if the sphincters in the GOP can get their asses in 'campaign' mode sometime before November, we might have a chance to gain a few seats.

Posted by: Dash Riprock at April 27, 2010 10:20 AM (uFokq)

17 We're going to have a whole generation of people whose reaction to elections is, "Voting?  Yeah, I tried that once.  I got Obama."

Muahahaha.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 10:21 AM (mR7mk)

18 Hey, moving back in with the parents after dad lost his job and couldn't pay for my college really bummed me out.

Posted by: Less enthusiastic 20 year old at April 27, 2010 10:21 AM (uKraB)

19   You fucking knuckleheads. You are knuckleheady knuckleheads. Fuckity fuck. ACE! YOU HAVE EPILEPSY ACE!

Blearrrrrgggghhhh!

Posted by: erg shaking with anger as his fantasy utopia crumbles at April 27, 2010 10:23 AM (lNSC1)

20

 the joyful frisson one feels after setting fire to an immigrant's convenience store.

DON'T DO THAT!!!! The hobo's won't have anyplace to ask for money.

Posted by: harleycowboy at April 27, 2010 10:24 AM (JKGfQ)

21 This proves that Independents are racist.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:24 AM (1fanL)

22 I've been thinking about this...

If you go to Cook Political, they list 66 House districts as either "lean R", "tossup", or "lean D".  Meaning that they are all competitive.  The districts that are "solid R" or "likely R" total to 175.  So, to get to 218, the R's would need to take 43/66 competitive districts, assuming no surprises in the "likely R" or "solid R" districts.  It's doable but not a slam-dunk.

So I'm wondering, what can we in the AoSHQ horde do to affect the outcome?  I'm not suggesting we go all Redstate and start playing footsie with the RNC.  But I also don't want to sit on the sidelines and just watch the R's let this opportunity slip from their grasp.

Thoughts?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 27, 2010 10:24 AM (JgygP)

23 I predict the Progressives will introduce a new song, sung by a character named Willy Whitey:

Who can take illegals,
Make them whipping boys?
Budget-cut the bureaucrats
And take away their toys?

The Racist Man!
The Racist Man can!
The Racist Man can 'cause he teabags us with hate
To keep minorities down!

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:24 AM (W+GYq)

24

Pollsters cannot account for this phenomenon (conservatives more enthusiastic), but they're 99% sure it's due to hate.

So pollsters, now you are telling me that hopey changey 08 was pure hate?

Posted by: always right at April 27, 2010 10:25 AM (7GfKM)

25 Thoughts?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 27, 2010 02:24 PM (JgygP)

Choose particular candidates you can support and send their campaigns money.  And post links here to their campaign websites, as in: Isaac Hayes for Congress, Illinois 2nd (Jesse Jackson Jr's seat).

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:27 AM (W+GYq)

26 You fucking knuckleheads need to go further right. Dude. Like, I'm baked and I could come up with a better argument than that. Huhhuhhuhhuhhuh.

Posted by: Young Obama voter, after the first bowl at April 27, 2010 10:27 AM (RD7QR)

27 Fine I'm voting out of pure hatred.

Ok not pure hatred, but the hatred of a billion burning suns.

Why the hate? I hate this socialistic, statist shit that's being forced on my country by this marxist piece of garbage in the white house, and the filthy thieving criminals in congress, and by the enablers that continue to vote them in.

If you want to ascribe my motivation to continue to oppose this slide towards hell in this country to hatred, you go right ahead. Just be damned sure you know why I hate it.

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at April 27, 2010 10:27 AM (erIg9)

28 a student loan I can barely pay back with the only McJob I can find

Unfortunately, the very young who voted for Barry get student loans that will only cost them 5% of their McWages, no matter how much they borrowed for spring break or how pathetic their barista tips are.  So maybe they'll vote again...in 2012.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 10:28 AM (mR7mk)

29 stuiec @ 32, I like that idea, but is there something organized that we can do, or want to do?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 27, 2010 10:29 AM (JgygP)

30 Thoughts?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 27, 2010 02:24 PM (JgygP)

Color me pessimistic, but I just don't think sharing the Moron perspective would be helpful at this juncture.  Generally.  But you, YOU, chemjeff.  You have an opportunity.  You have access to young skulls (and trunks) full of mush.  I'll bet a higher percentage of collidge students than the population at large would be open to the Moron Philosophy.  I suggest you concentrate on the wimmins.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:29 AM (1fanL)

31

Thoughts?

Step 1 : Harness the Power of Boobs

Step 2 : ??????

Step 3 : Electoral Landslide!

Posted by: Bill Clinton Esq. at April 27, 2010 10:29 AM (cK2QX)

32 Oh. ace. In November, you'll cry harder than when your Mommy stopped sharing her bath with you on your 25th birthday.

Posted by: !!Mexicans!! at April 27, 2010 02:23 PM (lNSC1)


have you seen his mom? Her tits go down to her knees. Any man would be upset with that privilege taken away

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 10:30 AM (gAmQ1)

33 'Teh HATE' keeps me warm.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 10:30 AM (F09Uo)

34 and the damn (R)'s are chasing my tasty buds supplier back to Mexico.

Posted by: Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal at April 27, 2010 02:25 PM (IhHdM)

That's not the problem.  The problem is that the growers up in the national forests in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties won't have enough illegals to camp out in the marijuana fields to cultivate and defend them.  On the other hand, state "legalization" might keep the supply abundant and the prices low... but for the new taxes... which will encourage continued illegal cultivation and distribution... which means continued enforcement costs and continued criminal violence.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:30 AM (W+GYq)

35

Whoops!

HornyHerpeticPuppehtOFF!

 

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2010 10:30 AM (cK2QX)

36 Wolverines!

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 10:30 AM (F09Uo)

37 Yes. Yes. Hate on, knuckleheads.

Immigration reform is going to tear the country apart. Sweeet. In the end, it'll be Us, and You members of your White Party.

Sweeet

And when I say "US" it means ME, a white guy, and all the brown people.

Being white and hating yourself for it is how you show compassion.

Posted by: erg eating a radish straight from his cat's ass at April 27, 2010 10:31 AM (lNSC1)

38 After the fight over immigration reform

You spelled "enforcing existing laws" wrong, eggamoobymuffin.

Have you looked "illegal" up in the dictionary yet?

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 27, 2010 10:31 AM (rOd1g)

39 stuiec @ 32, I like that idea, but is there something organized that we can do, or want to do?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 27, 2010 02:29 PM (JgygP)

Don't discount the organizational value of our simply sharing tips about great candidates deserving of our support.  Unless you really think we should form MoronPAC.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:32 AM (W+GYq)

40 How come no one ever polls me?

Posted by: Box Jellyfish at April 27, 2010 10:33 AM (dlp/c)

41

That's not the problem.  The problem is that the growers up in the national forests in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties won't have enough illegals to camp out in the marijuana fields to cultivate and defend them.  On the other hand, state "legalization" might keep the supply abundant and the prices low... but for the new taxes... which will encourage continued illegal cultivation and distribution... which means continued enforcement costs and continued criminal violence.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 02:30 PM (W+GYq)


meh, best bud in the world is still coming from the B.C. area. Can't say much but the way it gets over the border is some of the more ingenious schemes of all-time

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 10:33 AM (gAmQ1)

42 You know, erg, IÂ’m amazed by how they can consistently drive down telecom costs, so much so, that telecom is now our most effectively managed cost center. The best part is, they never send us a bill; and thatÂ’s a big relief when it comes to hitting our budgets. Especially with a worthless dildo like you trolling web sites all day when you should be working (or some simulcrum thereof)

Posted by: VP MIS Village Square at April 27, 2010 10:33 AM (ERJIu)

43 and the damn (R)'s are chasing my tasty buds supplier back to Mexico.

Posted by: Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal at April 27, 2010 02:25 PM (IhHdM)

Not buying this.  Tasty buds come from indoors.  And are grown and sold by lily white hipsters.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:34 AM (1fanL)

44 44 Yes. Yes. Hate on, knuckleheads.

Immigration reform is going to tear the country apart. Sweeet. In the end, it'll be Us, and You members of your White Party.

Sweeet

Posted by: !!Mexicans!! at April 27, 2010 02:31 PM (lNSC1)

If you really believed that you wouldn't say anything. You fear us and what we will do when we raise our hand against you.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 10:35 AM (F09Uo)

45 Yes. Yes. Hate on, knuckleheads. Immigration reform is going to tear the country apart. Sweeet. In the end, it'll be Us, and You members of your White Party. Sweeet Ergie ergie ergie. We've got the guns, sweetcheeks. Be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 10:35 AM (RD7QR)

46 Genesis story of Noah proven true.  World economies collapsing. 

President having a beer at the 19th hole after shooting a respectable, for him, 97.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 10:35 AM (c4QEz)

47 Posted by: !!Mexicans!! at April 27, 2010 02:31 PM (lNSC1)

Don't you have work to do?  Work we don't want to do?

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:36 AM (1fanL)

48 If I disparage whites loudly enough, does that make me "street"?

Posted by: erg sucking on a penis shaped turd while pretending he went to Darmouth at April 27, 2010 10:36 AM (lNSC1)

49 Immigration reform is going to tear the country apart. Sweeet. In the end, it'll be Us, and You members of your White Party.

Sweeet

Posted by: !!Mexicans!! at April 27, 2010 02:31 PM (lNSC1)

At the rate the cartels are murdering ordinary Mexican citizens, I doubt there will be many of "You" left when the smoke clears.

It's not the Minutemen chopping off Mexicans' heads or committing mass serial rape and murder of girls in Ciudad Juarez.  Why, I bet the Minutemen don't even take any pleasure in watching Mexicans murder one another.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:36 AM (W+GYq)

50 Not buying this.  Tasty buds come from indoors.  And are grown and sold by lily white hipsters.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 02:34 PM (1fanL)


yep, you only get shitty dirt weed from down south. And unless you want the taste of gasoline with a 10 minute headache (if I wanted that, I could make myself a care package), shit is shit

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 10:36 AM (gAmQ1)

51 Ever notice -asms are generally better than -isms?

Posted by: Dash Riprock at April 27, 2010 10:36 AM (uFokq)

52

meh, best bud in the world is still coming from the B.C. area. Can't say much but the way it gets over the border is some of the more ingenious schemes of all-time

Teh Best Buds aren't being sold.

Your Neighbor is growing them in his basement!

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2010 10:36 AM (cK2QX)

53
Give me a double Hate, straight up, shaken, not stirred.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at April 27, 2010 10:36 AM (Oxen1)

54 Immigration reform is going to tear the country apart. Sweeet. In the end, it'll be Us, and You members of your White Party.

I've seen how y'all frame a house.  Ain't zactly skeered.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 10:37 AM (c4QEz)

55 I hate it when I wake up in the morning and Obama is the President.

Posted by: Saluki at April 27, 2010 10:37 AM (Lh1qk)

56 What! Illegal immigration is illegal?

Posted by: eggamoobymuffin, typical leftard at April 27, 2010 10:37 AM (rOd1g)

57 I hate it when I wake up in the morning and Obama is the President.

A little blow, when you can get it, really softens the landing.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 10:38 AM (c4QEz)

58 44 Yes. Yes. Hate on, knuckleheads.

Immigration reform is going to tear the country apart. Sweeet. In the end, it'll be Us, and You members of your White Party.

Sweeet

Posted by: !!Mexicans!! at April 27, 2010 02:31 PM (lNSC1)


Yeah and just ignoring this country's established sovereignty won't right? I'm not sure you could possibly be any more of a complete retard. I'm sure you'll find a way though erg.

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at April 27, 2010 10:38 AM (erIg9)

59 You guys ever see those Volkswagon commercials where there's a black girl, an asian guy, a skinny white dude with greasy hair, and a racially ambiguous guy with a grown out afro?

That's the life I dream for myself.

All my friends are white, though. :-(

Does anyone know where I can meet cool, hip brown people who I can be seen with?

Posted by: erg listening to crappy punk music and rebelling against his heterosexual dad who never showed appro at April 27, 2010 10:39 AM (lNSC1)

60 Immigration reform is going to tear the country apart. Sweeet. In the end, it'll be Us, and You members of your White Party.

Be quiet and get them weeds pulled.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2010 10:39 AM (7VvJB)

61

Your Neighbor is growing them in his basement!

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2010 02:36 PM (cK2QX)


my uncle grows decent buds but I'd rather get it from a friend. As long as it isn't bubbleberry, that shit got REAL fucking old when that was the only shit coming out up there for the US for 3 years straight a few years ago

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 10:40 AM (gAmQ1)

62

meh, best bud in the world is still coming from the B.C. area. Can't say much but the way it gets over the border is some of the more ingenious schemes of all-time

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 02:33 PM (gAmQ1)

Oh. My. God.  Are you telling me that Canadian drug mules are cutting off their own feet and replacing them with hollow prosthetic feet that contain Canadian dope?  This explains the weird plague of human feet washing up on the British Columbia coast.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:40 AM (W+GYq)

63 Well, this is just pure knucklehead gold. More like this please. Posted by: DNC at April 27, 2010 02:39 PM (lNSC1) As opposed to celebrating the destruction of the Republic? The DNC is going back to its confederate roots, apparently.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 10:41 AM (RD7QR)

64 What! Illegal immigration is illegal?

Posted by: eggamoobymuffin, typical leftard at April 27, 2010 02:37 PM (rOd1g)

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:42 AM (W+GYq)

65 I am enthusiastic.

I hate Costco.  I go to buy some wine, and someone puts a new HP computer with a touch screen in my cart.

The seven year old Sony is going to get a rest.

Guess the afternoon will be fun!

Posted by: Kemp at April 27, 2010 10:42 AM (2+9Yx)

66

Teh Best Buds aren't being sold.

Your Neighbor is growing them in his basement!

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2010 02:36 PM (cK2QX)

God Bless American Ingenuity.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:43 AM (1fanL)

67 More like this please.

Posted by: DNC at April 27, 2010 02:39 PM (lNSC1)

Your culture is unsustainable.

There, now the gloves are off.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 10:43 AM (F09Uo)

68 that first chart is spread wider than contessa's legs.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2010 10:43 AM (7VvJB)

69 Oh. My. God. Are you telling me that Canadian drug mules are cutting off their own feet and replacing them with hollow prosthetic feet that contain Canadian dope? This explains the weird plague of human feet washing up on the British Columbia coast. Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 02:40 PM (W+GYq) no but along those lines

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 10:43 AM (gAmQ1)

70 I hate Costco. I go to buy some wine, and someone puts a new HP computer with a touch screen in my cart. The stuff at Costco is able to get into your cart all on its own. Just ask my wife.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 10:43 AM (RD7QR)

71

Ooooh a pot thread!

I think this bullshit War on Dru....wait, what was I just talking about??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 10:44 AM (Vz9fl)

72 Unless you really think we should form MoronPAC.

Hey, that's a great idea.  Kemp, if you're reading this - you're an 'insider', what do you think?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 27, 2010 10:45 AM (JgygP)

73

It's not the Minutemen chopping off Mexicans' heads or committing mass serial rape and murder of girls in Ciudad Juarez. 

I happened on a PBS documentary about the missing women of Juarez. A young woman described how she was coerced into some illegal activity by a policeman. He showed her an album of photographs depicting the gang rape and deaths of the disappeared young girls. Her description of the photographs was horrifying - they went to their death after being raped and sodomized by sadistic beasts who threw their heads back in laugter at their victims' screams.

Some of the women's bodies have been recovered, but most have not, and their families still grieve their lost daughters after many years.

What is especially heinous about these crimes is that law enforcement and some in the business community are complicit- the ones who lure the women with the promise of maquiladora jobs.

Posted by: kallisto at April 27, 2010 10:45 AM (+FkcS)

74 no but along those lines

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 02:43 PM (gAmQ1)

Not the sinsemilla-filled tampons?

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:45 AM (W+GYq)

75

Oh. My. God.  Are you telling me that Canadian drug mules are cutting off their own feet and replacing them with hollow prosthetic feet that contain Canadian dope?  This explains the weird plague of human feet washing up on the British Columbia coast.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 02:40 PM (W+GYq)

The best way I ever saw was in tires.  It mangles up the buds pretty bad though.  Perfect for mass quantities of shitty brown Mexican, not so good for perfectly formed crystalline White Widow.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:45 AM (1fanL)

76

Like I said: this summer and fall are going to be pretty fraught, in California and elsewhere. The usual Democrat/GOP political battles are going to turn into real battles in the streets this summer: hispanics and blacks whipped up against purported "racism" in the Tea Party activists; public-sector employees and their unions against Joe Taxpayer; and the "greenies" against everyone else who understands that America must develop energy stocks. Continuing violence in Mexico will drive more desperate people into illegal entry into America, and ratchet up the war of words between the Mexican and American governments as to who is to blame for the mess.

California is shaping up to be the primary battleground over the summer. Let's say this is a hot summer, and that the California energy grid has the same problems its had before with brownouts and even blackouts. Let's say energy rates go up. Let's further say that gas prices creep up another 20-25% or so. Let us further state that the Eurozone problems retard or even reverse the nascent economic recovery. (Greece is about an inch from actually defaulting on their debt; Moody's just downgraded their bonds to junk.) This means that the national unemployment rate isn't going to budge much, and in California may actually get worse as the public-sector budget crunch gets worse.

You've got a whole state full of unemployed, hot, broke, and overtaxed people just spoiling for some kind of fight. Racial violence is a given, especially give the politics of immigration and the demographics of Democrat/GOP voters.

I keep hoping that I'm full of shit, and that I'm just being overly gloomy. I would love to be wrong.

 

Posted by: Monty at April 27, 2010 10:45 AM (4Pleu)

77 Can't say much but the way it gets over the border is some of the more ingenious schemes of all-time

The Canadian border?  Thousands of miles of unguarded wilderness.  You would have to have and ingenious scheme to get caught.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2010 10:47 AM (7VvJB)

78 Ever notice the worse things are for EggoLowFat, the more shrill it gets, and the more comments it posts?

Having trouble wrapping your head around the graphs, dear?

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 27, 2010 10:47 AM (rOd1g)

79 Hate keeps me warm at night. Probably be the only thing, once the EPA gets its way.

Posted by: Iblis at April 27, 2010 10:47 AM (9221z)

80

I think this bullshit War on Dru....wait, what was I just talking about??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 02:44 PM (Vz9fl)

The dirty, dirty things you're going to do to me when I finally shovel your driveway.  Please continue.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 10:48 AM (c4QEz)

81

What is especially heinous about these crimes is that law enforcement and some in the business community are complicit- the ones who lure the women with the promise of maquiladora jobs.

Posted by: kallisto at April 27, 2010 02:45 PM (+FkcS)

Which is why making illegal entry impossible (or exceedingly difficult, at the very least) is a necessary but insufficient condition.  So long as life south of the border resembles Kurtz's domain in Heart of Darkness, people will have a nearly irresistible motivation to escape it.  So we have to insist that the Mexican government actually start governing.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:48 AM (W+GYq)

82

I think this bullshit War on Dru....wait, what was I just talking about??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 02:44 PM (Vz9fl)

Funny, I had you pegged as an Ecstasy-loving raver chick.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:48 AM (1fanL)

83 Given that it's supposed to Global Warmening here tomorrow, I can use the hot hot heat of hate. 

Posted by: alexthechick at April 27, 2010 10:49 AM (8WZWv)

84 We're going to boycott this election.  That'll show you!!!!

Posted by: The Criminal Illegal Aliens at April 27, 2010 10:49 AM (pUfK9)

85

My most favorite method of drug smuggling was the guided missile that was launched from Mexico across the border about 25-years-ago. If I remember correctly, it traveled 20-30 miles.

Really, that kind of effort deserves some kind of recognition.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 10:49 AM (F09Uo)

86 #3

We're going to have a whole generation of people whose reaction to elections is, "Voting?  Yeah, I tried that once.  I got Obama."

Posted by: stuiec 

Thread winner...by far. Maybe even day winner.

Posted by: NJConservative at April 27, 2010 10:51 AM (LH6ir)

87

Really, that kind of effort deserves some kind of recognition.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 02:49 PM (F09Uo)

These days, submarines are popular.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:51 AM (W+GYq)

88

Thread winner...by far. Maybe even day winner.

Posted by: NJConservative at April 27, 2010 02:51 PM (LH6ir)

*takes a bow*

Solo: "Great shot, kid!  Don't get cocky!"

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 10:52 AM (W+GYq)

89

My most favorite method of drug smuggling was the guided missile that was launched from Mexico across the border about 25-years-ago. If I remember correctly, it traveled 20-30 miles.

Really, that kind of effort deserves some kind of recognition.

It was way off course, and forgot to pick up its pizza.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 10:53 AM (c4QEz)

90 Heh, most of the "young voters" I know are pretty fired up. 

Then again, I hang with a good crowd.

Posted by: Fortunate Son at April 27, 2010 10:54 AM (trlZM)

91 The Canadian border?  Thousands of miles of unguarded wilderness.  You would have to have and ingenious scheme to get caught.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2010 02:47 PM (7VvJB)


you would actually be pretty surprised. With the quantity you need to make it worthwhile, you really can't hoof it on feet or and ATV. And driving a car through the woods is an easy way to get busted


The best way I ever saw was in tires.  It mangles up the buds pretty bad though.  Perfect for mass quantities of shitty brown Mexican, not so good for perfectly formed crystalline White Widow.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 02:45 PM (1fanL)


at least around here, it still comes up wedged into a second gas tank (hence why it looks and smells like shit. And that's not even getting started with the proportions of beans and stems)

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 10:54 AM (gAmQ1)

92 The problem with idiots like Ergmcmuffin here, ok he has a shit ton of problems, but one of the problems with idiots like this, is they refuse to accept that the people that are actually paying for this shit, is people like us. Not people like him.

People like ergmcmuffin are more akin to tapeworms, than citizens of this country.

They don't produce anything of value themselves, instead, they live off of the hard work of the rest of us. Never acknowledging that their existence is made possible by the hard work of the rest of us, without so much as a thank you.

They demand repeatedly that they're entitled to the fruits of our labors. And if we decide that we're being treated unfairly by the parasites, why we're told we're racists, haters, and anything else the tapeworms think they can get to stick.

Got news for people like erg the tapeworm. We've had enough. It's time for the parasites to be expunged from the system. I do not work for you. What I earn is mine. It isn't yours. It doesn't belong to the government. It is mine. I really don't fucking care anymore whether you agree or not. Your side's behavior has shown me time and again that you don't respect me, or my hard work that allows parasites like you to exist. So let me be as clear as possible, fuck off. I'm done dragging your worthless ass, and some millions like you through life so you can live in your parents dank basement, smoking dope and playing warcraft.


Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at April 27, 2010 10:55 AM (erIg9)

93 Guided missiles! I get those from the network brass in my dressing room all the time.

Posted by: C*ntessa Brewer at April 27, 2010 10:55 AM (uKraB)

94

chemjeff, you need to talk to RushBabe re your MoronPAC idea. She's the go-getter of the group.

If you haven't already deduced, the rest on this thread are too busy eating Cheetos.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 10:55 AM (Vz9fl)

95 I think young voters tend to stay away from the midterms. As far as they're concerned, a hip black guy is president, and all is well.

Posted by: dirk_steed at April 27, 2010 10:56 AM (TxMeq)

96 I, myself, am not a fan of the weed.  "Two-toke" was my nickname in college, for good reason.

Plain old hash makes me horny though.  At least it used to.  Meeemmmmoooorrrries.....or the lack thereof.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 10:57 AM (c4QEz)

97 I'm done dragging your worthless ass, and some millions like you through life so you can live in your parents dank dope basement, smoking dope dank and playing warcraft.

Posted by: Unclefacts at April 27, 2010 02:55 PM (erIg9)


Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:58 AM (1fanL)

98 Midterm Trends VIII: The Enthusening.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 27, 2010 10:58 AM (0QJjg)

99 I, myself, am not a fan of the weed.  "Two-toke" was my nickname in college, for good reason.

Plain old hash makes me horny though.  At least it used to.  Meeemmmmoooorrrries.....or the lack thereof.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 02:57 PM (c4QEz)

You know hash is concentrate of pot, right?

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 10:59 AM (1fanL)

100 euthinization!euthinization!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 27, 2010 10:59 AM (wgUIE)

101 Come to think of it, I haven't nipped the chronic in about 20 years.

It sucks getting old.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:00 AM (c4QEz)

102 Plain old hash makes me horny though.  At least it used to.  Meeemmmmoooorrrries.....or the lack thereof.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 02:57 PM (c4QEz)


hash, the party starter but never the main event. You need smoke to make it worthwhile or smoke and opium to make a devil's bowl

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:00 AM (gAmQ1)

103

You know hash is concentrate of pot, right?

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 02:59 PM (1fanL)

Well aware, my good man, well aware.

Totally different effect on me.  Happy, hyper, and horny.  Plain bud?  Nap-time.  Don't ask me.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:01 AM (c4QEz)

104 Plain old hash makes me horny though.  At least it used to.

Ya'know, weed makes the ladies frisky as well.

Or so I've heard. And it's a topic probably best left for the ONT where all the red-headed step-children attention seeking whores reside.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 11:01 AM (Vz9fl)

105

Monty, I have read where illegals are not going back to Mexico, but neighboring states instead.

This could be the final nail in California's half closed coffin....a new, massive influx of illegals who run from Arizona.

 

Posted by: Who Knows at April 27, 2010 11:01 AM (7FgWm)

106

You know hash is concentrate of pot, right?

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 02:59 PM (1fanL)


fun to make with some table scraps and trimmings. Don't even need shit either, just a silk screen and a piece of black construction paper

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:02 AM (gAmQ1)

107
Genesis story of Noah proven true.  World economies collapsing. 

President having a beer at the 19th hole after shooting a respectable, for him, 97.

Gotta say, I love the golf updates, Herr. 

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 11:02 AM (fx8sm)

108 You need smoke to make it worthwhile or smoke and opium to make a devil's bowl

Smoke it?  Like with a glass, a pin and a straw?  Never  thought of that.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:02 AM (c4QEz)

109 Ya'know, weed makes the ladies frisky as well.

So if I shovel your driveway and pay you for the privilege in bud, it's on, right?

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:04 AM (c4QEz)

110

chemjeff, you need to talk to RushBabe re your MoronPAC idea. She's the go-getter of the group.

If you haven't already deduced, the rest on this thread are too busy eating Cheetos.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 02:55 PM (Vz9fl)

How about something simple like a thread every week or two on, say four or five candidates we like, and we debate their relative strengths to vote on which one we should all (voluntarily, if able) donate to?  And then keep a tally of the funds raised for that week's preferred candidate, to see how effective the effort is?

That, and possibly an organized e-mail tree to send out our group recommendations to our non-Moron networks (NMNs, for short).

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 11:04 AM (W+GYq)

111 Can't we get back to talking about how racist you all are for wanting laws to be enforced?

Posted by: EggoCinammonToast at April 27, 2010 11:05 AM (rOd1g)

112 Smoke it?  Like with a glass, a pin and a straw?  Never  thought of that.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:02 PM (c4QEz)

nah, just pack it into a glass bowl, bubbler or bong (GLASS ALL THE WAY). Of course, you can also break it up and sprinkle it in some smoke and roll it but I think it's a pussy way (most of it goes up in the air than in your lungs). Just make sure the ratio is good and put the hash on top of the bud or opium so it doesn't liquidize into the stem

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:05 AM (gAmQ1)

113

124 Well we certainly have colder temps, but no snow.

Better luck next year though!

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 11:06 AM (Vz9fl)

114 The crack about hate reminds me of something I recently re-read in C.S. Lewis's Christian science fiction novel Perelandra.

At one point the hero, Ransom, is having a physical battle with a demon possessing Ransom's old enemy, the physicist Dr. Weston. (Ransom's trying to prevent a repeat of the Biblical Fall of Man on the planet Venus.) It's been going on a while, and both men are in pretty bad shape, as you'd expect from a pair of Oxford dons who've been beating the crap out of each other all morning.

Then Ransom starts to feel true hate for his enemy, and suddenly realizes that this is the proper situation for that emotion. Fighting evil is what hate is for. His hatred of his literally demonic foe gives him new strength to resume the fight, and his enemy sees it and runs off howling.

The libs are filled with all sorts of hate -- hate of themselves, hate of us, hate of abstract concepts like market economics -- but they can't make themselves hate genuine evil, because they refuse to believe it exists. So their hate destroys themselves and, if we allow it, everything around them.

The Obama administration and its lickspittles in the media are genuinely evil. They are consciously doing things which they know to be wrong, but their pride and arrogance and hatred of all things decent have destroyed any remaining shreds of conscience they may have had.

It is proper to hate them. USE that hatred, and fight!

Posted by: Trimegistus at April 27, 2010 11:06 AM (fEoAc)

115

 

euthinization!euthinization!

We are, we are, the youth of a na-aaaa-tion

 

We are, we are, the youth of a na-aaaa-tion

Posted by: P.O.D. at April 27, 2010 11:07 AM (uFokq)

116

Hate; it's what's for dinner. Yes, I do hate the socialists, I hates them precious, yes we hates them. Little thieves, trixies. They stole if from us.......WE HATESES THEM.....

Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2010 11:07 AM (OlN4e)

117 Wow.  I've never felt closer to you Morons than right now.  It's probably just the weed.


Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:08 AM (1fanL)

118
Dood, act straight, the cops are right behind us.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 11:09 AM (fx8sm)

119 Wow.  I've never felt closer to you Morons than right now.  It's probably just the weed.

I love you, man.


Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:09 AM (c4QEz)

120 It is proper to hate them. USE that hatred, and fight! Posted by: Trimegistus at April 27, 2010 03:06 PM (fEoAc) You have controlled your fear, now give in to your hate, dude. And have you got any bud?

Posted by: Darth Moron at April 27, 2010 11:10 AM (RD7QR)

121 Dood, act straight, the cops are right behind us.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 03:09 PM (fx8sm)

Real dialogue from the past:

Officer: You boys mind if I search the car?

Me: No problem sir.  Mind if I shit in your hat?

My buddy who was driving was unamused.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:11 AM (c4QEz)

122 Barry shoots a "respectable" 97?  A 97? 

Fucking piker.  I mean, I haven't shot that high since my 2nd round of golf.*

*ymmv

Posted by: Editor at April 27, 2010 11:11 AM (pUfK9)

123

"Wow.  I've never felt closer to you Morons than right now."

Where's your other hand?
Between two pillows.
....those aren't pillows!

Posted by: reason at April 27, 2010 11:11 AM (kZVsz)

124 Fighting evil is what hate is for.

Oooh.  That has never occurred to me. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 11:11 AM (mR7mk)

125 You have controlled your fear, now give in to your hate, dude. And have you got any bud?

Posted by: Darth Moron at April 27, 2010 03:10 PM (RD7QR)

Duuude.  You're harshing my mellow.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:11 AM (1fanL)

126
Me: No problem sir.  Mind if I shit in your hat?

Helluva an ice-breaker there, herr.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 11:13 AM (fx8sm)

127 125 I think that's a great idea! You should email that to the powers that be.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 11:14 AM (Vz9fl)

128 Me: No problem sir.  Mind if I shit in your hat?

Helluva an ice-breaker there, herr.

It was OK.  It was spaghetti night.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:14 AM (c4QEz)

129
It was OK.  It was spaghetti night.

HA!  Let's see who gets that one.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 11:16 AM (fx8sm)

130 Let's all go to Waffle House!

Posted by: toby928 at April 27, 2010 03:16 PM (PD1tk)

What has 5 tits and 13 teeth?

Waffle House night-shift.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:18 AM (c4QEz)

131 dis thrad es like a polluted woom

Posted by: Tony Montana at April 27, 2010 11:18 AM (uFokq)

132 Ukrainian parliamentarians enthusiastically throw eggs, punches and smoke bombs.

I've always said we have much to learn from our sophisticated European betters.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 27, 2010 11:19 AM (rOd1g)

133

Officer: You boys mind if I search the car?

Me: No problem sir.  Mind if I shit in your hat?

My buddy who was driving was unamused.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:11 PM (c4QEz)

still like my experience outside of a rave. Cop basically stripped searched me. I had a quarter and another bag with some stems (smoked it on the way down there) in the same pocket and he went through my jeans for a good 15 minutes and all he could find was the empty bag and only gave me a warning. How he didn't find the quarter, I have no fucking clue. Scared shitless. Put them back on and traded it for some Reagan blotters and rocked out to the Jungle Brother (fucking AMAZING set)

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:19 AM (gAmQ1)

134 Dow off 125 points.  Commodity markets showing serious deflationary tendencies.  300 people lined up for a shot at a single door-man's job in NYC.

Pro at Congressional Country Club informs President "We need to work on your hip turn."

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:21 AM (c4QEz)

135 Reagan blotters

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 03:19 PM (gAmQ1)

Good Lord!  Is nothing sacred?

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:21 AM (1fanL)

136 Fed having a hard time pumping up the market today?

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2010 11:23 AM (7VvJB)

137 About the only thing I've learned from this thread is that there are Cheetos.  Gimme. 

Posted by: alexthechick at April 27, 2010 11:23 AM (8WZWv)

138 ever smoke a crawdad and listen to the Steve Miller Band?

Posted by: Peter Potamus at April 27, 2010 11:24 AM (uFokq)

139 Slackers.

Posted by: Fritz at April 27, 2010 11:24 AM (GwPRU)

140 This thread has made me veeeery sleepy....and hungry.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 11:24 AM (Vz9fl)

141 That, and possibly an organized

Okay, I'm seeing the flaw in your plan. 

Posted by: alexthechick at April 27, 2010 11:25 AM (8WZWv)

142

Good Lord!  Is nothing sacred?

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:21 PM (1fanL)


what? For the most part, it's an honor to be turned into blotter art. I have a full clean sheet (as in, no acid on it) framed somewhere at my parents house

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:25 AM (gAmQ1)

143 Obama's economic policy: Don't stop thinking about tomorrow!

Posted by: Peter Potamus at April 27, 2010 11:25 AM (uFokq)

144 So, at a point in the long, long ago, I'm a very temporary guest at the county motel.  They bring out lunch, which appeared to be a bologna like substance, but probably involved either possum or cat.  I'm hoping it was possum.

Anyhoo, as I have only a few hours til the arraignment on this bullshit thingy, and since I knew the judge and knew I'd be getting an OR bond, I begged off chowing down on the mystery meat. 

"What the fuck's your problem, Morgenholz?  Not good enough for ya?", says young smartass with a bad haircut and a badge.

"My problem is that everything went to the lowest bidder, including the help."

It was a long couple hours.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:26 AM (c4QEz)

145

Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms

Intensidies in tent cities.

Wha?

Posted by: dananjcon at April 27, 2010 11:26 AM (pr+up)

146

what? For the most part, it's an honor to be turned into blotter art. I have a full clean sheet (as in, no acid on it) framed somewhere at my parents house

You mean, upstairs?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 27, 2010 11:27 AM (3iMgs)

147 Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 03:25 PM (gAmQ1)

I know who I want to be the party planner for the next Moron Gathering.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:27 AM (1fanL)

148

You mean, upstairs?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 27, 2010 03:27 PM (3iMgs)

Zzzzzzzingggggggg!

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:29 AM (1fanL)

149

Trimegistus

Excellent observation. 

Views . . .newsletter, etc.


Posted by: hobgoblin at April 27, 2010 11:29 AM (PpeVF)

150 Here's an exercise that is completely mind-blowing - explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:30 AM (v0kvW)

151 Damn Herr, you were an incredible smart ass had an interesting youth.

Posted by: Darth Moron at April 27, 2010 11:30 AM (RD7QR)

152

I know who I want to be the party planner for the next Moron Gathering.

Make sure to send out a Save-the-Date card. Something tells me people might not remember.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 11:31 AM (Vz9fl)

153 Posted by: Peter Potamus That's why Ted Turner invented the 24/7 all-music "Classic Rock" channel way up the dial on my cable system.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 27, 2010 11:31 AM (y1kI6)

154

Reagan blotters??

WTF! window pane not good enough for you damn hippies?

 

  

Posted by: dananjcon at April 27, 2010 11:31 AM (pr+up)

155 Whoa. forgot the sock, man.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 11:31 AM (RD7QR)

156 Here's an exercise that is completely mind-blowing - explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 03:30 PM (v0kvW)


sockpuppet posed as stoner Obama voter, it went from there

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:32 AM (gAmQ1)

157 Damn Herr, you were an incredible smart ass had an interesting youth.

Posted by: Darth Moron at April 27, 2010 03:30 PM (RD7QR)

You had it right the first time.  The only thing that can get you in more trouble than dick is your mouth.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:32 AM (c4QEz)

158

WTF! window pane not good enough for you damn hippies?

 

Posted by: dananjcon at April 27, 2010 03:31 PM (pr+up)


at least I never devolved to sugar cubes.....wait, yeah I did on night

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:33 AM (gAmQ1)

159 Mushrooms.  That is all.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:34 AM (c4QEz)

160
explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

We got sooo baked somewhere in Humboldt, and then we went look for Whitecastle.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 11:34 AM (fx8sm)

161 Here's an exercise that is completely mind-blowing - explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 03:30 PM (v0kvW)

Mexicans and pot.  Like peanut butter and jelly.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:35 AM (1fanL)

162 Shamelessly stolen from the intertubes:

David Crane, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's adviser notes, this year's unfunded pension liability is next year's budget cut—or tax hike. This year $5.5 billion was diverted from other programs such as higher education and parks to cover the shortfall in California's retiree pension and health-care benefits. The Governor's office projects that, absent reform, this figure will balloon to over $15 billion in the next 10 years.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2010 11:35 AM (7VvJB)

163 I mean, like, holy shit. I  just re-read the original post - one would think after reading the comments that it was one of those pithy pop-culture observation posts that sort of invite all of the moron lifestyle chatter.  But no!  It was a very serious political observation with practically nothing that would logically segue into weed-talk.

One could say, "well, we're morons."  That's why I said it needed to be explained without the term.  There's something metaphysical going on here.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:35 AM (v0kvW)

164

Here's an exercise that is completely mind-blowing - explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

Far out, man. Uh, the last I saw, the Cheetos were next to the TV.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 27, 2010 11:35 AM (i3AsK)

165 Mushrooms.  That is all.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:34 PM (c4QEz)

My buddy in college stopped eating mushrooms after he heard the Devil in the toilet.  Fortunately, I didn't hear it.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:36 AM (1fanL)

166 175 Here's an exercise that is completely mind-blowing - explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 03:30 PM (v0kvW)

Thats why I am strangley drawn to this blog. I find it fits my A.D.D. lifestyle quite nicely.

 

Posted by: dananjcon at April 27, 2010 11:36 AM (pr+up)

167 Actually that particular incident was not, oddly, my fault.  It involved a beer mug and the head of some asshole who took a drunken swing at me at 1:30 AM the evening before.

Assault charges were later dropped, after the prosecutor actually talked to the little dick.  Wouldn't have been a convincing witness against my angelic face beaming from the stand.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:36 AM (c4QEz)

168 Mushrooms.  That is all.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:34 PM (c4QEz)


only way I can eat shrooms is on a PB&J sandwich

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:37 AM (gAmQ1)

169 Here's an exercise that is completely mind-blowing - explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

Was it this?

Hate, and the abundant chemical effect of repeatedly dipping your balls in pudding.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 27, 2010 02:18 PM (Zj8fM)


Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2010 11:37 AM (7VvJB)

170 Does anyone have any papers?

Posted by: Dr. Spank at April 27, 2010 11:38 AM (I1/U/)

171 My buddy in college stopped eating mushrooms after he heard the Devil in the toilet.

I quit after I wrestled his ass out of the toilet and bit his nose off.  The fucker.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:38 AM (c4QEz)

172

Like a shot of good whiskey, or the joyful frisson one feels after setting fire to an immigrant's convenience store.

Heh, that's funny right there

Posted by: robtr at April 27, 2010 11:38 AM (fwSHf)

173
Does anyone have any papers?

Zig Zags or Jokers?

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 11:39 AM (fx8sm)

174 Um, grognard:

To some extent, then, this represents simply conservative-tilting voters coming home after going crazy on acid for the 2006 and 2008 elections. Still, you need to get back what you had before you can think about getting more.

Res ipsa loquitur.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:39 AM (1fanL)

175 Trouble on a flight from Paris to Atlanta. Diverted to Bangor. Disruptive passenger. There IS a Marshal on the plane and the suspect is in custody. Recalcitrant smoker or Al Qaeda operative? Or maybe just Kevin Smith redux? These stories can now go so many ways.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 27, 2010 11:39 AM (y1kI6)

176 @188 - I don't know.  But, does that really work?  And what chemical?  Pheromones, endorphins, or serotonin?

I defer to the expert ball-dippers for guidance.


Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:40 AM (v0kvW)

177 Does anyone have any papers?

Zig Zags or Jokers?

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 03:39 PM (fx8sm)

The ones that came with the album.

I have seen that joint.  It's expensive.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:40 AM (c4QEz)

178
Recalcitrant smoker or Al Qaeda operative?

I always hope for Rosie O'Pigell and an empty magazine of frangible boolits.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 11:40 AM (fx8sm)

179 193 Um, grognard:

To some extent, then, this represents simply conservative-tilting voters coming home after going crazy on acid for the 2006 and 2008 elections. Still, you need to get back what you had before you can think about getting more.

Res ipsa loquitur.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:39 PM (1fanL)

Ok, mea culpa.  That is indeed all it takes at this place.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:40 AM (v0kvW)

180 Here's an exercise that is completely mind-blowing - explain, without using the term "moron", how the original post turned into this thread.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 03:30 PM (v0kvW)

I can pinpoint the exact moment:

29 We're going to have a whole generation of people whose reaction to elections is, "Voting?  Yeah, I tried that once.  I got Obama."

I got Obama, a student loan I can barely pay back with the only McJob I can find, no hope of building a credit rating or ever buying a home, and the damn (R)'s are chasing my tasty buds supplier back to Mexico.

Posted by: Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal at April 27, 2010 02:25 PM (IhHdM)

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 11:41 AM (W+GYq)

181 Now where'd I put that Jethro Tull eight track.

Posted by: Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal at April 27, 2010 03:39 PM (IhHdM)

Hey, aqualung.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:42 AM (v0kvW)

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 11:42 AM (mR7mk)

183 184 Mushrooms.  That is all.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:34 PM (c4QEz)

My buddy in college stopped eating mushrooms after he heard the Devil in the toilet.  Fortunately, I didn't hear it.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:36 PM (1fanL)

Pffft..I once saw the singer of Accept running across my high school football field; naked with a shotgun in his hand repeatedly yelling BALLS TO THE WALL!!  

  

Posted by: dananjcon at April 27, 2010 11:42 AM (pr+up)

184 I had a fraternity brother that could take a pack of papers and make one giant, approximately 9X15 inch paper. We'll call him Rick, cuz his name was Rick.

I estimate about 2/3 oz per roll.  Goodnight, Irene.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:43 AM (c4QEz)

185 I think Ace has been hitting the bong too much lately. He should switch to speed.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at April 27, 2010 11:43 AM (I1/U/)

186 Zig Zags or Jokers?

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 03:39 PM (fx8sm)


it's all about Oranges and 1.25 papers. Unless your talking about blunt wraps, then it's honey-dipped Skunk papers (I personally go with two layers of honey)

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:43 AM (gAmQ1)

Posted by: O/T Hobo Concern at April 27, 2010 11:43 AM (G60Nl)

188 At first I was looking to get the bj but then I diverted to Bangor.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes, free associating dude at April 27, 2010 11:43 AM (7VvJB)

189 Res ipsa loquitur.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:39 PM (1fanL)

You mean, like this?

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 11:43 AM (W+GYq)

190 I got Obama, a student loan I can barely pay back with the only McJob I can find, no hope of building a credit rating or ever buying a home, and the damn (R)'s are chasing my tasty buds supplier back to Mexico.

Posted by: Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal at April 27, 2010 02:25 PM (IhHdM)

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 03:41 PM (W+GYq)

Bingo.  We went on to resolve that tasty buds don't come from Mexico.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:44 AM (1fanL)

191 At first I was looking to get the bj but then I diverted to Bangor.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes, free associating dude at April 27, 2010 03:43 PM (7VvJB)

"Jamaica?" "No, but I felt her up."

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 11:44 AM (W+GYq)

192 This post did get out of hand quickly.  I think Herr killed a guy, with a trident

I don't remember that.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:44 AM (c4QEz)

193 I had a fraternity brother that could take a pack of papers and make one giant, approximately 9X15 inch paper. We'll call him Rick, cuz his name was Rick.

I estimate about 2/3 oz per roll.  Goodnight, Irene.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:43 PM (c4QEz)

Yeah, my friend "John" liked to do that.  Waste of pot aromatic tobacco, I thought.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:46 AM (1fanL)

194 The oldest piece of toast in Wisconsin.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 03:42 PM (mR7mk)

Does anybody have the munchies that bad?

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 11:46 AM (W+GYq)

195 I feel like eating an entire convenience store pizza.  Odd.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:46 AM (v0kvW)

196 Actually, all the drug talk brings to mind a simple fact:  A conservative is a hippy with a decent haircut.  Really, all we want is to be left the fuck alone to do whatever the fuck we feel like.  Pretty simple really.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:46 AM (c4QEz)

197

Bingo.  We went on to resolve that tasty buds don't come from Mexico.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:44 PM (1fanL)


fuck no, shit from downsouth is the shit you sell to preps in Jr high and claim it's good shit (with a 100% price increase)

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:46 AM (gAmQ1)

198

You mean, like this?

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 03:43 PM (W+GYq)

Bookmarked.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:47 AM (1fanL)

199 Single wide, ungummed OCB.  Anything else is for posers.

I never could roll a joint.  I was a pipe man.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:48 AM (c4QEz)

200 MSNBC just said it landed 15 minutes ago. That's always good.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 27, 2010 11:48 AM (y1kI6)

201 Oddly enough, I'm now a respected member of society, an officer of my parish, a father and husband in good standing, and all that other shit.

What just happened?

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:50 AM (c4QEz)

202 Actually, all the drug talk brings to mind a simple fact:  A conservative is a hippy with a decent haircut.  Really, all we want is to be left the fuck alone to do whatever the fuck we feel like.  Pretty simple really.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:46 PM (c4QEz)

I thought it was: A libertarian is a Republican who smokes dope. 

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:50 AM (1fanL)

203 223 Oddly enough, I'm now a respected member of society, an officer of my parish, a father and husband in good standing, and all that other shit. What just happened? Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:50 PM (c4QEz) Reality. Or you decided to work for your drugs and then forgot why you took the job.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 11:51 AM (RD7QR)

204 What just happened?

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:50 PM (c4QEz)

You are the achiever of something leftists will never attain.

Adulthood.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:51 AM (v0kvW)

205 I never could roll a joint.  I was a pipe man.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:48 PM (c4QEz)


yeah, bongs or bubblers. Faves were Jimbo The Big Red Dildo, a red two section 4' Graphix (acrylic) and Siva, the bad ass custom blown glass bubbler that got 3 magic drops before it broke.

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:51 AM (gAmQ1)

206 I thought it was: A libertarian is a Republican who smokes dope.

Libertarians kind of freak me out.  I just think they go a little far, though I admire their intentions.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:52 AM (c4QEz)

207

What just happened?

You woke up and it was 20 years later.

Fun, huh?!

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 11:52 AM (Vz9fl)

208 Anyone else watching the senators tank the stock market through their sheer fucking ignorance in trying to question Goldman Sachs?

Posted by: robtr at April 27, 2010 11:52 AM (fwSHf)

209

Wow, the daytime threads are so much more highbrow and political than the ONT.

 

Make my paper strawberry please.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2010 11:52 AM (RZ8pf)

210 224

I thought it was: A libertarian is a Republican who smokes dope snorts blow off a hooker's butt.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:50 PM (1fanL)

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 11:52 AM (F09Uo)

211 You are the achiever of something leftists will never attain.

Adulthood.

That would explain the clean urine sample.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:53 AM (c4QEz)

212 Single wide, ungummed OCB.  Anything else is for posers.

Posted by: toby928 at April 27, 2010 03:47 PM (PD1tk)

Color me a poser.  Howinhell can you work those things when you already have a buzz?  I had one of those little joint rolling machines for a while.  They turned out perfectly rolled joints.

But really, water filtration is the only way to go.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:53 AM (1fanL)

213 I thought it was: A libertarian Moron is a Republican who smokes dope snorts blow off a hooker's butt, when you can get it.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:54 AM (c4QEz)

214

Wow, the daytime threads are so much more highbrow and political than the ONT.

 

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2010 03:52 PM (RZ8pf)

BOOBIES!  There, thread's all fixed.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:54 AM (v0kvW)

215

You woke up and it was 20 years later.

Fun, huh?!

Hangover.  Hurts.


Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:54 AM (c4QEz)

216 BOOBIES!  There, thread's all fixed.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 03:54 PM (v0kvW)

Thank goodness for 36 D miracles!!

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:55 AM (c4QEz)

217

But really, water filtration is the only way to go.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:53 PM (1fanL)


fuck that, it's all about ice as you get bigger hits that way. Unless it's a bubbler, then your stuck with water

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 11:55 AM (gAmQ1)

218 235 I thought it was: A libertarian Moron is a Republican who smokes dope snorts blow off a hooker's butt, when you can get it.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 03:54 PM (c4QEz)

Like chocolate and peanut butter, they really should package those things together. I hate it when I run out of blow before I run out of hooker, or the other way around.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 11:55 AM (F09Uo)

219

Wow, the daytime threads are so much more highbrow and political than the ONT.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2010 03:52 PM (RZ8pf)

Well...there are quite a few denizens of the ONT here.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:55 AM (1fanL)

220 BOOBIES!  There, thread's all fixed.

Unfortunately you're a day too late. Boobquake was yesterday.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 11:56 AM (Vz9fl)

221  I hate it when I run out of blow before I run out of hooker, or the other way around.

Taller women or shorter lines.  It's the only way.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 11:57 AM (c4QEz)

222 Ace just can't have anything nice with us ONTers around.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 11:57 AM (F09Uo)

223

fuck that, it's all about ice as you get bigger hits that way. Unless it's a bubbler, then your stuck with water

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 03:55 PM (gAmQ1)

Come for the politix, stay for the zen.

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:57 AM (v0kvW)

224 Hey, I don't hate the Dems. I despise them but they are what they are. But I do have a white hot fury for the traditional media because they had me partially fooled in the past and they get more blatant every week in propagandizing for the socialists. I'm supporting conservatives to save the country and the tears of Matthews et al will just be sweet frosting on the cake.

Posted by: Palerider at April 27, 2010 11:57 AM (dkExz)

225 Off topic here.  Greece's credit rating has been reduced to "junk status".  Obama bail out plan in 5, 4, 3......

Posted by: DngrMse at April 27, 2010 11:57 AM (2h8SL)

226

fuck that, it's all about ice as you get bigger hits that way. Unless it's a bubbler, then your stuck with water

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 03:55 PM (gAmQ1)

Ice always made me cough.  I hazily theorized that it was the expansion of the smoke, or the dryness, or the (duh) coldness.  But cold water seemed to be just as good.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:57 AM (1fanL)

227

Unfortunately you're a day too late. Boobquake was yesterday.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 03:56 PM (Vz9fl)

Nuh uh!  According to the mullahs, its every day.

Allah ackbar!

Posted by: grognard at April 27, 2010 11:58 AM (v0kvW)

228 sweet frosting on the cake.

Mmmm.  Cake.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz, Baked to the Gills at April 27, 2010 11:58 AM (c4QEz)

229 chemjeff, if this hasn't been mentioned yet, someone last night encouraged us to take over the Republican party from the inside.   There are many, many party positions which remain unfilled nationwide, and if enough real conservatives flood the ranks, our own rise to the top.

Posted by: Filly at April 27, 2010 11:58 AM (dSJW9)

230 Ace just can't have anything nice with us ONTers around. Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 03:57 PM (F09Uo) Yeah. You're like puppies who shit on the rug but are too cute to get rid of.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 11:58 AM (RD7QR)

231 Enjoy it while it lasts.  I'm sure the 70-80% of those who agree with the Arizona law will be convinced of how wrong they are by being called nazis and viewing pro-illegal protests which have masked folks waving the flag of Mexico.  Then, according to Medved, it's D landslide time.

Posted by: ed at April 27, 2010 11:59 AM (Urhve)

232 Like chocolate and peanut butter, they really should package those things together.

I've wondered why hookers don't carry blow to sell.  Uhm...assuming they don't.  I wouldn't know.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 11:59 AM (1fanL)

233

Ice always made me cough.  I hazily theorized that it was the expansion of the smoke, or the dryness, or the (duh) coldness.  But cold water seemed to be just as good.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:57 PM (1fanL)


I love that below zero tingling. Even better if you can get your girlfriend to shotgun it (not blowing it into your face but blowing through the stem) to you

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 12:00 PM (gAmQ1)

234 Dow down 200.  Greece a burning cesspool of rioting.  Mexico a narcostate threatening the sovereignty of our fellow Americans in Arizona.

The President is informed, "Always play more break than you think you have to."

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 12:00 PM (c4QEz)

Posted by: Dr. Spank at April 27, 2010 12:00 PM (I1/U/)

236 I've wondered why hookers don't carry blow to sell.  Uhm...assuming they don't.  I wouldn't know.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:59 PM (1fanL)


nowadays, it's all about that crystal.

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 12:01 PM (gAmQ1)

237 254 Like chocolate and peanut butter, they really should package those things together.

I've wondered why hookers don't carry blow to sell.  Uhm...assuming they don't.  I wouldn't know.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 03:59 PM (1fanL)

It might be a worker safety thing.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 27, 2010 12:01 PM (F09Uo)

238 I'm sure the 70-80% of those who agree with the Arizona law will be convinced of how wrong they are by being called nazis and viewing pro-illegal protests which have masked folks waving the flag of Mexico.

Too bad those images aren't the ones that will be shown on TV. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 12:01 PM (mR7mk)

239

nowadays, it's all about that crystal.

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 04:01 PM (gAmQ1)

I'm too scared to get in the same room as that shit.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 12:02 PM (1fanL)

240 Say, anyone see today's Best of the Web?

(Hint: readers respond to one of Taranto's items from yesterday about "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.")

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 12:02 PM (W+GYq)

241

Yeah. You're like puppies who shit on the rug but are too cute to get rid of.

Yeah, well puppies shit and chew shoes when left unattended.

(but good analogy though!)

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 12:02 PM (Vz9fl)

242

Filly, thatÂ’s a good point. Part of what has led to the Democrats being able to win so many positions, from dog catcher to President, is that there have not been a lot of Republican challengers at the bottom of the political ladder. And, by Democrats taking over so many Secretary of State and Director of Elections positions, it has become way easier for them to cheat at elections. The Republicans should be helping and pushing candidates for everything.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2010 12:03 PM (RZ8pf)

243
snorts blow off a hooker's butt, when you can get it.

Meh, hookers are everywhere.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 27, 2010 12:03 PM (fx8sm)

244 I like to let my feelings of hate envelope me like butter on a warm roll.  

Posted by: Y-not has buttery buns at April 27, 2010 12:03 PM (Kn9r7)

245

nowadays, it's all about that crystal.

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 04:01 PM (gAmQ1)

It even has its own term: Party and Play.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 12:03 PM (W+GYq)

246 Too bad those images aren't the ones that will be shown on TV. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 04:01 PM (mR7mk)

It'll all be about cute little Chihuahuas and "Consuela the mother of seven".  "Jose the raper of little boys" will get no play at all.

Contessa Brewer: Dirty, dirty whore.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 27, 2010 12:03 PM (c4QEz)

247

It might be a worker safety thing.

 

Maybe OSHA put the kibosh on it?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2010 12:05 PM (RZ8pf)

248 Aahhh, a cute-plosion.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at April 27, 2010 04:00 PM (I1/U/)

Which one is the dealer?

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 12:05 PM (W+GYq)

249

I'm too scared to get in the same room as that shit.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 27, 2010 04:02 PM (1fanL)


I don't mind being around most drugs but Meth and H is something I run out of the room as soon as I see it

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 12:06 PM (gAmQ1)

250 The other buzz througout the media besides the Nazi haters in AZ is the "Debt Commission".  The liberals are all agga on increased taxes. 

What is ironic since it has been a while on that score is that increasing taxes has NEVER resulted in decreasing the deficit.

I saw a study that was done a few years ago that said for every tax increase in history the average was an increase in spending of 1.25 for every 1 of tax increase.

The only time we have actually decreased the deficit was the big rebound after the Reagan tax cuts with a fiscally conservative Republican congress. 

All ya'll know the one. The years Clinton got all the credit for when he really had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Vic at April 27, 2010 12:06 PM (QrA9E)

251

Herr, chihuahuas are not cute. You have lost a modicum of respect in my eyes.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 27, 2010 12:06 PM (7FgWm)

252 The Greek 10 Year bonds maturing in three weeks (May 19) are now being sold at 98.7 or a Yield to Maturity of ~30%.

And the dow ends down 213.

But bullet prices rise.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes, free associating dude at April 27, 2010 12:06 PM (7VvJB)

253 BREAKING: Greece cut to junk bond status, Portugal also downgraded Front page of Drudge, big bold letters. (URL not cooperating with rightsizing measures. Minions have been dispatched to instruct Yahoo in the error of its ways. I don't expect 'em back for a while...)

Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at April 27, 2010 12:08 PM (Xu5Z7)

254 Herr, chihuahuas are not cute.

And there's not really enough meat on 'em to make a meal.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 12:09 PM (mR7mk)

255 Portugal and Spain follow Greece down the tubes, Germany pulls out of EU and brings back the mark.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 12:09 PM (RD7QR)

256

Ah Patches, you may party like a moron, but we don't want you at our party.

(Unless we can mock you to your face. Pretty please, let us mock you to your face!!)

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2010 12:10 PM (Vz9fl)

257 What just happened?

"This is not my beautiful house, this not my beautiful wife"

Posted by: Guy Fawkes, free associating dude at April 27, 2010 12:10 PM (7VvJB)

258 Germany pulls out of EU and brings back the mark.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 04:09 PM (RD7QR)

Is that true?

Posted by: robtr at April 27, 2010 12:10 PM (fwSHf)

259 Afternoon, stoners morons.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 27, 2010 12:11 PM (UOM48)

260 The Dude Abides.

Posted by: Jeff Lebowski at April 27, 2010 12:11 PM (aag4W)

261 Germany pulls out of EU and brings back the mark. Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 04:09 PM (RD7QR) Is that true? Posted by: robtr at April 27, 2010 04:10 PM (fwSHf) No, pure speculation. There just doesn't seem to be too much benefit to Germany in staying in the EU, at least not that I can see.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2010 12:12 PM (RD7QR)

262 (Unless we can mock you to your face. Pretty please, let us mock you to your face!!)

I so want to fify.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes, free associating dude at April 27, 2010 12:13 PM (7VvJB)

263 Yeah I agree with you  but that would be a BFD if it happened is why I asked.

Posted by: robtr at April 27, 2010 12:13 PM (fwSHf)

264

Herr, chihuahuas are not cute.

Oh yeah, what about me, you EEDIOT!

Posted by: Ren Hoek at April 27, 2010 12:14 PM (VDgKF)

265 Here's an image.

I'd say "feminists, please pick up the white courtesy phone" but as we learned from Palin-hung-in-effigy vs. Obama-hung-in-effigy, race trumps gender for people who call themselves "woman-positive."

(Imagine the fauxrage over stereotype and violence if that was an illegal alien pinata.)

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 12:14 PM (mR7mk)

266

236

Wow, the daytime threads are so much more highbrow and political than the ONT.

 

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2010 03:52 PM (RZ8pf)

  

Yep, and they ignore me here as well...

**sniff**sniff** 

 

Posted by: dananjcon at April 27, 2010 12:14 PM (pr+up)

267 Haven't heard a good Ren imitation for awhile. Do you do Stimpy, too?

Posted by: Who Knows at April 27, 2010 12:15 PM (7FgWm)

268

Our senators are just dumb.

Coburn: How did you get back 100% of what AIG owed you.

Goldman: uhhh because that is what they owed us.

Coburn: oh

Posted by: robtr at April 27, 2010 12:16 PM (fwSHf)

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 27, 2010 12:18 PM (mR7mk)

270 I don't mind being around most drugs but Meth and H is something I run out of the room as soon as I see it

Smae here, ever smelled it? I'm not sure how to describe but it's like the harshest unnatural chemical smell you can imagine, don't see how tweakers can stand it.

Posted by: koopy at April 27, 2010 12:18 PM (ctR4U)

271

walked into the kitchen, got lost while looking in the fridge for something to munch on. hmm.,,, there's jelly, ketchup, mustard, something with fluffy green clouds? maybe it is mold,  ok  not that, what about the milk, sniff, whew how old is that,

i turn around all you guys are asleep on the floor!

bums.

Posted by: willow at April 27, 2010 12:19 PM (N5sGL)

272

Coburn: How did you get back 100% of what AIG owed you.

Goldman: uhhh because that is what they owed us.

Coburn: oh


That used to be the way mortgages worked back in the day. Now not so much (unless you're a white cracker).

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 27, 2010 12:19 PM (tf9Ne)

273 check out the gold chart today.

Posted by: g. gordon liddy at April 27, 2010 12:19 PM (7VvJB)

274

Speaking of Charles the Goat fucker Johnson.

Have any of you been to his pathetic site recently.   He's using Rachel Maddow as a source.    I peeked and could not believe my eyes.   He's asserting that the Arizona's immigration law has it's roots in white supremacy.  

Charlie the Goat fucker is insane.70% of Arizona's citizens support the law.

wow.

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2010 12:20 PM (Vqruj)

275 I got my November mojo idling and warming up right now.  Republican, Democrat, if you're an incumbent, I'm voting you out-- ceptin' that I'll vote two times against anybody with a "D" after their name.

Posted by: Donkey Denier at April 27, 2010 12:23 PM (ktYjH)

277 Why do those dipshits always have drums?

Posted by: koopy at April 27, 2010 12:26 PM (ctR4U)

278 Why do those dipshits always have drums?

Posted by: koopy at April 27, 2010 04:26 PM (ctR4U)


that and a acoustic guitar are the only ways they can get laid

Posted by: fartbubble at April 27, 2010 12:27 PM (gAmQ1)

279 that and a acoustic guitar are the only ways they can get laid

Heh, they're probably like furries except they use their big paper mache heads.

Posted by: koopy at April 27, 2010 12:34 PM (ctR4U)

280

Charlie the Goat fucker is insane.70% of Arizona's citizens support the law.

wow.

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2010 04:20 PM (Vqruj)

He was against Obama before he was for him.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2010 12:34 PM (W+GYq)

281

Is that true?

No. I think the core Eurozone will survive (if not thrive).

It's the smaller nations that are causing the problem -- Greece should never have been in the Eurozone to begin with, nor Portugal (nor, probably, lots of the eastern nations). Germany opposed Greece's entry to begin with, which is why they're getting all soggy-and-hard-to-light right now. In fact, Germany's feeling about Greece is pretty analogous to that of other states to California: why should we pay for their fiscal failings? (In fact Greece is worse in that it basically lied about its finances to get in to begin with.)

Greece needs to get out of the Eurozone and get back to the drachma.  Only then can they devalue the currency and resolve their financial situation. The only possible way that they can stay in the Eurozone is with an EU/IMF bailout every year or two for...well, forever. And that ain't gonna happen. The kind of austerity the Greek government would have to undergo is completely impossible, given the socialist/union-controlled economy in that country. There'd be a civil war.

The grand designs of the Eurozone have been shown to be a complete sham, but the EU bureaucrats are still in denial about it. They'd rather see Greece blown to flinders than admit that the whole idea of a unified European currency was flawed.

 

Posted by: Monty at April 27, 2010 12:34 PM (4Pleu)

282 I registered as a Republican for the first time in my life yesterday, so I can vote in the primaries here. Once they're over, I'll be swapping back to independent.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 27, 2010 12:54 PM (PQY7w)

283 The six-point rise in Republican support since the first quarter of 2009 is due entirely to a growing proportion of independents who lean to the Republican Party...

I wonder how many of those "independents" voted for Obie and are now feeling betrayed?...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at April 27, 2010 01:02 PM (Q75cY)

284 247 Off topic here. Greece's credit rating has been reduced to "junk status". Obama bail out plan in 5, 4, 3......
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Actually, this is more Angela Merkel's bailiwick. I bet it makes her shoulders hurt.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 27, 2010 01:03 PM (3K4hn)

285

Actually, this is more Angela Merkel's bailiwick. I bet it makes her shoulders hurt.

Not entirely. The IMF is on the hook for lots of cash, and you know who funds them, right? Those idiot American taxpayers, that's who.

 

Posted by: Monty at April 27, 2010 01:17 PM (4Pleu)

286 "Pollsters cannot account for this phenomenon, but they're 99% sure it's due to hate.

Sweet, sweet warming hate. Like a shot of good whiskey, or the joyful frisson one feels after setting fire to an immigrant's convenience store."


Honest to God, My black and bitter iced coffee shot out of every facial orifice I have, including my tear ducts...  Yes, It's surprisingly painful and yes I just toasted another keyboard but the mental image of the satisfied grin creeping across some rednecks face illuminated by the flickering reflections of the Happy Good Luck Time Mart as it becomes fully involved is just so horrible I had to laugh.

Posted by: Boxy Brown at April 27, 2010 01:23 PM (PWM6Q)

287 Obama's not going to bail out Greece.  Greeks are too pale and Christian-y.

Posted by: Trimegistus at April 27, 2010 04:36 PM (fEoAc)

288 Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms: Conservative Voters Much More Enthusiastic About Midterms Than Liberals Better hide the baseball bats, then...

Posted by: cheshirecat at April 27, 2010 06:15 PM (Qb4Lv)

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