1 Primero

2 Meanwhile, Chris Christie says:

Bacon cooks itself when I'm in the room.

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/101315/

3 Charlie Crist looks for oil in a girl's thong?  Eewwww....

4 It's an unprecedented decline.

5 I'd like to use my riser insertion tool on that.

6 The real poll will come in Nov. How many commies will get reelected?

7 Three pointer from downtown!

8 Three pointer from downtown!

I'd wager The Ass-Kicker-In-Chief's actual basketball skill, like his management skill, is on par with that of Michael Scott.

9 42% at least somewhat approve?  Approve of fucking what????  More evidence voters must pass an IQ test before being allowed to cast a ballot.

10 But Intrade has Obama up by 20%!!!!!!!

11 Get Michael Mann on this right away.

12 Obama is in so far over his head he needs scuba gear.

13 Captain Fantastic augers in.

14 Don't you think as his poll numbers get worst, the pic of Obama should go from a smile, to neutral, to a frown, to a grimmace, and now an agonzied - just kicked in the nads - face?

15 Gee, what message do you suppose Charlie Crist is sending?  He likes girls in thongs?  sure

16 Obama retreats into the bunker and becomes a recluse in about 6 months.

17 What percent pay no taxes, 40%? We're approaching the baseline.

18 Gee, what message do you suppose Charlie Crist is sending?

I'd drill that like Deepwater Horizon.

19 can anyone photoshop the dow jones and s&p graph since he took office over obama's poll ratings/?

20 Remember: he doesn't care about approval or making things better. It's not his task.

21 I'd love to see polling among doctors. If they ran a poll similar to that conducted just before passage of the Obamacare monstrosity, they are likely to find their interest 'heightened' since Reid is scuttkling the doctor fix money.

22 Captain Fantastic couldn't fill my boots with a herd of his bullshit.

23 Remember: he doesn't care about approval or making things better. It's not his task.

Posted by: tachyonshuggy

 

Some around him do. Others, especially in the Congress, have already realized that being near him is bad for their short term prospects. Also note that when bully boy Ethridge attacked the student reporter, he was being asked about his supporting the Obama agenda.

24 "Herr Rasmussen McNazipants."

THIS is the reason I read this blog every day.

LOL.

25

Well, tanning oil does smell delicious.

26 Some around him do. Others, especially in the Congress, have already realized that being near him is bad for their short term prospects.

And pushing through the $50bil union payoff without first telling Congress didn't win him any new friends.

THIS is the reason I read this blog every day.

And not pictures of thong clad women?

27 That has to be a photoshop of Crist- there is no way he would get that close to those girls without recoiling in terror.

28
Meeting with the BP execs for only 20 mins is devastating.  It is an easily understandable nugget of info for the average busy voter.  I can't believe they were stupid enough to do that.

29 The LA Times link goes to Gabe's twitter account.

30 Meeting with the BP execs for only 20 mins is devastating.

18 minutes of which was spent looking at his watch wondering if he was going to miss his tee time.

31 16 I hope he goes the recluse route rather than flip out and start screaming obscenities during a press conference or break down in tears during a SOTU address. He's already an embarrassment, I don't want him to totally humiliate us.

32

Well, tanning oil does smell delicious.

The only way those girls had "oil deposits" is if they walked straight off the Bang Bus onto the beach.

33 (Note the last line of the story)

Explosives found in vehicle at Army base in Ga.

(AP) – 1 hour ago

FORT GORDON, Ga. — Authorities say a man was arrested after explosives were found in a vehicle on an Army base in Georgia and the FBI is investigating.

A spokesman for Fort Gordon near Augusta said Wednesday military authorities are not treating the case as a terrorist threat.

Spokesman Buz Yarnell gave few other details. A news conference was scheduled at Fort Gordon later Wednesday.

Yarnell said a search of the civilian's vehicle Tuesday uncovered a knapsack containing military hand grenades. He said the man arrested is a suspect in a theft of military equipment from Fort Gordon in April.

FBI spokesman Steve Emmett in Atlanta said federal charges are forthcoming but he does not expect them to involve explosives or terrorism.

34 The sad thing is that even though Obama's lefty supporters and media butt-boys are finally turning on him, they still haven't actually learned from their mistake. They're dumping in him for not being socialist enough -- for not nationalizing BP and jailing its management, for not shutting down ALL oil production, for not holding show trials of Dick Cheney and his former colleagues at Halliburton.

So while it's good to see them drunk-texting their friends about what a bastard that guy turned out to be for getting them pregnant AND giving them genital warts, their shriveled evil little hearts are still pining for Che.

35 I feel sorry for the 42% that still approve.

36

28
Meeting with the BP execs for only 20 mins is devastating.  It is an easily understandable nugget of info for the average busy voter.  I can't believe they were stupid enough to do that.


20 minutes = 24/7 in Obama-world?

I suspect he's afraid to stay longer than 20 minutes because he couldn't keep up with the conversation any longer. In fact, keeping up for 20 minutes is probably pushing it.

37

Gee, what message do you suppose Charlie Crist is sending?  He likes girls in thongs?

I had sexshual relations with that woman. In her vagina. After midnight. That's when sex with women happens. I should know.

38 No wait, didn't you read that the new AP Poll out today shows Democrats SURGING to a 7 point lead in the Generic Poll?

Yep, things have been going SO WELL for Democrats lately we can surely believe THAT poll.  We will ignore the polls from Rasmussen, Gallup and NPR claiming the EXACT OPPOSITE is true.

P.S., I believe that the days of the MSM using bogus samples to get the polling numbers they want is waning.  They normally use these bogus polls to lead the news cycle - but since the public increasing DOESN'T BELIEVE ANYTHING THE MSM SAYS, it may actually have the opposite of the intended effect as people want to believe the OPPOSITE of what the MSM says is true.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

39

24 "Herr Rasmussen McNazipants."

THIS is the reason I read this blog every day.

This racist hating on my heritage is just sooo PC these days. Spit.

40 Gee, what message do you suppose Charlie Crist is sending?

Denial.

41

Has anyone pointed out that the link which is supposed to take you to the LATimes instead goes to Gabe's Twitter?

Because if anyone hasn't pointed that out yet, and suggested the correction thereof, then I would like to do so at this point in time.

42 Click on the http and you will see ass, scroll down and you will see a cockholster with no ass!

43

FBI spokesman Steve Emmett in Atlanta said federal charges are forthcoming but he does not expect them to involve explosives or terrorism.

Posted by: Tami at June 16, 2010 11:29 AM (VuLos)

So just what was this guy going to use these stolen hand grenades for?  Fireworks on the 4th of July?

44 43,

He was going fishing.

45 The idiot woman from the Luntz poll group last night: You can't blame Obama. He inherited those falling poll numbers!

46
Now, Eugene Robinson is bagging on the speech like MSNBC did yesterday.  What the heck is going on?

Normally, it seems these guys all coordinate their talking points with Obama and the DNC.

So what's going on?  What's their plan?  I refuse to believe they've turned on him.

47

"Obama retreats into the bunker and becomes a recluse in about 6 months."

Six months?  I don't know if America's got that kind of time...  Anything we can do to speed this up?

48 Mr.  McNazipants ... Is this guy single?  I wouldn't mind being PrettyPinkFluffy McNazipanties.

49

Gee, what message do you suppose Charlie Crist is sending?  He likes girls in thongs?  sure

I'd probably look pretty damn sexy wearing that.

50 After seeing the awesome rowdiness displayed by the Luntz Focus Group last night, I'm willing to bet that the local Discount Tire had a full lobby this morning.

51

Hell just froze over, Head Obama cheerleader Eugene Robinson just trashed Obama's speech.

 

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/2bbexa4

 

52 He was going fishing.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at June 16, 2010 11:39 AM (JZpX3)

Oh, so knowing the Holder Justice Dept. I guess they're going to charge him with fishing without a license.

53 BP suits had to spend 20 minutes with little O'? I know they screwed up but that seems a little harsh. What's the next level of punishment, making them watch The View?

54 What *is* she using to get such a lovely char...?

55 Obama retreats into the bunker and becomes a recluse in about 6 months.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 16, 2010 11:16 AM (1pthE)

Not a chance.  The Precedent doesn't care about being humiliated.  If he did, he would have resigned right after he was inaugurated.  His Precedency has been nothing but one humiliating screw up after another.  Remember how he was slapped silly on the international stage with his pathetic Copenhagen Olympic trip (which helped the US get tossed out in the first round)?  He didn't care.

The Precedent likes being humiliated because his personal humiliation scars the office, itself, and his main goal is to destroy our institutions.  He's a suicide bomber on his run, and humiliating himself while he trashes the office is part and parcel of his main goal.

Sadly, The Precedent will not leave, or disappear, due to any normal concept of humiliation or integrity.  That's not the way he's built and that is not in sync with his intention to tear our systems and institutions to shreds.

56 Can I haz Nobel prize? I trap squirrels with nuts.

57

Hippies - that's some pretty toxic stuff right there.  In fact, we may need to regulate and monitor it.  I demand a Behar Czar!

58 Reason, the LAT article is linked in Gabe's Twitter post

59 16 Obama retreats into the bunker and becomes a recluse lame duck in about 6 months.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 16, 2010 11:16 AM (1pthE)

60

Hell just froze over, Head Obama cheerleader Eugene Robinson just trashed Obama's speech.

 

I can't link to it. Is he complaining because he isn't a more obtuse leftist jerk? or does he think that Obama is bumbling and ineffective?

61 Who are these 42%..?

62

You want me to click, and then click AGAIN, DAVE?

Are you trying to kill me with teh carpel tunnelz?

63 Who are these 42%..?

Hi.

64

I can't link to it. Is he complaining because he isn't a more obtuse leftist jerk? or does he think that Obama is bumbling and ineffective?

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 16, 2010 11:48 AM (R2fpr)

Bumbling, ineffective and in general full of crap.

65 Nor is it simply the demonising of Big Oil – which makes the US president sound as if he were recruiting his speech writers direct from the student union – that has evoked the UK mediaÂ’s collective sneer. What has been much commented upon – especially by those fastidiously liberal BBC correspondents – is ObamaÂ’s pointedly bellicose language: the US is apparently engaged in a “battle” to be waged in very personal, anthropomorphic terms “against an oil spill that is assaulting” its coast. Considering how relentlessly the Bush “war on terror” was ridiculed, how long will it take before the Obama “war on an oil slick” is labelled as absurd? Given the tone of this morningÂ’s coverage, perhaps not very long at all. -- Janet Daley, UK Telegraph

66 The longer the leak, the lower the numbers.

I'm thinking of putting BP in for some kind of medal.  Even Chrissy and Olberdouche are pissed at The One.

67 Obama succeeded in doing it all by himself to himself,
Tarred 'n Feathered.

68

I can't link to it. Is he complaining because he isn't a more obtuse leftist jerk? or does he think that Obama is bumbling and ineffective?

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 16, 2010 11:48 AM (R2fpr)

Bumbling, ineffective and in general full of crap.

Posted by: robtr

 

Allow me to second what was posted above. Eugene Robinson is a racist and a far left shill. If he took a shot at Obama, then he is either part of a herd that is sensing Obama's waning influence, or he is showing a sense of observation that he's never previously displayed. He was one of the jerks playing the race card after Hurrican Katrina pummelled the SE.

69 The other weird thing about most of the criticism of Obama's speech is that it's critical of it as a speech. Nobody's saying Obama's incompetent or ignorant or full of stupid ideas. They're saying his speech didn't "strike the right tone," or reassure the voters as it should have.

This is the kind of thing reporters should mutter to each other, or gossip about during off-the-record prostate massages from Congressional staffers. It's insider talk. Sure, it makes you sound clever, like an insider -- but it has nothing to do with the problem at hand.

When President Roosevelt declared war on Japan, nobody wondered "how will this affect his poll numbers?" or "is he playing to his base, or moving to the center?" No, they wondered how we were going to fight and defeat Japan, and whether we should tackle Germany first, and other matters of real-world importance.

The political class, and their "journalist" lickspittles, are so invested in "winning the game" of electoral politics that they've forgotten it actually has real effects on real people's lives and livelihoods. I think this explains their confusion -- and anger -- over the less-than-enthusiastic response to Obamacare. To them, it's a clear political victory, and they literally can't understand why the people are concerned about what it's going to do to their lives. That simply isn't what they think about, so it sounds like an irrelevant distraction or even a sinister ploy by the opposition.

70 Obama inherited these approval ratings.

71 We need to all get behind President Obama's failed policies, it's only fair.

72 Obama inherited these approval ratings.

bwahaha

73 I'm the Boss!

74 We need to show President Obama that we support his strategies to stop the oil spill by doing photo ops and building windmills.

75

>> Are you trying to kill me with teh carpel tunnelz?

 

heh.

76

"Who are these 42%..?"

My mother-in-law, who is still absolutely convinced that her White Guilt led her straight and true on Election Day when she voted for this guy.

77 We need to show President Obama that we support his strategies to stop the oil spill by doing photo ops and building tilting windmills.

FIFY

78 That his administration doesn't see that the negative feedback they are receiving is not for not stopping the leak but for not doing something to stop the spread of the oil is indicative of their incompentence.

They see it.  They don't care.  "Healing the planet" was never a goal, it was a means.

79 People generally understand that stopping the leak is complex and an unprecedented problem and out of his control

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2010 11:55 AM (m2CN7)

Except that only the federal government can nuke the well.  No one else has that capability.  But no one in the federal government has even broached the idea.

Other than that I am in full agreement with your post.  The feds' main responsibility was containment and cleanup - something well within their power and control, but, not only did they not do jackshit for that, they used their power and control to impeded the containment and defense actions that the states and localities wanted to do.  Add this to the long articles of impeachment that have been gathering ever since the Indonesian Imbecile slimed into the White House.

80 Does this guy not know crisis management 101?  First, SOLVE THE PROBLEM.  Then try to prevent it from happening in the future, then try to find fault.  He's going at this backwards.

But then again, he's never had a job in his life.  He's not going to plug the damn hole any time soon, but has never even mentioned waiving the Jones Act to get the oil skimmers here to cleanup and help stave off a few billion dollars worth of economic and ecological damage.  But then again, he's not interested in any of that.  Instead, we get a hack politician who is using the crisis to try to ram through his agenda, which of course won't plug the damn hole, or clean up one tar ball of thing girls' ass.

I picked a bad time to stop drinking.

81 17 What percent pay no taxes, 40%? We're approaching the baseline.

This.

82 Interestingly enough, their is a short story and a play by flaming liberal playwrite, Eugene O'Neill, called The Emperor Jones that parallels and might very well portend the political career of Barack Obama. It's a quick, good read.

83 He's still approaching this like a Chicago community organizer:  establish blame, shake down Whitey, and leverage it for greater influence in the future.

84 58 Reason, the LAT article is linked in Gabe's Twitter post

Posted by: Dave in Texas at June 16, 2010 11:47 AM (wxqMF)

Not to be a nudge, but Twitter's blocked here.  Any chance of getting the LAT article link directly?

85 42% of Americans greatly appreciate being cautioned against using their hair dryers in the bathtub.

86 CNBC is reporting that BP has agreed to put $20 Billion in an escrow fund to pay damages.

87 So what's going on?  What's their plan?  I refuse to believe they've turned on him.

Posted by: IreneFingIrene at June 16, 2010 11:42 AM (JKe0g)

If you don't like Beck, ignore this post.  It's all over the map, but that's to highlight the chaos _{(that was for you, Kratos).}

He called into his show today (out because daughter was hospitalized last night).  Here's his take.  It might look like they've turned on bam, but they haven't turned on communism.  They're furious the commie revolution isn't happening fast enough.  No prez in history with a 42% approval rating has ever revived that rating without a war -- bam's war is the oil slick. 

Consider:  If we are herded into a place with no oil before we get over our dependence on oil, we are done. Democracy could disappear in Greece, Spain and Portugal.  The A'stan war is a growing crisis and more people are wondering if we should get out.  Our debt is held by China and at an all-time high.  So, in other words, everything is going to hell.  Alinsky says look for crisis (take you pick, Saul).  Van Jones and his radical Weathermen buddies (and buddette) want a violent, bloody revolution on the street to not only end capitalism, but everything that is a normal part of everyday life in the US.

Remember the latest ad for the Alabama guy with the Founding Father who, at the end of the commercial, says, "Gather your armies"?  Beck trashed that ad yesterday for being provocative and warned that this is what the revolutionaries are waiting for. 

Just be patient, stay calm, and slowly but surely (it seems excrutiatingly so), the rest of the 42% will see the futility of Obama/socialism and we'll restore the country back to the Founders' vision without a French Revolution.

So for what it's worth...Sorry for the lengthy post, but I think Beck has it figured out.

88

13% = African American population

10% =  A sizable (probably 2/3rds) majority of the Hispanic population

10% = Brain-dead, leftists imbeciles (think of the types of d-bags who think Michael Moore is a prophet)

9% =   Union hacks (not even your average union guy - just the loyal hacks) 

89 42% of Americans don't remember what the question was.

90 Rush:  I saw Sarah Palin on TV with Ted Baxter last night.

91 Rush:  I saw Sarah Palin on TV with Ted Baxter last night.

Posted by: RushBabe at June 16, 2010 12:15 PM (W8m8i)

Heh

92 42% of Americans can't figure out why we need all this dirty oil, anyway, when we have all this clean electricity stored in the walls of our houses that we could be using.

93

Is this the tipping point that some in media finally get serious about reporting?

 

Do we start getting trickled out 'background check' information that should have been done two years ago?

94 Ted Baxter said you had to assume that Hussein wanted to stop the spill. Yeah, you have to assume it because he hasn't done one thing to see that it gets stopped.

95 Two articles in a row trashing barky- from Eugene Robinson! Surely The End Times Cometh- Bring out your dead!!

96 42% of Americans are pretty darned sure that they keep the Federal Reserve Board in a glass case somewhere in Philadelphia next to that big, cracked bell.

97 Almost forgot.  Beck said he got an e-mail from Ben Stein last night saying he called the White House after the speech and demanded to know where in the Constitution the president was given power to demand billions from a company.  Stein said he was told bam didn't need any authority.

98

Obama retreats into the bunker and becomes a recluse in about 6 months.

Underground office equipped with a mangler, a miniature golf course and mustard (the fancy kind). Jayden Smith temporarily emerges from obscurity to portray Obama in the straight-to-data-sticker movie about the last year of his presidency. Internet users make up their own dialogue and post their own videos. The Peruvian government wields its global hegemonic power to have the videos removed. The world will be sad for a while in 2045.

99 42% of Americans prefer the efficiency of sporks to the hassle of alternatively picking up and putting down two different eating utensils.

100

Is this the tipping point that some in media finally get serious about reporting?

I don't know if the tipping point is media related.  One of these events is more likely to be the proverbial straw that breaks the capitalist camel's back (in Obumble's plans).

101 V.I.O.T: there is a super hot Victoria's Secret model on this webpage in an ad.

102 crap. It changed to Radio Shack

103

"The other weird thing about most of the criticism of Obama's speech is that it's critical of it as a speech."

Posted by: Trimegistus at June 16, 2010 11:56 AM (pNI9U)

Beautiful observation and very true.

 

104 87, ok that's a fair point.  Link changed.

105 Drudge is saying that Barry met with the BP execs for 20 minutes. No word yet if they had to meet him on the golf course

106

"Katrina pummelled the SE."

BUNK!

107 This is the REAL crossing of the streams: 42% still somewhat approve, but 44% STRONGLY disapprove.

That means those Americans who will work hard to defeat Obama and his agenda over the next two and a half years now exceeds the number who even give a rat's ass about protecting him politically.

108 Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The bartender asks “Hey, where’d you get that?”

The parrot replies “Kenya….they’re all over the place”

109

Update on BP agreeing to escrow fund. BP and Obama officials are still in negotiations over a ceiling on the amount of their liability.

I knew it. BP will agree to put up some money if they get indemnity from anymore liability.

110 Drudge is saying that Barry met with the BP execs for 20 minutes.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 16, 2010 12:29 PM (1Jaio)

That means he extorted a billion per minute.  Not bad, I must say.

I wonder if BP shareholders are going to be so happy about management giving away their money without any legal reason to do so?

111 "Herr Rasmussen McNazipants"

It's headlines like that that keeps AoSHQ the high quality, smart military blog that it is. Bravo.

112 42% of Americans describe the game of Tic-Tac-Toe as at least "somewhat" intellectually stimulating.

113 I wonder if BP shareholders are going to be so happy about management giving away their money without any legal reason to do so?

What can they do about it?  Whatever happened to the GM shareholders who got screwed over?

114

I knew it. BP will agree to put up some money if they get indemnity from anymore liability.

Posted by: robtr at June 16, 2010 12:34 PM (fwSHf)

Does BP really think that they can have their liability limited by agreement with the federal government?  LOL.  Let them talk to GM/Chrysler bondholders about contracts and how the federal government honors them.

BP's managment isn't working in the interest of BP.

115 42% of Americans describe the game of Tic-Tac-Toe as at least "somewhat" intellectually stimulating.

90% of those Americans also report losing one or more Tic-Tac-Toe games to a chicken.

116

That means he extorted a billion per minute.  Not bad, I must say.

I wonder if BP shareholders are going to be so happy about management giving away their money without any legal reason to do so?

Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 16, 2010 12:35 PM (Qp4DT)

He's still nothing but a community organizer shake down artist

117 42% of Americans call a friend at another office and ask if they could fax over some more paper when the copy machine runs out.

118

I'm nearly starting to believe that Charlie's switching teams in old age?  Sure sign of the apocalypse.

That ass, however, is enough to make ANY man look, purely out of instinct.

119 98Is this the tipping point that some in media finally get serious about reporting?

It is a tipping point, but not because they feel the need to get serious.  This is just the onset of the rats leaving the sinking ship.  First ones off get to point a finger of blame at the bitter enders, while hoping that the rest of us forget that they were one of the amen chorus for two years.  They are mistaken.  We won't forget. 

120 What can they do about it?  Whatever happened to the GM shareholders who got screwed over?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 16, 2010 12:37 PM (mR7mk)

GM shareholders deserved nothing.  The company was bankrupt.  You are thinking of the GM bondholders.  Different situation.  I wouldn't be feeling to happy as a BP bondholder, though ... that's for sure.  BP shareholders, on the other hand, still own a company that is worth something - a company that is giving money away that it is not legally bound to give.

121 pee pee and poopelty poopelty poo!

122 For 18 minutes he delivered the words crisply and forthrightly, though too often distracting anxious viewers with his fidgeting hands like the lecturing professor he once was.

Has it ever been established that he was in fact a lecturing professor?

123 That ass, however, is enough to make ANY man look, purely out of instinct.

Posted by: s'moron at June 16, 2010 12:39 PM (UaxA0)

I'm sure that Charlie Crist was able to visualize a thick curly mat of hair on those legs and that back.

124

124 is spooky.  First and last sentences OK, but O/T.  Spam stuffed in the middle.

The spammers keep this up, I'll start to think they're regular commenters (whose messages I usually only read the first and last sentences of, anyway)

125 Posted by: tjyjc at June 16, 2010 12:39 PM (Se+rk)

Hey!  The spammer is using my post from the voting thread.  I'm famous ... among spam.

126 42% of Americans think a top marginal tax rate of 100% sounds about right.

127

but check out the bonus "Charlie Crist scouring Florida beaches for signs of oil" photo.

That picture gives a whole new meaning to the words "oil can."

128 42% of Americans describe the game of Tic-Tac-Toe as at least "somewhat" intellectually stimulating.

Posted by: Warden at June 16, 2010 12:36 PM (fE6tn)

November 2008, 52% of American voters proved that the game of Tic-Tac-Toe was beyond their intellectual capacity.

129 ras müssen was the last major pollster to have McCain winning in 2008

Posted by: Michael Collins

 

And Michael Collins has irrefutable proof that Rasmussen has the lowest accuracy rate of all the national polling organizations. Right stupid? And you can prove that the trends haven't been seen in any other polling results, including NPR, correct you inspid, dishonest syphilitic jerk?

130

For 18 minutes he delivered the words crisply and forthrightly, though too often distracting anxious viewers with his fidgeting hands like the lecturing BOREASS professor he once was.

There, FIFY!

131 42% of Americans think that the jerk Michael Collins has an ounce of the courage and intelligence that the real Michael Collins demonstrated.

132 124 is spooky.  First and last sentences OK, but O/T.  Spam stuffed in the middle.

The spammers keep this up, I'll start to think they're regular commenters (whose messages I usually only read the first and last sentences of, anyway)

Posted by: s'moron at June 16, 2010 12:41 PM (UaxA0)

The spambot picks a post from the thread at random, injects the spam links, and reposts it to the thread.  This camouflages the spam links.

133 BP shareholders, on the other hand, still own a company that is worth something - a company that is giving money away that it is not legally bound to give.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 16, 2010 12:40 PM (Qp4DT)

Meh, BP shareholders own a company with unlimited contingent liabilities. The leak still isn't stopped and who know what will happen to all the oil in the gulf when the wind picks up.

The market cap on BP right now is 100 Billion +-. They apparently have agreed to give up 20% of that in 20 minutes. If I was a BP shareholder I would be heading for the exit.

134 42% of Americans laugh uproariously at America's Funniest Home Videos each and every time a bird is shown perched upon a sleeping kitteh's back.

135 progressoverpeace--you're right, I was thinking of bondholders.  I seem to remember Indiana trying to sue on their behalf, but I don't know whatever came of it.

Either way, it's kinda clear Toonces doesn't give a crap.

136 ras müssen was the last major pollster to have McCain winning in 2008

Posted by: Michael Collins

Wrongo, turd....

http://tinyurl.com/27hesd3

137 Posted by: robtr at June 16, 2010 12:46 PM (fwSHf)

That's all true, but BP has international operations and the Brits would jump in to save them.  You're correct that BP shareholders should be looking for the exits (if they haven't already) but that doesn't take away from the fact that BP managment is giving away money that isn't theirs.  And they are doing it to get some assurances for liability caps from the most despicable, criminal, untrustworthy government of the "free" world.

Getting a contract signed by this feral government limiting liability is worth about as much as the paper it's printed on.

138 42% of Americans actually believed it when CNN claimed to be #1 in news.

139 bwahahahahah
schadenfreude futures -- still UP

140 -->progressoverpeace--you're right, I was thinking of bondholders.  I seem to remember Indiana trying to sue on their behalf, but I don't know whatever came of it.

The court said that contracts are for sissies and told the bondholders to shut up and be happy they got anything.

-->Either way, it's kinda clear Toonces doesn't give a crap.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 16, 2010 12:51 PM (mR7mk)

He's despicable, lying scum.  A contract with him is nothing more than a joke.  He wants to kill BP and he'll try and do it no matter what papers and contracts might stand in the way.

141

"The spambot picks a post from the thread at random, injects the spam links, and reposts it to the thread."

Proof that I invented the Internet.  And you all laughed...

142 139 The spambot picks a post from the thread at random, injects the spam links, and reposts it to the thread. This camouflages the spam links.
________________

I don't think it's supposed to camouflage them so well that some folks mistake them for comments. Clearly, the spambot needs more work. I suggest the developers consider the blink tag.

143 51 Hell just froze over, Head Obama cheerleader Eugene Robinson just trashed Obama's speech.

the article was headlined: obama disappoints from the beginning of his speech

should have read:  obama disappoints (and more) from the beginning of his presidency

144 Bonus!  Hover your mouse on the picture and look at the "tooltip".  Somebody was being cute.

145 I nominate the Spambot to handle this crisis.

146 Thanks for changing the link, DiT. 

147 I can haz pants that match my hair?

148 Looking at this and comparing it to Jimmy Carter's approval rating in the same first year and a half of his presidency and there is almost a completely copy of Carter. This guy is a feckless idiot.

I can't wait til 2012.

149 Obama's 42% overall approval is the lowest so far during his Presidency. 

Also per Rasmussen, for the first time in his Presidency, Obama's "strongly disapprove" portion outweighs his "total approve".

While its still possible for him to recover somewhat, this looks like really bad news for Obama.  Not only is he actually unpopular in an absolute sense, but the ongoing erosion of his popularity has to be coming from the middle now.

150 #82

I think Gov't *COULD* solve this oil leak problem (or at least greatly contribute to the solution), just not THIS gov't.

151 Could Obama Be AmericaÂ’s First Defacto President?

Innocent Americans increasingly are sent to prison based on false evidence manufactured by police forensic crime labs. Now President Obama wants the power to incarcerate U.S. Citizens not on evidence, but for what they might do.

Compare: Two days after the 1933 burning of GermanyÂ’s Parliament Building, blamed on communists, Hitler responded with a powerful speech before Parliament. Hitler asked Parliament to suspend sections of the Reich Constitution that protected CitizensÂ’ Rights and Civil Liberties. Hitler said the suspension was necessary so government could protect the homeland from being destroyed by communists. Hitler promised Parliament the Constitution would later be restored. After Parliament passed HitlerÂ’s Discriminatory Decrees and Hitler signed it February 28, 1933, Hitler immediately used the news laws to abolished Parliament. See HitlerÂ’s 1933 Discriminatory Laws below:

Obama gave a speech in May 2010, that proposed incarcerating in indefinite prolonged detention without evidence, any person government deemed a “combatant” or likely to engage in a violent act in the future; that would include U.S. Citizens “without evidence of wrongdoing.” With that amount power Obama like Hitler could arrest members of Congress, drag U.S. Citizens off the street and from their homes to be imprisoned indefinitely based only on Government’s claim they are a “combatant” or likely to engage in a violent act in the future.

If Congress approves ObamaÂ’s categories of people likely to engage in violent acts, overnight millions of lawful U.S. activists could be subject to arrest, Indefinite Prolonged Detention. When you examine ObamaÂ’s speech, it appears Obama wants retroactive power to incarcerate anyone government claims (prior) supported violent acts on the premise that person is likely to support violent acts in the future: U.S. activists would be extremely vulnerable because no activist can control what another activist or group might do illegally they network with domestically or overseas. Government would only have to allege a person; group or organization might commit a violent act in the future to order Preventative Detention of lawful participants with no evidence whatsoever. Americans would be afraid to speak out.  See: Obama Sound-Video http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/630.html

It is foreseeable any “individual” who writes on the Internet or verbally express an opinion against or entity of U.S. Government or its coalition partners could be deemed by authorities a “Combatant” or likely to engage in or cause violent acts: government too easily could claim an author’s writings inspired people in the past and will in the future to commit or support violent acts. It is problematic that indefinitely detained U.S. Citizens not involved in terrorism or hostile activities, not given Miranda Warnings or allowed legal counsel; interrogated, will be prosecuted for ordinary crimes because of their alleged admissions while held in indefinite Prolonged Detention. Obama wants the power to override the U.S. Constitution. Obama wants the power to detain indefinitely any American without probable cause or evidence, based on conjecture someone might do something violent in the future.

Obama similar to Hitler is centralizing power in the federal Government by getting passed legislation the U.S. government could potentially use to intimidate and threaten corporations among others. Hitler got passed similar laws shortly before the burning of the German Parliament building blamed on the communists. Immediately after the fire, Hitler used his new laws to coerce corporations and influential Citizens to support passage of fascist legislation that suspended provisions of the German Constitution that protected CitizensÂ’ freedoms and civil liberties. Obama is now approaching a position where he can use similar new laws, including the Patriot Act and 200 asset forfeiture laws to seize any corporation or individualÂ’s assets; and force U.S. corporations and other institutions like Hitler did to support legislation that threatens or curtails rights of Americans.

More recently Obama has moved forward to crush Free Speech, silence his critics by pushing passage of HR 5175: this abomination will choke the 1st Amendment, denying the right of free speech to ordinary Americans. Under Title II: groups like Gun Owners of America and other groups including bloggers that only mention “public officials” within 60 days of an election, could be required to file onerous disclosures–and potentially have to disclose their membership lists—despite the Supreme Court ruling in NAACP v. Alabama that held membership lists like those of GOA's) are off limits to government control. Is Obama’s support of HR 5175 similar to what Hitler did to shut up his critics? In the run up to Parliament passing his police state laws including the 1933 Discriminatory Decrees that abolished Citizen’s Free Speech, Hitler employed thugs to beat up reporters, arrest anyone who had courage to criticize the Fuhrer or his Nazi government or expose introduced legislation. Is Obama by supporting HR 5175 to shut up his critics, trying to take American to the same place?

Alarmingly the Obama Government recently employed a vendor to search Internet social networking sites to collect information about Americans that could potentially be used by this government to injure Americans, for example, if you apply for a federal job, your name might be crossed referenced by the Obama Government with comments you made at Websites against Obama; or if you make application at a bank for a loan the Government has control since the financial crisis, could your Internet comment(s) prevent you getting that loan? ObamaÂ’s monitoring of the Internet sites can too easily be used by Government to intimidate Citizens from speaking out. Obama Top CZAR Cass Sunstein prepared a 2008 paper that proposed spying on Americans, infiltrating groups and organizations to obstruct Free Speech, disrupt the exchange of ideas and disseminate false information to neutralize Americans that might question government. See: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=121884

To hear Obama proposing Indefinite Detention without evidence, access sound video at following web address: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/630.html

See HitlerÂ’s 1933 Nazi Laws below:

DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE

Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7

In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:

Section 1
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.

Section 2
If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.

Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.

Whoever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.

Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.

Section 5
The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).

Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:

1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;

2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;

3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.

Section 6
This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.

Reich President
Reich Chancellor
Reich Minister of the Interior
Reich Minister of Justice