July 20, 2010
— Ace Remember this guy? Video below the fold, but if you don't want to click, he responded to a question about the constitutionality of ObamaCare's individual mandate by responding, honestly but horribly, "I don't worry about the Constitution on this to be honest." And then he cited the Declaration of Independence's statement about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as his constitutional authority. (When it's pointed out this isn't in the Constitution, he offered, "Well, either one.")
A poll conducted by his opponent puts it at 45-32.
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Posted by: Phil "Schultz" Hare (D) Stalag 13 at July 20, 2010 11:29 AM (QKKT0)
I know about only the people this helps, know nothing about all the invisible victims... and I LIKE PUDDDING!!!
Posted by: PhilHare at July 20, 2010 11:29 AM (JNqU9)
Posted by: nickless at July 20, 2010 11:29 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Ace's Typographer at July 20, 2010 11:30 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat ( Nobel Prize winner ) at July 20, 2010 11:30 AM (NuAIL)
Posted by: the center at July 20, 2010 11:30 AM (kq1lG)
For a second I thought it was going to say Curt Schilling...
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at July 20, 2010 11:30 AM (rXbvW)
Posted by: Cicero at July 20, 2010 11:31 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Barack T. Ogabe esq. at July 20, 2010 11:31 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 20, 2010 11:32 AM (5jbD3)
Posted by: SS Titanic at July 20, 2010 11:32 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Independents at July 20, 2010 11:32 AM (xO+6C)
Posted by: sven10077 at July 20, 2010 11:34 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Rainbow smoker at July 20, 2010 11:34 AM (4Kl5M)
I just stepped into the center of the blog to note that with my superior math skills I have deduced that if this guy read the bill 3 times it would have taken him 51 eight hour days.
That's dedication.
Posted by: robtr at July 20, 2010 11:35 AM (fwSHf)
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 20, 2010 11:35 AM (xxgag)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 20, 2010 11:35 AM (5jbD3)
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 20, 2010 11:37 AM (xxgag)
Posted by: Nikita Kruschev at July 20, 2010 11:37 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 20, 2010 11:38 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: David Paterson at July 20, 2010 11:39 AM (Ulu3i)
OT -
For those of you who read only the headlines, this will be expected.
For those who actually read the news, eh... not so much.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 20, 2010 11:41 AM (RkRxq)
"You don't care about the Constitution, which you swore to uphold?!?!"
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 20, 2010 11:41 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Phil Hairlip at July 20, 2010 11:41 AM (gbCNS)
Posted by: gus at July 20, 2010 11:42 AM (Vqruj)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 20, 2010 11:42 AM (5aa4z)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 20, 2010 11:42 AM (9hSKh)
I told you the centrist approach was the future! What took you so long?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a crepe and cosmopolitan party to plan for. Anyone know where I can find some organic fair trade cherries?
Posted by: David Frum at July 20, 2010 11:43 AM (plsiE)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 20, 2010 11:43 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 11:44 AM (qrFCz)
How do you know when the stage is level?
Drool comes out of both sides of the drummer's mouth.
*rimshot* "Hey, wait a minute!"
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 11:44 AM (i3AsK)
Posted by: Phil Sgt. Schultz Hare (D) Third Reich at July 20, 2010 11:45 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Bob Schieffer at July 20, 2010 11:45 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: the HTML gods at July 20, 2010 11:46 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: unknown jane at July 20, 2010 11:46 AM (5/yRG)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 20, 2010 11:47 AM (5jbD3)
Posted by: dr kill at July 20, 2010 11:47 AM (w9bVp)
Thank God the Jug Eared bastard's wife finally ironed the other pant's leg....
now with DOUBLE the crease right and left leg I have found my pragmatic centrist!
Posted by: David Brooks at July 20, 2010 11:48 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 20, 2010 11:48 AM (5jbD3)
All seriousness aside, actually it's in the middle, oh hell, even I can't keep this up for long.
OK. Why is it that we never, ever hear of a free-market based solution to our problems? We could have had a bill that opens up interstate competition among insurance companies along with tort reform, but instead, all we ever get is the same old tired drone of a bloated, inefficient, massively expensive shiny new government program.
We now return to your regularly scheduled program.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 11:49 AM (i3AsK)
I hope this isn't true. This would be so not like Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin, would buck the establishment and what people think she should do and that wouldn't be not to go to her daughter's wedding.
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 11:49 AM (p302b)
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 20, 2010 11:50 AM (xxgag)
Posted by: Phil Hare at July 20, 2010 11:50 AM (RykTt)
G-spot.
Yeah, it's here somewhere.
It's near the clitoris. Look under the snipe.
Urban legends all.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 20, 2010 11:50 AM (P9+0W)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 11:51 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 11:51 AM (i3AsK)
Lindsay's not in jail. Haley Mills is doing her time for her.
Posted by: Phil Hare at July 20, 2010 11:51 AM (RykTt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 20, 2010 11:53 AM (Sh5NF)
Posted by: lorien1973 at July 20, 2010 11:53 AM (IhQuA)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 03:49 PM (p302b)
If my daughter was marrying this attention whore and he had said crappy stuff about me to get that attention...I wouldn't be attending either.
Posted by: Tami at July 20, 2010 11:54 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 11:54 AM (p302b)
This blog'll flip over.
Posted by: Hank "Hank" Johnson at July 20, 2010 03:52 PM (8lCJT)
. . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . .. That's better.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 20, 2010 11:55 AM (5aa4z)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 11:55 AM (AZGON)
Any of you morons attracted to women with huge gobs of pit hair?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 20, 2010 03:53 PM (Sh5NF)
It's only attractive on a gibbon who refuses to use Right Guard.
Posted by: Fish at July 20, 2010 11:55 AM (v1gw3)
Get that fat skinbag a unicorn and a pension!
Posted by: sifty at July 20, 2010 11:56 AM (BimL7)
Then he said, "Jump right in."
The one was Texas medicine,
The other was just railroad gin.
An' like a fool I mixed them
An' it strangled up my mind,
An' now people just get uglier
An' I have no sense of time.
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 20, 2010 11:56 AM (xxgag)
I really fucked with those Ace of Spades morons, tilting their blog to the middle and screwing up their day.
Posted by: Little Robbie Gibbs at July 20, 2010 11:57 AM (v1gw3)
Posted by: B. H. Obama at July 20, 2010 11:57 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: palin steele (fornicator with pool accessories) at July 20, 2010 11:57 AM (5aa4z)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 03:49 PM (p302b)
If my daughter was marrying this attention whore and he
had said crappy stuff about me to get that attention...I wouldn't be
attending either.
Posted by: Tami at July 20, 2010 03:54 PM (VuLos)"
What if it works and then Sarah Palin feels terrible that she didn't go to the wedding? If anything Sarah Palin is not doing what Sarah Palin would do if she was just plain old Sarah Palin (I think she would go) but the public persona of "sarah palin" is expected not to attend and really, it isn't anyone's business but hers. She should demand a printed well publicized public apology and denial from Mr. Levi and then go to the wedding.
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 11:58 AM (p302b)
Speaking of capsizing, I guess those womens in Iran have been showing too much again.
Quake with preliminary magnitude of 5.8 strikes southern Iran http://bit.ly/9dK1a8
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 20, 2010 11:58 AM (9hSKh)
Center of gravity attained! This place could double as a gyroscope, just like me!
Posted by: Michelle at July 20, 2010 11:58 AM (E1/9G)
via drudge
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:01 PM (p302b)
Posted by: bill-tb at July 20, 2010 12:01 PM (y+QfZ)
I'll bite. Because an actual free market would not allow big companies to push regulation and legislation to stave of competitors and create higher barriers to entry. It wouldn't allow technocrats to bait big companies for political contributions. It wouldn't allow exec's and bureaucrats to exchange cushy, well-paid jobs in and out of government. It wouldn't allow shortages that are held up as failures of capitalism. It wouldn't allow leftists to set up strawmen arguments like, "Well you people want subsidies for oil companies <wheeze>!"
So you see, it is pretty much about our betters.
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at July 20, 2010 12:01 PM (oL8lS)
116,
because a true free market wouldn't have allowed Mr. Sonny Cher to goose IP laws so that the megrich could play their games....
and as the guy above me said...
big biz ain't in bed with us because a true conservative knows big biz likes using their influence to squeeze out competition.
Posted by: michelleawroooo at July 20, 2010 12:04 PM (kq1lG)
It would be depressing, but visions of these cocksuckers dangling from lamp posts keep me going.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 20, 2010 12:06 PM (5aa4z)
Isn't it amazing how corrupt this country has become, and how quickly?
It would be depressing, but visions of these cocksuckers dangling from lamp posts keep me going.
So, who here thinks we are beyond the point of no return?
Posted by: Ben at July 20, 2010 12:07 PM (wuv1c)
Just returned from my polling place. No line, however a poll worker said traffic has been steady all day.
(If only there had been a NBPP thug, and a conservative with a camera, it would have made my day.)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 12:07 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Garrison Keillor at July 20, 2010 12:07 PM (w9bVp)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:08 PM (p302b)
My God - who are the people who elect this brain dead botox claptrap.
Posted by: Mallamutt at July 20, 2010 04:07 PM (OWjjx)
We're moving to your state to elect your governor, next.
Posted by: Californians at July 20, 2010 12:08 PM (5aa4z)
Posted by: Typical Ogabe Voter at July 20, 2010 12:08 PM (4XzsU)
The path '/dollfucker!!' was not found.
LMAO!
Posted by: Tami at July 20, 2010 12:09 PM (VuLos)
Posted by: Jean at July 20, 2010 12:10 PM (xsupj)
The path '/dollfucker!!' was not found.
LMAO!Heh. I'd put that in the URL box when I sockpuppeted p-s, and forgot to remove it when I changed back.
Posted by: Californians at July 20, 2010 12:10 PM (5aa4z)
Posted by: dr kill at July 20, 2010 12:11 PM (w9bVp)
Just add corrupt politician.
Posted by: sifty at July 20, 2010 12:11 PM (BimL7)
So, who here thinks we are beyond the point of no return?
Posted by: Ben at July 20, 2010 04:07 PM (wuv1c)
I don't know, but that thought crosses my mind.
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 20, 2010 12:11 PM (xxgag)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 12:11 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: dr kill at July 20, 2010 04:11 PM (w9bVp)
Sir William Blackstone just called. He said I'm a wild-eyed reactionary.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 20, 2010 12:11 PM (5aa4z)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:12 PM (p302b)
But my ideas of freedom and personal responsibility would have been considered right of mainstream in the 1840's.
Mine go back a bit farther.
Posted by: Cato the Younger at July 20, 2010 12:13 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:13 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 12:14 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at July 20, 2010 03:34 PM (v1gw3)
Seeing the word straddling and Lindsey Graham together made me run to my bed and jump under the covers.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 20, 2010 12:14 PM (Zq7bR)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:15 PM (p302b)
That was a rhetorical question.
Spencer Ackerman told me to ask it.
Yeah, I know that there were free market ideas floated, but then sank after a few minutes. All the more reason for a good, thorough Housecleaning come November. How much more blatent does corruption need to get before Joe Sixpack finally notices. Maybe if he's lost his job, or someone he knows loses their job or house, or something really bad like that. This shit has to stop, or we'll never survive.
As a country, I mean.
Rhetorically, of course.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 12:15 PM (i3AsK)
But my ideas of freedom and personal responsibility would have been considered right of mainstream in the 1840's.
Yeah, when i mention to people i like Calvin Coolidge and Grover Cleveland, they have no idea who i am talking about.
In a deep recess of my mind, I fully expect America to collapse in my lifetime. Not disappear mind you, but collapse. I won't be surpised if there is a Second American Republic in my lifetime and not one to my liking.
Posted by: Ben at July 20, 2010 12:16 PM (wuv1c)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:16 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 12:16 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:17 PM (p302b)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 04:16 PM (p302b)
George Jefferson's wife was referred to as Wheezy. Guessing.
Posted by: Tami at July 20, 2010 12:17 PM (VuLos)
She does kind of look like Louise Jefferson.
I prefer "Aunt Esther", myself.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 20, 2010 12:18 PM (5aa4z)
Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at July 20, 2010 03:34 PM (v1gw3)
Seeing the word straddling and Lindsey Graham together made me run to my bed and jump under the covers.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 20, 2010 04:14 PM (Zq7bR)
It gave me a chubby IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Andy Sullyvan at July 20, 2010 12:19 PM (YVZlY)
What's more powerful, the Stash or the WarCock?
Posted by: Fish at July 20, 2010 04:17 PM (v1gw3)
Definately the WarCock.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent - at July 20, 2010 12:20 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:21 PM (p302b)
It would be depressing, but visions of these cocksuckers dangling from lamp posts keep me going.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 20, 2010 04:06 PM (5aa4z)
Bunk! As in I'll be in my...
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 20, 2010 12:21 PM (oIp16)
Posted by: Retread at July 20, 2010 12:22 PM (VKUdB)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:22 PM (p302b)
Oh how I wish that Phil Hartman were alive today to do a current version of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
Posted by: ErikW at July 20, 2010 12:23 PM (E1/9G)
Posted by: sifty at July 20, 2010 12:26 PM (BimL7)
1. Remain willfully ignorant about the Constitution.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Posted by: chemjeff at July 20, 2010 12:28 PM (Ps41e)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 12:29 PM (UOM48)
@118,
Herr,
"Isn't it amazing how corrupt this country has become, and how quickly?
It would be depressing, but visions of these cocksuckers dangling from lamp posts keep me going."
Yes it Is! And it is also very depressing...lately I'm have finally given in, and I think I am going to quit classifing Americans as the most free people on the planet.
I just don't understand why the left does not understand that the blood that will be spilled in the streets will be theirs....it is almost like it is a suicide mission for them.
Not sure where you all live, but where I live you wouldn't believe what "The White Boy's" are talking about behind the scenes and are preparing for....if you aren't starting to get scared at this point...then you have no soul. Read your history books people...it is all in there!
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 12:30 PM (fqxV7)
Posted by: dr kill at July 20, 2010 12:30 PM (w9bVp)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:31 PM (p302b)
And, the number didn't take away from mac sales...
CNBC appears to be so anti apple that you begin to wonder if they all shorted the stock
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:37 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Sponge at July 20, 2010 12:37 PM (UK9cE)
It's the first real tech toy for old people!
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 04:35 PM (p302b)
Well madam, I know you whippersnappers believe you invented sex, but the first real tech toy for old people was the Pink Pocket Rocket, and it's still in fashion today.
Just ask grandma!
Posted by: Fish at July 20, 2010 12:40 PM (v1gw3)
Phil Hare actually looks like a hare.
I'm not sure about Obama and BP. I think that they are in it together. BP would love cap n trade. Obama wants cap n trade. They donate to him. He likes to get money from corporations who would like to screw americans. We will see. It's Chicago politics and he may have them in a choke hold until they help him do what he wants.
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 12:41 PM (9e7/k)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 20, 2010 12:42 PM (Ps41e)
A total blackout of alternative news would serve Obama's minions nicely.
Posted by: sifty at July 20, 2010 12:44 PM (BimL7)
Posted by: Truman North at July 20, 2010 12:44 PM (e8YaH)
@173,
Yes I agree.......Obama and BP did this together on purpose, and all my right-wing nut friends beleive the same....to much coincidence for there not to be something going on. I fell off the potato truck, but it was not yesterday, and I trust the Brits about as far as I can throw them.
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 12:44 PM (fqxV7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 12:45 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 12:46 PM (UOM48)
Phil Hare looks like he needs a pint of Old Style and a kielbasa.
Posted by: Fritz at July 20, 2010 12:47 PM (GwPRU)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:50 PM (p302b)
I'm also concerned about the feds trying to stop the private sale of guns. If the private sale is stopped, who does one buy a gun from? The public or the feds? That makes no sense. The whole idea behind the government being in charge of gun sales to citizens defeats the purpose of the "right to bear arms". This is very very scary.
I haven't read the bill yet. S 843
Going there now
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 12:51 PM (9e7/k)
@178
I have a friend with military training who in charge of network security for an elite internet company. He is already fighting a cyber war against Chinese hackers. He claims we are being set-up for just that, and that there are several governments probably involved, and they have the capability to apply some severe pain if they so choose. The control of civilian communications and civilian energy grids comes to mind.
Scary Stuff!
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 12:52 PM (fqxV7)
Sharon only has to make sure that "the folks" know that she is one of them....then the painting of her as crazy sharon will be an insult to the voting public who identifies with sharon.
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:52 PM (p302b)
FIFY
Posted by: John Rhetorical Galt at July 20, 2010 12:54 PM (F/4zf)
Posted by: Nevada, Angle, and Billy Joel at July 20, 2010 12:56 PM (BimL7)
Here is the link to the gun bill: http://tinyurl.com/i2cl
It's about regulating gun shows, vendors, etc.
Odd, stuff that used to not bother me as far as regulating personal defence now does.
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 12:56 PM (9e7/k)
the question y'all should be asking is...
Is the GOP letting Sharon Angle dangle in the wind, or are they helping her win?
Posted by: Steele McBoner, the head of the GOP at July 20, 2010 12:56 PM (uFokq)
Don't lump me in with those straddling the fence.
Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at July 20, 2010 03:34 PM (v1gw3)
That's right, dear, you straddle me.
Posted by: The Fence Post at July 20, 2010 12:58 PM (+CvIz)
Posted by: curious at July 20, 2010 12:58 PM (p302b)
@195,
Don't know! My official position is, if you have been in office more than one or two terms, YOUR OUT, I don't care if your Republican or Democrat!
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 12:59 PM (fqxV7)
Sharon Angle needs help.
I thought that Yucca being put back on the table would hurt Harry. I think that the media is not covering that either.
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 12:59 PM (9e7/k)
These assholes should lose big when their entire platform is: You are a racist, Palin is dumb, and republicans are mean.
However, that nonsense appeals to them.
Beck finally airing the from USDA/naacp.
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:02 PM (9e7/k)
Hmm, Chemjeff, I never thought of it that way. Dumbass old me always thought that the free market was always the preferred method of doing business. But I suppose that will all the meddling in the market, one needs to pleasure a member of Congress to get anything done.
You know, someone who could throw out the moneychangers would be a really good thing right about now.
Rhetorically speaking, of course.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 01:03 PM (i3AsK)
But it just might be a LOOONATIC you're looking for!
Great, now I can't get that song out of my head.
Posted by: ErikW at July 20, 2010 01:04 PM (E1/9G)
hey, I can totally understand why Reid and all the other Democrats shitbags might get reelected.
Who wants to go back back 4.6% unemployment and robust economic growth and lower taxes and...?
Posted by: Steele McBoner, the head of the GOP at July 20, 2010 01:07 PM (uFokq)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 20, 2010 01:08 PM (LUaw0)
Yeah, right.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:09 PM (UOM48)
Yeah, right.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 05:09 PM (UOM4
I wonder if Brietbart is letting the media hang itself again on this.
Posted by: robtr at July 20, 2010 01:11 PM (fwSHf)
I thought that Yucca being put back on the table would hurt Harry. I think that the media is not covering that either.
I was on the shitter. What about Yucca now?
Posted by: Bob Schieffer at July 20, 2010 01:12 PM (E1/9G)
I wonder if Brietbart is letting the media hang itself again on this.
Posted by: robtrConsidering that his point was more the audience reaction than Sherrod's story per se, I have no idea.
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 01:13 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: Barry's Bus at July 20, 2010 01:13 PM (UOM48)
Don't send me in there!
Posted by: Leo DiCaprio, femmy dream-thief or whatever that stupid fucking film's about at July 20, 2010 01:13 PM (mQ8O/)
@205,
Well that's the talking point....It may be the truth, but it by no means is a case closed matter....unless you got information that I seemed to have not found yet?
It just came out the other day, the a Chinese company was responsible for modifiying that particular piece of equipment. That's new and important to note.
The MMS inspected the rig shortly before, and actually gave them good marks. If it turns that it was a simple case of machinery or human error...fine....but taking the Adimistrations word, or BP's word on the matter doesn't cut it.
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 01:14 PM (fqxV7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:15 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 05:13 PM (qrFCz)
It just reminds me of ACORN, put a little bit out. Let the media and ACORN try to bury it then "oh wait, we have some more tapes"
Posted by: robtr at July 20, 2010 01:17 PM (fwSHf)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:19 PM (UOM48)
216,
deader than jerry Wright's taking over Billy graham's spot as America's most loved preacher
Posted by: sven10077 at July 20, 2010 01:20 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:21 PM (UOM48)
It just came out the other day, the a Chinese company was responsible for modifiying that particular piece of equipment. That's new and important to note.
Totally shifting gears here. I'd heard that some suit for BP was worrying about a spreadsheet P&L on that particular rig and gave an order to proceed, which resulted in the initial explosion.
This is getting juicy.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 01:24 PM (i3AsK)
Mind, I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of iron-mongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors .... blah blah blah
Posted by: C. Dickens. Can You Tell I Was Paid By The Word? at July 20, 2010 01:25 PM (mQ8O/)
Posted by: Andi Sulli at July 20, 2010 01:25 PM (kq1lG)
Deader than my job prospects.
So now what do we do? Normally, I'd save a Guiness from an icy death, but alas and alack, there are none to be found.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 01:26 PM (i3AsK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:27 PM (UOM48)
213 @205, Well that's the talking point....It may be the truth, but it by no means is a case closed matter....unless you got information that I seemed to have not found yet?
I'd say it's more than just a talking-point; it's fact. BP has always been known for taking great risks, though not always in the negative sense. Macondo was a vital interest to them, one that see them sitting atop a mountain of cash. Also, the Gulf Coast division has the best minds & most skilled professionals, though they would have taken-on the project anyone. All calls made to the rigs on the Gulf come from the Houston office.
Now, Macondo was a problem from the start, but they wanted that well. The people on the teams within the Gulf Coast Division were running over-budget & over-schedule, which costs lots of money. Building a proper well-liner would have saved the Deepwater Horizon, but [long story] a few inside the Houston offices chose not to do so. Afterall, they might have gotten away with it before, they're brilliant people, & they had a system of proper failsafes. In essense, Deepwater Horizon was like the Titanic, & they thought it was too big to fail.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 20, 2010 01:28 PM (LUaw0)
Posted by: rawmuse at July 20, 2010 01:29 PM (6Zecj)
241 Ms80's,
Honey if anything is too big to fail it is Michelle and my trunks y'know what'I'm sayin'?
Posted by: Orca Winfrey at July 20, 2010 01:30 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 01:30 PM (i3AsK)
Posted by: Next victim in a slasher flick waiting for the dial tone at July 20, 2010 01:30 PM (mQ8O/)
@227,
See.....that's what I'm talking about! Thank for the update. Makes since....Win-Win for both BP and the Administraiton. BP losing money, so burn it down and calim the insurance, meanwhile the Barack Attack gets to push his Cap & Trade Legislation which benefits BP on the back end.
Even though I'm wearing my tin-foil hat on this one, we gotta think outside of the box when dealing with these Thugs.
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at July 20, 2010 01:30 PM (fqxV7)
Posted by: Oksana, fertile Russian ho at July 20, 2010 01:30 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: George Armstrong Custer at July 20, 2010 01:31 PM (kq1lG)
248,
your forgetting to change your sock made Charlie Gibson more aware of current events than he says he's been in 10 years....
good work
Posted by: sven10077 at July 20, 2010 01:32 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Moron Nation at July 20, 2010 01:32 PM (mQ8O/)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:33 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Hugo Chavez-hey next to Soetoro I'm a moderate at July 20, 2010 01:33 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: US Economy at July 20, 2010 01:35 PM (mQ8O/)
Oops! Sock Puppet Charlie would get off my hand! He probably remembers hads well, he is used to his thumb being up his ass all the time.
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 01:36 PM (fqxV7)
That was part of it, yes...& that suit was inside the Houston office.
248 @227 They wouldn't burn it down; they'd try to finish in a hurry. It's two completely different things, with one being CYA & the other involving malice. Willingly burning the rig would have guaranteed they would be in a worse position they are now, & you can't collect when you don't exist. The British govt has already said they won't bail-out BP, & they have a history of letting companies die.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 20, 2010 01:36 PM (LUaw0)
Posted by: Joe "Big F'n Deal" Biden at July 20, 2010 01:37 PM (fqxV7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:38 PM (UOM48)
Is that DOA* or DRT**?
*Dead on Arrival
**Dead Right There.
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 01:38 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:39 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: sifty at July 20, 2010 01:40 PM (BimL7)
@ 262 Ms80
I think it was the hurry up and produce scenario. I'm certain that they had budgets for budgets, and that one was going over.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 20, 2010 01:40 PM (i3AsK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:41 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 20, 2010 01:41 PM (tJjm/)
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:42 PM (u4W7y)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:42 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 20, 2010 01:43 PM (Qp4DT)
Because we're all just vamping along, waiting for something to inspire us.
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 01:43 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: Sponge at July 20, 2010 01:45 PM (UK9cE)
Beck knows the White House is watching today because of what they said to Ms Black US(D)A.
At the end he will pull up the phone again, and say, right white house?
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:45 PM (u4W7y)
I'm not his greatest fan, but damn if he doesn't pull out all the stops and nail them. You have to admire that kind of courage.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:45 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: sven10077 at July 20, 2010 01:46 PM (kq1lG)
The thread died just as another pointless "truther" argument was about to start.
Posted by: Luca Brasi at July 20, 2010 01:46 PM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 01:48 PM (qrFCz)
Here is a topic worth discussing:
We have proof that the media coludes to create talking points or ignore them. They are purposefully using "racism" to tear down the right.
Clyburn lied about being yelled at on Obamacare day.
The media took it up.
Was it arranged before hand in collusion with the media?
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:48 PM (u4W7y)
I've never found a station that bothers to broadcast Hewitt, but I'm guessing whatever backyard transmitter puts Mr Squish on the air is praying for some worthy news item -- a cat up a tree, maybe even a cracked windowpane somewhere -- to preempt it with.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 20, 2010 01:49 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: SJR2 at July 20, 2010 01:49 PM (oCbCP)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:49 PM (UOM48)
I know I'm going to regret this, but what is sledgehammer!?
It's an in-joke reference to the Peter Gabriel song. Big fans of his here.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 20, 2010 01:50 PM (3fiIy)
Posted by: maddogg at July 20, 2010 01:50 PM (OlN4e)
______________
Then an FCC license to get back on?
Posted by: Anachronda (blog comment license #665) at July 20, 2010 01:50 PM (3K4hn)
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:51 PM (u4W7y)
I'm a little tired of Sookie, by now, but you might have fun with the first six or so.
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 01:51 PM (qrFCz)
@296,
You damn right it was....what the hell do you think the point of walking arm-in-arm up the capitol steps with the Black Civil Right Leader "John Whatever" leading the way.
They couldn't defend the health-care bill....so what to do...chaneg the debate to race...
These people been out playing us for years, when is our team going to start employing those type of tactics/
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 01:51 PM (fqxV7)
I'd rather listen to static.
Posted by: sifty at July 20, 2010 01:51 PM (BimL7)
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:52 PM (u4W7y)
Posted by: SJR2 at July 20, 2010 01:53 PM (oCbCP)
It makes me tingly in my naughty bits.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:53 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt what lurks the intertubes at night at July 20, 2010 01:55 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:55 PM (u4W7y)
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 05:52 PM (u4W7y)
The MFM are far worse than Pravda, or any Soviet propaganda, ever was. The Soviet "media" worked under the force of government and clear threats of imprisonment. The MFM do it all of their own volition, and very, very enthusiastically.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 20, 2010 01:55 PM (Qp4DT)
275 @ 262 Ms80 I think it was the hurry up and produce scenario. I'm certain that they had budgets for budgets, and that one was going over.
It was a combination of many things, but that was a large part of it. Other companies, however, would have paid the extra for a proper well-liner, even if they hated the idea. But arrogance was a large factor in why they didn't in this instance.
This entire saga has had a negative impact on the entire oil industry, & many of the companies are rather frightened at the moment. That bomb in the mailbox (of a Houston oil exec) didn't help matters....
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 20, 2010 01:55 PM (LUaw0)
Posted by: rawmuse at July 20, 2010 01:56 PM (6Zecj)
So far as I know, you may purchase some sorts of body armor. I can't remember which class is the highest, reserved for law enforcement and the military, but I believe you can purchase the basic variety.
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 01:56 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 01:56 PM (AZGON)
That the station in L.A. that also broadcasts Prager?
I always tuned in to listen to him when I lived there, but the rest of the time the station signal was so crappy it wasn't worth bothering.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 20, 2010 01:57 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 01:57 PM (UOM48)
@315
They had the media totally in the tank for them, and instead having to take responsiblity if the guy got his ass kicked, and it coming out, I figure they just said to themselves, "We are the Betters, We have the Power, therefore We get to Frame the Debate, and if means lieng.....so be it....the ends justify the means."
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 01:58 PM (fqxV7)
Progress, do you think they believe, intelletually and emotionally, in leftism as an ideology or do you think they think that it is the path to power and riches? And with that power and wealth they can punish those they resent for one political reason or another?
I'm just trying to grasp the extent of the evil.
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 01:59 PM (u4W7y)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 02:00 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 02:00 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 20, 2010 02:01 PM (LUaw0)
Back in J-school the Journalism/News majors used to frown at us lowly Advertising majors.
Glad I'm not at the bottom anymore.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 20, 2010 02:01 PM (3fiIy)
Not sure. I stopped reading them at the same time I took Weekly Standard and WorldnetDaily of my reading lists.
The only worthwhile commenter at townhall is Dennis Prager. One among zillions. It's like wading through Tepid Air's "Green Room" trying to find anything intelligent/intelligible amid the swill.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 20, 2010 02:02 PM (Ulu3i)
Medved makes Lindsay Graham look like Charles Bronson and Hewitt could put a meth head to sleep in five minutes.
Posted by: sifty at July 20, 2010 02:02 PM (BimL7)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 02:03 PM (AZGON)
@325
Oh Man...What an excellent question.
My belief is that the leadership uses the Ideology and the Tactics strictlly for Power and Riches, but I believe the average population who believes in the Ideology do not understand the consequences that come along with it, and base their decisions on emotion.
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 02:03 PM (fqxV7)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 02:04 PM (AZGON)
Sometimes Dennis Miller is okay. There was a program shakeup recently, however.
I've always enjoyed Miller, maybe because I have a wierd sense of humor too. Unfortunately, the local FM talk station changed format earlier this year to Classic Rock (like we need another one of those). The same station carried Laura Ingraham whom I was really starting to like.
Posted by: ErikW at July 20, 2010 02:04 PM (E1/9G)
Posted by: rawmuse at July 20, 2010 02:06 PM (6Zecj)
By the way, the design of the new Weber sucks.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 02:06 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 02:07 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 02:07 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: Moron Nation at July 20, 2010 05:32 PM (mQ8O/)
damn it.......... i thought one of us do it.............
Posted by: Racefan at July 20, 2010 02:08 PM (MSpaq)
My lib sis is an Addy award winning writer who's done TV, print, web, everything. Her agency went belly up two years ago, and she's struggled to find anything.
She's an Obama-loving lib, but damn, she's talented (and I worked in the industry myself with some people who didn't come close to her). I'd love to help her. I'm afraid she's given up.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 02:09 PM (UOM48)
When you cook fresh fish from the ocean, use honey mustard to coat them then dredge in Cajun Fish Fry, make you slap anyone near you.
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at July 20, 2010 02:09 PM (mUCRG)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at July 20, 2010 06:09 PM
We talkin' about food or Megyn Kelly here?
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 20, 2010 02:13 PM (Ulu3i)
Gotta go shred a rotisserie chicken for enchiladas.
(By the way, I have a rotisserie for the Weber. I don't think they make them for charcoal grills anymore. Anyhow, I marinate Cornish hens in raspberry vinegar and garlic and rotisserie them. Awesome.)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 20, 2010 02:13 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 06:13 PM
One can always hope for threadification.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 20, 2010 02:14 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 20, 2010 02:14 PM (3fiIy)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at July 20, 2010 02:15 PM (JSghx)
I think the elite left is no different than the aristocracy of the middle ages and for the same reasons. The commoner left are lefties for the same reason the serfs "served" their masters.
I think that the reason the north east turned into a left haven is that the shanty irish had been serfs for centuries and had no other idea how to act.
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 02:16 PM (u4W7y)
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 02:17 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 02:17 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 02:19 PM (qrFCz)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 20, 2010 02:19 PM (Ps41e)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 02:20 PM (AZGON)
LOOK THE FUCK OVER HERE, YOU FUCKIN' WINGNUT MOTHERFUCKERS!
LINDSAY FUCKING LOHAN WENT TO JAIL, GODDAMMIT!
AND WE'RE GONNA SPEND ALL NIGHT TALKING ABOUT IT ON EVERY FUCKING NEWS CHANNEL!
Posted by: The MFM at July 20, 2010 02:20 PM (P33XN)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 20, 2010 02:22 PM (Ps41e)
Posted by: Dianna's dog and cat at July 20, 2010 02:22 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Retread at July 20, 2010 02:22 PM (L3Rek)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2010 02:24 PM (SB0V2)
@357
Well, when business is suffering, ad budgets suffer. Except they shouldn't be, because that's when ad/marketing strategery should be the most... strategic, for lack of a better term. (Brain freeze, sorry.)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 20, 2010 02:24 PM (3fiIy)
What are you complaining about?! I threw the cat in the birdbath last time, and he didn't even look at the birdies! As to the dog...last time, you nearly drowned your rescuer. See if you get to go swimming any time soon!
Posted by: Dianna at July 20, 2010 02:25 PM (qrFCz)
@357
The average leftist is hanging on to the talking point that "Bush is the cause, and Republican policy's don't work." They are hanging on because it feels good, but deep down they know it's all a huge lie.
Digging deep into the Retardation of the Left, one sees that at this point, it is all about revenge, they could care less if Obama is successful, they just want the rich to be poor, and America to be turned into a third world economy.
Why?
Because they have been brainwashed into the Ideology of fairness. If Fairness means they have to suffer a little bit too...fine...they do it out of spite.
Race Trumps Class Trumps Gender Trumps Truth.
Posted by: Jimi at July 20, 2010 02:26 PM (fqxV7)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 20, 2010 02:26 PM (AZGON)
-->Progress, do you think they believe, intelletually and emotionally, in leftism as an ideology or do you think they think that it is the path to power and riches?
I think that they are emotionally tied to leftism. A few of the really stupid ones have "intellectual" attachments to leftism, but most of the American left are just emotional basketcases of all sorts. That, and the real America-haters, of course.
I don't think that they care nearly as much about riches as the power to control others. They just love directing everyone else's life. It's what turns them on.
-->And with that power and wealth they can punish those they resent for one political reason or another?
-->I'm just trying to grasp the extent of the evil.
Posted by: dagny at July 20, 2010 05:59 PM (u4W7y)
As with all collectivists, there is no limit to the evil of the American left. They will punish their domestic enemies like the left always does - since the French set the paradigm in their pathetically insane revolution.
But, my fear at the end of the campaign in 2008 was that the MFM had gone all-in on their disingenuous assault on America. I didn't imagine they could possibly turn back on what they had done, since the damage it wraught was so immense.
I think this all has to play to its ugly end.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 20, 2010 02:27 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2010 02:30 PM (SB0V2)
373 Black orchid,
one of the first curses I ever learned was "everybody eventually gets everything they want"....
I want prosperity and liberty for all my brother and sister Americans....
Bury, Jerry, Billy, and Worf want other things....
Posted by: sven10077 at July 20, 2010 02:40 PM (kq1lG)
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