December 04, 2010
— Open Blogger No, really, I had a dream this morning where I was part of one of two competing groups trying to set policies and priorities for the US Government. Our solution, which we all thought was fair and clever, was to race four different colored mice around a semi-oval race track. They represented four major areas of spending -- something like defense, discretionary spending, entitlements, and foreign policy -- and the order in which they finished determined the relative priority and spending for each.
I chuckled when I woke up, but then read this article and wondered if my approach might not work better:
In a lame-duck congressional session jam-packed with competing priorities critical to Democrats and their political base, President Barack Obama is putting much of his political muscle into an all-out push to ratify an arms control treaty with Russia that has no significant domestic constituency and has barely been part of the political debate over the past year.Some, particular advocates of causes struggling for oxygen in the dwindling days of the lame-duck Congress such as those seeking repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning openly gay members of the military, are asking about the START treaty: What’s the hurry?
Someone many years ago described DC as "forty square miles surrounded by reality." Having lived there myself, I can attest to the accuracy of that quote. ..fritz..
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Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:10 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: Zakn at December 04, 2010 06:11 AM (zyaZ1)
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 06:15 AM (e4sSD)
I don't think it has ever snowed here since I have been here in early Dec.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 06:17 AM (e4sSD)
Posted by: Marvin the Depressed Robot at December 04, 2010 06:18 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: Marvin the Depressed Robot at December 04, 2010 06:22 AM (tJjm/)
I finally understand Marvin's pain.
Yes, I just watched the 80s flashback video at HA.
Now it all makes sense...
Posted by: Mama AJ the paranoid android at December 04, 2010 06:24 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: sherlock at December 04, 2010 06:26 AM (thr9V)
Posted by: CoolCzech
Hold us hostage by any means you can but, posting random pics of Helen Thomas is my weapon. No treaties on that biotch.
Posted by: sTevo at December 04, 2010 06:28 AM (VMcEw)
It doesn't require much intelligence to know what needs to be done, but apparently even basic, commonsense action is beyond the ability of those infected with the Washington Disease.
The Democrats are simply Pavlovian -- they salivate when someone waves money (real or imagined) in front of them. What really pisses me off are the Republican goons who can talk a good game, but cave in like a sand wall the instant they actually have to step up to the plate and produce results.
Do we have to endure another two years of high-minded ginks like Boehner and DeMint posturing and pontificating while the Demo-rats keep stealing the cheese?
Yeah, we do.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 06:33 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:35 AM (tJjm/)
How much Val-U-Rite was consumed to induce this idea? Still, I like it!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 04, 2010 06:37 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:39 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 06:44 AM (8nf3A)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:44 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:45 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 06:47 AM (8nf3A)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:48 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 06:48 AM (8nf3A)
I never read the book, but I appreciated Douglas Adams' explanation of the number 42. "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13."
One theory is the saying "All sixes and sevens." When you're learning your multiplication tables, everything up to 6 x 7 = 42 is relatively simple.
Jewish mystics claim God has a 42 letter name that cannot be pronounced. The easier one is the Monogrammata pronounced simply Hey.
According to the Jewish mystics, Hey represents the divine breath or revelation. On the fifth day, the LORD created Light, and this corresponds to the letter Hey. Since the numerical value of Hey is five, this corresponds on a physical level to the five fingers, the five senses, and the five dimensions. On a spiritual level it corresponds to the five levels of soul:
Nefesh - instincts Ruach - emotions Neshamah - mind Chayah - bridge to transcendence Yechidah - oneness
"By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth" (Psalm 33:6). In the Talmud (Menachot 29b) it is said that the "breath of His mouth" refers to the sound of the letter Hey - the outbreathing of Spirit.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 06:48 AM (mHQ7T)
You actualy bring up an interesting point.
At EVERY decision point, Obama et al consistantly do the wrong thing... EVERY time it seems.
Now, even someone not knowing what they were doing would randomly get SOME things right... but he seems to always make the choice which hurts America.
Now, random chance in a binaray decision set means you are correct 1/2 of the time...
Ergo, to be wrong all the time? There has to be some underlieing reason... Random stupidity does not explain his pattern of choice.
Evil? Some Philosophy? I don't know... but no one can be this consistantly wrong from pure stupidity.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2010 06:49 AM (AdK6a)
Posted by: Barney Frank at December 04, 2010 06:52 AM (tE8FB)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 06:54 AM (8nf3A)
Obama was sitting around one day, getting high with his fellow travelers, and they all started to wax poetic about how wonderful the world would be if only we could get rid of nuclear weapons. Unlike most people who entertained such stupidity in their early twenties, Obama never grew up, so we have this brilliant diplomatic push instead of substance.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo ( NJConservative) at December 04, 2010 06:54 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:55 AM (tJjm/)
I'll stick to Chia Pets. At least they do something. As long as you water them.
The Bawney Fwank Chia Pet doesn't like water, BTW.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 06:55 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: scrood at December 04, 2010 06:56 AM (4cRlt)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 06:57 AM (8nf3A)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 06:57 AM (tJjm/)
You were dreaming of good times from the past (you & us making decisions via our congress member). Those days are gone regardless of which party is controlling the congress.
Just read a new book that's a must read cause it's about Americans who finally take a finally stand (after they have a dream) & do something. It's about each of us & possibly our true destiny in history soon. I recommend it.
Thanks for sharing your dream with everyone. We need to be remind of when times were good. Good writing!
Posted by: WhiteSnow at December 04, 2010 07:01 AM (eD+zX)
Yeah, finding a patch of green shoots waving around down there would get my attention, too....
You get your chlorophyll where you can.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 07:02 AM (Ulu3i)
"I," "my," and "myself." And! A sign-off.
Posted by: Because I Like Me at December 04, 2010 07:02 AM (wbpZG)
Posted by: archie bunker at December 04, 2010 07:03 AM (0YS61)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 07:03 AM (8nf3A)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 07:04 AM (X/VwQ)
Tattoo, that's all very interesting. Perhaps more to the point is the fact that Adams died at the age of 42. A coincidence, of course; yet the fact is that for Adams, that number did give the answer to all of his questions.
Posted by: Brown Line at December 04, 2010 07:04 AM (WFXON)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 07:05 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: AoSHQ's DarkLord© at December 04, 2010 07:06 AM (aoLEL)
Posted by: Barky Obama at December 04, 2010 07:06 AM (tJjm/)
Because Puttin wants a START treaty, and he has the dox on Obama's birth, world travels and all the rest. The KGB, by whatever name it's going by today, doesn't much care about American records privacy. O does what he's told, or else.
It's good to be Czar.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 04, 2010 07:09 AM (yea0z)
Posted by: Barky Obama at December 04, 2010 07:10 AM (tJjm/)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2010 07:11 AM (b6qrg)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 11:04 AM
"Jobs Bill?" You going Democrat now?
There is no such thing as a "jobs bill." The only thing the gubmint can do to help create jobs is to take themselves out of the picture as much as possible.
Less regulation, less taxation, less debt. And no more "free trade" agreements with countries that dump their shit on us and restrict the sale of U.S.-made goods.
When government unemployment goes up, real unemployment will decline.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 07:12 AM (Ulu3i)
I watched a documentary on the Barnes collection of post-impressionist art last night, and it was an interesting look at the modern Democratic party. The collector, Albert C. Barnes, was a Gatsby-like figure. He came from nowhere and amassed a fortune by inventing a VD vaccine administered as eye drops to infants. Then he traveled to Europe and collected Cezannes, Picassos, Van Goghs, Seurats, etc. and he had an amazing eye. Nobody knew what those paintings would be worth one day, and he liked in Philadelphia, what he once called an "intellectual slum." Barnes was rightfully proud of his collection, and he showed it off to the public, only to universal critical panning.
This outrage embittered Barnes toward the East Coast art world and society for life. He particularly loathed Walter Annenberg, owner of the Philadelphia Enquirer and son of a bootlegger / racketeer who paid off politicians to give his son a phony ambassadorship, so he could swan around like some English lord. Annenberg made it his mission in life to destroy the Barnes collection, because it was such a painful reminder of his own intellectual and aesthetic shortcomings. This went for much of high society in Philadelphia, who were outraged that Barnes ran a school instead of a museum and later left his estate to Black state school Lincoln College.
Once Lincoln got on the board of directors, you had some characters with a limited imagination but a burning desire to ingratiate themselves into polite society who sold both their school (despite protests from the NAACP) and the Barnes Foundation down the river. They helped the Pew Foundation make their name, becoming a mutibillion dollar public charity by acquiring the Barnes collection and being able to claim that on their taxes, and helped Annenberg achieve his lifelong dream of shredding the Barnes will. By the way, when Annenberg died, after all his talk of making art accessible and his love for his Philadelphia, donated his entire collection to MoMA with the stipulation that it can never be sold, loaned or otherwise broken up. But there are some interesting cameos by Gov. Ed Rendell and DA Mike Kelly.
Anyway, Barnes was an admirer of FDR, and so maybe he ultimately could appreciate how they destroyed his legacy. They stacked the board just like FDR did the Supreme Court. Gotta love transformation, and the taxpayers there are so happy to pay for it.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 07:12 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 11:12 AM (Ulu3i)
Jobs Bills???
1. Fair Tax.
2. Abolish the EPA
3. Bill to turn over all Federal Land not used by either the Feds, or Military, to State ownership and Jurisdiction (including all Federal Parks).
4. Abolish Obmacare, especially the upcoming Reporting of all transcations over $600 requirment.
5. Congress creating law to over ride Obama's drilling stop.
I consider all of these... Jobs Bills...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2010 07:16 AM (AdK6a)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 07:16 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 07:16 AM (X/VwQ)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at December 04, 2010 07:18 AM (LFAxM)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 07:18 AM (X/VwQ)
Instead of playing footsie and fucking around with Gates and homosexuals, why aren't the Republicans planning to hold hearings to get to the bottom of what appeared to be a missile of the coast of California?
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 07:19 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 04, 2010 07:19 AM (dYKl3)
Posted by: navybrat at December 04, 2010 07:20 AM (ikJVq)
I consider all of these... Jobs Bills...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2010 11:16 AMThat's what I'm talkin' about....
Reduce the government's power to own, control and tax, and you create a better environment for the citizens.
At some point, I'm afraid any such moves -- if the greedy incompetents in DC ever had the balls to institute them -- would have to become Constitutional amendments so the next batch of suckers-on-the-public-teat couldn't undo them.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 07:20 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 07:25 AM (mHQ7T)
Let's see, in DC-Speak, shoveling money into the black hole of entitlements are "investments", and not taking more from productive taxpayers is a "handout"
The lefties love to trot out the myth that Clinton's corporate tax hikes in 1993 resulted in the 90s boom and the surplus. History re-writing is good work if you can get it. There was sluggish growth and a deficit until 1996, when the GOP Congress steered Clinton to the center with a revision back down of the corporate tax rate and reductions in the growth of entitlement spending. The surplus as it was recorded was the result of massive inflows on capital gains taxes from the dot-com boom. Add to that the inflow resulting from the Social Security fund forking over cash in exchange for T-Bills.
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2010 07:25 AM (vdfwz)
You still think that was a missile? Forgive me if I appear insulting by asking this question (I don't mean to appear this way, I'm just curious), but why do you think that?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 04, 2010 07:27 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 07:27 AM (X/VwQ)
I don't know if it was a missile, Kratostm. But a) some people thinks so, and b) it was something.
We should know definitively what it was, or we ain't no high-tech superpower.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 07:29 AM (uFokq)
Jesus fuck, it wasn't a missile. How many times does this have to be explained?
Posted by: Waterhouse at December 04, 2010 07:30 AM (oRFiV)
I had a dream early this morning, and this what I heard,
"666
God tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked."
From the ONT last night (or actually 6:07 am this morning)
Words to ponder and get drunk about, plus the wider implications of "The Art of the Steal".
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch says... at December 04, 2010 07:31 AM (sJTmU)
Posted by: AoSHQ's DarkLord© at December 04, 2010 11:06 AM (aoLEL)
How many times have I gotta say it, proper shot placement is key.
Posted by: Unclefacts, Confuse A Cat, Ltd. at December 04, 2010 07:31 AM (eCAn3)
Posted by: George Orwell at December 04, 2010 07:31 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 11:20 AM (Ulu3i)
Hmmm... I just had a thought...
One of our major problems is the way Federal Courts are interpreting the Consittution, especialy the Commerce Clause, and the 10th...
Now, what would happen if the States, passed bills saying that the ONLY Fed Court with the power to over ride their State Supreme Court, could be the US Federal Supreme Court?
It seems that Constitutionaly, that would fly...
Then, on things like Gun Control, you run it through you State Courts to get the correct interpretation (like with the Sharia law thing going on now)... which would FORCE the Supremes to hear the case, and over ride the State Supreme Court...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2010 07:31 AM (AdK6a)
Naaah.
Oh, they'll talk about it. Bitch McConnell will stand up and, in a quavering voice, say Something Has to be Done, and Boner will talk about the Dems' actions as more Poultry Excreta, but give them a chance to actually, you know, move things forward and they'll slink away to their guest-shots on Hannity.
D.C. = the only place in the country where crime does pay.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 07:31 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 07:32 AM (LwLqV)
"Lat nat this wrechched wo thyn herte gnawe, But manly set the world on sexe and seuene."
It is thought to have derived in the 14th century from the game of dice. The meaning then was to carelessly risk one's entire fortune. But there are two other theories, one being yours, and one is the biblical text Job 5:19.
"He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee."
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 07:33 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: New England's metrosexual quarterback who is so not gay at December 04, 2010 07:34 AM (M+lbD)
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 11:32 AM (LwLqV)
Come on.... Swamp Gas... er... weather balloons...
I mean, what are you going to believe? Your EYES? or what I tell you?
Posted by: Gen. Ramey, US Air Force at December 04, 2010 07:36 AM (AdK6a)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 07:38 AM (X/VwQ)
Posted by: Barky Obama at December 04, 2010 07:38 AM (tJjm/)
Brad Thor thinks it was a missile and it was China's missile.
Credible people are saying it was a missile.
We can rule out weather anomaly, yes? So it was something; an object, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 07:38 AM (uFokq)
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1) Because it would be a comically embarrassing waste of time to hold hearings over a commercial airliner's contrail.
2) Because the Roswell and JFK assassination conspiracy theorists would demand equal time.
3) Because the Freemasons, Illuminati and Knights Templar ordered them not to.
Posted by: schizuki at December 04, 2010 07:39 AM (M+lbD)
They should hold hearings on why the government is covering up that we let the Chinese underbid us on the alien underwater UFO base off Catalina Island
Posted by: George Noury & Art Bell at December 04, 2010 07:40 AM (vdfwz)
Posted by: Umberto Eco at December 04, 2010 07:41 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 07:42 AM (mHQ7T)
We are about to have a huge tax increase with rates hiked back up to the Clinton era.
We can call them the OBAMA TAX INCREASES.
Should do wonders for our economy. Unions need more of our money.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at December 04, 2010 07:42 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 07:42 AM (tJjm/)
someone was asking about basic economic books yesterday and there were some good suggestions.
i just did a book review of chris whalen's latest and would highly recommend it. chris whalen is an economist who completely understands the banking system and is one of the sharpest minds out there. he's not entry level but speaks in a very direct and personable way and has a good sense of humor. nouriel roubini wrote the introduction to whalen's book. the name of the book is 'inflated.'
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 07:43 AM (LwLqV)
Posted by: Phil Hendrie doing Art Bell at December 04, 2010 07:43 AM (AZGON)
It's the '80s, baby! Pass the coke!
Posted by: schizuki at December 04, 2010 07:43 AM (M+lbD)
Posted by: Major Hassan, Tan, Rested, and Ready to Rumble at December 04, 2010 07:45 AM (tJjm/)
I doubt there are too many surreptitious Chinese missile launches from inland Connecticut
That's what they want you to think!
Posted by: Mama AJ the paranoid android at December 04, 2010 07:46 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 07:47 AM (X/VwQ)
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 07:48 AM (LwLqV)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 07:48 AM (8nf3A)
Posted by: George Orwell at December 04, 2010 07:49 AM (AZGON)
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We do. That's why there are entire websites devoted to them:
http://contrailscience.com/
Posted by: schizuki at December 04, 2010 07:50 AM (M+lbD)
Just curious--does the calliope music emanate from inside you or from an external source?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 04, 2010 07:51 AM (U6LOz)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 07:51 AM (8nf3A)
Posted by: Al Gore at December 04, 2010 07:52 AM (AZGON)
If any state has a secret Chinese missile base within its borders, CT would seem likely.
In my many years living in SoCal, I saw countless missile-launch plumes (from Vandenberg) and even more contrails. The one that's causing controversy looked like a missile launch to me, and every "explanation" of why it was a commercial aircraft/weather balloon/optical illusion strikes me as pretty convoluted.
So far as I know, no one who actually has any direct experience with missile launches has stood up and asserted that this wasn't a missile.
Oh, wait, "Poppin' Fresh," that great expert on every friggin' subject under the sun including the Mohammedan Mouthpiece's alleged "birth certificate" and, probably, Judge Crater's disappearance, dismissed it as a contrail, didn't he?
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 07:52 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2010 07:52 AM (vdfwz)
ok, i stand down, it's an air bus - an international consortium of failed projectiles. that's my new meme - International Contrail Created by French Consortium.
this should please even Alex Jones.
now it's settled.
next....
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 07:53 AM (LwLqV)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 04, 2010 07:54 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Al Gore at December 04, 2010 07:55 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: George Orwell at December 04, 2010 07:55 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 04, 2010 11:51 AM (U6LOz)
< actually, it's more of a paradiddle sound.
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 07:56 AM (LwLqV)
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2010 07:57 AM (8nf3A)
okay, 2 important things
1) Claire McCaskill makes me sick
2) Look at the sign (this should be a post, btw) behind her. Look at the word "Gets."
It should be "KEEPS" as in "Keeps Own Money."
GOP Plan: Make 100 Million? You Keep 3 Million of your own money.
But the Republicans are too stupid to point this out.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:01 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: that guy that doesn't read all the comments at December 04, 2010 08:02 AM (S5YRY)
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 11:19 AM (uFokq)
Simple... we asked some of our operatives to ensure there would be no hearings.
Posted by: S.H.A.D.O. Control at December 04, 2010 08:02 AM (AdK6a)
Wish me luck. It's already 11am and I'm heading out among the crazed shoppers.
And yes, I think it's perfectly appropriate to leave this sock on.
Posted by: Mama AJ the paranoid android at December 04, 2010 08:03 AM (XdlcF)
The Republicans, if they were smart, which they're not, would explain that the sign in back of the fat & ugly Claire McCaskill shows that the Democrats believe they are subsidizing the taxpayers, instead of the other way around.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:03 AM (uFokq)
Why would Assange have FAA flight records for UPS flight 902 or America West flight 808?
Posted by: Waterhouse at December 04, 2010 08:04 AM (oRFiV)
Posted by: eman at December 04, 2010 08:07 AM (p3xb1)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2010 11:52 AM (vdfwz)
Actualy? uh... no...
What our present Govenrment does not understand is that there are always TWO international conversations going on.... One for public consumption, and one for the other Governments edification...
Just like a lot of the Wiki leaks stuff pointed out that the Saudis, publicly, are ALWAYS talking about Israel, yet privatly are more worried about Iran... yet our Gov did not pick up on that...
Chinese could very well show a capability, from their NEW Boomer, to proove somthing to our Government, without announcing it to the world (which because it would FREAK out the American population, may not be their intention).
Not saying this is what happened... but it fits RealPolitik...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2010 08:07 AM (AdK6a)
We're in uncharted territory here, and the self-appointed masters of the universe just can't admit that their fancy degrees and credentials are useless. They keep believing that the economy will magically bounce back with the guidance of central planning by "experts", and to top it off government entities plan their budgets on the prognostications of these economic shamans.
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2010 08:10 AM (vdfwz)
Posted by: CAC at December 04, 2010 08:10 AM (Gr1V1)
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Now you're just making shit up.
I mean, Christ Jesus, the site even has a photo of Flight 808 making the same contrail the next day. Was that a second missile? Why aren't you all over that? "We're under daily attack!!!!"
I will never, ever understand the conspirazoid's stubborn refusal to accept prosaic reality. Screw it. I'm done. Believe whatever fucking nonsense you like in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary and none in your favor but "It sure looks like a missile to me!" Knock yourself out.
Posted by: schizuki at December 04, 2010 08:11 AM (M+lbD)
Posted by: eman at December 04, 2010 08:12 AM (p3xb1)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2010 08:13 AM (tJjm/)
Good. Please STFU.
Some of you wake up in the morning and say, "You know what? I'm gonna go online and be a cocksucker, today."
It makes you feel good to call others stupid, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:14 AM (uFokq)
No, it's actually really depressing how fucking obstinately averse to reality missile truthers are.
Posted by: Waterhouse at December 04, 2010 08:16 AM (oRFiV)
If the Republicans were smart, part MCMXVI:
Under the Democrats Plan
Illegals Get: Free health care, social security benfits, free housing, free education...
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:17 AM (uFokq)
good
Describing places one has lived, UT/Austin is forty square inbred acres surrounded by greater enabling insanity.
Posted by: maverick muse at December 04, 2010 08:17 AM (H+LJc)
Breathe deep as you enter sleep
Feel secure it's all around you...
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 08:22 AM (X/VwQ)
GOP Plan: Make 100 Million? You Keep 3 Million of your own money.
But the Republicans are too stupid to point this out.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 12:01 PM
For your lefty friends who repeat the "giveaways to the rich" mantra, try this on them.
You: Hey lefty, give me a dollar
Lefty: Why?
You: Just give me the dollar
Lefty: Well, OK, here
You: Now give me two dollars
Lefty: Why?
You: I want to buy a beer for my buddy
Lefty: Why don't you buy it for him, he's your buddy
You: He doesn't have enough, and you do
Lefty: OK, here's two more dollars
You: Now, give me five dollars
Lefty: Can't you just take three dollars like you did before?
You: Sorry, I can't afford to pay you two dollars
Lefty: Hey!! Look at that stoopid Palin on Faux News!!!!11!!
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2010 08:22 AM (vdfwz)
Yes. Don't stop there. Eliminate funding for the sex trader UN international "aid and peacekeeping" rapists whose soldiers only kill in the course of friendly fire incidents.
Posted by: maverick muse at December 04, 2010 08:24 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: eman at December 04, 2010 08:26 AM (p3xb1)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 08:27 AM (X/VwQ)
Under the Democrats Plan
Illegals Get: Free health care, social security benfits, free housing, free education...
Nothing new there, all the more reason to eliminate funding and enforce the law. PC policy does not trump constitutional law.
Posted by: maverick muse at December 04, 2010 08:28 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: PKO Strany at December 04, 2010 08:29 AM (RJOgX)
The Democrats are 100% right about the power of 'the message' as a way to fool the electorate
Once again, the Republicans are out-smarted and out-maneuvered in the cruel game of politics. This is why the Democrats win despite being wrong on every single issue.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:30 AM (uFokq)
This time it's got ME
Posted by: King Barry I at December 04, 2010 08:30 AM (vdfwz)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 08:32 AM (X/VwQ)
Meet Wikileak's Likely First Victim
I would not want to be Lebanon's Defense Minister Elias Murr right now.
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2010 08:34 AM (vdfwz)
They've doubled down the gamble that the worst won't collapse until they've stripped the economy of any value.
That was Obama's claim to fame getting him elected to Illinois Senate, the Altgeld Gardens "pinstripe fraud" -- legal crime via attorneys involved directing affairs, taking all the appropriated tax funds to rejuvenate the worst of the worst slums in Chicago (of course for the elderly) AND STRIPPING THE PROPERTY ITSELF of all valuable copper piping, wiring, etc. leaving the slum worse by far than before "helping" his corrupt system friends who made out like the pirating organized criminals that they are.
Posted by: maverick muse at December 04, 2010 08:35 AM (H+LJc)
Meet Wikileak's Likely First Victim
I would not want to be Lebanon's Defense Minister Elias Murr right now.
Posted by: kbdabear
On the bright side, we have a fresh entry on the dead pool.
Posted by: Blue Hen at December 04, 2010 08:38 AM (1O93r)
Remember how they used to call John Gotti the Teflon© Don?
The Bill Clinton was dubbed with Teflon.
But Obama has them both beat. Nothing sticks to Obama.
Not Bill Ayers, not Jeremiah Wright, not George Soros, bot Tony Rezko, not Blagojevich, not his birth certificate issue, not his Aunt Zetuni, not his pathetic record in the state Senate and US Senate, not the economy, not his failures in foreign policy...
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:41 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: Barry O'Douche at December 04, 2010 08:42 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Helen Thomas at December 04, 2010 08:43 AM (vdfwz)
Breathe deep as you enter sleep
Feel secure it's all around you...
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 12:22 PM (X/VwQ)
LOL.... Missilers? Names gotta follow the cutesey pattern...
Just like I was not really a Birther, I was a Dualer (wanted the Dual Citizenship vs Natural Born question answered)...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2010 08:43 AM (AdK6a)
Is that you, "Poppin' Fresh?"
It's easy to dismiss questions -- and that's all they are, questions -- as "trooferism," isn't it?
Instead of getting opinions from someone who knows what the fuck they're talking about -- as Pop Mechanics did with the 9/11 "imploding WTC buildings -- it's much simpler to simply cast people who ask questions (and don't claim to know the answers, so would like to hear from those with real expertise) as fools.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 08:44 AM (Ulu3i)
just looking at rdbrew's mini-blog ------------------>
Do I remember Cleary & Harding? No.
I just checked them out and they remind me of Shields & Yarnell, with less talent.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:44 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: CAC at December 04, 2010 12:10 PM (Gr1V1)
Ironically, these collectors get massive tax breaks because their art becomes more "accessible" to the public when it is placed in a museum. Then it may be displayed as often as Haley's comet, and the public will spend $20 admission and load up on souvenirs in the gift shop. But most people don't care what the show is. They really come to look at currency. It's just another kind of money.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 08:44 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: effinayright at December 04, 2010 08:45 AM (UIqfz)
how many of you would have believed it 5 years ago, heck some probably don't even believe it right now, that every major financial institution would be insolvent? How many would believe AIG's stock would be trading from 60+ to almost going on the pink sheets at around a buck? how many would believe a company like bear stearns would go under after being in business for 100 years. how many would believe the government would have a 180B credit facility to AIG, how many would have believed that the fed would loan trilions to foreign banks and domestic corporations due to the freezing up of capital? how many would believe gold would be at 1,400 and silver nearly 30 an ounce.
you see, many things within the context of "normalcy" don't make sense.
let me tell you something, there never was a "normal" and now everyone's hip to the sham.
so you geniuses that think they understand the military, geo politics and technology and work within the parameters of what you know to be "normal" that's a great thing but it ain't the only thing that's going on.
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 08:46 AM (LwLqV)
For obtuse reality-averse fucking retards? Yes.
Posted by: Waterhouse at December 04, 2010 12:28 PM (oRFiV)
Hmmm ... does that make you... a "Plane'r'?
Enquiring minds want to know...
Posted by: Rules of Radicals Nameing Czar at December 04, 2010 08:46 AM (AdK6a)
I disagree since if nothing stuck to the turd, he'd still be extremely popular. And unlike Clinton, Obama's no longer popular, either home and now abroad.
Posted by: maverick muse at December 04, 2010 08:48 AM (H+LJc)
Something like....
The last thing a collapsing government does, is steal whats left in the treasury.
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 04, 2010 08:49 AM (P3N7K)
If I told you on September 12th, 2001 that the 44th president would be an anti-American academic nobody community-organizer with the middle name "Hussein" and with close ties to terrorist Bill Ayers, would you have believed me?
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:49 AM (uFokq)
Even veteran rocket types confuse jet airliner contrails for missile launches. At least they admit it, unlike some clangingly obtuse fuckknobs who are presented with mountains of evidence that a jet passes over that same area every day creating the same contrail as the "missile launch", and then insist it's a sooper-sekrit rocket no one will admit to but which for some reason was done in full view of LA, yet none of the five million inhabitants there saw it, except this one news crew in a helicopter which was in such a position as to mistake an aircraft contrail for a missile launch.
Posted by: Waterhouse at December 04, 2010 08:49 AM (oRFiV)
Not true. While in both cases the MFM stay clearly behind both of them the public no longer believes the MFM. The MFM shot their wad in the 2008 election.
This can be seen in Obama's dropping polls. You can take those polls because they are ran by the MFM and drop them by 10 points. if the 2012 election were held today Obama would get the hardcore yellow dog Democrats and nothing else.
Assuming the Republicans do not nominate another RINO idiot who's delight has been to stick his thumb in the base's eye, OBama would lose nearly every State in the union. He would win those States which are under the sole control of those same yellow dogs only.
All this shit has stuck to him and it is not just about the economy as the MFM wants you to believe.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 08:49 AM (e4sSD)
Anyone who knows MFM, Daily Show, and late-night treatment of Republicans knows the long line of snickers and jokes about "wingnuts investigating 767 contrails, what's next, wingnuts investigating smoke from a backyard bbq on Memorial Day"
Whatever was found out wouldn't do anything but make us the butt of Jon Stewart's jokes, and in the end, the vast majority of Americans wouldn't give a shit anyway.
That's just the way it is, leave it to the theorists to debate
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2010 08:50 AM (vdfwz)
And unlike Clinton, Obama's no longer popular, either home and now abroad.
Obama has something Clinton did not have: the full unwavering support of the Fifth Column (the Fourth Estate).
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:51 AM (uFokq)
LOL, you didn't type as much so you beat me to the punch.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 08:52 AM (e4sSD)
if it was a contrail we'd be seeing these things all the time
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 11:41 AM (uFokq)
Don't you ever look up?
Posted by: Unclefacts, Confuse A Cat, Ltd. at December 04, 2010 08:52 AM (eCAn3)
Here you go, skippy.
Posted by: Waterhouse at December 04, 2010 08:53 AM (oRFiV)
Don't you ever look up?
I have never seen anything like that and I live a couple of miles away from Logan.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 08:54 AM (uFokq)
BS, Clinton had it as well. The only difference is we now have alternative media and a large portion of the public can see what liars the MFM is.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 08:54 AM (e4sSD)
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 12:49 PM
What do you mean "academic?"
Does the Traitor-in-Chief have any claim to an advanced degree, published work (or even transcripts) demonstrating expertise in any legitimate field or a tenured faculty position at a reputable college?
Yeah, the punk is an incompetent, lazy asshole, but there's no need to smear genuine academic-types by claiming he's one of them.
I wouldn't have believed we'd elect a Muzzie-loving, race-baiting domestic terrorist, either.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 08:55 AM (Ulu3i)
I don't remember Clinton getting a free ride every day in the NYT and the WaPo.
But we're comparing apples to bananas. Clinton didn't have a near-depression during his terms.
The media has been covering Obama's woeful economic ass for almost tow years, e.g., funemployment. No other president had this kind of support from the press.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 09:00 AM (uFokq)
He's not doing this stuff BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT THINGS TO GET BETTER. He is the avenger, the one who comes to make us wander over a barren landscape, barefoot and in rags, fighting with dogs for scraps.
That Newsweek cover wasn't off. He is Shiva, the Destroyer.
Posted by: Miss Marple at December 04, 2010 09:01 AM (Fo83G)
watherhorse, you would be more convincing in suggesting it never happened.
and thanks for the most verbose b.s. website on the subject in existence. you could also probably locate a website with technical aspect ratios of the amount of illusory friction it takes to wipe your ass but i suppose that would be redundant with the bs you are serving.
Posted by: journolist at December 04, 2010 09:06 AM (LwLqV)
Last night I had the strangest dream...
surviving the rat race...
Posted by: maverick muse at December 04, 2010 09:08 AM (H+LJc)
Wonder what that means?
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 04, 2010 09:10 AM (P3N7K)
You would have been either beaten up as a terrorist sympathizer or locked up as totally mad.
Posted by: ¤§EZB§¤ at December 04, 2010 09:11 AM (fa9yq)
Posted by: Gasman at December 04, 2010 09:12 AM (hrgRo)
Posted by: ¤§EZB§¤ at December 04, 2010 09:12 AM (fa9yq)
I swore up until 11/4/08 that it would never happen. Never underestimate the stupidity of the America voter.
Posted by: USS Diversity at December 04, 2010 09:15 AM (RWtqz)
Wonder what that means?
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 04, 2010 01:10 PM (P3N7K)
It means as much as her saying she won't run for president when she was running for her second term as senator.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2010 09:16 AM (oVQFe)
I do, as well as every TV news show. They repeated the Dem talking points endlessly.
They still repeat the big lie that it was the Republicans and Newt who "shutdown the government" even after the memo was leaked that showed Clinton and the Dems had it all planned out BEFORE the budget had even been written.
They still repeat the big lie that it was Clinton "veering to the center" that got welfare reformed. Even after the record shows clearly he vetoed it twice before being forced to sign it the third time.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 09:18 AM (e4sSD)
It means as much as her saying she won't run for president when she was running for her second term as senator.
Posted by: buzzionI don't know. I see it as a pretty heavy handed slap at O'bumbles.
From a managers perspective, if you had an employee saying that their job was the worstest in the world, I'm pretty sure I would find some way to let them go.
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 04, 2010 09:20 AM (P3N7K)
And if I told you on September 12, 2001 that a group of radical Muslims living here in America would build a giant mosque at Ground Zero and name it after Cordoba...
Posted by: Senator Soothsayer (R-AoS) at December 04, 2010 09:21 AM (uFokq)
Hillary was insane to take that job. I said it then that she should turn it down. As soon as she took it she was marginalized. But it just shows how really stupid she is.
OBumble's controllers played her like a third rate Hohner.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 09:23 AM (e4sSD)
Posted by: sTevo at December 04, 2010 09:23 AM (FzVlt)
It didn't matter, subsequent RINOs in congress have completely undone everything they did. Recall that link to the Detroit welfare queen who was pulling down 80K a year off of the various "assistance" schemes.
Also recall the link to the tables that showed a welfare mom who actually worked for minimum wage pulled in more disposable income that some one making 60K a year.
It is time for "Ending Welfare As We Know It Pt II".
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 09:26 AM (e4sSD)
I remember the media rallying around Clinton after it was shown he lied about Monica.
There was one 'journalist-ette,' I forgot who, who said she wished she could've had sex with Clinton, or something like that. Rush mentions it from time to time.
Posted by: Senator Soothsayer (R-AoS) at December 04, 2010 09:26 AM (uFokq)
Phone: (202) 224-4521
Call Kyl and make sure he does not give consent on START. Give him an earful.
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at December 04, 2010 09:34 AM (c5RQr)
Posted by: Ed Anger at December 04, 2010 01:31 PM (7+pP9)
Wikileaks: Meh... fuck you.
O'bumbles: Who me? I was just playing some b-ball.
Hillary: Oh, what the fuck was I thinking. Get me the fuck outa here.
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 04, 2010 09:35 AM (P3N7K)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 09:40 AM (X/VwQ)
Well, Newsweek's cover managed to hide Obama's failure to assess the simplest matter correctly to maintain balanced governance. Obama couldn't dance Gollywogg's Cakewalk to either entertain, or to save a soul or simply a buck that stopped at his desk. True to MSM form, Newsweek monumentalizes this fraud into all the fabricated PC grandeur, from Obama stepping on everyone's food during the Cakewalk because it's beneath his EO dignity to be a responsible chief executive, into managing the universe as "The Lord who dances on the dais".
Posted by: maverick muse at December 04, 2010 09:40 AM (H+LJc)
Don't you ever look up?
I have never seen anything like that and I live a couple of miles away from Logan.
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 12:54 PM (uFokq)
I see it all the time, eastbound planes in the evening.
Posted by: Unclefacts, Confuse A Cat, Ltd. at December 04, 2010 09:49 AM (eCAn3)
I believe that's Kali (Kalima).
Posted by: ¤§EZB§¤ at December 04, 2010 09:55 AM (fa9yq)
Anything else I can bitch about?? I'll keep you posted.
*shifts over to let CoolCzech lay his achy head on her lap. Smooths hair. Gives a very chaste kiss to his temple. Starts a little nape of the neck massage...*
"Damn, dude! What the hell is your skull made of? Gold? Lead? WTF! I'd just as soon have a pile of bowling balls cutting off my circulation. Get off of me!"
Cool as you are, you just ain't worth Gangrene.
Posted by: Deety soothes a cranky Czech at December 04, 2010 09:56 AM (Jb3+B)
CC, I wouldn't trust any woman that is willing to let you lay your head on her lap. It's a trap!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 04, 2010 10:03 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 01:23 PM (e4sSD)
That's because she will take any kind of power that is offered to her. Like her husband, the easier the better. There are feminists who said she effectively kissed the White House goodbye when she married him. He was certainly a catch, but he was all about himself. Turns out they were made for each other.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2010 10:10 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: eman at December 04, 2010 10:13 AM (p3xb1)
Ooooh, thanks for puttin' us some knowledge!
We're not supposed to ask questions, I guess. Just bow to the incredible expertise that is you.
Well, fuck that. Osama Obama and his co-conspirators got away with that for a long time, but it won't work much longer. The people who say "STFU, because, well, just because" are the most ignorant, and not worth listening to.
Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 04, 2010 10:19 AM (Ulu3i)
She had more power as a NY Senator and she couldn't recognize that by pulling her into his WH she was de-nutted. He was not her husband so she wasn't going to be able to control him like she did Bill.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 10:25 AM (e4sSD)
Posted by: SurferDoc at December 04, 2010 10:25 AM (X/VwQ)
Senate Republicans Reject Obama's Plan to Extend Tax Cuts for Middle Class Only
Vote was 53 to 36 so some Dems voted against it as well. Why is it that one Republican can cross the aisle and it is bipartisan but several Dems do it and it is not.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 10:30 AM (e4sSD)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at December 04, 2010 10:37 AM (SJ6/3)
Senate Republicans Reject Obama's Plan to Extend Tax Cuts for Middle Class Only
Vote was 53 to 36 so some Dems voted against it as well. Why is it that one Republican can cross the aisle and it is bipartisan but several Dems do it and it is not.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 02:30 PM (e4sSD)
Well that's always the standard view. There were quite a few occasions of Pelosi bitching about how Republicans weren't willing to be bipartisan about some legislation that wasn't getting passed. Basically ignoring that she shouldn't need any Republicans to pass any legislation if the Democrats were all on board with it.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2010 10:40 AM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 10:41 AM (e4sSD)
Yeah I know. I just keep wondering how Fox ever got to be called "conservative" or even their own "fair and balanced"
They are not either. They just aren't as full blown communist as the others and they only keep Obama's tool in their mouth until it gets soft as opposed to a full bore BJ.
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 10:43 AM (e4sSD)
I vote Hillary. He knew in July that worse could come, and it was all about our doings abroad. He knew it was coming to her, but he did nothing. Now she's hung out to dry, stammering out apologies. If she had those much-vaunted balls, she would dump the whole thing in his lap and resign -- in protest, not disgrace.
Posted by: arhooley, conflicted Californian at December 04, 2010 10:44 AM (2Jcl/)
Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2010 10:45 AM (e4sSD)
Posted by: Soothsayer for RNC Chair at December 04, 2010 12:14 PM (uFokq)
Nah, just when I point it out.
Posted by: Unclefacts, Confuse A Cat, Ltd. at December 04, 2010 10:46 AM (eCAn3)
Posted by: arhooley, conflicted Californian at December 04, 2010 10:52 AM (2Jcl/)
Posted by: clambo at December 04, 2010 11:24 AM (s7I0E)
We MUST pass the START treaty so we can see what's in it.
Posted by: Pelosi Reed at December 04, 2010 01:34 PM (EhYdw)
Posted by: Top men. Top. Men. at December 04, 2010 01:35 PM (LFAxM)
248 That was an airliner.
Going straight up.
From the surface of the sea.
****
You need to click on this link, skippy.
(hat tip to Waterhouse at 18
Posted by: effinayright at December 04, 2010 01:43 PM (UIqfz)
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Posted by: Jerry at December 04, 2010 02:52 PM (7Ahkq)
For many years, I have thought the best way to do things would be to attach another page to the 1040, allowing each taxpayer to apportion his/her taxes to various programs. Hey, it's my money and why the hell shouldn't I say what they spend it on? That would be real democracy in action and, win-win, the people who don't pay any taxes would not have a say.
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old news, but Susan Collins has announced she will vote to end DADT...
once all the Bush tax cuts have been made permanent first.
I think the RINOs now realized their power lies in actually standing firm to get what the party wants first, and with the clock ticking it buys them political cover when they make shit votes next year.
It is funny to watch the Democrats twist in the wind- you can really tell they don't have the typical NE Republican votes for what they want and it is freaking them out (ex- Bob Menendez yesterday)
Posted by: CAC at December 04, 2010 06:09 AM (lV4Fs)