1

Totally unbiased CNN confidently calls the race: http://tinyurl.com/ydfcuta

FOR BROWN!

2 CNN just had “Breaking News” from a military source that says:

“Mass casualty event with 30 Americans”.

They are trying to get more info.

3 ROTHENBERG CALLS RACE FOR BROWN:

While special elections often come down to turnout – and they therefore are more difficult to predict than normal elections – the combination of public and private survey research and anecdotal information now strongly suggests that Republican Scott Brown will defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in tomorrow’s race to fill the remainder of the late-Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat.

Brown is running extremely well with Independents in the Bay State, and unless Democratic turnout exceeds everyoneÂ’s expectations, Brown is headed for a comfortable win. Move from Toss-Up to Lean Takeover.

4 headlin?

5 Here's Rothenberg Link:

http://tinyurl.com/yb4odz7

6 CNN's "mass casualty" report is from Haiti.

7

Yeah, you know the Oakland Raiders are going to the Superbowl?

How?  They bought tickets.

8 Gabe-

So, what's the word on the street in Oakland?  Are people freaking out about Massachusett(e)s?

9 Redmassgroup.com has lots of goodies--like Dem mayors endorsing Brown and this:

"Massachusetts Teachers Association, the holiday and a bitter winter storm have kept the crowds away from a phone bank for Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. As of 10:20 this morning, not a single volunteer had yet arrived for the 10am phone bank."

Good thing OFA made 90K calls!!  I call BS.

10 "6 CNN's "mass casualty" report is from Haiti." Yes. Apparently 30 Americans injured in Port au Prince. No other information right now.

11 Lovely San Francisco weather today, eh, Gabe?

12

Top headlines of the day from the MSM:

 

Haiti still a basket case; US and Bush to blame, but mainly Bush!

 

Election in MA vindicates Obama centrist policies and transparency in correcting the horrible mistakes of 8 years of the Bush regime. But if Coakley loses it is due to bad campaigning and numerous gaffes.

 

Evil Rush Limbaugh calls for U.S. to abandon Haiti and use money to provide corporate charity to evil fat cat CEOs.

 

Polls show Health Care Bill is fully supported by most Americans who demand that congress and the administration do what ever it takes to get it passed, regardless of evil Republican obstructionism in the Senate.

 

On the lighter side; doesnÂ’t the golden globe awards show how far Hollywood has come in providing responsible entertainment for Americans?

13 7 I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Wait, time to be serious.

14

Any news doin?

Well, I've got a doctor appointment tomorrow, and I'm rightly pissed off about it.

15

Yeah, you know the Oakland Raiders are going to the Superbowl?

How?  They bought tickets.

I lol'd.  I did. 

16 Is it possible that the Dems have been stealing these close elections and that Brown has blown their cover?

17 You mean if I just ride this bus to New Hampshire and vote a few times, you'll give me free ice cream?

18 I don't care how the spin it. A Brown victory is a referendum on the reign of Zero, and his undoing. And they know it.

19 Gabe, while you are in Oakland, can you take some sense into Al Davis and ask him to get a real coach and GM?  Sorry I couldn't be there.  I miss my old stomping grounds.  You should go by Kips Pizza in Berkeley.  Pretty good place.

20 Feeling real good about past NRSC contributions right now:

^{According to ad-buy information provided to the Fix, there are 13 -- yes, 13 -- groups paying for ads in the race's final days, with Democratic groups outspending Republican-aligned by more than $1 million. Coakley's ad advantage comes from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is set to spend $1.4 million on ads in the final week of the race -- a staggering sum given the overwhelming Democratic tilt of the Bay State, and yet another sign of how worried the party is. (The National Republican Senatorial Committee is not running ads in the state.)}

21 I like how you've left off the 'e' at the end of 'headline' as a sly reference to the 'Massachusettes' debacle.  That's the kind of subtle, sophisticated humor that keeps me coming back to AOSHQ.

22
18 I don't care how the spin it. A Brown victory is a referendum on the reign of Zero, and his undoing. And they know it.

Yep.... only question is how does he react.  Does he move to the middle like the Clintons did.....  or double down on his ideology and become even more entrenched.


Im betting on doubling down.

23

Keep your head down.

 

24

All night kast night on the top of the hour newsbreaks, ABC Radio News was saying that Rush Limbaugh legitimately-- as in, not in jest-- told people not to give money to Haiti because our taxes paid for it already.

I can't believe they are actually this humorless.  It's gotta be a knowing lie.

25 HEADLINES:

Senator elect, Maybelle Coakley rescues eleventy Haitians in daring solo relief effort.

New Orleans Saints scored again, weary score keeper tallying final - stay tuned for score.

Tiger Woods impregnates Chinese Panda - Finally, no more Panda stories!

Hangover wins award for best movie ever!

26 Gabe,did you know that driving around Mass. in a p/u truck was something to be riduculed while flying around the country on AF1 on the peoples dime was A-OK?    

27 Hey, did you hear about those new corduroy pillows?

They're making headlines!

Hahahahahahaahaaha.

28 of course you know who's to blame

29 Brown by 5?  I don't know if that's enough to overcome the Democrat vote fraud machine.

30 Everyone going to the polls tomorrow in MA should wear brown clothing.

31 Hey Gabe, how was the drive up?

32 I'm not getting a sig on my pager...

33

And, general question:  In your opinion, what constitutes a "landslide"?

IMO, it means beating the polling number by 5 or more.

34

22, 18,

He will double down

35

Yeah, you know the Oakland Raiders are going to the Superbowl?

How?  They bought tickets.

Damn. We can even get tickets.

36 Have you posted Ace's bail yet?

37 Gee, I wonder how much of the "democrat base" will be voting for Brown. It'll be interesting to see the vote numbers.

38 You mean if I just ride this bus to New Hampshire and vote a few times, you'll give me free ice cream?

Posted by: Naive College Student at January 18, 2010 11:54 AM (BFqyO)

And chicks.  There will be lots of chicks.

And yes, The One will be doubling down.  The guy is that stupid.

39 24

All night kast night on the top of the hour newsbreaks, ABC Radio News was saying that Rush Limbaugh legitimately-- as in, not in jest-- told people not to give money to Haiti because our taxes paid for it already.

I can't believe they are actually this humorless.  It's gotta be a knowing lie.

I guess the SRM just needs to vent, given the predicted outcome of the Coakley/Brown matchup.  It isn't if the SRM is above smearing Limbaugh...

40 Gabe,did you know that driving around Mass. in a p/u truck was something to be riduculed while flying around the country on AF1 on the peoples dime was A-OK?  


Best part is, Brown drives a Government Motors truck.

Way to sell your product, Barry.

41 Not sure if this is anywhere up thread, but I heard on the radio that that little girl pulled out of the rubble on CNN has died.  Poor little thing.  God bless her.

42 34

22, 18,

He will double down

Yes.

43

30 Everyone going to the polls tomorrow in MA should wear brown clothing.

SEE? SEE?! Republican voters in Massachusetts are BROWN SHIRTS!!

44

If I were in Massachusetts, though, I would be wearing a brown coat, though.

We aim to misbehave...

45 Posted by: Twinks at January 18, 2010 12:05 PM (LeFbD)

the one with the two brothers?  or the one from the other day?

46

Yeah, you know the Oakland Raiders are going to the Superbowl?

How?  They bought tickets.

True story.

I was walking in the mall with the Mrs when we see one of those kiosks in the middle selling official Ireland soccer jerseys.  I dared her to go over and ask them how the trip to South Africa this June is going to go.  She asked "so, they're going to the World Cup?"  Only if they buy tickets like me.  I then had to tell her about the Henry hand ball and how jobbed they got.

47 Put this on the previous thread, but couldn't help repeating:

Wouldn't it be delicious irony if the deciding factor in voters' ability to get to the polls tomorrow was ownership of a 4wd SUV/Pickup?

48 42 34

22, 18,

He will double down

Yes.

And then, in the end, there will be only chaos.

49

Gabe, er, would you slip over to one of those weed joints and bring the morons back a big bag or two?

I got a headache and I think I am nauseous, yeah that's it.

Bring several.

50 UPDATE CNN: 3 Americans wounded. Not the 30 originally reported.

51 About that meetup in the Bay Area.. May I make a suggestion?

Great Food, Great Bar, Big Screen TV's, Lots of Room, Ample Parking, easy to find.

One of my favorite hangouts when I lived down there.

52

And then, in the end, there will be only chaos.

I'll take chaos over the directed insanity we are getting now.

53 Ooooo  Rush is really mad, really mad.

54 Tomorrow's vote will be "bar with a big screen TV" kinda fun here in my Conservative Bastion.

55 curious, it was the one that was described as wearing glasses.  She wasn't the one with the brothers.  Here's the link.

http://tinyurl.com/ybv4s3w

56
Why is Avi Nelson on instead of Rush?

57 41 That's horribly sad, especially since it looked like she was going to make it.

58
oh, the local guys are pre-empting Rush

59 Howdy-howdy from Oakland.


Who did you piss off?

60 16 Is it possible that the Dems have been stealing these close elections and that Brown has blown their cover?

How can you steal something that's already yours?

61 Rush is on here.

Anyone just see the CNN crawl a US service person is missing?

62 "USAF Major Ken Bourland missing in Haiti" -  CNN crawl

63

RUSH:  I'm gonna respond to this absolute BS that I said don't donate.  But, you know, I do not make this program about me.  I try very hard not to make this program about me.  So if I have time to deal with that, I will.  I'm confident everybody in this audience knows what I said and what I didn't say.  Even the Washington Post says without the context, "What Limbaugh said is horrible."

All I said was, if you paid your income taxes, that's how you donate to government for aid, and sure enough, here comes Obama announcing $100 million from the government for aid to Haiti, fine and dandy.  But, you paid for it, it's your taxes. 

All I said was if you're going to donate do it outside the government, pure and simple.  I was attacked, folks, because I am the leading voice of mainstream conservative views, not for any other reason.  And this outrage is totally feigned, just as Tony Blankley said, all this outrage at me is totally faked up.  They know exactly what I said, and they know for a fact that I would never tell people not to donate to any charitable cause like this, so it is what it is...

So the things that end poverty are cultural, and they start bottom-up, and they're done by citizens and real people who can't take it anymore.  Throwing money at it accomplishes nothing!  It's been demonstrated all across the world, but most near to us it's been demonstrated in Haiti. 

I mention all this as a rebuttal to all of the feigned outrage at me, the lying note that I urged people not to give to charity for Haiti.  Nobody in their right mind would ever believe that about me or anybody else, for that matter.  However, I did say find some way to do it other than giving it to Obama, 'cause I know he's going to eliminate the charitable deduction. He wants to wipe out individual charitable giving.  He wants the government to be the go-to person for all charities.  That's the only reason you wipe out the deduction for charitable contributions.  

64

"I like how you've left off the 'e' at the end of 'headline' as a sly reference to the 'Massachusettes' debacle.  That's the kind of subtle, sophisticated humor that keeps me coming back to AOSHQ."

Heh.

It's loose shit, straight up.

65 Chivas!

And Brains!

66

Later all, going home early today so I can phone bank for Scott,

and YES, I will be going home in a pickup truck, ya know the kind that elitist liberals hate.

67 Rush? I'm probably going to take a lot of heat for this, but I loved Mr. Roboto.

68 What the heck is this?:
"About 30 Americans were hurt Monday during a massive relief operation in the Haitian capital in what was described as a "mass casualty event," US officials said"

69 You're all just hatin' on a white woman. This is sexism, straight up.

70

I couldn't help but notice that, in the CNN article on Brown winning the MA Senate seat, out of ALL the pictures of Brown campaigning...

...CNN picks the one associating him with the Tea Party movement.

71
okay, so WRKO (a.k.a. 'hate radio') is our big AM talk radio station up here. All of the personalities are Conservative.

But some of the shows don't get involved in politics. This weekend, Pat Whitley, the restaurant critic, instead of talking about Restaurants talked about Scott Brown!
And, the plastic surgeon who has a show on Saturday afternoon spent his show talking about health care and Scott Brown!.

Coakley has raised a lot more money and ran a lot more tv ads than Scott. But what the people on RKO are doing kinda makes up for it because the radio station has become like one long Scott Brown commercial.

72 I'm wondering at the mass casualty event in Haiti. I heard yesterday that our guys had been sent in there with UNLOADED rifles so I figured the criminals heard it too.  Our great CinC again.

73 E-mail I just received from Scott Brown for Senate.  For those of you that live in Mass.:

 Friend,

ItÂ’s the final push! We are now officially under 40 hours until the polls close, so I am going to cut right to the chase: Scott Brown will be having a huge rally in his hometown of Wrentham TONIGHT. The rally is at LucianoÂ’s at Lake Pearl. The address is 299 Creek Street, Wrentham.  The doors will open at 5 PM.

 

Please come out and see Scott Brown tonight as we send one final message to the Machine and the Washington establishment that this is the People's Seat.

-------------

There's more in the e-mail but it's full of clickable links that would prevent me from posting it on this state of the art website without standing on one leg and swinging a chicken over my head.

74 Posted by: Janeane Garofalo at January 18, 2010 12:26 PM


No Janeane, we just prefer women who don't have cockroaches crawling out of their hoo-hoo.  Just sayin'

75 I posted this above but apparently it wasn't seen by some.  CNN overreacted:

(CNN) — 12:09 p.m. Monday, January 18 — Military officials now say three Americans, not 30, were injured in an incident outside the Port-au-Prince airport. They are being treated for injuries that are not life-threatening, CNN Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence reports.

76 You know what the bad thing about three day weekends are? I end up drinking for all three of them and now have a huge hangover.

77 MSNBC wake: http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/12402

It's good to see MA people on this site, and in this thread.  Even having lived there, I am vulnerable to viewing MA the state version of San Francisco.  That's insulting, and it's not true; Cambridge and Brookline, and Newton are sort of SF, but the rest of the state isn't.  Just listen to WRKO (iTunes Radio Menu, or via their web site), and you'll know.

Re WRKO, Howie Carr is great.  I remember him teaching at BU, at the School of Public Communication back in the early 1980's.  Just a nice, down-to-earth guy. 

Can anyone recommend another radio station, a non-Boston station, to monitor MA?  Is there some little am outlet in Worcester or Springfield? 

How liberal or conservative is Western MA?

As Charles K. said on HH's show last Friday, "Isn't this a great country?!"  We ain't Europe, yet, not even close.  We aren't sheep, and really, as long as we have the Internet, and a robust talk radio world, we can avoid going down the socialist rat hole. 

There is still lots of work to do to de-Obama things, but at least there is hope now.  Even if Brown loses, Deathcare and Cap & Trade are still DEAD.  The next few weeks are going to be delicious.  DELICIOUS.

78 Haiti = Quagmire.

President Obama, bring out boys home.  It's an unwinnable whatever we are doing over there.

79

@65

As a long time listener of Rush, I understand what he's saying here.  I got it when he said it the first time.

That said, he should have let this one go without politicizing it.  I'm sure his listening audience is well aware that tax dollars were going to Haiti.  I'm equally as certain that if they wanted to contribute more they would pick a charity outside of the government hotline. In fact, he should have just given a list of charities that have a good record of getting the aid to the cause without excessive administrative costs.

I'd agree that the outrage may be feigned by the media, however, folks who hear the abridged, out of context version will react with disgust.

80

before I go, I really can't understand why these ignorant dems keep insulting Tea Party folks... there are many democrats, centerist conservative democrats, who I meet at Tea Party Events.

I see them with signs "American before Democrat" or "Registered as a Democrat, Voted as an American"

I really don't think they a clue that when they insult Tea Party events, which is a combination of so many events, there is wide range of political affiliations. 

I am no longer a registered democrat, but my friends who still are, the more they are insulted, they will be driving these independent minded lifelong democrats out of the party and convert them into registered Independents.

I do not get it, I really don't.  When I am called by the DNC still, they say "we need you donations to fight back agn those teabaggers", and I say hell yea, I am one of them.

Seriously, I do not get it one bit.

have a great afternoon everyone. Off to phone bank for Scotty! the 41th vote against the insanity comning from DC!!

81

Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left

When you get a couple of sociologists to “embrace the horror” of stereotypes, you’re half way there.

Allow me to suggest an alternative … conservatives by nature embrace the market place, while liberals don’t. Liberals seek out the “tenure protected” confines of the academic environment, while conservative seek out the “big bucks” of the market place.

Simply, those who canÂ’t Â… teach profess.

82
I just got a knock on my door.I look out the window and see a van full of people.Then I open the door and there's this "dark-skinned negro" standing there.I think we all know how scary that is.But then the guy hands me a vote for Brown flier and tells me they're going door to door in this awful weather.They were waving and honking their horn as they headed off to the next house.

It was awesome!

83 Journalice all over America get to relive their glory days of the 2008 campaign today. Slaving away for Democrats and Obama once again in true Pravda style.

Liberal Journalice are disgusting, benighted, bleeding heart, little dreamers, still believing Barak will call them back after the buggering.

84

What the fuck is a 'mass caualty event'?

 

85 @84  You're kidding?? That's incredible.  I really do have great hope for tomorrow. 

86 #35
Shitballs! I meant CAN'T.

87 Glad you made it there safely. : ) If this is where you're heading, evidently you're the eyes and ears/ no cameras or something http://preview.tinyurl.com/yejdl82

88

What the fuck is a 'mass caualty event'?

 

That is military-speak for some bad happening with multiple people hurt.

89

"I heard on the radio that that little girl pulled out of the rubble on CNN has died."

I've just been told that her final, whispered words were, "Avenge me, America!  Vote for Martha Coakley!"  And then she died.  Which wouldn't have happened if we'd already passed comprehensive healthcare reform that would have covered her, and all of her illegal-immigrant brethren.  True story.

90 "What the fuck is a 'mass caualty event'?"

Election night at Marcia's campaign HQ.

91
That is military-speak for some bad happening with multiple people hurt.

That.... or an oblique reference to Coakley's campaign......

92

"What the fuck is a 'mass caualty event'?"

They generally happen when an isolated, disenfranchised extremist exercises his right to free speech in the middle of a crowded overseas contingency operation.

Believe-you-me, they are a lot better than those mass formaility events that Barry holds at the White House every Wednesday...  True story!

93 I'd agree that the outrage may be feigned by the media, however, folks who hear the abridged, out of context version will react with disgust.

Reporting an abridged, out of context version to generate outrage is pretty disgusting, too.

94 Am I a heretic for tuning into MSNBC right now instead of listening to Rush? I already know what Rush is saying anyway, so dipping my ghost balls is more pleasing.

95

Call a cab.

They just stripped your car.

96 Barak's ROE:  Our troops to hug all looters until they see the error of their ways and unite with hopenchange to destroy capitalism everywhere.

Prayers go to everyone stuck in the Haiti mess. But mostly to our troops being sent into yet another impossible situation.

The cynical part of me thinks BeeHo brought in Bush on the relief effort just so he could blame him for everything that goes wrong.

97 Why didn't Obama send his buddy Gen Powells Colon to Haiti too.

98 86

What the fuck is a 'mass caualty event'?

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2010 12:36 PM (wy3RK)

Michael Moore just finished his 32nd chili cheesedog?

99 John Edwards better get busy channeling all these dead voters for Coakley.

100 What's the over/under on Ace rejoining moron nation today?

101

That is military-speak for some bad happening with multiple people hurt.

What, like a car accident? 

Methinks this might be a euphimism...I think the Headline -"30 Aid workers injured in rioting", might crimp their fund-raising efforts...

102 garrett 103 , 24 Hour Rule plz

103

I agree, Heather, but that's not the point.

Rush, himself, said the statement was his "media treak of the day" so I find it a little disingenous of him to get worked up about the reaction.  It's not his first rodeo.  They've been taking his stuff out of context or simply making shit up for years.  He knows this.

104

The cynical part of me thinks BeeHo brought in Bush on the relief effort just so he could blame him for everything that goes wrong.

While lurking yesterday I read that Booosh asked Bubba to ask O how the campaign in Mass. was going. LMAO, where can I find this video gem?? and does Dubya have a news letter?

     

105 24 hr rule?

106

Michael Moore just finished his 32nd chili cheesedog?

Is there a toilet that can handle the offloading or does the city have to come in and remove a manhole cover for him?

107

Grading on the curve, and with the inevitable Affirmative Action component figured in, I give Barry an A+ for cocksucking.

 

108 We don't have any actual agents per se, and they certainly wouldn't be waiting in Haiti if we did.

109

"media treak of the day"

Err...tweak.

110 Reuters says 3 Americans injured outside Port-au-Prince airport, injuries not life threatening.

111 @The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall  Yeah...mostly I'm wondering what they abridge/strip from context that we don't know about.

112

"media treak of the day"

Err...tweak.

Now that was just uncalled for.

113 Has Obama brought Billy-Jeff his coffee yet?

Do you think W asked BeeHo if he really really wanted a "war criminal" heading up his relief efforts?

Barak asking George Bush to do anything after the way he and his freak show administration have been slamming them for two years just shows the type of quasi-male Barak is.

It also shows how much class GW has by rising above it and accepting.

114 okay, so WRKO (a.k.a. 'hate radio') is our big AM talk radio station up here. All of the personalities are Conservative


Um, like "Felon Finneran"???

115

Is there a toilet that can handle the offloading ............Posted by: ErikW at January 18, 2010 12:49 PM (8oqCa)

Yep....... Detroit..

116 Maybe he could enlist General Wesley Clark to distribute cardigan sweaters.

117 Hey, in that picture of Coakley on Drudge, is she wearing one of those Sasquatch-style rib-cincher belts?

118

Taliban attack on government buildings and a marketplace in Kabul. [Caution: MSM report.]

119

"What's the over/under on Ace rejoining moron nation today?"

*gazes longingly across Ace's fuzzy body, silhouetted in the errant licks of sunlight as the curtains part in the sensuous Central American breeze...runs her fingers softly through his back-pelt*

I wouldn't waste my money on such things...

120 What the fuck is a 'mass caualty event'?

Since I work in state-level emergency management, i think I can answer this one...

Essentially, it's any kind of event (bombing, bioterrorist attack, earthquake, Godzilla attack etc.) that causes a lot of dead and wounded.  It's basically a catch-all term used for emergency planning purposes.  Federal, State, and local agency plan for "all-hazards" response rather than have disaster-specific plans (e.g. an earthquake response plan, and car bomb response plan, etc.).  It's bureaucratic horse crap, but from a technical standpoint and as a piece of jargon, it works.  Throwing it around in news stories or in press releases is more just idiocy than anything else.

121

"Michael Moore just finished his 32nd chili cheesedog?"

Someone tell my wife I loved her until the very end!

122 Nothing is called. This is the dems trying to reduce Brown voter turnout by making them think the game is over. Wake up!

123 Hey, in that picture of Coakley on Drudge, is she wearing one of those Sasquatch-style rib-cincher belts?


Nah, its too narrow for me, and I am the arbiter of modern fashion.

124 You know what the bad thing about three day weekends are? I end up drinking for all three of them and now have a huge hangover.

My advice to you, is to start resume drinking heavily.

125 Posted by: Tami at January 18, 2010 12:28 PM (VuLos)  A lot of the financial stuff I post has tons of embedded links.  I actually take them away into the word before and then retype them so I can post the stuff without the links interfering.  If it is a link that people would want (usually in the financial stuff it is just stuff to cover their butts, but, if it is, I erase the embeded URL and insert a new tinyurl and then post.  That seems to work and keep people happy.

126 Anyone know anything about the missing navy guy?  (in Haiti)  since it turns out the thirty person "mass casualty event" was off by 27.

127
hahahaha HOLY SHIT you won't believe what I just heard on our local moonbat radio station 1510AM!!!

The Coakley ad said TWICE to not forget to vote for Martha Coakley on November 19th!

Wish I could've recorded it but it's live radio.

128 So goodbye to your 401k's and IRA's.  Seems Treasury wants to FORCE you to buy government bonds with your retirement money.
http://2ap5.sl.pt

129
Gabe why would you drive all the way to the Bay Area to stay in Oakland?

130 Posted by: CDR M at January 18, 2010 01:07 PM (F9LAD)

Well, if the chinese aren't buying them anymore guess we have to...
Do we have time to move any retirement money and if you move it will they go after savings?

131

Thanks Hoss -

 I figured as much.  It just seems that these words, like 'hard pivot', enter the vernacular at targeted times.  Usually fed from an entitiy that would rather banty definitive terms than offensive facts.

It seems like neutral (at best, more than likely) negative information.  A place-holder, to speak, for news that might be less than palatable to the broadcasters/disseminators. 

It makes for a perfect spot on the timeline that can be identified, but not defined.  In the future, they can respond to inquiries by pointing to the statement, and saying, see - we were on it.

132

"Wish I could've recorded it but it's live radio."

If I had a dollar for each time I've wished for "radio DVR" (DAR, I guess?) in my car...

133 If the Democrats don't cram health care down our throats soon, they are going to pay a big price at the polls in November.

I need a job as a Democrat Consultant.

134 Rush is saying "the founding fathers built in checks and balances" and it occurred to me that that can be taken mathematically as "checks" and "balances"....it was funny...

better have another cup of coffee....

135 seattle 129 , 19 November is apparently the election day in the parallel-universe state of Massachusettes.

136 The Coakley ad said TWICE to not forget to vote for Martha Coakley on November 19th!

Wish I could've recorded it but it's live radio.

They're getting ready for the runoff between Coakley and the no-relation Kennedy.

137

102 What's the over/under on Ace rejoining moron nation today?

It's hard to find a bail bondsman on a long weekend, especially MLK.  There outta here.

138 After 40 years of a socialist national government, how is it possible that Haiti is still a basket case?

139 4 headlin?

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2010 11:46 AM (Xsi7M)

That's just Malor, tryin' out the local dialect, 'cause he wants to (see, Dingy Harry, Obama's not the only one who can 'talk that jive talk'.)  Hey Gabe, hope you're wearing kevlar.....for God's sake, don't go 'wandering' around in Oakland; go over to SF and walk around...and stay away from Richmond, too.

140 Where is ace et al?   thought he is probably kidnapped by some uber hot blonde in some cabin in the mountains being exhausted by her.   Saying "blog, what blog".

141
Gotta be someone from the Brown camp recording these ads, right? What a hoot.

oh, and Ed cocksucker Schultz is making a big deal of Scott's Cosmo photoshoot.

142
now the shithead from Huffpo is saying Obama will approach Olympia Snowe for her vote if Scott wins.

143

Ewoks?

Can they speak in a negro dialect?  They are certainly dark enough.

144

Well Morons;

Its up to 65°F here now. I can't stand it have to go hit the porch rocker.

145 Able bodied Haitians rioting and injuring aid workers instead of helping pass out food and water -does not surprise me after clips I heard of them whining about where is the help. I am SO glad I donated more $ to Brown than to relief efforts. I rather think the only truly effective thing I could do is adopt a Haitian orphan but I refuse to basically purchase a child by paying $$$ in fees and I doubt if a social worker would give me the gold star to do it anyway.

146 Garrett-It's not so much trying not to be offensive than trying to cover as many bases as possible.  A meteor strike and a smallpox outbreak would both kill a metric assload of people, and despite some significant differences, you don't really need to have two different types of emergency management structures to deal with them, just interchangeable components (such as a mass casualty plan and, for instance, an isolation and quarantine plan).

I will say that now that I'm angling for another job that will get me out of the field of emergency management (at least directly), I'm toying with the idea of sneaking a "Zombie Management Standard Operating Guideline" into our files before I bug out.

147 CNN is all haiti all the time.  But they aren't being so complimentary about our response.

148 142 Where is ace et al?   thought he is probably kidnapped by some uber hot blonde in some cabin in the mountains being exhausted by her.   Saying "blog, what blog".

More likely, INTERPOL rounded them up last night and they are en route to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against Science.

149 Speaking of body hair, yikes!

150 Just a head's up for anyone who wants to have some fun. It looks like our old friend Palin Steele is posting in the comments over at HA now. A few of the other commenters recognized dummy and have started harassing him.

151

144
now the shithead from Huffpo is saying Obama will approach Olympia Snowe for her vote if Scott wins.

Da Huh.

She's not that stupid.  When MA goes Rep, her days as a swish RINO will have stopped.  She switches at her own peril and she know it.  She'll hold.

152
Ed cocksucker Schultz is great for the GOP. This idiot keeps saying the vast majority supports the public option even in Nebraska!

153 I can't stand it have to go hit the porch rocker

Tell Juan Williams I said hi.

154 wow, anderson is right on that looting in real time.  Only you can't really hear him reporting you just see the same tape loop of the looting.

155

#152

Which thread at HA? I might want some of that!

156

"I'm toying with the idea of sneaking a "Zombie Management Standard Operating Guideline" into our files before I bug out."

Don't forget to include Plan B:  Release of The Krakken.

157 That Ali is smart a a whip he is "Anderson, what is the situation for people who have money who can afford to buy things".   No that sure is an inciting question.

158
Ed cocksucker Schultz is great for the GOP. This idiot keeps saying the vast majority supports the public option even in Nebraska!


I used to think they lied on stuff like that to sway the "undecideds".

I beginning to believe they are in full denial and have lost all semblance of auto analysis and truly believe the spewage emanating from their very own lips.

159 You know, Office 2010 is pretty good.  I've got the Pro Beta right now.  I like the changes to Outlook so far except for not having the send/receive button on the main tool bar.

160

Perhaps even a Plan C:  In the event of someone setting us up the bomb, ensure the immediate launch of every Zig.  Doing so will guarantee maximum potential for great justice.  You know what you doing.

161
holy shit I didn't even think of this!

It's wicked slushy up here. A real big mess. I should be out driving around looking for Coakley people standing on the corners and splashing them.

162 Seattle - make a big Thermos of coffee, and take some disposable cups with you for the Brown supporters.

163 I'm a little surprised that on the day before one of the biggest and most fascinating senate elections in history, all bloggers on this site seem to be MIA.  Most other right leaning blogs are busy. 

Is it me?  Am I just being pissy?  Why yes, yes, it could be.

164 Domincan news reported the mass casualty event as injuries from a helicopter crash.

165 165 I'm a little surprised that on the day before one of the biggest and most fascinating senate elections in history, all bloggers on this site seem to be MIA.


It's a federal holiday, which translates into drinkin' and hobo huntin' day in moron nation.

166

Tami,

My guess?  They're all driving to MA to be there for the ass whopping!  It's snowing and the drive must suck. Ewoks can't get on trains, so Ace must be in a car.  Do NYers know how to drive?  Barely.

Pray Ace makes it up there.  Mostly pray for the other drivers.  Ewok behind the wheel?  What could go wrong?

 

167

Domincan news reported the mass casualty event as injuries from a helicopter crash.

Now that is informative.

168 154
Ed cocksucker Schultz is great for the GOP. This idiot keeps saying the vast majority supports the public option even in Nebraska!
Posted by: Chief Seattle

Ed is right. The vast majority of idiot cocksuckers like him do support the public option even in Nebraska. In fact I would say that all supporters of the public option might lean toward idiot cocksucker.

169 re: #8, "So, what's the word on the street in Oakland? Are people freaking out about Massachusett(e)s?" Impossible to tell. The newspapers are geared for idiots -- SF Chron says that "Both sides look to turn out voters in senate race" (really? realllly?) but gives no hint as to who might be favored at this point; all other sf bay area media equally useless. So as if anyone here knew where Mass. was, or could care about it in any way, there is a complete news blackout about the revolution going on there. And when Brown wins tomorrow, it'll be Bush's fault. The only hint at all is in the comments to the newspapers online edition articles. These, like the one's in the Boston Globe's online edition, are going about 10:1 or better for Brown. Doesn't matter: in Cali it's the urban areas against the rest of the state. Outside the bay area and LA, Cali is an agricultural state, and largely conservative. The cities are filled with the product of the public schools -- stupid and indoctrinated. If there were a proposition on the ballot to get the US out of north america, it'd pass by 90% or more. Biggest issue here is that the state is a single party state, and the stupid party never puts up a real candidate against the like of Babsy Boxer or Turkey Neck Feinstein. So to answer the q, the word on the street in Oaktown is the weed is dynamite, best weed in the galaxy. The word from the rest of the state is "give us a Scott Brown, too. Shit, give us anyone, living or dead and we'd vote for him instead of Boxer."

170 Is it me?  Am I just being pissy?  Why yes, yes, it could be.

Posted by: Tami at January 18, 2010 01:30 PM (VuLos)

It does seem more than a little remiss of them. 

171
Ewoks can't get on trains, so Ace must be in a car.

If he would just get in his ewok-carrier they wouldn't have this problem.

172

Just looked at weather for Boston tomorrow.  Rain/snow mix. 

This is good news, the dark and light skinned Negroes don't go out in bad weather, nor do the old union guys.

Hey, we got the pick up trucks!

I don't think MA has early voting, so they have to haul them to the polls.  Good luck with that in the rain and snow.

God works in funny ways!

173 Is America ready to elect Shannon Sharpe? 

174 I myself am making a little hobo soup...but I am around and peeking at the liberal sites.. I love the smell of sweat waifing from my computer.

175
You know, Office 2010 is pretty good.

You have inspired me to hit Technet and download it, sir.

176 Rick Sanchez has a corner office?

177 #132  curious.. The answer is NO! I closed my company IRA account in April of 2009.  I received a certified letter from the IRS stating that I cannot draw any money out of my 401K. It was reinstated for the year of 2010.  Everyone in the CPA business was mistified. We now have the answer.

178
Hahaaaaa, Coakley's volunteer phone bank (from jammiewearingfool).

179

http://tinyurl.com/ykd3dgc The Obama Hawaiian Presidential Palace or Why the Obamas are the Biggest Phonies to Walk This Earth

Barack Obama told us to spread the wealth. Michelle Obama told us to give up a piece of our pie. They can live like this because they belong to a privileged class: Democrats.

I found this last night on You Tube. I shortened the video a little and added the beginning and end. The real estate agent's comments are comedy gold.

180 wow, so people with their IRA's in the stock market will be screwed.

181

"What's the over/under on Ace rejoining moron nation today?"

Kind of remiss of him, sorta like Michael Steele ignoring the Republican base.

OTOH, I read somewhere that he broke up with his girlfriend. If so: Dude, the country comes before personal hurt unless your kid died.

182

@ 174 - This is good news, the dark and light skinned Negroes don't go out in bad weather

WTF?  Do you really want to go there?

183 OTOOH, maybe he's in Haiti.

184 "Press Release Source: Taco Bell Corp. On Monday January 18, 2010, 1:06 am EST IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glen W. Bell, Jr., 86, founder of the Taco Bell restaurant chain, passed away last evening in his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Bell was born September 3, 1923 in Lynwood, Calif."

185

# 181... I added the music: the Soviet National Anthem to the video.

186 Kemp, there was early voting, put the only poll I saw on it had Brown up by a ton.

187 How long must Ace and the other mods be MIA before we can make with the sockpuppet hijinx?

188 I have called six key MA'ians.  My prediction:  Brown by 17 percent.

189 More ball dipping goodness.  Brown is looking to win in a rout.

190

After 40 years of a socialist national government, how is it possible that Haiti is still a basket case?

Well, before that predatory voodoo dictatorships looted whatever little was in the national treasury. The people have been oppressed, uneducated and starving since the days of Toussaint L'Ouverture. It wasn't so great in the slave days under the French before him. This is not a heritage that produces good results. They burnt off the tree cover for fuel, then the tropical rains washed away the topsoil and leeched out the nutrients so it's hard to raise crops. No natural resources. I hate to be an eeyore about this but a lot of bright, serious, dedicated people and organizations have worked on the problem for years and poured endless money into it to no avail. I doubt that even a socialist government could make things worse. Of course good ideas are always welcome, but tell me what hasn't already been tried. Somehow humanity survives in spite of it all, but it's a short, brutal existence. I was there when Papa Doc was elected and many times in past years. What's your solution?

191 It's wicked slushy up here. A real big mess. I should be out driving around looking for Coakley people standing on the corners and splashing them.

Okay, I'll admit, I like that idea.  Mean yet hilarious!

192 193 What she said!!

193

DJIA down ~100.  Anyone got a reason why?

194

The One and the First One spent the morning working at a homeless shelter this morning.

I wonder if The First One wore her fancy sneakers again?

195
How can the Dow be down if the markets are closed?

196 DJIA down ~100.  Anyone got a reason why?

Markets are closed today for MLK.

197 Must be Friday's numbers.

198 200th!

199 191 More ball dipping goodness.  Brown is looking to win in a rout.

Woo hoo!!

200

What the fuck is a 'mass caualty event'?

I'm pretty sure that that refers to fission.

f'n physics jokes, nobody get them.

201 I wonder if The First One wore her fancy sneakers again?

Probably her French designer stompy boots this time.

202 155 I can't stand it have to go hit the porch rocker

Tell Juan Williams I said hi.

Posted by: Warren Ballantine at January 18, 2010 01:18 PM (qyKoF

 

Now thats some funny shit right there

 

203 Howdy-howdy from Oakland.

You're still alive after arriving there???

204

#184

Probably not, but it was true in the South. Turnout in the South before early voting was completely different than today.  Black voting would be reduced about 10-15% if it rained on election day, just FACTS.  Now with early voting, all Black votes are done BEFORE the election with a systematic plan.  Some precincts vote over 90%! 

Since MA doesn't have early voting, I suspect you will see a reduction in turn out with unmotivated voters.  Down here they paid $10 a vote, that works.  $10 in Boston won't get a lot of folks out in the snow. 

It's not right, but remember the Blacks in Philly screaming about Obama not giving out "walk around money"?

Walk around money is cash for a vote, usually given to a Black preacher, who "helps out".

Too much knowledge?

205 Anyone know anything about the missing navy guy?  (in Haiti)

He was staying in a hotel that collapsed in the quake: he had e-mailed his wife from his room less than 10 minutes before the quake hit.  Not much mystery as to his fate, unfortunately.

206

#188

Are you sure you're not thinking of absentee voting?  If they have early voting and the party didn't drag all the black votes to the polls, then the party is simply arrogant and thought there was no need to.

Another dumb mistake. 

207 Be still, my aching balls ... I cannot freakin' wait to dip them in the Dems' tears when we take The Kennedy Seat ™ away and stop the HCR bill.

208 Kemp, I think you're right, now that I think about it further.  I'm only sure that the article said they expected the already-voted ballots to be more for Coakley since they were locked in before the polls showed movement, so the pro-Brown response in that poll was a surprise.

209

Truly delish. 

http://tinyurl.com/yco7yo9

210

A Rutgers University graduate student from China, Haisong Jiang, 28, was charged last week with trespassing in the Jan. 3 breach at the Newark airport. Flights were grounded for hours and passengers were re-screened while air safety officials searched for a man who had walked through the exit of a security checkpoint. Jiang's arraignment is set for Jan. 28 in Newark. A friend, Ning Huang, said he's known Jiang for years and Jiang is "a very good person" who didn't realize the ramifications of his actions.

If ANYONE understands repercussions for deliberately trespassing through a door marked RESTRICTED, it is a bilingual 28 year old Ivy League grad student from China, the repressive government that has no problem executing people for disobedience or corruption.  He reads English fluently, and this wasn't his first flight into the USA. 

But, he's SO SPECIAL, just kiss Haisong Jiang's ass and assume the position. Laws never apply against foreigners in the USA, whether here legally or not. In Obamaland, laws (legitimate or unconstitutional) only apply against conservative American citizens.

211

"Markets are closed today for MLK."

I'd figure that would've made things more static...?

212 The political tide is turning here as well. Our most liberal congressman in our most liberal district, Vic Snyder, has decided to not run for re-election to "spend more time with his family."  The media has eaten it up with a spoon defending him with "well, he does have 4 small children, so it's understandable."  Of course, the polls showing him 15 points down to his Republican challenger probably influenced his decision.

213 Happiness is Oakland...
in my rear-view mirror.

(I was born there so I have every right to say that.)

214

A little underwhelmed by the video of Tucker protesting the word "teabagging".

Juvinal fuckers who think they're clever for having a graphic putdown that's obscure enough that they can get away with using it in polite company.  Sneaky sneaky hur hur.  Best answer in the comments:  If it's ok to call conservatives teabaggers, then it's ok to call liberals cocksuckers.

215 This is one for the sidebar:

Blu-Ray phaser

216

Just for starters, Ace, how about some info on .......

A. The Google/China thing

B. The real reason why Michael Steele is being excommunicated from the RNC

C. Cap 'n Trade  <(That's the biggie that you're neglecting)

217 Cinci@216:
Call the teabag-shouters Rusty Trombonists, Salad Tossers, Cakeboys, Gloryholers, Rope Smokers, Shirt Lifters or Dirty Sanchezers. Cocksucker won't get through most censorship filters.

218 Trip back from Tahoe was a grind, slushy and sometimes icy, a scattering of wrecks, including apparently some Kenworths that decided to do some freestyle and wiped out.

Berkeley would have been a bit far in any case. 

Next time.

219 http://bit.ly/4RFtrG

Dear Andrew,

Your desperation is so incredibly delicious. So. Fucking. Delicious.

I am gorging myself upon it like a dog at a slaughterhouse.

Thank you.

Love,
Brewdog

220 God, I just want to use Andrew Sullivan's tears to water down my cheap bourbon.

There's a reason why his "blog" doesn't take comments, and this is it.

221

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