1 Money bomb! Today Scott Brown hopes to raise $500,000. I contributed $59.41

2 1 Money bomb!

Today Scott Brown hopes to raise $500,000.

I contributed $59.41

Posted by: fluffy, non Lace Wigs spammer at January 11, 2010 09:15 AM (4Kl5M)

Awesome.

3 Obama disinterested? Disengaged because he too intellectual? Nope. It's simply: The Passion Of The Pickle-Yeller

4

The man on the radio predicted temps a few degrees above freezing for later in the week. First time since New Year's. I plan to go sunbathing.

5 Today Scott Brown hopes to raise $500,000.

I contributed $59.41

Posted by: fluffy, non Lace Wigs spammer at January 11, 2010 09:15 AM (4Kl5M)

I think he has a chance because he's light skinned and doesn't use that negro dialect.

6 natural fake --
I never go off site, but I did for that and it was a very good post.
pickle-yeller, I like it.

7 U.S. Postponed the Great Depression, Not Prevented It, Says Trend Forecaster Celente
Ouch...hope this leaves a nice, fat mark on Obama's face.

8 I hate everything.

9 "I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch."

Yeah, I miss that guy too.  Anyone notice how Republican presidents don't stay in the spotlight and explain how their Democrat predecessors are fucking up all the time?  It's so nice to know at least one party has class. 

GO SCOTT BROWN!

10

8 I hate everything.

I hate everything with the sort of congenial dislike two worthy adversaries feel for each other -- they're each devoted to the other's destruction, but they each know they'll miss the other if he were gone. It's kind of a chess-with-Death thing, except it's slapjack instead of chess and we take turns bringing the cheez-its.

11 I hate everything.

Me too.  Probably for different reasons.

12 congenial dislike two worthy adversaries feel for each other

Who is the "worthy adversary"?  All I see are cheats, liars, and assholes.

13 I hate everything.

Me too. Well, except Life cereal.

14 Uh oh..  Heather.  You sound like you are talking about guys.

We're not all bad sweetheart.  Trust me.

15 Blago - the gift that keeps on giving.

16

I hate everything with the sort of congenial dislike two worthy adversaries feel for each other -- they're each devoted to the other's destruction, but they each know they'll miss the other if he were gone...        Posted by: Joanna at January 11, 2010 09:39 AM (gJQTg)

I've never missed an adversary (worthy or otherwise), and in fact relish the fact that they're gone (in those happy times when I'm finally rid of one).  I long for a nice, quiet, adversary-free existence.  I look forward to the day I can say "good riddance" regarding the current "pickle yeller" in the White House.

17 Is Obama still president?

18 Just contributed to Scott Brown again.  Over $139,000 raised already today!

19 >I hate everything.

Hey- that's my line. Plus, you forgot "with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns."

20

It worked so well the first time at keeping unemployment under 8%

President Barack Obama plans more economic stimulus measures to bring down the high U.S. unemployment rate, while cutting the bulging budget is a longer-term challenge, a top White House economic aide said on Sunday.

"We are ... talking about actions right now to jump-start job creation," White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer said on CNN's "State of the Union. "You don't get your budget deficit under control at a 10 percent unemployment rate," she saidÂ…Congress is considering proposals to help labor markets that include a $155 billion jobs package that has already cleared the House of Representatives.

 Romer said more spending will be necessary to sustain a fragile recovery. "The sense that we need to do more is overwhelming," she said on ABC-TV's "This Week."

It's Stimulus 2: Electric Boogaloo!

21

3 -- That's probably the best description I've heard to date.

Hate is not quite the word I'd use: for the sake of clarity let's just say I hate very few (just as I love very few), despise a goodly portion, disdain an even larger number, and am indifferent to the majority.

22 Thank you all for the clever and insightful embellishment.

23 Well, there was a headline on yahoo's main page about the Fed. Res. not wanting to release the "secrets" on the bailout, but it's not there now.

24

"U.S. unemployment rate, while cutting the bulging budget is a longer-term challenge, a top White House economic aide said on Sunday."

I think "long term challenge" means "the next President's job" because this jackass is going to increase it as much as he can.   

25

The all-electric car took three quick strikes over the week end, with the kind of ClimateGate precision that would make you think of managed news, if anyone in news had that kind of power. [InstaWho?]

First an investment analyst broke the [verifiable] rumor that there's no way in hell that high-capacity batteries can be affordable before 2020.

Just a day later, the warm fuzzy myth of excess electrical grid capacity at night went up in a shower of PCB sparks. The transformers need all night to cool off. Who knew?

This morning, the Detroit Auto Show unwittingly discovered that battery packs touted as 100 milers can do maybe 2/3 of that in cold weather. Which we have.

'Like my first wife,' it comes in threes. Can't wait to see how the twoo believers at AutoBlogGreen deal with this. I'm betting on the capacitors. Which are safe.

Evo Morales, the Lithium King, was unavailable for comment.

26

12 congenial dislike two worthy adversaries feel for each other

Who is the "worthy adversary"?  All I see are cheats, liars, and assholes.

I was thinking of existence in general. Specifics are another story.

27 Tax, spend, regulate, stangulate = the new stimulus.

28 Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid Introduces Resolution Celebrating Diversity in Sensitivity Standards http://www.optoons.blogspot.com/

29 GO SCOTT BROWN!

Posted by: MelodicMetal at January 11, 2010 09:38 AM (x4S2a)

Scott Brown:  Keeping America Safe

http://tinyurl.com/ybnpzm2

30 19 >I hate everything.

Hey- that's my line. Plus, you forgot "with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns."

The white hot intensity of a thousand suns has been drained out of my body by the cruelty of life. I now hate everything with the disdain of a French waiter who has to deal with foreigners who cannot understand why, oh why, everyone doesn't speak their native tongue.

31

Just a day later, the warm fuzzy myth of excess electrical grid capacity at night went up in a shower of PCB sparks. The transformers need all night to cool off. Who knew? -

Hmmm.  They're still using PCB's in transformers.  I thought those had been phased out of existance?  I must have checked damn near every transformer in the state of In. back in the mid 80'^s for those critters.

 

 

32 GO SCOTT BROWN! Posted by: MelodicMetal at January 11, 2010 09:38 AM (x4S2a) Off to work the phones. See you folks on the ONT.

33 First an investment analyst broke the [verifiable] rumor that there's no way in hell that high-capacity batteries can be affordable before 2020.

But don't worry, the Governor of Michigan is making sure that our entire economy is geared to making batteries no one can afford! That and paying the film industry to come here and give workers low paying temp jobs.

This morning, the Detroit Auto Show unwittingly discovered that battery packs touted as 100 milers can do maybe 2/3 of that in cold weather. Which we have.

I occasionally work at a tv station (aka libtard central) and a few years ago they brought in a brand new Chevy Cobalt (I think). It was brand spanking new, from the auto show, and sat in the studio for maybe two days. After that, it would not start. It would not work. And this was before Gubbermint Motors.

34
Been reading Under The Dome by Stephen king. His leftist crap is almost ruining the book for me. To be honest, I probably wouldn't even have picked up the damned thing if it hadn't been given to me as a Christmas present.

He's taken plenty of shots at Bush and Cheney and our military so far, put Obama on a pedestal and predictably the evil white racist conservative religious folks are the bad guys in it and dysfunctional drug addicted rubes.

I had to look at the cover a few times just to make sure Chuckles Johnson didnt pen it.

35 Should have been transformers (?)    Sorry

36

Look.  I'm treading lightly here and need some advice (since it's kind of hard to understand the new racism rules, and all.) 

Since it's obviously ok for Reid to call Barry negro, is it ok for others to call him the magic negro?  I'm only asking because it reminds me of a Peter, Paul and Mary song. 

I did so like Peter, Paul and Mary.  Didn't you?

37 “The relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden grew so strained during the 2008 campaign, according to a new book, that the two rarely spoke and aides not only kept Biden off internal conference calls but refused to even tell him they existed.
Â…
“[W]hen Biden, at an October fund-raiser in Seattle, famously predicted that Obama would be tested with an international crisis, the then-Illinois senator had had enough.“
‘How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?’ he demanded of his advisers on a conference call, a moment at which most people on the call said the candidate was as angry as they had ever heard him.
Â…
“Speaking to his own staff, Biden insisted that it hadn’t really been a gaffe. And feeling a bit defensive, he invoked one of the worst memories of Obama’s primary campaign.“
‘I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t say anything about bitter people who cling to their guns and religion,’ Biden cracked, the authors paraphrase.”

Guess Joe missed the memo to "Go Rouge"

38 GO SCOTT BROWN!
Posted by: MelodicMetal at January 11, 2010 09:38 AM (x4S2a)

Off to work the phones. See you folks on the ONT.

Posted by: fluffy, phone bank caller at January 11, 2010 10:00 AM (4Kl5M)

Thanks fluffy, phone bank caller extraordinaire!

39 32 Anyone else see Inglorious Basterds?  I can't  decide if I liked or disliked this movie overall.  Good and bad parts seemed equal. "   I saw it Saturday. I thought it was pretty sweet.

40 My local talk radio is going ballistic over the per cent of US debt to the GNP.  It is currently at 84%, according to the radio guy.

I do not know if this figure is only government debt or includes private debt.  I can't find an article,  but if someone finds it it would be good to post a link here.

41 Since it's obviously ok for Reid to call Barry negro, is it ok for others to call him the magic negro?  I'm only asking because it reminds me of a Peter, Paul and Mary song.

You can only call Barry a negro, or any variation thereof, if you are a card carrying Democrat who has either contributed $500,000 to the party or stolen $500,000 from the American taxpayer. Did you not get the memo?

42 I just saw a post over at HA that mentioned Obama care as 'slavery to the aging class' as if that were a bad thing.

43

When the hell does the Iditorod start?

Posted by: Mallamutt at January 11, 2010 10:05 AM (V9SYy)

If things keep up like they are, we'll be having sled-dog races here in the South before too long.

44

I did so like Peter, Paul and Mary.  Didn't you? -

I dig, rock n roll music I could really get it on that scene

I think, I could say somethin', if you know what I mean

But if I really say it, the radio won't play it

unless less I lay it, between the lines

45

42 My local talk radio is going ballistic over the per cent of US debt to the GNP.  It is currently at 84%, according to the radio guy.

Shouldn't be a problem.  We're still just below Greece's level and look how good they are doing.

46 Heather.  You sound like you are talking about guys.

Nyah...was talking about Barry, Holder, and those jerks in MA who refuse to seat Scott Brown if he wins.   I like men, with specific exceptions.

Poster over the fax machine by my new desk features US Embassy bombing in Kenya and USS Cole bombing.  I'm going to pissed off every Monday morning until the end of this project.

47 Blazer

Chester's Mills is based on Bridgton, Maine.  I'm sure the residents there love being stereotyped by King.

48 47 - Impressive!

49 the Governor of Michigan is making sure that our entire economy is geared to making batteries no one can afford!

Did she get waivers from the enviro-whackos, or will most of the costs of manufacture come from them?  My understanding is battery manufacture generates a crapload of pollution.  Pollution pollution, not carbon dioxide.

50

the greatest, most majestic aninmal to grace this planet. -

Had a half mallamute (sp?) years ago.  Looked like a tan and white husky.  Named him sujecki, which was a mistake. As he got bigger he liked to try to cut between my legs as I was walking.  Great at pulling the little ones on a small sled when he got bigger.

51
Nyah...was talking about Barry, Holder, and those jerks in MA who refuse to seat Scott Brown if he wins.   I like men, with specific exceptions.

Poster over the fax machine by my new desk features US Embassy bombing in Kenya and USS Cole bombing.  I'm going to pissed off every Monday morning until the end of this project.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 11, 2010 10:09 AM (mR7mk)

Not sure I really want to add any more pee to your punch, but I saw a quote yesterday over at HA where Kirk basically said even if Brown gets certified he'll refuse to vacate his Senate seat until after the healthcare vote.

He said along the lines he owes it to the American people and the folks of Mass.

I have no doubt Reid will back that play as un-Constitutional as it is. Hell, that document doesnt mean diddly-squat to these people anymore.

52

When the hell does the Iditorod start?

 

WTF is an idiot rod?

53 @53 Not really.  My brain is full of what a friend of mine used to call "useless facts".  Song lyrics.  Books I read 45 years ago etc.

54 He said along the lines he owes it to the American people and the folks of Mass.

He's going to subvert the will of the people of MA because he owes that to the people of MA?

Like I said...liars, cheats, and assholes.  Probably a few other things.

55 Blazer

Chester's Mills is based on Bridgton, Maine.  I'm sure the residents there love being stereotyped by King.

Posted by: loppyd at January 11, 2010 10:09 AM (tG+m6)

Not surprisingly one of the lefty enlightened heroins of the book who also just happens to be a college professor referred to the U.S. under Bush/Cheney as "The United States Of North Korea" who also happens to drive around in a car with an "Obama 2012 Yes We Can Do It Again"

Don't get me wrong, the story or at least the sci-fi part of it makes it hard to put down, but the leftist bullshit is coming a lot more frequently now and is glaringly obvious.

56
Haha, cold snap story : some foolish company left their sprinklers on all weekend, last night when it got around 20° all that water iced up.  BADA BING half a dozen wrecks during rush hour before HPD got the road closed.  Hi-jinks and hilarity from this little ice age, I tells ya.

57 I saw Inglorious Bastards at the Movie Tavern.  Can't remember if I liked it or not.  Damn you, 32oz. Blue Moon drafts. 

58 Like I said...liars, cheats, and assholes.  Probably a few other things.
Add booze and it could be any of our family to-dos for the most part.

59

CHICAGO (CBS) ¯Deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich is apologizing for comments in a new interview, in which he claims he is "blacker" than President Barack Obama.

In the interview with Esquire Magazine, Blagojevich says: "I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little Laundromat in a black community not far from where he lived. I saw it all growing up."

He is? Well he's certainly very, very light skinned and I've never heard him use a negro dialect.

 

60 Not surprisingly one of the lefty enlightened heroins of the book who also just happens to be a college professor referred to the U.S. under Bush/Cheney as "The United States Of North Korea" who also happens to drive around in a car with an "Obama 2012 Yes We Can Do It Again"

Don't get me wrong, the story or at least the sci-fi part of it makes it hard to put down, but the leftist bullshit is coming a lot more frequently now and is glaringly obvious.

Maine has been taken over by people just like that professor character.  The last time I was in Portland it felt like Seattle.

61 ^{On the political side, the curiously named Universal Voter Registration Bill coming up later this month certainly appears to show that the governing political party intends to keep it that way, by hook or by crook, so to speak. There are elements in this legislation that smack of the Weimar Republic takeover in Germany some 80 years ago.}

That puts a whole new spin on the dimensions in play in the US."

A discussion of this is beginning on the ONT

62 Oh great. Now that disgusting POS Peter Beinhart is doing a nana nana boo boo to AQ. Way to go dickweed.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1952315,00.html

63
He said along the lines he owes it to the American people and the folks of Mass.

He's going to subvert the will of the people of MA because he owes that to the people of MA?

Like I said...liars, cheats, and assholes.  Probably a few other things.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 11, 2010 10:16 AM (mR7mk)

Oh, he also said he owed it to Ted Kennedy and his legacy to pass this most important piece of legislation this country has ever produced blah, blah, blah.

I puked a little in my mouth when I read it.

Anyway, if Coakley is Attorney General doesn't that basically mean she has both hands in the ballot box already? I mean thats like the fox keeping watch over the henhouse.

64 I love it when clients show up without an appointment.

Later.

65

1 Money bomb!

Today Scott Brown hopes to raise $500,000.

I contributed $59.41

Good work Fluffy, secret wig salesman.  I sent a $100!

66 This morning "Joe and Mika" on MSNBC had those two guys who Batchelor described last night as "solid and reputable" discussing their new "tell all book" (see Ace's posts).  Anyway, it occurred to me that the point of this book coming out now was to "get the Palin stuff out".   That dynamic duo who were her minders apparently reported to the book's authors that Palin "went into a funk and was very quiet" after the Couric interview.  They reported that they were afraid she was having some kind of a breakdown and that this would affect McCain's campaign.  Essentially Mika asked the question framing it with "Palin's mental health".  Palin ought to sue their butts.

67 Anyway, if Coakley is Attorney General doesn't that basically mean she has both hands in the ballot box already? I mean thats like the fox keeping watch over the henhouse.

Posted by: Blazer at January 11, 2010 10:25 AM (t72+4)

Before I go:

She is a hack and will use all of her hack connections to try to steal this election.  If Scott Brown wins and they try to delay I will make it my life's work to get the results certified timely.  If the election is contested I will do the same to fight for every Brown vote to count.

Now I must go deal with a client who thinks everyone in the world is to blame for her troubles other than herself. 

68 57

When the hell does the Iditorod start?

 

WTF is an idiot rod?

The little thing in my pants, you idiot.

69 a client who thinks everyone in the world is to blame for her troubles other than herself.

How'd you land the Wookiee as a client?

70

How to spot a concern troll or an eeyore. (Especially re. Palin and Coakley.)

WeÂ’d love it if you could add to this thread your own experiences with Concern Trolls and Eeyores.  Republican sites we visit are chock full of Eeyores.  ItÂ’s one of the two things we notice about Republican men in their 20s-30s:  they are the most Eeyore prone, gullible people weÂ’ve ever known.  The media says itÂ’s all over, and these Marys pack it all in, drop their pants, grab their diapers, and fudge themselves in the corner — on cue.  Ridiculous.

71

Now I must go deal with a client who thinks everyone in the world is to blame for her troubles other than herself. 

Posted by: loppyd at January 11, 2010 10:28 AM (tG+m6)

I'm going to go completely out on a limb here and say that she probably most likely is a liberal and votes blindly for anything with a (D) behind it every election ?

Amirite ?

72

 client who thinks everyone in the world is to blame for her troubles other than herself.

How'd you land the Wookiee as a client?

Nah.. that would be my sister in law.

73

My preferred sex partner with Scott Brown news-  State Police endorse Brown

74

#77

Interesting story, but a Hillary Dyke implying that Palin's men supporters are gay is a little hard to swallow.

So to speak.

75 http://tinyurl.com/yez4t4w

Sorry we ate your great-great-grandpa

76 38

Look.  I'm treading lightly here and need some advice (since it's kind of hard to understand the new racism rules, and all.) 

Since it's obviously ok for Reid to call Barry negro, is it ok for others to call him the magic negro?  I'm only asking because it reminds me of a Peter, Paul and Mary song. 

I did so like Peter, Paul and Mary.  Didn't you?

Be safe and call them Colored. The NAACP says it's ok.

77 Colored people = bad.
People of color = ok.

78 85 Colored people = bad.
People of color = ok.
osted by: the real joe at January 11, 2010 10:56 AM (SUYSs)

 Perhaps the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have not received that memo yet?

79

In the interview with Esquire Magazine, Blagojevich says: "I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little Laundromat in a black community not far from where he lived. I saw it all growing up."

Wow!  That's too funny.  What the heck?  If Bill Clinton was the first black president because his father abandoned the family and he was raised by a single mom, then why can't Blago be black with his life story?  White, it's the new black (what with spring coming and all).

80 This morning, the Detroit Auto Show unwittingly discovered that battery packs touted as 100 milers can do maybe 2/3 of that in cold weather. Which we have.


I could have told them that 20 years ago. Back in my Army days, we used to have a hell of a time running radios in Alaskan winters, even with the new Lithium batteries that were being issued back then. I'd have to keep my spare batteries under my wool shirt, tucked into my armpits.

The Army even issued an extension power cable that plugged into the battery receptacle of the radio, that allowed you to keep the battery under your shirt while running the radio in your rucksack.

81 ‘I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t say anything about bitter people who cling to their guns and religion,’ Biden cracked, the authors paraphrase.”

Thanks, Neo.  I didn't know Joe had that much wit in him!

82

It's Stimulus 2: Electric Boogaloo!

Posted by: TheQuietman at January 11, 2010 09:50 AM (1Jaio)

Staring Hulk Hogan?

83 Hey Mallamutt @43,

Is your nick derived from Malamute, then? We've got a nice Malamute ourselves, named Nellie. I'm her guy.

84

Stephen King and Christians... let's go down the list from what I remember:

-Carrie: Villain was Carrie's mom, a deranged Catholic
-Insomnia: The whole novel is about how pro-lifers plan to crash a plane into a pro-abortion rally.
-The Talisman, heartland episode: One villain was this evangelical commune
-The Gunslinger, first story: The whole village of Tull followed this itinerant preacher and Roland "had to" wipe out the whole place
-Needful Things, one of the arcs: Fundamentalist versus Catholic; both brought low. The scene wherein one of the fundamentalists masturbates with a section of the True Cross was a particular highlight.
-Children of the Corn: Heartland fundamentalists really worship Satan! Everybody knows that.
-The Mist: When stuff starts to go bad, the Christians will throw you to the monsters.

I treated some of the episodes as the self-contained short stories they, in practice, are. Stephen King isn't great at creating an Aristotelian plot; several of his novels are episodic.

Note that this list applies only to where The Fundamentalist Menace is a plot driver. It does not include casual asides. Add those and we can throw in The Dead Zone, at least.

85

Exposed!  Barry wears blackface!

Hell, he probably doesn't really even know any words in negro.

http://tinyurl.com/ya4e62y

via HotAir

86 8 I hate everything.

I'm just more comfortable when its not around.

87 Well, everything except a certain breed of dog that is, without doubt, the greatest, most majestic aninmal to grace this planet.

When the hell does the Iditorod start?

Posted by: Mallamutt at January 11, 2010 10:05 AM

uh hmm,  my mastiff.

88 Also if you notice most of Stephen Kings "heros" in the books are geeky writers with shitty lives. Kinda like him.

89 @92 - Have you read his latest, Zimriel? 

90 Hell, he probably doesn't really even know any words in negro.

I seem to recall him "throwing signs" from a Jay-Z video during the campaign.   But maybe that's more of an immaturity thing than a black thing.  "Immaturity" was my call at the time, anyway.

91 I thought he got hit be a truck and died?

92 I had a mastiff, damn thing weighed over 200 pounds and shed like no other. I opened my remote one time to change the batteries and the damn dogs hair was in it. Had to get rid of it when it bit its second person. Didn't even really bite just nipped but I couldn't risk that when the dog could literally take someones hand off if it wanted to. I swear I would give the dog a tbone steak bone after I ate it and it would sound like the dog was eating pop corn. He would literally break the bone with a bite.

93 he being Steven King

94

Hey whitey, we can call ourselves whatever the fuck we want, get it?

You honkys, and Hymie's just keep your M Fing mouths shut.

95 ATaLien: just the beginning. I figured the book would at least be a pageturner given that he wrote a lot of it before the booze and drugs started kicking in (1983). But the villain up to page 70 or so - local businessman - struck me as yet another booga-booga EVIL REPUBLICAN, of which I've seen far too much in King novels.

96 @99 He almost died.  Still amongst the living, however.

97

Oh, and megadittos, Gabe!

So not only is Washington state going broke (we may be out of money by Sept.) but there was this little gem in yesterday's paper too:  "City Won't Let You Park To Ride" by Denny Westneat.  Basically Seattle built a new light rail that opened up to much fanfare this summer.  There is absolutely no parking for anyone who uses this thing.  You need to live close enough to it and walk, and your destination needs to be close to it too.  It's been a complete joke.  So businesses that already exist near the rail line that have near empty parking lots during the weekdays began selling 30 dollar a month parking permits for all day parking (very cheap price) and were selling like hotcakes.  The best thing:  it involved no taxpayer money. The City of Seattle has ordered them to cease and desist.  The reason:  "The perverse well-meaning Seattle zoning laws to prevent the train stations from being surrounded by acres of hideous parking lots."  Similarly, a developer who has a big empty lot (construction project on hold due to the economy), wanted to have an all day parking lot on that property.  The city told him that he can only allow parking there for 4 hours a day--useless for commuters, so it sits empty.  According to Westneat, "There were only 14,399 average boardings per weekday in November--far below the 26,000 riders a day the trains are supposed to carry by the end of 2010."  He also brings up the point that the city wants to expand the rail line in parts of town that currently have "all day pay parking lots."  He questions whether the city will be sending them cease and desist letters too.  It's a great column by a guy who normally skews left.  Here's the link: 

http://tinyurl.com/ybfu6v8

98

Not a headline today, but it was yesterday in Philadelphia:  U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach has ended his campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania and instead will probably run for reelection, saving this House seat for the GOP and clearing the way for Atty. Gen. Tom Corbett to be the next Republican Governor of Pennsylvania.  Thsi article is chock full of good news about likely GOP pickups of at least 3 and possibly as many as 6 House seats in Pennsylvania.  And it included a nugget that nearly made me fall out of my chair - former Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick may run for his old seat, which is my district, PA 8.  He is a great guy and pro-life.  Lost by a few hundred votes in the anti-Bush landslide of 2006 and didn't want to run again in 2008 with Obama at the top of the ticket, but the tide has turned around here and I think he could win this seat back easily.  His replacement, Patrick Murphy, is tied up with some of Murtha's shady defense contractors and ran as a Blue Dog but voted for cap-and-trade and every other liberal bill, including the House health care bill.  I know tons of people who can't wait to throw his ass out in November.

Republicans also have a good chance of picking up Joe Sestak's open seat and knocking off Rep. Paul Kanjorski, and regaining most of not all of the 3 seats they lost elsewhere in PA in 2006 and 2008 in districts that are conservative.

99 Ballon boy's father gonna do time for the hoax. Are we cold enough to call Al Gore to the stand?

100 Oh, wait, as a "colorless person" I'm not even allowed to notice/comment, am I...shit.  I'm sorry.

101 @102 - Zim - I tried to get upset about the same shit when I read it ( I believe I was talking with someone else in a different thread about this) but, in the end, I still enjoyed the book. 

102

Hey you light skined ones know why your light skinned, right?

Read my book, The Bell Curve, it will be explaining it to you.

103 Whats wrong with surrounding ugly, noisy train stations with acres of hideous parking lots? Sounds like some parking company dollars have found their way into zoning board pockets.

104

Hate is not quite the word I'd use: for the sake of clarity let's just say I hate very few (just as I love very few), despise a goodly portion, disdain an even larger number, and am indifferent to the majority.

Posted by: unknown jane at January 11, 2010 09:50 AM (5/yRG)

In general you can make the case that conservatives like individuals and tend to dislike 'humanity' while liberals love 'humanity' but happen to hate most individual members of it.

105 Ah, shit, let's drink to something else. Let's drink to fucking. Yeah, say, "Here's to your fuck, Frank."

106

Oh and WSJ has a scathing op-ed about Obama and his lack of expertise in foreign policy.  It starts out like this:  "If the first year of President Barack Obama's foreign policy were a law firm in Charles Dickens's London, it would have a name like Bumble, Stumble, and Skid."  Then there is this awesome line:  "In at least one way, Mr. Obama resembles his predecessor:  he has enormous self-confidence.  But where George W. Bush's stemmed from moral conviction, Mr. Obama's arises from a sense of intellectual superiority."   

"Taking The Measure Of Obama's Foreign Policy" by Eliot A. Cohen.

107 58 @53 Not really.  My brain is full of what a friend of mine used to call "useless facts".  Song lyrics.  Books I read 45 years ago etc.

I call it "brain lint".

108 Shut up! It's Daddy, you shithead! Where's my bourbon? Can't you fucking remember anything?

109 effinaright - rye whiskey helps to clear those dust bunnies out.

110 Colored people = bad.
People of color = ok.

Posted by: the real joe at January 11, 2010 10:56 AM (SUYSs)

Insane people = bad

People of insanity or liberal = ok

111 NAAPoC, please. People of color does not include non white people without African heritage. We are NOT racist.

112

"Fuck you, you fucking fuck!
Let's fuck! I'll fuck anything that moves! "

- Ace, last night

113

Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2010 11:19 AM (a7KJ5)

 

Jean I honestly think these idiots who make these decisions are complete idiots!  They are very conscious of asthetics and don't want any "blight" on the landscape, yet they want to build up the density and population aound the rail line.  What these idiots can't seem to be able to see is that creating urban density results in urban blight.  It's unavoidable.  They want their cake and eat it too.  Plus they are stupid greenbats who would consider their lives a success if they could rid the entire populace (except themselves) evil cars.

114 If I get a tan can I be considered colored?

115

#117

Rye?

Nah. Mt Gay Rum and a Quaalude.  That's clean dust out for sure.

Wake me up in 2012.

116 Wondering how my Boer friends born in South Africa should fill out their census forms and student loan applications?

117

I thought it would be obvious what my comments were meant to say: that people preferred light-skinned Negroes because light-skinned Negroes are scientifically proven to be smarter than dark-skinned Negroes, based upon the scientifically-proven fact that whites are smarter than Negroes.

However, a normal person does need roller skates, or perhaps a bicycle, to run as fast as a Negro.  And dark-skinned Negroes run faster than light-skinned Negroes.  So they have their uses.

See, it all makes perfect sense, at least to men, who are scientifically proven to be three times as smart as women.

118 Some idiot local news person referred to the panty-bomber as a Nigerian African-American.

119 122 If I get a tan can I be considered colored?     Only if it's sprayed on.

120 When a small man casts a long shadow, you know that the sun is setting.

121 #92  I treated some of the episodes as the self-contained short stories they, in practice, are. Stephen King isn't great at creating an Aristotelian plot; several of his novels are episodic.

Note that this list applies only to where The Fundamentalist Menace is a plot driver. It does not include casual asides. Add those and we can throw in The Dead Zone, at least.

Let's not forget that in the Shawshank Redemption, the corrupt prison warden was a Bible-thumper.  While the "anti-fundy" streak in many of King's books is miles wide, there are a few King books that don't treat religious people as complete garbage (and I think they're worthwhile reads).  I'm thinking of "The Stand" and "Desperation" as examples. 

122 Could any investment moron give me his/her two cents on this?  If other countries are dumping the dollar and every financial web site says the collapse of our currency is inevitable, doesn't it make sense to liquidate mutual funds (for retirement) now and pay off a house -- esp. if we only have a few years left on the mortgage?

123

Heh! Heh!  Teh Harry Reid story gets even more hillarious!  From Hotair headlines:

The authors’ note at the beginning of Game Change, the book about Campaign 2008 by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, states clearly that any comments that appear “within quotation marks” come from “the speaker himself, someone who was present and heard the remark, contemporaneous notes, or transcripts.”

The quote is within quotation marks. From page 36, about Reid:

He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” as he later put it privately.

ReidÂ’s office confirms that Reid himself was the source of the anecdote to the reporters. His office declined to elaborate. But it looks as if Reid used the language to one of the reporters in some way or other.

The authors’ note at the beginning of Game Change, the book about Campaign 2008 by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, states clearly that any comments that appear “within quotation marks” come from “the speaker himself, someone who was present and heard the remark, contemporaneous notes, or transcripts.”

The quote is within quotation marks. From page 36, about Reid:

He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” as he later put it privately.

ReidÂ’s office confirms that Reid himself was the source of the anecdote to the reporters. His office declined to elaborate. But it looks as if Reid used the language to one of the reporters in some way or other.

124 Mallamutt -- an Army buddy of my husband's used to have a huge ol' honkin Malamute.  His name was Bullwinkle (I have no idea why) ...he used to like riding in the truck -- perched on the front dashboard.  Nice dog (a bit hairy for my tastes); pain in the butt carting him around when I was his "deployment babysitter" (no officer, that is not a dead wolf on my dash; no officer, I honestly don't think I can shift him off of there; don't worry officer, I'm just taking him down the block for his regular vet appointment; no officer, I will never ever let him ride on the dashboard again -- yes, it is very dangerous).

125

So, runningrn...

So, runingrn...

Heh, we all do it.

126

And Truman @22, you're welcome.

127

The UK may be the first country that suffers serious political backlash over it's govt's blind adherence to AGW alarmism.

Food prices heading higher becuz of cold.  Energy (for heating homes) running short.  The MET has missed (biased?) three straight summer and winter forecasts.

And the (cooling) info was there for all, who would see:  http://tiny.cc/PCXiF

128

From HA: However, should a TSA nominee really argue that global warming deserves the same amount of attention and prioritization as the war on terror? Even if we weren’t having a record “cold snap” this winter, the notion that terrorism poses the same or lesser danger than AGW will strike most Americans as ludicrous. The only reason Southers sees for not granting AGW the same priority as terrorism is that a nation that doesn’t feel secure won’t take anything else seriously. That’s a point Southers should have considered before making that foolish statement.

This is the idiot the current administration wants to run the TSA and ensure our safety? Where do they keep finding these asshats?

129 Asshats are everywhere in liberal land.  Nature of the beast.

130 MDr VB1.0 CS1st : if David Cameron doesn't pull his head out of his arse very soon, he's looking to bleed support to the BNP.

131

I just thought I'd add this for the sake of all their detractors, talking shit last week.

How 'Bout Them Cowboys???

132

Let's not forget that in the Shawshank Redemption, the corrupt prison warden was a Bible-thumper.  While the "anti-fundy" streak in many of King's books is miles wide, there are a few King books that don't treat religious people as complete garbage (and I think they're worthwhile reads).  I'm thinking of "The Stand" and "Desperation" as examples. 

Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at January 11, 2010 11:35 AM (9hSKh)

So far the bad guys and good guys in Kings latest novel are pretty stereo-typical.

Bad Guys:

Military
Cops
Republicans
Religious people
Farmers, rural folks
People who voted for Bush

Good Guys:

Democrats
Conscientious objectors
New Age religious types
Townspeople
Liberal Academia types
People who voted for Obama

The bad guys all drive Hummers or muscle cars. The good guys all drive small fuel efficient vehicles like Prius's.

I've been reading King for over 25 years and I can't say that I have ever seen such lefty slant and biasedness in one of his books as deep as this before. Don't get me wrong, I know the guys a lefty and all, but c'mon, at least try to conceal it a little bit, its almost to the point its ridiculous in all its caricaturisation here.

133 I am not an explosives expert, but I am a technician and the US Army did teach me some stuff about blowing things up. I also worked as a PI in the US and internationally for many years. I know a few things about people and explosives. The Register article is solid. It is human nature that has kept us as safe as we've been.

134

Bumble, Stumble, and Skid

Bumble, Stumble, Skid and Marx. FIFTWSJ.

135

And not just the current weather hurting Labor, MDr VB1.0 CS1st, there's this via Tim Blair yesterday.

Now, almost a generation later, we face another election in which the main parties are united in a single masochistic view: that the nation must cut its carbon emissions by 80% — this is what all but five MPs voted for in the Climate Change Act — to save not just ourselves but also the entire planet from global warming. For this to happen — to meet the terms of the act, I mean, not to “save the world” — the typical British family will have to pay thousands of pounds a year more in bills, since the cost of renewable energy is so much higher than that of oil, gas and coal.

136 "130 Could any investment moron give me his/her two cents on this?  If other countries are dumping the dollar and every financial web site says the collapse of our currency is inevitable, doesn't it make sense to liquidate mutual funds (for retirement) now and pay off a house -- esp. if we only have a few years left on the mortgage?

Posted by: RushBabe at January 11, 2010 11:39 AM (LKkE "

You need a good investment advisor.  Someone who works independently, in other words, not for one of the investment banks,    Places like clusterstock and dealbreaker have guys and gals who worked on WS and might be more apt to answer your question.   It is a question which if could be answered so easily could make some people billions and make other people lose billions if they are on the wrong side of the trade.   But you need someone who really knows their stuff and will work with you.  They might be expensive but they probably will be worth every penny.  Oh, also the Urban Survival guy takes emails and answers them.  No investment person worth their salt would answer your question posted on a website.  It is not only unethical but immoral.

137 Hmm.  The State Department has gone dark on the question of "does the DoS ever grant visas to known terrorists to permit them entry into the United States?"

138 The article on Kennedy saying that we intentionally let in terrorists states that he's a State Department official, not Rep Kennedy.

139 Sarah Palin to Fox?

How about them apples.?

140 Yes, I miss him too.