1

Re side bar: BOLO: EZRA KLEIN, WANTED FOR QUESTIONING IN CONNECTION WITH SERIAL CHICKEN-FUCKING CRIME SPREE

It is hard to believe that some of these press idiots are still pushing the Dems to go full bore ahead with their stupid healthscam.  He calls the loss of MA to the Republicans the “bunny” from Monty Python.

 

Perhaps he should remember that there is another “bunny” out there in that is a little more contemporaneous. That bunny is called bun-bun and Ezra Klein may as well be reclassified as a telemarketer.

2 First!

3

Ok, 3rd.

4

Live coverage bar from FoxÂ’s web site:

 

Secretary of State Clinton Talks About Internet Freedom

 

LOL, I guess that means Bambi and his minions are about to nationalize the internet AFTER they gave it to the U.N.

5 O/T:
Scott Baio gets death threats for posting jokes about Michelle O-normous and gets slammed for posting his "republican" views.

http://tinyurl.com/yhw92ej

He just jumped onto the badass list. Bob Oblaw Law Blog.

6 How many different talking points are there about the election? I can't keep track. It meant nothing, it meant something, but not what you think...

7

A good summation of NASA, GISS, and NOAA skewing data through the deletion of inconvenient weather station thermometers, especially the Canaadian Arctic ones.

8 MacGruber, I could not get that link to work.

9
Day 302 in the 'Michael Steele is MIA' tragedy.

Don't worry, Mike, we'll find you..someday.

10 You Tube -- "America! Duh Yeah!" (wait for the end): tinyurl.com/yklp6j2

11 I'm starting to wonder if the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers is going to just outright quit some day in the next year or so. Maybe it's finally dawning on him that he has zero qualifications for the job he holds. Of course that brings us President Biden. Wow, were fucked.

12 Here's the Baio story. I hope.

13 Can't wait to see how the plane landing in Philly is going to play out.

14 Today boys and girls Glenn Beck has his serious hat on.  He is playing a beatles song, over and over.

15 http://tinyurl.com/ye5ksxq
Menopausal Woman Mustang Crash


Some funny stuff, check out the bumpersticker at 1:49, SFW

16

Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Five of the U.S. historians whose insights President Barack Obama sought at a dinner last summer give him grades averaging a B-plus for his first year in office if his push for health-care legislation succeeds.

Making the judgments were Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robert Dallek, H. W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley and David Kennedy, who were among nine historians at the June 30 White House meal.

The ultimate assessment of ObamaÂ’s first year hinges on the fate of his bid to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, said Brands, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

If the measure passes, “then the main thing that he aimed for this year was a success,” said Brands. “If it falls apart, he’s a loser.”

 

I thought that Barry already had a solid B+ and healthcare gets him an A-

17

And it's at mypetjawa.mu.nu.

 

18 Capitalism in action over Brown win.

19

Mr. Brown comes to Washington.

20 Sorry but I will not assume the Healthcare bill is dead until Scott "John McClane" Brown drops it out of the 99th floor of Nakatomi Towers and then blows its brains out when it hits the bottom.

21

Exterminate! Exterminate! 

22

What brains, Mr Pink? (Unless Brown is armed with a pea-shooter to give the coup de grâce.)

23 It's hilarious to hear people from both sides calling Brown sexist.  The guy grew up with a (from that SEALs course vid, it seems) tough wifee and two daughters.  If anything, I feel a little sorry for the guy on that score.

24

Brown live on FNC.

25 Tom Bevan over at the RCP blog at Time Magazine.

http://is.gd/6JYQP

Put all of these things together and it certainly seems that the lesson the White House appears to have taken away from Tuesday night is that voters are not upset with Obama's policies, they are upset with the slow 'pace of change' coming out of Washington and the fact that those policies (like the stimulus, for example) have not manifested themselves in a positive way in people's everyday lives. Ergo, the best thing the White House can do in the aftermath of Tuesday is to continue to move forward as fast as possible with its agenda - including passing health care - and do a better job of communicating the benefits of that agenda to the public.

The problem, obviously, is that the real message from Tuesday night is almost exactly the opposite: the man who ran explicitly to provide the 41st vote to stop the jamming through of health care and to be "an independent voice" won by five points in one of the most reliably blue states in the nation against a woman who was 100% behind Barack Obama's agenda.

26

Well maybe he could just light the bill on fire on the floor of the Senate while yelling "Yippee-Ki-Yay Mother Fucker."

And yes I googled the spelling of Yippee-Ki-Yay

27

Full page ad in this morning's WSJ from a "broad and diverse group" calling for parties "to unite behind bi-partisan, national energy and climate legislation."

All the usual watermelon NGO's, plus Campbell's Soup, GE, Siemens, Toyota, BASF ("We don't make the gas--we make it poison"), GM, duPont, John Deere (I'm crying), Chrysler, Ford, Alcoa, Dow, Shell, Whirlpool...just everybody. Everybody they could get to.

Not one corporate businessman will stand up on his hind legs and scratch back. Might be bad for the legislative environment. There is no such thing as a corporate ally. Were I a boycottin' man, I'd be selling everything as we speak.

It's like two pages out of Atlas Shrugged.  

28

With a massive history of success under his belt, the fearless leader embarks on yet another courageous odessey.  What could possibly go wrong:

http://tinyurl.com/yd8n4yc

 

29

Brown emphasizing delegating health care decisions to the states.

I like, I like!

30
Barney Frank received a call from Obama and Nancy yesterday. They told him he better get back on board the health care scam train - now.  or else.  So what if less than 33% of the American people want it.  The democrats want it!  and that's what counts.  We all work for the magnificent king Obama.

31

Brown's going back home to watch his daughter's basketball game.

Sexist!

32

31

You will like until your federal taxes go to bailout California, Hawaii, New York, and New Jersey.

33

Full page ad in this morning's WSJ from a "broad and diverse group" calling for parties "to unite behind bi-partisan, national energy and climate legislation."

Yes, I could unite behind that if the legislation went like this:

Energy - drill everywhere, drill now and eliminate EPA interference with building refinaries.

Climate: Yes, there's weather, works fine, l;ast a long time, leave it the fk alone.

Of course that is not what all these robber barron of the 21st century want. What they want is new laws to make them even richer and kill small buisiness competition.

The railroad barrons of the 19th century had nothing on these guys.

34

You will like until your federal taxes go to bailout California, Hawaii, New York, and New Jersey.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 21, 2010 10:11 AM (SqAkN)

--Ugh, don't give me a bad taste.  Let's make sure Congress avoids that.  Maybe by the time states do consider something like MA (although I doubt anyone is in the mood for that) they will have straightened up.  CA should be banned from thinking about that --We'll take over their debt only if we get to take over their statehouse.

35 You will like until your federal taxes go to bailout California, Hawaii, New York, and New Jersey.

Hey!  Moody's says we're #2 on that list after Caul-ee-forn-ya!

36 10 MacGruber, I could not get that link to work.

http://tinyurl.com/yhw92ej

Here we go...

37 Some people aren't sitting around enjoying the Massachusetts euphoria. From today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "Blanche, meet Scott."

38 Dammit, here's the link. http://twitpic.com/z1zsh

39

All the usual watermelon NGO's, plus Campbell's Soup, GE, Siemens, Toyota, BASF ("We don't make the gas--we make it poison"), GM, duPont, John Deere (I'm crying), Chrysler, Ford, Alcoa, Dow, Shell, Whirlpool...just everybody. Everybody they could get to.

Not one corporate businessman will stand up on his hind legs and scratch back. Might be bad for the legislative environment. There is no such thing as a corporate ally. Were I a boycottin' man, I'd be selling everything as we speak.

It's like two pages out of Atlas Shrugged.  

Posted by: comatus at January 21, 2010 10:08 AM (/VEEI)

I thought that all big corporations are evil, right wing, racist exploiters of Gaia?

40

I do agree with the sentiment though. Let the states that want to elect socialist dipsticks promising to give everyone free stuff do all the stupid crap they wanna do. Point at them and laugh as your state sucks up their jobs and the people that flee wanting to keep their own money, work hard, and have learned not to vote for the same jackasses. How about a state to state amendment, probably starting in Texas, that claims if you immigrate from states that are bankrupt, ie California, you never have the right to vote for any state office?

41 Uh oh, Brown has already met with McCain!

42 SCOTUS overturns McCain Feingold!
and to think it is the dirtbags at citizens united, we all know the full acronym right, ugh, who made it possible

maybe bankstas will get  a CLUE, Obama is NOT their 'friend;

he is tossing them HARD udna da bus today, he took Volcker out of mothballs to prop up next to him as his cred...

43
SCOTUS overturns McCain Feingold!

uh-whaaaaaaat?

fo real

44 #44 YEAH BABY!!!  More ball dipping!!  Sheesh, my balls are going to be chaffed.

45

I thought Obama overturned McCain-Feingold by taking all of those illegal donations?

46

Three step wealth plan if they are soo stupid as to KOFTC: 

Step 1.) Estabish Intrade account

Step 2.) In all races big or small buy R

Step 3.) Profit!

 

(since we use it so much here at AoSHQ, KOFTC = keep on f... that chicken...)

47
Obama goes to New Jersey.  The democrat loses.

Obama goes to Virginia.  The democrat loses.

Obama goes to Massachusetts.  The democrat loses.


Everybody!...

He tried,  to revive,  the campaign,  but it died!

He tried,  to revive,  the campaign,  but it died!

He tried,  to revive,  the campaign,  but it died!

48 Zero is going to Nevada next month to campaign for Harry Reid.  More, please.

49 McCain/Feingold story

Don't think it's a 100% win, though.

50 sock...

51
He tried,  to revive,  the campaign,  but it died!

hmmm, this reminds me of Afroman's song, Because I Got High

brb

52 gabe - regarding the  SCOTUS decision on CFR and MC/FG what does that do when it comes to things like robo calls, during a campaign etc.  Some states, I think prohibit them given MC/FG especially within a certain time frame, does this do away with that?

53

“It is irrelevant whether Wilder’s witnesses might prove Wilders’ observations to be correct”, the ‘Openbaar Ministerie’ stated, “what’s relevant is that his observations are illegal”.

Are they really that stupid?

54
observations have been criminalized by the Dutch?

holy shit

55 observations have been criminalized by the Dutch?

holy shit

More than that, apparently they've outlawed simple truth.

PC over reality.

56 http://tinyurl.com/5sxgg2 -- SCOTUSBlog and coverage of Supremes ruling on McCain-Feingold. I am not sure what it means, but the KoS kids are seeing how many sleeping pills thay have left after Tuesday night so it must be good.

57 Stevens wrote a 90 page dissent. Good luck with that Gabe...and thanks.
I'll wait for the movie.

58

58

Those little dipshits already chucked any principles out the window. They do not care that the bill violated the Constitution or Free Speech, they just cared it hurt Republicans at election time.

59 I'm so disgusted with all the dems backpeddling today, god I hate them all, don't let it be forgotten when nov comes around.

60 "Breaking: SCOTUS Expands Free Speech in Politics By Liberalizing Campaign Finance Rules"

61 Here is teh one's new bus!!!!! They can party thier ass off while running over people now.  http://tinyurl.com/yhqmuzc

62
Obama says:

"We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don't then our budgets are going to blow up. And we know that small businesses are going to need help,"

So------ if the government doesn't come to the rescue, our budgets are going to blow up?
The is nonsense on stilts.  No-one in the MSM or anywhere is refuting Obama's bullcrap.

63 Ask Jimmy P, can they get rid of Christina Romer too?

64

Well maybe he could just light the bill on fire on the floor of the Senate while yelling "Yippee-Ki-Yay Mother Fucker."

And yes I googled the spelling of Yippee-Ki-Yay

A republican wins in Mass: Now I have a machine gun

65

59 Stevens wrote a 90 page dissent.

I can sum it up for you without reading it.

"Laws should favor Democrats. This one doesn't so it is unConstitutional."

The other 89 pages will be filled up with him describing how he likes to fart on the way up to the SC bench and cropdust the other 8 judges.

66 Justice Stevens needed 90 pages to dissent.
If it took that many words, you know he had nothing, was grasping for any rationale.

67

Mclame-Findsumgold struck down almost completely now.

 

Ruling Here

 

They have left only the disclosure parts.  They have been whittling away at this law for a long time. If I remember correctly the only way this got by BushÂ’s veto pen is that he thought it would be struck down. Stupid him eh.

 

H/T SCOTUS Blog and above

 

68 So------ if the government doesn't come to the rescue, our budgets are going to blow up?

They could address the myriad ways that government is already involved and the increases in cost that inflicts on all of us.  But no, less power for and involvement of government is off the table, I'm afraid.

69

"Laws should favor Democrats. This one doesn't so it is unConstitutional."

Dammit, that should be reversed. This one favored them so it must be Constitutional. I blame lack of coffee.

70
the real corporatists:

Democrats

"Nearly as shaken by the Massachusetts vote were health care provider groups that have supported the Democratic effort, such as drug makers, hospitals and doctors.

While few were making public statements, industry groups that stood to gain millions of newly insured customers were worried that such potential gains were in jeopardy, according to lobbyists speaking on condition of anonymity to describe confidential conversations."

71

Note that there was a LOT of disention on this one, even among the liberals. They were concurring and dissenting in part all over the place. But it looks like most of them, including the liberals, do not like this law (and never had).

This is flaming skull stuff here.

 

72 Just saw Scottie the Hottie and horseface on Fox.  There were a few times when JK was speaking that SB had a look on his face like "what a pompous @SS this guy is!"  That was my perception, anyway, because that's what I think, too. 

73

"Note that there was a LOT of disention on this one, even among the liberals."

News to me.

74 Of course, the "moderate" and "centrist" wise Latina woman turns out to be a Lib activist after all. Color me shocked.

75
Democrats make their living deceiving the American people about how a free market economic system works.
(To Democrats a free economic system doesn't work - it's evil and must be destroyed and replaced by the all knowing fist of government)
  ....all while pocketing millions for lobbyists.

76 the Beowulf factor

by J.R.Dunn over at AT.

77 Stevens didn't read the article from the ONT on good writing.

78

"Breaking: SCOTUS Expands Free Speech in Politics By Liberalizing Campaign Finance Rules"

ACORN throws a parade downtown.

79 Bobby Jindal won't get the credit, but his campaigns for public office have been self reporting donations to his campaigns within 48 hours of processing the donations.  This voluntary method was a great source of information for a candidate to show their donors to everyone if they wish to look it up.

This voluntary system is a model for all candidates except those that wish to hide their funding behind reporting rules set by the FEC.

SCOTUS is now agreeing that disclosure is the top priority.  I favor unlimited contributions, but want to require 48 hour disclosure on the Internet.

80

In honor of Ace providing me with an outlet to keep my sanity ^{(and since the limerick thread for the haiku-challenged after the Brown win never materialized)} I offer my thanks:

There once was a blooger named Ace

Who gave internet Morons a space.

They talked boobies and booze, kittehs and shoes

And kept up a smart, witty pace!

 

 

81

"He is the master of a party of thieves, loons, and hustlers. A party that has tossed away its mandate in less than a year's time, a party with no Plan B, with no ideas and no useful tradition, a party that feeds off fantasy, with nothing to serve it but the husk of an ideology dead for generations. They are easy targets, from Obama on down, and there is no excuse for holding back.  Now let us savor the best thing in life, to crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of their women Matthews and Oblermann!"*

J.R. Dunn, The End of the Obama Mystique, at The American Thinker

* last sentence slightly edited for clarity.

82 Now, can we have a case which will bar George Soros from influencing elections and economies? 

83 Sunspot count = 0, BTW. Global warming.

84

News to me.

From the ruling:

Reversed in part, affirmed in part, and remanded.

KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and SCALIA and ALITO, JJ., joined, in which THOMAS, J., joined as to all but Part IV, and in which STEVENS, GINSBURG, BREYER, and SO-TOMAYOR, JJ., joined as to Part IV. ROBERTS, C. J., filed a concurring opinion, in which ALITO, J., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which ALITO, J., joined, and in which THOMAS, J., joined in part. STEVENS, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part,in which GINSBURG, BREYER, and SOTOMAYOR, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

85

That Michelle photo scares the shit out of me, even.

86 There once was a blogger named Ace
Who gave internet Morons a space.
They talked boobies and booze, kittehs and shoes
And kept up a smart, witty pace!

Fantastic!

87

89 - Thanks.  I try to do my part for the MoroNation.

87 -- Thanks, Vic.  Clear as mud now.

88

Pudding won't relieve

Pain and discomfort of my

Painful rectal itch

89 As for Stevens, let's hope he stays around at least long enough for Palin to be elected.

90

91 -- Eeeewwwwww.

Palin is going to be on Beck in a couple minutes.

91

87 -- Thanks, Vic.  Clear as mud now.

That post was in relation to the disagreements as well as agreements. You actually have to read the ruling. It is long and torturous.

I am sure though that Voluch will have an analysis though before this evening.

92 Favorite Obamaturism: "The same anger that swept Brown into office is what got me elected"
 if he  had done a lot of what he had campaigned on, he wouldn't be polling >40%
solid B+

93 Bob Oblaw Law Blog.

Jokes usually get stale for me quickly (I know, so what am I hanging around Ace's so much?), but "Bob Loblaw" from Arrested Development will never ever ever be not funny.

94

Have we discussed how stupid it is to make fun of someone's pick-up truck? Remember the commercials that compared the pick-up to apple pie? Doesn't everyone at some level want a truck? Everytime you want to move something, don't you wish you had a truck and then think about who, among your friends, usually the most macho and useful, has a truck and would help you? Doesn't the mere idea of sneering at a truck annoy you? Didn't Obama looking down his nose at the truck remind you that he is an elitist urban foreigner who has never had to do anything for himself? Isn't the SUV craze just a response to everyone's desire for a truck but with enough seating for a family?

95

Is it wrong that as soon as I got on the blog this morning, I went right to the bobsledding wardrobe malfunction link in the overnight thread?

 

Does that make me a bad person?

96 Dagny @ 97  ----   Yes.

97

Sorry, RushBabe.  But I've tried witch hazel, scalpicin, hydrogen peroxide, and GoldBond (Yowza!).  At least I don't have Alzheimers. 

We can thank today's market freefall on Goldman Sachs...their profits were far too conspicuous to escape the unblinking eye.  Lets see, in the 90s you had massive surges in the market based upon the expectation of massive future profits in Boobies.com;.  Now, materialized profits invite government scrutiny; I guess we're all shareholders now. 

 

98 I know you guys don't like Sarah Palin but wow, everytime I hear her she makes so much sense.  Was busy with a "crisis" here so had to half listen but I did catch the "we want to limit government" thoughts.  So true, so true, there is too much government intrusion in our lives and now they are intruding in a big way into our business, our lifeblood, our capitalism. 

99 Ho.  Ho.  Ho.

100 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 21, 2010 11:24 AM (DPM1U)
No one believed me when I said to short them so I didn't even short them myself.  Ugh I hate when I don't trust myself.

101 Just now on Fox, Nancy says dems don't have the votes to pass the Senate's HC bill! 

102

Re Ezra Klein's latest, I have no bloody idea what the Vorpal Bunny has to do with the Massachusetts race.

Who is this little weasel, and whom did he blow to get a salary for that nonsense?

103 81 "Breaking: SCOTUS Expands Free Speech in Politics By Liberalizing Campaign Finance Rules"

Yes,

But, look at who's doing all the whining... Chuckie Schumer, for one.

104 Hey.. I know what let's do.

Beings the banks paid back the TARP funds, with interest, let's shake 'em down for even more.

105

55  “It is irrelevant whether WilderÂ’s witnesses might prove WildersÂ’ observations to be correct”, the ‘Openbaar MinisterieÂ’ stated, “whatÂ’s relevant is that his observations are illegal”.

Wow.

106

Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Five of the U.S. historians whose insights President Barack Obama sought at a dinner last summer give him grades averaging a B-plus for his first year in office if his push for health-care legislation succeeds. Making the judgments were Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robert Dallek, H. W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley and David Kennedy

Goodwin got busted for plagiarism in 2002. A little googling turns up that the other four are hacks who've made a career out of peddling Whig History for our political class. Remember those names and never, ever cite them in footnotes unless you're debunking them.

107

From TV Newser:

Fox News has announced that Megyn Kelly will anchor her own new show at 1pm ET. The two-hour news program will premiere February 1st and will take the place of "The Live Desk." It is yet to be named. (Might I suggest: Teh Megyn Kelly Kicks Arse?)

 

108

My tiny url has just been rejected for being too long.

Let's try this again.

http://tinyurl.com/ygbcaue

109 @ 101 - BFM, I had the same problem about six months ago. I tried everything, like you, and I sure as hell wasn't going to the Dr. So, long, gross, embarrassing story short... get Prep H Anti-itch formula.

110 "to unite behind bi-partisan, national energy and climate legislation." All the usual watermelon NGO's, plus ...John Deere (I'm crying),

comatus, Deere makes more equipment in India and Brazil now than they do in the U.S., and last I checked they were drooling over China...an energy tax will cripple their competitors while harming them very little.

Everytime you want to move something, don't you wish you had a truck

The Obamas strike me as the kind of people who pay someone else to deliver brand-new furniture every time they move.  For all their pretending to be poor until Barry cashed in on being elected to the Senate, they've never had to furnish a home with dumpster diving, garage sales, thrift shops, relatives' castoffs, etc.  Dumpster diving is eco-friendly, Michelle, you should try it sometime.   Get the Secret Service to close down the neighborhoods around the local universities when the students leave in May, and get the agents to haul stuff in their fleet of SUVs...

(Full disclosure: when I was 33, I saved up and paid cash for a new couch, the first furniture I have that wasn't used.  And it was every bit as awesome as I had imagined. Which I'm sure is part of the motivation for these crippling taxes to "save teh planet!"--why should normal working people be allowed to purchase new home furnishings instead of scrounging around for crumbs from their betters?!)

111 Aw man... I didn't just fall for a long-running rectal itch joke, did I?

112

Well, I'm going with Heather. A year or so  I had moved, and had all my furniture mostly,  but then some neighbor moved out in the middle of the night (go figure), and left behind some nice stuff next to the dumpster. Being no fool, I'm now sitting on a great swivel chair that they left.

Not exactly dumpster diving, just taking advantage of what is cast-off or just laying around.

 

113 Now the truth can be told how Barack Obama lost America: Premature Misallocation or Barack Obama's Little Problem

114

Well, I'm going with Heather. A year or so  I had moved, and had all my furniture mostly,  but then some neighbor moved out in the middle of the night (go figure), and left behind some nice stuff next to the dumpster. Being no fool, I'm now sitting on a great swivel chair that they left.

Not exactly dumpster diving, just taking advantage of what is cast-off or just laying around.

I've gotta vote for a cousin.  He had an okay blue-collar job and his wife wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.  They got married about 30 or 35 years ago.  They built a sturdy house, not fancy, but sound, and put a bed in it.  Every room of the house remained empty until they had the money to furnish it.  It took a few years, but they eventually filled it.

 

 

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116 @ 27 "Ergo, the best thing the White House can do in the aftermath of Tuesday is to continue to move forward as fast as possible with its agenda - including passing health care -"

Incredible, are they not?
The whole reason we brought them to a screeching halt, see, was to complain that they're going too slow.  Yeah.  It's like they're all sitting there with laps full of spilled coffee, and none of them can smell it. 

117

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