1 this is one of the best threads daily.

2 Here's wishing a happy 278th birthday to George Washington!

3 Third.

Which means I'm up and doing at 8:30 a.m.

On my vacation.

Oh my life.

4 In case you missed it...

Interview with the Old guy who beat down the thug on the bus.

5 upscale:  maybe these gore-worshippers think some of the oceans are downhill.

6 There's still some lefties arguing that incorrect/faulty data means nothing. I always thought it funny that the oceans, all interconnected, seem to have 'selective' rising. As if 'sea level' is not a constant across the globe.

Posted by: Upscale Community Organizer at February 22, 2010 08:39 AM (IhHdM)

It's disturbing that so many wish so fervently that the world is heading for DOOM!

7 #6: I LOL'd and LOL'd.

8 thanks, joanna, i'll tell my husband that someone thinks i'm funny.

9 is it constitutional for Bambi to put caps on health ins. premiums?  it won't be long before he has everyone making the same amount.  which actually will be good since all of us in Lunenburg Va would love to have Manhattan salaries.

10 6 upscale:  maybe these gore-worshippers think some of the oceans are downhill.

Posted by: kelley in virginia at February 22, 2010 08:41 AM (Oan2w)

 

 

I had a person try to explain exactly that to me on why it was bad if the Artic ice cap melted.  He claimed that all that "extra" water would run "downhill" because it was at the top of the planet and gravity would pull it down.  I told him to lay off the crack pipe.  He still believes it.

11 is that his explanation for tides, too?

12 Saw Allen West at CPAC. Damn, that man can speak. Easily one of the highlights of the conference, given what a weak year it was. We need that man in Congress.

13 So, I was reading the sidebar headlines and there's a link to the left's answer to the Tea Parties (Cocktail Parties). I read the platfom and had a chuckle. I thought it was an okay spoof. Then I read the comments and realized that they were serious. What a bunch of loons.

14 is it constitutional for Bambi to put caps on health ins. premiums? 

Posted by: kelley in virginia at February 22, 2010 08:47 AM (Oan2w)

Yes, thanks to the evil Commerce Clause.  But there is apparently a statutory barrier I read about briefly but fell asleep didn't finish the article.

15 Yea, but guess who inspired Cocktails?

16 What does the acronym 'cocktail' stand for?

17

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will endorse new rules giving the government power to stop insurance-rate increases it deems unreasonable, as part of a plan to revamp the health-care system, an administration official said.

ObamaÂ’s proposal, which would give the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services the new authority over insurers, is to be unveiled today. The move is a reversal from months of the White House leaving details of the largest U.S. medical overhaul in more than four decades largely up to congressional Democrats.

I thought that he didn't want to run the insurance industry?

18

17 What does the acronym 'cocktail' stand for

cock = chicken

tail = ass

cock-tail --> frakking the chicken?

19 12 is that his explanation for tides, too?

Posted by: kelley in virginia at February 22, 2010 08:48 AM (Oan2w

 

In a bizarre twist of reality he understood how the moon and tides work.  Go figure.

20 They're expanding LAX. Yay, now it'll be even HARDER to get to and from the airport! I wish these idiots understood that the roads also need to be expanded when they expand other stuff.

21 Drudge is Dipping!

22 Arrests in TX church arsons.  Hmmmm.  Which group could we tie the suspects to?

23 >is it constitutional for Bambi to put caps on health ins. premiums? He has to before the snow caps melt, man!

24

Argh. Stoopid networking problems. That would have been better with a new line in there.

Well, slightly better.

Morning y'all. I'm looking forward to sleet tomorrow!

Well, not really.

25

"Drudge is Dipping!"

Maybe, but that pic of Oblunder ........

26 Another Brick In The Wall (Hey Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone!)

http://tinyurl.com/yglvytz

27

is it constitutional for Bambi to put caps on health ins. premiums? 

Of course it is not and the Supremes haven't even had a chance to offer their opinion on it yet.  I recall Nixon's wage and price controls that were put in place.  The only people it affected were government workers because the rest of the country ignored it.  They could not inforce it.

As for the sea level rise, I laugh every time some idiot mentions it.  That was one of the first memes from the warmies that was discredited by real scientists. The seal levels around the world have not changed since the people started trying to measure it. Occasionally some asshat will come out and say "flee, be scared, the sea levels have increased by 0.1" since xxx".  Later in small print the news will print a retraction and say "study found to be FOS".  If the seas had actually increased every time the doom sayers had said they did we would have been underwater years ago.

As for the global warming BS in general, we finally had some yesterday. It made it up to 69.5°F here yesterday which caused me to go out and hit the porch rocker along with mass quantities.  Which is why Gabe neat me to the headline thread today.

28 Had Canadia committed suicide, yet?

29

left hand shakes the iboobs

righ hand has a special mission

30 @29 No, we're still here

31 23 Arrests in TX church arsons.  Hmmmm.  Which group could we tie the suspects to?

Posted by: MSM at February 22, 2010 09:11 AM (ucq49)

satanists.

32 Arrests in TX church arsons.  Hmmmm.  Which group could we tie the suspects to?

Posted by: MSM at February 22, 2010 09:11 AM (ucq49)

Pretty clear that the people who hate churches are the nuts in the Religious Right.

33

O.K., right hand now shakes he iBoobs

time for ome lefty reverse action

34 OK, satanist Tea Partyers then...

35 Maybe it was the Cock-Tailers...

36 On Drudge. His eyes, man that guy is starting to look really scary. Get ready America, some weird shit is about to go down.

37

Maybe, but that pic of Oblunder ........

That pic of him on Drudge is right out of the a James Bond movie. I bet you the evil guy pictured is trying to take over the world and subjugate the masses to his will. In fact, I think the story is about how he rose to power without anyone knowing his background or about all of his evil nefarious friends. He lies to get hold of the weapons and then his dispicable aims become clear.

38 What's the over/under on the number of 'Open Threads' today?

39 40 well if things go as they have been going. This thread stays up till 8 tonight. We get an olympic thread followed by the ONT.

40 Will Obama ever get any of that big bootie again, now that Meech is the new Fat Czar?

41 American Thinker skewers Beck's CPAC speech: http://bit.ly/94sZGv

42

"That pic of him on Drudge is right out of the a James Bond movie. "

Also similar to one of Hollywood's depictions of me.

43 Rubio leading Crist by 18 now: http://pwire.at/d0KWLT

44 Canada is unhappy.

I'm not *terribly* concerned about a sea invasion along the southeast shores of Lake Ontario, since Ft. Drum has airplanes and they're not afraid to use them, but the "customs stations" in Sackett's Harbor and other little towns around the Thousand Islands for Canadians docking a boat for dinner are self-serve kiosks.  Totally honor system.  Real easy for a British convert jihadi to sneak in without drawing attention.

45 Iran's building two new enrichment sites.  How's that bowin & appeasin working for you, Barry?

46 47 Fascinating that the hockey game was on the hard to find cable channel and "ice dancing" was on NBC. Have we gone completely gay? I'd love to see the ratings on the two channels.

47 48  We'll have the Boy Scout troops break out their target rifles to mount a counter-invasion.

48 Let the Canadians have Detroit

49 Let's just conquer canada, take the beer. Conquer Mexico take the tacos and have a party.

50 Between Epic Beard man, and the Asian Emotican girl this is shaping up to be a great day!  Sorry, I don't go on the intertubes during the weekend.  so I catch up on Mondays!

Does emoticon girl know her tits arrive 10 minutes before the rest of her?  Dayum

51 Jason Mattera's response to the chronically dishonest NYT reporter.

52 Will Obama ever get any of that big bootie again, now that Meech is the new Fat Czar?

Posted by: Fritz at February 22, 2010 09:50 AM (GwPRU)

I can honestly say that I haven't thought about it.

53 So, here I am working a dig in Brooklyn. My contractor has a 4 man crew (union of course). I'm sitting here minding my own business, reading AoS, and get a knock on the trailer door. It winds up being some group called Black Economic Survival (motto on card: We build foundations out of bricks that are thrown at us). They said they were looking to get their members some work, but it's an obvious shakedown. Hell, the guy's title was "Organizer".

54 Politico hiring a Dim political operative isn't exactly earth-shaking news; he'll fit right in with all the other partisan hacks on the payroll there.

55 Let's just conquer Canada, take the beer. Conquer Mexico take the tacos and have a party.

They both have oil.  If George W. Bush was anything like moonbats imagined him to be, we'd have annexed them both already.

56

54 

mmmmm u said "tits"

57

58 Outlaw

His name wasn't Barry was it?

58 Will Obama ever get any of that big bootie again, now that Meech is the new Fat Czar?

Do they let fatties join the Chicago Down Low Club?

59 Will Obama ever get any of that big bootie again, now that Meech is the new Fat Czar?


I like big butts and I cannot lie!!!

60 USA! USA! USA!

61 Do they let fatties join the Chicago Down Low Club?

Fatties, no.  Femmes, heck yeah.

62 They both have oil.  If George W. Bush was anything like moonbats imagined him to be, we'd have annexed them both already.


But then we'd have to put up with the Canadians.  And Canadians suck.

63

That's a good article about type I supernovae. A type I is a white dwarf that gets morbidly obese (over the Chandrasekhar mass limit) and explodes.

But I'd always thought they got too big from sucking in too much matter from some normal star nearby ("accretion"). This article is saying it happens when two white dwarfs collide.

64

"Zana and Max: the £200,000 comic book Eurocrats saving the world"

http://tiny.cc/25E9g

Wait til you see ours 

65 Sorry to have missed it.  What's with Asian emoticon girl?

66 WTF! Jonathan Allen is back in journalism? Fuck that. He's already married to the DNC payroll with his wife working as a mouthpiece for Democrats on the Hill. He finally took a job that was actually to his skillset in flacking for uber lefty Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Back to Politico is just bonkers. This guy is a partisan hack. He has no place reporting for any objective rag.

67 Back to Politico is just bonkers. This guy is a partisan hack. He has no place reporting for any objective rag.

Posted by: wtfci at February 22, 2010 10:28 AM (+zo63)

Politico is objective?!  Wow..who knew.

68

Reading over that article again, they're talking elliptical galaxies. Those are older galaxies IIRC. They don't produce new main-sequence stars so all that's left are the dwarfs: 13 billion year old red dwarfs, and the white dwarf remnants of the rest.

So spiral galaxies which still have youngish main-sequence stars, like ours, could still be generating the type-I's by accretion.

69
What's this?!  The U-S-A beat Can-a-duh at their NATIONAL SPORT?!?!

Huh, nice.

70 Delahunt to give press conference today.

71 Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.

I told you I'd make the sea levels fall.

72
What's with Asian emoticon girl?

Big Knockers make up for the high annoyance factor.  Kind of.

73 So apparently Glen Beck is a recovering alcoholic. I wouldn't have known this if he didn't brink it up 5 times a day. Dude, give a rest.

74 Barry has a pairs of threes, ten high. He's going all in against another guy who has a full set and has been reading Barry's tells all night. Good grief.

75
Oil back over $80 a barrel.

76
From CitiGroup:

Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts.

77 Guess I reserve the right not to bank with them.

78 Where has Ace been for the past few days? Did he get hit by shrapnel after accidently triggering one of Dr.Amy Bishop's Herpes mines?

79 82
From CitiGroup:

Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts.

This is why I still do all my banking at a dinky little local bank in my hometown. Visiting an actual branch is a PITA and the ATM fees are horrendous, but they're small enough and well enough grounded in the community that they're healthy and aren't likely to screw over their customers. Plus I've got a personal in with one of the VPs because my family's been in the area so long. I'd have to move 100+ miles away before I willingly took my business elsewhere.

80

From CitiGroup:

Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts.

I read they only mean to put this on letter to people of Texas and accidently sent it out to everyone.

I don't think it means they are going to go under,  instead they just want protection from a run on banks. They were going to hire Jimmy Stewart to prevent a banks but found out he's been dead for a while

81 82, People think when they put money in the bank the bank is just holding their money for them. How nice of that nice bank. When you put your money into a bank you are loaning that money to the bank and all of it is controlled by a contract you sign with the bank when you open your account. It isn't really just your money anymore. Fun Times are coming.

82

82,

People think when they put money in the bank the bank is just holding their money for them. How nice of that nice bank.

When you put your money into a bank you are loaning that money to the bank and all of it is controlled by a contract you sign with the bank when you open your account.

It isn't really just your money anymore.

Fun Times are coming.

I take it you are heavily invested in the non genetically modified seed market.

83 Actually I think the sea levels were rising --coming out of the little ice age some of the glacial ice on greenland and the antarctic continent was melting. Talking a whopping 3 mm a year rate though. Oceans also expand and contract as they heat and cool though so pretty hard to measure. But ocean levels, like temperatures have fluctuated through the eons. I don't understand why so many modern humans bought into the nonsense that things are supposed to be virtually stable. Ignorant idiots.

84

Ok, there's proof now, that Gacy was one of mine.

http://tiny.cc/gyYxz

85 88, Heh. More like I smell ozone in the air and hear distant thunder.

86 89, Indeed. Canada is still rising about a mm per year. The weight of the continental glacier compressed it and it has been expanding for 10000 years. We are doomed.

87

Does everyone realize what it means when Obama wants to have the government control what insurance companies charge you? And they get mad when people call them socialist/marxist? Our country is being ripped apart right before our eyes. Does this man realize that he is not a king?  God help us.

88
Soros waves, smiles at the EU:  "You're next!"

89 Does this man realize that he is not a king?

No.

90 Nicolas Kristof is full of shit.

Nicolas Kristof Hosts Straw Man of the United States to Talk Health Reform   [John R. Graham]

...

"SOTUS just made a guest appearance in Nicolas Kristof's column in the New York Times, Hands up! Anyone want the status quo?

I didn't think so. Everyone wants some kind of reform, but only those who want more government control over people's access to medical services are called "reformers" by the media. Those of us who advocate that the American people, not their employers or their governments, should own health coverage of their own choice are naysayers (or, perhaps soon, "health-crisis deniers").

A New York Times columnist calling for government-monopoly health care is not surprising. What is surprising is Mr. Kristof's use of international evidence. He cites a recent New England Journal of Medicine, which cites a debunked World Health Organization survey from 2000, which ranks the U.S. 37th in the world in health care."

From NRO's "critical condition"

91

Does this man realize that he is not a king?

No, he doesn't.

92

Citi has been a disaster for at least a decade.  If the US would have been smart, they'd have let it fail.

Thanks for the bailout.  Helped save our investment.

93 This is why I still do all my banking at a dinky little local bank in my hometown.

Likewise.  They even gave me a car loan when I was unemployed (don't total your ride two days after getting laid off, it sucks) because, and I quote the bank president, "we know your dad isn't going to let you sit around and not work."  Then they gave the check to my brother because I wasn't going to make it to town before close of business.

94 #94  Why would Soros do that?  I thought he loved the statist EU stuff.  Is it just for money, or is there another nefarious purpose?

95 89  The sea levels were around 300 feet lower than they are now during the last Ice Age.  If another one starts, a lot of ports will become inland property.

96

Heather, I LOLed at Jason Mattera playing the race card back at Zernike:

"In any event, she obviously has her own racial demons to wrestle with if she thinks, as she apparently does, that all minorities sound the same. As a Puerto Rican man, I find such characterizations absurd and offensive."

97

#93  Does this man realize that he is not a king?

He hasn't had his "even god-kings can bleed" moment yet.

God help us.

Don't worry, in the end, there will be only chaos.

98

How did the NYT let this get published on the eve of Oblather's biggest HellCare week?

http://tiny.cc/4sZnG

99 Kratos, I think I'm in love with you. I keep imagining you in a dirty basement, wearing red aviators and supervising fights.

100

 "we know your dad isn't going to let you sit around and not work." 

Wow, talk about knowing your customers.

We use USAA for banking and just about everything else. They are mostly for military families, but you can bank with them no matter what. I like it because I don't have to deal with closing and opening accounts when we move. We get free ATM transactions, rebates for the other banks' fees and we can deposit checks by scanning them at home.

 

101

All you people fretting over the Citibank thing are worried about nothing. That announcement is nothing more than a federal regulation regarding common "Now" accounts.

These are checking accounts that pay interest and have certain other incintives to maintain a minimum balance. I have had one for years.

No they are not going to jump up all of a sudden and say you have to give 7 days notice to write a check.

If you don't like the fact that they have that "right" then don't use a "now" account. Get thestandard checking account that pays no interest, charges you a monthly fee, and requires no minimum balance.  

102 103

#93  Does this man realize that he is not a king?

He hasn't had his "even god-kings can bleed" moment yet.

God help us.

Don't worry, in the end, there will be only chaos.

Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 22, 2010 10:57 AM (9hSKh)

Kratos, what did you think of Percy Jackson & The Olympians?

103

Let the Canadians anyone have Detroit

You can buy most of it on ebay for about $500.00 a City Block.

Bid Early.

Bid Often.

_{[Vote Meg.]}

104

"The sea levels were around 300 feet lower than they are now during the last Ice Age."

Also 100 ft higher at another time.

105

Feel the love for USAA. Nice to have a very solid company holding your money.

This ends the commercial portion of my posting...

106

watch out Kratos, its a trap, she's just after your blood!

_{I keed I keed}

107

Hey, that whole telling people what they can charge thing really works.

Just ask Hugo Chavez.

 

108
Puppeh playtime.

109 Caption from a picture at Politico:

The White House is hoping to remind voters, especially independents, of the reasons they pulled the lever so eagerly for Barack Obama in 2008.

In other words, "Hey dumbsh*ts you voted for me, now STFU."

110 Anyone else having a problem posting on the Beck thread?  The thread gets stuck at post 84 and that is that.

111 watch out Kratos, its a trap, she's just after your blood!

Quiet, you.

112 So is the new tv extravaganza on health care going to be a Trojan horse for the republicans?

113

polynikes 110, "Ron Paul" is a cypher which we minarchist-leaning Rightists use to protest against the Bush Junior statists the RNC keeps palming off on us.

Understand that the Republican Party is a protection racket. It is the party which says, "ooh, those scary Democrats are coming... you'd better vote for me or else they'll really screw things up, and in the meantime I promise I'll think about looking into slowing the rate of growth here and there... sometime".

At any rate that's why I voted for Paul in the Texas primary 2008.

114

So is the new tv extravaganza on health care going to be a Trojan horse for the republicans?

I can't believe these idiots are going. Obama and the Dems just released the plan they are going to push through BEFORE the meeting with Republicans.

It's like the Republicans are showing up voluntarily to a show trial.

I really hope in the Q & A one of the Republicans tear him a new one or call out his lies. Specifically that lie about the company in california who raised rates 36% because of regulation.

115 As for Paul himself, I'm aware he sucks.

116 37 On Drudge. His eyes, man that guy is starting to look really scary. Get ready America, some weird shit is about to go down.

It's the dead guy from The Shining. Don't you remember the shot? Holding up a glass while (if I remember correctly) blood is dripping down his forehead? Says something like "wonderful party, isn't it?" It's toward the end, when Shelly Duvall is wandering around the house with the knife.

And no, this is NOT a good sign.

117 Does everyone realize what it means when Obama wants to have the government control what insurance companies charge you?

It means I'm sniggering at the insurance companies that have been supporting his mandatory premium thing.

118 Ben, you are in Pittsburgh, right?  If so, what part? Scott twp/Greentree here

119 Posted by: polynikes at February 22, 2010 11:04 AM (m2CN7)

There were about 10,000 attendees and only 1/4 of them participated in the straw poll. Of those, half were students that were probably bussed in and organized by God-only-knows-who.

120

polynikes 110, "Ron Paul" is a cypher which we minarchist-leaning Rightists use to protest against the Bush Junior statists the RNC keeps palming off on us.

Understand that the Republican Party is a protection racket. It is the party which says, "ooh, those scary Democrats are coming... you'd better vote for me or else they'll really screw things up, and in the meantime I promise I'll think about looking into slowing the rate of growth here and there... sometime".

At any rate that's why I voted for Paul in the Texas primary 2008.

 

I don't blame you, however I have a few issues with Ron Paul. First I do agree with most of his domestic ideas, however when it comes to foreign policy I think he is a nut. While I would like a reduced presence of America in some places, it would be insane to pull out completely. Sure we should close a couple of bases, and maybe let Europe pay for its own defense, but a total withdraw would spark regional wars for dominance all over the world. When you create a power vacuum many nations will compete to fill the void.

 

Second and most imporatantly, Ron Paul is not a man for whom word and deed are one in the same. He claims he is against spending and earmarks, but that isn't his record. I will admit he has found a creative way to appear he isn't for earmarks and pork. When a bill is being created he will add amendments for pork for his district, then when it comes time for the bill to be voted on he will vote against it, already knowing it has the votes to pass, then he can claim he voted against the spending bill all the while collecting pork for his district.

If you like his ideas, fine, but he isn't the man who he sells himself as.

 

121 Zimriel--"sending a message" with the dumbest/craziest/stupidest person in the room is not a good strategy.  Just sayin'....

122

 Ben, you are in Pittsburgh, right?  If so, what part? Scott twp/Greentree here

Mrfixit. I live in O'Hara twp.

123 Why would Soros do that?  I thought he loved the statist EU stuff.

Now is a good time to ask George if he still thinks it's a bang up ideo to trade petroleum in Euros.  Then ask India and China what they think.

The Germans are going to start asking for the return of the dmarks once they discover how poisoned European markets are because Goldman and Morgan have acted as conduits for hiding public debts.

124 FUBAR the oceans of the world are not at the same level. You may also be surprised to find out that the EARTH IS ACTUALLY SPINNING !!

125

Who knew, that egotistical CEO that built Robocop and ED209 running Detroit would be a step up.

 

126 In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown.


Well let's see. McCain was mislead by Keating, mislead on TARP and was generally seen as worthless on economic issues on the 2008 campaign trail. So bascially he's been worthless on economic issues his entire life.
In a time when the economy is by far the most important issue to everyone in America why doesn't this man simply take his earned retirement and allow someone more knowledgeable a chance at the job?

Thank you Soldier, Thank you Senator. Now  please go and enjoy your Golden Years...and your wife's money.

127

Hockey game? Never heard of it.

128 What is surprising is Mr. Kristof's use of international evidence. He cites a recent New England Journal of Medicine, which cites a debunked World Health Organization survey from 2000, which ranks the U.S. 37th in the world in health care."

What is our "real" ranking?  I know that any "ranking" will be rife with subjectivity but my wife was quoting that we were 30th in the world yesterday and I knew she was full of shit (similar to that useless turd Kristof) but didn't have anything at my disposal with which to refute her.

129

Why would Soros do that?  I thought he loved the statist EU stuff.

Now is a good time to ask George if he still thinks it's a bang up ideo to trade petroleum in Euros.  Then ask India and China what they think.

The Germans are going to start asking for the return of the dmarks once they discover how poisoned European markets are because Goldman and Morgan have acted as conduits for hiding public debts.

 

 

I guess the Germans are learning that ruling Europe isn't all they had hoped for. As for Soros, possibly to create fear as he may be shorting the Euro?

130

I'm not going to bother searching for a link, but a tranny puked on commie actress, Susan Sarandon, at a drag show in NYC.

131

If the Canadians and USA meet again in the next round our countries should make a bet.

If the Canadians win they get Michigan

If the USA wins the Canadians get Michigan, or at the very least have to take back Jennifer Granholm.

132

Snort.

The UN Environment Program, which is based in Nairobi, is convening a set of meetings this week – not in Nairobi, or New York, but at the same Bali beach resort (and convention center) where they sacrificed all that time for the greater good in 2007.

133

@133

I've been trying to think, very hard, of who the republicans could have nominated in 2008 that would have been a worse candidate.

 

I can't think of one. I

134 http://www.mda.mil/ MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY CHANGES LOGO TO LOOK MORE LIKE OBAMA LOGO

135

33 Arrests in TX church arsons.  Hmmmm.  Which group could we tie the suspects to?

 

Obviously anti-tax tea partiers who are tired of churches not paying their fair share.  It doesn't matter if that's true or not, that's our meme, and we're sticking to it!

136 Link to Claudia Rosett at PJM.

137 Anyone else having a problem posting on the Beck thread?  The thread gets stuck at post 84 and that is that.

Posted by: curious at February 22, 2010 11:09 AM (p302b)

The software is acting weird; I wouldn't be surprised if it shuts down shortly

138 58 So, here I am working a dig in Brooklyn. My contractor has a 4 man crew (union of course). I'm sitting here minding my own business, reading AoS, and get a knock on the trailer door. It winds up being some group called Black Economic Survival (motto on card: We build foundations out of bricks that are thrown at us). They said they were looking to get their members some work, but it's an obvious shakedown. Hell, the guy's title was "Organizer".       Funny thing about people with the title "Organizer"--they've never had a real job or ever "worked" a day in their lives. 

139

A transsexual cabaret performer named Rose Wood engaged in projectile vomiting on stage and hit Sarandon with it.

Standing nearby were Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber.

According to Wood it was not intended as an affront to the actress and she didnÂ’t take it that way.  [blind drunk]

 

140 Sarandon feel good vomit story.

141

Chief, I've been watching the conservative blogs, and bingo, the church arsonists were teabaggers.  I'll get it on the air at noon.

"OK, satanist Tea Partyers then..."
Posted by: Nighthawk at February 22, 2010 09:39 AM (OtQXp)

142 re: #85 I also offer the thought that it is a good idea to belong to a local credit union. They are not tied to the big banks, are conservative in their lending so they did not get caught up in the derivative madness, and their loan committees are locals. It has been my experience that they will work with you if you have financial troubles, and at least at mine I have never had a loan request take more than 24 hours to process. If you still believe in Federal insurance, they have that. They call their checks "share drafts", but other than that they offer the exact same services at a better price than regular banks. And your money is not tied into companies who are now tools of Buraq Hussein's agenda. As an example of how financially stable they are [because they are under stricter regs, and because of their conservative lending practices] my credit union was pushing for applications for home loans, assuming you were financially sound [5% down, income to service the debt] at the same time that the banks were pulling back because of mortgage losses. Funny thing, if you lend money to people who will pay you back, you stay in business and might even prosper. Credit unions now pretty much accept people on a geographic basis so you no longer have to have a certain employer. Pull your money out of Citi, BoA, Wells-Fargo, or any other of the Democratic Party's minions and keep it local. Subotai Bahadur

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#48 Thank you for the Fort Ontario link, HeatherRadish. And I've read somewhere else that NY State was ending funding for historical sites. (But I'm sure tranny drag shows in NYC are still getting their cultural funding.)

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Posted by: Dang Straights at February 22, 2010 11:06 AM (fx8sm)

 

Drats, they're all sacked out except for the alpha one (brown with light blue collar).

145 now is the time to invest in healthcare stocks profits are surging.

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Hey Noah,

Can you help me out over there too?  Thanks buddy.  Here's the first verse:

So, Al's hockey schtick is broken....
Al's "consensus" has been Gore'd.
Al's Zamboni's just a phoney....
And The Skeptics "Shoot and SCORE!"

http://tiny.cc/Kjs1c

147 And I've read somewhere else that NY State was ending funding for historical sites.

Some of them.  I find it extremely interesting that the Revolutionary War sites are being closed while the private mansions remain open for tours (and of course they weren't going to touch the Indian sites).  It's like they don't want kids to know that particular bit of history.

^{Please don't invade us.}

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_{[It's okay, Heather. I'll hide you in the attic when the war starts and you escape from the detention happiness camp.]}

149 The U-S-A beat Can-a-duh at their NATIONAL SPORT?!?!

Nope.  Their official national sport is Lacrosse.

I'm sure it's a sop to the native population, but it is true.  Being Canada, they have an official national sport and, being Canada, it's not hockey.

150 #120 "Ron Paul" is a cypher which we minarchist-leaning Rightists use to protest against the Bush Junior statists the RNC keeps palming off on us. Agreed. At the last Republican Convention in Colorado, the arrogant McCain people had the nomination locked up [it was just after Romney dropped out] even though in the caucuses that start the process of sending delegates McCain was beaten 3-1 by Romney. They were being assholes. I don't like Ron Paul; primarily because I think what good ideas he might have are negated by the fact that he is several wontons shy of a full pu-pu platter. To get delegates to State, you have to show up and run at the precinct caucuses to be a delegate to County Convention, and at County run for a slot to State. You also have to actually show up. For all of Paul's faults, his people played by the rules and did what they had to do. Especially the show up part, which the regular Republicans have a bad record about. They [Paul's people] had about 1/3 of the delegates to State. At State, you run for the delegate and alternate slots to the National Convention. Each person running gets 30 seconds to introduce themselves, say who they support, and ask for votes. It is common courtesy be polite as they do so. The McCain people boo-ed and jeered all the Paul candidates. The Paul people were perfectly polite. When the McCain people boo-ed a disabled SF Iraq veteran, that was it for me. I have to show respect for McCain, because of his service; despite his being a corrupt DIABLO? And his people boo a disabled veteran in a wheelchair?!? My wife and I both voted a straight Paul ticket for National. There were enough party hacks that they took all the slots, but yeah, I understand Zimriel's vote. Subotai Bahadur

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Holy shit!  PressThink is back.

http://tiny.cc/9Z0eP

152 andycanuck--thank you.

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Kweef is invited to a tea party

http://dallasteaparty.org/3365/

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"Is Rachel Maddow Now More Respected And Influential Than Keith Olbermann? Yes."

http://tiny.cc/jw4dK

Is this like comparing who's better - Stalin or Mao?

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Subotai, do you comment on Wrechard? 

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Absolutely, Heather.  The only thing either country has that we need is the oil.  Annex now, co-opt the oil later. 

You won't be surprised to learn that we ended up several years ago at a dive hotel in Cozumel overrun with French Quebecois.  At the time they were playing their separatist game which to me as an American was utterly traitorous and destructive to their national sovereignty.  I told my husband that they should get over themselves because at some point the U. S. would annex them anyway.  He, of the happily unread bent, walked down to the restaurant bar and preceded to announce that amidst a bunch of 6' 3" RCMP and their wives.  Honest to dog, instead of beating him to within an inch of his life, which would be the appropriate response, they embraced him physically and emotionally adopting the both of us for the rest of the visit.  Mindsets such as that have driven their most productive people to the central and western provinces [or to the U. S.].  Long story short, some in that country might still welcome our involvement. 

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With Mao you get egg rolls.

158 #164 Cincinnatus Yes. Also at the Rott. Subotai Bahadur

159 Is the Lame Stream Media trying to incite civil unrest here?http://tinyurl.com/ybdtm36

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