"I have a fwend in Pakistan named..."

Someone had to do it.

Now class.  What does engagement and 'smart diplomacy' mean to you? 

No, no, no, no, no!  You're hear to learn, not to teach.

Engagement and smart diplomacy means that this administration's inability to put substantial pressure on Iran will probably mean that Israel will eventually be forced to take some action and because they have limited options, that action will be unconventional.  A whole bunch of innocent Persians will die and Israel will be significantly damaged.  Obama will be able to blame someone else and America will take another step toward oblivion.

Don't mind me.  This stuff just comes up every once in a while...

like vomit.

@10 Heather

"I am a troll," said the man. "This is my bridge so you will have to pay a toll to cross."

That's when "Maude" (my .44 snubbie with 200 grain hp handloads) would have come out and I would have said " I am the cure for troublesome trolls".

I love the fact that the 'trolls' are being held in the Land 'O Lakes Jail.

Butter jokes, anyone?

"Engagement and smart diplomacy means that this administration's inability to put substantial pressure on Iran will probably mean that Israel will eventually be forced to take some action and because they have limited options, that action will be unconventional.  A whole bunch of innocent Persians will die and Israel will be significantly damaged.  Obama will be able to blame someone else and America will take another step toward oblivion."

Feature, not bug and all that.

Think about it.  Israel is over the proverbial barrel here.  Self preservation will require them to act.  And by act, I mean unilaterally and preemptively.  In all likelihood, they will be successful.  It kills two birds with one stone.  First, it removes the problem of a nuclear Iran and secondly, the administration can hop on the U.N. bandwagon condemning Israel.

First-time jobless claims rise...wait for it...just a little bit longer..unexpectedly.

The rise is the fourth in the past five weeks

Hussein, do you think they are going to try to pull something off on the 11th?

This president of ours is just a laugh a day!

http://tinyurl.com/yg8bte2

Hee, hee, ha.  I just can't...

Good news!

Our city is now going to be tracking (literally) how much residents are recycling.

I'm all for giving people a bigger cart. That's just smart. But the tracking??

I remember Obama's quote as "we can't drive our SUVs, eat as much as we want, and keep our homes on 72 degrees.".

Our city apparently took that one step further with trash recycling.

Nanny, nanny, boo boo!

We need government watchdogs in every bathroom, to make sure nobody wipes their asses more than 3 times or uses more than 12 sheets of the national asswipe.

Right on, man.

"I have a fwend in Pakistan named..."

Someone had to do it.

Posted by: HH at February 04, 2010 09:37 AM (1kwr2)

He has a wife you know ...

Just a note to Gabriel:

You put up with a lot of gratuitous insults and abuse here, yet you continue to report and analyze -- typically with more useful findings than I can get anywhere else.

Thank you.

26  Posted by: HH at February 04, 2010 09:54 AM (1kwr2)

Dinnerjacket said he would announce something big.  But I don't think it will be nuclear weapons related.

But I'm just guessing.  I honestly believe though, that Barry wants Israel to deal with Iran so 1) he can avoid being blamed and, 2) so Israel will be seen as even more the villian by the world and Barry can put more pressure on her to cede land to the Arabs. 

Having Israel deal with Iran is the best possible outcome for everyone except Iran and Israel, imo.  Isreal doesn't really have the capacity to cause substantial damage to Iran's nuke program without going unconventional and if she does that, she's signed her death warrant. But that's just me rambling.

"We need government watchdogs in every bathroom, to make sure nobody wipes their asses more than 3 times or uses more than 12 sheets of the national asswipe."

Sounds good to me!

Posted by: maddogg at February 04, 2010 10:00 AM (OlN4e)

I'm down with that.

Why do I get the feeling that when the apocalypse comes, it'll slip in and take a seat in the back row and nobody'll notice it's there until it steps up to the microphone during the Q&A?

Headline and story from the AP over on Fox:

House Faces Tough Vote on $1.9T More Debt

To ease its passage, Democrats attached tougher budget rules designed to curb a spiraling upward annual deficit -- projected by Obama to hit a record $1.56 trillion for the budget year ending Sept. 30. The new rules would require future spending increases or tax cuts to be paid for with either cuts to other programs or equivalent tax increases.

I guess AP expects us to really believe this bullshit. First we have to beleive that it will be a "tough" vote because those mythalogical blue dogs will oppose it and second they expect us to belive that there will be some new "rules" to limit their spending on pork and communism.

Pull the other one AP, we all aren't stupid turds that fell off the turnip truck yesterday. 

Speaking of England (#30), I was recollecting to when I was stationed in England (late 90s), in the wake of the Mad Cow scare.  My landlady said that she believed that just about everyone in the UK had been exposed to Mad Cow beef as beef (and bacon) are staples of the diet. 

10 years later, seeing what the UK has turned into, I have to believe she's right.  Their brains are more prions than grey matter. 

37-I'm not sure I understand this story as reported. How does he know it was Secret Service? I'm assuming they have special marking on the vehicle. But he didn't report it as a hit and run?

"Their brains are more prions than grey matter."

I had to look up prion.  Who says this place isn't educational?

@60

I don't know if it was inadvertant or not, but "their own house" is exactly how The One views the White House.  He has no idea that he's only a caretaker for the people's house for little while.

59. Hmm, I read his account and he doesn't mention the police. Just people that witnessed it.

If true, it has to be Biden's convoy right? I mean what's their track record at this point? 

#39  Dinnerjacket said he would announce something big.  But I don't think it will be nuclear weapons related.

I dunno.  Carl in Jerusalem thinks that it'll be an annoucement that Iran can enrich uranium up to 20%.  I'm inclined to agree, unless it's all just more hot-air from Adinnerjacket (which is very possible).

That would negate Iran's "need" to send low enriched uranium overseas and would have bought even more time for Iran's inevitable conflict with Israeli (and the US).

In the end, there will be only chaos.

Posted by: curious at February 04, 2010 10:18 AM (p302b)

Newsbusters had a story about that a couple of days ago.

(AP) - The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week, evidence that layoffs are continuing and jobs remain scarce.

The rise is the fourth in the past five weeks. Most economists hoped that claims would resume a downward trend that was evident in the fall and early winter.

The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 480,000.

Wall Street economists had expected a drop to 460,000, according to thomas reuters.

I'm not into eschatology but if Israel gets wiped out I think it's the end.

Well certainly, it would be for Israel. And for a lot of other countries in the Mid-East. Radiation, famine, disease, you name it.

I agree with Hussein. The U.S. backing off and just letting it all happen is terrible. Israel backed into a corner is a very,very bad move, one  that we could help alleviate. However, Iran is gaming us. And winning.

This is all just so stupid.

The four-week average, which smooths fluctuations, rose for the third straight week to 468,750.

The figure is the highest in the past two months

The number of people continuing to claim benefits was unchanged at 4.6 million. That data lags initial claims by a week.

But the so-called continuing claims do not include millions of people who have used up the regular 26 weeks of benefits typically provided by states,

and are receiving extended benefits for up to 73 additional weeks, paid for by the federal government

Jim Treacher hit by "secret service" van.

Via Instapundit

"Look, as I've said before, there's gonna be, um, cameras there, so, uh, I gotta go there and stand in front of them.  You're just too stupid to understand it."

HeatherR; that just makes me want to puke. I guess I will not have the TV on during the "pre-game" show. Will have to find the actual kick-off time.

Can the jug-eared SOB stay off TV for at least ONE GD day?

64  I dunno.  Carl in Jerusalem thinks that it'll be an annoucement that Iran can enrich uranium up to 20%.  I'm inclined to agree, unless it's all just more hot-air from Adinnerjacket (which is very possible).

Carl is insightful and has a lot of contacts in the region so he's probably right.  I think the whole idea of exporting the processing of HeUN into fuel is a bad one anyway.  Just means it would be easier for the uranium to "accidentally" get lost and wind up in the wrong hands so no-one would be at fault if a dirty weapon or a crude nuke accidentally exploded in NY or Tel Aviv.

Treacher; One last thing: IÂ’m told by multiple people that the SUV that hit me was Secret Service. If this is true, I want to know why that happened. I was crossing legally, and they just left me there. At the very least, I want an apology. What happened to me was wrong

From Fox News:

In response to a Republican lawmaker who requested a probe into dismissed complaints against the New Black Panther Party, the Justice Department's Inspector General reportedly said he has been unable to investigate because he lacks the authority.

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine wrote in a four-page letter to Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia that Congress stripped him of the power to investigate all alleged wrongdoings within his department, the Washington Times reported Thursday.

OK, so the inspector general has no power to inspect anything. and we wonder why Washington is so screwed up.

I was involved in a hit & run in law school. I had the right of way and some car just continued to make right-hand turn; not even paying attention. It was in a lovely part of town. No one stopped and people drove over my books that were scattered in the road. To this day I'm convinced the driver had a warrant out for her arrest. I read her lips saying "fuuuuuck". It was like Ralphie in A Christmas Story!

Luckily it wasn't too bad as she was actually going slow (until she hit me and THEN she gunned it). Just some back problems that lessened over time with the help of a good chiropractor.

Just never ceased to amaze me how much some people can be that inconsiderate.

The Obamas may want the rest of us to turn down the thermostat and take the bus but the White House must be at least 72 degrees. M'chelle was on TV this morning, according to my mother, and sleeveless yet again. I know M'chelle has been told that her best feature is her arms but could we have a break, esp in record cold DC?

Mom, 88, an army wife and rural survivor of the actual great depression, is highly offended by the first lady not wearing sleeves. She is even more offended by her not wearing sleeves in the winter and then lecturing us about energy conservation. At least Jimmy Carter had the decency to put on a malaise cardigan.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 04, 2010 10:41 AM (mR7mk)

Unless of course Barry will still be rambling on

Is DC such a jaded place that people, regular people, can pinpoint a Secret Service vehicle?   Then they aren't so secret?  Or is my logic just weird?

I'm not sure what to think. It could be that it had tinted windows and such and so people are jumping to the conclusion that it is a SS vehicle.

Or people could have seen a gov't license plate, etc.

The secret service convoy could also have been the one that goes to Sidwell Friends everymorning with Obama's children.

94 What do you call a hit and run at law school?

A start

Agreed! _{except when  it's me!}

See flashing grill lights 'n stuff.

(Random picture from an image search.)

Is DC such a jaded place that people, regular people, can pinpoint a Secret Service vehicle?   Then they aren't so secret?  Or is my logic just weird?

The convoys are always proceeded by motorcycle cops. If it's Obama or Biden the ramps and the intersections are closed 10 min before hand. All traffic is stopped. Motorcycle cops go first then several black suvs then the bullet proof limo, then more suvs, then more cops. After a few minutes the intersections and ramps are reopened.

It's not hard to figure out. If you yell at the cop, "Hey, what's going on?" You get a wave or a "get back in your car ma'am."

Happens all the time.

Bush used to stay home to avoid this big f-ing production.

If you live here long enough you can also distinguish the helicopters.

My sister was struck in a cross-walk last year by some teenager making a right turn on red (legal in this state, but not if there's someone in front of you). I had to chase him down on foot and bang on his car with my fist before he stopped.

As my mother once said, "Be careful. There's a lot of tired ninnies out there."

The Secret Service is a bunch of f*%$ing retards, o.k.

Let's hope they are when it comes to you Rahm.

Anyway, about every fourth or fifth person mentioned how bad Miss Lindsey sucked and asked when he was going to run against him. I thought of you.

LOL, he has actually been censored by several Republican orgs here. As for running aginast him, shit we have another 7 years before that can happen. Of course, he'll try to act like he is drifting back to the center again for a year before that like McLame is doing now while letting some "recent reelected" RINO carry the liberal water for him.

Since there is no "legal" way to recall these duochebags when they flaunt their RINOness at us we need to be pressuring the Party to remove him from committee positoons and removing support from him.

Of course, the Party is controlled by RINOs like him so it will never happen.  This is what really pisses me off about everyone saying "we must support the RINOs/DIABLOs in blue States. Fk them, it screws up the whole Party, including the damn reddest of the Red States.

HeatherR; thanks 

Of course it is a him, no female would be able to keep anything from Tucker Carlson, that baby face is so so sexy.

Hmmm, I like Tucker. A lot actually. Not sure I would go that far though.

Well, Treacher himself reports that he was hit by a single vehicle, that may or may not have been SS. Just what the crowd around him said.

Other than that, you guys ever seen a Presidential Motorcade? I have, and saw it from a bird's eye view (6 stories up looking down). Bush Sr. happened to be coming to where I worked, and I saw that motorcade snaking through the streets of LA.

Now it's not exactly a military convoy, but let me tell you, it comes close.

Do you have the black helicopters hovering over your head, too?

Shit, I got B-52s flying over my house.

They only send the helicopters for minor threats.

67 Looks like the car hit him three times or he was hit by three cars.

Who could have guessed he even had three knees to break?

#131  Tell me about it.  I have no idea why they would need to do that as the implant they had inserted can track my every move.

They fly those B-52s near your house to try to trick you into thinking that you don't have an implant.  You'll think "why would they fly tracking planes around me if I have an implant?" and then lower your guard.  Good to see that you aren't fooled.

market unexpectedly down ~200pts.

I don't really have a comment on this....

Damn.

139 market unexpectedly down ~200pts.

More blood "unexpectedly" rushing down after viewing Skinemax pron.

Any news on the MN 5th Cong. District? Especially what has been Muslim Keith Ellison's voting record and what are the chances of dislodging him?

Cook's Political Report has it solid D. District has a PVI of +21 D (meaning their are 21% more Dems than Republicans) so that is gonna take one hell of a wave to put it in play

How does that compare to Mass. before Brown? 21% means there are some signs of life there. As a member of the MN diaspora I embarassed about him and Franken.

Hey if Nancy Pelosi practices medicine, she's qualifed to be a proctologist.

She's already dealt with a bunch of Democrat a#@holes.

They bring a knife, we bring a gun, they send one of us to the hospital we send one of theirs to the morgue, they hit us with cars we run them over with bulldozers.

Tell me about it.

Miss'80sBaby needs to find a new hobby

Where do I apply?

I'm looking at our weather updates (big storm coming). The weather prediction is very helpful. Here's the blurb:

A winter storm watch has been issued for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Friday morning through Saturday afternoon with anywhere from 2-6 inches of snow expected.

Any questions?

Any questions?

Shovel, I presume?

2-6 inches? Care a bit more vague?

Hell, two inches can shut this city down. I *can't wait* to see what the store looks like tonight when I get home from work.

I hope my Edward Rutherford book gets here before the snow.

I'm looking at our weather updates (big storm coming). The weather prediction is very helpful. Here's the blurb:

A winter storm watch has been issued for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Friday morning through Saturday afternoon with anywhere from 2-6 inches of snow expected.

Any questions?

Lay in some firewood and beer.

First-time jobless claims rise...wait for it...just a little bit longer..unexpectedly.

The rise is the fourth in the past five weeks

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at February 04, 2010 09:51 AM (Vu6sl)

Did not see that one coming.

Where do I apply?

Oh, yeah, forgot about that. I was explaining what's going on behind-the-scenes @ NCIS right now.

I think I have enough burbon to get me through.

You can come to my house. I *know* I have enough bourbon to make it thought!

Not Sarum. I've read them all and now he has "new york". I'd actually rather read about somewhere else but since I've loved all his books, I'm hoping for the best.

2-6 inches? Care a bit more vague?

A 4 inch range isn't that unusual. We often get predictions of 6-12 inches and stuff like that.

Posted by: Mallamutt at February 04, 2010 11:41 AM (V9SYy)

I have an inquiry in to a nephew in the 3rd Dist. just west of  the  5th District  about the local situation. No reply yet.

 ...I have enough bourbon to make it thought!

Starting a little early aren't you?

Hahahaha; turned on the WC to check this snow stuff.

They are talking about this cold weather we have and is it killing the AGW theory?

hashahahah; they are saying the cold spell only applied to the U.S. (an obvious lie) and they pumped back with that discredited myth about x out of the last 10 years being the coldest.

This is the kind of BS we are fighting. They sput outrageous fkn lies, ignore all the evidnceof fraud, and simply deny every time one of their own NOAA people retracts the x out of 10 myth.

Note I say x out of 10 because they change the number every few months.

Where do I apply?

Todler, she'll steal your soul and throw it away.  She learned that dark art from her master, Lord Hades.  Hopefully that kind of thing will end after March 16th (North America release date for GoW3).

53 Saw this short film on IFC the other day.  Figured it was wacky enough for this place.....make sure to stick with it till the end.

OMG!

It's ONLY a movie....it's ONLY a movie...it's ONLY a movie....

Todler, she'll steal your soul and throw it away.  She learned that dark art from her master, Lord Hades.  Hopefully that kind of thing will end after March 16th (North America release date for GoW3).

Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 04, 2010 12:00 PM (9hSKh)

Where do I sign up?

Who could have guessed he even had three knees to break?

Todler, she'll steal your soul and throw it away.  She learned that dark art from her master, Lord Hades.  Hopefully that kind of thing will end after March 16th (North America release date for GoW3).

Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 04, 2010 12:00 PM (9hSKh)

It's ok. I don't use it much anyways.

Awesome letter from JT Rodgers to a group of nuns that demanded that he add more chicks to the board of Cypress Semiconductor:

http://tinyurl.com/yb3ugeu

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