April 29, 2010

Top Headline Comments 4-29-10
— Gabriel Malor

Ack! I could have sworn that today was supposed to be Wednesday.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 05:12 AM | Comments (146)
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1 Isn't it a good thing that the weekend's closer than you thought?

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 29, 2010 05:14 AM (rOd1g)

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at April 29, 2010 05:19 AM (0fzsA)

3

Re sidebar item: Mother of 15 kids, by 3 different men, says she is entitled to have as many as she wants even though she can't support them. She also thinks you are entitled pay for them all.

 

This is the kind of thing that I reference when I say that the damn liberals have brought welfare back.  They disguise it in the manner of “doing it for the children”. They allow unlimited support based on the number of children, SCIP, food aid and an entire host of other things, all with no time limit.

 

In a sane society this woman would have been cut off after two children. After the third was born she would have been given the opportunity to be sterilized or lose all support and have the children taken from her.

 

These kinds of people are leeches on society and should not be condoned. In additon, their children will grow up to be leeches because they have seen no other life AND they see reward for being a leech.

 

As Frederick Bastiat said, when it is easier to plunder for oneÂ’s bread rather than work, then plundering will become the norm.  We reached that plateau long ago here in socialist Amerika.  We are working on communism now where they simply will take all private property. 

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 05:20 AM (QrA9E)

4 Erin burnett and Mark Haynes outside on wall street gleefully interviewing Trumpka....
The crawl says "thousands of people expected to march on wall street"...

Interesting, you march on wall street but if you are hispanic you rally....
words...

Posted by: curious at April 29, 2010 05:20 AM (p302b)

5

CHICAGO (CBS) ¯Demonstrators will gather outside Wrigley Field Thursday to protest the new immigration enforcement law in Arizona.

Organizers have attempted to link the Diamondbacks indirectly to the new law.

"The Arizona Diamondbacks are one of the top contributors to the Republican machine in Arizona that have unanimously voted for the draconian Arizona State Proposition SB1070", the Facebook notice for the protest said, quoting the Web site La Nueva Raza.

I always wondered why the Diamondbacks wore Nazi uniforms. Now I know. I expect a couple of nitwits with SEIU signs to show up and the Chicago media to make a big f-ing deal out of it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 29, 2010 05:20 AM (1Jaio)

6 Happy Champagne Thursday Gabe!

Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at April 29, 2010 05:22 AM (EffI7)

7 Thursday. Best known as the day preceding Friday. Last actual work day of the weak, as Friday is pretend to work day. First day on the down hill side of the week. Nobody ever writes songs about unsung Thursday. People don't get married on Thursday. The lost day. The forgotten day. What can you say about Thursday that can't be said in one sentence? Am I rambling? Well. it's effin' Thursday fer crissake......

Posted by: maddogg at April 29, 2010 05:23 AM (OlN4e)

8

Wednesday nuthin'. I woke up thinking it was Friday and had to remind myself I still have to work tomorrow, too.

 

Re: the woman with eleventy million kids: My uncle's wife's sister is like that. She is/was a stripper and she would get pregnant about once a year so she could get more from welfare. My uncle's raising most of them now. They all have fetal alcohol syndrome.

Posted by: Joanna at April 29, 2010 05:23 AM (7+WuG)

9

Capitals lose. Capitals lose.

 

Lets go Pens

Posted by: Ben at April 29, 2010 05:24 AM (wuv1c)

10

Posted by: Mallamutt at April 29, 2010 09:24 AM (V9SYy)

I'll be outside of Wrigley protesting that the Cubs squander so damn many scoring opportunities.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 29, 2010 05:26 AM (1Jaio)

11 They all have fetal alcohol syndrome.

They do have a way of stopping that in this State.  They prosecute for child endangerment AND the courts have upheld it.

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 05:26 AM (QrA9E)

12 it IS Wednesday.....

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 29, 2010 05:26 AM (d1FhN)

13 1 Isn't it a good thing that the weekend's closer than you thought?

I have so much work to do before the weekend.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at April 29, 2010 05:26 AM (Mi2wf)

14 Thursday Thursday, it's just a day. Thursday Thursday, sometimes you get laid. Oh Thursday morning, you came with much warning of what was to beeeee Oh Thursday Thursday, just fucking bring us to Friday already.

Posted by: joncelli at April 29, 2010 05:28 AM (RD7QR)

15 I'll be outside of Wrigley protesting that the Cubs squander so damn many scoring opportunities.

I'll be outside of the federal courthouse protesting that the State of Illinois, and in particular, the city of Chicago, are a criminal enterprise and the RICO statutes are not being enforced.

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 05:28 AM (QrA9E)

16 Those well-meaning nonprof people trying to help that woman's progeny . . . I hate to tell you guys this, but what you're trying to do can't be done. Really you can't help them nowadays. If you could take them from her and put them in a true orphanage, take away her parental rights completely, mebbe. But what you're doing is not helping them. The article seems to imply that she was gone - meaning the kids WERE in foster care - and then she returned. She probably does that at whim. and this is why people spend $40K and years of their lives to adopt internationally. Foster to adopt is hell on earth. The moms will come back, just to screw with you and their poor children. And then they'll split again. And then they'll come back. They could care less. Ever see "Nobody Knows?" It's Japanese, heartbreaking, and based on a true story. A story that happens here all the time.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 29, 2010 05:29 AM (SB0V2)

17 I see on Drudge that a proposed bill will require all New Yorkers to become organ donors.  Will someone donate to Dick Brodsky a brain?

Posted by: Fritz at April 29, 2010 05:30 AM (GwPRU)

18 "People are developing new drugs in India, rather than here. They're going to win the next Nobel Prize in China or in Europe, not here. If we want to have a future, we need to have more immigrants here."

Hmm is he trying to indict our education system.  The US can't win the nobel prize without immigrants cause what, we are too stupid?  He hit all the hot buttons, India, China, Europe....the people who are in our engineering schools because they are perceived to be smarter and better educated than American children?

Posted by: curious at April 29, 2010 05:30 AM (p302b)

19 For the love of Christ, bring the legal immigrants who want to make a contribution! I love them and want them to succeed. It's the ILLEGAL immigrants who are the problem. Or is this too much nuance for the liberals?

Posted by: joncelli at April 29, 2010 05:33 AM (RD7QR)

20 This should be in the headlines.  We're DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

Posted by: FUBAR at April 29, 2010 05:34 AM (1fanL)

21 Are you a "Cathy" fan?


Posted by: Sphynx at April 29, 2010 05:34 AM (xilNI)

22 the Cubs waste money on Carlos Silva, a pitcher who does nothing. 

Oh, and yea, the Cubs have an 18 million dollar a year set-up man named Carlos Zambrano.

Posted by: Mallamutt at April 29, 2010 09:29 AM (V9SYy)

Carlos Silva for Milton Bradley. That trade has worked out just fine. Silva has given the Cubs quality starts and Bradley is someone else's problem.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 29, 2010 05:35 AM (1Jaio)

Posted by: maddogg at April 29, 2010 05:36 AM (OlN4e)

24 David frum: I call upon all teenage pre pubescent girls to watch movies with non shirted boys and vampires. David Frum: I call upon Jim Cramer to shout, yell, scream and use sound effects in order to boost ratings on his show. David Frum: I call upon all astronomers to renounce Pluto as a planet. David Frum: A leader you can believe in.

Posted by: Phil at April 29, 2010 05:36 AM (jr7Cb)

25
Al Gore buys a 8.9 million dollar sprawling man$ion



In other news, Barack Obama says:
"I mean, I do think at a certain point youÂ’ve made enough money."
-- Barack Obama

(winking at his large corporate Wall Street donors who are about to be bailed out with tax-payer funds)


Aren't corruptocrats grand?


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at April 29, 2010 05:39 AM (0fzsA)

26 Hmm is he trying to indict our education system.  The US can't win the nobel prize without immigrants cause what, we are too stupid?  He hit all the hot buttons, India, China, Europe....the people who are in our engineering schools because they are perceived to be smarter and better educated than American children?

Posted by: curious at April 29, 2010 09:30 AM (p302b)

This is the same BS argument that is advanced by the likes of Billy Gates when he claims that he needs work visas for more immigrants because there are not enough engineers here in the US.

What he really means is that there are not enough engineers here in the US who will work for what he can get away with paying somebody in India, Pakistan, or Nigeria.  On that score he's right, but there is plenty of engineering talent right here in the US- unfortunately a lot of it is working as greeters at Wal-Mart or stacking lumber at Home Depot.

Posted by: Nighthawk at April 29, 2010 05:39 AM (OtQXp)

27

 "People are developing new drugs in India, rather than here. They're going to win the next Nobel Prize in China or in Europe, not here. If we want to have a future, we need to have more immigrants here."

Hmm is he trying to indict our education system.  The US can't win the nobel prize without immigrants cause what, we are too stupid?  He hit all the hot buttons, India, China, Europe....the people who are in our engineering schools because they are perceived to be smarter and better educated than American children?

Yeah because the uneducated guy from mexico city who is cutting your lawn has a great idea for a cure to AIDS.

 

Posted by: Ben at April 29, 2010 05:40 AM (wuv1c)

28
I could have sworn that today was supposed to be Wednesday.


Me too. Come on, Thursday, get it together.

Posted by: Golem14 at April 29, 2010 05:41 AM (2X8VA)

29

"I mean, I do think at a certain point youÂ’ve made enough money."

--Obama

Story at HotAir.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 29, 2010 05:41 AM (XdlcF)

30 Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Posted by: Slightly Irritated Caucasian voter at April 29, 2010 05:41 AM (N+Kix)

31 I'dsay it feels like a Tuesday, but Tuesday has no feel.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 29, 2010 05:41 AM (zgZzy)

32 Yea, your right, I probably shouldn't cheap shot Carlos....Bradley was and remains a basket case.

Oh, you think it's easy being named after a toy company?  Tell you what, smart guy, from now on, I'm gonna call you Mattelamutt.  Jerk.


Posted by: Milton Bradley at April 29, 2010 05:42 AM (1fanL)

33 Bitter black man clinging to his racism hates whitey New York Senators - video shows shouting match http://tinyurl.com/2dexopz

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at April 29, 2010 05:43 AM (YVZlY)

34 you have to donate your organs.........interesting......what will happen with these organs? i bet the state will make money off selling them.....you know they won't donate them to a deserving person.....and i bet they'll be expensive....i think i'll open an organ harvesting plant.....give me one eye, one lung, one kidney, half a liver, a patch of skin before you die and i'll give you money so you at least get something for your trouble......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 05:45 AM (ucxC/)

35

Or is this too much nuance for Thursday morning.

I love the smell of nuance on a Thursday morning.

Posted by: Tommy Gunnar at April 29, 2010 05:45 AM (rQTdM)

36

Oops.

Morning, Lemon Kitten!!

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 29, 2010 05:46 AM (XdlcF)

37 I suppose it's still no mas here re: blogging about the PR slight of hand bill up for a vote today...


Posted by: Barbarian at April 29, 2010 05:46 AM (EL+OC)

38 Are the Cubs mathematically eliminated yet?

Posted by: Jean at April 29, 2010 05:47 AM (vb5IK)

39 i bet they'll have quotas so watch out! we got a patient in room 3, came in with a headache but a strong heart......we haven't met our heart quota this month........

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 05:48 AM (ucxC/)

40 thursday morning smells like wednesday nights dinner....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 05:49 AM (ucxC/)

41 If you could take them from her and put them in a true orphanage, take away her parental rights completely, mebbe. But what you're doing is not helping them.

This. Feed, house, educate the children, but throw her out on the street. When she shows up at the ER to pop out the next one, take it into foster care immediately.

I don't understand this "children are better off with their biologically-related abusers (and what that woman with the 12 kids is doing is abuse) than with unrelated caring capable people" shit. It gets kids killed. Better dead than raised by white people? Really?

(...and compare this woman to the Duggars. They're not on welfare, but they get condemned daily. Oh, wait, they're white.)

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 05:50 AM (mR7mk)

42
Good morning to ya, Mama AJ!

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at April 29, 2010 05:50 AM (0fzsA)

43 thursday morning smells like wednesday nights dinner....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 09:49 AM (ucxC/)

Not if you don't let her spend the night.

Posted by: FUBAR at April 29, 2010 05:51 AM (1fanL)

44 David Frum: I call upon all boosters to declare disco dead. David Frum: I call upon Copernicus to assert a heliocentric interpretation of the universe. David Frum: I call upon all Nigerian princes to keep their money in a safe savings account. The Internet is no place to be wiring money. David Frum: A true leader you can believe in.

Posted by: Phil at April 29, 2010 05:51 AM (GgIAj)

45  "People are developing new drugs in India, rather than here. They're going to win the next Nobel Prize in China or in Europe, not here. If we want to have a future, we need to have more immigrants here."

Even with more immigrants, companies are going to keep moving the bulk of their work to India because India doesn't have the punative taxation and regulation on Evil Big Pharma (and now Evil Big Medical Device!) and businesses in general that the U.S. does.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 05:53 AM (mR7mk)

46 47 i bet they'll have quotas so watch out! we got a patient in room 3, came in with a headache but a strong heart......we haven't met our heart quota this month........

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 09:48 AM (ucxC/)

Makes you think, doesn't it?  They say that every generation lives like its grandparents, and it looks like they're right.  My grandparents feared going to the hospital because, in their day, when somebody went into the hospital they usually did not come out alive.  We may yet get back to that situation- although for much more sinister reasons.

Posted by: Nighthawk at April 29, 2010 05:53 AM (OtQXp)

47 I thought they were after feet and tonsils.

There's no market for tonsils.  They take those strictly for their trophy cases.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 05:53 AM (mR7mk)

48 David Frum: woops boosters = hipsters. I'd get a new computer with a better spell check but as you might have heard I am currently unemployed and these bills don't pay themselves. David frum: A true leader you can believe in.

Posted by: Phil at April 29, 2010 05:56 AM (GgIAj)

49 David Frum: I call for all pizza delivery men in pornos to carry extra sausage.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 29, 2010 05:56 AM (N+Kix)

50 David Frum: I call upon all boosters to declare disco dead.

Posted by: Phil at April 29, 2010 09:51 AM (GgIAj)

Wait.  What?

Posted by: Vinny Barbarino at April 29, 2010 05:56 AM (1fanL)

51

Ack! I could have sworn that today was supposed to be Wednesday.

 

Hope you're not late for court!!! 

Posted by: NC Ref at April 29, 2010 05:57 AM (IsbnQ)

52 26 Are you a "Cathy" fan?


Posted by: Sphynx at April 29, 2010 09:34 AM (xilNI)


or Bill the Cat

http://tinyurl.com/9dr7ss

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 05:58 AM (LdYLm)

53 I like to think I'm more Bill the Cat than Cathy. At least Bill knows who he is and what he's doing in life ...

Posted by: Joanna at April 29, 2010 05:59 AM (7+WuG)

54 David Frum: I call upon all future porn stars to avoid attending drama school. No one's watching for your Shakesperean interpretations of Hamlet.

Posted by: Phil at April 29, 2010 06:00 AM (GgIAj)

55 David Frum: I call for all courageous Americans to gather their families and move West! By wagon, foot, or horse, opportunity awaits!

Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 29, 2010 06:02 AM (N+Kix)

56 i wonder if you can pawn your own organ.....what's an organs shelf life?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 06:03 AM (ucxC/)

57

i wonder if you can pawn your own organ.....what's an organs shelf life?

 

 

For me, it's 30 seconds after the woman gets undressed.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 29, 2010 06:06 AM (zgZzy)

58

Posted by: Milton Bradley at April 29, 2010 09:42 AM (1fanL)

I loved your interview in Chicago last week. When you stated the real problem is not you but being that you're a black man and sports reporters are middle aged white men they can't understand you. So it's whitey and his racist cameras and microphones that make you look like a complete asshole.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 29, 2010 06:06 AM (1Jaio)

59 USED LIVER, AS IS. MAKE OFFER. CALL 1-555-555-HELL

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at April 29, 2010 06:08 AM (YVZlY)

60

Ahhh, Thursday. The start of my 3 day weekend!

Eerrr, sorry peoples...

Posted by: HH at April 29, 2010 06:09 AM (6oDXl)

61 68 i wonder if you can pawn your own organ.....what's an organs shelf life?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 10:03 AM (ucxC/)

 

It depends.  Was it made by Hammod?

(Those last a long time and they have all those switches...)

Posted by: Warthog at April 29, 2010 06:09 AM (WDySP)

62 ugh. 6 hours of meetings today and then three hours of school tonight.  I hate today.

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 06:09 AM (4yrb2)

63

Can we have your liver, then?

 

(It says in the event of death...)

Posted by: Liver Donors Card Assoc. at April 29, 2010 06:10 AM (WDySP)

64 Recap

Wall Street banks are now lining up behind the "it's the spending stupid" policy push.

Progressives are doubling down on "the opponents are a bunch of racist haters".

The candidates that back federalism are building leads in Congressional races.

Al Gore is bought a 8 million dollar pad with 9 fucking bathrooms.

Posted by: wtfci at April 29, 2010 06:12 AM (+zo63)

65 Holy shit.  FKOTUS is dressed appropriately for a funeral!

Guessing her handlers put some thought into it since the deceased was an NAACP leader and not an icky soldier or rich white guy.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 06:14 AM (mR7mk)

66

 This should be in the headlines.  We're DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

Oh for crying out loud. When does it ever end?

Posted by: HH at April 29, 2010 06:17 AM (6oDXl)

67 71

Cartoons are limited to only 2:  Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy.  Worst Cartoon ever: close race between Mary Worth and Funky Winkerbean.

 

Posted by: Mallamutt at April 29, 2010 10:07 AM (V9SYy)

Ever check out the Comics Curmudgeon? It will give you a new appreciation for the subtle irony and soul-crushing despair that is  Mary Worth and Funky Winkerbean.


Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 06:18 AM (LdYLm)

68 So I gather that the NFL players association and MSM are turning the Dez Bryant interview (in which the Dolphin's guy asked him if his mom was/is a prostitute) into a racial thing. 

Let me get this straight.  Dez's mom was a convicted crack dealer who had him at 15, but asking if she was also a whore is somehow racially insensitive? 

Sorry, I just don't get it, particularly when you consider some of the other questions asked of recruits during their interviews:

Defensive Tackle Gerald McCoy - "Do you play in a G-string or a jock strap?"
 
Safety Myron Rolle - "What was it like to desert your team?"
 
Running Back Toby Gerhart - "Do you feel entitled because you're a white running back?"

What am I missing here, guys?

Posted by: Y-not at April 29, 2010 06:18 AM (Kn9r7)

69

Organs.

Went to a family reunion in Ohio a few years back. Went to church where they played their brand new organ, 350K worth of sound. After the organist played a piece by Bach, the place erupted like a rock concert. She played an encore.

As a musician, I was verily impressed.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 29, 2010 06:20 AM (i3AsK)

70 Cartoons are limited to only 2:  Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy.  Worst Cartoon ever: close race between Mary Worth and Funky Winkerbean.

You need to check out SMBC on th web. It's hilarious.

And when speaking of the worst comics ever, let us not forget Family Circus.

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 06:22 AM (4yrb2)

71 backwards boy we got a new organ but i think it was only 200k unfortunately we didn't get a new organist so it sounds like 5 bucks from the goodwill store.........

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 29, 2010 06:22 AM (ucxC/)

72 86

Organs.

Went to a family reunion in Ohio a few years back. Went to church where they played their brand new organ, 350K worth of sound. After the organist played a piece by Bach, the place erupted like a rock concert. She played an encore.

As a musician, I was verily impressed.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 29, 2010 10:20 AM (i3AsK)

I-ron Butterfly, best church organ solo ever.

http://tinyurl.com/ygm3bg7

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 06:23 AM (LdYLm)

73

Child welfare officials in Tampa said they were helping the family because of the children, despite Adams' attitude that the government owed her

It's always "for the children."  Always.  Never for the dirt bag adults who spawn them.  Time to get over it.  Life is unfair.  The unwillingness of Americas to allow people to live with the logical consequences of horrible decisions is the root of this.  We need to learn that life is tragic - if those children starve, they have only their mother to blame.

If we want to stop this, while accomodating our insistence that every child be fed, there is only one way.  Make surgical sterilization a precondition for welfare/social assistance.  If we don't, the outcome is inevitable.  The welfare scum will continue to breed like rats - well above replacement, while the productive reproduce below replacement.  The ed system doesn't do anything to fix them any more - so the old path of social mobility is out.  They will swamp us, eating away the stuff of our substance like locusts, until they destroy it all, eat up the seed, and doom us.  Then they will starve anyway - we prevent nothing.  We just delay the inevitable, just as we seem to do with every hard issue these days.

Posted by: Reactionary at April 29, 2010 06:24 AM (xUM1Q)

74 This place is dead before noon.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 29, 2010 06:24 AM (N+Kix)

75 Let me get this straight.  Dez's mom was a convicted crack dealer who had him at 15, but asking if she was also a whore is somehow racially insensitive? 

What am I missing here, guys?

Posted by: Y-not at April 29, 2010 10:18 AM (Kn9r7)

I don't know about the racial aspect, but it's never appropriate to ask if your mama was a whore.  And in a job interview?  I might've smacked somebody in the mouth.

Posted by: Vinny Barbarino at April 29, 2010 06:24 AM (1fanL)

76 Ugh I can't believe I still have 9 more of these crap meetings to do between now and the end of next week.

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 06:25 AM (4yrb2)

77 And when speaking of the worst comics ever, let us not forget Family Circus.

It has some entertaining variants.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 06:26 AM (mR7mk)

78 HH -- so the way they are going to "hide the decline" is to blame our inability to clean up non-greenhouse gases.

Posted by: Jean at April 29, 2010 06:27 AM (PjevJ)

79 Has anyone played the modified original super mario brothers some guy just made?

Rather than play as mario, you can play as Link, Samus, the contra guy-complete with spread gun, simon belmont from catlvania, and even mega man.

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 06:27 AM (4yrb2)

80

PGirl, that's a shame. That organ was one of the best sounding instruments I've ever heard: bass you could feel in your chest and high freqencies that were oh so clear. No doubling at all. Louder than hell, too. Which was good, since the congregation was *ahem* seasoned.

 

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 29, 2010 06:27 AM (i3AsK)

81

Funky Winkerbean

There was a run of comics in 1996 which went: Montoni, owner of a pizza place, was listening to right-wing radio. Montoni says "he's just exercising his first amendment rights"; Funky, title character, responded "I feel like when he exercises his rights that I'm going to lose mine". Punchline? That was the punchline - Funky's last word was that in order to save the First Amendment we have to allow it only for people like him.

Further on that week, Funky's girl (who had breast cancer) went into the women's clinic and it got firebombed by someone you don't see, but had white hands. The connection here was obvious: right-wing radio, of the type even a sympathetic character like Montoni would hear, causes terrorism.

Batiuk got what he wanted: a nice long tongue-bath from the MSM, for instance "WHEN REALITY BITES, `FUNKY' REFLECTS DISTURBING TRENDS" by Mike Precker.

Posted by: Zimriel at April 29, 2010 06:27 AM (9Sbz+)

82 Referendum against immigration law could delay implementation by yearsA citizen referendum could put ArizonaÂ’s new illegal immigration law on hold for more than two years, depending on when its organizers turn in the required number of valid signatures...

...The implementation of a new law is put on hold when a referendum on the law qualifies for the ballot. If the Secretary of StateÂ’s Office is unable to verify the validity of the signatures on One ArizonaÂ’s referendum in time for the Nov. 2 election, it would go to voters in the 2012 general election, meaning S1070 would not take effect for more than two years...

...Assistant Secretary of State Jim Drake said the Legislature could essentially invalidate the ballot measureÂ’s hold on S1070 by amending the law. But One Arizona or another opposition group could simply file a new referendum against the amended law and put the bill on hold once again, he said.

Posted by: Deety at April 29, 2010 06:28 AM (aVzyR)

83 94 And when speaking of the worst comics ever, let us not forget Family Circus.

It has some entertaining variants.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 10:26 AM (mR7mk)


My favorite in that vein is Garfield minus Garfield

http://tinyurl.com/26oahod

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 06:30 AM (LdYLm)

84 so the way they are going to "hide the decline" is to blame our inability to clean up non-greenhouse gases.

Why not? It would be just another lie in a long list of lies. The real air quality, as measured by real pollution, is the cleanest it has been in 200 years.

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 06:31 AM (QrA9E)

85 So I heard that San Francisco is giving a $1000 and citizenship papers to illegal aliens who show up by May 5.  Pass it on.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 29, 2010 06:31 AM (7VvJB)

86

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 10:23 AM (LdYLm)

Keith Emerson also recorded the Royal Festival Hall organ on the first ELP album.

The Commitments has a funny scene of the keyboard player playing A Whiter Shade of Pale on a church organ.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 29, 2010 06:32 AM (i3AsK)

87

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 10:23 AM (LdYLm)

I just knew someone was going to link that!

Love it.

Posted by: HH at April 29, 2010 06:32 AM (6oDXl)

88 WASHINGTON – Five states — New York, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida — are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats because of lackluster participation in the U.S. census.

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 06:33 AM (LdYLm)

89

I misremembered - it was Les and not Funky who was delivering the line about the eeeevils of Hate Radio.

Who cares. In F.W., the characters don't have personalities of their own; they are just mouthpieces for a hack who can't write. Even if you disagreed with (say) Bloom County, its characters were instantly recognisable from one another.

Posted by: Zimriel at April 29, 2010 06:33 AM (9Sbz+)

90 If you're in a meeting and someone uses the phrases" wears a lot of different hats" you can be assured that each and everyone is just a different colored dunce cap.

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 06:33 AM (4yrb2)

91 Guessing her handlers put some thought into it since the deceased was an NAACP leader and not an icky soldier or rich white guy.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 10:14 AM (mR7mk)

So I see that this civil rights person's memorial service is today.  That explains why the flags on the government buildings are at half staff in DC today- but it shouldn't.

I'm beginning to get really annoyed with this administration's political manipulation of flag etiquette.  In the past two weeks they've lowered the flag for: 1) a memorial on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing (while the administration seeks to portray Tea Partiers as "domestic terrorists") and now 2) in memory of some 1960's civil rights activist (while the administration seeks to tar opponents of open borders as "racists").

This kind of manipulation of our flag and all it represents is something that really pisses me off.  These people will use ANYTHING to advance their d@mn agenda. Nothing, not even our flag, is sacred.

I don't have the words to fully express my contempt for this bunch of vermin.

Posted by: Nighthawk at April 29, 2010 06:34 AM (OtQXp)

92

Posted by: Milton Bradley at April 29, 2010 09:42 AM (1fanL)

I loved your interview in Chicago last week. When you stated the real problem is not you but being that you're a black man and sports reporters are middle aged white men they can't understand you. So it's whitey and his racist cameras and microphones that make you look like a complete asshole.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 29, 2010 10:06 AM (1Jaio)

Milton is one of the craziest fucks ever to play baseball, which is really saying something.  The funny thing is that he usually plays well after being traded, but the countdown to meltdown is always on.  He may end up playing for more teams than Kenny Lofton did.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 29, 2010 06:37 AM (V5s1P)

93 Even with more immigrants, companies are going to keep moving the bulk of their work to India because India doesn't have the punative taxation and regulation on Evil Big Pharma (and now Evil Big Medical Device!) and businesses in general that the U.S. does.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 29, 2010 09:53 AM (mR7mk)

Cheaper Indian scientists, educated on the taxpayer dime, willing to live in a slightly less grinding poverty than their neighbor in exchange for their hard work, have more to do with it.  If they want to market drugs in the US they still have to get FDA approval.  What is also under-reported is that China has passed a law mandating that R&D facilities be moved there.  And we do nothing to retaliate.  The free-trade idea is great when there's a level playing field, but that's not what we have.  The prosperity that is our heritage/legacy as Westerners, provided by our ancestors without the slightest help from the Indians, Chinese, etc. is being shipped over seas.  Stolen and destroyed.  Those of us who think that the people making modern civilization possibe should also enjoy some of the first fruits thereof are the ones in trouble - enemy nations are doing all they can to destroy our economy and our technological edge.  They have no regard for trade laws, intellectual property rights, or the welfare of their own people.  In the end they will kill the golden goose, and fall back into the same squallor they have had before - but this time we'll be stuck down there with them until we learn to shut them out.

Posted by: Reactionary at April 29, 2010 06:37 AM (xUM1Q)

94

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 10:33 AM (4yrb2)

So taylork, I might have missed it yesterday, but what are all these meetings about that you have to attend?

Posted by: HH at April 29, 2010 06:37 AM (6oDXl)

95 If you're in a meeting and someone uses the phrases" wears a lot of different hats" you can be assured that each and everyone is just a different colored dunce cap.

I had a phrase for management who spouted crap like that as well;

Management by slogan, it keeps the consultants busy and rich.

Examples: Work smarter not harder; Quality is number 1; Salary compression; we are working on a new paradigm,

the list is endless

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 06:37 AM (QrA9E)

96 112 If you're in a meeting and someone uses the phrases" wears a lot of different hats" you can be assured that each and everyone is just a different colored dunce cap.

I had a phrase for management who spouted crap like that as well;

Management by slogan, it keeps the consultants busy and rich.

Examples: Work smarter not harder; Quality is number 1; Salary compression; we are working on a new paradigm,

the list is endless

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 10:37 AM (QrA9E)

Moving the cheese, Total Quality Management, Sigma Six

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 06:39 AM (LdYLm)

97

Management by slogan, it keeps the consultants busy and rich.

Along with other idiotic corporate-speak:

Apples to apples comparison.

Think outside the box.

At the end of the day.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 29, 2010 06:41 AM (DrWcr)

98 Ludicrous and Vic, Boeing just moved you down a color for those comments.

Posted by: Jean at April 29, 2010 06:41 AM (vb5IK)

99 Synergy Vic, synergy.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 29, 2010 06:42 AM (N+Kix)

100 WASHINGTON – Five states — New York, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida — are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats because of lackluster participation in the U.S. census. Massachusetts better lose at least 1 seat

Posted by: fluff me Baby, all night long at April 29, 2010 06:42 AM (4Kl5M)

101 If the founding fathers were alive today, Obama the libs would laugh at them, accuse them of racism, and misuse their Constitution to silence them.

Posted by: conscious and hates libs at April 29, 2010 06:42 AM (YVZlY)

102 Avenues of communication Maximize output Human resource devolopment

Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 29, 2010 06:44 AM (N+Kix)

103 Examples: Work smarter not harder; Quality is number 1; Salary compression; we are working on a new paradigm,

the list is endless

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 10:37 AM (QrA9E)

Moving the cheese, Total Quality Management, Sigma Six

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 10:39 AM (LdYLm) 

Just go here: http://tinyurl.com/yjzcuzq and you're done for the day!

Posted by: Nighthawk at April 29, 2010 06:44 AM (OtQXp)

104 it's never appropriate to ask if your mama was a whore.  And in a job interview?  I might've smacked somebody in the mouth

Did your momma have 3 kids by the age of 19 and support them by dealing crack? 

Seriously.  Where's the outrage?  She was a crack dealer, he's had violence and behavior issues since his teens, and he was suspended for violating NCAA regulations, but appending "whore" to the accurate description of his mother as a "crack dealer" is outrageous?  How many 19 year old female crack dealers aren't whores, anyway? 

These are not standard job interviews.  The questions asked of the other players demonstrates that.  But somehow a line was crossed with this guy because why... he's black!  It seems to me that the assumptions or questions about Dez's mother are less about racial stereotypes and more about patterns of behavior of this skanky family. 

Posted by: Y-not at April 29, 2010 06:45 AM (Kn9r7)

105 Examples: Work smarter not harder; Quality is number 1; Salary compression; we are working on a new paradigm,

the list is endless

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 10:37 AM (QrA9E)

Moving the cheese, Total Quality Management, Sigma Six

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 29, 2010 10:39 AM (LdYLm)

LOL @ all the flavors of the month.  I remember working at the third rate utility when a buddy of mine and I would listen to one of his underlings who bought into the TQM garbage, claiming how it "empowered" him.  We laughed and said "Fuck that shit; management is just tossing you a bone and will do whatever the hell they want when it comes time to real decison making".  Needless to say, we were proven correct.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 29, 2010 06:46 AM (V5s1P)

106 So taylork, I might have missed it yesterday, but what are all these meetings about that you have to attend?

Public schools action plan defenses.  Basically, failing schools with inept principals and staff make an improvement plan that needs to be defended in front of equally inept school administrators that like the sound of their own voice. These things were supposed to be 1.5 hours each, but the fuckers like to talk so much they last 3 hours.

I'm her because I pulled all the performance data that these school used to write the plan, but the administration is too stupid to understand. Seriously, the chair of the meeting keeps printing out the same incorrect, highly misleading data even though and asking why it doesn't match up to the stuff I gave the schools. I have repeatedly told hr that she's not using the right data sourc but she keeps doing it again and again.


Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 06:46 AM (4yrb2)

107

If the founding fathers were alive today, Obama the libs would laugh at them, accuse them of racism, and misuse their Constitution to silence them.

Depends. If Obaman & Co. were sent back in time, I doubt any laughing would occur. If the founders were sent ahead in time, then maybe. But I wouldn'd count on them being laughed at.

Posted by: HH at April 29, 2010 06:46 AM (6oDXl)

108

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 10:46 AM (4yrb2)

Man, good luck. I know Missouri has been hit hard, and they are not kidding around about funding and closing schools.

Looks like you are going to have your work cut out for you.

Posted by: HH at April 29, 2010 06:52 AM (6oDXl)

109 118 If the Founding Fathers came forward to today -- it would be hard to drag them out a modern gun shop

Posted by: Jean at April 29, 2010 06:53 AM (tTdaQ)

110 When I started working 25yrs ago the buzz was Statistical Process Control based on Deming's work and the fact the Japanese were kicking our asses in quality. They have since taken what is a simple set of rules and buzz worded them to death. Every 6-8 yrs like clockwork a new term for SPC is generated and a new crop of consultants is enriched. Actual quality is unchanged or goes down as the result of the money spent.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 29, 2010 06:56 AM (tf9Ne)

111 Public schools action plan defenses.  Basically, failing schools with inept principals and staff make an improvement plan that needs to be defended in front of equally inept school administrators that like the sound of their own voice. These things were supposed to be 1.5 hours each, but the fuckers like to talk so much they last 3 hours.

 

I'm sure they value your input and they want to be proactive in dealing with real world solutions.

Which means they want to protect their humbug jobs and are looking for someone to throw under the bus.




Posted by: huerfano at April 29, 2010 06:57 AM (oSrBX)

112 These things were supposed to be 1.5 hours each, but the fuckers like to talk so much they last 3 hours. -- there some "low hanging fruit" right there, get up and walk out at 1.5 -- time is money.

Posted by: Jean at April 29, 2010 06:58 AM (pIKTP)

113

Man, good luck. I know Missouri has been hit hard, and they are not kidding around about funding and closing schools.

Looks like you are going to have your work cut out for you.


This is really pissing m off. I  manage and analyze the data for over 300 schools and now I have 9 days worth of missed work screwing with this stuff.


Plus I was up until 3am watching the basketball and playing video games. I figured I might as well be mentally useless if they're go to stick me in a meeting where I can't get anything done.

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 06:59 AM (4yrb2)

114 I have repeatedly told hr that she's not using the right data sourc but she keeps doing it again and again.

If she is Management she is giving you a hint; you need to massage the numbers to fit "her" solution and then take the heat if it comes to light.

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 06:59 AM (QrA9E)

115 These things were supposed to be 1.5 hours each, but the fuckers like to talk so much they last 3 hours. -- there some "low hanging fruit" right there, get up and walk out at 1.5 -- time is money.

Can't they're offsite meetings so I'm stuck here.

Posted by: taylork at April 29, 2010 07:02 AM (4yrb2)

116 Thursday. Best known as the day preceding Friday. Last actual work day of the weak, as Friday is pretend to work day. First day on the down hill side of the week. Nobody ever writes songs about unsung Thursday. People don't get married on Thursday. The lost day. The forgotten day. What can you say about Thursday that can't be said in one sentence? Am I rambling? Well. it's effin' Thursday fer crissake......

Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday.  Eating until the tryptophan takes over, then napping during the football game.  No work the next day means sleeping in while the missus abuses the credit cards.  Nice.

From now on, we will just call you crazy. I mean, you were probably the only guy in the history of Major League baseball to get injured arguing with an umpire.

Other great Cubs' injuries:  Steve Trout falling off a stationary bike.  Sammy Sosa pulling a back muscle sneezing.

Posted by: CUS at April 29, 2010 07:04 AM (wOGfT)

117 When the Rick Perry vs Coyote thing came out, I remembered this thing from Larue Tactical, but couldn't find the link until this morning.

Love him or hate him, but there's something awesome about a modern politician who's willing to be photographed shooting sub-1" groups with a bunch of AR pattern rifles.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 29, 2010 07:15 AM (ZSVyF)

118

2.  Prince Valiant (you are down to once a week - just go peacefully)

It has certainly been a while, but Prince Valiant was always only on Sundays.

And a number of years ago, I read some collection books of those comics drawn by Vince Foster and they were just stunning.

I really didn't know it was still being produced.

Well, so much for me keeping up with the local paper...

Posted by: HH at April 29, 2010 07:15 AM (6oDXl)

119

Seen a number of recent clips with the President wearing a suit but no tie. If you're not going to put on an effin tie, at least sing the Internationale and carry a sickle.

And could someone take Carl Levin and get him a pair of specs that work. This glasses at the end of the nose thing went out with Charlie Weaver. At least Charlie had the benefit of being endearing.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at April 29, 2010 07:20 AM (qwK3S)

120 Fox just had Judd Gregg (remember the R that Obama wanted to nominate for an office) on to discuss the R rollover on the BS financial bill. Yes good old Judd Gregg with a lifetime ACU rating of 79 and 2009 of 81.

He said the repugs got "improvement in the 50B bailout provision wording. That is absolute BS spin. The original call was to get rid of that all together.

The word yesterday from the committee members was they got NOTHING and that was why they agreed to go to the floor because it was going nowhere.

This is typical Fox. All the Rs that talk are squishies.

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2010 07:22 AM (QrA9E)

121 It is simple - you can't manage what you can't measure, that which cannot be measured needs leadership or a thick wall and a remote interlock.

Posted by: Jean at April 29, 2010 07:22 AM (tJF9l)

122 Posted by: Mallamutt at April 29, 2010 11:09 AM (V9SYy)

Is Doonesbury still around?  If so, that needs to die in a fire.

Posted by: CUS at April 29, 2010 07:24 AM (wOGfT)

123

And could someone take Carl Levin and get him a pair of specs that work. This glasses at the end of the nose thing went out with Charlie Weaver. At least Charlie had the benefit of being endearing.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at April 29, 2010 11:20 AM (qwK3S)

His aides must really hate him for not pointing out what a pinheaded dork those things make him look like.  Of course by not openly ridiculing that hilarious combover probably means that he's not looking for honesty in employees, like that's any great surprise.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 29, 2010 07:25 AM (V5s1P)

124 David Frum: I call for everyone to support the end of the infield fly rule.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at April 29, 2010 07:28 AM (qwK3S)

125 David Frum: I call for everyone to declare "In the Garden of Eden" the best Iron Butterfly song ever.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at April 29, 2010 07:29 AM (qwK3S)

Posted by: Dan at April 29, 2010 07:40 AM (9L1z6)

127

 Prince Valiant was always only on Sundays.

Just looking at the reality of things, those terrific paintings didn't look nearly as good in the considerably reduced format of the modern funny-papers, half-covered by a fold-in ad page. Like an AP half-tone of a Bosch triptych.

But when my local ("One of America's Great Newspapers") dropped it, they were besieged with letters of complaint. Their ombudsman's answer? If you're a fan, it's available on-line.

I have since discovered that virtually everything that was in that paper is available on-line, so I suppose I should be thanking them for that information.

Did someone make a list of cartoons that need to die, and leave Doonesbury out?

Posted by: comatus at April 29, 2010 08:02 AM (/VEEI)

128 The front page of Yahoo today has a story on the NASA balloon crash - with a pop-over ad that splats a piece of pizza on your screen. Impossible to capture - but funny.

Posted by: Jean at April 29, 2010 08:10 AM (vb5IK)

129

MASSIVE ORGAN PR0N.

Meyerson @ Dallas, TX.

Posted by: reason at April 29, 2010 08:16 AM (q/kmn)

130 Hey curious, I've gotta ask...you got some PB for your 'nanner today?

Posted by: reason at April 29, 2010 08:17 AM (q/kmn)

131 Table II: Comics that need to be ended with every charachter dying a slow and painful death:

12. Peanuts
I mothah fucking hate Peanuts. Never saw a single funny strip.

13. Marmaduke
Oh, lookz, teh dahg is in troublez again! Dog needs to be hit by a car driven by a drunk Andy Capp.

14. Drabble
Hahaha, you're 64 years old living with your parents. That's a riot. Die.

15. Momma
Teh Fuck? Seriously? OH, I get it. She's old. And crotchety. Hmmm, well that's different then. I take it all back.

16+ Broom Hilda, Dennis the Menace, Wizard of Id, Crock, Beetle Bailey, and all the rest of you 400 year old recycled, creators long since dead, clip-art mothah fuckers. Be gone and never return!

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at April 29, 2010 08:31 AM (zgd5N)

132

I mothah fucking hate Peanuts. Never saw a single funny strip.

It's not supposed to be funny. Peanuts is about pathos, not comedy.

Except maybe for when Snoopy fights the Red Baron. But even then he's a soldier far from home, and lonely. So yeah.

Posted by: Joanna at April 29, 2010 08:51 AM (7+WuG)

133

You know what brought teh funnay?  Jon hitting on Garfield's veterinarian.

Posted by: reason at April 29, 2010 09:20 AM (XiVKO)

134 "154 Hey curious, I've gotta ask...you got some PB for your 'nanner today?

Posted by: reason at April 29, 2010 12:17 PM (q/kmn)"

and chocolate syrup and regular multi colored sprinkles, not just chocolate one...thought it would be too much chocolate today.   I decided the peanut butter is good for you, it has protein and the banana is better than a piece of chocolate cake, lol......

Posted by: curious at April 29, 2010 09:24 AM (p302b)

135

You've made my day, curious.

Excellent choice on the multi-color jimmies. 

Posted by: reason at April 29, 2010 09:31 AM (XiVKO)

136 Rebel-Biker Rose is hawt.

Posted by: reason at April 29, 2010 09:37 AM (XiVKO)

137

"Garfield eating the lasagna!"

OH!  You're right!  Man, I almost forgot about that.

Oh!  Oh!  And that one time when it was Monday, and he didn't want to get out of bed?  HILARIOUS.  You know, because it's true!

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