1 Fookin Monday.....

2 Re Ammo Shortage link

A couple of weeks ago I talked to a local gun dealer who told me the ammo shortage was now easing. At least here in SC.

3 so.... Survivor Morons?

4 Monday, monday. 

Here's a top BS story for today.

Iran agrees atom fuel deal with Turkey, Brazil

Iran agreed with mediators Brazil and Turkey on Monday it would send some of its uranium abroad, abruptly ending its refusal to countenance such a deal just as the U.N. Security Council readied tougher sanctions.

Wonder if they need just a few more months to machine-assemble the nuclear bomb casings, or if they're sending their uranium abroad so that it's not destroyed by an Israeli strike.

/In the end, there will be only chaos.

5 Re drinking vodka through the eyes

Why is it that Morons continually find ways to really destroy themselves? This has got to be the most stupid fad to come along in a long time. It even beats huffing crap in a brown paper sack.

6 Has B+rry returned all his BP campaign contributions?

7


Apologizing to an oppressive totalitarian communist regime about a state in your union enforcing immigration policy that the federal government refuses to is just common sense and the reason why the Democrats will pick up at least 500 k seats in Congress this fall.

8 Another week, another industry Obama's buddy Chavez decides to take over.

via sda.

9 Epantsipation!!

10 #5  Why is it that Morons continually find ways to really destroy themselves? This has got to be the most stupid fad to come along in a long time. It even beats huffing crap in a brown paper sack.

Natural selection in action.  We need to let stupid people feel the consequences of their actions.

11 My wife is still unemployed after a year...

So to you Democrats I say

FUCK YOU!   NOVEMBER IS COMING YOU FUCKING BALLOON KNOTS!


..Been living with in-laws for over a year now due to this AWESOME fuckin economy, but we have a president who cares more about criminal aliens than he does about his own (That is to say the people who happen to have been living here while he fooled the nation) citizens.

Barack is not an American.

No American would be on this kind of a socialist rampage.

Fuck wad "President"..

12 I hope bourbon enemas become the next big craze.

13 Wait, there's a companion story to the nuke-fuel swap deal

Iran says will continue 20 percent enrichment

"There is no relation between the swap deal and our enrichment activities ... We will continue our 20 percent uranium enrichment work," said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation.

50 pesos says Barracky falls for it. 

14 The fact that people are getting drunk by pouring vodka in their eyes means that the Democrats will gain 50 seats in November.

15 Valu-Rite is waaaay too toxic to put in your eyes. Although, now I understand how the phrase "blind drunk" may have gotten started

16 Remind me again why your president was apologizing to the CHINESE for the Arizona immigration law.....

17 yes, I do believe the StarCraft scandal could get worse:

http://tinyurl.com/2e74ecj

18 16 Valu-Rite is waaaay too toxic to put in your eyes. Although, now I understand how the phrase "blind drunk" may have gotten started

That, or people were going blind due to the methanol in badly distilled sour-mash.

13 I hope bourbon enemas become the next big craze.

Weren't some women soaking tampons in alcohol and then inserting them?  That may have been an ONT topic a while ago.

19 Monday. Feh.

20

I prefer inserting tampons into myself that have been soaked in LSD, its just common sense.

21 19 yes, I do believe the StarCraft scandal could get worse:

The prosecution indicted 11 former and current professional players of StarCraft, one of the most popular military strategy computer games developed by Blizzard Entertainment, for deliberately losing matches for financial gains. It is the first time ever that fixing of what is called electronic sports (e-sports) in Korea has been detected.

What other Blizzard game tournaments have been "fixed" in S. Korea?  Warcraft?  Diablo? 

22 the StarCraft scandal

Nerds!

23

Picker upper - Amazing American Heroes!

http://tinyurl.com/2cudkz9

My eyes well up every time I read a story like this about our amazing troops! 

As Joe would say (and he'd be right for once) G-d luv 'em.

via Instapundit

24 Remind me again why your president was apologizing to the CHINESE for the Arizona immigration law.....

He's an ignorant douchebag.  Next question?

25 Sage words: The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen.
http://tinyurl.com/22umqsq

26 All this stuff about the vodka reminds me of when I was a kid and they still used mimeograph machines to copy stuff in school.

When the teacher would pass out the freshly made copies we would all hold them up to our face and breath the fumes.

27

Posted by: fartbubble at May 17, 2010 10:03 AM (gAmQ1)

The things you learn here at AoS. What kills me is people were being paid to lose!

Damn, and here I was losing for free all these years!!!

Gonna have to look at Korea a little more closely from here on out...

28 #24  Nerds!

Shut up, fool!  I'm Mr. T and I'm a Night Elf Mohawk.  What's your game?!?!

29 What other Blizzard game tournaments have been "fixed" in S. Korea?  Warcraft?  Diablo? 

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 17, 2010 10:07 AM (9hSKh)

there is only StarCraft in South Korea

Nerds!

Posted by: Fred Palowakski at May 17, 2010 10:07 AM (4WbTI)

maybe but they do regularly get about a million viewers for the big tournaments. Outside of baseball, it's THE defacto sport

30 Just like carbon credits - organized crime moves in fast

31 25

Picker upper - Amazing American Heroes!

http://tinyurl.com/2cudkz9

My eyes well up every time I read a story like this about our amazing troops! 

As Joe would say (and he'd be right for once) G-d luv 'em.

via Instapundit

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at May 17, 2010 10:07 AM (RkRxq)

Damn it, I love those men.

32 organized crime moves in fast

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2010 10:13 AM (6Njk9)

I wouldn't say fast, they've been gaga over Starcraft for almost 10 years now

33 More on the cellphone/brain cancer link "study" getting so much press recently.

34

Damn it, I love those men.

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at May 17, 2010 10:14 AM (zqzYV)

Sarah would agree.  She'd say "You betcha!!"

35 This morning NPR news reported an Iraqi cleric who preached that his people needed to fight against Al Qaeda was found beheaded, but I can't find anything about it online. Anyone?  It kinda stood out, because I could have sworn NPR used to take the position that there were no Al Qaeda in Iraq.  *cough*


Meanwhile...
Chomsky blocked from entering Israel

Good for them.

36 You know, that shit about us apologizing to China for Arizona's immigration law?  That is so depressingly stupid, I can't bring myself to read about it.

37 Hot Air has a post up re Darth Cheney's endorsement of Meg Whitman.

If anyone can explain Ed's "logic" to me, I'm all ears. 

38 My Monday is being very Monday.  Someone is trying to start an intraoffice fight with me and I'm trying really hard to be the better person and let it go.  Odds of that being successful are approximately 0%.

39 Posted by: MelodicMetal at May 17, 2010 09:55 AM

Two years here.  No prospects in sight. 

Things may change this summer, but for now I'm just grateful that we are making ends meet on one salary. 

40 A bit peeved this morning at Laura Bush's support of Kagan.

41 Dozens feared killed in India Maoist attack

Damn capitalist teabaggers.  Oh, wait.

42

Now this is a burka I can support.

http://tinyurl.com/29og38z

 

43 43 A bit peeved this morning at Laura Bush's support of Kagan.

Meh.  First ladies' positions never worry me much.  I didn't vote for them and, with the possible exception of Shrillary, they really don't matter much. 

I like Laura and am sure she has been, on the balance, a great influence on George, but she really should stay out of politics and stick with soft issues. 

44

Laura Bush has been doing that "well, I was a democrat all along" shit for a while now.  You are so "with-it," laura!  She thinks it makes her a better, more likeable person.  I don't like her at all.  It was clear she was like this when she came out publically in support of the NEA. 

Figures, based on the non-conservatism of Bush.

45 Hot Air has a post up re Darth Cheney's endorsement of Meg Whitman. If anyone can explain Ed's "logic" to me, I'm all ears. Posted by: Y-not Hmmm, tempting, but me no go there anymore.

46 Arizona acted stupidly.

47 48, Are you saying she was a mole?

48 Posted by: eman at May 17, 2010 10:25 AM

-----

Basically, he says that Cheney's endorsement is "late" (which it isn't since we CA voters have just received our absentee ballots in the mail as well as the GOP platform position mailing) and also says it hurts Whitman because, get this, if she was as good a candidate as he says, she wouldn't need his endorsement.

Ed has really jumped the shark. 

49

Are you saying she was a mole?

She wasn't much help.  Plus, she looks like Dr. Zira.

50 No other Survivor morons??

My wife predicted Sandra would win.  I thought Parvati would.

Russel is such a dumb ass.  He truly feels since backstabbing and cheating is part of the Survivor game, that, in the end, all the people he cheated and stabbed in the back will somehow "respect" him for playing the game well.  What a fucking weasel.

This is the second time he's played the exact same game, with the same results.

---------

And by the way.. it's always amazing how hot the Survivor babes look at the final hour back in the states once they got all the grime washed off and had a few good meals!

51 Y-not, Thanks. You are most kind. Yeah, that sounds like Ed.

52 Are we gonna have a countdown to good bye Spector?

53 btw, here's the link to Cheney's endorsement

54 I know exactly how the whole "drinking though the eyeballs" thing came about: some drunk tried to take a swig of vodka, missed his mouth, and said "I meant to do that!"

55 arg!  sorry: this is it http://tinyurl.com/24cub67

I can't get the friggin link thingy to work lately

56

I never cared to read Ed.  Never saw anything appealing there.  Not funny.  Not interesting.  He does work hard at keeping up with the news, though.  But, what good is climbing the mountain if you come back with empty pockets?

Hannitized.

57 Morning morons.  Anyone else sick of the fucking rain??  Rained literally all weekend here in the wonderful show me state.  Yeah, show me ANOTHER state, cuz I'm sick of this one.

58 @61
Where are you?
We've had "marine layer" out here in San Gabriel foothills of Cali, but not rain for a couple of days.

59 The New Yorker interviews Breitbart.

Writer learns nothing from her experience, of course.

60

Seems like the alcohol on the eyes would hurt like hell.

61 Y-not I live in the Kansas City area.  We seem to have this system that just won't leave. Hell it was warmer in freaking Montana this weekend than it was here!!!

62 So should I be voting for Sestak or Specter come tomorrow?

63 But, either way, I plan on having the hunger for revenge feed on the sweet, sweet tears of Arlin getting beat one way or another. Posted by: Mallamutt at May 17, 2010 10:36 AM (OWjjx) And you just KNOW that, whoever beats him, he'll weep like a little girl and attribute it to some factor other than Arlen. ANYTHING other than himself. [ptui] Long past time to retire this idjit.

64 Seems like the alcohol on the eyes would hurt like hell

Yeah, I would think so.   I've gotten beer in my eyes (at a big party in college, natch) and that didn't hurt (felt ok, actually), but I'm guessing it's kind of isotonic and of course lower alcohol. 

65 it's called survivor.......and the winners used to win by great game play......russell is the best at the game....sandra didn't do anything but show up in both of her seasons......the jury in the last two seasons were all about hope and change.....rupert is the biggest pussy of them all....he was a villain in his first season and now he's on his high horse? it's not about who is the nicest person it's about who outplayed who in every aspect...parvarti or russell outplayed everyone....i'm glad at least america voted for russell twice as fan favorite.....

66

rdbrewer you sound like a fuckng leftist jackass.

Polynikes, that's because you have shit for brains, boy.

67 63 Are we gonna have a countdown to good bye Spector?

Who knows - personally, I think I am still hoping Arlin survives, just because Toomey is consistently running better against Spector than Sestak. And, you can almost bet on Arlin saying something "classy" and "graceful" about Sestak in a victory speech that will just infuriate the Sestak voters to the point of them saying screw you, Arlin, we will just sit home in November. Really, what I would like to see is this come down to some 3 month recount nightmare from hell. Ahhh, union thugs vs. union thugs.

I'll drink to all that. I just couldn't switch my party affiliation for Operation Chaos in 2008, but if I did, I'd push the e-button for Arlin Sphincter.  

/Go Toomey!

68 So am I the only one bothered by this?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court says federal officials can indefinitely hold inmates considered "sexually dangerous" after their prison terms are complete.

Now pedophiles of course deserve the 9th circle of hell or worse, but a prison term's a prison term.

69 69 So should I be voting for Sestak or Specter come tomorrow?

Sphincter.  Sestak is a leftist douche-tard, but he doesn't seem to have much baggage and I'm afraid Philly and Pitts would put him over the top.

70 No. 54,  I was not a bit surprised Sandra won.  Russell is such a dumbass.  I feel sorry for his wife.  He's a controlling SOB.

71

I realize this was covered on the ONT, but I'm still reeling from the loss of Dio

 

yeah, very sad.

72 it's funny how during the game russell can complete thoughts and sentences but on both final shows he is so scattered....i do worry about his mental stability

73 Ouch:  What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were sneaking into Suns' games without paying? What if the owners had a good idea as to who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn't be ejected.

74 In statist Amerikka, the gummint does what it wants because people are busy watching survivor and pouring vodka in their eyes.

75 Sphincter.  Sestak is a leftist douche-tard, but he doesn't seem to have much baggage and I'm afraid Philly and Pitts would put him over the top.

That's what I was leaning towards, hard to imagine a lot of get out the vote mobilization for Spectard. I changed my registration to dem or OP. chaos last year, though will probably keep it dim so I can have more of a voice at the local level (R's just don't win in Philly, so at least I can help try and vote out the super-shittiest dims)

76

Russell is such a dumbass.

If it weren't for dumb luck, Russell wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the end.  That idiot Tyler screwed everything up.  It would have been Bahston Rob, instead of that crack-addled hobbit.  There were a couple more things.

77 7 year old girl shot just after midnight by police search warrant raid gone way off the deep end

After killing an innocent little girl awoken from sleep by a bomb the police set off, coming into the room where the bomb exploded to find her mother who was fighting off a police officer attacking her (righteously or not), when the police afterwards claim that they found precisely what they were looking for, but won't stipulate the name of the suspect arrested, and won't stipulate the make and model of the moped or where it was removed from the search warrant property, you just have to wonder wtf. The parents, of course, claim that the search warrant for their home was the wrong address. It does happen, and when that happens, the police don't admit it, first preferring a cover up attempt.

Sad. If the parents were guilty, sad that they'd pose their daughter to danger by hiding out a murder suspect. Horrible handling by the police who would have known that a 7 year old girl resided at that address had they done their homework as they claim.

78 What was infuriating was Sandra tried to get the heroes to vote Russell off and they blew it.  She said she tried twice, though I only remember once, but I  missed a few segments now and then.

79 If you want sex offenders in jail longer, change the sentencing guidelines.

Remember when local/state governments could institutionalize the mentally ill if they were a danger to the community? 

80 Holyschnikes, read this and learn.

81 Anyone see Ace this weekend?

Was it Ewok retreat weekend?

82 Spector - I know, if you do that, you will have to go home and bath in bleach for a week, but Spector is very vulnerable to Toomey. He rarely pulls over 43 in any head to head poll with Toomey, Toomey is usually up 7-9 on Spector (and only 5-6 on Sestak) and Arlin's negatives are really high. Plus, even the most RINO of RINO will be motivated to beat Arlin, whereas, they might give pause and actually think about voting for Sestak cause he isn't pro-life.

Thanks. I hadn't looked at the latest polling data to compare how either fare against my man Toomey. Going to need  some industrial strength nose plugs tomorrow.

83 40 Hot Air has a post up re Darth Cheney's endorsement of Meg Whitman.

If anyone can explain Ed's "logic" to me, I'm all ears.

Ed has not had a beef injection from Allah in over a week. He seems to be a tad edgy.

84 So am I the only one bothered by this?

I note that once again Thomas is the only one who actually got it right. He said the Constitution did not give the feds authority to pass the law to begin with.

That was the first thing I thought of.  What in the hell does the federal government have to do with sex offenders?  That is and should be a local crime and law.

If the States want to make sex offenders serve for life let them pass the law.  I could agree with that as long as they are charging people who piss on their car tires as sex offenders. 

85

jewells,

Yes, I'm about ready to cockpunch somebody.

I hate the thought of missing out on what should be the best weather of the year.  And I hate the gulf states for sending this miserable dank air up here.

Maybe I'll get lucky and run into hickabilly russ carnahan today.  That's a cockpunch well worth throwing.

86 The real issue is how are the pedophiles surviving the terms they are getting.

87 sandra didn't spit out the deception of russell when she had the chance while walking the beach with russell that was her best opportunity to get rid of him and she blew it!!!!!! russell should have brought jerry to the finals....i don't think the jury would vote for him but they may have voted for parvarti

88 correction

I could agree with that as long as they are NOT charging people who piss on their car tires as sex offenders. 

89

The real issue is how are the pedophiles surviving the terms they are getting.

It ain't easy, but if you keep your head down you can get by.

90

What was infuriating was Sandra tried to get the heroes to vote Russell off and they blew it

Yeah, I flat-out couldn't stand the guy.  Not because "he was being bad."  Because he was a dumb hick who lucked his way through the game, all the while saying, "Now we playin' Russel's game."  Granted, he pulled off a good one last week, but that was his only good moment. 

Getting the extra idol... lucky.  Giving it away... dumb.  Taking advantage of TJ's stupidity, lucky.  Reaping the rewards of Tylers stupidity, lucky.  APPEARING to have his shit together at counsel in front of Jerri, such that Jerri would turn against Rahb, lucky.  (That's part of the Tyler dumbass thing.)  And, really, any time Sandra wanted to put a bug in his ear, she did.  Because he's dumb.  A dumb, paranoid little hobbit on crack. 

Bahston Rahb was a lot more interesting.

91

Posted by: Vic at May 17, 2010 10:57 AM (6taRI)

heh...yeah, I figured you had left out a word or two

92 I'm glad I don't have the time to watch TV anymore.

93

I think Russ is busying today instructing his staff to call the police on anybody who isn't carrying an I heart Russ sign.

You're so right.  I usually call him "hickabilly coward russ carnahan".

94 Very happy about Sandra's repeat win. Loved it when she burned his nasty hat, went to bed early and schooled him at the Final Tribal. She's my girl and I'm thrilled for her! Russell is just a jackass. I wonder if Parvati broke his little black heart?

95 The real issue is how are the pedophiles surviving the terms they are getting. It ain't easy, but if you keep your head down you can get by. Posted by: Fap! Fap! Fap! dragon at May 17, 2010 10:58 AM (S3T37) And if he don't keep his head down I put it down for him! Bwahahahaha! [spit]

96 I like Laura and am sure she has been, on the balance, a great influence on George, but she really should stay out of politics and stick with soft issues. 
Posted by: Y-not

Consistency.

Looking at her do the neoconservative strip tease turns the stomachs of any who protest corruption in our government.

A lot of Republicans supported GWB, getting him elected the first time, because the voters were yet too naive to know that neoconservatism is the RINO form of socialism, extremely self promotional. When GWB called the Minute Men volunteers VIGILANTES for viewing the border and directing all information noted immediately to the Border Patrol, his potus smiley/teary two-faced drama mask cracked wide open.

By actually coming out as she is now, she is aligned as the "compassionate" Marxist.

What will be interesting to note and illustrate how conversions transpire will be any conversations Laura Bush might have with Sarah Palin. aligning supposed Tea Party supporters with the neoconservative-socialists. Just as interesting to note and illustrate how elitists (even those from Midland TX)  maintain superiority will be if Laura Bush never has a conversation with Sarah Palin until the script is contracted for FOX. Want to bet immigration amnesty for illegals will or won't be discussed? Want to bet Laura Bush will never discuss her opinion of Michele Bachmann, a real female conservative?

97 Allah:  Rubio 39, Crist 31.

98 Half of N.J. six-figure teachers work in Bergen, Passaic counties Star Ledger
May 17, 2010, 6:35AM

The Star-LedgerVoting at the St. Cloud Elementary School in West Orange. Half of the 1,800 New Jersey public school teachers who earned more than $100,000 per year for the 2008-09 school year worked in Bergen and Passaic counties, according to a report on NorthJersey.com

The report said Passaic had 115 teachers with salaries above $100,000, the largest number within one district in the state. Other towns with teachers making more than $100,000 annually included Hackensack, 98, Teaneck, 93, Wayne 81, and Ridgewood, 71.

The median pay for all teachers in the state was $57,467, while in Bergen County it was $61,096 in Passaic County is was $56,350

99 convicted sexual perverts would receive no-cost erectile enhancing drugs,

We're living in this America already.

100 I'm still having a sad farewell to "The Man On The Silver Mountain" myself. Deaths like that--not a drug OD, not any excess, just good old fashioned cancer--make me realize for the grace of God or whatever go I.

101 @107
Umm... oh-kay. 

102 Que es mas stupid:  TJ?  Tyler?  Candice?  Russell?

103

@31 I realize this was covered on the ONT, but I'm still reeling from the loss of Dio

Yeah, he was awesome and will be sorely missed.

104

@107
Umm... oh-kay. 

Sorry, but Maverick Muse is spot on. That said, I would disagree that this is the fault of neoconservatism per se, but rather the Hispandering strain of it. After all, somebody like Michelle Malking is quite the neocon, but is disgusted with the open border immigration romantic fools and cheap-labor-even-at-the-cost-of-national-security greedheads.

105 114

@31 I realize this was covered on the ONT, but I'm still reeling from the loss of Dio

Yeah, he was awesome and will be sorely missed.

Posted by: CanaDave at May 17, 2010 11:14 AM (s9lI2)

Yep, besides the voice,  Dio was he was an awesome bass player.

106 You people need to get your heads out of your asses and focus on what's important:  a freakin' Muslim won the Miss USA pageant.

107

You people need to get your heads out of your asses and focus on what's important:  a freakin' Muslim won the Miss USA pageant.

I thought she was of Lebanese Christian orgin? Which I think most Americans of Arab descent still are, although who knows who the open borders immigration romantic fools are letting in now....

108 I thought she was of Lebanese Christian orgin? Which I think most Americans of Arab descent still are, although who knows who the open borders immigration romantic fools are letting in now....

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 17, 2010 11:20 AM (ujg0T)

She's a smokin' hot Muslim, but still a Muslim.  And the second place finisher, non-Muslim Miss Oklahoma, is also easy on the eyes.  Did they have to pick a Muslim?  Really?  Is this about Carrie Prejean?

109 We had a little bounce with sunspots recently, but lately we are back to nada.

110 Also, Ed jumped the shark a long time ago at Captain's Quarters, which I found unreadable.

111 That's what I thought, Fubar.

112 Too.

113

She's a smokin' hot Muslim, but still a Muslim.  And the second place finisher, non-Muslim Miss Oklahoma, is also easy on the eyes.  Did they have to pick a Muslim?  Really?  Is this about Carrie Prejean?

Probably yes. Damn political pinkoes probably do psy-ops like that.

Well, I would still want to plant a Crusader lance in her....and if she was Catholic schooled she can't be all bad, right? Well, given "Lady Gaga", maybe not.....

114 USA Today says she's the first "Arab-American" Miss USA; Wikipedia says she's the second Lebanese-American Miss USA, the first being Miss California Julie Hayek in 1983.  Discrepancy is interesting...be nice if someone would call Hayek, but that would ruin the narrative, wouldn't it?


Detroit Free Press says: Fakih's family is itself a blend of cultures and religions, including both Christians and Muslims. Though Muslim, Fakih's parents celebrate Christmas and have a painting of Jesus in their home.

115 And runner-up Miss Oklahoma doomed herself by supporting the Arizona immigration law.  She's my Miss USA.

116 Real muslin would have a painting of Isa.

You could paint Isa on muslin...


So when did "Lebanese-Americans" become "Arab-Americans"?  September 2001? 

117 7 What - no Full Monty post?
Posted by: Gerry

I thoroughly enjoyed all of Monty's posts over the weekend. As the world is crashing and burning under the Obama administration, some Off Theme topics are doctors orders.

118 @130 I agree. She said this,
"I'm a huge believer in states' rights. I think that's what's so wonderful about America, so I think it's perfectly fine for Arizona to create that law."
I'm behind her all the way.

119 Oh good grief!

GWB ran in the Republican Primary in 1999-2000 as a "compassionate" conservative.  He ran on the idea he would work with the Dems, he wanted to "change the tone", he wanted a prescription drug benefit, he SAID he was an open borders guy, and he wanted an Education overhaul.

He won the primary...ran on the same stuff against Gore.

We knew EXACTLY who we were getting in 2000.

But 9/11 changed everything, making much of his domestic policies sail thru because the Rs in Congress did not want to fight with him with men in two war theaters, and Dem traitors damaging Bush/Cheney at home.

Lucky for us the immigration debate came late in his Presidency, so there was much pushback and they dropped it.

Let's not pretend we did not know who GWB was.

He was a good man who loves his country, and like 99% of Republicans in office he made domestic decisions for good press.

Which they never get, so why bother.

The question is, have they learned anything?

120 He ran as a "compassionate conservative"?  I remember his dad doing that.  I don't have a specific recollection of Bush 2 doing it.  I would have noticed too, I think, because I was already tired of the expression by then--the way it implicitly allows Democrats to define the terms of the debate, that GoP is Harsh, Donk is niiiice.

121 Oh, yeah.  Drew ran a really nice story about how Bush stated after he was out of office that he wished he had been more conservative.  The story kind of indicated Bush thought conservatism meant social conservatism.  Apparently, he didn't get it until he was out. 

122

The story kind of indicated Bush thought conservatism meant social conservatism.  Apparently, he didn't get it until he was out. 

And yet, immigration is an issue where the fiscal cons (the ones who think long-term anyway) and the social cons line up together nicely. And yet, the Bushyrovies *still* didn't get it. Make no mistake about it--look at when Bush's poll numbers truly plummeted--immigration was what did the Bushyrovies in.

123 @136 GWB ran as a "uniter not a divider".

124 After all, somebody like Michelle Malking is quite the neocon, but is disgusted with the open border immigration romantic fools and cheap-labor-even-at-the-cost-of-national-security greedheads.
Posted by: Curmudgeon

That was simply re: Laura Bush, a disappointment, though no surprise given her husband's ruin of the Treasury, executive ordered into the possession of Goldman Sachs granted complete immunity from law, beholden to no one.

Regarding Malkin, as with her exposition on the culture of corruption, Malkin seems to use the illegal immigration issue for her own agenda to gain clout. True enough, she's against amnesty. But only "against it" as an activist when being against it suited her growth of popularity. Malkin wears that issue as if consistency were a coat left hanging in the closet until someone else makes it snow and there's no way to stay comfortable without wearing it.

EX: Where's her support for the Minute Men these days? 
Consistency? Or fear of being aligned as a "radical" conservative to be dropped by the MSM  FOX? --as if that's worse than what she fails to cover regarding the victimization of Christian Militia rural members, federally abused and too easily lost within the DHS blackhole.

"Investigative Journalists"

/eh, no one's disgust is perfect.  Watching and noting progressives progress left while feigning to hold the line of truth via revisionism is what it is.

125

Yeah, Rove has no conservative street cred.  Sometimes, maybe, but he's a big government type. That's not real conservative, but I'm not sure what you call it.  I have always said that social conservatism and liberalism are two sides of the same coin, in that both would use government for their ends. 

Anyway, we had to fight the Democrats, Rove, Laura, and probably others over real conservative issues.  They wanted to "be nice."  "We're gonna give 'em a little stimulus."  And look what it did for his popularity.   Neither Bush 1 or 2 ever learned that, as a Republican, you cannot buy approval from Donks.   

 

126

Um, yeah, about that new Miss USA.

http://tinyurl.com/24dhkzu

 

127 Australia is an unlikely mix of rugged individualism and nanny state/Leftism.  This was in The Age, in Oz, yesterday (but coming to the U.S. as fast as the Leftists can enact it):

"Starting today police will fine motorists in the Yarra Ranges up to $358 for leaving their car doors unlocked or windows down.  Sergeant John Morgan of the Yarra Ranges unit said police had decided to enforce fines after a spike in theft of and from unsecured motor vehicles.

Sergeant Morgan said motor vehicle theft affected the whole community.  ‘It increases our crime stats, wastes police man hours in investigating the crimes and ultimately will raise insurance premiums,Â’ he said."

Gee, we sure don't want to "waste" police man-hours on any useless crap like...investigating crimes!  Hell, next thing ya know, if some citizen sent us a pic of some poor lad stealing a car, the public would be wanting us to *waste even more time* by *arresting* the poor bloke!  I mean, do they just think we have nothing else to do all day?

Is it even possible to top this?  Hey, with nanny-state Leftist "progs", anything is possible.  And true to form, they don't disappoint:

"Theft of valuables from cars in the Yarra Ranges have increased 10.1 per cent in 2009-10.

Under the new Road Safety Road Rules 2009 legislation, motorists can be fined for leaving car doors unlocked, windows down, *parking brakes unengaged* or keys in the ignition.

The legislation applies when motorists are more than three metres away from the vehicle.

If people under 16 are left in the vehicle, the motorist must remove the keys from the ignition.

If no one is left in the vehicle, windows can be left open up to two centimetres before it is considered unsecured.

[Well that is SO fuckin' charitable of you political types, lettin' us poor proles leave a window of our parked cars cracked a whole *3/4ths of an inch* without fining us $358!

Of course the gummint quarters where you fat, goofy, overpaid, tax-guzzling bastards "work" prolly have nice garages so you don't need to worry about your car's interior reaching, oh, 140F or so.

Wait, I got it:  This is all part of a *brilliant* plan to get the non-enlightened to back new anti-AGW laws.  See, if they can't leave their windows down without getting fined, their cars'll get *really* hot, so they'll eagerly back any nutty scheme that offers to keep the planet half a degree cooler. 

Yeh, dat's gotta be it.  Clever bastards, them statists.

128 We knew EXACTLY who we were getting in 2000.--pam

I didn't yet. Lived and learned. Once your eyes are opened, there's no going back to ignorance as bliss.

"Neoconservative" was not so well defined except in elitist manifesto propaganda by Kristol, and smeared as the epitome of evil propaganda by Marxist disciples of Bill Ayers along the same order as NAZI v. COMMUNIST antangonism pre-during-post WWII--vying socialists determined to be king of the Socialist Pyramid mountain by obliterating all competition.

Granted, the line "uniter" is obviously code for what Obama has made obvious. Globalists are authoritarian Marxists readying to own all things including mankind. United as assimilated, AS IF Constitutional resistance is futile. ONLY if voters permit themselves to quit holding to the Constitution's construction.

As per "knowing" after 9/11/01, I KNOW that if America is in a war, that we must fight to win the conflict. And I support our troops, even if our brass and our potus and Congress don't EXCEPT for granting veterans bigger benefits for more votes next election. Requiring our troops to submit to PC Karzai 12 Rules of Engagement is WRONG. Asking and training troops to consider the safety of civilians in a war zone is one thing. But making it a law is absurd, meant literally to antagonize the troops with prosecutions, to beat the sense of self-survival out of our troops. I wasn't FOR invading Afghanistan/Iraq because of the obvious history between "Islam" as the Muslim governed Middle East vs. "Western Civilization"--ne'er the twain shall meet'--and personal experience with university student Muslims to know what likely to expect politically as a group given their activism. This was compounded with "knowing" that the leftists running America today and their loudly ugly supporters would strike the fear of death in the hearts of self-satisfied Americans not used to defying government corruption--being PRE-TEA PARTY.

What I also know to be true is that in general, Muslims will not turn over a Jihadist unless they are being personally granted something "too big to fail" in return, something that inevitably bites the granter in the ass. Americans, in particular, CAN'T win over the hearts and minds of the Jihadist enemy. That propaganda line is the epitome of our "compassionate" interventionist war PC bullshit. However, once in a war, it's fight to "win" as in VANQUISH the enemy into unconditional surrender. But given the choice between neoconservative-socialism for low taxes and perpetual warfare economic ruin or straight-jacket authoritarianism for high taxes and the subjugation of entire populations in order for the globalists to own/$pend infinity, the traditionally understood "WIN" is impossible when the "winning" prize is a nonexistent entity, such as "hearts and minds of the [Jihadist] enemy". Given those circumstances, the war is already lost, a war of attrition against its own citizens who either support or repudiate the war effort, particularly when potus-O two-faced coin is engraved 1) Jihad is completely a righteous thing not to be feared by non-Muslim Americans, 2) there is no such thing as Jihad.

See how that works. There is no such thing as Jihad being a completely righteous thing not to be feared by non-Muslim Americans, all of which we are "fighting" under rules established by the enemy and our PC "compassionate" authoritarian presidents.

Obama will promise whatever he's told to promise and do whatever he's told by his globalist puppet-masters. Weltkaiser, anyone?

129 Origins of George W. Bush: "Compassionate Conservative"

In the June 11, 2000, New York Times article "Bush Draws Campaign Theme From More Than 'the Heart'," Alison Mitchell writes:

"Ask Gov. George W. Bush of Texas about the intellectual origins of his campaign's mantra and he says, 'compassionate conservatism is first and foremost springing from the heart.'

"Yet well before Mr. Bush began building his presidential campaign around the words 'compassionate conservative'--reshaping the image of his party to follow suit--a cadre of thinkers on the right had been trying for years to fashion a form of conservatism that rejected the welfare state but did not turn its back on the poor. And with his campaign strategist, Karl Rove, acting as his guide, Mr. Bush began reading their books and meeting them, even before his first race for governor.

130

Anybody pick up on the "unintended consequences" story of the week?

Cities like San Diego are boycotting CA for any business-event needs.  And now, Arizoneans are boycotting San Diego for their tourism-vacation needs.

BOOHOO!  San Diego Board of Tourism cries bitter tears over how unfair it is for the citizens of the city who rely on tourism-dollars for their income are gonna get unfairly punished because of City Council grandstanding.

In other words, just because City Councils of Diego & Francisco decided to poke their fingers in Arizona's eyes, it is completely unexpected! that private citizens of Arizona are responding in turn.

You can find it yourself on FoxNews.

131

The beat cop assigned to our neighborhood will, as workload permits, occassionally go around his beat checking cars parked on the street or in driveways to see if they are an easy target.  Doors left unlocked, a laptop or other valuable item left in plain view, etc...

He'll leave the owner a little note warning them that they're leaving themselves vulnerable.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT, AUSTRALIA.

132

Will the new Miss USA face death threats from fellow Muslims for being "too westernized?"  I mean, you've gotta be pretty into American culture to get very far on the pageant circuit.

Ain't gonna get many points in the swimwear competition if you're burk'ed from ankles to forehead.

Sounds to me like she's gonna have some 'splaining to do to several prominent leaders of the Religion of Peace.

133 Yes, he did also run as a uniter, as he said in this presser during the primary...he wanted to unite the Rs, and always talked about working with Dems (barf).

But that was then and this is now, no way would we tolerate a uniter now!

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

BUSH: No, I feel great. As a matter of fact, I'm quite the opposite. I feel like -- I feel like things are -- things are coming my way. I feel like the campaign is progressing very well. In order to have discipline and focus, and I'm disciplined and focused on one things, and that's winning the Republican nomination. Then I'll be disciplined and focused on winning the general election, and.

Yes, Cadulski (ph).

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

BUSH: No, I don't view -- I'm a uniter, not a divider. I don't believe there's a deep divide. As a matter of fact, when you look at the results amongst Republicans who are voting in the primaries, I'm winning overwhelmingly, and -- which means it's going to be easy to unite our party and lead us to victory. It's been my record. It's what I've done as governor. I know how to unite people. I don't like the politics of pitting one group of people against another, the politics of pointing fingers. I like that politics advocated by somebody like Ronald Reagan, who was a uniter. He didn't stand up and pit groups of people against each other. He didn't have a spiteful agenda, he had an optimistic agenda, as do I.

134 OK I am seeing all over the place that Greece is going to sue US banks because they (Greece) can't control their spending?  WTF??  How does that work?   I might want to get on that gravy train.

135 This is everybody's fault but mine.

136

Potential bomb-trap defused in New Jersey.

Contessa Brewer unavailable for hopes on suspect's race / religious proclivities.

137 monday + food poisoning. awesome.

138 Maverick...as far as the "neo-con"  pejorative goes, that was started by Chris Matthews en masse to denegrate Pres Bush...I was reading about the need to go to Iraq during the Clinton years...from the NYT editorial page.  So, it was not entirely a Kristol plan to only protect Israel or something.

The foreign policy community were arguing about what to do about Saddam and Sons and their WMD, their enormous funding for WMD and terrorists worldwide, their previous behavior with WMD, and their WMD capabilities.

The real politic of the "containment" side of the debate had been in effect for over a decade to no avail, so after 9/11 Pres Bush decided to try a different way.

And no, he did not turn the middle east to glass as he probably should have....he had what he thought were moderates asking him to help them fight the extremes in their religion.

It remains to be seen if those who claim to be moderates, can live and lead their people to modernity and become civilized  countries.  In time, their younger generations may demand it.  Tho I am doubtful.

Which is why we should elect a ruthless SOB Republican/Conservative to the Presidency next time, we may need him to finish Bush's job.

139 @148 Who says she's a Muslim? There are Christian Arabs in Lebanon, which is where she's from. It's an anomaly for sure, but it might explain her competing in a bikini during the pageant. hubba hubba

140 Obama's aunt given OK to stay in United States

141 Jackassery on an industrial scale:  What's next for Sen. Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah), the first scalp of the "tea party" movement, who got crushed at his state's GOP convention last week? The senator tells "44" that while he hasn't made any decisions, he is seriously contemplating running as a write-in candidate.

142 This is everybody's fault but mine.

Posted by: Greece at May 17, 2010 01:15 PM (sPO/s)

 

That's what I'm talkin' about!

143 Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee want to find out if anyone in the Obama White House attempted to influence the financial bailout of a well-known Chicago-based "community bank," which faced FDIC closure last week, and which,  going back to the Clinton Administration, has had close ties to ACORN and the leftist community-organizing world of Chicago.

I'm betting Yes.

144

148, 155  She's apparently muslim -- apparently some of her family are big backers of the Hez.  Don't know many Lebanese Christians who are. She also won a "stripper 101" (??? what the hell is that???) pole dancing contest. Seems it's ok for well connected muslimas to show some skin and be bimbos -- especially if it means infidel dogs drool after her while the rest of the family is busy finding ways to kill said infidel dogs. She's also supported the idea of the burqa swimsuit...so what's good for me is not for thee I guess.

 

Gateway is all over this story. 

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