1 Will I?

2 CHART OF THE DAY: Uh-Oh, The U.S. Should Have Seen A Huge Rebound In Employment By Now

3 The initial headlines over at Fox this morning was that Bambi had extended the moratorium on drilling for another 6 months.

When is a news organization going to actually print that there was never any new permits issued anyway.  They never intended to allow new drilling.

Oh well, if Fox will not do it nobody will. Fox is all "greenie" just like the rest of them. 

4

 

...and Wall Street investors march forward with blinders on...

None of this makes any sense...unless you live in Bizarro Universe.

5

 

We have a president and a Congress who are openly trying to destroy whole industries...and Wall Street ignores it.

6

This was sent to me with some explanation by someone with military connections.

LINK

This is part of the videotape showing the Russian Navy commandos on the Somalian pirate ship. You may remember that the pirates captured a Russian oil tanker. The EuroUnion navy that patrols these waters could not interfere because there could be casualties.

All explanations are in Russian and, with a single exception when a wounded pirate tells something in English, all conversations are between the commandos - in Russian. Sorry if you don't understand Russian but the pictures speak for themselves.

The soldiers freed their compatriots, moved all the pirates to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, and took seven Somalian pirates. Then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates on it.

This is the time tested method of getting along with pirates. I did note that the Russian Commander seems to speak near perfect English, including the proper use of profanity.

7 The most accountable administration ever intends to shift blame for everything everywhere in upcoming news conference. Will channel SoS Clinton in bitching about everyone and everything while outlining need to spend billions on random and mundane emergencies. Will note awesome success of stimulus in saving and creating millions of fictional jobs. Will declare socialism a success of unprecedented proportions.

8

 

What would be really helpful to a) shutdown the oil industry, and b) advance a new 'green' energy industry?

-- a disastrous oil spill, perhaps?

9 The other stupid thing about this is by shutting down U.S. drilling you actually increase the probability of an oil spill because the foreign oil companies just come and drill with fewer regulations (assuming regulations actually work, which is probably not true).

10 #6  The Russians don't mess around.

Here's what happened to a few jihadis after they kidnapped some Soviet diplomats in Beiruit:

The former Soviet state has never been hesitant about meting out retribution on Islamic hardliners. When Islamic fundamentalists kidnapped four Soviet diplomats in Beirut on 30 September 1985, at the height of the foreign hostage crisis in Lebanon, and demanded Moscow press its client state Syria to stop shelling Sunni Muslim militiamen in the northern port of Tripoli, the KGB responded with characteristic vigour.After clandestine negotiations failed to secure the men's release, Soviet agents grabbed half a dozen fundamentalists in West Beirut and reportedly sliced off a few of their fingers, sending the severed digits to the fundamentalist leadership with the message: "Release our people or you'll get your people back piece by piece."

11 advance a new 'green' energy industry?

You cannae change the laws of physics!

12 The other stupid thing about this is by shutting down U.S. drilling you actually increase the probability of an oil spill because the foreign oil companies just come and drill with fewer regulations

Ayup.  China doesn't give a shit about polluting their own country; they certainly won't about polluting ours.

13 On FOX news that renowned genius, Juan Williams, when asked if the economy was responsible for O's low approval numbers, stated that the economy was the "hair that broke the camel's back."  Where does the media find these dummies, and why do they keep foisting them off on us?

14 12 The other stupid thing about this is by shutting down U.S. drilling you actually increase the probability of an oil spill because the foreign oil companies just come and drill with fewer regulations Ayup.  China doesn't give a shit about polluting their own country; they certainly won't about polluting ours. Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 27, 2010 09:52 AM (mR7mk) Plus will cost potentially thousands of jobs!

15 Maddogg, That was a beautiful video. Brougfht a tear to my eye.

16

 

The other stupid thing about this is by shutting down U.S. drilling you actually increase the probability of an oil spill because the foreign oil companies just come and drill with fewer regulations...

Just like how the illegal aliens don't live by the rules the rest of us do and it screws up wages, insurance, etc.

They're doing it on purpose. This is not by accident. This is by design.

17 Congressman Confesses Affair with Himself: tinyurl.com/2w9vf2t

18

Posted by: kathysaysso at May 27, 2010 09:54 AM (dz6wg)

Juan Williams, when confronted on whatever he says, always looks like the provobial "Deer in the Headlights".

Ever notice that?

19 never mind

20

Yahoo is running this joke from Slime Magazine on its front page

But in the last month, things have started to look up for the bloodied one-time professional boxer. Reid finally passed a bill popular with Nevadans: financial regulatory reform. He also convinced the Obama Administration to cut all funding to Yucca Mountain, a controversial project to house spent nuclear fuel in Nevada, a plan detested by locals.

Reid has risen in the polls from lows in the mid-30s in January to the low-40s now, though he still trails all three of his potential opponents. But a silver lining for him has been the disarray in the June 8 GOP primary race.

Why Harry is a virtual shoe in now

21

 

What's this?

David Souter still hears cases at the appeals court in Boston?

22 Better link maddogg, the Russians were right - "the pirate boat disappeared from our radar scopes ..."

23 Janet, would you care to comment: http://tinyurl.com/2ur52d9

24 TVA STILL SUCKS!

25 Wonder when Barracky will apologize for this?

First US Patriot missiles deployed in Poland
http://tinyurl.com/3x9el54

26 Kemp, everyone whines about defense earmarks and NASA; but things like the TVA and the DoE labs seem to slide by un-noticed.

27 James Carville must be pleased - Ken Starr was arrested in Manhattan this morning!

A Manhattan investment guru to the stars was arrested by federal authorities this morning, according to law enforcement officials, for perpetrating a massive fraud and Ponzi scheme. Ken Starr, who reportedly boasts a client list that includes Annie Leibowitz, Uma Thurman, Martin Scorcese, is expected to appear in federal court today to face charges related to the investment fraud.  He was arrested by IRS agents this morning and is expected to face  investment fraud, tax fraud and other related charges.

Oops, wrong Ken Starr. 

28 If the oil leak is actually stopped (thank God), Obuttkiss sure will have lucked out for his annual press conference.

I am also sure that after whining and bitching the MFM will throw him softball questions.

29

 

so according to the Obama admin jihad is a good thing.

--yet border enforcement is bad

-- opposition to homesexual marriage is bad

--opposition to abortion is bad

-- a citizen owning a firearm is bad

30 The most accountable administration ever intends to shift blame for everything everywhere in upcoming news conference.

I read yesterday that the White House is chastising the media for using the term "Obamacare."  Jake Tapper apologized to Gibbs for using it.  This is implicit recognition from Obama as to just what a nightmare Obamacare is.  Soon, it will all be Bush's fault.

31

so according to the Obama admin jihad is a good thing.

--yet border enforcement is bad

-- opposition to homesexual marriage is bad

--opposition to abortion is bad

-- a citizen owning a firearm is bad

Posted by: Dr Benton Quest at May 27, 2010 10:23 AM (9RRbi)

And he's doubling down on the apology offensive.

32

 

thanks, Race.

Tomorrow I'll be Hadji.

33

 

oh, and when it's obvious that ObamaCare really really sucks, Obama will insit the media call it BushCare.

34

oh, and when it's obvious that ObamaCare really really sucks,

When???

35
Have you perhaps caught one of my scintillating performances alongside that crusty old Krauthammer?

Posted by: Kristen Powers, Liberal Pun(ana)dit at May 27, 2010 10:13 AM (MFbfZ)

Yes, I have!  Did you notice how Tucker Carlson and that mean old Charles Krauthammer wouldn't even look at me when I tried to defend President Obama's response to the oil spill?  What's up with that?

36 Another one.. Under the Bus.

37 I love listening to Juan and Stuart Varney debate on Hannity....

you feel so bad for juan, he is absolutely no match for varney who operates using real facts and figures as opposed to juan who uses "facts" that he makes up as he goes along...

38 The Norks are saber-rattling again - threatening "all out war" in response to South Korea's anti-submarine drill.

39

 ...the White House is chastising the media for using the term "Obamacare."  Jake Tapper apologized to Gibbs for using it.  This is implicit recognition from Obama as to just what a nightmare Obamacare is. 

Soon, it will be Bush's solely Obama's fault and I'll do everything in my power to disseminate the tip to refer to it as such.  My dream includes having the name "Soros" included in lots of the gar-BAUJ going on in this so-called "administration."

40 Kratos, isn't the Chinese premier in RoK this week? won't that make it hard for them to beg the PLA for enough diesel to "invade"

41 Looks like "top kill" worked.

http://tinyurl.com/2wrzkmv

42 41 Another one.. Under the Bus.

Strange.. The link changed.. Should've gone to this story:

AP sources: Elizabeth Birnbaum fired as director of the U.S. Minerals Management Service.

43 the thing that bothers me is not so much that he isn't laying the wreathe but that he isn't going to the breakfast with the families....that really bothers me...

Beck just mentioned it

while discussing "mild mannered gibsy" who apparently is strong arming the press?   gibsy?  seriously?  we are supposed to believe that?  Or is it just a way for them to have an excuse for not reporting any news that is not american idol or star related?

44 so i guess the International Committee of the Red Cross is going to begin to provide medical training to the Taliban..

45 Pancho and Lefty.

46 "hair that broke the camel's back."

You Reich winger make fun of a simple slip of the tongue but we hardly ever make any mistakes.  Its as hard for us to make a mistake as it is for a camel to jump through the eye of a beagle.

47 Kristen Powers is good looking, but she still got her ass handed to her on FoxNews panel yesterday. I mean slaughtered. Hit head on by the freight train of plain logic flying along at 100 mph. She knows it too. You could see it in her devastated facial expression.

48  I love the Foto...

http://bit.ly/M0Roe.

Posted by: Wodeshed at May 27, 2010 10:37 AM (MFbfZ)

Thanks.  That went to lots of folks in the old address book.

49 that is too frightening....Beck talking about the sestak "coverup" and saying "the more we go down this road the more I think people's lives are at stake"....now that is downright frightening...

50 The Norks are saber-rattling again - threatening "all out war" in response to South Korea's anti-submarine drill.

The Chinese have a rabid dog chained up in their back yard.  At some point I think the Chicoms are gonna hafta to put that dog down.   Even if the Chinese dont like their neighbors... I think they realize a neighborhood brawl over the actions of their puppy isn't in their best interest.

51 ...and in other news, Will "I won't paint pictures" Folks is now claiming witnesses are coming forward to verify that Nikki Haley's white SUV was parked late at night in front of Folks' swinging bachelor pad several times in early 2007. Additionally, a compromising photograph or photographs have been mentioned. (I won't link to Folks' site; you know where it is.)

52

The Norks are saber-rattling again - threatening "all out war" in response to South Korea's anti-submarine drill.

The Chinese have a rabid dog chained up in their back yard.  At some point I think the Chicoms are gonna hafta to put that dog down.   Even if the Chinese dont like their neighbors... I think they realize a neighborhood brawl over the actions of their puppy isn't in their best interest.

I said this on a thread a few days ago. The North can't go to war, for it knows it will be invaded from the north and the south. China will never allow for a unified Korea under South Korean leadship. This isn't Germany. The Soviet Union was crumbling and couldn't keep Eastern Germany propped up. China on the other hand has never been more powerful.

I suspect this whole thing blows over.

53 Heard on the news yesterday that we have had more terra ist incidents in this past year than ever.   Can't find anything in writing about it not even on the abc website.

54

Beck's been on fire today:  The Constitution is NOT a suicide pact!  Bobby Jindal, who is going to blame you for saving your state?  Rick Perry, man up and put your guard on the border!  They've told you a bad, bad Somali dude is on his way! 

Have you noticed that the states getting raped are those that could offer the best chance of salvation? 

55 Posted by: RushBabe at May 27, 2010 10:56 AM (W8m8i)

Oh silly me, I never thought of that, I thought it was because they are run by republican governors.

56 so i guess the International Committee of the Red Cross is going to begin to provide medical training to the Taliban..

Posted by: Ben at May 27, 2010 10:48 AM (wuv1c)

It's stuff like that and the fact that they charged WWII soldiers for a cup of coffee (while the Salvation Army didn't) that determined years ago that they would never see a dime from me.

57 Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

Only an ivory tower pinhead could be surprised...

58

Time editor, Rick Stengel has his own Charles Gibson moment.

http://tinyurl.com/2v2bhru

59 FoxNews website reporting success in top kill attempt. I sure hope that's accurate. They need to cement the shit outta that hole while they have it stopped. That would require the services of the EVIL HALLIBURTON or one of the equally evil competitors.

60 Oh silly me, I never thought of that, I thought it was because they are run by republican governors.

Posted by: curious at May 27, 2010 10:58 AM (p302b)

That's why you'd have a chance of salvation, heh, heh.

61
Heard on the news yesterday that we have had more terra ist incidents in this past year than ever.   Can't find anything in writing about it not even on the abc website.

Posted by: curious at May 27, 2010 10:55 AM (p302b)

Try here.

Personally, I think it's just a scare tactic to create a crisis.

62  so i guess the International Committee of the Red Cross is going to begin to provide medical training to the Taliban..

Posted by: Ben at May 27, 2010 10:48 AM (wuv1c)

It's stuff like that and the fact that they charged WWII soldiers for a cup of coffee (while the Salvation Army didn't) that determined years ago that they would never see a dime from me.

Rushbabe, don't forget the whole 9/11 Red Cross debacle, where they kept most of the money and didn't give it to 9/11 related problems.

 

My family hates the Red Cross as well.  We love the salvation army. My uncle served three tours in Vietnam(36 months), compared to John Kerry's one tour(of four months).

anyway, in his entire time there he only got one package from the Red Cross, and it had a pair of swimming trunks and goggles in it. Yes that's right, trunks and goggles. The guy is in Vietnam and they gave him swimming gear. However, he would receive multiple packages from the red cross with practical things like lip balm, sun screen, tooth paste, certain foods.

Therefore my family only donates to the Salvation Army.  F*ck the Red Cross.

63 I think Bobby J is uber kewl...I mean he's got Carville backing him up....

64 China drilling in the Gulf of Mexico will not have any environmental effect at all.  They are WAY ahead of the US in building Solar panels, etc as the Indonesian Imbecile mentioned the other day.  The new green economy baby!

Here are some examples of their environmental successes.

http://tinyurl.com/yly2v5r

65

From the Washington Examiner:

Three years ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., leaned on hedge funds to lobby more. The funds soon hired his banking staffer as a lobbyist. She began raising money for Schumer. Now he's championing financial regulation that would benefit these hedge funds. "Racket" might be the right word here.

Here's the story: In January 2007, the month Democrats took control of Congress, Schumer invited hedge funds executives to dinner, where, the New York Times reported, he "had some simple advice for the billionaires in his midst: If you want Washington to work with you, you had better work better with one another."

Until then, hedge funds had largely minded their own business. But in the 2008 elections, they tripled their previous contributions to politicians, with Schumer and Barack Obama as their favorites, along with other Senate Democrats (Schumer was head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee).

But more to Schumer's point, the hedge funds shifted their lobbying into high gear. After spending less than half a million in 2006, they spent more than $6 million in 2007.

 

 

66 The Obama administration has fired the head of the U.S. Mineral Management Service instead of doing anything. President continues in his sports related play-job.

67

 

China powers their drill rigs and ships with solar panels and windmills.

68 52 "hair that broke the camel's back."

You Reich winger make fun of a simple slip of the tongue but we hardly ever make any mistakes.  Its as hard for us to make a mistake as it is for a camel to jump through the eye of a beagle.

Posted by: State Controlled Media at May 27, 2010 10:49 AM (xxgag)

Everyone knows that it was the "2 x 4 that broke the camels back." Geesh! 

69 Sestak-gate getting some legs, via WeasellZippers: http://tinyurl.com/3634uaw Romanoff in CO got an offer too.

70

68 My dad died in 1992 and is buried in Arlington. He served in the south pacific, korea, post war japan, greenland, etc.

He never got over being charged for a donut by the red cross.

A few years ago the red cross tried to correct that error by giving away donuts.

Sorry man, too little too late.

Salvation army rocks.

71

 

We are overdue for one of Camille Paglia's "Obama is still the one we've been waiting for; his only failure is surrounding himself with incompetents" column. 

72 @76

Wow, Obama sure can pick em.

73

New Black Panther Party Holds Atlanta Convention, Getting Ready for War Against Tea Party, White-Right.

http://tinyurl.com/365bdg2

 

74

China powers their drill rigs and ships with solar panels and windmills.

Is Haji an illegal Dr. Quest?

75 Sestak-gate getting some legs, via WeasellZippers: http://tinyurl.com/3634uaw Romanoff in CO got an offer too.

Posted by: Jean at May 27, 2010 11:07 AM (PjevJ)

There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Chicago way.  We do things the Chicago way but you'd better call it the right way if you don't want to get found floating in the river. 

76

Posted by: Hedgehog at May 27, 2010 11:03 AM (oQIfB)

Good God Almighty....

And we have an oil spill?

Notice how Greenpeace and the like aren't protesting in China.

Because if they did, they would wind up in prison, at best. And that would be far more of a hardship to them than their beliefs.

Man....

77

New Black Panther Party Holds Atlanta Convention, Getting Ready for War Against Tea Party, White-Right.

Heh. You know what? Those idiot fucks are gonna fuck around amd make my day. They have absolutely no clue about who they are up against. No fucking clue.

78 68 - http://www.snopes.com/medical/emergent/redcross.asp

79  President continues in his sports related play-job.

Posted by: dagny at May 27, 2010 11:06 AM (7Kl+J)

Pithy. 

80 A caller to hannity said this was a rumor he heard, but guess not:  "Barney Frank wants to see Rep. Djou's birth certificate"

Excuse me?

(via drudge)

81 Posted by: Bill O'Really at May 27, 2010 11:17 AM (W8m8i)

hey, rush thinks you are the ted baxter of news...

researched it, it isn't flattering....

82 A caller to hannity said this was a rumor he heard, but guess not: "Barney Frank wants to see Rep. Djou's birth certificate" Excuse me? (via drudge) Posted by: curious at May 27, 2010 11:19 AM (p302b) I think it was mostly tongue in cheek, although in Franks case it might better be called dick in.....ah never mind

83 Short unprecedented irony comment: For an administration that promised to succeed with Smart Diplomacy where Bush failed, the world seems to be unprecedentedly screwed up. For an administration that promised unprecedented transparancy, there certainly appears to be some pretty unprecedented opacity. For an administration that promised unprecedented unification, there seems to be some pretty unprecedented division - everywhere. For an administration that promised unprecedented bipartisanship, there seems to be some pretty unprecedented partisanship. For an administration that implied unprecedented truthfulness, there certainly seems to be a pretty unprecedented amount of lies. For an administration that promised that unprecedented government spending would lead to the creation of jobs, there seem to be an unprecedented lack of jobs. For an administration that promised an unprecedented level of ethics, there certainly seems to be an unprecented level of corruption. Just sayin'

84 Barney not only said Rep Djou should show his birth certificate, he added "and show me your unit."

85

hey, rush thinks you are the ted baxter of news...

researched it, it isn't flattering....

Posted by: curious at May 27, 2010 11:20 AM (p302b)

Yeah, well, I've got no beef with Rush, 'cause I'm just lookin' out for the folks.

86

New Black Panther Party Holds Atlanta Convention, Getting Ready for War Against Tea Party, White-Right.

Heh. You know what? Those idiot fucks are gonna fuck around amd make my day. They have absolutely no clue about who they are up against. No fucking clue.

Posted by: maddogg at May 27, 2010 11:16 AM (OlN4e)

Is Eric Holder the guest speaker at the convention?

87 dagny, come on lay off of the red cross, Eisenhower put this bed - though the persistence of this idea demonstrates the power of the internet. Your dad would have had to go to great lengths to find a copy of the Eisenhower statement preWWW: http://tinyurl.com/32krk97

88

We are overdue for one of Camille Paglia's "Obama is still the one we've been waiting for; his only failure is surrounding himself with incompetents" column. 

Posted by: Dr Benton Quest at May 27, 2010 11:09 AM (9RRbi)

I think she's on leave from her usual column because she's writing another book.  I like Camille but she's been unable to come to grips with the fact that the jugeared fuck she voted for is a complete fraud.  She recognizes the incompetency but is continually dancing around the dumbass in the middle of the room.

89 Jim Messina, ObamaÂ’s deputy chief of staff -- look out for the bus

90 New Black Panther Party Holds Atlanta Convention, Getting Ready for War Against Tea Party, White-Right.

What about the Black Right?

91 Posted by: nevergiveup at May 27, 2010 11:20 AM (0GFWk)

It frightens me how they inappropriately joke about serious matters...

although heard the prez was real grouchy with the republicans at some luncheon that he wanted....But apparently he wasn't so organized ..some thought he just wanted the republicans to roll over and acquiesce to his wishes....

92
"What about the Black Right?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 27, 2010 11:26 AM (mR7mk)"

Hannity has a very erudite caller who constantly reminds sean that he is a black conservative....can't wait to hear what this guy has to say about this today...he is really funny

93 Congress won't ask for Sosa perjury investigation

94

Is Eric Holder the guest speaker at the convention?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 27, 2010 11:23 AM (1Jaio)

Nope, but Cynthia McKinney will be there!

95

New Black Panther Party Holds Atlanta Convention, Getting Ready for War Against Tea Party, White-Right.

What about the Black Right

you mean the dirty race traitors who won't give me their money?

96 curious--I listen to this guy on Sundays sometimes.  Also very funny.

97

Did you guys see the link to a WaPo article over at Hot Air about how all the issues keep making it hard for our poor President to take a vacation?

What reality exactly does the WaPo think we live in? Are all the various photos of his trips and golf outings etc. supposed to have somehow already gone down a memory hole?

I have zero sympathy for President WhinyPants. You know what's making it hard for some Americans to take a vacation? The economy tanking.

98 Oh, this is just ridiculous: Schools ban kid bracelets because they are "distracting"

99 What about the Black Right?

Posted by: HeatherRadish

 

Never heard of it.

100 Cynthia McKinney will be there!

Posted by: RushBabe at May 27, 2010 11:30 AM (W8m8i)

Will she be assaulting any cops?

101 "Mitch McConnell On Rand Paul: 'He's Said Quite Enough' To The National Media "

Went over there to read the article on Beck's receiving a Doctor of Philosophy from liberty university but saw this and got distracted.

102

Jean

He would have said, "There is a right way, a wrong way, and the Army way. You can explain the right way, explain the wrong way, but there is no explaining the army way. "

103 I get the impression that she's almost on our side intellectually, but she just can't break the emotional bonds to the lib insanity.

Well it's probably more like she has to keep up the pretense while she still lives behind enemy lines.

104 Wonder if Juan McCain is feeling the heat in his primary?  And shame on the Democrats for not allowing the feds to do the few functions should be involved in - protect the borders and national security.

Democrats stop bid to send 6,000 troops to border

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate have repelled a move by presidential rival John McCain to send an additional 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

105 Oh, this is just ridiculous: Schools ban kid bracelets because they are "distracting"

Why is it ridiculous?

106 "105 Oh, this is just ridiculous: Schools ban kid bracelets because they are "distracting"

Posted by: chemjeff at May 27, 2010 11:31 AM (JgygP)"

I loled....ask any 15 year old male student...bracelets aren't distracting...it's the boobs and the exposed midriffs....and the legs....those are distracting.....

107 97 New Black Panther Party Holds Atlanta Convention, Getting Ready for War Against Tea Party, White-Right.

What about the Black Right?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 27, 2010 11:26 AM (mR7mk)

Dammit! What about the "I don't want to be Right"

108
You know what's distracting?  Having We Are The Champions stuck in your head all morning, that's distracting.

You're welcome.

109 Re Camille Paglia:

I get the impression that she's almost on our side intellectually, but she just can't break the emotional bonds to the lib insanity.

Posted by: Wodeshed at May 27, 2010 11:31 AM (MFbfZ)

I think that's about right.  She loves Rush and defends him against all who deride him and the same goes for her feelings on teh Sarah; but she's very wrapped up in popular culture and academia and it's hard to be an unabashed conservative in those settings.

110 chemjeff - bracelets - hell, my kids can get suspended (or me fined) if they don't keep their shirts tucked in.

111 HeatherRadish, because they are harmless bracelets.  If kids aren't paying attention in class then they should be disciplined, not subjected to a blanket rule that even the good kids have to obey.  It's brainless measures like this that turn smart kids off of school and learning, when going to school is like going to Room 101.

112 Chemjeff: I'm about to ban them from my house. They are all over the friggin place and they are fighting over the damn turtle.

113
Went over there to read the article on Beck's receiving a Doctor of Philosophy from liberty university but saw this and got distracted.

In light of chemjeff's post...

Was someone wearing a bracelet?

114 I loled....ask any 15 year old male student...bracelets aren't distracting...it's the boobs and the exposed midriffs....and the legs....those are distracting.....

I'm lol-ing...how many 15-year-old males were in your second-grade class, curious?

115

Are all the various photos of his trips and golf outings etc. supposed to have somehow already gone down a memory hole?

I recall a book that came out years ago. "The Peter Principle". How people advance beyond their ability in the work place.

Maybe it should be re-released and called "The Obama Principle".

 

116 @119
+1

117 WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

118 Black Panthers? Never heard of them.

119 Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 27, 2010 11:37 AM (mR7mk)

Well we had high school helpers before you had to worry about all kinds of bizarre things.

Didn't realize it was the second grade.  But my friends have second graders and they are way more preoccupied with what they wear than we were when we were in the second grade.

This is what happens when you try to multi task...lol

120 You know what's really distracting? The 25 year old hottie keeping her books on the floor and bending over everymorning in front of my 16 year old son. My husband thinks this is a good thing for his maturation process or something like that.

121

Texas "vote harvesting" trial set for June.  http://tinyurl.com/37ceb9w 

Could be interesting, if it receives media attention. 

122 Is Europe heading for a financial meltdown? http://tinyurl.com/35tmq8r   Mervyn King, the Bank of England Governor, summed it up best: "Dealing with a banking crisis was difficult enough," he said the other week, "but at least there were public-sector balance sheets on to which the problems could be moved. Once you move into sovereign debt, there is no answer; there's no backstop."   In other words, were this a computer game, the politicians would be down to their last life. Any mistake now and it really is Game Over. Or to pick a slightly more traditional game, it is rather like a session of pass-the-parcel which is fast approaching the end of the line.

123 Is Haji an illegal Dr. Quest?


Haji is Dr. Quest's "ward", IYKWIMAITTYD.

124 My husband thinks this is a good thing for his maturation process or something like that.

Whose maturation, the son's or the husband's?

125 If kids aren't paying attention in class then they should be disciplined, not subjected to a blanket rule that even the good kids have to obey.

OK.  I can see that.  How about chewing gum or eating candy in class?  Wearing shirts with swear words or graphic sex?  Why should the "good kids" not be allowed to do that stuff just because the "bad kids" pay attention to that instead of the teacher?

(When I was in third grade, the rage was charm necklaces with plastic toys.  Really damned hard to sit and read when everyone's fiddling with their plastic toys.) 

126 My husband thinks this is a good thing for his maturation process or something like that.

You're missing an "s" and a "b". 

127

Hey, I like the Red Cross as much as anyone, but they need to up their salary guidelines; $233,000 isn't nearly enough for a director of a service organization.

http://tinyurl.com/2uohlec

 

128 129 You know what's really distracting? The 25 year old hottie keeping her books on the floor and bending over everymorning in front of my 16 year old son. My husband thinks this is a good thing for his maturation process or something like that.

Posted by: dagny at May 27, 2010 11:40 AM (7Kl+J)

Well of course it is!

129

Whose maturation,

You are both spelling it wrong.

130 Obama presser? Shit, where's my stylish reading glasses.

131 OMG is masturation the combination of two words cleverly done by you guys?

132 MC @ 130, so what exactly is "vote harvesting"?

133 Really damned hard to sit and read when everyone's fiddling with their plastic toys.) 

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 27, 2010 11:41 AM (mR7mk)

That's what she said.

134 This thread is getting stale.

Time for a Will Folks thread I guess.

135


dagny, 

your son's cell phone pics (you can bet he's got them) or it didn't happen.

136

I'd just like to remind you all that my efforts in the Gulf, also known as "Top Kill," were as smashing success and that this success could not have been accomplished without my decisive judgement and brilliant leadership.

137

speaking of bracelets, when i was in grade school Slap Bracelets were all the rage, and those, without question, were distracting.

138 Debate between Keynesians and monetarists not settled? You are shitting me.

139 Posted by: Al Sharpton at May 27, 2010 11:46 AM (wuv1c)

do you remember that I called you this morning to assure you that my administration would be diverse even though it is the whitest ticket the dems have fielded in the state in over twenty years?

140 139 I know. I get no back up from husband when the boys think like pigs. He's likely to say, "Just how far does she bend over?" He then pats them on the back, relieved I suppose, in their normalness.

141 Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 27, 2010 11:41 AM

If I could jump in here, I think the problem with aggressive regulation of "distractions" in grade school is that the students never need to develop the ability to concentrate.  You could not believe the number of students in my sophomore college class who required special accommodation when we administered in class, closed book exams.  It was a class of 400 that had four exams per semester.  We used to have to schedule about 5-10 separate exam periods in "quiet rooms" plus accommodate about a couple of dozen kids with extra time based on the kids' claims of being unable to sit in a quiet lecture hall for 60 minutes to take an exam. 

I am sympathetic to the fact that some people have ADD - my sister had it (as well as a form of math dyslexia) back in the day (the '60s) before it was widely known to exist (she had to go to Kennedy-Krieger institute to get diagnosed).  But I think it's overly diagnosed and I think that the same kids who supposedly cannot pay attention and focus on the teacher are the ones who zone out everything else on the planet when they're gaming or texting. 

Here's an idea.  Maybe the kids who get As aren't necessarily smarter than the C students -- maybe they just learned self-discipline.

If a kid is disruptive in class, the teacher should address it.  I see no need for banning jewelry.  (This is quite different from the clothing regulations that have to do with gang signs and whatnot.)

142 HeatherRadish, well if I were in charge I would focus on the behavior and not on the object.  So chewing gum in class is okay with me as long as the kids aren't smacking it or blowing bubbles.  I can see why, though, one would want to focus on the object: the rule is easier to enforce and it's less likely to get the parents upset.  But that's just me.  I'm glad I don't have to deal with the cretins, personally.

143 151 139 I know. I get no back up from husband when the boys think like pigs. He's likely to say, "Just how far does she bend over?" He then pats them on the back, relieved I suppose, in their normalness.

Posted by: dagny at May 27, 2010 11:49 AM (7Kl+J)

Seriously, did you expect anything different?

144 I can't wait to see the press conference. You almost know they handed out index cards with softball questions designed to make Ogabe look like a genius. Joe "this is a big fucking deal" Biden has probably been busy all morning writing them.

I always think I can do it. Watch.  I make about 10 minutes, scream profanity, throw my zapper at the wall, and then pick up my travel guide with citizenship rules for various S. America countries. This is the way it is for me.

145 Hmm, Joe McGiness moves to Alaska and chickens start getting murdered. Coincidence? I think not. And i think it's safe to assume that said chickens are getting fucked before their gruesome, untimely demise, because, you know, if you're going to murder the chicken why not fuck it first? Makes perfect sense.

146 When I was in high school clackers were the craze. Distracting, painful and dangerous -- which made them cool.

147 NOAA is saying that this is the year for sure!
Hurricanes for serial this time!  And lots of them!
They super promise, and please don't pay attention to the fact they have been wrong like the last 8 years or so!

They are super serious!

148 Riding mower sets speed record, topping 87 mph

(It frightens me that I'm more of a man than the rest of the commenters there, heh.)

149

As midterm elections loom, one candidate has latched on to education reform. "Not only would I ban those multi-colored plastic bracelets in our high schools," says Ray Vizzini of Muckerville, "I would start all-boy high schools with 25 year old hotties as teachers. Then those lazy bastards would show up."

When asked about dress codes, Vizzini said, "Yeah, sure these chicks would wear spandex leotard tops. As long as they're American made that is. And I don't care how many times they bend over in class or drop their books or I-Pads, as long as there's some educating going on."

150 158 When I was in high school clackers were the craze.

'Anyone here the right age to remember the novelty erasers craze?  As I recall, our school store sold colorful erasers shaped like high-top sneakers and various animals.  They were fun. 

151 clackers? we called them knockers.....my parents wouldn't allow us to have them so we had play with the neighbors.....my dad said they would shatter and put our eyes out..........hahaha funny how this reads!

152 Ray Vizzini/Sarah Palin 2012 !!!!!
"Lead By Example"

153 clackers? we called them knockers....

We called knockers knockers.

154 we called them knockers.....my parents wouldn't allow us to have them so we had play with the neighbors.

I have always liked phoenix. Are there any houses for sale near you?

155 Here's an idea.  Maybe the kids who get As aren't necessarily smarter than the C students -- maybe they just learned self-discipline.

If a kid is disruptive in class, the teacher should address it.  I see no need for banning jewelry.  (This is quite different from the clothing regulations that have to do with gang signs and whatnot.)

That is an idea, one I hadn't considered.  But these things are not "jewelry" as much as plastic toys.  Play with your toys at home.

156 Knockers? We called knockers tits.

But we were students then, and young...

157

Posted by: M C at May 27, 2010 11:40 AM (o+4Pl)

I'm trying to do my part to highlight all the integrity that IS the socialist party.  I forwarded your link to Breitbart.

158 160 Riding mower sets speed record, topping 87 mph

(It frightens me that I'm more of a man than the rest of the commenters there, heh.)

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 27, 2010 11:56 AM (mR7mk)

Well, we're still waiting for the gender-proving pics ... But seriously, I have to complain about that story: where was the pic of the riding mower, with the requisite scantily clad hot woman standing nearby lounging on it seductively?

159 Willie Nelson cuts off his pigtails and now looks more like Don Imus than ever.

160

Knockers? We called knockers tits.

But we were students then, and young...

did there. saw it. news letter

161 Hey, I like the Red Cross as much as anyone, but they need to up their salary guidelines; $233,000 isn't nearly enough for a director of a service organization.

Gee, that salary - even in 1999 dollars - doesn't shock me.  The CEO of an organization as large as the Red Cross should be well-compensated.

Just because something is a charity, doesn't mean that it shouldn't be run as professionally as a for-profit business.  If you are going to get top CEOs, you need to pay market value.  The national HQ for the Red Cross is in DC.  That salary does not go all that far in that area. 

162 Heh, just heard the government's offshore drilling oversight manager was relieved before testifying before Congress. Birnbaum previously had no experience in oil or management.

Heard this off the radio, but here's the CNN link. Wonder if she got let go before she said something silly.

163 try that again

164

VIZZINI TOUTS STIMULUS PACKAGE: "No Pork; Just Stimulus"

 

165 O/T:  Dogs are amazing. 
Mine is curled up on our couch looking like a perfect angel. 
A couple of days ago, she destroyed a pair of Maui Jim sunglasses. 

166

Cocaine is a great drug.

167 174 Heh, just heard the government's offshore drilling oversight manager was relieved before testifying before Congress. Birnbaum previously had no experience in oil or management.

Heard this off the radio, but here's the CNN link. Wonder if she got let go before she said something silly.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at May 27, 2010 12:05 PM (UEEex)

But...But...But, she went to Brown and is a Harvard trained lawyer!!

Birnbaum received her Juris Doctor from Harvard University in 1984 and her A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 1979. She was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 8.

168 129 You know what's really distracting? The 25 year old hottie keeping her books on the floor and bending over everymorning in front of my 16 year old son. My husband thinks this is a good thing for his maturation process or something like that.

Posted by: dagny at May 27, 2010 11:40 AM (7Kl+J)

You definately misspelled a word there.

169 178

Cocaine is a great drug.

That's nothing. During one summer when I was 18, the next door neighbor- a stone cold hottie/exhibitionist- capped off her nights with self love by the glow of a lamp in full view of my 3rd floor window. I walked around like Omar the tentmaker for months. Without the ill side effects.

I had two words for that gal. Good sport.

170 "Editor in Chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 8." Heh heh heh, these "whiz kids" are looking dumber and dumber every day. Can't wait to see the press conference. I'll be hoping for a Sestak question after all the BP stuff. Also, I'm gonna be looking for any questions that seem to have been written by the W.H. That "closed door" meeting that Gibbs had with the press corps may very well have ushered in a whole new level of Pravda-ism.

171 vote harvesting: a group (in TX group of women) gathering (harvesting) illegal votes as paid professionals

172 181
Intriguing.
Newsletter?

173

Posted by: RushBabe at May 27, 2010 12:04 PM

Thank you

174 Good Lord. Shirts tucked in? What a bunch of pikers. Hell, I got my last ass whuppin for locking the football coach in the football field. Damn place had a 8' high chain link fence topped with 3 starnds of barbed wire around it. He had to climb out. Tore his dress pants all to Hell. I didn't get caught, never confessed, nobody saw me to rat me out, but they called me into the Principle's office and gave me 8 "licks" because they considered me the prime suspect.

175 184 181
Intriguing.
Newsletter?

Posted by: Editors at Penthouse

 

stills? video?

176 Hi Y-not, so I actually looked up some info on the BP chemical dispersants, and they are Corexit 9500A and Corexit 9527A, they are proprietary formulations so I can't tell you what's in them, other than what's on the safety sheet which says "organic sulfonic acid salt".

177 187
Would text messages between me and the guy down the street help? 

178 189 187
Would text messages between me and the guy down the street help? 

Posted by: Will Folks

 

They would certainly help us to lose our lunch. Other than that......

179

Hey Omar there.  What's this I hear about calling your doctor after fours hours. In my part of town that's just a blink in time.

180 188 Hi Y-not, so I actually looked up some info on the BP chemical dispersants

Yeah, I did the same. 

The EPA sheet didn't make it sound all that bad.  I mean, it seems to be an approved dispersant. 

I didn't take the time to look into the university studies the company cited.

Anyway, it seems to me that because oil spills impact on more than simply a chemical level, ie: they're physical properties also cause problems, dispersing it into biodegradeable droplets (as claimed by the company) is worth pursuing, even if there is some sort of toxicity from the dispersants.  Dilution and (possible) volatility can handle the latter, but they would not really affect the former blobs of oil. 

181 @192
Plus, there may very well be one of those hydrocarbon-eating 'bugs' to clean up the dispersant. 

182

Yeah, I am responsible for the Chicken deaths. All 36 of them.

  Check out 'North Pole #137 - The Chickening'

 

183

@7:

We are building a green economy of enormous magnitude. 

184 194 - Puppehtfail!

185 Holy shit.  Willie Nelson looks like Grandma from Evil Dead.

186 new thread

187

Heard this off the radio, but here's the CNN link. Wonder if she got let go before she said something silly.

So she's the peon they're going to blame?

188 John Brennan: We No Longer Use The Terms Islamist of Jihadist

189 Heh. You know what? Those idiot fucks are gonna fuck around amd make my day. They have absolutely no clue about who they are up against. No fucking clue.

scene at my house in the quiet ol' 'burbs:

weapons -- cleaned, oiled, ready
ammo -- perhaps a little on the light side?  *off to buy more*

190 What about the Black Right?

check out Ted Hayes & Crispus Attucks Brigade

http://tinyurl.com/3xt36js

191 I took the liberty of commenting on the Gapology headline over at my place. Feel free to drop in. First attempt at linking, so I hope you don't go full Anka on me.

Prof. Mondo (the Moron formerly known as Warren)

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