1 Fresh oxygen!

2 Sooooo, what's everybody think about that Barton's comments? Pretty crazy huh? Amirite?

3 Big news today - Greene is still the Dem candidate for Senate in SC.

4

US vs Slovenia at the top of the hour.

Here's a catchy vuvuzela tune you'll be humming all day.

http://tinyurl.com/27wjknd

HUMMMMM IT!

5 Whatever else you could say about Gardner, he went out like a man.

6 Daniels cancels truce: Weekly Standard: Mitch Daniels: 'I Would Reinstate the Mexico City Policy'

7
Free health care!

8
oh sorry.  Happy Friday all.

9 NASA distraught: The Sun, she is broken! She no follow our models!

10
Guiliani sez:  "If Bush were the president and handled it this way, there'd be.... a movement to throw him out of office.... They'd have been working on impeachment of Bush by now..."

Yes.


 

11 If you're ever given the choice of execution between guillotine and burning at the stake, go for the burning at the stake because......

12 Can someone explain to me what the hell the Secy. of State has to do with Arizona's immigration law....and why Clinton's the one announcing a federal lawsuit against Arizona?

13 NASA distraught: The Sun, she is broken! She no follow our models! Posted by: maddogg I will begin negotiations with the Sun immediately after this round, no preconditions.

14 This doesn't fill my Friday with glee.

Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base

A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned...

"I can confirm that 17 have gone missing from the Defense Language Institute," said Gary Emery, Chief of Public Affairs, 37th Training Wing, at Lackland AFB. "They disappeared over the course of the last two years, and none in the last three months."

There have been people missing for up to 2 years and we're just hearing about it now?!?!

15 Happy F*ck it all Friday, morons,ettes. 

I caught a bit on Fox this morning about 17 Afghan soldiers going missing at Lackland AFB over the past two years.  (Beck is talking about it now.)

They are pilots who have been trained to speak English and they have security clearance to defense installations all across the country.

WTF??  What could possibly go wrong?

16 12, Political cover for President Beanbag?

17 Aaaand, Kratos beats me.  (I blame the vidodan.)

18 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21

19 Obama - 41% Approve / 58% Disapprove: Rasmussen

20
A giant FU to Nanny-State Nightmare LeftwingNut Control Freak Pelosi.

21 Tami, if you come across any of the 25% retards, back away slowly, then run like hell. 

22 Whatever else you could say about Gardner, he went out like a man. Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2010 09:28 AM (OlN4e) He was a murderous bastard and he a killed a Vet to boot. He wasn't a man

23 Tami, if you come across any of the 25% retards, back away slowly, then run like hell. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 18, 2010 09:38 AM (UOM4

I live in Connecticut....I'm surrounded.

24

....you'd rather have a hot steak than a cold chop.  Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. 

Meh, don't worry about the Afghans.  They probably found jobs at Schlitterbahn. 

25
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president
-posted by Tami

25% of this nation drink unicorn piss.  and they like it.

26

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 18, 2010 09:39 AM (0GFWk)

Perhaps you could read what I wrote.

27 Great news from Politico:

HERSHEY, Pa.—Rep. Darrell Issa, the conservative firebrand whose specialty is lobbing corruption allegations at the Obama White House, is making plans to hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators if Republicans win the House this fall. 

The California RepublicanÂ’s daily denunciations draw cheers from partisans and bookings from cable TV producers. He even bought his own earphone for live shots. But his bombastic style and attention-seeking investigations draw eye rolls from other quarters. Now, heÂ’s making clear he wonÂ’t be so easy to shrug off if he becomes chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2011. 

Issa has told Republican leadership that if he becomes chairman, he wants to roughly double his staff from 40 to between 70 and 80. And he is not subtle about what that means for President Barack Obama.

28 Boy, Barton's comments must have stuck to Obama to force his approvals down.  The stickiness of that was "shakedown" and "slush fund."  Masterful.  

29 Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Balls of Steel

30

On the nonchalant reaction of the two holes-in-one golfer in Tazmania: reminds me of the time I tried to chip onto the green and ended up clipping the ball at a high rate of speed straight across it, fully airborn.

Except that it hit the shaft of the pin about halfway up.  And dropped straight down into the hole.

I am such a notoriously bad and infrequent golfer that I briefly had my mates going when, in response to their guffawing, I deadpanned "What... is that the wrong way?"

31 Beck "went there" a while ago re the Shakedown, and said our nation is being run by criminals.  Made me feel kind of warm and fuzzy.

32 Posted by: nevergiveup at June 18, 2010 09:39 AM (0GFWk) Perhaps you could read what I wrote. Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2010 09:41 AM (OlN4e) I read it. You said what ever else you can say, he went out like a man. I don't agree, but hey, no big deal. It's not like it's a huge point of diagreement between us.

33 Also, scroll down; there was a buncha posts last night

You're not the boss of me.

34 I read it. You said what ever else you can say, he went out like a man. I don't agree, but hey, no big deal. It's not like it's a huge point of diagreement between us.

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 18, 2010 09:45 AM (0GFWk)

My point was, if I were to be executed, I would prefer to be shot like a man, rather than be disposed of like a stray dog in the pound.

35 As long as Issa doesn't start apologizing to BP, he's golden.

36 I read it. You said what ever else you can say, he went out like a man. I don't agree, but hey, no big deal. It's not like it's a huge point of diagreement between us.

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 18, 2010 09:45 AM (0GFWk)

My point was, if I were to be executed, I would prefer to be shot like a man, rather than be disposed of like a stray dog in the pound.

Posted by: maddogg

 

Apologize profusely. That goes over big here.

37 My point was, if I were to be executed, I would prefer to be shot like a man, rather than be disposed of like a stray dog in the pound. Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2010 09:48 AM (OlN4e) And you would deserve that option. I just don't believe that murderer should have. But as I said, no biggie

38 Shhh,don't mention Barton.Please.

39 #27  That is awesome news.  Good to know there are some ballsy PA politicans.

I've been feeling a lot more respect for Elton John recently.  Singing at Rush's wedding, and now this:
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - A concert by Elton John has given Israelis a boost after a string of cancellations by other world-famous artists.

The British rocker performed late Thursday in front of a screaming crowd of nearly 50,000 fans at a Tel Aviv stadium.

John, who wore blue-tinted sunglasses, told the audience those cancellations "ain't gonna stop me from playing here, baby."

Recent cancellations by the Pixies and Elvis Costello, who cited Israeli government policies, have added to Israel's growing sense of isolation.

John swiped at those artists, saying, "We do not cherry-pick our consciences," before hitting the opening chords of his 1972 hit "Crocodile Rock."

/Apologies if this has been posted before.

40 Barton?  Did I miss something yesterday?

41 Sorry. I read both long threads last night, but did not participate. Kept me up until 3:30 AM EDT. I really have no life.

42 Who'd a thunk that Elton John would be on our side in the "culture wars"? It's a mad, mad, mad world.

43 Hey, Clyburn,  how you like the taste of my unemployed ass now, bitch?

44 We should be safe.The ewok will be asleep until at least 3pm....

45 Didn't see this in the daily Financial Doom thread, but here's more "Cali is boned" news-

San Diego Urged to Consider Bankruptcy

The city of San Diego should consider bankruptcy, the county of San Diego Grand Jury said in a recent report.

The grand jury, which examines local governments in addition to indicting suspected criminals, says such a step could help the city cut its onerous retirement and health benefits.

46 How to be executed like a man.

47 /Apologies if this has been posted before. Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 09:52 AM (9hSKh) It's good news. Nothing wrong with posting it alot

48 46 How to be executed like a man. Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2010 09:57 AM (OlN4e) OK I'm with ya on that one. And it was a great movie. Too bad it is not on more.

49 Who'd a thunk that Elton John would be on our side in the "culture wars"? It's a mad, mad, mad world. Posted by: lincolntf at June 18, 2010 09:54 AM (TPEo9) Ain't that the truth. Next thing your gonna tell me is that a Black Radical Commie from Chicago..........

50 weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........................

51 If the Afghans went AWOL, their security badges shouldnt be worth anything. But I wonder why the alert now if they have been disappearing over the last two years. Maybe they are having a reunion?

52 Okay, I just read the first 33 posts for the day. Just go READ that mess... Jeebus you guys! Fortunately, Murderabilia is on the way out. So there's that. But this is important legislation. Way-more important than jobs, or economy, terrorism, immigration, or energy. So everybody take a breath, and focus on something else. After-all, we don't need to know this, and the O can just turn off the Internet if you don't believe him. And him alone.

53 If the Afghans went AWOL, their security badges shouldnt be worth anything. But I wonder why the alert now if they have been disappearing over the last two years. Maybe they are having a reunion? Posted by: Leigh T at June 18, 2010 10:00 AM (Nz79Y) That is not true about the security badges. Unless the badges are electronically swiped at the entrance to the Military Base, as long as the expiration date is valid, they are good to go. And most Bases do NOT electronically swipe your ID. They should but they do NOT.

54 39 I'm surprised at Elvis Costello.Didn't think he was a douche.Ah,he is a Brit though and they love them some "downtrodden" pali's.

55 I still think the Afghans most likely motive was not wanting to go back to Shitholistan,not terrorism.

56 San Antonio Express News:  "Agents find 48 immigrants in tractor trailer"

best comment is that the headline should read:  "48 unregistered future democrat voters found in tractor trailer"

57 TOWNHALL: Could the Obama Administration be Blocking Gulf Clean-up Efforts Intentionally?" http://bit.ly/cIQ2bg  

Moreover, it's now indisputable that statists on Capitol Hill are attempting to exploit this disaster to push so-called cap and trade legislation. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently revealed: "At the same time as Americans wonder when this gusher will ever be plugged, we hear word that the administration and my good friend the majority leader want to piggy back their controversial new national energy tax -- also known as cap and trade -- to an oil spill response bill that could and should be an opportunity for true bipartisan cooperation. So here again, we see the administration using a crisis, in this case the disaster in the gulf, as an opportunity to muscle through Congress another deeply unpopular bill that has profound implications for small business and struggling households."

58

Here's some sweet bacon love, to cheer up the morons!

Top 20 Father's Day Bacon recipes

59 America Held Hostage:  Day 515

60 55 I still think the Afghans most likely motive was not wanting to go back to Shitholistan,not terrorism.

Perhaps, but we cannot take that risk.

What worries me is that they're announcing these disappearances now.

61 They're also pushing to boost the ethanol content of gasoline to 15%.

62 Have all y'all seen the link on drudge?

http://tinyurl.com/2ba2ac5

"BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard"

As Bugs Bunny would say, Zero's gonna be doing this shit to us all through the movie.

63

Obama administration argues in court that the healthcare mandate IS A TAX! This is completely opposite to what Obama has said in interviews and during his campaign. Read here:

http://tinyurl.com/38nlgb2

64 39 Plus he played in Egypt last year despite Muslim screeching opposition

if he doesn't quit being so un-pc, he'll be a marked man

65 #62  Beck was just talking about the barges.  Apparently they didn't have enough fire extinguishers on board or some such shit. 

Jindal's head must be about to explode.

66

62  Beck was just talking about the barges.  Apparently they didn't have enough fire extinguishers on board or some such shit. 

Jindal's head must be about to explode.

I'm not a tin-foil conspiracy theory person, but dang if this whole fubar'd cluster isn't starting to look intentional.  "Don't let a crisis go to waste."  Seems like O Hussein is doing his best to leverage this for all it's worth.

67 Beck just mentioned Harvard? saying if Cap & Tax goes through, watch for gas prices of $7/gal. 

I can't wait for the day the Douche in Chief goes home to Chi-town.  However, it would really be sweet if Issa could have the bastard indicted for something.  Anything.

68

65 #62  Beck was just talking about the barges.  Apparently they didn't have enough fire extinguishers on board or some such shit. 


Major Garrett said beach clean-up workers got stopped from working because they didn't have enough water coolers.

I'm getting the feeling that clean-up isn't job one.

69 61 They're also pushing to boost the ethanol content of gasoline to 15%.

Cool.  More bad gas in the pumps and more clogged fuel filters and the like.  Glorious. 

70 Something's gotta give.  There is no way people can survive with energy cost as high as cap and tax will drive them.  Cap and tax will trickle down to everything.  $7.00 gallon gas would be just one small aspect of the costs we would see!  If it comes to that kind of cost of living, people are going to become violent.  We need to rise up and put a stop to this before it gets to that point.  I believe we are truly at a pivital moment in this great nation's existence.  It's really going to go one of two ways.  It's black and white.  There are no more gray areas.  People are going to have to choose one way or the other.  No more squishy RINOs, no more gray areas....period!

71 Mitch Daniels has announced, on second thought, he would reinstate the Mexico City policy.  On Townhall, Michael Gerson wrote, "If responsibility and austerity are now sexy, Daniels and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are centerfolds." Heh.

72 Also, the NYT keeps laying into Blumenthal. The Onion did a hilarious parody "Candidate May Have Lied About Heroic Death In Vietnam."

MONTGOMERY, AL—In a major scandal that could cast doubt on his political future, U.S. Senate candidate Chris Wilfred came under fire this week for comments he made alleging he had died heroically while fighting in the Vietnam War.

Wilfred made the controversial claim during a speech Monday honoring three American soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan.

"I know all too well the depth of their sacrifice, for I myself was killed on a battlefield far away from home," Wilfred, a three-term Democratic state representative, said to a crowd of hundreds. "But we who have laid down our lives—whether in Vietnam or Afghanistan—have done so with the knowledge that our deeds have kept our country safe."

Added Wilfred, "Their deaths, like mine, were not in vain."

Following the speech, critics pounced on Wilfred's comments, accusing him of overstating his military record for the sake of scoring political points. Rep. Mike Hubbard, who acts as chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, said that a close examination of Wilfred's history shows his claims don't add up.

"There's a lot of evidence here that contradicts his statements," Hubbard said. "For one thing, there's no official record of anyone by his name dying as a member of the armed forces during that time. And public documents clearly show that he was married in 1982 and has renewed his driver's license a number of times over the past four decades."

"I'm not calling Mr. Wilfred a liar," Hubbard added. "But I think the American people deserve to know the full truth."

Footage from various campaign stops in recent weeks reveals a number of inconsistencies in the way Wilfred has portrayed his wartime death. At a rally in Albertville, for example, Wilfred described how he had been fatally wounded during a raid on a Vietcong tunnel complex.

Yet at a town hall meeting in Montgomery later that week, he touted his patriotism by pointing out that he had, after all, been gunned down by a sniper while patrolling the Mekong Delta.

And in a video from the Calhoun County Fair's annual pie-eating contest, at which Wilfred acted as honorary timekeeper, the Senate candidate is heard recounting his death by rocket-propelled grenade. At one point Wilfred tells participants, "They still haven't found my head."

When approached by reporters, Wilfred acknowledged the possibility of minor misstatements but vehemently defended the substance of his comments.

"It's natural over the course of a long campaign to misspeak in some small way now and again," Wilfred said. "But I know what I gave for my country. I know where my last drop of blood was spilled. I was there."

Continued Wilfred, "How dare you dishonor my memory to my face?"

Nevertheless, a new conservative advocacy group called Truth 2010 has unveiled an attack ad assailing the candidate's credibility. Called "Where's The Grave?" the 30- second spot slowly pans across a row of veterans' headstones as a voice-over intones, "Come clean, Chris Wilfred. Or tell us which one of these is yours."

When told of the ad, a spokesman for the Wilfred campaign accused Truth 2010 of trying to distract voters from the real issues.

"Folks in Alabama are worried about their jobs and providing for their families, not this junk," Wilfred campaign spokeswoman Deana Riggs said. "Come November, voters aren't going to care about who did or didn't die in this or that war."

"Chris Wilfred is the man for the job," Riggs continued. "God rest his soul."

Public reaction to the controversy has thus far been mixed. Bob Melick, a self- described independent voter, told reporters that while he would withhold judgment until all the facts were in, he hoped the allegations against Wilfred proved untrue.

"I guess I don't want to believe the worst about him," Melick said. "But whatever happens, I'll always respect him for being the man who killed Hitler."

73 Cool.  More bad gas in the pumps and more clogged fuel filters and the like. 

We might even bring the food riots home.

74 I'm still pissed, but I'm going to try to calm down.

75 #74  We might even bring the food riots home.

Obama is hell-bent on reducing us to third-world status.  We'd be "more equal" if we had massive food riots too.

75 I'm still pissed, but I'm going to try to calm down.

I'm seriously considering taking up excessive drinking.  At least I'd be able to sleep at night...

76 Hussein, Reid, Pelosi are going to imbed Cap and Tax into a Gulf relief bill.  The GOP RINO's are going to be hard pressed to not go along with it, or risk looking like they are blocking efforts to help the small people of the Gulf Coast.  The MFM will trumpet that narrative with everything they have.  52% will buy it.  Republicans will not effectively counter this arguement and we will be completely screwed.  I have no faith in the GOP right now.  Cap and Tax was dead until this crisis came along.  Now, isn't this all coming together in a nice little package.  And I've heard that BP was one of the leaders in the Cap and Tax lobby.  If true, it sounds like they see quite a large pot of gold at the end of a sticky black rainbow!  I want to view this disaster without a tin-foil hat, but my Vulcan-like logic :-) is starting to make a case against my more reasonable side.  At the very least, the foot dragging, stalling, preventing people from taking reasonable action, stopping workers from working, not accepting expert help, and useless speechifying is certainly a deliberate attempt to make the most of this crisis.

77

Who'd a thunk that Elton John would be on our side in the "culture wars"?
It's a mad, mad, mad world.

Elton John probably realizes that he'd be first at the gallows under islamic rule.  Plus, he's earned a lot of money in his career, that he doesn't want any given government to sieze from him.  I'm surprised more of the entertainers don't think like him.

78 There was nothing wrong with the $20B deal. Nobody's doing anything dishonest or underhanded. We are committed to Constitutional principles in everything we do here. And I'd better not catch anybody saying different.

79 More bad gas in the pumps and more clogged fuel filters and the like.  Glorious.

Lower mpg and more "carbon emissions", too!

80 Heh.

81 I don't know if this has been posted yet, but South African man beaten to death by family in fight over watching the World Cup.

82 Oh, no! The replica handbags are trying to pick a fight with Ace over the slush fund comment.

This isn't going to be pretty, folks.

83 I like DC, but it sure messes things up when people go off-message. And it upsets John so much, I can barely even get him hard.

84 The city of San Diego should consider bankruptcy, the county of San Diego Grand Jury said in a recent report.

The grand jury, which examines local governments in addition to indicting suspected criminals, says such a step could help the city cut its onerous retirement and health benefits.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 09:56 AM (9hSKh)

That certainly bodes will for the rest of the country doesn't it?  I love the smell of a Government bailout in the morning......it smells like _______.

85 what's everybody think about that Barton's comments?

I think you're peddling cheap knock off handbags, and you belong in jail.

86 Sometimes, you need to hear the entire picture, & not just partial transcripts.

87 "88 Sometimes, you need to hear the entire picture, & not just partial transcripts. Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 11:38 AM (Yq+qN)" I keep re-reading the transcript and re-viewing the video in an effort to understand the firestorm about this. I don't get it. I can't find anything at all objectionable about Barton's statement. In fact, I agree 100% with everything he said. I am disgusted with the GOP for abandoning this guy.

88 And most Bases do NOT electronically swipe your ID. They should but they do NOT.

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 18, 2010 10:03 AM (0GFWk)

That "mark of the beast" lady was onto something.

89 1980  Lake Placid,  stunning win over the Soviet Union

2019  Tie with Slovenia

Somehow,  I am not seeing progress here.

90 test,test,test

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