1 Clever.

2 KPow is off her rocker.....

the Ogabe Mile High Club must be amazing

3 Kirsten Powers has been a full deck of race cards and she just laid down a full house.
\

4 sock

5

Whoops! No sunspots today. Zero. Nada. Zip.

Oops!

Looks like NOAA fudged the global temps. Shocka!

6 I can't even watch when the Democrat mouthpieces come on.I have zero tolerance.

7

Re sidebar item on yo-yos and more nostalgia

 

These things were huge when I was in High School in the 60s. Everyone had one, but the cool kids had one of the Duncan imperial clear ones. And no, you were not shit if you couldnÂ’t do at least 5 tricks. (and no none of us could do all that shit he is doing in the video, except walk the dog) Yo-yos have had ups and downs through out their lifetime since the late 20s but periodically they go into an irrational craze.

 

Well, it appears that we may be on the verge of another craze because the kids next door are all playing with them now. Have any of the other Morons noticed local kids playing with them? We also had a Duncan top craze there for a while in the 60s can that be coming back as well?

 

Here are some TV adds from the 50s and 60s for toys back then

 

Included is one for a USS Enterprise kit which was pretty expensive for the time. Little did I know that a few years down the road I would be actually driving the real one. (or at least operating the gas pedal)

 

 

8 First day of school, gonna miss the kiddos but hard to have a home office with screaming 7 and 12 year olds.

9 First day of school, gonna miss the kiddos but hard to have a home office with screaming 7 and 12 year olds. Posted by: beerologist at August 23, 2010 09:13 AM (r2UKM) Where do you live that school starts to early. Here in the North East it is not usually till after Labor Day

10 It's okay...Kirsten Powers is being paid for her opinions, just like "Poppin' Fresh" Morrissey, who is indignantly rambling on at Tepid Air about how eeeeevil it is that bloggy opinions are for hire.

Just a matter of who's paying, I guess. Townhall.com: Good, Daily Beast: Bad, right?

11

It's nice to know their rights were protected.

Minneapolis will pay $165,000 to zombies

(I find the fact that they were using an iPod ironic...)

12 Where do you live that school starts to early. Here in the North East it is not usually till after Labor Day





Texas

13 NOAA is trying to cover their deliberate manipulation of numbers. They know the whole thing is coming apart and they are trying to avoid jail time.

Meanwhile Bambi and Hillary are clinging to their bitter stories.

14 Yo-yos have had ups and downs through out their lifetime

ISWYDT

I was never any damn good with yo-yos, but I'm glad to see kids getting back into them. Takes more effort than pushing buttons in a game console!

15 Where do you live that school starts to early. Here in the North East it is not usually till after Labor Day

Hell, our started last week.

16 Where do you live that school starts to early. Here in the North East it is not usually till after Labor Day

Our local schools started last Tuesday.

17 10 Scribbler,

My main issue is when people are misrepresented with regards to their prevailing opinion.

Poppin' Fresh is never marched out as a moonbat or a hard con he is a squish and has been known as such.  KPow and KPa are trotted out as "conservatives" at times....KPow less so but I digress.  She is "more black" than Juan Williams these days and more Muslim than CAIR.

18 15 Vic,

our schools started the 11th.

19

Anyone notice that some of the ads on conservative sites are for democrats or are from liberal interest groups?

Hot Air has a few anti bush ones when i was reading it this morning, although that seems like an honest mistake on the advertisers part.

20

 

Good morning...but I digress.

AP finally puts all its chips on Blew Blue.

http://tinyurl.com/35a9oe5

 

21

"Have any of the other Morons noticed local kids playing with them?"

Haven't seen any yo-yos, but I've seen a few kids with Rubik's Cubes. Mainly the kids in my neighborhood don't play with toys. They just walk up & down the street shouting obscenities. 

22

The schools here (at least in my town, don't know about all of Louisiana) started on Aug. 11!

I'm still trying to remember to slow down in school zones...

23

 Kirsten Powers has been a full deck of race cards and she just laid down a full house.

i think you can trace it back to two incidents. First, the one where Megyn Kelly tore into her. And the other being on Special Report when she just tried to call everyone racist. Everyone on the set was looking at her as though she lost her mind. Charles Krauthammer was almost so dumbstuck that he stood up and walked away, but then realized he couldn't do that anymore.

24 Anyone notice that some of the ads on conservative sites are for democrats or are from liberal interest groups?

Well, I see that my ad finally made it here!

25 The hula-hoop made a comeback a few years ago, too.

26

The schools here (at least in my town, don't know about all of Louisiana) started on Aug. 11!

I'm still trying to remember to slow down in school zones...

me too. i got throught two school zones to get to work. I always thought school started Aug 27 up in the North, but i guess they started earlier this year.

27 Bob Dole donates to Charlie Cheetos Crist?

http://bit.ly/c4frIV

With or without Viagra, Dole is a limp dick.

28 From the above link:

But it turns out there are parts of the document he doesn't care for — lots of them. He wants to get rid of the language about birthright citizenship, federal income taxes and direct election of senators, among others. He would add plenty of stuff, including explicitly authorizing castration as punishment for child rapists.

Interesting take they have on this "birthright citizenship" thing. I guess the AP has a hard time reading plain English. Also, they must have a problem with wanting to go back to the original Constitution with the other stuff.

29 I hate the North East. I'd move if i could

30

"Have any of the other Morons noticed local kids playing with them?"

i'm just waiting for Pogs to come back into fashion. i want to unload my stock for a profit.

31
75% snark-free is good.

Converting your money into their ideology since 1930.

32

Included is one for a USS Enterprise kit which was pretty expensive for the time. Little did I know that a few years down the road I would be actually driving the real one.

You were on Star Trek??

Kidding. I grew up in Alameda...

33

Charles Krauthammer was almost so dumbstuck that he stood up and walked away,

Unfortunately for CK, I don't think Genine Garafowla could inspire that kind of miracle. lol

  

 

34 Schools starting on the 11th. Shit when I was a kid we didn't start until the first week in Sep.

But, I don't think we got as many days off during the year either. Of course when I was a kid in rural GA you could be legally excused from school in the fall to help with the harvest.

I doubt if they are still doing that.

35

 Bob Dole donates to Charlie Cheetos Crist?

http://bit.ly/c4frIV

With or without Viagra, Dole is a limp dick.

I know all Republicans are considered "conservative" by the media.

But honestly, when was the last time the Republicans had a conservative president or conservative presidential candidate??

2008-McCain

2000,2004  GWB

1996- Bob Dole

1992 GHWB

1988- GHWB

I think 1984 is the last time we had a true conservative.

It's been 26 years since we republicans were able to vote for a true conservative in a presidential election.

36 Charles Krauthammer was almost so dumbstuck that he stood up and walked away, but then realized he couldn't do that anymore. Posted by: Ben at August 23, 2010 09:21 AM

Stand up, Charlie! Let everybody have a look at ya!

37 It's been 26 years since we republicans were able to vote for a true conservative in a presidential election.

And we're so proud of that.

38 Re the blogger for hire thing and Morrissey's post, were there no examples from the Leftosphere or did they just chose not to highlight them?

My problem with the Daily Caller is that it seems that they use their connections within the conservative movement to dig out stories about corruption or questionable practices and run with the stories as if that were the full picture.  Having no such connections to the Left, the impression that remains is that only the Right is dirty.  Case in point was the RNC 'strip club' storyline. 

39 Kidding. I grew up in Alameda..

LOL, you could actually see it above the tree line from a lot of places in Alameda.

40
Yo-yos have had ups and downs through out their lifetime

ISWYDT

Heh. And the popularity of hula-hoops runs in circles.

41

Posted by: maddogg at August 23, 2010 09:05 AM (OlN4e)

I thought that was cool as hell.  I e-mailed it to the overnight crew a couple months ago for the ONT and couldn't get anyone to bite. 

42

This holiday gets way too little exposure, imo:

http://tinyurl.com/25h8v34

 

43 Haynesworth, Albert is a fat useless sack of meat.

44

It's been 26 years since we republicans were able to vote for a true conservative in a presidential election.

Posted by: Ben at August 23, 2010 09:26 AM

Wonder how much longer it will be before we get that honor again?

Not seeing much in the way of true conservatism among the would-be Repub presidential candidates. Just lots of squishiness and Big Government blather.

45 I must admit that Barry Obama acts like your typical Marxist !!!

46

Yep, Vic, you'd just have to look down Central and see it.

Or notice lots of young women in short skirts walking down Webster, but that's not important right now.

47 Anyone notice that some of the ads on conservative sites are for democrats or are from liberal interest groups? -------------------------- I think it's great. Libs paying for Ace's Valu-Rite? You've gotta love it.

48 Yo-yos have had ups and downs through out their lifetime

ISWYDT

Heh. And the popularity of hula-hoops runs in circles.

And the Duncan tops had us spinning

49 Duke Energy currently has a huge Asplundh cherrypicker in my driveway, hacking away at a red maple on my front lawn. It's their "right" under local right-of-way regs so I can't bitch too much, but I've seen the hack jobs they've done in other neighborhoods. Crossing my fingers it doesn't look like shit.
Oh, and I got a nifty pamphlet entitled "The Kindest Cut of All" (seriously) from Duke telling me what kind of trees I should plant on my property to make their jobs easier.

50 High School started last Wednesday (1/2 days - first full day is today). The middle school starts tomorrow.  And, yea, beerologist, it is difficult to run a home office with an 11 year old jumping all around, a 13 year old bored every 5 minutes and the 17 year old insisting no noise be made so she can sleep till 3 or 4 in the afternoon if she were allowed too.


What was really fun is when they were infants, ever try feeding a baby while on the phone?  Clients would ask..Is that a baby?...and of course both kids have indentations in their foreheads from the phone slipping and knocking them in the head.

51 44This holiday gets way too little exposure, imo:

Hope it wasn't cold that day, IYKWIM.

Now that Iran is officially nuclear, what do you all think about Sudan going down the same path?

Sudan Moves Forward on 'Peaceful' Nuclear Reactor

52

The town I work in has its own $2.5million boondoggle thats a junior high, It looks like a friggin shopping mall, I swear I saw valets and a doorman as I drove by one day. Not bad for a blue collar town with bars and polish bakeries on every corner.

 

53 ItÂ’s a first for first ladies: Michelle Obama and Laura Bush will appear together next month on the 9th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in Shanksville, Pa., where United flight 93 went down after the crew and passengers fought back against terrorists. The ceremony will be held at the Western Overlook at the future site of Flight 93 National Memorial.


First. Is the Crescent still that architectural design for the Flight 93 National Memorial?

Next. Nice distraction. Send the first ladies away from the Twin Towers site this 9/11. Who would come or want Michelle Obama "for the first time in my adult life, I'm proud to be an American" speaking at any 9/11 commemorative ceremony?

Last. As an Obama administration afterthought, maybe Laura Bush better show up --- after all, with her post-White House residency book sales, she admitted she'd been a liberal all along.

Regardless of who's in charge of invitations (Raum), it's a good thing Laura's showing up on America's behalf as she was a beautiful first lady for our nation during that horrible 9/11 tragedy, and throughout Bush's administration. I wonder if GWB will attend the Flight 93 ceremony on 9/11 with her.

54 It's been 26 years since we republicans were able to vote for a true conservative in a presidential election.

Yes, but the 1984 election proved that Americans wouldn't vote for a Republican with a conservative record.  We have to reach out to natural Democrat voters and such.

55 School starts- it seems that below the Mason-Dixon line it stars sometime in August. Maybe because the crops were already in, and the tradition continues? I know that in PA NJ and MN it started after Labor Day. VA is already in session.
Speaking of VA, the 5th District race is heating up, and there a a lot of motivated voters who want him gone. There is a "Perriello [he of major Soros and SEIU money] Watch on youtube: http://tinyurl.com/36ao7e6

56 Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 23, 2010 09:29 AM

Pretty sad boobage on that video, HtP. Lotsa moobs, though.

When I lived near Venice Beach (early 1970s), a section was turned into a nude beach. I don't know what the politics were, but there was liberal skin there. Eventually, the city shut it down.

P.S. A sunburned unit is not comfortable....

57 Oh, and I got a nifty pamphlet entitled "The Kindest Cut of All" (seriously) from Duke telling me what kind of trees I should plant on my property to make their jobs easier.

You should plant Saguaro cacti around the poles.

58 prickly sock off

59 30 i'm just waiting for Pogs to come back into fashion. i want to unload my stock for a profit.
------------
Odd you should mention that. Mission Control was telling me just the other day that one of the nephews wants to bring back pogs.

60 52 Duke Energy currently has a huge Asplundh cherrypicker in my driveway, hacking away at a red maple on my front lawn. It's their "right" under local right-of-way regs so I can't bitch too much, but I've seen the hack jobs they've done in other neighborhoods. Crossing my fingers it doesn't look like shit."

It will look like shit, and the tree will tip over into your yard in a couple of years. I hate Asplundh.

61 Wow...early Top Headline thread.  I didn't even think to look for it this early and posted this on the dead ONT:

Anyone here speak Ebonics? If so, the DOJ needs people like you. (Barbara Billingsley has retired)

AUGUST 23--The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.

A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”

http://tinyurl.com/29j8hsj

62 Sudan is involving the IAEA in its nuclear plans, and says it has international approval to go ahead with plans to build two reactors.

Oh, well I suppose there's nothing to worry about as the international community is never wrong about anything.

However, its plans may cause concern due to ongoing conflict in the country, including a government-backed genocide in the Darfur region that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left many more as refugees.

Regime which doesn't bat an eye at genocide + nukes.  Again, obviously no problem here.

63 Just took a look at it from the side yard. My wife is gonna probably cry, and I think my property value just went down $5,000. From what I can see it looks like they completely skinned all the branches on one side of the 50 foot tree (the side facing the road). They're still at it.

64 Or notice lots of young women in short skirts walking down Webster, but that's not important right now.

Oh I remember those well, including doing a wheelie on my bike going through an intersection to suitably impress them. 

65 Ebonics is a moving target.  I speak fluent '70's ebonics.  Shaft/Superfly stuff.  I don't think this skill is useful any longer.  You dig?

66 68 Just took a look at it from the side yard. My wife is gonna probably cry, and I think my property value just went down $5,000. From what I can see it looks like they completely skinned all the branches on one side of the 50 foot tree (the side facing the road). They're still at it.




Do you have a pellet gun?

67 Anyone here speak Ebonics?

We do.

68 I think the only way to prevent utility companies from hacking away at trees is to pro-actively get in there and hire a trained arborist to trim the trees yourself.  Of course, I think in some places that's illegal, but I would do it anyway if the tree were in front of my house.  We paid about $300/tree to have the (really large) trees on our property pruned every 2-3 years. 

69 Oh, andAlbert Haynesworth is a SPOILED and SOUR sack of meat.  As useless as tits on a bull.

70 Utility compays have yet to realize that owning a chain saw does not mean you actually know how to use the chain saw.

Actually they usually hire professional tree trimmers for that.

71 polynikes, maybe we could rephrase that to "it's been 26 years since conservatives had a chance to vote for someone they could be proud of."

@66, Obviously ace needs to ban the Department of Justice.

72 Ebonics is a moving target.  I speak fluent '70's ebonics.  Shaft/Superfly stuff.  I don't think this skill is useful any longer.  You dig?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 23, 2010 09:42 AM (yQWNf)

That's Jive...completely different dialect.

73 And really, there are only two ways to keep the trees from getting hacked; plant them far enough away from the overhead lines so that they will not grow into the lines or get the utility to go to underground lines.

That second option costs a veritable fortune and will cause your rates to go up.

74 Posted by: dananjcon

Public education expenditures funded completely by taxes are twilight zone bizarre. The insanity leading these school districts can only produce insanity from their protégé teachers and students. School district boards consist of leading members within those communities. What is wrong with community leaders' mentality that tax payers MUST provide for the leadership's vanity?

Follow the money of property sales, contractors and educational administrators to see what you really got for your taxes: gang rape.

CA only has IOUs to pay for public employees and business contracts. AS IF these local school districts' grotesque taj mahals aren't going to be confiscated consequently after raised STATE taxes along with raised LOCAL taxes with raised FEDERAL taxes bankrupt the tax payers.

75 74 I think the only way to prevent utility companies from hacking away at trees is to pro-actively get in there and hire a trained arborist to trim the trees yourself.  Of course, I think in some places that's illegal, but I would do it anyway if the tree were in front of my house.  We paid about $300/tree to have the (really large) trees on our property pruned every 2-3 years.


My degree is in Landscape Architecture (never used it), had a Arborculture professor that called mis-cutting limbs, driving nails into trees etc "murder in the landscape"

76 Actually they usually hire professional tree trimmers for that

Really?  The places I've lived have a lot of topped off trees.  No arborist would do that to a tree. 

"Professional tree trimmers" = illegal immigrants paid in cash Ø arborist

77 52 Duke Energy currently has a huge Asplundh cherrypicker in my driveway, hacking away at a red maple on my front lawn. It's their "right" under local right-of-way regs so I can't bitch too much, but I've seen the hack jobs they've done in other neighborhoods. Crossing my fingers it doesn't look like shit.
Oh, and I got a nifty pamphlet entitled "The Kindest Cut of All" (seriously) from Duke telling me what kind of trees I should plant on my property to make their jobs easier.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 23, 2010 09:33 AM (b09DL)

They're installing Smart Grid. Nothing really to see there.

78

That's Jive...completely different dialect.

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2010 09:48 AM

Shut yo mouth sucka! 

79

I think the real headline should have been, "The real threat posed by trying to think with your head up your ass, like this reporter is obviously trying to do."

http://tinyurl.com/27you5y

This is an award winning load of bullshit even by HuffPo standards.

80 plant them far enough away from the overhead lines so that they will not grow into the lines

Ironically, it's usually the trees on median strips or the patch of ground between the sidewalk and street that cause problems and those are usually planted by builders or the cities themselves (in the places I've lived). 

81 Now that Iran is officially nuclear, what do you all think about Sudan going down the same path?

Sudan Moves Forward on 'Peaceful' Nuclear Reactor

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 23, 2010 09:33 AM (9hSKh)

Don't the folks well-versed in the Bible say that Revelation says the world will end via a mass conflagration in the Middle East?

82

The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.

Perhaps the New Black Panthers should return the favor for Eric Holder.

83 Really?  The places I've lived have a lot of topped off trees.  No arborist would do that to a tree.

I didn't say they were "arborists". I said professional "trimmers". Yeah, they may hire illegals to do the cutting but the company is usually bonded and in the business of cutting and trimming trees.

84 The tree was targeted because it's over 40 feet tall and its branches reached within 40 feet of a power line. They've left trees with huge "cutouts" in them all over the place.
It's two kids with one chainsaw and the lift.  No ropes, no extendable saws to lop off thin branches (or any of the other equipment actual professionals use).
One more company to hate.

85

Perhaps the New Black Panthers should return the favor for Eric Holder.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2010 09:52 AM (0aRHk)

They'd be translating their own conversations.

86 When I lived near Venice Beach (early 1970s), a section was turned into a nude beach. I don't know what the politics were, but there was liberal skin there. Eventually, the city shut it down.

I just watched a documentary on the California arts scene, especially around Venice, back in the 50s and 60s, from assemblage and abstract expressionism to pop art and the first Warhol show at Ferus and the first pop retrospective at the Pasadena Arts Museum curated by Walter Hopps. Were there still oil rigs on the beaches and giant possums in the canals? The artists and rodents paved the way for the liberals. Oh, I watched them weep as they talked about raids and arrests for shooting up naked in galleries, their First Amendment rights.

87 No ropes, no extendable saws to lop off thin branches (or any of the other equipment actual professionals use).

If they are violating OSHA regs call Duke and complain. It will get them stopped for a while.

88 She doesn't, but he does.

89 One more company to hate.

The company acted stupidly.  As I've always said, corporations run by typical white people can't be trusted.

90 I'm gonna re-post this from the dead ONT:

My favorite lefty serial spammer was in my local paper this morning:

There's long list of people the GOP wants us to hate

Editor:

I'm getting tired of the whole "mosque at ground zero" story.

It's not a mosque and it's not at ground zero.

And it's not political because the First Amendment gives religious freedom to all religions and no politician can do anything about it.

American Muslims are very different than Middle East Muslims and the reason for that in large part is because of our religious freedoms.

Freedom is a good thing and I find it strange the politicians are against it.

What I see is just Republicans looking for someone else to hate.

Let's hate all Muslims. And because of 911 they are an easy target.

It's consistent with let's hate Hispanics, Blacks, gays, liberals, socialists, intellectuals, teachers, community organizers, unions, Europeans, poor people, hippies, soccer, Hollywood, people who ride the bus, environmentalists, unemployed, progressives, and pregnant teens.

And the news media is falling for it. I would rather see some coverage of the issue that the Republicans don't want to talk about.

That issue is what this year's election means - the choice between to we stick with the Obama recovery, or do we return to Bush Era economics. So maybe the news media will wake up and cover something that is actually important.

Marc Perkel

Gilroy, Calif.

chemjeff replied:

Oh look, it's Marc Perkel's web site, with such illustrating entries as "Bush Nazi Links Confirmed" and "Why It's Your Duty To Burn The Flag".  Oh and he brags about how many papers he's been published in with his insipid letters to the editor.  He is your typical leftwing douchenozzle.
------------

Marc's website is worth a peek if you like to chuckle at left wing insanity.

91 It's two kids with one chainsaw and the lift.

Dial '91' on your cellphone and then wait....you'll be hitting the other '1' pretty soon I imagine.

92 83 Our power lines run above the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. The energy company comes by and hacks up the tree, leaving giant gaps and a mess but because the tree is in that strip it "belongs" to the city. I then call the city arborist and demand that they come and "fix" the trim so that the tree isn't unstable on one side. Then I go out and "supervise" which I'm sure they hate, but I mostly get "yes, ma'ams".

93 Irony: if you go into the comments for the Top Headline post, you can no longer see the top headlines. 

94 Don't the folks well-versed in the Bible say that Revelation says the world will end via a mass conflagration in the Middle East?

Something like that.  You'll sometimes get some argument over what's metaphor and what's literal, for example whether the use of the term "Israel" is specific to geography/the nation we see today or a reference to the Church generally.  The plains of Meggido (from which armaggedon is derived) is a fairly specific spot, I think in territory disputed with Syria, or at least near it.

95 Wow, FOX reporting that Phillipines hijacked bus situation just pretty much ended tragically.  6 of the 15 hostages were killed, as well as the hijacker. 

96 There were good artists back then, btw, even though it was all macho dudes who made art about chicks, surfboards and cars, same stuff they're doing now. But Irving Blum brought New york artists, and art sales went down. It ruined the art scene there, Art Forum packed up with the big gallerists and moved to the East coast. New York once again ruled the art world.

97 My MIL called the power company to actually get them to come out and trim the trees in her front yard that were hitting on the power lines.

They told her they didn't do that anymore. They wait until it causes a power outage through impact during wind or storm and then come out and cut the tree back while they are restoring power.

They claim it is actually cheaper that way in the long run and the people don't get as pissed at them.

(Full disclosure I used to work for that company).

98 I think these days, if just about anybody saw someone who looked like Barack Obama walking towards them, they'd be right to hang onto their purse as hard as they could...

99 Don't the folks well-versed in the Bible say that Revelation says the world will end via a mass conflagration in the Middle East?


Just get it over with already. The Chinese said it would be "interesting times," but most crooks and thugs are incredibly dull. The Obama administration and OPEC sure are.

100 I've never seen actual "top headlines" on a morning thread.  Where are they hiding? 

101 If you folks can't see the "top headlines" with the date at the top there is something wrong with your browser.

102 Lift is down, chipper truck just showed up and is maneuvering it's trailer into position. I'll know the full extent of the damage once they clear the mountain of limbs out of my yard and move on to their next victim.

103 Marc's website is worth a peek if you like to chuckle at left wing insanity.

I'll pass. I just shaved and showered for the day. Maybe I'll drop a half-dozen hits of acid this evening and check it out to see if I can relate.  

104 Oh friggin' great. I just heard on ABC News radio that the federal government is taking the egg recall very serious but lacks the regulatory powers needed to fully address the problem. The feds are calling for the passage of a new bill giving them further oversight powers.

Never let a crisis go to waste.

105 If you folks can't see the "top headlines" with the date at the top there is something wrong with your browser.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 10:04 AM

Yeah, Vic, but when you click on the "new comments thingy," all you get on the right side are links to a buncha dead blogs.

Pixy could fix that in five minutes, no?

106 Where's this whitey tape of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf? It's supposed to be out today. They must have put Eric Erckson and the LA Times on the job.

107 Never let a crisis go to waste.

Posted by: Ed Anger at August 23, 2010 10:05 AM (7+pP9)

There is a major agriculture bill that the House passed and is stalled in the Senate right now that will do the same thing to small farms that the "toy bill" did to small toy makers a few years ago.

It is a huge regulator expansion of requirements that no small farmer will ever be able to meet. That is probably what they are pushing for.

And when they say they have no regulatory authority over the egg business they are just doing more lying out their asses. 

They just don't enforce it worth a damn. As I have said many many times here, it is damn hard to enforce any real law when all you do is inspect freaking paper.

108

Beck said Moochelle visited the Alahambra Mosque while she was in Spain.  So visiting another "victory" mosque isn't blatant taunting to the American people? 

I saw an obscure article (by a conservative) on her trip and the writer thinks she was also house hunting for 2013. 

Re this whole 1st Amendment squabble that's "only about religion," someone at IOTW posted a comment from Breitbart's comments (try to keep up here) regarding the timeline of  Muslim population vs their actions.  Scary stuff.  Right now, the US has a low, low muzzy pop compared to the rest of the world, so the time to stamp this garbage out is now.   

109

Big Journalism has a story about what's disappearing off the White House web site:

Especially interesting it the sudden disappearance of ObamaÂ’s plan to commit $150 billion on clean energy research and development.

...

Also gone is any clear pledge to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions via his formerly touted cap and trade legislative efforts. For instance, the section once titled “Closing the Carbon Loophole and Cracking Down on Polluters” is now vanished down the memory hole.

110

If we dont watch our housing market, we might go right from "recovery" and into what we havent had for years... a recession!

(in case i didnt do the hyperlink right)

http://tinyurl.com/39jqtnp

111 I think the Bible describes the antichrist as charismatic and blasphemous.  The smart/competent thing may be projection (or at least I'm not familiar with any reference to it).  Also there seems to be a fair amount of misadvertising (he promises peace for his followers and ultimately brings about yet worse wars).

112

Irony: if you go into the comments for the Top Headline post, you can no longer see the top headlines. 

It's moronity, not irony. But, yeh, annoying.

113
Yeah, Vic, but when you click on the "new comments thingy," all you get on the right side are links to a buncha dead blogs.

OK, ya'll are talking about not being able to see the "top headline links" that are on the home page from the top headlines thread itself.

Hell, it is easy to just open a second browsing tab with the home page.

114 Hey Mallamutt, were you gonna post some links or not? I want to see your side of the issue, but I can't do that unless you show me some information that supports your side.

Also StuckonStupid, if you're out there, I started that thread on Talk Polywell that we discussed, but have seen no input from you as of yet.

115 120

That might explain Hillary's "Manbearpig hates Pakistan!" drivel the other day. Distract and guard the Left flank while retreating on a sure loser.

116 Where's this whitey tape of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf? It's supposed to be out today. They must have put Eric Erckson and the LA Times on the job.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 23, 2010 10:07 AM

For all we know, it is out.

Fucks News is busy with "Planet Blago" and Osama Obama blaming Bush again -- in between endless commercials -- and the rest of the media are still heavily into their push for "American suicide tolerance when it comes to Muzzies. Ace is sleeping it off, and "Poppin' Fresh" is worrying about paid bloggers and Social Security.

117 One thing I do know is that Obama is definitely not the Anti-Christ.   The anti-christ is supposed to be smart and competent. 

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2010 10:07 AM (m2CN7)

Another school of thought is that the Antichrist is group think.  The group think we're seeing from faction after faction in this country seems more coherent and successful than Chicago Jesus.

118 Ace is sleeping it off, and "Poppin' Fresh" is worrying about paid bloggers and Social Security.

If he has seen that crap from Philly about the new Blogger Tax he needs to worry.

119 On United Flight 93

Aside from ground security at airports, considering the official airline non-aggressive policy with hijackers that facilitated the 9/11 Islamofascist terrorists plot execution, exactly how has airline IN FLIGHT policy changed other than PERHAPS having an air marshal aboard, and the pilot perhaps being armed? Cargo is not thoroughly inspected, so explosives could yet occur, particularly dirty bombs, whether suitcase nuclear or bio-weapon. Moreover, concerning the use of the aircraft itself to attack a site, should terrorists manage on a flight to physically eliminate the potential air marshal and uncooperative pilots, there has been no public training or public announcements while awaiting flights informing passengers of means to halt terrorists in their initial combative stages to dominate authority. The DHS focus is to disarm, and even psychologically attack the individual/group sense of self-empowerment given a catastrophic adversity in flight.

Given that most people are cowards and leave battle for someone else to perform, I would think that a special permit subsequent to particular training enabling citizens to carry weapons of self defense on flights would be much more assuring than the hope that perhaps a single air marshal happens to be on your flight. Flight attendants should be trained in means to deflect physical attack from terrorist beyond talk, or as before, vainly relying on PC submission. But then, there are those nincompoop flight attendants who go berserk over trivia.

120 Term for the day: Professional Left.. thepeoplescube.com/

121 If he has seen that crap from Philly about the new Blogger Tax he needs to worry.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 10:16 AM

No, he's upset because some bloggy-type was paid for blogging about a political candidate and didn't warn readers in Big Red Type. Or something.

122 Barack, I think is a typical black person.

Imagine the power one gets, having been blessed with dark skin and thus vastly superior perceptive powers, that you can utter such a statement without suffering the backlash of making a ridiculous, narrow minded, and stereotypical statement reserved for dipshits.

Uttered by him, it becomes a statement of fact. Uttered by you, it gets you trailer park status and an invite on the Jerry Springer show.

123 133

I think the Bible describes the antichrist as charismatic and blasphemous.  The smart/competent thing may be projection (or at least I'm not familiar with any reference to it)

Well I guess it is a projection as in order to fully deceive one cannot be incompetent.  Also on another note, the anti-christ is supposed to support Israel initially.  Can't say I've seen that out of Obama.  

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2010 10:20 AM (m2CN7)

Sheesh, you'd think I'd use a total douche-nozzle like Obama? Re-read "Paradise Lost", meat sack.

124 Barf bag alert:

The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George's County. Barack Obama Elementary School opens its doors in Upper Marlboro, Md., for the first time Monday. The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly "green" school. There have been other schools named after President Obama in the country, but this will be a first in his own backyard in the D.C. region.

http://tinyurl.com/2eouvgh

125

The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George's County. Barack Obama Elementary School opens its doors in Upper Marlboro, Md., for the first time Monday. The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly "green" school. There have been other schools named after President Obama in the country, but this will be a first in his own backyard in the D.C. region.

 

Just wait until the end of the first marking period. Parents will be surpised when they're told that, in keeping with the school's namesake, grades will not be reported.

126 Don't mind me, just testing things.

127 Oh yes, and the vacation days will simply be amazing. Watching second graders on a golf course should be a treat.

128 Don't mind me, just testing things.

Posted by: Pixy Misa

 

Could you warm those up first next time?

129 Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2010 10:29 AM

I'm sure the students will get more vacation time than students in schools where achievement matters. Will they have a golf course, too? An on-campus mosque?

With luck, the school will be gone in two years. If it doesn't crumble due to shoddy work first. Repairs will be impossible, as the blueprints are hidden.

130

There have been other schools named after President Obama in the country, but this will be a first in his own backyard in the D.C. region.

Well, why not.........I'm pretty sure there are schools also named after Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and Martin Van Buren too.

Posted by: Mallamutt

 

Next up: Grover F'n Cleveland High school.

131

Giant Victory Mosque is totally non-controversial.  But put up a cross on your chapel?  Dude, you're asking for it!

This video is leading the way on the Comcast home page.

132 146: Blame will, of course, be put upon the hooligans from George W. Bush Junior High...

133 I expect the performance of Barak Ozero Elementary to be equivalent to the rest of the DC school system, and a fitting credit to Zero as a leader.

134 1 Clever. That's the most unrealistic and moronic (and not the good kind) idea I have ever seen about solar power and roadways. Solar panels have some of the most environmentally toxic elements inside of them and a good car crash will damage it to the point the panel will need to be replace.. Not to mention there is this substance called 'snow' that would need plowing off. They could run the panels in the winter time at about 38 degrees.. just enough to keep the snow from forming ice but Glass is an insulator too.. so it might need to be at a higher temp.. (the 38 degrees are what heated driveways are usually when they are made out of concrete.) if a good there was a good snowfall overnight, you would need a good sized battery bank to in order to head the panels to melt off the snow. Again, big trucks with forged steel blades scraping across glass probably wouldn't be a good thing. As ground freezes and buckles, edges of those panels would pop up and be hit with the snow plow, destroying the panel. Why asphalt works. It's flexible. Even concrete is mailable to some degree.. it can be ground down if two sections of it are uneven. if sections of this are uneven, they would need to pull up the road, repave underneath it, then lay down the road. Concrete you hit with a diamond tipped grinder until it's smooth. It's such an 'out of the box' idea that it should have been flushed long ago.

135

Lemon draws a stark comparison:

http://tinyurl.com/2etnsnf

Islamic moderates.  Yeah right - just like Obama the fiscal conservative.

From Lemon Lime Moon

 

136

881 days until Obama leaves office.

http://obamaclock.org/

 

137 High schools should be like Navy ships. It should be against the law to name one after a current living person. We used to be like that in this country.

Small towns don't have to worry though because 99% of the time they only have one HS and it is named after the town.

138 polynikes at August 23, 2010 09:38 AM

Reagan suffered a 20 point drop in popularity the month Iran Contra hit the news. Lest we forget, Iran Contra was only the tip of the intelligence sponsored arms sales and special forces operations against those deemed politically undesirable, Nicaraguans and Hezbollah combat and assassinations -- White House approval necessary. Interesting that Reagan shifted while under oath from knowing of, to having no recollection of involvement. But the main point is that those of Reagan's administration who were indicted and convicted on charges were subsequently pardoned by Bush who appointed them into his own cabinet.
Admiral John Poindexter: under Bush, Director of the Information Awareness Office;  in Iran-Contra, found guilty of multiple felony counts for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence, convictions reversed. In Poindexter's hometown of Odon, Indiana, a street was renamed to John Poindexter Street. Bill Breeden, a former minister, stole the street's sign in protest of the Iran-Contra Affair. He claimed that he was holding it for a ransom of $30 million, in reference to the amount of money given to Iran to transfer to the Contras. He was later arrested and confined to prison, making him, as satirically noted by Howard Zinn, "the only person to be imprisoned as a result of the Iran-Contra affair."

139 It's such an 'out of the box' idea that it should have been flushed long ago.

Its got a pile of those federal "green" dollars in it now. I watched that video and though it was pretty stupid as well. 

140

Grave security threat to the U.S. ?

http://tinyurl.com/24fp3f6

Sure, I thought it, but it's not me saying it.

Boker Tov Boulder

141 Detriot decided to name itsself "Obamaville, Michigan" I think there would be some justice in that .

Has Detroit reached small town status yet?

142 Nevergiveup:

My grandkids started August 10!   I do not like this starting so early before Labor Day.  It is so hot outside that the football teams are having to do evening and early morning practices,  and lots of days it's too hot for the kids to go out at recess.

I liked it better when school started after Labor Day and ended in the early weeks of June.

143 At the new Obama school students are asked to talk a lot. And even though they've accomplished very little in their relatively short lives, they are encouraged to make shit up and behave as though they have.

Grading is based on their opinions of themselves. For instance, if they are completely lazy and haven't done anything with their lives except blow smoke up every ass and fuck shit up, that behavior generally leads to a B+. An A- if they can blame their lack of performance on someone else.

144 Sorry Dave, but as an engineer I know those drawbacks you mentioned can be overcome. Cement is used in roads and bridges and is less tolerant of abuse than glass, and softer to boot, and porous so as to let water in which destroys the reinforcement and the cement as well. As far as the snow plow, glass is harder than steel. And asphalt is a temporary paving at best. It degrades rapidly. BTW, diamond grinds glass too, and glass is at least as flexible as concrete.

145

they only have one HS and it is named after the town

I'm almost done giggling about the HS and church here that are named after the road they are on...Airline Drive.

146 Posted by: Mama AJ at August 23, 2010 10:46 AM (XdlcF)

They used to name the elementary school after the roads they were on when I was growing up, but not the HS because there was only one (inside the city).

147

Posted by: Truman North at August 23, 2010 10:36 AM (HLGCA)

Thanks Truman. As has been said here before, all of the supporters of the mosque yelling about religious freedom are the same people who are first to complain if that religious freedom being exercised is by Chirstians.

Posted by: Mallamutt

They completely miss the point of Sharia, the Cordoba conquering mosque imam's intentional design to dissolve the United States' Constitutional Republic, getting Obama's full fledged aid on that.

There is NO TOLERANCE in Sharian Islamic law and life, not even tolerance within one Muslim sect for another Muslim denomination (see that PC there), let alone for other religions or no religion.

And this potus along with dhimmiwit national politicians being bribed, along with media and libtards on the pro-Sharian bandwagon bus refuse to admit that this particular mosque will be spreading intolerance for anything other than Sharian law and life, in coordinated attack on US Constitutional Governance and citizen liberties.

148 High schools should be like Navy ships. It should be against the law to name one after a current living person. We used to be like that in this country.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 10:40 AM (/jbAw)

The fact that such a law would even be needed just shows what pathetic group of obnoxious losers we have in office.  What sort of person would even allow a building to be named after him, while alive and in office?  That says it all. 

I would be happy to allow public buildings to be named after living politicians, but only in exchange for their resignation and exile from America.

149 There's a bad Dr. Who episode in here somewhere: http://tinyurl.com/24xqqpj

150 #56  Maverick

The press release from the Parks Department said that Michelle Obama was an ADDITIONAL keynote speaker.   That sounded to me like Mrs. Bush was scheduled to speak,  the White House got miffed,   and inserted Michelle into the program as an afterthought.

I look forward to the contrast in dress and deportment.  

151 Still pretty sad that MLK is on more buildings, bridges and streets than George Washington.

Posted by: CDR M at August 23, 2010 10:47 AM (5I8G0)

Forget that.  MLK is the only person who has a national holiday all to himself.  No matter what anyone thinks of him, that is truly beyond ridiculous.

152 I look forward to the contrast in dress and deportment. 

LOL It will look like the Demotivational poster where Moochelle is glaring at Carla Bruni. "I'm the Queen. I wear the drapes around here."

More on 911

PamGeller has the tape of Rauf defending Al Qaeda, condemning the US and using the N word. It's on her blog.

153 Oh, he called for the end of Israel, too.

154 Its got a pile of those federal "green" dollars in it now. I watched that video and though it was pretty stupid as well. Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 10:42 AM May as well take that money and use that to pave with. They are looking get the glass thick enough where it wont shatter, can sustain a car crash or two, won't reflect sunlight into the eyes of drivers and have enough texture so that cars won't slip when wet or icy but yet be able to collect enough sunlight to turn it into a usable amount of electricity. I don't see it happening. (As for the high cost of asphalt, Drill here, Drill now, Drill more would solve that)

155 High schools should be like Navy ships. It should be against the law to name one after a current living person. We used to be like that in this country.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 10:40 AM (/jbAw)

You think that's bad, just wait until Obama's face ends up on a coin or form a currency before he dies.

which is actually illegal.

156 LOL It will look like the Demotivational poster where Moochelle is glaring at Carla Bruni. "I'm the Queen. I wear the drapes around here."

I was JUST looking for that image to post!  Let's see if she can out do this scowl:

http://tinyurl.com/2cdct2x

157 Oh yes, and the vacation days will simply be amazing. Watching second graders on a golf course should be a treat.

Posted by: Blue Hen at August 23, 2010 10:32 AM (R2fpr)

ROR

158 Posted by: CDR M at August 23, 2010 10:54 AM (5I8G0)

I remember, a bit fuzzily, when I was at Berkeley, that there was a big to-do about them changing the name of one of the streets to Martin Luther King Blvd.  IIRC, the cost was $80,000 (which was a large amount back then) and certain school services, for a school on the street, were being cut at the same time for lack of funds.  My memory is very hazy on it all, but that was the gist of it.

159 So, what is the team name at the Barack Obama middle school..........the UNPRECEDENTS!

Posted by: Mallamutt at August 23, 2010 10:57 AM (OWjjx)

The RETARDED LOSERS.

160 161 IAWTC

161 I was JUST looking for that image to post!

That's the One! "Some looks are just too dangerous to caption." LOL

162 Where do you live that school starts to early. Here in the North East it is not usually till after Labor Day

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2010 09:14 AM (0GFWk)

Kids here went back 3 weeks ago, gets earlier every year.

163 IIRC, the cost was $80,000 (which was a large amount back then) and certain school services, for a school on the street, were being cut at the same time for lack of funds.

That is no different than now when they are begging Washington for taxpayer money and using IOUs to pay bills with while building 587 million dollar school buildings.

164

Thanks once again for proving your a one trick pony. Lets try not to hijack another thread, o.k. With all due respect, I though I made it clear I do not argue with internet wanna be lawyers.

Now kindly go away.

Posted by: Harry Reid at August 23, 2010 10:19 AM (OWjjx)

Your opinion has been noted. Your lack of reasoning has as well.

I merely asked for the proof that Malamutt asserted was available. I mentioned and "Issue" without saying what it was.

You are seemingly so sensitive to anything you disagree with that you feel the need to be disagreeable.

165 Rauf was using the N word??  Does he have a Bill Maher exemption card?

For such a tough guy, this Rauf sounds like he's squeaking his words out of a tight little asshole. "These neekers and hawaiities."

166

My grandkids started August 10!   I do not like this starting so early before Labor Day.  It is so hot outside that the football teams are having to do evening and early morning practices,  and lots of days it's too hot for the kids to go out at recess.

I liked it better when school started after Labor Day and ended in the early weeks of June.

Now everybody is talking about having school year 'round.

167 I was JUST looking for that image to post!

Who is that she is looking at? Well, looking isn't exactly descriptive. Errr, the one she's shooting death rays at with her eyes.

168 Forgot the italics

169 It's such an 'out of the box' idea that it should have been flushed long ago.

Posted by: Dave C at August 23, 2010 10:38 AM (W8f0O)

What he said.

170 Who is that she is looking at? Well, looking isn't exactly descriptive. Errr, the one she's shooting death rays at with her eyes.

Posted by: HH at August 23, 2010 11:08 AM (6oDXl)

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy....France's first lady.

171 Anyone see Frank Rich's Sunday editorial, using the Pelosi language about "ginning up anti-moslem rage"? How did he get from movie critic to NYT political poohbah?

172 Where do you live that school starts to early. Here in the North East it is not usually till after Labor Day Posted by: Nevergiveup In the Panhandle of Florida, school started on August 5, and classes begin at 7:00 am. My kids came from Virginia, where classes started at 8:30, and school finished on June 13, to begin again this week. Needless to say, we've heard nothing but grumbling for the past three weeks.

173 Here is Geraghty on the 2010 elections:
 http://tinyurl.com/33c7qzy

174 Mallamutt, i'm still waiting for those links. If you have already posted them somewhere, Please advise.

175 How did he get from movie critic to NYT political poohbah?

Who better to comment on Democratic kabuki?

176

You think that's bad, just wait until Obama's face ends up on a coin or form a currency before he dies.

which is actually illegal.

Posted by: Ben at August 23, 2010 10:59 AM (wuv1c)

Eh...is it possible to boycott the use of s specific nomintion of currency, If Barky's face ends up on a twenty its gonna make it real hard to buy my Value-Rite vodka.

 

177 165 Sorry Dave, but as an engineer I know those drawbacks you mentioned can be overcome. Cement is used in roads and bridges and is less tolerant of abuse than glass, and softer to boot, and porous so as to let water in which destroys the reinforcement and the cement as well. As far as the snow plow, glass is harder than steel. And asphalt is a temporary paving at best. It degrades rapidly. BTW, diamond grinds glass too, and glass is at least as flexible as concrete.

Posted by: maddogg at August 23, 2010 10:45 AM (OlN4e)

And how are you going to maintain the glass in a transparent condition?  Likewise, Solar panels have yet to be cost effective under the best of conditions, so is it likely they will somehow be profitable under the worst of conditions?

178 You think that's bad, just wait until Obama's face ends up on a coin or form a currency before he dies.

Citizens and non citizens alike will be issued the ObamaVisaCard. The card will be issued with that picture of Barack, head tilted and half cocked, looking skyward. The cards will be loaded with a million dollars cash or the soon to be equivalent of one round of golf with a cart and one admission to an ER with prior approval.

179 From the half-billion dollar school story, "The district also faces a $640 million shortfall."  Hmmm.  I think I know how to balance their budget.

180

I remember, a bit fuzzily, when I was at Berkeley, that there was a big to-do about them changing the name of one of the streets to Martin Luther King Blvd. 

Yeh, I remember that. Businesses had to pay for all the new letterhead, cards, etc.

Plus the street signs were loooong because they didn't abbreviate.

181 210 How did he get from movie critic to NYT political poohbah?

Who better to comment on Democratic kabuki?

*snert*

182

Here the Catholic schools start a week earlier and end a couple of weeks earlier in the spring. I make them look at the kids in the spring, "See, see" to cut down on the bitching in the fall. They also have different spring breaks which confuses people but I think is smart because then there aren't so many kids out at once.

These kids that start in early august, do they get out in may? The school year is supposed to be 180 days long. Do they have a bazillion holidays?

183 That solar road idea is stupid. Hydrocarbon fuels are terrific energy sources and will last for centuries. The fuels are not the problem. We are the problem. We let other folks convince more other folks that fossil fuels are bad, and then let them institute stupid reckless policies.

184

My kid started last week -- but I think he's learning more at home than at school.  I'm so ticked at the school district: they wanted to raise taxes, again, to get the district out of the red -- they cut the substitute teacher pool and set up a requirement that subs have to have a teaching certificate to teach (or they can take a class at the local jr. college-- what a scam), let go of some non-tenured teachers (not enough), refused to cut tenured salary (oh, for the children, can't do that!), refused to cut some programs (like a daycare for staff and student's kids), and then, at the beginning of the year they...

bought new uniforms for the jr. high and high school teams (all of them) and the cheerleaders!  Nothing suprises me anymore, but this was beyond stupid.  People are taxed to death, the school is beyond out of money, and this damn school refuses to really address the issue (other than royally screwing the subs) and buys goddamn uniforms out of the budget money.

It really sucks for the little, rural towns that have to send their kids into the district (they don't have the population for a school of their own anymore, but guess where most of the tax dollars are coming from).  If the school district didn't jack over private and home schooled kids, I'd do that -- but they do, so...

185

The cards will be loaded with a million dollars cash or the soon to be equivalent of one round of golf with a cart and one admission to an ER with prior approval.

I'm thinking someone needs to develop an Obamaopoly game. I'll just settle for a "Get out of Hospital Alive" card. 

Of course the problem could become that every other card is a race one. But still, one could have some fun with the "Bail the Banker Out" card.

Of course we'd have to work on the property stuff...

186 #215

Cards and letterhead are consumables, and therefore something that these businesses would have to replace anyway.

187

Now, kindly go away. No one is interested in you hijacking another thread.

Posted by: Mallamutt at August 23, 2010 11:10 AM (OWjjx)

You are interested in popping off with your unsolicited opinion when it isn't wanted, and now that I am actually interested in hearing what you have to say, you have no interest in saying it. 

I was making no effort to take over this thread, I left a message for you in this thread because  I know of no other way to solicit information from you. You stated in our previous discussion that you had proof of something, and I said good, let me see it because it will mean I can put this whole issue to bed, and not be bothered by it further.

If you don't want to provide the proof you claimed to have, fine. I will ask you then to stay out of the discussion in the future. In simple terms, you have been asked to put up or shut up.

188 Part of one of the best hall of fame speeches I've seen.

189

You think that's bad, just wait until Obama's face ends up on a coin or form a currency before he dies.

which is actually illegal.

Too late... it's happened already, Ben.

190
...but stop trying to hijack threads.

take it easy, noob

191

Plus the street signs were loooong because they didn't abbreviate.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 23, 2010 11:19 AM

Fitting "Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd" on a road sign is a real challenge.

As far as I'm concerned, "MLK Blvd" in L.A. is still Santa Barbara Avenue. And Cesar Chavez Blvd. is still Brooklyn Ave.

192 165 Sorry Dave, but as an engineer I know those drawbacks you mentioned can be overcome. Cement is used in roads and bridges and is less tolerant of abuse than glass, and softer to boot, and porous so as to let water in which destroys the reinforcement and the cement as well. As far as the snow plow, glass is harder than steel. And asphalt is a temporary paving at best. It degrades rapidly. BTW, diamond grinds glass too, and glass is at least as flexible as concrete. Posted by: maddogg at August 23, 2010 10:45 AM But at what cost? Compared to asphalt and what we have now. Again, why asphalt? Because everything else sucks. What eman said here: We let other folks convince more other folks that fossil fuels are bad, and then let them institute stupid reckless policies.

193

Either way, I really do not care. Now go away. Your boring. Your a one trick pony. I have better things to do than argue with an internet wanna be lawyer who repeats the same arguments.

And here is the other bottom line: your issue is gong nowhere. You are free to spend your time reading what you want, you are free to believe what you want......but stop trying to hijack threads.

 

Posted by: Mallamutt at August 23, 2010 11:20 AM (OWjjx)

I am not trying to hijack the thread, but it looks as though that is unavoidably occurring anyway.  I'm sorry i've interfered with your "better things to do" while you're busily typing trivia in the middle of the day. I personally would think that "better things to do" would be something along more productive lines, (like designing or building something.) but that's just how I roll. 

Anyway, as we are all supporters of the concept of "freedom of speech" you are welcome to join in any discussion, and you are even more welcome to stay out of it. What you are not welcome to do, is to dictate what is and is not discussed.

I would think that a "Constitutional Scholar" would be familiar with this concept, or have you yet to work your way up to the amendments?

194

Posted by: toby928 at August 23, 2010 11:37 AM (S5YRY)

Speaking of schools, how ya doing toby? Any meetings lately?

195

Oh, on another thought, ace is DP'ing again..

Ummm, Double Posting.

What?

 

196

DaveC

I didn't say fossil fuels were bad, and I didn't advocate tearing up the roads to replace with unperfected and unproved technology. I just try not to condemn new ideas and technology by yelling stupid as my first response. I have several U.S. patents, and I didn't get those by shunning new ideas. The fuels we are using will not last forever, so I like new ideas. That doesn't mean I advocate the fucking government using my tax dollars to fund shit like wind farms that have yet to be shown practical. And also fuck up the landscape. We already have many, many roads, so if they could gradually be replaced by something that is practical and could reduce our need to import oil in the future, and would not be the blight on the landscape wind farms are, I don't turn my nose up at it as a first reaction.

 

197

Growing Unemployment Mimics Zombie Invasion

198

HH. you start with Boardwalk and Park Place and work around the board. The entire last leg is "Detroit"

All the railroads are Amtrak

Two types of cards, Community Organizer and No Chance in Hell.

199

Now, for the 5th or 6th time, drop it. I'm not intrested, I am not going to bite and you are not nearly smart enough to get me to bite, o.k. As of now, I am just going to ignore you.

Posted by: The Residents of Detriot, Michigan at August 23, 2010 11:40 AM (OWjjx)

You wanted to butt into a conversation I was attempting to have with Mallamutt, and now you want to be left out of it. You can show me you've finally made up your mind by being silent.

Thank you.

200

The fact that such a law would even be needed just shows what pathetic group of obnoxious losers we have in office.  What sort of person would even allow a building to be named after him, while alive and in office?

The same sort of person who would accept the Nobel Peace Prize when he hadn't actually done anything.

201
Still pretty sad that MLK is on more buildings, bridges and streets than George Washington.

'If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is ‘Run!’”



Which illustrates the typical underhanded racism from the Dems that keep trying to "honor" MLK, by renaming a run-down, drug alley street in the industrial district of every city in the US.

Here in SoCal, you see the same thing with Cesar Chavez, CC Boulevard is always rife with scrap yards, crack vials, dried blood on the pavement and tranny hookers.

Dems sure have a funny way of "honoring" their non-white heroes.

202

Posted by: bigred at August 23, 2010 11:46 AM (cX9pO)

Oh, I like that. Gonna add to that ideas' I'm stealing...

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What's the matter with you, Mallamutt, DiogonenesLamp came in here looking for an argument.

 

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204 HH another one. With CapnTrade if you land on the Electric Co. you no longer roll the dice, you just give them all your money.

205 For how long would anyone get away with "typical black person"...

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Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2010

That's the One! "Some looks are just too dangerous to caption." LOL

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 23, 2010

 

Why do I keep hearing "Bitch stole my cookies" in my head when I see that pic?

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Posted by: Warthog at August 23, 2010 11:55 AM (WDySP)

No it isn't.

208 Y'know, even of they get that solar highway thing perfected, it's never gonna work.

Think the 405 in SoCal. At rush hour.

Kind of tough to get decent power out of a miles-long solar panel when you have thousands of cars and trucks sitting bumper-to-bumper on top of it.

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Whoa ...  The Hill  

Bernie Quigley:    "Sarah Palin's America and Scott Brown's Boston"

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210 I think the problem with Michelle and Hillary is not that they are really physically unattractive or ugly, but that the inner person is so apparent that it colors one's perception. It's like a girl I grew up with. Just a plain, chubby person, but her soul was so bright and cheerful you couldn't help but feel good around her.

211 Why is there a pirate movie link in the sidebar, isn't that just asking for it these days?

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Why do I keep hearing "Bitch stole my cookies" in my head when I see that pic?

That picture cracks me up every time.  That's the look someone gives another person right before they stab them in the back.

213 That's the quote that cemented in my mind: BHO is a racist jerk.

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I think the problem with Michelle and Hillary is not that they are really physically unattractive or ugly, but that the inner person is so apparent that it colors one's perception.

For me it's that the MSM is always telling us how gorgeous she it.

They did the same with Hillary before they fell in love with the Obamas.

BTW, with her very off looks, I think Hillary looks very attractive most of the time.  She has certainly learned what to do with herself.  Hair, clothes, etc.  Can't say the same for Michelle.  She looks awful if someone else isn't dressing her.

215 off = odd

216 If anyone is still on the thread, way OT but have you any recommendations for a machine intended to run linux? Since pretty much any x86 box will do, I wanted to hear about reliablity and durability. 'tanks all

217 Katya, true. Of course my fashion sense runs to jeans, black Tshirts and steel tipped work boots, so I would probably cut Michelle some slack. But I don't think the best outfit could look good with that anger in her eyes. And if you saw a nicer person underneath you probably wouldn't notice all but the most egregious get-ups.

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250  Well, Eygpt was a given; if Iran got nukes (which happened, or so it seems) I fully expected Eygpt to do so -- followed by Iraq and Saudi.  Looks like the ME is gearing up for a Mexican standoff...just lovely.

Sudan is the suprise -- and not a nice one.

219 235, It is a bad idea and a stupid idea because it promotes the myth that fossil fuels are antiquated and ill-suited for the modern world. It also promotes the idea that the only way to reduce imports of oil is to move away from fossil fuels. Want less oil coming in? Produce more here. Want more energy from non-hydrocarbon sources? Build nuclear power plants. Want more energy from the Sun? Buy a clothesline. How could anyone possibly imagine tearing up the roads and replacing them with photocells in glass would be a better idea than producing more energy from proven domestic sources? The argument we have to do these sorts of things because oil will eventually run out is also stupid. We do not have to do any such thing. Our great great great grandchildren will face that problem, not we.

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It is a bad idea and a stupid idea because it promotes the myth that fossil fuels are antiquated and ill-suited for the modern world. It also promotes the idea that the only way to reduce imports of oil is to move away from fossil fuels.

You bet. And Edison's electric light bulb was a bad idea for the kerosene and whale oil producers, and for the same reasons.

221 maddog, I think that both you and eman are missing the point. It's a terrible idea not because it's a terribly impractical idea, which I happen to think that it is, but because it solves the wrong problem. The problem with solar energy is not that there aren't enough places to put photovoltaic cells, which appears to be the main problem this idea solves, but that you need to do something about the three-fourths of the time that the sun isn't in the right place for you to convert its light to electricity.

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What's the matter with you, Mallamutt, DiogonenesLamp came in here looking for an argument.

 

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Posted by: Warthog at August 23, 2010 11:55 AM (WDySP)

Actually, I was not looking for an argument. The man said he was a constitutional scholar, and that he had proof that my understanding of the Article II clause was wrong. When he said it, I told him i'd like to see such proof. He never responded.

I would still like to see such proof, be it one way or the other.  At first I thought he might have gotten busy and didn't have the time to post links. Now, I just think he was asserting it because he wants it to be true, and not because it has any basis in fact.

223 Oh, also I was trying to get Stuckonstupid to take the issue to the website I mentioned previously. I understood that he was going to do so, but it appears he may have changed his mind.

224 The problem with solar energy is not that there aren't enough places to put photovoltaic cells, which appears to be the main problem this idea solves, but that you need to do something about the three-fourths of the time that the sun isn't in the right place for you to convert its light to electricity.

Posted by: JonathanG at August 23, 2010 01:35 PM (0MmSw)

The surface area would be so vast and the excess capacity so great it wouldn't really matter, unless the whole country went dark for days at a time. The surface area is VAST. And there would still be more than enough capacity (I suspect) that a relatively poor efficiency would be more than needed. My point is that the technology should have some development before it is condemned by people who aren't intimately knowledged about the possibilities. People should remember that new technology is always, ALWAYS called stupid and impractical before it becomes revolutionary. Remember Fulton's folly? The wright brothers crazy scheme to fly? That nut Tesla?

225 No, maddogg, you still miss the point. It doesn't matter if you've got huge amounts of area, if all of it is dark all at the same time, and all of it in the USA will be from a couple of hours before sunset on the west coast until a couple of hours after sunrise on the east coast. Since you can't transport power halfway around the world, and since power demand peaks when the sun isn't available, you are going to need to store the power locally, somehow. That is the real problem. If we had an efficient (and dense) way of storing power for long periods of time, we could find lots of places to stick solar cells, but such a storage mechanism doesn't exist so there's no real point in coming up with clever ways of generating power from roads. The fact of the matter is, most of the pavement in my part the world is hard pressed to function as pavement without requiring that it act as a power generation and distribution system as well, but that's one of those practical matters I wasn't going to pay any attention to. Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, Fulton didn't build the first steamboat, the Wright Brothers were only among the first to fulfill a dream that had been mankind's for centuries, (their main lasting contribution to aeronautics was modern propeller theory) and Tesla was one of the founders of General Electric, and so was most definitely not considered a nut during his own life, even. I can't think of anyone who has the dream of turning roads into, well, anything but roads.

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Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, Fulton didn't build the first steamboat, the Wright Brothers were only among the first to fulfill a dream that had been mankind's for centuries, (their main lasting contribution to aeronautics was modern propeller theory) and Tesla was one of the founders of General Electric, and so was most definitely not considered a nut during his own life, even. I can't think of anyone who has the dream of turning roads into, well, anything but roads.

Sure, every level headed guy was jumping off cliffs in gliders. And I think the Wrights contributed a tad more than propeller theory, since they built the first wind tunnel and the first purpose designed aircraft engine. And I'm sure everyone was thrilled when Tesla started building his giant generators in his quest to transmit electrical energy through the air without the hindrance of conductors. And his disk turbine was a roaring success. He was planning to build a hovercraft, you know. Tesla was a severe asshole BTW. And as far as nobody thinking of turning roads into something other than roads, well, now someone is.

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