1 What a dumb quote. Must really be Bush, not our amazing genius lightworker president.

2 I think of Obama as Spock after 10 bong hits.

3 Economy grew at a much slower pace in the second quarter than previously estimated; GDP revised sharply lower to 1.6% annual rate.

4 ahh friday

5 I suppose we should all get REALLY worried when Obama suddenly shows up at pressers sporting a goatee...

6 Corpse-men! (Obama's like having Ron Burgundy as president... which would be funny if it were a movie)

7

In less than an hour, the stock market is going to go:

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

8

Heh.  Tiger Woods has his best game this week.  Must be back to his old ways!

9

Economy grew at a much slower pace in the second quarter than previously estimated; GDP revised sharply lower to 1.6% annual rate.

 

Wow!  Completely unexpected!

 

Good Morning everybody!

10

I was at my local bank yesterday, closing a CD and griping about the interest rates. I was asking the staff if they've ever seen such so rates for such an extended period of time and they all said now. most of them are in their 40s-50s.

They also said that a lot of people are extremely suprised when they go to take out a home equity loan how little their homes are now worth. And I live in an area where the housing market didn't really "crash".

 

11

I suppose we should all get REALLY worried when Obama suddenly shows up at pressers sporting a goatee...

 

"well no,not really.....that would be the GOOD Obama.

12 Is Obama still on freaking vacation?

13

Heh.  Tiger Woods has his best game this week.  Must be back to his old ways!

 

Well, he did recently lose about 120 lbs.

14 Oh, and I bet Tiger's wallet is definitely a lot lighter now.  I'm sure that was interfering with  his swing.  Tiger's swinging just like he used to--Ha! Ha!

15

no. not now

damn typing too fast

16 Canadians trying to understand Glenn Beck: http://tinyurl.com/2e23755 I offer this link today because in Canada we are not allowed to comment on terrorists targeting us. So they disable our comments.

17 Morning runningrn!  I'm sure Tiger is getting some special instruction on the side without the stress of having to hide it from the wife!

18 8 Heh. Tiger Woods has his best game this week. Must be back to his old ways! Posted by: CDR M at August 27, 2010 08:37 AM (y67bA) The divorce is Done and Done... Tiger must be back in the Old Saddle again, so to speak.

19

Is Obama still on freaking vacation?

 

It ends this weekend.  He's hustling down to N'Orleans for a Katrina Bashing.  The prompters are locked and loaded.  I'm sure that he'll have a lot of George Bush's "failures" to remind us all about  and regale us with tales of Republican "incompetence" that still haunts that city to this day.  You know, another one of those "disasters that I inherited."  Then next week, he'll be giving a speech about Iraq (now that all the shrimp shopping has been completed). 

20 14 Oh, and I bet Tiger's wallet is definitely a lot lighter now. I'm sure that was interfering with his swing. Tiger's swinging just like he used to--Ha! Ha! Posted by: runningrn at August 27, 2010 08:40 AM (CfmlF) No, that wasn't a chubby wallet interfering with his swing...

21 Ben, we were just talking about CD's yesterday at work and commented on how low they are and for how long too.  I always told myself that a true sign of recovery would be to see those rates go up and they aren't.

22

Morning runningrn!  I'm sure Tiger is getting some special instruction on the side without the stress of having to hide it from the wife

 

Top of the morning to you, Sir!  Yes, I'm sure he is benefitting from losing the old nag--heh! 

23 @19: ain't it just GREAT how the left can blithely ignore the Democrat Mayor and Governor in charge during Katrina? Not to mention the decades of Democrat misrule that turned New Orleans and Detroit into veritable third world enclaves in America.

24 Yeah man, don't mess with the US, 'cause Obama will mess you up with his legion of zombie marines.

25

Ben, we were just talking about CD's yesterday at work and commented on how low they are and for how long too.  I always told myself that a true sign of recovery would be to see those rates go up and they aren't.

 

So true.  We keep rolling ours over hoping the rates go up some time before we're dead!  Maybe those 100 year bonds aren't such a bad idea (sarc).

26

 @19: ain't it just GREAT how the left can blithely ignore the Democrat Mayor and Governor in charge during Katrina?

Not to mention the decades of Democrat misrule that turned New Orleans and Detroit into veritable third world enclaves in America.

 

Yup, my point exactly.  Add to those other bright and shining cities on the hill ruined by Democrat incompetence:  Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc., etc.

27 OK, gotta go (run in the deep end of a pool with a friend).  I'll be back later to check on your work!  (An obscure "Man From Snowy River" reference).  Have a great day, all!

28 Speaking of zombies.  AMC has a new TV series called The Walking Dead debuting on Halloween night.  They have a 5 minute trailer on their site and it looks pretty damn cool.  I might actually have a TV show to watch this fall beside The League on FX.

29 Oh, and I bet Tiger's wallet is definitely a lot lighter now.  I'm sure that was interfering with  his swing.  Tiger's swinging just like he used to--Ha! Ha!

Posted by: runningrn

 

And he's not ducking someone else's swing.

30

Well, he did recently lose about 120 lbs.

Posted by: runningrn at August 27, 2010 08:39 AM (CfmlF)

I don't care who you are. That's funny right there

31 Is everyone ready for the onslaught of Katrina flashbacks? Maybe the opportunity to bash Bush will lighten the libtard's spirits a touch.

32 baltimore is a poop hole, take the wrong street out of Camden Yards and you end up swarmed by bums and crack heads.

33 32 baltimore is a poop hole, take the wrong street out of Camden Yards and you end up swarmed by bums and crack heads.

Posted by: Mr Pink at August 27, 2010 08:51 AM (TBzGs)

Sounds like a good hobo huntin' spot!

34 There's a nice background piece in City Journal titled "Progressives Against Progress"  (LINK  h/t RealClearPolitics)   It's all good.

Excerpt:

Touring American campuses in the mid-1970s, Norman Macrae of The Economist was shocked “to hear so many supposedly left-wing young Americans who still thought they were expressing an entirely new and progressive philosophy as they mouthed the same prejudices as Trollope’s 19th century Tory squires: attacking any further expansion of industry and commerce as impossibly vulgar, because ecologically unfair to their pheasants and wild ducks.”

35

Woo-hoo...2nd Q GDP unexpectedly revised down to 1.6%

Summer of Recovery...feel the momentum!!

36 The next Demcrat party slogan of the day should be Barack Obama: Ready to rule on day 1

37 So a change from 2.4 to 1.6 is a bad thing?

38

Ben, we were just talking about CD's yesterday at work and commented on how low they are and for how long too.  I always told myself that a true sign of recovery would be to see those rates go up and they aren't.

 

So true.  We keep rolling ours over hoping the rates go up some time before we're dead!  Maybe those 100 year bonds aren't such a bad idea (sarc).

yeah. I was closing a CD.  $4,000.00 for 60 days.

Guess how much I made?

 

$4.02

 

I don't know what to do with my money. I have some high yield stocks, but taxes on dividends is going up in 2011.

This market is punishing savers. The government is doing everything it can to force people to spend.

39 Spot Malor, but not spots galore.

40

So since Melman is gay why does that automatically make him in favor of gay marriage?

 

41 And now there is a petition to get voting rights for illegals in Portland, Maine.  Sigh.... I guess American citizenship is really just a word anymore to the Dems.

42 Its not a petition, I posted this earlier:

Saw a shitty photo caption on Fox underneath the story for AZ filing the appeal in the 9th circuit. This one saying something about ME trying to give the vote to "legal immigrants". (ME, home of the ME sisters, go figure).

There was not story and if clicked on it, it went to the AZ news story. Took me a while but I tracked the story down in the Bangor Daily News.

http://tinyurl.com/36bhqhm

The Bangor city council has voted to place an option on the next election ballot to approve allowing "legal immigrants" to vote in the city council elections.

Judging from the comments, which were all uniformly opposed to it, the council is made up of a bunch of Dems who see it as a way to get permanent reelection.

With politicians like this is ME it is easy to see how the ME sisters keep getting elected.

43 #37 You would never know it from the reaction of the futures.

44 Thanks Vic.  Musta missed your earlier post.  Working on that first cuppa to clear out the cobwebs.

45 Not a problem, the Fox blurb is misleading as hell.

46

CDR M,

 

yeah i am looking forward to that serires too. i saw the promo on youtube. it looks interesting.

47 Why are Christians opposed to gay marriage entitled to less freedom of conscience than Muslims opposed to gay people period?

48

Definition from wiki

"The Hindenburg Omen is a combination of technical factors that attempt to measure the health of the NYSE and, by extension, the stock market as a whole. The goal of the indicator is to signal increased probability of a stock market crash. The rationale is that under "normal conditions" either a substantial number of stocks may set new annual highs or annual lows, but not both at the same time. As a healthy market possesses a degree of uniformity, whether up or down, the simultaneous presence of many new highs and lows may signal trouble."

Apparently, the Hindenburg Omen has been triggered 3 times in the last 2 weeks?

49

Ben,

I've been max'ing out my Roth since I started it back in the 90's.  I've been loading up on dividend bearer's for awhile in it.  All of those gains have been tax free.  Mickey D's and Verizon have done very well for me not to mention PANL.  Thank you Droid!

50

AP with the hard hitting news stories

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. – For a vacationing President Barack Obama, it seems all produce — like politics — is local.

So far, in their only dinner outings since arriving on Martha's Vineyard last week, the president and his wife have twice eaten at restaurants that feature locally grown fruits, vegetables and herbs.

For much of the Obamas' planned 10-day stay, they've remained at Blue Heron Farm, a multimillion-dollar hideaway with its own gym, basketball court, guesthouse and stretch of beach.

But the Obamas brought along chef Sam Kass, who cooked for them in Chicago before joining the White House staff last year.

Barry Obama man of the people

So what's it like when suddenly a restaurant hears the Obamas are on the way over?

"Everyone was excited, of course," Kenworth said. "There was definitely an adrenaline buzz going. But when they got here, everyone respected their privacy and gave them their space. They had a nice, leisurely dinner. They were here for almost three hours."

The proletariat just love Comrade Chairman Barry

51 Someone just blow us the hell up and get it over with....

From the WaPo:

The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.

The decision at least temporarily scuttles what was supposed to be the signature trial of a major al-Qaeda figure under a reformed system of military commissions. And it comes practically on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attack, which killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens when a boat packed with explosives ripped a hole in the side of the warship in the port of Aden.

http://tinyurl.com/2bcob46

52 Goddamn forest service tried to do a controlled burn out this way, and guess what happened?  It got away from them.  Cocksuckers.

53
  Question here-the other day, I was looking at one of those maps showing the breakdown of red and blue across the country. I'm sure you've all seen them, and what struck me is the predominance of red, ostensibly defining conservative areas.

 So why is it that they are almost ALL areas that are not population centers? I suspect that everyone shares the same aspirations about life, so how come urban centers tend liberal? 

 Living in a lightly populated area in upstate New York, just about everyone I've interacted with shares conservative values, party affiliation notwithstanding. Is there a logical answer to this?

 Someones(s) can put me some knowledge here?

54 I was looking at that story about Jimmy Carter getting a US solider released from North Korea.  I am extremely glad the guy's out of their hands, but I can't help but wonder if Jimmy would have gotten involved if the soldier's name was, say, Emmanuel Steinberg or something like that.

55 Someones(s) can put me some knowledge here?

Posted by: irongrampa at August 27, 2010 09:39 AM (ud5dN)

Almost universally, conservatives don't fear being alone, the dark, or having to do a little work, and are generally less inclined to want to be packed together like sardines, nor put up with irritating neighbors.

So, they tend to leave dense areas, and liberals are all that's left. Also, dense areas are more convenient to government services, "fad" communities and support groups to provide affirmations, drug dealers, etc, none of which people who self-identify as "conservative" really like to take advantage of.

There are other reasons, of course, and it's a stereotype, but a roughly valid one.

56 @Saskatoon

"My father championed free speech. He would be the first to say that those participating in BeckÂ’s rally have the right to express their views," Mr. King wrote. "But his dream rejected hateful rhetoric and all forms of bigotry or discrimination, whether directed at race, faith, nationality, sexual orientation or political beliefs."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

...deep breath...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(Laughing at liberals, not Dr. or Mr. King. My, how far they have fallen.)

57 The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.

Posted by: Tami at August 27, 2010 09:25 AM (VuLos)

Gee, you'd almost think they don't care, wouldn't you?

One wonders if they are in fact bottomlessly vapid or actually sympathetic to our mortal enemies.

58 Why are Christians opposed to gay marriage entitled to less freedom of conscience than Muslims opposed to gay people period? Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at August 27, 2010 09:13 AM (a5ljo) Because Lefties are FAR more likely to contribute money toward building the GZ Mosque than to their local church just to keep the lights on.

59 I wonder if the reason the Muzzies don't want to release the GZ Mosque Donor List is because the DNC is at the top of it?

60 49 Why are Christians opposed to gay marriage entitled to less freedom of conscience than Muslims opposed to gay people period?
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck

Shut Up!

Oh, and Racist!!!

61

Just noticed the Obama money thing in the headlines from yesterday (thanks ArthurK).

Dude made the bills in a happy rainbow of colors. And different lengths.  At least he did one thing right: The OneBama is the shortest.

Obama and half of his creepy icon is on the dollar bill. Who is he scolding? Where is his halo?

There's a tipi on the "fin"... and it's longer than the OneBama. That's teh funny.

The simplified Bill of Rights on the 10 is significant for what it leaves out to keep it "simple"... even though there is extra room to be just a little more "wordy". (hint: where's freedom of the press? religion? assemble? petition? and that's just #1!  Can we keep the arms we bear?  Where are soldiers quartered?  I could go on... but wikipedia does a better job of shortening the rights... and that's saying something!)

The $20... uhm... I thought there was a blue pill and a red pill... wassup with all the green pills?  This one is just weird though... No Madonna, MLK Jr, or Apple Computer. Has the lunar landing been verified?/sarc

I wonder which president grew up in Hawaii?  I wonder if Puerto Rico or DC ever became a state, if we'd have to change it to a $51 or $52 bill?  That eagle has laser-like focus, though.

Who is that on the $100?  The OneBama shows his information, but there isn't any name or title on the $100, just a list of things.  Not even an icon.  It must be Joe Biden!  Stand up...!

62 56
 ...
 Someones(s) can put me some knowledge here?

Posted by: irongrampa at August 27, 2010 09:39 AM (ud5dN)

To add to Merovign's response, I think there's also somewhat of an echo chamber effect in those densely populated, democrat governed urban centers.

63 Living in a lightly populated area in upstate New York, just about everyone I've interacted with shares conservative values, party affiliation notwithstanding. Is there a logical answer to this?

Someones(s) can put me some knowledge here?

The next time you are on Wiki or the Census Bureau look up the demographics for some urban area near you.  Say Rochester, Albany, or NYC since you said you were from NY. (BTW I lived in Saratoga Springs back when it was conservative as well)

In any case what you will find is that those areas are largely comprised of what Frederick Bastiat referred to as "the looters" in his great work The Law.  These are the people who prefer to have their daily bread provided by the sweat of someone else's brow. They elect politicians who will strive to do that for them.

My personal theory is that any time a community grows to a size greater than approximately 35,000 people it rapidly trends in that direction. There is evidence now though that the size of the liberal mecas are starting to go down though. I boame that on LBJ and his great society. We have entire generations now growing up thinking that the government owes them.

And yes, I denounce myself as racist for all the trolls.    

64 Dagny,

Tapper reported that Mehlman/Wallace/Schmidt are holding a gay marriage event next month.

What the heck are they up to? Right before the elections? Are they trying to help Dems win?

65

Just noticed the Obama money thing in the headlines from yesterday (thanks ArthurK).

Posted by: SnowSun at August 27, 2010 10:11 AM (UAUr6)

Ain't that just the dumbest thing? At least it's pretty obvious that it's just a lefty advertising campaign, even if you didn't notice that it was a Frisco design firm that did it.

We're just lucky the final version didn't have Che and Mao bills.

Pretty much everyone outside of lefty urban centers would object to those designs. First of all, a sitting President? WTF, are we Bolivia now? Second of all, Americans have pretty much always hated technicolor money. They get huge grief at the Treasury about the changes they've already made.

Third of all, Fucking FDR? DURING A RECESSION? What fucking genius came up with that idea, Joe Biden?

66 Heh. The changes made to our currency make it look just like Monopoly money, imho. Everybody I mention that to agrees with me there. 

67 Re. the Obama dollar redesign, the visually impaired will also be aided in bill identification by the smell of shit of the obamabuck.

68 It allows you to tell your money apart better when you're drunk, irongrampa, so don't knock it.

69 Obama's face should only be allowed to grace food stamps.

70

Art With Circuit Boards

Must. Own. Box.

"Either you get it or you don't, either you like it or you don't," says Kamecke. "I don't mass-produce these, and no one else makes them."

God dammit.

The pieces cost anywhere from "a few thousand dollars to many thousand," says Kamecke. But each is painstakingly crafted by hand.

God dammit!

"It's unique and going to go away after Theo," says Torrone. "The kind of circuit boards that he uses are not being manufactured anymore."

God dammit.

71 Art With Circuit Boards
Very cool. Kind of steampunk. [rdbrewer]



Isn't art with digital circuit boards the very opposite of steampunk?

72 I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying the strobing ads to the left of the blog. Really, I can't. Yes, I know that you don't control the ads but I'm just sayin'.

73 Ready for Obama on the One Dollar Bill? How about the First 100 days of FDR on the $100?



Obviously the Obama sawbuck and the FDR bill are disgusting and the Indian tribe fiver--how do you spell liberal guilt?--but I kind of liked the $50 and particularly the tenner.  The bill of rights in daily circulation--that's not a bad idea!

74 The thing I found most interesting about that dollar bill design contest thing was that they made all the notes vertical.  Do any countries have vertical notes now?  It's different.

I don't find the liberal bullshit and pastel rainbow crap interesting; that's just par for the course.

75

Isn't art with digital circuit boards the very opposite of steampunk?

Yeah, I changed it to Tut deco.

76 Those circuits are nice.  Similar, I have a lot of desktop images from Dark Roasted Blend.  Tons of art deco and steampunk stuff.

77

OneBama New Money link broken in the headlines now.  Try this one. Or this one:

http://tinyurl.com/3a3wom8

I added a few more comments over there as well (#36 & #37).

78 Because he's half-Whitey Cracker, Obama belongs on the 50 cent bill. You know, the one that doesn't exist.

79 How much is a quadrillion? Just wait around a few more years and we'll see it on the news every night when they talk about the Federal Debt.

80 Oh, for the record, since I don't feel like OTing an actual thread-- that supercollider story is great, but several months old.

As in, early April.

81 that supercollider story is great, but several months old.
But the guy "from the future" said: "It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."   Oh shit... maybe 2010-12 didn't work out so well.  
 

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