1 The arrival of "goober" heralded the decline of the Andy Griffith show.

2 Actually, Vic, Goober was in quite a few black-and-white episodes.  It was the turn to color and the departure of Don Knotts that really killed the show.

3 I miss Monty's doom and gloom. Like the first cup of coffee (and the trip to the bathroom it precipitates), it was a good way to start the morning.

4 Democrats Tout Their Role in Stopping Employer Interrogation Program

5

I think she should refuse to wear anything!

http://tinyurl.com/2bd5edg

I mean what better place to expose this travesty?  Am I right?

Led there by instaglenn

6 American Held Hostage:  Day 562

7

Good morning! Isn't it a beautiful day?

Well, no, but the temp isn't supposed to go over 100 today, tho' the heat index will still get to 110. But I bought a 6' X 10' inflatable pool, so who cares?

Did Monty stop doing his morning (or is it mouring?) econ report all together, or is he taking a break?

8

@3 

 

+1

9 President Obama celebrating 49 years of not knowing what America is all about.

10 Actually, Vic, Goober was in quite a few black-and-white episodes.

I don't remember him so much in any of the old shows. Just when he took Gomer's place at the service station.

It wasn't long after that when a lot of the old regulars were bailing and it just went downhill.

11

MANCHESTER, Conn. – Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union representative and his supervisors as they showed a video of him stealing beer from the distributor where he worked.

Busted, he didn't put up a fight, company officials said. He quietly signed a letter of resignation and was headed for the door when he pulled out a gun and started firing — "cold as ice," as one survivor described it.

In the end, Thornton killed eight people, injured two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage Tuesday at Hartford Distributors that union and company officials said they would not have anticipated from someone with no history of complaints or disciplinary problems.

Yet relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suffering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force.

Well if he killed a bunch of racist crackas it must be alright then

12 I miss Monty's doom & gloom, too. We need him to counter the insistant meme at CNBC that everything is rosy.

13 Did Monty stop doing his morning (or is it mouring?) econ report all together, or is he taking a break?

He said he's taking a break until September due to travel and other commitments.

14 @11. The beer wasn't dark enough either..

15

Holy flea bitten pedophile!  And you rotten scoundrels doubted his messiahdom... ship...

http://tinyurl.com/22w99c8

It's a   m i r a c l e!!!  (For which Barry will take credit just as soon as the teleprompter can be recalibrated after it overloaded on lies in the last speech.)

16

Daily Caller on JournoList and Israel lobby stuff and things, she said, not having had enough coffee to be coherent.

Oh, it's from yesterday so you've probably already seen it...

17 5

I think she should refuse to wear anything!

Wait...there's an outfit in that picture...?

18 @18. Fawn over you? I can't even pronounce your last name..

19

Gone? Yeh, where gone = invisible.

“The fact that this oil is ‘invisible’ makes it no less of a danger to the Gulf’s fragile ecosystems. Quite the contrary, the danger is real and the danger is much more difficult to quantify, track and assess.”

20 Michelle Obama's appearance dismisses Obama's 18-month State Dept. travel warning of Spaniard racism against African-Americans.  State Dept. forgot to clear the air prior to the Obama vacation.

21 Iranian media say president's convoy attacked

The website, khabaronline.ir, said the grenade detonated near Ahmadinejad's convoy as he was on his way to address a crowd in the western Iranian town of Hamedan but did not harm him.

Pity.  I doubt it was an attack though.  Look at the picture.  If somebody wanted to take Adinnerjacket out, a decent sniper would have sufficed. 

22 Yet relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suffering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force.

Unfortunately, when a people go from cradle to grave harboring a grievance mentality and an inbred sense of entitlement, it can create a recipe for disaster. 

23 You go, Girl! Screw them with a pick axe.

24 Uncle Goober has prior experience at the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Fair, - when he isn't cooking meth.

25 11, Have they tried to tie the video to Breitbart yet?

26 Monty said he was taking a break from the gloom and doom for a while.

27 Yet relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suffering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force.

I remember another guy named Thornton.

Cookie Thornton.

The guy who went into the Kirkwood, MO city hall and killed five people.

His family cried racism, too.

Turns out he was a failed businessman, up to his ears in debt including to the IRS (a part of the story that never gets reported).  But it was easier to claim racism and blame the people he killed for all his troubles.

Much like this Thornton.

28

Barney Frank, "Fuckspltzz yeah, I sppltzsupported it.  Justsplztzt aslptz long as splztztshe takespltz all the blame sspltztzsstz!!"

http://tinyurl.com/23hcmvj

 

29 That blast from Sol was just what I needed. Lots of crap was building up in the ionosphere and it's all gone now. Time to snow on Gore. Man, I love that.

30 "Whoever planned this thing was not thinking. It was stupid and ill-conceived," said Sgt. William Owensby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, Indianapolis. "Whoever is behind this should be charged criminally with felony battery on a police officer."

31

He said he's taking a break until September due to travel and other commitments.

Thanks, Vic.

Maybe the ecomomy will be all better by then!

32 Did Aunt Bea leave before or after Gomer?

33
Barney Frank should be led away in handcuffs. The man single-handedly ruined our economy and is as corrupt as the day is long.

34 Many thanks to those Missourians who stuck a finger into Barry's eye last night.

35 38 Many thanks to those Missourians who stuck a finger into Barry's eye last night.

Wut you talking about?  Nothing significant happened in Missouri last night.  We pinky-swear!

36 So...hope for Michigan?

As a side point...in the past decade, we have worldwide terrorist conspiracies pulling off spectacular attacks, criminal masterminds pilfering billions, massive shadowy groups manipulating media, and crackpot madmen developing superweapons.  When, I ask, do the over-the-top heroes get on the clock to take down these menaces to humanity?

It's like being in a bad James Bond pastiche, where someone forgot to write a good guy in...

37

Have they tried to tie the video to Breitbart yet?

Yeh, I'm sure he totally took out the part where the guy gave the beer to an orphanage.

38 someone forgot to write a good guy in...
Last Man Standing?

39 Actually, Vic, Goober was in quite a few black-and-white episodes.  It was the turn to color and the departure of Don Knotts that really killed the show.

Agree.  The show was never the same without Barney...my favorite character.  Strangely enough, color did ruin it as well.  It ushered in a time when Andy lost his sense of jocularity and good natured manner.  He came across as irritated.  Another litmus test for the Fall of The Andy Griffith Show was the introduction to Howard, with the final nail being Warren.

This concludes my brief take on the rise and fall of The Andy Griffith Show.  You may resume.

40 27 You go, Girl! Screw them with a pick axe.

Posted by: maddogg at August 04, 2010 09:39 AM (OlN4e)

As long as PETA is pissed, I'm happy -

Note: prolly safe for work since it's on a news site for cripes sake!

http://tinyurl.com/265zuuf

 

 

41 Daily Caller on JournoList and Israel lobby stuff and things, she said, not having had enough coffee to be coherent. Oh, it's from yesterday so you've probably already seen it...

I haven't. As an experiment, I've only been keeping up on the Caller's JournoList stories via links from the righty opinionators I read, all of whom issued their summing-up-the-Caller's-JournoList-story articles on the first Friday of the series, before all the dispatches from the front were in. Then they completely dropped the subject. Just like I said they would. It sucks to be right.

And thanks for the pointer.

42

Barney Frank should be led away in handcuffs. The man single-handedly ruined our economy and is as corrupt as the day is long.

I swear that said Barney Fife the first time I read it.

43 42 someone forgot to write a good guy in... Last Man Standing?

At least there, folks reaped what they sowed. This is just getting idiotic.

44 33 Those living North are supposed to get a chance to see the solar neons this evening as well.

45 And a big ole flyin' monster bone to Zero and his crab lice from Missouri. We will purge you like shit through a goose.

46

Warren.  God he sucked.  The expression "jumped the shark" should be replaced with "added Warren".  And that guy, whatever his name was, polluted more sitcoms & variety shows in the '60s than anyone except fat comic Marty whatshisname.  Huh?  Yeah?  Huh? Yeah?  As a 10 yr old, I would have gladly shot Warren.

47

After shooting his co-workers, Thornton hid as police moved in. He called his mother, who tried for 10 minutes to talk him out of killing himself, his uncle Will Holliday told reporters.

"He said, 'I killed the five racists that was there that was bothering me,'" Holliday said. "He said, 'The cops are going to come in so I am going to take care of myself.'"

Brett Hollander, whose family owns the distributor, denied any racial bias. And a union official said Thornton had not filed a complaint of racism with the union or any government agency.

"I can assure you there has never been any racial discrimination at our company," Hollander said.

Teamsters official Christopher Roos said, "This is a disgruntled employee who shot a bunch of people."

 

By next week Eric Holder should be filing a racial discrimination law suit against the company.

48 Did Aunt Bea leave before or after Gomer?

I don't think she ever left. In fact she continued on over to Mayberry RFD after the show had officially died.

49 I don't think she ever left. In fact she continued on over to Mayberry RFD after the show had officially died.

Posted by: Vic at August 04, 2010 09:57 AM (/jbAw)

I read somewhere that her real personality was 180 degrees from Aunt Bea's and she was a real bitch to work with.

50 I went on down, down to the river
Went on down to see what I could find
Didn't see much, whole lotta nothin'
Except for a school that be takin' on a ride

(Chorus)
Oh Lord! Oh, I should've known, babe
Oh Lord! OOOOh! Now I shoulda known, shoulda known, Mama, now I shoulda known
Thinkin' that you're hard as nails, hopin' that that hammer don't fall
You're thinkin' that you're hard as nails, hopin' that that hammer don't fall, baby
Talkin' bout the hammer, Whoo! the hammer and the nail

51 Talkin bout Obama..  Obama and teh FAIL.

Woo!

52 I read somewhere that her real personality was 180 degrees from Aunt Bea's and she was a real bitch to work with.

I had read that she and Griffith used to have some run-ins over the style of the show but they made up towards the end.

53 Warren was a one-season wonder on the show.  It's rumored he's somewhere at the bottom of Meyer's Lake with one of Floyd's straght razors stuck in his chest.

54 I heard Aunt Bea killed a man in Reno cuz he took the last piece of pie.

55 Aunt Bea was the reason why I was never able to take Madeline Albright seriously.

56 Nighthawk - I would take Aunt Bea in the cabinet right now.

57 Carol Browner on Fox News this morning says that 75% of the oil evaporating is a testament to the administrations response to the crisis. So..........there response was to sit and watch oil evaporate? Then she ate a crayon.

58 I heard Aunt Bea killed a man in Reno cuz he took the last piece of pie.

That and just to watch him die....

She bashed in his head
An' left him layin' dead,
Damn his eyes.

59 59 I read somewhere that her real personality was 180 degrees from Aunt Bea's and she was a real bitch to work with.

I had read that she and Griffith used to have some run-ins over the style of the show but they made up towards the end.

Posted by: Vic at August 04, 2010 10:01 AM (/jbAw)

I read that as "made out towards the end", not a great image

60

Last Man Standing was a remake of Yojimbo.  So was Fistful of Dollars.

I watched part of it with a cute coworker in the back room at the video store I worked at.  It's awkward that Bruce Willis is attacked in bed, kills all of his attackers, and puts some clothes on, in that order.

Mifune and Eastwood are both inscrutible, but that is somehow likeable.  Mifune seems like a harbinger of doom wiping the town clean.

61 TV Land has been running some of the first color episodes lately, and it's terrible.  They haven't gotten to Warren yet, but I can't stand Howard.  That show fell off a cliff once it went to color and Barney left.

62 I think somewhere along the line, Floyd had a stroke.  He would always be seated in his appearances and seldom moved his left arm.

63 So..........there response was to sit and watch oil evaporate?

Then she ate a crayon.

Posted by: alppuccino at August 04, 2010 10:06 AM (yiQo+)

The strategy has worked so well that the WH political operation is using it too.  They're watching their political support evaporate.

64

By next week Eric Holder should be filing a racial discrimination law suit against the company.

Funny how there are nooses and always all this racial harrassment when in reality everybody is afraid to say the word black.

65 What is amazing about the show is that it was one of the most popular sitcoms of all time and it is still very popular in reruns over 40 years later.

IIANM it finished number 1 in its last season even after it had gone to shit from its previous years. 

But that may be more of a reflection of how sorry the competition in the sitcom market was getting.

And the best shows were the Ernest T. Bass and the Darlin's (The Dillards)

66 54: She left after the first RFD season, when the actress retired.

And no, I can't believe I just answered that, either.

67 All this talk of Aunt Bea & Mayberry has me craving Mayberry's bean soup & grilled cheese. Haven't had it in 10 years. Please don't tell me what those chunks were, though.

68 63 Nighthawk - I would take Aunt Bea in the cabinet right now.

Posted by: Jean at August 04, 2010 10:06 AM (plP0x)

You got that right!

Also one only need look at Sheriff Andy from "The Andy Griffith Show", Will Stockdale from "No Time for Sergeants" and Lonesome Rhodes from "A Face in the Crowd" to realize what a talented and versatile actor And Griffith was.

69

The worst shows:

Howard Sprague goes full homo on a Caribbean island and invites the local males to cavort with him at a picnic on the beach

Howard Sprague's mom moves out and he turns the place into a bachelor pad.  Merely hinted at homo.

Aunt Bea learns to fly a plane.

70 Derived from Listverse (16 Signs You Live In A Tyranny)

http://tinyurl.com/mkwzrb

By my count, the USA is batting 10 for 16:

1. Control of public information and opinion

2. Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers

3. Undue official influence on trials and juries

4. Usurpation of undelegated powers


11. Creation of a class of officials who are above the law

12. Increasing dependency of the people on government

14. Use of staged events to produce popular support

15. Conversion of rights into privileges

16. Political correctness

71 I always thought it was a shame that Aunt Bea's career pretty much ended when that sex tape came out.

72 Always like when the "Darlings" came on and played. What was the girl's name?

73 81 Colmes also called the Missouri vote on Prop C "a minor vote". This guy is an idiot (I realize that is not news to any one here).

I expect all those of Colmes' ilk will be whistling through that graveyard today.

74 Interesting.....From the Washington Examiner:

Readers who read my original Washington Examiner post about Shirley Sherrod know that she and husband Charles received $150,000 each for "pain and suffering” as part of "a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack."

Based on history presented by Ron Wilkins yesterday at Counterpunch, it's appropriate to ask: "Whose pain and suffering?"

Wilkins, who says he is "a former organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" and is currently a professor at California State University Dominguez Hills, in the Africana Studies Department, writes: "I know this story well, for I was one of those workers at NCI."

Here is some of what Wilkins describes:

Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But itÂ’s no illusion; this is fact.

... What most of Mrs. Sherrod’s supporters are not aware of is the elitist and anti-black-labor role that she and fellow managers of New Communities Inc. (NCI) played. These individuals under-paid, mistreated and fired black laborers–many of them less than 16 years of age–in the same fields of southwest Georgia where their ancestors suffered under chattel slavery.
--------------
There's a lot more at the link:

http://tinyurl.com/27ytv6u

75

His comedy routine explaining the game of football is classic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2010 10:20 AM (m2CN7)

Oh Gawd yes!  He had a similar one on hockey that was a hoot as well.

But he could also do serious drama- his portrayal of a washed up western actor in "Hearts of the West" wasn't in the least bit funny but it superbly pathetic.

76 Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at August 04, 2010 10:17 AM (LdYLm)

Looking at that list I would say we are hitting on all 16 of them.

77 Kirsten Powers on Fox News doing her graveyard whistling riff on MO's prop C.

78 Always like when the "Darlings" came on and played. What was the girl's name?

Chaaarleene....throws rock

79 79 Alan Colmes on Fox: Just compared Obama's 41% approval rating (with a 53% disapproval) to Reagan. Must resist urge to put first through t.v. screen.
--------------------
I knew when I saw his muppet-like mug on the TV that it was time to hop in the shower so I wouldn't have to listen to him.

80

I had a complaint filed with HR against me by one of my employees for racial harrassment.  Come to find out their claim was that I was racially insensitive because they (female employee) overheard me discussing golf and I had said that Tiger Woods had sold his soul to the devil.  I laughed and then got mad because first HR should have told her that she was insane and second, now I couldn't fire the bitch without extraordinary circumstances.   

Posted by: polynikes at August 04, 2010 10:19 AM (m2CN7)

You know, I would make hanging that idiot a priority 24-7 until I had her ass out the door with a bad recommendation. Anyone that stupid needs to be trading anal sex for nickels under a bridge somewhere.

81 When, I ask, do the over-the-top heroes get on the clock to take down these menaces to humanity?

The Last Man Standing would not cross a certain line, though he'd play evil forces against each other for profit.

Point being, the over-the-top heroes have to be us as united citizens, imperfect as we are, united on the Constitution.

Hollywood assassinated Superman while Washingtonians burned the Constitution, as if they could. Americans must realize that our fate is in our own hands. It's a matter of insisting, not backing down when Washington's Marxist feds and their employee minions roar for our submission.

The plain boy David, with intent faith directed through practiced action from the delivery of a pebble on target impact, took out the well armed though uncircumcised filthy Philistines' giant, turning the magnificent enemy's army to retreat as the reinvigorated Israeli army enjoyed the chase. 

We have faith in our Constitution, and we are well practiced acting through votes, calls, publishing, and now effectively protesting in person at government meetings and in Washington DC. We need to all gather within each state and together as states and thwart the federal destruction of America.

The necessary 73% collective protest from taxpaying American citizens is  gathering together against our completely corrupted and bankrupting federal government. Our states are speaking loud and clear; Arizona on citizenship, Missouri to defeat ObamaCare...and the rest must join in to barrage the feds from all sides until they submit to Constitutional rule of law. WE maintain our Constitutional Governance together. We must believe and act to deliver our determination. That is what our founding fathers with all those American farmers and townspeople forged together to accomplish with the help of Providence. And the American Revolution was most brutal requiring everyone's sacrifice, including the authoritarians who lost.

Make the Marxists pay for their own crimes against the Constitution, rule of law, and natural rights.  Demand Prosecution of Congressional members, this Obama administration, and remove judges from the bench who refuse to acknowledge the Constitution as the supreme law of our land, who refuse to administer blind justice that treats all people equal under the law.

82
15. Conversion of rights into privileges

Seems like we're doing the opposite:  'Privileges' enshrined as 'Rights'

83 97
15. Conversion of rights into privileges

Seems like we're doing the opposite:  'Privileges' enshrined as 'Rights'

Posted by: nickless at August 04, 2010 10:51 AM (MMC8r)

By nationalizing health care, they make it a privilege. Only the rich and those in the government can access the highest quality care. Everyone else gets the "same" care.

84 Seems like we're doing the opposite:  'Privileges' enshrined as 'Rights'

Actually that is more "orwellian newspeak". They tell you they are giving you new "rights" but in actuality they are taking freedom away.

Every time they do one of those new rights you will find that it increases the power of the government and it lessons your ability to do something without interference. 

85 The Andy Griffith Show was synthetic, homogenized, faux-hick shit from day one.  It takes the gut of a cockroach to watch it today without puking.

86

@83 - numbers 7, 8, and 10 have all happened also.

Growing up, I remember the old IBM joke:

How can you tell an IBM salesman is lying?

His lips are moving.

I always thought that was kind of funny until Obama ran for president.  Now I have spent the last three years teaching my children about propaganda, how to recognize it and see it for what it is.  It's a critical thinking skill I hope doesn't cost them in the future where it may make them stand out from the crowd.

I remember my Social Studies classes in junior high covering that, but strangely enough today's public schools never seem to find the time K-12.

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