1

From Jay Leno last night.

LENO: He is 49, which is eight points higher than his approval rating. Wow.

 

LENO: If you would like to get him a a gift, he's registered at Bed, Bath and Blame it on Bush. That's the store.

 

LENO: What, did you see the cake they had for him? They had a huge cake. A little different than most birthday parties. What he did was he didn't blow out the candles, he just taxed them until they finally gave up and went out on their own.

2 Fridayyyy just doesn't have the meaning for me that it used to.

3 Bed,Bath and Blame it on Bush.....I love it!!

4 "Disappointing NFP: Private Up Just 71k On Consensus Of 90k, Total Down -131K on Consensus -64K"and via drudge:   "Jobs Picture Worsens With 131,000 Losses; 9.5% Rate"

and this:  "UGLY: 131K Jobs Lost In July, Stocks Heading Lower "

and this:  "Romer To Leave White House"
"Krugman: This New Republican "Roadmap For America's Future" Budget Plan Is A Fraud"

5 I was going to comment on how disgusted I am about the government sending our ambassador to be insulted, lectured and belittled at the annual anti-American "memorial service" for the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima today, but George Smiley said it much better than I ever could:

" ...it won't deter the White House or Mrs. Clinton's crew a Foggy Bottom. They view the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities as a wrong that must be corrected, to enhance America's standing in the world. Harry Truman never saw any need for that; he understood that war is a terrible business that sometimes requires leaders to make the most difficult decisions. From what we've read, Mr. Truman had no regrets over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and felt no need to apologize for ending a war that Japan started."

Read the whole thing - as they say...

6 Krugman shouldn't use the word fraud, it might give people ideas.

7 "White House calling: Please will you make a coat for Michelle Obama"

8 It's Friday when I say it is.

9
  Heh.  Retirement means Friday is just another day.

10 Nighthawk - I would have offered to send over the Confederate Air Force to do a B29 fly over; but I guess that is why they don't pay me the big bucks.

11

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Employment fell for a second straight month in July as more temporary census jobs ended while private hiring rose less than expected, pointing to an anemic economic recovery.

Non-farm payrolls fell 131,000 the Labor Department said on Friday as temporary jobs to conduct the decennial census dropped by 143,000.

Private employment, considered a better gauge of labor market health, rose 71,000 after increasing 31,000 in June. In addition, the government revised payrolls for May and June to show 97,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.

There is no stopping Recovery Summer!!!!!!

12
Basil Marceaux / Al Green 2012 bitches

13 Wow Queef Olberdouche is getting booted from FNIA.....


I may have to actually tune in now.....wonder if the NFL noticed I watch every piece of football I can sans Edward R. Olberdork finally?

14 OK Moronettes, I have a question for you:

Ya'll know how hot in gets in the August afternoon down here in SC right? Normal temperatures around 3:30 range between 90° and 100°.

So if you are a young mother, how do you "forget" that you have left an infant in the car with all the windows rolled up?

http://tinyurl.com/25bucth 

15 I'd apologize for Nagasaki when the Japanese apologize for Manchuria, Burma, Manila, etc., etc., etc., etc...

Of course, Obama only recognizes the acts of America as evil.

16

Nighthawk, there is a good editorial in the WSJ today about the Hiroshima issue.

It was written by the guy who wrote the LeMay biography.

17 Posted by: Vic at August 06, 2010 09:27 AM (/jbAw)

One of the fluffly morning news shows did a segment on this in the beginning of the summer.  The "expert" actually said that you have to pin a giant flower to yourself to remind yourself that you have a child with you.  She said when you look down and see the flower, you will remember you have the child, guys too"......we all laughed and then my friends said "well I guess there are a lot of people out there who just aren't functioning at the levels our parents functioned at" and we just all got quiet.

18 At least she didn't forget her dog in the car.

19 Another Pat Caddell quote: If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it out of you.

20 17 Jaysus jumped up Christ on a moped,what a dumb broad!

21 10 Nighthawk - I would have offered to send over the Confederate Air Force to do a B29 fly over; but I guess that is why they don't pay me the big bucks.

Posted by: Jean at August 06, 2010 09:26 AM (I6dJM)

Heh, good idea but last I heard even the Confederate Air Force has fallen victim to PC-ism.  They're now known as the Commemorative Air Force...

22 Beck isn't in today.  The sidekicks are doing the show.  Is Karl Rove sitting in for Rush today or monday?

23

Fridayyyy just doesn't have the meaning for me that it used to.

Usually, this stay at home mom agrees...but this week, we've had to be out of the house a ton, in extreme temps, and at un-holy hours like 8:30! <shudder>

Just have to deal with an event tonight that I'd swear was made intentionally difficult and then I can relax for the weekend and my b-day...

24 The Japanese have never apologized for anything they did before or during WW2,to my knowledge.Max Hastings gives them little sympathy.It was a big mistake leaving Hirohito in because it led them to believe they did nothing wrong.

25 Wow Queef Olberdouche is getting booted from FNIA.....

Out of the studio and into the bathtub...

26 Yeah read about the Bataan Death March then try to muster up a tear. We should have nuked them about 4 more times and got the Atomic Sixpack.

27 Funny, but I do not recall slapping you.

28 America Held Hostage:  Day 564

29 Yeah, can't have that name. Its racism! What's funny is the name started out as a joke and sorta stuck.

30

From Jay Leno last night.

Seriously? Cool.

31 25 Soap,

I'd suggest investing in Kleenex futures.....for both reasons.

32 16

Nighthawk, there is a good editorial in the WSJ today about the Hiroshima issue.

It was written by the guy who wrote the LeMay biography.

Posted by: Ben at August 06, 2010 09:29 AM (wuv1c)

Thanks Ben- I'll check it out.  With all the rolling that Harry Truman and Curt LeMay are doing in their respective graves right now it's a wonder anybody can hear anything today.

33 The Japanese have never apologized for anything they did before or during WW2,to my knowledge.

I think they did do some kind of apology for the "comfort women" thing in Korea.

34 My favorite Pat Caddell quotes: If I wanted any lip from you I'd rip it off your face. and If I wanted any shit from you I'd squeeze your head.

35 The Bataan Death March was a day trip to the playground compared to what the Japanese did in Manila before the city was liberated.  At least the German Einsatzgruppen did their business quickly and just got things over with.

Not the Japanese.  They were like cats playing with their food before they kill it.

36

The Japanese have never apologized for anything they did before or during WW2,to my knowledge.Max Hastings gives them little sympathy.It was a big mistake leaving Hirohito in because it led them to believe they did nothing wrong.

that's always been a tough revisionist question, because there is no guarantee that they would have been as peaceful  or surrendered without him in power.

Also the same can be said about the Soviet Union, but was the risk of humiliation and potentially destabilizing a fragile nation with a ton of nukes at a time of transition from oligarchic dictatorship to democracy  worth it?

 

The atomic bombs allowed them to play the victim, but neglects the minor details like the fact they started the pacific war in 1937, they invaded some 10 countries in the pacific, and are responsible for at least 17 million asian deaths.

37

The Japanese have never apologized for anything they did before or during WW2,to my knowledge.

I think they did do some kind of apology for the "comfort women" thing in Korea

yeah they left a 20 spot on Koreas dresser.

38 27 Funny, but I do not recall slapping you.

Posted by: Pat Caddell at August 06, 2010 09:34 AM (IQBsP)

Of course not Pat. I have guns, lots of guns. Guns! Guns! Guns!

39 Happy birthday MamaAJ

40 "Former Enron Financial Advisor Krugman: This New Republican "Roadmap For America's Future" Budget Plan Is A Fraud"

FTFY

41

"So if you are a young mother, how do you "forget" that you have left an infant in the car with all the windows rolled up?"

Let me ask this first. Is my baby a Narc?

42 Postwar Germany and Japan feature the most bizarre sexual practices.

Coincidence.  I think not.

43 33 Maybe,but they did alot more that they never apologized for.I have no sympathy for the commie regime in China but they have some right to still be pissed.Did they ever pay reperations to slave laborers like the Germans?Toyota,Mitsubishi they were all involved.

44 But Japan gave us Godzirra...

45 43 Uh oh,now Japan is getting Pat mad!!

46 Any Japanese who wants an apology hasn't read their own history. At any rate, wanting an apology for something that happened in 1945 is for pussies. Have the left finally succeeded in the pussification of the warrior society?

47 List of WWII apologies issued by Japan. I know this is Wiki but it should e easily verified,

http://tinyurl.com/omeof

48 "Taxpayers Will Be Paid in Full For the GM Bailout: Obama"and the companion piece:  "Is General Motors Rushing Its I.P.O.? "
but, more current"GM CEO Whitacre Puts a Damper on IPO Speculation"Have had to tell no less that ten people that the government gave NO HELP, NO HELP to Ford and they argue with me.   BO has done a great job along with harry in making the idol watching public think FORD was bailed out too.

49 14 So if you are a young mother, how do you "forget" that you have left an infant in the car with all the windows rolled up?

You don't. The lazy mofo's just wanted a little baggage-free shopping time and got caught.

50

But Japan gave us Godzirra...

lord knows their squinters

51 35 He agreed to unconditional surrender,he would have abdicated.They took our allowing him to remain as an admission he and thus they,did nothing wrong.

52 So I was up a lot earlier than usual today, and in the car I heard the John Boy & Billy program, and they sounded like regular Tea Party members; commenting on how government is too large, taxes are too high, Rep. Pete Stark is an idiot for his most recent comments, etc. Is it normal for them to make such comments, or has this kind of realization finally made its way into regular morning drive comedy radio? I'm not a usual morning radio listener.

53 Let me ask this first. Is my baby a Narc?

Supposedly no drugs or alcohol were involved (from the news article). I would just say they had an overdose of air between their ears.

54 I think you are sort of missing the boat with your Soviet Union analogy.  We did not need to do anything but stand out of the way of that transition.  Why would we need to punish the oppressed people who had just overthrown their oppressors?

55 When you guys do a thread like the Pat thread does it mean you don't like him or you do.  Cause really, as a dem, he has a lot of credibility with older dems.

56 Have the left finally succeeded in the pussification of the warrior society?

Google "wtf japan seriously". I think you'll find your answer there.

57 Posted by: Ben at August 06, 2010 09:17 AM (wuv1c)

The lib media contingent has to appear to turn on Obama. It's part of The Narrative. They're terrified of November, he's not on the ballot and they are desperate to minimize the damage he has done to their party. As we head out of November and into 2012, they will be back to full fledged suck his dick mode. Sad fucks.

58 Morning all.  Just a little 'on this day' trivia.....

On this day in 1965, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law.  Contrary to myth, Republicans supported this law much more than did the Democrats.  In the Senate, 94% of Republicans voted in favor, while just 73% of Democrats voted for it.  In the U.S. House of Representatives, 82% of Republicans voted in favor, compared to 78% for the Democrats.

59 So if you are a young mother, how do you "forget" that you have left an infant in the car with all the windows rolled up?

Sleep deprivation.

Gotta bring that up, just out of my own personal child-raising experience--and, no, I never left the kids in the car, but after months and months of losing sleep, it takes its toll.

60 I just put a transmission in my kid's Toyota. Wheres my fukkin' apology???

61 48 MacArthur fucked up.Not the first or the last time either.He should have made that worm grovel.

62 BO has done a great job along with harry in making the idol watching public think FORD was bailed out too.

Yeah when he has news reporters like Wendell "Pyramid" Goler insert little blurbs in a slot saying "Ford was helped out as well because the suppliers were helped out".

Now that is a real stretch, but it is nowhere near as good as his 'great Pyramid" goof.

63 Are John Boy and Billy the big pair of talkers in California or is that somebody else?

There used to be some squishy Cassandra on Lucianne.com who used to always work the "shock jock's" disappointment with the GOP into his endless lamentations that the GOP was becoming a regional party of southern evangelical snakehandlers.

64 Great FUNemployment numbers today, eh?  Gotta love the Ministry-esque downward revision to last months numbers, making the -131K actually more like -228K.  Well played, Ministry of Truth.

So this is what "recovery" looks like in the Age of the Unicorn King.

Pretty freaking underwhelming.

65 So if you are a young mother, how do you "forget" that you have left an infant in the car with all the windows rolled up?

The same way you "forget" every single fucking campaign pledge you made?

66 24 The Japanese have never apologized for anything they did before or during WW2,to my knowledge.Max Hastings gives them little sympathy.It was a big mistake leaving Hirohito in because it led them to believe they did nothing wrong.

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2010 09:34 AM (iZnPW)

It's pretty fascinating to read the text of the radio message that Hirohito gave ordering a secession of hostilities.  Much is made about how the general staff went to great lengths to prevent it's broadcast, but if you actually read it (I had a link but lost the d#mn thing) the word "surrender" is never used, rather Hirohito tells the people that he can no longer ask them to continue to fight against an enemy that would be so "dishonorable" as to use a weapon as "cowardly" as the atomic bomb.

In short he told the Japanese that they could stop fighting because they had won by forcing the Americans to lose their honor and fight in a "cowardly" fashion.

That is something else that the left will never understand about the atomic bombs- they not only saved more lives than they took, but they also allowed the Japanese to do something they would not otherwise have been able to do- surrender with their "honor" intact.

67 Ford gets some gubmint cheese like every big corporation.I believe they were given money to develop "green" vehicles.Still,they weren't in any way bailed out like the other two.

68

Thanks Vic.

Did anyone else watch the video of Hitchens at Hot Air Pop-up-ville? Not an easy thing to watch.

69 So this is what "recovery" looks like in the Age of the Unicorn King.

Recovery Summer, bitches!

70 John Boy and Billy are out of Charlotte, NC not CA.

71 When you guys do a thread like the Pat thread does it mean you don't like him or you do.  Cause really, as a dem, he has a lot of credibility with older dems.

Posted by: curious

Do like.  But it is more about beating a meme to death, giving it a good funeral, then digging it up and beating it again.  Pat Caddell himself is entirely incidental to that.

don't let him know I said that.

72 The next Republican President needs to end their inaugural address with "Oh yeah, and this 'America the Guilty' shit?  It's over - deal with it.  Or not, and find out what happens.  Capice?"

73 After much consideration, I have concluded that Obama should hire a 7-year-old as an economic adviser.

Not only would said kid be able to point out the massive flaws in most of the plans that are currently sailing past and into implementation, but it would also probably improve the maturity level, too.

74

think you are sort of missing the boat with your Soviet Union analogy.  We did not need to do anything but stand out of the way of that transition.  Why would we need to punish the oppressed people who had just overthrown their oppressors?

For one, they were never forced to make terrirorial concessions after their collapse. Why in the hell were they allowed to keep Kalingrad or the parts of Poland they took in 1939?

Second, the collapse of the Soviet Union wasn't about the Russian people overthrowing their oppresors, it was simply the collapse of the ruling elite and their economic and political ideology. It wasn't riots, mutiny, and a civil war between the forces of democracy and the forces of opression that ended the soviet union, in the way that the Romanov Russia was ended, it was simply a collapse fromt he top down. The rulers couldn't maintain the charade., couldn't pay for the guns and butter, and  most importantly, couldn't keep the lumpenproles in line through the threat of mass executions anymore.

 

75 14- if you're drunk, on drugs, stupid or trying for a Post-Birth abortion, then yeah, you might forget your infant in a car. We were at back to school night a couple of days ago, and someone had left two young children in an SUV. It was running, with the AC on, but I could imagine all kinds of stuff going wrong with that scenario. Mentioning this to the school office did no good-they were too busy trying to deal with back to school night.

76 I didn't know that Leno was so raaaaacist.

77 When you guys do a thread like the Pat thread does it mean you don't like him or you do.  Cause really, as a dem, he has a lot of credibility with older dems.

Posted by: curious at August 06, 2010 09:43 AM (p302b)

Pat Caddell is one of the only honest Dems around.  I would never even venture to guess what ace's thoughts were about that, but I considered it a sort of tribute.

78 This might be a good time for Hitchens to rethink the whole "there is no God" thing.

79

Chapter 10

 

In 1937-1945 many thing happened. 

 

Chapter 11

 In the 1950s, ...

80 In defense of parents that accidentally leave kids in cars that number has went up 800% since the Gov mandated car seats have to go in back.

81 79When you guys do a thread like the Pat thread does it mean you don't like him or you do. Cause really, as a dem, he has a lot of credibility with older dems.

Posted by: curious at August 06, 2010 09:43 AM (p302b)

Sometimes you just need to get it out of your system so you can go on with the regular stupidity.

_{That, and Pat Caddell made them do it.}

82 Posted by: Mama AJ at August 06, 2010 09:50 AM (XdlcF)

Last night I clicked on that site from Michelle Malkin's site and as soon as I clicked my computer went nuts.  Ultimately everything came back but my anti virus stuff went nuts.  I'm not going there again.

83 Mentioning this to the school office did no good-they were too busy trying to deal with back to school night.

You notice in that newspaper article that a "passerby" ratted them out to the cops. Didn't take long for them to come and open the car, take the kid out and wait for "mommy" to come back from shopping.

Keep in mind though, these were small town cops. I don't think Darlington has over 6K people in it. All they have is a race track.

84

Yes, you are.

Are you going to the courthouse with your beau to get hitched?

85 53- John Boy and Billy have always been conservative. They have regulars who come on the show and spoof the current administration-in very non-PC ways. They are based in Roanoke, VA I believe, which is pretty conservative, but add in that they broadcast to a wipe portion of the Southeastern states. Their target audience is "redneck" but they appeal to a broader base. Sadly, I can't find them in our new location. They made mornings a little better.

86 People are wondering where Sherriff Joe Biden has been. Maybe Zero left him belted into the limo with the windows rolled up. Wouldn't that be tragic?

87

Chapter 10

 

In 1937-1945 many thing happened. 

 

Chapter 11

 In the 1950s, ...

 

was that from an episode of the simpsons or something.

i seem to remember a scene where someone is on the top of a double decker bus in germany and the tour guide says something like, " and in the 1930s and 1940s some stuff happened".

88 For one, they were never forced to make terrirorial concessions after their collapse. Why in the hell were they allowed to keep Kalingrad or the parts of Poland they took in 1939?

Ben,

First of all, Kaliningrad used to be East Prussia, and the Russians claimed it in 1945, not 1939.

Second, if Poland takes back territory from the Russians, do the Germans than have cause to reclaim their territory that was awarded to Poland as compensation?

89 Posted by: Mr Pink at August 06, 2010 09:56 AM (oaxLL)

I think people are under way too much pressure.  Even when they go out socially there is pressure.   Even when you go on vacation you end up calling your office more than once.   Remember years ago my dad took us on vacation and he didn't call in.  When he got back everyone was yelling at him for not calling.  This was before blackberry's and the like.  My grandpa could take two weeks and not even think about the office once.  This is not good.

90 We had a local guy who left his infant in the car and she died. He was a, Embarq installer or something, not quite a drugged-out young mother. Defending him I am not, but it's a tragedy that seems to be happening more and more.

91 Obama's next economic advisor -- the BizKids from PBS

92

In defense of parents that accidentally leave kids in cars that number has went up 800% since the Gov mandated car seats have to go in back.

 

what is going on with car seats these days? am i wrong or does it seem like kids don't get out of car seats until they are 12, and they can't sit in the front seat anymore until they are like 16.

what the hell is going on. I should be able to use my baby as a car hood ornament if i want to. this is america isn't it?

93 Posted by: maddogg at August 06, 2010 09:58 AM (OlN4e)

apparently in NY....posted a link last night....his motorcade had an accident....how many is that now?

94 Witness the power of this fully operational market manipulation station!

95

Gallup:  Blacks and Whites Continue to Differ Sharply on Obama

Barry's job approval among whites:  38%

96 Posted by: Jean at August 06, 2010 10:00 AM (2w7HE)

austin goolsby

97 Thanks for putting me some information about the radio guys.

I remembered who it was that annoyed me so much on Lucianne way back when.  It was a guy who called himself "Hollywood Bill."  Anybody remember him? 

98 I hope Obama triumphs, just like presidents Pierce and Buchanan.  One term presidents so unpopular that their own party didn't nominate them for a second term.

99

i seem to remember a scene where someone is on the top of a double decker bus in germany and the tour guide says something like, " and in the 1930s and 1940s some stuff happened".

 

that was one of the rare funny scenes in that misearble dreck known as Family Guy.

Tourists:  Wait, didn't you invade Poland?

German Tour Guide:  Poland invited us!  Lunch was served!

100 94 All your children are belong to us

101

After much consideration, I have concluded that Obama should hire a 7-year-old as an economic adviser.

Not only would said kid be able to point out the massive flaws in most of the plans that are currently sailing past and into implementation, but it would also probably improve the maturity level, too.

My five year old is pissed that you don't realize he could also do a better job.

102

Ben,

First of all, Kaliningrad used to be East Prussia, and the Russians claimed it in 1945, not 1939.

Second, if Poland takes back territory from the Russians, do the Germans than have cause to reclaim their territory that was awarded to Poland as compensation?

I didn't say they took Konigsberg in 1939, i said  the land they took from Poland in 1939. 

And no the Germans do not. The Germans gave that land to Poland as compensation for starting the war and invasion. The Russians, if i recall, also started the war and invaded Poland, so they should give back the land as compensation as well.

103

Vic, those stories burn me up (no pun intended).

We had two incidents of that happening two summers ago. Unfortunately both toddlers died.

In both instances they were working Mothers were on the go, go, go. One was even a VP of a school. She's seen on camera brining in donuts and other items from her van. I think she even made two different trips. Completely forget the sleeping baby in the back. She *thought* she had dropped her off at day care. That child sat in the car for nearly eight hours in the August heat. This was the second case of it happening and people were outraged she wasn't charged with neglect.

104 85-the doors were locked, and the kids were obviously taught to "not talk to strangers." Otherwise, I would have marched those kids to the office and waited with them to see their parents, and ask them why they did such a thing. Good for the passerby who helped that baby-it could have been dead by the time mom finished her errands. At least these kids were older, and in an air conditioned car. Still no excuse, but they weren't in "obvious" danger. My older teens often want to stay in the car, but at least they know how to turn it off, hit the panic button is something goes wrong. I think that we have an ADD society today, with so much going on, that simple things, like your child, are easy to forget in the rush to "get stuff done." Am I wrong to be nostalgic for a simpler way of life?

105 Anyone else concerned that ol christina is exiting because TSHF?   Or could it be she refused to do hot yoga and go on a diet?

106 My wife worries that I will forget a kid in the rear and will call me, repeatedly, to make sure I haven't.

107 Barry's job approval among whites:  38%

Posted by: toby928 at August 06, 2010 10:02 AM (8/oOq)

Racists!!!!!!

108 I really hope Hitchen's finds God.It's not too late for him.

109 The US government is really good at parenting. They should be raising all the kids, judging from the parenting they have been doing in the ghettos for the last 50 years. Almost as great at parenting as they are at efficient postal service.

110 Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 06, 2010 10:03 AM (pLTLS)

I think having to live with that everyday must be torture.  It has to ruin your life and your marriage to some extent.

111

what is going on with car seats these days? am i wrong or does it seem like kids don't get out of car seats until they are 12, and they can't sit in the front seat anymore until they are like 16.

Part of it is because of airbags. Don't want a short person sitting in front being hit in the face by them.

Seat belts are meant to fit people 4' 9" and taller. I don't actually know how bad a job they do for kids who are shorter than that.

112 Get in there and buy some stocks you rubes. I can't prop this thing up all by my self. Ok, maybe I can.

113

Tourists:  Wait, didn't you invade Poland?

German Tour Guide:  Poland invited us!  Lunch was served!

Posted by: Japanese History Books at August 06, 2010 10:02 AM (9B8os)

 

German: Will you stop mentioning the war?

Basil: You started it.

German: We did not start it.

Basil: Yes you did, you invaded Poland...

114 Green shoots!!!

115 84 Posted by: Mama AJ at August 06, 2010 09:50 AM (XdlcF)

Last night I clicked on that site from Michelle Malkin's site and as soon as I clicked my computer went nuts.  Ultimately everything came back but my anti virus stuff went nuts.  I'm not going there again.



Happened to me also, shut down my computer, had to take it to a geek for two days to fix...not going back either.

116 I likes me some Bachmann but shouldn't Michele have two L's?

117

what the hell is going on. I should be able to use my baby as a car hood ornament if i want to. this is america isn't it?

Posted by: Ben at August 06, 2010 10:00 AM (wuv1c)

Hey!  This is the new America. You could get arrested for even thinking such things.  Your children are the state's (and everyone else's) responsibility, not yours.

And don't even think of smoking.  The government assures us that all smokers die before age 35 and their second-hand smoke kills hundreds of millions around them.  35 billion people a year are killed by second-hand smoke.  It's so dangerous that private property rights have been suspended in order to battle the killer cigarette ...

118 Obama is losin it when he has to make "D" and "R" driving analogy jokes while campaigning. 

I was just thinking about something the other day.

What if we amended the Constitution on Presidential requirements to having at LEAST 10 years of work experience?  We would at least save ourselves from woefully inexperienced douche nozzles who haven't worked for anything in their lives and have been surrounded by yes men. 

Oh and Ace, the Birth Certificate issue is not Kryptonite.  It matters, to a lot of people.  We must not let it fall by the wayside and be complacent.  Look whats happened to our tax system.  A few thousand stolen here.  A few million stolen there.  Every single DOLLAR stolen by these bastards must be held against them and not thought of as "Politics as usual". 

119 Erin and Mark are discussing "paying people to stay unemployed"?  They apparently have a poll on the show site.

Have heard people getting unemployment are also working one or two "off the books" jobs and making out ok.    Some say better than before.

120 Basil Marceaux:  goobernatorial candidate.

121 115 That episode is hilarious.Too bad Cleese is a liberal twat.

122 Do you all know how much I hate airbags?!?! My daughter (7) can't sit up front because of them, right? Well guess what she's got terrible motion sickness. EVERY CAR RIDE OVER 15 MINUTES I have to stop constantly for her - unless I want her yakking all over the car. I really hate airbags. And those were just put in b/c some people didn't buckle up. They are no safer than if you belt in.

123 110 I really hope Hitchen's finds God.It's not too late for him.

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2010 10:05 AM (iZnPW)

I hope he does too, but he'll have to lay off the booze for a while first so I doubt it'll be happening soon.

124 Ezra Klein?  Great guy.

125

Today's public service announcement: sometimes cars lock themselves. Twice I have been in a parking lot where a parent got the kids in, started the car, buckled up the car seats, closed the door and then couldn't open their own door.

The kids were too young to undo their buckles, so the police and fire dept. had to be called and each time it took 15-20 minutes for them to break in.

Kind of a pain. I learned to leave a door open a bit or roll down a window part way if it was hot or cold enough that I wanted to get the car started right away.

126 115- oddly, the Poles have less animosity towards the Germans than they do the Russians. I met a survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, who said he forgave the Germans, but not the Russians, who he believed took advantage of the end of WWII to make land grabs, knowing that FDR/Truman wouldn't stop them. He mentioned that the Russian forces were in the area of Auschwitz months before the Allied forces, knew what was happening, and let it happen. TONS of animosity towards the Russkies in Poland.

127 They are using the word "hemorrhaging" in relation to jobs on Beck....feeling that the BO administration has successfully taken ownership of this....

128

112 Well that's true, but part of me thinks she should have served some time. I mean this was the second of these unfathomable instances in two years.

At some point I think you need to make an example of people. And to be fair, it did spark some racial problems as well. Both women were white and from middle-to-upper class. (This was coming off another story of a women who had her childlren removed from the home when she literally handcuffed her children to the radiator. They were getting in the food stash because they were hungry (welfare recip. of course). She thought that would be the only way to keep them out of the pantry.

It's hard to explain the element of intent to people that want to see things through a racial lens. I think they may have re-written the law after those horrible situations.

Oh and happy birthday, Mama AJ!

129 127. my VW does that. makes me miss my Mercury Sable. I think my next car has to have the little keypad thing the Sable had (Taurus too, I think)

130 120 Ixnay on the irth bertificay.

131

 

I was thinking about that and that assfuck Bloomberg.

Someone should ask him if he would support the Ground Zero Mosque if they allowed smoking and served transfat? He is a f'ing facist, and i hate being preached to about freedom from a facist.

Also, can gays get married at this ground zero mosque?

132 Air bags should be strictly optional, not government mandated, except for leftards, and those should be charged with picric acid in brass charge capsules.

133 They are based in Roanoke, VA I believe, which is pretty conservative, but add in that they broadcast to a wipe portion of the Southeastern states.

As I said earlier, they are out of Charlotte, NC. Kemp's stomping grounds. 

134

125 but he'll have to lay off the booze for a while first

Why are the two mutually exclusive?

135 Pat Caddell once saved a seat belt's life.

136 Nice to know that GM has donated $36K to the Congressional Black Caucus this year.  Ummm, isn't that effectively taxpayer money going to a partisian political group?  GM also gave $5K to Ike Skelton (D).

137
My Filipino neighbor, a gentleman who was salt of the earth, spent his boyhood during the Japanese occupation. To the end of his life, he had nightmares about those years. The Japanese nation can have my apology the day they apologize to him.

War is a terrible thing. At that time, President Truman faced a situation in which no option was a good one - in which any decision he made would condemn hundreds of thousands of people to violent death. He decided to end the war quickly and decisively, and I think that history has borne out the wisdom of his action.

138 128 Understandable,they spent far more time under the Russian thumb throughout their history.They can't be real confident now,with us in dire straits financially and a douche chief executive.

139 We need to have a discussion about your bowels, and how to cleanse them. 
No really, I'm not joking, this conversation needs to happen. 

Look, if I shove a beet into your lower intestine, what are you gonna do about it, tough guy, huh? Huh?

Let's talk.

140 geoff made his first post.

141

Jane D'oh, glad to see you!

Okay so the Real House Ho's. I *really* didn't want to watch. Somehow my remote magically switched over to Bravo at 9pm. I should probably figure out how that happened. Anyhoo--

The women are all idiots of course. But.....

I did find the Bush/Obama back-and-forth interesting, no? When did you think they filmed that part of it?? I love that British woman who said she thought Bush was all class (she didn't say Obama was trash but she impied it). And then when the other white woman agreed, I thought, "ooohhhh boy, this is gonna be good!"

142

"what the hell is going on. I should be able to use my baby as a car hood ornament if i want to. this is america isn't it?"

I was just discussing this with my sisters not too long ago.  My mom let us stand up in the middle front seat, while she was driving. And when I was about 5 or 6, my Dad would sometimes sit me on his lap and let me steer the car while going 60mph on the highway. 

143 122 Basil Marceaux:  goobernatorial candidate.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 06, 2010 10:10 AM (UOM4

Somebody upthread suggested a Marceaux/Greene fusion ticket for 2012.

What the heck, couldn't be any worse than what we have now and would probably be better- at least they both love their country!

144 It was a guy who called himself "Hollywood Bill."  Anybody remember him?

LOL, no but in my CA days I do remember KFAT out of Gilroy.  Someone has a commemorative site up for them now. 

145 135-Sorry, I didn't see your post. They often mentioned the Roanoke/Martinsville VA area on their show, which is why I thought they were based there. I like that they shilled John boy and Billy Iced Tea through Food Lion.

146 My kid is leaving for S. Korea in a couple of weeks to do "security", whatever that means.  What's life like there for the military?  Just curious.

147 Last night I clicked on that site from Michelle Malkin's site and as soon as I clicked my computer went nuts.  Ultimately everything came back but my anti virus stuff went nuts.  I'm not going there again.



Happened to me also, shut down my computer, had to take it to a geek for two days to fix...not going back either.
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Happened to me at Hot Air a couple of times. One of the reasons I quit going there.

148 Ben: "Also, can gays get married at this ground zero mosque?" ---------------------- Now you're just being intolerant, racist and insensitive.... and that's wrong, unless you belong to the mosque.

149 This was the second case of it happening and people were outraged she wasn't charged with neglect.

Well you notice from the news article that the young "mother" was charged there. But I would expect that if it is the first offense they will plea-bargain it down and she'll get off on probation.

150 Cigarettes are killers and second hand smoke is even more deadly that actually smoking the cigarettes in the first place, BUT, the gubmint is too dependent on the tax revenue from these killers to actually, you know, outlaw them. I believe the gubmint makes 3 or 4 times the money that the tobacco companies do off the sale of a pack of smokes.

151 136

125 but he'll have to lay off the booze for a while first

Why are the two mutually exclusive?

Posted by: 48%er at August 06, 2010 10:13 AM (kcqZS)

I hope not, because if they are then I'm in big trouble!  I just think that in Hitchens' case it is being used as a crutch to avoid having to think about things beyond this life.

152 Ixnay on the irth bertificay.

Posted by: steevy at August 06, 2010 10:12 AM (iZnPW)

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153 148- Hey Jane, Tons of friends have been stationed in Korea and loved it. Depending on the base, they have all the comforts of home, and then some-the military has had some time to get those bases right. New places, like Kosovo, Iraq, Afghan are new, and aren't quite as developed. Buildings are old, but they try to keep them updated. Good infrastructure, so he should be fine. Just pray the Norks stay sane.

154 149 Last night I clicked on that site from Michelle Malkin's site and as soon as I clicked my computer went nuts.  Ultimately everything came back but my anti virus stuff went nuts.  I'm not going there again.



Happened to me also, shut down my computer, had to take it to a geek for two days to fix...not going back either.
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Happened to me at Hot Air a couple of times. One of the reasons I quit going there.


I have Firefox with No-Script.  No troubles at all.

I have reactions to Allahpundit from time to time, but that's nothing to do with the site per se...

155 Lacey, I watched the DC hos.  Yeah, the British woman being complimentary toward Bush was really interesting.  And Michaele needs to eat a sammich.  You do get the feeling these bitches love Barky and Michelle. 

And we have family in DC (cousin was deputy asst. to Bush) and friends, and real DC power players dress VERY conservatively.  Nothing like these twits.  I'm talking suits and pearls.  I felt like a slut at a dinner party we attended there, because I was wearing a trendy little dress....kinda short. 

And my freaking computer has been slow as hell for several days.  Like someone else mentioned up thread, I picked up all kinds of crap off a link at HA the other day. 

156

Sorry for the abnormally long postÂ…I usually try to keep it pithy.  You know, I had a bad feeling all day about flying out, and should have been more in touch with my intuition. 

Dear White House,

  HereÂ’s how Barack Obama affected my job search:  I was scheduled to fly home to Chicago last night out of Norfolk, VA, as I was supposed to be interviewing for a job this morning.  I also have family and friends there who periodically like to see me (no accounting for taste).   IÂ’m currently on a tour with the Air Force as a full-time reservist as a replacement for 4 officers whoÂ’ve been deployed to Afghanistan, but in the interest of balancing the budget my tour is coming to an end in September. 

  I fed little Chairman Meow and Precious J. Pussycat III with 2 days worth of kibble and arrived at the airport 2 hours early, per TSA directives, and proceeded to my gate.  I was concerned about a line of severe thunderstorms headed our way and hoped we would depart before they reached Norfolk.  At the gate were many hot and sweaty passengers whoÂ’d been diverted, and many who were waiting to board the flight to Chicago.  We waited, and waited again.  No word from either of the two people in the airport who represent United.  I met an apparently well-connected gentlemen who saw me in uniform (easy to travel in, lots of pockets), and  told me that the reason we were delayed was airspace issues in Chicago, namely Air Force Won, which hadnÂ’t taken off as of 1800 as the President was raising necessary campaign funds.   Thanks for making sure the Republicans donÂ’t gain seats in November!

  We finally heard from the airline that the rescheduled departure would be at 8:30 or 8:45 (or sometime thereabouts).  Alas, it was too lateÂ…the thunderstorms were here, and our small plane would be no match for microbursts, so United regrettably cancelled the flight.  Needless to say after airspace restrictions for several hours, one of the worldÂ’s busiest airports would probably be a tad backed up headed in.   Being tourist season around here, finding a later flight today was impossible.  At least I could go back home and sleep in my own bed.  As for the other 80 people who couldnÂ’t connect or couldnÂ’t get rerouted and would be sleeping at the airport, IÂ’m not so sure how their evening turned out.  And if IÂ’m lucky, I may get to interview sometime in 2011. 

  IÂ’ve enclosed a receipt from Wolfgang Puck for a crappy sandwich.  If Mr President Obama has any money left over from his fundraising trip, IÂ’d appreciate reimbursement.             

157 155 Just pray the Norks stay sane north of the DMZ.

Corrected for realism's sake.

158

My kid is leaving for S. Korea in a couple of weeks to do "security", whatever that means.  What's life like there for the military?  Just curious.

I'm going to see someone tonight who just came in from Osan AFB. I probably won't have a lot of time to talk to her, but I'll try to get in a question or two.

159 Kid is a Marine, so I don't know where he'll be based yet.  He'll leave there and go to California, Hawaii, and then home around Christmas for pre-deployment leave before he leaves for the Sand Pit in January.  Sigh.

160 Cigarettes are killers and second hand smoke is even more deadly that actually smoking the cigarettes in the first place,

Where in the hell did you find that little bit of misinformation about second hand smoke?  The second-hand smoke Nazi web site?

There has never been ANY credible evidence that second hand cigarette smoke does anything other than stink.

The original case brought by the EPA was actually thrown out of court for multiple violations of its own rules for using statistical data.  They kept using it anyway. 

161 159-I know. That was some kind of mind melt I was having, thinking them sane. Thanks for editing!

162

Oh and happy birthday, Mama AJ!

Thank you, thank you very much. I just hope my daughter hasn't given me her cold as a special "gift".

163 second hand smoke is even more deadly that actually smoking the cigarettes in the first place,

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 06, 2010 10:18 AM (yQWNf)

Think about that statement.

164 Oh, and he volunteered to go to 'stan ahead of the rest of his unit.  Because according to the guys coming back from there, "Things have calmed down.  Not a lot going on."


_{*want to strangle*}

165 Mexico City, Mexico, Aug 5, 2010 / 05:56 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite heavy opposition from various organizations defending traditional marriage, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that same-sex “marriage” in the country's capital city is constitutional.

According to the Associated Press, the court's justices acknowledged that while the constitution protects the family, it does not define what a "family" is.

The 8-2 vote went against an appeal by Mexico's attorney general challenging the constitutionality of the city's law allowing gay “marriage.” The law went into effect on March 4 of this year.

Next Monday the court will debate whether the law applies to the rest of the country and whether it includes the right to adoption.

Here's the link but I posted the entire article.  http://tinyurl.com/2db3cna

166 Oh, and he volunteered to go to 'stan ahead of the rest of his unit. Because according to the guys coming back from there, "Things have calmed down. Not a lot going on." *want to strangle* Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 06, 2010 10:27 AM (UOM4 How old is he?

167

I hope not, because if they are then I'm in big trouble! 

Whew so it's not just me then.

Jane I know a girl who teaches in SK, loves it so much she went back for another tour, if that's any help.

 

168 Posted by: Tami

But, but, but, everyone knows amnesty would be a good thing for the GOP because Mexicans are social conservatives.

169 Kid is 20.  Turning 21 in time for deployment.

170

bigred, if you're poking around here:  The People's Cube has a new supplier of the Che Is Dead t-shirt you wanted.

171

Jane, Best of luck to your boy in Korea. Despite the saber rattling, I think the Norks know an attack would be suicide.     

I'd been to Osan and Kunsan pre-9/11, but I haven't been back in about 10 years.  It's a fascinating place to be; it's visceral and I don't think there's a more intense people than the Koreans. 

172 89

That was Family Guy.

173 Kid is 20. Turning 21 in time for deployment. Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 06, 2010 10:33 AM (UOM4 I think I told you, I just got back from Parris Island SC, most of the recruits are that age or younger. Since my Girls are 20,23 I almost feel all these young boys/girls are my own. They are all such great kids ( and I still call em kids even though they are Marines now ). He'll be fine. He's been well trained.

174 I think he'll like S. Korea.  He freaking loves Okinawa.

175 Yikes, I was very LTTP there. Guess that's what happens when you try to be productive at work...

And for the people who were saying they picked up something off MM/Hot Air who may not be technically inclined:

When your computer is booting up, hit F8 a few times until you get the windows boot menu. Select Safe Mode with Networking. Go download malwarebytes and run it, that should clear up anything nasty you picked up. To keep stuff off in the future use Firefox instead of IE and install the ad-block plus and no-script addons for Firefox.

176 In my day, vampires sucked blood not c**k.

177 Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 06, 2010 10:10 AM (SB0V2)

There's some research that if she can see the road, the car sickness is lessened.  Maybe you can get her a booster seat or something and make sure she can see the road.

178 Posted by: Tami at August 06, 2010 10:27 AM (VuLos)

and Mexico is considered "a catholic country"

179 And yes I was being sarcastic about the stupid second hand smoke paranoia. If you smoke you will eventually die, just like if you run you will eventually die. Life..... No one gets out of it alive.

180 And yes I was being sarcastic about the stupid second hand smoke paranoia.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 06, 2010 11:00 AM (yQWNf)

Whew.  You scared me for a bit

181 33 The Japanese have never apologized for anything they did before or during WW2,to my knowledge.

I think they did do some kind of apology for the "comfort women" thing in Korea.

No, they did not.  Prime Minister Abe apologized for the "situation they found themselves in" .... the non-apology crap the comfort women have been given for the last 15+ years.  And it wasn't just Asian women.  My Dutch aunt was one of the sexual slaves ('comfort women' is too much of a euphemism - call it what it is). Even the short version of what she had to go through is horrific. http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/110/ohe021507.htm

182 180. (carsick child; visual focus) That's true, so I sometimes put her in the middle, which helps a little bit (not entirely). BUT that's not the safest seat back there. From personal experience (carsick my whole life) the ONLY way I can go anywhere by car without getting really sick is to sit in the front seat. When I was a kid, this was not a problem. She's tall enough to see fine, it's really being in the back. Same with me.

183 And so it begins: 

Bloggericide: Ohio Officials Charge Blogger With Campaign Violations

184 Backwards and forwards lyrics for cannibals.

185 Friday.  Big fat hairy deal.  Friday is the day when a minister's work REALLY kicks in (meaning they work 12 or 14 hours a day instead of the usual 10).

186

Happy Birthday Mama.

No, we should definitely not be apologizing at Hiroshima -- the Japanese really do see themselves as victims, because, well, have you seen their textbooks?  Yeah, we're not the only ones who delve in revisionism (but ours try to tar and feather us, while everyone else -- except maybe the Germans -- tries to whitewash theirs).

As for the baby in the car -- very sad.  We had a couple of cases here where some people left their toddlers and infants in the car; it was near the same lake even(more than one kid each time, unfortunately).  In one instance the mother was indeed, wilfully negligent; the other case...the parents and grandparents were just really that fucking stupid.  Either way -- poor babies...

187 115--oddly, the Poles have less animosity towards the Germans than they do the Russians.
Business before pleasure.

188 191  The Russians were actually more brutal with the Poles than the Germans were -- and were at it longer.

189 I am not aware of all the context or details, but apparently Charles Rangel has said he has rejected a plea bargain in regards to his ethics problems, criticizing it as "English, Anglo-Saxon" law. I think I understand what he is trying to get at, and what he is trying to do. In the long run it will not work, but much damage can be done. Of course, he is being "tried" not in a court of law, but by a Congressional process. 

Having said, that, I invite Mr. Rangel to propose that Congress, for ethics trials, should use an alternate legal system he feels he would be better served by ("more fair, more just"). For examples, I give:

1. The original Napoleonic Code, where there was a de facto presumption of guilt and a heavy favoring of the prosecution.

2. Medieval trial by combat.

3. China, where those seen as corrupt are killed (with perhaps the family charged for the bullet) in order to maintain the legitimacy of the regime.

4. Saddam's Iraq (Wood-chippers. Not just a yard tool...)

5. Ancient Athens--trial by demogoguery, where any speaker could woo a crowd into a rush of judgment.

6. The justice of tribal Africa, which sold his ancestors into slavery.

My guess is that Mr. Rangel would very much like #5. May those days never come.

Mr. Rangel may feel that the plea bargain is used much like the Napoleonic Code--the state using the weight of force to get what it wants--and this may resonate in the community he is trying to rally behind him. But at the end of the day we must have a system of justice that says there is a right and wrong, however imperfect that system may be. We have a good one--and it is one of English, Anglo-Saxon heritage, and it should be celebrated. I'm sorry Mr. Rangel is in trouble. But it seems to be of his own doing, and if it is the fault of the system, it is because it has allowed behavior such as he is being charged with to go unremarked upon for far too long, to the detriment upon us all.

Charles Rangel is no saint, and he is not being martyred. He is being given--in accord with that Anglo-Saxon legal tradition he now disparages--a full chance to clear his name, the state having gone through sufficient safe-guards to make sure the charges were not frivolous in nature. If he chooses to take that chance, and wins, he is--from a Congressional point of view--free and clear. If not, he pays a price. He is under no obligation to take a plea bargain.

I understand he may think the offer of a plea bargain is really a coercive method to make him plead guilty or else suffer a far more ruinous fate than the situation would otherwise warrant. And to the extent that this is done in normal trials, I agree.

But in this case I reject that point of view. Because you see, you really can't expel a member multiple times, even if their are multiple crimes worthy of such. If I were one of those deciding this issue the matter of a plea bargain would never even been considered--I would have demanded the full trial on all relevant and worthy charges.

Therefore, I welcome Mr. Rangel's defense, and the trial. I'm sure, regardless of the verdict, the entire process will be instructive on many levels.

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