1 What.An.Ass.

2

They say this as if it were a good thing.

 

And then someone comes along and dumps raisins in their oatmeal.

 

Those are some big raisins!  Are raisins brown?

 

And thereÂ’s that word again.

3 Furst???

4 "Initial jobless claims for the week ending September 18th were 460,000, which was higher than the 450,000 figure expected."

"Jack Welch Goes Over All The Reasons He Can't Stand Obama"

5 Over at Slate (via HotAir) they're discussing what Obama really meant when he said we can absorb an attack. 

6 Herr had this link in the "holy crap, look at NY" thread

7 this is my favorite comment so far:

"206

Wow.

This means I (Republican living in NYC) actually should vote now.  I feel sort of like a fan of a team that hasn't made the playoffs in a long time but now is a couple games out in mid-September.

Posted by: Doodad Pro at September 23, 2010 09:16 AM (pXniV)"

8

Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, a sign companies remain cautious about hiring as economic growth slows.

 

I thought they recession was over. Cautious about hiring? How about they just aren't hiring even if this is unexpected

9

IÂ’m not so certain that we are reading the same thing here.  I am certain that we are not drawing the same conclusion. 

 

But if we are reading the same thing and if heÂ’s right, then the Tea PartyÂ’s gonna be around awhile and a lot of Repubs better not be buying any green bananas IYKWIMAITYD.

10 Out for the day folks, back tomorrow.

11

Who is running Mexico?  Hint: it ain't the fucking politicians who are boo hooing our immigration policy.

My Grandfather once told my Dad: "Son, if you want to ask for advice, go ask someone who has made something of themselves, don't ask some dipshit picking through the trash."

12

Did anyone else read the Republican document that outlined their plans?

I am less than impressed. It essentially does nothing. No major cuts to entitlements or anything.

It is a CYA pre election BS document,

They should have just all signed on to Paul Ryan's Roadmap.

13 I'll dump this one in here, too, from the last thread, just because it frosts my ass.

Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) told CNSNews.com at a "Sustainability Education Summit" hosted by the U.S. Education Department on Tuesday that environmental education in schools can "promote the agenda" of climate change and population growth through the influence it has on children.

“Like I keep saying over and over again, if you get young people invested in those ideas early on, that will result in those kinds of positive policy developments," Sarbanes told CNSNews.com. "So, whether itÂ’s climate change, whether itÂ’s population growth, whether itÂ’s all these factors that impact the health of our world, raising that awareness early among young people is only going to promote the agenda.”

http://tinyurl.com/29k4zoh

14 Jobless claims "Unexpectedly" rose. Are these people idiots?
After a couple years of  "unexpectedly" rose, that should be considered normal. "Unexpectedly" would fit better with a decrease in unemployment.

/now go finish your beans and hot dogs.

15

Posted by: curious at September 23, 2010 09:19 AM (p302b)

Total BS!!...Impossible!!

Haven't you heard??...the recession is over and "we're moving in the right direction"

16 What is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

http://snipurl.com/15v9g9  

17 Hey, you guys playing cards?

18

#7...in other words, not a Mets fan.

 

Anyway, just saw my first No-bama countdown clock on Facebook. 850 days to go.

19 You know, it's very easy for any politician, when they are home, to go onto the internet and read what people are saying and thinking.  Just to make sure that their aids aren't leaving anything important out that they should know.  And, if they think their internet is being filtered somehow then they can take their kids computer and go sit at Starbucks with a cup of coffee and read what the people are saying.  The level of disconnection is mind boggling.

20

Did anyone else read the Republican document that outlined their plans?

I am less than impressed. It essentially does nothing. No major cuts to entitlements or anything.

Same here.  I think they don't even say they are going to cut spending, just 'freeze' it.  Health Care repeal is also third on their list of items.  Immigration has maybe a paragraph.

It's pretty clear Republican leadership doesn't want any actual changes to the way things are.  Hopefully the 'new blood' doesn't take this crap sitting down.

21 "Unexpectedly" would fit better with a decrease in unemployment.

Ain't that the truth...

22

Did anyone else read the Republican document that outlined their plans?

I am less than impressed. It essentially does nothing. No major cuts to entitlements or anything.

It's 21 pages long.  More than twice as long as the Declaration and Constitution together.  Probably 20 times as long as the Gettysburg Address and the Magna Carta.

Too many words to say "We're done.  We're fucking done, people."  And that's because that's not what it says.

23 The level of disconnection is mind boggling.

Posted by: curious at September 23, 2010 09:28 AM (p302b)

And just on that note. When they rolled out the 'new' Oval Office, did anyone see a computer on the Presidents' desk?

24 "GOP Pledge Not Written By Lobbyist"  link
There are a lot of references to this but he was the first to actually get out there and find out what is going on.

25

Too many words to say "We're done.  We're fucking done, people."  And that's because that's not what it says.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 23, 2010 09:30 AM (5aa4z)

They still don't get it. We have to keep on kicking that RINO ass.

26 I don't know what we would "absorb" with another terrorist attack, but I am 99% certain that any attack would be followed by Obama giving a speech that makes me want to kick in the tv.  Dude won't be able to help himself.

27 Posted by: HH at September 23, 2010 09:32 AM (6oDXl)

A lot of folks were asking that question.  The libs/dems conclude that he somehow carries around his laptop and that's why there is no computer.  They finally thought they found a television so they stopped on that one.  But no, people are saying there is no computer.

28 They still don't get it. We have to keep on kicking that RINO ass. Posted by: maddogg at September 23, 2010 09:33 AM (OlN4e) Everyone needs a good ass kicking every now and then.

29

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 23, 2010 09:26 AM (5aa4z)

I have a seven year old who I put in a private school this year.  He is thriving.  I am paying for essentially a college education for a seven year old.  I guarantee that I will be broke before he graduates.

I say this because the education system in this country has become a stagnant pool where mediocre leeches make their home. They're not even good leeches. 

The criminal element about this is the wasted potential that is going undeveloped, and the damage that that will do to this countries future.  We might just as well abort them all.  The Department of Education and the NEA and other teachers unions see education there for them, regardless of their bullshit rhetoric.  They teach everything other than what kids need to develope and thrive.

30 Any meaningful document of intent need not exceed 2 pages. 21 pages = hot gas spin. Baffle them with bullshit to CYA.

31 Posted by: Cincinnatus at September 23, 2010 09:34 AM (7l3fh)

we could have an entire thread on that word:  "absorb"....why used "absorb" that is the oddest word to use in that context.  It's making people try and figure out what he had in his mind when he used that word.

32

14 Jobless claims "Unexpectedly" rose. Are these people idiots?
After a couple years of  "unexpectedly" rose, that should be considered normal. "Unexpectedly" would fit better with a decrease in unemployment.

Remember what the Labor Dept & various states did to the unemployment numbers over the Labor Day weekend?  There were nine states that did not bother gathering the data, and two states including California just made up their numbers.  The Labor Dept made up the data for the other seven states.

33

A heartwarming story to start your day:

An Aliquippa man called his son a lifesaver Wednesday morning, hours after the son shot one of three armed men who forced their way into the familyÂ’s Wade Street home during a robbery attempt.

“My son is a hero,” said Ossie Foster III, 49. “If it wasn’t for him, they could have killed all of us.”

Jasmen L. Hall, 20, of 1344 Manning St. in PittsburghÂ’s Lincoln-Lemington section, was airlifted to Allegheny General Hospital with bullet wounds to his arm, leg and abdomen. Police Chief Ralph Pallante said HallÂ’s injuries were not life-threatening.

Police issued an arrest warrant for Hall and charged a second man, Robert L. Jefferson, 21, of 365 Orin St., Penn Hills, with attempted homicide, burglary, robbery, conspiracy, aggravated assault and simple assault. They were searching Wednesday for the third suspect, who has not been identified.

Ossie Foster IIIÂ’s son, Ossie Foster IV, 26, is not facing charges.

Pallante said Hall, Jefferson and the third man knocked on the front door of 1300 Wade Street around 2 a.m. and burst in, confronting siblings Natasha and Tremayne Foster, 28 and 24, who were in the living room.

The three demanded the occupants to “give it up,” he said.

All three were carrying pistols, and two of them had their faces covered. One had a hood pulled over his face. A second was wearing a white mask modeled after the painting “The Scream” by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

Ossie Foster IV, who was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, heard the disturbance and grabbed a 9mm handgun, which he is licensed to carry, Pallante said.

Hall began walking upstairs as Foster was heading down. Pallante said Hall fired one shot at Foster IV, who returned fire from the top of the steps, hitting the suspect three times.

34 "Color" me surprised.  African-American female columnist all up in Jesse, Jr.'s grill about laying the pipe to a cracker:

Once again, a high-profile, married black professional has been caught dallying with a white woman he plucked from the ranks of restaurant hostesses.

But God forbid if a black woman points out Jackson's choice of Huidobro mimics Tiger Woods' preference for women of the same ilk -- she'd be the racist.

http://tinyurl.com/2cr5jgd

35 If coffee's not enough to wake you up this morning, how about a story about creeping sharia?

UK police arrest 6 men in suspected Quran burning

LONDON – British police say they have arrested six men on suspicion of stirring racial hatred after they posted a video on the Internet in which they appear to burn two Qurans on Sept. 11.

_{Link takes you to news.yahoo.com}

36

21 pages?  It took them 21 pages to spin their RINO bull?

 

That's still 1979 fewer pages than Obamacare.

37

They teach everything other than what kids need to develope and thrive.

I was talking to a teacher recently. He told me plainly that all they teach is for kids how to pass tests.

I'm not dumping on him, but that's now how the system is set up. And he teaches 4th grade.

Pathetic, and dangerous.

38 Re- 13: Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 23, 2010 09:26 AM (5aa4z)

I couldn't bring myself to click the link, but I can just imagine the brainwashing BS:  Blah, Blah, Blah GLOBAL WARMING!!, Blah, Blah,Blah, PEOPLE ARE TOXIC TO THE EARTH!!

Typical Gaia worshipping eugenics BS about how we have to wipe out the human race to save the earth- right?

39 Once again, a high-profile, married black professional has been caught dallying with a white woman he plucked from the ranks of restaurant hostesses.

Equal Opportunity for black homewrecking tramps?  That's what they're upset about?  You should have been cheating with a black girl, Jesse!

Racial politics is a cancer in this society, and that's a great illustration of it.

40 I was talking to a teacher recently. He told me plainly that all they teach is for kids how to pass tests.

My wife took my kindergarten son to take a state test yesterday.  5 minutes, 29 questions, 99th percentile.

We didn't even know what the test was about.....

41 Isn't this somehow redundant?

Did Bush and previous presidents issue as many executive orders as he is issuing?

42

Ed Anger,

Yeah that was news here last night.

Apparently after one of the theives was shot in the arm, leg and lower abdomen, his buddy dropped him of at a gas station, and was caught speeding away.

 

43 I'll assign the Con-Crap With America a solid D- (I had to curve).

44 I couldn't bring myself to click the link, but I can just imagine the brainwashing

Worse than that.  Think more along the lines of:

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
---V. I. Lenin

45 7 this is my favorite comment so far:

"206

Wow.

This means I (Republican living in NYC) actually should vote now.  I feel sort of like a fan of a team that hasn't made the playoffs in a long time but now is a couple games out in mid-September.

Posted by: Doodad Pro at September 23, 2010 09:16 AM (pXniV)"

Posted by: curious at September 23, 2010 09:21 AM (p302b)

Only 2 games out of 1st place! Do you believe in miracles!?!

46 I always like a story with a happy ending.

Fleeing suspect gets stuck in Ohio garbage truck

An intense police chase in Alliance, Ohio ends with the suspect stuck in a garbage truck while hiding from police.

_{Video at the news.yahoo.com link}

47 Another Tea Partier at large?

Search on for man with a submachine gun who is at large in Hartford, Conn.; SWAT teams activated, local school closed http://bit.ly/c8h67A

/Seriously, hope they catch the guy and nobody is harmed.

48

bad news.

over at hot air they have new polls out from Sienna saying that Gillibrand and Cuomo are up double digits. 25 +

49

The problem with the public education system is that the providers (i.e., teaching bureaucracy of administrators/teachers/unions/) have completely different goals than us (i.e., the customers - students & parents).

For us, the goal is a good education at a reasonable price.

For them, the goal of the education bureaucracy is 1) jobs for life till 50, and then 2) pension for life and free healthcare forever. 

Once public education became a jobs program instead of a way to provide an education to children, the focus changed.  That's why educational bureaucrats are so hot to add nonsense to the curriculum, like gaia-worship.  They don't really care what goes on in classrooms for the hours when kids are in school.  As long as the checks don't bounce.

50 @29

It is imperative that we take back our schools.  If the Dept. of Education and NEA can't be dissolved, conservatives need to infiltrate these places and drive out the commie f*cking agendas that are infesting public education.  I simply can't afford to put my son in private school.  He is well aware of the bs when it gets tossed around, but most kids aren't.  And most parents don't care or don't know the damage being done.  I had to teach my own 8th grader how to write in cursive because the school doesn't place much importance on things of that nature.  The global warming & socialist agenda has completely taken over so much of the curriculum. 

51 I wish our tax code was only 21 pages!  This GOP Pledge shoud've been only 1 page long.  Period.  This is too long.

52 HOORAY FOR SHOPPING IN SPAIN!!!!!

53


"Jack Welch Goes Over All The Reasons He Can't Stand Obama"

Posted by: curious at September 23, 2010 09:17 AM (p302b)

Wow! The comments over there chock full o' 'tard.

Hate Jack Welch. GE evil. Blah, blah, blah . . .

I'll bet most of them think the economy sucks because Obama hasn't destroyed enough big businesses.

54 The other headline should be "Brian Wilson" not "Brian Williams."

55

over at hot air they have new polls out from Sienna saying that Gillibrand and Cuomo are up double digits. 25 +

Posted by: Ben at September 23, 2010 09:55 AM (wuv1c)

Intrade has them both up by 20!

56 52. My daughter is learning cursive right now. Just started 2nd grade. yes I pay out the nose for private school. something MUST change! I agree, we are wasting the potential of millions and millions! just give money like they do in France, the money follows the child and you choose your school.

57 Interesting piece of history:

In 1872 the Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine .

In 1873 the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

58   Heck, didn't Jack Welch and the rest of GE bet enough money on BO being anyone else than who he turned out to be? They spent a lot of resources giving this guy as much power as possible and NOW they're surprised he's turned out to be an asshole?

59 Hmm. Listening to Obama's speech at the UN, it seems inappropriate. This is a domestic speech; I don't know why he thinks the UN is even interested in most of these issues.

60 Hey I missed it, but what ever happened to Monty's morning doom posts?

61 sockfuck

62

The "Pledge for America" thing is nothing but a way for the mainstream GOP to say to the American people, "Look, we get it!  We get why you're so angry!  Really, we do!  Here, here's 20+ pages of stuff to prove our sincerity!  Now please, please don't vote us out?  Aren't Castle and Murchumpski enough?"

I also love that it's a "Pledge," not a "Contract" again.  See, a pledge isn't binding like a contract; it can be fudged.  Even if all you're doing is using the terminology, the words are not equal.  I'm not saying we need another Contract (because yeah, that worked out so well in '94), but it's always good to take note of clear machinations of the English language, ne?

63 65. I know you're joking but actually I think there has been a concerted effort to kill the schools my kids attend (Catholic school) in the local media here. Not to excuse the pederasty by gay priests! It was horrible of course. And we have a new case of pederasty with a local man who was involved in youth sports - and happened to teach at a local Catholic girls school. His victims were from the baseball league (obviously, he didn't like girls) but ALL YOU HEAR ABOUT in the news is the Catholic girls school. Which is private and not even part of the archdiocese anyway! sorry - on a tangent. it's a really sick story, not that you guys have probably heard about it. I worry more about my son than my daughter, to be honest. There are a lot of pederasts out there.

64 In 1872 the Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine . In 1873 the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first. Posted by: Dave C at September 23, 2010 10:08 AM (4uhuW) Heh. Thanks for the morning chuckle. Have a rimshot on me.

65 66. It's the same reason the Black Narcissus was here in Philly earlier this week messing up traffic for everyone - he likes a friendly locale. Altho - he wasn't able to sell out a reception IN PHILLY and the tickets started at $50 a pop! that's all! and the place was more than half empty! THIS IS IN CENTER CITY! I found it kind of happy-making.

66 So the Traitor-in-Chief is  speechifyin' at his corrupt third-world buddyroos this morning.

More of the same from the ignorant, corrupt, America-hating shitweasel. "I, me, me, I" all over the place, grandiose and meaningless pronouncements, plenty of out-and-out lies.

He's a sanctimonious prevaricating fool who isn't even qualified to talk to a bunch of tin-pot yahoos at the UN.

He shames America.

67 Damn. I thought all that applause meant he was done.

68
Ace named titular head of morons;
rubs self in contemplation of wording.

69

The Rasmussen poll on the IL governor's race as of Sept 13th was Brady (R) 50% to Quinn (D) 37% to Whitney (G) 4%.

Just this week, on Monday, Quinn (allegedly!!) cut a deal with the state's largest public employees union, ASFCME (?).  There will be NO layoffs of state employee union members until 2012.  In exchange for this, the union endorsed Quinn.  Quelle surprise!

As the word on the deal is getting out this week, people are p.o.'d.  The state budget is $13 billion in the hole, and Quinn is making deals that will prevent doing anything to make a dent in that debt.

70 The Mohammedan Mouthpiece Regime has had its totalitarian claws in us for two years, and the dumb sonofabitch is still yammering about what needs to be done, as if he hasn't done more than enough already.

He has the answers for all the world's problems. If, that is, the answers are hollow platitudes and empty rhetoric.

Sounds like he has a lot of overseas trips lined up for himself. He's going to go around the world making us look like ignorant yokels for electing him. On the way, he can spread his Muzzie-symp treason to other countries.

Fuck Osama Obama. And fuck the UN, too. This world will be a much better place when both the criminal in the White House and the ignorant savages wasting space and resources in Turtle Bay are thrown into the garbage dump of history's greatest failures.

71 Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 23, 2010 10:13 AM (SB0V2)

Can't bring myself to read the Vatican money laundering thing.
Sunday the priest blessed all the people in the parish teaching CCD and we all applauded them.  He then dropped the bomb which had everyone buzzing.  The diocese has decreed that there need to be two adults in every classroom.  So the woman coordinating this had quite the job in the world of two income families getting folks to either teach or just sit there as the second adult.  This is not my parish.  Went to a friend's barbecue and decided to drive early and then go to mass there.  The parish, in a fairly well off area, had a lot of begging for the food pantry and a noticeable decline in weekly donations year over year.  This is a beautiful area.  My friend grew up there and his parents host a barbecue for him and his friends at his childhood home to "get everyone out of the city" and they always over make food and have convenient tupperware available for you to "take home leftovers".  the area looks one way and the parish tells the tale.

72

They still don't get it. We have to keep on kicking that RINO ass.

Posted by: maddogg at September 23, 2010 09:33 AM (OlN4e)

I know Cantor is a chameleon and basically a RINO, I'm thinking Boehner has to go too.

73 Reuters - "Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby."

74

I was talking to a teacher recently. He told me plainly that all they teach is for kids how to pass tests.

I kinda hate this phrase.  You're always teaching kids to pass a test.  The real issue is that the test doesn't adequately reflect reality. 

 

75 Good news for MS patients a new oral drug from Novartis.  Guess how much it's going to cost?  Around $30K to $50K a year.  Think Obamacare will cover it?

Don't think so.  I'll stick with the needles thankyouverymuch.

http://tinyurl.com/2aptvdg

76

Right now it seems as though my RINO canidate is actually making some good noises -- perhaps somebody talked some sense into him.  If anything, he may be the lame duck killer...that would be a good thing.

I also have to give kudos to Bill Brady, who is running for governor, the man is really doing a good job of helping to campaign not just for himself but for the party in this state -- at least that's what has been going on down here.  The man is shaping up to be a campaigning mofo.

...and I would love it if Gino got some more negative press: personally promoting the Libertarian canidate as more to the right than Kirk?  He doesn't even make a secret that he's doing this, the crap weasel.  And then there's the strings being pulled to keep the Green canidate muzzled and off the radar (which is also pretty blatant).  Gino needs to get hammered with this and some of his other more outlandish announcements -- he's down, he's beginning to squirm, but now he needs to be stomped on a bit.

77 78 Brady has been running ads down here about that, plus the pay raise Quinn gave his staff -- he pairs it nicely with the number of jobs that have been lost in the state.  It's pretty damn effective.

78 Barack Obama has a new commercial out calling for a stronger, more absorbent America- America: The Quicker Picker Upper!

79

Hey have you seen the news today?  Obama has SAVED THE WORLD according to him at the UN.  Well that is wonderful news because I thought the horrible crap mess that this nation is in was all due to the liberal nutjob policies of the last 4 years.  YES 4 years because remember Nancy Pelosi was going to "drain the swamp" back in 2006!  Look give a vote for these crazies over at www.jabronitools.com today!

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