1 Anything new, guys & gals?

2 Oh. Dear!

3

Normally I would never do this but in this case (referring to the side bar news item).

Howard Zimm dies;

I rejoice. He lived 87 years too long.

4 Gabe is having issues... Stop there. No need to continue.

5
Good morning, morons.  In this era of doubling-down on stupid, I know the morons won't take a backseat to anyone.

6 Alito and O'Keefe are messin' wif Gabe's intertubes!

7 Looks like even the AP is sick of "The Ones" lies.

http://tinyurl.com/y9e5nol

8 Anybody donate to President Easy Bake yet?

9 3

Normally I would never do this but in this case (referring to the side bar news item).

Howard Zimm dies;

I rejoice. He lived 87 years too long.

Posted by: Vic at January 28, 2010 09:57 AM (QrA9E)

 

I saw that too.  I will certainly not mourn his passing. 

10

Re sidebar story: Rep. John Spratt, SC-5, Underwater with Voters In Poll; Tough Re-Election Fight [Jay F'n' Cost]

 

He is in no more trouble than any typical Demoncrap in a blue district.  I am in John SprattÂ’s district and it is gerrymandered to hell and back.  Never forget the power of gerrymandering.  Although it is possible for him to lose due to a lot of those natural welfare voting Dems to stay at home, it is not likely.

11 Anybody else just glad it's Thursday? Anyone? Bueller?

12

Imo: The underlying message of the SOTU was, "Yes, America, I have heard you, but f--k you, I won."

Another thing I've noticed in the MSM headlines this morning is that it is like they are straining against a dike of truth, doing everything they can to keep the truth of their chosen one from coming out; that he is an utterly incompetent statist who thinks more of himself than any of them ever possibly could.  The cracks in the dike are getting bigger and unfortunately for them, the MSM is getting less and less substantial. 

It's almost no fun to watch this gigantic fail unfold.

13
Anybody else just glad it's Thursday? Anyone? Bueller?

Yes, the office will be full of hotties giving training on the phone system.  It's a good day.

14

Full disclosure: I know Tim Kaine personally. Can't really say "friend" but certainly on a first-name basis.

I wish I knew Bob McDonnell.

15 Just had breakfast with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his waffles; was too busy getting coffee for Hilary.

16 Poll Cedar Rapids, Iowa. CBS affiliate, KGAN, Channel 2. kgan.com Would You Replace Or Keep Congress? 97.79%  Replace Congress and start all over   1.47%  Keep Congress. Our lawmakers are doing a good job. Comments are mostly of the pitchforks and torches variety. Should be an interesting November down there. (Southeast of my location.) Laying the groundwork for an interesting presidential caucus, next go 'round.

17 State of the Union: Barack Obama gets an F for world leadership

"But the scant attention paid in the State of the Union speech to US leadership was pitiful and frankly rather pathetic." ....

"ObamaÂ’s world leadership in his first year in office has been weak-kneed and little short of disastrous. He has sacrificed the projection of American power upon the altar of political vanity, with empty speeches and groveling apologies across the world, from Strasbourg to Cairo. He has appeased some of AmericaÂ’s worst enemies, and has extended the hand of friendship to many of the most odious regimes on the face of the earth. Judging by the State of the Union address tonight, we can expect more of the same from an American president who seems determined to lead the worldÂ’s greatest power along a path of decline."

18

Anybody else just glad it's Thursday? Anyone? Bueller?

Yep! Got the start of a nice, 4 day weekend. And not only that, I got to miss the STOTU last night.

So happy Thors-day.

19 I'm still steamed about the SCOTUS diss.

20

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A drop in new jobless claims came in short of expectations and factory orders rose only slightly, fresh evidence the economy is recovering at a slow, uneven pace.

The Labor Department said Thursday that first-time jobless claims dropped by 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 470,000. Analysts had expected a steeper drop to 450,000, according to Thomson Reuters.

What a surprise. More unexpected economic news.

21
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

I thought all those iowa idiots were dyed blue through out.  What's happening there, reality giving them a swift kick in the bawlz?

22

I don't know if everybody read the last thread, but post# 111 from Miss Marple is an excellent example of why I keep coming back to this place.

Regarding Obama:

"He can't connect because he is not of this country.  I don't mean his birthplace; don't care about the birth certificate. He has the soul of a third world grad student combined with that of a Marxist academic.

He doesn't know the people of this country.  His early life was spent in the schools of Indonesia.  His high school years were spent in an elite prep school.  College and university were spent in eastern academia.  And in Chicago he gravitated to people like Ayers and Wright.

He doesn't know about running a business, mowing the grass, or painting a fence.  He never belonged to 4-H, Little League,  Boy Scouts, or Pop Warner football.  He has never gone to a country fair except to campaign.  He's never fixed his own car, raked leaves, or unstopped a toilet.

Does he know about bowling leagues, Elks Club, or Knights of Columbus? Has he had neighbors who worked the line at Ford, sold insurance, or built houses?
Has he helped his wife hold a garage sale or take stuff to the dump?  Has he fished,  hunted, or taken his boat out on the lake?

He doesn't know the military or its culture.  He doesn't understand farming. He cannot understand how doctors run their practices.  Missionaries in Haiti are beyond his comprehension.

He doesn't know us.  He is not OF us.  He is a stranger in our land,  and in our White House.  We would be better off with Sarkozy running the country."

 

Good stuff right there.  It bears repeating everytime that The One is lauded for being in touch with the citizenry.

23

Barry reminds me of the new guy in the office who thinks he knows everything, acts like he knows everything, simply cannot be convinced otherwise, refuses to be shown the ropes and then is absolutely astonished when a) nobody likes him and b) he gets fired.

24 20 -

What a surprise. More unexpected economic news.

All of this unexpected news is becoming more and more expected, it would seem.

They should use a different word maybe.

25 I'd just like to point out that if any of us was gonna call out that peckerwood last night, it should have been me. Or at least it shouldn't have been that pantywaist Alito.

26 Here's some happy/shiny enviro-news.

My take?  Burn baby, burn.

27

unexpected

 

You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means.

28 Business Week. 'Central banks end US dollar emergency swap lines.' Basically, "I'll trade your own bad fiat money for the bad fiat money I gave you." Underlying message: They cut off our credit. Possible outcomes: Close the gate on money market funds. More and larger bank failures, nationally and globally.

29

Howard Zinn:  "I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president."

You choose:  the left is starting to see the Emperor has no clothes or it was a deathbed conversion

30 97.79%  Replace Congress and start all over

Schyeah, right.  They've been returning Tom Harkin to DC longer than I've been alive. 

I thought all those iowa idiots were dyed blue through out.  What's happening there, reality giving them a swift kick in the bawlz?

Cedar Rapids might be a little pissy about not getting free debit cards for booze and strippers after their flood like New Orleans got, not to mention national attention from celebrities not named Kutcher and brand-new federally-funded homes/schools/etc.  The rest of eastern Iowa appears to still be as deluded as it ever was.

31 Niki Tsongas won a special election to take the seat in Oct '07. The Republicans didn't run a candidate in '08. They already have two candidates this cycle. I saw a bumper sticker for one of them yesterday. Brown coat tails, Baby!

32
Cedar Rapids might be a little pissy about not getting free debit cards for booze and strippers after their flood like New Orleans got

We didn't get jack shiat after Ike clobbered us.  But people were calling up the r&b stations and telling them such-and-such store was giving away free generators; you should have seen the madness, absolutely hilarious. 

33 I saw that too.  I will certainly not mourn his passing.

I will mourn him as much as I mourn the passing of any other America hating commie asshole.

34 30

Howard Zinn: "I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president."

You choose: the left is starting to see the Emperor has no clothes or it was a deathbed conversion

Posted by: old school lady at January 28, 2010 10:16 AM (Pp4Ds)

 

I suspect Barry's chief flaw in Zinn's eyes was not hating America enough or detroying it fast enough.  Just a hunch. 

35 Oh, apropos of nothing, I watched a documentary about an unsolved axe murder last night, and the perp used four pounds of unsliced bacon as a masturbatory aid at the scene after he completed the killings.  I thought of y'all.

36

Howard Zinn was a propagandist for evil. His "moral" tipping point came when he felt bad about dropping bombs on poor German soldier in WWII that were "just trying to sit out the war".

Decide for yourself, how or even if, he should be mourned.

37
I will mourn him as much as I mourn the passing of any other America hating commie asshole.

Just another grave to piss on before I kick the bucket.

38 Morning morons.  I wasn't going to watch Obumbles last night but I printed out the Bingo game and my back was killing me so I couldn't do much besides sit on my heating pad anyway, so I turned it on.  I lasted 20 minutes. 

39 Russia basically has an in-force mutual defense treaty with Iran. headline: "Russia says there are no obstacles to military cooperation with Iran." North and South Korea are in a pissin' contest. Firing hundreds of artillery shells into the ocean over their sea border. headline: "North Korea Fires Artillery Towards South Korea For Second Day."

40

and the perp used four pounds of unsliced bacon as a masturbatory aid at the scene after he completed the killings.

Serious?? 

41 Jewells--yup.  Left it on a bedroom floor.  1912, no danger of being convicted with DNA.

42 Howard Zinn: good riddance. Unfortunately, his work will live on. He did a lot of damage to a lot of minds.

43 36 Oh, apropos of nothing, I watched a documentary about an unsolved axe murder last night, and the perp used four pounds of unsliced bacon as a masturbatory aid at the scene after he completed the killings. I thought of y'all.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 28, 2010 10:21 AM (mR7mk)

 

Was Valu-rite involved?

44

my back was killing me so I couldn't do much besides sit on my heating pad anyway

Too bad there isn't a heating pad for the rest of the country. Although there might be some elections coming up that will ease the pain.

Hope you got better...

45

Hope you got better...

Not to bore everyone to tears about my problems but it's been an ongoing thing for about 10 years now.  I have good days and bad days, yesterday was a not so good day.  Today pretty much sucks too.

But thanks!

 

46 First Kennedy, and now Zinn.  I have two vacancies near the top of my 'Wish You Were Dead' list.  What to do?

47 Biden Gaffe: Unemployment Will "Grow This Spring"

48 I will certainly not mourn his passing.

On balance, the world is a better place today.

49 Apropos of nothing, I think Michelle O is pregnant.  Just a feeling.

50 Howard  Zinn DEAD at 87.
I wonder if Satan believes in dissent?

51 I should read before posting. Apologies.

52

We know what soft drink they sip in the WH:

 

STALIN COLA

 

53

40 Russia basically has an in-force mutual defense treaty with Iran. headline: "Russia says there are no obstacles to military cooperation with Iran."

North and South Korea are in a pissin' contest. Firing hundreds of artillery shells into the ocean over their sea border.
headline: "North Korea Fires Artillery Towards South Korea For Second Day."

At least in the end, there will be only chaos.

54

The cockholster-n-chief says he wants to freeze the budget, but at the same time;

 

he wants a 1.2 billion high speed rail line in FL.

 

More “mass transit at a time when we have record deficits.  No mass transit line in the country has ever turned a profit. All require huge subsidies by the government so we need to build more.

 

55 Re: Zinn

I was at BU when he was still teaching there. I didn't take his classes, but a lot of my friends did. They loved him. Why? He was a nice guy, and didn't require them to do any work. The only requirement for his classes was that you keep a journal, wherein you reflect upon the issues brought up in class. In other words, you were graded on how effectively you were indoctrinated.

56 Random thought about the O'Keefe Caper before I hit the road:

Assuming, for the moment, that O'Keefe was not planning malfeascence or to alter any switch settings:

Then, if I remember correctly, one of the O'Keefe associates tried to call the receptionist's line, while there, but was unable to get through. Then they looked at the phone closet, where they were stopped. O'Keefe, mind you, is filming the entire thing.

Here's my supposition. The phone was turned off in the closet--but not by O'Keefe and crew, but by Landrieu staff, so as to have "plausible deniability" on why constituents could not get through. What tape may show is the switch already off when they got to the closet, in which case the personages truly interfering with Federal equipment are Federal employees, who, perhaps recognizing the jig was up when they realized who O'Keefe was, have purposely tried to frame someone else for their acts, thinking the chance was a godsend, and perhaps not realizing the entire affair was being videotaped. That videotape, if it shows the switch already turned off, is O'Keefe's get-out-of-jail free card and another death-knell to the routine illegality of parts of the Democratic party, which would then seem to have apparently no problem sending innocent people to jail if it can retain power.  

If this is true--and I'm not saying it is, merely a logical hypothesis, then the fallout should be obvious, and on many different levels. Once again, a logical hypothesis, as O'Keefe's modus operandi to date  is to show that parts of the Democratic party are quick to use the law against opponents (and for themselves) but reluctant to obey it.

57 Bulletin!  Ellie Light wrote to Iowahawk!

58 50 Apropos of nothing, I think Michelle O is pregnant.

I kinda thought that a couple of months ago.

Any decent shots of last night's outfit?  I saw one, but the angle wasn't good for ascertaining if she's preggers.

On the other hand, she wears a lot of dirndle skirts (which went out of style in the 50s, incidentally, and are a really poor choice for someone with her shape), so that gives her a high belly, similar to a pregnant women's. 

59

On Fox they are talking about a deal to pay off the Taliban.

Jefferson is spinning in his grave.

60

Sidebar story about the bomb-sniffing dogs:

I had the privilege of seeing a demonstration last fall of some military dogs at the local Marine base. Very impressive. What I did not know was that the dogs are very high value targets for the enemy because they sniff out the IEDs; snipers will try to pick off the military dogs any time they can. It's pretty obvious but I never thought about it.

There's no telling how many men have been saved by these dogs.

61 toby928 at January 28, 2010 10:56 AM (PD1tk)

Yeah, that rumor has been floating around for awhile now.

My opinion: Nope.

Basis: If the WH could generate ANY positive buzz right now, they would have rolled that one out with a fanfair of golden trumpets.

I won't bother listing her faults, she is what she is, and she's somebody else's problem, not mine.

And I'm a happier man for it.

62 Reuters sucks.  That article about Zelaya calls his ouster a coup so many times.  I say it is not a coup when you are thwarted in your own attempt to unconstitutionally make yourself dictator for life.  It was Zelaya who was attempting the coup idiots. 

63 The obligatory "Hitler's take on the iPad" video

http://tinyurl.com/ycka7sj

64

Did I say 1.2B wasted on high speed rails from that newspaper article?  Wendell Goler says 8 billion.

BYW, Good old "Great Pyramid" Goler compares this "high speed rail push" to Eisenhower's push for superhighways.  He says they created some stupid number of jobs and improved the economy by 25%.

As I said earlier, it must be hard times to be a liberal black trying to defend this asshat. 

65 If the WH could generate ANY positive buzz right now, they would have rolled that one out with a fanfair of golden trumpets.

They couldn't announce a pregnancy until they've done all the tests for late-life-pregnancy birth defects (she's older now than Palin was when she had Trig) and come out clean. 

66

Pelosi clip on Fox just now; we will pass healthcare by what ever means necessary.

 

67

Fox is still pushing that BS meme about hackers attacking computer systems that "control" power plants and the grid (while showing file photos of a CA nuclear plant). 

This is a BS meme pushed by Obama to gain ground in taking over the electricity industry.

People do NOT believe this crap. Computer systems do not control the grid or the power plants and no amount of "hacking" can take down the grid or a power plant.

68 !#$%^*! sock puppet.

69 Here in the Texas Panhandle, we're having blowing and drifting global warming.

70

Here in the Texas Panhandle, we're having blowing and drifting global warming.

We are supposed to get that on Sat in SC. LOL, the weather thingy is calling for "ice pellets".  I have never heard it refered to as ice pellets before.

71 Okay, I'm here for about 5 min then back to work.

72 so what happened with the shoulder?

73 Oh, a 54 year old guy wanting to re-live his youth in an over 30 baseball league.  Was doing well though until...

74 Oh dear.  Well good luck tomorrow.  I'm seeing a chiropractor later today for my back.  Been fighting back pain for 12 years, never been to a chiro, so we'll see!

75 Teej, I left you a message on that other thread (NY one)

76 I've got a good doc.  The front man from true north is a Dr. of Audiology and is in the same bldgs as my doc.  He knows them well and says they're great.  It's called Tallgrass in topeka.  And Gary wants me to come up and stay with him and his family (I played with him for 4 years back in the 90's so they're like family) a while after the surgery but they've got so many irons in the fire all the time that I don't want to do that to 'em unless it becomes really necessary.

77 back to work

78

Oh, a 54 year old guy wanting to re-live his youth in an over 30 baseball league.  Was doing well though until...

Good luck Teej. 

I know how you feel but it hit me in the city league adult softball when I went over 40.  Diving into second base trying to avoid a tag broke 2 ribs. Gave up softball after that.

79

  Diving into second base trying to avoid a tag broke 2 ribs. Gave up softball after that. -

Geez Vic, that sounds like a standard saturday afternoon sparring practice.  Ya just put that side in the rear to protect it and kept going.  And cracked ribs healed pretty fast.  Two and a half - three months.  Seperated rib cartillage, not quite so fast.  Of course, I was only 25-32 then.  

80

Geez Vic, that sounds like a standard saturday afternoon sparring practice.

LOL, had to give up golf for 3 months cause couldn't swing a club. At the time that sucked.

81 Osama Bin Laden releases new tape............blames industrialized nations for global warming.  Apparently terrorist is a green job now.

82 Delegate ad SharePoint ad management

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