1 So, now we are all members of the terminally boned.

2 Hold it. We already used a tenth of the increase in debt ceiling? Barky really doesn't like his job.

3 It can't and won't be fixed.
   
Bad times are on the way, and soon.  Find a safe place and hunker down.

4 Has anyone seen the new MSNBC "Lean Forward" commercial where Legs McTingles straps on the kneepads and blows King Putt right there?  Its sickening.

5 I expected this and remarked on it today. The question is, who did they borrow from?

Most likely the government borrowed it from the fed by selling the fed T-Bills. IOW they simply printed the money and called it a loan.

The road to collapse is shorter now.

6 Boned!

7 This whole debt thing, and Barack Obama spending do much, reminds me a King of the Hill episode.  Bobby finds the family emergency credit card, and uses it on multiple spending sprees.

8 The debt ceiling was working, our debt had shrunk from the end of 2010. This is just fucking brilliant.

9 When we stop borrowing, they're just going to print money.  Weimar, here we come.

10 I'm starting to enjoy the pain.You know like a tooth that aches or a sore and you keep probing it with your tongue?Yeah.

11 Where is Bill Mitchell to tell us all how great this is?

12

. They want it down to 73% by 2015

Since the only thing growing is the debt I don't think Moody's is going to get it's wish.

13 We are so utterly boned.

14 OT: Here's a "shout-out" to those 4000 furloughed FAA employees: The reason that you are sitting at home going broke is because vacation homes and corporate jets for union fat cats are more important to Barack Obama and Harry Reid than groceries for your families are. That is all...

15 Highway to Hell

16 Wasn't it at 97% (or thereabouts) before the deal?

17  Barky really doesn't like his job.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2011 08:40 PM (FcR7P)

He loves RUNNING for president, being fellated by his adoring fans for spouting his inanities  He just doesn't like BEING president, where results matter. 

It's the infantilization of America - Like Barbie:  "Math is HARD!"

18 Remember that girl in that movie with John Holmes? Yeah, we're her.

19 Embrace the suck.Learn to stop worrying and love the debt!!

20 Time to shut down for the night.

21 12 . They want it down to 73% by 2015 Ah, just in time for a Republican President to be the scapegoat when the US gets downgraded. Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins.

22 The immediate increase was $400B, an extra $500B in the fall, and the rest come early next year.

23

Well... on the bright side... I left weights more than guys in prison now because of the stress... So I'm right on that Mad Max schedule.

24 Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins.

I'm going to my happy place.

25 GDP is racist.

26 100% Wow! That's good, right?

27 Great line from Dennis Miller:  "when you turn 50, your prostate turns into the Underdog float from the Macy's parade"

28 Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins.

Posted by: izoneguy at August 03, 2011 08:48 PM (i6Neb)

Add Prozac or Xanax to the list of stuff that you need to stockpile!

29 OT: Here's a "shout-out" to those 4000 furloughed FAA employees:

On the off chance that you're not a hit 'n' run troll, got a link?

30 100% Wow! That's good, right?

A+

31 If we had only listened to Senator Obama about massive spending and racking up massive debt, we wouldn't be in this mess...

32 Here it comes!

33 To Infinity and Beyond!

34 Down to 73% by 2015.

So......on debt of $14.6T, we'll pay off $4T of debt principal in 4 years?

So we're going to cut Fedzilla by 75% a year between now and then.

Damn, I want what they're smoking. That's they only way to make it through the biblical shitstorm headed our way is to...........experience the shitstorm.........through a haze.

Cool.

35 Time for some more dark song lyrics.

36 "The Antichrist" [Lyrics - Hanneman; Music - Hanneman, King] Screams and nightmares Of a life I want Can't see living this lie no A world I haunt You've lost all control of my Heart and soul Satan holds my future Watch it unfold I am the Antichrist It's what I was meant to be Your God left me behind And set my soul to be free Watching disciples Of the satanic rule Pentagram of blood Holds the jackal's truth Searching for the answer Christ hasn't come Awaiting the final moment The birth of Satan's son Screams, From a life I live Torment, Is what I give Torture, Is what I love The down fall, Of the heavens above I am the Antichrist All love is lost Insanity is what I am Eternally my soul will rot (rot... rot)

37 I picked a hellava time to stop huffing Sanford's Mr.Sketch Scented Markers

38

Well... on the bright side... I left weights more than guys in prison now because of the stress... So I'm right on that Mad Max schedule.

Posted by: William at August 03, 2011 08:48 PM (77TeU)

Ask around.  See if you can find Lord Humongous ... he's got some chaps and masks and assorted athletic equipment and shit.

39 If you stacked 14 trillion dollars on top of one another....

Joe Biden would knock it over reaching for the pickle relish.

40
What I learned at Harvard is that if you just say it in the right way it can actually happen.  We just have to keep trying harder.

41 GDP? GWB!

42 100%? Hmmm..... is that good or bad?

43 They want it down to 73% by 2015

And I want Mila Kunis and a Porsche 911 GT3.

44

The less theoretical DOOM is becoming, the less I'm enjoying it.

 

45

Statistically more people survive if they think
only of themselves
Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, loved ones
You have only a few seconds to escape
Use those seconds sensibly or you will inevitably die
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
Do not panic
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself

46 38 Time for some more dark song lyrics.
ThereÂ’s a man goinÂ’ Â’round takinÂ’ names.

AnÂ’ he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody wonÂ’t be treated all the same.
ThereÂ’ll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.

The hairs on your arm will stand up.
At the terror in each sip and in each sup.
For you partake of that last offered cup,
Or disappear into the potterÂ’s ground.
When the man comes around.

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singinÂ’.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum.
Voices callinÂ’, voices cryinÂ’.
Some are born anÂ’ some are dyinÂ’.
ItÂ’s AlphaÂ’s and OmegaÂ’s Kingdom come.

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
ItÂ’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Till Armageddon, no Shalam, no Shalom.
Then the father hen will call his chickens home.
The wise men will bow down before the throne.
And at his feet theyÂ’ll cast their golden crown.
When the man comes around.

Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down, When the man comes around.

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singinÂ’.
Multitudes are marchinÂ’ to the big kettle drum.
Voices callinÂ’, voices cryinÂ’.
Some are born anÂ’ some are dyinÂ’.
ItÂ’s AlphaÂ’s and OmegaÂ’s Kingdom come.

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
ItÂ’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

In measured hundredweight and penny pound.
When the man comes around.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts,
And I looked and behold: a pale horse.
And his name, that sat on him, was Death.
And Hell followed with him.

47 "Abolish Government / Superficial Love" (originally by TSOL) [(Grisham / Barnes / Emory / Roche) Covina High Music (BMI)] Abolish government There's nothing to it Forget about God He's no innocent We live by a system Of perfect goals People vs. people who are bored and old Life must rest on the man who represents Looking for nothing in this Campus with just friends President the name President the label The highest man on the government table Superficial love only for a fuck But love is incest and it's only for a fuck To the guys provided free Peace time war time country's in vein All die for this land some over seas I live for the summons serve my country Army, Navy, Air Force or jail To the guys provided for free Peace time war time country's in vein But that's the American way what it is to be free If that's what they call freedom it's not for me Suck my motherfuckin' dick

48 It is racist and a terrorist tactic to spend less than you actually have, or can ever pay back.  And just as bad trying to stop others doing it too.

49


Your only protection is flight
If you are less than ten years old
Remain in your shelter and use your cocoon
Remember - you can help no one else
You can help no one else
You can help no one else
Do not panic
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself

Think only of yourself

Think only of yourself

Think only of yourself

50 And Moody's says that a downgrade is coming unless this ludicrous situation is corrected. That's exactly how I got my mortgage. I told them I'd get a job in 2015. You see, I'm an excellent investment.

51 We will never be able to recover from this...we are headed down a path from which we cannot possibly return...and the worst part is, I cannot help thinking the president wanted it this way.

Cloward/Piven and all that.

52 The jump probably came from paying intra-government loans back. Geithner has been raiding other accounts like the Federal Employees Pension Fund (a name like this anyhoo) for dough to keep under the debt limit cap. We've actually been at the cap since early May.
 
This jump is no surprise.

53 This line always amused me:

ItÂ’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

54

Beaten, why for?
Can't take much more (herewego, herewego herewego now)

One!
Nothing wrong with me
Two!
Nothing wrong with me
Three!
Nothing wrong with me
Four!
Nothing wrong with me!

One!
Something's got to give
Two!
Something's got to give
Three!
Something's got to give
NOW!

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor...

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor...

Now...! Now...! Now...!

55 Fuck it, can I haz free beer?

56 The most incompetent administration ever. This short video sums it all up. http://tinyurl.com/3bwvtoj

57 55 The only way to cut 4T from the budget before '15 would be securing all three branches, and eliminating entire departments like education, commerce, HUD, Platinum Plus, and anything else not tied down.

You would have to implement immediate entitlement reform and cuts to other parts of mandatory. 

58 Look at the deficit chart:
http://tinyurl.com/3uepa8b

Look at 2005 then 2006 then 2007.  Notice anything?  The deficit goes down by about $100 billion every year.  I don't see the raw data, but according to that trend, there would have been no deficit by 2009. 

But the 2008 budget is really the first one crafted by the new Democrat Congress.  And guess what?  See how that bar just shoots downward?

Just for laughs, from Politico, 2/22/09:
Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half

59 FYI- I got some crazy malware after clicking on the Kardashian link in the sidebar.  Let that be a warning to any other armenophiles out there.

60 ItÂ’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 03, 2011 08:59 PM (c0A3e) We have a veritable target-rich environment of pricks to kick. Oh, can I say that? I mean, it's extremist and shit, right? Appy-polly-logies, me brothers.

61 ItÂ’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 03, 2011 08:59 PM (c0A3e)

You know the difference between a Porsche 911 and a porcupine?

A porcupine has the pricks on the outside.

62 "22 12 . They want it down to 73% by 2015 Ah, just in time for a Republican President to be the scapegoat when the US gets downgraded. Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins. Posted by: izoneguy at August 03, 2011 08:48 PM (i6Neb)" I was thinkn' the same thing. An absolute catastrophe.

63 .....'member when the JEF said he would halve the deficit by the end of his first term?

HAHAHA...what a kidder

64

In the immortal words of Rock Master Scott:

The roof!  The roof!  The roof is on fire!

We don't need no water, let the motherf**ker burn!

Burn Motherf**ker, Burn.

65 "What I've Become" Blank stares from broken men So withered from the poisons they can't remember when There were once honest reasons. It's all a lie, it died 100,000 miles ago. Pretending I'm still here. Justify what I've become, sanctify what I've become. Amazing disgrace... (how) sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. Better lost if this is found, best blinded never to see. The race to save face, nothing now is what we meant it to be. Pretending I'm still here. It's a system now, intertwined. Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece. Betrayal. Suffered consequence It's been so long since any piece of this made any kind of sense. You anoint the king, I'll burn everything down to ashes. You giveth, I taketh away. It's a system now, intertwined. Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece. Betrayal.

66 2015? They think we will make it to 2015?

67 I'm thinking of getting a crossbow instead of a rifle, because there's a chance of using arrows again, and I may be having to catch my own food for a long time.

68 To quote Princess Leia, "When you came in here, did you have a plan for getting out?"

Step1: Spend all the money
Step2: ???
Step3: Profit!

69 Posted by: USA at August 03, 2011 09:01 PM (6Cjut) Choo-Choo Biden and the Hole-in-the-Head Gang. Oh shit! I did it again! Violent, insensitive rhetoric! How about "lok-in-kupf?" Yiddish always makes things sound so much more benign.

70 I decree that business do more hiring and the peons citizens do more spending.

As I decree, it shall be!

71 Happy Birthday Mr. President. You have run up the biggest bill in the history of mankind.

72 69 .....'member when the JEF said he would halve the deficit by the end of his first term? HAHAHA...what a kidder Posted by: beedubya at August 03, 2011 09:03 PM (AnTyA) No, no, no. He said we would HAVE a deficit, not halve.

73 Re: 30 OT: Here's a "shout-out" to those 4000 furloughed FAA employees: On the off chance that you're not a hit 'n' run troll, got a link? Posted by: fluffy at August 03, 2011 08:50 PM (SwkdU) Sheesh! The GOP-led House passed a long-term FAA funding bill last month that included a controversial labor provision that would overturn a decision by the National Mediation Board allowing airline and railroad employees to form a union by simple-majority vote. Republicans, who have long been concerned about union intimidation in these votes, want to keep the former rule treating a non-vote as a "no" vote. Good enough for ya? And try Googling a guy's hash before accusing him of being a troll, 'mkay?

74 Ah, just in time for a Republican President to be the scapegoat when the US gets downgraded. Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins. Posted by: izoneguy at August 03, 2011 08:48 PM (i6Neb) Sounds possible but. Do the dems want to run a do nothing bumbling asshole were the novelty factor won't be factor?

75

But Obama did not run on a platform of "Bush's Third Term."

He ran on a platform of correcting Bush's mistake.

Instead, he's compounded them, tripled them.

The way I like to put it...

Everything Bush did right? Yeah, Obama's bringing big change to that.

The stuff Bush f'ed up? Obama's plan is pushing the gas pedal and seeing how fast this car can go.

76 Where the hell is the damned straw?!

77 I decree that business do more hiring and the peons citizens do more spending.

As I decree, it shall be!

Posted by: Prezident Golfs-a-Lot at August 03, 2011 09:04 PM (z63Tr)

Do you have a few minutes?

78 77 Happy Birthday Mr. President. You have run up the biggest bill in the history of mankind. Posted by: USA at August 03, 2011 09:04 PM (6Cjut) If only he could just top it all off and afford one "waffer-theen meent."

79

The Tea Party has recklessly diminished the power and reach of the United States.

Is Cohen so dense to believe that other countries aren't completely more aware of the current monetary situation than the average American ? Putin was bashing Americans just the other day as "parasites," and he isn't too far off the truth.

This debt problem isn't just a domestic problem. The continued running up of the debt and monetary tricks with the dollar is as bad for foreign relations as any "Ugly American" policy of the past.

80 Suddenly Glenn Beck's food insurance isn't seeming so laughable.

81 73 I'm thinking of getting a crossbow instead of a rifle, because there's a chance of using arrows again, and I may be having to catch my own food for a long time.

Remember also that crossbows don't need to be reloaded. 

Longbows are also an essential part of your arsenal. 

82 in time for a Republican President to be the scapegoat when the US gets downgraded. A downgrade in 2015 is the very least of our worries. I just hope Moody's is even around by then.

83 Remember when we had the brutal thread arguments about TARP?  Most of us wanted to let it burn.  I wonder if the naysayers will admit we were right.  We should have let it burn to the ground. This dying by inches as a country is awful.

84 I used to be optimistic.

85 Do the dems want to run a do nothing bumbling asshole were the novelty factor won't be factor?

Posted by: YIKES! at August 03, 2011 09:05 PM (Esyhr)

Absolutely not!  We'll have a fresh new bumbling asshole for you all to try out.

86 "Walk With Me In Hell" Pray for blood, Pray for the cleansing, Pray for the flood, Pray for the end of this nightmare. This lie of a life can as quickly as it came dissolve. We seek only reprieve and welcome the darkness. The myth of a meaning so lost and forgotten (forgotten). Take hold of my hand, For you are no longer alone. Walk with me in hell. Pray for solace, Pray for resolve, Pray for a savior, Pray for deliverance, some kind of purpose. A glimpse of a light in this void of existence. Now witness the end of an age. Hope dies in hands of believers. Who seek the truth in the liar's eye. Take hold of my hand, For you are no longer alone. Walk with me in hell. Walk with me in hell [x5] Take hold of my hand, For you are no longer alone. Walk with me in hell [x3] You're never alone [x5] Walk with me in hell.

87

Oblahblah is like that vapid, popular kid who ran for class president just for the title on a bunch of ridiculous promises he could never fulfill.  As the school year has progressed, the idiots that voted him in are finally coming to the realization that they are still doing homework, they still have to take tests, their grades are still the same, the school day is still the same length, and the food in the cafeteria still sucks. 

They also come to the realization that the nerdy, unpopular kid would have actually made a better president even though he didn't promise them all kinds of crap.  He would have actually gone to all the meetings, helping with all the fundraising, and they would actually be having a prom.  Instead, the class president took the money that was suppose to be used for a downpayment on the prom venue and blew it on keggers (which only the popular kids were invited to). 

Thanks a lot you 52% mofos, thanks a lot!

88 Suddenly Glenn Beck's food insurance isn't seeming so laughable.

Posted by: Lauren at August 03, 2011 09:06 PM (oOs0p)

Got it.

89 Trade some dollars for nickles!

"This is your last chance to protect yourself from Dollar weakening (and perhaps Dollar destruction) by merely saving your money in the right form. No premiums attached! Just go to the bank and exchange whatever Dollars and cents you have for nickels. They will give you 100% of your money back in nickel form without taking a cut.

Go to any bank right now and hand them $100 and ask for nickels. The teller will gleefully give you back about $135 in metal (as of this writing). We suggest you do this as regularly as you can."

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3znybp4

90 And try Googling a guy's hash before accusing him of being a troll, 'mkay?

Good enough. And lighten up, Francis.

91 Stop spending so much? TEARRORIST!!!

92 69 Posted by: beedubya at August 03, 2011 09:03 PM (AnTyA) Just like Arafat when he said he renounced terrorism; in fact he renounced TOURISM. All these sneaky shits have lousy elocution. Whether or not it's intentional is another story.

93

New Democrat Slogan: "If we balance the budget, then the terrorists win."

 

94 The Tea Party has recklessly diminished the power and reach of the United States.

By infinitesimally reducing the rate of growth of the federal behemoth?

95 Heck, it'll be easy to get the ratio from 100 to 50%. Just double the GDP! (why do I think they'll double the debt instead?)

96 And try Googling a guy's hash before accusing him of being a troll, 'mkay? Good enough. And lighten up, Francis. Posted by: fluffy at August 03, 2011 09:08 PM (SwkdU) Point taken, but I don't suffer false accusations lightly. Peace out.

97 The Lamb of God songs are particulary sweet because they were about the evil Booosh and they fit Barry even better.

98 31 100% Wow! That's good, right? A+ Posted by: toby928™ Too high. A strong B+

99 Hey steevy,

Ya got the lyrics to South of Heaven on hand?

100 "This Day We Fight!" For this I was chosen because I fear nothing With confidence I tread through the dead of the night Off to another war torn, far away battlefield Wherein lies a daemonic enemy horde On this day I decide to anoint my fists Engaging them in the mode of power and war Stopping at nothing that's short of fulfilling my destiny Willing to die and I will, after you for what I believe [Solo - Chris] A desperate avenger striking fear in their hearts Invading their dreams before the day even starts [Solo - Dave] Whet whit your blood, I sharpen my sword No turning the other cheek like a coward Come tomorrow I may lay down and die But not this day Sent on an unholy quest, to reduce all those who resist To the size of their shriveled up souls and scatter them like grist I vanquished the strangeholds that the netherworld sets for me The last request of my life is to die killing my enemies [Solo - Chris] Bathed in blood up to the horses' bridle Its death to retreat, there's no chance of survival [Solo - Dave] Whet whit your blood, I sharpen my sword No turning the other cheek like a coward Come tomorrow I may lay down and die But not this day, this day we fight! This day we fight! Strip the fallen heroes, finish off the wounded Collect the spoils of war and send them back dead [Solo - Dave] [Solo - Chris] [Solo - Dave] This day we fight! This day I fight!

101 95 Suddenly Glenn Beck's food insurance isn't seeming so laughable.
Posted by: Lauren at August 03, 2011 09:06 PM (oOs0p)

I heard the third living being say, ‘Come!’ And I looked up and saw a black horse, and its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. And a voice from among the four living beings said, ‘A loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley for a day’s pay. And don’t waste the olive oil and wine.’”

102 "Bite The Hand That Feeds" They ball-gagged Lady Justice And blindfolded her so she can't see The erosion of the people's trust Of what will come to be an FDIC Assisted Suicide The depression of a depression Worldwide suicide for the economy Caused by the dialectic chaos when the Mob on Wall Street took "We the People" for a ride When its dog eat dog, you are what you eat Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds Like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds [Solo - Chris] They took everything and anything As long as it once belonged to me The rats got all the money; the roaches Licked the cupboards clean of TV dinners and beer This never-ending nightmare Of the dreams I'll never, ever get to see And just one silver-bullet to your head It will set me free from all the life I wasted trusting you When it's dog eat dog, you are what you eat Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds Like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds When it's dog eat dog, you are what you eat Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds [Solo - Chris]

103 Maybe we should start talking about raising the debt ceiling again.

104

Obama's claim is always that this is Bush's fault.

Let's stipulate big chunks of it are Bush's fault.

But Obama did not run on a platform of "Bush's Third Term."

He ran on a platform of correcting Bush's mistake.

Instead, he's compounded them, tripled them.

This is the argument that I've been using on my libtard friends/family/acquaintances since almost day 1 of Zero's term. The response has evolved from "give him time" to "Bush was worse than we thought" to "Well, you didn't complain when Bush did it" to "Shut up, racist". Cognitive Dissonance doesn't begin to describe the O-bot mind, they are in full-blown Bizzaro world mode.

105 By the way, how amazing is it that apparently asking for a government merely of the size and scope of the 2006 monstrosity is now a dangerous, extremist demand? Let alone asking for a return to 2000 which apparently is to extreme for the English language to actually convey.

106 /pedant

Technically we're still slightly below 100%. They're using the 2010 GDP number. Barring a recession were at $15 trillion.

zerohedge

/pedant

107 Obama's claim is always that this is Bush's fault. Let's stipulate big chunks of it are Bush's fault. But Obama did not run on a platform of "Bush's Third Term." He ran on a platform of correcting Bush's mistake. Instead, he's compounded them, tripled them. Just because Obama claims that doesn't mean it's true, so we don't need to "stipulate." For the bulk of Bush's term, the economy was growing at a greater rate than the debt. You finance debt for things that will give you a greater return. You don't run up the tab splurging on party time and then wonder why you can't get seconds.

108 100

New Democrat Slogan: "If we balance the budget, then the terrorists win."

The "terrorists" that even Barry refuses to negotiate with. 

109 Google my hash;  it will rock your world

110 Seriously doubt a fix can be had.  I think Dems see the impending doom, but they are absolutely about being the opposite of the those trying to be fiscally responsible.  Insanity.

111 "South Of Heaven" [Lyrics: Araya; Music: Hanneman] An unforseen future nestled somewhere in time. Unsuspecting victims no warnings, no signs. Judgment day the second coming arrives. Before you see the light you must die. Forgotten children, conform a new faith, Avidity and lust controlled by hate. (The) Never ending search for your shattered sanity, Souls of Damnation in their own reality. Chaos rampant, An age of distrust. Confrontations. Impulsive habitat. Bastard sons begat your cunting daughters, Promiscuous mothers with your incestuous fathers. Engreat souls condemned for all eternity, Obtained by immoral observance a domineering deity. Chaos rampant, An age of distrust. Confrontations. Impulsive sabbath. On and on, south of heaven [x 4] [LEAD: KING] The root of all evil is the heart of a black soul. A force that has lived all eternity. The never ending search for a truth never told. The loss of all hope and your dignity. Chaos rampant, An age of distrust. Confrontations. Impulsive habitat. On and on, south of heaven [x 4] [LEAD: HANNEMAN]

112 "Well, you didn't complain when Bush did it"

I love that one. Somehow the left has written the rightwing revolt against the Republicans for Shamnesty and Medicare Part D out of the history books.

113 The Presidebt was bitching today about not being able to collect airline fees becuase of the partial FAA shutdown. He said we need very dollar we can get.  It's not like the gubmint won't get it eventually. The airlines are holding it and will fork it over as soon as the money grubbers tell them to..

...but then the fuckstick jets off to a birthday party for himself  at a cost of a few mil to the taxpayers.

He really is a dick.

114 Point taken, but I don't suffer false accusations lightly.

After you work on reading comprehension, spend 20 minutes on your "Getting Over Yourself" workbook.

115 Anyone know whether there will be a big protest outside of the One's birthday bash?

116 steevy - u da man!

117 Google my hash;  it will rock your world

Posted by: SantaRosaStan,TIT ( terrorist-in-training ) at August 03, 2011 09:13 PM (UqKQV)

What did you do with CAC?

118 "Can't Stand You" (originally by Pap Smear) [(Hanneman) Pennemunde Music ASCAP] Can't stand - The way you look The way you talk The way you act Can't stand you Do I think - You're a dick - Yeah You're a fuck - Yeah We'll fight - Yeah Do I think you'll win - No Do I think you're stupid - Yeah Do I think you're lame - Yeah Am I stressing You're the one to blame [Repeat intro.] I open my mouth at the wrong time Always ranking on somebody I'm drunk all the time Throwing beer bottles and spitting in your face Checking through the purse Of the slut in our place She'll never notice if her money is gone Piss in her jacket And just send her along [Repeat intro.]

119 it's song lyrics time????  

  From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
     Whatever gods may be
That no man lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
     Winds somewhere safe to sea.

--AC/DC

  ( I lied; it's Charles Algernon Swinburne )

120
By the way, I think that the "borrowing 100% of GDP" phrasing obfuscates what is going on.

I think it is clearer this way:

We are spending double what we are bringing in.

We are making $50,000/year and spending $100,000/year.

121 On the subject of hashtags, sorry that mine changes all the time. I use a proxy service so that I can watch in market games on MLBtv.

122

@3: "Find a safe place and hunker down."

Revolutionary suicide, baby.  Only way to escape it.  I was just ahead of my time.

123

I got this email from my neighbor today.  He is a Korean War Vet, a former Marine, and one of the Chosin Few:

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings. Save America 's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings. International Fund for Ireland . $17 million annual savings. Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings. National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings. National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings. Hope VI Program.. $250 million annual savings. Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings. Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually. U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings. Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings. Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings. John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings. Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings. Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings. Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings. Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings. Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings. Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings. Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings. Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings. Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings. New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings. Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts . $9 million annual savings. What the hell is this anywayÂ…? Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings. Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings. Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings. Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings. Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings. Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings. FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings. Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings. Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually. U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings. General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings. Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings. Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years. No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings. End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services. Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually. IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing payments to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years. Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.    What the Hell! Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years. Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings. Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings. Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings. Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings. USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings. Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).$93 million annual savings. Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings. Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings. Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings. Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. HUD Ph.D. Program. Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act  TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Year  My question, what THE Devil is all this doing in the budget in the first placeÂ…? Is there anything listed you cannot do withoutÂ…?    

124

What did you do with CAC?

Posted by: robtr at August 03, 2011 09:15 PM (MtwBb)

basement--except there are no basements in L.A.

no more questions......

125 Thought I was fad eh?

126

I never accepted the premise that not raising the debt ceiling would lead to catastrophe.  I looked at it as the same kind of self serving prediction that got us the TARP.  We'll never know will we?

But we will see default regardless. When the bills come due.

How do you repay all the borrowing when it would take all of the GDP?  How do you stop hyperinflation when the interest on all of the borrowed money goes up?  We're looking at an event not unlike a lump of Uranium 235 going supercritical. 

127 steevy - Do you remember a band called Ludichrist?  They had a song called "Most People are Dicks".

128 130 That hurt my eyes.

129 Yep, a quarter of a Trillion Dollars, in one day.  Basically, this was because they actually violated the debt ceiling in May and have been holding back payments and stealing from pension funds.

130

I was talking with my uncle during the Senate vote yesterday, he's in his 70's, not very political, Marine, He was someone I talked with before deciding to take the "Oath / Affirmation of Renunciation of Nationality of United States" to make sure a broke US government couldn't come after me even though I was living abroad and finding some rule in 2800 plus pages that gave them the power to economically rape me. Which, he understood.

Honestly, I told him yesterday I'll be so relieved when the final paperwork came through. It was a desperate act to cut myself off from this insanity (and the future insanity) but with each freaking day, I'm more and more anxious for that paper to arrive. I never thought the United States would be in this position.

131 89 Remember when we had the brutal thread arguments about TARP? Most of us wanted to let it burn. I wonder if the naysayers will admit we were right. We should have let it burn to the ground. This dying by inches as a country is awful. Posted by: mpfs, Cereal Tea Party Terrorist at August 03, 2011 09:07 PM (3TjSM) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Exactly sister, exactly. This was like '08 all over again. Get the media in a furor and ,in turn, the public over some BS crisis. Also, remember when some of us liked the idea of Bachmann being Speaker of the House instead of Boehner? The ridiculing by some of those here? Yeah, anyone like to reconsider now?

132

@15: "Highway to Hell"

No stop signs, speed limits, nobody gonna slow me down!

133 Air Force One after we can't pay for the fuel http://tinyurl.com/35yyv94

134 119 "Well, you didn't complain when Bush did it"

I love that one. Somehow the left has written the rightwing revolt against the Republicans for Shamnesty and Medicare Part D out of the history books.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2011 09:13 PM (FBr/C)

That's bigtime projection.  You see, they have to worship their leaders.  We don't.  We liked Bush personally and figured he was better than the alternative, but that's where it stopped.

Obama has to be Brilliant Technocrat Alpha #1 for this whole liberal/progressive project to work.

135 My question, what THE Devil is all this doing in the budget in the first placeÂ…? Is there anything listed you cannot do withoutÂ…?    

Posted by: runningrn at August 03, 2011 09:16 PM (jfHyQ)

You're not taking my Mohair subsidies rn. You have to learn your limitations.

136

None of this well ever be fixed. The politicians are busy stashing stashing away their fortunes, so they will survive when the end comes. Petty bureaucrats and functionaries will hide behind their security fences and rent-a-cops; the rich will do the same. The rest of us will fight over the last few cans of tuna fish.

It's been a lovely fucking war.

137 After you work on reading comprehension, spend 20 minutes on your "Getting Over Yourself" workbook. Posted by: fluffy at August 03, 2011 09:13 PM (SwkdU) All I did was answer your question and point out the fact that you jumped to a ridiculous conclusion. If you were trying to be funny it didn't translate very well into text.

138 Holy cow, look at size of those fonts!

139 Hope I can afford to buy my dog his food in a few years instead of using my dog as food in a few years.

140

@18: "Remember that girl in that movie with John Holmes? Yeah, we're her."

We should be so lucky as to be her  - that was voluntary.

141 You know, there is always the Logan's Run solution...

142

Posted by: runningrn at August 03, 2011 09:16 PM (jfHyQ)

Holy font and list size, Batman!  But your point is well (and sadly) taken. 

Was this an e-mail forward? 

143 Barry's coming at the problem in two ways:  Driving up spending, and driving GDP down.  Exactly backwards.

But in your calculations for the next President, calculate debt with the entire new limit increase used up-- Barry ain't leavin' no pennies unspent.

144 We are not sure of sorrow,
     And joy was never sure;
Today will die tomorrow;
     Time stoops to no man's lure;
And love, grown faint and fretful,
With lips but half regretful
Sighs, and with eyes forgetful
     Weeps that no loves endure.

145 57 The jump probably came from paying intra-government loans back. Geithner has been raiding other accounts like the Federal Employees Pension Fund (a name like this anyhoo) for dough to keep under the debt limit cap. We've actually been at the cap since early May.
 
This jump is no surprise.


I agree. We were already close to 97% (or perhaps higher?) without factoring-in the shenanigans. 

146

 130 That hurt my eyes.

 

Sorry about that, but it's hurting your wallet more.  (It didn't format that way when I copied it--there were spaces between each thing, it's just the way pixy popped it out on the other side).

 

You're not taking my Mohair subsidies rn. You have to learn your limitations.

 

I guess we'll be prying them out of your dead, cold hands then!  How are you doing robtr?  Are you enjoying the last couple of weeks of summer we finally had?

147 "Remember that girl guy in that movie with John Holmes? Yeah, we're herhim."

FIFY

148

We should be so lucky as to be her  - that was voluntary.

Posted by: Abner Louima at August 03, 2011 09:20 PM (xy9wk

AND she got paid for it.  We're actually paying John for the privilege of getting boned.

149 Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins.

Posted by: izoneguy at August 03, 2011 08:48 PM

If there was any justice in the world, or if anyone in Congress had the slightest semblance of Dangling Courage Units, in 2016 Osama Obama will be wearing an orange jumpsuit and doing time -- lots of time -- at some nasty federal SuperMax.

I doubt President Historic First© would get the maximum penalty for treason, but he has earned a lifetime behind bars for destroying the country.

His co-conspirators should be doing likewise. All 500-plus of them.

150
We are making $50,000/year and spending $100,000/year.

Posted by: dan-O at August 03, 2011 09:15 PM (xn/Dw)

PARTY!!!!! Like, my dad will pick up the bill man.

151 135 Can't find it under that spelling.

152
Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins.


You know what's funny? It's his erstwhile base who will prevent that.

153 does anyone get the feeling we're at the part of the movie where the regime just doesn't give a fuck anymore, and commences with the bread and circuses?

154 does anyone get the feeling we're at the part of the movie where the regime just doesn't give a fuck anymore, and commences with the bread and circuses?

Posted by: Jones at August 03, 2011 09:23 PM (8sCoq)

And I get to be a Senator!

155

PARTY!!!!! Like, my dad will pick up the bill man.

Posted by: Your Average Democrat at August 03, 2011 09:22 PM (FBr/C)

Nuh uh ... YOUR dad will pick up the bill, man.  Mine's on welfare.

156

Here is an outstanding citizen of Seattle who is running for the school board this year. His name is David Blomstrom. Quite a guy huh?

An economic train wreck, endless war, our latest fascist pResident, environmental ruin - from the Gulf Coast oil spill to JapanÂ’s ongoing nuclear meltdown to the genetically modified food Bill Gates so adores...where will it all end? Can we fight back?

Hell yes!

You roll up your sleeves and start fighting in your backyard. ItÂ’s called grassroots reform or, if youÂ’re really serious, revolution.

Children need to be protected from the Gates Foundation, First AME Church, King County Demopublicans, military recruiters seeking unemployed idiots to help rape, torture and murder Muslims and steal their natural resources, and an army of other corporate scum. And even if you donÂ’t care about children, do you want the Seattle School District to continue embezzling and wasting millions of dollars? Do you care about your property taxes?

Freedom fighters in Iraqistan have committed suicide in protecting their children from the trailer park trash and sex predators who find a safe haven in the U.S. military. So why canÂ’t Seattleites take a stand against the corporate predators that run Seattle and its increasingly privatized public schools?

I worked for the Seattle School District for sixteen years and have been a political activist since 1995. IÂ’ve run for public office before; IÂ’m the only candidate who snubs endorsement interviews with the corporate media, which include the Seattle Weekly and The Stranger.

Politics may be sleazy, but it can also be intriguing, even entertaining. If you like whodunits, detective stories and conspiracy theory - or if youÂ’re just looking for simple facts about Seattle Schools, Inc. - check out my campaign at www.seattle-mafia.org. Remember: Knowledge is power.

In solidarity with the left-wing visionaries who are transforming Latin America, Greek protesters, and the freedom fighters sticking it to Team USA in Iraqistan and Libya, viva la revolucion!

157 Interest rates for mortgages have been noodling down all summer---same with house prices

Maybe it's better to blow my Retirement Savings Wad on a house, then watch as people start wiping their noses and asses with dollar bills

a house with many guns and cans of food.......

158 >Here's a nightmare for ya....Obama loses in 2012 but comes back in 2016 and wins.

i'm reasonably sure that's against the Constitution, which means yeah, why not

159 Hold it. We already used a tenth of the increase in debt ceiling? Barky really doesn't like his job.Posted by: t-bird

Wait. So we run out of money again in 10 days?

160 "Well, you didn't complain when Bush did it"

I love that one. Somehow the left has written the rightwing revolt against the Republicans for Shamnesty and Medicare Part D out of the history books.

As well as the rejection of Harriet Meiers (?) for SCOTUS, among other things. They seem to think that we were as enthralled with Bush as they are with Zero. Most of the time, especially in his 2nd term, I supported Bush only because of the level of insanity that the left brought against him.

161

15457The jump probably came from paying intra-government loans back. Geithner has been raiding other accounts like the Federal Employees Pension Fund (a name like this anyhoo) for dough to keep under the debt limit cap. We've actually been at the cap since early May.

This jump is no surprise.

You're right, I think.

usdebtclock is where it always was. I check it often. They had two clocks, one tracking where we were with the debt limit and the main one tracking the US National Debt which is almost at $14.57 Trillion. Only $14.298 Trillion of the debt was subject to the debt ceiling.

Our external debt to GDP ratio there hasn't hit 100% yet.

162 And I get to be a Senator!

Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at August 03, 2011 09:24 PM (FBr/C)

What are the nays?   

163 They seem to think that we were as enthralled with Bush as they are with Zero

Projection.  They always invest super powers in their leaders.

164 2. Hourglass Privileged, a chosen few Blessed with our time in hell Witness a divine vision, the day we all fell still. Rapture of the dying age, a shattered hourglass Wrath of the warring gods and so this too shall pass. It's only getting worse, not worth a moment's regret Each dawn another curse, every breath a twisting blade What will be left behind in the ashes of the wake? An ill wind blows this way, the edge of the envelope burns Forbearance and my vengeance, payment for you intent Fear and death in the wings, in thrall of those fallen from grace Petty is as petty does, witness the mass disgrace. God forbid you read the signs, watch for meanings between the lines Gehenna has now arrived, no hindsight for the blind. Your trust has been misplaced, believed the lies told to your face Became another casualty and now it's too late. You finally made it home, draped in the flag that you fell for. And so it goes The a shes of the wake. It's only getting worse...

165 THE FUTURE

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture

Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!

Give me crack and careless sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture

Give me back the Berlin Wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul

When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival

Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing

You'll see your woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin Wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...

166 And Kathleen Parker, wise conservative intellectual, has come down firmly on the just keep spending, we're doing fine side of things. 

167

Was this an e-mail forward? 

 

Yes, it was from my awesome neighbor.  I'm sure he's glad he got horrible frostbite and lost some toes (and he still has pain/numbness from) and a severe hearing loss from manning a tank at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War.  I bet he's glad he sacrificed so that robtr can have his mohair subsidies and the programs for native Hawaiians and Alaskans and their historical trading partners in MA.  Oh, and pray tell, what is the Hope VI Program?  Is that a new Obama thing?

168 Posted by: AmishDude at August 03, 2011 09:26 PM (73tyQ)

the Civil War was caused by uncontrolled immigration and fought by midgets.

169 Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at August 03, 2011 09:27 PM (OWjjx)

heheheh

Stoner.

170 They seem to think that we were as enthralled with Bush as they are with Zero

Bush's approval ratings, which they were sooooo in love with citing, included losing a large portion of his base. He would have stayed in the 30s if he'd kept his base, but they don't want to think about that.

And the Democrats wouldn't have taken Congress in 2006 if not for dissatisfied R voters staying home.

171

In solidarity with the left-wing visionaries who are transforming Latin America, Greek protesters, and the freedom fighters sticking it to Team USA in Iraqistan and Libya, viva la revolucion!

 

Wow!  He sounds like a full on nutter.  That means he is electable in Seattle!  (Although his attack on the AME church is racist!)

172 And Moody's says that a downgrade is coming unless this ludicrous situation is corrected. They want it down to 73% by 2015.

2015???

Yep, it's coming all right - on the back of a turtle.

173 The goal is to burn enough capital resources on momentary needs so that when the collapse comes, there's nothing left to rebuild with. Detroit is the model, they're still following it in Chicago, LA, etc. It's taking longer than expected in NY because of Giuliani. There are accidents. This isn't one of them.

174 After you work on reading comprehension, spend 20 minutes on your "Getting Over Yourself" workbook.

You might want to look up the First Rule of Shovels...

175 I told my kids a few minutes ago they should move to a place with a better economy that the US. What is the weather like in Zimbabwe?

176 Oh, and pray tell, what is the Hope VI Program? Is that a new Obama thing? Posted by: runningrn at August 03, 2011 09:28 PM (jfHyQ) Isn't that the new AI computer designed to run an economy into the ground without human intervention? (It's actually public housing - another grotesquely failed idea that must be resurrected for Obama to ruin everything properly).

177 Whoo-hoo! Off we go!

178 Where are the fuckin Faux News Clowns to tell us what a great victory this "debt reduction deal" is?

179 Wait, is this even more victory? I can sense it.

180 Listen, if I have to move to a different place that doesn't speak English, I'm headed to Singapore.

181 wondering if that was already known by all higher upstream.
They knew there would be riots as soon as any significant cuts would come?  Unions would send their goons out to burn down banks and crap?

or are they all believe in Unicorns and something special would happen to save us all?

182 damn it ! I come in obviously late have to read everyones comments because Your time is as valuable as mine, And you guys already left!

183 The goal is to burn enough capital resources on momentary needs so that when the collapse comes, there's nothing left to rebuild with.

Detroit is the model, they're still following it in Chicago, LA, etc. It's taking longer than expected in NY because of Giuliani.

There are accidents. This isn't one of them.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 03, 2011 09:42 PM (bxiXv)

just in case you read this.

So will we be sold off to the highest bidder? or has that already happened?

184

This instant jump in the debt was caused by unwinding all the accounting tricks masking the increase in debt since they nominally hit the ceiling on May 16th.

From May 16th to Aug 1, debt subject to limit stayed constant at $14.293975T, just $25M of the limit. However, normal borrowing via T auctions continued as normal. They were hiding that increase in debt simply by employing accounting tricks with the civil service retirment funds (which is allowed by law), which amounted to swapping debt that counted toward the limit for debt that did not. We called them "IOU^2", that is, IOUs for IOUs.

Now the ceiling was raised, they unwound all those tricks and the true debt becomes visible. The Aug 2 deadline came from when those accounting tricks would run out.

185 Oh, and pray tell, what is the Hope VI Program? Is that a new Obama thing? Posted by: runningrn at August 03, 2011 09:28 PM (jfHyQ) I actually know this one! HOPE VI is another one of those supposed-to-be-temporary HUD programs that got started in the Bush I years. (Don't blame Bush, he fought it but the Dem Congress forced it through in an appropriations bill, back in the day when we had things called Budgets) It was intended to provide some one-time grants to help local public housing agencies tear down their shitty ghetto towers and replace them with smaller scale housing. A lot of the money went to good use, but as usual the grants were gamed and handed out to politically connected people and developers, especially after the Clintons arrived. And it spawned an entire industry of grantwriters and consultants. I briefly worked for one of those consultants. The problem is now this program is about 20 years old and all of the worst projects have been redone, but Congress still wants those ribbons to cut and all those HUD bureaucrats to keep their jobs. So it keeps getting funded and the money goes to smaller and smaller projects, that the locals probably could have funded themselves through bond issues. There are hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of legacy programs like this throughout the federal government. They add up to hundreds of billions of dollars, and pretty much nobody would notice if they were all zeroed out.

186 I thought the DOOM'n happened in the morning, no?

187 By the way, a commenter on that Walter Russell Mead piece that Ace linked earlier had a hell of a good idea: put together a website where people could "crowdsource" the federal budget and actually audit it line by line and agency by agency to find the waste like the HOPE VI program. This needs to happen.

188

Knock knock America.

Who's there?

F'ed.

F'ed who?

F'ed in the A, that's who!

 

 

189 its sad to think that I will probably be able to pass on through firsthand accounts the same depression type stories to my grandchildren that my grandparents passed onto me when I was a child. At what point does the second shot heard round the world occur?

190 An oldie but goodie: The eastern world, it is exploding Violence flarin', bullets loadin' You're old enough to kill, but not for votin' You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin' And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin' But you tell me Over and over and over again, my friend Ah, you don't believe We're on the eve of destruction. Don't you understand what I'm tryin' to say Can't you feel the fears I'm feelin' today? If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave [Take a look around ya boy, it's bound to scare ya boy] And you tell me Over and over and over again, my friend Ah, you don't believe We're on the eve of destruction. Yeah, my blood's so mad feels like coagulatin' I'm sitting here just contemplatin' I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation. Handful of senators don't pass legislation And marches alone can't bring integration When human respect is disintegratin' This whole crazy world is just too frustratin' And you tell me Over and over and over again, my friend Ah, you don't believe We're on the eve of destruction. Think of all the hate there is in Red China Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama You may leave here for 4 days in space But when you return, it's the same old place The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace AndÂ… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend You don't believe We're on the eve Of destruction Mm, no no, you don't believe We're on the eve of destruction.

191 201 its sad to think that I will probably be able to pass on through firsthand accounts the same depression type stories to my grandchildren that my grandparents passed onto me when I was a child. At what point does the second shot heard round the world occur? Posted by: x11b1p at August 03, 2011 10:30 PM (nVLlM) I've already done that with my kids a few times. It's just so much fun to tell them why they can't have any of the stuff their friends have, why we haven't had a family vacation in 4 years while all their friends are at the Shore, why my son can't go to the college he wanted to go to, why our house is the shabbiest one on the street with a dead lawn, because Mom can't find a job. They have seen me crying way too many times for them to forget. My daughter has already decided she is going to live in Canada. My son plans to write music for movies and TV shows, knowing that entertainment will be the last industry to go down the shitter.

192 42

Well... on the bright side... I left weights more than guys in prison now because of the stress... So I'm right on that Mad Max schedule.

Posted by: William at August 03, 2011 08:48 PM (77TeU)

Ask around.  See if you can find Lord Humongous ... he's got some chaps and masks and assorted athletic equipment and shit.

Posted by: eastvalleyphx at August 03, 2011 08:54 PM (qiOph)

You rang?

Of course I am ready to go. Even have the revolver just to complete the look. Let's do this!

193 Wow i really found this to be an interesting read; thanks for sharing

194 _{"Here's The Hilarious Debt Ceiling Comic Strip You Need To See"}

195

But Obama did not run on a platform of "Bush's Third Term."

He ran on a platform of correcting Bush's mistake.

No, Obama ran on a platform of "I'm black, and if you vote against me, you're racist.  And when I win, if you criticize me, you're racist.  Also, I want to thank John McCain for his utter lack of spine when confronted with the question, 'Do you really want to be remembered as the man who defeated the first black candidate?'  His spinelessness, I mean, maverick nature, allowed him to continue to appear on all his favorite talk shows.  Oh, and you owe me money.  Racist."

196 18 Remember that girl in that movie with John Holmes Max Hardcore? Yeah, we're her. FIFY

197 You have to blame Reagan at least as much as GWB. Federal debt was 900B in 1980. By the time he left office it was 2.6 trillion. Reagan embraced deficit spending, (average annual deficits tripled) and we've never stopped since. It's almost impossible to imagine that during the Carter recession there was only a $40B annual deficit. Now it's over a trillion a year. It's a pity that the only thing our political parties ever agree on is to spend more and more every year.

198 Took me awhile to read all the comments, but I really love the article. It proved to be very useful to me and I am sure to all the commenters here!