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November 20, 2011

Conservatives Win Landslide Victory in Spain
— rdbrewer

Conservatives won 187 of 350 seats in the parliament. Socialists won 110, their worst evah. From the Washington Post:

Spanish conservatives won a historically large mandate at the polls Sunday, freeing them to make deep austerity cuts as they struggle to pull the countryÂ’s economy out of a tailspin.
In an election marked by bitter disappointment and desperation over the euro zoneÂ’s highest unemployment rate, the Socialists who have led the country since 2004 were cast out from office as many of their staunchest supporters turned elsewhere, according to a national TV exit poll released after the polls closed.

Left-leaning, high-tax, big-regulation, big-government states and countries are suffering the most. Maybe it's starting to dawn on these people that bureaucrats are not that smart, that they can't be trusted, and that putting them in charge of everything isn't such a good idea.

In related news, the EU bans claims water can prevent dehydration.

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Posted by: rdbrewer at 02:27 PM | Comments (165)
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1 It's too late for Spain.

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 02:28 PM (GTbGH)

2 and in the near future they will be made aware of the miracles of dental science.

Posted by: Barbarian at November 20, 2011 02:30 PM (EL+OC)

3 Left-leaning, high-tax, big-regulation, big-government states and countries are suffering the most. Maybe it's starting to dawn on these people that bureaucrats are not that smart, that they can't be trusted, and that putting them in charge of everything isn't such a good idea. That, plus allowing people to vote themselves other people's money. When people figure out they can do that, why on earth would they stop?

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:30 PM (dZmFh)

4 But...but....they have all those green jobs!

Posted by: Tami at November 20, 2011 02:31 PM (X6akg)

5 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 02:32 PM (7WJOC)

6 Plus, it's Spain. What have they done to make the world better in the last few years?

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:32 PM (dZmFh)

7 Aco-o-Spades. Where the Bears hang out.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 02:34 PM (UfxxJ)

8
and in the near future they will be made aware of the miracles of dental science.

They will be shocked at the subsequent dental hygiene.

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 20, 2011 02:34 PM (lpWVn)

9 Did they throw out Mr. Bean?

Posted by: nickless, back with the banned (99.174.64.43) at November 20, 2011 02:34 PM (cBVAS)

10 7 ; )

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:34 PM (dZmFh)

11 What have they done to make the world better in the last few years?

In the last few years? What about the last half-millenium? I mean, how long can you coast on kicking out the Moors?

Posted by: Native Americans at November 20, 2011 02:35 PM (6TB1Z)

12 Hey, how were we supposed to know electing a party because terrorists wanted us to would turn out badly?

Posted by: Spain at November 20, 2011 02:35 PM (9F2c1)

13 Just another variation of The Spanish Prisoner, it's not what it seems but there's more to it than that.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 20, 2011 02:36 PM (HBqDo)

14 5 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure But...I, ummm-uhh, love NASCAR...and we're having a ummmm, country music festival at the uhhh, white house. What more do you morons, ummmm, want?

Posted by: TEH WON at November 20, 2011 02:36 PM (UHPUA)

15 I had a DOOM-y post ready, but toby already hit the high points with #1.

Best-case scenario: Spain manages to reduce its exposure to Portugal, which is truly toxic, and to Italy which will probably have to cut itself off from Sicily (at least); and the Cons make nice with Germany having proven that their voters are serious.

Posted by: Zimriel at November 20, 2011 02:37 PM (6GvAC)

16 Is this one a' them swings of the petulant I done heard of?

Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at November 20, 2011 02:37 PM (C7KNt)

17 11. About as long as the Greeks have coasted on Aristotle and Pythagoras. Which is millenia. At least the Spaniards don't drive on icy streets with snowmen on the hood of their cars (in front of the driver) when it snows. I thought people were lying when they said the Greeks did that. They weren't.

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:37 PM (dZmFh)

18 Hey, how were we supposed to know electing a party because terrorists wanted us to would turn out badly?

It didn't work out so hot here, either.

Posted by: nickless, back with the banned (99.174.64.43) at November 20, 2011 02:38 PM (cBVAS)

19 So, Moki. I wonder if we had a class together. Or beer.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 02:38 PM (UfxxJ)

20 Same old tears on a new background.

More of the same bait and switch, the check's in the mail, I promise not to..., well you know, coming here next...

Posted by: M. Murcek at November 20, 2011 02:38 PM (ToZXn)

21 OT: cnnbrk CNN Breaking News

NY Mayor Bloomberg to hold terrorism related news conference, his office says at 7:30 pm.

Posted by: Tami at November 20, 2011 02:38 PM (X6akg)

22 OT Matt Stafford looks slightly retarded.NTTTAWWT.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 02:38 PM (7WJOC)

23 The last good move they made was when Queen Isabella sent CC out for Chinese.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 20, 2011 02:39 PM (HBqDo)

24 11 [What have the Spaniards done to make the world better in] the last half-millenium? I mean, how long can you coast on kicking out the Moors?

Well, they also took down the Aztecs and improved the running of... um... Mexico.

Here's one! The Dominican Republic is still better than Haiti!

Posted by: Zimriel at November 20, 2011 02:40 PM (6GvAC)

So what does conservative mean over there? Like how FDR was conservative compared to today's liberals?

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at November 20, 2011 02:40 PM (8JLZe)

26 [What have the Spaniards done to make the world better in] the last half-millenium?

Two words: Seranno ham...

Posted by: M. Murcek at November 20, 2011 02:41 PM (ToZXn)

27 What have they done to make the world better in the last few years?

I purchased a gas gas pro last year that's pretty sweet. Other than that, nothing comes to mind.

Oh wait, they do interesting things with seafood.

Posted by: Barbarian at November 20, 2011 02:42 PM (EL+OC)

Here's one! The Dominican Republic is still better than Haiti!

Heh, only the French could fuck up a country worse that the Spanish.

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 02:42 PM (GTbGH)

29 So, Moki. I wonder if we had a class together. Or beer. Posted by: rdbrewer George's on Thursday Nights? I settled way down after freshmen year, when I realized that alcohol and my gut didn't mix well. Then I took 20 hours a semester, because I was a glutton for punishment. So, yeah, based on all that, we probably did take classes together. Did you know Rand Paul? Because I remember him from some frat parties-he was kind of a pompous jerk, but then, most of those ATO guys were.

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:42 PM (dZmFh)

30 So what does conservative mean over there? Like how FDR was conservative compared to today's liberals?

The conservatives use lube.

Posted by: nickless, back with the banned (99.174.64.43) at November 20, 2011 02:42 PM (cBVAS)

31 I had a goat milk shake at a Wimpy's in Spain once. It was ... interesting.

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 02:43 PM (GTbGH)

32 Franco has his very own monastary to pray for his soul. Really.

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 02:44 PM (GTbGH)

33 You are missing the real import of this--which is that Spain is the birthplace of the OWS movement. In May (May Day of course), young socialists "occupied" the main square of Madrid--The Plaza del Sol and the nearby Plaza del Carmen. They erected a tent city and held nightly "teach ins" to instruct other young socialist on the tenants of anti-corporatism, anti-capitalism and the injustice of making people (especially young socialists!) work for a living. (The little bastards kept me awake all night when I was staying at a hotel next to Plaza del Carment before an early morning flight to Marrakech in late July). When I got back from Marrakech in early August, the cops had moved in and torn down the tent city. The young socialists, of course, rioted. It was pretty fun wandering around with all the hookers and young socialists as they "reoccupied" Plaza del Sol. The end result though? The good guys win.....

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at November 20, 2011 02:45 PM (1CXpM)

34 Rand looks familiar, but he wasn't a friend. He was in the NoZe Brotherhood. I didn't know he was an ATO.

20 hours a week? Did you graduate early?

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 02:45 PM (UfxxJ)

35 BTW, every few years when I get to Waco, I make a point to go to both George's and to Papa Rollo's.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 02:46 PM (UfxxJ)

36 35-no, ended up with a double major in undergrad with poli/sci and french, a biology minor, and sang with the opera company. And was a sorority bitch. Like I said, I was insane.

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:48 PM (dZmFh)

37 What have they done to make the world better in the last few years?

In the last few years? What about the last half-millenium? I mean, how long can you coast on kicking out the Moors?

Posted by: Native Americans at November 20, 2011 06:35 PM (6TB1Z)

You mean the Moops, don't you?

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 20, 2011 02:48 PM (lpWVn)

38 So what does conservative mean over there? Like how FDR was conservative compared to today's liberals?

Wasn't FDR a fascist? (an actual fascist, not a "your beliefs hurt my feewings so I'm going to call you a fascist")

Posted by: HeatherRadish at November 20, 2011 02:49 PM (lGVMg)

39 What sorority? And are you sure Rand was an ATO?

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 02:49 PM (UfxxJ)

40
Its a trap!

Seriously, congrats to the conservatives and good luck with your firings.

You're gonna need it in the coming EU collapse.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 20, 2011 02:49 PM (JYheX)

41 28 Weren't all the white French massacred by Toussaint?

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 02:50 PM (7WJOC)

42 Hazmat crew called in to remove 200 pounds human feces near OccuTard camp

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at November 20, 2011 02:50 PM (AlW15)

43 Do the conservatives have a mandate to impose needed, fundamental reforms? No. They did not campaign for that. Does the electorate have the stomach for needed, fundamental reforms? No. They are punishing the Socialists for "austerity" measures. Voters blame the Socialists for Spain's problems, which is largely correct but only in the long view. The Socialists did not screw everything up in Spain in the last few years. It's been a long-term project to screw things up. The PP can't possibly meet the voters' expectations. If they do nothing, the economy will continue to slide and they will be removed. If they take the necessary steps, they will enrage the electorate and be voted out. Either way, it's a one-term thing. A country with stupid, lazy, ignorant, unrealistic voters is NOT going to elect principled politicians and is not going to get principled leadership. Spain is doomed. Until the Germans take over and start directing the Spanish economy, it's only going to get worse.

Posted by: Daryl Herbert at November 20, 2011 02:50 PM (FPyw4)

44 39 Yeah,and he kind of was dictator for life.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 02:51 PM (7WJOC)

45 Oh, Poppa Rollo's-that was good pizza. Leslie's Chicken Shack was my absolute favorite, with the amazing rolls, and the waitresses with beehives who called you hon. A huge shame when that place closed. Oh, and Health Camp, with butterscotch shakes and deep fried tater tots. Now you are making me hungry!!!

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:51 PM (dZmFh)

46 Wasn't FDR a fascist?

Yes. Only the toniest of the progressives was enlightened enough to grasp the nuances.

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 20, 2011 02:52 PM (lpWVn)

47 What sorority? And are you sure Rand was an ATO? Posted by: rdbrewer I thought he was an ATO because I saw him at ATO parties, but he could have been a friend of someone else. I was an ADPi

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:53 PM (dZmFh)

48 Well, there's this, about an allegedly Spanish product, courtesy of William S. Burroughs:

"We got caught up in this scam involving aphrodisiac ointment. Doc goofed on ether, mixed in too much Spanish Fly and burned the prick off the police commissioner. So we went to lay low, and cooooool off at Daddy Long Legs..."

Posted by: M. Murcek at November 20, 2011 02:53 PM (ToZXn)

49 A country with stupid, lazy, ignorant, unrealistic voters is NOT going to elect principled politicians and is not going to get principled leadership. ARe you talking about Spain or the US?

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:53 PM (dZmFh)

50 50 There's a difference?

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 20, 2011 02:54 PM (lpWVn)

51 Yeah. Papa Rollo's also had those yard long beers.

So. What sorority was that?

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 02:54 PM (UfxxJ)

52 51-these days? not really.

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 02:54 PM (dZmFh)

53 So basically what you're telling me is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is not still dead?

Posted by: comatus at November 20, 2011 02:55 PM (N0OTq)

54 Pig jumps on trampoline?

Posted by: soothie at November 20, 2011 02:57 PM (ZgBZU)

Much of Spain looks like Texas, if Texas had a ruined castles on every mesa. The place, outside the major cities, feels so ancient and worn out (at least it did in '71). It says a lot about how tough a history a country has had when every fortifiable point, has at least the ruins of a fortification on it.

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 02:58 PM (GTbGH)

56 Do you still have your turquoise or fuchsia Mexican dresses? And the white plastic sunglasses?

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 02:58 PM (UfxxJ)

57 Spain? Meh. So what? Not relevant despite their pathetic pride.

Posted by: Soetoro Zero at November 20, 2011 02:59 PM (MJ2eC)

You mean the Moops, don't you?

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 20, 2011 06:48 PM (lpWVn)

You're a damn cheater.

Posted by: Bubble Boy at November 20, 2011 03:00 PM (EL+OC)

59 PICKET: Michigan lawmaker's family accuses congressman of past sexual abuse of family member

The family members of Congressman Dale Kildee, Michigan Democrat, are charging that the Capitol Hill lawmaker sexually abused his second cousin 50 years ago.

Posted by: Miss'80s at November 20, 2011 03:00 PM (d6QMz)

60 If famous Spaniard Salvador Dali was alive today, he could paint pictures of melted Euros drooping over tree branches, held up by crutches...

Posted by: M. Murcek at November 20, 2011 03:01 PM (ToZXn)

61

Spain: France's Mexico

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 20, 2011 03:01 PM (oBrVT)

62 Spain needs to invest in solar powered high speed rail cainos/schools.

Posted by: soothie at November 20, 2011 03:01 PM (Ba6aP)

63 57-okay, now you are creeping me out!!!!! No white plastic sunglasses, and I have passed on my Mexican dresses to my daughter, who thinks they are hideous. But I did have plaid visors to keep back my big blond texas hair.

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 03:01 PM (dZmFh)

64 Que?

Posted by: Manuel the Waiter (He's from Barcelona) at November 20, 2011 03:02 PM (2PTT7)

65 64-No not really creeping, but you obviously had the uniform of the Baylor girl of the early 80's down pat!!!!!

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 03:02 PM (dZmFh)

66 Casinos

Posted by: soothie at November 20, 2011 03:02 PM (Ba6aP)

67 Heh. All the chix had those.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:03 PM (UfxxJ)

68 Off to cook dinner, take pain meds and get sleep before the week! Have a great Thanksgiving week y'all. If you are traveling, be safe.

Posted by: moki at November 20, 2011 03:04 PM (dZmFh)

69 EU bureaucrats plotting to replace Spanish government with dictatorship of technocratic overlords in 3...2...1...

Posted by: The Political Hat at November 20, 2011 03:04 PM (y+shZ)

Spain is a nice place.

BUT Spain should survive or fail on their own choices.

The Euro can't save all mediterranian countries

Posted by: jake at November 20, 2011 03:05 PM (Sdl9x)

71 Have a nice dinner.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:06 PM (UfxxJ)

72 I feel happy. I feel happy.

Posted by: Francisco Franco, Not Just A General, A Generalissimo! at November 20, 2011 03:09 PM (yQwq5)

73 Water? Water doesn't stop dehydration....

Choose Brawndo! The Thirst Mutilator

Posted by: steve at November 20, 2011 03:09 PM (s7ag+)

74 Yeah, the EU is just fine with Brawndo.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:10 PM (UfxxJ)

75 I got stuck in Madrid's Manuel Barajas Aeropuerto for two days once. Nothing that happens to the Spaniards is bad enough for me.

Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at November 20, 2011 03:11 PM (yQwq5)

76 75 Yeah, the EU is just fine with Brawndo.

And they say Americans are stupid...

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at November 20, 2011 03:11 PM (UR5vq)

77 OT Great win by Baylor last night!!Happy for those guys.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 03:11 PM (7WJOC)

78 Anyone seen my kid cousin Raykon around?

Posted by: Dale Kildee at November 20, 2011 03:11 PM (uTAQa)

79 74 Water? Water doesn't stop dehydration....

Tell me about it.

Posted by: E. Money at November 20, 2011 03:12 PM (EL+OC)

80 I think I'll go for a walk.

Posted by: Francisco Franco, Not Just A General, A Generalissimo! at November 20, 2011 03:12 PM (yQwq5)

81 I'm not dead.

Posted by: Francisco Franco, Not Just A General, A Generalissimo! at November 20, 2011 03:13 PM (yQwq5)

82 Led Zeppelin is overrated.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 03:14 PM (7WJOC)

83 83 I think I'll go for a walk.

You're not fooling anyone, you know.

Posted by: pep at November 20, 2011 03:15 PM (6TB1Z)

84 #82, Marx requires a bloody revolution in order to kill off anyone smart enough to disagree with his shitty theories.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at November 20, 2011 03:15 PM (ijjAe)

In an election marked by bitter disappointment and desperation over the euro zoneÂ’s highest unemployment rate

Gee, it's almost like shitty policies generate shitty outcomes. Wait, what am I saying? That's crazy talk!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 20, 2011 03:16 PM (gc4Jn)

86 87 Our education system is making sure that the percentage that needs to be killed keeps getting smaller.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 03:17 PM (7WJOC)

oh, there you guys are

ahem

BEARS WIN!!!!!!

BEARS WIN!!!!!

that is all

Posted by: navycopjoe pawning your ass on MW3 at November 20, 2011 03:17 PM (R7NIt)

88 And they say Americans are stupid...

Well, 52% of us are.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at November 20, 2011 07:12 PM (vbh31)

Is 52% a majority in New Math?

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 20, 2011 03:17 PM (lpWVn)

89 And they say Americans are stupid... Well, 52% of us are.

No, only 47% or so are actually stupid. It's those 6% of independent voters who the media says are the smartest, most conscientious part of the American electorate (when they vote for socialism) and at the same time the most confused, ill informed pat of the electorate (when they don't vote for socialism) that keeps the pendulum swingin'..

Posted by: M. Murcek at November 20, 2011 03:19 PM (ToZXn)

90 #91, Wait until you see "new reading" no phonics, no language, just total dumbfuck illiterates. Go to any housing project in a shitty Democrat dominated union slush fund school district for a preview.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at November 20, 2011 03:20 PM (ijjAe)

91 Eh, conservatives in europe are a little bit different, it tends to be we like our welfare state we don't want those foreigners to have it, but what yah gonna do.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at November 20, 2011 03:20 PM (tKFT6)

92 I think Meghan McCain may qualify as six or seven percent all by herself.

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 20, 2011 03:20 PM (lpWVn)

93 I'm going to allow myself a mental "Hell, Fuck Yeah!!" for the future of the planet. Don't know how many more opportunities I'll get.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 20, 2011 03:20 PM (Qjh0I)

94 Maybe it's starting to dawn on these people that bureaucrats are not that smart, that they can't be trusted, and that putting them in charge of everything isn't such a good idea.

Nah, remember that people, especially Europeans, are very stupid, and that they'll swing back in about 4 years.

Posted by: Fortunata at November 20, 2011 03:21 PM (90H1N)

95 What in the hell did you do with all of that gold!?

Posted by: Hernando Cortes at November 20, 2011 03:21 PM (U0cxp)

96 22 OT Matt Stafford looks slightly retarded.NTTTAWWT.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 06:38 PM (7WJOC)

Winning! Winning!

Posted by: Mister Money at November 20, 2011 03:23 PM (wN82N)

97 What in the hell did you do with all of that gold!?

You mean this gold here?

Posted by: Mel Fisher at November 20, 2011 03:23 PM (ToZXn)

98 What in the hell did you do with all of that gold!?

Posted by: Hernando Cortes at November 20, 2011 07:21 PM (U0cxp)

Whores, booze and indulgences.

Posted by: Espana~ at November 20, 2011 03:24 PM (lpWVn)

99 The Greatest Return of Conservatism will be the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan Jesus Christ.

Theriously Seriously.

Even so........

Posted by: SethPower at November 20, 2011 03:26 PM (e6MoS)

100 What in the hell did you do with all of that gold!?

It's not in Ft. Knox that's for sure.

Posted by: Ron Paul at November 20, 2011 03:26 PM (EL+OC)

101 "What in the hell did you do with all of that gold!?" it's sitting at the bottom of the ocean now because all those damn anglo pirates wuz racist or somthing.

Posted by: derit at November 20, 2011 03:26 PM (FQlFL)

102 #101 they went to war with France, England, Italy, INSERT LESSER EMPIRE AT THE TIME HERE.... and somehow manged to loose every time.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at November 20, 2011 03:27 PM (ijjAe)

103 ...kicked their asses, died doing it...

Posted by: Admiral Nelson at November 20, 2011 03:28 PM (ToZXn)

104

Spain: Decent beef, lousy beer. Madrid c.1986 looked like nothing had been done to it since electric service was installed (badly). And then there's the Castillian lisp which bugs the shit out of me.

On the other hand, there were some very well turned out and shapely ladies who always seemed to travel in pairs of an evening.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:29 PM (7yvLv)

105 108 The beef should be better than decent but they breed their bulls to fight better than they taste.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 03:32 PM (7WJOC)

106 We're not Mexico

Posted by: Spanish Tourism Bureau at November 20, 2011 03:32 PM (e6MoS)

107 Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 07:29 PM

I was in Madrid and Barcelona in '86.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:33 PM (UfxxJ)

108 And then there's the Castillian lisp which bugs the shit out of me.

Then thtay the hell out of Barthelona.

Posted by: A Catalan Friend at November 20, 2011 03:34 PM (yQwq5)

109

rd, I alternated trips to Madrid and Zaragoza. Z was a nice little town but slap out in the middle of a near desert and miles (!) from anywhere.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:34 PM (7yvLv)

110 Sidebar: Chris Matthews bashing Obama, when a few days ago he was all agush over him? Did Larry Elderbeat him up so bad he's lost his mind, or regained it? Or is he looking for a Fox gig?

Posted by: nickless, back with the banned (99.174.64.43) at November 20, 2011 03:35 PM (cBVAS)

111 Spanish people actually hold Mexicans in very low regard. Very low regard. Really shocked me the first time I realized it.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at November 20, 2011 03:35 PM (ijjAe)

112 Soap:

Procol Haram

You da man...

Posted by: M. Murcek at November 20, 2011 03:35 PM (ToZXn)

113 We're not Spain. *kaBOOM*

Posted by: Bilbao Tourism Bureau at November 20, 2011 03:35 PM (6GvAC)

114

They replaced a left-leaning, high-tax, big-regulation, big-government regime with a slightly-less-left-leaning, high-tax, big-regulation, big-government regime.

Europe is doomed because there are no conservatives in Europe.

Posted by: Truman North at November 20, 2011 03:36 PM (I2LwF)

115

116 Spanish people actually hold Mexicans in very low regard. Very low regard. Really shocked me the first time I realized it.

Oh, yes they do! They really don't like Mexicans calling themselves Hispanic. Consider themselves (correctly in my estimation) Europeans.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:37 PM (7yvLv)

116 119 The guy they threw out in deference to the terrorists was pretty good.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2011 03:38 PM (7WJOC)

117 I was there in May of '86. I went for the paella. And the ladies, they're insane there. And they sure know how to use it.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:38 PM (UfxxJ)

118 rd, you riffin' on an Okie, there?

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:39 PM (7yvLv)

119 O/T: Bloomie still not at his Terrorism press conference on CNN. Sounds like diversionary BS to me.

Posted by: Ron Paul at November 20, 2011 03:39 PM (EL+OC)

120 off tard sock.

Posted by: Barbarian at November 20, 2011 03:40 PM (EL+OC)

121 rd, you riffin' on an Okie, there? Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 07:39 P

Heh. From one Okie to another. See the video I added.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:41 PM (UfxxJ)

122

Europe is doomed because there are no conservatives in Europe.

Agreed. Any sense of small-government sentiment (if it ever really existed in mainland Europe) went bye-bye long ago.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at November 20, 2011 03:41 PM (UR5vq)

123 Spanish people actually hold Mexicans in very low regard. Very low regard. Really shocked me the first time I realized it.

Mexicans are considered the bottom of the food chain even by South Americans.

Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at November 20, 2011 03:42 PM (yQwq5)

124 Riffin' on an Okie... Hoyt Axton.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:43 PM (UfxxJ)

125

Madrid/Valencia in 1995 for over a month.

The 15 year old chicks in the disco's not so much, the 20 year old chicks, mmmmmmm

Spanish chicks know how to do it,

Agulia beer was not bad for regional hooch

Posted by: jake at November 20, 2011 03:43 PM (Sdl9x)

126 Nice, rd, real nice.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:44 PM (7yvLv)

127 Bloomberg: Jose Pimintel named as latest NYC Al Queda terrorist.

Posted by: Barbarian at November 20, 2011 03:44 PM (EL+OC)

128

Spanish people actually hold Mexicans in very low regard. Very low regard. Really shocked me the first time I realized it.

well if you have been to both Spain and Mexico it is readily evident why

Posted by: jake at November 20, 2011 03:45 PM (Sdl9x)

129

Mexicans are considered the bottom of the food chain even by South Americans.

And Mexican's think Central Americans are trash. Truly, there's no one so wretched that they don't think their better than someone else.

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 03:46 PM (GTbGH)

130

or they're

either or

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 03:46 PM (GTbGH)

131 Shoulda had me stuffed and left me in charge.

Posted by: Zombie Franco at November 20, 2011 03:49 PM (P6rTx)

132 Dadgummedest thing about Spain: Went to town with some of the younger fellers who had been there before (my first trip) to "close the bars". Drank gallons of crazy liquors that didn't even have names, just numbers (86, 103, etc.). I also learned that if you ordered rum and coke, they put in majority rum with a little coke - whew! What I wanted, they call a coke y rum. They turned the lights up around 2am and I thought it was over. We went to some late night restaurant/nightclub still serving. Headed back through town around 4 and the frikkin' bars were open again! I gave up about 6 and went to bed.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:49 PM (7yvLv)

133 Yeah, L Rob, there's a reason for that whole siesta thing.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 03:51 PM (UfxxJ)

134 ""Plus, it's Spain. What have they done to make the world better in the last few years?""

Nothing in the last few hundred years comes to mind, other than some cool music in the 1500s and 1600s, and classical guitar design as we know it.

Posted by: Berserker at November 20, 2011 03:51 PM (FMbng)

135 OT/ NASCAR coming down to shootout between Stewart and Edwards. Turn on ESPN if you're even a part time fan.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 20, 2011 03:54 PM (HBqDo)

136 Stewart's my guy. Sumbitch can drive!

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:56 PM (7yvLv)

137 21 laps to go and they are hammering. Someone's going to crash, soon.

Posted by: toby928© at November 20, 2011 03:57 PM (GTbGH)

138 It's about time for NASCAR to see some debris on the track, if history holds.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:57 PM (7yvLv)

139 I've broken a record held for about 10 years and have now watched 60 Minutes three times this year. They interviewed Grover Norquist and now Christine LeGarde.

She might be the only person in France with two sensible brain cells to rub together.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 20, 2011 03:58 PM (piMMO)

140 I like Edwards OK, but racing-wise, I've always been a Chevy guy.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 03:59 PM (7yvLv)

141 Spain's only course of action is to milk Brussels for as much cash and the best terms possible, give their citizens time to get all of their cash into English or American banks, then exit the Euro and devalue everything. You don't have to go so hard on the austerity if your paying them with new money.

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2011 03:59 PM (4jJCE)

142 140 OT/ NASCAR coming down to shootout between Stewart and Edwards. Turn on ESPN if you're even a part time fan.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 20, 2011 07:54 PM (HBqDo)

Thanks Bro!

Posted by: SethPower at November 20, 2011 04:01 PM (e6MoS)

143 "Plus, it's Spain. What have they done to make the world better in the last few years?"

They produced a few decent artists, helped briefly in Iraq, some good food. Not massive innovations but leaps ahead of anything out of the ME (not counting Israel or pre-civil war Lebanon) in the past century.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at November 20, 2011 04:02 PM (ijjAe)

144 If Edwards catches him, Stewart's gonna make number 14 reeeaaal wide.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 04:04 PM (7yvLv)

145 "Plus, it's Spain. What have they done to make the world better in the last few years?"

Well, there's this.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 20, 2011 04:06 PM (piMMO)

146 Stewart is doing this on his own dime. Gotta like the small entrepreneur.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 20, 2011 04:06 PM (HBqDo)

147 Tony frikkin Stewart!

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 20, 2011 04:08 PM (7yvLv)

148 If Presadant Obama would have helped the Spanish government instead of having to teach the republi-clowns in the House how the world works, then the dumb ass conservatives would not have been elected. Obama should have explained how to fix their economic problems like we did in America after that abortion called Bush and the elections would have been different.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at November 20, 2011 04:09 PM (5OTWF)

149 Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 20, 2011 04:10 PM (HBqDo)

150 Spend, you idiots! Spend! Spend! Spend more! Dammit, you gotta spend! Frickin' conservatives never listen. Damn idiots. Spend! Spend!

Posted by: Teh Krugman at November 20, 2011 04:19 PM (0Jx8h)

151 When I was in Costa Rica, I was told by a local that on the Pacific coast they were building a development that would be "just like Acapulco, but without the Mexicans".

I've mostly enjoyed my visits to Mexico, before it got too dangerous, and their toilets are waaay better than the one I used in the Soviet Union when I went there on a cruise back in the '80s. USSR had people in space at the time, but the tourist toilet at the palace in Yalta was a hole in the ground.

Posted by: stace for Rick Perry at November 20, 2011 04:20 PM (lYlx9)

152 Bullfighters hardest hit.....

( en Espana, we keel the bull; not like those jotos in Mexico )

Posted by: Aldo Moro at November 20, 2011 04:28 PM (UqKQV)

153 Senor rdbrewer what ees the mystery coordinates?

A shack on the border?

Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2011 04:30 PM (u70JJ)

154 And Spain ,Greece ,Italy etc are where Obozo and the OWSers want to take us

Posted by: avi at November 20, 2011 04:44 PM (iSFyV)

155 Senor rdbrewer what ees the mystery coordinates? A shack on the border? Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2011 08:30 PM

Lonesome Dove. Use the historical imagery button. Go back to '03 or so.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 04:46 PM (UfxxJ)

156 Ah, got that from Wiki'ng the clue. Don't have Google Earth setup. Nothing there but a building and the river now.

Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2011 04:48 PM (u70JJ)

157 Yeah, that creek bed filled with trees? That's the creek the little bridge goes over. The town was across that bridge. There's only part of one building left.

I put the marker on the bunkhouse. The large structure is the barn.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 20, 2011 04:52 PM (UfxxJ)

158 121 119 The guy they threw out in deference to the terrorists was pretty good.

Ditto, I remember reading an interview with him in Hola magazine shortly after he lost the election.

Posted by: Bob Undead Saget at November 20, 2011 05:03 PM (dBvlk)

159 Spanish socialists conceded their electoral ass-whupping today. I hope American socialists react the same way next year. Somehow I have my doubts.

Posted by: Mike D. at November 20, 2011 05:04 PM (p8QOg)

160 Spent two weeks in Spain in July while on R&R. Valencia and Sitges are both very nice. The only issue is that the clubs are all discos, which I hate. Spent the evening lying on the beach with a beautiful American expat who lives in Valencia, and we discussed opening an American style steakhouse and country bar in Barcelona. It's a damn shame that country is going south, but it's their own fault.

Posted by: Alex at November 20, 2011 05:20 PM (LtFMH)

161 187/350 = 53%, yeah, WOW, guess it's time to pickup and move to Spain, lol

Posted by: Infidel at November 20, 2011 05:25 PM (HS3dy)

162 166 Spent the evening lying on the beach with a beautiful American expat who lives in Valencia, and we discussed opening an American style steakhouse and country bar in Barcelona.

And you would only have been asked to front, oh, $50,000?

Sounds like you narrowly escaped a good ol' fashioned grifting. Sheesh, I know this trick just from watching Quark eps on DS9

Posted by: Zimriel at November 20, 2011 05:30 PM (6GvAC)

163 Synthetic chiefs with frozen smiles holding unsteady courses.
Grip the reins of history, high on their battle horses.
And meeting as good statesmen do before the T.V. eyes of millions,
hand to hand exchange the lie --- pretend to make ... the clasp.

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Posted by: nanonu at November 21, 2011 03:47 AM (sYh9f)

165

Socialism fails every time. But don't worry, leftists are still on the march; Out to destory freedom, prosperity, the individual, and all things good.

Posted by: juji fruit at November 21, 2011 04:53 AM (O7ksG)

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