July 27, 2011
— Dave in Texas When a liberal tells moderates "you bastards are killing this country", you have to find a way to get his message out.
It's not the conservative knuckledraggers now, nope. It's the uncommitted, apolitical types, who think left and right are equally right (or wrong).
Sweet. (link to NYT Krugman desperation whine)
Granted he's actually pissing on the media, that's really what this is about. Some WH correspondents didn't toe the line, they had the temerity to challenge the President's spokespuke, and that just cannot be tolerated.
Because in our system, the liberal-leaning MF-media must never, ever give credit to the other side for looking reasonable, with their stupid plans, and their numbers, and facts and stuff. Not when Krugman's boyfriend comes to the podium with his, adult-looking aloofness.
via Allahpundit
Unrelated, from the sidebar: Teamsters threaten to cut off Ohio's Budweiser supply. That's not much of a threat anywhere except Ohio. [via Jay in Ames]
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Reminds me of the old joke:
When you think everyone else in the room is an asshole - YOU are the asshole.
Posted by: rockmom at July 27, 2011 06:07 AM (lSyyU)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2011 06:07 AM (f9c2L)
Posted by: scooter at July 27, 2011 06:08 AM (aamim)
Posted by: Bob Saget at July 27, 2011 06:11 AM (F/4zf)
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 06:13 AM (M9Ie6)
Bless you, Dave, for writing "toe the line" instead of "tow."
And yeah- Krugman, NYT, pineapple, sideways, etc.
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at July 27, 2011 06:13 AM (SCcgT)
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 06:13 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 27, 2011 06:14 AM (ZDUD4)
[4 Is this like living in Alaska in the spring and you start hearing the ice crack? ]
Yeah, except you're standing on it.
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at July 27, 2011 06:15 AM (SCcgT)
Posted by: Frank Booth at July 27, 2011 06:16 AM (CLvJy)
>> Bless you, Dave, for writing "toe the line" instead of "tow."
Thas how I learnt it, as a kid in Alabama public schools... "puttin your toe on the line".
After school we made moonshine and fucked bears.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at July 27, 2011 06:17 AM (WvXvd)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2011 06:17 AM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Anonymoose at July 27, 2011 06:17 AM (ZgvjV)
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2011 06:19 AM (EIlEQ)
Posted by: Mephitis at July 27, 2011 06:21 AM (M5rQi)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at July 27, 2011 10:16 AM
Shiner Bock, baby. Also, Shiner Blonde.
Posted by: huerfano at July 27, 2011 06:22 AM (aZLY2)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 27, 2011 06:22 AM (ZDUD4)
Amen to the Shiner! If it weren't for Shiner, I never would have developed a taste for beer.
Posted by: Are We Having Fun Yeti at July 27, 2011 06:22 AM (O7Q1u)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 27, 2011 06:22 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2011 06:22 AM (UlUS4)
My tenants are experiencing similar drops in gross sales.
Why can't the govt just make an across the board cut of 5%???
Is that so hard? Why yes, it probably it, because federal, state and local govt public union salaries have to, by contract, increase 2-4% per year. And their health care plans cost more, every year, and their pensions need to be funded, every year.
Yet, according to Obama we need to share the sacrifice.
Posted by: Jack at July 27, 2011 06:24 AM (8IAHO)
My analogy is apparently an even better one for a different point than the one I was trying to make.
Posted by: scooter at July 27, 2011 06:25 AM (aamim)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2011 06:25 AM (UlUS4)
>>Because in our system, the liberal-leaning
Leaning? Really? They're just a tiny bit more liberal than an unbiased centrist?
Posted by: Terry at July 27, 2011 06:26 AM (+7Usq)
Posted by: Rich at July 27, 2011 06:27 AM (wnGI4)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 27, 2011 06:27 AM (jx2j9)
<i>When you think everyone else in the room is an asshole - YOU are the asshole.</i>
Wow. Are you certain?
You've given me a great deal to think about. A great deal...
Posted by: spongeworthy at July 27, 2011 06:28 AM (rplL3)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 27, 2011 06:32 AM (3ESDJ)
Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2011 06:32 AM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: Anonymoose at July 27, 2011 06:33 AM (ZgvjV)
I'm completely Honey Badger about that.
Mostly because they haven't acted rational in at least 2 years- so I don't find them a good indicator of anything any more.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at July 27, 2011 06:33 AM (KxyHe)
Depends on how they're doing it. If they're just refusing to drive Budweiser trucks, I don't see how that's "restraint of trade." Budweiser could hire someone else to drive those trucks (in theory) or get office types to do it.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at July 27, 2011 06:34 AM (KxyHe)
No Bud here in Ohio?
Wouldn't miss it. Unless the rice drinkers move to real beer and run it short. Gotta go .. need to stock up.
Posted by: John Lynch at July 27, 2011 06:36 AM (QAiBB)
Posted by: Rich at July 27, 2011 06:38 AM (wnGI4)
Bless you, Dave, for writing "toe the line" instead of "tow."
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at July 27, 2011 10:13 AM (SCcgT)
"A" to the "Men." Rule 12: It's the simple things, that when done right, make life enjoyable, and when done incorrectly, cause stabbing pains behind the eye, cause tics to develop, and promote apoplectic conniption fits. Well done, sir.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Grammar Patrol at July 27, 2011 06:38 AM (4q5tP)
Posted by: huerfano at July 27, 2011 10:22 AM (aZLY2)
I'm a Shiner Bock fan but this weekend had a Shiner Ruby Redbird that was very disappointing in that it had almost no taste.
Posted by: Captain Hate at July 27, 2011 06:39 AM (zsvKP)
Posted by: Andy Warhol at July 27, 2011 06:39 AM (GGEUV)
Posted by: Note to Obama at July 27, 2011 06:40 AM (8IAHO)
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 06:41 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2011 06:41 AM (/ZZCn)
Posted by: joncelli at July 27, 2011 06:42 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: laceyunderalls - Miller Lite Gal at July 27, 2011 10:25 AM (pLTLS)
Hello Chemjeff!
As for me, I'll be on my front porch, with my Old E 800.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at July 27, 2011 06:42 AM (3ORju)
She's apparently responsible for all the suicides in her district as she doesn't dust off her pom-poms for anti-bullying legislation.
They sunk so low as to cite Mother Jones in the lead paragraph.
Parasitic 'reporters'.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 27, 2011 06:43 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2011 10:25 AM
Fixed.
Posted by: huerfano at July 27, 2011 06:43 AM (aZLY2)
Posted by: joncelli at July 27, 2011 06:43 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: rockmom at July 27, 2011 06:44 AM (lSyyU)
I would pay good money to hear the spin that a dozen or so politicians would put on this. Either party – wouldn’t matter.
Pure comedy would be my bet.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 27, 2011 06:44 AM (jx2j9)
I've made an executive decision to go fishing on the Colorado River today, as the Caddis hatch is on. Eat your livers, working stiffs.
Posted by: Meremortal at July 27, 2011 06:44 AM (7FgWm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2011 10:25 AM (UlUS4)
You still have Brooklyn Brewery...right?
Posted by: rabidsquirrel at July 27, 2011 06:45 AM (RuF8n)
She is advancing in the polls so the "Palinization" will grow fierce. They will start on Perry here soon as well.
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 06:46 AM (M9Ie6)
Mika on AM Joe was crowing about McDonald's adding apples to their Happy Meals. "French fries are poison!!!1111!!!!"
Here's a thought, you stupid twit. You don't like them, don't eat them.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2011 06:46 AM (UOM48)
Krugman calling for civil war?
Posted by: cherry π at July 27, 2011 06:46 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2011 10:41 AM (/ZZCn)
You forgot glittering jewel of colossal ignorance
Posted by: Red Shirt at July 27, 2011 06:46 AM (FIDMq)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff, EXXXTREMIST at July 27, 2011 06:46 AM (lbo6/)
I used to know a guy in GA who made his own scupperdine wine. It is not very hard and it is legal as well.
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 06:47 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: cherry π at July 27, 2011 10:46 AM (OhYCU)
That bastard!
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 27, 2011 06:47 AM (jx2j9)
I used to know a guy in GA who made his own scupperdine wine. It is not very hard and it is legal as well.
Years ago, my dad actually grew his own grapes (in SC) and made wine.
It was......awful.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2011 06:49 AM (UOM48)
Krugman and Friedman - the hysterical leftist loser twins.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 27, 2011 06:49 AM (0fzsA)
YOU COULD ALWAYS GET THE FREAKIN' APPLES WITH HAPPY MEALS! THESE DUMBASSES DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!
Posted by: nickless at July 27, 2011 06:50 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff, EXXXTREMIST at July 27, 2011 06:50 AM (lbo6/)
Posted by: cherry π at July 27, 2011 06:51 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Retread at July 27, 2011 06:52 AM (G+7cD)
Posted by: Retread at July 27, 2011 10:52 AM (G+7cD)
Where's JEF? He's never met a mic he doesn't like.
Posted by: yinzer at July 27, 2011 06:53 AM (/Mla1)
Excerpt (emphasis mine):
Alas, that is the Tea Party. It is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great but our unique public-private partnerships across the generations. If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission.
Posted by: mrp at July 27, 2011 06:53 AM (HjPtV)
Posted by: Sub-Tard at July 27, 2011 06:54 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2011 10:49 AM (UOM4
An awful lot depends on the soil and the type of grape. Those scupperdine grapes made some pretty good wine. If the soil and grape type is not good sometimes you can use sugar to "sweeten" it up (plus it increases the alcohol content).
The best local wines (Muscadine) that I have found for this area are not in SC. But they are close by in Duplin, NC.
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 06:54 AM (M9Ie6)
Where's JEF? He's never met a mic he doesn't like.
Posted by: yinzer at July 27, 2011 10:53 AM (/Mla1)
Isn't there a saying about Shoomer 'Never get between a camera and Chuck, likely to get trampled'
Posted by: Red Shirt at July 27, 2011 06:55 AM (FIDMq)
Posted by: Retread at July 27, 2011 06:55 AM (G+7cD)
81
It is easy to make wine, anyone can do it.
It is not easy to make good wine, hardly anone can do it.
Posted by: MisterMoney at July 27, 2011 06:58 AM (wN82N)
What's the difference between the GOP and the Taliban?
The Obama Administration is willing to negotiate in good faith with the Taliban.
Posted by: Truman North at July 27, 2011 06:59 AM (G5JPI)
Ayinger, Bass, Beck's, Boddington's, Celebrator, Corona, Duvel, Genesee, Goose Island, Guinness, Kirin, Labatt's, Lindeman's, Lone Star, Michelob, Newcastle, Old Milwaukee, Orval Trappist, Pabst, Pacifico, Paulaner, Red Hook, Rogue, Rollin Rock, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, St Pauli Girl, Stella Artois, Stroh's, Tsingtao, Warsteiner.
I like a good Bud joke as well as the next guy (Hey! Have they replaced the Clydesdales with Belgians yet? Get it?) but allofasudden this ain't so funny atall.
Posted by: comatus at July 27, 2011 06:59 AM (W5ilH)
Posted by: Bruceinsocal at July 27, 2011 07:00 AM (J6hTO)
Krugman and Friedman - the hysterical leftist loser twins.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 27, 2011 10:49 AM (0fzsA)
I've decided they are proponents of the Deus Ex Machina school of economics...
They are literaly thinking some offstage event, will solve all the problems they have gotten themselves, and us, into.....
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2011 07:00 AM (NtXW4)
Wine is harder than beer. IMO it's difficult to make a wine that is better than a $5 bottle of one of the local Texas brands but in just a few months you can acquire the skill to make beer as good or better than the best imported German beers.
Posted by: Bob Saget at July 27, 2011 07:01 AM (F/4zf)
iowahawkblog David Burge In the last 2 years, the Democrats have produced 1 Massa, 1 Weiner, 1 Wu, and 0 budgets.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2011 07:01 AM (UOM48)
Breaker, breaker! Calling Smoking and the Bandit!
Posted by: Retread at July 27, 2011 07:01 AM (G+7cD)
99 Actual list of beers threatened by a Heidelberg Distributing strike:
Ayinger, Bass, Beck's, Boddington's, Celebrator, Corona, Duvel, Genesee, Goose Island, Guinness, Kirin, Labatt's, Lindeman's, Lone Star, Michelob, Newcastle, Old Milwaukee, Orval Trappist, Pabst, Pacifico, Paulaner, Red Hook, Rogue, Rollin Rock, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, St Pauli Girl, Stella Artois, Stroh's, Tsingtao, Warsteiner.
Samuel Adams? Now that is unacceptable! This strike must be broken immediately.
Oops, wait, I live in Michigan, never mind.
Posted by: MisterMoney at July 27, 2011 07:02 AM (wN82N)
We morons could really make a significant impact on this debt/deficit situation if we would just collectively agree to all sell our corporate jets.
C'mon team! Whatayasay?
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 27, 2011 07:02 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Jo at July 27, 2011 07:03 AM (PIahf)
I just tasted Virginia wine for the first time. I was shocked at how good it was.
Barboursville Viognier.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 27, 2011 07:04 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: F--- Nevada! (I'm AoSHQ's DarkLord©, and I approve this message) at July 27, 2011 07:04 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: JoeInMD at July 27, 2011 07:04 AM (PIahf)
I don't think wine is harder than beer, but I have never made beer. I would think beer is also more expensive to make since you must buy almost all of the materials.
As for "good" wine, as I said to Jane, it depends on the soil conditions and the type of grapes used.
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 07:05 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at July 27, 2011 10:42 AM (rRkN5)
My friends find it odd that the greatest cultural, fine arts,trade hub, residential and recreational urban pinnacle, teeming with the vibrancy of a critical mass of enlightened cool people, pulsing with more awesomeness than the universe has ever seen or ever will see, which of course is NYC, was not similarly blessed. Ergo, there is no god.
Posted by: A Synonym For Peculiar at July 27, 2011 07:06 AM (4q5tP)
Posted by: katya, defender of the unpretties at July 27, 2011 07:06 AM (Dc7bV)
Ayinger, Bass, Beck's, Boddington's, Celebrator, Corona, Duvel, Genesee, Goose Island, Guinness, Kirin, Labatt's, Lindeman's, Lone Star, Michelob, Newcastle, Old Milwaukee, Orval Trappist, Pabst, Pacifico, Paulaner, Red Hook, Rogue, Rollin Rock, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, St Pauli Girl, Stella Artois, Stroh's, Tsingtao, Warsteiner.
I like a good Bud joke as well as the next guy (Hey! Have they replaced the Clydesdales with Belgians yet? Get it?) but allofasudden this ain't so funny atall.
Posted by: comatus at July 27, 2011 10:59 AM (W5ilH)
Now it's civil war. Krugman is getting his wish after all.
Posted by: KG at July 27, 2011 07:06 AM (LD21B)
Paul lost me here ... what f-ing plans are those .. jack-wad ?
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at July 27, 2011 07:06 AM (e8kgV)
Barboursville Viognier.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 27, 2011 11:04 AM (LH6ir)
Early start! WTG! Hoisting the Moron banner high!
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 27, 2011 07:06 AM (jx2j9)
Do they still drink Hudepohl in Cincinnati? I remember going to Reds games as a kid seeing those Hudies everywhere.
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They do, I'm just not sure if they still actually make Huedepohl in Cincy. Just recently a carry-out where I live started getting Hudepohl again (after a long, long time..like decades). But, not sure where it's made exactly.
Posted by: Rich at July 27, 2011 07:07 AM (wnGI4)
Posted by: mrp at July 27, 2011 10:53 AM (HjPtV)
Flathead must've guzzled a lot of laced-with-lead Chinese jizz to come up with that parody of an op-ed. Pinch must be so proud.
Posted by: Captain Hate at July 27, 2011 07:07 AM (zsvKP)
You can thank Thomas Jefferson for that. He convinced an Italian vintner to lcoate in VA near Monticello.
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 07:08 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at July 27, 2011 07:08 AM (oW269)
Posted by: Jo at July 27, 2011 11:03 AM (PIahf)
Hmmm... if you take the Political position of Washington as the baseline, you could be correct.... after all, even a screaming leftist fucktard thinks they are reasonable and most people HAVE to think like them... thus making them 'normal' or 'centrist'...
Its like if you are on a ruler... on the 2 inch mark... someone sitting on the ONE inch mark could think of you are more centrist than them...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2011 07:09 AM (NtXW4)
I have been to Kreuz Market. Stuff is good.
American Budweiser tongues donkey balls. The original stuff in Europe? Very good.
I believe that Bud isn't even the King of Beers in Missouri anymore, Boulevard rules the nest. And their new pilsner beer? Amazing.
A lot of fine beer does come from Texas though. Shiner is good, but I really enjoy a lot of the St. Arnold stuff. And I drink Lone Star simply out of principle. The cans are great, they say Remember and then have a picture of the Alamo right beneath that. Awesome!
Posted by: Lord Humungus at July 27, 2011 07:11 AM (Yv6gq)
Shiner Bock is excellent. Wish we had it up here in NYC. Just have to go down to Hill country and get some bbq at Salt Lick to boot!
You've just described my Saturday, JJ. Blackened brisket, beef ribs are in muh future.
Also, Shiner Smokehaus complements anything bbq'd amazingly well.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 27, 2011 07:11 AM (tk5O7)
There are many hybrid grapes developed in New York state that will produce a decent dry red. I grow Foch, deChaunac and Chambourcin near Lake Erie, and have had some success. Also a lot of failure.
Posted by: comatus at July 27, 2011 07:12 AM (W5ilH)
Posted by: Ago Solvo at July 27, 2011 07:13 AM (k8JkR)
My kitchen now is too small to brew so my prices may be outdated, but I used to make 5 gallons (2 cases) of primo awesome dark beer for the cost of a 2 cases of horse piss. Would really like to start up again but in larger, say 30 gallon batches.
Posted by: Bob Saget at July 27, 2011 07:13 AM (F/4zf)
Beer is fairly straightforward. Just follow the recipe. And with good hygiene the odds of a problem are small. But wine tends to be aged longer (exposed to bad stuff), and doesn't have the benefits of carbonation to act as a preservative, so making a good wine can be difficult. Plus the sugar, acid and tannin levels in grapes vary tremendously year to year, as opposed to beer, where the sugar content can be controlled easily.
Making a good beer just takes a bit of practice. Making good wine takes lots of practice, a bit of luck, excellent raw materials, and usually a larger investment.
But the best part of making beer is that the results are available in a few weeks, rather than having to wait for the wine for months or years!
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
-- Benjamin Franklin
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 27, 2011 07:13 AM (LH6ir)
I love it how Krugman calls Obama a "moderate conservative president". Does Krugman live in some bizarro version of the Star Trek mirror universe?
On the off-topic topic of Beermageddon in Ohio, it's worth noting that there's an A-B brewery in Columbus, so there's no danger of the supply running low in Ohio, it's putely a question of distribution within the state--I'm sure some enterprising private citizens can find ways to take advantage of the situation should the Teamsters strike take place.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 27, 2011 07:14 AM (s3JuV)
After the tractor I then usually move to bourbon with beer chaser.
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 07:15 AM (M9Ie6)
Where the wine mostly failed because Virginia soil is shitty for the Italian method. VA wine didn't get good until vintners began trying other grapes and patterning the French. MA actually has some decent wines too.
Posted by: Filly at July 27, 2011 07:16 AM (1y5hA)
Yes, but he owned slaves, so everything he did is suspect...including the Declaration of Independence.
Posted by: Progressive on the short bus at July 27, 2011 07:17 AM (LH6ir)
I have heard them called that down here as well. Why is making champagne dangerous? Exploding bottles?
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 07:17 AM (M9Ie6)
Notice anything odd ? a lower-case "president" ?
"Democrats" and "Congress" get capital letters, but not "president".
Hey Paul, why not just call him "Pres**ent" ??
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at July 27, 2011 07:18 AM (e8kgV)
Everything they do or suggests fails, and yet they are held out as experts and go-to-guys.
Remarkable.
The lessons to be learned here as follows:
1) It matters more how you say something than what you say. f you say something everyone knows is not true but say it with confidence and a oratory prowess, people will believe that over something they hear which they know to be true yet isn't delivered as well.
2. No matter how badly your idea fails, behave as if it succeeded.
I think a great campaign message in 2012 to defeat Obama would be as follows:
"If Obama were a plumber and the US Economy where your pipes, would you hire him again and recommend him to your friends?"
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at July 27, 2011 07:19 AM (uVlA4)
"The reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president."
Ugh- if someone gave that drooling putz half a clue he'd still be 3 clues short of a quarter clue. And the new yark times is losing money in buckets- such a shockah.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 27, 2011 07:19 AM (tk5O7)
FWIW, Yuengling ("Yank-lank") purchased an unused Coors brewery in Memphis[!] and is now available in Georgia and Tennessee. Supposed to be coming to Ohio soon. Sure hope it's not via Heidelberg.
Posted by: comatus at July 27, 2011 07:20 AM (W5ilH)
Paul lost me here ... what f-ing plans are those .. jack-wad ?
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at July 27, 2011 11:06 AM (e8kgV)
Wow, you made it pretty far. This is where he lost me: "And no, I donÂ’t mean the fanaticism of the right. Well, OK, that too. But my feeling about those people is that they are what they are; you might as well denounce wolves for being carnivores. Crazy is what they do and what they are."
Also, from the paragraph you cite: Democrats are offering "plans that are far to the right of public opinion." Really? You mean the public that shellacked the left in the midterms, and elected hundreds of conservatives to counter the "moderate conservative president" doing his "moderate conservative" things like "moderate conservative" healthcare, "moderate conservative" bailouts, "moderate conservative" takeovers of industires, and so on?
I guess if you're dumb and biased enough to think our president really is "moderate conservative", then anyone holding a vaguely conservative opinion must, by comparison, be "insane", "crazy", "partisan", "intransigent", "wrongheaded" "extremis[ts]". But that doesn't make it objectively true. Just subjectively possible because of your own nutjob views.
Posted by: JoeInMD at July 27, 2011 07:21 AM (PIahf)
Yes, but he owned slaves, so everything he did is suspect...including the Declaration of Independence.
Yeah, and he didn't allow women to vote either. A real knuckledragger. Too bad he is the father of the Democratic Party, huh? BTW, he died in bankruptcy, foreshowdowing his Party's future.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at July 27, 2011 07:21 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: Progressive on the short bus at July 27, 2011 11:17 AM (LH6ir
Yeah, and he porked Sally Hemmings too when she was only 14 years old in France. (at the same time he chasing after this other French artist female who was married) (and he really did do that)
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 07:21 AM (M9Ie6)
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Posted by: Eric Idle at July 27, 2011 07:22 AM (e8kgV)
And Republicans behave exactly the opposite way. When their ideas succeed, they act as if it failed.
Posted by: KG at July 27, 2011 07:22 AM (LD21B)
Krugman calls Obama a "moderate conservative president".
I guess that means Obama hasn't yet set into motion a plan for troopers to storm peoples' homes forcing them to pledge their allegiance to him.
Posted by: katya, defender of the unpretties at July 27, 2011 07:23 AM (Dc7bV)
Republicans behave exactly the opposite way. When their ideas succeed, they act as if it failed.
This is an attitude that plagues nice people. They feel bad that they have hurt someone's feelings or something.
Posted by: katya, defender of the unpretties at July 27, 2011 07:24 AM (Dc7bV)
FWIW, Yuengling ("Yank-lank") purchased an unused Coors brewery in Memphis[!] and is now available in Georgia and Tennessee. Supposed to be coming to Ohio soon. Sure hope it's not via Heidelberg.
Always preferred Penn Pilsner to Yuengling, but either are pretty phenomenal.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 27, 2011 07:25 AM (tk5O7)
#137 that's right, but there's more to it. First, champagne has to be made in heavy, deep-punt bottles. With a dry wine, you just "run it flat" (til it quits working), then add a sugar to re-start the second ferment, that causes the beery bubble in the bottle. But for sweet wine, it's very hard to predict just how much fermentation will happen in there--and the bottles have to be turned as the wine works, so they can go off in your hand. People die every year in France making it the old-fashioned way. It's considered an occupational hazard.
Posted by: comatus at July 27, 2011 07:26 AM (W5ilH)
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 10:46 AM
Exactly right, was discussing this very topic yesterday- used the bogus migraine krep and the bizarre investigation into her foster children as examples.
Perry krep will probably launch in earnest starting the week of August 8, in a lame arsed try at pre-empting his announcement to run a couple weeks later.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 27, 2011 07:28 AM (tk5O7)
I don't know if that was meant to be snark or not but the Dems claim he did found their Party. That is not true. The Dem party was more or less founded by Andrew Jackson if I am not mistaken.
As for dieing in bankruptcy that is true and there are a lot of reasons for it. Mostly due to inherited debt in the very beginning, actions of the federal government with regard to paying off war debt and tariffs, and utter collapse of the land prices in VA due to actions again precipitated by the government, and long periods of time in which his plantation was ran by "overseers" while he was away serving his country.
BTW, this also the main reason he could not free his slaves at death the way a lot of the people did who were opposed to slavery. They were then in the hands of his creditors.
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 07:28 AM (M9Ie6)
Yeah, and he porked Sally Hemmings too when she was only 14 years old in France.
I'm willing to give him a pass on this, since the average life expectancy was about 17
Posted by: Truman North at July 27, 2011 07:28 AM (G5JPI)
This is an attitude that plagues nice people. They feel bad that they have hurt someone's feelings or something.
It's also why churches have a hard time getting things done sometimes. The nice people don't like to oppose the strong willed people so they often let stupid ideas go into play rather than openly disagree with them.
Posted by: katya, defender of the unpretties at July 27, 2011 07:30 AM (Dc7bV)
I have been to Kreuz Market. Stuff is good.
Piffle.
Smitty's, then Black's, and then Kreuz only if the previous two are closed, burned to the ground, or out of bbq for the day.
New place to try- Lambert's in downtown Austin.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 27, 2011 07:31 AM (tk5O7)
BTW, this also the main reason he could not free his slaves at death the way a lot of the people did who were opposed to slavery. They were then in the hands of his creditors.
Like I said, he foreshadows his Party's future. Jackson inherited Jefferson's mantle. Jeffereson is considered the father of the Dem party.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at July 27, 2011 07:31 AM (0M3AQ)
I'm willing to give him a pass on this, since the average life expectancy was about 17
Posted by: Truman North at July 27, 2011 11:28 AM (G5JPI)
LOL, that was meant to be snark. I do not believe he porked her at all, in France or otherwise. He denied it to his children and grandchildren to his dying day. He never denied it in public because his philosophy was to NEVER respond to personal attacks in public. He stated that in a letter to his grandson.
As for the "DNA evidence" it is not conclusive contrary to media reports. There was a legal study done by the Monticello Organization that manages Monticello Cemetery. It found that the evidence was not conclusive enough to satisfy legal requirements for the deed covenants controlling membership in the organization and burial in the cemetery (which is still active).
(not to be confused with the foundation that runs the house and other grounds. They are liberal and PC to the max)
Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2011 07:36 AM (M9Ie6)
Only by Dems
Are they not the font of all wisdom and light? If they say so, it must be so. Just ask Obama. He will tell you. I bet Jefferson didn't like Americans flying on private Lear jets and such too.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at July 27, 2011 07:40 AM (0M3AQ)
Leave it to Insty to find that economic silver lining!
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 27, 2011 10:37 AMLaugher from the CNBC article Insty linked to;
Economist
Annual wage in government: $94,098Mean annual wage in private sector: $99,350
Without economists, we would have little understanding of how monetary policy affects our lives. Economists have the greatest insight into how governments impact fiscal policy, so who better to explain deficits, debt ceilings and tax increases than an economist who works for the government?
Posted by: kbdabear at July 27, 2011 08:01 AM (so1xa)
Paul Krugman. Now there's a vile, despicable little rodent.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at July 27, 2011 08:51 AM (1rHeD)
Posted by: MCPO Airdale at July 27, 2011 08:54 AM (FAyWo)
Let them. It's about time the residents of the great state of Ohio found out what real beer tasted like.
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