1 18th

2 Oh shit, maybe I was first.

3 Ace: "Oh, and that SPR ... it has to be refilled."

I'll fill it with energy-rich wind.

Oh, and RACIST!

4 Love the headline, Andy....nailed it.

5 Holy crap, if Obama lost Brian Kelly of Brian Kelly Capital, then all is lost.

6 Buy low, sell high.

7 Barry is so smart, it hurts, kinda like a dumbass with a smartphone.

8 If he does use it will he thank Bush for filling it with $40-70 a barrel oil, or will he blame Bush that it wasn't bigger. mpw

9 I'll fill it with energy-rich wind. Oh, and RACIST! Posted by: President Present at June 09, 2011 06:56 PM (1yViP) Tap Boxer for hot air power.

10 Oops. Andy's quote, not Ace's @3. TOTUS malfunction.

But both are still RACISTS!

11 I tell you what I'd tap.

Mila Kunis.

Strategically and repeatedly.

12 Shouldn't the lefties be yelling about Halliburton and Cheney over this news? Or is that another complaint down the drain, and their skittle shitting unicorns will magically refill the reserves?

13 The words "Tap" and "Boxer" should never be used in the same sentence.

14 Tap that Ass. 

15 ..and without reservation.

16

The last two times that the SPR got tapped, it caused oil futures to jump.

Good Luck with that Barry.

17 Tap? How about tap a new keg daily with this fucking joke of a leader.

18 Preznut MENStruAl Hints At Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Dims give 3 Weiners up

19 Mila Kunis. Mmmmmm.

20 Oh, and that SPR ... it has to be refilled:

But we can use pixie farts and unicorn turds to replace all that evil oil.

21 I'm so tired of this turd muncher. Is it 2012 yet?

22

President MENSA Hints At Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Vote Whoring Reserve

FIFY

 

23

Mila Kunis...

what were we talking about?

 

24 Captain  of the Titanic could be another title for Preznit Mensa to put on his mantel, or maybe Precedent Necessarily Skyrocket.
He's good with restaurants too according to what came out today. He's got the reverse Midas touch.

We should all be thanking him.

25 Contango: Not a dance from South America

26 The SPR is a funny thing.  They really don't know, after pumping oil into it, if they'll ever get most of it back out.  It's not like they can send divers down to plug leaks or anything.

27 The difference, Harry.  Is this time...you have Me.

28 If you wingnuts would get rid of your gas-guzzling SUVs and buy Volts and Priuses, I wouldn't be forced to tap that shit.

Now, where's my shrimp and wagyu?

29 Tapping Anwar would help us, ergo bambi will choose what hurts us.

30 uh, ok, but your 40 days formulation is bullshit, we wouldn't all the sudden use ONLY the SPR, come on, use some sense. I'm not saying it's a great idea, but your little exercise there is just stupid. It is barely possible it could be used to AUGMENT existing suppliers. I don't know the ins and outs to know if this would help prices or not.

31

But TOTUS, it has to be refined, and you and your hippie Greenie friends won't allow more refinery capacity to be build.

Either he's so factually challenged that he thinks this will actually help, or he thinks we are so stupid that WE think it will actually help.

The next 17 months can't pass fast enough for me!

32 The Utica and Marcellus deposits are waiting...

33 It looks like I picked the right day to start smoking crack. Apparently I'm not the only one if the retard in chief is actually thinking this is a good idea. 

34 It's not Barkys fault he has shit for brains, he was born that way, some place far, far away in the land of unicorns and skittles.

35 I'll bet President MENSA thinks the SPR is a giant tanker, trapped on a dried-up seabed, somewhere near Roswell.  Has that guy from Waterworld in it, in his little boat, floating on a huge reserve of crude.

36 The stupid fucker would do it too, just to boost his numbers.

37 Relax, wingnuts.  We'll soon be buying that sweet, sweet Brazilian oil.  Which reminds me, I need to schedule another vacation soon.  I wear myself out working for you ignorant red-staters.

38 The cost of freedom.  In June.

Sgt Garrison, Joseph M., USMC June 6
CWO Bradley J. Gaudet, USA, June 5
CWO White, Kenneth R., USA June 5
SPC, Snyder, Devin A., USA June 4
Sgt Bell, Christopher Roger, USA June 4
Sgt Powell, Joshua D., USA June 4
Pvt Voakes Jr. Robert L., USA June 4
Cpl Zanowick, Paul W., USA June 4
Sgt Shere, Jeffrey C.S., USA, June 2

39 "8 Barry is so smart, it hurts, kinda like a dumbass with a smartphone." I resent that.

40 I do believe this bold new IOU economy might just work .

41 Obama is lazy and boring, I think it would be fun to hear him actually try to sell this. "If you like your petroleum supplier, under my plan you can keep your supplier," or some such nonsense. Has anyone been impressed with something this guy has said? Heck, even when Reagan said the bombing will begin in 5 minutes, you at least knew he had a personality and a conviction. Obama would say something like "as I said earlier, we start relocating Isrealis in 5 minutes." That verbal tic, "as i've always said," is an evasion to avoid saying why or laying down a foundation for the conclusory thought that's babbling out of his mouth at the time. Like what, did he print a position paper or something? No, he's just a lib reacting to his own prejudices. The world is so easy when you already know everything based on your own feelings of smugness.

42 Barack Obama is going to deficit spend with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  This is why the federal government can't have nice things.

43 "Precedent Necessarily Skyrocket." That's my favorite.

44 I mistakenly left off:

Cpl Woitowicz, William J., USMC, June 7

45 Peggy Joseph needs free gas before the next election.

46 "Here's a suggestion: Don't tap the SPR. Tap ANWR." Wash your mouth out with soap, young man!

47 Am I the only one who is jumping to: muthafucka WANTS to set the U.S. up to be crippled in event of actual disruption? I swear I always used to laugh at peoples conspiracy theories but I have zero trust in JEFF

48

Good on ya, tang.

 

49 Hillary wants to run the World Bank , what could possibly go wrong ?

50 Ok what does MENSA mean? I thought the SPR was for emmergencies? Oh that is right. We do have an emergency. Obama's numbers are falling.

51 "Precedent Necessarily Skyrocket." That's my favorite. Posted by: mare at June 09, 2011 07:11 PM (A98Xu) P(e)N(i)S for short.

52 Gee I hate this guy

53 Ok what does MENSA mean? If you gotta ask?

54 52 Ok what does MENSA mean? I thought the SPR was for emmergencies? Oh that is right. We do have an emergency. Obama's numbers are falling.

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at June 09, 2011 07:16 PM (uwljR)

Dude that is curious level stupidity.  Have you really never heard of MENSA?

55 >> uh, ok, but your 40 days formulation is bullshit, we wouldn't all the sudden use ONLY the SPR, come on, use some sense.

It has nothing to do with physical use of the SPR.

The point is that the (maximum) quantity in the SPR is known, finite and, in relation to U.S. demand, teeny tiny.

So releasing one drop a day for an eternity, the whole thing in 40 days, or something in between won't have an effect on market prices.

56 By the way, shouldn't Weiner forevermore be spelled with an umlaut over the i? Weïner (Think about it)

57 If he would just allow drilling in the 57th state, it'd be all good.

58 Chill, wingnuts.  Before long we'll be buying that sweet, sweet, Brazilian oil.  Which reminds me, I'm way past due for a nice vacation. 

59 Is this anything like Congressman MENSA Tapping the Bulging Blue-Veined, Naked Mole Rat Against his KY Dispensary?

60 Geoff's employment graph has a twin!

Checkout the global warming's latest trend at wattsupwiththat.

Heh!

61 Opie's white half is nothing but white trash.

62 Sorry to be so totally off topic, but someone has to hear about this, and the Popular Mechanics site doesn't have comments. I just read a popular mechanics article that claims that M4s use a gas tube to "launch projectiles," while the H+K416 they're discussing uses a piston to "launch" them. That's not how it works and doesn't even make sense. The piston in the H+K and the gas tube on the Stoner familiy cycle the bolt, as I'm sure anyone here who cares already knows. Technically, I guess all firearms use a gas tube to "launch" projectiles, but that tube is usually referred to as "the barrel" and is not replaced by a piston on the 416. How could they miss something like this? As a bitter clinger, I'm offended.

63

Dude that is curious level stupidity.  Have you really never heard of MENSA?

Posted by: buzzion at June 09, 2011 07:18 PM (oVQFe)

No. Sorry, I'm not one of the kool kids

64

Everyday....it's something with this President. I can't take it anymore!

"I am a snail moving along the edge of a striaght razor.....THE HORROR"

65 @63  Speaking of naked mole rats, do not go to Drudge.

66 28 The SPR is a funny thing. They really don't know, after pumping oil into it, if they'll ever get most of it back out. It's not like they can send divers down to plug leaks or anything. Posted by: K~Bob at June 09, 2011 07:04 PM (6sv5x) Helluva dipstick on that thing, I bet.

67 Stupid sock.

68 Dude that is curious level stupidity. Have you really never heard of MENSA? Posted by: buzzion at June 09, 2011 07:18 PM (oVQFe) No. Sorry, I'm not one of the kool kids Posted by: Flapjackmaka at June 09, 2011 07:24 PM (uwljR) Well let's put it this way: it's an organization you probably will never be asked to join.

69 Hey, here's a shot in the dark--quit letting ecotards and the people who know exactly dick about energy production determine energy policy.

70 Where's the guy that tells us how many more days we have to put up with this useless JEF?

71 This is one of the basic problems with marxist central planning, they're big on taking over what's already there but they don't have a fucking clue about production. Any country that has tried it just gets all used up.

Time to go Barkington. Stop by Chet's for a free dindin on us on your way out. You know, that restaurant that your Auto Bail Out saved. Just make sure that you get there before Sunday. 

72

@73

The Problem with That...Obama himself is an EcoTard!

73

 

IIRC isn't the oil in the SPR heavy crude which is much more expensive to refine?how will this bring down the price?

74 Back in my college days, when I THOUGHT I was smart, I took the MENSA test.  missed it by that much.  'course the tequilla may have played a part... just sayin.

75 This sounds like another one of Valerie Jarrett's brilliant F#@!ng ideas!

76

@78

I believe it contains reserves of Oil, Gas, Diesel and Jet Fuel. It doesn't just sit there, it is a revolving door. We tap it on a regular basis, but it is mandated to be replaced on the spot...at least that was the original plan.

77 If Sarah Palin can ride around on her bus, then Obama can tap that SPR!

78 75 Have you really never heard of MENSA?

I read fapped to some pictorial in Playboy about the women of Mensa. Does that count?

Posted by: Playboy Reeder at June 09, 2011 07:26 PM (IhHdM)

I'm no fan of book burning, but if Playboy ever published a "women of MENSA" edition... yeah.  lighter fluid and Bics for everyone.

79

The last two times that the SPR got tapped, it caused oil futures to jump.

Good Luck with that Barry.

Energy costs will necessarily skyrocket

80

 

@81

Oh,thank you

81

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at June 09, 2011 07:24 PM (uwljR)

Trust me friend, you do not want to be linked to that name.  And you'd better not defile the great Keystone State by making that mistake!   

82 oops. missed the italics

83 I'm no fan of book burning, but if Playboy ever published a "women of MENSA" edition... yeah.  lighter fluid and Bics for everyone.

They did indeed.

84 American Mensa Ltd
An international society that has only one qualification for membership -- a score in the top two percent of the general population on a standardized intelligence test.

85

Tap ANWR.

 

But, but, but, what about the Caribou??????

86 Well let's put it this way: it's an organization you probably will never be asked to join.

Quit being an ass.

87 If you don't want oil prices to go up, you're a racist.

88 They did indeed. See? Told ya.

89 Quit being an ass. Posted by: pep at June 09, 2011 07:31 PM (6TB1Z) Why?

90 Dumbasses, whenever gas prices go up, they come up with this stupid idea so they can say they care without actually doing anything to lower the price.

91 That's why he wants to do it, just another nail in America's coffin, y'all ain't thinking right.

92 So the $787 billion stimulus did fuck-all, but now a $73 billion stimulus is just what the doctor ordered?

This administration's economic playbook is basically just one Post-It note with "SPEND" scrawled in crayon.

93 I'd tap that. Does it have big mulatto ass?

94

I also hereby declare that we will hold another census next year.  Employment applications for 400,000 new positions will be made available online.

95

_{But, but, but, what about the Caribou??????}

_{Posted by: A Libtard Douchebag Wearing A Che Guevara T-shirt}

We decided that your backyard would make a great caribou reserve.

Enjoy life under the underpass!

96 88 I'm no fan of book burning, but if Playboy ever published a "women of MENSA" edition... yeah.  lighter fluid and Bics for everyone.

They did indeed.

Posted by: Clueless at June 09, 2011 07:31 PM (piMMO)

Then my lifelong decision to never read Playboy has paid off.  In spades.

97 Back in my college days, when I THOUGHT I was smart, I took the MENSA test.  missed it by that much.  'course the tequilla may have played a part... just sayin.

Posted by: tangonine at June 09, 2011 07:29 PM (x3YFz)

I took the two part test and scored high, which is bullshit.

If I were that smart, I'd be a fucking millionaire or something.

IQ tests are worthless.

98 So, anyone left still thinking this is all accidental?

Anyone left still living that fantasy?

If he really had no idea what he was doing, he'd be right more often.

99 Then my lifelong decision to never read Playboy has paid off.  In spades.

Don't forget Jimmuh lusting in his heart.

100

 I thoroughly approve and I'm anxious to start. I look forward to working with your office, Mr. Geithner, and yours, Mr. President.

101 102 Back in my college days, when I THOUGHT I was smart, I took the MENSA test.  missed it by that much.  'course the tequilla may have played a part... just sayin.

Posted by: tangonine at June 09, 2011 07:29 PM (x3YFz)

I took the two part test and scored high, which is bullshit.

If I were that smart, I'd be a fucking millionaire or something.

IQ tests are worthless.

Posted by: ErikW at June 09, 2011 07:36 PM (SXTt9)

I took the 'official' IQ test a couple times.  For some reason my score doesn't correlate to my income or my ability to attract hot chicks.

102 So, anyone left still thinking this is all accidental?

I find it difficult to believe that anyone here would be so naive.

103

@96

Of course......He can go about this two ways:

1.) Tap it with a plan already in place to replace it with cheaper stuff once he brings the price down a little bit. But he should know that it won't be long after the price will higher than before he tapped it. Look for this to happend next summer leading up to the election

2.) Tap it with no plan in place, sending a signal to our allies and debtors, that we are going to have a lengthened weakness in our economy which will cause even more inflation.

I think #1 will happend for sure, and I think if he sees he is not going to win, expect #2.

104

Meanwhile, oil literally seeps up from underwater along the coast in California, but no one can do anything about it.

God I hate this state.  God I hate liberals.

105 ...and it doesn't help me play golf.  Or bowl.

106 You don't even need to tap ANWR, just say you are considering it and the OPEC oil will flow like a gusher.

107 12 I tell you what I'd tap. Mila Kunis. Strategically and repeatedly. Posted by: wooga at June 09, 2011 06:59 PM (2p0e3) Drill Here, Drill Now!

108 Fuck the SPR.  Fuck ANWR.  Inflate your tires to the correct pressure, people, and this will all go away!

109 109

Meanwhile, oil literally seeps up from underwater along the coast in California, but no one can do anything about it.

God I hate this state.  God I hate liberals.

Posted by: IE Con at June 09, 2011 07:38 PM (/COcn)

The war cry of the 21st Century.

110 IQ measure the capacity to learn. My experience has been that high IQs do tend to accurately measure intelligence. It does not, however, measure drive or common sense or energy level, etc... all factors which contribute far more to success than intelligence.

111

@21: "Mila Kunis. Mmmmmm."

Enjoy my sloppy seconds. I stretched that shit out for ya.

 

112 No blood for oil!

113 i never took the test, but when i was in CA and desperate for intelligent conversation i submitted my lsat scores. paid the fee and started getting the newsletter. yikes.

It is filled with people that are very good at tests, and very bad at life.

114 He would better served by having the various government stats guy just make up the numbers.

115 Rick Perry just tweeted odumbass and told him to tap this and don't fuck up my future residence.

116

Inflate your tires to the correct pressure, people, and this will all go away!

 

Hear, hear!  Here's a campaign button.

117 Hell,
At least we know that long term pot smoking does really fuck up your brain.

118 Unfortunately the Strategic Pinwheel Reserve is unavailable.

119 I tell you what I'd tap. Mila Kunis. Strategically and repeatedly. --- Drill Here, Drill Now! I would frack that so hard it would make Deepwater Horizon look like a splash of extra virgin olive oil.

120

It is filled with people that are very good at tests, and very bad at life.

 

 

Sounds like my cabinet!

121 You know what we need right now?

Another. Speech.

122

I would frack that so hard it would make Deepwater Horizon look like a splash of extra virgin olive oil.

 

 

Line forms here, bub!

123 My experience has been that high IQs do tend to accurately measure intelligence. It does not, however, measure drive or common sense or energy level, etc... all factors which contribute far more to success than intelligence.

Posted by: Clueless at June 09, 2011 07:40 PM (piMMO)

Yep, my experience is that those who can pass some of the toughest IQ tests don't have the common sense it takes to get out of the rain.

124 EXXON just announced they found a 700 million barrel reserve on the first post moratorium well drilled. The first well out of the gate. Imagine that.

125 Now wait just a minute... All those university professors Teh Won hired on are supposed to be Top Men. They've got this all figured out. Right? Top. Men.

126 "93 They did indeed. See? Told ya. Posted by: Clueless at June 09, 2011 07:33 PM (piMMO)" Hey, I have that issue. I bought it at a comic book convention. I thought it was funny that she was wearing gloves.

127

129 EXXON just announced they found a 700 million barrel reserve on the first post moratorium well drilled. The first well out of the gate. Imagine that.

 

In fairness, they drilled atop Snooki's hair.

128 I always assumed it takes a peculiar form of insecure hubris to form a society solely for the purpose of boasting of their IQ. They come across as real oddballs. If MENSA's geniuses have ever solved a single major problem, MENSA is keeping it a deep dark secret.

129 Yankee-Boston game in a rain delay. That's the best the Yankees have done the whole series?

130 here's the plan -- tap the reserve, use the cash to buy more bombs. create more ME unrest and thereby push the price of oil higher!!

an evil genius.

"necessarily skyrocket"

131 134 Yankee-Boston game in a rain delay. That's the best the Yankees have done the whole series?         Just another excuse for me to scan the stands for fabulous babes!

132 I always assumed it takes a peculiar form of insecure hubris to form a society solely for the purpose of boasting of their IQ. They come across as real oddballs. If MENSA's geniuses have ever solved a single major problem, MENSA is keeping it a deep dark secret. Posted by: CoolCzech at June 09, 2011 07:46 PM (kUaEF) How many MENSA members ever made it thru boot camp at Parris Island?

133 132 129 EXXON just announced they found a 700 million barrel reserve on the first post moratorium well drilled. The first well out of the gate. Imagine that.   In fairness, they drilled atop Snooki's hair. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 09, 2011 07:45 PM (zgZzy) Really? I would have assumed she shaves...

134 I always assumed it takes a peculiar form of insecure hubris to form a society solely for the purpose of boasting of their IQ. They come across as real oddballs. If MENSA's geniuses have ever solved a single major problem, MENSA is keeping it a deep dark secret.

It's no more asinine that the BMW club or the herb of the month club.

135

How many MENSA members ever made it thru boot camp at Parris Island?

 

I barely made it through Paris Hilton!

136 Hey, here's a crazy MENSA like idea:  Petroleum is renewable.  You're welcome.

137

I've heard that there is so much oil in circculation that there are huge taker in serval ports all over the world that can't even off load, because there is not the infrastructure to store it.

The Peak Oil things is an EnviroPsyco Scam. We got enough oil for us, China, Russia, and India to last another couple hundred years. Anyone who says that isn't true, make em prove it...sit back....and let the comedy begin.

Go check reports from all the oil companies, and the Geological Survey's of all the Oil Fields across the Planet. The price is expensive not because of the amount, but all the oter stuff involved. 

138 138 I always assumed it takes a peculiar form of insecure hubris to form a society solely for the purpose of boasting of their IQ. They come across as real oddballs. If MENSA's geniuses have ever solved a single major problem, MENSA is keeping it a deep dark secret.
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 09, 2011 07:46 PM (kUaEF)
How many MENSA members ever made it thru boot camp at Parris Island?

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 09, 2011 07:47 PM (7wmOW)

If the zombie apocalypse hits, and you wander onto my land seeking shelter by announcing you're a MENSA member... well... sorry.  two to the chest one to the head, cupcake.

139

I took the 'official' IQ test a couple times.  For some reason my score doesn't correlate to my income or my ability to attract hot chicks.

Posted by: tangonine at June 09, 2011 07:38 PM (x3YFz)

Yeah, I work at a golf course. To my credit, I have a friendly relationship with the beverage cart girls but that's not gonna get me laid.

140 Heh... Lileks gave AOSHQ a mention on Hewitt's radio show.

141 You and me both. I never read one issue. Glued a few pages together though, to spare the morality of future generations. Or something like that.

I started reading it at about 16. My mother subscribed. Back then, I thought the women were glamorous and the prizes that Shannon Tweed took home for Playmate of the Year... sweet!

142

Yeah, I work at a golf course. To my credit, I have a friendly relationship with the beverage cart girls but that's not gonna get me laid.

 

 

You need a bigger putter.

143 This actually a lot of sense.  These guys are desperate, and believe they could just kick start the economy with tons of stimulus.  That failed, so they tried it again.  And that failed, so they tried it again.

Now, the GOP is in power, so they can't try that, and they wonder if perhaps they could just kick start the economy with using up our emergency supplies and eating our seed corn and the like.    Combined with inflationary money printing, this is a stealth stimulus.

144

 Heh... Lileks gave AOSHQ a mention on Hewitt's radio show.

Like Breitbart, no doubt Lileks only reads the comments.

145 146 Heh... Lileks gave AOSHQ a mention on Hewitt's radio show.             You know who that benefits?

146 _{I've heard that there is so much oil in circculation that there are huge taker in serval ports all over the world that can't even off load, because there is not the infrastructure to store it.}

I believe the 'floating lake of oil' has dispersed.

147

Yeah, I work at a golf course. To my credit, I have a friendly relationship with the beverage cart girls but that's not gonna get me laid.

 

 

You need a bigger putter.

 

Or a better Driver.

148

@144: "If the zombie apocalypse hits, and you wander onto my land seeking shelter by announcing you're a MENSA member... well... sorry.  two to the chest one to the head, cupcake."

Hypothetically, what if someone were to come by announcing that they had a massive member?  Seriously, the Wave Motion Gun on Space Battleship Yamato ain't got shit on me....

149

Hypothetically, what if someone were to come by announcing that they had a massive member?  Seriously, the Wave Motion Gun on Space Battleship Yamato ain't got shit on me....

 

We're tiny.  Everything looks bigger to us!

150

IQ tests are worthless.

Livin' proof right here, dude.

151

@155: "We're tiny.  Everything looks bigger to us!"

Seriously, I'm so huge that my parents had the doctor cut part of it off before they even knew how big it was gonna get.

152 @154: I thought it was Yamamoto? You say Yamato, I say Tomato...

153 Why do you think that it has to be refilled? What makes you think Obama cares if it gets refilled? You are operating under the assumption that he is trying to fix something. IÂ’m not serious yet. But IÂ’m getting there.

154 Seriously, I'm so huge that my parents had the doctor cut part of it off before they even knew how big it was gonna get.

Such a schmuck, I raised!

155 I started reading it at about 16. My mother subscribed. Back then, I thought the women were glamorous and the prizes that Shannon Tweed took home for Playmate of the Year... sweet!

Shannon Tweed!  Bunk!

/Gene Simmons, you lucky bastid! 

156 @157: do tiny Japanese twin sisters crawl out of picnic baskets to sing odes to your cock?

157 From the side bar Gingrich staff quits b/c the wife. Any of you seen Callista G? She's like a cross btw a rabid owl and the Joker.

158 I'm curious. With the talk earlier of Depression 2.0... What would be the ONE tipping point that would trigger it? Gas at $5.00? QE3? Unemployment 9.5%? increase in interest rates? No increase in debt ceiling? Increase in debt ceiling? Increase in foreclosures? Any ideas? I'm kind of wondering what Bambi would be told that would cause him to hit the big red panic button? (Or maybe he is anxious to see it happen in the first place and force the great redistribution to commence). I'm a moderately intelligent moron, but I know there are smarter morons around here.

159 Random collectivist quote:

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Vladimir Lenin

160 Hey, anyone want to read a alternate history of the Pullman strike?

161 I recall reading that Hugh Hefner has a genius level IQ.

Not sure if he MENSAtes.

162

I'm a moderately intelligent moron, but I know there are smarter morons around here.

Yes.  There are.

163 OT, but good news for the diversity crowd
http://tinyurl.com/MuslimTSAscreening
Top.Men.and.Women

164

I'm sorry... but you have to DOCUMENT your IQ to get into MENSA... ergo, Obama would never be let in.

 

And yes... I've been to a MENSA singles event... it was... interesting...

165 It's a shame, I read where his mother was punished with a baby.

166

And yes... I've been to a MENSA singles event... it was... interesting...

I'd sooner go to an Amway convention.

167 OT:  The douchebags at HotAir are trashing...the Tea Party.  They deserve Allah and Ed and Jazz.  Ugh.

168 O/T st Louis airport sux

169 I'm a moderately intelligent moron, but I know there are smarter morons around here.

How would you go about proving that?

170 Cicero, you're such a tease.

171

Posted by: Rightwingva at June 09, 2011 08:02 PM (btDMH)

Government tells the truth and publishes the real, uncooked numbers?

Like they base Unemployment stats on the number of people EMPLOYED?

Or put food and fuel back into the inflation index?

Or, take Gov spending, and Bank getting free money from the Fed OUT of the GDP?

172 The douchebags at HotAir are trashing...the Tea Party.

That sounds....stupid.  I am reminded again of why I don't go there.

173 Hobo Fight Club. Whoever captures the most, bare-handed, is the most smartest.

174

Or a better Driver.

Posted by: IE Con at June 09, 2011 07:53 PM (/COcn)

I wish. If you've ever seen Caddyshack, it's a lot closer to reality than you would believe.

Greenskeepers are the redheaded stepchildren of golf.

175 154

@144: "If the zombie apocalypse hits, and you wander onto my land seeking shelter by announcing you're a MENSA member... well... sorry.  two to the chest one to the head, cupcake."

Hypothetically, what if someone were to come by announcing that they had a massive member?  Seriously, the Wave Motion Gun on Space Battleship Yamato ain't got shit on me....

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 09, 2011 07:53 PM (xy9wk)

If Anthony Weiner stumbles by after the zombie apocalypse... well... that's just too much fun to avoid.  No shooting.  I'll just put him in the same room with my wife.  Talk about torture.

176 Whoever captures the most, bare-handed, is the most smartest.

Capture?

RINO

177

If Anthony Weiner stumbles by after the zombie apocalypse... well... that's just too much fun to avoid. No shooting. I'll just put him in the same room with my wife. Talk about torture.

Posted by: tangonine at June 09, 2011 08:13 PM (x3YFz)

Ewwww... is Super Weiner wearing his Cape and Tights???? /drool...

178 154: I thought it was Yamamoto?

You say Yamato, I say Tomato...

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 09, 2011 07:57 PM (kUaEF)

Yamamoto is the Japanese admiral.  Yamato is the terran spaceship gun in Starcraft.

179 @177 ok. Not arguing the manipulation... But what economic news, if ma and pa flipped on the tv, would cause them to say 'oh, f***'. I'm just thinking , maybe in an overly pessimistic mood tonight, of what economic trigger that would seriously cause main street to panic, and would be plainly labeled a depression.

180

@158: "I thought it was Yamamoto?"

Nope, Yamato.  It was built out of the hulk of the WWII battleship

181 183

If Anthony Weiner stumbles by after the zombie apocalypse... well... that's just too much fun to avoid. No shooting. I'll just put him in the same room with my wife. Talk about torture.

Posted by: tangonine at June 09, 2011 08:13 PM (x3YFz)

Ewwww... is Super Weiner wearing his Cape and Tights???? /drool...

Posted by: 15 years old Weiner Groupie at June 09, 2011 08:15 PM (NtXW4)

It won't matter.  Especially if it's "that time of the month"  good lord, I almost want to be waterboarded when that happens.

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This deserves to be repeated. Over and over. Especially because there was a nontrivial fraction of support from the supposedly educated readership on this site.

IÂ’m thinking Â… yeah, youÂ’re right.

Allahpundit on June 9, 2011

183 @182. Funny.

184 175 I'm a moderately intelligent moron, but I know there are smarter morons around here.

How would you go about proving that?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 09, 2011 08:10 PM (7utQ2)

Pop Quiz:  One Hippie + 1 Weiner + Twitter account = ??

185

Posted by: Rightwingva at June 09, 2011 08:02 PM (btDMH)

We won't really see this as Depression 2.0 because much of the effects of the Depression are hidden, unlike the 1930's.. There are no bread lines since people get food stamps. There's no huge line ups for jobs because people get unemployment for 99 weeks. There's not furniture being thrown out of everyone's foreclosed homes because the process takes so long.

I'll go with Greece or Portugal officially going under. Once the lies, the tricky accounting, every conceivable way to manipulate the books, the numbers, the truth runs out, the EU collapses. The *party* starts then.

Until then, the US is in infinitely better shape to print money, fudge numbers than Europe and has more maneuver room (not much more really but...)

 

186

@191: "Cure 4 Hemorrhoid Tips"

Um, why would I want to cure the tips? Isn't it better to cure the whole thing? And what if I have more than 4?

187 @ Stateless Infidel Interesting. Didn't think about Greece or Portugal. I keep wondering if member nations just decided to walk away from the Euro, and return to their own monetary policy... What's stopping them? It seems it could be the escape hatch, but they would still be guests at 'the party'. Or maybe that move would accelerate the collapse. I was in school in England (exchange student) during the early years of the European Common Market stuff and was amazed at how wonderful it was going to be to give up sovereignty and become a beautiful, multicultural, unicorn. They were even talking about naming it the United States of Europe (but that was considered too Yankee). Quite the nightmare they have created.

188 184154: I thought it was Yamamoto?

You say Yamato, I say Tomato...

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 09, 2011 07:57 PM (kUaEF)

Yamamoto is the Japanese admiral. Yamato is the terran spaceship gun in Starcraft.

Posted by: FUBAR at June 09, 2011 08:15 PM (1fanL)

As well as the ill-fated sister-ship of the Enterprise D.

(not a dork*)

_{*major dork}

189 #188 which thread is that on?

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Aholio

191 Man, the Perry thread on Campaign Spot@NRO is up to 140 posts.  That's got to be a record.  Ron Paul! lunatic(s) showed up with bells on.

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Posted by: Rightwingva at June 09, 2011 08:34 PM (btDMH)

On the plus side, I expect severe economic hardship and the collapse of the welfare state to kill political correctness. After the collapse, Islam gets kicked out of Europe, one way or another.

It's easy to pretend to accept those in your society that openly hate you in what you perceive as the 'good times.' Let's see what a few years of pain do....

193 I tell you what I'd tap.

Mila Kunis.

Strategically and repeatedly.

Hey! When did I become chopped liver around here?

194 President asshat couldn't count his balls and come up with the same number twice.

195

President Anwar Al Muslim would be happy to drain the strategic reserve before heading off to Mecca.

196 O/T:  Just heard John Batchelor do an interview with Thaddeus McCotter and man Thaddeus McCotter should run for president.  He was explaining the trouncing Mitt got in his district.  didn't hear the whole thing so can't wait for the podcast.  But he seemed to think mittens came to his district to send him a message yet Thaddeus said that the people of michigan sent mittens a message. 

197 12 I tell you what I'd tap.

Mila Kunis.

Strategically and repeatedly.

Posted by: wooga at June 09, 2011 06:59 PM (2p0e3)

I'd hit that so hard, they'd make a sequel to Deep Impact about it.

198 President asshat couldn't count his balls and come up with the same number twice. Well, if Michelle would let him see them, it would be a lot easier.

199 Fill the SPR back up with 727 million barrels of delicious pudding.

200 14 The words "Tap" and "Boxer" should never be used in the same sentence.   Not true. How about "double tap Boxer?"   Not so bad, is it?

201 Milo for Present-dent! Electorate me and we'll be drilling in ANWR in an hour. Electorate me and we'll be leaving Afghanistan in an hour. (note to Afghanistan, if you see us leaving, run for your lives) Electorate me and I'll buy a chainsaw for Gitmo in an hour. Electorate me and I'll seal and caulk the borders, both of them. (This will take longer than an hour.) Electorate Milo!

202 Shit the last time the SPR was tapped was the Great Zombie Outbreak of 1997.

203 129 EXXON just announced they found a 700 million barrel reserve on the first post moratorium well drilled. The first well out of the gate. Imagine that.

Posted by: lowandslow at June 09, 2011 07:44 PM (GZitp)

Good to know. Thanks.

Shut that down please.

 

204 Remember when people were calling for Bush to tap it after Katrina, and he wouldn't?  And he was right?

205 "Here's a suggestion: Don't tap the SPR. Tap ANWR."

That would assume that Chairman Zero actually has our best interests at heart.  Proof, please?

206 It was a typo on the prompter. He meant to say he wanted to tax the petroleum reserve.

207 I think Barky should go ahead and deplete our strategic reserves. Then when we're almost out, our enemies will strike, knowing they can bring us to our knees in less than a week. That will be the end of Barky's reign. Of course that will be the end of America but at least we'll get rid of this asshole in the process. With Barky at the helm America's end is in sight anyway. Man the pumps Barry!

208 6 Libs love the SPR. It's the answer to every problem under the sun. It's just a shame that EVERYDAY FUCKING MATH SKILLS escape them so thoroughly.
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210 This.Is.Unbelievable.

This is the "smartest president" ever???

Let's pump some oil out of the Strategic Reserve. Gas prices will fall -- just in time to improve Prince Chuckles' election chances.

But we haven't increased supply, we've tapped into a "savings account". Now we'll have less strategic reserve and unless we replace what was taken out gas prices will eventually go back up. And, without the braking action of a full SR, gas prices could go up much faster and higher than before.

But, hey, that's not important -- coronation of the King of Slice is. So sit down and shut up, morons.

Maybe he is The Smarts -- he pulled one of the greatest con jobs ever in 2008.

211 If Obie taps the SPR, refill it with...IOUs! just like the Social Security trust fund.  Because the Dims have succeeded in pushing the idea that SS was a fabulous, fiscally-sound idea that is in great shape and doesn't need to be reformed in any way, it should be easy to pull the same shit on the public re IOUs in the SPR.

See, if the gummint sells all the oil in the Reserve and replaces it with IOUs, then if we decide to refill it, just take the IOUs to the "oil window," push 'em across to the cashier and say "Fill 'er up!"  And then watch that needle climb!

I see some of you wingnuts have written that in the past, when the gubmint has bought oil to replace test sales from the SPR, the price of oil futures has gone up, so you think that'll happen again.  Don't be ridiculous:  Apparently you didn't know that our amazing president (pbuh) issued an Executive Order repealing the laws of supply and demand.  That's why we Democrats knew that under GreatLeader-Care (the catchy new name for Obamacare) we could require doctors to see more patients without raising prices even a dollar!

See, docs really want to work more hours for the same pay.  The poor guys are bored to death 'cause they have too few patients now.  It's why they all play golf on Wednesdays.  But thanks to GreatLeader-Care they won't be bored any longer!

Gosh, you wingnuts just don't keep yourselves informed at all, do ya?

212 The JEF isn't a MENSAN, he's a DENSAN.  And this thread is dead.

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