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2 That WaPo sidebar article on JFK is a MUST read

Fifty years ago next week, Richard Nixon stood uncomfortably on the Capitol's inaugural platform and watched his rival John F. Kennedy being sworn in as president. "We won" the election, Nixon fumed, "but they stole it from us."

3 I experienced a major pole shift last night. And it wasn't pretty.

4 Boston kitteh gets jury duty.

5 @4: Perhaps we should poll the jury!

6

Smaller houses due to cost and energy?

How about interest rates and interest rates? We are almost back where we were when I bought my house at the height of the Carter economy.  They were only building spec houses here 1500 ft2 or less because interest rates were 18% on the average. Even at that it was hard to sell a house because unemployment was high and although price of the house was low (compared to today), monthly payments were through the roof because of the high bank rates.

BTW, Charleston is not a bubble town for home prices. Real estate prices there are high now, but they have always been high in that area.

7 I have to say that house sizes took off beginning in the early 80's in Connecticut and kept increasing steadily to McMansion territory ever since - along with prices. So much so, driving by new construction for the last decade or so I wondered who could afford just to heat the damned things. Apparently, not enough people.

8 Fair & Balanced panel on Fox just now discussing State bailouts.  The blue State guy throws out that old saw again about the blue States sending more money to the feds than they get back.

That BS has long been refuted.

9 I wondered who could afford just to heat the damned things.

CT has the double whammy on heating. Most people there use number 2 fuel oil for heating. Fuel oil prices have been going through the roof, and thanks to Obama are going to get even higher. So is natural gas.

I have gas logs in my fireplace in the living room. They are fed from a propane tank. 2 years ago the price of delivered propane went to over $4.00/gallon. I used to use the gas logs to assist the heat pump when outside temps dipped below 32. Not so much anymore.

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11 Hu are you?

12 Atlanta News Update

Spoiler: Its cold out.

13 Oh boy, Scarborough just called a Palin an extremist. "Seriously, if Sarah Palin's Facebook page was taken down, would it really be the end of democracy?" Huh. Seriously, if MSNBC was shut down would it be the end of Democracy?

14 Seriously, if MSNBC was shut down would it be the end of Democracy?

If it were shutdown it would help democracy.

15 Turned off F&F and turned on The Cheyenne Show. Today's episode is from 1962 and has a young Sally Kellerman in it. (We are getting this for free this month)

Why can't they make shows like that now?

16 Abe Vigoda:  Still Alive

17 Snow, ice, rain....it's what's for breakfast.  Mornin' all.

18 Bros on Bikes.

19 Vic,  what channel are you getting "Cheyenne" on?   Remember when they would rotate "Cheyenne,"  "Sugarfoot," and "Bronco Lane?"   Warner Brothers made all 3 of those.

Those other two guys sort of faded away,  but the Cheyenne  guy went on to be in a couple of movies,  including (I think) "The Dirty Dozen."

20 @9: we use propane gas with one of the new furnaces: it really is very efficient. MSNBC is on an anti-Palin tear: Woodward is on proclaiming Palin a demagogue and "ignorant." His proof is that "she didn't know where Russia is on a map." Ho-kay! But I thought Tina Fey said Palin could see Russua from her house? I have my doubts about Palin as a nominee, but GOD it would be sweet if she proved me wrong!

21 I guess I'm working home today. Thank God I have that option.

22 How people think in Pennsylvania:

PA's first 2012 GOP Straw Poll (organized by Lehigh County's Glenn Eckhart):

Chris Christie 29% Mitch Daniels 22% John Bolton 18% Mitt Romney 8% Paul Ryan 6% Herman Cain 5% Tim Pawlenty 5% Others 7%

23 #20  One thing about Palin is that she has courage,  notably lacking in the rest of the field.  Where were all of the other potential candidates speaking up for conservatives? The attack wasn't just on Palin,  but also on our right to criticize the government.All of tea party conservatives were trashed in the media's full-on assault to make Obama's numbers recover. Did we hear anyone of these guys defend us?

Crickets.

So,  I am left with the spectacle of an Alaskan housewife bearing the full force of the venom of the left and the press,  while a bunch of men headed for the tall weeds.  The only one I saw out speaking was weak-chinned and weak candidate Pawlenty,  who made sure everyone knew that HE wouldn't have made a map like that.

So,  if we have to pick someone who can stand up to Putin,  who are we left with? 

24 Vic,  what channel are you getting "Cheyenne" on?   Remember when they would rotate "Cheyenne,"  "Sugarfoot," and "Bronco Lane?"   Warner Brothers made all 3 of those.

Yes, I remember them well. Those were the good old days in TV. I am watching it on Encore Westerns, channel 342 on DISH Satellite.

25 we use propane gas with one of the new furnaces: it really is very efficient.

How much are they charging you for it in CT?

26 Thanks,  Vic!  I will check and see if that channel is available on DirecTV.  It seems like we sure have a lot of SHOPPING channels.

Last night we ended up watching American Pickers and Pan Stars.  TV is pretty pathetic these days.

27 LOL! Acarborough just slipped and called the " memorial service" a Rally. Now they're saying how "offended" they are thinking adults thought cheering for Obama and handing out campaign t-shirts was inappropriate. Imagine, offended people think a memorial service should not be used as a campaign stop! Foe saying so, Woodward just called Palin a "provocateur.". Even his casual conversation slips into Soviet Agitprop-speak!

28 PA's first 2012 GOP Straw Poll (organized by Lehigh County's Glenn Eckhart):

I really don't trust straw polls any more at all. Especially if they are done at some event.  It is just too easy for one group to "bomb" the polls.

As a matter of fact, I don't trust too many of any kind of a poll anymore.

29 Thanks,  Vic!  I will check and see if that channel is available on DirecTV.  It seems like we sure have a lot of SHOPPING channels.

It is normally a "premium channel" on DISH but they are offering it free this month.

30

A while back on the THC thread we were discussing the rules about historic buildings. Here's a new twist:

Lower Merion Officials Want To Save Their Signs

An effort is underway in Lower Merion to try to save several thousand historic street signs which have been a staple in the township for nearly 100 years.

The federal government wants communities to install larger, more reflective street signs to make it easier and safer for drivers. Lower Merion officials, however, say that unfunded mandate will destroy the character of the township and cost more than $1.5 million at a time when municipalities are struggling to keep their budgets tight.
------------

If they were good enough for a century is there any real need to change them now?

31 If they were good enough for a century is there any real need to change them now?

Posted by: Ed Anger at January 18, 2011 07:30 AM (7+pP9)

Cities all over the country have been raising hell about this new mandate.  It is a prime example of what an uncontrolled bureaucracy will do.

This is another one of those things that you do or lose highway dollars on. And the bastards on SCOTUS have ruled that that is perfectly OK. What is even more disturbing was that it was a 7-2 decision in 1987 when the court was more liberal.

32 Chris Wallace's wife is on to tell us how they make soup.

The entire country is falling apart,  and Fox is pushing soup by the Wallace's.  Oh,  she has a cookbook.  With 78 whole recipes.

Maybe this is a way to get us accustomed to "soup" in the news.  Such as "soup kitchens" or "in the soup" or "no soup for you."

33 Scientists say a "superstorm" could hit California dumping 10 feet of water in 40 days with winds reaching 125 mph.  "We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes."

34

did the WH really fly the chinese flag above old glory??

 

i must live in an alternate universe

 

35 #33  Oh,  let's get potential weather in the news (caused by global warming,  of course) in order to crowd out the REAL weather which is COLD. 

36

Heh!  PM David Cameron gaffes about health care.  The thing with gaffes, they usually have truth at the core:

David Cameron faced an embarrassing political row today after branding the NHS 'second rate' as he launched the biggest shake-up of the service in its history.

The remarks came during an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme as he attempted to promote his flagship policy.

'I don't think we should put up with a second rate - with coming second best,' he said, quickly correcting himself. 'We should aim to be the best.'

During the announcement, the Prime Minister said that failure to modernise was draining resources away from the public sector.

In a keynote speech at the Royal Society of Arts in London, he dismissed suggestions that services could carry on as they were as 'a complete fiction'.

He said: 'Every year without modernisation the costs of our public services escalate.

'Demand rises, the chains of commands can grow, costs may go up, inefficiencies become more entrenched.

'Pretending that there is some "easy option" of sticking with the status quo and hoping that a little bit of extra money will smooth over the challenges is a complete fiction.

Representatives of the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing joined forces to warn about the dangers of committing to greater competition between the health service and private companies.

In a letter to The Times, they said: 'There is clear evidence that price competition in healthcare is damaging.'

Yeah, it's a second rate system libtards!

 

37

Good morning, all.

Something nice to read for a change of pace:  Injured vets find healing on Warrior Hockey Team.

38 I am watching it on Encore Westerns

I get this channel on Comcast and love it. They started showing Wagon Train recently and I've been watching it when I can to see if it is a s good as I remember from all those years ago. It is, imho.

They've shown three versions of the Alamo over the last few months and I've watched the all. Beats those damn shopping sows by miles.

39

did the WH really fly the chinese flag above old glory??

 i must live in an alternate universe

 

Bow Chick-a Bow Wow!

40 ...i must live in an alternate universe Does Obama wear a goatee and speak Jive in your universe?

41 I get this channel on Comcast and love it.

Yeah, I wish we got it all the time but you have to buy the entire Encore package to get that one. Just another argument in favor of going to a "cafeteria" style cable/satellite programming method.

If they did that I would probably go down to the local stations plus ESPN, FNC, FBC, this one, and maybe a couple of others. Currently I am getting over a hundred channels with the mid package and the HD package. Out of that 100, 90 of them are shit.

42 Are we sure O isn't trying to blow these leaders, and we are mistaking it for a bow?

43 Whoa! -- I hadn't noticed this at Drudge before:

NASA's Hansen prefers rule by decree to fight 'global warming'

November's election made it quite clear that the people of the United States do not want to radically change our society in the name of global warming. Pretty much every close House race went to the Republicans, while the Democrats won all the Senate squeakers. The difference? The House on June 26, 2009, passed a bill limiting carbon-dioxide emissions and getting into just about every aspect of our lives. The Senate did nothing of the sort.

The nation's most prominent publicly funded climatologist is officially angry about this, blaming democracy and citing the Chinese government as the "best hope" to save the world from global warming. He also wants an economic boycott of the U.S. sufficient to bend us to China's will.

NASA laboratory head James Hansen's anti-democracy rants were published while he was on a November junket in China, but they didn't get much attention until recently. On Jan. 12, the hyperprolific blogger Marc Morano put them on his Climate Depot site, and within hours, the post went viral. In a former life, Mr. Morano was chief global-warming researcher for Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican.

44 U.S. Renews Contract With Spotted Ground Squirrels Through 2015

45
Life's a beach for federal judges

AROUND THIS TIME of year, as shivering Philadelphians trudge over snow-covered ground, the U.S. Virgin Islands - with white, sandy beaches, turquoise waters and perpetual summer - seem like, well, paradise.

A little-known fact is that federal judges from the Philadelphia area are periodically dispatched there on the government's tab, often during the winter months, to preside over cases.

In fact, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, headquartered here, is scheduled to speak tomorrow at a conference in St. Thomas.

A nice gig if you can get it, huh?

46 I was interested in the headline about the drop in crime in LA, specifically, Compton. It's very noticeable. I chalk it up to the stricter sentencing laws that started in the 90s. Of course, the usual suspects are whining about it.

47 Taiwanese animation and the Hu visit:
http://tinyurl.com/6ayktak

48 "...and citing the Chinese government as the "best hope" to save the world from global warming. He also wants an economic boycott of the U.S. sufficient to bend us to China's will." What a TOOL. How many coal-powered plants do the Chinese open each month? What sort of environmental standards do they have in China? But I'm sure Bob Woodward over at MSNBC thinks this is a grand, reasonable, "mainstream" idea that proves how "knowledgeable" this treacherous buffoon is. Will no one rid us of this Administration?

49
Local talk radio host Bob Durgin pulls no punches in wake of Arizona shootings

Local conservative talk radio host Bob Durgin hasnÂ’t pulled his on-air punches in the wake of SaturdayÂ’s shootings in Arizona, lambasting liberals for using the tragic event to slander conservatives like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
   
“God, I hate the liberal media,” Durgin said Monday during his highly rated afternoon show on WHP580. “It’s like, if you don’t follow Obama and believe in Obama’s policies, then you are a potential terrorist.”
   
In talking about The New York Times, often seen as queen of the left by conservatives, Durgin added, “Somebody ought to burn that paper down. Just go to New York and blow that sucker right out of the water.”
   
Durgin now concedes that last remark may have been a bridge too far in an overheated environment.
   
“I don’t regret saying it, but I know I probably shouldn’t have,” he said this week during a telephone interview. “That’s just me. When I go on the air I announce my true feelings. What they hear is who I am.”

50 Over here in Illinoize, we just paid 1.75/gallon for propane. We don't use much, though. Mainly heat with wood.

51 In talking about The New York Times, often seen as queen of the left by conservatives, Durgin added, “Somebody ought to burn that paper down. Just go to New York and blow that sucker right out of the water.” Durgin now concedes that last remark may have been a bridge too far in an overheated environment. Quite honestly, the saddest thing about the remark is that nobody took it to heart. To paraphrase Scarborough speaking about Palin's Facebook site: "Would it be the end of democracy is somebody did that?"

52 Over here in Illinoize, we just paid 1.75/gallon for propane. We don't use much, though. Mainly heat with wood.

I wonder why ours is so much higher here.

Anyway, unless you cut your own and have a forced air "buck" stove or equivalent heating with wood is more expensive than anything else. I tried using my fireplace when I first bought the house. Mine is an "custom" small fireplace insert that would not hold a stove.  Anytime I opened the damper and started a fire it drew more heat out of the house than it put in.

I quit using the thing until I got the gas logs which I run with the damper closed. (risking CO poisoning)

53 I see that Bowing Barry is back

54 53. someone crafty should make a version of the "drinking bird" with BarryO bowing to various Commie functionaries. would sell like hotcakes!

55 Scientists say a "superstorm" could hit California dumping 10 feet of water in 40 days with winds reaching 125 mph.

I was hoping for some meteor strikes and a cleansing fire, but biblical floods might work too.  I'll take whatever I can get...

56 If the Superstorm hits Sacramento and Hollywood, I'm for it.

57 someone crafty should make a version of the "drinking bird" with BarryO bowing to various Commie functionaries.

LOL, great idea. Couldn't find one already made up but found this video of the "bowing Obama" set to the tune od that old 60s hit Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto (instrumental).

Sukiyaki - Obama

58 Scientists say a "superstorm" could hit California dumping 10 feet of water in 40 days with winds reaching 125 mph.

Wash it clean and we can start over.

59 If the Superstorm hits Sacramento and Hollywood, I'm for it.

Posted by: SurferDoc at January 18, 2011 08:50 AM (o3bYL)

 

It would be nice if it hit right in the middle of one of those useless Hollywood awards shows.

60 Iran set to stone some guys for the crime of being gay.

Gay-Americans (those who read and post here excluded, as usual) continue to insist the biggest threat to gay people is Christians/conservatives/Republicans.

61

but biblical floods might work too. 

Yeah, but we'd still have to bail them out...

(ducks)

62 Gay-Americans (those who read and post here excluded, as usual) continue to insist the biggest threat to gay people is Christians/conservatives/Republicans.

We've always been at war with Eastasia!

Speaking of Iran...

Ahmadinejad, Medvedev agree to boost ties: report
The Russians have already built Iran's first nuke reactor - what does "boosting ties" more entail now?

63 There are no gays in Iran according to Ajad.

64 Where did you see that the WH flew the Chinese flag?

What is up with the WT link about Obama bowing?  It goes to a nuclear energy op-ed.

65 The Russians have already built Iran's first nuke reactor - what does "boosting ties" more entail now?

Guess?  ...the Russians pressuring the various "X-stan" countries to limit support for US operations in Afghanistan allowing Iranians meddling to accelerate driving us out.  Now that its known there's huge mineral resources in A-Stan, the Russians want the US out ASAP, so they can run the extraction show.

66 headline:

Mark Feldstein on the JFK never charged/prosecuted campaign break-in tanking Nixon, not surprising. That the story died so quickly might be surprising following Kennedy's election, but for his subsequent assassination when LBJ established the Official Myth to lay JFK to rest in Camelot.

Recently, Caroline and Maria just couldn't handle The Kennedy myth a la 2011 public broadcast v. the 1964 "traditional" legacy.  Now America is left with the impression that the tv series may have accurately exposed the "hurtful" truth. Sorry, but it isn't likely that the MSM/Hollywood would smear JFK/RFK with false accusations "because they could". Because obviously, they couldn't get away with telling the truth, let alone lies to implicate any Kennedy Family guilt.

btw, ace was complicit in revisionism the other day, "clearing" Joe Kennedy's reputation because someone told him there was nothing to historical record. As if there are no readily available research documents and books published regarding ol' Joe Kennedy as his own Irish/American organized crime top dog entrepreneur, whisky running amongst Kennedy's wealth amassing enterprises. Sure, as if Joe Kennedy were such a nice guy to his competitors, as if Joe Kennedy paid his full income taxes reporting his criminal activities, and as if Joe Kennedy weren't a Nazi supporting anti-semite. That was some online convoluted apathetic activism, again promoting Leftist purity via revisionism, as if to prove yourself a reasonable person. pff

67 Newly elected chairman Reince Priebus has fired the 2012 convention staff.

"Discontinued employment."  I have to start using that. 

68 There are no gays in Iran according to Ajad.

Because when they find one, they kill him.

/But, but, but, SARAH PALIN!

69 60 Iran set to stone some guys for the crime of being gay.

Gay-Americans (those who read and post here excluded, as usual) continue to insist the biggest threat to gay people is Christians/conservatives/Republicans.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 18, 2011 08:57 AM (4ucxv)

They'll soon want their gay military to invade Iran and free the gay Iranians....and send the rest to Gitmo.

70

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would order a government-wide review of regulations with the goal of eliminating those that hurt job creation and make the U.S. economy less competitive.

In an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Obama said some government regulations have placed "unreasonable burdens on business -- burdens that have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs."

He said he would require that in the future government agencies "ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth."

 

I see that Barry is in full bullshit mode to try to get re-elected. And those government regulations that have place "unreasonable burdens" were put in place by him and his party.

71 Iran Gays to Be Executed By stoning Friday.  In other news, Sarah Palin was angry and defiant toady in spite of widespread criticism for her extremist rhetoric..

72

I see that Barry is in full bullshit mode to try to get re-elected. And those government regulations that have place "unreasonable burdens" were put in place by him and his party.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 18, 2011 09:19 AM (1Jaio)

Refresh my memory....is it common for sitting presidents to pen op-eds?

73 The sidebar has a link to an article in the Washington Post last Friday titled "JFK's own dirty trick."  (no link since it's in the sidebar)  According to the story a disgruntled accountant told Kennedy's advisors that Howard Hughes had given Nixon's family $200,000. Kennedy's advisors knew if they could find evidence documenting this, friendly reporters would run the story, damaging Nixon.

The disgruntled accountant knew exactly where the evidence was, and days later "a break-in occurred" at the account's old office.

With the stolen evidence in hand, muckraking reporters Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson ran the story just days before the election--and Kennedy won by a razor-thin margin.

Here's the funny part: Even though this happened over 50 years ago, the author of the piece just cannot bring himself to say that the Kennedy group commissioned anyone to "steal" documents to swing the election. Instead here's the author's wrap-up paragraph:
Indeed, the mysterious break-in to recover Nixon's incriminating financial documents convinced him that such burglaries were standard practice in national politics. Nixon vowed that he would never be caught unprepared again...Ah. The purpose of the break-in, says the author, was merely to recover the incriminating documents.

Good thing the thieves didn't do it to actually, y'know, steal something.

Because stealing would clearly be wrong. Sort of like breaking into an office.

Whereas "recovering" something is so much more...friendly.


Okay, now for the twist: How many of you had heard of that event before now?

[crickets]

The lamestream media have always believed they could swing elections, and their success in 1960 certainly reinforced that idea. And even 50 years later leftoids still can't honestly describe what they did back then.

An equal success is their ability to ignore this story for 50 years.

Rat-bastards, all of 'em.

74
TUNISIA

If you're going to read any article, don't miss this:

Is Tunisia the first domino to fall?

The events that triggered the overthrow of President Ben Ali are unique, but there are good reasons for alarm among rulers across the Arab world
Dr. Claire Spencer Heads the Middle East & North Africa Programme, Chatham House

75

Refresh my memory....is it common for sitting presidents to pen op-eds?

Posted by: Tami at January 18, 2011 09:23 AM (VuLos)

 

Well he is unprecedented. I wonder who really wrote the campaign ad op-ed. Could be the work of the new chief of staff Bill Daley

76 70 I see that Barry is in full bullshit mode to try to get re-elected. And those government regulations that have place "unreasonable burdens" were put in place by him and his party.
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Yeah, well, the example cited by the administration according to Fox News is that there are different emission regulations for California and the rest of the country. Clearly, this is inefficient and an unreasonable burden on the car companies. We can fix this by aligning the rest of the country with California's regulations.

77
Okay, now for the twist: How many of you had heard of that event before now?

[crickets]

Were we adults during the Kennedy/Nixon potus campaign, we'd be aware of the exposure/smear since the media published the Nixon/Hughes story prior to the election vote.

Anyone know what the campaign contribution laws were that year? Was it illegal or merely unseemly that Hughes would be contributing v. Kennedy as many ways as he did to fund Nixon's campaign?

78 @55 Wood's cheapest for us, because we get wood free. We have a little wood stove, nothing fancy, picked it up at Menards for 450$ a few years ago.We have a long house, the stove is at the east end, and we use a bow fan to blow upstream to the west end. Works great, for us, unless it is REALLY cold(ten or below) . Then we supplement with propane.

79 bow=box

80 Haha, @ 52, that should be.

81

Refresh my memory....is it common for sitting presidents to pen op-eds?

Posted by: Tami at January 18, 2011 09:23 AM (VuLos)

That always leads back to FDR radio broadcast fireside chats, the spoken word having impact on everyone, regardless of who reads newspapers or who subscribes in order to have the printed word.

82

Well he is unprecedented. I wonder who really wrote the campaign ad op-ed. Could be the work of the new chief of staff Bill Daley

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 18, 2011 09:32 AM (1Jaio)

Oh right....I forgot about the whole unprecedented crap.  I'll get myself to a re-education camp immediately.

83 Anyone know what the campaign contribution laws were that year?

IIANM the only law there was was that foreign contributions were illegal.

84 Taiwanese animators are at it again:

Hu Jintao jets into Washington

http://tinyurl.com/5s6j7he

85 the only law there was was that foreign contributions were illegal.
Posted by: Vic

Hence, a burglary to prove that Nixon's campaign was legally funded somehow smeared Nixon's campaign to be illegitimate.

But we're to "remember" that Joe Kennedy, Sr. was such a nice good guy.

I'd read research chronicling the business dealings of Joe Kennedy and Howard Hughes, aligned or at opposites.

We should recall that Pre-WWII, lacking the necessary political connections, Hughes attempted to sell the US Military his Zero, only to be rebuffed as the US purchased an inferior design instead for our national defense. But Japan was interested. And the rest is history.

86

74  The problem is this: sure, the despots are very odious to anyone who cherishes freedom, and we'd all like to see more free, open societies.  However, there's a very real threat that most of these ME despots will be replaced with Muslim Brotherhood fanatics and Islamic hardliners.  AQ and the MB have been very up front with their desire to not only topple the West but to also topple every government in Islamic countries and place them under a new caliphate that will be characterized by its "purity". 

It's like watching the old communist revolutions, but if anything these might be worse.

87 We should recall that Pre-WWII, lacking the necessary political connections, Hughes attempted to sell the US Military his Zero, only to be rebuffed as the US purchased an inferior design instead for our national defense. But Japan was interested. And the rest is history.

I have never heard this.  Can you provide a cite, MM?  Wiki only says that HH made that claim but that the Japanese designer denied copying the design of the H1.

88

Washington completely draped in  Chinese flags.    Media ignoring the obsequioiusness.   We should get used to it.    Spring roll anyone?

89

Okay, now for the twist: How many of you had heard of that event before now?

Me! *waves arms like arnold horshack*

Levin was discussing it last week on his show. It came from an op ed in the Washingon Post (oddly).

90 Time lost itÂ’s way during the 90′s when it tried to become an intellectual version of People magazine.
If there was ever any doubt, TIME has definitiely “jumped the shark” this time.

Top 10 Clashes at Sea
Freedom Flotilla vs. Israeli Defense Forces
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Ship v. Iceberg: The RMS Titanic
Sinking of the ROKS Cheonan
The Battle of Trafalgar
US Navy vs. Somali Pirates
Destruction of the Athenian Navy
Battle of Midway
Sea Shepherd Vs. Japan
Gulf of Tonkin Incident

No mention of Battle of the Atlantic or Battle of Leyte Gulf during WWII, Battle of Salamis during the second Persian invasion of Greece, or the Battle of Aegospotami during the Peloponnesian wars.

91 Independent schools failing 'duty' to run academies

"Independent schools have failed to meet their "responsibilities" to help improve state schools, Lord Adonis, the original architect of the academies programme claims.
The former Labour minister accused many heads and governors of “carping” on the sidelines rather than getting involved.
He accused the private sector in general of failing to seize a 'one in a lifetime opportunity' to bridge the divide with state schools."

In Great Britain, private schools are apparently the only functional school systems left.
So what do they do?

They have burdened the private school system with the task of fixing the failed public school system.
And then blame them for not fixing a problem they never created.

92 How the hell did TIME miss the “Pueblo Incident” or the "Mayaguez Incident" ?

93

TIME has definitiely “jumped the shark” this time.

I would say that only 4 of those changed history. Which should be the point.

The rest is crap, although I'll allow the Gulf of Tonkin. Maybe.

94 Mothra be here in 2 minutes and 59 seconds .. but it's hard to be exact

95 "...Hughes attempted to sell the US Military his Zero, only to be rebuffed as the US purchased an inferior design instead for our national defense. But Japan was interested."

Posted by: maverick muse at January 18, 2011 09:52 AM (H+LJc)

Incorrect. It was designed by Jiro Horikoshi, the chief designer at Mitsubishi.

96

Mothra be here in 2 minutes and 59 seconds .. but it's hard to be exact

It's Rodan I'd be worried about, if'n I were you...

97 TIME has definitiely “jumped the shark” this time.

Battle of Lepanto (1571, part of the Fourth Ottoman-Venetian War and the Ottoman-Habsburg wars) The forces of the Holy League inflicted a crushing defeat on the Ottoman fleet. 
Of course, the losers might not want this included.

98 Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND, to retire. 

99 Okay, now for the twist: How many of you had heard of that event before now?

[crickets]

I admit it, me too.

Didn't JFK use the IRS to go after political enemies?  I do know that Nixon (a sleazy operator in his own right) was shocked at the double standard when it was applied to him.  But he was the original bete noir of the post-war Left.

100 Sidebar: "He Did It Again How embarrassing. No head of state bows. Well, until now. I'm guessing they haven't brought this up in a focus group yet. Because if they had, they would have gotten an earful. [rdbrewer]" Okay, he's just fucking with us now. Anyway, he is not a head of State, just a rather large head. The one below his waist, not so much.

101 Meat salad!

102 #20  One thing about Palin is that she has courage,  notably lacking in the rest of the field.  Where were all of the other potential candidates speaking up for conservatives? The attack wasn't just on Palin,  but also on our right to criticize the government.All of tea party conservatives were trashed in the media's full-on assault to make Obama's numbers recover. Did we hear anyone of these guys defend us?

Crickets.

I'll give credit where it's due.  Lamar Alexander gave a one-sentence defense of Sarah during a TV interview.  It wasn't lengthy, but it was something.  As for Pawlenty, he got such awful feedback from that "target" remark, he did a head-snapping 180 and said a couple weak-tea things.

103 Chugging a pair of 2L Mountain Dew's has me cruising like a HD Electra Glide.

Ask an oral surgeon if he/she has ever come across a case of "Mountain Dew Mouth".  A surgeon gave me a description of MDM that still haunts my dreams.

104

Didn't JFK use the IRS to go after political enemies?  I do know that Nixon (a sleazy operator in his own right) was shocked at the double standard when it was applied to him.  But he was the original bete noir of the post-war Left.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 18, 2011 11:04 AM (T0NGe)

Yes, JFK sicced the IRS on his enemies. He was also the first president to employ private investigators as part of his campaign.

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106 Well, Sheila is technically correct. To libs, the constitution refers to whatever they believe in politically. Thus, if she's opposed to it, it's unconstitutional.

107 kjshfiwef lkjnfowielmk. I think this describes it

108 Water Damage yeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh. party like a rockstar