1

Obama to Veto Any Attempt to Roll Back Automatic Cuts After Committee's Inability to Reach Debt Deal

So you are going to veto any separate “deals” that avoid the automatic cuts eh. Well you muddleheaded stupid cluster fk of idiocy there is only one problem with that. The automatic cuts do not start until 2013. You will be out on your ass and going back to community agitating.

Of course lying Obama says it is Republicans who are to blame. Even F&F put up the stuff this morning. The Dems wanted $1T in new taxes while only doing $1.2T in cuts over 10 years, or essentially no cuts, only a slow down in spending increases. The Republicans offered half the 1T in new taxes and the Dems would not budge, but its Republicans who would not compromise?  That was the Dem starategy all along. This was all an election gimmick. They never intended to negotiate because they think they can pull off another 1996 because they have CNN polls in their back pocket to blame Republicans.  Someone needs to look at that CNN poll and how they “calculated” the numbers. Typically what they do is conduct a survey look at how many Republicans and Dems answer and then adjust the numbers by a “fudge factor” that assumes 60% Dem and 40% Republican.

I think he will lose on this one. This is not 1996 people. There are some new sources of news now besides the MFM and CNN.

2

This article and chart from CATO (via RCP) shows the real stuff behind the supershittycommittee

It was never about spending cuts (which a lot of us said to begin with). It has always been about tax hikes and increased spending. And remember this folks, tax hikes have NEVER eliminated the budget deficient. In fact, they usually made it worse because Dems always saw a new pot of gold to waste of socialism.

3

The Hill picks winners and losers from the debt committee fiasco

Personally I say Crying Boner and Bitch McConnell are the biggest losers for making the deal in the first place. The Hill thinks this will help ObamaÂ’s reelection (which that and the Dems thinking is why no deal was ever possible).

4

And even more stupid from the AIG chief

Former AIG CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's current company -- Starr International -- filed lawsuits Monday in two federal courts against the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The suits accuse the government of taking valuable assets from AIG's shareholders without their consent or fair compensation, in exchange for the government's 80 percent stake in the company. The suit says the government's actions violate parts of the Fifth Amendment.

Yes, the bailout was probably unconstitutional, but not on 5^th amendment grounds.  However, one wonders if this will go to a jury?

5

That County proposal to gouge Jack Daniels has been rescinded

6 Top news: Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure Barack Obama finally let's the country know where he stands on the SuperBFFCommittee; he'll veto any bill that negates the massive military cuts.

He is who we always thought he was.

7

Newt wants opt out of SS for younger workers

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich believes the answer is simple. Allow younger workers to establish optional retirement accounts in place of social security.

If that sounds familiar it is because it is very similar to what Bush tried to get going a few years ago. That effort died an ignominious death as the Communists and RINOs alike jumped all over it and killed it.

Newt knows it will go nowhere anyway.

8

Probe into late Sen Stevens bad conviction that saw him tossed out of congress whitewashes prosecutors misconduct

9 I was sick as a dog for about 60 hours.  Stomach thing.  I'm back.

10

CNN releases new poll yesterday

Gingrich landed 24 percent of the support, followed by Romney with 20 percent, Herman Cain with 17 percent, Rick Perry with 11 percent, Ron Paul with 9 percent, Michele Bachmann with 5 percent, Rick Santorum with 4 percent, and Jon Huntsman with 3 percent.

Of course this is a CNN poll so apply a little sand here. Everyone beneath Ron Paul should drop out. (he should too but he will not)

11

Former Dem representative rats them out for vote fraud

Everyone knows this but the lying Dems and their lackeys in the press continue to push the suppression meme.

12

And speaking of voter fraud

A conservative group is accusing state Sen. Lena C. Taylor of being “an accessory” to possible voter fraud after some 20 individuals, including a felon on work-release, voted in the April election listing as their residence a Milwaukee group home operated by Taylor’s mother on property owned by the senator.

 So caught “after the fact” eh.

13

Republicans re-gerrymander NC so of course its an attack on women

Sometimes I just amazed at some of the stupid shit the Dems come up with. But what is bad is the stupid idiots who are not on welfare who continue to vote for them.

14

Obamanite thugs now telling insurance companies how much they can charge for rates.

IIANM this is a State function. The company is planning on telling them to piss off. Good

15

VA commies fighting GOP "power grab".

16

Washington Examiner talks about congressional gridlock

The Washington Examiner is a Republican leaning paper so they take an even stance in this editorial. But this is a rarity in the “news world”.  Every news organization I have ever seen always decries congressional gridlock like it was a bad thing. Who says itÂ’s a bad thing, only the news which is about 99.9% Democrat. To them not getting their way is gridlock. If we canÂ’t undo some laws then at least we are better off with no news ones.

I am all for gridlock when conservatives donÂ’t control congress (which almost always).

17

I missed the stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure's bleating on the stuttering clusterfuck of a shittycommittee's failure to reach anything close to their stated goal yesterday.

How much longer are we going to tolerate this from the people we send to Washington to do the peoples' business? Is this really the best we can do?

If so, we are well and truly boned and the end is nigh. So long, America, you had a good run for a while...

18

Obama issues 5 pardons and 1 commute, all unknowns?

Would be nice to have a fly on the wall for this but I figure we will never know. The MFM has no interest in investigating anything Obama does. He issued 9 unknowns earlier this year and we havenÂ’t heard a thing about it.

19

How did this sneak in without airing in the MFM?

Obama wants to give the Russians classified information on Aegis Missile technology. Does he think Putin is our friend?  No, he is just trying to harm the US again. We have to get this traitorous scum out of office.  

20

From BI, the Economist says Bernanke will bail out Europe

I ask, “with what”, more printed money?  He has already sent them about 3/4T last year. We are already in hock via the central banks for a shit ton of money. So I ask Bernanke, “do you actually think you can rescue the looters by giving them more loot?”.

Yes, he probably does think that.

21

Is BOA in serious trouble

The feds think so but that cuts no mustard with me. I just damn wish we had someone we could trust on this shit because I have a LOT of assets with BOA.

22

We have talked a lot lately about worthless degrees

Here is some news for people entering college now. Regretfully my Grandson is going to divinity school, which is at the bottom of those wage earners. But I guess you donÂ’t go into that field if your interests are in money.

23

And thatÂ’s it for the news this morning.A lot more of it today than yesterday.

24 I was sick as a dog for about 60 hours.  Stomach thing.  I'm back.

Posted by: Truman North at November 22, 2011 07:02 AM (I2LwF)

Sounds like tainted food.

25 How much longer are we going to tolerate this from the people we send to Washington to do the peoples' business? Is this really the best we can do?

The problem isn't the people "we" send to congress.

26 Everyone beneath Ron Paul should drop out. (he should too but he will not)

Posted by: Vic at November 22, 2011 07:03 AM

I can't see anyone with sense actually supporting the dude, but have to admit that Ernie Huntsman is running some heavy TV spots here near the NH border. No weasel-wording, just straight-up hits on the stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure and on Mutt Romney, with an extra dose of Mort Huntsman's own "successes."

Too bad some of the "better" candidates aren't pushing as hard.

27

Too bad some of the "better" candidates aren't pushing as hard.

Posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2011 07:10 AM (HkOAc)

I suspect that most thought Romney had NH sewed up. I know that's what I thought. But, if the polls are accurate looks like Newt may have a chance in NH.

Of course Newt is an older Romney.

28 Vic, have you considered lobbying Ace for the ability to post a morning news thread?  You do such an amazing job os news and comment.

29 I was sick as a dog for about 60 hours.  Stomach thing.  I'm back. Posted by: Truman North at November 22, 2011 07:02 AM

Hobo has to be cooked 'til the meat's pink, dude.

30 Actually, My daughter got it, then my son got it 12 hours later, then my wife got it 12 hours later, then I got it 12 hours later.  I don't know what it was, but it was awful.

31 Vic, have you considered lobbying Ace for the ability to post a morning news thread?  You do such an amazing job os news and comment.

Posted by: Truman North at November 22, 2011 07:14 AM (I2LwF)

When he put out the offer for new guest bloggers I thought about it but I have never edited HTML and this dog is too old to learn new tricks.

Besides, the News Thread belongs to Gabe. I just help him populate it.

32

The problem isn't the people "we" send to congress.

Agreed. We have met the enemy, and it is us.

Really, in the day and age in which we live, with all the information we have at our disposal, there is absolutely no reason for us to make an uninformed decision about who we vote for. Obama's radical past was well known to those of us who care to do some of that intense Internet research, yet the majority of us managed to elect him anyway.

I was stupid enough to think that the SCOAMF didn't have a chance in hell of getting elected after hearing and seeing his previous statements online. P. T. Barnum must have been talking about politics when he said that there was a sucker born every minute.

These days, it's more like every nanosecond.

I'm in a wonderful mood this morning, can't you tell? Sorry for the rant.

33

Fair enough, Vic.  But you're certainly good enough to do it IMO

 

34 Thanks

Also keep in mind that originally the thread was supposed to be for discussion of things in the sidebar.

Of which that about newt from RDBrewer is a good read if people haven't checked it out.

35 I was born Nov 63, so I feel obligated to notice that it's JFK dead day. Doesn't Stephen King have some new fiction book that sucks about the assassination?

36 Actually, My daughter got it, then my son got it 12 hours later, then my wife got it 12 hours later, then I got it 12 hours later. I don't know what it was, but it was awful. Hope you all are better. FWIW, some asshole troll posted a marxist turdpile of a comment under the nic, TrueNorth yesterday.

37 I was born Nov 63, so I feel obligated to notice that it's JFK dead day. Doesn't Stephen King have some new fiction book that sucks about the assassination?

I thought about posting an "On this day" thing for that but I looked for a news article instead. Not a damn one of the major papers had anything.

38 FWIW, some asshole troll posted a marxist turdpile of a comment under the nic, TrueNorth yesterday.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at November 22, 2011 07:24 AM (p7SSh)

I think it is time for ace to to crack down on some of the trolls. Somebody posted a comment a few days ago using vic with a little "v". 

39 I finally watched Battle Los Angeles. the music was cheezy but otherwise, I thought it was pretty good. Therefore, I was surprised to see the low rating on imdb. Probably just antiAmerican b.s. The film was reported as costing about 70 mil to make. I always thought that a film had to make it's operating costs opening weekend. I think it just squeaked by and that was counting ticket sales in Mexico and the Philippines where it was a big hit.

40 I finally watched Battle Los Angeles. the music was cheezy but otherwise, I thought it was pretty good.

I watched that last week. I thought it was damn good as well. The 'ettes probably will not like it though. It is a straight up guy movie shades of John Wayne.

41 Anybody read Bugliosi's book on the assassination? I doubt know how the man can be normal on some subjects and a complete look on others (Bush).

42 I was born Nov 63, so I feel obligated to notice that it's JFK dead day.

That means Doctor Who turns 48 tomorrow.

43 I think it is time for ace to to crack down on some of the trolls. Somebody posted a comment a few days ago using vic with a little "v". I saw that. I checked the hash on google, and whoever it was is about as intelligible as a spambot.

44 Yep. I liked that most of the time you couldn't even see the enemy when they were attacking you. Just confusion everywhere.

45 Morning, Vic. Thanks for the link on BOA. FWIW, Buffett recently bought a bunch of BOA stock. As a bellwether, atleast he's playing with his own money.

 

46 You're welcome. What do you think about their "trouble"?

47

OK, y'all, I'm off to the salt mine once more. Try not to trash the place and don't get the hobo pelts too dry. The customers like them pliable.

And be well, Vic and moki. Prayers for you all...

48 Thanks BB

49 Anybody read Bugliosi's book on the assassination? I doubt know how the man can be normal on some subjects and a complete look on others (Bush). Blind squirrel.

50 Jennifer Rubin's column on lack of presidential leadership in the Washington Post today accidentally reveals that Obama let Erskine Bowles think he approved of the budget compromise.  Most of the economic team liked it.  Bowles was very surprised when it wasn't mentioned in the State of the Union and was totally ignored thereafter.

So, we now know (as I suspected) that he had no intention of trying anything that might improve the budget situation, and was just looking for cover while he went about intentionally wrecking the economy.

It also explains why all of the economic team (who supported Bowles-Simpson) got out of Dodge.

51 "Near perfect GPA" nursing/nutrition majoring student, Kenyan runner @ U/Alaska with death wish forfeits feet to snow storm he chose to wander through unwrapped. He hopes to run again and return to Kenya for work.

Strange. It's one thing to get depressed. Quite another to do what you can to ruin your own body or commit suicide like his Kenyan buddy runner. Who's paying for his medical treatments and providing his mechanical feet, btw? Not likely Kenyan taxpayers or family.

52

 #22 Here is some news for people entering college now.

In the article's table, they lump mathematics and computer sciences together.  That is a very odd grouping, and one that I have not seen before.  It also seems strange that this grouping is so highly paid according to the first table, and then several tables later, this grouping ranks in the top unemployment groups.  I work in a technical field and unless there have been significant changes to the job market in the last 5 years or so, I find the ordering of the engineering disciplines suspect.  Though the results aree not wholly out the range of possible, I suspect something isn't quite right about this data.

53 Battle Los Angeles has Aaron Eckhart in it. The 'ettes liiiiike.

54 I suspect something isn't quite right about this data.

I wondered about some of that data as well. What I suspected was that the data was old data before the collapse

But, I know the Engineering fields pay good money after the first year.

55
Occupy L.A. protesters said Los Angeles officials have offered them office space and farmland to end their encampment at City Hall.

The details of the proposal were revealed Monday during the demonstration's nightly general assembly meeting by Jim Lafferty, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild...

Lafferty said city officials have offered protesters a $1-a-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot office space near City Hall. He said officials also promised land elsewhere for protesters who wish to farm, as well as additional housing for the contingent of homeless people who joined the camp.

A spokesman for the mayor would not comment on the proposal, saying only: "We are in negotiations with organizers of Occupy L.A."

http://goo.gl/eVDd





Craven move by the City, natch, but also an odd gesture.  If these hippies wanted to hang out in something resembling a workplace, they'd go get -- you know -- a job.

56 Craven move by the City, natch, but also an odd gesture.

I still have some friends in CA. Need to call them and ask how they feel about their tax money going to the OWS mob.

57 BTW, Nikki Haley has backed down on running the OWS crowd out of the State House grounds here after 6 pm. The ACLU was going to file a lawsuit and I guess she didn't feel like it was worth the money to run out 19 idiots.

What she aught to do is have a "redneck games and BBQ" on the grounds. Wouldn't cost near as much as lawyer and I'll guarantee the OWS hippies would leave.

58 What do you think about their "trouble"?

I haven't been following it closely enough to have an intelligent opinion. I soured on them years ago when they screwed up a co-worker's account and refused to put it right. It was clear they were going for volume and cared nothing for an individual customer.

I have no more faith in the regulators than I do in Holder's DOJ, or the SEC, or whosit that wasn't minding MF Global like the should. None of them have instilled confidence in recent years so on the surface I'd be inclined to think that BOA is dicey. Spread your assets if you can.

59 Who's going to pay for heat, power, water for the building? The dirty hippies? Or the City? And you know they will trash it. Also, are they going to be allowed to sleep there? Most office space is not zoned to be residential. What about the people who pay for office space nearby? Do they need a bunch of bums in the area?

60 The regulators say they are in trouble and it would be a LOT of trouble to move everything. I'll think about it though. Wells Fargo has bought out one of the banks here and I had an account with them in CA years ago.

Maybe I'll move everything over to them.

61 Let them camp out at City Hall.Why should the pols dump their problem on someone else or the taxpayers if they are too chickenshit to arrest the bums.

62 24 Sounds like tainted food.
Posted by: Vic at November 22, 2011 07:09 AM (YdQQY)

You see? You see the hell that will be unleashed by letting those Pubbies run our glorious Protector State into the ground?

63 I really hate that our own government is trying to destroy this country.  I hate that the media is their cheerleader.  I hate that most of the people in this country don't care and some are even helping the destruction.  The pure evil that is driving this will not be satisfied until we are left with a commie third-world banana republic.

64

Let them camp out at City Hall.Why should the pols dump their problem on someone else or the taxpayers if they are too chickenshit to arrest the bums
Posted by: mike





Actually, Occupy LA is, quite literally, camped out at City Hall. Right on the front steps, in fact.

65

Jeez do you guys ever sleep???  I've got 3 Labs, howling winds and a Sled Dog Kennel with 50 dogs down the road sounds like DOOM around here

66 Vic, have you considered lobbying Ace for the ability to post a morning news thread?  You do such an amazing job os news and comment.

Posted by: Truman North at November 22, 2011 07:14 AM (I2LwF)

Drudge and Breibartt are enough for me thank you

67 My sister and her young adult kids have accounts at BOA and she'd be in deep trouble if she lost access for even a short time. I'll say something to her about it when I see her Thursday.

I knew a small town lawyer who'd lived through the Depression who advised his clients to avoid using one bank for everything. For all the time I knew him he had a checking account at bank A, savings at bank B and his mortgage at bank C. Seemed an abundance of caution for many years but now I'm inclined to think it is a plan worth considering.

68

Here's a new one Fox just posted

Stupid DA lets an accused murderer walk because he didnÂ’t complete all the paperwork to get an indictment. TX Morons, is DA in TX and elected position?

69

Jennifer Rubin's column...

STOP! Okay I get that she is good when it comes to not reporting/analyzing the primaries but I cant help but not read Rubin w/o thinking of her incredible hackery for a certain candidate

70 or keep your funds in several community banks

71 Panetta is on the record saying the triggered defense cuts would be devastating to our national defense. So, send Obama a bill repealing the defense cuts and let the Punk-in-Chief veto it.

72 I'm not sure how it works down there, but the guy is set for trial and is out on bond. Not sure how an indictment would keep him in. I would think the DA would also be able to argue for an increase in bail.

73 41 Anybody read Bugliosi's book on the assassination? I doubt know how the man can be normal on some subjects and a complete look on others (Bush).

Posted by: mike at November 22, 2011 07:32 AM (Yc1JT)

Book reviewed here, from the perspective of one who's lived in Dallas a while, heard all the claims, and spent three weeks working for Oliver Stone on his movie.

And, yes, I was deeply disappointed to learn more about Bugliosi's politics, after reading that magnificent book.

Still, he gets props for razing the conspiracies, and for not letting his political inclinations influence his research and reporting.

74 Then clean up, of course - I'm not a goddamn commie hippie.

I used to love going to the range after someone who didn't clean up after themselves. I did. Reloaders love those commie hippies.

75 I finally watched Battle Los Angeles.

/...Not to be confused with the WWII Battle of Los Angeles./

We saw that movie some time ago. The action packed special effects were good and the movie a pretty good Hollywood effort, considering Hollywood. It would have been better had the movie's military servicemen acted as if they'd been trained with disciplined response to extremely threatening stimuli. That's the element askew in the plot, imo, as if the volunteer military doesn't train their recruits before combat in aggressive survival guerrilla warfare. Had the plot been using armed civilians responding, then it would have seemed more "acceptable" to tolerate the futility. Perhaps that was Hollywood's backhanded point. And had the script portrayed better discipline in the soldier's responses under extreme duress, the movie could have been that much more suspenseful during the many moments wondering if they'd crack or be able to hold it together since the alien odds (star wars) were overwhelming given no one knew of plan for such an event. As if our military has contingency plans for everything except that possibility. Still, that Hollywood fluke was nothing compared to Tolkein's Trilogy saving grace eagles that could have cut to the coda to trill over the Ring's doomed destruction.

76 Further evidence of the Irish drinking themselves silly:

My local news just did a story about folks who have been camping out at Best Buy for two days in order to be the first through the door on Black Friday. They interviewed an attractive 40-50ish man named McClarty and asked whether camping out to get a good deal on electronics is over-the-top. His response, and with a completely straight face was...

Of course it's over-the-top, but shouldn't we try and live an exceptional life? We do this and we show people that anything is possible if you apply yourself....

At that point I was so embarrassed for him I put him on mute. It was just too painful.

I hope that, when he watches that clip, he is at least half as embarrassed as I was.

77 Heard on the radio that Congress is more popular than Hitler. So they've got that going for them.

78 I'm not sure how it works down there, but the guy is set for trial and is out on bond.

It would seem to me that w/o an indictment he didn't even need bail to begin with.

79 "Rick Perry is woefully unfit to be president of the United States, but not because he couldn't remember a key element of his own program during a recent debate, or because he gave a speech while possibly drunk. Rick Perry is woefully unfit to be president of the United States because he is a tool of Grover Norquist, the man who may be more responsible than anyone else for enabling Muslim Brotherhood access to the highest levels of power in the U.S." Oh, Robert!

80 And another thing, I didn't think you could get bail for capitol murder????

81 68

Here's a new one Fox just posted

Stupid DA lets an accused murderer walk because he didnÂ’t complete all the paperwork to get an indictment. TX Morons, is DA in TX and elected position?

Posted by: Vic at November 22, 2011 08:07 AM (YdQQY)

Yes. Depending on the county, though, you'd better get him out in the primary, because DA is way down-ballot and likely to go with the party that wins top-ticket in the general.

82 Rick Perry is woefully unfit to be president of the United States because he is a tool of Grover Norquist, the man who may be more responsible than anyone else for enabling Muslim Brotherhood access to the highest levels of power in the U.S."


Oh, Robert!

Posted by: Anony at November 22, 2011 08:14 AM (wtSLL)

yeah, once you go one-issue you start losing it...

ask Michelle Malkin

83

Morning and happy T-Day eve eve.

I have a social event I'm expected to be at today. And another one in a couple weeks.

Sigh. I like it under this rock. It's a nice rock...

84  Doesn't Stephen King have some new fiction book that sucks about the assassination?

Posted by: Alice's Clone Army at November 22, 2011 07:23 AM (qTVDE)

new book about some guy stopping his assassination, it's like 750 pages long

new Dark Tower book out next year, takes place b/w books 4 and 5

85

I finally watched Battle Los Angeles.

bored to death by that movie

86 Bwhahaha! From News Busters: When it comes to the MSM, it's hard to get more mainstream than Jon Meacham.  Former Newsweek editor. Current Random House editor.  Picked for a Pulitzer Prize. So when someone of Meacham's genteelly liberal ilk unloads on Barack Obama in such stark terms, it's newsworthy.  On today's Morning Joe, Meacham flatly stated his belief that President Obama "doesn't particularly like people and politicians who don't like people are kind of in the wrong business."  Video and more after the jump.

87

I picked up "Bridesmaids" at my local redbox to see what the hub-bub was about, good and funny movie but the trailer lead me to be believe there would be more whacky bridesmaids character interactions

I also picked up "Horrible Bosses" and I must say it was extremely funny then it got stale as it went along. After 90 minutes of sex jokes it gets old and less shocking (in a funny way). Funny movie but dissapoiting.

I also picked up "Captain America". The movie was much more patriotic then I thought it would be but damn was it boring as fuck. Thor was much better.

and that ace is how you do a movie review.

88 I was sick as a dog for about 60 hours. Stomach thing. I'm back. Posted by: Truman North at November 22, 2011 07:02 AM Hope you and the family are feeling better. Sounds like a rotavirus, and those are nasty. Not getting around them, you just have to let them run their course, and try to stay hydrated. Gatorade, rice, toast, ginger ale, that kind of bland, sick person food. Lysol everything too!

89 Of course it's over-the-top, but shouldn't we try and live an exceptional life? We do this and we show people that anything is possible if you apply yourself....

Off yourself, sir. You haven't the least idea what constitutes exceptional, other than doing something exceptionally stupid.

90

On today's Morning Joe, Meacham flatly stated his belief that President Obama "doesn't particularly like people and politicians who don't like people are kind of in the wrong business." 

one of the 100 reasons I wont try my hand at politics even though my family begs me to do it (except my brother who says i'm an extremist no one should vote for) is because I dont like the prospect of meeting thousands of people with an eat shit grin

91 I believe that happened here in SAT, where we have a shiiteey libtard mayor, and yes, DAs get elected, per the Bexar county website I just checked to make sure my facts were straight. Damn their little libtard souls to hell.

92

Oh! real quick

Hugh Hewiit has been great about getting on the GOP about tax hikes (yes Hugh's a Romney guy but he's not a Romneybot, there's a diff.); but last night he had some guy on talking about taxing fast food and anything considered "unhealthy"

hypocrite much Hugh?

93

where we have a shiiteey libtard mayor

to be fair most mayors are libtards

94 On a note of no special importance, I saw Harry Reid's "pet", our own Senator Chris Coons, helping fill food bags last night in the crowd of volunteers at a local charity.

95 On a note of no special importance, I saw Harry Reid's "pet", our own Senator Chris Coons, helping fill food bags last night in the crowd of volunteers at a local charity.

Posted by: No Whining at November 22, 2011 08:30 AM (4I7lI)

pimping that sure 2014 re-election

96 Moki probably has it right with being viral, especially how people got it one by one, tainted food would hit everyone about the same time and rarely lasts longer than 24 hours. So long as you don't get dehydrated from the diarrhea, it's nothing more than a PITA though.

97 Should have read the link Vic put up. We had yet a different case of DA screwing up paperwork and a felon got released. Good to know we are'nt the only county with piss poor DAs.

98 where's the doom?

99
Health benefits for government retirees may not be eliminated if state and local governments had clearly promised workers those benefits, the California Supreme Court ruled in an Orange County case Monday.

The unanimous ruling is expected to make it more difficult for state and local governments to shave costs by cutting health benefits to retirees if elected officials in previous years made it clear that those benefits would last a lifetime.

http://goo.gl/yjOic





On the upside, even though California taxpayers are now officially serfs working for government retirees, we are at least tied to the land and get to go along with it when it is sold.

100 #94 Yes, but our shittey libtard mayor has a mother who thinks the Alamo sucks (and this is San Antonio, the ALAMO city) and should be torn down. This is also the same mayor and city council who just voted for the 180 million dollar "trolley" project (read: light rail) to be constructed "somewhere" downtown that they have no idea where, for only 2 miles!!! 90 million bucks a mile! Someone is getting rich and it ain't me!

101 Well, we're probably going to get our flu shots snorts today. I'd never gotten one before last year. They always slow down my husband for a couple days, but they didn't bother the kids or me at all.

102

who thinks the Alamo sucks (and this is San Antonio, the ALAMO city) and should be torn down

Good grief.

103 Yes, but our shittey libtard mayor has a mother who thinks the Alamo sucks (and this is San Antonio, the ALAMO city) and should be torn down.

Good Lord! Sacrilege. I hope she doesn't spout that shit in public.

104 Wells Fargo has bought out one of the banks here and I had an account with them in CA years ago. Give USAA bank a look. My wife and I have been using them for about ten years, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.

105 San Antonio Rose, not that you meant it that way, but I think you unintentionally hit on the rationale for OWS. "Someone is getting rich and it ain't me!" sums up the movement better than any talking head has.

106 Doom is up

107 USAA! USAA!

108

who thinks the Alamo sucks (and this is San Antonio, the ALAMO city) and should be torn down

ok I almost choked on my breakfast reading that

109 Day 1036:  President Sandusky is still at-large, raping an adolescent American economy while bitterly clinging to his Gun Running and Alinsky Manifesto.

110
Regretfully my Grandson is going to divinity school...

Interesting item, Vic. 

I have a 1st cousin who teaches at the Hah-vahd Divinity school.  He loves it, but it's an extremely weird place.  It's not about religious faith nearly as much as it is about weirdness, so to get ahead it helps to be a lesbian self-mutilating Zoroastrian.  (It turns out, to my surprise, that this is not a cult of Germanic swordsmen.)

Also interesting in that I have a nephew going to RISD, which surprisingly enough has pretty good job opportunities (industrial design), and that I myself was a double major in Russian Language and English Lit.  Go figure.

111
mayor and city council who just voted for the 180 million dollar "trolley" project (read: light rail) to be constructed "somewhere" downtown
Posted by: San Antonio Rose



You too, huh?

Los Angeles submitted an application for U.S. TIGER funds with the intention of building a downtown streetcar line. But the alignments proposed are very similar to those offered by existing rail and bus services — and each would operate in a one-way loop, a failed transit concept.

Last month, it applied for $37.5 million in U.S. Department of Transportation TIGER grant dollars, which it hopes to supplement with local and private funds to complete an initial route of between 3 and 5 one-way track miles at a cost of between $106 and $138 million.
thetransportpolitic.com



It's a liberal thing. One day you're saving the rain forest...

112 Give USAA bank a look. My wife and I have been using them for about ten years, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at November 22, 2011 08:40 AM (p7SSh)

I looked into them a few weeks back when MamaAJ recommended them for something else. We don't have one anywhere near here at all.

113 That jolt you just felt was the earth reversing its rotation on its axis...John McLame just told Fox & Friends that, in budget confrontations with Obama and the Dhimms, Republicans need.. to...to...[wait for it]... "SHOW MORE SOLIDARITY!!"" !!???!!! LOLOLOLOL If I weren't laughing, I'd be crying...The man who, for the last ~15 years never misses a chance to boost a traitrous Dhim, and stab a stalwart Repub in the back. Now he calls for "solidarity." Unreal.

114 He loves it, but it's an extremely weird place.

From what my Grandson says the one he goes to is not like that. Of course it is up near Charlotte with all those other "right wing" religious schools that the libtards hate.

115 If I weren't laughing, I'd be crying...The man who, for the last ~15 years never misses a chance to boost a traitrous Dhim, and stab a stalwart Repub in the back. Now he calls for "solidarity."

Just shows what a liar he is.

116 I have decided to become a liberal.

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Of course it is up near Charlotte with all those other "right wing" religious schools that the libtards hate.

Dear boy, why on earth would a person of your caliber choose to associate himself with those cretinous hillbillies?

118 Sorry, I am a little older than most of you, back in the 80s, Reagan was told with tax increases he too would get spending cuts from the communists..........erm democrats. To this day we are still waiting for them.

Sorry, 20 years ago I came to the same conclusion Ann Barnhardt came to about two weeks ago.

Still wondering when the rest of you are going to realize that the political system has absolutely no solution for us.

I will be seeing you when you join me in Atlantis.

119

The right wing is corrupt. I am now a democrat.

120 vic you need to find another handle. Vic is used and vic is too close.

121 Agreed Dr Fish Cisneros was terrible. I like Blanco Cafe too, but La Fogata has my heart (and my salivary glands) Vic, if you are retired military USAA is the place to be. We can bank with them cause they are based here in SAT and I love them. Been trying to persuade my dad the WWII vet to open an account so I could get in on the family included rider. USAA now offers the ability to deposit checks through certain UPS store nation wide, as a compensation for their limited presence in most citites.

122 Vic, if you are retired military USAA is the place to be.

I am not retired but I do have 7 years in the Navy. But as I said earlier, there is no USAA bank anywhere close to where I am at.

123 Very frustrating for you - could you set up account via internet?? Their website is very well built, and easy to navigate. I have several non USAA accounts linked to my USAA accounts, and have encountered no problems transferring funds between them.

124 I fooled you all. I am really an Obama supporter.

125 I am so tiread of the dang libs comin into my town in Kansas. They nead to leave and stop changin everything!!..

126  I fooled you all. I am really an Obama supporter.

Posted by: Vic at November 22, 2011 09:02 AM (t4YF+)

ok wait a sec. I am not a fan of Vic's, the record is straight on that. BUT you cannot sockpuppet commenters by using their exact name. You have to do something like "vic @ yahooo dot com" not the actual name.

so im not sure if this is a fellow-Vic nonfan, a Vic fan trying to joke around, or some douchebag troll, but calm down

127 I fooled you all. I am really an Obama supporter.

Posted by: Vic at November 22, 2011 09:02 AM (t4YF+)

And you are on the verge of getting banned.

128

so im not sure if this is a fellow-Vic nonfan, a Vic fan trying to joke around, or some douchebag troll, but calm down

 

Based on his BanjoBilly post, I'm going with the latter.

129

Book reviewed here, from the perspective of one who's lived in Dallas a while, heard all the claims, and spent three weeks working for Oliver Stone on his movie.

Cool! I remember looking at the book when it came out. Man, that was one hefty volume! As was the price, as I recall. At least $50, if not more.

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there is no USAA bank anywhere close to where I am at.

I've never set foot in their physical branches. Do they have more than one outside of San Ant.?

All internet based. I can deposit checks via snail mail, by scanning them right here or by going to a UPS store. You can even use a smart phone to take a pic of a check and deposit it that way.

131

Victora the tranny is always coming into these areas. She is actually pretty hot.

132
I'm enjoying the Victor Victoria drama more than I ever did the completely unwatchable movie.

This ersatz vic/Vic must go, if not for rudeness then for the ennui of his commentary.  We are not amused by your political affiliation, Monsieur contre-Vic.

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Sorry...still wearing my earlier socks.

134 Maybe Gabe will notice here shortly and ban the slug.

135

(t4YF+)

the hash of a troll

how about you try and debate us w/ your beef instead of hiding behind character cheap shots?

136  Vic 68, TX district attorney's elected?

Ronnie Earle v. The Hammer should ring a bell (speaking of which, redistricting again).

Fort Bend County DA Healey--Mendez out on bail with monitoring anklet is not "walking" as if charges dropped. That trial goes forward on schedule, though disquieting having him out while he awaits his day in court.

Healey got the right guy, and Mendez is being prosecuted.

Not only are District Attorney's elected in Texas, so are District Judges.

Here's a story some still want to ignore. There's a horrible instance spanning 20 years in Williamson TX County since the DA conspired with the local police to literally frame a husband for his wife's murder, hiding the evidence (bloody bandana) that would have proven the husband's innocence, never actually searching for the murderer whom the son described under police questioning. That DA has now been serving the County as a Judge while the innocent husband/father was just released after 20 years in prison, falsely convicted. Meanwhile the real killer struck again, taking another woman's life, depriving another child her mother. All the while, the DA turned Judge failed to face justice until defense lawyers forced the evidence stubbornly being withheld to be produced for DNA testing. He issued a non-apology. At least the local police department has cleaned up its act over the years since the town boomed to the 50K size hiring new professional personnel and Chief over the years. At least the judge faces re-election. He should be disgraced already from office, and may yet be, given the (now adult) daughter of the second murder victim has a legal propaganda war brewing in the media against him and the State Bar is involved.

137 At least the judge faces re-election

Hell he should face jail time himself. Those actions are criminal.

138 Why is there a picture of Chaz Bono above that David Frum article?

139 face jail time himself. Those actions are criminal.

Vic, he'd get his own day in court first. Proof of conspiracy would need to decided. Meanwhile, the TX Bar decides whether or not to condemn Ken Anderson or wash unpleasant accusations against one of their own under the bridge.

140 zzzzZZZZzzzz

141 Yeah, I guess the troll ran everybody off.

142 Pirates - I have heard of that judge, but can't place why. That is terrible. Small town courts can be hellholes sometimes.

143 Nah, we are just getting ready for the big feast. I have a house to clean and food to start preparing.

144 Nah, we are just getting ready for the big feast. I have a house to clean and food to start preparing.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at November 22, 2011 09:57 AM (3bJHs)

My wife has been on the phone with MIL since she got up talking about all the plans for who is bring what to the big feast Thursday.

145 "Why is there a picture of Chaz Bono above that David Frum article?" I'm praying for a Chaz Bono vs. Ira Beatty slapfest.

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

147 I don't get this transgendered stuff. How much pleasure can you really get from a fake penis?

148 55 Craven move by the City, natch, but also an odd gesture. If these hippies wanted to hang out in something resembling a workplace, they'd go get -- you know -- a job.
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I dunno. It might work if the city tosses in free wi-fi.

149 Anybody found a good cover for their- Kindle Fire? Trying to complete my Christmas shopping.

150 Vic,

Williamson TX County law enforcements (police depts. and sheriff) & judicial system wants to maintain its (either fear of God or NAZI) reputation for law and order via HARSH prosecution against crime. For instance, drug deals prosecuted in Wm. Co. get the ultimate charges, jury convictions, and sentences. But since the huge influx of population including illegal aliens and Mexican gangs and cartel trafficking, law enforcement usually only targets the easy pickings of stupid white customers for arrest. Getting drug dealers and meth labs out of neighborhoods is more recently proving to be impossible in this same town, given reluctant police involvement (as if to wash clean the "abusive" reputation) in really dangerous criminal activities. The new "professionals" would rather stick to ticketing white women driving their SUV grocery shopping. A few years ago, the Police SWAT Team showed up across the street, breaking into our good neighbor's home for no solid reason, not even interrogating neighbors coming out to see why all the police cars and vans were swarming. That neighbor (UPS night driver) sleeps days, and got his door broken in and attacked with pepper spray and tazers while sleeping in bed with his ear plugs in. That morning when he got home from work, he had been on the phone with his union, discontented over his inability to transfer funds. So the union rep called our local police and made up a story about our neighbor "armed to the teeth, threatening the public" blah blah boom. With the SWAT Team swarming, I thought surely that there'd been a prison outbreak hiding out in our parks. UNBELIEVABLE if I didn't see it myself, and been friends with the man's family all these years, raising our kids together. The words that sparked SWAT? "Then I'm worth more after I'm dead" remark concluding an argument with his union fund telephone rep who wouldn't allow a transfer of investment. So it goes over these decades, unbelievably malicious abuses of power, absolutely strange use of information delivered as if "intelligence" for police to produce a response. That was during Bush's GW 2nd term, bad enough misjudging such a "terror threat" before Janet Napolitano led Obama/Holder DHS.

Don't tell me you've never come across such problems yourself. I'd think you're wearing blinders.

151 Don't tell me you've never come across such problems yourself. I'd think you're wearing blinders.

Oh we had a small town near here years ago running a crooked scam for speaders. They nailed a friend of mine in a 4 cylinder International Harvester Scout charged him with DUI, failure to stop for a blue light, running a stop sign, and exceeding 110 mph trying to evade.

He scheduled court with a lawyer but before he went to court they tried to pull similar shit with another guy who turned out to be a State Senator's son. SLED came in a cleaned their clock.

But usually when this kind of corruption makes the news the State will step in and start squashing them like bugs.

152 "I dunno. It might work if the city tosses in free wi-fi." Don't joke. I bet they do throw in wifi. I hate this shitty city.

153 Vic, In case you're still around or come back, don't sweat USAA's lack of branch offices. I've never set foot in one, either. The only reason I have an account at Wells Fargo is because USAA doesn't do business checking. I have no beefs with WellsFargo. My wife has an account with a credit union, and she has no beef with them. Both those things said, USAA Banking is just better than either of the other two.

154 This is why I think the Davis cops are getting a raw deal: 1.These people aren't protesting. They are setting up camp anywhere they are allowed to do so. 2.There was very little reaction to the pepper spray. They got a move your ass dose.

155 Posted by: The Pirates Your Mom Feared at November 22, 2011 10:09 AM (lpWVn)


Where and when in Wmson County was this? I didn't hear anything about it.

156 I fooled you all. I am really an Obama supporter.

Posted by: Vic at November 22, 2011 09:02 AM (t4YF+)

Victora the tranny is always coming into these areas. She is actually pretty hot.

Posted by: RichRepublican at November 22, 2011 09:11 AM (t4YF+)

Busted!


Isn't sock puppeting a regular grounds for the ban hammer?

157 Isn't sock puppeting a regular grounds for the ban hammer?

Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry at November 22, 2011 11:21 AM (bvfSj)

Yes

158 School trip to Lockheed canceled because two students are not U.S. citizens

Giant U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin welcomes school classes and other youth groups to tour its sprawling west Fort Worth plant to see big warplanes being made.

There are some catches, as an Aledo fifth-grade teacher recently found: In addition to being at least 10, anyone touring the plant must be a U.S. citizen.

The Defense Department has imposed tighter security on defense plants, including citizenship checks of even preadolescent kids.

The issue came to light recently when a fifth-grade teacher at Coder Elementary School in Aledo asked about a taking a field trip to Lockheed. On learning of the citizenship requirement and finding that two of the students in the class are not citizens, Coder Principal Amy Sadler nixed the field trip.

159 Tell us how you really think.

160 You can take a kick to the balls easier when you have none...John Kerry is such a winbag and so is that Rino Bayyyyynor the sheep...

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