1 Loose lips shouldn't throw stones.

2 Damn dog woke me up 45 minutes before my alarm.  Argh!

I see Berlusconi has been indicted on charges that he paid a teen for sex. 

3 Loose lips shouldn't throw stones.

Reminds me of a show I saw in Tijuana...

4 Reminds me of a show I saw in Tijuana...

Posted by: nickless at February 15, 2011 07:07 AM (MMC8r)

That's hawt.

5 I see Berlusconi has been indicted on charges that he paid a teen for sex. 

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2011 07:04 AM (VuLos)

Given what he was able to get away with for free, the merchandise must have been incredible. 

6

The big news from Monday is that Dwayn Johnson, aka The Rock, has returned to the WWE for an indefinite, but signifigant, period as a professional wrestler.

And my wife nearly threw her soiled panties at the TV screen when she saw him.

Somehow, I ended up being the bad guy for being merely pleased and not super-orgasmic at his return to the squared circle.

7

Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing

Barack and Michelle are the biggest boobs to ever inhabit the White House.

8 A bleh deh meh geh beh? B b ba be begh segh? Nehg lehsd!

9 When impeached, being asked why he'd broken his oath of office with criminal acts, Clinton said "Because I could."

Gelman - who sources said appeared to be on drugs - dropped a blood-stained 10-inch knife in the struggle. He was taken to the NYC 61st Precinct stationhouse, where cops asked him why so many people were killed or hurt. "Why?! Because I say so!"

10

Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing

Barack and Michelle are the biggest boobs to ever inhabit the White House.

From what kind of bees can you get milk?

 

Give up?

 

 

 

 

Boobies!

 

11

An optimistic look fuels Obama's budget.-AP

A pessimistic look fuels my budget.

12 Dwayn Johnson, aka The Rock,

His movies not doing so well?

13 A bleh deh meh geh beh? B b ba be begh segh? Nehg lehsd!

Posted by: Serena Branson at February 15, 2011 07:25 AM (le5qc)

I feel somewhat bad for her.  To be possessed by Cthulhu on national television...

14 early morning jokester

heh

15

Serena Branson at February 15, 2011 07:25 AM (le5qc)

I feel somewhat bad for her.

-------

I heard she had a stroke.

16

Posted by: early morning jokester at February 15, 2011 07:27 AM (eYr2a

You just made my 15 year old son's day.

17 I heard she had a stroke.

Poisoned by birth control and smoking

18

Given what he was able to get away with for free, the merchandise must have been incredible. 

Posted by: Reactionary at February 15, 2011 07:13 AM (xUM1Q)

I hope it was worth it. 

She's old enough to be his....GRANDdaughter!

19

You just made my 15 year old son's day.

That joke was told to me by a co-worker.  It was his son's joke.  His son is 2.

20
The Obama Administration is udderly ridiculous!

21 Damn dog woke me up 45 minutes before my alarm.  Argh!

My Tie Rack broke and crashed to the floor @ 4AM which brought the eldest dog to my defense. He was really glad he didn't have to bite anything that early in the morning.

22 From each according to their ability good things come to those that wait

23
The Leaf takes 6 hours to regenerate its battery? That's just ridiculously inconvenient.

Electric rates gone astronomical in order to subsidize building solar power outside Austin City Limits.

For about $30. flat fee, the City of Austin will allow electric cars unlimited electricity for six months. 

Awfully convenient for those inconvenienced with electric car ownership responsibility burdens, passing the cost to every other electric utility customer to pay for what the vast majority are not getting and never requested.

24 17 I heard she had a stroke.

Poisoned by birth control and smoking

Posted by: Beto at February 15, 2011 07:35 AM (j5CHE)

Amazing what the listed (known) side effects are for most drug related methods of birth control.

25

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

26 File this in the 'No Shit' pile:

Inflation hits 4% in UK due to VAT tax and high gas prices. 

27

If at first you don't succeed, death and taxes.

28 saw a headline on drudge which says each person owes 12000 each to pay of the debt.

I have an idea.   Why doesn't uncle ben open the fed window to the American people.  Loan each of us the money at the interest he's loaning it to the banks and then allow us to pay off the debt, with each of us owning $12 grand.  They would let you deduct it from your income tax too.

Then the debt would be extinguished, well not really but, at least we, the American people would own our own debt and control our own destiny without anyone else in the mix.

29 Awfully convenient for those inconvenienced with electric car ownership responsibility burdens, passing the cost to every other electric utility customer to pay for what the vast majority are not getting and never requested.

Posted by: by any other name at February 15, 2011 07:41 AM (H+LJc)

A variant on the Ponzi scheme, green energy consists of promises (fantastic performance right around the corner), subsidies (since the free/real market cannot find a cost efficient method of production mostly due to the laws of physics and the existence of campaign contributors like GE), and passing the cost along to others (a de facto wealth transfer scheme to ensure you will support green energy even if you would prefer to stay off the green grid).

The next step is, of course, adding solar panels to high speed trains.  The trains will run on time, just not at night or on really cloudy days.

30 I see Berlusconi has been indicted on charges that he paid a teen for sex.


What a creep!

31 The trains will have windmills too. They'll use the forward motion of the train to generate all the power they need.

32

In Delaware, The Narrative is advanced each day. From the local paper this morning from a WaPo reporter:

"Fueled by tea party fervor, some Republicans say they are willing to shut down the government to force fiscal restraint. while Democrats are courting independent voters with a more judicious approach."  

33 Yeah, I don't blame you Jay...some shit is just too hard to spin....

Newly installed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spent his first day on the job officially staying away from the White House briefing room.

Carney, who replaces former Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, decided not to speak to the nation today. The decision surprised and disappointed White House reporters, who presumably will have to wait until Tuesday to get a crack at President ObamaÂ’s new spokesman.

snip~

Normally on “budget day,” a briefing by the OMB director and possibly other economic aides is followed by an appearance by the press secretary, who is more adept at “spinning” the all-important document and who can also clean up any mistakes made by his wonkish colleagues. Last year, Gibbs briefed soon after Obama’s economic advisers were finished.

http://tinyurl.com/4s4ppzg

34 Batchelor had his car expert on last night.  she was on with a guy from the GM division that is doing research on hydrogen fuel cells.  All the money has been pulled from hydrogen fuel cells.  She presented a great case as to why the government should continue funding both technologies as it seems they feed off one another.  Oddly enough my mom was listening and she said the car expert described exactly what used to go on within the space program.  My mom said a lot of the stuff that we take for granted now came out of research in the space program.

One of the interesting things Batchlor's car expert said was that every president seems to decide which technology they like and only fund that one and that this is what is holding us back, she thinks they should fund both and it will benefit all.

If you have a chance, listen to the podcast, it was on before ten pm as I was driving while listening.  It was a very fascinating discussion.

35 File this one under WTF?!

NY health officials launch condom finder phone appThe app is designed to locate the five nearest venues that distribute official NYC Condoms in jazzy wrappers printed with colorful subway maps or other city themes.

36 31 The trains will have windmills too. They'll use the forward motion of the train to generate all the power they need.

Posted by: Joe Biden (D-Amtrak) at February 15, 2011 07:55 AM (veZ9n)

I was planning on using sails since I remember the prairie schooners so well, but I think you've really got something with that windmill idea.  We might have to raise a few railroad bridge crossings, but that is just shovel ready infrastructure so I don't really see a problem.

37 Posted by: RM at February 15, 2011 07:55 AM (1kwr2)

That's not true.  I know a lot of independent voters, and they are thinking a lot like the tea party crows, they say right out in bars and stuff "fire everyone in the government, downsize it and if that means shutting down the government, so be it".   I've heard people say that a lot lately with no ideology but the fact that they are sick of the way things are gong now.

38 NY health officials launch condom finder phone appThe app is designed to locate the five nearest venues that distribute official NYC Condoms in jazzy wrappers printed with colorful subway maps or other city themes.

Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 07:58 AM (penCf)

You know my friend, Bob Sacamano?

He just got a job at a condom factory in Edison. Look at this,
he gave me a gross.

39 Dear Golly, a learn-about-condoms-bus (and an ad campaign!) sponsored by San Fran.:

Other public health departments around the country are promoting FC2 to help stop unintended pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. But San Francisco's health department is taking it a step further: designing a citywide marketing campaign that not only appeals to women, but includes gay men using the product during anal sex.

Soon, you'll see posters promoting the FC2 on Muni buses. (We hear the Metropolitan Transportation Agency was a bit particular on what they would allow on the posters. No surprise considering the bus posters for the health department's Healthy Penis campaign to promote syphilis testing could only include talking cartoon penises if they wore little outfits.)

Health outreach workers will also distribute posters and cards promoting FC2 at community agencies and businesses.

Staffers in the department's STD and HIV prevention sections will be at Civic Center Plaza at noon Monday to kick off the campaign. The Teacher Bus - a classroom on wheels - will appear around the city throughout the afternoon to distribute free packs of mints, chocolates and female condoms.

40 34  Are you unaware of where fuel cells came from or are you just trolling?

41 Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 07:58 AM (penCf)

I think bloomberg and NY were embarrassed by the amount of abortions in the state.  Oddly enough, the libs/dems i know are saying that "people come from all over the world to have abortions in NYC and that is skewing the statistics".  By about the third time I heard that I just laughed.

42 dog to my defense. --Beto

Down with neckties
Sadie      Sadie

43 All politicians should be required to have battery powered cars.  They should be the first to have to use them.  Because I've got news for them, battery powered cars are not the answer.  They will cause more problems than what we have now.  Where do people think all this extra electricity will have to come from?  It won't be windmills if that's what they have on their minds.  People who push this "green" shit need to get real.

44 40 34  Are you unaware of where fuel cells came from or are you just trolling?

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at February 15, 2011 08:05 AM (4B5QB)

I don't know much about cars.  But batchelor's car expert made a good case for continuing the research.   Why, where do they come from that would make me discussing it look like a troll?

45 Sometimes I REALLY hope the Obama/WH Insider is legit:

Lastly but most important, flurry of activity coming out of Issa office very recently.  Whispers now circulating something “concrete” has been found by Issa that is harmful to White House.  Enough so that legal reps from White House most recently met directly with Issa office.  Actually believe the Bill Daley appointment made in part to also help assist in heading that situation off in favor of the WH.  I still donÂ’t trust Issa to follow through.  Fear he has gotten too cozy with WH but I could be wrong.  I hope so.  As to that something “concrete” is it related to the scandal I maintain is out there festering?  Birther related?  Not certain, but an important thing to realize the growing number of Dems who are hopeful that is the case.  That is a huge shift from just this time last year.  More and more of us are increasingly angry at this administration and the damage it has done to so many inside the party

46 I don't know much about cars.  But batchelor's car expert made a good case for continuing the research.   Why, where do they come from that would make me discussing it look like a troll?

NASA 1950's space project, lots of money dumped into it for decades.

47 43 All politicians President Obama should be required to have battery powered cars.
FIFY

48 People who push this "green" shit need to get real.

Posted by: Case at February 15, 2011 08:07 AM (0K+Kw)

No, they can't get real. That is their reality, and it's got unicorns and skittles in it. I have come to the conclusion that they are just stunningly, stupendously, mind-bogglingly stupid. Anyone who doesn't understand that electricity isn't free -- that it has to be generated by something, somewhere -- is just retarded.

49 curious at February 15, 2011 07:49 AM

Last time Mark Steyn subbed for Rush, he took a call with a similar take on "solving" our national debt. Steyn said that the problem would not be solved by either taxpayers or donors paying the debt UNTIL the government stops spending as they do. Wipe the slate clean, and given the same spending habits, the overspending and debt reoccur perpetually.

Whether he meant to or not, Steyn's point substantiates the Ron Paul and Rand Paul congressional economic agenda.

50 Oddly enough, the libs/dems i know are saying that "people come from all over the world to have abortions in NYC and that is skewing the statistics".

I remember when I was living in LA, I always heard the phrase: 'Black women have lots of abortions because the evil, white man keeps getting her pregnant in hopes they die during an abortion or at least become sterile.'

I could not believe the ignorance of LAers.  I HAD to get out of there.

51

Lifehacker shows readers how to set their car on fire. Awesome comments.

http://tinyurl.com/4knkon6

52 26 File this in the 'No Shit' pile:

Inflation hits 4% in UK due to VAT tax and high gas prices. 
Impossible!  Gas prices have absolutely no impact on inflation!  Which is why we don't include them in the CPI.

53

50 momma-

Leftwing demcorats delude themselves with all sorts of fabrications.  I run into it all the time. The left ebrace whole lies on a daily basis.

54 Is this an official-official nuclear power plant?

Syria is considering building its first nuclear power plant by 2020, state document shows - Reuters http://bit.ly/f23TQ4

55 Birds of a feather gather no moss.

56 Posted by: Lemon Kitten at February 15, 2011 08:18 AM (0fzsA)
If you can't believe in lies, what can you believe in?

57

A variant on the Ponzi scheme, green energy consists of promises (fantastic performance right around the corner), subsidies (since the free/real market cannot find a cost efficient method of production mostly due to the laws of physics and the existence of campaign contributors like GE), and passing the cost along to others (a de facto wealth transfer scheme to ensure you will support green energy even if you would prefer to stay off the green grid).

 

There's your THREAD WINNER

58 A solar energy collection base was built years ago in the Mojave Desert, perfectly situated for full sun and isolation. The greenbean peabrains declared it hurtful to the environment.

Now those same greentards are building solar collection centers where as often as not, there's cloud cover in Austin, not to mention the surrounding oaks that need be removed on the East side of town, in a populated area, displacing low income property owners.

59 As Archimedes said: "Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, or I kill one hostage per hour." (courtesy of XKCD)

60 Posted by: by any other name at February 15, 2011 08:14 AM (H+LJc)

I guess I thought that was sort of understood.

A friend of mine payed off her credit cards. I said to her, now you have to cut them up or put them in the freezer which is literally what a lot of my friends are doing.  She said after doing the payoff she will not get into debt again,  she has learned her lesson.  yesterday she told me she is already a grand in debt.  It's all stuff that she had no choice about, her car died, but, had she not been able to whip out the credit card, maybe she would have had to come up with another solution to pay for the car repairs.

My friends aren't giving up their cards.  They are afraid if they do they won't be able to get cards again.  Thus the idea of putting them in glad ware in water in the freezer is really catching on.

61 Ahh, another must read.  I ask you, Fact or Fiction? Coincidence?

Sex and Murder in The Land of Obama?

62 ItÂ’s time for Americans to realize that budgeting is hard work, and that a president canÂ’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything.

63 Posted by: Truman North at February 15, 2011 08:21 AM (8ay4x)
Thank you sir, my battery and I will be here (and on charge) all week!

64 "they say right out in bars and stuff"

Big talk while drunk. When in the voting booth, it always boils down to "what's in it for me". So the momentum protesting squandered, exorbitant taxation needs perpetual continuity.

/Woo-hoo! Valu-Rite for everyone...

65

Leftwing demcorats delude themselves with all sorts of fabrications.  I run into it all the time. The left ebrace whole lies on a daily basis.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at February 15, 2011 08:18 AM (0fzsA)

My lib idiot brother sears it has never been called global warming.  I forwarded all the e-mails he ever sent me on global warming and he swears he never sent them to me first.

Ug

........

Impossible!  Gas prices have absolutely no impact on inflation!  Which is why we don't include them in the CPI.

Posted by: Truman North at February 15, 2011 08:18 AM (8ay4x)

Neither do food prices   How the hell are your TN?  Is Nam Grunt still commenting here?  I have only seen his name once.

66 So logic has no place in Obamaworld.  As long as I keep that in mind the stupid makes sense and I keep sanity.

67 65 sears = swears.  Sorry. Need-more-coffee

68 Whether he meant to or not, Steyn's point substantiates the Ron Paul and Rand Paul congressional economic agenda.

Steyn came out for earmarks?

69 Your thoughts?
American Thinker: The Next Black President?

70 ZOMBIE! COME BACK!

71 Yay, Obama presser at 11 AM. Can't wait.

72 I see Berlusconi has been indicted on charges that he paid a teen for sex. Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2011 07:04 AM (VuLos) He is 74, he shouldn't be indicted, but given an award. I mean as long as it is not my daughter.

73 Yay, Obama presser at 11 AM. Can't wait. Posted by: Lincolntf at February 15, 2011 08:35 AM (xMT+4) OK I'll hold it in till 11, then proceed to the reading room

74 New EPA regulations require all breastfeeding mothers and their demonseed to wear the proper PPE, in compliance with OSHA standards. Breastfeeding will only be allowed in restricted containment areas designed to mitigate spill hazards.

75 Dalai Lama. Not Dali, Dolly, Dally.
I just can't stop myself.

76 Fox News:  President Obama will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. ET

I'll be at work...but you all enjoy!

77 Oh, and the plural of Paki is Pakis, not Paki's.
That apostrophe hurts my eyes.

78 For 30 years I've bought GM and Crysler (jeep) products. Never again.

79 I put on beck and I'm listening to him do the commercial for his wife's weight loss program.  He says she works out all the time.  She must be wonder woman, she works out, she home schools.  She has to have an army of helpers and a hired certified school teacher to get all that done.  But he's not telling us that, is he?

80 69 Your thoughts?
American Thinker: The Next Black President?   My thoughts?  Sure!  For a person to vote based solely on skin color is as racist as voting against someone based solely on skin color.   The racists are the ones who put Obama in the White House.   Don't know Cain, but will.  Impressed with West since I first heard of him ("Carry two cans of gasoline through Hell!).

81 It also couldn't be that half of America had to run their generators for at least a few days last month, etc., etc., etc.

I've got 8 gallons in my carport that I'll just put in my car now.  Thanks for the reminder.

82 One of my friends was telling a bunch of us, all college grads, some docs, some lawyers, some MBA's and a couple of master's degree, some working towards PHD"s at a get together, that the average auto worker on the line makes about 70 grand.  This came up in response to someone bringing up their bonuses.  A lot of my friends are carrying enormous debt in order to fund their educations.  They are all working but they aren't being paid what someone in their position would have commanded during the Bush years.  They were shocked and angry that "someone who is basically putting together IKEA furniture is making that kind of money" and getting a bonus.  When their salaries are way less than that in the private sector.  I mean these people were really angry about this.  Is that true, does your average line person auto worker make that much money or was our friend just trying to get a rise out of us?

83 in my post private is meant to be public   didn't have coffee yet

84 81 I put on beck and I'm listening to him do the commercial for his wife's weight loss program.  He says she works out all the time.  She must be wonder woman, she works out, she home schools.  She has to have an army of helpers and a hired certified school teacher to get all that done.  But he's not telling us that, is he?

OK, just stop.  Eat a little less + exercise a little more=lose weight.  I spend around ten minutes a day that covers what I did for basic PT in the Marines (minus the running).  There are whole curricula and materials available for home schooling.  It is not like she has to pull it out her (hush yo' mouth!).

85 Is that true, does your average line person auto worker make that much money or was our friend just trying to get a rise out of us?


It's true.  Some of my in-laws work in a GM parts factory and can make $100,000 with overtime.  Plus, they don't have to work Saturday, or even the week, and still make 2x for working Sunday. Plus, if they take voluntary lay-off they make 3/4 wage plus collect unemployment.  Basically, they make more money not working.

86 Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 09:02 AM (penCf)

wow they are paid not to work?  seriously when the 99er's have now lost their unemployment, we are out there paying people not to work?

It like that stupid "paying farmers not to farm" stuff.  Why don't they just cut that program, bet we'd get tons of money back on that one.

87 @84 if you think that is bad, check out a typical civil servants pay and benefits, then throw in that sweet sweet defined benefits retirement with full health care for life.

88 Hard to say curious, what advanced degree you'd have, not to know where the goddamned hell fuel cells even came from. You're telling me that lawyers and PhD candidates don't know the difference between take-home pay and total cost to employer...I'm inclined to believe you.

1. Yes, auto workers are paid quite a lot more than the market will bear.

2. The figures you will hear bandied about are "management" figures. They represent the amount the person "makes," with all the cut-outs, deductions and take-aways included, plus the cost of having a person on the payroll, things like payments into mandated benefits plans the employee may or may not use, the cost of safety oversight for the workplace divided by the number of bodies passing through it, the projected value of sick leave, disability, and vacation (whether or not used), and the like. It will always be a scary number, and will always piss off the people you seem to be avoiding in your "bunch" because they never see a third of that in their greasy non-degreed palm. It's a fair number, in planning for hiring (or not), but useless for, like, signing a mortgage, paying the bar tab at the bowling alley, or buying yet another bass boat, which is how the little people spend their cash.

89 i really get sick and tired of people getting upset at what other people make.... jealousy is really ugly....

90 Those racist Aussies!

Petition to Ban Muslim Immigration to Australia for 10 Years Called “Bigoted”…

Isn't "democracy" grand?

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood to set up party once restrictions are lifted

91 I have friends just coming out of school.  Some are docs and lawyers and some have their master's degrees now.  some have sibs who just got their batchelor's degrees.  Every one of them had trouble finding a job.  Even the lawyers. 

Seriously, my friends sibs, with their batchelor's degrees are making between twenty and forty grand, they took months to find their jobs  and they are so happy to have the jobs they didn't even think to question how little they are being paid in salary.  Plus they aren't working 9 to 5,  any of them.  They are all working long hours for very little money.

92 58 A solar energy collection base was built years ago in the Mojave Desert, perfectly situated for full sun and isolation. The greenbean peabrains declared it hurtful to the environment.
--------
Oh, I can do you better than that. I'm aware of at least two that couldn't get built because of the greenies.

One down by Baker couldn't get built due to the possibility that it might mildly annoy endangered tortoises.

One right by where I live that couldn't get built due to issues about water required to keep dust of the collectors and the possibility of dust getting into the air during construction.

93 @91 I reserve the right to be as jealous as I want to be of hacks whose paycheck and gold plated benefits come from my taxes + government borrowing against my kids' projected taxes.

94 i really get sick and tired of people getting upset at what other people make.... jealousy is really ugly....

I don't care what anyone makes on their own.

The problem with GM and Gov workers their asking me to subsidize some of that wealth.

GM and many gov have over promised their workers compensation to what the company or state can pay and now they want me to bail them out when they already make more than me. That pisses me off.

95 what I'm trying to say is that my friends and their sibs are in real debt to pay for their educations and the salaries they were supposed to command aren't there.  Heck the jobs they were supposed to fill aren't there.  And yes, some are even engineers but they say they "aren't the right kind of engineer".

I'm not knocking the auto workers or the farmers or the public employees.  What I'm saying is that they need to be in line with the private sector or the private sector needs to raise salaries fast.

96 momma at February 15, 2011 08:25 AM

Well, that story would correlate as a natural extension following his grandfather's encouragement of relations with "uncle" Frank, and his college boyfriend (Pakistani?) who sponsored Barry's high life while together those days. Given his love/hate relations with mom and gramma growing up, a lot of bio records were uncovered during the premature onset of his '08 perpetual campaign. I found the timing too convenient that gramma coincidentally died just as Obama was to swear into office. Clean slate. No loose tales, no loose tongues to wag. 

DADT should cover that constituency's loyalty.

97 ??? soldiers' claim they were raped and abused by their comrades...news this minute on the radio

98 Wait, one of the morons got a date?

99 Everyone thought it was okay to bash the banksters, to bash private industry.  so now private industry is paying a very low wage for very long hours.  Where is the money going?

100 buzz and that is why for the first time in my life i didn't buy an american union made car..... and i never will again......

101

A little furry decadence to start your morning.

102 @101 Everyone?  Or every one of your exquisitely educated acquaintances?

103 Where is the money going?

When the only money coming in is from tarp what is a company that is not on the Presidents approved manufacturers list supposed to pay it's employees with?

104 LOL!  It's so funny when Americans call Pakistanis  "Pakis".

105 "Silver Streaks in the Sky Likely a Meteor"
did anyone see this?

106 Is Nam Grunt still commenting here?  I have only seen his name once.
Posted by: momma

Vic said a while ago that 'Nam had a flame war here.

107 106 LOL!  It's so funny when Americans call Pakistanis  "Pakis".

Its funnier when someone cares how it is spelled. 

108

The stupid, it burns:

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday expressed concern that someone like conservative author Ann Coulter has the "freedom" to make a joke about jailing journalists.

Newsbusters.

109 104 @101 Everyone?  Or every one of your exquisitely educated acquaintances?

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 15, 2011 09:21 AM (0IPsJ)

I'm sensing a certain resentment because my friends are educated.  I live in NYC, everyone I know has a college degree at the very least.    I don't know a single person from my high school class who did not go to college, not a single one.  Even my friend who will inherit a great plumbing business is getting his MBA as his dad thinks he will need it to keep the plumbing business going in the future.

110 108 Is Nam Grunt still commenting here?  I have only seen his name once.


He was gone for while, but posts now and again again...

111 The racists are the ones who put Obama in the White House. 

And they won't vote for Cain, because he's neither a racist nor a Communist. Sigh.

I found the timing too convenient that gramma coincidentally died just as Obama was to swear into office.

It was the night before the election. They could pull the kids out of school for that, but not to go see their dying great-grandmother.  Nice family.

112 #112  He was gone for while, but posts now and again again...

He posts about all the delectable meals he is making/consuming.  I'm very jealous!

113 I'm sensing a certain resentment because my friends are educated.

Not because they're educated, because of the non-stop sneering at everyone who didn't get the same fabulous snooty East Coast education.  Reciprocation.

114 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 15, 2011 09:29 AM (9hSKh)

Okay, I'm confused. You appreciate a good meal, but not a nice set? They're both basic pleasures!

115 Oh, and the plural of Paki is Pakis, not Paki's.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at February 15, 2011 08:49 AM (xqhoO)

The plural of "Paki" is "mob of belligerent, aggressive, violent primitives".

116

Hey, kids, it's 180 time!

To all those under 30 who worked so hard to get this man elected, know this: he just screwed you over. He thinks youÂ’re fools. Either the US will go into default because of ObamaÂ’s cowardice, or you will be paying far far more for far far less because this president has no courage when it counts.

That's from Andrew Sullivan. I'll link to someone quoting him.

117 It was the night before the election. They could pull the kids out of school for that, but not to go see their dying great-grandmother.  Nice family.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 15, 2011 09:28 AM (nAOMZ)

Wasn't there a story in an Hawaii paper that called her death many days before Obama 'announced' she was sick?

Plus, what is that guys name who gave the deposition about having sex with Odogma? Something Sinclair maybe?

118

They could pull the kids out of school for that, but not to go see their dying great-grandmother.  Nice family.

Things like that are so weird. You are in the public eye, people notice this stuff. Oh, wait, it's only bitter clingers who notice. Never mind.

119 Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 08:11 AM (penCf)

Thanks for that link; it explains why the Obots have begun a destroy Issa project.

120 College is overrated. All of the "degreed" people I know are dumb as walls when it comes to reality, or outright sociopaths. I'll stick with my lower-middle class, diploma-ed peeps.

121

The plural of "Paki" is "mob of belligerent, aggressive, violent primitives".

Posted by: iknowtheleft at February 15, 2011 09:33 AM (N49h9)

They are called Obama's cousins at our house

122 Is this the tolerance, or the civility?

123

And Patterico adds

the difference between Sullivan and me is that Sullivan appears to be surprised.

Lack of leadership. Who would have thought?

124 Oh, and the plural of Paki is Pakis, not Paki's.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at February 15, 2011 08:49 AM (xqhoO)

Thanks. I will fix it.

125
Thanks for that link; it explains why the Obots have begun a destroy Issa project.

Posted by: CSI AoS at February 15, 2011 09:36 AM (eh+ki)

No problem.  You should read the other 'scoops' by this guy.  Many happen weeks after he says they will.  One of the best ones was when he said Bo/Mo high fivesd and giggled after the 'Memorial' speech in AZ.  Another was when he said the birther thing had freaked the WH out a few weeks ago.

Plus they have a 'Palin Insider' but I haven't had time to read those scoops yet.

126 Even my friend who will inherit a great plumbing business is getting his MBA as his dad thinks he will need it to keep the plumbing business going in the future.

Posted by: curious at February 15, 2011 09:26 AM (p302b)

Well, that's pretty silly.  MBAs are about the most useless degrees out there.  The only reason that MBAs are of any value (other than the certificate, which dazzles some) is to make connections.  There's nothing of any great value in the MBA curriculum, and certainly nothing that a person couldn't pretty easily learn all on his own, at no cost.  Wharton, for all of its great reputation, is a total joke.  If that school were any good, at all, and had any idea how to run businesses, then the school would have supported itself with the huge amount of money earned by a business being run by its genius staff.  But, when those staff consult real businesses, they tend to fuck them up, and Wharton doesn't even run itself very well.

127 What's the plural of Pock-ee-stahn?

128

And Patterico adds

the difference between Sullivan and me is that Sullivan appears to be surprised.

Lack of leadership. Who would have thought?

 

Maybe his dealer is dry and Sullivan's emerging from a marijuana induced haze.

129

WASHINGTON—The White House projected Monday that the federal deficit would spike to $1.65 trillion in the current fiscal year, the largest dollar amount ever, adding pressure on Democrats and Republicans to tackle growing levels of debt.

The proposed budget seeks to prevent many middle-class Americans from being subjected to the Alternative Minimum Tax, which would raise their tax bills, for three years starting in fiscal 2012. To cover the cost, the administration would put new limits on the ability of the wealthiest earners to utilize tax deductions to lower their tax burden, among them deductions for charitable contributions and mortgage interest.

 

Thank you King Barry

130

What's the plural of Pock-ee-stahn?

pockeestahnees?

131 Is this the tolerance, or the civility?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 15, 2011 09:37 AM (nAOMZ)

That actually made my stomach hurt and tears come to my eyes.  It just makes me sick.  You would think that they'd want others to succeed.

132

Well, that's pretty silly.  MBAs are about the most useless degrees out there.  The only reason that MBAs are of any value (other than the certificate, which dazzles some) is to make connections.  There's nothing of any great value in the MBA curriculum, and certainly nothing that a person couldn't pretty easily learn all on his own, at no cost.  Wharton, for all of its great reputation, is a total joke.  If that school were any good, at all, and had any idea how to run businesses, then the school would have supported itself with the huge amount of money earned by a business being run by its genius staff.  But, when those staff consult real businesses, they tend to fuck them up, and Wharton doesn't even run itself very well.

They're valuable if you are working in a big business. It is likely you won't get promoted to upper management without some MBA or degree in Management.

For smaller businesses, you can get by with experience.

133 Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 15, 2011 09:30 AM (nAOMZ)

I don't feel that I'm smearing at anyone.  I don't feel like my telling you my friends are educated, saddled with enormous debt for their education and trying to figure out if they will ever be able to get married and have a family with children and buy a house, like their parents did is smearing at all.  I'm trying to tell you that they are all angry and upset.   They were told that getting an education would pay off, well, so far it hasn't and then to learn that an auto worker, someone who probably has just a high school education, is commanding that kind of salary, when you are making twenty grand and living in a huvel in NYC with ten other girls.  I'm sorry it's a little hard to take.

134

President Obama released his budget this morning.  Rather than focusing on WashingtonÂ’s over-spending problem, the budget calls for higher taxes on families and small businesses to pay for even more government spending.  Under the Obama budget, tax revenues will grow from 14.4% of GDP in 2011 to 20% of GDP in 2021.  By comparison, the historical average is only 18% of GDP.

Add it all together, and this budget is a ten-year, $1.5 trillion tax hike over present law.  ThatÂ’s $1.5 trillion taken out of the economy and spent on government instead of being used to create jobs.

The “tax relief” in the budget is mostly just an extension of present law, and also some refundable credit outlay spending in the tax code.  There is virtually no new tax relief relative to present law in the PresidentÂ’s budget.

Thank you King Barry

 

135 @111 USNA here, so no, it is not resentment of education per se, merely a mild sort of Schadenfreude that your friends (who you yourself have described as fairly universally a set of leftists of one variety or another) are simply flabbergasted that their pursuit of degrees in non-critical majors did not lead to a pot of gold. 

Exit question:  How many of your circle have ever considered military service?

136 Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 15, 2011 09:44 AM (0IPsJ)

well I have one friend in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, but they went to service academies.

137 Why does the cat suddenly find it necessary to climb up the inside of the blinds on this window??

138

Plus they have a 'Palin Insider' but I haven't had time to read those scoops yet.

Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 09:40 AM (penCf)

Ok, you convinced me to bookmark it.  And time to get rid of that meddlesome sock.

Jesus fucking Christ, I wish Laura Ingraham would stop giving a forum to Pat Buchanan.  I'd rather listen to dead air.

139
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

140

They're valuable if you are working in a big business. It is likely you won't get promoted to upper management without some MBA or degree in Management.

Posted by: Ben at February 15, 2011 09:42 AM (wuv1c)

That's what I meant by "which dazzles some".  Other than this, or making connections with the others who HAVE to get their MBAs to move up (or as with our example, making connections with heirs who have ready-made businesses waiting for them) there is no actual value in pursuing an MBA.  In fact, studying for an MBA is pretty strong evidence of idiocy.

141 @138  Well, the military is an out for those of your circle who have degrees, debt and no prospects.

142 Something important to teach your children weather or not they are going on to get a degree is how to fix things.

My father who happens to be a Dr spent a lot of time teaching us plumbing, electrical and carpentry (I learned engines from friends).

Growing up I thought dad was a prick for making me fix the house almost every weekend I now thank him since that knowledge has saved me several thousands of dollars.

143

I see Berlusconi has been indicted on charges that he paid a teen for sex. 

A couple of things.  First, the teen was 17.  I don't know why the media always uses "teen".  In fact, she was legally working as a "dancer."

Second, the crime isn't underage sex, it's underage solicitation.  The age of consent in Italy is 14.  Yes, that's right, 14.  But the age of consent for selling sexual services is 18.

So, yes, if he paid for her a year later, that would be legal also.

So don't be surprised if he gets off.  I mean, again.  I mean, is not prosecuted.

144 and then to learn that an auto worker, someone who probably has just a high school education, is commanding that kind of salary

Yup, there it is.  "How dare someone with just a high school education make money when there are girls in NYC with expensive college degrees (in what?) who aren't?!"

You might not see it as sneering, but that's how it's coming across.

145

So, yes, if he paid for her a year later, that would be legal also.

Posted by: AmishDude at February 15, 2011 09:49 AM (BvBKY)

Berlusconi fucked up.  He should have given her stock options that were vested for a year ... or, perhaps, a post-dated check (until after she was 1 would have done the trick.

146 It's a toss up on who uses the words ' my friend ' more often, McCain or curious.

147

Well, that's pretty silly.  MBAs law degrees are about the most useless degrees out there.  The only reason that MBAs law degrees are of any value (other than the certificate, which dazzles some) is to make connections.  There's nothing of any great value in the MBA law degree curriculum, and certainly nothing that a person couldn't pretty easily learn all on his own, at no cost. 

FIFY.

148 @149 I think you need one to sit for the bar exam in most states too.

149 Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 15, 2011 09:49 AM (nAOMZ)

I'm not snearing, I'm not that kind of person.  More power to them.  But my friends are not me and they are really angry that they bought into the idea of a college education and that someone who didn't who only went to high school and maybe not even that, is making 70 grand plus, building cars. 

One of them even told a BO commercial where he says to get a degree, to shut up.  I was prompted to say "trouble in paradise with you and the prez?"

You want to make me out to be some kind of education bigot, I"m not, I"m just saying that a lot of promises are made by these universities and they aren't coming to fruition.  Education is a billion dollar business.

150 http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119-budget/index.html?hp

151 First, the teen was 17.  I don't know why the media always uses "teen".

So you think she's younger and thus more helpless.  I've noticed in the US, they'll refer to 19-year-olds as "teens", particularly when they want to inflate statistics (a married 19-yo HS graduate having a baby is different than a 14-yo, but they're all "teen pregnancies").

152 I think you need one to sit for the bar exam in most states too.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 15, 2011 09:54 AM (0IPsJ)

That's the scam.  Someone who can pass the bar, but never went to law school, just isn't allowed to even take the exam.  Meanwhile, we have retards, like the Kennedy clan, who go to the best law school around, pass and get their degrees, but can't pass a simple test with numerous attempts.  It's really pathetic.

That said, I think that one or two state bars have moved to allow regular folks to take the bar exam.  I'm not sure, but I recall hearing this.

153

Well, that's pretty silly.  MBAs law degrees are about the most useless degrees out there.  The only reason that MBAs law degrees are of any value (other than the certificate, which dazzles some) is to make connections.  There's nothing of any great value in the MBA law degree curriculum, and certainly nothing that a person couldn't pretty easily learn all on his own, at no cost. 

Ah, it's good to be home.

154 Amid Dispute Over Arrested American, State Department Requests $3.1 Billion in 2012 Aid for Pakistan

155 @151 I know you are not sneering, curious.  I am merely enjoying a bit of a chuckle while watching your friends maybe kind of/sort of wake up.

156 149

Well, that's pretty silly.  MBAs law degrees are about the most useless degrees out there.  The only reason that MBAs law degrees are of any value (other than the certificate, which dazzles some) is to make connections.  There's nothing of any great value in the MBA law degree curriculum, and certainly nothing that a person couldn't pretty easily learn all on his own, at no cost. 

FIFY.

Nice.  

Health of former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak is deteriorating and he is refusing medical aid, Saudi-owned newspaper reports - Reuters

157 One of them even told a BO commercial where he says to get a degree, to shut up.

Yeah, I'm a bitch.

158

Berlusconi fucked up.  He should have given her stock options that were vested for a year ... or, perhaps, a post-dated check (until after she was 1 would have done the trick.

Posted by: iknowtheleft at February 15, 2011 09:52 AM (N49h9)

He probably assumed she was 18 because of her job.  According to the article I read, she's denying getting paid.

I don't know if he'll go with a defense of "I didn't know she was 17" or "I never paid her for sex" or first one then the other, but I don't think he'll be prosecuted.  I'm sure this is designed to have a political effect, not a legal one.

The opposition wants him to step down.  His roguishness is part of his popularity and his party likes having his charisma.  But I can't see how a country with an age of consent law of 14 and legal prostitution is truly scandalized by this.

159 @154  I know.  But, that does mean law school is good for something besides just meeting potential patrons.

160 144 Something important to teach your children weather or not they are going on to get a degree is how to fix things.

My father who happens to be a Dr spent a lot of time teaching us plumbing, electrical and carpentry (I learned engines from friends).

Growing up I thought dad was a prick for making me fix the house almost every weekend I now thank him since that knowledge has saved me several thousands of dollars.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2011 09:48 AM (tf9Ne)

Your Father gifted you with independence. You are not helpless nor at the mercy of those who would take advantage of your lack of knowledge. That is indeed a gift worthy of a Father.

161

Someone who can pass the bar, but never went to law school, just isn't allowed to even take the exam. 

That's why I call it the bar-rier to entry. It's like a teaching certificate or any other unnecessary licensure. 

162

 they are really angry that they bought into the idea of a college education

I understand that. It's just hard to separate "they bought the idea that this will help them" from the flip side "which makes them better than other people".

It's a touchy issue. And that is not likely to change.

 

On the other hand, I don't appreciate this type of comment, either.

All of the "degreed" people I know are dumb as walls when it comes to reality, or outright sociopaths.

I'm not an idiot, I wasn't before college and it didn't turn me into a newt an idiot or a sociopath.

163

Yay, Obama presser at 11 AM. Can't wait.

Maybe he's going to announce that he's taking a permanent vacation...

Hey, we all have our fantasies!

164 Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2011 10:00 AM (OlN4e)

I'm so glad my dad taught me a lot of stuff.  I've actually been asked for the name of the person I  hired to put up the pictures in my apartment.  It was me and my drill and my anchors and screws!

165

Ah, it's good to be home.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 15, 2011 09:57 AM (pLTLS)

Hey, well, you'd better work extra hard to get one of your guys out of the White House, then.  And a third of the House.  And half of the Senate.  And all of the courts...

166 Stolen from the interwebz just for perspective:

The Obama budget doesn't cut a penny from the deficit in the last seven months of fiscal 2011. Over the next three years—through 2013—the spending reductions in this budget add up to a paltry $20 billion net, out of a projected $3.5 trillion deficit. That's a 0.57% reduction in red ink and less than what the feds spend every two days.

Have a magical day.

167 #61

Re rumors of The One's sex and drug use. 

They have been around for a long time.  He has admitted doing coke in his book, but that didn't seem to bother the MSM like his tobacco use.

Nothing to see here, move along.

168 @154  I know.  But, that does mean law school is good for something besides just meeting potential patrons.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 15, 2011 10:00 AM (0IPsJ)

Of course, the truly funny (?) part is that we generally have the right to defend ourselves in court.  SO, if the government is coming after me, I can be my own lawyer (without having gone to law school) but I'm not allowed to take the bar.

Of course, these genius lawyers (and the MBAs, too) have had no problem with management buyouts of public companies, which is about the most outrageous conflict of interest one could possibly imagine - those hired to protect the interests of the shareholders using their access to private information, necessary for that job, in order to deal against those same shareholders .. while they're still employees, even!

169

Someone who can pass the bar, but never went to law school, just isn't allowed to even take the exam. 

That's why I call it the bar-rier to entry. It's like a teaching certificate or any other unnecessary licensure. 

it's just a guild system. they want to keep out competition who can't afford to get the piece of paper required to practice. It's not just lawyers and teachers, but also electricians, plumbers, etc etc.

 

170

I've actually been asked for the name of the person I  hired to put up the pictures in my apartment. 

LOL. I tend to feel instantly clumsy and thick-fingered when it comes to anything useful like that.

But I managed to not be completely helpless yesterday and walk through several steps of trying to get the garbage disposal working.

171 69 Your thoughts?
American Thinker: The Next Black President?

Posted by: momma

 

I just finished watching the video of Hermain Cain's CPAC speech.  IMHO, he was preaching.  I will be supporting Allen West, much like I would have supported Colin Powell or Condi Rice. 

 

172

Hey, we all have our fantasies!

Posted by: HH at February 15, 2011 10:02 AM (6oDXl)

Mineth Mithelle with a thtrap-on!

173 and that someone who didn't who only went to high school and maybe not even that, is making 70 grand plus, building cars.

There it is again.

I'm not going to stand up for the gov't-funded bribes that just got paid out, but what's the average age of autoworkers getting these deals? A lot of them have been in the industry longer than your friends have been alive. But they didn't *start* at a salary higher than national median household income, it ratcheted up there over the years. That's how it works for most professions...the first-year teacher might get $30K, but in 15 years she's making more per hour than most white-collar professionals with a bachelor's degree.

I"m just saying that a lot of promises are made by these universities and they aren't coming to fruition.

We're in agreement there.  Not sure what the solution is...

174 much like I would have supported Colin Powell or Condi Rice. 

Posted by: elspeth at February 15, 2011 10:08 AM (eYr2a)

Colin Powell is an idiot, and one of the more despicable pieces of shit around.  Condi is too far left.

175
  One of the saddest things I've ever heard is someone bitching about his/her job, as in "I hate this job", then admitting to being trapped in it because of the money. A bullshit excuse, imho, NOTHING is preventing ANYONE from leaving a despised job.

  I can't imagine feeling captive to a hated job because of the money. Great way to ruin your life.

  Another thank you to my Dad, who told me to be whatever I wanted, 'long as I loved doing it.

176 I still have my broken television, the one with the blue tint.  It still works but the picture is blue and the cost to fix it was ridiculous. 

Any ideas what I should do with it?   I hate to throw it out as someone who does know what they are doing can have a perfectly wonderful tv but I don't know how to go about finding that person. 

177 I'm so glad my dad taught me a lot of stuff.  I've actually been asked for the name of the person I  hired to put up the pictures in my apartment.  It was me and my drill and my anchors and screws!

Posted by: curious at February 15, 2011 10:02 AM (p302b)

Here in back woods Ohio, most women can fix their cars, change their tires, hang drywall, build a birdhouse, chop wood, etc.

I've been to many different states and I have never met as many 'able' women as I have in my own neck of the woods.  My brothers actually call me for advice on how to fix something.  It is teh awesome!

178 Around every cloud there is a bird in the hand.

179

Hey, well, you'd better work extra hard to get one of your guys out of the White House, then.  And a third of the House.  And half of the Senate.  And all of the courts...

Uh oh...15 minutes to Wapner. Gotta watch Wapner. Gotta watch Wapner....

180 A degree that actually educates you in the vocation you are pursuing is very useful. A BA not so much.

181

I still have my broken television, the one with the blue tint.  It still works but the picture is blue and the cost to fix it was ridiculous. 

Any ideas what I should do with it?   I hate to throw it out as someone who does know what they are doing can have a perfectly wonderful tv but I don't know how to go about finding that person. 

Is it an old CRT(glass) tv? If so, no one will want it. Flat screens are so cheap these days. If not then try craigslist. Post it under the free section and explain what the issue is. someone who fixes them might take it off your hands.

182 My brothers actually call me for advice on how to fix something.  It is teh awesome!

My daughter recently helped one of my nephews fix his furnace. She saw him complaining on facebook about his furnace and ran him through some troubleshooting I had shown her.

Long story short it was just a sensor. He replaced it and was up and running that day.

It may go without saying but I was a proud dad when I heard that story.

183

Around every cloud there is a bird in the hand.

"A bird in the hand is the shit"

Quote attributed to St. Frances...

184

I've been to many different states and I have never met as many 'able' women as I have in my own neck of the woods.  My brothers actually call me for advice on how to fix something.  It is teh awesome!

Posted by: momma

Outstanding!  Its like having you make a sammich but for everything. 

185

There it is again.

I'm not going to stand up for the gov't-funded bribes that just got paid out, but what's the average age of autoworkers getting these deals? A lot of them have been in the industry longer than your friends have been alive. But they didn't *start* at a salary higher than national median household income, it ratcheted up there over the years. That's how it works for most professions...

Heather, I would agree with you but these companies aren't making enough to pay these wages.

I am all for paying what the market will bear, but lets face it, these car companies  and subsidized almost entirely by us.

If GM were making money hand over fist then i wouldn't care if they paid their employees a million dollars a year, but the fact is that they aren't making money. They are losing money, our money.

If you're a private company you can do what you want, but  GM and Chysler aren't private companies. They are quasi-state owned enterprises that now know they can be as fiscally irresponsible as they want because the government has decided they are too big to fail.

So in theory i agree with you. You can pay people what you want if you can afford it, but this isn't the case in the american car industry.

186 There was motivation speaker named Brown who talked about the employment rut he had been in. He said they paid him just enough to keep him from quitting and he worked just hard enough to keep from being fired.

187 At #45 I posted this:Sometimes I REALLY hope the Obama/WH Insider is legit:

Lastly but most important, flurry of activity coming out of Issa office very recently.  Whispers now circulating something “concrete” has been found by Issa that is harmful to White House.  Enough so that legal reps from White House most recently met directly with Issa office.  Actually believe the Bill Daley appointment made in part to also help assist in heading that situation off in favor of the WH.  I still donÂ’t trust Issa to follow through.  Fear he has gotten too cozy with WH but I could be wrong.  I hope so.  As to that something “concrete” is it related to the scandal I maintain is out there festering?  Birther related?  Not certain, but an important thing to realize the growing number of Dems who are hopeful that is the case.  That is a huge shift from just this time last year.  More and more of us are increasingly angry at this administration and the damage it has done to so many inside the party


Now I found this:


Liberals launch anti-Darrell Issa crusade

188 Small town near by had a major fire last night at a fertilizer factory which burned to the ground. It was still burning when I drove by it on the way to the doctor's office. The entire town is blanketed in smoke.

Glad I don't live near the damn thing.

http://tinyurl.com/4remdw8

189
It may go without saying but I was a proud dad when I heard that story.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2011 10:17 AM (tf9Ne)

Awesome job dad!  I wish my dad was still around so I could say thank you, not for showing me how to do something, but for making me figure it all out on my own.  I hated him for it at the time, but now I can figure out most anything (except electric.  I just don't want to know about it.  Saw the effects of an live wire on an electrician, and I will never get that image out of my head.)

190 That's what I was referring to in my response, momma (when I had my CSI AoS sock on).

191

Posted by: Ben at February 15, 2011 10:21 AM (wuv1c)

I'm very much against the bonuses at GM and Chrysler, but, as with the banks, the federal government gave them the money without any strings, so they have every right to drain the companies dry before they worry about paying us back.

Of course, I ... and you and everyone else here opposed the federal government buying or bailing out GM and Chrysler, so we would have not run into this problem to begin with.  But, we had no say in the matter, and we certainly had no say in how those loans/grants/equity buys happened.  On top of that, the bailouts were totally un-Constitutional, so they never should have happened because of that ...

After the screwing over of the bond-holders and the illegal payouts of equity to the unions (which are the same unions that bargain with the last, non-government American automaker) this is small potatoes.

Someday, if there is justice, lots of these people will find themselves stripped of all assets and sitting in jail somewhere.

192 It was still burning when I drove by it on the way to the doctor's office. The entire town is blanketed in smoke.

Glad I don't live near the damn thing.

http://tinyurl.com/4remdw8

Posted by: Vic at February 15, 2011 10:22 AM (M9Ie6)

What did the doc say?  You still have many years left of slaying the liberal, idiot, hate-spewing dragon?!

193 a lot of promises are made by these universities and they aren't coming to fruition

Buyer beware.The product the universities are selling is an education, not an income.

194 Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 10:25 AM (penCf)

I still can't get over that you fixed your disposal.  I don't like electric either.  And I've been watching that Mike Holmes show on HGTV and I can't believe how many live wires the guy finds buried in the walls of the houses he works on.  Even he immediately calls the electrician.

195 That's what I was referring to in my response, momma (when I had my CSI AoS sock on).

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 15, 2011 10:25 AM (eh+ki)

Oops.  Sorry.  I even read that.  Long morning, waiting for it to warm up tomorrow!

196 Bitched and moaned  every stinking day for decades.

Bitching and moaning doesn't mean a whole lot. We used to say in the Navy "A bitching sailor is a happy sailor". It worked the same way at my last job. Everybody bitched about their job all the time. It WAS a high pressure job and bitching was a way to release.

But I have seen bad supervisors come in and within a year the bitching stopped and open hostility and quite grumbling began. It wasn't long before the exodus started then. When that happens you know one of two things is going to happen, Either the bosses are going to get straightened out or the place will go to hell.

197 What did the doc say?  You still have many years left of slaying the liberal, idiot, hate-spewing dragon?!

LOL, just time for routine blood work. Hopefully I'll still be around for some more liberal dragon work.

198 Posted by: curious at February 15, 2011 10:28 AM (p302b)

I figured out early on three rules:

Always check for a reset button

make sure nothing is blocking, clogging, freezing up a part/gear

always check for loose wires, connections, blown fuses, etc.


These rules for everything.  Even men.  You can figure out the location of their reset button/lever

199 Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 10:32 AM (penCf)

hahahhahahhah

200

My garbage disposal is NOT fixed, but since it's 13 years old and rusted out, I'm fine with getting it replaced, now that I know it's not something stupid that I should have been able to do myself.

 

201 All this talk of electric cars, solar energy etc make me think that any dummiecrats who read Atlas Shrugged believed that John Galts generator/motor that ran off static electricity in the air or whatever was real and totally missed the point of how government playing favorites and trying to fix things killed the economy.

202

My garbage disposal is NOT fixed, but since it's 13 years old and rusted out, I'm fine with getting it replaced, now that I know it's not something stupid that I should have been able to do myself.

 

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 15, 2011 10:36 AM (XdlcF)

After many years, the gears just get worn down.  As long as you've tried the reset button on the bottom, and tried to loosed the teeth inside, and made sure nothing is freezing them up (potato peels, celery, coffee grinds, etc)  If it isn't any of those, then I can't help you.   You can also put your sprayer down it and spray all sides just to make sure it isn't a piece of food you can't feel).  Changing one out isn't as easy as the make it sound though.  Good luck!

203 loosed = loosen.  sorry.  damn I wish I could find the spell-check/proof read part of my brain.  After the last two years of our First family, TV shows, songs, etc., I think it is totally gone.

You can't go 15 min. without hearing someone getting paid on TV/radio saying 'got'.

Damn, that irks me.

204 Thank you. I did the whole hex tool in the bottom and it turns just fine...but it won't turn. So either it's really really dead or it could be fixed, but why bother when it gets cranky every couple weeks and is leaking. It was unpopped popcorn kernels that done killed it...and it was me, not the kids.

205 CRT (cathode ray tube) TV has one tube, but three color (cathode ray) 'guns'. RGB - red, green, blue. A slight blue cast probably means that red and green guns are barely  performing. Expensive repair.

I seriously doubt that you can replace a picture tube in a TV anymore. Most people had quit replacing tyhem long before flat screens came along just because TVs had become so cheap it wasn't worth it.

206 "Won't turn when I switch it on", we'd say in English.

207

Uh oh...15 minutes to Wapner. Gotta watch Wapner. Gotta watch Wapner....

Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 15, 2011 10:13 AM (pLTLS)

If you wanted to make fun of mathematicians (Rain Man, you'll note, never proved a theorem, just did computations -- turn the crank) your better parallel would be the Unabomber.

But I can see why a lawyer would find that mindless monkey work would be the essential part of the job.

208 It was unpopped popcorn kernels that done killed it...and it was me, not the kids.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 15, 2011 10:51 AM (XdlcF)

I only know about gd because my landlord at my first apartment gave me an hour long speech about what not to put into it.  Well, I didn't listen and put potato peelings in it. It stopped working and my landlord refused to fix it.  In fact, he said he'd charge me $300 to fix it because he had warned me.

He was an asshole, but I learned how to fix them

209 Loose lips are worth two in the bush.

210

Obama is talking.

Watch your wallet.

211

and then to learn that an auto worker, someone who probably has just a high school education, is commanding that kind of salary

Yup, there it is.  "How dare someone with just a high school education make money when there are girls in NYC with expensive college degrees (in what?) who aren't?!"

You might not see it as sneering, but that's how it's coming across.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 15, 2011 09:49 AM (nAOMZ)

1) I'm paying those bastards.

2) Ninety-nine percent of those bastards got cushy union jobs because of someone they knew, not because of their skills, training or education. In many cases management is guilty for caving to union demands but the courts and government have made the playing field tilted in favor of unions.

I have nothing against someone without a college degree who works their way to the top or takes a chance starting a business and succeeds. But these auto workers aren't them. I busted my ass off in school and incurred a lot of college debt while dimwitted classmates disrupted the teacher, flunked classes and got a better paying union job than I could get because of their uncle. They didn't do a damned thing to earn it, so in my eyes they don't deserve it.

212 Well, I didn't listen and put potato peelings in it. It stopped working

Yeah, I learned that lesson the hard way, too. But I only had to learn it once.

A plumber friend says to let the water run for a while after grinding to flush to line, seems to work.

213

Obama is still talking.

He's bullshitting again.

And the sun rises in the East.

214

Thank you. I did the whole hex tool in the bottom and it turns just fine...but it won't turn. So either it's really really dead or it could be fixed, but why bother when it gets cranky every couple weeks and is leaking. It was unpopped popcorn kernels that done killed it...and it was me, not the kids.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 15, 2011 10:51 AM (XdlcF)

On most disposals, if you overheat the motor it will trip a breaker and the disposal won't come back on until you reset it. Look for a red button (or some sort of button/switch) and push it in. If it doesn't work then you're prolly SOL.

215

Glad to know that I am not alone in noticing that neither the Obama children nor Mrs. O travelled to visit the greatgrandmother on her deathbed. Weird at the time. Weirder considering how easy it is for them to vacation in Hawaii now at the drop of a hat. Tells me all I needed to know about the man.

Re: no jobs for degree holders. Unfortunately they still believe in the American Creed, one skillfully exploited by President Clinton: "work hard and play by the rules." Surefire advice from manipulative cheaters. BTW the rules have changed. That's what their peers [or maybe they] voted for. Wasn't it Mencken who said "Give the people what they want. Good and hard."

216 Wow. Just Wow!

This is from Dec. but it is a MUST READ.  Make -a-wish is amazing.  Ordinary people are amazing.  One little boy is a hero!

217

Ed, did the reset button. And it's humming, so I know it's getting power. I can turn it from inside it and from the bottom with the hex tool, so I don't really know why it won't turn when it's powered on.

218 10 most stupid talents

219 I'm sorry it's a little hard to take.
Posted by: curious

Smear Snear. There's a mighty distinction, curious.

As if this is the first time that college students timed graduation with a dumpy economy. As if it's a revelation that union workers have what they do.

Boo hoo hoo, economic reality check. "It's the spending, stupid."  Our economic ruin has been a long time in the making, nothing subtle about it. And this from a PhD in the Fine Arts. Do what you can with what you have, and while you're working hard to get by, quit whining about what opportunities that you were betting on being stable for YOU at least. After all, you deserve better, GAG.

220 They didn't do a damned thing to earn it, so in my eyes they don't deserve it.
Posted by: Ed Anger

221 Sorry Mama. Change "all" to "most". I stand by the rest of it.

222 Here is Alternet's apology to Herman Cain:

"We are sorry that when we called you a 'minstrel playing monkey' that you misinterpreted it to mean that we were calling you a 'minstrel playing monkey'."

223 154 I think you need one to sit for the bar exam in most states too.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 15, 2011 09:54 AM (0IPsJ)

Here in WA, you don't need to go to law school to take the bar exam.  But you will need to be mentored by a licensed attorney for several years before being able to practice on your own.  I don't think Virginia or Wyoming require a law degree either, as well as a handful of other states.

224 OY!

Fast forward to 2011 and there are still people who are looking for the kind of love that they see embodied in the First Couple.

Alphanista.com has a monthly feature titled, My Future Obama. According to Alphanista’s press release, “this feature highlights eligible bachelors from around the country … applauds the country’s finest, most successful men who, much like President Barack Obama, are poised to contribute greatness to this society.”

225

Plus they have a 'Palin Insider' but I haven't had time to read those scoops yet.

Posted by: momma at February 15, 2011 09:40 AM (penCf)

Well, maybe you should read them, because they are so effin stupid that even my dog would know that they're bullshit.   Are you serious?   Srsly?   You would read those so-called transcripts of Palin phone calls and believe them?

Puhleaze.

226

Hey, anyone remember my post #80 yesterday in the San Diego WMD thread?

http://minx.cc/?post=312062

Look what Andy put in the sidebar. "Defector admits to lying about WMDs". Lords of Kobol, I hate being right.

 

227 Argentina Holds Confiscated US Air Force Cargo

228 thanks for sharing

229

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