1 Happy Chinese New Year! Must be Year of the Rat, since Tom Daschle floated up on Morning Joe today...

2 The WH is not keeping reporters in the dark. When they elected to crawl up its ass, did they not expect it to be dark there?

3 The sun also rises.

4

Grassly keeping the U.S. guns to Mexico myth alive for the Dems.

Come on Grassly, don't do us any favors.

5 Phony religious leaders attack West for comments about CAIR and Ellison. He essentially tells them to pack sand

6

Good News for Morons; Charleston become U.S. beer Mecca.

7 BTW;

Charleston is already rated second highest best vacation visit city in the U.S. (behind SF?).  This just makes it better. But come in the Spring or Fall folks. It gets damn hot in the Summer.

8 Note this article from AP. The left is going on the offense already in the redistricting plans.

9

Demoncrap PR rag attacks SC voter ID bill on costs

They will stop at nothing. One also wonders where they came up with these costs estimates. Probably from the same stupid people that said repealing Obamacare would cost money.

I predict that it will cost little or NOTHING. Most people already have some kind of picture ID because in this day and age you simply can not exist without one.

10 Speaking of Charleston, anybody remember a hot dog joint they had there in the '80s? They left the string inside the hot dog and you had to eat around it. Their logo looked like a barber from the 1890's. Been trying to remember the name for years.

11 ya2daup,  Mark Knoller says the press is on a bus to Pennsylvania this morning,  and had to get up at 4AM to get there.

Seems to me that they are being punished for sending that letter.  Hopefully,  it will stir more resentment within the White House press corps and get them off their butts to start reporting what's going on.

I know,  I'm a dreamer.

12

Jeffrey M. Wice, a Democratic redistricting attorney, said states also will have to decide whether to consider citizenship when drawing political lines. Many lower federal courts have ruled that citizenship data should be used if available to determine whether a minority voting bloc has been unduly weakened — an issue that could mix already intense redistricting fights with contentious immigration politics.

Why is this an issue?  Citizenship is the only fucking thing that should be considered.

13

Local weather guy talks about the whistlepig Spring forecast

LOL, this is funny. I didn't know that Atlanta had their own groundhog either. But just for an oh BTW Morons, my local January average temps were 2° lower than last Jan and 5° below the normal. That is better than the 10° lower Dec averages but it is still a massive cooling trend.

14

"She decided on Vrienden, a beer containing Hibiscus and Belgian Endive."

Now that Belgian Endive, that stuff will put hair on your chest.

15 Why is this an issue?  Citizenship is the only fucking thing that should be considered.

Demoncraps are the ones who pushed through counting illegals for census purposes. Now they are trying to get it into the redistricting plans.

That is because the States who are gaining seats are primarily red States. This latest is the opening shot for Holder to hold up redistricting in the Southern States.

16 Now that Belgian Endive, that stuff will put hair on your chest.

I refuse to drink a beer containing stuff I can not pronounce or spell. That is not true Moron beer.

17

Holy crap!! Any Cannuckian morons awake yet?

That's some seriously fucked up thinking up there.

 

18 Jimmy Carter is being sued for alleged falsehoods.  The $5 million lawsuit alleges one of his books on Israel intended to deceive the public and promote an anti-Israel agenda.

19

I refuse to drink a beer containing stuff I can not pronounce or spell. That is not true Moron beer.

Corsendonk is the shizznet

20

That's some seriously fucked up thinking up there.

 Posted by: beedubya at February 03, 2011 07:59 AM (AnTyA)

With all the "hate crime" laws they are pushing for here it will eventually amount to the same thing.

21

Why does every MFM outlet refer to this communist as an "independent"?

But because of disagreements regarding the definition of “fraud,” the Vermont independentÂ’s conclusions may differ from those of many Pentagon agencies.

22

"That is not true Moron beer."

In this age of O'buma, where downsizing is all the rage, I find going with what's on sale as the prudent thing to do.

23 The irony.  ...it burns

24 Technical advisory: for maximum clarity, apply zoomification factor 4.2663 to all posts before viewing. That is all.

25

Another rhetorical question about the liars in the MFM

This one regarding GOP plans to shutdown the EPA's foray in CO2 regulation.

Republicans want to go further and take away the EPA authority that was granted by a 2007 court ruling.

That is a bullshit lie that they repeatedly push out there. That BS 5-4 ruling did NOT give the EPA any damn authority and it did not tell them to regulate CO2.

It told them if the elected not to they had to present evidence. Just like they are supposed to present real evidence that regulation is required.

So far the EPA has presented zero evidence. They quote UN and studies which have been shown to be totally fraudulent.

The current EPA regulators should all be in JAIL.

26 One more thing on that MFM story. The SCOTUS ruling was also based on the original clean air act, NOT any Constitutional question.

Any new legislation in that area simply modifies the clean air act and nullifies the POS ruling.

27 so......huntsman is a cap and trader? make that cap and traitor......

28 That's what the Utah people say.

29 Morning all!

Has anyone tried the Al Jazz english website this morning?  I keep getting 'problem loading page' and I don't know if it's them or my computer.

30 Scratch a bullshit lie find a lefty political agenda.

31

John Stossel's budget cuts

32 29
Morning all!
Has anyone tried the Al Jazz english website this morning?  I keep getting 'problem loading page' and I don't know if it's them or my computer.
Posted by: Tami at February 03, 2011 08:23 AM (VuLos)

G'morning!

I keep getting page takes to long to load type messages - it''s a bandwidth problem at their site.

33

Ann Coulter on gun control following Tucson

34 I guess that's it for me this morning.

35 Hey, look at me. I love gay marriage!11!11!11!

36 Re:#17

If you follow the links, you'll see that this is good news.  The Superior Court slapped the Human Rights Commission for its failure to follow the law, voided the $36,000 penalty, and awarded $10,000 court costs be paid to the lady who had appealed the Human Rights Commission ruling.

The Human Rights Commissions has been acting as if they were above the law, so this ruling is very welcome. hopefully, we will see more successful appeals of the blatant injustices committed by the Human Rights Commissions.

37 Back off, bitch. Bushy or shaved, this was my issue first.

38 I keep getting page takes to long to load type messages - it''s a bandwidth problem at their site.

Posted by: ya2daup at February 03, 2011 08:28 AM (yRrAd)

Thanks....I've switched to BBC. 

http://tinyurl.com/6zvhhqt

39 The Human Rights Commissions has been acting as if they were above the law, so this ruling is very welcome. hopefully, we will see more successful appeals of the blatant injustices committed by the Human Rights Commissions.

They were the same people who tried to prosecute Mark Steyn because he simply quoted some Imam, right?

40 I heard ace and Ben are gay.  Anyone else heard that? 

41 I like Andy's link to Taranto's article. I hate when people always cite Politifact as if it is some unbiased arbitrator of truth.

42

Now that Belgian Endive, that stuff will put hair on your chest.

Not compared to Bulgarian buttermilk, though.

43

Thursday’s cold conditions could bring more rolling blackouts — stopping electric service to about 90,000 customers at a time for brief intervals — to ease the load on most of the state’s electric grid.

Conservation is critical to help avoid the outages, officials said, and some 50 Texas power plants failed late Tuesday as customers cranked heat to battle this seasonÂ’s coldest ­temperatures.

But hey, it's all of 2 degrees where my mom lives, wind chill of -18 and I'm sure it's colder up the mountain that that in-town temp.

 

44 I just found that DISH is giving The History Channel International this month for demo. They have actual HISTORY!

I am watching Marco Polo now. Of course they have the usual liberal bias but at least it is history and not ice road truckers or pawn shops.

I wish they would trade these two channels out.

45 The officers responsible for this need to be drummed out of the service.

46 Posted by: Mama AJ at February 03, 2011 08:58 AM (XdlcF)

Must have some real cold there is they are outstripping supply from TX.

They say 50 power plants have failed from the cold there but can't tell whether they failed from being "overloaded" or from other problems.

It probably wasn't "overload" though because that would have resulted in the whole grid in that area going down which is probably why you have rolling blackouts now.

One thing that happens during extreme cold that most people are not aware of is the problems that it causes power plants, particularly in the South where they are built in an open building.

Important systems and sensors freeze up if not handled properly with heat tracing and/or manual actions. In a lot of cases if a sensor that is designed to protect the plant freezes up it will cause the plant to trip off the line.

47 I probably used the wrong word.  They are tribunals.  Yes, I don't remember which one was used to go after Mark Steyn, as there is a Human Rights outfit in every province, as well as a Federal one, if memory serves.  They were supposed to be a low cost way of sorting out housing and job discrimination.  However, these laws were very poorly written, with almost no protection for the defendant.  They have been seriously abused by individuals like Richard Warren, for whom it was a get rich scheme.

Ezra Levant has been running a campaign to 'de-legitimatise them.  These tribunals act like bandits, preying on those without the resources to fight back, demoralising them into accepting the blatant injustices that they are suffering. 

I hope this decision encourages more victims of these rackets to fight back.  

48 Leahy(D-VT) putting forth a bill to prevent aid to the Egypt. To include Israel. Ron Paul(NUT-TX) agrees. ABC *spit* News Radio interview this AM.

49 It's 39 degrees here. Some time this afternoon, it will hit the high of 61 and then go back down. We had a cold snap in December. I'm tired of this crap.

50 It's barely supposed to make it out of the teens in Cleveland today but the sun's out so anytime that ball of radiation in the sky can be seen it's a cause for celebration.

51 Chicago is digging out from the latest round of global warming climate change. It's about -5 degrees without the wind chill. If all of the glaciers are melting they should send them here, they'd get better in no time

52 "Obama discusses faith at National Prayer Breakfast"

53

Vic, there's not much info out there about it. Just stuff like this:

The grid operator declared an energy emergency after unusually frigid weather shut down 7,000 megawatts of power generators, about 8 percent of the installed capacity in the second-most populous state. Spot power prices surged 60-fold at one point and Mexico exported electricity.

More here. Gas service wasn't working either for some people.

54 I thought I read that Mexico was giving the border states electricity?

55 Obama has finished his very long,   self-centered prayer breakfast speech.

You will be happy that he thinks our culture is too focused on wealth and celebrity.

And in other news,  he has invited J-Lo and her current significant other to the White House to watch the Super Bowl.

56

And in other news,  he has invited J-Lo and her current significant other to the White House to watch the Super Bowl.

If that doesn't help the Egypt situation, I just don't know what else he could possibly do.

Hey, maybe she will answer some questions from the press corpse.

57 I have a friend who lives right near J Lo, he's been saying since he heard this "why J Lo?"

58 Why J-Lo?

He wants that connection to "American Idol."

But we are too concerned with celebrity,  so pay no attention. (Except when they release the photos with J-Lo.)

59 "She led People en Español's list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics" in February 2007.  Outside of her work in the entertainment industry, Lopez advocates human rights, vaccinations and is a supporter of Children's Hospital Los Angeles."

60 MamaAJ; I found this from an NBC story in TX.

Rolling blackouts surprised many residents Wednesday. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said they were needed to compensate for a generation shortage due to numerous plant trips that have occurred because of the extreme weather. Officials said more blackouts were possible Thursday.

If the trips were caused by sensors freezing they should be back on line fairly quickly. Also, it sounds like they need to contact some utilities in other areas in the South that experience extreeme cold more often to learn how to set up cold weather programs to prevent these kinds of things.

61 Yes,  she sits on several boards. 

So do a lot of other people who aren't on American Idol.

62 Vic, if  S.C.'s redistricting works anything like Virginia's I'd look for no changes or changes to benefit the commies.  According to our local conservative watchdog, it's a big "you scratch my back" club with our legislators.  They look out for one another, no matter which party's in power.  And remember, we're the ones with the stupid party.

63 I heard ace and Ben are gay.  Anyone else heard that?

I thought they were Belgian, potato potahto.

64 "As of at least January 2008, Lopez lives with her family in New York, on Long Island. Her mother, Guadalupe Lopez, moved into the gated home in June that year."

65

66 Makes you wonder.  I know so many people who work so hard and never make it and yet this girl, who came from the bronx and went to Preston, which I htink is an all girls Catholic High School, made it, why?  how?

Oh and she might be a scientologist.

67 _{Grassly keeping the U.S. guns to Mexico myth alive for the Dems.} Come on Grassly, don't do us any favors.

_{Posted by: Vic at February 03, 2011 07:33 AM (M9Ie6)}

Vic, Read about the whole rotten story w/ background from this guy. He's been at the leading edge from the get go. The ATF has been KNOWINGLY letting guns go to Mexico and 1 of them ended being used on a Border Patrol Agent. Rotten fucks. - http://tinyurl.com/ATF-Fucking-us-again

68 Palin put the term "death panel" in quotes to indicate that she was using it figuratively. She was not lying but doing just the opposite: conveying a fundamental truth about ObamaCare. Proponents were describing it as a sort of fiscal perpetual-motion machine: We're going to give free insurance to tens of millions of people and reduce the deficit! As a matter of simple arithmetic, the only way to do that is by drastically curtailing medical benefits.

From the Taranto piece about how the Alaskan Snowbilly kneecapped Mr. Eleven-Dimensional Chess' signature health care "reform" legislation and won the PR war.

69 Vic, if  S.C.'s redistricting works anything like Virginia's I'd look for no changes or changes to benefit the commies.

The local Dem PR rags have hinted that because most of the growth in the SC population has occurred on the coast near Myrtle Beach most of the new district will be carved out of that on.

That is the district that Scott just won (black Republican). The SC legislature is heavy Republican and I fully expect them to push for a district that maximizes Repuiblican advantage.

I also expect the NAACP to file a suit as soon as the plans are released and I fully expect that Holder will hold up the plans until after the 2012 elections when we can boot his crooked ass out.

What I would like to see is SCOTUS to finally declare Section V of the VRA unconstitutional.

70

Hello from OZ, and that monster storm thankfully lost a fair bit of steam before hitting the coast last night

Plenty of damage especially to agricultural areas (mainly sugarcane and bananas) and houses destroyed but no injuries - although two blokes are missing - apparently they were trying to move a yacht to creek last night and haven't been heard of since

Of course our beloved Greenies are a bit miffed because they were counting on massive death and destruction so they could blabber on about frigging global warming BS

And of course the MSM had every second reporter and TV host up there breathlessly waiting for disaster - best moment - a TV morning show host decked out in wet weather gear, acting as if he was in mortal danger (this morning AFTER the storm had gone through), while behind him a bloke in shorts and singlet was casually walking his dog

Hope the link works and someone is still here to read it!

 

 

71 Vic, Read about the whole rotten story w/ background from this guy. He's been at the leading edge from the get go. The ATF has been KNOWINGLY letting guns go to Mexico and 1 of them ended being used on a Border Patrol Agent.

Yeah, see the border is an uncontrolled mess.  Drugs and illegals stream across it from the Mexican side and DHS is letting it happen.  We need to be stopping things from getting in.   Focusing on guns is the absolute wrong approach and isn't going to secure the border.  Drug dealers, with their billions of dollars, high-tech surveillance, and drug smuggling submarines, are going to get the guns they need.

Border Patrol agents will get shot as long as they are underfunded and the border is ignored.

72

Tiny white balls of ice are starting to cover my yard.

it sounds like they need to contact some utilities in other areas in the South that experience extreeme cold more often to learn how to set up cold weather programs to prevent these kinds of things.

Yeh. I think they think they are handling it well with the rolling blackouts. We'll see what news trickles out. My mom heard that, esp. with the smaller electrical co-op providers, if they had a problem and went down, ERCOT wouldn't let them come back up. So people were without power--and sometimes gas---for hours.

 

 

73

Harvey said the PEC relied upon the media and their website to get the word out about the blackouts, citing that the company did not have an automated phone system capable of alerting customers, some of whom reported to the Highlander that they had lost major electrical appliances when the disconnected power was restored.

...

Harvey added “members should turn in any claims to the insurance company that covers their home or business,” indicating that PEC’s policy states is not liable for losses suffered as the result of an outage.

However, appliances lost as a result of a man-made power outage such as a rolling blackout are not covered by a homeowners insurance company, said Kyle Stripling, owner of Galloway Insurance, which has offices in Burnet, Horseshoe Bay and Marble Falls.

 

74 Posted by: Aussie at February 03, 2011 10:14 AM (Cb78v)

Good to hear from you mate. We were worried.

75 If you're not listening to Beck today, watch him on TV this afternoon.  Everything's breaking loose.  The connections of Code Pink, Ayres and Dohrn with the Muslim Brotherhood, the caliphate the far lefties are working for, the radical GZM imam on Calamity last night, letting it all hang out, etc.  We're starring in The Crusades, part deux.

76 70
Plenty of damage especially to agricultural areas (mainly sugarcane and bananas) and houses destroyed but no injuries - although two blokes are missing - apparently they were trying to move a yacht to creek last night and haven't been heard of since.
Of course our beloved Greenies are a bit miffed because they were counting on massive death and destruction so they could blabber on about frigging global warming BS.
Posted by: Aussie at February 03, 2011 10:14 AM (Cb78v)

Hey, it's good to hear that the Greenies' prayed-to-Gaia-for death and destruction failed to materialize. I hope that you and yours came through with minimal damage and discomfort.

77 Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 03, 2011 10:17 AM (TpXEI)- True enough, but the original reason behind this BS is so they can claim more traced guns from Mexico and clamp down on US citizens. It's pretty obvious that they don't give a shit about border integrity or any of that.

78 However, appliances lost as a result of a man-made power outage such as a rolling blackout are not covered by a homeowners insurance company, said Kyle Stripling, owner of Galloway Insurance, which has offices in Burnet, Horseshoe Bay and Marble Falls.

This is why utilities around here do not cut power in front of a hurricane even though it would make restoration so much easier.

The lawyers get involved unless your State passes a law to keep them out. That is rare since the lawyers own the legislatures of every State and the federal government.

79

74 Vic

Thanks,some funny stories are coming through - I was listening to the radio at work and a little old lady rang in from way inland while Yasi as a Cat 1 was over her town, and she said she was fine etc and then as an aside she just mentioned that a huge gum tree was lying right across her house but no worries her sons would move it later on!  

80

76

Hi, I'm way way south in sweaty hot Sydney, but my friends in Townsville are very happy the storm surge wasn't as bad as forecast as they live right near a lovely beach and were worried they would come home to major damage - they evacuated to higher grounfd just in case

Bloody Greens are just bottom dwellers - I'm just so mad at them right now for exploiting tragedy for political purposes

Another bad thing - my favourite fruit, bananas, will be very pricey now as most of our supply as been wiped out and we don't import because of some banana disease we don't have here but is found in overseas bananas

81 You Mawanth are tho lucky.  I'm thtiking awound.  You can tell that damn Ewok to thtand down and fawget about that yummy Thawn Bielat.

82 Brazil's adopting the Russian Constitution under the guise of something Thomas Jefferson would've written, the pursuit of happiness.  Their new prez is a communist and a terrorist.  Sounds familiar.

83 87% of respondents at Laura Ingraham's website predict that Bill O'Blowhard will toss Toonce's salad on Sunday.  Maybe some Factor gear can be purchased with some stimulus money.  Can Fox be any more pathetic?

84 she said she was fine etc and then as an aside she just mentioned that a huge gum tree was lying right across her house but no worries her sons would move it later on! 

Now that is true gumption. We used to have it here, but it is now rare.

85 Anyone in the race for the dick, get ready.  It's not looking good for Zsa Zsa.

86 the other day they reported this as fact.  "Lawyer says WikiLeaks suspect isn't dual citizen"

Jeez, doesn't the media fact check at all?

87

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's two years in the White House have deepened his Christian faith, he said Thursday as he brushed aside lingering doubts by some Americans who still believe he is Muslim.

 

Yeah, that's why he goes to church all of the time now

88 Posted by: Captain Hate at February 03, 2011 10:46 AM (eh+ki)

A lot of people think that the interview will be choreographed by the WH speech writers and that he will be merely a pawn in the soft ball fest.

89 Bloody Greens are just bottom dwellers - I'm just so mad at them right now for exploiting tragedy for political purposes
It was either Tim Blair or Andrew Bolt pointing out that the Greenies have stopped the building of dams and levees etc. that would have mitigated or alleviated the effects of the flooding because they were pushing the "Australia is going to forever be in drought because of Global Warming" lie.

And take care, china.

90 A lot of people think that the interview will be choreographed by the WH speech writers and that he will be merely a pawn in the soft ball fest.

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