1

Not steel!  Fire can't melt steel! 

Uless it's steel wool, in which case you can set fire to it with a simple match.

Try it some time.

2 ... Light travels faster than sound. That's why some Liberals appear bright until you hear them speak ...

... Liberals are are like slinkies good for nothing but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs ...

... If you agreed with a Liberal , then  you would both be wrong...

3 Why does it hurt when I pee? -Frank Zappa

4
All eyes on Friday morning rigged unemployment report.......

5 Just in case you were starting to pay attention to events of national importance.   20-20 will have an hour-long interview with Charlie Sheen this evening.

6

Okay, today's moment of gobsmack, c/o your federal government

Glenn Reynolds calls it a "clown show" which seems strangely appropriate, seeing as clown are murderous sociopaths in the making.

7 3 Why does it hurt when I pee?

I asked that question once, it was after I woke up from surgery

8 Goooood morning, 'rons.....

Official: Suspect in Deadly U.S. Airmen Shooting Wanted Revenge for Afghanistan

The suspect in the murder of two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport confessed that he specifically wanted to kill Americans as revenge for the Afghan war, a German investigator said Friday.

snip~

Griesbaum also said that UkaÂ’s pistol malfunctioned during the attack, preventing further loss of life. After shooting and injuring two more airmen he pointed the pistol at the head of a third and pulled the trigger twice, but the weapon jammed.
The U.S. Air Force released the names of the victims on Thursday: Senior Airman Nicholas J. Alden , 25, of Williamston, S.C., and Airman First Class Zachary R. Cuddeback, 21, of Stanardsville, Va.

http://tinyurl.com/6325s62

RIP airmen.

9 Oh, I heard a rumor on Daily Caller (I think) that the third installment of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy will be a musical.  Like Cop Rock.

10 5- "" Just in case you were starting to pay attention to events of national importance.   20-20 will have an hour-long interview with Charlie Sheen this evening. ""

I can't take another episode of " Winning " !

11 Latest pictures of Charlie Sheen... man, he is really looking rough

12 If a man cant own the ground he stands on free and clear without any further taxation, can he ever be truly free.

13 ... Crowded elevators smell different to midgets ...

14

Rules of Engagement

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was forced to use beanbags against armed Mexican killers before he was shot dead in Arizona in December

Border Patrol agents shot beanbags at a group of suspected bandits before the men returned fire during a confrontation in a remote canyon, killing agent Brian Terry with a single gunshot, records show.

15 Why does it hurt when I pee?

- Something to do with the Dynamo Hum?

16

Why does it hurt when I pee?

Maybe it's like playing golf and it has something to do with your grip.

17 3 Why does it hurt when I pee?

-Frank Zappa

I'd like to know as well.

18 If a man cant own the ground he stands on free and clear without any further taxation, can he ever be truly free.

Posted by: MarkC at March 04, 2011 07:12 AM (ros+1)

True.  This is why taxes on private property are the most immoral of all taxes.  I've heard that in Mississippi (or was is Louisiana?) a retired person (over 65) who owns his land free-and-clear does not pay property tax, but I tried to confirm it using Bing and didn't find anything yet.

What's even more galling, though, is that the government officials will steal your land without just cause for their own personal use.  If you want to be enraged, check out this story where a sitting judged handed over a person's private land to another retired judge.  Democrats, of course.  Fucking corrupt pigs.  May they die in a fire.

http://tinyurl.com/4rffysq

19 Why does it hurt when I pee? Ya do know that your not suppose to slam the seat down till after your done right?

20 Gabe, some penicillin will clear that right up.

M&Ms, welcome to Friday. You survived yet another week under the Bambi regime. Some day you'll look back at this time and laugh, at least until the prison camp guard whacks you on the head.

21 until the prison camp guard whacks you on the head. Posted by: joncelli at March 04, 2011 07:27 AM (/lAg1) Over my dead body! Oh yeah? well maybe

22

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was forced to use beanbags against armed Mexican killers before he was shot dead in Arizona in December

Posted by: PoconoJoe at March 04, 2011 07:18 AM (eupBu)

This is madness!  Time for these guys to turn those bean bags (and worse) on the idiots reponsible for these absurd "rules."  How the criminals must have laughed - they must have thought it absurd that some cops were trying to hinder them using such ineffective means.  Yet again, the Liberals are killing the good, while sparing the bad.  Just as they always do.  Each day I learn to hate them more.

23

Posted by: Reactionary at March 04, 2011 07:23 AM (xUM1Q)

Not only the eminent domain angle but if you don't pay your taxes they'll seize your house and land. So do you really own it or are you just renting it from your betters in the gubmint?

24

MATT DAMON:

"He's(Obama) doubled down on a lot of things, going back to education ... the idea that we're testing kids and we're tying teachers salaries to how kids are performing on tests, that kind of mechanized thinking has nothing to do with higher order. We're training them, not teaching them."

 

------

How this man's brilliance has gone unoticed for sooo long is beyond me.

//

 

25

Posted by: PoconoJoe at March 04, 2011 07:31 AM (eupBu)

Exactly.  It's serfdom.  Either pay the government its bribe, or get thrown off your land into the street.  This is why often the local government is far more tyrannical than the federal government.  They're close to you, and can get in your business much more easily.  Plus they are always grubbing for more money, since they can't print their own.

In the case I cited above, they didn't even use imminent domain.  The sitting judge simply decided that the retired judge had squatter's rights - even though the retired judge had done nothing at all to improve or maintain that land.  The lot in question was worth the better part of a million bucks, and costing the legitimate owner $16,000 a year in property taxes, plus a monthly association fee.  Someone should be hanging from a tree over this.

26 a retired person (over 65) who owns his land free-and-clear does not pay property tax, but I tried to confirm it using Bing and didn't find anything yet.

Most Southern States have what is called a "homestead exemption" that varies in the amount.

Here in SC it exempts the first 50K of your primary residence from property tax. So if you have a 1500 sq ft house and it is assessed at full value, you will pay property taxes on $100K (assuming average home prices of 100/sq ft).

Here is the data for Mississippi

They get a $75K write-off.

One thing I find "ironic" that you don't see very often in the "media" is that there were just as many depression era farmers and homeowners evicted at Sheriff's sales for property taxes as there were for mortgage payment defaults.

27 Heh. Some college suspended a basketball player for "premarital sex." Good. In The Year of Our Lord 2011, most kids define "premarital sex" as group anal & oral.

28 The gun that Terry was shot and killed with is also a big part of the story. It seems the ATF let that gun (and others) walk across the Mexican border from a US shop.
 
CBS News has been covering this under 'Project Gunrunner'.

29

7 3 Why does it hurt when I pee?

Pffft...you don't know the meaning of dick pain...piker!

 

30 Some college suspended a basketball player for "premarital sex." Good. In The Year of Our Lord 2011, most kids define "premarital sex" as group anal & oral. Posted by: CoolCzech at March 04, 2011 07:39 AM (tJjm/) If all Colleges and Universities do that, we'll be watching peewee football on ABC on Saturdays

31 I went to the doctor and told him, "Doc, it burns when I pee." He said, "It means someone's thinking about you." Fucking Canadian health care.

32 File this under "No duh".

Greenspan Says Government ‘Activism’ Hampering U.S. Recovery

/What recovery?

33 "What is best in life?"
 
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, to hear the lamentations of their women, and to not hurt when you pee."

34 "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, to hear the lamentations of their women, and to not hurt when you pee." Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2011 07:45 AM (h0RtZ) Ah words to live by

35 CBS News has been covering this under 'Project Gunrunner'.

Be careful with that one. They are trying to keep that Hillary meme alive that 95% of the Mexican cartel guns come from the U.S. That lie has already been debunked and it is actually a very small percentage.

36

Vic

From the ON thread, my timing is a bit out due to time differences so while you're all waking up getting ready for Friday it's already almost midnight here and the weekend is just 10 minutes away

My SIL's company - and yes they already have an office in Houston

37 Some college suspended a basketball player for "premarital sex."

Good. In The Year of Our Lord 2011, most kids define "premarital sex" as group anal & oral.

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 04, 2011 07:39 AM (tJjm/)

It was BYU.  I heard all the students going there sign some sort of morals code thingy (no sex, no drugs, no coffee or tea) and if they break it, they're out.  I can't figure out how the school found out about it.

38

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 04, 2011 07:44 AM (9hSKh)

Old Greenspan has that much right.  But my worry is that the only thing it will help get passed is a reduction in spending.  That's not enough, and is actually the less important thing.  The key is to get rid of the regulations and other impediments to doing business.  That is far more crucial.  Greater production of goods and services by business will help offset the inflationary impact of the government spending.  But allowing business to wither and die out will make any spending cuts futile.

If we could cut the government's excess regs, control the border, and actually develop domestic energy production, it would do a lot to get us out of this mess.  Alas - even our side is too stupid - they are afraid of the Greens and the illegal immigrant lobbies.  Now, of all times, is the best time to fight the environmentalist nut jobs and illegals both - the American people want work, and prosperity.  They are willing to look more critically at the false claims of the libtards, and are less tolerant of the job stealers, if only because their own pocket books are at stake.

39

Why does it hurt when I pee?

For me, cranberry juice and LOTS Neosporin were the key. 

40 It was BYU. I heard all the students going there sign some sort of morals code thingy (no sex, no drugs, no coffee or tea) and if they break it, they're out. I can't figure out how the school found out about it. Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2011 07:52 AM (VuLos) The kids at BYU mugt go thru a whole shit load of batteries every semester

41 The kids at BYU mugt go thru a whole shit load of batteries every semester Posted by: nevergiveup at March 04, 2011 07:53 AM (0GFWk) Hope that you are talking about the girls. Otherwise...*cringe*

42 The kids at BYU mugt go thru a whole shit load of batteries every semester

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 04, 2011 07:53 AM (0GFWk)

LOL!  Probably...lots of wrist problems too.

43

From the BBC

Never ever leave your air freshener on top of the grill....

BOOM

44 They are trying to keep that Hillary meme alive that 95% of the Mexican cartel guns come from the U.S.
 
Nope. This particular investigation is about an ATF cover-up; Sen. Grassley is even involved in looking into it. A blurb:
 
“Project Gunrunner” was an ATF operation supposedly designed to reduce the number of U.S. guns illegally smuggled into Mexico. The allegations now are that the ATF deliberately allowed thousands of guns into Mexico either to track the flow of guns or, as some believe, to artifically inflate the number of number of guns smuggled from the U.S. to Mexico to provide a reason to increase the ATF’s budget.
 
A link.

45 I fear we have become a Third World nation. With the willful consent of our so-called leaders.

Posted by: Downscaled Upscale at March 04, 2011 07:44 AM (IhHdM)

On the contrary - no 3rd World nation could put up with this stupidity.  Only a nation as rich, coddled, and detacted from harsh reality as our own could be this stupid.  If we were 3rd World, our border patrol could have shot those bastards, looted the bodies, and left them to rot in the sand and no one would care.  But because of our properity we're over run with damn do-gooders, who fret about every piece of criminal scum and the sanctity of their "rights."  We're getting to be like a bunch of pussified Europeans.

Of the various kinds of dirty leftists, I hate the do-gooders most of all.  I also hate the ones who claim to be on our side - they are a mill stone around the neck of the conservative movement. 

46 Be careful with that one. They are trying to keep that Hillary meme alive that 95% of the Mexican cartel guns come from the U.S. That lie has already been debunked and it is actually a very small percentage.

Posted by: Vic at March 04, 2011 07:47 AM (M9Ie6)

Not when I keep the stats!

Why I went down to a DC gun shop and bought a matched pair of full auto AK-47s just yesterday.

And I took them on the high speed train to the border without a pat=down too.

47

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2011 07:49 AM (2Yaoe)

Are you an Ex-pat or a native Aussie? If the ladder, how did ya end up here?? Just wondering and welcome!

 

48

Looks like the PC shitball on the USS Enterprise is rolling downhill fast.

Keep in mind that these so-called "lewd" videos were anything but lewd.

And these letters being put in folk's files are basically the kiss of death for officers and senior POs. When you get one of those it is best to start looking at "retirement" whether you are eligible for retirement or not.

I am glad I am not on that ship any longer and and if any of my grand children ask me about joining now I would tell them no. Not until Obama and this group of idiots running the military are all gone.

49 From the ON thread, my timing is a bit out due to time differences so while you're all waking up getting ready for Friday it's already almost midnight here and the weekend is just 10 minutes away

I left a response on the ONT.

50

Of the various kinds of dirty leftists, I hate the do-gooders most of all.  I also hate the ones who claim to be on our side - they are a mill stone around the neck of the conservative movement. 

Posted by: Reactionary at March 04, 2011 07:58 AM (xUM1Q)

Not an original with me, and I can't source it, but the line:

A dictator gets tired every once in a while and leaves you alone, but a do-gooder never stops coming up with ways to improve your life!

comes to mind.

51 I am glad I am not on that ship any longer and and if any of my grand children ask me about joining now I would tell them no. Not until Obama and this group of idiots running the military are all gone. Posted by: Vic at March 04, 2011 08:02 AM (M9Ie6) Actually the shit is rolling uphill. Seems like they are going after a few Admirals. As for the PC shit. Ah on a day to day basis we don't notice it so much. Except when a Army Shrink kills a bunch or like Monday the 14th when I have to go to DADT Repeal Training of Senior Leadership ( I can't wait)?

52 Nope. This particular investigation is about an ATF cover-up;

Yes, I knew this one was on a different line, but the overall story they are trying to push is evil US guns in Mexico; need more gun control legislation.

That's why I say "be careful".

53 Looks like a career ender for some naughty navy boys:

Navy admirals, others censured over lewd videos

Several past top officers of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, including two rear admirals, have been recommended for censure following an investigation into lewd videos shown on the ship, the Navy announced on Thursday.

The videos made and shown on the vessel emerged in January and drew criticism for simulated masturbation, toilet humor, and slurs against homosexuals.

Four more rear admirals were counseled or received non-punitive letters of caution and more than 30 officers and enlisted sailors got such letters in relation to the incident, the Navy said.

54 Wisconsin: State patrol officers watched silently from the gallery as Fitzgerald signed the orders executing the order. 

What? As if the State Patrol Officers were supposed to be shouting down in partisan protest from the gallery as the executing orders were being officially signed.

55

A dictator gets tired every once in a while and leaves you alone, but a do-gooder never stops coming up with ways to improve your life!

Posted by: Hrothgar, ATF AIC at March 04, 2011 08:04 AM (DCpHZ)

Amen!  Truer words were never spoken.  Regarding both of those types of miserable people, Theodore Dalrymple just put out a really excellent piece.  This is actually quite topical, as it deals first with the situation in Libya, and states my own thoughts on the matter so much more eloquently than I ever could.  Commenting on a recent bleating screed from some Western leftist calling for yet more regulation of our lives, he stated "It is a thread to freedom, not that of mad dictators in fancy dress, but of termites." 

http://tinyurl.com/4h2l83t

 

56 I'd like to be humorous about this beanbag thing, but I just can't be because I so am disgusted with the Border Patrol (ICE) leadership, DEA, and ATF for basically saying our agents are lambs to be slaughtered just so we don't offend our Mexican buds.
Maybe part of the counter revolution is for principled law enforcement agents and their superiors (assuming there still are any) to refuse to participate, accept whatever disciplinary action results, and go public EVERY time something like this is ordered.

57 Hrothgar,  here is the quote you are remembering:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

C.S. Lewis

58

How this man's brilliance has gone unoticed for sooo long is beyond me.

//

 

Posted by: dananjcon at March 04, 2011 07:33 AM (pr+up)

I was watching a DVD of Entourage recently and it had Matt Damon playing himself as this humorless do-gooding cocksucker who was shaking actors down (along with LeBron James in a characterization that was only slightly less misguided than doing an ESPN special with Jim Gray to announce he was going to Miami) "for the children" in a completely obnoxious manner.  He even dropped shit when the guys pointed out he was living extremely large with a personal jet like "I've bought carbon offsets (ZOMG eleventy) so I can fly responsibly" that was just reeking of essence of yeast infection.  Unfortunately the guys didn't tell him to go fuck himself (LeBron too) and to keep making garbage movies that lose money and look like a dork with a Celtics stocking cap on at Laker games.  What a fucking piss-off.

59

49

Hi, and thanks for the welcome - I've been lurking for a long while here, really enjoying the discussions and the fun

I'm in Sydney Australia but my kiddies are moving to the US because believe it or not it's still a land of opportunity over there - and our country under its ratbag coalition of Greens/Labor is stuffed until we throw the bastards out at the next election!

My daughter and her hubby will be moving in June - his company gets finance from the US and the business climate is better over there (yes we're stuffed down here) -the company deals with oil technology

My son announced last night that he's been offered a job in Houston - he has a little business here specialising in natural gas  - he wants to move there for 12 months as the money he's been offered is 10 times what he makes here!

What an upside down world - reading the comments here from funemployed and the unemployed, yet my kiddies see opportunity +++++

 

 

 

60 The videos made and shown on the vessel emerged in January and drew criticism for simulated masturbation, toilet humor, and slurs against homosexuals.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 04, 2011 08:11 AM (7+pP9)

When did we decide that sailors should no longer be sailors?  For the love of Pete, this shit is getting rediculous.  Our "leaders" are destroying the morale of our own armed forces.

Requiring professionalism in terms of the performance of duty is one thing - that can't be dispensed with.  But these witch hunts are more than counter-productive.  They're a threat to the effectiveness of the services.

61

51 Vic

Saw it and thanks!

62 GnuBreed, “Project Gunrunner” was an ATF operation

That's how things roll. Meanwhile, the ATF will continue occasionally knocking on Houston neighborhood doors and camping out on streets to locate the "real" gunrunner patsies from legal Gun Shows.

63 Are we using Fair Trade beanbags?

64 56
Wisconsin: State patrol officers watched silently from the gallery as Fitzgerald signed the orders executing the order. 

What? As if the State Patrol Officers were supposed to be shouting down in partisan protest from the gallery as the executing orders were being officially signed.
Posted by: maverick muse at March 04, 2011 08:11 AM (H+LJc)

I'd have preferred that they let out a couple of war whoops, followed by, "Looks like donkey is back on the menu, boys!", sounded a fox hunt horn call, then sprinted to their squad cars to take up the chase.

But I'm a dreamer ...

65 Posted by: Miss Marple at March 04, 2011 08:15 AM (Fo83G)

Thank you Miss M, that's the one.  Words to remember!

66 They're a threat to the effectiveness of the services.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 04, 2011 08:17 AM (xUM1Q)

You are missing the point--it is a feature, NOT a bug!

67 Id like the Border Patrol to get a few Apaches for...observation purposes, few overflights of those badasses might get some attention

68 39 Some college suspended a basketball player for "premarital sex." Good. In The Year of Our Lord 2011, most kids define "premarital sex" as group anal & oral. Posted by: CoolCzech at March 04, 2011 07:39 AM (tJjm/) It was BYU.  I heard all the students going there sign some sort of morals code thingy (no sex, no drugs, no coffee or tea) and if they break it, they're out.  I can't figure out how the school found out about it. Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2011 07:52 AM (VuLos) That's what happens when you knock up the dean's wife.

69
When did we decide that sailors should no longer be sailors?  For the love of Pete, this shit is getting rediculous.  Our "leaders" are destroying the morale of our own armed forces.

I say we go back to old school navy -- rum, buggery and the lash.

70 Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2011 07:52 AM (VuLos)

Facebook?

71 71
I say we go back to old school navy -- rum, buggery and the lash.
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 04, 2011 08:21 AM (7+pP9)

You forgot keelhauling ...

72

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2011 08:16 AM (2Yaoe)

and our country under its ratbag coalition of Greens/Labor is stuffed until we throw the bastards out at the next election!

So I guess your saying there is still hope for us. With  our rhinos crowing over cutting a pultry 2Billion a week, I'm finding it hard to be optomistic. Its seem we are just rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic at this point.

Best of luck to your children and let them know they can always come here for news, politics and laughs one they are stateside but it probably would be best if they didn't take any advice from the mo-rons!

    

73 I say we go back to old school navy -- rum, buggery and the lash.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 04, 2011 08:21 AM (7+pP9)

Well, rum and the lash, certainly...

A friend of mine served on Enterprise as a nuke tech as of a few years ago.  Sounded to me like the infection of political promotion, with considerable favoritism to minorities and women regardless of skill, was already pretty rampant.  That kind of culture is self reinforcing.  Once that type of people have power, they select their own kind to follow behind them.  It takes a vigorous top-down purge to rid the system of their taint.  Alas, it can't happen in this political environment.  But if I were in charge, I assure you that there would be a great abundance of purging going on. 

74

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 04, 2011 08:16 AM (kKA7V)

Heh..I saw that episode as well and the same thoughts crossed my mind, life imitating art and all that non-sense. Used to enjoy that show, the first few seasons were great but it has since jumped the shark. Probably best that the next will be the last season.

 

 

75

Obama: Unemployment down to 8.9%, 192,000 jobs created.

I call bullshit.

76 Obama: Unemployment down to 8.9%, 192,000 jobs created.

I call bullshit.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 04, 2011 08:31 AM (7+pP9)

The bullshit was last month.  They changed the way the numbers were calculated.  That's why it dove from 9.6 to 9.0.  9.0 to 8.9 is not all that surprising.

77 I'd have preferred that they let out a couple of war whoops, followed by, "Looks like donkey is back on the menu, boys!", sounded a fox hunt horn call, then sprinted to their squad cars to take up the chase.

Heehaw bullseye.

Democratic Wisconsin Legislators

"My mouth's bleeding! Yeehaw!"
Go on home; they're waiting for you.

78
A friend of mine served on Enterprise as a nuke tech as of a few years ago.  Sounded to me like the infection of political promotion, with considerable favoritism to minorities and women regardless of skill, was already pretty rampant.  That kind of culture is self reinforcing.

The navy has been screwed up for years. It really accelerated during the Clinton years and Bush 43 did little or nothing to slow it down. We all know what to expect from Obama.

79 I can't figure out how the school found out about it.

Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2011 07:52 AM (VuLos)

It's called obligatory confession, part of the whole honor code "observed" by the partner in "sin".

80 "Everything burns." The Dark Knight is very quotable.

81 Delaware voters say no to Joe Biden -- for name of school

The first step in overcoming a addiction is to admit that you have a problem.

82 The bullshit was last month.  They changed the way the numbers were calculated.  That's why it dove from 9.6 to 9.0.  9.0 to 8.9 is not all that surprising.

When the people actually not newly employed vote, we'll know what the real unemployment rate is...

83 Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2011 08:16 AM (2Yaoe)

Sorry to hear about your Australian nutters on "green". My daughter is in her last year at UQ in Brisbane, loves the college she is in and loves Australia. She went for a semester abroad, and asked to finish up there, as she was thoroughly sick of the pc bleating at her uni here [although she didn't phrase it quite that way]. She was working in a restaurant that closed after the floods, and liked the $20/hour, usually with tips. She plans to return to the US when she finishes, but we will see.

84 CBSNEWS dot COM

ATF Agent: I was ordered to let guns into Mexico.

85

74

Yes there's hope for you yet, if our country is in a WORSE state than yours - we're in the process of throwing the Greens/ lefties out at a state level but we have a few years yet (2013)  before we rid ourselves of the Federal Government

Moon news - March 19th and the moon gets very close to Earth.... a few funny comments mentioning Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis

 

86 ATF Agent: I was ordered to let guns into Mexico.

Posted by: Cooter at March 04, 2011 08:42 AM (6c0Hn)

Nothing to see here, move along.  The US citizenry is really the culprit here, so let's not disturb the theme we've got going.

I will be speaking harshly to CBS shortly.

87 Seriously, aussie, if they come down to the Houston area to live in the suburbs, they will be able to save more of that money, and my brothers will take them shooting. Remember the place "Pecan Grove".

88

85Posted by: Museisluse at March 04, 2011 08:42 AM (u/Nbu)

No wonder your daughter loves Brisbane - lovely city and great lifestyle - UQ has a good reputation here as well

My son lives an hour away on the Gold Coast, in Surfers Paradise - he works in that stretch from Brissie to the Coast and he's now thinking of moving to the US - he had a job offer in Houston with 10 x what he earns here

 

89 When the people actually not newly employed vote, we'll know what the real unemployment rate is...

Republicans trying to take my second year of funemployment checks away!  Waaaah!

90

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 04, 2011 08:11 AM (7+pP9)

Well, the Navy is cutting manpower so any convienent excuse will do.

91

The bullshit was last month.  They changed the way the numbers were calculated.  That's why it dove from 9.6 to 9.0.  9.0 to 8.9 is not all that surprising.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 04, 2011 08:33 AM (T0NGe)

Actually, I hope they keep manipulating the numbers even lower because it'll become that much more obvious that the books are being cooked.  No one is going to believe this shit the lower the number goes.

92

My son lives an hour away on the Gold Coast, in Surfers Paradise - he works in that stretch from Brissie to the Coast and he's now thinking of moving to the US - he had a job offer in Houston with 10 x what he earns here

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2011 08:51 AM (2Yaoe)

What is your son's area of expertise? It sounds as if Houston likes Aussies- understandable! My husband, daughter [twin of the UQ student] and I visited Brissy, Noosa, Port Douglas, Sydney and Pokolbin wine area last May. You live in a magnificent country! Sydney is a lovely city, as is Brissy.

93 The Decline of U.S. Naval Power
Sixty ships were commonly underway in America's seaward
approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on
the oceans.

Wall Street Journal    http://tinyurl.com/4k7sl22

94

Posted by: texette at March 04, 2011 08:49 AM (AqMvt)

Their company already has an office in Houston - that would be logical to move there, but as I wrote to Vic earlier, they may be thinking California is easier for all of us to get to when we visit - for me if both my kids were in Houston that would be easy!

Yes I'll remember Pecan Grove

95

Most Southern States have what is called a "homestead exemption" that varies in the amount.

Yep, $75K here in LA.

/grunts and hopes y'all understand that it means good morning

96 Wasn't Reagans goal the 600 ship navy? 

97

Posted by: Museisluse at March 04, 2011 08:57 AM (u/Nbu)

My son's company fits natural gas pipelines to homes, and as that SE corner of Queensland is the fastest growing bit of OZ he has years of work ahead

I'm glad you enjoyed your visit - Pokolbin is a favourite place - friends own a vineyard and winery there  Tullochs - right next door to Cypress Lakes Resort

 

98 _{"Labor Force Participation Rate Remains At 25 Year Low 64.2%, Birth/Death Adjustment: +112,000"}"The number:

Snooze.

192K new jobs is right in line.

The unemployment rate fell to 8.9%.

Private sector payrolls rose 222K."

CNBC just said this is a very important number politically but unfortunately it doesn't mention the people who are permanently unemployed.  Productivity is up which means that we've gotten lean and efficient using fewer employees.

99 Your mother sews sockpuppets in hell!

100 Obama: Unemployment down to 8.9%, 192,000 jobs created.

I call bullshit.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 04, 2011 08:31 AM (7+pP9)

 

It's total bullshit. The economy is floundering so the government is now making up numbers so it will look better. By next year, for Barry's glorious re-election, it will down to 5% even though the real number won't have budge or gotten worse

101 Some words of wisdom from Alice.

102 I just saw something somewhere this morning that said 10.2% and I can't remember where. I've been trying to trace back.

103

8.9% is a small number which is so small because it excludes the 12-15% of people who have run out of benefits, have given up looking for work, or are working a few hours a week instead of working no hours per week.

But it looks good.   Kind of like how Obama is lacking in all sorts of important skill sets, but he looks good.

I'm beginning to fear for '12.

104  it will down to 5% even though the real number won't have budge or gotten worse

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2011 09:14 AM (1Jaio)

If they try 5 it will be a joke, thats Bush Era numbers, I would say low to mid 6's

How long has the numbers manipulation been going on?  Didnt somebody use Carter era calculations and the number was huge?

105 Posted by: Sheriff Slow Joe Biden at March 04, 2011 09:18 AM (OWjjx)

from what one of my friends is saying, he turned himself in

106 Here's hoping that this Gunwalker scandal is the loose thread that makes the whole thing unravel. Whatever is bad for Obama is good for America.

107 If I wanted to lase a gin & tonic, it would be with a tractor beam directed into my belly.

108

I just saw something somewhere this morning that said 10.2% and I can't remember where. I've been trying to trace back.

Posted by: PoconoJoe at March 04, 2011 09:17 AM (eupBu)

Weasel Zippers has a link to the Gallup number which is 10.3%.

109 I might have to look into this BYU situation since it involves one of MY PEOPLE.

110 Steel doesn't burn, wingnut! Google it!!!

111 Sixty ships were commonly underway in America's seaward
approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans.

Wall Street Journal    http://tinyurl.com/4k7sl22

Posted by: PoconoJoe at March 04, 2011 08:59 AM (eupBu)

I never like to see military cuts, but our resources are not unlimited.  So long as we have enough to protect what's ours, I'm content.  And I am prompted to ask - what IS our role on the oceans?  To defend international trade?  Sounds like paying to make outsourcing safer.  Maybe some of our so-called allies can start pulling their weight.  The Chinese are plowing ahead with a "navy" so perhaps they can chase the south sea pirates around in the waters they are so eager to claim.  Maybe the Europeans, who brag about how much smarter and richer they are, can start diverting some resources to the work. 

Unless I'm misinformed, our navy so far out-classes all others that it would have to be majorly slashed to put us at risk.  Overkill is waste. 

112 Everything burns, sometimes twice.

113

PRINCETON, NJ -- Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, hit 10.3% in February -- up from 9.8% at the end of January. The U.S. unemployment rate is now essentially the same as the 10.4% at the end of February 2010.

Underemployment, a measure that combines part-time workers wanting full-time work with those who are unemployed, surged in February to 19.9%. This resulted from the combination of a sharp 0.5-point increase since the end of January in the percentage unemployed and a 0.5-point increase in the percentage working part time but wanting full-time work. Underemployment is now higher than it was at this point a year ago (19.7%).

 

Time for Gallup to be sent to the re-education camps

114

Unless I'm misinformed, our navy so far out-classes all others that it would have to be majorly slashed to put us at risk.  Overkill is waste. 

Posted by: Reactionary at March 04, 2011 09:35 AM (xUM1Q)

But there is an implicit assumption that the warriors would be allowed to use force and win in your statement.  By the way, overkill is not very nuanced!

115 Aussie, just saw your kid's Houston office is in The Woodlands, which is north of Houston proper.  Pecan Grove (Richmond/Rosenberg area) is a suburb south of Houston proper.  If he has to be in the office everyday, then that is too far to drive everyday.  But, depending upon where his work will be, it may not matter where he actually lives.  The Woodlands has developed a lot since I was a kid visiting my Auntie, one of the original residents.  A lot of new money, very flashy in places, lots of trees there originally (hence the name).  I, personally, am not crazy about it, but that is a personal quirk because it is one of the new "hot" places.  I grew up right on the Texas Coast, and my family moved to the Richmond/Rosenberg/area when I was in college.  I like places that have been there for a while.  But, regardless, lots of jobs for nurses in the area.

116 They found out about the BYU basketball player because he got his girlfriend pregnant, I think.

117

Posted by: texette at March 04, 2011 09:52 AM (7mGhZ)

Thanks for that info - no doubt wherever they end up I'll be visiting that office in Houston - it's still so strange that both my kids might end up living in the same city in the US! BTW we love the US - we've been visiting there for years - although I've never been to Texas - just California, Hawaii and on the east coast, New York and Washington DC   

118 Hi morons.  I'm too lazy to scan the posts.  Anyone else pissed at P. J. Crowley's statement if the attack on the U. S. airmen was terrorism, then so was the shooting in Tucson? 

This administration is beyond screwed up.

119 _{"Risk Off: Commodity Complex Jumps On Reports Libyan Oil Wells Near Benghazi On Fire"}last night Batchelor and bliss concluded that k daffy is there to stay, that he's been able to pull off keeping control yet again.

Do you guys think that's true?   If you do then why?   Batchelor maintained that most people aren't fighting k daffy, just a very small faction on the Mediterranean cost.  Bathchelor said that people want to take care of their families and aren't picking up guns to get themselves killed "for what?"

I've noticed everyone seems to be trying to leave the country.  To me that doesn't show standing firm to support your local dictator.  To me that says, forget the fighting, someplace else has to be better than this, let's get the hell out of here while we can.

120 I've noticed everyone seems to be trying to leave the country.  To me that doesn't show standing firm to support your local dictator.  To me that says, forget the fighting, someplace else has to be better than this, let's get the hell out of here while we can.

Posted by: curious at March 04, 2011 10:02 AM (k1rwm)

This is why I hate a lot of these refugees.  Stay in your own damn mess and fight it out, pussies.  Either make things better in your own land, or shut up, or at least wait to come here until we f***ing invite you.  It's not my/our fault that they were born in a crap hole of a nation.  If I ran any of the nations bordering Libya I'd have troops out there with shoot-to-kill orders in place.

121 34 - Border Patrol Agents fired Bean Bags? Beaner Bags? RAAACIST!

122 Reactionary--bingo.

123 "This is why I hate a lot of these refugees." This is exactly what is wrong with the concept of "regime change." Our foreign policy establishment took the wrong lessons from WWII and its aftermath. Every war since the Korean War has been such a race to push another Marshall Plan on our enemies that we don't bother to defeat them decisively first. _The_Mouse_That_Roared_ was released in 1959. That was supposed to be satire.

124 Public Employee Union plow drivers file a grievance because they had to work when other city/county employees stayed home after a 2 foot snowstorm

http://tinyurl.com/5s93u45 [just in case I linked it wrong]

125 Anyone else pissed at P. J. Crowley's statement if the attack on the U. S. airmen was terrorism, then so was the shooting in Tucson? 

This administration is beyond screwed up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 04, 2011 10:01 AM (UOM4

Just when I think I'm beyond being shocked by the garbage those State dept assholes can spew....

126

Just when I think I'm beyond being shocked by the garbage those State dept assholes can spew....

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 04, 2011 10:52 AM (kKA7V)

Heard today that Cravenly got to be an AF Colonel.  Another example of the incompetent rising in the military, and spilling over into civilian life.

127 INTERPOL issued arrest warrants for Qadhafi and family members.

bizarre international police action strings being manipulated

128 The Helen Thomas link is broken.

129 That Frank Zappa joke is sad. Frank had misdiagnosed prostate cancer. He shouldn't have died of it. Prophetically sick humor, it did him in.

130 Wonder how far a show called "Good Muslim Whores" would get?

http://tinyurl.com/4aa45wj