1 This just in:

Megan McWhoosits,  Tax Expert and all around
genius does not understand  about that taxing the
rich shit.  I'd post a link, but I don't have thumbs.

2 Baracknaphobia by D.L. Hammack

It is a triple edge sword

Baracknaphobia is the inescapable fear that this country will be subjected to another four years of ideological, radical, in-your-face narcissistic control.  Baracknaphobia is also the reluctance to call the man out for his lies, because of the color of his skin.  Baracknaphobia is fear of the demon that could destroy America.

3 De longer Barry is in office, diverse it gets!

4 Were all the co-bloggers finishing their taxes yesterday?  Maybe the spammers should get thread creation privileges.

5 Good morning and welcome to Tax Monday, M&Ms. Warmer temperatures, greener grass, more confiscation of your hard-earned money to feed the insatiable maw of a faceless, feckless government beast. Enjoy your week of rage!

6 That Mother of the Year candidate isn't getting a lot of love.

Funny how after all of that public schooling, sex education, free birth control, a young woman who has a driver's license still manages to get pregnant time and time again.

It's a miracle.

7 Per Drudge AP link, 45% of US households didn't have to bother working on taxes, because they don't pay any!

So we have 45% out of the gate voting D in 2012.

Who says the Chicago machine does not translate well to federal politics?

8 Try and remember those things that have made us a great nation, such as taxpayer funded cowboy poetry
 
as you write your checks this morning.

9 From article at Fox:

In interviews aired on the Sunday talk shows, Mr. Geithner said House Speaker John Boehner and other senior Republicans told President Barack Obama in discussions last week that they were aware of the risk of a credit default and were open to lifting the limit even in the absence of a comprehensive deal to slash the country's debt load.

Has Boner sold us out already or tax cheat Timmy lying?

10 Like beauty, discovery is in the eye of the beholder.

NASA photos: "The spectacular new data just released remind us that we have many new neighbors," said Brown University space scientist Pete Schultz.

"New neighbors" that weren't there in the neighborhood until we saw or recognized them?  Conceit, as if nothing exists until we become aware and convinced.

11 "So we have 45% out of the gate voting D in 2012."

Hey now.  Some of us are just funemployed.  I wouldn't vote D if they paid me from the stimulus fund.

(No, that isn't a request, Barry.)

12 In an article that it must have pained the AP to write, we see:
 
State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November.

The dividends are apparent after only a few months in office, and they go well beyond the spending cuts forced on states by the fiscal crunch and tea party agitation. Republican governors and state legislators are bringing abortion restrictions into law from Virginia to Arizona, acting swiftly to expand gun rights north and south, pushing polling-station photo ID laws that are anathema to Democrats and taking on public sector unions anywhere they can.
 
Just thought I'd spread a little cheer before the inevitable Doom brings me back to my senses. Actually, I truly enjoy the Doom stuff so keep em comin' Monty.

13 Vic--a senior repub would never sell out his base. 
He might, however, grow in office and reach across the aisle to compromise in the bipartisan way that the American people so desperately demand of all our politicians.


Those November votes--they are so last year!

14 State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November.

ROORAR!  JAAAH1!

15 Try and remember those things that have made us a great nation, such as

taxpayer funded cowboy poetry,

US taxpayer funded bail-outs for too-big-to-fail everything including the global authoritarian institutions already controlling the world's economy and our puny mundane lives,
 
as you write your checks this morning.

16 I see Boehner has not learned anything about negotiation. It seems Republicans  have already assured Geithner, and it sounds like Obama, they will lift the debt ceiling.

Today's WSJ

I am really beginning to despise Boehner.

17 On another "good" score, in this date in history paul Revere made his famous ride to warn of the British coming.

Who will make a ride to warn of the commies coming now? ......what?

They're already here?   They are incharge of the government?

Never mind

18 I get to write a $6900 check, and that is after paying in all year. Yey me.

19 Not so good on this date in history Jimmy Carter's give away of the Panama Canal was ratified by the Commiecrat Senate. 16 RINOs voted with the Carter.

20 State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November.

Just wait until redistricting kicks in.

21 The fight for freedom continues, as exemplified by this protest scene:
 
Over the past four months, locals have developed increasingly inventive roadblocks to stop contractors from getting to the site. They have parked trucks across the street and built piles of rubble and dirt. Apparently in it for the long haul, they have erected a wooden hut by the side of the road to serve as protest headquarters, complete with campaign posters, news clippings and children's drawings of the riots. Their latest move was a nocturnal expedition to dig a shoulder-deep trench across both lanes of the road. That was one step too far for the authorities, who, on Thursday, sent in workers – protected by police – to repair the damage.

Within hours, the confrontation degenerated. Masked youths hurled firebombs and rocks at riot police, who responded with rubber batons and repeated volleys of tear gas. A police helicopter circled overhead. "The town is out of control. Business activity has stopped," said Yannis Adamis, a resident and mechanical engineer. "The stores are closed. The sirens are blaring, the [church] bells are ringing, people are on the streets. This cannot continue."
 
This freedom rally is in Greece, being held to oppose a landfill being built. Nimby please!

22 Has Boner sold us out already or tax cheat Timmy lying?

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2011 07:14 AM (M9Ie6)

timmmaaay doesn't lie.

But if you've been reading boner told you that himself in a round about way.

That's why I was saying it was "all over" with that vote.

23 Marcus,  I heard on the radio this morning that Geithner was offering his own interpretation of what was said,  and the GOP denied giving him such assurances.

24

"We are all Socialists now"

25 Boehner seems to think that there is value in dealing with Democrats in good faith. Pubs: Hey guys, we aren't going to cause an economic catastrophe by not raising the dent ceiling, so lets talk about what we can do to save the country. Dems: Republicans are evil and will hold up this legislation so your grandmother and autistic children will die horrible deaths. Pubs: No, really, we aren't going to hold this up. Dems: See how evil they are! Pubs: Omigosh they are calling us evil and independents will think that we are evil! Let's cave on everything! Dems: This is the end of the world because the Republicans are evil but we held out and saved your grandmother and autistic children. Ace: Republicans should never be conservative or stand on principle because Independents will they they are icky and they will lose, so good thing they caved on everything! Independents: Whew, the news said that Democrats saved us from those icky Republicans! I can't believe they would shut the government down just because they hate gay abortions!

26

Just read this outstanding article by Kevin Williamson on the futility of taxing the rich to close the budget gap....


http://tinyurl.com/3c2ffzh :

Our deficit is running around $1.6 trillion. If we took all military spending — not just the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but the whole shebang — and cut it to $0.00, we’d save about $664 billion a year. Iraq and Afghanistan will cost about $170 billion combined in FY2011. Ending the Bush tax cuts for “the rich” — for the $250,000-and-up crowd, in Obama’s formulation — would put on average about another $80 billion a year into Treasury coffers. (CBO estimates the ten-year cost of those tax cuts at $800 billion.) The spending on the wars and the forgone revenue from the Bush tax cuts do not add up to much of that $1.6 trillion deficit: a little less than 16 percent.

16%!  That should be a constant refrain from the right when beating back the "bush tax cuts/wars" line from the left.

27

Strange Politics and Bedfellows Case to SCOTUS

Here is a case making its way to the Supremes that we have heard very little of and some may wish to actually support our current DOJ.

It seems that the Audubon Society wants to sue large utilities over CO2 emissions. Obama says no, that is the job of the EPA and not the federal court system.

Gee, didn't the federal court system already get involved when the evil Bush was President (MA case)?

I say a pox on both their houses neither the courts nor the EPA should be involved, other than the courts should be criminally prosecuting the AGW scam artists for fraud.

28 I've been so worried about the Present's stress level lately. Fortunately, I'm now much more at ease knowing that he got in his 64th round of golf this weekend.
 
We need him well rested and ready to face today's challenges, such as finding another GOPer to demagogue or another sector of the economy to collapse.

29 9-Vic, Speaker Boned said a week ago that raising the debt li limit is a "moral imperative." the deed is already done, and no he didn't get anything for it.

30 Has Boner sold us out already or tax cheat Timmy lying?
Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2011 07:14 AM (M9Ie6)

Oh, I'm sure it's all just a smoke screen to fool us gullible purists into getting mad.  Just like the story that Boner had agreed to $33 billion in cuts...which was technically false, since he agreed to $38 billion.

He wouldn't sell us out on the debt ceiling.  After all, that's where the >>>real fight<<< is.

31 Okay, okay, enough of the relentless good news from me. Bet you didn't know that us taxpayers are funding the bailouts of Portugal, Greece, etc and so on didja? I thought not:
 
I warned how the Obama Administration was making a Greek bailout more likely by agreeing in advance that U.S. taxpayers would help foot the bill. Later, the IMF set up a $356 billion bailout fund for European governments with the consent of the Obama Administration– even though the fund will likely cost U.S. taxpayers between $50-100 billion and possibly more – all without a Congressional vote or consultation.

On April 29, 2010, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and I wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warning of the dangers of U.S. participation in a Greek bailout. “The Obama Administration needs to understand that bailing out Greece will not solve Greece’s problems,” I said at the time. “It will only create a moral hazard that gets America more involved in the gathering storm of European bailouts.” That storm has since consumed Ireland and Portugal and others may be on the way.
 
That part on 'without a Congressional vote or consultation' really adds some pizazz to the whole thing.

32 23 Marcus,  I heard on the radio this morning that Geithner was offering his own interpretation of what was said,  and the GOP denied giving him such assurances.

Posted by: Miss Marple at April 18, 2011 07:32 AM (Fo83G)

I would believe that if this did not smell similar to the first budget deal negotiation.

In the end, I will judge this based on what ultimately happens. If Boehner caves and starts the hard sell on what a great deal he got, which will ultimately stink, then Geithner's story is true.

I bet Gabe's pet Llama the aforementioned paragraph is what will happen.

33 The Ryan budget plan that the House passed last week does have increases for the national debt in it. However, that is a non-binding guideline.

Boner has said repeatedly that the debt ceiling bill will contain budget constraints in it and not be a "clean bill" as Obama wanted.

To me the 2012 budget and the debt ceiling raise were the make or break things for the Republican Party. The House passed the 2012 budget plan with moderate cuts in it, now it goes to the Senate which the Dems control and which, as a percentage, the Republicans have a lot more RINOs.

We are already hearing stuff from the "gang of 6" in tax increases which are not part of the Ryan plan. So look for the Senate to water down the Ryan plan, add some tax increases and send it back to the House.

At that point the House MUST hold firm. Start passing the individual budget ALLOCATIONS that ARE binding. Allocations that cut departments and eliminate some agencies.

These are the ones which must be "take it or leave it".

34

9From article at Fox:

In interviews aired on the Sunday talk shows, Mr. Geithner said House Speaker John Boehner and other senior Republicans told President Barack Obama in discussions last week that they were aware of the risk of a credit default and were open to lifting the limit even in the absence of a comprehensive deal to slash the country's debt load.

Has Boner sold us out already or tax cheat Timmy lying?

 

 

 

Gone are the days where we can threaten to just "vote them out."  Has the time arrived yet to up the ante? 

35 Read somewhere:

If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove that you're not a racists, please vote for anyone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot.

36 That part on 'without a Congressional vote or consultation' really adds some pizazz to the whole thing.

Funding for the IMF is probably driven by treaty and included in the "mandatory" portion of the federal budget. You know, the part that all the kids on here keep blaming on the babyboomers with SS and medicare.

Since I started looking into that "mandatory" spending I have come to the conclusion that Republicans need to look into it more closely and start some wholesale cuts there too.

37 @7 Hrothgar

From that AP link at Drudge:

"This voluntary idea clearly represents a mindset that basically pretends there's no such things as collective goods that we produce," Schoenberg said. "Are you going to let people volunteer to build the road system? Are you going to let them volunteer to pay for education?"

I know I always work harder with a gun in my back. 

In every leftist's chest beats the heart of Pol Pot.

38 Hey GM I paid my bailout money, where's my dividend check?

39 Atlas Shrugged was very well done.

33 Vic,

I have carried Boner's water a lot.  If he sends Bury a clean bill we need a clean sweep of GOP leadership.  Bury and Schoomah NEVER sent clean bills to Bush.

40 I see Boehner has not learned anything about negotiation.

Boehner has not learned? pff

Boehner got what Boehner wanted. Collegiality while shoring up neoconservative "compassionate" big brother agenda.

Whereas it is we who did not get what we voting taxpayers want from our internal GOP party negotiations/elections.

More of the same "experience" ain't gonna improve the course nor our hand in this stacked high stakes political poker game.

It is VOTERS who have not learned anything about "negotiation" so long as voters "prepare" for the '12 election by persisting yet to count on establishment  party politicians to become POTUS, legislator, judge or district attorney (whose experience IS bipartisan big-is-better spending along with amnesty-for-illegality, not to mention sponsoring global interventionist wars of aggression on demand by foreign and therefore "superior" entities, demolishing the Constitutional sovereignty of the USA).

The Tea Party movement began with the constitutional and fiscal conservative Libertarian/Republican alliance that affected the '10 election with the CUT TAXES mandated agenda which the Republican Party leadership refuse. There is no negotiation within that "big tent" GOP since the GOP sabotages the Tea Party movement. The GOP experienced elitist establishment eschews the Tea Party House and Senate Caucus. 

So don't play as tools of the establishment machine by bashing or discounting leaders of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress because they aren't more of the same unless you want more of the same.

Stick with the constitutional conservatism platform and empower that agenda with knowledgeable leaders already on the national stage (knowledgeable in solid economics but not "experienced/corrupted").

Let's keep electing and supporting candidates committed to implementing constitutional SMALL GOVERNMENT.

"Discover" what permeates politics all around us, global authoritarian sabotage rules our neighborhood. It's been leading the GOP since Nixon/Kissinger. Get over the "need" to perpetuate the very entity eating us alive.

41 Do you think the dems would put up much of a fight over repealing the lightbulb ban?

42

40--We can't achieve any of our goals unless the GOP is given full control of every branch of gov't, state and federal.

Did I get that right?

 

43 We have past the day when we should be fighting back against the squishy side of the Republican Party. Accusations of "purist" and the like should be ignored. To me those have become the same level as "racist".

In addition, I am past the point where we should support RINOs like MooKow and the ME sisters in blue States because that is "the best we can get".

In fact, I am at a crossroads for supporting the Republican Party at all. The 2012 budget wars and the 2012 Primary is the telling point. if we can't get a real conservative in place then there is no point in supporting any of them because the country is going into collapse anyway.

It will be time to drop out of politics and into the "doom survival mode". Politics will have failed.

44

I took one for the team and watched Meet the Socialists yesterday. There was much clucking and consternation about the Donald's assertion that Barack Maobama is the Worst US Preznit_tm Evah. One of the MtS Panel geniuses sniffed, in response to Trump, "I guess he's never heard of James Buchanan!" NBC's new meme-Preznit Barack, Sure He's Bad, But Buchanen was Worse!

Interesting comparison, too, in that Prez Buck was at the wheel when the SC seceded in late 1860.

45

Pretend this is an actual link to JWF's top story about the White House and a member of the media. Don't go there if you're somewhere where a scream would cause problems.

Stupid, stupid people.

46 Dear Senator,

Where is the incentive for a Senator to DO anything constructive?

I'm not seeing it.

What? An entire nation should depend upon the good-will and character of slimy bastards like Edward Kennedy?

(God rest his soul and give peace to his family but he was a fucking scourge on this nation long before I was ever borne and his actions, as Senator, will continue to afflict us for generations.)

"Lion of the Senate", indeed!

What a bunch of meek, bah-bah, sheep you must have been, to lionize him.

For decades.

You lot of backslapping, self-satisfied, bunch of mutual congratulators.

(Not my fault.  I tried like hell, to prevent a damned Senator from becoming president in '07. I failed. Sorry folks. I told you it would be bad!)

Is simply BEING a Senator really so satisfying as to burn out any other human passion or concern?

Are the notes of Nero that sweet, his incense so beguiling as to leave you "deliberators" bereft of all reason?

Well, most of you have been in office for my entire life (and more so!), so, I suppose you know best.

Thanks!

Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the good job you have done.

Lo, these many, many decades.

47

In coherent terms, this link will probably make you scream.

48

I have carried Boner's water a lot.  If he sends Bury a clean bill we need a clean sweep of GOP leadership.  Bury and Schoomah NEVER sent clean bills to Bush.

Boehner and the GOP leadership are filthy statists.  They pretend to like conservative ideas, but that's just a game.  Everyone who has been in Congres more than four years needs their ass kicked, primary and general alike.  Boehner most of all, but Cantor, Hal Rogers, Fred Upton, etc... they all need it. 

The only non-asshole (so far) in leadership is Paul Ryan. 

49 From the JWF link:

Well, it appears there may have been a thaw in relation between the Obama administration and Fox News. After their unsuccessful two-year war on FNC, the Obama folks have clearly realized it's probably a good idea to have an adult relationship with the nations's most popular cable outlet.

Could that be because Fox surrendered and started kissing his ass like the rest of them? I have turned off Fox now.

50 Is simply BEING a Senator really so satisfying as to burn out any other human passion or concern?

It must be, since they don't quit until they are extremely dead.

51 No, Vic, keep reading for the punch line...that part is a joke.

52 Axe Cop, Truman?

53

I'm not Axe Cop!  I'm Truman North!  But I love Axe Cop!  Google Axe Cop!  He is Awesome!

54 Could that be because Fox surrendered and started kissing his ass like the rest of them? I have turned off Fox now.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2011 08:38 AM (M9Ie6)

I turned it off Nov. 4, 2008.  OY....the slurping going on that night put me over the edge.

55

How is our French/Italian community organizing affair working out in Labia? Any news? Has Hillary answered any questions on this? Dittos the WON? Just wondering. It seems the WON, and his most civil cheerleaders (KRUGMAN), seem more intent on shooting Ryan than supposedly bad guys. I say supposedly because I remember when Palestinians were bad guys. Now they are good guys. At least with the Ivy League elitist. Thank God we have Ivy Leaguers running things. Can you imagine what would happen if we were lead by graduates from a State college? Apocalypse Now thingy.  

56 And why is there such doom that calls for abandoning politics if they don't get a handle on this?

This graph from CRDM's Clarion Advisory says it all.

57 Politico: "President Obama is continuing his deficit charge on Monday, granting interviews to reporters from news stations in Colorado, North Carolina, Texas and Indiana -- some of which are states that will be key to his reelection bid. In guidance to reporters, the White House described the interviews as a chance for Obama to 'discuss his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity.'"

You would think people would eventually tire of this con-man's lectures.

58 RASMUSSEN: Obama 49% Trump 34%... Developing...

republican 17%?

59 48 Boehner and the GOP leadership are filthy statists.  They pretend to like conservative ideas, but that's just a game.  Everyone who has been in Congres more than four years needs their ass kicked, primary and general alike.  Boehner most of all, but Cantor, Hal Rogers, Fred Upton, etc... they all need it...

The congressional veterans have been pushing Boehner more than the freshmen, interestingly enough. I would also say the two leadership members I like the most are Rep. Hensarling and Dr. Price; I like Ryan also but he's not a member of the leadership.

60 Conservatism Blamed for Gay Teen Suicides


Suicide attempts by gay teens -- and even straight kids -- are more common in politically conservative areas where schools don't have programs supporting gay rights, a study involving nearly 32,000 high school students found.

..
The research focused only on the state of Oregon and created a social index to assess which outside factors might contribute to suicidal tendencies. Other teen health experts called it a powerful, novel way to evaluate a tragic social problem.
..
The study relied on teens' self-reporting suicide attempts within the previous year. Roughly 20 percent of gay, lesbian and bisexual teens said they had made an attempt, versus 4 percent of straight kids.

61

From Gateway Pundit

Imagine if Tea Party members pulled this kind of shit when a Dem-commie was speaking at one of their rallies.

If I am not mistaken this kind of speech directed at a minor would be considered assault in most States. Of course he is most likely a union member/leader and the cops there are union.

62 Posted by: momma at April 18, 2011 08:51 AM (penCf)

The surest indication that a massive lie is about to follow are preceded by the phrase

"studies show...."

63 Harry Reid leading delegation to China

Schumer of course went with him so that he can whisper answers in Reid's ear.

64

@55--you know, with the recent 4-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting, I kind of wish that the shooter had enrolled at Harvard.  He could have done a lot more to prevent the destruction of this country there than by shooting a group of people who were on track to truly contribute to a better future.

Too soon? 

65 Why didn't we hear about this: 'new efficiency standards' bill?

“Frankly, my toilets don’t work in my house. And I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house, what I can do. You restrict my choices, there is hypocrisy.”

During a Senate hearing on Tuesday to advance legislation that would set new efficiency standards for appliances, Sen. Rand Paul voiced his displeasure with the legislationÂ’s enforcement.

Paul described a scene from the Ayn Rand's 1937 novel ‘Anthem’ in which the protagonist discovers the incandescent light bulb. “He takes it before the collective of elders and they take the light bulb and basically it’s crushed beneath the boot heel of the collective.” “The collective has no place, basically, for individual choice. "Now, I'm not suggesting that this collective is against electricity, per say, or for quashing individualism but I am suggesting that we're against choice."

“We are taking away people’s freedom to choose what products they want to buy. We talk about efficiency but nobody seems to care about whether the products are effective or what the consumer thinks of the products or what the consumer would buy, this is what the marketplace usually determines,” Paul added.

Paul offered an amendment that would remove the enforcement authority of a law that imposes efficiency standards on a number of products. PaulÂ’s amendment failed. The efficiency standards bill passed in the committee.

66

The punch line, as in it makes you feel like you've been punched:

In the halls of American power, the Arab Spring has brought Al-Jazeera in from the cold.

Seven years after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” and President George W. Bush joked about bombing it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised it as “real news” in her recent Senate testimony.

Not only that, her staffers, as well as those of the CIA and the Obama White House, were attending the Congressional CorrespondentsÂ’ Dinner as Al-JazeeraÂ’s guests.

“They are a really important media entity, and we have a really great relationship with them,”

67 Schumer of course went with him so that he can whisper answers in Reid's ear.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 18, 2011 08:53 AM (uVLrI)

Who's whispering the answers to Schumer?

68 Why aren't the Republicans shouting this question from the roof tops?:

When was the last time BO held a Press Conference with a Q and A afterward?  When was the last time he was asked a question that wasn't cleared by his Admin. first?

69 '$58,000 per second': Member wants debt clock displayed in House chamber

Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) last week introduced a resolution that would place a clock measuring the U.S. debt in the House chamber as a "visual gesture" that reminds members of the need to reduce spending.

"We are currently borrowing $58,000 per second," Reed said last week. "We borrow at least forty cents of each dollar we spend. That is unsustainable. The debt clock will be a distinct reminder that our national debt must always be our first consideration as we continue to spend money that we do not have."

70 You would think people would eventually tire of this con-man's lectures.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 18, 2011 08:42 AM (uVLrI)

You couldn't pay me to listen to the JEF's blabberings.  I only come onto threads that are mocking the simpleton cocksucker or listen to Tammy Bruce doing a Mystery Science Theater version of it; and even teh Tam can only take so much of it before breaking to a Palin clip for a fresh breath of sanity.  Even Mrs Hate, who voted for the Indonesian Imbecile, can't stand to listen to him any more.

71

To 64

"He could have done a lot more to prevent the destruction of this country there than by shooting a group of people who were on track to truly contribute to a better future."

 

Maybe we should sponspor Loughner to attend Harvard or Yale. Just tell him they are the ones screwing up the language. Hell, if Sparky could get in, how hard would it be?

72 You would think people would eventually tire of this con-man's lectures.

You would think so, 80's Baby, but apparently this is not the case; as much as it grieves my heart to report this sad news to you.

Miss 80's Baby.

(On the upside, I really don't see random black ladies getting into fist-fights at the checkout stand in a November Safeway if this tool gets re-elected.  So, there's that.)

73 Rep. Joe Walsh Hits ABCÂ’s Christiane Amanpour Over the MSMÂ’s Not Criticizing Obama More

74 I felt so bad about giving only 20% of my wages the gov't that I wrote them a check for another 5%.  'Cause I'm a giver.  A "rich" giver.

75

More evidence that the squishy Republicans in the Senate are going to sell us out

(From Redstate)

76 63 Harry Reid leading delegation to China

Schumer of course went with him so that he can whisper answers in Reid's ear.

"Clean energy", heh.  The only reason China can make things for "clean energy" like solar panels is because their environmental standards are so poor. 

77 USPS used Vegas replica for Lady Liberty stamp

Postal officials say they weren't aware of that until a stamp expert pointed it out. They say the stamp was designed from a photo provided by an agency that licensed it only as "Statue of Liberty."

However, USPS officials say they like the design and have no plans to pull it out of circulation.

78 60 Conservatism Blamed for Gay Teen Suicides

Couldn't be that living an unfulfilled, empty, unnatural life devoid of natural procreation and underwritten by liberal-progressive social lies about the traditional family could be the cause?

Mmm, OK, how about that irrespective of how much the PC Nazi's tell us we must "accept" (and by the way, what does that mean, because Conservatives may not agree sometimes with their fellow man, most I know still love them...) they can't force traditional families (the majority) to agree that being gay is a healthy or "normal" alternative.  

By the way, does this mean we can now have "anti" gay counseling as an alternative avenue to save lives? Just askin- because liberals are always doing things like going green to save their fellow man and the whales, etc.

79 OK what happened with that text???

80 Meanwhile, in the Middle East:

Ahmadinejad: 'The era of Zionism has passed away'

81 Legal Insurrection: 
It's Now Patriotic to Call Paul Krugman a !@%$#%@ Hypocrite
Go read the insanity.  I find it goes good with coffee!

82 Posted by: Marcus at April 18, 2011 09:04 AM (CHrmZ)

Damn, you don't have to scream.  I keed! I keed!

It happens because of the CNS News font I think.

83

#60. Posted by: momma at April 18, 2011 08:51 AM (penCf)

 

I'm surprised the headline wasn't, Conservatism causes death

84

From Atlus Shrugged - FEC to "investigate" Obama illegal campaign donations

Conviction???? hahahahahahaha

85 The study relied on teens' self-reporting suicide attempts within the previous year. Roughly 20 percent of gay, lesbian and bisexual teens said they had made an attempt, versus 4 percent of straight kids.

Posted by: momma at April 18, 2011 08:51 AM (penCf)

Roughly, GLBTQ(LMNOP) people are 2% of the population and straight kids are 98% of the population (IIRC), then:

20% X 2% = 0.4%, and

4% X 98% = 3.92%, thus

3.92% is 9.8 times as big as 0.4%, therefore

10 times as much funding, outreach, and support should go to straight kids who are suicidal as GLBTQ(LMNOP) kids who are suicidal. 

IT'S ONLY FAIR!

86 Posted by: Marcus at April 18, 2011 09:04 AM (CHrmZ)

Do you actually read anyone else's posts?

87 Monty DOOM thread up.

88 42 snort

No, since you inverted 40, you certainly did not get that right.

If you wanted to get it right after misunderstanding 40, go figure.

It's worse than you think.

So long as the GOP has full control, given that the GOP is merely an element within the authoritarian bipartisan uniparty, we'll NEVER cut the size of government. Furthermore, we'll ever pay more for more government spending with less to nothing to say for ourselves. 

The elitist establishment GOP leadership is in the process of usurping the Tea Party movement while its grassroots elements, voters including you and I, cling bitterly to the very tendency that betrays constitutional integrity, that being the ELECTABILITY factor. (Ask Vic about electability.) And so long as voters demand or even assent to another "acceptable" and "experienced" establishment figure on GOP tickets ('12 POTUS), voting for more establishment only wins more authoritarianism that costs everything, leaving nothing.

Although the relations could be symbiotic, the The Tea Party movement co-habitates within the "big tent" GOP but does not lead the GOP establishment. I support the Tea Party Caucus leaders, not the GOP establishment leadership who eschew the Tea Party Caucus leaders.

At the moment we delude ourselves if we believe we actually "enjoy" Constitutional Governance today as each branch usurps the role and authority of other branches, and Congress refuses to abide by constituent demands, officials being owned by the globalist interests protected by themselves, the powerful, our American establishment, Republican and Democrat.

As '12 approaches and hats are tossed, rather than succumbing to fear tactics and bowing to the "electability" establishment factor, realize who actually started the Tea Party movement. There is a viable choice. Keep that small government platform simple for success, achieving Liberty.

Who champions the Tea Party movement? Contrast champion against usurper and abuser. Then refrain from supporting the saboteurs of small government.

Small government requires cuts in existent non-essential and unconstitutional bureaucracy in order to cut spending and cut taxes, and thus become economically independent.

89 87 Posted by: Marcus at April 18, 2011 09:04 AM (CHrmZ)

Do you actually read anyone else's posts?

I am sure you have a point. What it is alludes me at the moment...

90

COLUMBUS, Ohio – State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November.

The dividends are apparent after only a few months in office, and they go well beyond the spending cuts forced on states by the fiscal crunch and tea party agitation.

 

"Tea Party agitation". Gee AP comrades, why not just come right out call us counter-revolutionaries or enemies of the state

91 SharptonÂ’s NAN Race Rants: Shut Down Construction Sites With No Blacks; Only Blacks Should Educate Blacks, Other Classes Teach Hate; Media Conspiracy Causing ObamaÂ’s Polls to Drop With Blacks & Al Beat Back Beck & Racist Tea Party

92 Republicans are moving at light speed

Clueless metaphor alert

93 I am sure you have a point. What it is alludes me at the moment...

Posted by: Marcus at April 18, 2011 09:19 AM (CHrmZ)

You keep repeating posts that others have already posted.

94 I am sure you have a point. What it is alludes me at the moment...

Posted by: Marcus at April 18, 2011 09:19 AM (CHrmZ)

You keep repeating posts that others have already posted.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2011 09:26 AM (M9Ie6)

I think he was copying momma's post @ 60 and commenting on it.  But because of the state-of-the-art commenting system here, it got all jumbled together.

95 TheQuietMan 9:19

Those leaders holding all of the federal powers to abuse already have called participants in the Tea Party movement radical domestic terrorists targeted for the DHS to take down: Obama, Holder and Janet Napolitano's First Order of Business. Media effectively propagandize the virtues of this federal authoritarian extermination proclamation, tagging enemy of the state onto the Tea Party while reconditioning alliance with sovereign Islamic Jihad.

96 British Pathé Film Archive:

1906 San Francisco Earthquake Video: Rare 1906 newsreel in the British Pathe archive shows footage of San Fran in ruins.

97   74 Rep. Joe Walsh Hits ABCÂ’s Christiane Amanpour Over the MSMÂ’s Not Criticizing Obama More Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 18, 2011 09:01 AM (uVLrI)

Joe Walsh went to Congress? Wondered what happened to him after The Eagles gig went pfft.

98 89--I always recommend that commenters check the batteries on their sarc detectors at least once/mo.

99 95 I am sure you have a point. What it is alludes me at the moment...

Posted by: Marcus at April 18, 2011 09:19 AM (CHrmZ)

You keep repeating posts that others have already posted.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2011 09:26 AM (M9Ie6)

I think he was copying momma's post @ 60 and commenting on it.  But because of the state-of-the-art commenting system here, it got all jumbled together.

We have a winner. I wasn't aware that commenting on another commenters comment was verbotten and some type of insult, bound to piss-off other denizens of comment land. Geez, switch to decaf or something.

100 Sorry it looked to me like you were just repeat posting.

101 No apology necessary and no worries. I try to be responsible with my comments.

102 Nothing to do with anything... Fortunate Son is not an antiwar song. It is an antigovernment song. Who were the hippies? Comfortable middle class youth living easy during the postwar economic boom until the draft. The only way to avoid the draft was to go to college, something beyond the reach of poor rural whites. Look at the chorus again. They are acknowledging that the government feels they are expendable, because they do not have power or influence. Hippies can protest the war because they hate the draft. CCR recognized that this was not a concern for the well-to-do and politically connected.

103

Taking the fight to the enemy.

This weekend I engaged in defending conservatism at spacebattles.com. The amount of abuse and death threats hurled at me was rather overwhelming. In short I am exahusted. The reason I visit this site is that I feel it is important to take the fight into enemy territory as it were. Spacebattles.com is in short a place where the far left likes to hang out and tell each other how wonderfull they are and how rotten and evil conservatives are. It is their safe place.

If we conservatives are going to truely win this fight we have to be willing to carry the fight into the very homes of the enemy (after reading how much they hate us I have no problem calling them that). We can not let them have these safe places where they can recoup their mental energy. It is an important part of any battle to break the other side moral.

So in short I am asking, no begging for help. Please go to the site, register, go to the non sci fi debate forum in the forums section and help me fight the good fight. Please respond. I'm kind of in need of some support myself

104

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 18, 2011 09:52 AM (mHQ7T)

And Who'll Stop the Rain is about the Woodstock Festival.

So, on another note, anyone know how Abe Vigoda is doing?

105 HERO:  


'I just grabbed the geezer': Hero squaddie seizes top Taliban leader after desert FIST FIGHTAsked about his actions, Pte Stephens said: ‘My muckers were getting shot at and I thought “I’m not having that”.’

...

God Bless these Heroes.  Only God and soldiers bring the gift of FREEDOM:

Now that's what you call cattle class: U.S. troops file into cramped carrier plane for 1,000 mile flight to Afghanistan

106 Please respond. I'm kind of in need of some support myself

Posted by: southdakotaboy at April 18, 2011 09:54 AM (TC4J/)

No offense intended but I think you're wasting your time.  I belong to some music sites and it's useless to try and change those dumbbells' minds about anything regarding politics.  You can point out all their logical inconsistencies and they'll never admit a fucking thing and just regard you as a troll.

107 The HOTTEST Chick on the Beach!

108 God dammit momma; that 10:05 just about broke my browser.  Plus made me blind.

109 Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) last week introduced a resolution that would place a clock measuring the U.S. debt in the House chamber as a "visual gesture" that reminds members of the need to reduce spending.

Good idea.  *cough*

110 Did O'Keefe ever release anything on the approach his team made to PBS?  When the NPR story was unwinding, it was said that he also had the goods on PBS but then some big story happened (was it the Japan earthquake?  something anyway) and it all seemed to fizzle. 

111 No offense intended but I think you're wasting your time.

Captain Hate has it right, I'm afraid.

Good news, is that most (probably all) of those people hurling irrational political invective on chat boards that you find distressing don't actually vote!

So, be cheerful!

STG, some local elections?

It's just me and 20 fucking City Workers, who got the day off.

So they can vote.

Let Wisconsin be a lesson to us all.

112 Nobody watch the premiere of Game of Thrones that Gabe was going on and on about? Me, neither. But, I expected someone to review it.

113 Andres Serrano's Piss Christ destroyed by Christian protesters

The controversial work Piss Christ by the New York photographer Andres Serrano has been destroyed at a gallery in France after weeks of protests.

The photograph, which shows a small crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine, outraged the US religious right in 1987, when it was first shown, with Serrano denounced in the Senate by the Republican Jesse Helms. It was later vandalised in Australia, and neo-Nazis ransacked a show by the artist in Sweden in 2007.

The work has previously been shown without incident in France, but for the past two weeks Catholic groups have campaigned against it, culminating in hundreds of people marching through Avignon on Saturday in protest.

Just after 11am on Sunday, four people in sunglasses entered the gallery where the exhibition was being held. One took a hammer from his sock and threatened security staff. A guard restrained one man but the remaining members of the group managed to smash an acrylic screen and slash the photograph with what police believe was a screwdriver or ice pick. They then destroyed another photograph, of nuns' hands in prayer.

Last week the gallery complained of "extremist harassment" by Christians who wanted the image banned. The archbishop of Vaucluse, Jean-Pierre Cattenoz, called the work "odious" and said he wanted "this trash" taken off the gallery walls. Saturday's street protest against the work gained the support of the far-right National Front, which has recently done well in local elections.

The gallery's director, Eric Mézil, says he will keep the exhibition open to the public with the destroyed work on show "so people can see what barbarians can do".

Guardian


What a shame *snicker*

114 Spacebattles.com is in short a place where the far left likes to hang out and tell each other how wonderfull they are and how rotten and evil conservatives are. It is their safe place.

That's really not what Spacebattles is.  Spacebattles.com is a place to go to find out if a competent Voldemort could square off against a Dalek.  I wouldn't go there for political conversations.

115 Talking about getting bumped by the news cycle -- that keeps happening to the leftards trying to turn Bradley Manning into a martyr. Each week they try a new gimmick to get publicity and each week it falls flat. There are more important thinks happening than some sociopath not being allowed his tighty-whiteys at night, leftards.

116 Wow, how amazing that self proclaimed conservatives now find it necessary to pile on Glenn Beck. What's the matter? Can't afford security to protect you from George Soros? Keep up the good work, though boys. Continue doing the work of the liberals and socialists for them. Let's all attack one another, so we don't have to face the reality of who the real enemies are, and their capacity for destruction.

117 Wow, how amazing that self proclaimed conservatives now find it necessary to pile on Glenn Beck.

Are you talking about the plagiarism sidebar?

118 Wow, how amazing that self proclaimed conservatives now find it necessary to pile on Glenn Beck. What's the matter? Can't afford security to protect you from George Soros? Keep up the good work, though boys. Continue doing the work of the liberals and socialists for them. Let's all attack one another, so we don't have to face the reality of who the real enemies are, and their capacity for destruction.


So, if Beck is plagiarizing and plundering blogs for his material, it's supposed to be ok because he's conservative?

119 The 2011 TIME 100 poll.

lot of interesting folks on there.

120 Posted by: mpurinTexas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at April 18, 2011 10:52 AM (LFiVW)

that's a pretty serious charge, is there proof positive that he did that without attribution?  He said he has all the emails of the accuser and all the proof he gave attributions.

121 Well I read the article.  I've seen stuff written first on this blog, thought of first here, I've gone so far as to check the date and time on some things and there is no attribution to AOSHQ.  I've wondered, if you are just a commenter, how you can secure your intellectual property.

Beck apparently failed to hire a blogger and the sidekicks considered this "sour grapes".   Eventually stuff like this will be fought out in the courts.

122 ECO-WACKOS GO NUTS BECUASE THEIR TOTALY OUT OF THEIR MINDS

123 Rand Paul blowing smoke up our asses on a balanced budget amendment that has no chance of passing the states. If it does, all it will do is give DC cover to raise taxes. He's as disingenuous as his old man; first, he's a foreign policy isolationist conspiracy theorist loon who wants to backdoor in radically reducing our defense. If he was the fiscal hawk he says he is, his position would be just cut the credit card up and do the serious work of cutting the bloated government down to size. The BBA is another smoke and mirror effort to appease the tea party.

124 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 18, 2011 10:23 AM (UB58p) My prayers have been answered. Christ Himself would have done the same thing. Reminds me of the money changers scene and with Easter approaching. Nice!

125 @124
Yeah, I'm pretty leery of him.  I've been pleasantly surprised on a few occasions, but his foreign policy stance is... myopic.  Not surprising given his profession. 

126 So the Left gnashed their teeth and cried to Heaven for deliverance about how we were screwing up and destroying Iraq; that Abu Ghraib was the worst crime against humanity since the Holocaust... ...and their choice to run for the open Senate seat in Texas is the disgraced military commanding general in Iraq when it all went to shit?! ???????

127 Gulf health nearly at pre-spill level

Where's that weepy dipshit who was crying, actually crying, during his stupid over-emotional fact-free TED speech about the Deep Horizon spill last year?

128 So Ricardo Sanchez is running for Senate in Texas?  Do you think his campaign merchandise will include BSDM gear?  

129 The BBA is another smoke and mirror effort to appease the tea party.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 18, 2011 11:14 AM (mHQ7T)

Not to mention the years it would probably take for such an Amendment to actually be ratified.

Greenspan said he saw no need for a debt ceiling since the Congress and Pres effectively define what it will be by voting on and approving a budget that is essentially decoupled from the debt ceiling.

130

To Captain Hate, Deety wants to talk;

The point isn't to win any arguement against them. It is to dispell their idea that there are no conservatives out there, that they are the true majority, that they are completely safe in their happy little bubble.

It is away for people who aren't able to go to rallies or otherwise send money or do any number of things to help the conservative cause. Sure it seems silly to fight and die on a hill called Spacebattles.com, but it really is a fight that needs to be made. We are always on the defensive it seems like wouldn't it be nice for once to carry the fight to them and put them on the defensive for a change. On their home ground no less.

131 Tonight at sundown is Passover or as we call it...The Night of the Bad Brisket.

Please pass the Pepto Bismal.

132 @132
Can it be prepared any which way or does it have to be prepared a particular way?  Brisket bbq'd or, of course, corned beef brisket can be quite fun. 

133 Y-not,

We either slow cook it in a crock pot or in the oven. No other way.  If you BBQ'd it my dead relatives would faint. Oy.

134 Oops forgot the linky.


http://tinyurl.com/3j45hp9

135 "There's no other way to say it: we're making war on the young. We're forcing them to assume a gargantuan load of debt and entitlement spending without giving them any say in the matter. It's a moral outrage, and if this were a more civilized age, we'd be ashamed of ourselves. " Why should I feel shame? Through the ages, the vast majority of youth vote for the most lefty candidates. Let them reap what they sow.....

136 Monty's post uses a whole lot of words when it only needs two.

"Youth: boned."

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