June 23, 2011
— andy Gabe's out doing lawyer stuff this morning. Allegedly.
Mark Cuban handled his Dallas Mavericks' winning their first NBA championship with great humility, especially by the standards set during his 11 years as an outspoken -- and occasionally obnoxious -- owner.However, Cuban couldn't resist rubbing it in the face of former Mavericks owner Ross Perot Jr. via the Dallas County courts system.
Mark Cuban's lawyers submitted this visual support Wednesday as part of a four-page court filing (see below) asking for a 2009 lawsuit filed by former owner Ross Perot Jr. to be dismissed.
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Also, Dirk's cool, but Chandler and Marion are weak-o-la. If it hadn't been for the Jet the Mavs would have gone down to The Decision-maker and Crew. LMAO at the Heat for dropping that kind of coin on players and a coronation and then not winning.
Not a lot to root for in this world sometimes.
Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, and I'm a homo at June 23, 2011 03:53 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: dogfish at June 23, 2011 03:54 AM (N2yhW)
Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, and I'm a homo at June 23, 2011 03:57 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2011 03:57 AM (X6akg)
Hard work and learning the English language do not reward an illegal alien with automatic citizenship. TRY THE APPLICATION PROCESS, the "minor" technicality that everyone ignores. His grandparents were naturalized US citizens, so why the fraudulent green card for their grandson? What of official adoption?
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 03:59 AM (lpWVn)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 23, 2011 04:01 AM (lGFXF)
I've never understood it either. Nobody cares that you were first. You are much better off trying to say something clever.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 04:01 AM (FkKjr)
His series on the Punic Wars is fantastic.
Posted by: Jose at June 23, 2011 04:02 AM (WTNJJ)
Posted by: Case at June 23, 2011 04:02 AM (0K+Kw)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 04:04 AM (FkKjr)
Posted by: nickless at June 23, 2011 04:05 AM (MMC8r)
Rick, no worries. It was just timing for me being first. And Bevel, I had nothign witty, I'm only half way through the first quarter cup of coffee. It's to damn early, and I'm not wanting to be up right now.
That said, It's threesum thursday. But I'd make sure your wife and mistress already know eachother, otherwise it could be messy.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 04:06 AM (fPOY0)
Perot's lawyers, paraphrased: Winning a championship and our allegations of team mismanagement are separate issues. Um, good luck with that, counselor.
Posted by: Oliver Wendall Championship at June 23, 2011 04:06 AM (zhejI)
He says it was self-defense.
Waiting to see if this report is accurate, and also waiting to hear some remorse from those jurors and the people who cheered his acquittal.
Posted by: Miss Marple at June 23, 2011 04:07 AM (Fo83G)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2011 04:08 AM (I49Jm)
Also, cribbed from hot air, but out of the Wash Times - Those nasty pics on the cigarette packs? Most are fake, if not all. Time for more fake but accurate.
And I never understood the drive to stop smoking. The taxes on cigs is to fund childrens health care, yet they are trying to regulate smoking out of existance. Don't they care about children?
I mean if you really cared about kids, you'd pick up smoking AND make everyone you konw do it too so the poor dears could get quality health care.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 04:09 AM (fPOY0)
What it was was NPR yesterday morning, one of those dulcet-toned news readers, I think the woman who names herself as Latch-mee Singh, from WAH-shington.
Where do they get these announcers? Must one speak in dialect and tone as if one has always lived in Georgetown, attended Sidwell Friends, then someplace like Vassar, then Yale Law?
It was the gushing over Jon Huntsman. Syrup. A tongue bath.
Gawd, I felt violated.
Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at June 23, 2011 04:10 AM (4sQwu)
Going back to drinking coffee and reading the news.
Posted by: Miss Marple at June 23, 2011 04:10 AM (Fo83G)
He says it was self-defense.
I'm finding it hard to believe you nearly decapitate someone in self defense.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 04:11 AM (FkKjr)
Posted by: Miss Marple
I wouldn't hold your breath. It's sad that I knew people who thought he was innocent, but it was "getting one over on the MAN" so it was ok to celebrate.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 04:11 AM (fPOY0)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk
Depends on the size of the knife? or maybe he's used to bigger targets?
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 04:13 AM (fPOY0)
Posted by: LeBron Chiles at June 23, 2011 04:13 AM (GwPRU)
Him being guilty as sin just makes it a bigger slap to Whitey.
Posted by: nickless at June 23, 2011 04:14 AM (MMC8r)
No linky because Atlas isn't citing sources.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 04:15 AM (ENKCw)
Him being guilty as sin just makes it a bigger slap to Whitey.
Same with Obama being a shitty President.
Posted by: nickless at June 23, 2011 04:16 AM (MMC8r)
Like, you gotta look at the pics because they are right there next to the credit card slot? 'Cause you're gonna get right in that vehicle and drive, right? And shit, something could happen.
Or maybe every time you look at your cellphone you see the nanny-state-sponsored pic of the cancerous ear, the thing that happens from the krypton rays or something.
Shit, how about some pics posted right on the glass at the meat department at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, where you buy those t-bones. Great big glossies of autopsy shots, showing all those aortic arteries all plugged up.
Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at June 23, 2011 04:17 AM (4sQwu)
Posted by: Oliver Wendall Championship at June 23, 2011 04:17 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: Its Morning in the Pension Fund of America at June 23, 2011 04:20 AM (K/USr)
Posted by: Tom In Korea at June 23, 2011 04:20 AM (jThmd)
From CNN:
the Fed held its benchmark interest rate near zero percent, saying the economic recovery has been weaker than expected.
NO kidding? you don't say? never would have guessed.
Also weekly unemployment is supposed to be relatively unchanged at 413k. Any one want to bet they revise last weeks number up to around 420k, and then report the 415k this week as a "DROP" to make the numbers look good?
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 04:20 AM (fPOY0)
Hastings admits his defense is worthless, that his prosecutors have all they need to do him in.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 04:22 AM (lpWVn)
Posted by: Bulging Whitey at June 23, 2011 04:22 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 08:11 AM (FkKjr) You'd understand if the Man was puttin you down
Posted by: Its Morning in the Pension Fund of America at June 23, 2011 04:22 AM (K/USr)
Blame the potato chip. It's the biggest demon behind that pound-a-year weight creep that plagues many of us, a major diet study found. Bigger than soda, candy and ice cream.
And the reason is partly that old advertising cliché: You can't eat just one.
Moochelle will be on this one stat.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 04:22 AM (ENKCw)
Best and Worst States For Business. According to Chief Executive Magazine survey.
Best: 1. Texas, 2. N.C., 3. Florida, 4. Tennessee, 5. Georgia
Worst: 45. Massachusetts, 46. Michigan, 47. NJ, 48. Illinois, 49. New York, 50. California
Guess New York is saying, Thank God for California!!
So where was Mississippi? The one who usually holds the 50 spot on most all surveys. Good ol Mississippi is number 38! Way to go Mississippi.
Posted by: Case at June 23, 2011 04:24 AM (0K+Kw)
The left believes that freedom = getting an abortion. Anything else should be regulated. Heavily.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 04:25 AM (FkKjr)
I call BS. Although I could believe at this point that it might suck worse everywhere else.
Posted by: NC Ref at June 23, 2011 04:27 AM (Q8v6h)
Throw photos of slain birds into every household that receives electricity via wind power. Pictures of the discarded remains of fetuses at the entrance to every Planned Parenthood clinic.
Posted by: Tom In Korea at June 23, 2011 04:27 AM (jThmd)
Posted by: Jean (Rudy, to stop Romney) at June 23, 2011 04:28 AM (7P7Ij)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:28 AM (NtTkA)
He was talking to Rick Perry last time I saw him. Said they were going down to Rick's office to look at some paperwork or something.
Posted by: Bulging Whitey at June 23, 2011 04:28 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: dogfish at June 23, 2011 04:29 AM (N2yhW)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2011 04:30 AM (I49Jm)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 23, 2011 04:32 AM (Z05lF)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:33 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 23, 2011 04:34 AM (Z05lF)
I call BS. Although I could believe at this point that it might suck worse everywhere else.
Hasn't NC been on the top tier of the "best for business" lists for a while now? But you could be right - perhaps NC just doesn't suck as bad as everywhere else.
/For what it's worth, most of the people I know who relocated (or will relocate) moved to NC. My friends joke that I should find work after school down there too, 
.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 23, 2011 04:34 AM (9hSKh)
Let me guess. You just came from the subway where you saw the "fat globules and sugar packets being poured into vanilla coffee" montage.
Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at June 23, 2011 04:35 AM (8uZ8A)
The five nuclear experts killed in a plane crash in northern Russia earlier this week had assisted in the design of an Iranian atomic facility, security sources in Russia said on Thursday.
The five Russian experts were among the 44 passengers killed when the Tupolev-134 plane broke up and caught fire on landing outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk on Monday.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 04:35 AM (ENKCw)
They used to show a video of horrible wreck photos to kids getting their first driver's license.
Red Asphalt.
Never saw it. The Highway Patrol didn't show up.
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 23, 2011 04:35 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2011 04:36 AM (I49Jm)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:36 AM (NtTkA)
Well you would be welcomed down here, but we're about sick and tired of NY and NJ libs moving down here and trying to make our place as fucked up as theirs has become. That is all.
Posted by: NC Ref at June 23, 2011 04:37 AM (Q8v6h)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 23, 2011 04:38 AM (i6RpT)
While Affleck, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay Good Will Hunting, impressed players with his poker skills, both DiCaprio and Damon did not fair as well, Star reported.Matt never won,Â’Â’ another whistle-blowing player told the magazine.
"In truth, Leo is a tight ass. When he lost $50,000 the look in his eyes was obvious he was crazy."
Just thought a little levity is nice in the AM!
Posted by: kdny at June 23, 2011 04:38 AM (C4bBq)
Considering the same administration is faking photos to discourage cigarette use, I'd say yes.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 04:38 AM (FkKjr)
But the story isn't going away, rather only beginning the reapplication of sympathy propaganda.
So what was yesterday's explanation y'all arrived at for why Vargas never made the application effort to become a US citizen, or why his grandparents didn't just adopt him to enable his US citizenship status, or his unwillingness to enlist in the military to initiate his legalization process? It's just another insignificant legality easily cured with amnesty?
Has foot in mouth McCain made a statement yet on Vargas' behalf?
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 04:39 AM (lpWVn)
Mark Cuban sucks but good for Dirk and the guys. We don't riot over championships in Texas or losses in championship games. Rockets fans, Spurs fans, Mavs fans don't do that. Astro fans? Nobody knows.
Like Darrell Royal said about scoring a touchdown and playing a fool: "Act like you've been there before and that you're going to be back there again".
Posted by: Mr. Dave at June 23, 2011 04:40 AM (NuSRu)
Is that all? ThatÂ’s not so bad. Can I just go down to the DMV and hand it over?
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 23, 2011 04:40 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 08:25 AM (FkKjr)
Think Al Gore's latest comments could be taken as a mandate FOR abortion--just a nudge more than choice!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 04:40 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 04:42 AM (yrGif)
We don't riot over championships in Texas or losses in championship games. Rockets fans, Spurs fans, Mavs fans don't do that.
Right. Always good to remind people of that when idiots in LA riot and people claim it's because they are Mexican. Like there aren't any Mexicans in Texas or something.
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 23, 2011 04:43 AM (XdlcF)
Holy crap. I can't stand Obama and I know this is what has to happen for the country to pull its collective head out and vote this maniac out of office, but that is really rough. We are fucking hemorrhaging jobs right now. I can only imagine how it feels getting pink-slipped in this economy. Prayers and sincere support for the unemployed. Hang in there.
This shows how much of business and finance depends on confidence. Success and failure quickly become self-fulfilling prophecies, and right now no one is buying what Obama is selling.
Posted by: Bulging Whitey at June 23, 2011 04:43 AM (zhejI)
Also, what kind of jury notice? State or Fed? The questionnaire on the fed ones are pretty damn long and nosy.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 04:44 AM (ENKCw)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:44 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Case at June 23, 2011 04:45 AM (0K+Kw)
Oh great. Now Cthulhu's gonna wake up.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 04:46 AM (FkKjr)
Bring me all the blueprints. Bring me all the blueprints...
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 04:46 AM (lpWVn)
Bet there is an exception for the mooselimbs (buried somewhere in the 2300+ pages of the Obamacare bill)!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 04:46 AM (yrGif)
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- More Americans than forecast filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance payments last week, showing companies are less confident about the expansion than they were earlier this year.
Applications for jobless benefits increased 9,000 in the week ended June 18 to 429,000, Labor Department figures showed today. The level of claims exceeded the highest estimate in a Bloomberg News survey in which the median projection called for 415,000 filings. The number of people on benefit rolls was little changed, while those getting extended payments rose.
Is this a bump in the road or headwinds?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2011 04:47 AM (1Jaio)
Sorry, hit post before I commented. I can't believe this story is not a front page item everywhere.
Huma has a direct line to the State Department.
Her mother has a direct line to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Wow. Just wow.
Here's another story to get your stress level up (if you have kids):
'Cars 2' Takes Hard Left Turn Pushing Alternative Energy
In an interview with Wall Street Journal's Ethan Smith, "Cars 2" director explains his transformation of the film into a story about the "bad guys" of big oil.
We revamped the whole story, the whole bad-guy arc. To me, there always needs to be a logic to our movies. No matter what subject matter it is, they have to be logical for the world we’re creating. I kept thinking about, “OK. A spy movie in the world where cars are alive. What would be a really good kind of über bad guy? Who is an über bad guy?” I kept going to big oil. This is before what happened in the Gulf of Mexico. Why isn’t alternative fuel more… Why isn’t everybody jumping on that bandwagon? It makes so much sense: Electricity, solar, whatever. There’s ethanol. There’s all this stuff you could be doing. And so I thought, well, that could be really cool in that you could have big oil versus alternative fuel. That’s when we kind of crafted the bad guy’s story.The movie's trailer even says "On their next big road trip, they're not only racing across the world, they're racing to save the world."
Posted by: momma at June 23, 2011 04:50 AM (nWikJ)
Initial jobless claims rose by 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 in the latest week. Prior week was revised higher by 6,000 claims.For our country's sake, let's hope he loses his focus. Soon.
Posted by: Marcus at June 23, 2011 04:51 AM (IPhZ8)
Posted by: kdny at June 23, 2011 04:52 AM (C4bBq)
Re: the Rick Perry thread below made me think of this song. It's as funny to me as the rumor:
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at June 23, 2011 04:52 AM (JxMoP)
Medicare would make sense, refusing "routine" circumcisions for the elderly.
Does the Medicaid "routine" ruling also refuse to cover circumcisions requested by parents for their newborn males?
Is this the obvious PC result, to deny circumcisions of female babies Medicaid must refuse circumcisions of male babies?
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 04:52 AM (lpWVn)
...Hillary's obvious tie to the Muslim Brotherhood.
An intimate tie?
(Oh come on, that was a "gimme" joke).
And oh goody, the Westboro fucktards are coming back to PA:
Ryan Dunn Death: Funeral Service to be Protested by Westboro Church
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 23, 2011 04:53 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:53 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:55 AM (NtTkA)
Applications for jobless benefits increased 9,000 in the week ended June 18 to 429,000, Labor Department figures showed today. The level of claims exceeded the highest estimate in a Bloomberg News survey in which the median projection called for 415,000 filings. The number of people on benefit rolls was little changed, while those getting extended payments rose.
Is this a bump in the road or headwinds?
Posted by: TheQuietMan
Wow, I nailed my earlier guesses. Other than the number for THIS week. I guestimated last week revised up to 420k, but I expected them to lie and claim last week fell. Where's my 200k a year job on TV as an economic forcaster? I'm cute too. and my track record is better than most of those bobing head idiots.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 04:55 AM (fPOY0)
Warning: Please enpty bladder before viewing and refrain from drinking any beverages before clicking.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 23, 2011 04:56 AM (Ew27I)
Is the FBI Investigating Obama?
Posted by: momma at June 23, 2011 04:57 AM (nWikJ)
Ryan Dunn Death: Funeral Service to be Protested by Westboro Church
Posted by: Kratos
Somehow I can see that going badly for the "church" folks. Dunn's followers are the brightest or most restrained....
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 04:58 AM (fPOY0)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:58 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: BGWOBG at June 23, 2011 08:06 AM (XEwY1)
Refighting the War of The Rebellion?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 04:59 AM (LH6ir)
God bless our troops.
Sadly, Westboro hatemongers will have a funeral a day to torment.
2010 OBAMA AFGHANISTAN SURGE: U.S. Casualty Rate Has Increased 5-Fold Since Bush...
Bush era's 6.5 deaths per month vs. Obama's 33.3 deaths per month, with Afghanistan being only the first of Obama's many simultaneous wars. Of the current 100,000 troops there, more than one a day are killed. The 970 U.S. casualties that have occurred while President Obama has been commander in chief equal 63 percent--or almost two-thirds—of all U.S. casualties that have taken place in the nearly-ten-year-long war. CNSNews.com’s database of U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan is derived from official casualty reports issued by the Department of Defense (DOD) augmented by information taken from media accounts. The database includes all U.S. troops who died in and around Afghanistan while supporting military efforts against terrorism under Operation Enduring Freedom. It also includes some Americans who died in Pakistan and others who died in the Arabian Sea while supporting operations in Afghanistan.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 04:59 AM (lpWVn)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:59 AM (NtTkA)
Sorry folks just woke up. Rockin' chair on the porch got highly involved until the wee hours of the morning.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 05:00 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Lawrence of the Labia at June 23, 2011 05:01 AM (x773u)
We've had some very strong storms in SC last night. Maybe he lost power.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 23, 2011 05:03 AM (kOtPb)
Posted by: Lawrence of the Labia
That's some unintended funny right there.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 05:03 AM (fPOY0)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 23, 2011 05:05 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: momma at June 23, 2011 08:57 AM (nWikJ)
Not for long (going Galt can be a pro-active thing as well)!
Posted by: Eric the Black not Eric the Red at June 23, 2011 05:05 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:06 AM (NtTkA)
I hope the author is right. States rights FTW.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 05:07 AM (ENKCw)
G'morning, South Carolinians /not to be confused with the others.
We're grateful in Texas for the rains that storms brought through, hoping for more today. /Austin's July 4th Celebrations cancelled.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 05:08 AM (lpWVn)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 23, 2011 05:09 AM (eOXTH)
LOL, All the turds bitching about Palin's bus tour can shut up for a while
Nothing could illustrate how much she is just one of us more than this. She had to go back to AK for jury duty.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 05:10 AM (M9Ie6)
The patent reform bill (started yesterday) is the major event of the day. It appears there are some unresolved differences from both sides on that bill, so it will be interesting to view the final vote totals.
Posted by: '80sBaby at June 23, 2011 05:10 AM (yRL86)
Gabe's out doing lawyer stuff this morning. Allegedly.
But he promised I could come on this week's unicorn hunt! *stomps wee foot*
Posted by: alexthechick at June 23, 2011 05:11 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Bulging Whitey at June 23, 2011 05:11 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: momma at June 23, 2011 05:14 AM (nWikJ)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 23, 2011 09:03 AM (kOtPb)
Nah, the only thing I lost was a 1.75 L bottle of Beam. We had the rain here night before last.
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 09:06 AM (NtTkA)
Maybe things will work out and you'll get some rain. Don't wait until its too late and the roads are all clogged up.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 05:14 AM (M9Ie6)
We don't riot over championships in Texas or losses in championship games. Rockets fans, Spurs fans, Mavs fans don't do that.
You're not doing it right.
Posted by: 57 states at June 23, 2011 05:14 AM (sMgrb)
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, announcing a reduction of 33,000 troops in Afghanistan by September 2012, said it was “time to focus on nation-building at home” and offered a “centered course” for U.S. military engagement that he said would be rooted in pragmatism.
I didn't watch it last night but it looks like Barry went full retard. Nation building at home? WTF
“We are starting this drawdown from a position of strength,” Obama said last night in the East Room of the White House. “The tide of war is receding.”
When you have 20 year olds writing your material and a president who is even less mature than that this is the nonsense you get. Again I ask, how is clown not laughed off of every stage that he's on?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2011 05:16 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:16 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2011 05:17 AM (X6akg)
Is the FBI Investigating Obama?
Posted by: momma at June 23, 2011 08:57 AM (nWikJ)
Wasn't it swell how Leon was confirmed with ZERO no votes? No matter that he has no background for this job. Not even DeMint, Rand Paul, Mike Lee as no-goes? Do those eejits ever peruse the interwebz?
The Compost printing something like this can only serve as a nookeeler-powered catalyst for the dems to distance themselves from the pezzydunce.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 23, 2011 05:17 AM (Ew27I)
Warning: Please enpty bladder before viewing and refrain from drinking any beverages before clicking.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 23, 2011 08:56 AM (Ew27I)
Glad you liked it- and we need the laughs today
Posted by: museisluse at June 23, 2011 05:18 AM (Y3n3D)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2011 09:16 AM (1Jaio)
Just wait until he unleashes the drones in the Red States.
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 05:18 AM (yrGif)
Ending Medicare 'As We Know It'
Rep. Peter Roskam questioned Medicare trustees on the immediate 17% cuts to Medicare that will occur once the program goes bankrupt
Posted by: '80sBaby at June 23, 2011 05:19 AM (yRL86)
Posted by: rhaubib at June 23, 2011 05:19 AM (q32Ly)
You don't seriously think any of them work FOR you, do you?
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 05:20 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:20 AM (NtTkA)
LOL, All the turds bitching about Palin's bus tour can shut up for a while
Nothing could illustrate how much she is just one of us more than this. She had to go back to AK for jury duty.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 09:10 AM (M9Ie6)
I'll look for the link, but I saw a post yesterday reporting on the sale of political T-shirts and other merchandise. Palin's leading the pack against Ebola with 66% of sales. Romney had about 3% IIRC. Apparently, this is a reliable indicator for election season!
Posted by: RushBabe at June 23, 2011 05:21 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:23 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at June 23, 2011 05:24 AM (NuSRu)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 23, 2011 05:25 AM (eOXTH)
It's full of moron goodness.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 05:26 AM (ENKCw)
It was the gushing over Jon Huntsman. Syrup. A tongue bath.
Gawd, I felt violated.
Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at June 23, 2011 08:10 AM
Agreed. Believe the on-air talent for NPR is raised in pods. Listening to them creeps my ass out- the dripping condescension, the almost bored air of superiority, and the real teeth grinder- the verbal tic of using the phrase "sort of". Next time you inflict the NPR on yourself, keep a tally of how often it is used.
Eeeeeeeeesh.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at June 23, 2011 05:26 AM (XyjRQ)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet
To me it speaks to name recognition, and potential primary support and fundraising. People who score well thus have become president; Obama comes to mind. But some can also be a flash in the pan. Right now, the conventional wisdom is the latter for her, and I'm inclined to agree.
Posted by: I am Netman at June 23, 2011 05:27 AM (6rX0K)
Senate Foreign Relations Comm. to discuss Afghanistan troop withdrawal at 10am EST (C-SPAN3)
Gen. Petraeus confirmation hearing at 2:30pm EST (C-SPAN3)
Posted by: '80sBaby at June 23, 2011 05:28 AM (yRL86)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:28 AM (NtTkA)
I think who sells the most Halloween masks during an election season is a reliable predictor of who wins the election.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 05:30 AM (FkKjr)
I knew they'd ruin this movie. 95% of the time anytime a movie is pushed months in advance, it is a super dud.
Posted by: dogfish at June 23, 2011 05:30 AM (NuPNl)
You don't seriously think any of them work FOR you, do you?
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 09:20 AM (yrGif)
Some of them pretend to. On the other end of the spectrum, did anyone post the news that Dianne Feinstein is polling lower than ever. The pollster thought it was just a one off a couple months ago, but it got worse. When Cali loses the love for DiFi, you know something's brewing.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 23, 2011 05:32 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: '80sBaby at June 23, 2011 05:32 AM (yRL86)
Given alliance with China, it's best to work from the premise that Iran already has nuclear weapons/missiles.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Ayatollah Iranian top dog power struggle vs. Dinnerjacket (witchcraft) isn't just a media distraction.
Obama's administration/media will never rock Obama's share plan with China. It would likely take a Wikileaks to expose Iran's circumstances. Has any entity kept in touch with Iran's anti-clerical population?
When GWB/Rumsfeld first announced their invasive Iraqi War, their military premise was to establish a military base from which to defend the US from Iran. Instead, what America has is a spread-out military engagement through all of the Mid-East, while our Military was already trimmed by Clinton, Rumsfeld, Gates et al. to only engage two simultaneous fronts with no completed new fleets. And there is no US military installation from which to conduct US warfare against Iran in independent Iraq.
And that doesn't even begin to address the 360 degree WTF US Foreign Policy; from Reagan's support of the Taliban, through the GWBush wars against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, to Obama's present alliances with al-Qaeda and negotiations with the Taliban.
As Fred Thompson warned, look far into the future before determining Policy because we're always stuck with the outcome.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 23, 2011 05:33 AM (lpWVn)
I take it that folks are invested enough in a particular candidate that they're willing to pay to advertise it, which has to correlate with being willing to work for the candidate. Not that the MFM is going to tell you, but Organizing4Palin has troops in all but a few states who are willing to hit the ground running as soon as she gives the word.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 23, 2011 05:36 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:36 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: dogfish at June 23, 2011 05:37 AM (NuPNl)
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
down 150 on opening.
Posted by: DJIA at June 23, 2011 09:35 AM (fPOY0)
Barry: uhhhh...ummmm the car was in the ditch then these headwinds....uhhhhh...but then there were bumps on the road....uhhhhh....the right track.....but headwinds and bumps in the road....ummmm
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2011 05:39 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:40 AM (NtTkA)
Republican White House hopeful Jon Huntsman has found a way to explain his embrace of cap-and-trade when he was governor of Utah: Everyone was doing it.
Hint Jon, if you are older than 8 and using this excuse you are DOOMED! Give up and go home. You are wasting daddyÂ’s money.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 05:41 AM (M9Ie6)
It's brilliant!
1. Buy oil at low prices to stockpile for national emergencies like war.
2. Release oil from strategic reserve for short-term political gain.
3. Replace oil at high prices when short-term gain has been exhausted.
?????
50. Reelection of Obama (pbuh) in 2012.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 05:41 AM (LH6ir)
"During the House GOP conference meeting Boehner did not lobby members in either direction, lawmakers said. He told them to 'vote your convictions,' according to Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.).
Yet not a single Republican spoke up in favor of the McCain-Kerry authorization, Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) said."
Bloomberg has a poll claiming that only 34% of Americans believe they would be better-off under the R plan to reform Medicare, while 57% say worse-off. While Rep. Ryan now has the 3rd-highest unfavorables of any R, 50+% have no opinion on him whatsoever. Considering the poll also states that voters feel Obama has a better economic plan, it's probably skewed D.
Posted by: '80sBaby at June 23, 2011 05:41 AM (yRL86)
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 05:42 AM (fPOY0)
That can't be right. Congress can't "overtrurn" a SCOTUS ruling, can it?
Posted by: Today's college students at June 23, 2011 05:43 AM (K2wpv)
Posted by: dogfish
Easy. There is no such thing as an electricity slick. That's about as sophisticated as these idiots get.
Posted by: bird diced by windmill at June 23, 2011 05:43 AM (6rX0K)
This demonstrates convincingly that King Putt and the Never Rite Gang are clean out of ideas.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at June 23, 2011 05:44 AM (XyjRQ)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:44 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 05:45 AM (fPOY0)
Dem Rep. Lynn Woolsey Chants Anti-Israel Slogans, Says She Is Very “Proud” Of The Protesters Who Tried To Stop Netanyahu’s Speech
Posted by: '80sBaby at June 23, 2011 05:45 AM (yRL86)
1. Buy oil at low prices to stockpile for national emergencies like war.
2. Release oil from strategic reserve for short-term political gain.
3. Replace oil at high prices when short-term gain has been exhausted.
?????
50. Reelection of Obama (pbuh) in 2012.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative)
Think of it as Crude for Clunkers. It will have a similar distorting effect.
Posted by: bird diced by windmill at June 23, 2011 05:45 AM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 05:45 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 23, 2011 05:46 AM (eOXTH)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 09:45 AM
Happy to help, I'm just a giver that way.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at June 23, 2011 05:47 AM (XyjRQ)
Thanks, Coffee on the keyboard.
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet
Yeah, King Putt is one of the better ones. They even drag the corpse around on tour for fun and profit like the original.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 05:48 AM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Truman North at June 23, 2011 05:48 AM (K2wpv)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 23, 2011 05:50 AM (eOXTH)
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 05:50 AM (wuv1c)
1. To get some counter movement on Obama's poll numbers once the impact of his "Defeat is winning" speech.
2. To make sure that when we have to replace the reserve due to dispruption, we either will not be able to (leaving us SOL for moving troops) OR we will have to do so at very much higher prices, adding even more to the national debt.
3. Someone is needing some further price depression on oil in order to sell at a profit, probably Soros.
4. Bad things are going to be happening shortly in the Middle East and they are trying to get ahead of it.
My personal opinion is all but #4, as that would involve actual planning about the country's well-being. I vote for a combination of 1-3, myself.
Posted by: Miss Marple at June 23, 2011 05:50 AM (Fo83G)
Posted by: Jean at June 23, 2011 05:51 AM (WkuV6)
The left believes that freedom = getting an abortion. Anything else should be regulated. Heavily.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 08:25 AM (FkKjr)
You are absolutely 100% right. I watched this exchange in 2008, "You can't vote republican!" "why not?" "They want to take away your freedom" "They do? What are you talking about?" "Your freedom to choose!" "You understand that the left wants to take all your freedoms and assign them to the state?" "But the republicans want to make you have unwanted babies!"
It's all about their sexual indiscretions. An entire party/half the nation built around screwing anyone anywhere anytime and free cheese.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 05:52 AM (wOFkj)
________
It allows Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to claim that Barack Obama is responsible for the recent drop in gas prices.
Just dropped below $4 a gallon here yesterday. You'd think I'd be thanking Obama.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2011 05:52 AM (6fER6)
4. Bad things are going to be happening shortly in the Middle East and they are trying to get ahead of it.
Heh. Yeah because they're good at predicting. Assumes facts not in evidence.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 05:53 AM (wOFkj)
You folks living near the coast of SC may see a lot of military aircraft today
So don't be alarmed, we are not at war here......yetPosted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 05:55 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 09:36 AM (NtTkA)
The original "Fire in the Belly" piece on politico which sunk him was mostly a lie - he actually had been doing quite a lot of retail politics in Iowa. For some reason (my guess is because he 'entered late') the conservative punditry latched on to the meme that he wasn't energetic. He never effectively combated it and he was sunk.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 05:56 AM (FkKjr)
#156 Given alliance with China, it's best to work from the premise that Iran already has nuclear weapons/missiles.
Perhaps this is the wisest way to view Iran; it could be all that Iran is waiting for to "offically" become nuclear is the capability to produce several crude warheads. If I was in the position of Iran, I'd wait until I had at least a half-dozen nuke warheads (untested, but I'd have enough modeling data to suggest at least a 50% chance of fission upon denotation) and stragetic missiles in place before initiating a surprise nuclear test.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Ayatollah Iranian top dog power struggle vs. Dinnerjacket (witchcraft) isn't just a media distraction.
Again, that is a very good point. It would make outsiders think a rift exists in the Iranian High Command where none exists.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 23, 2011 05:57 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 09:36 AM (NtTkA)
I'll accept that excuse from Fred!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 05:57 AM (yrGif)
That can't be right. Congress can't "overtrurn" a SCOTUS ruling, can it?
Yep. Happens all the time. If it's a statute that Scotus has ruled on they can just pass a new law.. If they've ruled on the constitutionality of a law then congress can override it with a constitutional amendment. However, this last is almost impossible because the easy way to pass an amendment is with ratification by the states which ain't gonna happen with Obamacare or any Obamamarxistextravaganza.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 06:00 AM (wOFkj)
As expected, it didn't take long
The ACLU is set to sue SC over the new AZ style illegal migration law that was just signed into effect. One wonders if they can actually shop for a federal court in SC that will hear this case after the Supreme Court has already ruled in AZÂ’s favor.
One wonders if the assholes at the ACLU can be forced to pay for all the leagal costs if they lose?
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:01 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 09:55 AM (M9Ie6)
Practice for our internal nation building--nothing to worry about.
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 06:01 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 06:02 AM (NtTkA)
Glad you liked it- and we need the laughs today
Posted by: museisluse at June 23, 2011 09:18 AM (Y3n3D)
A belated thank you. I was just lurking last night and didn't want to do a drive-by post. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 23, 2011 06:02 AM (Ew27I)
I thought Kommie Kris Wallace originated that POS hit slogan. I watched Fred tear him a new asshole over it one afternoon.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:03 AM (M9Ie6)
One wonders if the assholes at the ACLU can be forced to pay for all the legal costs if they lose?
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 10:01 AM (M9Ie6)
No way, paying for these quasi-gummint liberal lawyers is clearly a taxpayer responsibility--it is in that 100 year scared document under an emanation of a penumbra.
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 06:04 AM (yrGif)
Nothing extraordinary, one way or the other, about his education imho.
Posted by: Y-not is down with gay Texans at June 23, 2011 06:04 AM (TFxd0)
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 06:04 AM (wOFkj)
Also, Dirk's cool, but Chandler and Marion are weak-o-la. If it hadn't been for the Jet the Mavs would have gone down to The Decision-maker and Crew. LMAO at the Heat for dropping that kind of coin on players and a coronation and then not winning.
Not a lot to root for in this world sometimes.
Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, and I'm a homo at June 23, 2011 07:53 AM (zhejI)
Cuban has arguably had the greatest image makeover after winning the championship, starting with having the original owner accept the championship trophy from the silver-haired fuck. The screw job on the Mavs by Stern's crew of crooked zebras in 2006 was almost enough to get me to say "To Hell with the NBA" but this year made up for all of that. After the first round I was fully invested in the Mavs going all the way since it seemed they were on a mission to prove to all the nay-sayers that they weren't as soft as the rap on them stated. They were easy to cheer for because for guys like Kidd, the Matrix and Peja, this was their last chance for a ring. And it didn't escape me that the Mavs won in 6 and that the Jet was, along with Dirk, members of the 2006 team. Regarding the Heat, I get the feeling that Riley is one pissed off SOB at the performance and lack of focus of LBJ and Wade during the Finals; he announced yesterday that Spoelstra will remain in place.
It's hilarious in the filing how the phrase "World Champion Dallas Mavericks" is used over and over. Total entertainment. Perot seems like a miserable cocksucker.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 23, 2011 06:04 AM (KrSz5)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 08:35 AM (ENKCw)
While I don't think there was any foul play involved in this incident it does highlight how the Iranian nuke program is going to have to be handled.
The facilities are hardened. The workers are not.
Some dis-assembly required.
Posted by: Nighthawk at June 23, 2011 06:04 AM (OtQXp)
I have a BIL working at the Marine base there at Cherry Point.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:05 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 10:03 AM (M9Ie6)
The root of it all was a politico piece I believe, talking about how lazy he was in Iowa.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 06:05 AM (FkKjr)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 06:07 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 06:08 AM (wOFkj)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 10:07 AM (NtTkA)
Russian maintenance techs have a worse drinking problem than do the Moron Horde.
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 06:09 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: Jean at June 23, 2011 06:10 AM (WkuV6)
He toured a Columbia grill manufacturer before heading to S.C. GOP headquarters to drop off his $35,000 filing fee and sign filing documents. He was accompanied by his wife, Mary Kaye, and four of their seven children.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:11 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 06:12 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Vic
Well, he's good at something.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 06:13 AM (6rX0K)
I have a cousin who flew bombers in WWII, and then went on to a long career in the air force, mostly in Europe. He had contact with lots of Russian pilots, and told anyone who would listen that they were usually drunk.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 06:14 AM (LH6ir)
Here's an article on financial repression which are the tools governments have used in the past to pay down high debt levels by stealing from the people in the country that save money. It was a good read.
In part:
Rephrased in less academic terms – the government deliberately destroys the value of money over time, and uses regulations to force a negative rate of return onto investors in inflation-adjusted terms, so that the real wealth of savers shrinks by an average of 3-4% per year (in the postwar historical example), and it uses an assortment of carrots and sticks to make sure investors have no choice but to accept having the purchasing power of their investments shrink each year.
http://tinyurl.com/68v8b3u
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at June 23, 2011 06:15 AM (GKQDR)
Russian maintenance techs have a worse drinking problem than do the Moron Horde.
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 10:09 AM (yrGif)
214 213, If they only had a union.Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 10:10 AM (NtTkA)
I thought the Moron Horde did have a union. Hobohunters Local #69?
Posted by: yinzer at June 23, 2011 06:16 AM (/Mla1)
Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at June 23, 2011 06:16 AM (5Mo4I)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at June 23, 2011 06:17 AM (YmPwQ)
Sorry I don't believe anything Boehner or his lap dog, Cantor says.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he was pulling out of the bipartisan budget talks because the group has reached an impasse over taxes.
Posted by: Marcus at June 23, 2011 06:17 AM (CHrmZ)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 06:17 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, and I'm a homo at June 23, 2011 07:57 AM (zhejI)
Would you prefer "FIST"?
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:19 AM (ihSHD)
I thought the Moron Horde did have a union. Hobohunters Local #69?
Posted by: yinzer at June 23, 2011 10:16 AM (/Mla1)
Ah, but it is the Russkie techs that aren't unionized--that's why there drinking problem is worse.
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 06:20 AM (yrGif)
Here is something to make your ass want to chew tobacco and spit
It is especially galling that this has become the norm throughout out nation and people donÂ’t see anything wrong with it and are not rising up in arms.
The state is at risk of losing the federal money because the U.S. Department of Education says South Carolina has not spent enough on special education in the past three years. During that period, lower tax collections resulted in lower spending in many state programs, including special education.
So what is the State doing? Rushing out millions in spending for “special ed” when we are running a huge deficit and are cutting school budgets in every other category. Remember the article a few days ago about several school districts wanting to sell school bond (borrow money) to finance daily operations?
Evidently the newspaper that printed that story doesnÂ’t remember it either.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:20 AM (M9Ie6)
Is just Cantor pulling out? He and Boehner despise each other, he might be trying to stage a coup.
I'm skeptical John "Friday is the deadline" Boehner is going to pull out of the talks.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 06:22 AM (FkKjr)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 10:22 AM (FkKjr)
I never pull out.
Posted by: Arnold Schwarzenegger at June 23, 2011 06:23 AM (/Mla1)
I for one welcome our DoEd overlords.
The faster the conglomeration of feral agencies clearly defines, mandates, or bans every aspect of my life, the sooner I can stop thinking completely and resort to drink. Sort of like the Russian air maintenance techs do.
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2011 06:25 AM (yrGif)
I never pull out.
Posted by: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Me either.
But she could never tell I was there in the first place.
Posted by: A. Weiner at June 23, 2011 06:27 AM (fPOY0)
more good news. New home sales down 2%
And the DJIA is off 211 points now.
Recovery Summer II: Electric Boogaloo
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 06:30 AM (fPOY0)
WAIT!!!
whose getting the fist?
Todler, I was going by the handle of the person that made that original comment about not getting the whole "First" thing:
Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, and I'm a homo at June 23, 2011 07:57 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:32 AM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 06:32 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Mr Pink at June 23, 2011 06:34 AM (ctEXc)
What could possibly go wrong.
This is what happens when you go away for the weekend and tell your teenager, "Don't have any friends over and leave the liquor cabinet alone. And we trust you, sweetie."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 06:34 AM (UOM48)
It just bothers me that this kind of shit has become so routine that people just yawn and the news doesn't even cover it in most cases.
And people wonder why school systems are going broke.
And the even more amazing thing is that the Constitution does not authorize congress to spend one penny on local school systems.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:34 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 06:35 AM (NtTkA)
There once was a pervert named Weiner
Who had a perverted demeanor
Forced from the Hill
For acting like Bill
Now Congress is one weiner leaner
Posted by: Limericks Are Us at June 23, 2011 06:35 AM (LH6ir)
OK, which one of you morons did this:
"Boulder police are looking for a man who hid in the tank of a portable toilet at a yoga festival before running off.
A woman at the Hanuman Festival went into the portable toilet Friday and noticed something moving in the tank when she lifted the lid, according to police spokeswoman Kim Kobel. The woman exited and asked a man nearby to look inside the tank.
The man told police he saw something moving under a tarp, and when he left the toilet he heard it lock from the inside.
A security supervisor then waited outside for the person to emerge. When he did, the supervisor tried to get him to sit down, Kobel said, but he ran off, covered in feces.
The suspect, who was not wearing a shirt or shoes when he came out of the toilet, was described as a white man in his 20s wearing gray sweatpants, around 6-foot-5 to 6-foot-8-inches tall with a skinny build and black hair.
Witnesses also said he had cuts on his back and arms. Some at the festival said he might be a transient who goes by the name "Sky."
Kobel said police are not sure how he was able to squeeze into the tank or what he was doing there. He is being sought on suspicion of criminal attempt to make unlawful sexual contact."
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:35 AM (ihSHD)
The state is at risk of losing the federal money because the U.S. Department of Education says South Carolina has not spent enough on special education in the past three years. During that period, lower tax collections resulted in lower spending in many state programs, including special education.
Posted by: Vic
Yet another sick, lazy mechanism that drives spending. Use it or lose it games. Yet another reason why governmental spending is absurd. Admittaedly, this occurs within companies too.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 06:36 AM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 06:36 AM (NtTkA)
We don't know about Cowboys fans, though. It's been awhile.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 23, 2011 06:37 AM (5d6vv)
It's obvious he was doing some pretty advanced Yoga- wouldn't be surprised if he was in he "pooh dog" position when discovered.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at June 23, 2011 06:37 AM (XyjRQ)
What? That's what we say.
Of course I also lock the liquor cabinet and have friends drive by a few times over the weekend to check.
Reagan was correct: Trust but verify.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 06:37 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Caiwyn at June 23, 2011 06:38 AM (ttktr)
Posted by: nickless at June 23, 2011 06:39 AM (MMC8r)
Gabe was supposed to have led a Philly Moron Meet-Up last night,
he did; I was there ...
which, regretfully, I had to miss (damn family and all that).
there were six of us; it was great fun, though I was disappointed by the lagers I ordered ...
I'm hoping that he wasn't kidnapped and turned into a Pat's steak.....
he was ambulatory and operating under his own power when the powwow broke up about 21:00; but it was Philly, so who knows what might have happened ...
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 06:39 AM (dWOwL)
A woman at the Hanuman Festival went into the portable toilet Friday and noticed something moving in the tank when she lifted the lid, according to police spokeswoman Kim Kobel. The woman exited and asked a man nearby to look inside the tank.
A security supervisor then waited outside for the person to emerge. When he did, the supervisor tried to get him to sit down, Kobel said, but he ran off, covered in feces.
The suspect, who was not wearing a shirt or shoes when he came out of the toilet, was described as a white man in his 20s wearing gray sweatpants, around 6-foot-5 to 6-foot-8-inches tall with a skinny build and black hair.
Kobel said police are not sure how he was able to squeeze into the tank or what he was doing there. He is being sought on suspicion of criminal attempt to make unlawful sexual contact."
Posted by: runningrn
File this under the "police are baffled' category. How ould anyone this size fit into that space? How could they breathe?
Why am I pondering this at 10:30 in the morning?
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 06:39 AM (6rX0K)
Do those assfats realize that without oil there would not be a movie industry?1!!111
These assholes piss me off.
After I post the link, my son woke up and all he has talked about is going to see Cars2 at the drive in tomorrow night.
I think I'm going to spend the day talking about all the benefits of oil. Think I might even leave a website or two open so he can read for himself.
That way he gets the pro-oil meme today and the anti-oil meme tomorrow during the movie.
Then he can make up his mind, and by that I mean, agree that oil is important and Hollywood is a bunch of idiots that make their living from oil based technology and equipment.
Have a great day, y'all.
Posted by: momma at June 23, 2011 06:39 AM (nWikJ)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 08:44 AM (NtTkA)
It's that 99% that make the other 1% look bad.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 06:40 AM (T0NGe)
Eight new nuclear plant sites named despite safety concerns following Japan earthquake
The Brits are not slowing down at all on Nukes. Obviously the papers there hate them just like our MFM here.Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:41 AM (M9Ie6)
Snicker, snort. An African reporter asks Michelle a probing question--NOT!
"How do you get Barack to believe he's in charge?"
You had to forgive the cheeky question. The person asking it, popular radio personality Anele Mdoda, had been waiting in ridiculously high heels in one spot for over an hour for the world's favourite first lady to arrive for a photo opportunity, along with 74 other young African women chosen by their US embassies.
Michelle Obama, glowing with enthusiasm, immediately burst into laughter.
"A good man is happy with a strong woman," she said, before launching into a girly chat about the type of men we should let into our lives.
"That's why I fell in love with Barack. I met him way before he was president and he was just so comfortable with himself and he accepted me with all my ... stuff."
Gag me!
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:41 AM (ihSHD)
That can't be all NYrs can it? I must have got the half dozen rude ones.
Obviously, a question that only curious can answer.
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:42 AM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Mr Pink at June 23, 2011 10:34 AM (ctEXc)
Congratulations! (Or is it condolences? I can never keep track...)
Posted by: AoSHQ's *second* worst commenter, DarkLord© at June 23, 2011 06:42 AM (GBXon)
It's obvious he was doing some pretty advanced Yoga- wouldn't be surprised if he was in he "pooh dog" position when discovered.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast
Actually, I believe it was 'the lurking shit house rat' position.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 06:42 AM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2011 06:43 AM (X6akg)
Todler, I was going by the handle of the person that made that original comment about not getting the whole "First" thing:
Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, and I'm a homo at June 23, 2011 07:57 AM (zhejI)
Posted by: runningrn
Oh I know. But I thought it was funny. Obviously i'm deficient.
And congratz Mr. Pink. It'll be great for you.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 06:43 AM (fPOY0)
And don't forget the charming propensity of our enlightened judiciary to mandate spending on certain classes of student. That spending is independent of funds available, so there is a built-in budget buster.
But I am forgetting that the Constitution specifically mandates spending money on disabled and retarded kids, and of course all poor kids.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 06:43 AM (LH6ir)
Fixed ...
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 06:43 AM (dWOwL)
Posted by: Mr Pink at June 23, 2011 10:34 AM (ctEXc)
Now if you had invited some of us, it definitely would be ending about 45 minutes into the reception.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 06:44 AM (6rX0K)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 23, 2011 06:44 AM (SB0V2)
Posted by: Mr Pink at June 23, 2011 10:34 AM (ctEXc)
Aww, congratulations Mr. Pink! This is truly newsworthy!
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:44 AM (ihSHD)
Now if you had invited some of us, it definitely would be ending about 45 minutes into the reception.
Are you talking about the marriage?
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:45 AM (ihSHD)
It's that 99% that make the other 1% look bad.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 10:40 AM (T0NGe)
Sort of like Southerners.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 06:45 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at June 23, 2011 06:46 AM (NuSRu)
Gag me!
Posted by: runningrn
Obviously barak was fine with her bandolier and crossbow.
and lifetime supply of Nair.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 06:46 AM (fPOY0)
The t-shirt had bird poop all over it. When I asked her what t-shirt that was in the bottom of the box she said 'some dumbass obama inauguration t-shirt someone thought I wanted.' ;o)
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2011 10:43 AM (X6akg)
T-shirt goes where WaPo and the NYSlimes have gone before ... and will continue to do so until the end of time ...
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 06:46 AM (dWOwL)
@ 11 "They finally got Whitey Bulger."
I've had a "Whitey Bulger" pretty much since Jr. High!
Treacher said something like "Whitey Bulger got caught. Second time it's happened in the last 2 weeks."
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:47 AM (ihSHD)
The heat, drought and smoke are causing large fish kills in lagoons and ponds.
I'm feeling pretty irritable. Must.Avoid.Dear.Leader's.Mug.And.Voice.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 06:47 AM (UOM48)
I'm a polisci college student
Heh. One of my undergrad majors was polisci. When I was taking comparative government I had to do a presentation on the Italian system of governance. When it came time to present, I looked at my professor and said "I cannot even begin to figure this out." He cracked up.
And congrats, Mr. Pink!
Posted by: alexthechick at June 23, 2011 06:48 AM (VtjlW)
Now if you had invited some of us, it definitely would be ending about 45 minutes into the reception.
Are you talking about the marriage?
Posted by: runningrn
The marriage
the tent
the liquor
the honor of the maid of honor
Mr. Pink's spotless criminal record
the ice sculpture probably wouldn't escape notice either
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 06:48 AM (6rX0K)
Hollywood seems to go out of its way to piss me off. CAIR intimidated them into making Sum of All Fears a nonsensical fantasy movie instead of Clancy's usual prescient fare. Now they've taken my kid's favorite movie, the only one he can sit through - Cars, and turned it into a political tract.
People always claim 'Big Oil' is greedy. But to me it's instructive to compare gas prices to other liquids. What's the gallon price of Visine, OJ, or saline solution? Saline solution is about 1/100th as difficult to produce.
Hint: a lot more than gasoline.
Posted by: Beagle at June 23, 2011 06:48 AM (sOtz/)
I am waiting for the push to close Oyster Creek here in NJ because of the threat of earthquake and tidal wave. And, I guess, attacks from space by aliens.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 06:51 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 06:51 AM (NtTkA)
Did you know that their budget is actually greater than all the income from all the farms in the US?
As Michele Bachmann said in that debate in NH, it is time for the mother of all repeal bills. She wants to start with the EPA. ThatÂ’s fine, but then lets do this one next, and then the Dept of Education.
And when we zero out the departments, letÂ’s zero out all the associated regulations as well.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:52 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet
Well there's that. That, and most people don't willingly move to colder climates.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 06:52 AM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 06:53 AM (M9Ie6)
I hope they were titanium reinforced. Look her up.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 06:53 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 06:54 AM (UOM48)
Wilders article - he did win.
Posted by: SFGoth at June 23, 2011 06:56 AM (dZ756)
And the Southerner's sense of humor is also highly refined.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 06:56 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 06:56 AM (UOM48)
I hope they were titanium reinforced. Look her up.
Hmm, not exactly a small girl, is she? Obviously, she is not one of those millions of starving Africans.
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:56 AM (ihSHD)
Despite the author's intentions, "Unnatural Selection" might be one of the most consequential books ever written in the campaign against abortion. It is aimed, like a heat-seeking missile, against the entire intellectual framework of "choice." For if "choice" is the moral imperative guiding abortion, then there is no way to take a stand against "gendercide." Aborting a baby because she is a girl is no different from aborting a baby because she has Down syndrome or because the mother's "mental health" requires it. Choice is choice. One Indian abortionist tells Ms. Hvistendahl: "I have patients who come and say 'I want to abort because if this baby is born it will be a Gemini, but I want a Libra.' "
This is where choice leads. This is where choice has already led. Ms. Hvistendahl may wish the matter otherwise, but there are only two alternatives: Restrict abortion or accept the slaughter of millions of baby girls and the calamities that are likely to come with it.—Mr. Last is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard.
Posted by: CWKing at June 23, 2011 06:57 AM (QVa83)
Well there's that. That, and most people don't willingly move to colder climates.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 23, 2011 10:52 AM (6rX0K)
Uncle Joe Stalin found a way: "You can be shot right here, or you can accept reassignment to a new opportunity in Siberia; but it's entirely your choice."
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 06:57 AM (dWOwL)
Fox is just now saying the Pentagon is investigating whether the Muzzie Marine Corps reservist may be behind the DC area shootings.
Jane! You aren't suppose to point out any ties to Islam! I'm sure he's just a disgruntled Tea Partier who's upset by the Health Care Reform Bill. And he's acting alone. Yeesh!
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:57 AM (ihSHD)
People always claim 'Big Oil' is greedy. But to me it's instructive to compare gas prices to other liquids. What's the gallon price of Visine, OJ, or saline solution? Saline solution is about 1/100th as difficult to produce.
Hint: a lot more than gasoline.
Or the preferred sipping beverage of most liberals--Lattes!
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 06:59 AM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2011 10:43 AM (X6akg)
So even t-shirts with his logo can heal!!!!!!!!
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 23, 2011 06:59 AM (5d6vv)
It makes me think youÂ’re clueless, if you think she (a 6-year-old) is going to attack our country and youÂ’re not doing your research on the people who want to attack our country.
Myself and a lot of other Americans think youÂ’ve gone overboard and youÂ’re missing the boat on terrorism because youÂ’re doing invasive searches on 6-year-old girls.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 23, 2011 07:00 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: comatus at June 23, 2011 07:01 AM (W5ilH)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 10:51 AM (NtTkA)
I beg to differ.
Posted by: Detriot, Michigan at June 23, 2011 07:02 AM (LH6ir)
Jane! You aren't suppose to point out any ties to Islam! I'm sure he's just a disgruntled Tea Partier who's upset by the Health Care Reform Bill. And he's acting alone. Yeesh!
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 10:57 AM (ihSHD)
You're right. He's a marine. That's all. Nothing else. Just a marine.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 07:03 AM (T0NGe)
Here's a bright spot:
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R.,Mich.) has finally agreed to support a bill this summer that means lights out on the looming 2012 ban on the incandescent light bulb. Upton himself co-sponsored 2007 legislation making light bulbs illegal, a ban that has become a symbol of bipartisan Big Government run amok.
Upton has come under increased pressure in recent weeks, sources say, after failing to follow up on a promise he made after assuming the committee chairmanship that he would hold hearings on reversing the ban. After months of paralysis — and with the ban just six months from going into effect on January 1 — outrage was building among his own Republican committee colleagues and conservative activists, including a national petition campaign, FreeOurLightdotorg, sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
“Freedom Action’s Free Our Light campaign has demonstrated that there is widespread public opposition to the light bulb ban,” says Myron Ebell, Director of Freedom Action at CEI. “We’re pleased that Chairman Upton has seen the light and congratulate him on his decision. We look forward to the House passing the bill to repeal the ban and its eventual enactment later this year.”
After Upton scheduled hearings this week featuring rent-seeking corporate fat cats that stood to benefit from the ban, anger boiled over and the chairman agreed not only to cancel the hearings but to bring up a bill repealing the ban. A source tells the Michigan View that the bill will likely be brought up under “suspension,” which means no amendments will be allowed and passage requires a two-thirds majority.
Hopefully, this bill will pass!
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 07:04 AM (ihSHD)
Aborting a baby because she is a girl is no different from aborting a baby because she has Down syndrome or because the mother's "mental health" requires it.
I've gotten into incredibly heated arguments about "choice" with queer friends about if they'll still support abortion without restriction once there's a simple and easy test to identify if a baby has a genetic predisposition to homosexuality. Because, let's face it, there are many ever so tolerant liberals who would abort because they don't want that for their child. It's fun watching the eye twitch start, especially when I point out that it's the Evil Christians who will not abort, even if knowing that's a likelihood for their child.
Eh, I take my fun where I find it.
Posted by: alexthechick at June 23, 2011 07:04 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 07:06 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2011 10:43 AM (X6akg)
So even t-shirts with his logo can heal!!!!!!!!
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lol
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 07:07 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Bill Monroe working at the Standard refinery in Hammond IN at June 23, 2011 07:07 AM (W5ilH)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 23, 2011 07:07 AM (SB0V2)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 07:08 AM (NtTkA)
oh brother
Posted by: elspeth at June 23, 2011 07:08 AM (0AkWH)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 23, 2011 07:09 AM (SB0V2)
Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at June 23, 2011 10:16 AM (5Mo4I)
FIFY
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2011 07:10 AM (1Jaio)
It's like me over here still WAITING for Corbett to get rid of the damn state stores/PLCB like he promised. . . when the hell is that happening?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 23, 2011 11:07 AM (SB0V2)
Pennsylvania: come for the great roads and jacked up prices at our state-run monopoly liquor stores! And, second!
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 07:10 AM (dWOwL)
That 60 million barrels equates to 165,000 barrels/day. I wonder how long it would take to increase domestic production by that amount?
My guess is; not very long!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 07:12 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 07:12 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Jean at June 23, 2011 07:12 AM (WkuV6)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 07:13 AM (NtTkA)
Posted by: comatus at June 23, 2011 07:13 AM (W5ilH)
Here's a bright spot [. . .]
Thanks, runningrn! Best news I've heard in a long time.
But I'm still stockpiling 100 watt bulbs nonetheless, until the bill is law.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at June 23, 2011 07:13 AM (fjoLg)
This has to be the worst possible time to go into the SPR. The Middle East looks as though we might really need it in the not-so-distant future. China is acting up. And like so many idiotic leftist ideas this just kicks the can down the road and makes things worse and more expensive when the oil must be replaced.
I can no longer attribute his actions to mere incompetence.
Posted by: Beagle at June 23, 2011 07:14 AM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at June 23, 2011 07:14 AM (fjoLg)
How about the effin low-flow toilets? In 90% of the states, they're a sham of a travesty of an unneeded hassle.
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 07:14 AM (GTbGH)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 23, 2011 07:15 AM (SB0V2)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 07:15 AM (NtTkA)
Stayed in hotel recently. Toilet had 2 buttons on top - "Solid" and "Liquid".
Carry on.
Posted by: Cherry π the unbanned at June 23, 2011 07:17 AM (OhYCU)
My guess is; not very long!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 11:12 AM (LH6ir)
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! Wrong!
The standard response from libtards vis-a-vis the time needed to significantly boost oil production is, "Ten years ... which is like FOREVER, so there's no point in doing it".
And, as was pointed out during the Philly Moron Meetup last night by moron CHRedd, the standard response from libtards vis-a-vis the lead time to bring green energy sources on line is "Ten years ... which is like TOMORROW, so it is so worth doing."
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 07:18 AM (dWOwL)
Posted by: t-bird at June 23, 2011 07:18 AM (2EEmX)
Posted by: no good deed at June 23, 2011 07:19 AM (MZSfb)
Geez, bloodboiling op-ed in WSJ about Food Stamp Fraud.
"Millionaires are now legally entitled to collect food stamps as long as they have little or no monthly income. 35 States have abolished asset tests for most food-stamp recipients. These and similar 'paperwork reduction' reforms advocated by the USDA are turning the food-stamp program into a magnet for abuses and absurdities.
The Obama administration is far more enthusiastic about boosting food stamp enrollment than about preventing fraud. Thanks in part to vigorous federally funded campaigns by non-profit groups, the government's AmericCorps service program and other organizations urging people to accept government handouts, the number of food-stamp recipients has soared to 44 million from 26 million in 2007, and costs have more than doubled to $77 billion from $33 billion.
The USDA's Food and Nutrition Service now only has 40 inspectors to oversee 200,000 merchants that accept food-stamps nationwide. The GAO reported last summer that retailers who traffic illegally in food stamps for cash or acohol or other prohibited items 'are less likely to face criminal penalties or prosecution than in earlier years.' Lax attitudes towards fraud are spurring swindles across the nation."
The article goes on to site a bunch of the fraud occurring in multiple states. The article ends with:
"HL Mencken quipped that the New Deal divided America into 'those who work for a living and those who vote for a living.'"
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 07:21 AM (ihSHD)
The infuriating aspect of the SPR release is that it won't make much difference to the price of gas, but it will make us more vulnerable to a real crisis.
Just as a hint of instability in the Middle East makes oil prices go up, a hint of increased domestic oil production in the US would make oil prices go down. Futures markets attempt to, as one might guess from the name, predict the future.
But of course increasing domestic production would make the US a stronger and better country, so that's off the table.
Posted by: Beagle at June 23, 2011 07:23 AM (sOtz/)
But I'm still stockpiling 100 watt bulbs nonetheless, until the bill is law.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at June 23, 2011 11:13 AM (fjoLg)
Picked up 100W incandescent bulbs made by Sylvania (up yours, GE) in a convenient 24-to-a-box size last week at a Lowes in Dover, Delaware for about $0.50 / bulb. As I recall, 60W were available, similarly packaged and priced. No sales tax, either (eat it, PA!) ...
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 07:24 AM (dWOwL)
Hopefully the only AOSHQ lifestyle habit of the NY Drug Store Murderer. May God comfort the families.
Posted by: dfbaskwill at June 23, 2011 07:24 AM (71LDo)
@ 279 Treacher said something like "Whitey Bulger got caught. Second time it's happened in the last 2 weeks."
Treacher is the best (and only) reason I ever go to The Daily Caller
Posted by: Ebo Walker (was a mighty fine fiddle player) at June 23, 2011 07:26 AM (Iud9G)
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 07:27 AM (ihSHD)
It's like me over here still WAITING for Corbett to get rid of the damn state stores/PLCB like he promised. . . when the hell is that happening?
I've been down in NC for nearly a year now and it's still hard to get used to being able to pick up beer and wine at Wal-Mart.
Posted by: alexthechick at June 23, 2011 07:28 AM (VtjlW)
runningrn - that food stamp thing pisses me off to no end. Every time I'm at the store, I watch a cart full of ribs, steaks, chicken, and other assorted food being pushed by some 350 pound "female" with 4 misbehaving, screaming fatassed brats pay for the haul with her food stamps. Meanwhile I'm scrimping up 25 bucks to get a bit of fresh fruit and lunch meat for the next week to survive on.
I'm about ready to apply and see what happens.
But I still can't bring myself to do it. It sucks to be responsible for your debt, and actions.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 07:29 AM (fPOY0)
oh brother
Posted by: elspeth at June 23, 2011 11:08 AM (0AkWH)
It's the most astoundingly stupid thing I have ever seen in my life:
(1) It's a drop in the bucket, it really isn't much compared to total oil.
(2) If it is actually needed, say OPEC cuts off supply, he's really screwed.
(3) It's 2011. Even by a cynical measure, this is stupid.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 07:30 AM (T0NGe)
what's that, the Book of fucking Mormon? Something from L. Ron Hubbard? one hundred years?
Posted by: Monster Mohel at June 23, 2011 07:33 AM (le5qc)
Posted by: Oliver Wendall Championship at June 23, 2011 08:17 AM (zhejI)
HOORAY FOR SODOMY!!!!
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 23, 2011 07:34 AM (pdRb1)
Posted by: t-bird at June 23, 2011 07:35 AM (2EEmX)
The line forms on the left, ladies.
Posted by: Trigger at June 23, 2011 11:32 AM (c5Nbw)
This just goes to show that if you leave the Top Headlines thread out there as the only AoSHQ offering in the 6:00 to noon time slot, it morphs into the ONT ...
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 07:35 AM (dWOwL)
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 11:10 AM (dWOwL)
People here in the midwest don't believe the PA liquor laws. And then they think, "Ah ha, it must be all those religious wackos."
I tell them that might have started it, but that isn't the reason PA still has state stores.
The state store employees are...wait for it...unionized!
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 07:36 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Barry XVI at June 23, 2011 07:37 AM (2EEmX)
runningrn - that food stamp thing pisses me off to no end. Every time I'm at the store, I watch a cart full of ribs, steaks, chicken, and other assorted food being pushed by some 350 pound "female" with 4 misbehaving, screaming fatassed brats pay for the haul with her food stamps. Meanwhile I'm scrimping up 25 bucks to get a bit of fresh fruit and lunch meat for the next week to survive on.
You'd be even madder if you read all the examples of fraud cited: People in Seattle selling their cards on Craigslist or brazenly cashing them out on street corners (I saw the news report of that one night) for 50 cents on the dollar and then using the proceeds for prostitution and drugs. WA state Senator, Mike Carrell complained that "...DSHS management has allowed these things to happen, and in some cases, actively restricted fraud investigations."
30% of inmates in the Polk County, IA jail were collecting food stamps that were mailed to their non-jail mailing addresses in 2009. They couldn't be prosecuted for fraud because "the state's food-stamp form failed to ask applicants whether they were heading for the slammer." The spokesman for the IA DSHS said that "asking such questions could make food stamp application 'unwieldy'."
And so on.
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 07:37 AM (ihSHD)
Geert Wilders Aquited of Hate Speech
Note:
Unusually, the prosecution team had also asked for an acquittal, arguing that politicians have the right to comment on problem issues and that Wilders was not trying to foment violence or division.
Â…Wilders, who has received numerous death threats and has to live under 24-hour guard,Â…
Noted? Good . Now forget it. Only racists notice such things.
Posted by: CJ at June 23, 2011 07:38 AM (9KqcB)
And one labeled "Koran" too!!!
Posted by: Newsweek at June 23, 2011 07:38 AM (c5Nbw)
I tell them that might have started it, but that isn't the reason PA still has state stores.
Religion plays into the fact we can't buy most alcohol on sundays. Only six packs at bars and such.
The Liquor control board is ridiculous, as is the 18% Johnstown Flood tax.
Thankfully I don't drink hard liquor so it doesn't affect me.
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 07:38 AM (wuv1c)
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 07:39 AM (ihSHD)
Stayed in hotel recently. Toilet had 2 buttons on top - "Solid" and "Liquid".
I think that's a good idea. I always feel like we waste so much water. For example, why is toilet water as clean as drinking water?
You think we could use grey water for our toilets.
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 07:40 AM (wuv1c)
And the GOP still has pretty much
nothing to really say about it. They're too busy helping to save
ObamaCare (and that includes that idiot Cantor) in the debt-limit
surrender talks.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 23, 2011 11:36 AM (G/MYk)
You know, your "blame the GOP at all times for all things" rant might have more impact if it were true:
"jonathanweisman Jonathan Weisman retweet by JonahNRO Eric Cantor tells the Wall Street Journal's Janet Hook he's pulling out of the Biden debt ceiling talks. Um, not good."Naturally, I disagree with Weisman's little commentary at the end.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 07:40 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Trigger at June 23, 2011 11:32 AM (c5Nbw)
I have been drinking this straight from the "tap" for years.
Posted by: Bawney Fwank at June 23, 2011 07:40 AM (pdRb1)
runningrn - that food stamp thing pisses me off to no end. Every time I'm at the store, I watch a cart full of ribs, steaks, chicken, and other assorted food being pushed by some 350 pound "female" with 4 misbehaving, screaming fatassed brats pay for the haul with her food stamps. Meanwhile I'm scrimping up 25 bucks to get a bit of fresh fruit and lunch meat for the next week to survive on.
I saw a guy at walmart buying a case of Redbull with a food stamp card.
One, it pissed me off that it's like a credit card and not an actual stamp or coupon.
Two, Redbull? are you kiding me? That stuff is more expensive per ounce than any other liquid in the world.
Also, I have noticed a lot of people using food stamps are grossly over weight too.
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 07:43 AM (wuv1c)
>Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 10:56 AM (UOM4
Local news saying he's definately the same guy. However, he is a "lone wolf" who apparently isn't as smart as a wolf because, yes, HE FILMED HIMSELF SHOOTING AT THE MARINE BARRACKS.
Imagine how dangerous these muzzies would be if they weren't so stupid.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 07:43 AM (wOFkj)
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 11:39 AM (ihSHD)
Yup. You can buy some beer at a bar or restaurant to go, but mostly, it's beer and wine at the beer distributor and wine and liquor at the state store. There are some exceptions like the Mount Hope Winery, but no alcohol at all in grocery stores or pharmacies.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 07:43 AM (T0NGe)
From Daniel Henninger's op-ed in WSJ this a.m.
"How about the strong handicaps claimed by the 4 politicos? The Obama handicap is reported at 17. John Boehner is at 7.9, which Golf Digest says makes him the '43rd best golfer in Washington'. John Kasich, the former House budet chairman, 'is close to an 8'. Joe Biden has a 6.3 handicap and is ranked No. 29 among Washington's top 150 golfers. Either Mr. Biden got that handicap his famously golden youth, or he's playing from the geezer tees."
So is Oblahblah playing from the ladies tees?
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 07:43 AM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Trigger at June 23, 2011 07:44 AM (c5Nbw)
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Airport screeners around the county have chosen the nation’s largest federal employee union to represent them in collective bargaining talks with the government.
The American Federation of Government Employees won a runoff vote to represent 44,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration.Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 07:44 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2011 07:44 AM (c5Nbw)
Also, I have noticed a lot of people using food stamps are grossly over weight too.
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 11:43 AM (wuv1c)
Three words: Free gubmint cheese, baby!
Posted by: Joey "Choo Choo" Biden at June 23, 2011 07:45 AM (dWOwL)
Or perhaps Biden got his handicap from Neal Kinnock.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at June 23, 2011 07:46 AM (XyjRQ)
You think we could use grey water for our toilets.
Posted by: Ben
Could however the added infrastructure would make it cost prohibitive, I think. Additional plumbing, plus water conditioners and cleaners, and the ever present fear of child/pet/drunks drinking said toilet water.
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 07:46 AM (fPOY0)
Posted by: Barry The Magnificent at June 23, 2011 07:46 AM (2EEmX)
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at June 23, 2011 11:46 AM (XyjRQ)
Thread winnah!
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 07:47 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2011 08:35 AM (ENKCw)
My Temple WILL be rebuilt.
Posted by: God at June 23, 2011 07:47 AM (NtXW4)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2011 11:44 AM (c5Nbw)
Nah, it's the lack of connection between the brain and his mouth. He was born with a rare birth defect that connects his mouth to his ass.
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 23, 2011 07:48 AM (136wp)
Religion plays into the fact we can't buy most alcohol on sundays. Only six packs at bars and such.
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 11:38 AM (wuv1c)
Liquor stores and beer distributors are now open 12-5p on Sundays in PA!
Privatizing the state stores used to be a hot issue, but not so much now. Conservatives who would otherwise support it are looking at the bottom line and think the state will lose too much revenue. That shouldn't matter, obviously. The government shouldn't be in the biz.
Posted by: CJ at June 23, 2011 07:49 AM (9KqcB)
runningrn - that food stamp thing pisses me off to no end. Every time I'm at the store, I watch a cart full of ribs, steaks, chicken, and other assorted food being pushed by some 350 pound "female" with 4 misbehaving, screaming fatassed brats pay for the haul with her food stamps. Meanwhile I'm scrimping up 25 bucks to get a bit of fresh fruit and lunch meat for the next week to survive on.
I saw a guy at walmart buying a case of Redbull with a food stamp card.
One, it pissed me off that it's like a credit card and not an actual stamp or coupon.
Two, Redbull? are you kiding me? That stuff is more expensive per ounce than any other liquid in the world.
Also, I have noticed a lot of people using food stamps are grossly over weight too.
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 11:43 AM (wuv1c)
People can survive on beans, rice and water, so why don't we just give the grocery stores a tax break for providing them for free (to everybody) and drop the food stamp crap.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 23, 2011 07:49 AM (pdRb1)
Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at June 23, 2011 07:50 AM (NNW3K)
I'll take Biden from the back tees and give him one a side any day on any course. I love people with ego handicaps.
Posted by: Beagle at June 23, 2011 07:51 AM (sOtz/)
One, it pissed me off that it's like a credit card and not an actual stamp or coupon.
Yup, they went to the EBT card to destigmatize food-stamps. If you ask me, there's not enough shame in America these days. It pisses me off to no end. People living on the dole, should be ashamed--especially if they've been doing it for a long time. The son of one of my co-workers (he is developmentally disabled, but he works bagging groceries) got a girl pregnant twice. Their children are the fourth generation of the girl's family who live off the gubamint (subsidized housing, bus pass, food stamps, etc.) No one in her family has ever worked. It's disgusting. And yeah, she's bigger than a house. She's had 2 kids with him and 2 kids with 2 other men.
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 07:52 AM (ihSHD)
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Hello?
Posted by: Hewlett-Packard, purveyor of fine inks at June 23, 2011 07:55 AM (FzhYM)
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 11:43 AM (wuv1c)
Three words: Free gubmint cheese, baby!
Posted by: Joey "Choo Choo" Biden
Well, It has to do with the AMOUNT of food, and the fact that it's good for any old processed crap. Personally, I wouldn't break my heart to see 90% of what's allowed now be cut off. ONLY fresh fruits and veggies, no processed crap, no microwave meals. Make the fuckers cook and work at dinner. Who knows, maybe they'd even get some quality family time and figure out how to get out of the shitty place they find themselves in life.
And insist that in order to qualify you MUST be working in some capacity or another. I don't care if it's picking up trash in the Tunnel of I64 in Hampton Roads at 2AM and dodging drunks on a friday night. Work = effort = compensation. No more lazy fat asses.
and IF you try to claim a medical exemption, you better be in the fucking hospital on deaths bed, just like in boot camp. if you're not dying, your here working. and even then, we might have a job for you.
Yes, yes I am bitter this morning doctor, why do you ask?
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 07:55 AM (fPOY0)
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 11:52 AM (ihSHD)
The decline and fall...
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2011 07:56 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at June 23, 2011 11:50 AM (NNW3K)
For recreational play, bogey golfing is considered to be OK golfing. Don't insult decent players. Obama isn't breaking 115 with that form unless he lies on his score card.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 23, 2011 07:57 AM (pdRb1)
Well, by opening on Sundays, they're clearly afraid that something might be taken from them.
Conservatives who would otherwise support it are looking at the bottom line and think the state will lose too much revenue.
I don't know about that. Dems will go to the mat to keep the unions in business.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 07:57 AM (T0NGe)
Their children are the fourth generation of the girl's family who live off the gubamint (subsidized housing, bus pass, food stamps, etc.) No one in her family has ever worked. It's disgusting.
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 11:52 AM (ihSHD)
There needs to be a recognition, much like the Century Farm program, for families with such a storied history. Call them "Century Moochers" and provide them with a sign on which a sow is suckling a litter of piglets that must be displayed, with justifiable pride, in their window.
Posted by: No Whining at June 23, 2011 07:57 AM (dWOwL)
todler, the problem with that is fresh and healthy food is so expensive.
It's the cheap garbage that costs less.
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 07:57 AM (wuv1c)
David Axelrod might think it's still cool to like Obama, but who's taking advice on coolness from a guy with an Hitler comb-over and mustache? Check the photos -- they appear to have separated at birth.
That's just a taste, the title is: More BO Than Anyone Can Stand.
Posted by: ontherocks at June 23, 2011 07:58 AM (HBqDo)
People can survive on beans, rice
and water, so why don't we just give the grocery stores a tax break for
providing them for free (to everybody) and drop the food stamp crap.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 23, 2011 11:49 AM (pdRb1)
Because the scammers would sell the beans and the farts to buy cooter, crack, pot, Oxy, and Haagen Dazs.
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at June 23, 2011 07:58 AM (cwFVA)
My Temple WILL be rebuilt.
Posted by: God at June 23, 2011 11:47 AM (NtXW4)
Why would God post on a blog?
Posted by: Capt. James T Kirk at June 23, 2011 07:58 AM (FIDMq)
I used to think Idiocracy was a marginally funny movie. Now, I am really begining to think it is very much an insight into the future.
It was a great movie. One of the better and most insightful comedy's in the past few years.
It didn't have an many belly laughs as some popular comedies, but I still thought it was freaking hilarious
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 08:00 AM (wuv1c)
The decline and fall...
She and her family are so saavy about navigating the system. They know exactly what they are entitled to, and how often they are able to axcess benefits. It's absolutely unbelievable. I think surely those skills are transferrable into some kind of job.
They've moved multiple times when they decided they wanted to live in a different appartment, and DSHS pays for the moving costs too. It's so galling.
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 08:00 AM (ihSHD)
todler, the problem with that is fresh and healthy food is so expensive.
It's the cheap garbage that costs less.
Posted by: Ben
Oh I know that ben. But half my premise is to make the fuckers work at it a bit. Since that's an anathema (sp?) to most of them, maybe it'll motivate them. besides, if the cheap processed crap isn't covered, the increased costs from fresh food would be covered without raising benefits
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 08:01 AM (fPOY0)
For recreational play, bogey golfing is considered to be OK golfing. Don't insult decent players. Obama isn't breaking 115 with that form unless he lies on his score card.
DUH! WINNING!!ELEVENTY!!
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 08:02 AM (ihSHD)
Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at June 23, 2011 08:03 AM (NNW3K)
The man charged with firing the weapon and trespassing in Arlington Cemetary's name is "malaku" and had notebooks with jihadi writings, al queda crap and other islamic musings. He was also a reservist. He was not "on their radar".
Radio just reports that the authorities have already been asked if he were a "muslim". They responded that had nothing to do with his arrest.
Just wanna be clear.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 08:04 AM (wOFkj)
Having raised the National Debt to record limits the White House can't spend anymore. They CAN however deplete any and all recourses the Nation holds in an effort to further expand that debt. After the oil is sold, it will have to be repurchased (usually at higher prices). Especially if his "other economic stimulus" continues to work so well.
This fugtard couldn't do any more damage to our nation if he was another country deliberately declaring war against the US and it's citizens.
Posted by: MrObvious at June 23, 2011 08:06 AM (H87Hu)
Seed corn is tasty.
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 08:08 AM (GTbGH)
Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at June 23, 2011 08:09 AM (NNW3K)
There is no water shortage! What we have is artificial water shortages in certain local areas created by politicians bowing to the wishes of gaia worshiping eco-tards.
When I lived in California in the Bay area we had two reservoirs that provided a large portion of the area's drinking water which was always in short supply. These were lake Chabot and the San Leandro Reservoir.
We also had a well financed group of idiot-tards who continually pushed for draining both of these reservoirs and dismantling the dams to return the area to its "pristine" natural condition. So far they haven't succeeded but sooner or later....
And lest you feel like this kind of insanity is confined to idiot CA look back a few years ago to the insanity in Atlanta when some environut group sued because the dam operators at Lake Lanier had throttled back on outlet flow due to a long drought. An action REQUIRED by federal law.
A federal judge ruled in favor of the environuts who claimed the low flow was endangering a small group of obscure river muscles that lived downstream. They were on the "threatened" list. Why were they on this list? Because they are so damn worthless nobody bothers counting them. So they effectively drained Lake Lanier and the surrounding area had to do without water.
This endangered Shithole Act is another one of those things waiting for the "Mother of All Repeal Bills".
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 08:10 AM (M9Ie6)
It didn't have an many belly laughs as some popular comedies, but I still thought it was freaking hilarious
Posted by: Ben at June 23, 2011 12:00 PM (wuv1c)
Great concept, poorly executed. And I'm a big Mike Judge fan. It didn't look like they gave him much of a budget, and no marketing at all. I'm sur ethe studio was nervous about the premise and just wanted it to quietly come and go.
Posted by: CJ at June 23, 2011 08:11 AM (9KqcB)
Posted by: Urology is my life at June 23, 2011 08:13 AM (qC0aE)
"Someone just set this to me.... Prayer Request
Hold them in the LIGHT....
We are asking everyone to say a prayer for the 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and their families.
They are fighting it out in Afghanistan & they have lost 12 marines in 4 days.
IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE the message spread if more could pass it on.
God Bless America and God Bless the United States Marine Corps... Semper Fi, Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever"
I've already said some rosaries for these guys, hope they feel them, I've been praying for someone who had a medical emergency this weekend so I just added the marines to the most fervent prayer I've ever sent to God.
Posted by: curious at June 23, 2011 08:15 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 11:57 AM (T0NGe)
The only reason I say that, this time around, conservatives are being timid is that it is barely talked about. And I know a guy who works for the legislative committee overseeing the issue. He schooled me. He claims it's not a slam dunk. I told him it is to the regular voter, but inside the bowels of the capitol it must look daunting.
Posted by: CJ at June 23, 2011 08:16 AM (9KqcB)
Posted by: todler at June 23, 2011 11:29 AM (fPOY0)
What's worse is when you go to vote in November and that same "female" is on the line ahead of you...
Posted by: Nighthawk at June 23, 2011 08:18 AM (OtQXp)
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Posted by: Ebo Walker (was a mighty fine fiddle player) at June 23, 2011 08:27 AM (Iud9G)
He did have it...I was there.
It was a VERY good time. Gabe did a good job of working each moron into the conversations and keeping it flowing. He may do a write-up on it.
Of course, I just went because he called us "puddingheads" in the email and it made me warm inside...
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