1 that's deep man

2 You, Jerry Lee Lewis and AC/DC.

3 not as poetic as Spinal Tap, though... My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo.

4

Another green success story

Electric car company folds in Salinas, CA after getting huge gov subsidies for startup. They got subsidies from the city, subsidies from the State, and we all know what they get from the Feds (not mentioned in article).  The CEO gave them 3 reasons which they say were all based on not enough capital. IÂ’ll give two reasons. (1) Nobody wants these pieces of shit (2) his company was never designed to make money off car sales to begin with. Like nearly all of these BS green companies they are designed to make money from government largess. When the subsidies run out, the company folds.

That is the pattern that we have seen throughout history on these American System crony projects.  All one has to do is look at much ballyhooed Union Pacific railway which was another heavily subsidized project. As soon as the government subsidies ran out the railroad went bankrupt.  Meanwhile the Great Northern Railway which was built at the same time with no government subsidies continued on and did fine.

5 Do we have to start this stuff so early in the morning?

Murdoch has arrived at Parliament.(AP via Twitter)
Clinton thinks Obama should invoke the 14th Amendment and raise the debt ceiling and dare the Congress to take it to court.(Politico)
Story on Michele Bachman having stress-induced migraines and taking beaucoup meds.(Daily Caller)

6

More Holder bullshit

He wants to cut the prison sentence of a convicted terrorist who would then be turned lose in the U.S. He is another one of these asshole who was born and raised in a terrorist country and allowed to immigrate to the U.S. Doing some research we find he is one of those infamous “friends of Bill”. 

I also find that, among other things, he was convicted of “unlawful procurement of citizenship”. Being convicted of that means that he should have his citizenship stripped and be deported back to Yemen. Of course there is no word on that happening. So why does Holder think the conviction should be set aside and he turned lose? No word on that but he was convicted by the Bush DOJ so obviously he is the victim of racist policies.

7

The Hill claims that McConnellÂ’s bend over and surrender scheme is gaining "steam"

Basically the think that cut, crap, and balance will fail after which the House will be forced to support it. Oh and “steam” I guess that is Diane Feinstein supporting it now. Any bill that Harry Reid and Diane Fienstein support can not be good.

8

The Palinization of Bachmann is getting into full swing now that she is climbing in the polls and challenging Romney

Now she has a debilitating stress related condition that requires “heavy pill use”. Folks it has become clear that we are rapidly approaching half of the conditions of the 1800 election that almost erupted in civil war 60 years before it finally did explode. I say half because the liberals are in the full attack dog mode while conservative Republicans are silent.

9

Mad scheme to bypass the primaries and go to a brokered convention developing

10

More bad news for T-Paw

PPP is dropping him from State level polling due to bad performance. Personally I think this is BS. It is far too early to be dropping announced candidates from polling. The polls still reflect mainly name recognition. They should not be dropping people from a poll until the end of summer.

(More coming)

11 #9  Vic,  I think that is a trap.  They dangle Chris Christie and Marco Rubio,  but I would bet cash money we would end up with Jeb Bush or Romney.

The RNC delegates are party loyalists and heavily weighted in favor of the older-style Republican,  because these are the people who have been active in GOP circles for years.  Being delegates is their reward for service.

I do not think they would go for Rubio or Christie.

12 I think that is a trap.  They dangle Chris Christie and Marco Rubio,  but I would bet cash money we would end up with Jeb Bush or Romney.

I think it is insane but it has about zero chance of working.

13 But when they're held for pleasure.
They're the balls that I like best.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 06:47 AM

Well there's a visual I could have done without.

14

Another daily attack on the voter ID law.

These Dem PR SOBs will not give up until this law makes it past the DOJ.

15 Tami,  the first 3 coments shoudl be skipped as well.

Ugh.

16

Cain out there stepping on his crank again

I am going to have to remove him from my short list. This is too reminiscent of Huckleberry dufus.

Republican presidential primary candidate Herman Cain says front-runner Mitt Romney cannot win the partyÂ’s White House nomination next year because of his religion.

17 Gabe, please. Its too early for that stuff.

18 I say half because the liberals are in the full attack dog mode while conservative Republicans are silent.

Shhh, its called laying in defilade

19 Vic, the taxpayers of Salinas are lucky the car guy notified the city by email he was closing up shop; if he had gone in to meet them - they would have shoveled more cash at him.

20 Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 07:20 AM (M9Ie6)

I dunno....I think the headline and pull quote are a little misleading as to what he said.

“I know the South, and you have to win the South. Mitt Romney did not win it when he ran against John McCain” in the 2008 primaries, said Mr. Cain. “The reason he will have a difficult time winning the South this time is because when he ran the first time, he did not do a good job of communicating his religion. It doesn’t bother me, but I know it is an issue with a lot of Southerners.”

snip~

“I like Mitt. I supported him in the last presidential election,” said Mr. Cain, who softened his often booming baritone voice almost to a whisper. “I don’t think he is going to be any stronger this time around against Barack Obama, even though Obama has a terrible record.”

21

Rich Lowery doesn't like the balance budget amendment

He evidently doesn't know where the 18% of GDP number comes from either. (or he conveniently skips over it)

Is it just me, or have other people noticed he has become a lot more "squishy" lately?

22 I dunno....I think the headline and pull quote are a little misleading as to what he said.

Its a liberal rag, so yeah they are going to be somewhat misleading. We will have to wait and see how he responds for accuracy.

23 Is the Daily Caller trying to emulate Politico's business model?

24 He is also wrong as to why Mittens lost the South. I still maintain that most Southerners do not GAS about his religion. He lost the South because he is a liberal gun grabber. At least McCain had military service, but even he did not do that well in the South. He won based on "winner take all". 

25 Its a liberal rag, so yeah they are going to be somewhat misleading. We will have to wait and see how he responds for accuracy.

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 07:33 AM (M9Ie6)

The Washington Times is a liberal rag?

26 @9
I guess I'm jaded, but I tend to take anything in the Daily Caller with a huge boulder of salt.  They seem to specialize in internal GOP rifts stories.  People in the GOP who still talk to those guys have an agenda imho. 

27 Well there's a visual I could have done without.

+eleventy to that

28

Heritage's Index of economic freedom is out for 2011

The U.S. is dropping, imagine that.

29

Gabe, please. Its too early for that stuff.

Aww, it's never too early for AC/DC.

 

30 The Washington Times is a liberal rag?

Yes, ALL big city newspapers are liberal rags. Some are just more obvious about it than others.

31 And that's about it for the "news" this morning. Two big stories nationwide. Rupert Murdoch and evil Fox news are crooks and stubborn and intransigent Rethugs are going to cause the world to collapse while Obama is the only "adult" in the room.

As for The Daily Caller, what I have found is that they are "mostly" OK with a sometimes bullshit "out there" story.

32 Mitt's already in mid flip-flop mode on whether carbon is a pollutant or not (which of course he's right about this time and it is NOT; and any cocksucker working for the EPA who says it is should be immediately fired).  Still I'd vote for him instead of the JEF but I'd rather have another choice.

33 @31  
You "missed" the Mike Vick teams with the Humane Society to push an agenda on Congress story. 

Mike Vick and the HSUS: there's two entities I could do without. 

34 Clinton thinks Obama should invoke the 14th Amendment and raise the debt ceiling and dare the Congress to take it to court.(Politico)

Clenis is another donk ex-preznit who should permanently shut his grits hole; although I think that senile white-trash predator loves hearing his ignorant hilljack voice as much as chasing cooter.

35 RCP is reporting that "Americans for Rick Perry" will open its headquarters in West Des Moines this week.

Their FB page has a run down of Perry's positions.  

36 I think it is insane but it has about zero chance of working.

The establishment elitists know best how to abuse the system. Anything to maintain authoritarian power, as if the Republican Leadership ever valued the Tea Party movement as anything but an amusement to abuse. Anything to ruin the "anyone but Obama" '12 chance. Sabotage "public trust", it's what's for dinner. And the establishment called the Tea Party demands "radical".

The RNC is acting just like Obama, taking their marbles with them as they storm out of the process. Throughout the '08 primary, we all debated the best ways to reform the primary process, to the RNC deaf ears. Again they reveal their trump card, no real surprise given their response to the Tea Party. 

/Insanity is the Federal Rule of Law thumb. And though insanity's ability to provide constitutional governance is nil, the only chance of "working" or gaining employment is limited to joining gubmint rank and file.

37 Clean up needed in the headline, please.

38 Well ain't this just peachy......

Business Insider bears the alarming news that the Iran-supported terrorist group Hezbollah is busy establishing a presence in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America:

Islamic terrorist groups are setting up shop in Mexico and forming alarming ties with the country's brutal drug cartels, according to a 2010 internal memo from the Tucson Police Department.

The memo (pdf file) referred to here was not intended for public consumption, and came to light only after the hacker group LulzSec hacked into Arizona Department of Public Safety computers.

http://tinyurl.com/3uzuzmw

39 You "missed" the Mike Vick teams with the Humane Society to push an agenda on Congress story.

No I didn't see that story.

40 Hey Gabe!

get your fucking jumbo jet off my airport!

41 Is it just me, or have other people noticed he has become a lot more "squishy" lately?Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 07:31 AM (M9Ie6)

It's not a new phenomenon

42

You "missed" the Mike Vick teams with the Humane Society to push an agenda on Congress story. 

Heard that on the radio.

Am I the only one rooting for a strike?

43 So Bachmann is one of those "nervous" women who has to take "medication" because, you know, she can't take it. What horseshit. Do they think people buy this crap?

44 Hackers hacked by FBI...

45 Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2011 07:55 AM (X6akg)

Yes, the Violence Policy Center another tax exempt Democrat front group that pushes gun control. Most of their funding comes from yet another tax exempt Dem front Group, the Joyce Foundation. Guess who used to be on their board before being elected President.

46 What horseshit. Do they think people buy this crap?

Posted by: Case at July 19, 2011 08:00 AM (0K+Kw)

I can see her having migraines. I have know other people who get those periodically and they can be debilitating. But I don't see making a big deal about it and the use of "heavy pill use" in a headline is BS.

47 We have decided that the first woman President will be a Democrat, and we will destroy any woman Republican that looks capable. It is for the women, and women's issues such as abortion, equal pay, and women's "rights". We are beating them for their own good.

48 "43 So Bachmann is one of those "nervous" women who has to take "medication" because, you know, she can't take it. What horseshit. Do they think people buy this crap?"

Too bad she's not a smoker and a Democrat.

49 "43 So Bachmann is one of those "nervous" women who has to take "medication" because, you know, she can't take it. What horseshit. Do they think people buy this crap?"

Too bad she's not a Kennedy.  Particularly of the JF variety.

50 Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 07:42 AM (M9Ie6)

Spare us these blanket statements this morning.

51 THE MSM PLAYBOOK NEVER CHANGES:

1) Come up with a series of polls that have hugely unbalanced fictional samples favoring Democrats that say America support Obama in the debt talks.
2) Use this fake poll as your lead-in and premise for your entire reporting on the story.
3) Go on FoxNews and state this false premise as an established fact.
4) Of course the cue card readers at FoxNews are too stupid to call you on the fact the polling is fake and sit silently as the left lies to America.

You see, the left gets it in a way.  They know that most Americans are too stupid to realize poll numbers can be manipulated.  They hear that "margin of error of 3.5%" crap and buy it hook line and sinker.

WHAT WE NEED:
We need to establish a government office whose job it is to create an accurate accounting on a regular basis of what the party affiliation breakdown in America is.  Once that has been established, all pollsters MUST weight their poll by that sampling BY LAW.

This way we would have apples to apples polling.  The propaganda the left spews with their fake polling is just too dangerous to ignore.

52 Some balls are held for charity. And some for fancy dress. But when they're held for pleasure. They're the balls that I like best. Nice, but its no rebecca black.

53 I think the "Bachman uses pills" story is coming out because people are starting/continuing to question the mental state of Obama.  Besides, the race card is not effective anymore. 

54 Ex-Gang of Six members to unveil debt plan to other senators Tuesday http://bit.ly/n9cJw9

55 Spare us these blanket statements this morning.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2011 08:09 AM (LH6ir)

What's the matter, the truth hurt?

56 On that balanced budget amendment..  Wouldn't that force the government to raise taxes?   we're not taxing anywhere near 18% of GDP right now, are we?

57 Of course the cue card readers at FoxNews are too stupid to call you on the fact the polling is fake and sit silently as the left lies to America.

That is the infamous "fair and balanced" debate which is not fair and never balanced. I don't know where they beat the bushes to find some of those totally clueless Republican talking heads who sit silently while the Dem lies his head off.

That is my major gripe with the Beck replacement "5" show. They took their absolute worst action and made it a one hour show with Beckle.

58 Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 08:13 AM (M9Ie6)

Huh? Do you think that I am a shareholder in some big-city newspaper chain?

What's next? That I am a crypto-communist? Or my great-great-grandfather was a guard at Andersonville?

59 we're not taxing anywhere near 18% of GDP right now, are we?

I think we are at 20% while the GDP is down so much. But in the long run it will fall to 18% unless congress tinkers with it again. It always settles out in the long run at 18%. That is why spending should be limited to 18%.

60 Keith Olberdouch - Manure Major.

61 Huh? Do you think that I am a shareholder in some big-city newspaper chain?

I just wonder why you think that not all big city newspapers are liberal. Find me ONE that supports the Republicans in this budget battle.

62 That is the infamous "fair and balanced" debate which is not fair and never balanced. I don't know where they beat the bushes to find some of those totally clueless Republican talking heads who sit silently while the Dem lies his head off.

 I hear ya brother.  I have literally sat at my TV screen SCREAMING at the "Republican Talking Heads" on FoxNews to call Democrats on the BS they spew and yet they just sit there shaking their heads and tongue tied.

RINO or not, that is one thing I love about CK - he is prepared and he will call your ass on the bullshit.

63

The race card remains exceedingly effective - unreasonably effective.  It stills scares too many people out of their wits

Yeh, I'm afraid to put a sign in my yard supporting the Republican candidate for governor because I don't want people to think I'm racist.

64 Hey, wait a minute...

65 Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 08:20 AM (M9Ie6)

I have no doubt that many are on the left, but using one issue as a litmus test makes no logical sense.

66 I have no doubt that many are on the left, but using one issue as a litmus test makes no logical sense.

I used that issue as an example because it is THE current issue.

67 Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 08:18 AM (M9Ie6)

You are falling into the trap that government has some inalienable right to our money.

Vic, you are a closet socialist.

68 It is also a damn good litmus test because it is obvious that spending is the problem and not "taxing". You have to really stretch reality to come up with needed "compromise" in taxing.

69 Yeah, right.

70 Clenis is another donk ex-preznit who should permanently shut his grits hole; although I think that senile white-trash predator loves hearing his ignorant hilljack voice as much as chasing cooter.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 19, 2011 07:50 AM

Exceedingly fine micro rant, Cap'n. Concise and surgically efficient, yet redolent of the righteous disdain and seething hatred billy jeff deserves.  

Well done, indeed.

71 Posted by: Mama AJ in Louisiana at July 19, 2011 08:21 AM (XdlcF)

I'm not so sure that the race card is nearly as powerful as it once was. I see frustration with race-baiting and identity politics even among my idiot liberal friends and family.

72

I was going for subtle humor early in the morning.

Bobby Jindal is running for re-election.

73 Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 19, 2011 08:25 AM (tk5O7)

And that cracker jizz-master is a model of statesmanlike wisdom compared to the JEF.

74 Posted by: Mama AJ in Louisiana at July 19, 2011 08:28 AM (XdlcF)

Oh, I see. So you ARE a racist!

75 "If President Obama recorded the video in the Map Room, then it appears he has committed a crime under federal law,” RNC chairman Reince Priebus wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.  The letter attempts to revive an issue Republicans first raised weeks ago but that has failed to gain much attention or traction.  Many good government groups and independent legal experts have dismissed the claims. -- Jack Tapper, moral authority

RNC turns to Eric Holder for justice?!

76 And that cracker jizz-master is a model of statesmanlike wisdom compared to the JEF.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative)

The fact that this is so absolutely true makes me weep for the future of our country.

Well- weep, drink heavily, and invest in firearms/food/water/etc.

77 RNC turns to Eric Holder for justice?!

I am surprised we are not hearing more about Holder trying to turn the terrorist financier lose. Hell, even the Morons are just skipping over that story.

78 RNC turns to Eric Holder for justice?!

This is the reason that Fast & Furious will bring down Obama.  Holder is his firewall, and when Holder is gone Obama is toast.

79 And no I don't think the race card holds the sway that it used to have. Not among the general population. But I do think the Republican Party leadership is still scared to death of it. Of course, they are always fighting the war of 10 years ago using methods of 50 years ago. 

80 Apparently "Cut, Cap, and Balance" may not pass by a wider margin because some lawmakers feel it doesn't go far enough while a few others are leery about whether it will be used as political cover later.

81 Well Bachmann has signed on to it now and I think DeMint was already in on it so that should have some influence. I think it is better than nothing but I would be ttoally against it if they start piling on amendments to make it weaker than it already is.

82 Erstwhile-conservative Tom Coburn thinks we don't know what "adjusting the tax code" means. [Truman North]

Economically, both Coburn - and Obama - have a point in that "tax incentives" are quite literally disguised spending.  Coburn has identified tax breads for ethanol as a tax code adjustment he would make, and he is right on.  The tax break is a disguised subsidy of the ethanol industry, and it needs to go.

The tax code is full of these - they are not revenue measures, they are social programs in disguise.  We probably like some (accelerated depreciation, for example, spurs small-business growth), and we probably do not like others (for "green" projects, which do more harm than good).  But we should recognize the economic reality, get out Allah's ban hammer, and put it to legitimate use.

83

Dumbass thugs and stupid bitches beat up Afghanistan war veteran for some reason, likely because they are dumb as comatose fungus

Now, we obviously don't know the whole story of what went down at this bar, and I know being in the military does not automatically make you a pillar of virtue.  But I think I'm willing to put my faith in the veteran who spent most of the altercation unconscious more than the lowlifes who pummeled him so badly his bladder burst. 

Bohn's mother said her son survived two explosions while serving in Afghanistan, and the second one cost him his career in the military. She said she wants the people who beat her son to realize something else.

"I want them to know what kind of a man Steven is," she said. "He fought for this country. He wishes he could go back, but he can't."

Bohn said his spine was damaged in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan in 2008, and he said the beating aggravated the old injuries.

84 The reports of the death of white guilt and squish fears are greatly exaggerated.  It still moves people and policy in very, very self-destructive directions.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 19, 2011 08:34 AM (G/MYk)

I'm convinced that it's driving Ear Leader's standing in the polls from being deep in the toilet where it truly belongs.  It's my hope in the 2012 election that people in the privacy of behind the curtains looking at the ballot will administer a 1980 level of whoop-ass on the JEF.  Unless the Party of Stoopid delivers one last high colonic to the country like they did with McCain.

85 Posted by: MWR at July 19, 2011 08:39 AM (4df7R)

That would be second degree lynching here and those AHs could get 25 years in the big house.

86 the Republican Party leadership is still scared to death of it.

Amazing ...or not. The two premises that begat the opportunistic Republican Party were based on moral authority to manage racial and nuptial issues, That conservative women have yet to be the equals of Republican men proves where allegiance to intent lies.

/Every political party assimilates opportunists.

87 I thought Balls/Proms are held so young men can get laid?

88 86 Well Bachmann has signed on to it now and I think DeMint was already in on it so that should have some influence. I think it is better than nothing but I would be ttoally against it if they start piling on amendments to make it weaker than it already is.

I think it's because Politico and some other outfits started gleefully stirring the pot about how this vote will be used as cover for some members who will vote yes on an 11-hr deal. That and the fact that Boener is allowing a vote on something so conservative is makin the cynics wonder if he's offering in good faith. But some of these same people pushed him to hold this vote, so why do that only to be surprised when he says yes when they know he goes by the will of the conference?

89 for FOREIGNERS?  Illegal, a bit ...  You bet your ass.

...not to mention the FOREIGN FUNDS amassed and spent. No need asking Gaddafi what regrets if any ...

90

 Islamic terrorist groups are setting up shop in Mexico and forming alarming ties with the country's brutal drug cartels, according to a 2010 internal memo from the Tucson Police Department.

 Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2011 07:55 AM (X6akg)

 

Great - more "nation buliding" ahead.  Or, perhaps more likely, US citizens along the Mexican border will simply be expected to learn to live with the bombings and rocket attacks.  Aside from the armed forces, nobody is doing jack to protect US citizens from the depredations of its multitudinous enemies - either foreign or domestic. 

The so-called Right in this country is showing itself to be weak willed, tentative, cowardly, and ineffectual.  The Left is allowed to break any and all laws without the slightest repercussions.  The Congress meekly approves all but the most horrendously evil people that Obastard deems fit to nominate, no matter how crucial or petty the position.  The institutions of the state are turned against us, and the courts offer no justice except by luck.  The police are, increasingly, little more that state enforcers with no regard for the supreme law of the land, and the only laws that are vigorously enforced are those that can be directly tied to government revenue.  Crimes against persons and property are seen as little more than an inconvenience, rather than a menace to be fought. 

We are living under the tyranny of the limp-wristed do-gooders.  The kids are barely learning to read and write, and forget about math.  False history is taught to turn them against America.  We have laws saying that if you hurt a person because you hate their protected status, that's a worse crime than doing the same hurt out of greed or plain anger.  If you publicly utter a statement condemning some protected class, you'll lose your job and livelihood.  The government is willfully importing a muslim 5th column as fast as it can, and ignoring domestic activity that is clearly being done in preparation for future terrorism.  The Congress bickers over "debt limits" and makes no progress, while the real legislating in the US is done by faceless bureaucrat scum who make law through regulatory fiat.  Unchecked, unaccountable technocrats rule us all, and their chains bind us more firmly every day. 

Unless a harder, more ruthless, nationalist Right rises in the US, the game is up.  Your grand children, those who are not fully converted to the Left's toxic ideology, will be slaves to that ideology. 

91 And yet, the Sotomayor idiot just sailed right through confirmation without so much as a peep by anyone.  Not even an attempt at a filibuster, let alone bottling the POS up in committee.

Time to make hay where POTUS candidates voted on Sotomayor.

92 "Leading Wisconsin Dems are leaning towards a plan to ensure that the recall election against Walker is held on the same day as the November general election in 2012."

_/WaPo

93 What makes you think I'm foreign?  I'm imaginary but imaginary American.

So much for a Memorial Service. Yeah, preaching "expand the horizon of imagination" after the assassination of the Republican Federal Judge from the 9th Circus, and the removal of Tucson's Representative vote in Congress, Democrat determined to scrutinize Obama's border agenda shot in the brain, requiring permanent recuperation. Shit, the plots for opportunistic drama brewing, using the product of the Obama/Ayers' programmed high school education project, Loughner. And we're back to insanity. Sickening, how all things Obama lead into insanity.

94 "Leading Wisconsin Dems are leaning towards a plan to ensure that the recall election against Walker is held on the same day as the November general election in 2012."

_/WaPo

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 19, 2011 08:55 AM (o2lIv)

I may be wrong but...that's a reeeeaaaaally bad idea.

95 I am surprised we are not hearing more about Holder trying to turn the terrorist financier lose. Hell, even the Morons are just skipping over that story. Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 08:35 AM (M9Ie6)

 

Alas - we're getting to the point where nothing that bastard does shocks any more.  I'm surprised he doesn't personally lead raids on conservatives' homes and murder them in their beds.  He's proven that there's no crime he's unwilling to excuse, so long as it's just against America, and not directly against his own personal political interests.  The man is vile, and is himself a law breaker.

96

I am surprised we are not hearing more about Holder trying to turn the terrorist financier lose. Hell, even the Morons are just skipping over that story. Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 08:35 AM (M9Ie6)

Yeah, I saw that yesterday.  Blew a gasket.  But of course it's not an important story, because the MSM doesn't care.

Seriously, FML.

97

I may be wrong but...that's a reeeeaaaaally bad idea.

Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2011 08:57 AM (X6akg)

Yeah, if I'm a Wisconsin voter the concept of having a recall more than a year away makes me think that whoever's behind this is motivated by something other than the best interests of the state.

98 It's always Florida....

WEST PALM BEACH --

A Florida teen is accused of posting a Facebook invite for a house party, killing his parents with a hammer and then hosting dozens of people while the adults' bludgeoned bodies were locked in the master bedroom.

http://tinyurl.com/3smzlfe

99 Explaining ObamaÂ’s tax-hike obsession

100 WEST PALM BEACH --

A Florida teen is accused of posting a Facebook invite for a house party, killing his parents with a hammer and then hosting dozens of people while the adults' bludgeoned bodies were locked in the master bedroom.

http://tinyurl.com/3smzlfe

Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2011 09:03 AM (X6akg)

I heard that!  Good grief.  What is up with FLA?  Is it the heat?  The humidity?  The manatees?  What?

101 All this sexual innuendo is inappropriate for this venue.

102

Yeah, if I'm a Wisconsin voter the concept of having a recall more than a year away makes me think that whoever's behind this is motivated by something other than the best interests of the state.

To me it's a really bad idea because:

1. It gives Walker and Wisconsin a lot of time to recover. If there's really that much anger towards him (and I don't know whether there is or not) then why delay a recall? Strike while the iron is hot. If Wisconsin's budget comes in balanced (or even in surplus) and the local budgets are working well then this supposed anger becomes diffused.

2. A recall election works best when you have fewer voters. Those who are passionate will vote, those who aren't won't. Putting it in the 2012 general ensures that more voters will be at the polls, and if the state is doing better then you're more likely to get people who are satisfied with the governor.

3. Obama. There is strong anti-Obama sentiment everywhere and those people will vote. More than likely those people will also support Walker. The more anti-Obama voters that come out means that there will likely be more pro-Walker votes.

103

Yeah, if I'm a Wisconsin voter the concept of having a recall more than a year away makes me think that whoever's behind this is motivated by something other than the best interests of the state.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 19, 2011 09:02 AM (zsvKP)

Yes that but also if 2012 is anything like 2010, they're hosed.  Not to mention the fact that because of Walker's actions, the state is more fiscally sound. 

Voters, however, can be complete idiots.

104 The Republican National Committee has asked the Justice Department to investigate what it calls a matter of “grave concern:” President ObamaÂ’s appearance in a campaign video filmed inside the White House. 

“If President Obama recorded the video in the Map Room, then it appears he has committed a crime under federal law,” RNC chairman Reince Priebus wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.  

 

I'm sure brave Sir Eric will jump right on that

105

From the sidebar:

Oh lovely, more plans to gut the military from the Dems.  I'm glad I'm getting out. 

106 Monty's up w yer Daily DOOM

107 @ Fish, Don't forget the libtard snowbirds that voted for Obama both in FL and NY.

108 Florida is now populated by thousands of liberals who fucked up their own states, and have now moved to Florida with their permissive attitudes and are fucking up Florida. 

Posted by: Fish the Impaler at July 19, 2011 09:20 AM (Lt/Za)

 

A common pattern.  Sadly, once they've done their damage it's pretty hard to undo.  Consider all the Hatains that the Libtards have saddled Florida with - that right there is an imported welfare-class problem, and good luck getting them back out of there other than at bayonette point. 

The libtards are just like locusts - they move from place to place, enjoying the way of life that conservatism makes possible - and once they've destroyed it all they try to move on.  Well, not many places are left to move on to.  If only those scum would pack up and expatriate to Europe, like so many of the rich actors always threaten to do (but rarely actually do).

109 Am I the only one rooting for a strike?

I love football - especially pro football - but I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for the players and am completely disgusted that some of my favorite players (especially Brees) are fronting for them. 

Normally, when we had a chance to pick up NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV we would do it, but we've decided to not even bother getting a dish.  We'll make do with Comcast service at the new place. 

I hope the owners go with scabs and bust the union.  I can't believe that in this economy the players are garnering any sympathy.

110 I gave up on pro football long ago. I only watch college football now. It is a much more exciting game. Pro ball has become boring.

111

First we had reports of Air Traffic controllers sleeping on watch. Now we hear that they are drunk on watch.

Note that the drunk was "removed from his position". It doesn't say anything about being fired. 

112

My husband is an Eagles fan and I just can't be one any more. I usually make sure the kids have Eagles shirts and we do pay DirecTV for the games. I did not buy any last year.

I'm perfectly happy to let them do without our money for a year.

 

Well, I have to mow the yard despite the occasional raindrop...if I wait any longer I'll need a machete.

113 @119
 I still prefer pro football, partly because my wee little brain is only capable of following a certain number of teams, partly because there really are some crappy college teams out there (higher percentage and number of them so you get a lot of blowouts), and partly because I think the BCS stuff is a load of crap. 

But, yeah, we're watching more college games now, too. 

114

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2011 09:32 AM (M9Ie6)

My sentiments exactly.

Oh, BTW Vic, it turns out my trip to SC next month won't be to Florence, which I thought, but to Charleston. Apparently we'll be staying in some rented houses on The Isle of Palms. Which should be fun, as I'll get to go to Ft. Sumter and I really want to hit the Maritime Museum.

Any other suggestions for me when I'm down there? I'll be there for a week.

115 I agree that the BCS is a load of crap and would love it if the went to real playoffs, but alas, there is too much money at stake.

116 Any other suggestions for me when I'm down there? I'll be there for a week.

Hit the Irish Pub in old Charleston called Tommy Condon's. Also, you may want to take one of the buggy rides through old Charleston. If you do try to do it in the morning when it is cooler.

When traveling around in old Charleston don't take your car. Cab fare is incredibly cheap for multiple passengers and finding parking is hell.

117
I would bet cash money we would end up with Jeb Bush

He's the actual conservative in that family...

118

Hit the Irish Pub in old Charleston called Tommy Condon's.

Ahh, most of my family would be up for that. Thanks...and also for the advice about cabs.

119

If you have never been to an AC/DC show, you haven't lived. You will not believe how much they bring it. Even my faincee, who wasn't a fan before, sure is now.

All in the name of liberty.......

120 I saw AC/DC in HS -- if they are still bringing it like that, then they will die on stage someday

121

A couple of weeks ago, we had one “peer-reviewed” paper claim that the lack of new warming the last 12 years was due to sulfur aerosols from Chinese coal plants (these are the same byproducts the Clean Air Act eliminates in US coal-fired plants). This week, NASA comes back with a “peer reviewed” paper that the lack of new warming is due to volcanic activity, not those coal plants in China.
ItÂ’s a damn good thing the science is settled or youÂ’d be left believing that these folks havenÂ’t a clue.

But not to be out done by his VP, Bill Clinton weights in today with a piece at The Atlantic, Paint Your Roofs White.

You canÂ’t make this stuff up.

122 I never really figured Gabe as the AC/DC type.....

123 You really make it seem so uderstandable with your presentation but I find this topic before really hard to understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me.