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The Democrat PR Rag known as the Hill does another

Yesterday we saw a Washington Post article doing the Obama talking points for him. Here we have The Hill continuing that fine tradition by proving if you are a conservative you lose even when you win. Here Dickhead Gregory at Meet The Press went after Bachmann relentlessly on gay issues and her husband.

According to the Morons who actually had the stomach to watch this hit job she ate his lunch. According to the “Hill” she dodged the questions like that was some kind of bad thing. I understand candidateÂ’s needing face time on these Sunday news shows, but there isnÂ’t a single damn one of them that is not completely in the DemocratÂ’s back pocket. Not a damn one. Any conservative that shows up on these shows will be relentlessly hounded with gotcha questions that are immaterial to any issue that the election is about.  The Republicans are going to have to figure some way to get their message out beside the “unfree press”.

We have had 3 debates now and even in the debates not a single question on Globull Warming or any other of the issues that the Dems are really weak on. Except maybe one, and that is the economy. On that one they pound on the evil Tea Party and spread the Dem talking point lies.

2 Don't confuse me with the facts

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And speaking of the evil tea party

With the aid of a couple of bogus news polls and some of those ubiquitous “experts” we now know the tea party is coming to an end. Not only are these people more than biased, but they are really stupid as well. This kind of stupid shit gains them nothing.

4 Often wrong, but never in doubt.

5

Waaaa! We're supposed to feel bad because poor illegals got fired because of an audit

The headline at the WSJ

Immigration Audits Drive Illegal Workers Underground

Late that year, federal agents audited employee records of ABM Industries Inc., forcing it to shed all the illegal workers on its payrolls in the Twin Cities. Among them was the couple, undocumented immigrants who had worked at ABM for more than a decade.

What they should be doing is ramping this shit up. They simply do not do enough of it. This company should be forced to pay a heavy fine and instead of driving this couple “underground” they should be driven out of the country in a bus.

6

From CRD M in the Sidebar. Is there any ally that Obtrama will not shit on?

And that's it for the news this morning. Most of the stuff out there today is how Perry entered the race (which I expect to here more from ace on today)

and how both Perry and Bachmann suck.

7 But maybe the best news so far. We did not have a single day last week where the temp broke 100°F and we had the last 3 days where it only got into the upper 80s. Of course it has been raining for the last 3 days.

8 If they got rid of minimum wage laws, Non right to work laws, payroll taxes, employer withholding, english as second language bullshit, I'd be for amnesty 100%. that's all it takes. See I am open to compromise. All that cheap labor will make my yard look dynamite.

9

Well, about the demise of the Tea Party, Little Hairy Reed seems to agree. Hairy, you can click your high heels together all you want, but wishing won't make the TP go away.

I believe that the 2010 midterms were just the start.

10 Looks like everyone is still in bed, or taking their kids to school. Today is the first day of school here. I swear it comes earlier and earlier now. When I was a kid school didn't start until the first week in September. But we didn't get as many days off during the year.

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I miss the old school days, too. We started after Labor Day and were out by the end of May, with two weeks off for Christmas and New Years. It's almost like we had holidays for a reason.

Now, school administrators piss and moan about the kids not retaining anything they learned over the summer. Well, what kid needs to remember why Heather has Two Mommies? Maybe, just maybe, if they'd stop wasting time teaching that leftist socialist bullshit and teach something the young'uns actually needed to know, they'd remember some of it.

12 hey, i'm here.  just reading.

13

I went to the English version of Pravda to read the sidebar article.   I guess we're terrible people here in the U.S.A because every other article bashed us for something.  They found several American writers who agreed, natch. 

Monday, Aug 15th, 2011 and  Obama is still a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure. 

14 Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2011 06:58 AM (M9Ie6)
But at least the ChiComs got a good look at our helicopter technology thanks to an "ally" we should have shit on long and often, and they recently launched an aircraft carrier, so there's that to be optimistic about as Barky leads us from behind into disaster.

15 Anyone truly believe in their heart that these problems are going to be fixed by politics?

Hard lessons are coming, maybe then the people will understand.

16 It is a shame that the doomed TEA party can't field anyone better than Bachmann or Perry.  Let me be clear as I have often said, I welcome a shared sacrifice of TEA party patriots.  They will be the laughingstock of politics when I, King Barky, get my third term (by Executive Order).

17 so there's that to be optimistic about as Barky leads us from behind

No effort required to fart (etc.) in his general direction.

18 One of the reasons we didn't start school so early back then was that there was no A/C. It was bad enough in Sep to be sitting in a classroom sweltering at a desk but Aug would have been much worse.

19 They will be the laughingstock of politics when I, King Barky, get my second third term (by Executive Order).

...never waste an opportunity to cause a crisis.

20 One of the reasons we didn't start school so early back then was that there was no A/C. It was bad enough in Sep to be sitting in a classroom sweltering at a desk but Aug would have been much worse. That's from the teacher's perspective, right?

21 That's from the teacher's perspective, right?

The teachers would bring a fan and set it up to blow on themselves.

22 Via Drudge:
<Ministers are drawing up controversial plans to remove benefits from those convicted of taking part in the riots that engulfed England last week, in a move Liberal Democrats and independent experts have condemned as counter-productive and overly expensive.>

Where to begin?

23 One of the reasons we didn't start school so early back then was that there was no A/C.

In Gore's inconvenient truth dream world, there is no A/C for the public. No education, either. Only for the elitists.

Alles Oder Nichts Macht Frei

24 Of course all the schools have A/C now, which is one of the reasons that disease spreads so much at schools now.

25 The teachers would bring a fan and set it up to blow on themselves. Then what better time for the students to organize a hot August bean eating contest the night before?

26 One other thing we had then that I suspect they do not have now was October excuses. Farm children could be excused in Oct to go help get in crops.

27 I suffered through the Gregory interview and did not throw anything through the TV screen, so I am getting better.  I thought Michelle did an excellent job of negotiating her way through the minefield laid by Mr Impartial.  I expect we will never hear the end of questions about submit/submission for MB.  I think she gave a reasonable interpretation of how it applies to her family, but of course the MFM theme is that since the President can establish a national religion (as it clearly says in the First Amendment) and thus force all women in the US to become idiots incapable of having an independent thought without asking permission of their master/husband.
Pretty much the same goes for the inevitable (and probably perpetual) questions about gays.  Again, her answer was reasonable to me, but not for the MFM agenda driven news.
I hope she polishes answers to these two questions, puts them on her web site, and refuses to answer any Commie liberal interviewer on either of these matters.  I would love it if she would add that, under Sharia law (so beloved by the left), wives (and I do mean plural here) are basically property and darn well better NOT have an independent thought, and that gays are routinely stoned to death as approved by the infamous koran.  That might stop them in their tracks.

28 Farm children could be excused in Oct to go help get in crops.
You should make a Pigford claim then, Vic, seeing as you could have been one of the farm kids. Get yourself a little extra retirement money.
;^)

29 here in Virginia, the children were excused to save tobacco.  in fact, some children didn't even start school til mid-october

30 I expect we will never hear the end of questions about submit/submission for MB.

What it reminded me of was asking a Catholic if he would do what the Pope wanted.

31 Posted by: Hrothgar at August 15, 2011 07:49 AM (yrGif)
I wish there was a preview function--both my composition skills and spelling are continually challenged here.
What I was trying to say is that
'I hope she polishes and publishes answers to these two questions'

32 You should make a Pigford claim then, Vic, seeing as you could have been one of the farm kids. Get yourself a little extra retirement money.

Currently Pigford ONLY applies to blacks and indians.

33 Heard Ann Compton on ABC radio this morning talking about Obama's bus trip.  There will be 5 town halls (oh joy) but then she commented that the Secret Service had ordered NEW BUSES for this trip,  state of the art!

So, folks, we taxpayers are funding this expedition to the Heartland where he will endeavor to pretend he's doing anything but campaigning in states which should be solidly in his corner.

I assume these are bullet-proof, bomb-proof vehicles with communications wring and stuff.

And if Obama would just stay in DC we wouldn't have needed them.

Also,  why does he need this bus trip to listen to Americans?  He could turn on the damn radio and listen to callers, or he could read his mail, or he could make random phone calls and ask us what to do. 

I am again starting my week PO'd at Obama.

34

>>And speaking of the evil tea party

With the aid of a couple of bogus news polls and some of those ubiquitous “experts” we now know the tea party is coming to an end. Not only are these people more than biased, but they are really stupid as well. This kind of stupid shit gains them nothing.

Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2011 06:56 AM (M9Ie6)

Now that Odumdum may be encountering the long predicted Preference Cascade, if the MFM continues to filter out negative stories while pounding the amorphous Tea Party they may be signing their own death warrant.

This won't be a business as usual election cycle and the commie media may go down in the same cascade if they finally out themselves to the their uninformed (or disinformed) customers.

35 Currently Pigford ONLY applies to blacks and indians.

Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2011 07:53 AM (M9Ie6)

Au contraire, IIRC, Pigford claims have been extended to WOMEN farmers, because as usual 'women and minorities hardest hit'!  I don't know if anyone has had a successful gender based Pigford claim, but I view it as inescapable.

36 I am again starting my week PO'd at Obama.

Posted by: Miss Marple at August 15, 2011 07:53 AM (Fo83G)

And this week was supposed to be different?

37 Of course, Obama will have some Republicans riding in the back of the bus. For optics.

38 here in Virginia, the children were excused to save tobacco.  in fact, some children didn't even start school til mid-october

There wasn't a lot of tobac down in central GA where I grew up. It was mostly corn, cotton, and soybeans. What was funny about it is I went to a "city" school yet we still had a few students who were excused for farm work. (they paid a fee and came in from the county)

The county schools were not very good at the time and the city schools were preferred. Now it is the exact opposite.

39

I miss the old days, when reporters had to resign a media position to work for a Democrat campaign, or vice-versa. Kept the revolving door in shape.

Now the WaPo's reporters just moonlight Obama's oppo research from the comfort of their news office.

BTW, what is Jake Tapper tweeting about over in the margin?

40 Of course all the schools have A/C now, which is one of the reasons that disease spreads so much at schools now. One of the minor reasons. If kids started fucking the A/C system instead of each other, there'd be a lot less disease.

41 I would love it if she would add that, under Sharia law (so beloved by the left), wives (and I do mean plural here) are basically property and darn well better NOT have an independent thought, and that gays are routinely stoned to death as approved by the infamous koran.

Oh they'll grill Cain on that relentlessly, but they never mention Sharia law which is what he was talking about.

42 #36  Hrothgar,  a friend of mine in Florida, a woman,  and I (also a woman) in Indiana,  both requested information about this when the announcement was made that it applied to women as well.

Amazingly,  I received NO information packet.   Neither did she.  We think it is because we are both registered Republicans.

It wasn't that I wanted to apply for the money,  but that I wanted to see what the requirements were.  We got NO information. I find this highly suspicious.

43 Alright, I'll join the Get Off My Lawn! school discussion. Mine had very big windows that actually opened from the top and bottom so we got breezes most of the time. Of course the sounds floating in with the breeze were enough to distract every kid that wanted to be 'out there' instead of 'in here'. The clever teachers saved the interesting work for the sleepy afternoons so as to hold the kids' attention. Sometimes it even worked.

Do kids still have summer reading? We had to turn in book reports on our summer books when school started in September.

44 #40  If someone finds out what Tapper is tweeting,  let me know.  I can't follow him because he blocked me.  Even Rick Klein hasn't blocked me!

45 my kids started last week and my nieces who go to a year round school started 2 wks before that.

46 ugh!  That first day of the school year, right outside of Dallas, TX.  No A/C.  And wearing those brand new, stiff as cardboard, deep indigo blue denim pants.  Talk about torture.

47 So, folks, we taxpayers are funding this expedition to the Heartland where he will endeavor to pretend he's doing anything but campaigning in states which should be solidly in his corner.

The "word" this morning on F&F is that internal polls are showing that he is losing Iowa. If that is true that is a major setback for the commies. Iowa has been blue for a long time.

What I would like to see is some Republican group file a complaint with the election commission. It will not do any good but maybe it will make the news.

48 Au contraire, IIRC, Pigford claims have been extended to WOMEN farmers, because as usual 'women and minorities hardest hit'!

I haven't seen anything on that opening it up to women.

49 Do kids still have summer reading? We had to turn in book reports on our summer books when school started in September.

Posted by: Retread at August 15, 2011 07:58 AM (BO5ap)

Oh yeah.  A co-worker's daughter was recently lamenting her assignment to read Tess of the d'Urbervilles.  I can't blame her, it is one of the most awful, dry, overrated pieces of crap ever written.

They make kids read that shit and then they wonder why nobody was looting bookstores in London.

50 counter-productive and overly expensive

Western Civilization's implosion isn't limited to Eurotrash. That abdication of duty in office reflects the rationale of the entire US Government, regardless of Branch, but most explicitly seen through our lack of border security and immigration law enforcement. We stay stuck on stupid 'debt is wealth' SPENDING, whether it's on overpopulated prisons granting early release to hard criminals while detaining the easy pickings of petty thieves/peddlers, or starting newly improved never-ending-wars joining the list with the War on Crime, War on Drugs, War on Terror tactic, War on Taxpayers, War on Logic, War on Sovereignty and the US Constitution, etc.

51 Is it the contacts or the eye lift that give Bachmann that perpetual crazy? Her face makes her look like she has a cranial short circuit sparking

52 Those little stinkbombs that were sold in the back of comic nooks + school AC = a 3 day mini-vacation.

53 Returned on Saturday from one week at a Boy Scout camp with our Troop. A week without living in A/C nearly 24/7 and it was great, all things considered. I am convinced that cases of "homesickness" in the yoots are mostly due to this lack of A/C, as is our Scoutmaster. His standing advice? "If you are feeling homesick, then drink more water."

54 I find this highly suspicious.

Posted by: Miss Marple at August 15, 2011 07:58 AM (Fo83G)

Well. it is the Obama/Holder/Clyburn administration.  Have you tried accessing the DoAg web site?  I think that there has been such a stink about Pigford in spite of the media, they have gone underground with this, so if you are not a Dem crony, it doesn't exist. 

We can't redistribute your wealth without having standards you know!

55 Miss Marple, clrarly a basis for Pigford III

56 Isn't Tess the murderous unwed milkmaid? I love Thomas Hardy. But then, I'm an Ivy-educated elite.
QED
Try the Teenage Turtles.

57 http://biggovernment.com/tag/pigford-settlement/

58 #56  That's it!!  I need to file a class-action lawsuit charging discrimination and get myself on TV.

And probably arrested,  as well.  LOL!

Seriously,  I wonder why they think they can get away with this.

59 BTW, what is Jake Tapper tweeting about over in the margin?
He's complaining about the WH press corps having to use butter as lube at the press conferences instead of K-Y.

60 Posted by: Pooter Hound I'm getting a whiff of bowel

61 #57  Isn't Tess the one which has her wandering in her nightgown around Stonehenge or something?

And her madness precipitated by her husband ditching her when he says he has a secret to tell her on their wedding night (which was some minor thing) and she says, "I have a secret, too."   But HER secret is about being raped, so he dumps her.

I may be mis-remembering this as I had to read the dang book 45 years ago,   but I am pretty sure I am close,  and even at age 17 I thought "Tess,  you are STUPID.  KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT."

62 Posted by: Vic at August 15, 2011 07:53 AM (M9Ie6)

I thought you were the chief of the Vic tribe?

63 60 He's complaining about the WH press corps having to use butter as lube at the press conferences instead of K-Y. Posted by: andycanuck at August 15, 2011 08:08 AM (oUG6f) Just another instance of Barky, the stuttering clusterfark of a miserable failure, sucking up to the Farm Lobby! ; )

64 50 Do kids still have summer reading? We had to turn in book reports on our summer books when school started in September.

Posted by: Retread at August 15, 2011 07:58 AM (BO5ap)

Oh yeah.  A co-worker's daughter was recently lamenting her assignment to read Tess of the d'Urbervilles.  I can't blame her, it is one of the most awful, dry, overrated pieces of crap ever written.

They make kids read that shit and then they wonder why nobody was looting bookstores in London.

I love Tess! Hardy was a genius. How can you not like Hardy? Anyway, my son has The Scarlett Letter, Tuesdays with Morrie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Great Gatsby. I hate the fact that I remember when Cuckoo was in the grocery store....because the movie was in the theater. I rmember having to read Anna Karinina in the summer...that was long.

65 "...stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure..."

Posted by: No Whining at August 15, 2011 08:13 AM (RiqM9)

Do you mind if I quote you?

66 ah summer reading! my daughter, a sophomore, is in honors english this year.....was not in it as a freshman.....schedules are not given to the kids until the week before school starts...the kids in honors as freshman were given the reading list the last week of school....last sunday she's texting friends about what their schedules are and it turns out one of her friends in is the same class as she is and she jokingly asks....uh, did we have summer reading....and the dreaded text comes back....yes! les miserables....and there's a test tomorrow! we didn't have the book.....we were able to download a study guide... run to barnes and noble buy a copy...between spark notes and speed reading/skimming....the kid was able to complete the study guide and pass the test......

67 Isn't Tess the murderous unwed milkmaid? I love Thomas Hardy. But then, I'm an Ivy-educated elite.
QED
Try the Teenage Turtles.

Posted by: Pooter Hound at August 15, 2011 08:07 AM (le5qc)

Book snobs:  wining friends, influencing people.  You know the problem isn't that shitty books like Tess of the d'Urbervilles exist, it's that over-educated snobs cram it down the throats of kids to whom it has no relevance or meaning.

68

 Of course all schools have A/C now..........

Yeah, and they can wear shorts now.  Back in the day we had a dress-code that was etched in steel.  Guys had to wear long pants, girls had to wear a dress with the length down at least to their knees.

69 Tess was okay. Jude the Obscure much better.

70 I'm with dagny re:  Hardy and Tess.  The problem is assigning classics like that for kids who could give a rat's ass about them.  I read it about 10 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it; but if I had to ram it down in a short period of time for a class, I can't imagine getting any amount of aesthetic pleasure from it.  They should assign books that are more appropriate to grasp the attention of children.  Dracula for example.  You'd think with sooper intelligent guys like Bill Ayers that the schools could figure out how not to fuck things up.

71 Posted by: Case at August 15, 2011 08:18 AM (DYR2Q)

And that was a better time!

It was a challenge to look up the girls' skirts. Now? Just ask.

72 This is what the Dept of Ag says about Pigford II.

To be eligible for this relief, an individual must have previously submitted a late-filing request under section 5(g) of the consent decree.

This is the actual consent decree

A lot of crap in this but in order to get your $50K social justice payment under Pigford II you must have filed under Pigford I but not got any money because they ran out.

To qualify for Pigford I you had to be a member of the "class". The class was defined as:

All African American farmers who (1) farmed, or attempted to farm, between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 1996; (2) applied to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) during that time period for participation in a federal farm credit or benefit program and who believed that they were discriminated against on the basis of race in USDA's response to that application; and (3) filed a discrimination complaint on 6 or before July 1, 1997, regarding USDA's treatment of such farm credit or benefit application.

They also have an interesting mention on who counsel was for the class. Remember that scrunt who got all the money out of this.

Remember also that this was settled OUT OF COURT by the DOJ with no trial at all. It is a pure payoff to the CBC and their cronies.

73 The TEA Party is responsible for the Downgrade.

You know how you know?

Simple.

Cartoonists tell you so.

See?

The TEA Party is responsible for running up a $14 Trillion Debt, and $211 Trillion in unfunded liabilities.

74 I love Tess! Hardy was a genius. How can you not like Hardy?

Hardy's philosophy on life was miserable and contradictory.  He believed both in a malevolent fate, but also that life was totally random.  Ultimately, what is the point of Tess of the d'Urbervilles except that life sucks?

75 You'd think with sooper intelligent guys like Bill Ayers that the schools could figure out how not to fuck things up.

Ha! Yeah, just like they're doing to the economy.

76 Posted by: franksalterego at August 15, 2011 08:23 AM (7/sDI)

And don't forget how violent they are! If it weren't for the Tea Party there wouldn't have been any violence perpetrated by left wing thugs.

Or something like that. I don't really understand the logic.

77 http://pointsandfigures.com/2011/08/15/the-oracle-of-omaha-is-wrong/ A response to the much publicized editorial by Warren Buffett.

78

 @72.  And that was a better time!

In a lot of ways it was.  In a lot of ways it was a better world.

79

School starts next Monday for most of Houston area schools.  Luckily, we have had 100+ degree weather every day so far this month (true fact) and the same is forcasted for 7 out of the next 10 days.

Water temp at Galveston is 90 degrees.  Let that sink in a minute.  Youngest daughter insists I take her + friend to the beach tomorrow to frolic one  more time before school starts.  With 70% humidity at noon and ambient temps of low 90's, the heat index will be north of 103.  At the beach.  I predict an abbreviated outing before we retire to anyplace with slushies and A/C.

80 Ultimately, what is the point of Tess of the d'Urbervilles except that life sucks?

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 15, 2011 08:23 AM (FkKjr)

I think that was the point; that you can do all the right things and still have life come crashing down on you continually.  I think the most positive take-away from the book is to urge the readers not to be overly judgemental of people that are in dire straights.

81

75 It was a reaction to and commentary on the Industrial Age. Mayor of Casterbridge is my favorite.

Look, the "educators" now have no f-ing clue what they're doing. For example, my son had to read the Odyessy for summer reading before 9th grade. I think that he should have to read it as well as the Iliad. HOWEVER, he should have had it assigned AFTER a unit of Greek history, myths, etc. He's having to read The Scarlett Letter now. He should have that assigned AFTER a unit on the Puritans, Mass Bay Colony, etc.

Hardy should be read AFTER a unit on industrialization, growth of the city, calvinism, et al. The schools try to give them history and literature that sorta matches up. Freshman and Sophomore years are European/World history/lit, Junior year is American and Senior year is Brit (lit) and American civics. I think they do a piss poor job giving them any background before they give them the lit which makes it boring as hell.

How are you supposed to get anything out of Gatsby if you don't know about the post WWI american economy?

The worst was having to read "In search of Fatima" without any background on the Arab Israeli wars.

82 I think the most positive take-away from the book is to urge the readers not to be overly judgemental of people that are in dire straights. Fuck that. Obama's in that category. BTW, your hash is the name of my hometown.

83

Morning, morons.

Good think piece today by Robert Samuelson on how to get serious about the budget.  Some good stuff - tax reform, eliminating stupid programs, raise the retirement age, pay for defense first (!) and one I really liked was to do a report on controlling health care costs by comparing a government-price-control-rationing approach (i.e. the Democrat solution) with a free-market approach and have the 2012 election decide which one the public wants.  That may be a little pie-in-the sky, but since we already have the Paul Ryan plan  out there, it would be nice to force Democrats to put their approach on paper and show the voters what it will truly mean for their parents and grandparents, and eventually for them if we don't do something about the massive overuse and overpricing of health care.

84 It was a reaction to and commentary on the Industrial Age.

The part where Tess comes across the humongous steam powered machine in the field was incredibly vividly described; producing a mental image that any cinema guru would be hard-pressed to equal.

85

DC area flash mob rob 7-11. They're learning from england. Nice.

http://tinyurl.com/3mcydrv

86 Fuck that. Obama's in that category.

BTW, your hash is the name of my hometown.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2011 08:34 AM (lbo6/)

Hardy would give El JEFe the verbal thrashing he's avoided but deserved all of his candy-assed life.  Btw, will your hometown be the base of operations for the EOJ army after the unpleasantries have begun?

87 One of the minor reasons. If kids started fucking the A/C system instead of each other, there'd be a lot less disease.

I wouldn't do that, it might be a Carrier.


ba-dum-bum

88

I wouldn't do that, it might be a Carrier

Or worse, a Trane.

Ba-dum

89

DC area flash mob rob 7-11. They're learning from england. Nice.

http://tinyurl.com/3mcydrv

Posted by: dagny at August 15, 2011 08:41 AM (g21Wl)

Ah, the local regiment of the Free Stuff Army begins operations.

90

I think that was the point; that you can do all the right things and still have life come crashing down on you continually.  I think the most positive take-away from the book is to urge the readers not to be overly judgemental of people that are in dire straights.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 15, 2011 08:30 AM (houma)

The book's point is that it doesn't matter if you are judgmental or not - fate is cruel and life is random, your fate is allotted randomly.  At one point (if I recall correctly), Tess impulsively decides not to see Angel's parents after going to see them, even though Hardy states that they would have taken her in and helped her.  Hardy did nothing more than craft a universe in which he made everything go wrong for the title character.

I'm also not a fan of the book's writing style, or reading books to be wowed by a writer's style.  I think it's missing the point of what a book is supposed to be - a story which is supposed to captivate you.  When the focus is on the style, that never happens.

91 Oh yeah.  A co-worker's daughter was recently lamenting her assignment to read Tess of the d'Urbervilles.  I can't blame her, it is one of the most awful, dry, overrated pieces of crap ever written.

Heathen. Sex and misery and murder and Stonehenge is "crap?" Pistols at dawn, sir.

92 I fight myself trying to be optimistic about this country's future.  Hell, I saw were even Canada came back from the debt chasm years ago.  And they did it by cutting spending, if you can imagine that.  But the left in this country?  Fuck no!  For them we aren't spending enough!  Cutting spending, or cutting government programs is anathema to them.  Tax the fucking rich is their answer to every fucking thing.  If we would all start a drinking game called the Top Two Percent, we'd be dead in an hour from alcohol poisoning. 

No.  This country is over.  The only up side is that we will be first hand witnesses to history as a once great country collapses.  How many through history have been able to say that!

93 rrreeeeleassse meeeee

94 Michael Crowley's a snot!

No?

95 Heathen. Sex and misery and murder and Stonehenge is "crap?" Pistols at dawn, sir.

Posted by: Hey.Wheres.Barry at August 15, 2011 08:49 AM (hyP1j)

Ten thousand words to describe a goddamn dairy.  I choose rapier and main gauche, sir!

96 rrreeeeleassse meeeee

Posted by: GGE Of The Banned at August 15, 2011 08:50 AM (81NII)

 

First, write a 3-page book report on Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

97 @88 There is no conceivable circumstance that could get me to move back to Satan's hot, musky ballsack. My Death's Head Terror Legions will descend out of the frozen wastes of Ontario. We're meeting at Tim Horton's before we launch the offensive.

98 Screw this noise. I'm gonna go pick some worms and go fishing.

Later.

99

First, write a 3-page book report on Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2011 08:52 AM (4q5tP)

How about a 3 word report on The Hounds of the Baskervilles. It Fuckin' Rocked.

No? geez, maybe I'd rather stay banned.

100 rrreeeeleassse meeeee

Posted by: GGE Of The Banned at August 15, 2011 08:50 AM (81NII)

That happened to me twice recently.  Once the day after the famous moving/flashing moniker ONT and then, for some unknown reason, about 18 hours later.

Write to ace....and you have to keep reminding him.

101

This is from the Financial Times which is just to the left of the Daily Worker.

Ministers are drawing up controversial plans to remove benefits from those convicted of taking part in the riots that engulfed England last week, in a move Liberal Democrats and independent experts have condemned as counter-productive and overly expensive.

 

How is cutting government benefits to wastes of air overly expensive or controversial? I'm guessing that independent experts are just a bunch of lefties. 

The aide said: “It depends on how you see benefits: are they a right or a privilege? Sanctions like this do send a strong message.”

 

If there's actually a question about government handouts being a right or privilege then the Limeys are really in a mess. Rue Britannia!

102 Huge props to nickless for the Carrier pun. I used to install those when I was 19. Got a guffaw-snort for your effort.

103 Sickinmass, is she pregnant again?

104

Write to ace....and you have to keep reminding him.

Posted by: Tami at August 15, 2011 08:55 AM (X6akg)

Great. So I have to start a letter writing campaign. Maybe I'll set it up as an automatic thing and spam his inbox on second thought, it might just get me on the permanent banhammer list like a certain commenter named after a general motors truck.

105 My Death's Head Terror Legions will descend out of the frozen wastes of Ontario. We're meeting at Tim Horton's before we launch the offensive.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2011 08:53 AM (lbo6/)

 

If you don't mind, please route your march into the US through Detroit, so that your men's early enthusiasm for burning/killing everything/everyone will be put to good use.  I suspect our Republican governor could see to it that the Michigan Nat. Gaurd would pull back and allow your forces to proceed unmolested into Ohio.

106 105 How old is she now? I wonder if she would chance it after having a downs baby?

107 Write to ace....and you have to keep reminding him.

It helps to put your IP in the ref: line, or it did when it happened to me. I think he just forwards the email to Pixy so there is a delay while it gets to the bottom of the world.

108 Why can't curious get banned, even "accidentally?"

109 Try resetting your router/modem to reset your ip address.

110 There is some guy slashing women across their butts in shopping malls around here. Dozens of butts have been slashed. How weird is that?

111

Great. So I have to start a letter writing campaign. Maybe I'll set it up as an automatic thing and spam his inbox on second thought, it might just get me on the permanent banhammer list like a certain commenter named after a general motors truck.

Posted by: GGE Of The Banned at August 15, 2011 09:00 AM (81NII)

Copy the error message you get when you try to post and put it in the e-mail.  It contains your IP address.  He needs that to send to Pixy to unban you.

Or you could just keep sending him email on how to lose belly fat.

Your choice.

112 Since Pakistan let China see our stealth helicopter any aid and I mean ANY has to stop.

113 @ Reactionary, No prob. Want me to pick up some Timbits for ya?

114 Dagny, I only say that to mock the liberal press and an observation that the only time my wife would touch one of those is when pregnant.

115 Why do that to Ohio, when Minnesota's ripe for the plucking, thanks to Governor
Target',

116 Thanks for all the advice folks. At least I have the cell phone card in the laptop. Too bad it's so damn slow to reload, but I guess you can't have everything.
Well, time for me to hit the hay, busy night last night and I get to do it all over again tonight. Later!

117 116 Dagny, I only say that to mock the liberal press and an observation that the only time my wife would touch one of those is when pregnant.

Posted by: Jean at August 15, 2011 09:06 AM (UIE9v)

It just struck me as a possibility since she looked a little tired or something. Maybe the white t-shirt washed her out or she wasn't as made up as she usually is. She just struck me as a little "wan".

118

Now, on to getting the required shots my 7th grade daughter didn't get, only since last April when the notices were sent home, courtesy of a moonbat ex-wife.  "I'll take care of it," it said last April.

Saturday was the day to pick up class schedules and locker assignments/combinations, all except for my daughter who had a hold placed on such coveted items by the school nurse.  No shot records means no class schedule and no admittance to school, gravely intoned the nurse. 

A middle school girl's capacity for a tearful meltdown is breathtaking, if you've ever been fortunate enough to not witness one.

119 Oh noes! Rick Perry wants to win. Thank God He's Not John McCain, A Candidate Who Wouldn't Do A Thing To Beat Obama

120 Made up smear by the make believe media at Tina Brown's Daily Beast accusing Perry and Bachmann as being proponents of  "political Islamism". This new doctrine, attributed to some flake from the 1960s is called "Dominionism". I think Bachmann was added in there to disguise the fact that the Progs are terrified by Perry, and to smear him with all of her negatives.

121 @ Reactionary,

No prob.

Want me to pick up some Timbits for ya?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 15, 2011 09:05 AM (lbo6/)

To ask for Timbits would be too great an additional imposition. Cleansing Detroit will be a greater gift to my poor state than any of us can rightly claim to deserve. No doubt a mighty statue of your likeness would be erected mark the advent of that most glorious devestation, and whatever resettlements came to be in that place in latter days would surely be named after your multitudious progeny.

122 You'd think with sooper intelligent guys like Bill Ayers that the schools could figure out how not to fuck things up

Bill Ayers isn't interested in educating children.  Bill Ayers is all about indoctrinating  the teachers who will teach generations of  children.

As for  English classics, I think Henry Fielding's Tom Jones would be a great assignment for a high-school level course.

123 and they recently launched an aircraft carrier,

All they did was finish some Russian piece of shit. And it took them 13 years to do that. Their carrier program is proceeding about as fast as their space program.

124

As for  English classics, I think Henry Fielding's Tom Jones would be a great assignment for a high-school level course.

At least it would keep their attention.

125

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Thanks, sickinmass.

126 Are our weeping cluster fucks of miserable RINO congressman still on vacation?

127 Clyburn thinks the job on the committee is to be Robin Hood?

Does anyone have a picture of the Andy Cuomo giving the check back to the state for the helicopter rides.  I want it for my collection, I'm going to put it up right next to the Chris Christie check.

128 14 Reasons Rick Perry Would Be a Bad President
http://tinyurl.com/3wwy75t

129 Feeling Lucky?
46°22'22.45"N 121°35'32.17"W

130 Bill Ayers isn't interested in educating children.  Bill Ayers is all about indoctrinating  the teachers who will teach generations of  children.

I'd say he's already accomplished that, with ed schools cranking out the most useless fucks in the history of mankind.  He's always attracted the deadenders like the dumbass cocksuckers that blew themselves up.  Just fucking brilliant.

131 Ever read Dracula? The epistolary narrative technique was sparkling-fresh and sort of  stream-of-consciousness in the mid-19th century. It defines "dry as dust" now. Hard to get a video gamester to engage, even with "Pose-Tit" notes on the hot parts. Sorry.

In the age of books, readers wanted a lot of words for their money. It's taken over 60 years, but we are, finally, a changed people, apprehending reality through fast-moving images, not long descriptions. The heavy verbiage now goes into the scene details given to the set designers. We use "filmic" because "cinematographical" is TLDR. You're lucky to get current students to sit through the movie of a famous classic. Even the Spark Notes are too daunting. I'm not blaming the students for this.

  

132 Good news! Obama's bringing his <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14536517">jobs hearse</a> to a town near you!

133 I have been quite impressive with your posts, keep up the great work.

134 Daily Caller Reporter is a female. (sloppy)