August 23, 2011

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— Gabriel Malor

There's no such thing as the supernatural. Everything, by definition, is natural. But you have to find out what the rules are...

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:50 AM | Comments (159)
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1 hmmmmm

Posted by: elspeth at August 23, 2011 02:51 AM (0h5/+)

2 rules?

we don't need no stinking rules

Posted by: elspeth at August 23, 2011 02:52 AM (0h5/+)

3

So Huntsman thinks he wants to be Bachmann's VP eh?

 

He sure has a funny way of advancing that position trash talking all the other candidates. Basically what he needs to do is STFU, quit wasting his fatherÂ’s money, and go home.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:54 AM (M9Ie6)

4

The war on S&P continues

 

Not only does this admin have an enemies list, they act on it vehemently. ItÂ’s the Chicago way. They wanted to impeach Nixon for this shit and he never acted on any of it.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:54 AM (M9Ie6)

5

Master criminal sailor brings an "ugly weapon" into Connecticut.

 

It is against the law there to have an ugly weapon. The Navy help raid his home and investigate him too. Fuck Connecticut, home of Piss Dodd, and fuck the Navy too. I am glad I am no longer in that worthless POS outfit that has become so PC.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:54 AM (M9Ie6)

6

Latest update on Irene.

 

It has shifted from Charleston to that great hurricane magnet in NC, Wilmington.  It is now headed straight for Old SailorÂ’s Poet. Have no fear, the way it is shifting it will miss NC altogether.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:55 AM (M9Ie6)

8

Miss Lindsay really does want to find a new job. He is telling the people of SC that the U.S. should spend more money (that it doesn't have) on foreign aid.

 

This man has been in Washington too long. He is officially brain-dead. Not only n foreign aid, but to the terrorists in the ME.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:55 AM (M9Ie6)

Posted by: Jimmy Carter, Special Correspondent Coast to Coast Radio at August 23, 2011 02:56 AM (lHdBc)

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:56 AM (M9Ie6)

12

Byron York saying something I have been saying all along.

And a lot of Morons have given me grief about it. SS, Medicare, and other “entitlements” are not what got us where we are at now. They may be a problem a few years down the road, but we got hear when the Dems and Obama raised discretionary spending through the roof and then moved it into “mandatory” spending. 

And that's it for the morning

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:56 AM (M9Ie6)

13 Huntsman:  I would be open to be Bachmann's VP.

Some things are just so hilarious commentary is unnecessary.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 23, 2011 02:57 AM (FkKjr)

14 Ah, Vic beat me to it.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 23, 2011 02:58 AM (FkKjr)

15 Yeah, that was kinda funny in an "ironic" sort of way.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 02:59 AM (M9Ie6)

16

Focused!  Like a laser!  On JOBS! 

Wow!  I bet this Christmas will be the best one ever!

 

Posted by: Case at August 23, 2011 03:04 AM (FD6YW)

17 networkedblogs.com/m0SYY

Legal Insurection is betting that Obama is going to list wind mills as his job plan outline hand-written note..

Posted by: Dave C at August 23, 2011 03:10 AM (vYdFh)

18 Vic, if you read the comments on that State article, you can see you'll have a small infestation of liberals down their - you should do something about that.

Posted by: Jean at August 23, 2011 03:10 AM (t5Klv)

19 We need a new drinking game.  Every time you read a positive article about Rick Perry you have to drink.  Unfortunately, we would all be stone cold sober.  I would do it the other way around but then I might be brought up on manslaughter charges for alcohol poisoning.

What I am curious about is when Rick will start doing more in person TV interviews.  You know the Networks are just drooling at the prospect of ambushing him.  In a way that is a good thing because Perry seems quite adroit at turning people's attacks back against them.  Would like to see how he does when he is thrown naked and covered in seal blood into the MSM shark tank.

The MSM may learn then that they have only helped him as America watches him kick their asses.

Posted by: Bill Mitchell at August 23, 2011 03:12 AM (uVlA4)

20 Vic, if you read the comments on that State article, you can see you'll have a small infestation of liberals down their - you should do something about that.

The State is the NYT of SC.  Also keep in mind that that group that gives Obama 95% support makes up 30% of the State population.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:20 AM (M9Ie6)

21 Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 06:54 AM (M9Ie6)

It's the bayonet lug. We have had far too many murders in which the cause was a bayonet charge.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 23, 2011 03:27 AM (LH6ir)

22 Basically what he needs to do is STFU, quit wasting his fatherÂ’s money, and go home.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 06:54 AM (M9Ie6)

I personally kinda like the wasting his father's money part!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 23, 2011 03:28 AM (yrGif)

23 Well Byron York is wrong. When you can cut every dollar of discretionary spending and still run a deficit you got a problem with entitlements. How can anybody claim it isn't the problem?

Posted by: lowandslow at August 23, 2011 03:28 AM (GZitp)

24 There not their, more coffee needed. Do people actually subscribe to The State or the Post and Courier anymore?

Posted by: Jean at August 23, 2011 03:31 AM (eLCau)

25 I'll give you a sneak peek at my jobs plan..

I'm going to have the Secret Service plant another woman's panties in Chris Humphrey's underwear drawer..

Then Kim Kardashian would find those panties and leave his ass..   Thereby making her able to find another guy to get married

Look at that.. More jobs..

This is where you thank me. 

Posted by: Barry O at August 23, 2011 03:32 AM (vYdFh)

26 How can anybody claim it isn't the problem?

Read it and find out. What he is saying is the current deficit problems were not caused by entitlements. Obama tripled spending.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:32 AM (M9Ie6)

27 McLame was on Faux spouting about how we need to do more in Libya.  WTF ?
I now realize that we had two candidates last time both of which were SCFOAMFs!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 23, 2011 03:33 AM (yrGif)

28

L&S, that would've been a long-term problem to be sure, but York is saying it's the skyrocketing spending of the 111th Pelosi- and Reid-led Congress that got us downgraded, not entitlement spending.

It's like the stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure looked at the Cloward-Piven Strategy and decided it took way too long...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 23, 2011 03:33 AM (d0Tfm)

29 Good news if you can believe it, FCC "killing" fairness doctrine. Laying something to rest isn't the same as forbidding its return. Proper pruning of a tree doesn't kill the tree or prevent branches from returning.

"While the commission voted in 1987 to do away with the rule — a legacy to a time when broadcasting was a much more dominant voice than it is today — the language implementing it was never removed." --Boliek/Politico 
a legacy to a time when broadcasting was a much more dominant voice than it is today?!

That hasn't stopped Obama from attempting to "be" FDR (what "is" is) with regular media broadcast appearances speeches. People might not be gathering around the family's radio to hear the Lone Ranger after dinner. But don't tell us that today's talk radio shows doesn't match or even blow away the old time radio stations' broadcast dominance in audience and commercial sponsorship, from soap to gold for instance.

Sour grapes Politico doesn't have its own EBI Rush styled radio program or internet television like PJ has already organized, right? With denial head in sand, no one else does, either.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 03:34 AM (lpWVn)

30 Do people actually subscribe to The State or the Post and Courier anymore?

I used to subscribe to The State but dropped it long ago. Told them if I wanted a Dem PR rag I would contribute to the Party and let them send me stuff.

The problem is ALL the papers in the state have been bought up by the conglomerates and there are none left that are not in the back pocket of the Dems.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:35 AM (M9Ie6)

31 Good news if you can believe it, FCC "killing" fairness doctrine.

I saw that article and laughed because actually RR did away with it. The Dems tried to bring it back once before and the courts shot it down. The PR rags are trying to give the adm credit when there is no credit due.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:37 AM (M9Ie6)

32 This is a rather fun op-ed from Michael S. Malone.

Mr. President, Don't Get Well Soon


Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2011 03:38 AM (4ixH5)

33 Does The Examiner distribute down there yet?

Posted by: Jean at August 23, 2011 03:38 AM (eLCau)

34 Skoal SCOAMF, brutha.

Posted by: Earl Campbell at August 23, 2011 03:39 AM (DMcRq)

35 #9  Palin already has accepted the speaking engagement in Iowa.  That has been on her schedule for well over a month.

A good question would be when did DeMint organize this debate and why?

Posted by: Miss Marple at August 23, 2011 03:44 AM (Fo83G)

36 Does The Examiner distribute down there yet?

Washington Examiner?

If so no, I have never seen it. Even the small town local paper here was bought up by Knight-Ridder

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:47 AM (M9Ie6)

37 23 Well Byron York is wrong. When you can cut every dollar of discretionary spending and still run a deficit you got a problem with entitlements. How can anybody claim it isn't the problem? All spending is discretionary. Some discretionary spending is more discretionary than others though.

Posted by: Tom In Korea at August 23, 2011 03:48 AM (7md2G)

38 The PR rags are trying to give the adm credit when there is no credit due.

Meaningless credit, given that Obama has done everything possible to enforce his official "One Voice" since taking office.

MFM/audience utilize no memory recall, the effect of embracing constant revisionism.

A person might assume that since the MFM made the whole cloth themselves then there might remain within the producers a shred of comparative sensibility. But they've sold their souls hook, line and sinker. Ironically, given Obama's statement, their reptilian brain has consumed whatever higher intellect would have been able to function.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 03:48 AM (lpWVn)

39 BTW, The State is McClatchy who owns all the rest of the papers.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:49 AM (M9Ie6)

40 A good question would be when did DeMint organize this debate and why?

Posted by: Miss Marple at August 23, 2011 07:44 AM (Fo83G)

I would suspect that it has been in the planning for a long time. You can't organize something like this overnight.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:50 AM (M9Ie6)

41 Good Morning Rons, Stage 1 of the 4 stage Hurricane evac plan commences today. I hope that Bitch Irene turns north.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 03:51 AM (ZDUD4)

42 BTW, I was referencing Palin being absent, although she is. I didn't expect her because I still do NOT think she is running.

My main point is Romney will not be there. It looks like he is still skipping SC.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:52 AM (M9Ie6)

43 For those of you who signed up at RickPerry.org: you should be finally getting an email from "Ron Johnson". I almost sent it to the spam pile.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 03:53 AM (YFYRZ)

44 13 Huntsman:  I would be open to be Bachmann's VP.

Some things are just so hilarious commentary is unnecessary.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 23, 2011 06:57 AM (FkKjr)

Is there anybody that doesn't want to throw Cuntsman face first into a fucking wood chipper?

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 03:56 AM (yKL37)

45 All spending is discretionary. Some discretionary spending is more discretionary than others though.

Spending is currently divided up between "discretionary" and "mandatory". A lot of people confuse "mandatory" with "entitlements". They are not the same thing.

Obama pushed all of the "stimulus" spending into the "mandatory" column last year. It is not an entitlement, it is mostly welfare of one kind or another and can easily be killed by the appropriations process.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 03:56 AM (M9Ie6)

46 Is there anybody that doesn't want to throw Cuntsman face first into a fucking wood chipper? UMMM, nope, nope I don't think there is.. I think she who cannot be named is getting in. It's going to be a wild ride.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 03:58 AM (ZDUD4)

47

Rules?

Landlubbers need rules. Pirates do not need rules. Pirates Rule!

Posted by: Pirate Pelf Lucre at August 23, 2011 04:00 AM (wN82N)

48 Is there some kind of law in conneticut against AK's? I don't recall my 2cnd amendment rights going out the window (except on base) when I was in the navy.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 04:01 AM (ZDUD4)

49

"There's no such thing as the supernatural. Everything, by definition, is natural."

 

Ah, but some naturals are more super than others.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 23, 2011 04:02 AM (4q5tP)

50 I think she who cannot be named is getting in. It's going to be a wild ride.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 07:58 AM (ZDUD4)

I look forward to ace and his catamites getting sand in their vags over that.  Maybe they can all have a big cuddle party with Rove and the rest of the TOP MEN as all the country-clubbers get the vapors.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 04:02 AM (yKL37)

51 I think she who cannot be named is getting in. It's going to be a wild ride.

I don't think she is, and if she does, it is too late. I have dropped her off of my short list. The only thing she can do now is screw up the process.

As I said yesterday we don't need any more candidates, we need to get rid of some of the lower tier ones that are already in.

This is one of the things that helped up get that asshole McCain in 2008.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 04:03 AM (M9Ie6)

52 All Mississippi morons, there is a statewide primary runoff election today for State Treasurer. I'm going with Lee Yancey, mainly because he has our local Tea Party support.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 23, 2011 04:04 AM (ENKCw)

53 Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at August 23, 2011 04:04 AM (pV6cO)

54 This is one of the things that helped up get that asshole McCain in 2008. Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 08:03 AM (M9Ie6) I don't think she will get in either, but then I never thought a no talent, no experience, no good commie bastard from Chicago could end up in the White House?

Posted by: nevergiveup at August 23, 2011 04:05 AM (i6RpT)

55 Is there some kind of law in conneticut against AK's? I don't recall my 2cnd amendment rights going out the window (except on base) when I was in the navy.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 08:01 AM (ZDUD4)

The Navy has always told everyone they have to conform to local laws for those kinds of things. When I went to NY they told us NOT to take any handguns with us and further said we would be better off not taking any guns at all.

Obviously CT has a law against "ugly rifles" which is all an assault weapon is. Basically they would outlaw them all if they though they could get away with it, so they whittle them down one at a time.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 04:06 AM (M9Ie6)

56 McLame was on Faux spouting about how we need to do more in Libya.  WTF ?
I now realize that we had two candidates last time both of which were SCFOAMFs!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 23, 2011 07:33 AM (yrGif)

Although we'd be slightly less fucked as a country with Juan McAmnesty in charge, conservatism would be in horrible shape in that there might not be any Tea Party (although I can't say that with 100% assuredness with that backstabbing cocksucker in the driver's seat).  Make no doubt about it, though, McCain was a horrible choice and the fuckheads in the Repuke party should've all been tarred, feathered and run out on a rail for overseeing and promoting that garbage.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 04:09 AM (yKL37)

57 If she doesn't get in the race, I'm out 50 cents to my dad.
 
He will rag me about it forever. He will probably frame the money and put it on his wall.
 
If she gets in, HA will have spunk all over the walls and ceiling. Then Romney probably gets the nomination. Sigh.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 23, 2011 04:10 AM (ENKCw)

58

I look forward to ace and his catamites getting sand in their vags over that.  Maybe they can all have a big cuddle party with Rove and the rest of the TOP MEN as all the country-clubbers get the vapors.

I'm with ya. Yesterday my son came home and said that his football coach had his clitoris in a knot. I suggested temporary PMS but he felt like the guy just needed some Massengill.

From someone who actually is a country clubber, elite college and prep school, inside the beltway, pre Mayflower conservative------I have no idea where these people get off on their fake establishment credentials. You would think that fellating John McCain into an embarassing loss would have taught them something about themselves. Supporting Huntsman and hating Palin does not make you Knickerbocker Karl.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 04:10 AM (YFYRZ)

59 I think she who cannot be named is getting in. It's going to be a wild ride. FLOTUS is running ?

Posted by: Some dope at August 23, 2011 04:12 AM (Rhive)

60

The war on S&P continues.

I have no love of S&P, but they should not be singled out for investigation.  What about Moodys?  If the DOJ investigation is over the housing mess, as it says, all the credit agencies should be investigated.  But if this is over S&P downgrading the U.S. from AAA, it's nothing but bullshit.  And the DOJ needs to be investigated.  Holder can't be trusted and his DOJ reeks with anything but justice.

Posted by: Case at August 23, 2011 04:12 AM (FD6YW)

61 If she gets in, HA will have spunk all over the walls and ceiling. Then Romney probably gets the nomination. Sigh.

That is exactly what I am scared of. I would sure love to change the way we do primaries to keep that kind of shit from happening, but as long as the squish wing of the party is controlling the process it will never happen.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 04:13 AM (M9Ie6)

62 50, I would like to think those here that Trash Palin do so with the love of the Country in mind. They truly think she can't win because of the coordinated trashing of her by everyone in the GOP Elite, Dems and MSM. I think the opposite. They went over the top to destroy a fine woman. I think everyone sees it. I don't know if there is another Person, much less a candidate, that could of withstdood what this woman has. You want Tough, steady, grounded, common sense and classy. There she is. By the way, is there another candidate that can draw 20,000 for a speech?

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 04:13 AM (ZDUD4)

63 Vic,  I think Palin WILL get in,  but we will have to wait and see.

Like I said a while ago,  I am simply observing.  My primary is in May so getting too heavily invested in any candidate is sort of foolish.  I will support whoever the nominee is.

I will say one thing about Palin: She seems to be operating without the usual hangers-on that most GOP candidates hire. (Rove, Castellanos, Murphy, Schmidt, etc.).  It would be good to see her run circles around those leeches and show candidates that they don't need all of those advisors.

Posted by: Miss Marple at August 23, 2011 04:13 AM (Fo83G)

64 59 I think she who cannot be named is getting in. It's going to be a wild ride.

FLOTUS is running ?

Posted by: Some dope at August 23, 2011 08:12 AM (Rhive)

Silly, Flotus is "she who cannot be seen or heard".

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 04:13 AM (YFYRZ)

65

5   The Connecticut sailor who hails from Georgia also had a .50 caliber pistol and two .45 caliber pistols and related ammunition seized by the police.

When will reconstruction reprisals cease against the great3grandsons of The Lost Cause?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 23, 2011 04:13 AM (4q5tP)

66 Supporting Huntsman and hating Palin does not make you Knickerbocker Karl.

I despise Rove almost as much as Obama.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 04:14 AM (M9Ie6)

67 I don't think she's getting in. I think she is the godfather and stays relative as long as she looks like she is about to do something. Whomever she endorses will not only win the primary but will also win the fucking election. She will be the relative of the relative.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 04:15 AM (YFYRZ)

68

66 Me too.

The Newts and Karls---who use their position to back rub the communists for personal gain and to hurt the republic--are traitors to the enemy. Sound harsh? TS

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 04:16 AM (YFYRZ)

69 "If the DOJ investigation is over the housing mess, as it says, all the credit agencies should be investigated." Sharma's stepping down. http://tinyurl.com/3tbacoa

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 23, 2011 04:17 AM (cbyrC)

70 Legal Insurrection is betting that Obama is going to list windmills as his job plan outline handwritten note on the back of a Wendy's napkin.
Fixed. [Screwed?]

Posted by: andycanuck at August 23, 2011 04:17 AM (malJO)

71 A 16 yo is shot and killed by police after he pulls a gun on them in Cincinnati. Here's what mom has to say:
 
And court records show he was convicted of robbery and assaulting a teacher at his West End High School.

His mother, in an interview with The Enquirer, dismissed reports that her son ever carried a gun and said her son's life of crime was in his past.

""My baby was an average teen. But he changed. He showed us that," said his mother, Leona Mullins, 35. "But this? Lord, Jesus, no. My son had a mouth. Yes, he did. But he didn't have the mentality to do what they are saying he did."

I bolded that one sentence. It's all you need to know, really. All 16 yo teens have convictions for robbery and assault.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 23, 2011 04:17 AM (ENKCw)

72 Nope, It sounds like your paying attention.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 04:17 AM (ZDUD4)

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 23, 2011 04:17 AM (LH6ir)

74 On the pistols I assumed that CT required some kind of "permit".

All of which laws are blatantly unconstitutional. But the ACLU is worried about new laws forbidding the use of "foreign law" in U.S. courts.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 04:17 AM (M9Ie6)

75 "Tobin Tax"

Bob Chapman and other imminent economists advise nations to join the anti-derivatives bloc, to leave the onus for speculating on the "investors" who spent what wasn't theirs to defraud. Nix hedge fund hyenas. Nix bail-outs. Nix acceptance of responsibility for malfeasance by parasitical neo-feudal globalist financiers.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 04:18 AM (lpWVn)

76 I have no idea where these people get off on their fake establishment credentials. You would think that fellating John McCain into an embarassing loss would have taught them something about themselves. Supporting Huntsman and hating Palin does not make you Knickerbocker Karl.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 08:10 AM (YFYRZ)

Somewhere along the line they weaseled their way into positions of power throughout the fucking party and have been impossible to dislodge.  For years I had to hold my nose and vote for fucking Voinovich over some out-and-out commie because the party grandees were quite comfortable with him kicking conservatives in the nads.  Those are the fucksticks that give you the likes of Huntsman and urge ace to trash Palin as the enemy.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 04:20 AM (yKL37)

77 75 I could almost enjoy watching the world burn.

Posted by: steevy at August 23, 2011 04:21 AM (pV6cO)

78 Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 08:14 AM (M9Ie6)

I wouldn't go that far, but Rove does have a particularly offensive sense of superiority and entitlement that he does not hide at all. He is so smug and all-knowing that I regularly turn off whatever news program he is appearing in.

It's the inside-the-beltway arrogance that has got us into our current mess, and Rove has it in spades. And let's face it, he just isn't that good! Bush ran against weak opponents

But, I would vote for him happily over the JEF who, by the way is:

A Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 23, 2011 04:22 AM (LH6ir)

79 My impression is that Palin's waited too long, and her window of opportunity is past.  When there were no viable candidates, she would have had more leverage.  Now, with Perry, other options are available and she's not as valuable as a candidate.

Posted by: nickless at August 23, 2011 04:22 AM (MMC8r)

80 I am a long time lurker, but this is really bugging me... I like SP and believe she got a bad rap, but if she gets in, she is putting herself before her country.  She is way too polarizing to win the general, and she must realize she would split the primary votes.  And if she gets in, even though I like her now, that would make me like her less.  If she announces support for a viable candidate, that would make me like, and respect, her more.

Posted by: DJ at August 23, 2011 04:22 AM (icPU9)

81 And let's face it, he just isn't that good! Bush ran against weak opponents

That is what I have always said when everyone extolled his virtues. Hell, after the Clinton fiasco, Bush barely beat the stuttering CF of Al Gore who's debating skills were so bad it should have made the average voter puke.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 04:24 AM (M9Ie6)

82

It is unlawful for any person to transport a BB gun

unless it is stored in the trunk of the vehicle or other

locked container.

Boy, Connecticut is strict!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 23, 2011 04:25 AM (4q5tP)

83 But in some interpretations of Sharia law, which is Islam's legal system and governs every aspect of Muslim life, loans are forbidden.
That being the case, and since we dasn't offend the muzzies, end all foreign aid to muzzie countries. Game. Set. Match.

Posted by: No Whining at August 23, 2011 04:25 AM (14/Yy)

84

I wouldn't go that far, but Rove does have a particularly offensive sense of superiority and entitlement that he does not hide at all. He is so smug and all-knowing that I regularly turn off whatever news program he is appearing in.

Now I know where Dubya got that frat boy smirk I used to hate so much.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 04:26 AM (sbV1u)

85 If the Club Repukes had any brains they'd yank Rove off Faux News. He alienates 3 for every one he persuades.

Posted by: Some dope at August 23, 2011 04:26 AM (Rhive)

86 Btw dagny; I'm satisfied with supporting Perry if Palin stays out.  I think he has the right stuff to make El JEFe completely meltdown in a general election, and do it pretty early, unlike metro shitheads like Mittens who is probably a good guy but just not the right person for this race.  In fact if she stays out I hope Palin concentrates her efforts of cleaning out the Republican stable of trash like Rove and the worthless piles of shit that ran McCain's campaign (not that they had much to work with).  If she does that, she'd be providing a much needed and overdue service.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 04:26 AM (yKL37)

87 See now, this is unfortunate. Had that sailor owned a Colt AR-15 instead of the weapon of our enemies, Connecticut would have been shown up for having a law against its best-known product. Too bad.

Posted by: comatus at August 23, 2011 04:27 AM (W5ilH)

88 I'm sure Faux loves them some Karl Rove. They like the squish wing of the Party and are full on for support of Romney right now.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 04:27 AM (M9Ie6)

89 FLOTUS is running ?
No; curious.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 23, 2011 04:28 AM (malJO)

90 How long will non-statist journalists be permitted to remain in Libya?

NATO slaughters Libyan citizens, 1000's dead.

"NATO SLAUGHTER IN TRIPOLI: OPERATION SIREN SIGNALS ASSAULT BY REBELSÂ’ AL QAEDA DEATH SQUADS"

By Thierry Meyssan

Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 22, 2011, 1 AM CET– On Saturday evening, at 8pm, when the hour of Iftar marked the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the NATO command launched its “Operation Siren” against Libya.

The Sirens were the loudspeakers of the mosques, which were used to launch Al QaedaÂ’s call to revolt against the Qaddafi government. Immediately the sleeper cells of the Benghazi rebels went into action. These were small groups with great mobility, which carried out multiple attacks. The overnight fighting caused 350 deaths and 3,000 wounded.

The situation calmed somewhat on Sunday during the course of the day.

Then, a NATO warship sailed up and anchored just off the shore at Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking Al Qaeda jihadi forces, which were led by NATO officers.

Fighting started again during the night. There were intense firefights. NATO drones and aircraft kept bombing in all directions. NATO helicopters strafed civilians in the streets with machine guns to open the way for the jihadis.

In the evening, a motorcade of official cars carrying top government figures came under attack. The convoy fled to the Hotel Rixos, where the foreign press is based. NATO did not dare to bomb the hotel because they wanted to avoid killing the journalists. Nevertheless the hotel, which is where I am staying, is now under heavy fire.

At 11:30pm, the Health Minister had to announce that the hospitals were full to overflowing. On Sunday evening, there had been 1300 additional dead and 5,000 wounded.

NATO had been charged by the UN Security Council with protecting civilians in Libya. In reality, France and Great Britain have just re-started their colonial massacres.

At 1am, Khamis Qaddafi came to the Rixos Hotel personally to deliver weapons for the defense of the hotel. He then left. There is now heavy fighting all around the hotel.


Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 04:28 AM (lpWVn)

91

Let's see what Sarah does. She was going to have to get in while we only had the likes of Romney, Newt, Huntsman, Daniels, and Pawlenty. Now that we have Perry who is doing well she may not have to get in. I worry that the media is going to beat Perry to death with "Bush 2" meme. I'm guessing she's keeping an eye on that. I believe her that she wasn't getting in if there was a viable conservative alternative.

 

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 04:28 AM (YFYRZ)

92 51
As I said yesterday we don't need any more candidates, we need to get rid of some of the lower tier ones that are already in.
This is one of the things that helped up get that asshole McCain in 2008.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2011 08:03 AM (M9Ie6)

This.

Posted by: No Whining at August 23, 2011 04:29 AM (14/Yy)

93 FLOTUS?Curious 2012.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 04:29 AM (ZDUD4)

94 "Somewhere along the line they weaseled their way into positions of power throughout the fucking party and have been impossible to dislodge." It's really the other way around. Conservatism is relatively new in that it didn't appear on the scene until Goldwater. Until then, the Democrat/GOP system was a progressive lemon party, and the GOP establishment reflects that. Reagan's political philosophy was insurgent outlier material. The presidential race discriminant has been GOP competence vs. Democrat compassion since FDR died. Both Clinton and GWB blended the two somewhat (at least symbolically), and got two terms each for it. Obama is the poster child for supposed compassion masking profound incompetence.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 23, 2011 04:29 AM (cbyrC)

95 Dammit! FLOTUS/CURIOUS 2012

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 04:29 AM (ZDUD4)

96

"NATO SLAUGHTER IN TRIPOLI: OPERATION SIREN SIGNALS ASSAULT BY REBELSÂ’ AL QAEDA DEATH SQUADS"

Ah, I see Herr Goebbels has fired up the mighty propaganda machine again.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 04:31 AM (sbV1u)

97 Now I know where Dubya got that frat boy smirk I used to hate so much.

From his frat skull/bones membership.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 04:31 AM (lpWVn)

98 Mark Levin is still holding out for Palin.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 04:32 AM (lpWVn)

99 FLOTUS/Curious 2012.
Are they looking for an ambassador to the Middle Kingdom China?

Posted by: jon 'mike' huntsman at August 23, 2011 04:32 AM (malJO)

100 97, I don't know and don't care how but we have to purge the Ivy League from the executive branch of Gov.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 04:33 AM (ZDUD4)

101 80-  If she announces support for a viable candidate, that would make me like, and respect, her more Ahhh, the cheerleader/kingmaker meme. Some classics just never get old.

Posted by: Some dope at August 23, 2011 04:33 AM (Rhive)

102 Need more coffee
you say FLOTUS
I see FLATUS

Posted by: Dastardly Dan at August 23, 2011 04:34 AM (56hk3)

103

I don't know and don't care how but we have to purge the Ivy League from the executive branch of Gov.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 08:33 AM (ZDUD4)

That would be nice.

As long as they're not replaced by Aggies.  ;-)

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 04:34 AM (sbV1u)

104 97 I never could see the smirk on W. People keep mentioning it but I never saw it. Weird.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 04:34 AM (YFYRZ)

105

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 08:28 AM (lpWVn)


Pravda?

Posted by: nickless at August 23, 2011 04:35 AM (MMC8r)

106 Ahhh, the cheerleader/kingmaker meme. Some classics just never get old. Posted by: Some dope
........
When that's what you do best... do it!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2011 04:37 AM (UTq/I)

107 101 Ahhh, the cheerleader/kingmaker meme. Some classics just never get old.

Not at all, dope.  But there are lessons to be learned from '08 and McCain.  If you can't see that, I can't help you.

Posted by: DJ at August 23, 2011 04:37 AM (icPU9)

108 Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 08:31 AM (sbV1u)

If the news is disturbing, stay the ostrich in comfortable denial?

Would you argue that the MFM isn't the mighty propaganda machine?

Do you also claim that Michael Yon went insane so as not to read his latest reports or view his photos from Afghanistan?

It's wisest to read from all sources before determining independently what to make of reports. It's called scholarly research.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 04:39 AM (lpWVn)

109 "If the DOJ investigation is over the housing mess, as it says, all the credit agencies should be investigated." If S&P were smart, they would go hard against the CBC, the GSEs, Dodd, Frank, and the CRA in the court of public opinion. That would make Holder back off in a hurry.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 23, 2011 04:39 AM (cbyrC)

110 Not at all, dope. But there are lessons to be learned from '08 and McCain. If you can't see that, I can't help you. Posted by: DJ at August 23, 2011 08:37 AM (icPU9) Good answer. The lesson was? Don't let the MSM and GOP elite pick your candidate.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 23, 2011 04:39 AM (ZDUD4)

111 A guy wanted to light some fireworks at the Mall in DC. How... festive! NOT...

Posted by: BethW at August 23, 2011 04:39 AM (gcRbW)

112

When that's what you do best... do it!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2011 08:37 AM (UTq/I)

More Sarah Palin career advice.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 04:41 AM (sbV1u)

113 It's really the other way around. Conservatism is relatively new in that it didn't appear on the scene until Goldwater. Until then, the Democrat/GOP system was a progressive lemon party, and the GOP establishment reflects that.

You're quite correct in saying that.  The sad thing is that conservatives have only had two candidates:  Goldwater and Reagan.  One got badly rolled and the other kicked ass.  What never gets mentioned is the country-clubbers hated Reagan and probably called him an "amiable dunce" as much as that fuckstick Clark Clifford (currently rotting in Hell) did.  They had to hold their fucking noses throughout his 8 years and pray to their false gods of Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsay to send them someone to relieve them of these uncultured parvenus; which they did with Poppy Bush.

Buckley tried his best to make conservatism acceptable to the country-clubbers, but most of those snotty cocksuckers just liked that he had a large vocabulary and never listened to a fucking thing he said.  They still regard us as unmannered barbarians who would rub their faces in dogshit at the first opportunity; about which they're half right.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 04:41 AM (yKL37)

114 Huntsman on Squawk Box sounding very interesting.

Posted by: at August 23, 2011 04:41 AM (k1rwm)

115 Posted by: nickless at August 23, 2011 08:35 AM (MMC8r)

Thierry Meyssan is a severe critic of globalist neofeudalism.

Where is the MSNBC or any other MFM journalist report you'd trust and trump to relay eye witness accounts from the Hotel Rixos in Tripoli?

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 04:44 AM (lpWVn)

116 and I'm jumping in kinda late on this.. but I agree with Vic and Byron York on the current budget woes...

We need to return to a 2008 or even 2007 base budget!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2011 04:44 AM (UTq/I)

117

50% chance of rain tonight! Combine that with the thunder we heard yesterday and it's almost like rain.

Almost.

Not a drop since July.

 

Police said Neff told them he didn't want to hurt anyone and wanted to ignite the fireworks on the National Mall to draw attention to himself and issues he had with the banking industry.

Officers also said they located drug paraphernalia and alcohol inside his vehicle.

Alcohol? Nah. I can't believe it.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 23, 2011 04:44 AM (XdlcF)

118

It's wisest to read from all sources before determining independently what to make of reports. It's called scholarly research.

Ah, snark from one consitently lacking the gift of perspective.  One should take history into account and read critically.

It's called "being a critical thinker."

For instance, both you know and I know that NATO has been shooting up mosques for years in a coordinated campaign to wipe out Muslim religious expression.  It's in all the paper.  Well...Debka at least.

I mean, of course this is real!  Of course it is.  Nuance, my friend, nuance.

Can you tell me what the frequency is, Kenneth?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 04:45 AM (sbV1u)

119 Two countries both being turned into sharia shit holes with the help of a US administration.
Evil is rising and is on the march, big trouble is brewing, and we have a front row seat.

Posted by: MarkC at August 23, 2011 04:46 AM (yPPVC)

120

That Maxine Waters is sure the epitome of class, isn't she.  I guess that's par for the course, if you are a donk.

Posted by: Case at August 23, 2011 04:48 AM (DYR2Q)

121 Posted by: Dastardly Dan at August 23, 2011 08:34 AM (56hk3)

What's the difference?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 23, 2011 04:48 AM (LH6ir)

122 Two countries both being turned into sharia shit holes with the help of a US administration.
Evil is rising and is on the march, big trouble is brewing, and we have a front row seat.

Posted by: MarkC
............
If you are referring to Libya, it's legal code was already based on sharia law.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2011 04:50 AM (UTq/I)

123

Two countries both being turned into sharia shit holes with the help of a US administration.

This was the reason for not going in in the first place. 

Lefties used to scream up and down that Bush "had no plan for the peace" after the Iraq invasion.  Oh man how we used to hear that.

But when JEF does the same thing....crickets.

The Middle East will alway be a shithole.  When you're convinced that the Koran is the literal word of God, not a parable, not a story, not merely inspired revelation but the actual words of God, well then, there's no reason to look any further.  All the answers are there.

Which is why you have millions of people in the 21st century whose minds are stuck in the 7th century.  Which is, in turn, why they'll always be miserable.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 04:51 AM (sbV1u)

124 Posted by: at August 23, 2011 08:41 AM (k1rwm)

Is he talking about his banana fetish? Because I hear that's what you like too. Is he your candidate?

Posted by: Typical perverted moron at August 23, 2011 04:51 AM (LH6ir)

125 Oh God it's Miss "whole word" reader. Hey curious, learning to read "whole word" doesn't keep you from looking up words you can't spell. It only takes seconds using google.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 04:59 AM (YFYRZ)

126 "But when JEF does the same thing....crickets." The left act in bad faith. They are not the opposition. They are the enemy.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 23, 2011 04:59 AM (cbyrC)

127 OMG!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 23, 2011 05:05 AM (4q5tP)

128 Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 08:59 AM (YFYRZ)

I usually only post here when I'm working so I have no time to check every little word.  Besides, you get the gist.

Posted by: at August 23, 2011 05:09 AM (k1rwm)

129 Morons/ettes who signed up at the RickPerry.org site.  I got an email from the campaign last night.  Just general informational with links to volunteering and donations page.

If anyone learns about an organization or event in Utah, please share.  Thx.

Posted by: Y-not at August 23, 2011 05:11 AM (5H6zj)

130 Posted by: DJ at August 23, 2011 08:22 AM (icPU9)

I think a lot of us are in the same boat. 

She's between a rock and a hard place of her own making.  Someone is going to be disappointed with her in a few weeks. 

Posted by: Y-not at August 23, 2011 05:13 AM (5H6zj)

131

Ah, snark from one consitently lacking the gift of perspective.  One should take history into account and read critically. It's called "being a critical thinker."

Yes, Sean Bannion, your critical thinking skills are massively absent.

I quoted an article. In response, rather than even considering the report, you play Alinsky, falsely accusing me of "knowing" that NATO has been shooting up mosques for years in a coordinated campaign to wipe out Muslim religious expression.

Consider well the distinction between using mosque sirens in the current NATO “Operation Siren” being undertaken (by NATO account, not simply according to Mr. Meyssan) and your foolish assertion. You're stuck without reading comprehension, let alone critical thinking.

As per historical perspective, the strongman Qaddafi (warts and all) took Libya from a Medieval nomadic setting and used Libya's own oil wealth to construct the best infrastructure and provide from those oil profits (not from taxation) the highest literacy and education and medical treatment for all of its citizens free of charge anywhere along the Mediterranean. Qaddafi has his blatant faults. But his UN record on humanitarian work ranked at 50 worldwide, above Brazil and Russia for instance. Despite our American antagonism against Gaddafi, he has improved the lot for the populations of the African continent. And with Qaddafi in charge of Libya, private citizen Westerners on official business were completely safe there and very well compensated for fulfilling professional contracts. For instance, university exchange programs brought agriculture animal and crop production specialists to train Libyan graduate students how to best utilize their vast fresh water underground ocean and utilize nutrition for animal health in fighting specific diseases typically affecting herds. None of these advances in civilization will still be the case with al Qaeda running Libya. In fact, from Drudge, al Qaeda is using Sharia Law as the basis for Libya's NATO imposed new constitution. None of this even begins to address the political/economic reasons motivating the West's desire to take Libya (wealth).

Learn to use that bannion brain.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 05:17 AM (lpWVn)

132

Blatant misspellings and poor grammar show a lack of education or, at the very least, are habits of the unread.

Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 05:18 AM (YFYRZ)

133
This web site is my breathing in, really fantastic pattern and perfect subject matter.

Posted by: Life of Pi Audiobook at August 23, 2011 05:21 AM (r8C32)

134 Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 09:18 AM (YFYRZ)'

well then you are indicting my entire generation, hence the problem.

Posted by: at August 23, 2011 05:21 AM (k1rwm)

135 Posted by: dagny at August 23, 2011 09:18 AM (YFYRZ)

At the risk of sounding offensive (LOL; who am I kidding?), I'm getting a massive aesthetic hard-on reading your comments.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 05:25 AM (yKL37)

136 The Middle East will alway be a shithole.

Libya was not a shithole for Libyans or for Western guests.

If you are referring to Libya, it's legal code was already based on sharia law.

NATO need not be involved in the re-invention through a "constitution" or any further militant imposition of Libya's sharia law observance.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 05:25 AM (lpWVn)

137 Dismissing people because of their age is wrong, dagny.
/s

Posted by: Y-not at August 23, 2011 05:33 AM (5H6zj)

138 Thierry Meyssan is a douchebag truther and an Alex Jones is his pimp.

Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry, bitch at August 23, 2011 05:41 AM (ignDe)

139

This is the same Andrew Perrin who is a huge supporter of unions and also wrote this before the study came out....   "I believe what is really going on here is the right wingÂ’s good old fashioned anti-intellectualism. Multiple viewpoints, complexity of thought, esoteric topics, and exploration of new areas are scary to important portions of the right-wing coalition."

 

Posted by: Deanna at August 23, 2011 09:47 AM (H84v5)

There are few things more pathetic than a Tarhole who aspires to be part of the Ivy League and tries to solidify his commie bona fides by making accusations of which he's most guilty.  The next time Andrew has an original thought will be ground-breaking stuff.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 05:53 AM (yKL37)

140

Is there anybody that doesn't want to throw Cuntsman face first into a fucking wood chipper?

I don't.

I think he's pretty moderate....

Posted by: Barry O. at August 23, 2011 05:57 AM (2uovW)

141

The next time Andrew has an original thought will be ground-breaking stuff.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 09:53 AM

You mean like this one...LOL... voters who felt favorably toward the tea party movement valued deference to authority and libertarianism.

Posted by: Deanna at August 23, 2011 05:59 AM (H84v5)

142 Yeah, Deanna; it's pretty damn bad that he doesn't recognize the internal contradiction in that howler.  Just remember:  HE'S THE SMART ONE!!!

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 06:04 AM (yKL37)

143 deference to authority and libertarianism

Interesting.

Posted by: toby928™ at August 23, 2011 06:09 AM (GTbGH)

144

Thierry Meyssan is a douchebag truther and an Alex Jones is his pimp.
Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry, bitch at August 23, 2011 09:41 AM (ignDe)

That's really the point.  If you're pasting large quantities of his ouevre here, that means you're pretty much in the same camp.

Especially when your past postings reinforce that perception.

Not making a comment on you mpurin, I'm, you know, jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 06:13 AM (sbV1u)

145

Posted by: maverick muse at August 23, 2011 09:17 AM (lpWVn)

Dude, you are really a loon.

You still have a reading comprehension and logic train problem too. 

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 06:15 AM (sbV1u)

146

At the risk of sounding offensive (LOL; who am I kidding?), I'm getting a massive aesthetic hard-on reading your comments.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 23, 2011 09:25 AM (yKL37)

I usually get that problem when alexthechick posts.  Take a Tylenol, it will go down.

Although, I heartily concur with dagny's original post.  Typos are one thing, grammar, syntax, punctuation and blatant logic errors are another.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 06:17 AM (sbV1u)

147 Dude, you are really a loon.

Let me be of service.

Posted by: scroll wheel at August 23, 2011 06:27 AM (GTbGH)

148 If you are referring to Libya, it's legal code was already based on sharia law. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2011 08:50 AM (UTq/I) ------------------------------------------------------ Yes, and Egypt was already pretty "islamic" when I lived there in the mid-80's. I always chuckled at the description of Egypt as being "secular". It is anything but. Islam dominates there.

Posted by: Misspent Adulthood at August 23, 2011 06:53 AM (4t9J5)

149 http://stks.co/vf Blankfein Lawyers up, but it's market structure to blame

Posted by: Jeff at August 23, 2011 06:55 AM (7Aums)

150

usually only post here when I'm working so I have no time to check every little word.  Besides, you get the gist.

Posted by: at August 23, 2011 09:09 AM (k1rwm)

HAHAHA.  Bullshit

Posted by: buzzion at August 23, 2011 07:08 AM (GULKT)

151 83 But in some interpretations of Sharia law, which is Islam's legal system and governs every aspect of Muslim life, loans are forbidden.
That being the case, and since we dasn't offend the muzzies, end all foreign aid to muzzie countries. Game. Set. Match.

Posted by: No Whining at August 23, 2011 08:25 AM (14/Yy)

Since most foreign aid is just given away and not a loan that needs to be repaid (apparently the US is the only nation to NOT expect repayment on every dime given out to someone else, plus interest), that argument won't work.  Besides, loans are legal, it's the interest that is not allowed.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 23, 2011 07:11 AM (s3JuV)

152 rasmussen reporting lowest approval index yet -26

scoamfuck

Posted by: elspeth at August 23, 2011 07:28 AM (0AkWH)

153

I'm starting to wonder if SP's big announcement is to announce that she is getting her own show on Fox.

Fox is giving more attention to this upcoming speaking date of hers than they ever have before....I mean, ever ever before. Which is curious in and of itself.

Sarah is extremely intelligent and shrewd. She could be more powerful as a Fox timeslot holder . More powerful than an also-ran who didn't win the nomination. She could do what she has been saying that she wants to do...shape the debate, bring up conservative issues........and her ratings would be through the roof!

Didn't she start out wanting to be a sports announcer? I seem to remember that from...somewhere. But she got bogged down with being a good mom and small business owner......And then she got into politics because she saw things that she felt needed changing.

With a show on Fox, she wouldn't be putting her family at risk...and could she could still wield some formidable power to effect the changes that are dear to her heart.

Anyway.......that's what I am wondering at this point.

 

And I agree with all those who have said: Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

I have been wanting to type that....It felt sooo good....very theraputic....My sincere thanks to whomever originated this phrase.

Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at August 23, 2011 08:08 AM (pqN6m)

154 is it any surprise scoamfuck's approval is in the toilet while he's on vacation ??

Posted by: elspeth at August 23, 2011 08:38 AM (0AkWH)

155 The Palin situation is weird.

I don't want her to get in, though I generally support and admire her.  I think Rick Perry is the best hope at this point.  Having said that, there is an angle where she could get in the race and still help Perry.

The strange thing about Palin, and probably something that has never happened before, is that she has a ton of negatives that can work positively for other candidates.

For example, she "sucks all of the oxygen out of the room."  No one is more hated than her.  She'd get a lot of attention from the right, but *also* the left, and that's where she's most valuable. Money and effort spent on a reactionary attack fusillade against Palin is money and effort not spent against the others.

She has to know her polling numbers - against Obama she's toast.  At the same time, she's viewed negatively by a large portion of the country. If the Republican Party were to also reject her in favor of another candidate, that puts them directly on the side of the majority of the American public.  That doesn't work if she never runs and endorses a candidate - that candidate simply becomes a bigger magnet for attacks and has a direct stigma of her endorsement in a nationwide election.

She also gets the opportunity to slam weaker candidates in debates and on the campaign trail. Huntsman needs to go, for one. She's already viewed negatively, she can tear them down.  She gets to endorse another candidate indirectly - by directly attacking every other primary candidate but the one she wants.

When she finally drops out, she thanks everyone for giving her a platform for her views, throws some mud at SCOAMF, and then quietly shovels her massive campaign war chest over to her preferred candidate - which is likely to be Rick Perry, in my opinion.

Perry comes out of it with months of time where he has the ability to make his points while Palin bears most of the direct media assault, the Republican brand is reinforced by having rejected her, and her fundraising and supporters are more likely to bring that over to Perry once she gracefully bows out.  This puts him in the best possible position for the general.

I'm not saying this is her plan.  Even if it were, she couldn't exactly say that.  I'm just saying that it's not necessarily a negative if she gets in the race.  It's only a negative if she gets in and starts cutting up the prospects of those who really can stop Obama. 


Posted by: grognard at August 23, 2011 11:47 AM (NS2Mo)

156 that dog thing...wow.

Posted by: joeindc44 at August 23, 2011 12:29 PM (QxSug)

157

They misspelled Ace's name:

http://tinyurl.com/42dcojp

Posted by: Max Entropy at August 23, 2011 12:44 PM (lH6z9)

158 Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 23, 2011 10:15 AM (sbV1u)

Still unable to either admit your ignorance or defend your premise with any fact, clinging bitterly to denial, it is YOU wearing the idiot's tinfoil hat.

Posted by: Mark Steyn at August 23, 2011 01:14 PM (lpWVn)

Posted by: lusefer at August 23, 2011 09:23 PM (KcRHl)

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