1 oooh ..an image of a punching clown with Jug Ears' face on it just popped into my head... ...clown & jug ears.....apologies for redundancy

2

Ron Paul blasts new super committee

Well well well, one wonders about this crap.  This new committee not limited to budget matters?  I swear I wish he was less of a fruit cake on other matters because his view on the domestic agenda is straight on. Wish there was some way we could take his domestic agenda and morph it on to Perry. But there you go, Bachmann is close, which is why she is at the top of my short list right now.

3

This is a prime example of what we are seeing in the MFM and hearing on F&F this morning

This article on the “budget deal” from the Hill shows what we face in the MFM. Nearly every paragraph in it, beginning with the headline title is a lie.

For House GOP, victory comes at a price

The House GOP did not get any kind of a victory.

The agreement signed on Tuesday satisfied two of the GOPÂ’s longstanding demands: that spending cuts exceed the increase in the debt limit, and that taxes do not go up

No what “we” got was a promise to cut spending with some immediate small cuts in the rate of increase. Yes, by congressional calculus the first derivative of the spending curve has decreased, therefore it is a cut.

Gretchen interviewed the head of Tea Party Nation this morning about the apparent “Tea Party victory”. (she played a clip of Palin saying that)  The head of TPN said it was disaster and then iterated all kinds of stuff like the above as to why it was bad. He said that TPN wanted noting to do with this “deal” because when it showed itself later to be a disaster they didnÂ’t want the blame.

This is not just a disaster for tea party members and the public.  This is a demonstration of how the Republican Party can still lose in 2012 by alienating its base. Be careful GOP “leadership”. You are in danger of creating a 3^rd party and becoming irrelevant.  Perhaps this is what the MFM and Obama wants.

4

GOP House member Mike Lee starts conservative PAC for the House similar to DeMint's PAC in the Senate

So maybe there is still hope for the GOP.

5

MS-13 illegals doing the jobs that Americans will not do ran into jury in SC doing the job that Southern juries like to do

Too bad the federal prosecutors did not go with the death penalty because they could have easily got that.

6 The Dems and the partisan MSM are setting us up for taking the blame for the horrible econ numbers coming out this week because we wouldn't raise taxes.

7 6 The Dems and the partisan MSM are setting us up for taking the blame for the horrible econ numbers coming out this week because we wouldn't raise taxes.

Posted by: Cooter at August 03, 2011 06:58 AM (C06Qq)

Last I checked, if you cut your spending, its almost like getting more money...shocka

8 I don't normally consider the NY Post photos as news but the male Morons will appreciate these (SFW)

9 Sorry, that's the NY daily news not the post.

10

That stupid State-By-State electoral college bypass movement in the news again

I don't know why the GOP should be fighting this.

11 Talk about "nerve". F&F statement: "We were told if debt deal wasn't reached then the stock market would tank, well it passed and stock market tanked".

They were one of the prime members of the MFM pushing that must pass BS.

12 8 I don't normally consider the NY Post photos as news but the male Morons will appreciate these (SFW)

Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2011 07:01 AM (M9Ie6)

Now that's news I can use...

13 "We were told if debt deal wasn't reached then the stock market would tank, well it passed and stock market tanked".

Pell Grants!

14

Even The Washington Examiner says Tea Party won

I may have to reevaluate The Examiner. They say we "cut" spending.

15

Excellent column by Thomas Sowell on "poverty" in America

16 Posted by: Fish the Impaler at August 03, 2011 07:11 AM (Lt/Za)

So the nutbag was a Neo-Nazi after all. That's what a lot of us thought.

17 Vic: You should lobby ace for your own column here.

18

MM on the "Deal"

Hint, she ain't happy with it.

19 You should lobby ace for your own column here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2011 07:18 AM (UlUS4)

Well, I guess technically he did offer back when he gave out an open invite for fresh "co-bloggers". I declined because I have never edited HTML and this "old dog" is too old to learn new tricks. 

I just do my daily "news"up dates.

20 So what prevents responsible Congresscritters from voting down the stupid committee's recommendation which will surely contain a disguised tax increase and creating their own spending cuts bill?  This way, if the Repubs were smart, they could use the propaganda of the increase to beat the crap out of the Demoncrats and further their bill.

21 That's it for the "news".

When a man says that democracy is false because most people are stupid, hit him smartly and with precision on the exact tip of the nose.

Well Bing found it, but I disagree with it and so did our founders who did not create a democracy.

22 The local NBC affiliate's morning show was understatedly mocking the cost to participate in El JEFe's birfday worship-fest tonight in Chicago. 

23 The best arguement against democracy is a conversation with the average voter. - Sir Winston Churchill

24 Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2011 07:24 AM (M9Ie6) Keep it up. Lots of good stuff.

25 NYT OP-ED The TEA Party's War on America

Joe Nocera is a dolt.

Inflicting more pain on their countrymen doesnÂ’t much bother the Tea Party Republicans, as theyÂ’ve repeatedly proved. What is astonishing is that both the president and House speaker are claiming that the deal will help the economy. Do they really expect us to buy that? WeÂ’ve all heard what happened in 1937 when Franklin Roosevelt, believing the Depression was over, tried to rein in federal spending. Cutting spending spiraled the country right back into the Great Depression, where it stayed until the arrival of the stimulus package known as World War II. ThatÂ’s the path weÂ’re now on. Our enemies could not have designed a better plan to weaken the American economy than this debt-ceiling deal.

26 Well Bing found it, but I disagree with it and so did our founders

News to me.

27

Posted by: Fish the Impaler at August 03, 2011 07:29 AM (Lt/Za)

Honestly I have heard that before, but I hope the fiscally responsible weren't that gullible.

28 Posted by: Fish the Impaler at August 03, 2011 07:29 AM (Lt/Za)

That is a key question. What are the powers of this committee? Ron Paul thinks they are huge because the language is too lose.

Conservative members of both houses were originally concerned that it would be used as a means to bypass their opposition. Well, we have already seen that born out in the Senate when McConnell said nobody would be on the committee who voted against the "deal".

The Dems will nominate hard line commies so we will start out right off the bat with 50% "nothing but tax increases" on the committee. McConnell will nominate 3 RINOs. After that it doesn't matter what crying Boner does.

The committee will pass recommendations on a simple majority vote. All it takes is the 6 commies and one RINO. After that it goes to a vote in congress.

And it can not be filibustered in the Senate

29 The Dems and the partisan MSM are setting us up for taking the blame for the horrible econ numbers coming out this week because we wouldn't raise taxes.

Posted by: Cooter at August 03, 2011 06:58 AM (C06Qq)

The Repubs have all the facts on their side to blast this bit of insanity completely apart; so no doubt they'll just roll over and take it like the gutless twats they are.  Except that economic retard McCain, who will agree with them.

30 News to me.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at August 03, 2011 07:39 AM (TpXEI)

None of the founders were in favor of a "democracy" which is why we started with a Republic.

31 So if I've got the OP's G.K. Chesterton quote right, it's good to resort immediately to physical violence against people who disagree with you. Drat, I guess the lefties had it right all along. That, or Chesterton is a complete tit. One of the two. I'm definitely with #25's Churchill quote.

32

"..democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who are not."

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people take away the right of the other 49%"

Both by Thomas Jefferson, himself.

 

33 Mornin' rons.  It's my anniversary.  No, I will not tell you how many years since it's longer than some of you have been alive.

I have the perfect marriage.  My husband works overseas and his check is deposited here. ;o)

I keed, I keed, honey....if you're reading this.  I'm effin' kidding!

34 re the Electoral College changes, I'm not for it. This places disproportional power to select the Pres into the cities hands. I would agree with proportional splitting of electoral votes based on popular totals per state, which some states are already doing. But to make the election a straight popular vote means that the presidency is decided by NYC, LA and Chicago. Bad idea.

35

Happy anniversary, Tami and the distant Mr. Tami!

I keed, I keed, honey....if you're reading this.  I'm effin' kidding!

Does he read here? I drop jokes like that in the Sunday book thread sometimes because I know my husband reads that.

36 I have the perfect marriage.  My husband works overseas and his check is deposited here. ;o)

Well, us male Morons already know how it works. It doesn't matter where the husband works. When both of us worked her check was "her" money and my check was "our" money.

When she no longer worked it was more "her" money than our money, which is the same now that I am retired.

37 Thanks Mama AJ! 

I don't *think* he reads here but I didn't stay married this long without learning to cover my bases. ;o)

38

Hostage taking carjacking hobbit terrorists!! Is there nothing we can't do?

If we carjack a car that's in a ditch, isn't that helpful?

Link to JWF in my name.

39 happy anniversary tami!!!!

40

Okay, Tami, so I guess you won't tell us who you are taking out to dinner tonight, then. <grin>

Hope he sent you something nice. I've got a b-day coming up, which is always a little off without a spouse around.

41 Happy Anniversary Tami -- may the check arrive on time.
 
Reason has an article up about JugEar's Top Four Power Grabs. I knew some of them were bad news, but not how bad they are. We are talking impossible to get rid of bad. Real bad.

42 WH spox on WMAL this am defending the President's leadership on the deal. Said pretty explicitly (well, euphemized) that the plan was raising taxes through the committee. The way they say raising taxes is "addressing tax cuts".

43 Ummm, that would be Senator Mike Lee  from Utah

44

Too bad the federal prosecutors did not go with the death penalty because they could have easily got that.

Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2011 06:54 AM (M9Ie6)

 

Agreed, but honestly I'll just be thrilled if the bastards don't get a pardon.  Remember all those last minute pardons by Clinton?  When Barry is shown the door he'll make that look like nothing.  It'll be like giving the Pali's control over who gets released from Israeli jails...

45

The way they say raising taxes is "addressing tax cuts".

Yeh, I addressed a lot of weigh loss for a few years there.

And Tami's gonna address some spending cuts today, right?

46 Ah yes, the "her" money/ "our" money thing.  But isn't it nice when she lets you buy something every now and then.

47 Have I missed something? Bachmann didn't write "When a cut is not a cut" nor has she pressed to freeze spending, or returning the responsibility to maintain money to the Treasury itself, stipulating the severance of the strangling US Treasury interest payment "owed" to the Federal Reserve, the Fed no longer authorized to "sell" printed dollars at taxpayers' interest (only one of many Fed sins against the nation).

At best, Bachmann allows Ron Paul to row the Tea Party boat. After waters are tested and proven, she politely speaks out. No one would ever notice her if it weren't for Ron Paul breaking ground.

The fruitcakes are the asshats too proud to admit their own vanity driven errors in judgment. There is no logic to the neoconservative mantra, "Ron Paul is wrong because Paultard hahaha."

48 Vic, my sister was really like that when she worked.

I was out to eat with them once and my BIL was going to pay the bill...he asked my sister for some cash.  She opened her wallet and handed him a small amount.  He said to her, "That's not enough...give me more."  She said, "I don't have any more."  He said, "But I see it right there in your wallet."
She said, "No...that's MY money...what I gave you is OUR money." O_O!

I gave her such a hard time, she had to fork it over.

49 Gotta listen to Marco Rubio's parting speech on the floor yesterday. The Bamster has got to be nervous about this freshman senator who really has the smarts to back up the beautiful words. http://youtu.be/D-nj2H7ALzg

50 "Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married... and she didn't have to hear about how well his mother cooked."

Posted by: Fish the Impaler at August 03, 2011 08:03 AM (Lt/Za)

 

LOL.  But imagine the fights over who was really responsible for the fall of man...  Plus Adam was at a serious disadvantage learning all that stuff about women for himself.  For example, he had no precedent to tell him what to say when Eve asked whether her fig leaf made her look fat.  And then when the PMS came to be, that had to be a heckuva shock.  Doubtless there were all manner of horrible, rude surprises for both.

51 Coburn explains in a WaPo editorial why he voted against the deal:
 
In spite of what politicians on both sides are saying, this agreement does not cut any spending over 10 years. In fact, it increases discretionary spending by $830 billion.

I voted against this agreement because it does nothing to address the real drivers of our debt. It eliminates no program, consolidates no duplicative programs, cuts no tax earmarks and reforms no entitlement program. The specter of default or a credit downgrade will still hang over our economy after this deal becomes law.
 
I'm with him.

52

A little doom before Monty:

As Bloomberg summarizes, U.S. planned firings up 59% Y/y in July to 66,414, led by pharma, retail; largest number in 16 months. The number includes Merck’s plan to cut ~13k jobs. This 3rd consecutive increase; “seems to provide additional evidence” recovery has stalled.

That would be a "no shit" statement.

53 The way they say raising taxes is "addressing tax cuts".

Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2011 08:01 AM (Fw2Gg)

And he'll get it too from the committee. Then it will be up to the hard asses in the House to kill it because of the rules blocking filibuster in the Senate.

We really did get screwed on this deal. And I want to know what happened to the "this deal doesn't allow tax increases BS" from Boner and McConnell.

54

PS  As to you Mary Crackenducky of Cut & Shoot, Texas, you madam may go fuck yourself. Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama, Presnit of All 57 States at August 03, 2011 07:43 AM (Lt/Za)

I am Hector Crackenducky of Point Blank, Texas and I'm only an hour up I-45 from Mary.  Mr. Presnit-wit, you need to come huntin' with me, deep in these Piney Woods.

55 But isn't it nice when she lets you buy something every now and then.

Posted by: Case at August 03, 2011 08:04 AM (0K+Kw)

LOL, yes she "allows" me to get the occasional Amazon $5 MP3 download or a movie from the "cheap stack".

56

And Tami's gonna address some spending cuts today, right?

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 03, 2011 08:04 AM (XdlcF)

Oh definitely...yes, absolutely!   Getting right on that....

57 I gave her such a hard time, she had to fork it over.

Posted by: Tami at August 03, 2011 08:05 AM (X6akg)

LOL, too bad when we are out with her sisters and family we always pay with a credit card. Besides its all "our" money now.

58 Eve was Adams 2nd wife. Lilith was the first. Lilith makes the NOW women seem downright danity.

59 "No Eve, the fig leaf doesn't make your ass look fat, it's your fat ass that makes you ass look fat."

Posted by: Adam the Truth Teller at August 03, 2011 08:10 AM (Lt/Za)

 

HA! 

Imagine poor Adam's dismay after their first kid was born and Eve didn't snap-back to her former glory (presumably Eve was a genetically/physically ideal mega-hottie in the beginning).  He might have regretted that nearly as much as the eating of the forbidden fruit... It's amazing man kind continued on at all.  Plus they lived a long long time - imagine how old the arguments must have been getting after a couple centuries.  My assumption is that at some point they started living in separate houses, or spending all their time visiting their hundreds of grand children. 

60

I'm getting take out or going out to restaurants all week as a treat. Since this is the hottest weather I've seen here (and records are being set), it's good timing.

OMG, it's going to be even hotter today. It's almost as hot as where my husband is.

Therefore, clearly, it's his fault.

61 3--well said Vic

62 In PA, free cell phones are now a civil right:
 
Pennsylvanians on public assistance now have a new 'civil right' -- free cell phones. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to pay higher cell bills as a result.

Recently, a federal government program called the Universal Service Fund came to the Keystone State and some residents are thrilled because it means they can enjoy 250 minutes a month and a handset for free, just because they don't have the money to pay for it.
 
When I was in college and married, we were too poor to have a phone. Oh, and we both worked while I was in school. Surely there is someone I can sue for our horrific treatment back then.
 

63 I just do my daily "news"up dates.

Yeah, and when you miss a day the regular readers start to worry. You might have to start getting a permission slip in advance to be absent.

64 I'm getting take out or going out to restaurants all week as a treat. Since this is the hottest weather I've seen here (and records are being set), it's good timing.

I don't know if you saw my post earlier this week, but July turned out to be the hottest month of record here we have had since I started keeping records in 2008.

I suspect when the NOAA gets their data out the warmies are going to go crazy.

65 Well Bing found it, but I disagree with it and so did our founders

News to me.
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson

A republic, if you can keep it.

66 64 Eve was Adams 2nd wife. Lilith was the first. Lilith makes the NOW women seem downright danity.

How many ribs did he have to give up, anyway?

67 Happy Anniversary Tami.  And congrats!

Will Baby Assad emulate his father?

Syrian tanks occupy central square in Hama after heavy shelling - Reuters http://reut.rs/n8di70

68 Yeah, and when you miss a day the regular readers start to worry. You might have to start getting a permission slip in advance to be absent.

Posted by: Retread at August 03, 2011 08:19 AM (G+7cD)

LOL, I'll have to warn everyone when I am going to have a rocking chair night which means I will oversleep the next day.

69

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 03, 2011 08:18 AM (ENKCw)

 

Great.  Just f-ing great.  One more way to incentivize people to remain on the dole.  Idiots. 

This stuf makes me crazy with anger.  It's not just the expense - it's the principle.  People who work hard at low paying jobs, who get by on their own in humble circumstances and are no burden on the rest of us, live without this stuff or else make sacrifices to get it.  But layabouts get the phones and service for free.  What utter injustice.

If this were something where it was set up such that potential employers could call the phone, but you couldn't use it for other private calls, I could see it as having some benefit to the taxpayer.  Part of a back-to-work program.  But we all know that's not what this is for.  Nor is it for emergencies.  Just more bread and circuses for the mob.

70

I don't know if you saw my post earlier this week, but July turned out to be the hottest month of record

I believe it. The locals have been complaining left and right, unlike last year when it only got up to 105.

Going up to 109 today. I can't even get to the yard work before it hits 90!

It's just going to have to wait until Sat. when I don't have to take the kids to their class/camp thing any more.

The local kids go back to school next Wednesday!

71 The "tea party victory" meme being pushed hard by the Republicans is intended to blunt tp anger and keep the serfs on the plantation. It is 100% propaganda. Republicans lie as often as their socialist brethren. The tp needs to push back against the lies and liars. And stay as far away from the "deal" as they can get.

72 My understanding of that federal cell phone program was that it only provided cell phones that would "call out" to 911. It could not receive calls and it could not call any other number.

Does anyone have specifics on that program?

73 I love all these media dolts wondering about the Dow tanking yesterday. Did none of them see what is going on in Italy? This isn't just about the US "political crisis" it's about the markets finally realizing that most of Europe is imploding. Honestly, we should be dancing a jig about the US right now. We look positively rosy compared to Europe. That being said, I am dreading my next 401(k) statement.

74 #73 The 2nd marriage took. Lilith was not made with Adams rib. Ribs grow back anyway.

75 At least some good news for Pennsylvania morons; the legislature may finally start moving on privatizing the state liquor stores. Here's one political movement I can definitely get behind. I am sick of not being able to find my favorite bourbon in these crappy state stores. At least I can drive a short way to New Jersey for it, but people who live farther from the border have a very limited selection of wine and liquor. Of course, the Democrats are already howling because of the 5,000 unionized state employees that may lose their jobs. But just imagine a liquor store staffed by pasty-faced bureaucrats, and you see what we have here in PA.

76 Does anyone have specifics on that program?

Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2011 08:27 AM (M9Ie6)

Vic, my link is for a PA program; in it, they say it provides a cell phone with 250 minutes per month. I don't think you need 250 minutes per month just for calling 911.

77 I don't know if you saw my post earlier this week, but July turned out to be the hottest month of record here we have had since I started keeping records in 2008. I suspect when the NOAA gets their data out the warmies are going to go crazy. Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2011 08:20 AM (M9Ie6) Wow, since all the way back in 2008? I grew up in South Cackalacki. News flash: in the summer, it gets hot. I recall in the late 70s a summer where we had 20 days over a hundred in a row. I remember working at the auto auction one day in 83, it was 90 degrees whenI got there at 9 am, it went over a hundred, and it was still 95 at 11 at night. I was a drill cadet at Ft. Jackson in 86 - I recall a day at the range when it was 117 dry bulb *in the shade*

78

Paul Ryan is exactly right when he says that we have to fix our health care problem if we want to fix our debt problem. 

The working / middle class is getting squeezed to death by the cost of food, gas, energy, and health care.

Our insane health care payment system combines the ruthlessness of the market with the inefficiency / incompetence of government.  It drives up government spending, drives down wages, and creates economic insecurity for the vast majority of working Americans.

We are in such a weird place as a country.  I can cite countless examples, just among friends and acquaintances, of people who are far better off on government assistance (Medicaid, food stamps, bridge cards, etc.) than they are trying to eke out a living in the work world. 

I would very much appreciate a presidential candidate who could articulate a plan to change the social contract to give Americans a "better deal", much in the way that Paul Ryan has.

I respect Ryan very much for actually stepping into the arena and putting ideas on the table.  I hope that the Republican party puts forth a candidate who is smart, articulate, and forward-thinking.  I would much rather vote FOR somebody than simply AGAINST Obama.   

79 Gabe, the FOUNDERS hated Democracy. This nation was founded as a Democratic REPUBLIC. There is a HUGE difference. In a Republic, there are laws which cannot be overruled by the desire of a Majority of people. In a Democracy, the people make the law anything they want to with a simple majority.

They can vote to round up all the members of an ethnicity or religion and throw them in prison, they can steal land from anyone at their whim. They can force any minority into slavery status. Democracy is Two Wolves and a Sheep voting on what's for dinner.

As one founder put it, "I'd rather have one King Ten Thousand Miles away, then Ten Thousand Kings one mile away."

Greek Democracy (where it originated) only lasted 55 years before it was bankrupt and descended into anarchy. The Monarchy was restored.

Another Founder wrote "There has not been a Democracy in history that did not commit suicide. "

You should really re-think your notions of "Democracy" in light of the reality of the misery created as a result of it.

80

Sex-panicked neo-confederate carjacking hobbit terrorists!

_{link in name}

81 I recall in the late 70s a summer where we had 20 days over a hundred in a row.

I was here in the late 70s but I don't remember 20 days in a row above 100°F. I wasn't keeping close track of it then though.

By keeping records I mean using my own measurement devices, logging the high and low for the day using a thermometer mounted in the shade away from stuff like concrete that would effect the readings.

I started that in 2008 when this AGW shit was in high gear.

82 I was told that this was the place to sign up for the Tea Party Terrorist workshops.  Can someone pass me the sign in sheet?

83 TSA & HSA Enhance Their Sterling Reputations So Logan Airport in Boston will test run the Israeli security screening method eh? "TSA has long recognized the value of a layered, threat-based approach to transportation security and the need to focus more of our resources on people who potentially pose a threat to aviation safety in addition to the system's current focus on high-risk items," TSA spokesman Greg Soule told Fox News. Well your just full of shit Greg. The Israeli screening method relies heavily on PROFILING! The TSA has relied on frisking 6-year olds and grannies in wheelchairs, while ignoring Muhammad wearing a robe and head dress. Is TSA NOW saying they care more about airline security than political correctness? I will believe it when I see it. Most Americans with a lick of common sense have been calling for the Israeli method long before TSA wasted billions on naked body scanners. Is it too much to ask for government to get just one damn thing right?

84 Here it comes.  BOHICA:

Job growth stalls, layoffs surge

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The jobs recovery slowed for a third month in a row, according to two reports out Wednesday.

....

Meanwhile, a separate report showed more firms are opting to downsize, rather than add to their payrolls.

The number of planned job cuts surged to a 16-month high in July -- rising 60% in July to 66,414 from June's 41,432, according to outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

The firm characterized it as a "sudden and unexpected burst" in downsizing.

85

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

H.L. MENCKEN

86
  Always thought this was a Republic, governed by a Constitution.  Most of the people I interact with call it a Democracy, though.

  OT, but I have to bitch a little. Recently updated to the latest FireFox, and it's the sorriest piece of shit ever. IE looks like a dream in comparison. Earlier versions--3.6 particularly, were far better. Would've stayed at 3.6. until I learned it wasn't going to be supported any longer.

  Asshats.

87 All politicians lie, but some of them do it better than others.

The whole point of a Super Committee was to bypass the TEArorrists that might rock the gravy boat.  The language governing the authority of the Super Committee is loose enough to drive a semi though and was deliberately written that way.  Look at how the clear concise understandable language of the Constitution has been perverted over the years and tell me that you think these treasonous scumbag elites can't (and won't) screw us again and again re revenue enhancements and shared sacrifice.  There will be at least two RINO elite Senators on the committee (FOM-Friends of Mitch) so the third pick doesn't signify.

As an aside, one of the recurring oxymoronic phrases I think should be banned from public discourse is "If the Republicans were smart...". 

I would be overjoyed if the Republicans were stupid but HONEST!

The news gets more depressing every day/hour, and I have reached the point where there is important stuff I need to read up on, like the REASON article, but I can't afford to start drinking this early in the day so I don't even click the link.  I don't see how we can organize and field a third party in time to keep this country from total destruction, but more and more it seems like the only viable solution.

88 I was told that this was the place to sign up for the Tea Party Terrorist workshops.  Can someone pass me the sign in sheet?

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 03, 2011 08:45 AM (jx2j9)

We think you just wear a sheet and you're in.

89 Damn. I am waiting to hear whether I am going to be offered one job and waiting to get an interview for another one next week. If neither of them pan out I am really screwed. This economy is going nowhere. Y'all may see me panhandling in downtown Philly pretty soon. People who have been out of work for a long time are starting to give up. We're all out of bullets. I fear we are going to see a new round of foreclosures, bankruptcies, etc. This shit isn't going to stop until businesses see we are getting some real change in Washington.

90 Vic, the popular vote gambit, makes them totally ignore much of anything but the East and West coasts, you want the election to be even more tilted on behalf of NY and California.

91

Most Americans with a lick of common sense have been calling for the Israeli method long before TSA wasted billions on naked body scanners. Is it too much to ask for government to get just one damn thing right?

Rest assured the government won't get this right either.

The Israeli method works because (a) they don't give a shit if you don't make your plane because you didn't get there early enough and (b) they have a tiny fraction of the passenger volume that the U.S. has. 

Israel sees, I believe, only about 40% of what the U.S. sees on any given day.  They can afford to do the two hour interview thing.

I have a buddy who's a civil rights attorney (and yes he's a conservative) at DHS.  Trying to thread the needle so you can "profile" without causing the ACLU to go bat-shit is a full time occupation there.

92

ExposeÂ’ on the Fruits of Tea Party Terrorism up at Big Government.

Many conclusions to be drawn from this.  None of them will make you optimistic for the country under the JEF regime.

93

Posted by: rockmom at August 03, 2011 08:54 AM (lSyyU)

Good luck rockmom.  Prayers all around. 

Consider the Feds in DC.  At least they are still hiring and I know people who do the 2 hour commute from Richmond on the train just to have a job right now.  Philly would be about the same commute.

And you'd have the side benefit of running into Sheriff Joe once in a while.

 

94 As one founder put it, "I'd rather have one King Ten Thousand Miles away, then Ten Thousand Kings one mile away."

Actually that quote came from Boston reverend Dr. Mather Byles in 1770 delivering a sermon for one of the people killed at the Boston Massacre.

He was a crown loyalist.

Hardest hit Mel Gibson movies.

95 Greek Democracy (where it originated) only lasted 55 years before it was bankrupt and descended into anarchy. The Monarchy was restored.

Scholars differ, but Democracy in Athens lasted from about 508 BC to 322 BC, when it was suppressed by the Macedonian kings. 

They can vote to round up all the members of an ethnicity or religion and throw them in prison, they can steal land from anyone at their whim. They can force any minority into slavery status.

The Roman Republic did ever single thing you list, and so have Monarchies throughout history.  Why do people react so violently to the notion of Democracy?  

My guess is probably that ultimately, humanity despises itself.  We would much rather surrender our own freedom just to make sure those other bastards don't get it, and ceding power to an elite

96 Lay off the Hobbits, already. 

97 Vic, the popular vote gambit, makes them totally ignore much of anything but the East and West coasts, you want the election to be even more tilted on behalf of NY and California.

Posted by: Captain Smith at August 03, 2011 08:54 AM (Pjih7)

My understanding of what this "popular vote" thing would do is that the State would assign their electors to the winner of the popular vote instead of the winner of that State's popular vote.

If that is the way it would work then a State like CA would then be open to the Republicans which it NEVER is now. 

I am not worried about it though in any case. It would last about as long as it took someone to take it to court.

98 My elderly neighbor across the street just called crying.  She recently found out that her lung cancer returned and she asked if my wife or I could come over and "sign a paper" at some point today.  Shit, she is such a nice lady...

99 Some crazy shit involving a collar bomb and a teen girl going down in Perth, Australia.

Link via Drudge who has more.

100 Doom thread up.

101 We think you just wear a sheet and you're in.

Huh, I thought it was a boob belt. Wait, maybe that was bomb belt.

102 Posted by: irongrampa at August 03, 2011 08:51 AM (ud5dN)
 
There is a way to revert to FF 3.6 but I don't have a link for you. It can be done though. I'm still using 3.6 and will do so until it bugs out or 5.0 starts getting good reviews.
 
Cuz I'm not using IE or Chrome. Screw Google especially.

103 Happy birthday, Tami!

104

Hostage taking carjacking hobbit terrorists!! Is there nothing we can't do?

 

Yes. I can't reach the pedals!

105 Good luck, rockmom. 

106

Posted by: irongrampa at August 03, 2011 08:51 AM (ud5dN)

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

107 Thanks all!

Thank you Y-not, but I no longer have birthdays....it's an anniversary.

108 109 Doom thread up.
This isn't the DOOM thread? Sweet Jesus!

109

There has been speculation for days as to whether the President was going to make it to his own fundraising 50th birthday party - a plush affair at a $40,000 a night ballroom in Chicago.

And it seems the small matter of a multi-trillion dollar debt crisis was not going to stop the President pulling out all the stops.

Helicopters could be heard over the Chicago lakefront as authorities performed security drills in preparation for the Mr Obama's visit.

The celebrity-studded event, which will be held at the exclusive Aragon Ballroom tomorrow - the day before President Obama's birthday

 

 And every time the son of a bitch comes to town he shuts down the expressways and major streets during rush hour traffic because the peasants must make way for the king to get his ass kissed by the brainless wealthy donors

 

110
   @ 111--think I may have found that link, what pisses me most is that I'm old enough to remember when "new and improved" meant just that, not some obfuscatory bullshit as is so prevalent today.

111 Posted by: GnuBreed at August 03, 2011 09:12 AM (ENKCw)
I completely uninstalled FF4.x (used Zsoft), and found a prior versions site somewhere on Mozilla and then installed FF3.8.16.  Not quite a clean install but close. 

112
  @115---yeppers, that's the one, thanks for the confirmation.

113 Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 03, 2011 09:18 AM (1Jaio)

the peasants must make way for the king to get his ass kissed by the brainless wealthy donors

NTTATWWT.

 

114

There has been speculation for days as to whether the President was going to make it to his own fundraising 50th birthday party - a plush affair at a $40,000 a night ballroom in Chicago.

These are the idiots that should pay more taxes.  Wonder how many 'corporate jet' owners will be there? 

115 Thank you Y-not, but I no longer have birthdays....it's an anniversary.

Well I'm on top of things this morning!  Happy anniversary, Tami and Mr. Tami!

Ours is tomorrow.  27 years. 

I made reservations at a nice place that has a really romantic patio.  I was trying to decide if I should have flowers delivered to the table so it seemed more special, but I don't know if that's too girly for my husband.  So I was trying to think of what the equivalent gift for a man would be.  I'm stumped. 

116 So far all I've come up with is wearing a dress that shows cleavage.  (The restaurant is not in Utah County, so no one will rush to cover me up!)

117

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists

118 We may be looking at this whole terrorist slander thingy the wrong way- So Now I'm a Terrorist? Awesome!

119 Democracy at AOS!

I vote that Y-not shows cleavage and sends in pics.

120 Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 03, 2011 08:58 AM (TpXEI) Please watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE&fe

121 So I was trying to think of what the equivalent gift for a man would be.  I'm stumped. 

Posted by: Y-not is late to the party at August 03, 2011 09:27 AM (5H6zj)

Happy (early) anniversary to you too then!

Let's see...he'll already be getting alcohol delivered to the table so that won't work.  

Does he have a hobby?

122 69

PEACE.. OF.. MIND.

The new entitlement.

123  I don't think you need 250 minutes per month just for calling 911.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 03, 2011 08:36 AM (ENKCw)

Do you know how many times they run out of McNuggets a month??!!!

124 I vote that Y-not shows cleavage and sends in pics.

Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2011 09:30 AM (M9Ie6)

Seconded.

125 Happy Anniversary, Tami!

(from a cranky old person....)

126 Thanks, cranky old person!  May I call you COP?

127 Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a amusement account it. Look advanced to more added agreeable from you! However, how could we communicate?

128 136 Thanks, cranky old person!  May I call you COP?

Posted by: Tami at August 03, 2011 09:45 AM (X6akg)

Heh.  Hell yeah.  Or SCOP (selfish cranky old person).

129 Actually that quote came from Boston reverend Dr. Mather Byles in 1770 delivering a sermon for one of the people killed at the Boston Massacre.

He was a crown loyalist.

Hardest hit Mel Gibson movies.

Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2011 08:57 AM (M9Ie6)

My Bad. Too much stuff to remember. Thanks for correcting me. Still, not a bad sentiment.

130 "So I was trying to think of what the equivalent gift for a man would be.  I'm stumped" Golf clubs or shotguns. Always warms my heart.

131
The Roman Republic did ever single thing you list, and so have Monarchies throughout history.  Why do people react so violently to the notion of Democracy?  

My guess is probably that ultimately, humanity despises itself.  We would much rather surrender our own freedom just to make sure those other bastards don't get it, and ceding power to an elite

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 03, 2011 08:58 AM (TpXEI)

The Roman's were Pagan, and had no qualms about oppressing and murdering people. The Romans' also remained a Republic for only part of their existence.

The Fact that the Developed parts of the world initially sprang from the Christianized regions is no accident in my mind. As Barbaric and violent as Nations have been under Christianity, (or a semblance thereof) they were worse under Paganism and Atheism.

132 Wow, Dallas area 'rons and 'ettes, 33 straight days of triple-digit temps!  Hope you are all able to keep cool. 

133

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

ARISTOTLE

134 BTW, Fox is reporting that the teen in Australia has been freed.

135 Good ol' GKC.

136 Was channel surfing and came upon the "ellen" show. You know, she's a pretty good looking guy.

137 When a man says that democracy is false because most people are stupid, hit him smartly and with precision on the exact tip of the nose.


Word.

138 What We Have Now Is Fear http://ow.ly/5UeCc

139

Democracy is the road to socialism.

KARL MARX

140 Ben, I really thought that was code for something.  I didn't expect to find someone trying to actually split atoms in their home.  WTF

141 Many thanks for this particular site. I undoubtedly loved going through it and will definitely talk about it with everyone.

142 but can we really make certain the people behind the accomplishment? Every now and then, obtain more, wage more.