1 That's what I look for, intelligent morning commentary.

2 Morning Morons. No news today so no doom.

3 Vic, the day is yet young.  Keep the lube handy.

4 Reading that sidebar article about the TX wind turbines I note one thing that they did not mention about the gas turbines. Not only do they provide more reliable power but you can build them in the area of demand so that you do not have to build long power lines to feed the power to the load.

5 The SCoaMF's pick to replace Goolsbee is a fucking doozy.

Apparently, he was the genius behind Cash-for-Clunkers...and is pushing for a VAT.

But, ironically, the work he is most known for is that unemployment compensation doesn't have the multiplier that Petey claims.

6 Morning, Morons, Moronettes, and the Emotionally Unstable! Anna Nicole Smith, Still Dead! Manufacturers of Twin Slings, Hardest Hit!

7 If you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

8 I had a dream. Martin Luther King visited me in a motel room last night. He's kind of more churchy than you would expect. We shared a laugh about Unitarians. Then he went outside to get some ice.

9 10 If you eat slip while crushing a live frog under foot first thing in the morning and break your coccyx , nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

fify

10 @12: When Maxine Waters visits your room, you will finally hit bottom and quit drink for good!

11 Off, sock

12

Josef Goebbel's 100-year-old secretary is talking about her former boss for the first time after refusing interviews for 66 years.

Seems he was a quiet guy. Mostly kept to himself.

13 Fear not, everyone, Mittens Aurelius has a plan to deal with Perry!

(from Drudge)

14 Wow. We've got Jim Treacher commenting on the last thread. I'm a huge fan of his, esp his tweets and the Daily Caller.

15

AIDS scare shuts down L.A. porn industry after star tests HIV-positive.

I never understood the need to make new porn. Do the clips from 2007 just not do it for you anymore?

16

the big Sandston (Richmond) postal whsehouse ($500 million worth) was built with no back up generator.  pretty stupid.  yesterday it was without power so people all along the east coast did not get mail. 

cause, the people don't know how to use Coleman lanterns & sort by hand.

my postmaster says he hopes we'll have mail by Friday.

17

dumbsh*ts in the postal industry:  do you think you are too big to fail?  do you think a major power outage on the entire east coast would magically skip you?

even here on my dirt road, we have a generator.  duh!

18

This latest scenario is an example of why test-only procedures are inefficient, and why condoms should be mandatory, said Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which advocates for more government regulation.

"When will it end?" Weinstein asked in a statement released Monday. "This latest outbreak underscores the urgent need for immediate action by government to stop this occupational health hazard from continuing.

"This outrageous disregard for the health and safety of the performers and the community at large is a shameful blot on the reputation of LosAngeles."

Just not enough regulation. They don't see the irony at all, do they?

19 "RomneyÂ’s campaign will argue that Perry is against the very idea of Social Security and Medicare, and that he will use PerryÂ’s book to scare seniors in early-primary states with large retiree populations, such as Florida and South Carolina"

Our party has it's own Suckers of Cock™.

20

I never understood the need to make new porn. Do the clips from 2007 just not do it for you anymore?

Posted by: Jingo at August 30, 2011 07:34 AM (mdwWR)

 

LOL. 

I never understood why people thought they could have all that swapping of bodily fluids and NOT have VD spreading around.  Did they really think nobody would go outside the industry in their private time, or that testing the newbies would never yield a false negative?

21

Posted by: Jingo at August 30, 2011 07:34 AM (mdwWR)

That's like saying once you've had sex, what's the point of doing it again.  Heretic!

22

cause, the people don't know how to use Coleman lanterns & sort by hand.

my postmaster says he hopes we'll have mail by Friday.

Posted by: kelley in virginia
............
Maybe Texas can lend them some of those windmills!

Speaking of which..  this whole wind power thing is a scam..  it is so unreliable, you have to keep all your fossil fuel plants working (and running) to take up the slack.

Denmark is a classic example.  They have an offshore wind farm they don't use.  The wind farm produces electricity, but not reliably enough to allow them to shut down their coal plants. 

So, they sell all the wind power to Norway and Sweden where most of the power comes from hydroelectric.  Hydroelectric can ramp up and down very quickly to take up the slack in power from wind.  Who knew?

23 "Seven out of 10 view President Barack Obama's tenure favourably." Nothing can bolster a fifth column more than anchoring it to the top.

24 16 Fear not, everyone, Mittens Aurelius has a plan to deal with Perry!
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 30, 2011 07:25 AM (FkKjr)

Mittens is the George McClellan of the 2012 campaign, constantly marshaling and drilling his forces and afraid to attack because he's sure he's outnumbered.

And we love him!

25

Texas Wind Energy.  Substituting what works reliably and economically with what feels good politically, at an enormously expensive ratepayer and taxpayer subsidized cost.

Tell me what other industry could avoid being laughed into bankruptcy when only able to produce < 9% of its much hyped output on "go time" days.

26

"RomneyÂ’s 25 years creating jobs in the private sector"
--Thiessen, Washington Post

Corporate Raiding destroys businesses and jobs in the private sector. Outsourcing to foreign conglomerates does not improve US unemployment figures. There is no American industrial development from any Romney enterprise. He declared American manufacturing dead, telling the unemployed to retrain for "good jobs" being either in a government bureaucracy or "investing" against American industrial interests and against the US Dollar. The only jobs that corporatist Romney ever created have been to grow government bureaucracy into bankruptcy (RomneyCare), and to benefit the globalist investment industry that is abusing the concept of sovereign national status everywhere in the world. So Romney might have voted against tax funding illegal aliens' higher education (he has no problem taxing Americans to educate illegals through high school, provide food and housing and "free" medical attention). But Romney's single state veto against a dream act doesn't protect our national border any better than a white picket fence.

 

27 There's a new strain of Miserable Failure in DC.  Proggs hardest hit.

28

If anyone is interested in watching Rick Perry's full speech at the VFW convention yesterday....

I found it at a blog called PrairiePundit..... prairiepundit.blogspot.com

Great speech!

29

Well at least SCOAMF doesnÂ’t suffer from irregularity.  Not sure how that will impact his favorability.  His performance on jobs is another story.  Pretty sure thatÂ’s a ding on the ole numbers.

30 Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2011 08:11 AM (4q5tP)

Tree hugging Austin is forcing all residents to pay energy rates to subsidize the new off-site (wooded) solar power project.*  During droughts, plenty of sunshine. But they don't call TX tornado ally for no reason. I remember the entire winter of 1977 following a drought that was perpetually overcast for months without a break. It is usual for at least one month to stay mostly overcast during winters in Central TX.

*City Council just approved the building of several electric car re-energizing battery ports around Austin to dispense electricity free for the few electric cars in town (municipal purchases). 

31 How does an illegal alien named Obama get a SS account?  We're talking about the uncle here.

32 Mittens is the George McClellan J. Edgar Hoover of the 2012 campaign...

33

Wow.  Overlooked demographic.  56% satisfied with the Mahdi SCOAMF.  I bet they try to clamp a lid on this one positive story though.

Why would they want to do that though?

34 37, He dresses up in womens clothes and dances to show tunes?

35 53 hours and counting with no power. It's like a frickin' campground in my neighborhood. I'm really sick of hearing the hum of generators. This sucks!

36

The other degraded ecosystem.  Sorry, no Nobels here.  Unfortunately for these guys, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to back them up.  Yeah, I know.  They should have destroyed the evidence.

37 Good morning, morons! 

There's a round up of good Cheney moments (from his memoir) over at NRO. 

38 Beefy Meatball, I have gone to Cuelbra (junt north of there). Liked it: quiet, lonely, etc. we had an isolated house. If looking for excitement, might want to go somewhere else.

39 Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 30, 2011 08:55 AM (jx2j9)
The obvious (and never acknowledged) aspect of this is that new and improved manufacturing techniques are typically based on incremental improvements to an existing manufacturing base/technology.  When the production technology moves overseas, the people running the equipment are NOT Americans and it is they that get ideas for novel new ways to improve the manufacturing processes, and profit from the production improvements.
Classical liberal "They Win, We Lose" scenario.

40 Htothgar, DoD has industrial base types who have been warning about this for years - the Ivy league just noticed

41 10 If you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
________

As I read that, Bob Beckel started talking on Fox News. Color me not convinced.

42 There are so much to learn from your post here, Uma, well done.

43 Martha, Martha, Martha. "To waterspouts spotted... they kinda look like tornadoes!"

44 Posted by: Jean at August 30, 2011 09:23 AM (JjNG+)
There have been manufacturing types crying out in the wilderness, but the MFM never talks about  the innovation cauldron that exists in  a real world environment.

45 Boehner's First Order Of Business -------------------------------------------- EVERY member of the Congressional Black Caucus who took part in the "Hate Whitey, Ramp Up The Racial Rhetoric Tour" while on congressional recess should be CENSURED. That kind of behavior, from elected officials, has no place in civilized society.

46

Okay, I will open my eyes! "While we will get good at predicting the next advance of technological innovation, we won't get very good at predicting what happens with the hive mind." Believing in the impossible.

http://tinyurl.com/3nh53zu

47 FYI, more Perry- Islam curriculum  stuff at JihadWatch. Too early to link, y'all will find it.

48 RE: SSGN I worked on the tech manual for that Fire Control system. Glad to know I didn't botch it too much

49 This issue with the Bradley/Prosser incident and the progressive response to it shows how the 'progressive' culture is genuinely creepy. Shouldn't there be some self-policing over there? Shouldn't someone be able to stand up within their movement and demand Bradley resign? I find it hard to genuinely believe that the progressives are a lockstep conspiracy. What I find more believable is that no one's membership in that movement is genuinely 'safe'. If someone stands up for decency, he/she knows the whole movement will instantly turn on that person and drum them out of the family forever. I also think this is why the entire MSM won't report on some stories. It isn't a lockstep conspiracy. It's just that every reporter knows they risk being put outside the family if they write such a story. There probably is no formal mechanism for doing this, either. It is probably a self-emergent phenomenon on the left which provides their impressive message discipline.

50 Re: SSGN  I was on the USS Florida back in the days before the conversion.  At the time we just tried to stay undetected by the Russkies out in the Pacific.  Sounds like these guys get a little more excitement these days.

51 Well the Florida would have been a BN back in the day. Now she's all angsty.

52 @ 60

Yes, of course.  But nobody but bubbleheads would recognize the distinction.

53 I don't want to spam threads, but it's been hard to find out where Perry will be before he gets there so I'm re-posting this for our lucky SoCal morons:

California morons.  Perry will be at a meet and greet in the OC next week. Info about how to get tickets is here.

Excerpt from OC Register article:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry committed Monday to holding what they’re calling an “old-fashioned meet-and-greet” rally for the Republican faithful at Roger’s Gardens in Newport Beach next week, which is significant for several reasons. He becomes the first challenger for the GOP nomination to hold a large public event in Orange County; it will signal to Republicans in O.C. how some of their party leaders are leaning (that is, away from Mitt Romney); and it signals to the rest of the state’s Republicans which way the wind is blowing in the most important conservative county in the U.S.

Tickets for the rally, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Sept. 8, are free but limited because of the size of the venue (contact ocgop.org for info), so it might be more appropriate to call it a semipublic rally. Nonetheless, it will be sufficient in size, 400-500 souls, that its political purposes will be served.