1 Ha! A worm!

2 Bird

3 Too frickin' early.

4 Quite the save went on last night in the futures market.
Down 300 to green this morning, wonder how long this save is good for.

5 VDH lays it out

6

So then.

 

If we not be prag's... then how do you rate us?

7 Has the President made an official statement regarding the riots in Britain?

8

Pulling the PRAG with something special hand hidding south of never.

 

Now is the time to play no more games! Those days are done! Those days are MOST done.....and you all know that. WE had fun but know we ....wait

9 The rioters acted stupidly.

10

10

It was the start none the less.....

11 The rioters burning cars acted stupidly by, uh, burning.

12 Michigan not only had twice as many college students on food stamps as they "estimated", but ten times as many as the leftist State of California.

The judge tells college students to get a job. Good advice. Easy to say when you have one, when people are hiring. "Nice work if you can get it. And you can get if you try." Back in the day, university students did work summer jobs painting houses, during semesters in school libraries, at the Dairy Queen or the automobile paper route while putting themselves through school.

13 Remember in the 90s when the Brits used to say they didn't have crime like the US because of their gun control laws?

They haven't said that for a long time, have they?

14 I wonder if the burning Brit cars can act as stupidly as the French ones during their crisis of yoots?

15

12

So now WHO waits for the justice?  WHO says they NEED JUSTICE?

 

WHO STARTED THIS SHIT in the FIRST PLACE??

 

Give ME THAT!!  GIVE ME THAT!!!! 

16 Let me be clear. Although I don't have all the information, those riots started when a man with a blue tit on his head shot a young man. The police acted stupidly in their selection of headgear.

17 Is VDH the new Buckley of NR? He seems like the only one over there who gets it every time.

18 They haven't said that for a long time, have they?

Aside from MI-5 Big Brother intelligence series which of itself is sheer monotonous replication of abuses glorified, BBC cop shows had to relocate to set in Italy to keep an audience (Zen of Venice). It was the televised series as "entertainment" of typical protocol, rioting in England while the police showed up in order to witness but do nothing but retreat that was too much to expect an American audience to follow on PBS BBC broadcasts.

19 Posted by: beedubya at August 09, 2011 06:58 AM (AnTyA)

That article was awesome.

20 I have BBC feed on.  Riots have spread to Liverpool,  Birmingham,  and Bristol.  Cameron has called Parliament back for Thursday.  They will have 16,000 police on the streets this evening.

21 I wonder if the burning Brit cars can act as stupidly as the French ones during their crisis of yoots? -- Posted by: AnonymousDrivel

European version of cash for clunkers.

22 They will have 16,000 police on the streets this evening. -- Posted by: Miss Marple

Called back from socialist "earned" month on paid leave.

Norway has its massacre of youth that took police hours to respond, and European governments go on vacation taking days to respond to riots.

23
23 haven't you heard? The S&P bunch are Bushites and Bush family friends.
So now Obama is going into Alex Jones conspiracy territory.

24 Posted by: Miss Marple at August 09, 2011 07:22 AM (Fo83G)

The riots in this country will be confined to the blue cities that have restrictive gun control laws. I can't imagine significant unrest in the red state suburbs or even in FL and TX.

Is it mean-spirited of me to wish the worst rioting on the Upper West Side of Manhattan?

25 You have to admire the European socialist nations, don't you?  So civilized. Lets be more like them!

26 Fish the Impaler: "The Obama team will continue flogging the 'it's not our fault' because the meanies at S&P don't like the president."

Hey, someone offers up a new chicken, they're going to fuck it. What else you gonna do?

27
28  Please, PLEASE! Somebody offer up a new chicken.

28 So which tanks at a higher percentage today: the DJIA or Owebamaa+'s approval ratings?

29 #26  I am interested in how similar these are to the (mostly media ignored) flash mobs erupting here in the US.  I want to know if someone other than the black teens is fanning this behavior through Facebook and Twitter. 

Oh, ugh, now someone on BBC is talking about the "anger and alienation" of certain segments of the community.  "Young black kids being stopped and harassed" and "it's like the 80's again."

Aha!  I see what's happening.  It's an effort to use this to discredit Cameron.  And get this (read the Hanson piece first to get the supreme irony): "the science of crowd psychology we have built over the last 30 years tells us we cannot divorce living conditions from this behavior, and we must have the police opening dialogue in the communities."

Good grief. 

30

From VDH article: "Those who praised Obama as a god or attributed their own nervous tics to his omnipresence..."

Ha, ha.  I bet that punch in nose hurt.

31 beedubya

VDH: "Politicians like John Kerry, John Edwards, and Al Gore all share certain common characteristics of this Western technocracy: proper legal or academic credentials" -- Except that Al Gore flunked out of college. He didn't just drop out. GORE FAILED ACADEMICS. Yet postures as a professor, as illegitimate as the shroud hiding Obama's unavailable academic record, puffed up "visiting guest lecture" status to "Constitutional Law Professorship", discrediting whatever pomp the Univ. of Chicago claims itself.

32 Watched Bill O'Reilly last night.  Wondering if he might eat some crow about pushing for a compromise last week.  No such luck.  But he was blathering on about getting a national sales tax.  He said a one cent national sales tax would fund bla bla bla.  Bill, come on, give these idiots a new tax?  How long before that one cent blows up to fifty percent on what you are buying? 

33 Posted by: maverick muse at August 09, 2011 07:34 AM (lpWVn)

Incorrect.

Al gore did not flunk out of college. He flunked out of divinity school after college. There is a difference.

And as I recall, he was working full-time as a journalist at the time.

34 Bill O'Reilly is an idiot.  No spin,  pfft.  It helps if it is mixed with some brains.

35 Posted by: Miss Marple at August 09, 2011 07:33 AM (Fo83G)

Use the army to put down the riots. And use live ammo.

I am angry and alienated too, but I express my displeasure at the voting booth and with letters to the editors and all of the other ways that civilized human beings express themselves.

36 "the science of crowd psychology we have built over the last 30 years tells us we cannot divorce living conditions from this behavior, and we must have the police opening dialogue in the communities."

Riots seemed to have a shorter half-life when the police opened heads instead of dialogue.

37
32 Answer: DJIA   followed by Owe Drama's popularity.

PS Gold hit $1780.80 as Hong Kong market closed.
Hovering at $1752 as London closes.
Heavy Silver liquidations for Gold acquisitions are pulling Silver down below $38
Very good time to buy Silver if it hits $35

38 In large part the present reset age arises because our political and cultural leaders exercised influence that by any rational standard they had never earned. -- Victor Davis Hanson

RESET. Hillary will love her tacky button applied against herself by the "vast right wing conspiracy".

39 O'Reilly routinely rides the populist hobby horse and by the time he saddles in, the thing is faded, termite infested, and frayed. He plays the moderate voice for so long that an issue becomes reasonably unsolvable by the time he joins the parade.

40 Posted by: dogfish at August 09, 2011 07:39 AM (N2yhW)

Don't forget pompous blowhard. It's important to be complete in one's descriptions.

41 Posted by: Downrated Upscale at August 09, 2011 07:41 AM (IhHdM)

Yes, and the penalty is a citation.

A ticket if you get caught rioting. Amazing.

42 I pity the foo'.

43 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 09, 2011 07:42 AM (LH6ir)

I don't know how he ever works up an appetite for food...He's so full of himself.

44 Who 'made $10bn on 10/1 bet that U.S. credit rating would be downgraded'?

Hmm.

45 Riots seemed to have a shorter half-life when the police opened heads instead of dialogue.

Posted by: kdny at August 09, 2011 07:41 AM (5dBwQ)

These people have become so 'sophisticated' that they don't realize rewarding bad behavior is a bad thing. 

But this isn't nuanced enough for the intelligentsia, which defines itself not by thinking intelligently, but by thinking differently than the majority and pretending that makes you smart.

46

Fed forced to consider fresh stimulus

Expect more accounting tricks to paper over the tanking economy until the election.

And as it appears more and more likely that the White House will change hands, we can also expect plenty of landmines ala Clinton.

Remember the arsenic trap?

Be vigilant.

47

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 09, 2011 07:42 AM (LH6ir)

Most appreciated.

48 De' Debil Hisself: "Very good time to buy Silver if it hits $35"

If I had any spare coins, I'd probably buy some silver. Lately, anything extra goes into the Tea Party kitty and to my favorite Representative Terrorists of the Hobbit Liberation Front.


Speaking of which: It's voting day for Wisconsinites. Don't make Honey Badger angry and not give a shit.

49 I just wanted to give a shout out to Warren Buffet.  There.  I said it.

50 Just How Stupid Is Al Gore, Actually?

Former vice-president, environmental guru, and Nobel laureate, Al Gore, was on NBCÂ’s tonight Show with Conan OÂ’Brien the other night, speaking on geothermal energy. Gore, who flunked out of both law school and divinity school (how does one flunk out of divinity school?), is now a self-styled scientific film maker...
Al Gore failed academics, dildo. That's the definition of flunked out: academic failure. You playing his apologist in denial is no surprise.

51 Posted by: beedubya at August 09, 2011 06:58 AM (AnTyA)

I stopped reading VDH a while back because he was always so spot on that I got depressed.  I think I will have to re-bookmark him.
I am beginning to feel like the members of the Greatest Generation may be the last ones to lead lives that ended in civilized retirement.

52

These people have become so 'sophisticated' that they don't realize rewarding bad behavior is a bad thing. 

Yes. They are so sophisticated that they believe violence is bad only when a state uses it against a minority or impoverished group.

Meanwhile that group's violence is "understandable".

These are educated fools who have things exactly backwards.

53 Good Morning Morons

I'm still alive.....barely

So what's in store for daily doom after a drop of over 600 points?

54 Remembered a classic song that goes with the VDH article "I'm In With The In Crowd".  TinyURL isn't working for me, but the lyrics are exactly on target (oops).

55 I heard yesterday that Hollywood is making a movie about Osama bin Laden's death.  They are pushing to have it out by October next year.  I question the timing.

56 VDH earns himself another IRS audit or USDA farm inspection with that one.

57 Is Obama smart?

58 Sarah Palin welcomes in a new grandchild.

Read her Facebook thingy, too. Google it.

I like this one: "Metals chief Andrew Michelmore says soft Aussie workforce are 'pissing away' the economy"

59 Looks like I'm not!Sorry about that.

60

So here we are now Lady and Gent!

The wheels come off rough and we best be ready to dirty our hands to put the wheels right or DIE TRYING....something like that?

 

That scare ya all.....that scare ya allll?  Hell to ya all that do not know what this means!.....Lawyers no not how to fight...they only take money and they will run to cover away from you with your money!  See the history of such,

Know not to trust the LAWYERS! Now is the time to pitch them en mass into the pit if we are to reclaim this nation. They WILL kill our will to the constitution and make us slaves because they love money over all!

61 Posted by: Downrated Upscale at August 09, 2011 07:44 AM (IhHdM)

I have no idea, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me. And it would be unequivocally marvelous!

62 Jean: "VDH earns himself another IRS audit or USDA farm inspection with that one."

I'm the one who needs an inspection. I think Axelrod gave me the crabs.

63 Posted by: maverick muse at August 09, 2011 07:50 AM (lpWVn)

You said that he flunked out of college. He didn't. He flunked out of divinity school, and withdrew from law school to run for some legislative position.

But hey, you got one out of three correct, and that's a good average for you!

Making shit up is a rhetorical technique best left to the left.

64

"But this isn't nuanced enough for the intelligentsia, which defines itself not by thinking intelligently, but by thinking differently than the majority and pretending that makes you smart."

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 09, 2011 07:46 AM (FkKjr)

This! +100

65 Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2011 07:59 AM (M9Ie6)

Hungover?

66

Ugghh!...My GM just asked me if I know where our Affirmative Action Certificate is.

Looks like this morning is now shot.

 

67 Also in Oz:
Man faces court after Police catch him drunk driving a motorised Esky (known to Morons on this side of the big water as a "beer cooler")

68

Ugghh!...My GM just asked me if I know where our Affirmative Action Certificate is.

They looking to hire Obama?

69

The committee

Remember, it only takes one RINO

70 Man, go camping for two days and Britain goes to hell.  But life in the U.S. is as usual: Everything bad is the fault of the Tea Party and Obama has a fund raiser.

71 But this isn't nuanced enough for the intelligentsia, which defines itself not by thinking intelligently, but by thinking differently than the majority and pretending that makes you smart."

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 09, 2011 07:46 AM (FkKjr)

This! +100

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

This x 2

72

#78-Remember, it only takes one RINO

sh*t

73 Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2011 08:15 AM (M9Ie6)

Thanks for ruining my day.

74

Unemployment is not high enough!

We must add big trucks to stupid CAFE standards....

By executive fiat of course. So let it be written, so let it be done.

75 Thanks for ruining my day.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 09, 2011 08:20 AM (LH6ir)

Its early doom!

76 Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2011 08:20 AM (M9Ie6)

Cut it out!

That article is unbelievable. The statistics are manipulated worse than I have seen in a long, long time.

77 So what's great about a AAA rating, anyway??

78

The committee

Remember, it only takes one RINO

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2011 08:15 AM (M9Ie6)

That reads like a Who's Who of the politicians that got us in this mess.  National politics is so fucked up.

79 84 Unemployment is not high enough! We must add big trucks to stupid CAFE standards.... By executive fiat of course. So let it be written, so let it be done. Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2011 08:20 AM (M9Ie6) But at least the oceans have begun to recede!

80 "Conservative" David Frum is on the radio right now proposing his Conservative Solutions: print more money, borrow more money and "give it to the people." "What we need is some inflation." Oh, and a national sales tax. What an asshole. He's a professional concern troll.

81 We must add big trucks to stupid CAFE standards....

By executive fiat of course. So let it be written, so let it be done.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2011 08:20 AM (M9Ie6)

Peasants on bicycles don't pollute Gaia!

82 7 Has the President made an official statement regarding the riots in Britain? Posted by: Tickbeard at August 09, 2011 07:03 AM (lHdBc) ------------------------------------------------------- Why yes. Yes he has. Barack Obama to Joe The Plumber: "I believe when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

83

What an asshole. He's a professional concern troll.

Nice work if you can get it.

I'd be happy to be a "concerned progressive" trolling dKos threads all day.

84 "What we need is some inflation." Right. And then our Journey to Dark Side will be complete. http://www.answers.com/topic/stagflation

85 Obama's theya culpa.

86

And the thuggery begins.

(Wait, what am I saying.  It never ends)

Dem Chairman of Senate Banking Committee Announces Investigation into S&P Over Downgrade Decision

(H/T (and headline text via) Weasel Zippers)

87 Bill O'Reilly is an idiot.  No spin,  pfft.  It helps if it is mixed with some brains.

Posted by: dogfish at August 09, 2011 07:39 AM (N2yhW)

Rush calls him Ted Baxter. I swear he stole that from me in a comment I made way back.

88

That reads like a Who's Who of the politicians that got us in this mess.  National politics is so fucked up.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 09, 2011 08:25 AM (GZitp)

You expected us to change?  You ARE as dumb as we think you are!

89 Vic,

Finishing out the "Likely" candidates from Boehner (according to the link):

"A House Republican freshman who voted for the debt ceiling bill – Huge freshman class could get seat at the table. Names mentioned include Reps. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) and Diane Black (R-Tenn.)."

Oh, yippee. One House freshman -- and one who voted for the pathetic, downgrade-producing law at that -- could get a voice. And Noem seems to be sliding right into "establishment" form. Don't know about Black.

Charade Part Deux coming right up. I, for one, will welcome our Bond Downgrading Overlords.

90 Making shit up is a rhetorical technique best left to the left.--Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 09, 2011 08:06 AM (LH6ir)

Al Gore is an academic failure. And you can't claim otherwise without overstating your own position, as above.

Since you're stuck on stupid splitting hairs, every university consists of colleges. "College" applies as I appropriately stated, as well as to undergraduate studies, whether at community college or university.

That Gore's father bought little Al an undergraduate degree bribing professors is likely as naught, given Al's inability to apply himself successfully in either graduate discipline, lacking what it takes. You mention his work full time as a journalist, which would have given Al experience producing and marketing bullshit propaganda pieces leading up to the inconvenient truth never properly ACADEMICALLY vetted.

91 Voters in Washington State, overwhelmingly voted to keep auto registration fees at $35 per year.

Imagine my shock, when I got a bill for $68 and change, yesterday.

92 90 "Conservative" David Frum is on the radio right now proposing his Conservative Solutions: print more money, borrow more money and "give it to the people."

What the fuck?  What happened to Frum - did he contract a major case of the stupids or was like CJ where the 9/11 attacks changed his thinking for a bit and then he reverted back the form?

Printing money in an already inflationary environment has got to rank up there with some of the stupidest ideas ever proposed. 

93 * Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) – Ranking member of Finance Committee told The Hill, “I can live with [being appointed] or live without it.” Some point out that Hatch, who could face a primary challenge next year, will not be keen on finding common ground with Democrats.

Flawless reasoning, that. Of course he wouldn't be motivated at all to "do something" so his dem opponent can't run on the failure of the committee to act.

94 I'm 31.  If I were to chuck a rock through someone's window, would I be considered a "rioting youth," or am I too old.  And white.

95 EoJ: "...He's a professional concern troll."

Waaay beyond that. He's turned professional idiot. He was in Triple-A there for a good while, but I think he must've just gotten a new contract.

96 Obama's theya culpa. Nicely done!

97 What the fuck? What happened to Frum - did he contract a major case of the stupids or was like CJ where the 9/11 attacks changed his thinking for a bit and then he reverted back the form? Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 09, 2011 08:32 AM (9hSKh) This can only mean that Peggy Noonan will soon be back on Morning Joe advocating retroactive repeal of the Reagan tax cuts. Why doesn't she retire to her new job, modeling bikinis for Sports Illustrated?

98

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz)- McConnell's deputy, participated in Biden talks, and is not seeking reelection.

So they put this old dufus on the committee and however he votes he answers to nobody because he is not seeking reelection.  Great, great...man, they can sure pick 'em.  We have lost before its even started.

99

How does one flunk out of divinity school?

Gore strikes me as the save the world type that confuses world peace with eternal salvation. He would have been a great beauty pageant contestant, but he is no Billy Graham.

Divinity school always has some weird types with really strange fantasies bouncing around inside their brain. They always flunk out, but they still go on to start their really strange religion which deceives certain weak types that are always looking for something new, or they buy into Chicken Little the world is going to end fantasies.

Real divinity students are serious thinkers that spend a lifetime ministering to people and you never hear of them.

100 I was very happy to search out this web-site.I needed to thanks to your time for this excellent read!! I definitely enjoying each little little bit of it and I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you weblog post.

101

I'm 31.  If I were to chuck a rock through someone's window, would I be considered a "rioting youth," or am I too old.  And white.

In that case if you're white, you're a criminal. 

Unless you haven't showered in a week, wear dreadlocks and can't muster enough testosterone to achieve an actual beard.  In that case, you're our moral conscience and your actions are a "powerful call to action."

If you're black then you're just expressing your well-justified rage at the unfairness of racism and [insert -ism du jour here].

If you're Muslim, then you're just expressing your well-justified hatred of Jews.

If you're Asian you're also a criminal and part of the new oppressor class, because you're good at math.

102 81 But this isn't nuanced enough for the intelligentsia, which defines itself not by thinking intelligently, but by thinking differently than the majority and pretending that makes you smart."

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 09, 2011 07:46 AM (FkKjr)

This! +100

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

This x 2

Posted by: beedubya at August 09, 2011 08:18 AM (AnTyA)

This^{eleventy!!1!1!!}

103

The Obama team will continue flogging the "it's not our fault" because the meanies at S&P don't math doesn't like the president.

FIFY

104 110 What the fuck? What happened to Frum - did he contract a major case of the stupids or was like CJ where the 9/11 attacks mgetting laid changed his thinking for a bit and then he reverted back the form? YES.

105 Ok, which one of you morons infiltrated the Obama campaign?

106 Why doesn't she retire to her new job, modeling bikinis for Sports Illustrated? I felt a great disturbance in the Force. It was as if millions of boners cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

107 Posted by: maverick muse at August 09, 2011 08:30 AM (lpWVn)

You should focus on making your own comments a bit clearer before you parse mine.

I didn't question whether Gore is an "academic failure," I merely corrected your factual errors.

And I am certainly not defending Gore. But making up facts is a stupid and lazy way to criticize those with whom you disagree.

108

 "So what's great about a AAA rating, anyway?"

My old high school is a 5A.

109

In that case if you're white, you're a criminal. 

Unless you haven't showered in a week, wear dreadlocks and can't muster enough testosterone to achieve an actual beard.  In that case, you're our moral conscience and your actions are a "powerful call to action."

If you're black then you're just expressing your well-justified rage at the unfairness of racism and [insert -ism du jour here].

If you're Muslim, then you're just expressing your well-justified hatred of Jews.

If you're Asian you're also a criminal and part of the new oppressor class, because you're good at math.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 09, 2011 08:38 AM (sbV1u)

Hmm, good points all. 

What about the fact that I'm a she?  Does having a double X chromosome give me some clout?  Perhaps I'm not so much a criminal as I am a misunderstood, oppressed segment of the population, long crushed under the bootheel of the patriarchal hegemony?  Or something?

110

Unemployment is not high enough!

We must add big trucks to stupid CAFE standards....

From the link:

Heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans must achieve a 10 to 15 percent reduction in fuel economy and a 12 to 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by model year 2018,

I doubt they actually mean a 10 to 15 percent reduction in fuel economy. Those layers of editors and fact checkers at work again, I guess.

111 Nothing ever IS Obama's Fault according to Obama, his White House, and most Liberals. Back in the 1970's, Erica Jong wrote about the "Zipless Fuck," the concept of screwing with no consequences. America is experiencing her first Zipless Fuck President.

112 How does one flunk out of divinity school?

No idea. It doesn't seem possible.

113 118 Ok, which one of you morons infiltrated the Obama campaign?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2011 08:41 AM (G/hEe)

HAH!  Yes!  I saw that!  Can that possibly be real?  Can the President possibly be that blind and tone deaf?

...

Yes, actually, he can. 

114 No idea. It doesn't seem possible.

Posted by: Satanic Shrine In Dorm Closet at August 09, 2011 08:44 AM (sOXQX)

It's a question of balance.

115

#112.  How does one flunk out of divinity school?

He was hanging out around the gym lockers too much.

116 "It's extremely historical and unprecedented," Heim said. "[Republicans] woke up a sleeping giant and energized a group of people that had not been ... particularly active in politics in recent years." Oddly enough, no mention of how the actions of the democratically elected legislature and governor have righted the badger state.  I don't think my neighbors in Wisconsin are clear on the concept of throw the bums out.  

117 127 No idea. It doesn't seem possible.

Posted by: Satanic Shrine In Dorm Closet at August 09, 2011 08:44 AM (sOXQX)

It's a question of balance.

Posted by: Satanic Shriner on Tiny Motorcycle at August 09, 2011 08:46 AM (B+qrE)

And syntax.

118 HAH!  Yes!  I saw that!  Can that possibly be real?  Can the President possibly be that blind and tone deaf?

I just stared at the picture looking for signs of Photoshop, but no, it seems to be actually real.  I knew the JEF was tone-deaf, but this takes the cake.

119 What do you call it when lobbyists actually hold seats in the US Congress? Why, you call it the Congressional Black Caucus! CBC has been pressuring Obama to create targeted federal programs for black communities hit hard by unemployment. Obama has resisted thus far. Perhaps he remembers the futility and frustration of his community organizing days. When it comes to programs such as what CBC is calling for, history has demonstrated that you would get the same mileage out of that $$$$ if you had a bonfire with it outside the Treasury Department. It is outrageous to me that in this day and age.......in the PEOPLES HOUSE..........that we have sanctioned and accepted divisions based on race. DISBAND the CBC now!

120 Posted by: Retread at August 09, 2011 08:43 AM (BO5ap)

And the horrible evil perpetrated on Americans by those evil truckers.

Trucks represent 4% of vehicles but use 20% of the fuel!

The horror...the horror!

Here is my version: Trucks represent only 4% of the vehicles, use 20% of the fuel, but carry 99.9% of the freight!

Amazing!

121

Freddie Mac - also known as Barney Frank - want $1.5 billion more tax payer dollars.

122

What about the fact that I'm a she?  Does having a double X chromosome give me some clout?  Perhaps I'm not so much a criminal as I am a misunderstood, oppressed segment of the population, long crushed under the bootheel of the patriarchal hegemony?  Or something?

Posted by: MWR, proud Tea Party Hobbit at August 09, 2011 08:43 AM (4df7R)

You raise an interesting point.

You can't be a victim of your chromosomes because that diminishes your womynhood.  But then again, if we give you a pass then we diminish your womynhood by not treating you like everyone else.

I think we'll go with your last option.

"Or something."

Because being a liberal means you never have to make sense.

 

123

Best justice department money can buy.  Just ask George.

124

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday he inherited many of the country's problems with high debt and deficits when he entered the White House, sounding a theme likely to dominate his 2012 re-election campaign.

Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser, where families paid $15,000 to get a picture with him, Obama defended his economic record and noted that problems in Europe were affecting the United States.

"We do have a serious problem in terms of debt and deficit, and much of it I inherited," Obama said. The financial crisis, he said, made the problem worse.

"What's absolutely true, even before these last couple days in the stock market, is that recovery wasn't happening fast enough," he said. "When you have problems in Europe and in Spain and in Italy and in Greece, those problems wash over into our shores," he said.

Some 140 people attended the fundraiser, which was held at a private home.

 

140 idiots paid money to listen to this idiot blame everyone else for the mess he's help create

125

And the horrible evil perpetrated on Americans by those evil truckers.

Trucks represent 4% of vehicles but use 20% of the fuel!

This reminds me of one of my favorite Dilbert cartoons .

Even my Malibu Barbie grasp of math gets why that's funny.

126

So Obama's approved $105 million in aid to Africa, huh?  Great.  Yeah, because we can afford to finance warlords and genocidal hoodlums.  Right.

I said it in an OT comment yesterday, but I am sick of hearing about starving Somalis.  Somalia was once a net producer of food.  Handouts from the civilized world are what drove it to such a bitter end, and continued handouts will not save it.  Tragic though it may be, they have to save themselves.  They should be shamed and shaken back into self-sufficiency, not coddled into further dependence.

127

There are two things about this super committee that gets my riled up.

1. How come the Democrats get the same amount of representation from the House of Representatives as the Republicans when there is a clear advantage to the Republicans in numbers?

2. I thought that the House of Representatives and the Senate was a super committee tasked with learning about all this and making the decision. This super committeee is a clear abrogation of their responsibility.

How stupid am I?

128

You raise an interesting point.

You can't be a victim of your chromosomes because that diminishes your womynhood.  But then again, if we give you a pass then we diminish your womynhood by not treating you like everyone else.

I think we'll go with your last option.

"Or something."

Because being a liberal means you never have to make sense.

 Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 09, 2011 08:50 AM (sbV1u)

 

GENIUS!

129 TheQuietMan: "140 idiots paid money to listen to this idiot blame everyone else for the mess he's help create"

I think (more and more) they aren't paying to listen to him. They're paying to see if they can get into his the taxpayer stash before he gets thrown out on his ass.

130 What about the fact that I'm a she?  Does having a double X chromosome give me some clout? Not necessarily. But it's been my experience that having Double Ds tends to buy gals an inordinate amount of slack.

131

They should be shamed and shaken back into self-sufficiency, not coddled into further dependence.

That's never going to happen.

I was in Somalia in 1994.  Until then, I hd never seen a house with horizontal holes in the walls, or streets with telephone poles but no wires.

Every scrap of copper had been stripped out of both.

When you're that low on hope for the future, you have to completely hit bottom before you get your shit together.  I'm talking you have to go Neanderthal first. 

The best thing you can do for them is give them is seal the borders, build 16 foot high blast walls around the whole country and give them better weapons.

Then come back in 5 years.

132 More from the big rig fuel standards link:

Senior administration officials touted the economic benefits of the standards Monday ahead of the announcement. While the necessary upgrades could cost as much as $2,220 for some trucks, the officials stressed that consumers will save many more thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicle.

Huh? Freight companies will have to lay out over $2k per truck up front. I'd expect them to raise rates to cover this. Somebody check my logic:

1. Raise costs for freighters
2. ????
3. Consumers save Big Bucks!!

Overall, the standards, which affect model year 2014 to 2018 heavy-duty trucks, will save 530 million barrels of oil and result in “significant” public health benefits, one senior administration official said.

If saving oil equates to public health benefits, they don't have to do anything. Enough people are out of work now that we're probably saving more than 530 million barrels during rush hour.

I'm glad to hear we've got Top Men on this.

133 Not necessarily. But it's been my experience that having Double Ds tends to buy gals an inordinate amount of slack.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 09, 2011 09:01 AM (lbo6/)

Well, I've got that covered...

134

Not necessarily. But it's been my experience that having Double Ds tends to buy gals an inordinate amount of slack.

True.  But I'm an assman.

135 Death by CAFE standards.  Stricter standards results in deadlier crashes and ironically  higher fuel consumption.  Levin also touches on this subject in Liberty and Tyranny.  You canna change the law of unintended consequences.  

136

Well, I've got that covered...

Posted by: MWR, proud Tea Party Hobbit at August 09, 2011 09:03 AM (4df7R)

Really?  Prove it.  ;-)

137

140 idiots paid money to listen to this idiot blame everyone else for the mess he's help create

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 09, 2011 08:53 AM (1Jaio)

I don't think they really listened to the Zero, but I am sure they paid money and that not all of it was on the books.

138 MWR, proud Tea Party Hobbit: "Well, I've got that covered..."

Now you've done it.

139 Senior administration officials touted the economic benefits of the standards Monday ahead of the announcement. While the necessary upgrades could cost as much as $2,220 for some trucks, the officials stressed that consumers will save many more thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicle.

Republicans have touted a new law that would require all new regulations to specify a cost/benefit analysis. I said at the time it was stupid because (a) we already have that and (b) they will just make up shit like this stated crap above.

How about a new law with some teeth? If the "savings" (or other objectives stated by the proponents of a new law) do not pan out after 5 years then all the sponsors and co-sponsors of the law are executed by burning at the stake.

After the first "weenie roast" new laws and regulations should be reduced.

140

#147. Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 09, 2011 09:02 AM (hXJOG)

"I think I'm a better speech writer than my speech writers," he reportedly told an aide in 2008. "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm . . . a better political director than my political director."

 

At least he's humble. We might have to replace the word narcissistic with Obama

 

141 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 09, 2011 08:42 AM (LH6ir)

Do your own research. Your criticism applies to yourself.

142 A little (simplistic and non-exact) CAFE math. 
1. Increase mileage by lessening the hauling capacity (say 10%)
2. Charge truckers $2,200 per truck extra
3. Sell more trucks to maintain the total hauling capacity (requires approx 10% more trucks and yes I am rounding)
4. Voila, an essentially static solution with PROFIT for the unions as they build more trucks.
5. Fine truckers driving the old trucks PROFIT
6. Destroy older usable trucks with thousands of serviceable miles left
7. Increase costs on anything that has to be  moved
8. Assist in the destruction of the economy

143 Inflation allows the elites to shed themselves of these management problems of theirs while confining the pain to you 'little people' at the bottom.

144

The best thing you can do for them is give them is seal the borders, build 16 foot high blast walls around the whole country and give them better weapons.

Another P.J. O'Rourke fan, I see.

145 Posted by: maverick muse at August 09, 2011 09:24 AM (lpWVn)

Do my own research? What the fuck are you talking about? You said Gore flunked out of college. He didn't.  He graduated Harvard College cum laude in 1969.

QED.

What research do you need to prove to yourself that you are stupid?

146 Rasmussen has it:  twice as many strongly disapprove than strongly approve on Obama's performance as president.

147 The Obama Maladministration is now so destructive, it resembles those racist Flash Mobs attacks on innocent white people seen across the nation and in London. Speaking of which, bets that Flash Mob violence breaks out all over America come Election Day next year?

148 A comment at Patterico said the GOP should come out with an ad showing the Obama presser yesterday with a voice over saying,  "Remember when we had a buck?  Remember where the buck used to stop?"  Obama destroyed his presidency yesterday.  The question now is, how much of the Democrat party will he take down with him.  I have a feeling that the DNC cancelled his plans for the day.  The damage he is doing to their party is reaching the tipping point, and they know it.  Obama is doing what Soros wants, and what Soros wants is good for Soros, not the DNC or America.

149 Posted by: CoolCzech at August 09, 2011 09:38 AM (kUaEF)

Agreed. "The Street" is coming to America.

But...many of us are armed, and would not be happy with rioting.

150 Why doesn't she retire to her new job, modeling bikinis for Sports Illustrated?

I felt a great disturbance in the Force. It was as if millions of boners cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

Speak for yourself kid.

151 161) He dropped out of Vanderbilt divinity School.

152 @168: The split happened, and the US and several other countries have recognized the south (including Israel, of course).

153 Has the President made an official statement regarding the riots in Britain?
I believe the buildings and double-decker buses acted stupidly.

154 The Today I Found Out site pays homage to the Honey Badger

The WorldÂ’s Most Fearless Creature is the Honey Badgerhttp://tinyurl.com/3lwsbnn

This combination of remarkable innate defensive and offensive capabilities has resulted in the Honey Badger seemingly fearing few things.  Their aggressiveness has also resulted in few predators, which normally might try to eat something the Honey BadgerÂ’s size, choosing to avoid the animal.

155  What research do you need to prove to yourself that you are stupid? -- Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 09, 2011 09:33 AM (LH6ir)

Dildo, you'd pick a fight where there should be none simply to be more obnoxious than anyone else, expecting erroneously that weakness proves you a "winner" in argument.

As stated, whatever criticisms you'd apply to others inappropriately are better suited against yourself. You're a lost cause, blaming others for your own lack of good judgment, unable to go figure "perspective" without being spoon fed what graduate students generally recognize after scholarly research.

From his lower school years at St. Albans to his incomplete effort at Vanderbilt law school, Gore was often an underachiever. Though his IQ numbers and aptitude test scores were well above average, his grades were uneven, never approaching the plateau of A's and B's that might be expected of one who possesses such a pedagogical demeanor. His generally middling college grades at Harvard...Gore's classmates remember him spending a notable amount of time in the Dunster House basement lounge shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers and occasionally smoking marijuana. His grades temporarily reflected his mildly experimental mood, and alarmed his parents. He received one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses and one B-minus, an effort that placed him in the lower fifth of the class for the second year in a row. For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year. The self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet avoided all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college, despite his outstanding score on the math portion of the SAT. As was the case with many of his classmates, his high school math grades had dropped from A's to C's as he advanced from trigonometry to calculus in his senior year. St. Alban's Headmaster Davis wrote Gore's recommendation, and said he was never concerned about the young man's transcript full of C's and B's and his middle rank in the class. "In Al's case he was what Harvard most wanted at that time," Davis said. "What they wanted was competent academic performance plus future potential. Plus they were very impressed by the fact that he was a political son. Colleges like Harvard, Princeton and Yale are just as excited to get important sons as top academic scholars. They want our boys as much as our boys want them. And Al was captain of the football team. Any nice big boy was welcome if he played football."

Although Gore's academic potential was recognized in prep school, during his Harvard Bachelor of Arts studies he did not excel academically except in Art, but not even in his major, Government. He avoided math, and failed science, ranking in the lowest fifth of his Harvard class. Evidently, "cum laude" can be granted by faculty favor simply by scraping the bottom of the top 50% of the barrel of students. Al Gore enlisted in the Army to help his dad's failing campaign to no avail. Nixon played his own CYA role before Al got assigned to the relatively safe 20th Engineer Brigade assignment as an in-house "journalist" where he saw no action. His only injuries were hurt feelings. Al Gore failed twice in his studies at Vanderbilt University, first flunking out of Divinity School where his family connections "earned" him a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship, last dropping out of Law due to academic failure.

156 "Except that Al Gore flunked out of college."
Posted by: maverick muse at August 09, 2011 07:34 AM (lpWVn)

Work on your reading comprehension. 

I said nothing about Gore being any kind of student -- good or bad. I made no judgements whatsoever. I simply corrected your mistake. Then you edited your original comment:

"Al Gore failed academics, dildo. That's the definition of flunked out: academic failure."
Posted by: maverick muse at August 09, 2011 07:50 AM (lpWVn)

So, you moved away from your original mistake and redefined the issue to Gore's "academic failure." That is probably true, but has nothing to do with your original incorrect factoid.

Suck it up Alice, you made a mistake and now are playing silly games to avoid notice. But that's how you argue most of your make-believe facts and incoherent points.

157 Wow, this quote says so much!

"Before this last election, I was called a Citizen, Taxpayer, and a Veteran"

158 Modell from Diner responds to Democrats defeat in WISC: "You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance. It's not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture's a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong."