1 YAAAARRRR!!!!!

2 Barrrrrrrrh-ack Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure, Mateys.  Aaaaaaaarh.

3 Arrgg...Barack Obama is a Stuttering Clusterf*ck of a Miserable Failure! Arg!

4 Well, shiver me timbers.

5 Arrr...beat me to you Peregrine

6 Arrrgg it be time for news!

Lieberman may support Republican in race for his Senate seat next year

Retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.), the Democrat-turned-independent, who has had a rocky relationship with his former party over the years, says he may back the Republican nominee in the race for his seat.

I know a lot of the morons like to gush over Lieberman because he occasionally sides with us, primarily on Israel, but he really is a dyed in the wool liberal. His ACU rating for last year was 4 and his lifetime is 15.6. Of course that still beats his partner commie-crook Piss Dodd who had 0.0 and 7.4.

7 beat me to it*

needs more coffee

8

Another worthless Obama joke

HereÂ’s the headline and lead from the PR rag The Hill.

Obama to propose $3T in cuts, threaten to veto tax cuts for wealthy

President Obama on Monday will unveil his vision for deficit reduction and tax reform in the Rose Garden, threatening to veto any bills that don't raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

And then

The $3 trillion in deficit reduction is made up of money saved from ending the war in Iraq and drawing down in Afghanistan, raising taxes for the wealthy and corporations and cutting about $540 billion in Medicare and Medicaid, administration officials said Sunday night.

Only from this adm of lying shit-weasels is a tax hike considered a spending cut.  Only from the PR rags would they find any lack of irony for this. Only from the PR rags would they accuse Republicans of stubborn inaction when Obama threatens to veto any budget bill that doesnÂ’t have a tax increase in it. And BTW, the saving from war reductions have already been counted so that part is phony.

And crying Boner was scared of bad PR on threatening a gov shutdown.

9

Finally a PR Rag covers the Solyndra corruption scandal

Obama and his Chicago mobsters caught red-handed in “pay for play” corruption in the bull shit “green” scam and somehow it is viewed as Republicans getting mad and blocking needed green initiatives. Their gall simply astounds me sometimes.

10

More on the pay to play scandal. This one involved "toned arms".

11

Obama Adm blocking oil drilling because of a piss-ant lizard

I have posted on this before but it is back in the news again. This is simply “use any excuse” to block oil wells. It is an old shell game by the partnership between EPA an the radical eco-tard groups. Find some innocuous POS bug or small animal that almost nobody gives a damn about and allege that it is “threatened” or “endangered”. The statistics for it are almost nil because of the fact that nobody really gave a shit about it in the past. Put it on the list and then use it to block what ever industrial development that is in vogue for opposing that year. Then it is up to the company to spend millions researching the POS bug/lizard/weed to “prove” that it is, in fact, not “threatened”. This is not what congress had in mind for the endangered specie act but it is what it has become. Companies are “guilty” up front and must prove “innocence” and in most cases must undertake the task of proving a negative. All the while costing millions.

And then Demo-commies accuse these same companies of corporate greed when they have had enough and shutdown U.S. operations and move overseas.  We really do need BachmannÂ’s mother of all repeal bills (even if she has jumped the shark).

12

More grist for the flame war mills

I am posting this story not because it is particularly “newsworthy”, but because it was the subject of a major “longbow” debate a while back.  So here it is, bicyclists in Charleston flouting traffic laws.

13

High default rate on loans plagues city

That headline is very deceptive.  They make it sound like a “local” problem for Columbia, SC. Digging into the meat of the article you find this.

Almost one-third of the commercial borrowers who got publicly funded loans from the city of Columbia have defaulted – to the tune of about $817,500.

The U.S. Commerce Department, which oversees the federal funds used to make the loans, suspended the program in May until the city explains how it spent the money, including providing figures to substantiate the loans. The loans, often for start-up businesses, were made to borrowers who would not otherwise have qualified for bank loans.

Basically what we have is a federal program which underwrites loans to startup businesses who would otherwise not qualify for loans due to “low creditworthiness”. Another way to view this would be preferential loans to minority businesses and applicants, which is a favorite from the CBC.

So why should the Commerce Department be surprised when 1/3 of the loans are in default? There is a reason that banks do not prefer to loan money (unless forced through CRA) to people with low credit ratings or who have risky business plans. That reason is THEY FAIL and it costs the bank money!

But this Dem PR rag goes out of its way to shield the Obamanites from the negative aspects of this program and I would surmise that this same story is bing repeated all over the country in every urban area. And what is the Obamanite/CBC response?  Even more of the same.

14 Snark-free stocking stuffers.  Christmas is just around the corner matey.

15

Former Navy Secretary does something retired officers can not do

The NavyÂ’s former top civilian has rocked the service in a military journal article by accusing officials of sinking the storied naval air branch into a sea of political correctness.

We need a house cleaning in all of the services; bad. We need to eliminate about 2/3 of the JAG staff and fire all the Admirals and Generals who have made a career out of desks at the Pentagon.  We need to put the “war” back into the idea of “warriors”.

16 Yarrrrrrrrrrrgh! Denounce yourselves to me or I'll keelhaul the lot o' ye!

17 Snark-free stocking stuffers. Take two.

18 And here we go Maties, ye call us pirates. Ye landlubbers must git yur own houses in order, aye.

New Heritage Tax Chart - Highest in history

19

9..... Their gall simply astounds me sometimes.

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Aye.... The only stones that SCoaMF has, be gall stones.

20 And that's it for ye snarky doom news this morning.

21 Ore wa Luffy! Kaizoku-ou ni naru otoko da!!!

22
So this guy walks into a bar dressed like a pirate, wooden leg, eye patch and hook
The bartender says "That's a pretty god pirate costume"
the guy says "Arrrgh, it be no costume, I am a pirate"
The bartender says " So how did you lose your leg?"
the guy says "Arrrgh, twas a Spanish cannon ball earned me m' peg"
The bartender says " So how did you lose your hand?"
the guy says "Arrrgh, twas a Spanish cutlass earned me m' hook"
The bartender says " So how did you lose your eye?"
the guy says "Arrrgh, a seagull pooped in me eye"
The bartender says " Seagull poop can blind you?"
the guy says "Arrrgh, no. You see, I'd only 'ad m' hook a couple of days"

23 LOL, I have seen that one before but that view deserves a repeat.

24 Kyle Busch is a true pirate

25 Haaar, ye scurvy sea crabs!!  Be ye celebrating rightly with a proper grog fueled shidy, an' pay 'em a proper with yer topsail!!

26 Arrrr mateys, we can always jine the Pirate Party, arrrrr

27 If I had to compare Obama and company to a fairy tale it would be Hansel and Gretal.  He terrorized the nation via communist power grabs of everything in sight until a ground swell of conservative brothers and sisters came together to throw him in the electoral oven.

His goose is cooked in 2012.

28 Aaaaargh, red sky at mornin, no-theast breeze. Mateys beware!

29 29 Little Red Riding Hood. He's the Wolf. Hopefully the teaparty is the Woodsman. Poor Grandma is a goner from medicare cuts or death panels.

30

Pwease, no jokes about the poopdeck this morning.

Ow.

31 Fuck pirates.

Oh, wait. I already did that, didn't I?

32 Sounds more like a colon resection rather than the colonoscopy. 

33

“WeÂ’ve got to put their pensions, not my pension everything on the table,” Defense Secretary Leno E. Panetta said recently on PBS, acknowledging that he was looking at proposals to rein in pension costs.

FIFY

34 Eagles lose Vick, and game, in Atlanta ATLANTA - They lost Michael Vick. They lost the game, 35-31. American dog community licks nuts in celebration!

35 Obama is pushing the "millionaire tax" to pay for his "jobs bill" and "deficit reduction."

In reality the tax will hurt all Americans, will waste money instead of creating jobs, and will not reduce the deficit.

Obama's plan is the same liberal plan as always: tax and spend.

Tax and spend is a never-ending cycle. There is always a need for more taxes and more spending.

36

Barack Hussein Obama nor his minions didn't seem to give a rats ass about some lizard in Texas while wildfires were blazing away.  However an oil rig might harm its habitat?  yeah, right.

37

Elitist always deserve every consideration to include pension benefits because of their awesomness, whereas you members of the unwashed proletariat will take it up the ass and like it, or else.

-Ivy League Reach Around Society

I'm one of the guys Panetta is looking to cut.

Funny, I didn't get a reach around.

Are you sure that comes with the deal?

38 Barack Hussein Obama nor his minions didn't seem to give a rats ass about some lizard in Texas while wildfires were blazing away.

Yes, "ironic" isn't it.

39

This Kaiser Foundation.....that is in the news about Solyndra.

Would that be the same as the Kaiser Family Foundation......which has ties to Harvard? ....And a certain Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren.....who is running for the Senate against Scott Brown?

Elizabeth Warren hales from Oklahoma too, ya know.

40 Is is just me or do the single quotes (and maybe double quotes) in Vic's comments show as black diamonds with question marks in them?

41 What are you using for a browser? They don't show up that way for me.

Here is a test - quotation marks typed directly in """"""""".

Quotation marks copied from word – “”””””””””””””

42 Aaarh, It be upon your head only, Mister dogfish!!  So have a care lest ye find yourself cleaning the scuppers with naught but yer blood!!

43

Has he ever served on active duty?  Answer, no.  What was his occupation?  Yep, a fucking lawyer. 

Posted by: Doctor Fish at September 19, 2011 07:42 AM (Lt/Za)

Ask him if he's for tort reform. 

If he says "no" then you can tell him, "Sucks when the show is on the other foot, huh?

44 Barky is a true stooge with his new Buffett tax. I'm starting to think he really is that stupid to suggest another plan that would worsen and not help the economy. SCOAMF seems apropos.

45 I was recently told that I shouldn't be entitled to "free" Veteran's benefits. I asked the person whether slogging it out in Asia for 3 3/4 years created any entitlement?  Answer, no.

That very subject came up in a discussion with a friend of mine in CA when discussing my medical treatment and the V.A. vs private insurance.

Her husband has a problem with repeat cancerous lesions on his back that have to be removed. He is getting disability benefits from the Army and treatment in a VA hospital and it is fully covered.

However, according to my brother and his wife (both worked for the VA), although I could get help from the VA because I am a 'Nam vet, the amount I could get would be based on my current income and net worth.

So what is the difference? My friend in CA was "on the ground" and exposed to agent orange which has been adjudicated as a service related problem for cancer.  I served on a ship. Although it was within the combat zone, I was not exposed to agent orange and therefore not under the auspices of that ruling.

So if your "illness" is in any way related to cancer and you were actually on the ground, you ARE eligible for disability and complete medical coverage.  

46 Here is a test - quotation marks typed directly in """"""""". Quotation marks copied from word � �������������� Seems to be the copied ones.

47 Seriously?  I thought it was in March.  ARGH!

48 firefox 6.02 I'll reboot.

49 Hum, the ones copied from word don't show up that way when I put them in, but do when you copy them and paste them back.

Strange; Avast the rest of you maties, how be they look to you?

50

Alec Baldwin has pulled out of tonight's Emmy telecast after a joke about News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch was cut from a segment that he had recorded to open the broadcast.



Whaaaa!

51 firefox 6.02 I'll reboot.

Even stranger, as I am using FF 6.02

52

Arrrrgh. Unless you want to walk the plank, send me down a bellywarmer now!

53 A famous Scotish pirate once exclaimed, "Arrrrrgyle!"

54 63, OK, that's some funneh.

55 Argggh, maties, each bit of scoundrel news I sees from the administration, makes me heart proud the pirate days be not over yet!

56 37 Eagles lose Vick, and game, in Atlanta
ATLANTA - They lost Michael Vick. They lost the game, 35-31.


American dog community licks nuts in celebration!

Posted by: Pecos Bill at September 19, 2011 07:31 AM

2-0 ! The Lombardi Trophy is mine ! Woof !

57 Yep, a restart cleaned that right up.

58 Gotta love the donks,  they can't cut welfare payments to non-retirees by a dime but they are going to nuke military pensions....

yeah I notice the civil service retirement system is still "untouchable"....

assholes.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3d4opbb

MSN repro of an Al-NYT article....

59 The other thing you never hear about from the commie-crats and te Obamanites on this stupid Buffet millionaire tax is the AMT.

That stupid tax was passed by a commie congress under LBJ and has been around since then. IT has NEVER worked.

Warren Buffet claiming that his overall tax rate is lower than his secretary's illustrates how that POS has never worked and should either be fixed to eliminate loopholes for millionaires and index it to inflation so that it only hits people with a gross income of over 3 million (what it would be if it had been originally indexed).

The other option is to repeal it altogether.

60 MM on Fox now saying the same damn thing I just said.

61 59 Doctor Fish,

it gets better...

The Jugeared bastard is on pace to spend 10 trillion over his span if reelected.  He is not using this money to improve anything but his donor base's bank accounts.  He is planning on submitting a 3.8 trillion dollar budget, if passed and "half payed for with taxes" it is the death knell for individual wealth generation potential.

You'll NEVER climb out of the class you are in at 30.

62 70, 71 Vic,

The AMT has devolved into the "screw the independent owner/operator or contract craftsman" tax....

easiest way to trigger it is to claim your per diem and fuel costs as a trucker.

63 You'll NEVER climb out of the class you are in at 30. ARRRRRGH!, that be the unstated goal of the scalliwag.

64 These liberal assholes believe we members of the proletariat are so fucking stupid we don't know the difference.  Surprise surprise surprise, we're not that ignorant, and we're on to their game.  Turn all the pricks out in '12.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at September 19, 2011 07:56 AM

In the immortal words of Tonto: what you mean "we," white man?

Osama Obama's worshipers and enablers will fall for this shit every time. We morons, not so much. But, at last count, there were still a whole bunch of people who seem to think that having a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure in the White House is juuuuuuust fine, so long as he Takes it to the Man and passes along the booty.

Vic's earlier link from The Hill is, sadly, the Party Line. It will be repeated by the media: Rich Slackers Forced to Pay Fair Share!

If the scandals with Solyndra, the "Justice" Department and the Traitor-in-Chief's own shady past aren't enough to have brought on impeachment hearings already, if his profligate lifestyle on the public dime, throwing our allies under the bus and general monumental stupidity aren't enough to have totally tanked his poll numbers, I don't see that this is going to have any worthwhile effect.

Yus, mateys, we be scuppered....

65

You'll NEVER climb out of the class you are in at 30.

That's exactly right, and the poor will rise only slightly, and the middle class will sink like a stone.

See, that's the goal of socialism - to make everyone equally miserable.

Well, except the nomenklatura that is.

This is why I've always said that the definition of "liberal" is, "a person who cannot understand eocnomics."

66

61... Arrrrgh. Unless you want to walk the plank, send me down a bellywarmer now!

----------

We'll not be comin' anywheres near ye, long as that blanket tent be up!

Tisn't in our contract, ye ole coot.

67 There aren't any famous Scotish pirates.

What about Captain Kidd? (Just off the top of my head).

68 If the scandals with Solyndra, the "Justice" Department and the Traitor-in-Chief's own shady past aren't enough to have brought on impeachment hearings already, if his profligate lifestyle on the public dime, throwing our allies under the bus and general monumental stupidity aren't enough to have totally tanked his poll numbers, I don't see that this is going to have any worthwhile effect.

Yus, mateys, we be scuppered....
Posted by: MrScribbler at September 19, 2011 08:12 AM

Now, now, we all want the President to do well so America does well. We should really tone it down so the Democrats will see that we're nice people who want to work with them. I know I want to work with them on CNN or MSNBC

69 See, that's the goal of socialism - to make everyone equally miserable.

Oh they will drag down the apparatchiks that control the government a well. What they think will happen vs what has happened in the past are vastly different. If all their policies are implemented within 20 years the U.S. would look like 1950s era Soviet Union.

The average person would be living in squalor in bare concrete cubicles and standing in line to get two day old bread and fungus infested vegetables.

Meanwhile the Party bosses would be driving by in substandard Zil limousines to their Dachas in the suburbs. This would be the definition of luxury, but in actuality they would be living worse than the lowest of the middle class is doing now.

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, a sinking boat drowns everyone.

70 I remember reading one time (about 2-3 years ago) that the whole worlds population could fit inside the state of Nevada.  Yet we are destroying the planet according to the evironuts.  I don't think we are as big as some people think we are.  Also if some animal or plant is not doing too well and on its way to dying off is that not part of evolution?  The strong survive.  Who are we to interfere with the natural order?

71 Well, Mr. Scribbler, you live in Massachussetts's, how goes it in in Patrick's Paradise, the land of Obama 1.0.

72 Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 19, 2011 08:12 AM (sbV1u)
What makes you think you are deserving of anything more than the table scraps we deign to leave for you, comrade?
The bourgeoisie must be eliminated as they are a threat to good civil order (and more importantly the perks rightly afforded to the credentialed elites).  Allowing people to advance on their individual merit is not fair (unless they do it through their "party" contacts). 
Please note that the CPUSA stylebook deprecates the use of the term nomenklatura as it is not as subtle as "having a Harvard degree".

73 'Bout time I found out it was Talk Like a Pirate Day BEFORE it was over.

74 The strong survive.  Who are we to interfere with the natural order?

Posted by: Case at September 19, 2011 08:20 AM (DYR2Q)

Interesting point, evolution is the only allowed scientific answer to the mystery of life, yet when a situation arises where adaptable species could evolve, we can't take a chance and have to strangle technological progress with environmental regulations to deny evolution a chance to work.

75

Please note that the CPUSA stylebook deprecates the use of the term nomenklatura as it is not as subtle as "having a Harvard degree".

But it's more accurate.

76 Well, Mr. Scribbler, you live in Massachussetts's, how goes it in in Patrick's Paradise, the land of Obama 1.0.
Posted by: ian cormac at September 19, 2011 08:20 AM

Having not been here six months yet, I still find the place confusing. I'm in a far-eastern corner of the state where people seem at first glance to be the stereotypical dour conservative individualists of Puritan/Revolutionary War fables, yet we have Patrick and Bawney Fwank, had Kennedys and the Bulger Brothers.

I came here from California (with a short stay in Texas), so it seems I landed in Same-o Same-o Land. Only the people and terrain are different. Better here, in both cases, but it's still a place that will end up slipping into the ocean thanks to rampant liberalism.

May have to think about headin' back to Texas.

77 William Kidd Nationality: Scottish Type: Pirate Known As: Captain Kidd Born: 1645 Died: 1701 Active: 1695-1700 Activity: Red Sea According to all available info, He is indeed a scot.

78 Posted by: Vic at September 19, 2011 08:19 AM (M9Ie6)

To the left, all that is important is that the hated middle class are terrorized and ultimately destroyed.

Is there any aspect of the middle class life which the left does not criticize and hate? They hate the cars the middle class drive, the food that it eats, the way it raises its children, its notions on marriage, its religion, the houses it lives in, how much electricity it consumes, its choices in entertainment.  There is no aspect of your life a lefty busybody doesn't despise you for.

I think many on the left would gladly live in a hovel, just happy in the knowledge that they have made the hated bourgeoisie miserable.

79

Having not been here six months yet, I still find the place confusing.

Posted by: MrScribbler at September 19, 2011 08:28 AM (YjjrR)

Where you at exactly?

I am (unfortunately) a Massachusetts native.

80 Arrrrrrr.  Phuck the Phillies

81

"Oooh, rip the shirt, how cliche."

Cheech and Chong-----Buggery On The High Seas

very funny

82

I think many on the left would gladly live in a hovel, just happy in the knowledge that they have made the hated bourgeoisie miserable.

No, I think you're wrong.

They despise all those middle-class trappings because they don't have them.  That is because they don't actually create any wealth, but instead gravitate toward "helping" professions where they not only drain wealth from the wider public, but are also poorly compensated to boot.

So, as far as they are concerned, if they can't have all the good stuff, no one else should be allowed to either.

It's a five year-old's view of the world.

 

83 According to all available info, He is indeed a scot.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at September 19, 2011 08:29 AM (ZDUD4)

That be "Scot" to you matey!

84

No, I think you're wrong.

They despise all those middle-class trappings because they don't have them.  That is because they don't actually create any wealth, but instead gravitate toward "helping" professions where they not only drain wealth from the wider public, but are also poorly compensated to boot.

So, as far as they are concerned, if they can't have all the good stuff, no one else should be allowed to either.

It's a five year-old's view of the world.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 19, 2011 08:34 AM (sbV1u)

Then what explains guys like Warren Buffet or George Soros?  They've got everything they want, except the right to control the lives of other people.  Warren Buffet is screaming "tax me more!" purely to hurt people he despises.

This isn't about what they do or don't own - it's all about hating the middle class because of the way it lives its life.  It is why aging hippies with boats and a house on the Vineyard will wag their finger at you when they see you drving an SUV.

85 Where's my government check Buffett?   My babies need some cheetos and the baby daddies are out scoring us some weed.

86

Then what explains guys like Warren Buffet or George Soros? They've got everything they want, except the right to control the lives of other people. Warren Buffet is screaming "tax me more!" purely to hurt people he despises.

 

I would add to that that they spew all this leftist rhetoric because they don't want to be perceived as being part of the aristocracy so that they can avoid the guillotine when the time comes.

87

George Soros is probably trying to change the world into a communist utopia because he thinks that will somehow alleviate the guilt he feels for sending fellow jews to the nazi death camps. It's like if he doubles down now, what he did then doesn't looks so bad.

I don't know Buffet's life story but I'm guessing that he's enjoying the attention. He looks sorta pathetic to me.

88 Arrgh, those dirty birds went and plucked the Vick. Evast maties, this means the Redskins are number one in their division. Set a course for cracked ribs in Dallas. Sucks to be a cowboy doesn't it?

89

I am (unfortunately) a Massachusetts native.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 19, 2011 08:31 AM

I'm on the outskirts of Glosta.

Tryin' to learn the language heah.

It's beautiful but, as France is lovely when you remove Frenchmen from the picture, I think Massatwoshits would be a far nicer place if all the Massholes could be broomed out of it.

90 Attaaaaaaack Waaaaaaatch!!!  Aaaargh!

91

Then what explains guys like Warren Buffet or George Soros?  They've got everything they want, except the right to control the lives of other people

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 19, 2011 08:39 AM (FkKjr)

Guilt.

They probably believe that they do not "deserve" all they have, so in order to burnish their credentials as "good people" instead of "rapacious thieves" they advocate taking more money from the rest of us to help "the less deserving."  Because, after all, they can afford that, so it's really no big deal for them.  But they also know you can't get the kind of money you need by only going after the rich - so they want to gore everyone's ox in the name of "fairness."  See?  Aren't they nice guys??

In short, both of them are advocates of compulsory charity.

Both are equally disingenuous when it comes to being taxed.  As pointed out above, Buffet gets taxed on passive income, most everyone else on direct income.  Yet, he is completely unembarassed about blurring the distinction between the two.

Buffet did create wealth - Soros laregly created only wealth for himself.  Which, I think, lends some credence to my theory.  Soros' wealth was created by speculation.  Buffet's by the hard work of buying and building companies others took a pass on.

Guess who's more "out front" when it comes to raping the middle class?

Guess who probably has more guilt?

 

 

92 98 According to all available info, He is indeed a scot.

And a proud homosexual!

93 George Soros is just like all the other limousine liberals and Hollywood shit-for-brains. They all think that when the great communist utopia comes they will be exempted from the "rules".

Because liberals re-zero history every morning at 08:00 they do not "remember" the lessons of the French revolution. Of course for the young ones, even if they did remember what they were taught about the French revolution they would view the very low haircuts as a good thing.

The would believe that only conservatives and "evil Bush voters" would be subjected to the radical haircuts.

94

I'm on the outskirts of Glosta.

Tryin' to learn the language heah.

It's beautiful but, as France is lovely when you remove Frenchmen from the picture,

Ah, North Shore.  I never liked the North Shore.  Can't explain it.  Just never liked the people there.

I grew up in MetroWest.  Different vibe there.  I also live on the Cape for a few years.  Oddly, the Cape used to be the last bastion of conservatism in Massachusetts.

Now it's gone full-on bat-shit crazy.  If you had the abilty to move, then Central Mass would be the place to find people more in line with how you think.  Hell, even moving a little west like to Topsfield, Littleton, or Ayer would help.

I think Massatwoshits would be a far nicer place if all the Massholes could be broomed out of it.

Amen!

95

Read this morning that there is a political party in Germany known as Die Piraten (The Pirates).

Germany + Pirates  = Crossing The Streams

We're due for a full proton reversal.

96

I think many on the left would gladly live in a hovel, just happy in the knowledge that they have made the hated bourgeoisie miserable.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 19, 2011 08:30 AM

Ever meet any American communists? I'm talking about the red-star-in-lapel "organizer" types?

I knew some when I was a yoot, and each of them had the same vision of a "worker's paradise:" the proletariat would be out running tractors and doing manual labor, while they (who could recite Marx in their sleep and knew all the fifty cent words needed to write proclamations, meeting minutes and propaganda material) would be handling the brain work in a cushy office somewhere. In short, their view of the "free" world of communism was eerily close to the master-slave relationship.

No hovels or deprivations for the ruling class!

97 Monty Doom up

98

Guilt.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 19, 2011 08:48 AM (sbV1u)

I don't see either of those guys as feeling guilty.  I think they feel really good about themselves.  They believe they are better than those bastards in the Middle Class.

For the left, morality is the sole determinant of whether or not you should be wealthy.  Solyndra should have 500 million dollars of taxpayer money, but Halliburton is evil.  Adherence to the true ideology is justification for access to wealth.

The guilty do not moralize.  The self-righteous do.

99 ...or it is Projectionism again.  Libtards think everyone needs to be more giving and compassionate because that is the wonton lack in their pathetic existences.

100 ARRRR....

Looks like Facebook be outperformin' Captain HopeEnChange on job creation.

101 wonton = wonted.  (Unless you are Chinese.)

102 Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 19, 2011 08:51 AM

I like this part of the state. It's quaint as hell!

Actually, part of the draw for me is the small towns (ours has a population of 7K) and the separation of one town from another. Coming from SoCal, which is essentially one giant suburb from the so-called "border" with Mexico to San Francisco, the difference is stunning.

And, whereas an "old" structure in Los Angeles is one that dates back to, say, 1954, anything here built after 1830 or so is considered "new construction."

103

The guilty do not moralize.  The self-righteous do.

Yup, that's where I disagree.

In fact, I think the guilty become more self-righteous specifically because they are guilty.

Apply that thought to the hyper-religious for a comparison.  In my experience, the louder they are, the more of a hypocrite they are.  The more understated a person's religiosity - the more intensely they live their faith.

Since liberalism is a religion unto itself, I think the same applies here.

 

104 ARRRR!!!!

Also notable: legacy media now be just RIPPIN' OFF content from New Media.

105 Ever meet any American communists? I'm talking about the red-star-in-lapel "organizer" types?

Posted by: MrScribbler at September 19, 2011 08:52 AM (YjjrR)

I went to UMass Amherst.

106 Actually, That's not true either. He was married with two children. Which is probably why he spent a lot of time at sea.

107 Arrrrrr! These Palestine sand-lubbers need to be swabbin' me balls on this statehood declaration. They'll not be sendin' the Jooos down to Davy Jones' locker on my watch.

108

And, whereas an "old" structure in Los Angeles is one that dates back to, say, 1954, anything here built after 1830 or so is considered "new construction."

Ha!  I hear you.  My wife is from the Bay Area (Mountain View).  One day we were walking down Mem Drive in Cambridge toward Harvard Square and she stopped in her tracks.  "Look!" she says.  "Look at this stone!  Harvard was founded in 1636!!!"

I was confused.  So she says, "History in California started in 1848.  We don't have anything this old!"

I admit, I was amsued.  I also took the weight of all that history for granted.  But when you leave it, you really appreciate what you've lost.

But I still don't like Gloucester.  ;-)

Check out Brewster on the Cape if you like quaint small towns.  You'll think you're walking through a Currier and Ives print.

109 In fact, I think the guilty become more self-righteous specifically because they are guilty.

Having talked to a Prius owner, I disagree.  Being self-righteous stems from a smug sense of superiority over your fellow man.

110

I went to UMass Amherst.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 19, 2011 09:00 AM (FkKjr)

Ah, explains much.

Four years at ZooMass and you either drink all the Kool-Aid or you come out with a visceral disgust of all things liberal.

Glad you're on our side!

111 I was confused.  So she says, "History in California started in 1848.  We don't have anything this old!"

I guess those old Spanish missions in CA built in the 1700s don't count. I visited one of them many years ago.

112

Being self-righteous stems from a smug sense of superiority over your fellow man.

We're coming from the same place.  We just disagree on the proximate cause.

I think what gives you that smug sense of superiority ove ryour fellow man is the willingness to believe in something he doesn't.  Something that is so counter-intuitive that it must mark you as "smarter."

I think I hate Pious owners (pun intended) more than I hate Volvo owners.

But it's close.  Real close.

113

Wow, I got an email from Netflix saying they screwed up and aren't raising prices.

Splitting it into 2 separate services and renting video games too.

Nice.

114 130 Perry's numbers softened because of Immigration more that SSI. At least that what did it for me and the folks that I know. It doesn't mean I won't vote for him. It does mean I'm still looking.

115

I guess those old Spanish missions in CA built in the 1700s don't count. I visited one of them many years ago.

That was my point to her too, Vic.

Her come back was that they are mostly in SoCal and she grew up in NorCal.

116

102..... I don't know Buffet's life story but I'm guessing that he's enjoying the attention. He looks sorta pathetic to me.

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IIRC....tho Buffet be a land lubber today, he comes from a line of merchant ship captains.

Pirates?

And nothin's bein' made of the fact that the ole coot will make millions off of a 'millionaires tax'.....by sellin financial products designed to protect against it.

117 off damn sock

118

So she says, "History in California started in 1848.  We don't have anything this old!"

Her come back was that they are mostly in SoCal and she grew up in NorCal.

I resemble these remarks.

119 In short, their view of the "free" world of communism was eerily close to the master-slave relationship.

As that is the way it has worked everywhere it has been tried, you should not be surprised.

120

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 19, 2011 09:11 AM (XdlcF)

I won't hold it against you Mama AJ  ;-)

121 I think I'm recovering nicely.

122

Four years at ZooMass and you either drink all the Kool-Aid or you come out with a visceral disgust of all things liberal.

Glad you're on our side!

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 19, 2011 09:04 AM (sbV1u)

Thanks   I was a conservative in MA before I went, and one after.  I became more conservative there humorously enough (one of my professors was an awesome history teacher who actually taught the subject.  Liberals don't come out looking so good in that situation).

But one thing I did get a lot of exposure to was Marxist theory both in class and in the student population.  It's humorous how badly modern 'street' Marxists are when it comes to understanding his theories.

But the theories were never really the point.  Marxism is about burning things and hating on the 'normals'.

123

Well, I was going to install Valve Portal thingie stuff on this pc, but I don't actually have 5GB free.

Good grief.

124 I think what gives you that smug sense of superiority ove ryour fellow man is the willingness to believe in something he doesn't.  Something that is so counter-intuitive that it must mark you as "smarter."

That sounds correct.

125 Shiver me timbres, mateys!  That's tam-ber to you.

What timbre will Chairman Zero use today when he reads his let's-assfuck-the-millionaires-so-we-can-all-feel-good speech. 

Will he be Preznit Tough-Guy, using a mean face and level diction?

Will he be Mr. It's-the-Right-Thing-to-Do, with an earnest slightly whiney tone?

Will he be Jeremiah Wright Junior with his urban black pissed-off-at-the-man tone, and mixing in a little southern black preacher?

Who knows?  But we'll probably all find out, because the MFM will run it on every channel except maybe Animal Planet.

126

It's humorous how badly modern 'street' Marxists are when it comes to understanding his theories.

What is simultaneously hilarious is their complete inability to counter a logical argument.  Present one fact to them that doesn't conform to the their world view and you can literally watch their mind go into vapor lock.

I went to Providence, where I was forced to take Logic (and way too much Philosophy too) and to this day I can spot an illogical argument a mile away, even if I can't always immediately remember which fallacy it is.

And I got a "C" in that course.

Most libs don't even take anything remotely that hard as an undergrad - and it shows when you have a "discussion" with them.

127 There may be a few real cases, but the liberal guilt idea is mostly bullshit. It is not possible for a person to assuage his guilt by making others do penance for him. Thanks to our popular entertainment, we are junkies for dramatic irony and twist endings. I first noticed this years ago when my Tivo picked-up "Firefly" episodes from SciFi Channel. I had only seen one episode at that point, and as I looked at the list of episode titles, I saw "Heart of Gold" and the first thing I thought was prostitutes. If all ministers were secret baby daddies who scratched the letter 'A' into their chests out of guilt and dropped dead when they finally come clean, then why would anyone need to write a book about it? Liberal guilt is a stupid narrative that leftards created to make themselves feel better about how much they love making other people jump through hoops.

128 Actually Buffett's father was a somewhat isolationist Republican Congressman, he basically cribbed Benjamin Graham's hornbook to make his way.

129

It is not possible for a person to assuage his guilt by making others do penance for him.

Well you are right, but then again, this would not be the first time a liberal sought to work in opposition to generally accepted rules of nature.

Just because it won't work, doesn't mean they're not willing to try.

See Obama, Barack Hussein.

130

President Barack Obama's proposal to reduce long-term deficits with $1.5 trillion in new taxes is less an opening bid in a negotiation than it is an opening salvo in a struggle to draw sharp contrasts with congressional Republicans.

Did the Yahoo headline writer hurt himself writing that?

I don't actually think there is a struggle to show he's different than Republicans.

131 Awwck!! Stuttering Clusterf*ck!!!

132 Well, when I look around, I seeming the teeming masses living their lives as though they had the right to exercise their free will.  They are all making obviously bad choices and need a guiding presence in their lives (like a Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayres) to keep them on the right path (or send them to re-education camps until they understand their true place in life).

There is an ironic point here in that I do believe that at least 40% of the population understands all too well how to screw the rest of the population and 52% that were obviously incompetent to be allowed within 100 feet of a voting place.

133

An honest assessment of the Jewish vote over at YidÂ’s place.

134 If all ministers were secret baby daddies who scratched the letter 'A' into their chests out of guilt and dropped dead when they finally come clean, then why would anyone need to write a book about it?

The book is why we believe that in the first place.

That overrated piece of shit.

135 98 That be "Scot" to you matey!
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Great! "Scot".

136 "That overrated piece of shit." My thoughts exactly. The trouble is that beyond just the pernicious effects of the availability heuristic, popular entertainment is spiraling out of control with ever increasing heights of ironic detachment from reality just to maintain the audience's interest. I've seen a couple of episodes of "Modern Family." It is fitting that it did so well at the Emmy Awards last night because it's the German pr0n of situation comedy.

137 Her come back was that they are mostly in SoCal and she grew up in NorCal.

The one I visited was just South of Union City and it also was in the 1700s. (Working on > 30 year memory here so don't kill me if I am off on the years).

138 All your jobs belong to us.

139 Anyway gotta go for awhile.

140 I've seen a couple of episodes of "Modern Family." It is fitting that it did so well at the Emmy Awards last night because it's the German pr0n of situation comedy.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at September 19, 2011 09:56 AM (cbyrC)

My daughter (educated and somewhat indoctrinated) recommended this to us.  One viewing was enough for me to decide that it would be a hit at the Emmys, but will never again be seen in my house.

141 When is 'Beat a filthy hippie to a bloody pulp' day?

142 These Palestine sand-lubbers need to be swabbin' me balls on this statehood declaration.

Question:  If Palestine can seek recognition as an independent nation from the UN then why can't Texas do the same?

143 Currents in these waters be dangerous rough, aye, even sailin' under fair skies. Best look to your sailmaster, and move like the devil's own ape when he shouts. We're caught neat, boys, between Her Majesty's navy and yon French trader with his wee cannon and his marines. But if ye 'mamber t' be more scared o' ME than them, arrr, there's treasure for every man.

If not... I'll send ye to Davy Jones lovin' arms, personally.

144 Hey, given the fact that most pirates are Somali these days, isn't "talk like a pirate" day racist?

Also, shouldn't it be done with a Swahili accent?

145 I wonder if alcohol was involved?

September 19, 2011 - 07:57am Man struck by bullet in possum shooting attemptAUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say an 85-year-old Augusta man is recovering after being accidentally shot in the face by a woman who was aiming for a possum.

Police tell the Augusta Chronicle the man was trying to remove a possum from a chicken pen when he was accidently shot in the face by an acquaintance.

Richmond County sheriff's deputies say they found Alfonsia O'Bryant shot once on the left side of his face around 4 a.m. Saturday.

Evelyn Smith, a friend of the man, told officers they had intended to shoot a possum that had gotten into a chicken pen.

Authorities said she fired a .32-caliber pistol at the possum but the bullet struck O'Bryant in what was deemed an accidental shooting.

Sheriff's officials said she then shot the possum and called police.

146 Mayhap we should press for, "Talk Like An Asgardian Comic Hero Day."

Bide thy time.

147 Time to pull out the Ergonomic Keyboard for Pirates.

148 "Authorities said she fired a .32-caliber pistol at the possum but the bullet struck O'Bryant in what was deemed an accidental shooting." Not a George Jones fan, I guess.

149

@125

There is a plaque at Harvard honoring the students who died in the Revolutionary War

150 @ 160

    Any day you deem proper.

151 I think much of the left suffers from NPD, which seems to be rampant nowadays.  Anyone who is familiar with such a person can tell you they spend a lot of their time trying to figure out how to bend others to their will--not particularly for any gain (often the action will hurt the narcissist himself) but because they are compelled to.  The basis of narcissim is low self esteem.  

152 Aye, tis a good sign ye remembered, laddy, for this day be special to us all. http://zapit.nu/1a4

153 American Thinker: Watergate Times Three

H/T Sipsey Street Irregulars

154 Yo ho ho! So that's why Michael Bolton was dressed like a pirate at last night's Emmys; he was just getting into the spirit of things a few hours early! Arrrr early and arrrr often. And did anyone else who watched the Emmys (all five of you) hear Jane Lynch's joke about how tea partiers are all crazy, racist, or crazy racists? Good times, good times. I was hoping we'd be spared a sucker punch, but hey, this is Hollywood, they can't help it. But Downton Abbey, Mad Men and Modern Family walked away with a slew of awards, so I ended the night happy regardless.

155 Anyone watching the SCOMF's speech right now at the White House?

It reeks of "community organizer."

Seriously, it's so un-Presidential.

156 @177

Vee have ways of dealing with "you people"

157

Arrrr! I suppose ye all read Fareed's "Only China can save Europe" thing. http://tinyurl.com/43tc89q   May as well let those pirates own Italy, since they invented the noodle!

158 @169 There is no plaque honoring Harvard men who served in King Philip's War a hundred years earlier. There is one honoring the first Indian students (none of whom survived), ten years before that. It's old.

Went to shit in 1808, sources tell me.

159 Let's rename the Arab Spring.  Call a spade a spade.  Arab Spring is a nicey-nice name, sort of like "single mom."

Muslim Mayhem?  Islamist Populist Uprising?  Springtime for Mohammed in Arabia?  This last, sung to the tune in the Mel Brooks musical.  Whaddya call it when the people are not even Arabs?

160

Seems like the left and right want to eliminate inherited wealth.  No more spoiled children.  Each generation will need to make it on their own.

161 If you won't sell me the upgrades, I'll take the newer jet fighter instead.

Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 18 (CNA) Taiwan would be pleased if the United States has indeed agreed to help upgrade its fleet of F-16 A/B jet fighters, and plans to move toward procuring the even more sophisticated F-35 model in the future, Taiwan's Deputy Defense Minister Andrew Yang said in Richmond Sunday.

"The retrofit of the F-16 A/B fleet is part of Taiwan's national defense policy. It would be great if the U.S. approves the deal," said Yang on the sidelines of the 2011 U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference, at which he is leading a Taiwanese delegation.

Now this is good negotiating.

162 That NY Mag piece on our first Jewish president is a good Monday morning blood boiler.  Brief summary: the Administration has done everything they could for Israel and has been very tough with the Palestinians and Arabs, but Netanyahu and the Isrealis are intransigent and inflammatory. Meanwhile the media has been misreporting the whole thing, making Obama ben Barack look bad.

The print edition has the story on the cover, with a picture of a black dude with jug ears (from behind) wearing a yarmulke.

163 Oh yeah, and it throws in some Bush blame too to round things out.

164 Michelle shivers me timber!

165 Believe it or not, that WaPo article on the Spratlys isn't half bad. Not real detailed, but it's a start.

166 China is not our friend.

167 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

168 Obama be a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure,yarrgghh.

169 "Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure." You make Obama look better the more you say this and you look like a negative person. Be careful how you speak Steevy. Are you a negative person?

170 http://www.enorthfacejackets.com/
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