In late on account of Jack M.'s placeholder.

Yeah. That's the ticket.

Posted by: andy at 04:58 AM | Comments (192)
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Ha ha ha ha haaa! Hee! Bwah-ha-ha hah hah!

Wait...let me catch my breath....

Ha Ha Ha HAAAAAAAA!!!!

PICKET:Obama camp - We are intentionally limiting crowd size at rallies.

Bwah-ha-snort-chuckle-ho-ho-hee-haaaaaaa!

I fully expect @davidaxelrod to tweet tomorrow that Obama isn't shedding voters, the President's appeal "is simply becoming more selective."

I will give Obama 2012 credit for one thing tho: small crowds or not, they are funnier than Saturday Night Live.

Oh, and hi morons. Been a long time.

Posted by: Jack M. at 08:13 PM | Comments (252)
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Apologies up front for a weaker than normal ONT. Was busy landscaping and building planter boxes so you're gonna just have to make do.

So what's going on that has caused A 20% Jump In The Import Of Saudi Oil by the United States this past year? I get that Mexico and Venezuela have declining production and GOMEX oil production is still not back at full capacity, but does all of that loss require a 20% increase from Saudi Arabia? And then throw this into the equation. Petroleum Deliveries Lowest Since September 2008; Weakest July Demand Since 1995. more...

Posted by: CDR M at 05:56 PM | Comments (838)
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Perhaps the most perfect rant, from commenter Voluble in Andy's earlier Preference Cascade post. Me and a few other morons talked about it some today.

Presented without additional commentary, because it needs none.

129 As a small business owner all I can say is that I think the current sentiment in the small business community is that we didn't sign up for this shit. Y'all can vote for whatever the hell you want but we are not going to be a part of it.

I have seen more owners get out of the business or retire in the past couple of years than ever before and with the ACA on the horizon the jobs these businesses produced will not be replaced. The economics no longer work. This is why unemployment is always so high in socialist countries. What you have to go through to have employees is just brutal.

But here's the thing about what Obama said --- he has it exactly backwards. The government didn't build any of that shit he is talking about --- we built it. We are the ones who paid for it. Not only did we build our businesses we built the schools and the roads and everything else he thinks was generated out of thin air. If you want to get technical about it the businesses and taxpayers that came along before we did built it all and now we are building what comes next.

And not only that, but we did it with the albatross of a predatory, corrupt and overbearing government hanging around our necks at every juncture.

And now we have had enough.

I haven't made more than $50k from my business but one or two years of the past 15. But now that it is time to cash out after providing literally hundreds of jobs I get the stink eye and get castigated for being a member of the 1%. Even though I can remember sitting on the edge of the bed and holding my head in my hands wondering what I had done risking everything I had to create a business and wondering how it would all work out when I had just finished working several days in a row with no sleep... I am the enemy. Even though I didn't take a paycheck for the first year of the business and later skipped other paychecks to meet payroll or to pay taxes I am somehow at fault for the fact that all of these people sitting on their asses or working their cushy government jobs with the large pensions funded by armies of tax collectors and regulators may have to go without.

Well, I already went without so they can bloody well shut the fuck up and take their turn in the barrel! If they want to risk everything they have or work their asses off with no guarantee of success only to be told at the end that they were not responsible for their own success and don't deserve their rewards then they are welcome to go down that path and see what it is like. But the number of people who will pursue the American dream and build the economy from the roots up will be greatly decreased in the current atmosphere and all of these self-entitled idiots will sit around wondering why the government is still going broke and why no one is hiring.

No country can survive socialism. It just doesn't happen. Sooner or later the bill comes due. But before it does you always get demagogic idiots like Obama, or Chavez who try to blame their failures on the only people who are keeping everything afloat. It is not enough they sank the damn ship... they have to come after the people in the life boats too.

That is the sort of mentality we are dealing with.

Posted by: Voluble at August 18, 2012 12:58 PM (qYvEa)

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 02:51 PM | Comments (613)
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With his mom. Taking the "Mediscare" fight right back at Obama.

I'm like Ace, I love this twist on the Dems. You want to talk about Medicare and who wants to protect it more? Fine. We're ready.

I really don't think they saw this coming. Perhaps they should have looked to see what's in the bill before they passed it to see what's in the bill.

Also, "HI MOM!"

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 02:13 PM | Comments (170)
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What, no new thread for 3 hours? Wow. OK, here's a little fresh meat. Or, nearly fresh:

I pulled this out from the sidebar.

Also, check out this from a Bay Area (CA) Chik-Fil-A from a couple of weeks ago doing the brouhaha. Watch to the end of the video to see how incredibly long the line is.

I'm hoping these are harbingers of November.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 12:59 PM | Comments (171)
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I heard about this from one of my Facebook friends If anyone wants to read about some musicians who are actually "raging against the machine", read about these young ladies. They are in prison for their music and their actions. Personally, I'm not sure that staging an obscenity-laced flash mob performance inside an Orthodox church is the best way to oppose autocrat Vladimir Putin, but I'd just like to point out an article about artists who are truly opposing the system within which they live. And they've paid a price for it -- they have been imprisoned for their raging - as opposed to douchebag poseurs such as Tom Morello, who sits on his fat, has-been ass all day and talks smack about shit he knows nothing about, at no personal cost to himself.

Also, what moron would not be immediately interested a band called Pussy Riot?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:58 AM | Comments (320)
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The latest piece of Romney campaign email to hit my inbox comes in the form of a statement from Ross Murty, co-owner of the Village Corner Deli in Davenport, Iowa, who caused a little stir last week by wearing some Romney campaign swag while catering for an Obama campaign stop.

No one from the government was there when we were sweating it, when we were building this business. I'm proud of the business I've built, so I appreciate Mitt Romney for standing up for people like me. He knows the kind of hard work and dedication it takes to make a business successful.

We need a president who understands business. Who understands what it means to make payroll. Who understands what it means to grow an enterprise and to be successful. I think Mitt is the candidate for the job.

On a scale of 1 to 10, Obama's "you didn't build that" remark appears to resonate at about a million. It perfectly summarizes his government-centric worldview and makes it plain to anyone paying attention that he and his policies are standing in the way of our economic recovery.

So it should come as no surprise that business owners hang signs telling Obama to kiss their ass. Or tell Joe Biden to take a hike. Or protest being forced to accept EBT card payments for pies.

“I don’t think American taxpayers should be footing the bill for people’s pie purchases,” said Andrea Taber, proprietor of the Ever So Humble Pie Co. in Walpole, who peddles her wares at the Braintree market on Fridays and now finds herself in the middle of the state’s raging fight over welfare benefits.

“To me it’s no different than nail salons and Lottery tickets,” Taber said. “It’s pastry, it’s dessert. My pies are great, but come on.”

We have serious economic problems in this country, and they're not going to be fixed by hopey-changey bullshit or "fundamental transformation" to a European-style social welfare state. As Mitt says on the campaign trail, Europe doesn't even work in Europe. Why the Obama-ites think it'll work here is beyond me.

But these problems can be be fixed by government getting its house in order while honest, hardworking Americans who take risks are allowed to benefit if the risk pays off. And it is a risky proposition - according to the SBA, half of all small businesses fail within five years.

What Obama favors, though, is a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose system where business owners fight an out of control regulatory state just to face demonization and punitive taxation if by some chance they manage to succeed.

It's great to see business owners all across America standing up and saying "f*ck that!". Now I'm off to Walpole to buy some pies.

Posted by: andy at 08:05 AM | Comments (315)
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Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his throat to cut. An I had been a man of any occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word, I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so he fell. When he came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said anything amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or four wenches where I stood cried, “Alas, good soul!” and forgave him with all their hearts. But there’s no heed to be taken of them. If Caesar had stabbed their mothers they would have done no less. ~ Julius Caesar; Act I, Scene 2

Next time you visit the Windy City, forget about the Sears Tower*, the Magnificent Mile, Wrigley Field, the museums and all those other great tourist attractions. You must go straight from O'Hare to the corner of Dorchester and 53rd to see the site of Barack and Michelle's first kiss. Don't forget your airsickness bag.

And remember those White House web site Presidential bios that Obama was edited into? Well, they cleaned that up, but it appears the good Obamacultists over at State didn't get the memo.

The State Department has recently ended its long-running series of Background Notes, which were analytical, objective histories of other countries. In their place, new “Fact Sheets” now tout Obama’s policies and actions toward each nation. No more historical context, no recounting of complex and long-standing issues in the country. Just cut to the chase—that is, the time when the current Administration came to power.

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Roberts noted that “They seem to be not ‘fact sheets’ but brag sheets,” adding that the edits appear to treat countries more favorably when the Obama Administration agrees with their leaders.

Fortunately, the Obama cult of personality is closing in on its expiration date. But its death throes are gonna be ugly.

* I know it's been renamed, but it'll always be the Sears Tower to me.

Posted by: andy at 04:04 AM | Comments (451)
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It really has been a pathetic reelection campaign for Obama so far. I mean really, having to rely on cheap, dishonest attacks and focus on tax returns and dogs while the economy burns and the middle east descends into chaos is ridiculous. You would think one would run on their record or achievements but I guess they really do believe that they didn't build that. Heck, they probably would still try to blame Bush if they thought that independent voters would believe it. Their latest pathetic attempt to go after Romney and say he lacks the qualifications and experience to be Commander-In-Chief is to laugh at. Seriously? Behold, The Incredible Shrinking Democratic Critique.

The Obama campaign has levied more than its fair share of bogus critiques of Governor Romney and the Republicans. Already in 2011, one of their favorite critiques won the dubious distinction of being Politifact’s “lie of the year.” Alas, the lie of year in 2011 has a chance of defending the title in 2012 what with the extreme response to Paul Ryan. And 2012 has seen a steady parade of charges, each more absurd than the last: Governor Romney is guilty of a felony, Governor Romney never paid taxes, Governor Romney causes people to die from cancer, Governor Romney hates puppies.

Yet, for my money, the charge that takes the greatest chutzpah for an Obama supporter to offer with a straight face is the claim that Governor Romney has insufficient experience and qualifications to be Commander-in-Chief. I might listen respectfully to someone who argued that Senator Obama was unqualified in 2008 and now in 2012 wants to say Governor Romney is unqualified, too. Perhaps someone like that exists and, if so, perhaps a reader could direct me thither.

But it takes a special kind of blinkered partisan to have touted the national security qualifications of the junior senator from Illinois (not quite through his first term in office) and now to question the preparedness of the former Governor of Massachusetts.

Posted by: CDR M at 06:10 PM | Comments (767)
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