June 05, 2012
— andy
In case you're unclear on what's at stake both today in Wisconsin and again in November, Jimmy P. provides a chart from CBO that sums it up nicely:
That red arrow is where the CBO's forecasting model breaks because it can't handle a 250% debt to GDP ratio.
The blue social model has failed both here and abroad, and we are now in a race to kill it before it kills us.
Students of democracy from Alexis de Tocqueville to Mancur Olson have pointed out that the greatest threat to self-government comes from the tendency of democracies to become barnacled with special interests that vote themselves more benefits than society can afford. This is the crisis of the modern entitlement state, which is unfolding from California to Illinois, Greece, Italy and even Washington. Wisconsin is a critical test of whether democracies can reform before the crisis becomes debilitating.
The ball's in your court, Cheeseheads.
Update: Bonus content from the RNC detailing King Putt's miserable economic record.
Update 2: Monty emailed this to me the other day with a subject line of, "If I were still writing my DOOM posts, this would be a headliner...." Nice knowing you, Spain.
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Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 07:03 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: J. Random Dudes phone at June 05, 2012 07:04 AM (zSM0k)
Posted by: Bucky at June 05, 2012 07:05 AM (1UD6H)
Posted by: mallfly at June 05, 2012 07:06 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Cicerokid at June 05, 2012 07:08 AM (jraDW)
Posted by: Lampshade at June 05, 2012 07:10 AM (lkdo/)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at June 05, 2012 07:11 AM (ZsBKY)
Posted by: Bob Saget at June 05, 2012 07:11 AM (SDkq3)
Posted by: eman at June 05, 2012 07:12 AM (6KkLK)
Posted by: Lampshade at June 05, 2012 07:13 AM (lkdo/)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 05, 2012 07:13 AM (7bym4)
Posted by: dogfish at June 05, 2012 07:14 AM (N2yhW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 07:14 AM (R6nK6)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 07:14 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Barry O'Patton at June 05, 2012 07:15 AM (/pd0C)
Posted by: romney a libertarian, heh. at June 05, 2012 07:15 AM (HOOye)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 07:16 AM (8y9MW)
Not your fault.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 07:16 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: The Germans at June 05, 2012 07:17 AM (MMC8r)
1) Bill Clinton is at it again, pointing out that he's the guy who gave us 4 surplus budgets out of 8. He isn't, of course, that was the GOP congress, but regardless......
2) France's socialist foreign minister rebuked Barry for suggesting that Europe was the cause of America's economic woes. Even lefty foreigners are running away from this guy.
Posted by: pep at June 05, 2012 07:18 AM (YXmuI)
Posted by: PurpaDrankChoomSquad at June 05, 2012 07:19 AM (MnHWC)
Posted by: Bob Saget at June 05, 2012 11:11 AM (SDkq3)
It will go on as before, until people stop trading us oil for our paper. Until then, nothing will change regardless of party.
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 07:20 AM (8ruiH)
Posted by: willow at June 05, 2012 07:20 AM (TomZ9)
You and me both, brother.
Posted by: Andy at June 05, 2012 07:21 AM (5Rurq)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I was hoping something a little more biblical. Ya got anything in 'Rain of Blood' or 'Angel of Death' ?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 05, 2012 07:21 AM (famk3)
Posted by: Lampshade at June 05, 2012 07:21 AM (lkdo/)
****
Barky has been a shit Midas. Now he's turning into a shit magnet.
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 05, 2012 07:22 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 07:22 AM (MCDCp)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 07:22 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: romney a libertarian, heh. at June 05, 2012 07:22 AM (HOOye)
Paul Krugman--the Nobel Prize winner in economics--has proven that a mere 5% surtax on the rich will keep Social Security and Medicare solvent for another 1,000 years.
/s/
Your local lefty, full of shit as usual.
Posted by: jimmuy at June 05, 2012 07:23 AM (kSaUf)
Posted by: Sherrifff Joe of Nuttinghoney at June 05, 2012 07:23 AM (vhwRj)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 07:23 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at June 05, 2012 07:23 AM (jTwv3)
Posted by: Greg at June 05, 2012 07:24 AM (cmLma)
That's because we aren't doing it correctly. The taxes aren't quite high enough on the top earners. If we only increase the tax burden on the top 1%, all will be joyous and wonderful.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 05, 2012 07:24 AM (nEUpB)
****
The news that union membership has dropped by 2/3s was far more than I had thought.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 07:25 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: eman at June 05, 2012 07:25 AM (6KkLK)
Also, didn't Paul Ryan a few months ago slap down Tim Terrific Geithner by noting that the CBO (GAO?) say the economy on it's present path would collapse in 2027?
Posted by: mallfly at June 05, 2012 07:25 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Andy at June 05, 2012 07:25 AM (5Rurq)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 07:25 AM (MCDCp)
By popular request, content from the Master of DOOM himself has been added.
Where's the fuckin' kitty?
Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2012 07:26 AM (FJcD2)
She's full of shit. Walker signed a bill passed by both houses of the Assembly. Democrat members of the Assembly fled to Illinois rather than introduce amendments or debate the bill. He waited several weeks for them to come back instead of asking the Republican members to just pass it (there were just enough for a quorum).
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 07:26 AM (ZKzrr)
Na, na, that's not smitey enough. I mean they're slimey but it's really gatta hoit.
Oooh, you gat any'a dem Pillar o' Salt routines?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 05, 2012 07:26 AM (famk3)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 11:22 AM (ZKzrr) \
Leave the french out of this.
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 07:27 AM (8ruiH)
****
Maybe he wasn't as polite as though protesters who trashed the Capital, didn't got to work so that they would be free to protest, and passed out or received phony doctor notes but who is?
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 05, 2012 07:27 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: Lampshade at June 05, 2012 07:27 AM (lkdo/)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 07:28 AM (WCAIB)
"In one of the most amazing exchanges in the history of American government, after Tim Geithner presented the Obama Administration's stratospherically high long-term budget projections, Ryan showed off a chart created by the CBO estimating that America's economy will shut down in 2027 because of out-of-control government spending."
Posted by: mallfly at June 05, 2012 07:28 AM (bJm7W)
How about a plague of boils for everyone in this White House?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 07:28 AM (R6nK6)
Paul Krugman--the Nobel Prize winner in economics--has proven that a mere 5% surtax on the rich will keep Social Security and Medicare solvent for another 1,000 years.
/s/
Your local lefty, full of shit as usual.
****
Heh.
The Telegraph gets in a bit of sarc re Krugman at every opportunity.
http://bit.ly/Ka8Kz5
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 07:28 AM (piMMO)
Students of democracy from Alexis de Tocqueville to Mancur Olson have pointed out that the greatest threat to self-government comes from the tendency of democracies to become barnacled with special interests that vote themselves more benefits than society can afford.
Repeated by Bastiat in The Law as well. We all know what it would take, but it will never happen. Make voting a condition of paying some significant amount of taxes.
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 07:29 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 07:30 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at June 05, 2012 07:30 AM (MnHWC)
Can we spare BO The Water Dog? He's already suffered enough.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 07:30 AM (ZKzrr)
Very nice. Good job on parroting their constant resort to the appeal to authority.
Posted by: Andy at June 05, 2012 07:31 AM (5Rurq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 07:32 AM (R6nK6)
But with Axholerod, Jarrett, and Messina in the white house, how we will tell? I mean, have you seen these people?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 05, 2012 07:32 AM (famk3)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at June 05, 2012 07:32 AM (MnHWC)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 07:33 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 07:34 AM (R6nK6)
They don't even care about the budget bill Walker signed; they started moving to recall him before he even took the oath of office. A little like Islamists blowing shit up when they hear a story about an infidel touching a Koran, the bill just gave them an excuse to do shit they were going to do anyway.
They don't want democracy; they want to rule. Democracy lets ordinary people have a say, and they're pissed that some ordinary (they use will perjorative adverbs) people don't want to be ruled.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 07:35 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 11:28 AM (R6nK6)
Locusts. That'll get the sod buster's attention.
But, really, you should never truly trust cheese-eating Scandi monkeys.
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 07:36 AM (8ruiH)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at June 05, 2012 07:38 AM (ZsBKY)
Posted by: Lampshade at June 05, 2012 07:38 AM (lkdo/)
I thought "Nobel Prize winner" translated into "Anti-American" in the original commie style book.
Has that changed?
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 07:41 AM (8ruiH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 07:41 AM (R6nK6)
Posted by: fishkid at June 05, 2012 07:42 AM (mxEY1)
President Barack Obama is previewing his next strategy in the 2012 campaign — an audacious effort to paint former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and the majority GOP as radical libertarians that have abandoned mainstream American politics
Yeah, those damned radical libertarians want to brutally seize power so they can.....LEAVE YOU ALONE.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 05, 2012 07:42 AM (xDqit)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 07:42 AM (R6nK6)
Posted by: Barky O'McFuckstick at June 05, 2012 07:43 AM (ySoNy)
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 05, 2012 07:43 AM (Hx5uv)
2034 is 22 years away. That is the same distance from now that 1990 is. And 1990? Seems like it was a few minutes ago.
SMOD, take me away!
Posted by: alexthechick at June 05, 2012 07:43 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 07:46 AM (YdQQY)
Develop a taste for squirrel.
Will it be delivered by Daryl Dixon? Because I am surprising fine with that.
Posted by: alexthechick at June 05, 2012 07:47 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Barky O'McFuckstick at June 05, 2012 07:47 AM (ySoNy)
Since Ace wouldn't tell us exactly what was up yesterday, I found it: "BreitbartUnmasked" (that is: probably Brett himself) posted a photo and the address for Ali Akbar's mother's house.
I've written a letter to Greg Abbott (she's a Texas Resident). The rest of the Texas Morons should do the same.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 07:47 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: blaster at June 05, 2012 07:49 AM (7vSU0)
Well.... lets see... how do you destroy an economy.
You make it so the business owners have NO idea what their taxes will be like 6 months from now, so they cannot budget.
You increase the cost of labor, but don't tell them by how much, by creating a new health care system... but have no limits on it... again so they cannot budget.
You use Gov itself to increase the price of energy, by not allowing for energy production by prooven means, while pouring money into expensive non viable forms of energy.
You lower interest rates to the point where it is way less than inflation, by telling lies about the Real inflation rate, making saving stupid which leads to people putting money in the stock market to try to keep ahead of inflation (which creates a bubble).
You have a housing price crises, but don't solve any of the root causes... you allow the same people to continue to play the game.
You give Big Banks no interest loan money, so they can buy up smaller banks who are going under... (the 5 biggest banks have increased in size dramaticly under Obama).
You destroy Bankruptcy law by giving Unions preferential treatement.
You threaten to Raise Taxes, by the largest amount EVAH, during a depresion (if you take deficit spending out, and add in real inflation, we have never been out of the 'recession').
Need I go on?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 05, 2012 07:49 AM (lZBBB)
Yeah, those damned radical libertarians want to brutally seize power so they can.....LEAVE YOU ALONE.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 05, 2012 11:42 AM (xDqit)
Thread Winner!
Yep.... Libertarians... the only group who would Seize power, so NO ONE could use it...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 05, 2012 07:51 AM (lZBBB)
It's fun to forecast DOOM and all, but CBO projections never fill me with confidence. These are the same people who think that no tax cut is even partially self-financing. And the fact is they DO NOT KNOW what effects debt has or will have.
Regardless, hopefully some time before 2037 the people running the US will realize that we're not on the gold standard any more. Government consumption of savings can starve the private sector of capital in a hard money system, but it doesn't have to work that way in a fiat system. The only thing that really matters is whether government spending is consuming too much of the available goods and services. Given the high unemployment and idle capactiy we have right now, it's hard to make that case.
Hopefully these projections will not scare our so-called leaders into focusing entirely on austerity measures. It is FAR more important to reinvigorate the private sector by fixing energy policy, enviro regs, etc. Get the government roadblocks out of the way, and let employment come back before budget slashing, or we're going to be losing elections for a long time to come.
Posted by: Reactionary at June 05, 2012 07:52 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 11:46 AM (YdQQY)
All Fox's medical "A" team are raging statists. Not a single lover of liberty among them.
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 07:55 AM (8ruiH)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 07:55 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 07:55 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: blaster at June 05, 2012 07:57 AM (7vSU0)
Here's a sad kitteh to with the DOOM and gloom.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7n8occe
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 05, 2012 07:57 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: eman at June 05, 2012 07:58 AM (6KkLK)
making saving stupid which leads to people putting money in the stock market to try to keep ahead of inflation
I actually had a talk with my investment guy yesterday about possibly taking the tax and penalty hit to withdraw some funds. We decided at the moment no but at a certain point, yup, it'll be better to cash out and buy physical goods then watch pixels disappear.
I've mentioned before how blindly furious all of this makes me for my parents. My parents struggled and scrimped and saved and did all the right things so they could have a decent retirement. Now they are getting basically negative returns on everything, including the safest possible investments, given the real inflation rate. Hell, my dad's right, it makes more sense for them to buy a new car then to leave money in the market.
Posted by: alexthechick at June 05, 2012 07:59 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 11:46 AM
Yet Nanny Bloomberg is pandering to the rich lefty hipster elites by proposing lightening up on marijuana laws
It's always "for your own good" until one of THEIR vices get touched, and if you touch their vices you're shredding the Constitution
Posted by: kbdabear at June 05, 2012 07:59 AM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at June 05, 2012 08:00 AM (1hM1d)
Romney and the majority GOP as radical libertarians that have abandoned
mainstream American politics
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 05, 2012 11:42 AM (xDqit)
LOL. Let's hope this works. There is little the average American hates moer than "mainstream American politics."
Posted by: Reactionary at June 05, 2012 08:00 AM (xUM1Q)
He just can't help himself from blaming everything on the Georges. And all this time we thought is was the Bushes that he was blaming.
GEORGEIST!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 08:01 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 08:03 AM (INIoS)
I would take Barcelona but that's about it.
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2012 08:03 AM (KXm42)
Yet Nanny Bloomberg is pandering to the rich lefty hipster elites by proposing lightening up on marijuana laws
Seems to me that lightening up on the marijuana laws would negate the effects of reducing portion sizes.
If they really want people to eat smaller portions they should encourage cigarette smoking. Side benefits include increased tax revenue and decreased lifespan (saving money on Social Security and Medicare payments).
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at June 05, 2012 08:03 AM (JxMoP)
Some more juicebox philosophy regarding today's recall in Wisconsin from the "reality" bunch:
If we lose, blame it on union turnout. The unions should have made it mandatory to show proof of voting--either a sticker from a poll watcher or a photo. Punishment could range from humiliation to loss of union legal protection for one year. When you're fighting for your life, you fight with all tools available--and worry about the consequences after the doctor announces you'll survive. Unions have lost their way--and their balls. Mike Quill, where are you?
Sweet are the tears.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 05, 2012 08:04 AM (4q5tP)
Perhaps someone has been spinning Merkel's views to match their own...
http://bit.ly/JShKri
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 08:05 AM (piMMO)
I'm pretty sure that concept is part of the War on Womyn. Why should a woman who doesn't mark kids' misspelled words on essays get paid the same as a man who makes the same kids solve for x? (Nevermind that you can reverse the genders and the answer is still the same....)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 08:07 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Mary Blabberstein from Claptrap, VT at June 05, 2012 08:07 AM (QBSWR)
2:20 to 2:35 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_f20ZDBj5k
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 08:07 AM (e8kgV)
Some more juicebox philosophy regarding today's recall in Wisconsin from the "reality" bunch:
The fact that union membership has cratered since the reforms were enacted doesn't seem to have sunk in with this one.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at June 05, 2012 08:07 AM (JxMoP)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 05, 2012 08:07 AM (p7SSh)
Posted by: eleven
Huh? You've never been to Coasta del Sol, I take it?
Not even Jerez or Malaga?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 05, 2012 08:08 AM (famk3)
"We are now in a race to kill it before it kills us."
Suggestion: start by cutting off the snake's head - the media.
Posted by: sherlock at June 05, 2012 08:11 AM (7UMow)
Too many tourists in the Coasta del Sol. Try Altea (Coasta Blanca). Nice town, great restaurants.
Posted by: jwest at June 05, 2012 08:12 AM (ZDsRL)
That is the question
Whether tis nobler to keep
the knowledge of misery to oneself
or by sharing spread it.
Thanks for sharing.
I was in a good mood so far today too.
Emphasis on was.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 05, 2012 08:13 AM (CP+yl)
Posted by: romney a libertarian, heh. at June 05, 2012 08:16 AM (HOOye)
I love that they're advocating flat out vote fraud/voter coercion.
Where's the WI Attorney General?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 08:17 AM (8y9MW)
The only illegals getting free dental care are the kids.
The dentists managed to exclude themselves from being required to work on someone regardless of their situation as hospitals are required to do. Supposedly because you can't die from a toothache but it turns out that you can so that may change.
Medicare and Medicaid doesn't pay for dental care of most any type for anyone over 18. The only exception is if it's part of a surgery that is covered. (don't ask me. I assume someone has surgery for cancer of the jaw or something I don' know.)
Apparently the Dentists have better lobbyists than the MD's OR the MD's thought they would get paid. (silly MD's. Tricks are for Democrats.)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 05, 2012 08:17 AM (CP+yl)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 08:18 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: romney a libertarian, heh. at June 05, 2012 08:19 AM (HOOye)
They do in some states if you're pregnant. http://is.gd/I8dZ34
Prenatal care at no cost to you, so if you need to get that tooth fixed...
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 08:22 AM (ZKzrr)
My wife had to have 21 perfectly good teeth pulled in preparation for radiation therapy for thyroid cancer. Guess what, BCBS would not cover it as medical. It had to go on dental insurance which has a max out of $1500/year.
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 08:23 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 08:23 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 08:24 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 05, 2012 08:25 AM (p7SSh)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 12:23 PM (WCAIB)
I'm not, it had to be fake. Nobody is going to bus people from Detroit to WI. It is just too far. Chicago yes, Detroit no.
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 08:25 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 05, 2012 12:25 PM (p7SSh)
I love it. After I hooked it up and started playing with it noted that it even had a jack on the front to insert memory sticks with music which it will play.
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 08:27 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2012 08:27 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 08:28 AM (WCAIB)
Any day that begins with ragging on Paul Krugman is a good one for me. If he's indicative of Keynesian economists, they're all nuts. And when they gain power, they're dangerous.
Click my nic...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 05, 2012 08:29 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: romney a libertarian, heh. at June 05, 2012 08:29 AM (HOOye)
And overtime kicks in after eight hours.
I can't concentrate on anything today. C'mon, 9 p.m. Central....
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 08:29 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: romney a libertarian, heh. at June 05, 2012 08:30 AM (HOOye)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 05, 2012 08:32 AM (p7SSh)
Posted by: Slick Willie at June 05, 2012 08:32 AM (4Bh6U)
For some reason business folks take a dim view of those type of accounts.
I can't blame them either. I wouldn't loan me money either right now.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 05, 2012 08:32 AM (CP+yl)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at June 05, 2012 08:33 AM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 05, 2012 12:32 PM (p7SSh)
MusicHall makes a great line of affordable intro/mid level hifi equipment.
Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2012 08:34 AM (+s5ze)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 05, 2012 12:13 PM (CP+yl)
Hey, turn that frown upside down.
Here is the joke. The Saudis still trade us oil for paper. Heh. I totally support this, since, evidently the Saudis, Canadians, and the Mexicans do not study history.
Let us rob them while we can.
All you have to do is be crooked, and the whole federal .gov plan makes total sense. And if follows all historical data.
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 08:35 AM (8ruiH)
What made it funny is that they were all herded back on their smelly buses before the rally was completely over. It emptied the mall which was only about half as filled as Beck's event.
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 08:36 AM (WCAIB)
[redacted], here are the results from the final poll of the recall election against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. The election is tomorrow:
PPP's final poll on the Wisconsin recall finds Scott Walker ahead,
but also a race that's tightening. Walker leads Tom Barrett 50-47.
That's down from 50-45 on a PPP poll conducted three weeks ago and it's
also down from a 52-45 lead that Walker posted in a Marquette Law poll
released last week.
Barrett is actually winning independent voters by a 48-46 margin.
The reason he continues to trail overall is that Republicans are more
excited about voting in Tuesday's election than Democrats are. Our
projected electorate voted for Barack Obama by only 7 points, even
though he took the state by 14 in 2008. If the folks who turn out on
Tuesday actually matched the 2008 electorate, Barrett would be ahead of
Walker by a 50-49 margin. It's cliche but this is a race that really is
going to completely come down to turnout.
Please, help the final effort to turn out voters by chipping in $3 to Tom Barrett. The money will be wired to the campaign tonight so it can be used in the final push tomorrow.
Keep fighting,
Chris Cocksucker Bowers
Campaign Director, Daily Kos
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 08:37 AM (9Q7Nu)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 08:38 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 05, 2012 08:38 AM (p7SSh)
If the Democrats keep the polls open late, as I suspect they plan to, this thing will be settled in court.
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 08:40 AM (9Q7Nu)
Okay, which one of you reprobates posted this as a gag over on Kos?
We'll see what happens today, but the idea that Wisconsin represents a victory no matter the outcome is just silly.
What the Wisconsin recalls have energized appears to be the Republican party. The "elephant in the room" (pardon the metaphor) is that every poll shows that it is GOP voters that are most excited and motivated, not those favoring recall. There is a lesson there no one seems to want to acknowledge. If Scott Walker wins today, he becomes a national hero to the GOP and the energizing effect continues and expands.
So far, the last three years in Wisconsin have been disastrous for labor and for progressives, and a huge victory for conservative forces. We can only hope that isn't capped off today with a resounding GOP win. To say that, well, labor was galvanized is "sweet lemons" (the opposite of sour grapes).
Being slapped down three times by the voters of a state as progressive as Wisconsin has been cannot be spun as a win. It will be - if it occurs - a loss of epic proportions exposing strategic folly and electoral weakness.
President Obama is going to win in November, nationally and probably in Wisconsin. But he was very wise not to publicly make this recall election a proxy for the Presidential election. His campaign organization has been quietly effective in the recall, and is part of the reason there is chance for an upset. But the recall effort may be a few hours away from accomplishing exactly the opposite of what it intended.
Except for the Obama winning in November bit, this guy writes like the scales have fallen from his eyes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 05, 2012 08:43 AM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at June 05, 2012 08:43 AM (0vc7K)
Seriously, Andy. We have the world's reserve currency. We can rape those idiot third worlders for a few more trillion before they dare even protest. All you have to do to profit is be as corrupt as the Fed. The World Bank. The IMF. The insert corrupt Goldman-Sachs crony here....
Sad, but true. Buy the dip. Heh. The bernanck will save you. /s
Heh. The Bernack will manage the slow transitions of the dollar into parity with the peso.
I will say I told you so. Stand by.
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 08:45 AM (8ruiH)
Saying Keynesians are dangerous when in power is a gross understatement. Riding a motorcycle is dangerous. Having Keynesians in power is like having gangrene and having to wait until the next election cycle to get treatment.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 05, 2012 08:45 AM (0q2P7)
Chest to chest in the hall? Got to imagine some ethnic epithets were running through their minds.
Isn't it interesting that we have to get our News/truth/facts about what's going on in the White House and DC from the Brits?
Pathetic is what I say. NYT, NBC,ABC,CBS,CNN, etc et al you should be ashamed of yourselves being scooped by a Press that originates 1800 miles away from our shores. Is that the distance to avoid the poison?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 05, 2012 08:51 AM (CP+yl)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 08:52 AM (O3R/2)
It's pathetic, it won't serve to enlighten anyone that isn't already and it sure won't bother the people who are the targets.
Action and noise is what gets people's attention. Silence is just ignored.
As I intend to do on Friday.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 05, 2012 08:53 AM (CP+yl)
Posted by: Anachronda at June 05, 2012 08:55 AM (FzhYM)
"Spain said on Tuesday that credit markets were closing to the euro zone's fourth biggest economy as finance chiefs of the Group of Seven major economies conferred on the currency bloc's worsening debt crisis but took no joint action."
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 05, 2012 08:56 AM (famk3)
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Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 12:48 PM (9Q7Nu)
Hot Redhead... Fantasy Inn... Lake Tahoe... Pirate costumes.... some assembly required...
(Valhalla Ren Faire in Tahoe this weekend)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 05, 2012 08:56 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 12:48 PM (9Q7Nu)
I'm camping out at TMS this weekend for the races and will be drinking beer and eating food.
Enjoying the freedoms we still have while they're still around.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 05, 2012 08:57 AM (UK9cE)
"Isn't it interesting that we have to get our News/truth/facts about what's going on in the White House and DC from the Brits?"
Don't get too proud. The Brits are only supporting this kind of reporting to convince their own proles that they are so superior to those filthy Americans.
The Brit .gov is every bit as fascist as Zero would like the US .gov to be.
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 08:58 AM (8ruiH)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 08:59 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Paladin at June 05, 2012 09:00 AM (QGbEp)
This Twitterer is screwing around with Ali Akbar and Malkin today.
Note the cowardly I want their 501c3's legal mailing address. If I call or email them, I assume they'll publish it like the other bloggers do.
https://twitter.com/#!/catsrimportant
Also, Ali reporting that an investigation has been opened in Texas, where his mother resides.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:00 AM (piMMO)
My old dentist preferred non-insurance payment means. Less overhead for him. I keep hearing dentists and doctors will actually charge less not to have to put up with that--anyone seen truth to that?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, New Caprica City Dept. of 'Human' Resources at June 05, 2012 09:00 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 09:00 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 09:03 AM (YdQQY)
Euros? Renmimbi (Yuan)? Yen? Peso?
Yup. We could sell another 20 trillion in bonds to the developing nations cause they want to sell us stuff.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:03 AM (O3R/2)
As of 1300 eastern, FOXNEWS.COM shows the 'check box' for win in Barrett's corner?
Oversight? Wishful thinking?
Posted by: Mr Wolf at June 05, 2012 09:03 AM (48Yam)
The Brit .gov is every bit as fascist as Zero would like the US .gov to be.
*****
Yes, but the Telegraph's sarc re Krugman, and beating our own MSM to the punch on issues, still has me tuning in several times a day.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:04 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2012 12:38 PM (+s5ze)
Friday really won't be much of a stretch for him.
Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2012 09:04 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 09:06 AM (MMC8r)
*****
That has to be one of the most pathetic questions ever uttered.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:07 AM (piMMO)
Hey.... Barry.... did you hear??? Reichwing bloggers are all going to take the day off Friday for some protest...
REALLY good day for a document dump...
Posted by: Axelsmallrod at June 05, 2012 09:08 AM (lZBBB)
She needed a root canal and post in preparation for a crown. The Endodontist waived the $495 fee. Completely. May God bless him and his.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:08 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 05, 2012 09:08 AM (Hx5uv)
That has to be one of the most pathetic questions ever uttered.
It's so sad, isn't it? And by "it," I mean us.
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 09:09 AM (9Q7Nu)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 01:00 PM (WCAIB)
All you have to do is support the party line.
Let me ask you an honest question. Do you approve of the spending priorities of the Rs in congress from 2005?
Do you realize why they were repudiated by the majority? If the Rs have not learned that lesson, it will be repeated. And another Obama really will be the end. I won't fight for a country that invested in mindless self-destruction.
What do you think will be the speed of America's decline when the exodus becomes apparent to the average prole?
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 09:10 AM (8ruiH)
Posted by: Jean at June 05, 2012 09:10 AM (qjHIb)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 09:11 AM (MMC8r)
All you have to do is support the party line.
What in the hee-haw heck does that have to do with dagwood's comment??
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 09:11 AM (9Q7Nu)
Those bastards are out to silence conservative bloggers and, if they succeed, we'll be trying to figure out what to do with a whole helluva lot of our time.
Imagine going back to the MSM and FNC to get our news.
Reverend Wright?
Never heard of him.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:11 AM (piMMO)
- umm - er - ignore that please....
(shouts back over shoulder)
Ed? I TOLD you twenty times !! Checkbox on Fox News is not until Wednesday! !
Posted by: International Brotherhood of Ballot Box Technicians - Local 1263 at June 05, 2012 09:12 AM (zsgo8)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:13 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:14 AM (O3R/2)
My old dentist offered a 5% discount for paying with check or credit card the day of the appointment. Still more out of pocket than paying for a 30% or 50% insurance copay, but I didn't have any.
Shit, I should have asked the new dentist about the cash payment policy after I maxed out my dental insurance last month. Skipped my mind.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 09:15 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:17 AM (piMMO)
The choir hears the sermon and nods along emphatically (with AMEN! thrown in at appropriate intervals).
The unchurched are still sleeping off last night's binge. Haven't been to services in decades, couldn't care less about what's going on.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 09:18 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 05, 2012 01:10 PM (8ruiH)
;;;
Ah yes, but there might be one man, only one man, who could save America, right?
;;;
Maybe you can tell us who that is, champ.
Posted by: Meremortal at June 05, 2012 09:18 AM (Usk3+)
http://tinyurl.com/83934b8
I homestly don't know what to make of that. Is being a Nazi illegal?
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2012 09:18 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Dr. Orin Scrivelo, DDS at June 05, 2012 09:19 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:20 AM (O3R/2)
-Bill Clinton to Conservative friends
Drudge has the story that Dick Morris is relaying.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:22 AM (O3R/2)
(This via The Other McCain): http://tinyurl.com/7ucxm43
Skip down to the comments and read all of "Bizzaro 5 President" comments (which apparently is Ace).
It's about Brett Kimberlin and Ali A Akbar (National Blogger's Club president). Apparently Kimberlin/associates are targeting him now.
Posted by: jwb7605 at June 05, 2012 09:22 AM (Qxe/p)
>>I keep hearing dentists and doctors will actually charge less not to have to put up with that--anyone seen truth to that?
I don't have dental insurance, so I have to pay cash. My dentist gives me a decent discount. 15% or so.
It saves him from having to deal with insurance companies and the like.
Posted by: Ben at June 05, 2012 09:23 AM (wuv1c)
Posted by: reason at June 05, 2012 09:23 AM (XiVKO)
Parts 1 and 2 of a four part series should get your blood pumping.
D.C. SWAT teams throw down on vet after a call to a counseling line to discuss nightmares results in a false alarm of "suicide watch!"
Did I mention he had {{{UNREGISTERED GUNS}}}} in his possession?
http://bit.ly/KMGUI2
Read along and then let me know the statement that really jumps out at you.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:24 AM (piMMO)
the only posts on friday will be rdbrewer's cat vids and him begging people to follow him on twitter
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 09:25 AM (9Q7Nu)
It's about Brett Kimberlin and Ali A Akbar (National Blogger's Club president). Apparently Kimberlin/associates are targeting him now.
****
Yes, but unlike California and Maryland, Texas is opening an investigation.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:25 AM (piMMO)
Is SCoaMF aware that some dentists give a discount for cash? I'm pretty sure they do that at their own peril.
Reminds me of the doctor who offered unlimited service for $20 a month. Feds shut that guy down real quick like for running an illegal insurance company.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 05, 2012 09:25 AM (cWkOB)
My doctor didn't give discounts for cash.
He said, "I'm sick of paying $120k in insurance and spending my nights filling out paperwork. And it's about to get worse. I'm retiring."
;;;
And he did.
Posted by: Meremortal at June 05, 2012 09:26 AM (Usk3+)
"Milwaukee is running out of ballots."
GAH! ALL WE'VE GOT LEFT ARE THE ONES ALREADY FILLED OUT FOR BARRETT!
Posted by: International Ballot Printers, Local #740 at June 05, 2012 09:26 AM (XiVKO)
Posted by: © Sponge at June 05, 2012 09:27 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Dr. Orin Scrivelo, DDS at June 05, 2012 01:19 PM (MMC8r)
****
Feed me Seymour!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:27 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2012 09:28 AM (GYSmh)
Posted by: Hammered at June 05, 2012 09:28 AM (5FUS8)
I have concluded that in these hard times there may be lots of dentists will to give the uninsured a nice break for several reasons:
Charity,
Competition, (If I had to pay full price, might I call around for a better deal?).
Lack of Insurance hassle, and
There's enough customers/patients with insurance to permit it.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:28 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 01:00 PM (piMMO)
http://www.examiner.com/ liberal-in-baltimore/ bill-schmalfeldt
Deep thinker, liberal columnist makes veiled tweet that bloggers are being paid to hassle BK, then DM's ali's address.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at June 05, 2012 09:28 AM (vhwRj)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 05, 2012 09:30 AM (TI2TT)
There was a discount for paying cash for gasoline. The credit card lobby persuaded our Congress to outlaw it.
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Why did they need congress? It's in the Mastercard merchant agreement that every business must agree to in order to take credit cards. Which is why I wonder how the local municipalities around here can charge a "convenience fee" for paying by card which coincidentally is the same percentage that they are charged for accepting cards. No one big or small is allowed to do that - and still accept Mastercard.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 05, 2012 09:30 AM (cWkOB)
For minor dental work, try to work a cash deal with your local dentist. For extensive work (mid five figures to 6 figures) use dental tourism – Argentina – to save about 60%.
Posted by: jwest at June 05, 2012 09:31 AM (ZDsRL)
“They immediately zip-tied me tighter than I would have been allowed to zip-tie an Iraqi,”
(What happened to the dog?!)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 09:31 AM (ZKzrr)
Most of their study replicates several earlier research publications. These are hardly mentioned. The writers make extravagant and false claims to originality and priority of research. There appear to be serious errors in their use of statistical bases which result in grossly mistaken functions and comparisons. Some of their conclusions cannot be obtained even from their flawed findings. The authors have made their raw data unavailable so that its accuracy cannot be independently checked. In my opinion, the authors have engaged in repeated instances of scientific misconduct.
Who would've guessed that she's an academic fraud as well as an injun fraud? http://tinyurl.com/7rvrzs4
Posted by: Cicero at June 05, 2012 09:33 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 09:35 AM (MMC8r)
6 figure dental work? What are people getting unicorn horn dental implants?
Posted by: runninrebel at June 05, 2012 01:33 PM (N/1Dm)
It can add up quick if the procedure needs an oral surgeon, cosmetic dentist, bone grafts, CAT scans, etc.
Posted by: jwest at June 05, 2012 09:36 AM (ZDsRL)
****
Schmalfeldt was also over at the cat piss twitter site this morning offering up a mailing address for Ali.
This, from a conservative writer, was over at The Examiner last night with a link at the bottom of the piece to more info about "Liberal Hate".
http://exm.nr/M8vgm9
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:37 AM (piMMO)
If you read, "To Kill a Mockingbird" you might remember that Atticus Finch, the lawyer, also accept livestock as payment.
It shouldn't be considered A. B. normal. There's a long history of it.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:38 AM (O3R/2)
****
Didn't like that, but this is what jumps out at me, from part 2:
“Then the cop said to me, ‘I don’t have time to play this constitutional bullshit with you. We’re going to break your door in, and you’re going to have to pay for a new door.’”
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:40 AM (piMMO)
****
It's also worth checking into the dental clinics at your local university. The work is performed by dental professionals with a student or two watching the procedure.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:43 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 09:44 AM (MMC8r)
But then you would have to hear the blow by blow account of what they were doing to you. ::shudder::
I'd take the gas.
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2012 09:45 AM (KXm42)
bullshit with you.>>
The police really have changed since I was young. If you were cooperative and didn't lie to them quite often (if no damage was involved) they'd give you a warning and send you on your way. In my last occasion I dealt with them they took all info and used it to the full spin to extract the most amount of dough from me. It was then I learned why those guys on COPS lie even when caught on tape. There is no downside to the lie but plenty for the truth.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 05, 2012 09:46 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 05, 2012 09:46 AM (TI2TT)
https://twitter.com/#!/catsrimportant
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:47 AM (piMMO)
I used the word "woken up" in 10th grade English. The teacher criticized me.
She and her husband went on vacation in England and showed slides of Stratford-upon-Avon, with that taxpayer subsidy that teachers get.
Shakespeare used the words.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:47 AM (O3R/2)
what's Rush talkin aboot?
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 01:45 PM
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Sex and the City
*sigh*
It is about SJP's pro-Obama dinner, at least.
Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at June 05, 2012 09:48 AM (dKWiU)
Really? I'm sick of hearing about SJP.
Quite frankly, nobody gives a shit about this picayune stuff.
Posted by: Soothsayer, and things of that nature at June 05, 2012 09:50 AM (9Q7Nu)
Smallfeet is all over the, "I'm a retired federal employee with friends in the IRS" schtick. Maybe he'll take it too far and embarrass himself.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at June 05, 2012 09:50 AM (vhwRj)
*****
I can't wait to read part 3 about how they then lost the guy in the jail system for 2 weeks before dismissing all charges.
So, supposedly, he was a threat to himself, but then they have him in custody and still tear his place apart in search of the unregistered guns which were in a closet.
That bust had absolutely nothing to do with trying to save a life.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:51 AM (piMMO)
Awww. What a sweetie. I've had 2 cats live to 18. It's hard, like losing a sister or child.
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 09:51 AM (WCAIB)
Parts 1 and 2 of a four part series should get your blood pumping.
D.C. SWAT teams throw down on vet after a call to a counseling line to discuss nightmares results in a false alarm of "suicide watch!"
Did I mention he had {{{UNREGISTERED GUNS}}}} in his possession?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 01:24 PM (piMMO)
Yep, my blood's pumping now. Thugs and scumbags. This is the kind of thing that makes me think if the SHTF, the cops are NOT going to be on our side.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 05, 2012 09:53 AM (v+QvA)
You have to pound his backside to get anything out?
/Judges?
Sorry, no.
Wait.
The judges say they will accept it. We were looking for "What is the song 'Anticipation' because Ace makes us wait," but we'll accept your response.
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at June 05, 2012 09:53 AM (9Q7Nu)
DOOM Cat: With Miniguns.
Posted by: Fritz at June 05, 2012 09:54 AM (ZN5qR)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 01:49 PM
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Fascinating YouTube about that by a law professor. Long, so favorite it for later:
http://tinyurl.com/72dcsrl
Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at June 05, 2012 09:54 AM (dKWiU)
To protect and serve is a thing of the past.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 05, 2012 09:54 AM (tf9Ne)
I couldn't get through the first installment. It angers me so much. DC is a tyranny and I suspect a lot of big cities to the same.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 09:54 AM (O3R/2)
...the dog is gonna get killed, isn't he?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 09:54 AM (ZKzrr)
Can anya youse morons put me some fuckin' knowledge about a good Churchill biography?
The Last Lion
Alternatively, read all volumes of his history of WWII.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 05, 2012 09:55 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 01:54 PM (ZKzrr)
If they didn't kill the dog as part of a "dynamic entry" it's probably going to turn out OK. Usually they shoot the dog first thing, if Radley Balko's work is any indication.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 05, 2012 09:56 AM (v+QvA)
Alternatively, read all volumes of his history of WWII.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 05, 2012 01:55 PM
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I would concur.
Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at June 05, 2012 09:56 AM (dKWiU)
You have to pound his backside to get anything out?
****
But AHA! Engineers have been expending consider effort in
http://n.pr/KPnY7i
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:57 AM (piMMO)
You all watch the vid I linked a few days ago with the cop frisking the young black man?
The cop grabbed an object in the man's waistline and asked, "What's this?"
The man said, "That's my penis."
Posted by: rosemary, parsley, soothsayer, and thyme at June 05, 2012 09:57 AM (9Q7Nu)
Posted by: Filly at June 05, 2012 01:49 PM (247Qj)
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I just finished "Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry" by Ted Morgan. Pretty good overview of 1874-1915, covering his youth, experiences in Afghanistan and South Africa, and up to Gallipoli. The man led such a huge life, I think any one book covering the whole of it would be sorely lacking.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 05, 2012 09:58 AM (BiMP/)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 09:58 AM (8y9MW)
****
I don't know about that, but his tropical fish were killed.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 09:58 AM (piMMO)
How long does "Animal Control" hold a dog while the owner is in jail awaiting arraignment/psych eval/etc?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 09:58 AM (ZKzrr)
The man said, "That's my penis."
Posted by: rosemary, parsley, soothsayer, and thyme at June 05, 2012 01:57 PM
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Yeah, happens to me all the time. It's always mistaken for a large weapon.
Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at June 05, 2012 09:59 AM (dKWiU)
The man said, "That's my penis."
You got a permit to carry it concealed?
Posted by: A Smartass Cop at June 05, 2012 10:01 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 05, 2012 10:02 AM (pLTLS)
****
Web or twitter address?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 10:02 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at June 05, 2012 10:02 AM (vhwRj)
What most people don't know is that Winston Churchill was a lot like Obama regarding Economics. Absolutely clueless. He came to America in the 30s and gave speeches. He had no clue as to what to do.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 10:02 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: jakeman at June 05, 2012 10:03 AM (96M6e)
I haven't. And what it looks is utterly incomprehensible.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 10:03 AM (8y9MW)
Ace is easing you into it so you don't have to go cold turkey.
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2012 10:04 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 02:02 PM (piMMO)
He just hid or deleted a bunch of his tweets. Fancy that.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at June 05, 2012 10:06 AM (vhwRj)
AoHSQ has been killgored!
Posted by: Cicero at June 05, 2012 10:06 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 05, 2012 10:07 AM (B+qrE)
****
The libs are going apeshit over the Kimberlin situation. They just can't wait to further the attacks on BK's victims.
Malkin tweeted earlier "Oh, I am so not in the mood for this bull***t today."
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 10:09 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2012 10:10 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 10:10 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Cicero at June 05, 2012 02:06 PM (QKKT0)
KT has become an internet verb.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at June 05, 2012 10:12 AM (vhwRj)
I'll start with "It's a Small World" and escalate from there.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 10:12 AM (8y9MW)
I couldn't get through the first installment. It angers me so much. DC is a tyranny and I suspect a lot of big cities to the same.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 01:54 PM (O3R/2)
*
NDH, that is flat-out infuriating on a variety of levels.
Posted by: jakeman at June 05, 2012 02:03 PM (96M6e)
*****
Yup. I read it in the middle of the night last night and it wasn't exactly the cure for insomnia.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 10:13 AM (piMMO)
Why, what would a new open thread offer which this one doesn't?
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 05, 2012 10:13 AM (+EoBq)
Posted by AllenG"
Don't you threaten me, mister. At least provide an earwig so I can get it out.
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at June 05, 2012 10:14 AM (bzgVW)
I'll start with "It's a Small World" and escalate from there.
Take on Me by A-Ha, but MY version.
I'll do it.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 05, 2012 10:15 AM (B+qrE)
Less scrolling to get to the bottom.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 10:15 AM (8y9MW)
http://tinyurl.com/7op3hgz
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 10:15 AM (INIoS)
****
Yeah.
I never really understood the need for a new thread to continue comment parkour.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 10:16 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 05, 2012 10:16 AM (u29Gj)
"It refrains me from not beating the (expletive) out of you right now, because you ask me stupid questions."
Combined with Busch's outbursts, poor results and no sponsorship, Finch stressed the urgency in his driver to turn his situation around.
"It's affecting me. If I can't get a sponsor, I can't keep running without a sponsor," Finch said. "That's a slow death. I don't want to do that.
"Hopefully if we can get Kurt's mind right, we can win some races. If we can't get his mind right so we can race into the future, then I'll go do something else. It's just that simple. I'm doing my part. We've wrecked 14 cars this year. Four at Daytona. We've killed three or four cars and had to completely throw them away."
doom doom doom
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at June 05, 2012 10:17 AM (vhwRj)
GIVE IT TO ME. NOW.
****
I'm sure it's not her. I was just joking, but it seems like something she would do.
https://twitter.com/#!/catsrimportant
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 10:17 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Stormy R.D.H. at June 05, 2012 10:17 AM (Qicmy)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 10:18 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: The People of Brattleboro, Vermont at June 05, 2012 10:19 AM (48wze)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 05, 2012 10:20 AM (INIoS)
Double ::shudder::
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2012 10:20 AM (KXm42)
Actually, the work is performed by a dental (or dental hygiene) student with a licensed dental professional or two watching.
I can see that, too.
I only went to the clinic once, and it was just my experience that the students were watching.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 10:20 AM (piMMO)
Back when I was in school with a roomful of guys silently drafting (with paper and pencils). The worst song was "New York New York"
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 05, 2012 10:21 AM (tf9Ne)
The life of Ricky Bobby is fiction.
Cale Yarborough was a one-shot.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 05, 2012 10:21 AM (O3R/2)
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Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 05, 2012 02:16 PM (u29Gj)
Yeah, I'm just gonna go over here and wait.
In the bunker.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 05, 2012 10:23 AM (B+qrE)
A twentyeight-large salary sounds pretty real to me.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ kurtbadenhausen/ 2012/02/22/ nascars-highest-paid-drivers/
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at June 05, 2012 10:26 AM (vhwRj)
Why does a Zumwalt class DDG cost $3 billion?
Because it is good at blowing shit up in multiple ways. I would rather pay $3 billion for a DDG than $3 billion to raise awareness of the dangers of Velveeta sniffing.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 05, 2012 10:28 AM (B+qrE)
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