March 07, 2012

Government Spends $11 Million to Clothe Two People
— rdbrewer

The Department of Human Services granted $11 million dollars to Detroit to provide business attire to job seekers. Two people were helped.

The audit, conducted by the city's auditor general for the period from July 2009 to September 2011, found the department failed to control the operations and finances of a boutique that was to provide the clothes.

The department did not safeguard grant funds or create an inventory for the clothing, the audit found.

Among the most telling findings, which will be discussed today during a City Council committee meeting, is that a third-party contractor advanced $148,000 to a downtown Detroit clothing store and opened an account, but did not include the city on the account.

. . .

The audit is the latest finding against the city's Department of Human Services, which has been under scrutiny for chronic mismanagement of federal funds. Many of the department's leaders have departed since an internal investigation was launched last year, including an inquiry into the purchase of $182,000 worth of high-end furniture for a department office. In 2009, the department received more than $11 million in stimulus funding and created a service center.

That's okay, though, because good intentions are what really matters. According to the audit, the DHS grant was supposed to help 400 people. You see, it's just that the funds were mismanaged.

400 people. That comes out to $27,500.00 per person. See, it was a good plan. It was just mismanaged.

Nothing criminal here. Move along.

Added: @CamEdwards tweets: "To be fair, they looked fabulous afterwards."

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Posted by: rdbrewer at 07:52 AM | Comments (343)
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1 Honestly...when does the shooting start? I need to stock up.

Posted by: H Badger at March 07, 2012 07:55 AM (n/0Nw)

2 I have ass cancer.

Posted by: Penn, Sean Penn at March 07, 2012 07:55 AM (DATOZ)

3 You know there are too many government organizations when you're not sure whether DHS means Homeland Security, Human Services, or Horny Sandra.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 07, 2012 07:56 AM (CDiwj)

4 That's one hell of a suit...

Posted by: joncelli, too stressed by half at March 07, 2012 07:56 AM (RD7QR)

5

I'd cry if I wasn't laughing so hard.

*

Is there nothing big government can't do?

Posted by: dananjcon at March 07, 2012 07:56 AM (8ieXv)

6 Yeah, joncelli, the plan was to put them in solid gold suits.  That way no one would turn them away.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 07, 2012 07:57 AM (Iyg03)

7 Can we just hang these assholes yet?

Posted by: DanInMN at March 07, 2012 07:57 AM (XqeyF)

8 Every woman's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man?

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at March 07, 2012 07:59 AM (+inic)

9 you look around the table, and you can't spot the mark . . . that's cos it's YOU this is ever so reminiscent of living in Philadelphia! do-nothing agencies, fat cat lawyers helping chaka fattah's son steal money, for you know, a little cut . . . what is all this? I guess it's "reparations."

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 07, 2012 08:00 AM (SB0V2)

10 Ha Ha Ha. You said Detroit and mismanaged and fraud all in the same sentence and expected anyone to be surprised!! Shovel Ready my ASS. Lets start filling in the hole with the guilty and use the shovel to cover them with dirt. And the shovel comes in really handy too, if you use it as demonstrated in Postal II.

Posted by: Mephitis at March 07, 2012 08:01 AM (ehXLT)

11 Do you know what blig costs in Detroit? 

What with all the drug dealers and crooked mayors, blig not cheap.

Posted by: Peggy Joseph's Pimp at March 07, 2012 08:01 AM (vSiVD)

12 >>That comes out to $27,500.00 per person. Pfft. That's hardly enough for earrings and socks.

Posted by: Michelle O. at March 07, 2012 08:02 AM (XdlcF)

13 You'll love the way you look. I guarantee it!

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at March 07, 2012 08:02 AM (qwK3S)

14 some slick-ass threads there...

Posted by: model_1066 at March 07, 2012 08:03 AM (YbQJm)

15 LOOTED.

Posted by: lauraw at March 07, 2012 08:03 AM (yjrhl)

16
OT Flukisms:

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=123244

Posted by: sTevo at March 07, 2012 08:03 AM (gun+q)

17

Maybe this can be featured in the next JC Penney/Ellen ads. She goes back in time to Detroit and gets mugged when she asks an impertinent question.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at March 07, 2012 08:04 AM (qwK3S)

18 Damn! I look GOOD in this suit!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 07, 2012 08:05 AM (f9c2L)

19 I just don't get it. How could this happen in a place like detroit?

Posted by: eastvalleyphx at March 07, 2012 08:05 AM (qiOph)

20 400 people. That comes out to $27,500.00 per person. See, it was a good plan. It was just mismanaged.



Mismanaged my ass, those 400 people all voted 10 times, that's less than $3,000 a vote.  Try to buy some fucking TV time that cheap.

Posted by: DNC GOTV Team at March 07, 2012 08:05 AM (vSiVD)

21 >>That's okay, though, because good intentions are what really matters. There are no good intentions involved in gov't buying clothes for anyone.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 07, 2012 08:05 AM (XdlcF)

22 The funny part is that Gentlemen's Wearhouse runs exactly the same kind of program only they don't take any government money.

Posted by: Fart at March 07, 2012 08:05 AM (Zk68F)

23 There are no good intentions involved in gov't buying clothes for anyone.
Posted by: Mama AJ
.......
Why.. why.. that's heartless!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 07, 2012 08:06 AM (f9c2L)

24 I live in the metro Detroit area. The politicos in that city  could not manage their @ss with both hands, even if they were paid $$$

Interesting thing- my workplace participates in a charity that provides "gently used business clothing' for job seekers. This program is very obviously replicating something that's already being provided by the private sector.

Posted by: shibumi at March 07, 2012 08:06 AM (z63Tr)

25 That's exactly like the suit I wore to my HS prom!

Posted by: NC Ref at March 07, 2012 08:06 AM (/izg2)

26 Who knew there was so much money to be made in haberdashery.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2012 08:07 AM (tf9Ne)

27 >>That's okay, though, because good intentions are what really matters.

"Good intentions" are how you lure in the rubes. I know you're smarter than that.

The whole point of these programs is to award otherwise-unemployable friends and relatives of the DHS city jobs, with no-copay insurance, city vehicles, generous PTO, and *pensions*.

(Aside, there's a private organization called "Dress for Success" that provides low-income women with business clothes. But they seem to expect that you're doing something to improve your situation--community college, computer literacy, showing up, etc.)

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 08:07 AM (ZKzrr)

28 You are looking at it all wrong. The point of the program was not to help people dress better and get jobs. It was to create an office that would be staffed by government workers who are public employee union members. Couple hundred grand In furniture I am sure was properly sourced and was a good value for the people. I am sure. With a corrupt government like in Detroit it would be a waste to try to prepare people for private sector jobs that simply do not exist. Just spreading the wealth around. What, like the Koch brothers needed that money more than the poor in Detroit?

Posted by: Blaster at March 07, 2012 08:08 AM (Fw2Gg)

29 9 Carpet bomb Detroit and broadcast it on pay-per-view. Money. Maker.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, in Cylon hell at March 07, 2012 11:59 AM (GBXon)


No, the "before" and "after" pictures would be identical.

Posted by: joncelli, too stressed by half at March 07, 2012 08:09 AM (RD7QR)

30 Dang Heather you beat me to it.

Posted by: Blaster at March 07, 2012 08:09 AM (Fw2Gg)

31 Carpet bomb Detroit and broadcast it on pay-per-view. Money. Maker.Posted by: Brother Cavil

Nah, far too quick.

Declare Detroit an autonomous zone. Ring it with fences and automated turrets. Send in quadracopters with cameras and bingo - you have the hit show of the season, Escape from Dee-troit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 07, 2012 08:09 AM (dxTxt)

32 OT but, Jags...PUHLEEZE bring Peyton to Jax.

Two birds, one stone.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2012 08:10 AM (piMMO)

33 No price is too high to pay for votes. 1 million a vote, a billion a vote, it doesn't matter. The imprortant thing is the votes get boughten.

Posted by: Jimmah at March 07, 2012 08:10 AM (sv7B2)

34 Since it's Detroit was this a program to help clothe strippers.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2012 08:10 AM (tf9Ne)

35 Blaster--thanks for bringing up the public sector union stuff.  I got hung up on the pensions, forgot about that part.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 08:10 AM (ZKzrr)

36 "So what are some of your strengths?" "I don't have any." "Well why should we hire you?" "You shouldn't." "Well why are you here?" "I had to go to an interview to qualify for the free suit. You guys are right near my house."

Posted by: Michael at March 07, 2012 08:11 AM (2fJD1)

37 This is what is known in Detroit as a "blank check" for them to pillage.

Posted by: Deathknyte at March 07, 2012 08:11 AM (+90TS)

38 Clearly we need a Department of Clothing Expenditure Oversight to reign in this kind of reckless waste of taxpayer funds. There is no way it should cost more than $15,000 for someone to buy a decent set of job hunting clothes.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 07, 2012 08:12 AM (+lsX1)

39 Since it's Detroit was this a program to help clothe strippers. Likely. Probably required a lot of research into their working conditions, etc.

Posted by: Blaster at March 07, 2012 08:12 AM (Fw2Gg)

40 34 OT but, Jags...PUHLEEZE bring Peyton to Jax.

Two birds, one stone.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2012 12:10 PM (piMMO)


No, Daniel Snyder will pick him up for the Skins, pay him a massive salary, let him sit on the bench all season, and then trade him away for a 3rd round draft pick in '15.

Posted by: joncelli, too stressed by half at March 07, 2012 08:12 AM (RD7QR)

41 When I think of Detroit, I think, "Man, if only those people had some new threads the poverty, the crime, the drug abuse, the illiteracy, the illegitimacy, the arson, the damage, and the violence would all just magically vanish.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:12 AM (Hx5uv)

42 Is there nothing big government can't do?

Posted by: dananjcon at March 07, 2012 11:56 AM (8ieXv)


Save money?

Posted by: Deathknyte at March 07, 2012 08:12 AM (+90TS)

43 This is a common scam.  Someone with connections writes up a grant proposal and it sails through the approval process.  The money is delivered to cover the items in the grant, but, the audit process is so slow and poorly handled, they just steal the money and go on.  They buy $100,000 of furniture from Uncle Joey for $500,000.  They get $5,000 worth of office supplies from Uncle Sal for $35,000.  They get $10,000 worth of sample clothing from Uncle Mort for $50,000.  Then when the grant's purpose is done, the useful items are sold to folks for pennies on the dollar and trash the rest.

Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at March 07, 2012 08:13 AM (kXoT0)

44 Dressin' like a blinged-out pimp daddy don't come cheap. I should know!

Posted by: Kwame Kilpatrick at March 07, 2012 12:10 PM (v+QvA)

Did the suits include fedoras?  If not, somebody is getting cheated.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:14 AM (Hx5uv)

45

You're gonna look great, I guarantee it.

Posted by: Uncla Sam at March 07, 2012 08:14 AM (8ieXv)

46 Late to thread so don't know if anyone has noted it yet, but that is from Elvis's second gold album cover.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2012 08:14 AM (YdQQY)

47 No Ace today? In this Age of Communication?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:15 AM (jUytm)

48 But we're not allowed to complain about being asked to pay "our fair share"....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 07, 2012 08:15 AM (0xqzf)

49 Detroit has been riddled with corruption since the Dems took over in the 60s.  This is normal for large urban centers now.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2012 08:15 AM (YdQQY)

50 No, Daniel Snyder will pick him up for the Skins, pay him a massive salary, let him sit on the bench all season, and then trade him away for a 3rd round draft pick in '15.



Yeah this.


*bangs head against desk repeatedly*

Posted by: NC Ref at March 07, 2012 08:15 AM (/izg2)

51 Just got followed by this gal on twitter, if she doesn't epitomize the definition of an 'ette I don't who does. @WBVT_98FMfollows you constitutional conservative feminist slut who buys her own birth control even when unemployed. I'm a vulgar woman & an atheist - no lib can hurt me. NYC I think I'm in love

Posted by: ScottyE_FL at March 07, 2012 08:16 AM (TIWCh)

52 The whole point of these programs is to award otherwise-unemployable friends and relatives of the DHS city jobs, with no-copay insurance, city vehicles, generous PTO, and *pensions*.Posted by: HeatherRadish

You are looking at it all wrong. The point of the program was not to help people dress better and get jobs.Posted by: Blaster

We know this but the average apolitical voter just ignores the whole game. It's work to have to scrutinize every damn thing local pols come up with. Most just accept the idea that some grease is going to be spread.

The idea here is not to show surprise! and alarm! at bureaucratic graft, the point here is to make the premise explicit. Embarrass the fuckers who perpetrate it and force voters to confront it.

If we want to fight this crap you have to point out as often as possible why giving people power, especially for supposed charitable reasons, is a bad thing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 07, 2012 08:16 AM (dxTxt)

53 Heather is right about Dress for Success.  I donate to them, because they are helping women who really trying to better themselves and do not have clothing for interviews because they could barely afford college or other classes.

Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at March 07, 2012 08:16 AM (kXoT0)

54 btw, never ever buy shit like a power cord at Best Buy or Staples or any of those places. They will rip you off and charge you $70-100! Buy it on ebay for $10. Just don't buy it from a seller in Hong Kong; you'll be waiting 3 weeks to receive it.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:17 AM (jUytm)

55 >>Who knew there was so much money to be made in haberdashery.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2012 12:07 PM (tf9Ne)


Should have socked that with Harry S Truman.

Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 08:17 AM (joSBv)

56 There must be a hell of a crease in those pants.

Posted by: mpfs, WeAreBREITBART at March 07, 2012 08:17 AM (iYbLN)

57 OT Flukisms:

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=123244

Posted by: sTevo at March 07, 2012 12:03 PM (gun+q)


I'm emailing the National Organization of Women about you as we speak as we speak!

Keep the government out of our bedrooms unless they bring their checkbook!

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:17 AM (Hx5uv)

58 Hey...ya look da part to play da part...playa H8ter.

Posted by: Kwame Malik Kilpatrick at March 07, 2012 08:17 AM (8ieXv)

59 Yeah, but that includes *TWO* pairs of pants.

Posted by: nickless at March 07, 2012 08:18 AM (MMC8r)

60 If you want a snapshot of Detroit's citizens watch Hardcore Pawn. It's sad, embarrassing and funny all at the same time.

Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at March 07, 2012 08:18 AM (jTVGC)

61

Maybe we should as the Mayor of Detroit how this happened?

He told us he was the "MutherFugger in Charge" didn't he?

Posted by: Mr.Obvious at March 07, 2012 08:19 AM (t4++D)

62 Detroit has been riddled with corruption since the Dems took over in the 60s. This is normal for large urban centers now.

***

A couple of months ago the Obamanator said that he could do for the rest of the country what he did for Detroit and I believe him.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:19 AM (Hx5uv)

63 If you want a snapshot of Detroit's citizens watch Hardcore Pawn. It's sad, embarrassing and funny all at the same time. Wife is from Detroit and she watches sometimes due to homesickness. Says yep, that's who lives there. After a while all the conflict is too much.

Posted by: blaster at March 07, 2012 08:20 AM (Fw2Gg)

64 Anyone know the name of the "boutique" in question?

Who the hell goes to a "boutique" when you are poor and in need of clothes.  They would have been a lot better off opening the doors at JC Penny and yelling Riot Sale!

Posted by: mpfs, WeAreBREITBART at March 07, 2012 08:20 AM (iYbLN)

65

They were designing the "active camouflage" suits for the Predator 2 reboot set in Detroit.  Those are expensive.

Posted by: wooga at March 07, 2012 08:20 AM (vjyZP)

66

 

Obama Stash
bit.ly/1wrg1A


Q: Why are you here?


A: Tuh git some money.


Q: What kinda money?


A: Obama money!


Q: Where's it cummin' from?


A: Obama!


Q: And where did Obama get it?


A: I dunno - his "Stash" - I dunno. I dunno where he got it from. But he givin' it tuh us. Tuh help us. We love him! Dass why we voted fo' him! Obama! OBAMA! OBAMA!!!

 

 

 


 

Posted by: Emmanuel Goldstein at March 07, 2012 08:21 AM (F5Rm1)

67 My wife is a clothes horse.  She has walk in closets, plural in our large house.  She knows that the only way she can have so many clothes is to, as she says, find "screaming deals".  And she does.  She could probably supply enough clothing for 400 people.  At way, way, way less than the 27K they were planning per person.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at March 07, 2012 08:22 AM (C2//T)

68 As someone noted on Twitter:  To be fair, you guys... those two people did look fabulous afterwards.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 07, 2012 08:22 AM (Iyg03)

69 Note to all you fucktard liberal agenda supporters:

THIS is your government.

WHY O WHY do you want them to run your HEALTH CARE!!!!!!!


Stupid mutherfuckers.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 08:25 AM (UK9cE)

70 Department of Human Services??? That the problem, right there. These silly departments cooked up by the socialists on campuses.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:25 AM (jUytm)

71 65 If you want a snapshot of Detroit's citizens watch Hardcore Pawn. It's sad, embarrassing and funny all at the same time.

Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at March 07, 2012 12:18 PM (jTVGC)

*

Whats worse is they pawn their valulables and blow the money at the Casinos down the street.

 

 

Posted by: dananjcon at March 07, 2012 08:26 AM (8ieXv)

72 Again, I ask:  Why pay federal taxes at all?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2012 08:29 AM (yqRWu)

73 Department of Human Services???



There are so many government offices now that they're running out of names.  They're going to need a bigger alphabet soon.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 07, 2012 08:29 AM (/izg2)

74 THIS is your government.

WHY O WHY do you want them to run your HEALTH CARE!!!!!!!

Because we want to look FABULOUS while we wait eons for incompetent government healthcare!

Posted by: Fucktard Liberal Agenda Supporters at March 07, 2012 08:30 AM (RD7QR)

75

The name of the store was "Mr. Mailk's house of Sheek-Boutique"

 

 

Posted by: Kwame Malik Kilpatrick at March 07, 2012 08:30 AM (8ieXv)

76 >>Again, I ask: Why pay federal taxes at all?

Because what they give you to wear in prison isn't nearly as nice.

Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 08:30 AM (joSBv)

77 79 Again, I ask: Why pay federal taxes at all?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2012 12:29 PM (yqRWu)

**

Cuz someone has to feed and cloth the 1/2 of the country that doesn't pay fed taxes.

 

 

Posted by: dananjcon at March 07, 2012 08:32 AM (8ieXv)

78 I can't take any more of this. WTF!

Is this some sort of global test to see how many can people can be induced to have an aneurysm?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 07, 2012 08:33 AM (eHIJJ)

79 >>>Because what they give you to wear in prison isn't nearly as nice.<<<

Are you saying they are much more efficient at prosecuting tax scofflaws than the actual theft of those dollars by slimy bureaucrats?

Nah, couldn't be.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2012 08:33 AM (yqRWu)

80 And did the two people even get jobs? And if they did, how much difference did the suits make? And if they did, are they still employed?

Posted by: Michael at March 07, 2012 08:33 AM (2fJD1)

81 http://is.gd/NhAKFT

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2012 08:34 AM (YdQQY)

82

The reason they couldn't use a larger more accountable operation is simply that JC-Penny, Kohls, Sears(spit) etc. are most likely not minority-woman owned.

 

Posted by: dananjcon at March 07, 2012 08:34 AM (8ieXv)

83 How about clothing the families of our Military and buy them a house, after all all they did was die or become severely wounded for their Country.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at March 07, 2012 08:34 AM (aBMRG)

84 >>WHY O WHY do you want them to run your HEALTH CARE!!!!!!!

Because otherwise we might have to use our own money to pay for it. This way, we get to use your money.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 08:35 AM (ZKzrr)

85 Maybe you missed this - "part of the $11 million"

Posted by: Gerry at March 07, 2012 08:35 AM (cRQwK)

86 we need a new department -- DOCFS The Department of Common Fucking Sense

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:35 AM (jUytm)

87 Department of Are You Shitting Me? It will oversee all the other departments.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:36 AM (jUytm)

88 Do you have any idea how many rubbers you could buy with $11 million?  A lot.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 07, 2012 08:36 AM (QKKT0)

89 Detroit is the USA's version o North Korea. The people, through generations of apathy and corruption literally can't support themselves anymore, and likely have no idea of how to start doing so. They can't picture not depending on the government for everything. About the only difference is the lack of famine.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at March 07, 2012 08:36 AM (Opyrm)

90 Big Haberdash is raping the people.

Posted by: Cicero at March 07, 2012 08:37 AM (QKKT0)

91 If they started charging people with felonies for this shit, there would be a lot less of it.  Pretty quick.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 07, 2012 08:37 AM (Iyg03)

92 One of the best arguments against government health care is to ask people if they want the doctors office to be like the DMV. Out here in affluent suburbs the DMV is actually pretty decent and gets stuff done. But go into the city. DC DMV is notorious for its corruption. Again big government is stuff white people like. Get decent service for your needs in the burbs, you get to pretend your helping those poor minorities in the city when they are really getting screwed. White chicks in Georgetown are going to get free stuff. The African Americans 20 blocks away are going to get squat.

Posted by: Blaster at March 07, 2012 08:38 AM (Fw2Gg)

93 THIS is what you say to any douchebag left winger when he says we all need to pay our "fair" share. Fair share for this shit? Fuck you, Obama.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:38 AM (jUytm)

94 Government doing what government does best; waste huge amounts of money for a net return on investment of less than zero. We should hang these people.

Posted by: maddogg at March 07, 2012 08:38 AM (OlN4e)

95 Where they trying to do,  get jobs at the liberace museum?  

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:38 AM (TomZ9)

96 Odumbass is simple making reparations folks nothing to see here, give the asshole a break!








sarc.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at March 07, 2012 08:38 AM (aBMRG)

97 BTW that Nudie suit cost $10,000 in 1957 when Nudie made it. That is the equivalent of $97549.26 in 2010.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2012 08:39 AM (YdQQY)

98 what were they*

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:39 AM (TomZ9)

99 where can i get that kind of clothing allowance?

Posted by: phoenixgirl, rip andrew at March 07, 2012 08:39 AM (Ho2rs)

100 Just another $45,000 for a tank of gas and the job applicant will be ready for the big day.

Posted by: Cicero at March 07, 2012 08:40 AM (QKKT0)

101 The ObamiNation is working on rectifying that difference, nnptcgrad.

Posted by: steveegg at March 07, 2012 08:41 AM (o44nj)

102 Oh, and Asshole of the Day award goes to Newt Gingrich for calling Mitt Romney the "Wall Street candidate" last night. way to go, shithead

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:41 AM (jUytm)

103 >>And did the two people even get jobs?

And if they did, how much difference did the suits make?

And if they did, are they still employed?


Nobody said nothing to us about results. They just dumped this big ol' pile of money on us and said 'Stimulate!' Are you not Stimulated?


Posted by: Dept. Of Human Services Dept. at March 07, 2012 08:41 AM (joSBv)

104 I'm gonna laugh if O'Keefe got his pimp outfit from this program.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2012 08:41 AM (pqkoL)

105 I don't think this can all be laid at the feet of President Obama.

Posted by: Mittens at March 07, 2012 08:41 AM (QKKT0)

106 Sandra Fluke: "Do you have any idea how many rubbers you could buy with $11 million? A lot."

I'm not saying that it would be enough to get me through the weekend, but it could get me from Friday night through early Monday morning.

Posted by: Very Sandy Fluke at March 07, 2012 08:42 AM (eHIJJ)

107

And did the two people even get jobs?

And if they did, how much difference did the suits make?

And if they did, are they still employed?  Posted by: Michael at March 07, 2012 12:33 PM (2fJD1)

 

Yes.

 

At the Department of Human Services. And they, as newly minted government employees, cannot be fired for any reason.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at March 07, 2012 08:42 AM (oEKxm)

108 phoenix,  i guess one has to really look sharp to be a gvt worker.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:42 AM (TomZ9)

109 97 Detroit is the USA's version o North Korea. The people, through generations of apathy and corruption literally can't support themselves anymore, and likely have no idea of how to start doing so. They can't picture not depending on the government for everything.


I respectfully disagree.

There are two types of people in Detroit: those who are decent and cannot get out (usually the elderly) and the rest.

The rest support themselves through:
-drug dealing
-home invasions
-car jacking
-general "theft"

They are fully capable of buying their *own* illegal handguns, thank you very much.

Of course, it's much harder for the baby momma's, they do of course rely on public assistance, but help themselves and increase their income by having more kids.

/wait, that doesn't qualify as being self sufficient?


Posted by: shibumi at March 07, 2012 08:42 AM (z63Tr)

110 Guess who's back at CNBC after a brief respite? "Greek Debt Woes" that's who!

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 08:43 AM (jUytm)

111

101
THIS is what you say to any douchebag left winger when he says we all need to pay our "fair" share



Pay our fair Cher? But of course, and that is why we need to spend more on the military, so our fair Cher can make new music videos straddling experimental Navy rail guns.

Posted by: wooga at March 07, 2012 08:43 AM (vjyZP)

112 OT:  Plethora of cool WWII photos, H8K "Emily" wreckage, JSIIs, huge siege mortar, He177 "Griffin,"  cool photo of He 111, lots of other cool stuff.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7arzlla

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:43 AM (Hx5uv)

113 O/T  “I think people recognize that the president canÂ’t precisely set the price at the pump,” Romney said in an interview on CNBC.


But you didn't need to SAY that.  *face palm*

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at March 07, 2012 08:46 AM (bj+Nc)

114 Oh, and Asshole of the Day award goes to Newt Gingrich for calling Mitt Romney the "Wall Street candidate" last night.

way to go, shithead

****

Rootin' Tootin' Newton is still probably my favorite of the final four but you make it hard, Newt, you make it real hard.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:46 AM (Hx5uv)

115 Too bad we don't think of ways to  make up a pretend program to scam millions from the gvt. It's astounding  really, a gvt program that works for 2 people to get threads for job interviews?
11 million, well i spose that's a drop in the bucket for gvt outreach ( i mean outreach to a couple of buddies) these days.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:46 AM (TomZ9)

116 An Escalade with pimping big spinner rims is a must for any job seeker.

Posted by: Ed Mahmoud at March 07, 2012 08:48 AM (NVdGX)

117 BTW that Nudie suit cost $10,000 in 1957 when Nudie made it. That is the equivalent of $97549.26 in 2010.

***

And I'm not sure that gold lame is what you want for working in the car wash.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:48 AM (Hx5uv)

118 A couple of years ago, a Detroit school "lost" $50 million. I don't think they ever found it or charged anyone with a crime.

Posted by: slatz at March 07, 2012 08:48 AM (YuQT8)

119 Gasoline just hit $6 a gallon in California.

Posted by: rockmom at March 07, 2012 08:48 AM (aBlZ1)

120 This could have all been avoided if health insurers were required to provide clothing.

Posted by: RioBravo at March 07, 2012 08:49 AM (eEfYn)

121 Damn, either these people are much smarter than me - or they are crooks???

Posted by: izoneguy at March 07, 2012 08:49 AM (7eiBp)

122 wow. I should be shocked and outraged.. but.. seems par for the course lately..

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 07, 2012 08:50 AM (DGIjM)

123

Hey wingers...I believe in life after GOV!

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heheheheh get it?? Get it...life.after.GOV!!11!!

  

Posted by: Cher at March 07, 2012 08:50 AM (8ieXv)

124

$27,500/person for 400 people...

 

Well, in one year I make about $29,000 (after taxes), so I should be able to buy myself a shirt AND a pair of shoes!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at March 07, 2012 08:50 AM (4df7R)

125 i wonder who the two lucky folks were. think family members of the dept?

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:51 AM (TomZ9)

126 133,

Is chaz hanging yet?

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at March 07, 2012 08:51 AM (aBMRG)

127 and the IRS will hound/threaten  you to death for a hundred dollar mistake .

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:52 AM (TomZ9)

128 This is why businesses all across the country use to have the saying, "Get a government contract and you're set for life!!"


They ARE NOT the smartest people in the world.  They can't budget, plan, coordinate OR manage ANYTHING.

You're government is here to take all your stuff.  PERIOD.

You REALLY want it to be small.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 08:53 AM (UK9cE)

129 This could have all been avoided if health insurers were required to provide clothing.

Just imagine, we could make the Catholic Church to pay for pole dancers' g-strings.

Posted by: Kathleen Sebelius at March 07, 2012 08:54 AM (QKKT0)

130 ALMOST right where we want it!

129 Gasoline just hit $6 a gallon in California.

Posted by: rockmom at March 07, 2012 12:48 PM (aBlZ1)

Posted by: Stephen Chu at March 07, 2012 08:55 AM (cv5Iw)

131 Boned.  I just hope the economic collapse delays until my kids are a bit older.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2012 08:55 AM (yqRWu)

132 Brother Cavil, in Cylon hell: "And they wonder why we don't want him..."

Did he follow that up with, "And ObamaCare really isn't so bad if we tweak it right."

For a professional politician who has been doing this bit a while, he can really come across as strained and unnatural. And now he's acting stupidly.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 07, 2012 08:55 AM (eHIJJ)

133 3 words "No Personal Responsibility"!

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at March 07, 2012 08:55 AM (aBMRG)

134 I remember an old Red Skelton skit.

Red:  So and so has gone to his eternal reward.

Stooge:  He died?!

Red: No, he took a job with the government.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:55 AM (Hx5uv)

135 the city's Department of Human Services, which has been under scrutiny for chronic mismanagement of federal funds.

Many of the department's leaders have departed since an internal investigation was launched last year, including an inquiry into the purchase of $182,000 worth of high-end furniture for a department office.


chronic

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:55 AM (TomZ9)

136 When I interview prospective employees I expect them to come in prepared and to look professional. At risk of stating the obvious, the traditional standard of professionalism is the classic solid gold suit of armor. If you're not willing to make that kind of investment in yourself, I just can't take you seriously as a candidate.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 07, 2012 08:56 AM (+lsX1)

137 I'm sure the dept's leaders have found/moved onto  other funds to raid elsewhere in the gvt .

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 08:57 AM (TomZ9)

138 Give me 11 million and I will EMPLOY at least 400 people for the rest of their lives. Oh well, I guess this is nothing to set your hair on fire about.

Posted by: Damiano at March 07, 2012 08:57 AM (A2+pr)

139 Someone on twitter just had "to be fair, one was Michael Moore".

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 07, 2012 08:58 AM (VtjlW)

140 O'bumblefuck on TV spouting how we need to invest in non-oil energy and we've seen gas prices spike before.

This man is by far, the dumbest mutherfucker to enter the White House in the HISTORY of ANYTHING painted white.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 08:59 AM (UK9cE)

141 I have no clothes

Posted by: The Emperor Barka Barky at March 07, 2012 08:59 AM (nTgAI)

142 3 words "No Personal Responsibility"!

***

I think that both we and the Greeks are going to find out that personal responsibility insists upon itself.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 08:59 AM (Hx5uv)

143 Obama and the federal government is like the reverse Sally Struthers. Sally can feed and clothe people for "just pennies a day." Obama is more like, "For just billions a day, I can help many, er, several, er a few people right now."

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:00 AM (jUytm)

144 I bet you $10,000 that I can find a cheaper tailor than that!

Posted by: Mitt Romney at March 07, 2012 09:00 AM (A2+pr)

145 Please keep in mind that this is still chump change.  Medicare, Medicaid, and SocSec are still going to kill us even if every wasteful program was ended this second. 

Though as a general point, the kind of people that run this sort of graft are also running Medicare, Medicaid, and SocSec, and that is terrifying. 

Posted by: shillelagh at March 07, 2012 09:00 AM (hRzu2)

146 >>Someone on twitter just had "to be fair, one was Michael Moore".

We counted him as five.

Posted by: Dept. Of Human Services Dept. at March 07, 2012 09:00 AM (joSBv)

147 These cockholsters actually think they are winning over the American public, if I wasn't so pissed I might laff!

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at March 07, 2012 09:01 AM (aBMRG)

148 Many of the department's
leaders have departed since an internal investigation was launched last
year, including an inquiry into the purchase of $182,000 worth of
high-end furniture for a department office.


chronic

****

Is "chronic" another word for "Fantabulous?"

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 09:01 AM (Hx5uv)

149 Yes, the best way to solve our energy crisis is.... (drumroll) more government spending!

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:01 AM (jUytm)

150 $11 million for clothes, was one of those 2 people named Michelle Obama.

Posted by: befuddled at March 07, 2012 09:01 AM (xJU23)

151 These cockholsters actually think they are winning over the American public, if I wasn't so pissed I might laff!

We are.  Two at a time.

Posted by: Kathleen Sebelius at March 07, 2012 09:02 AM (QKKT0)

152 because gvt can allocate Your funds better than you can.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 09:02 AM (TomZ9)

153 >>$11 million for clothes, was one of those 2 people named Michelle Obama.

Her clothing budget is covered by the State Department.

Posted by: Dept. Of Human Services Dept. at March 07, 2012 09:02 AM (joSBv)

154 whew, imagine what the cost of  health care is going to cost!

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 09:03 AM (TomZ9)

155

Dear Canada:

We will trade you Detroit straight up for Prince Edward Island.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 07, 2012 09:04 AM (B+qrE)

156

Maybe Okeefe could get a new pimp suist.

This crap is so rampant it's pathetic. Millions here and there add up to billiuons then Trillions

 

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 07, 2012 09:04 AM (nTgAI)

157 >>A couple of years ago, a Detroit school "lost" $50 million. I don't think they ever found it

Check the faculty parking lot.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 09:04 AM (ZKzrr)

158 Prediction: In three years, the Left will not only have successfully broadened the role of government health care, they will have trained everyone to refer to it as "human care."

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:05 AM (jUytm)

159 whew, imagine what the cost of health care is going to cost!

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 01:03 PM (TomZ9)


i know pay for 10 people to raid the funds allocated for health care, and 1 to tell you sorry cancer isn't covered.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 09:05 AM (TomZ9)

160

How about a little love to all of us balding middle aged men? 

Morrie's wigs are tested against hurricane winds...and 5-year recessions...

Posted by: Morrie's Wigs at March 07, 2012 09:05 AM (Ec6wH)

161 What's wrong with you people?  We need to address the clothing desert in this country.  I demand clothing justice! 

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 07, 2012 09:05 AM (F+Xfj)

162 >>A couple of years ago, a Detroit school "lost" $50 million. I don't think they ever found it

Check the faculty parking lot.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 01:04 PM (ZKzrr)


Or the local liquor stores, drug dealers, and whore houses.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 09:05 AM (Hx5uv)

163 I think odumbass and his fatass old lady know they are going to lose big come Nov. and they are cleaning out the closets so to speak.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at March 07, 2012 09:06 AM (aBMRG)

164

Wait, one of the suits was Michael Moore? 

Cause that's more than enough material....

Posted by: Ed Gein at March 07, 2012 09:06 AM (Ec6wH)

165 btw... is Hugo Chavez dead yet?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:06 AM (jUytm)

166 Remember when the RNC supposedly spent $150,000 on clothes for Palin in 2008? $150K of non-taxpayer dollars to clothe on person was height of stupidity and waste and a topic for several weeks on every major media outlet. $11 million in taxpayer-funded Obamabucks to clothe 2 people in Detroit we won't hear a peep about it from the MFM. Wake me up when it's time to gather up the pitchforks, rope, and torches and go to Washington.

Posted by: Damiano at March 07, 2012 09:06 AM (A2+pr)

167 And how is Fidel Castro still alive?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:06 AM (jUytm)

168 Gee, remember when the left was incensed by the amount of money McCain's campaign spent on clothing for Sarah Palin?  Chump change in Detroit.  (pronounce it Detwa, it sounds french and expensive)

Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2012 09:07 AM (mjR67)

169 whew, imagine what the cost of health care is going to cost!
----------------------------


The State newspaper (a Dem PR rag) printed a story yesterday that SC estimates by 2020 when fully implemented it will cost the State of SC alone $1.1B per year.

You can probably safety triple that estimate to get at what it will actually cost.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2012 09:07 AM (YdQQY)

170 How could such a thing happen in DETROIT?

Posted by: nathan_detroit at March 07, 2012 09:07 AM (+q3dR)

171

@178, you owe 176 a coke. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 07, 2012 09:07 AM (Ec6wH)

172 <<because gvt can allocate Your funds better than you can.>>

If by better you mean faster.Yes, Yes they can.  Oh and pretty soon they will allocate faster than we all can produce.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2012 09:09 AM (tf9Ne)

173 Prediction:

In three years, the Left will not only have successfully broadened the role of government health care, they will have trained everyone to refer to it as "human care."

****

That misogynist, H8r, fascist blowhard Rush yesterday (I think) had some story about "food justice" and how food was the last of the basic needs to not be government controlled.  We want food justice and we want it now!

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 09:09 AM (Hx5uv)

174 Great minds...

Posted by: Damiano at March 07, 2012 09:09 AM (A2+pr)

175 Dang, beat me to it.  The coke will be forthcoming.

Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2012 09:09 AM (mjR67)

176

OT, but I just read that the sun released a solar flare at us last night that is bigger than any we've had in 5 years and is growing.  The report warned about disruption of electronics and stuff.  I noticed this morning that the Bob & Tom show on a local station was extra staticky.  I had to make plans with my son to text only today because our phone call was so broken up we couldn't understand each other.

 

http://tinyurl.com/6tp9kyo

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at March 07, 2012 09:09 AM (bMLFV)

177 Oh, and after the Manning presser, the douchebag (his license probably says he's male, but he's not a man, IYKWIM) with the remote controls put the break room TV on fluking MSNBC. I told him he was creating a hostile work environment (seriously, I'm going to have to listen to lying douchebags smear me every time I get coffee or nuke my lunch). Sucker of cock sneered at me.

Unfortunately, he works for the landlord/main client, and our HR person is on our board of directors and thus invested in kissing their ass.

(Huh. Browser spellcheck recognizes "douchebag" but not "douchebags." Bags of douche?)

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 09:09 AM (ZKzrr)

178 We want food justice and we want it now! Soylent Pink for everyone!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 07, 2012 09:09 AM (SB0V2)

179 And how is Fidel Castro still alive?

***

Pact with the Devil.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 09:11 AM (Hx5uv)

180 Rush has mentioned food justice a few times. It's coming.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:11 AM (jUytm)

181

Darn it, I missed the Yglesias thread!   I wanted to congratulate the 'rons and 'ronettes on being singularly awesome with the spam reviews.  I wonder how many of those reviews are ours, and how many are other Breitbarts who had the exact same idea?   

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at March 07, 2012 09:11 AM (4df7R)

182 They should have asked me to consult.

Posted by: Vernon Davis at March 07, 2012 09:11 AM (ykSKg)

183 >>>...and how food was the last of the basic needs to not be government controlled. Ummm... Dept. of Agriculture, FDA, DHHS, and a gazillion other agencies I don't care to think about disagree with this statement. Three words: Food Stamp President Two more: Food Deserts

Posted by: Damiano at March 07, 2012 09:11 AM (A2+pr)

184 >>and how food was the last of the basic needs to not be government controlled.

I know he's aware of Mrs. SCOAMF bullying the food industry...and schools bullying kids who bring lunch from home...

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 09:11 AM (ZKzrr)

185 ;">"Romney Closer to Brokered Convention"  http://tinyurl.com/7qywffz

Not sure who this guy is but a lot of libs/dems are passing the article around thinking it will mean a clear win for BO.

Posted by: disgusted at March 07, 2012 09:11 AM (oZfic)

186 >>Unfortunately, he works for the landlord/main client, and our HR person is on our board of directors and thus invested in kissing their ass.

Did you take notes while reading SOS's saga?

Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 09:12 AM (joSBv)

187 And how is Fidel Castro still alive?

 

 

That's not Castro.  It's a space station!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at March 07, 2012 09:12 AM (4df7R)

188 Give me 11 million and I will EMPLOY at least 400 people for the rest of their lives.

"If you add "Green" to your business name, take 300 to 500 million, and promptly go out of business within a year or two, you have yourself a deal."

Yours truly, Barack

Posted by: befuddled at March 07, 2012 09:12 AM (xJU23)

189 That misogynist, H8r, fascist blowhard Rush yesterday (I think) had some story about "food justice" and how food was the last of the basic needs to not be government controlled. We want food justice and we want it now!
------------------------------------


We already have food stamps AND free before school, in school, and after school lunches.  What else do they need?

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2012 09:12 AM (YdQQY)

190 whew, imagine what the cost of health care is going to cost!

Katykins Sebelius has that covered.  We will save tons just by not having to provide healthcare to all the aborted babies.  (Srsly, how f*cked up is that?) That's on the front end.  On the back end, sorry Grandma, you've lived long enough.  Pedro needs a new kidney. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 07, 2012 09:12 AM (F+Xfj)

191 LOOTED -------------- Yep! Out and out ROBBERY. How many more of these programs to assist the "disadvantaged" are out there waiting to be discovered?

Posted by: Room 39 at March 07, 2012 09:13 AM (dJ5Oy)

192 >>Did you take notes while reading SOS's saga?

My immediate manager, who becomes the program manager in three weeks, hated Rick Perry because he was from Texas like George Bush.  I don't think I'm going to get much help there, either.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 09:14 AM (ZKzrr)

193 Mayor is now former NBA great, Dave Bing.  Ran his steel company into bankruptcy, making him the eminently qualified mayor the City of Detroit needed after the hip hop mayor was indicted, convicted and sentenced.  Electing a hip hop mayor-what could go wrong?

Posted by: ejo at March 07, 2012 09:14 AM (Vy2XI)

194 On the back end, sorry Grandma, you've lived long enough. Pedro needs a new kidney.

He's only taking the kidneys Americans don't want.

Posted by: Kathleen Sebelius at March 07, 2012 09:14 AM (QKKT0)

195 http://tinyurl.com/88hd86x  They are also saying there are commercials already "in the can" about romney and this program.

Posted by: disgusted at March 07, 2012 09:14 AM (oZfic)

196 The Left is a lot like Islam. They either convert you, enslave you, or kill you. For instance, the Catholic church. A few years ago they gave the Catholics a choice: Either you allow homosexuals to adopt your orphans, or we will fine and prosecute you. The Catholic Charities in Boston closed its doors. Now the Left, with the same ultimatum, is driving the Catholic church out of the hospital business. Next, the Left will drive the Church out of the marriage business.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:15 AM (jUytm)

197 I think thrust of Food Justice was that government doesn't control the means of distribution.  Think of all the news about "food deserts" in the inner city.  Those mean, dirty money grubbing capitalists won't build national chains where they can't make a profit. 

Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2012 09:15 AM (mjR67)

198 The emperor has no clothes.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 07, 2012 09:15 AM (71LDo)

199
Now that I think about it, if Meggy Mac was one of the two clothed, it was worth every penny.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2012 09:16 AM (yqRWu)

200 Yippee.  My review passed inspection.


Posted by: Jimbo at March 07, 2012 09:16 AM (O3R/2)

201 In other words, that gal is pissed off that we aren't Socialists. (at least not fully, yet.)

Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2012 09:16 AM (mjR67)

202 Funny thing just happened to me, I thought I'd share.  I was at Rite-Aid for some Doritos.  I looked around the store first, being the bargain hunter I am.  Didn't see anything I wanted, so I went to get my doritos.  Some black guy comes up to me and says "you don't need to follow me, I saw you over the other side of the store, now you're over here".  I said "Yeah, so..."  He says "I have money, I work for Metro, etc..."  I said "I don't care where you work man, I don't work here, why would I be following you?"  We go back and forth and then he says "It's ashame a black man can't walk through the store without a white man following him."  That got me pissed, I said a couple things about everything being about race, then I went the other way. 

Posted by: yinzer at March 07, 2012 09:17 AM (/Mla1)

203 They were very large people.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 07, 2012 09:17 AM (gul5u)

204 "chronic mismanagement of federal funds"

This happens ALL THE TIME. At the local college where I worked, two successive secretaries were fired, then arrested, for embezzling funds from a federal program. No one cared until someone got mad at them and squealed. The feds swooped in and then left. What is going to happen, who knows.

It's just a redistribution scheme.

Posted by: PJ at March 07, 2012 09:18 AM (DQHjw)

205 That misogynist, H8r, fascist blowhard Rush yesterday (I think) had some story about "food justice" and how food was the last of the basic needs to not be government controlled. We want food justice and we want it now!

He was quoting from an article (LA Times?) wherein the person quoted in the piece stated they grew up eating Tuna Helper...prepackacked boxed foods because it was cheap and didn't take a lot of time.  You see, Momma was out working her fingers to the nub and needed quick, inexpensive foods to feed the kids.  And horrors, they just couldn't seem to find the money (or time, I guess) to prepare vegetables.  I'd love to see a true study of how hard it is to get good produce, even in urban areas. 

Oh yes, it's coming.  Food Justice with Moochelle flying in with her red cape and SEIU buddies to save the day.  Fists stuffed with taxpayer cash. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 07, 2012 09:18 AM (F+Xfj)

206 212  Somebody has a chip on their shoulder.  Yikes.

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at March 07, 2012 09:18 AM (bj+Nc)

207 Look at the constant pressure on McDonalds. They're "converting" McDonalds, slowly but surely. After they change McDonald's' menus a little bit more, then the Left will pressure them to unionize. When the Left can't "convert" McDonald's with their cooperation, they will simply regulate and sue them out of business.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:19 AM (jUytm)

208

HeatherRadish, I work HR for my plant and ensure each of the break room monitors is tuned to Fox News or Business, although during hunting season they migrate over to some show about slaughtering Bambi.  If you want an application, we can use some more broads working here. 

Got to fire an employee today--I should have referred him to this suit-subsidy.... 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 07, 2012 09:19 AM (Ec6wH)

209 >>I don't think I'm going to get much help there, either.

Far from getting help, it sounds like you'll likely get railroaded if you speak up.


Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 09:19 AM (joSBv)

210 Posted by: yinzer at March 07, 2012 01:17 PM (/Mla1)

And nobody ever mentioned the ethnicity of the Doritos.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 09:19 AM (Hx5uv)

211 215  Along with the fresh produce, will the government provide someone to cook those nourishing meals? 

Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2012 09:20 AM (mjR67)

212 @ yinzer You should call him a racist for assuming that a white guy who was out bargain shopping for Doritos was a security guard.

Posted by: Damiano at March 07, 2012 09:20 AM (A2+pr)

213 215  With the way food prices are going up, it's going to be a lot of rice and hot dogs for people before long. Meat and vegetables will be for them richy-rich folks.

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at March 07, 2012 09:21 AM (bj+Nc)

214 if no one above has mentioned it, the website "stuffblackpeopledontlike.com" has run several good stories about the Decline & Fall of Detroit.

not for everyone, but as the media likes to say, 'unflinching' in its coverage of how a city collapsed

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, lighting his hair on FIRE at March 07, 2012 09:22 AM (UqKQV)

215 yinzer

You should call him a racist for assuming that a white guy who was out bargain shopping for Doritos was a security guard.

Posted by: Damiano at March 07, 2012 01:20 PM (A2+pr)

 

Haha.  Yeah, I did ask him why it had to be about race, and something like that would have been my next question.

Posted by: yinzer at March 07, 2012 09:22 AM (/Mla1)

216 How did the human race survive all those years without these genius-left wingers?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:23 AM (jUytm)

217 and Birmingham, Alabama is next on the list of big cities about to die

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, lighting his hair on FIRE at March 07, 2012 09:23 AM (UqKQV)

218 So, two people were clothed for $11 million, and apparently, several democrats essentially stole the rest of our tax dollars from the program, but according to conventional wisdom on the left, all of this has a stimulative effect on the economy, so it's all good.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 07, 2012 09:24 AM (75f1S)

219 They didn't survive.  We died and we are in Hell now.


Posted by: Jimbo at March 07, 2012 09:24 AM (O3R/2)

220 "It's ashame a black man can't walk through the store without a white man following him." That got me pissed, I said a couple things about everything being about race, then I went the other way.

Posted by: yinzer at March 07, 2012 01:17 PM (/Mla1)



"It's a shame a white man can't enter a convenience store without some racist black asshole thinking whitey exists only follow him around the store."

Racism......It's not just for whitey anymore!!!!

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 09:24 AM (UK9cE)

221 Just wait until the Ogallala Reservoir dries up--we've been using the western Great Plains as a breadbasket despite persistent dry conditions thanks to the irrigation provided by this underground lake.  We could get another Dust Bowl and decrease in agricultureal production if and when this thing goes dry. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 07, 2012 09:24 AM (Ec6wH)

222

Did you see the report this morning about the rise in tooth decay among preschoolers?

 

Michelle Obama, you're being paged.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at March 07, 2012 09:25 AM (bMLFV)

223 I am proud to say that Presdent Obama won as a right in candidate in Brattleboro for the Republi-Nazi Vermont  Primaries. Although that traitiorious idiot Romney won, we still will not support him even if elected or if the election is stolen from Presdent Obama. We also sold 3 "We Hate Bush" T-shirts and will send the money to Presdent Obama re-election HQ here in Vermot. Last time we sent $27  and received a very nice reporoductive letter from Presdent Obama thanking us. We were so excited that we have it now hanging in the Brattleboro town hall next to Presdent Obama's picture. It was a great day for us in Brattleboro and the cuntry..........

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 07, 2012 09:26 AM (48wze)

224 I think my calling in life was to be a cartoonist. But I cannot draw for shit.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:26 AM (jUytm)

225 Apparently, someone saw Stepbrothers and thought it was a "how-to" documentary and figured if they dressed them in tuxes, they'd have to get the job.

Posted by: Jimmuy at March 07, 2012 09:27 AM (pqv78)

226 Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 07, 2012 01:26 PM (48wze)


Who shit!?!

Oh, hi Mary.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 09:27 AM (UK9cE)

227 cartoon: A smiling Obama holding a bag of "Windmill Seeds." In the background is rows of tiny sprouting windmills in the ground. (You know, just to show the stupidity of it all.)

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:27 AM (jUytm)

228 Anybody catch Nazi Titanic? It's an old Nazi propaganda film that has been restored and being aired. It's on youtube now. I've seen a lot of German film from that era. Even when the Nazis pulled out all the stops, their film making sucked. Okay, Lina Wertmuller wasn't bad, but every thing else.....total stinkers.

Posted by: mike at March 07, 2012 09:28 AM (NFlZK)

229 Mockery. We lack it.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:29 AM (jUytm)

230 Shame on me! I got my Lena/Leni mixed up. I meant that old nazi bitch, Leni Riefenstahl.

Posted by: mike at March 07, 2012 09:30 AM (NFlZK)

231 I think my calling in life was to be a cartoonist. But I cannot draw for shit.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 01:26 PM (jUytm)



You may be able to send your ideas to Michael Ramirez.  If they're good, he might use em.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 09:30 AM (UK9cE)

232 We don't mock the Left enough; and they are so mock-worthy. One stupid idea after another. We need to mock their stupid ideas to show people how silly the Left is.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:31 AM (jUytm)

233 When "drug dealer" is the only job you're qualified for, I don't think you need a suit.

Like was said:
The corruption--I want less of it or in on it.

I'm getting damned sick and tired of seeing these stories, greenfail, etc and I'm out here actually working for a living.

Posted by: Jimmuy at March 07, 2012 09:31 AM (pqv78)

234 I see nothing wrong with this. If it helped one person it is a beneficial program.

Posted by: Labia Majora at March 07, 2012 09:32 AM (0gJX6)

235 We should be producing our own stuff here on AoS. We have the ideas and the comedy.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:32 AM (jUytm)

236 >>Anybody catch Nazi Titanic? It's an old Nazi propaganda film

Anyone who saw the James Cameron version has seen most of it.  Heh.

This one got banned by Goebbels for its scenes of terror.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 09:33 AM (ZKzrr)

237

Ack. I just got an ad on the main page with 4 Obama family members smiling at me.

 

The kids must be left alone...except for campaign purposes, stories about being fat, and explaining why Rush Limbaugh should be shot.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 07, 2012 09:33 AM (XdlcF)

238 For instance, the Catholic church. A few years ago they gave the Catholics a choice:  [ ]
Next, the Left will drive the Church out of the marriage business. Posted by: soothsayer

Big whoopy-doo.  The C.C. got in bed with the Left.  Got bitten, boo hoo.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2012 09:34 AM (dZ756)

239

We don't mock the Left enough; and they are so mock-worthy.

One stupid idea after another. We need to mock their stupid ideas to show people how silly the Left is.

 

 

But we don't because we want to "get along".  Why would we want to get along with raving lunatics?

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at March 07, 2012 09:34 AM (bMLFV)

240 >>I'd love to see a true study of how hard it is to get good produce, even in urban areas.

I'd love to see a study of how many people walk right by it to get to the processed foods.

Seriously. Frozen broccoli is in the case right across from the ice cream, and the EBT swipes the same for them both.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 09:34 AM (ZKzrr)

241

>>Meat and vegetables will be for them richy-rich folks.

 

I think my husband got some of the stuff mentioned at InstaP (link in name) when he ordered beef chow mein the other day.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 07, 2012 09:35 AM (XdlcF)

242 Obama has kept all his promises to date, except for the ones the evil Teathuglicans won't let him accomplish. They rather see the country fail than obama succeed.

Posted by: Labia Majora at March 07, 2012 09:35 AM (0gJX6)

243

I'd love to see a study of how many people walk right by it to get to the processed foods.

 

What, you sayin' a brother can't buy what he wants?!  Man's got a right to buy Doritos!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 07, 2012 09:36 AM (Ec6wH)

244 gvt health care .

sorry we don't cover diabetes but we do cover abortion if you're ready to abort yourself.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 09:36 AM (TomZ9)

245 You're missing the point, SFG. The point is that the Left is increasing in power and influence. After the Church, then they'll come after me. After me, then you.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:36 AM (jUytm)

246 "Investment". Yeah, I don't think that means what liberals think it means.

Posted by: Damiano at March 07, 2012 09:37 AM (A2+pr)

247

For instance, the Catholic church. A few years
ago they gave the Catholics a choice: [ ]
Next, the Left will drive the Church out of the marriage business.

Posted by: soothsayer

Big whoopy-doo. The C.C. got in bed with the Left. Got bitten, boo hoo.

But it will affect ALL churches. Except those who don't exactly teach the Bible.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at March 07, 2012 09:37 AM (bMLFV)

248 96 Do you have any idea how many rubbers you could buy with $11 million? A lot.


Hah hah.

I was just kidding. I don't even like penises, I'm a clam-digger all the way!




Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 07, 2012 09:37 AM (lLeix)

249 252  Uhhh.. yuk *shudder*  Thank heavens I pack my son's lunch everyday.  Better warn him about the food police though else he might end up eating soylent pink.

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at March 07, 2012 09:38 AM (bj+Nc)

250 We don't mock the Left enough; and they are so mock-worthy.

Mocking one's opponents doesn't promote civil political discourse.  After all, we all want the best for our children, regardless of which side of the political spectrum we inhabit.

Posted by: Mittens at March 07, 2012 09:38 AM (QKKT0)

251 another cartoon: A smiling Obama watching the assembly line of the Chevy Volt. Caption: "Cash for Clunkers"

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:39 AM (jUytm)

252 It could have cost $20 million. That's $9 million saved.

Posted by: Brother Bawapatis angling for position in white house at March 07, 2012 09:39 AM (2Ynt1)

253 Any chance I'm eligible for this program?  I wipe my mouth on my suit lapel and it's starting to smell a little gamey. 

Posted by: Dennis Kucinich at March 07, 2012 09:39 AM (Ec6wH)

254

Mocking one's opponents doesn't promote civil political discourse. After all, we all want the best for our children, regardless of which side of the political spectrum we inhabit.


 

Posted by: Mittens at March 07, 2012 01:38 PM (QKKT0)

 

Of course we do, Mittsy.   Of course we do.   It's just our side considers "the best for our children" to be raising them to be self-sufficient and proud of their country and its history, while the left's side considers it better to give four year olds condoms and KY jelly and expel them from school for wearing a shirt with the American flag on it. 

 

Or just aborting them entirely.

 

But you keep playing nice, Romneykins. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at March 07, 2012 09:41 AM (4df7R)

255 Detroit would have been better served had they awarded the $11 million to Christo. At least he would have made that festering sinkhole look a little better, for a little while. And all the boho hipsters would have come calling to maintain their bona fides as admirers of edgy art.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 07, 2012 09:42 AM (0AClR)

256 it will affect ALL churches. Except those who don't exactly teach the Bible.

****

The Church of the Almighty Obama will be doing fine, thank you very much.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 09:42 AM (Hx5uv)

257 May government be with you.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 07, 2012 09:43 AM (jUytm)

258 Any chance I'm eligible for this program? I wipe my mouth on my suit lapel and it's starting to smell a little gamey.

Posted by: Dennis Kucinich at March 07, 2012 01:39 PM (Ec6wH)




Since you're eye level with your wife's hem...use that.

Posted by: Tami at March 07, 2012 09:43 AM (X6akg)

259 ha, tami.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 09:44 AM (TomZ9)

260

Hell those Gucci Shoe Trees dont grow on trees ya know.

 

Posted by: Say What? at March 07, 2012 09:44 AM (b7L99)

261 My university should supply me with free clothes.

Do you know how many panties I've ruined watching the female cheerleaders practice?

Let me tell ya, detergent can't touch those snail-tracks!

What's a guy er uh GIRL to do?



Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 07, 2012 09:44 AM (lLeix)

262 150 O'bumblefuck on TV spouting how we need to invest in non-oil energy and we've seen gas prices spike before.
Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 12:59 PM (UK9cE)

Fire up the chain saws, boys and girls! There's whole counties out there that need clear cutting!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 07, 2012 09:44 AM (0AClR)

263 265  You know what, that's exactly what's missing in Detroit.  They should get some orange windows with orange drapes too.

Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2012 09:45 AM (mjR67)

264 It's not the Volts that kill you. It's the AMPS (Another Money Pit Secured)

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2012 09:47 AM (tf9Ne)

265 we laugh but this will be most of our states soon.


although i am given hope by the fact OH finally dismissed kucinich.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 09:47 AM (TomZ9)

266

Daily Caller has an article about a lottery winner who's on food stamps.

 

Cuz she's not working, ya know.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 07, 2012 09:47 AM (XdlcF)

267 Kwame's folding cash was up for grabs after he went to the pokey.


Posted by: Fritz at March 07, 2012 09:47 AM (FDEjy)

268

I don't get the whole Fluke thing.  Aren't college age "children" still on their parent's health insurance policies?  Up to the age of 26?

I know she is 30 years old.  It is the school's obligation to provide any health care for it's students that are over 26?  Is this really the law of the land?

Posted by: MouNTaiNMoNKey at March 07, 2012 09:50 AM (cgxNI)

269

Mercy, this is nuts.  How on earth do I get on this gravy train?  I could use that 11 million to clothe, easily, 1000 people.  Maybe even 2000.  They should divert those funds to me.  Immediately.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 07, 2012 09:51 AM (xUM1Q)

270 Another (!) episode of fainting with damned praise. Today in NC, link at name.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 07, 2012 09:52 AM (HethX)

271 I don't get the whole Fluke thing. Aren't college age "children" still on their parent's health insurance policies? Up to the age of 26?
I know she is 30 years old. It is the school's obligation to provide any health care for it's students that are over 26? Is this really the law of the land?

****

I sympathize with Ms. Fluke.  I see her point and I think that the government ought to supply to me free of charge weekly black silk stockings and a garter belt and something to fill them with.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 07, 2012 09:52 AM (Hx5uv)

272 and then the government forces the insurance companies to pay for contraception in case the women takes her thousand dollar clothes off

Posted by: Mac Gootbone at March 07, 2012 09:53 AM (XCSw/)

273 +  +  +   +   +   +   +   +   +      +    +   +  +  +  + +  +  +  + ++ +  ++ +      

+  +   +    +   +    +  +  + +     +   +  + +     +   +  +  +    +     +  +      ++ + ++  + +  + +

+   +      The GOP in the next election.  Thank you GOP establishment.   +  + +

+  +  +    +   +      + +    +     + + + +    +  + + + + ++     +++       + +  +++ + ++
+    +    ++  +    +

Posted by: hous bin fartine at March 07, 2012 09:54 AM (mwEw5)

274

Mercy, this is nuts. How on earth do I get on this gravy train?

 

Second best demotivator ever:  Corruption.  I want less of it or in on it. 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 07, 2012 09:54 AM (VtjlW)

275 >> I see her point and I think that the government ought to supply to me free of charge weekly black silk stockings and a garter belt and something to fill them with.


Phew! I was getting a little worried til I got to the end of that sentence.

Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 09:56 AM (joSBv)

276 Caller to Fox explaining why she turned off fox last night, like everyone else.  And what's she is saying sort of gives an indication that maybe Rove is in the Romney camp now.

glad i watch CNN and CNBC and never fox

Posted by: disgusted at March 07, 2012 09:56 AM (oZfic)

277 Why is this a grave yard?  By picking the  Richie Rich Romney you are playing into the Democrats Team Obamo plan for publicity in the next election.  He is going to portrayed as the "rich man" vs the "common folk".      The GOP "party of the rich" is going to help the poor man? Yeah, right.  The Obama Lite candidate is the right way to go!  $21.6 million per YEAR?  One half listed as "capital gains."  With the US economy in bad shape he is getting MORE rich?  Yeah, he is getting average guy vote.  What is he worth?  $250 million dollars.   And you guys are worried about the chump change $11 mil?

Posted by: hous bin fartine at March 07, 2012 09:57 AM (mwEw5)

278 Corruption. I want less of it or in on it.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 07, 2012 01:54 PM (VtjlW)

 

 

LOL - well said! 

I just need another few hundred K and I'm outa here, so if I can drain that from my enemy, the State, then so much the better.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 07, 2012 09:57 AM (xUM1Q)

279 OT:

Another fainter at an Obama speech today,  union people.

Obama: "Step back, this happens all the time when I speak."

This is indicates that 1. They think we are stupid,  2. They feel like they need to gin up the hero worship with their Obamabots or 3. They are trying to encourage Obama by making him feel like he's cool again. (This would go along with the singing and other stunts like that.)

Posted by: Miss Marple at March 07, 2012 09:57 AM (GoIUi)

280 Perhaps a sharply worded letter to Sheriff Joe Biden is in order.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at March 07, 2012 09:58 AM (WUWb9)

281 290  Make sure those sharp words are small ones.

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at March 07, 2012 09:59 AM (bj+Nc)

282 Obama: "Step back, this happens all the time when I speak."



Wait....he actually said that!?

Posted by: Tami at March 07, 2012 10:00 AM (X6akg)

283 Obama: "Step back, this happens all the time when I speak."

Listerine, Obama, Listerine.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 07, 2012 10:00 AM (HethX)

284 Boring troll trolls boringly.

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:00 AM (5H6zj)

285 So what's up with Ace? Shouldn't a cob logger call him or something?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 07, 2012 10:01 AM (dxTxt)

286 >>Obama: "Step back, this happens all the time when I speak."

Seriously? He said that?

SCOAMF is believing his own publicity, isn't he?

Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 10:01 AM (joSBv)

287 $21.6 million per YEAR? One half listed as "capital gains." With the US economy in bad shape he is getting MORE rich? Yeah, he is getting average guy vote. What is he worth? $250 million dollars. And you guys are worried about the chump change $11 mil?

Posted by: hous bin fartine at March 07, 2012 01:57 PM (mwEw5)

.

Given the choice between

A)  a man who accumulated $250 million on his own, and

B)  one who lost $5 trillion of taxpayer money in three years,

 I'll pick option A.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 07, 2012 10:01 AM (75f1S)

288 >>295 So what's up with Ace? He's traveling back from Breitbart's funeral.

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:02 AM (5H6zj)

289 I see her point and I think that the government ought to supply to me
free of charge weekly black silk stockings and a garter belt and
something to fill them with.


Finally!

Posted by: helen thomas at March 07, 2012 10:02 AM (TomZ9)

290 >>"Listerine, Obama, Listerine.

lolz

Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 10:02 AM (joSBv)

291 #287  Here are your choices:

1.  The rich guy who made money on his business expertise and knows how to make said money grow,  even during tough times.

2. The rich guy who made his money by lobbying, various books and speeches which took money from gullible conservatives, and who was on the Fannie Mae payroll when the bubble was growing.

3.  The former rich guy who  is now squandering his children's education money and future inheritance in a misguided belief that he can win.

4. The rich guy who made a lot of money from a newsletter with anti-Semitic statements by some of its contributors.

Posted by: Miss Marple at March 07, 2012 10:02 AM (GoIUi)

292 Looks like it may be worth it to watch Hannity tonight.  I hate to because his voice drives me up the wall.  http://tinyurl.com/7ohgh5s  I saw this on Buzz Feed earlier.  Should be interesting.

Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2012 10:02 AM (mjR67)

293  This might be good. The Bigs are in on the Obama tape story from Ben Smith. Link in name.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 07, 2012 10:02 AM (HethX)

294 And you guys are worried about the chump change $11 mil? Posted by: hous bin fartine at March 07, 2012 01:57 PM (mwEw5) The stupid is strong in this one.

Posted by: Jumbo "obe wan' Jogging Shrimp at March 07, 2012 10:03 AM (DGIjM)

295 Via Melissa Clouthier's twitter feed: Grrr... RT @Drudge_Report: 'ANONYMOUS' TAKES DOWN VATICAN WEBSITE... http://drudge.tw/yNziRj

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:03 AM (5H6zj)

296 I faint every time I think about another years of the SCOAMF as President.

Posted by: rockmom at March 07, 2012 10:04 AM (NYnoe)

297 #296  Honest to God he said that.  I was watching live.

Whoever brought this up the other day (I thinkit was lauraw) was exactly right.  It is staged and I personally think they are doing it to make him feel cool.

It cannot be because they think they are fooling us,  and if they are doing it to gin up support amongst his groupies,  that's a bad sign for them.

Posted by: Miss Marple at March 07, 2012 10:05 AM (GoIUi)

298 Obama: "Step back, this happens all the time when I speak."


Are you sure he wasn't referring to vomiting?

Posted by: Cicero at March 07, 2012 10:05 AM (QKKT0)

299 The African Americans 20 blocks away are going to get squat.

There are *-Americans squatting under bridges 2 blocks away.  Also the most expensive gas in the area.

Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2012 10:05 AM (L8HIJ)

300 not a romeny fan. but srsly, we are going to hate  someone for having made money the american way? by effort and working for it?

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 10:05 AM (TomZ9)

301

BOOM!

 

Earlier today, BuzzfeedÂ’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.” 

 

The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright--about whom we will be releasing significant information in the coming hours.

 

However, the video has been selectively edited--either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama's allies in the mainstream media and academia.

 

Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape. The full tape will be released tonight on Fox News' Hannity.

Posted by: rockmom at March 07, 2012 10:06 AM (qE3AR)

302 I faint every time I think about another years of the SCOAMF as President.

Posted by: rockmom at March 07, 2012 02:04 PM (NYnoe)


hear, hear.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 10:06 AM (TomZ9)

303 It's time for the Catholic Church to go biblical on these progs' asses.

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:07 AM (5H6zj)

304 Comrade Oboma lost $5 trillion Vashta? Not according to the MSM.Why would Romney WANT the economy to improve when he is making so much money when it is in the tank?  He may loose money if the economy improves.

Posted by: hous bin fartine at March 07, 2012 10:07 AM (mwEw5)

305 we are going to hate someone for having made money the american way?
______________

Who is we?  I hate him for his views on socialized medicine.

Posted by: Bob Saget at March 07, 2012 10:08 AM (SDkq3)

306 OT Good news!

Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith backs Obama for re-election:

http://tinyurl.com/6vez652

And as all the Chicagoland morons know, Lovie has a perfect record for picking winners-he never has.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at March 07, 2012 10:08 AM (VMcoS)

307 So what's up with Ace? Shouldn't a cob logger call him or something?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 07, 2012 02:01 PM (dxTxt)




He already said he wouldn't be posting today as he's traveling back from the funeral yesterday.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 10:08 AM (UK9cE)

308 He may loose money if the economy improves. Posted by: hous bin fartine at March 07, 2012 02:07 PM (mwEw5) shhhhh... the adults are talking.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 07, 2012 10:09 AM (DGIjM)

309 Bob Saget, can't argue that one. so do i.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 10:09 AM (TomZ9)

310 Via twitter: @EWErickson If you read this, you might wind up hating the GOP more than you might right now. http://tinyurl.com/7c5tmy6 "President Obama's healthcare reform law skews healthcare funding in a way that would put many of the nation's medical programs at risk if the law is repealed, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Health subcommittee warned Wednesday. The remarks from Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) are surprising because Republicans have been calling for the law's repeal ever since it was passed. In his opening statement at a hearing on the Health and Human Services Department's proposed budget for FY 2013, Shelby suggested lawmakers should start taking a hard look at the impact of repealing the law as the Supreme Court this month prepares to hear hours of arguments for why it should strike it down."

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:09 AM (5H6zj)

311 Do you know why those people are fainting at Obama's speeches. Because they only pay out the food stamps when he's done.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2012 10:10 AM (tf9Ne)

312 Can't wait to see the Obama race video from Breitbart, linked in the sidebar.  Wish I didn't have to watch Hannity tonight to see it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 07, 2012 10:10 AM (UOM48)

313 #314  You know,  sometimes people are about something other than money.

You liberals always think about nothing BUT money.  Greedy graspers is what you are.

Posted by: Miss Marple at March 07, 2012 10:10 AM (GoIUi)

314 Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 02:09 PM (5H6zj)

Didn't I read somewhere that he's being investigated by the government and retiring?

Posted by: disgusted at March 07, 2012 10:11 AM (oZfic)

315 Joshua Treviño ‏ @jstrevino The world's best work is the work for Texas. twitpic.com/8t9h4l

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:11 AM (5H6zj)

316 Y-Not, fgsake they must  think we are not piss'd enough already.

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 10:11 AM (TomZ9)

317 Wish I didn't have to watch Hannity tonight to see it. Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 07, 2012 02:10 PM (UOM4 You're a great American!!

Posted by: Sean Hannity's hair at March 07, 2012 10:11 AM (DGIjM)

318 Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith backs Obama for re-election:

http://tinyurl.com/6vez652

And as all the Chicagoland morons know, Lovie has a perfect record for picking winners-he never has.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at March 07, 2012 02:08 PM (VMcoS)



NO ONE is surprised by that.

O'Stumblefuck has 98% of the black vote.  If he wants to shock someone, say he's NOT voting for him.  Otherwise, STFU.....no one cares.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 10:11 AM (UK9cE)

319 #320  Why should that make us hate the GOP?  What Shelby is saying is that they have screwed around with funding and to fix things you cannot just repeal the law,  you are going to have to do other stuff as well.

Erickson is a jerk.

Posted by: Miss Marple at March 07, 2012 10:12 AM (GoIUi)

320 Didn't I read somewhere that he's being investigated by the government and retiring? ----- Shelby? I hadn't heard that. Quick Google search doesn't show that, but maybe one of the morons here know something.

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:12 AM (5H6zj)

321 if you faint, you get  your mortgage paid for 6 months!

Posted by: willow at March 07, 2012 10:12 AM (TomZ9)

322 @307 Well it's not like they can run on his record so they don't have much else.

Posted by: Retread at March 07, 2012 10:13 AM (joSBv)

323 If they had just legalized nudity in the workplace we wouldn't have this problem.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 07, 2012 10:13 AM (ZZnML)

324 Shelby also voiced concerns about the flat funding for NIH.

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:14 AM (5H6zj)

325 "WashPo investigation questions ShelbyÂ’s real estate benefit from Tuscaloosa pork"http://tinyurl.com/7vddr7g

Posted by: disgusted at March 07, 2012 10:15 AM (oZfic)

326 >>$21.6 million per YEAR?

Pffft.  Obama's Hollywood buddies can pull that down for one film.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 10:15 AM (ZKzrr)

327 If they had just legalized nudity in the workplace we wouldn't have this problem.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 07, 2012 02:13 PM (ZZnML)



Here Here!!!!!


A's to J's....I wanna see all of em.

Posted by: © Sponge at March 07, 2012 10:15 AM (UK9cE)

328 NO ONE is surprised by that.

Oh, sure, no surprise; just that Lovie climbing on the 'African-Americans for Obama' train just about guarantees it flops. Lovie couldn't coach a winning Foosball team if his opponents wore handcuffs. He's not the most popular coach in Chicago as it is. And it's a finger in the eye to the white guys who make up most of the Bears home-town fan base. Smooth move as always, Lovie!


Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at March 07, 2012 10:16 AM (VMcoS)

329 Looks like Breitbart's Obama video is ready for release ...per drudge. Cant wait to see that one !!!

Posted by: SoCalMe at March 07, 2012 10:17 AM (s72/N)

330 New thread up

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2012 10:18 AM (YdQQY)

331 >>Lovie climbing on the 'African-Americans for Obama' train just about guarantees it flops.

C'mon, it's historic. First African-American Coach to Lose the Super Bowl, First African-American President to Get Voted Out of Office...

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2012 10:18 AM (ZKzrr)

332 The clothing cost so much because it needed to be bullet proof. Nobody goes out in Detroit without wearing their carbon fiber undies.

Posted by: And Irresolute at March 07, 2012 10:19 AM (RC3M9)

333 Iowahawk humor: #SubUrbanDictionary "Diseasateria": plastic ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese

Posted by: Y-not at March 07, 2012 10:19 AM (5H6zj)

334 Blast away at me people.  I am just telling you what the Reichstag Media is going to propagandize in the upcoming election.

Posted by: hous bin fartine at March 07, 2012 10:25 AM (mwEw5)

335 Mistakes were made, but look at all the good government does, will you?

*crickets*

Anyone?

Posted by: By this argument, there should be no criticism at all! at March 07, 2012 10:29 AM (JVEmw)

336 I'd check those two suits to see if they are prone to exploding or catching fire like other notable govt subsidized projects.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 07, 2012 10:46 AM (5HfpG)

337 The suits are Goldfinger approved. I love goooooooooollllllllllllld!

Posted by: shinypie at March 07, 2012 10:49 AM (Kz85k)

338 This is why we are losing the war to return America to its freedom-loving, independent roots. The FSA is winning (see link in name) and they will take us beneath the vile gutter of socialism. I am torn between fighting them with my whole being or joining them to increase the velocity to Doom. Did we start fighting back too late?

Posted by: Calyx at March 07, 2012 11:32 AM (r8gUg)

339 Rush will be happy to know that Los Angeles already has "food justice" and gubmint grocery stores.



http://tinyurl.com/83v46bj

Posted by: PJ at March 07, 2012 12:15 PM (DQHjw)

340 Just pass out $11 million in crack, Olde English 800, and guns to the locals. The rest will take care of itself, since oversight doesn't ever seem to be a consideration with federal grant money.

Posted by: Georgetown Fluking & Glee Club at March 07, 2012 12:43 PM (BHM5V)

341 So editor of the law review was a Harvard concession to protesters. And by shaking down Georgetown, what does that earn Fluke, a free box of condoms and the coveted title of vagina defender,esq.

(insert:"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!")


Posted by: befuddled at March 07, 2012 01:12 PM (xJU23)

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

Posted by: steevy at March 07, 2012 01:33 PM (7W3wI)

343

$500 for the suit.

$1,000 for the hotel suite.

$26,000 for hookers and coke.

Adds up too me.

Posted by: BearMtnBob at March 07, 2012 01:42 PM (Bwxo/)

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