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August 26, 2012

Harry S. Goddanged Truman, Union Buster
— Dave in Texas

On August 25, 1950 President Truman ordered the US Army to take control of the nation's railroads, in anticipation of a crippling railway strike. Two months after North Korea sent seven infantry divisions, 150 medium tanks, 200 aircraft, an armored brigade, a separate infantry regiment, a motorcycle regiment and another batch (brigade) of crazy Border Constables across the 38th parallel into South Korea and launched the Korean War.

Given the stakes, an entire Army mobilizing to move into the fight, Harry was in no mood to eff around.

FYNQ

In a public statement that day, Truman insisted that "governmental seizure [of the railroads] is imperative" for the protection of American citizens as well as "essential to the national defense and security of the Nation." He used the same justification for seizing control of steel plants when the United Steel Workers union struck later in the year.

The three unions involved in the strike that came to pass, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen eventually threw themselves into the war effort after 21 months of telling the nation to "please consider our important needs" while American troops fought and died in the field.

This is how it was, in 1950. They haven't changed their stripes at all. Sometimes we need a reminder that this recent unpleasantness between the country and unions didn't just spring up yesterday.

Harry Truman is not exactly a beloved former President by us conservatives, and I'm not giving him a pass on carrying FDR's domestic policies. But there was a time when Democrats were willing to take on the unions for the good of the country, and that's worth noting.

Also, thanks for smacking PATCO Ronnie. "We're on strike," "That's illegal, and you're all fired."

He knew the score.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 10:32 AM | Comments (242)
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1 Uh oh!

Posted by: iamahaiangttiam at August 26, 2012 10:33 AM (3+RoZ)

2 In the event of a loss we need to cut a deal with the unions that rely on economic growth and sell the union bosses on the idea of wider membership in mining, transportation, and industrial trade unions in a globally competitive market being the best aid to their and their workers' interests. I am not in love with this as a free market person but the PEUs and Private sector unions need divorced. The unions are a big part of the sluggish nature of our recovery as are the enviros their being in bed together is insane.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 10:36 AM (LRFds)

3 "We're on strike!" "FYNQ"

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 26, 2012 10:36 AM (GEICT)

4 Just be grateful that it was Truman and not Henry Wallace, actual communist.

Posted by: toby928© at August 26, 2012 10:37 AM (QupBk)

5 I remember that speech by Reagan and the Lefty fits and screams. It is like remembering the smell of freshly baked apple pie.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2012 10:39 AM (Wp4rQ)

6 4 Toby 928th,

The Democrat voter used to understand the insanity of being as suicidally lockstep as they now are. Good news in Indianapolis, went to the state fairgrounds this morning to look at Ammo at the gun show there, not a single Obama sign in the "ethnic" part of town. The economy being this bad it depressing his 2008 coalitions' enthusiasm immensely.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 10:39 AM (LRFds)

7 Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 02:36 PM (LRFds) If we lose, we need to mimic the unions and go on strike to cut off tax revenue for the Federal Empire.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2012 10:41 AM (Wp4rQ)

8 Truman would be campaigning for Mitt. JFK, too. Clinton is.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2012 10:43 AM (Wp4rQ)

9 Global warming did not cause Hurricane Issac! Lizzie Warren did a rain dance.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 26, 2012 10:44 AM (04fgZ)

The difference in 1950 was that most of the country had a strong work ethic.

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That work ethic has been destroyed in some and inhibited in too many others, including myself. I went partially Galt as soon as I knew Obama would win.

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Obama has had a profound psychological effect on the country. We won't be putting our shoulders to the economic wheel until he is gone, either in November or in another 4 years.

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Years of difficult times are ahead no matter how the election shakes out. The only question left is when the real recovery (recovery of a sense of purpose, recovery of belief in the American way of life) begins. The necessary tools are at our disposal.

''''''' ..;.;;.;

Awaken, America. There is so much to be done.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2012 10:45 AM (1Y+hH)

11
"FYNQ"

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This has no been amended to BYHNQ, or bless your heart, next question.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 26, 2012 10:46 AM (04fgZ)

12 So Charlie Crist has endorsed Obama.

Whenever you have any doubts about what kind of whore person most of these politicians really are, just consider Arlen Specter and Charlie Crist. The dude supported McCain in 2008, but *now* thinks Obama has done one swelluva a job and, anyway, Romney is too extreme.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 26, 2012 10:46 AM (yxz7s)

13 At my first job as a teenager I worked with a crusty, grumpy, nauseous old asshat who'd been fired by Reagan for being part of that strike. He was a complete asshole who still hated Reagan 20 years on.

Posted by: wilson at August 26, 2012 10:46 AM (VHfD4)

14 PATCO deserved what they got, but since they endorsed Reagan, they must have thought he was bluffing. Were there not any back channel negotiations?

Posted by: avi at August 26, 2012 10:47 AM (51xVX)

15 Look for Crist to open a new solar company soon.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2012 10:48 AM (1Y+hH)

>>It is like remembering the smell of freshly baked apple pie.

I was in 3rd grade and I can remember the anger of my social studies teacher that day.

Good Times.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 10:48 AM (ZO/UQ)

Get rid of all public sector unions. Aboloish them.

Public education now exists only to provide employment to the governmental/educational complex. Not to educate children

Posted by: thunderb at August 26, 2012 10:49 AM (Dnbau)

You would think Crist would still be upset about the Tanning Tax.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 10:49 AM (ZO/UQ)

19 Crist is probably still pissed that McCain didn't tap him for VP. He went and acquired a beard for the job and everything.

Posted by: toby928© at August 26, 2012 10:50 AM (QupBk)

20 15 Look for Crist to open a new solar company soon. He's currently working for an ambulance chasing firm here in FL. Amuses me to no end.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 26, 2012 10:51 AM (GEICT)

21 I just looked it up He gave them a 48 hour chance to return.

Posted by: avi at August 26, 2012 10:52 AM (51xVX)

OT, but personally disappointing:

I received the following in an email from a longtime hunting friend who lives in Penna.

"As for voting, I am not going to cast a vote for president in this election as I do not think either man is qualified or deserves being handed that responsibility. However, I am going to continue my one-man political protest by voting AGAINST ALL INCUMBENTS, regardless of party. Call it my way of imposing voter controlled term limits."

Damn.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 26, 2012 10:53 AM (l3vZN)

23 Unions have long had a problem with communist penetration (as evidenced by, e.g., George Meany purging communists from the AFL-CIO), with as a result some becoming communist front organizations, such as AFSCME and SEIU are now.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 26, 2012 10:53 AM (oX7vY)

24 12 So Charlie Crist has endorsed Obama.

Whenever you have any doubts about what kind of whore person most of these politicians really are, just consider Arlen Specter and Charlie Crist. The dude supported McCain in 2008, but *now* thinks Obama has done one swelluva a job and, anyway, Romney is too extreme.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 26, 2012 02:46 PM (yxz7s)

Well there was the whole "Marco Rubio" thing that the GOP decided that they wanted to have as Senator rather than him. If you think that left him butthurt, you would be correct. The only time he gets more butthurt is when Gay Days happens at Disney World.

Posted by: MrCaniac at August 26, 2012 10:55 AM (1grxW)

25 If I'm not mistaken Harry also had the guts to recognize Israel as a nation which made a big difference in the 1948 war.

Posted by: teej at August 26, 2012 10:55 AM (HEWhR)

26 Damn. It sounds like he will vote for Romney, although he justifies it as a vote against Obama. I'll take that logic. I voted for Palin last time, and that old guy who was going to keep the seat warm for her.

Posted by: toby928© at August 26, 2012 10:55 AM (QupBk)

27 I remember that speech by Reagan and the Lefty fits and screams.

It is like remembering the smell of freshly baked apple pie.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2012 02:39 PM (Wp4rQ)

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Golly Moses, I miss that man.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 10:57 AM (P6QsQ)

28 Posted by: toby928Â© at August 26, 2012 02:37 PM (QupBk) Credit where due, though: Wallace later renounced communism at the outset of the Korean war and supported both Eisenhower and Nixon for President.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at August 26, 2012 10:58 AM (URbDj)

29 17
Get rid of all public sector unions. Aboloish them.

Public education now exists only to provide employment to the governmental/educational complex. Not to educate children

Posted by: thunderb at August 26, 2012 02:49 PM (Dnbau)

;.;;.;.;.;.;.;

Higher education is a much too gracious retirement scheme for teachers, using the pie-in-the-sky promise of future income as it's carrot. And the school system bears no responsibility for the lie that higher education will be worth its' cost.

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I know 9 millionaires personally. Only 3 graduated from college, only one went beyond a 4 year degree. One inherited his fortune, the others "built that".

I know about 8 millionaires personally.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2012 10:58 AM (1Y+hH)

I do not think either man is qualified or deserves being handed that responsibility.

What an asshat. He doesn't think Romney is qualified? He's the most qualified candidate we've had in generations. This guy may not agree with Romney's policies, but objectively Romney has extensive and successful experience in both the public and private sector.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 26, 2012 10:58 AM (oX7vY)

31 So Charlie Crist has endorsed Obama.

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Oh noes! Not Crist!!!111!1!11!11!11!!11!!1!!!!!1!!1!!!

Well, that does it. We're toast in November.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 26, 2012 10:59 AM (aHR5E)

32 I'll take that logic. I voted for Palin last time, and that old guy who was going to keep the seat warm for her. This where I make a horrible joke about keeping her seat warm, right? Cause I totally would. Keep her warm.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 26, 2012 10:59 AM (GEICT)

33 Plus, Crist was one of the GOP politicians that went all in on Hope N Change back in early 09. I think his support of BO made even Kal and Reggie jealous.

I also think he has seen BO's pant creases really up close and personal. IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: MrCaniac at August 26, 2012 10:59 AM (1grxW)

34 Truman is hands-down my favorite Dem President in the last hundred years. I certainly don't agree with everything he did, but he sure was a tough old bastard.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at August 26, 2012 11:01 AM (URbDj)

35 Re 29: One guy lost his millionaire status, but may regain it.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2012 11:01 AM (1Y+hH)

36 Jinx think about replying with an educational email. Maybe include some story links about F&F, Solyndra, NBP etc. Point him to some sites where actual important stuff is talked about. Good luck.

Posted by: teej at August 26, 2012 11:01 AM (erYRT)

37 I know about 8 millionaires personally. Posted by: Meremortal

Yes, but when is the Pope going to retire?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 26, 2012 11:01 AM (Q/1Jp)

38 I remember that speech by Reagan and the Lefty fits and screams.

It is like remembering the smell of freshly baked apple pie.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2012 02:39 PM (Wp4rQ)

I think he made the left throw hissy fits everytime he gave a speech. They were all aghast at his Berlin Wall speech, and thought the tone was too strident.

Turns out, it was perfect.

Posted by: MrCaniac at August 26, 2012 11:03 AM (1grxW)

39 Breaking news: Charlie Crist's political career is dead. The medical examiner's office has ruled it a suicide.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 11:03 AM (w78gy)

40 22 Jinx,

retards are self-cancelling.....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 11:03 AM (LRFds)

27I remember that speech by Reagan and the Lefty fits and screams.

It is like remembering the smell of freshly baked apple pie.

The unions were getting more and more militant in the run-up to Reagan's action, demanding more and more to offset the accelerating inflation of the Carter era.

Reagan's action in deballing PATCO set the union movement back by 30 years, easily, because everyone saw Reagan not only did not pay a political price, but to the contrary, saw his popularity shoot through the roof. Any politician needing a boost could pick a fight with a union, and the unions, realizing this, kept their heads down.

President Romney needs to PATCO at least one public sector (or quasi-public sector) union (Mitt: please, please make it SEIU).

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 26, 2012 11:04 AM (oX7vY)

42 O/T, it looks like Akin isn't the only Motherfuckabee associate who believes in Magical Vajayjay Goalie quackery: _________________________________________ But Huckabee's been at this rodeo -- do pilgrims rodeo? -- at this clam bake for quite some time. In 1998, Arkansas State Senator Fay Boozman helped wreck his chances at a U.S. Senate seat by suggesting that rape-activated female hormones could prevent pregnancy -- "god's little shield." Boozman lost by 12 points. Then he lucked out. Gov. Mike Huckabee, a friend and political ally for many years, put Boozman in charge of the Arkansas Department of Health. The "god's little shield" controversy was fresh, and Huckabee kept getting asked about it. As far as he was concerned, the story was over, and it was unfair to harp on it. "If nothing else," said Huckabee, according to a February 1999 story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "I hope to make it very clear that our administration is not governed by intimidation. We're not going to allow the shrill voices of a few to so disparage the character of a very decent and good person to an outstanding position in such a way that Arkansas would lose his service at the Department of Health." _________________________________________ source: http://tinyurl.com/cvpcy3l

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at August 26, 2012 11:04 AM (URbDj)

43 I remember taking the unions to court again and again and getting a permanent injunction against them when they crossed the line from protected free speech to criminal mischief. Good times. Now the NLRB ain't so friendly no more!

Posted by: iamahaiangttiam at August 26, 2012 11:05 AM (3+RoZ)

44 13 At my first job as a teenagerI worked with a crusty, grumpy, nauseous old asshatwho'd been fired by Reagan for being part of that strike. He was a complete asshole who still hatedReagan 20 years on.

My then fiancee and I had a combined work/vacation to HA, including Kauai. We took a zodiac boat for a tour of the Napali coastline and some snorkeling. Our captain, who know f***al about driving a boat, regaled us with the story of his life. He had been an ATC in Honolulu. Think about that. An ATC. IN HONOLULU. Naturally, he decided going on strike was a good idea, and lost his job. He was really butthurt because he couldn't get his job back and now he had to drive tourists around in a boat, on one of the most picturesque spots on the planet.

What a tool.

Posted by: pep at August 26, 2012 11:05 AM (6TB1Z)

45 I was looking forward to a night or two at the cabin with someone I've known a long time and has always had his eyes open about the issues of the day. Seems like when my older friends stop working they begin to look longingly at the comfort of the government cocoon.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 26, 2012 11:07 AM (l3vZN)

46 I sure miss Ronnie and his values!

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 11:08 AM (g7aoF)

47 When my SEIU neighbor asked to borrow some tools I told him to go fuck himself. He was very offended and asked why so I told him "Because if I get sick and can't help pay your retirement the SEIU will confiscate my home."

Posted by: Beto at August 26, 2012 11:08 AM (BAnPT)

48 Break the unions. You break the flow of money to the liberals.

Posted by: Dang at August 26, 2012 11:09 AM (R18D0)

49 Just remember this: The Hoover Dam that the Democrats all love (a) could not be built today thanks to environmental regulation and (b) is a monument to union-busting.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 26, 2012 11:10 AM (xSegX)

50 Ronald Reagan. Greatest president of the 20th century. His mug belongs on Mt. Rushmore instead of Teddy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2012 11:13 AM (EnAUa)

51 48 Break the unions. You break the flow of money to the liberals. Posted by: Dang at August 26, 2012 03:09 PM (R18D0) This. And keep libs out of government to cut off whatever patronage they can steal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2012 11:14 AM (EnAUa)

52 48Break the unions. You break the flow of money to the liberals.

Posted by: Dang at August 26, 2012 03:09 PM (R18D0)

Another big source of funds, and an increasing one, are the philanthropic foundations. Once you lose control of their boards they steer the money where they please. The benefactors of these foundations would likely roll in their graves if they new of the ideology supported by them.

It is going to be an interesting time when the full effect of the Gates/Buffett trust is seen after their founders demise. There is real money there!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 26, 2012 11:16 AM (l3vZN)

53 Truman had precedent. Wilson nationalized the railroads in WWI.
I think I see the hand of Sam Rayburn at work in both cases.

You know, when you turn an "industry" over to the Army, it isn't just the striking workers you dispossess.

Posted by: comatus at August 26, 2012 11:16 AM (qaVK+)

54 Mike Huckabee - I can't think of any redeeming qualities he might possess.

Posted by: Not an Artist at August 26, 2012 11:16 AM (uRumV)

48 Break the unions. You break the flow of money to the liberals.

Posted by: Dang at August 26, 2012 03:09 PM (R18D0)

Yep. And end tax cuts for Hollywood. Make those cocksuckers pay their fair share, defined as the same rate at which we peasants pay taxes.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 26, 2012 11:17 AM (oX7vY)

56 AoS- Pro nationalization... When the Democrats arent

Posted by: palookA at August 26, 2012 11:17 AM (0jREc)

57 Mike Huckabee - Pardoned Cop killers and seems to have no demonstrable remorse for the victims or their families.

Posted by: Not an Artist at August 26, 2012 11:18 AM (uRumV)

58 Everybody hates Mike?

Posted by: iamahaiangttiam at August 26, 2012 11:19 AM (3+RoZ)

59 Capitalists HATE unions !! they cut into profits

Posted by: occam at August 26, 2012 11:19 AM (71sq+)

Imagine what life would be like these days if ol' Harry hadn't sent my wife's relative, Ralph, and tens of thousands of his buddies over their to freeze their asses off and kick some serious ass, mostly ending up dead.

It's an insult to their memory when our president refers to the nighttime satellite photos of the Korean Peninsula, and explains that North Korea experiences unspeakable poverty because its sociaety is "closed". Yeah, a-hole, it has NOTHING at all to do with them being a bunch of eff-ing commies....

Posted by: Optimizer at August 26, 2012 11:21 AM (As94z)

61 Truman was still an FDR Democrat. Its just at that time Democrats still believed in the military.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:21 AM (YdQQY)

62 59 Occam,

Hard workers who generate their own utility with the management hate unions because life is hard enough with one asshole boss let alone two.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 11:22 AM (LRFds)

63 Mike Huckabee - instead of having conference calls to speak hate against those that oppose Akin, he should be spending his Sundays praying and thinking about how he can improve the well-being of those that he has harmed in the past. What a fucking piece of shit this man is.

Posted by: Not an Artist at August 26, 2012 11:22 AM (uRumV)

64 61 Vic,

I dunno yeah maybe, I think Truman was simply more a Corruptocrat in the Daley mode.

Patronage for power and ill gained skim

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 11:23 AM (LRFds)

65 56 Palooka,

No the democrats are pro theft vis a vis shutting down private business' ability to meet contract...

if a war is on you bet your ass I support nationalizing the logistics assets of the nation if selfish communist sympathizing assholes try to impede our progress to cut a better deal....

War Plan Sven would involve leaving union boy body tissue wherever needed.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 11:25 AM (LRFds)

He's not the only Democrat that did this sort of thing.

My Grandfather was a sitdowner @ Fischer 1 in Flint, 1st strike to successfully bring in UAW to GM, Roosevelt called out the National Guard to boot the guys out of the plant and negotiate an end to the strike.

Gramps carried that Sitdowner card until his death, and he would be absolutely revolted to see what became of his beloved Democratic party.

Posted by: Finn McCool at August 26, 2012 11:28 AM (R/8dI)

67 OT? but I just read a headline that "Issac upsets plans for GOP lobbyists and wealthy donors "and it proceeds to tell us that the evil hated Republicans won't be able to party as much as they would like because of the storm. Also tells us everyone hates our ability to get funds because we are evil or something like that...

Posted by: the pink cracker formerly known as the hobbit Donna at August 26, 2012 11:29 AM (W2Z3C)

68 @42: "... Akin isn't the only Motherfuckabee associate ..." It's almost as if that "shutting down the whole rape thing" is common wisdom in some circles, and has been for years, huh? Next thing you know, they're gonna be telling us that the earth is 6000 years old, and some dude with a boat populated the entire planet, 'cause he had one pair of each animal, huh? *shakes his head*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 26, 2012 11:30 AM (kqGWM)

69 OK Morons, I just went to the store and wife wanted me to get some Borax. Wal Mart didn't have any. Is this something else the damned EPA has banned?

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:31 AM (YdQQY)

70 First Padooka and then Clarence. It's double dunce Sunday.

Posted by: toby928© at August 26, 2012 11:32 AM (QupBk)

71 OT: I heard on the news that Tampa was chosen by Michael Steele, 2 years ago. That explains why the RNC is having a convention in Florida in the middle of hurricane season.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 11:33 AM (X6akg)

72 69 Try the local hardware store. I can still get TSP there.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 11:34 AM (g7aoF)

73 You guys do realize that we are the only ones who keep talking about Akin don't you. Even WaPo and The Hill have shut up about it now.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:34 AM (YdQQY)

It's "Harry S Truman" -- no period after the S.

Posted by: Phile at August 26, 2012 11:35 AM (BkvDR)

75 Just now watching fuckabee on fox. (sorry about the language)
What a douche. So is Juan Williams. Sheesh.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 11:37 AM (g7aoF)

76 Walter Freeman -

I run with the Ark circle. Have since I was born. Never heard of the Majik V capabilities. That's a new one on me.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 11:37 AM (P6QsQ)

Fuck Unions.

there, I feel better now.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 11:37 AM (ZO/UQ)

78 71 OT: I heard on the news that Tampa was chosen by Michael Steele, 2 years ago. That explains why the RNC is having a convention in Florida in the middle of hurricane season.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 03:33 PM (X6akg)

Wouldn't be surprised if a certain former governor turned pathetic orange little pissant had a lot of influence in getting Steele to hold it there too.

Posted by: buzzion at August 26, 2012 11:38 AM (GULKT)

79 78
71 OT: I heard on the news that Tampa was chosen by Michael Steele, 2 years ago. That explains why the RNC is having a convention in Florida in the middle of hurricane season.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 03:33 PM (X6akg)

Wouldn't be surprised if a certain former governor turned pathetic orange little pissant had a lot of influence in getting Steele to hold it there too.

And on the week of the Katrina anniversary? real smart...

Posted by: the pink cracker formerly known as the hobbit Donna at August 26, 2012 11:39 AM (W2Z3C)

80 Ack. Gotta get busy packin. Have to get up at 3:30 am to catch a plane.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 11:40 AM (g7aoF)

81 That was Leadership.

I barely recognize it anymore.

Posted by: Jason M at August 26, 2012 11:40 AM (7dWlY)

82 Yeah, and it is headed straight for Chocolate City now.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:40 AM (YdQQY)

83 69 Vic,

Well "banned " is strong but yeah they made it a lot harder to make in volume.

EUtopia put it on the VHCS list back in 2010....

The Evil W in deference to its "greening" quit carrying it at some stores, but you can get it at Lowe's and Kroger.....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 11:42 AM (LRFds)

84 I hope for the sake of everyone this isn't the disaster Obama was hoping for...

Posted by: the pink cracker formerly known as the hobbit Donna at August 26, 2012 11:42 AM (W2Z3C)

85 82 Vic,

The Willy Wonka Reunion Tour

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 11:42 AM (LRFds)

86 Well why wouldn't it head to the Chocolate City, we have a Chocalate Preezy. It was Bush's fault then, It's preezy's now.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 11:43 AM (g7aoF)

87 68 @42: "... Akin isn't the only Motherfuckabee associate ..." It's almost as if that "shutting down the whole rape thing" is common wisdom in some circles, and has been for years, huh? Next thing you know, they're gonna be telling us that the earth is 6000 years old, and some dude with a boat populated the entire planet, 'cause he had one pair of each animal, huh? *shakes his head* Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 26, 2012 03:30 PM (kqGWM) Sees Ize told youze so!!!

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 11:44 AM (p/Sn/)

88 86 Infidel,

no, no Brack is not responsible for anything...EvilChimpy should have spent the last 4 years filling sandbags...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 11:44 AM (LRFds)

89 20 15 Look for Crist to open a new solar company soon. He's currently working for an ambulance chasing firm here in FL. For the People. (tag line of Crist's ER trolling employer. Where he is "Of Counsel" IIRC. Kind of like being an Adjunct Lecturer.)

Posted by: Fox2! at August 26, 2012 11:45 AM (FWG5+)

90 sven, that's funny right there, I don't care who you are.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 11:48 AM (g7aoF)

91 Fuck, I just realized that Boozmans brother is now a Senator from Arkansas. Perhaps we can have the magic uterus caucus.

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 11:48 AM (p/Sn/)

92 Oh if NOLA gets hit hard everything will be Governor Bobby's fault according to B.O., I'm sure.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 26, 2012 11:48 AM (SUKHu)

93 Cher just called for Akin to be anally raped by an HIV patient. Is ther also a magic anus???????

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 11:49 AM (p/Sn/)

94 OT: I heard on the news that Tampa was chosen by Michael Steele, 2
years ago. That explains why the RNC is having a convention in Florida
in the middle of hurricane season.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 03:33 PM (X6akg)

Tami, thank you for sharing that. It's something I've been wondering about for the past week. Not at all surprised that Steele's stoopid is still resonating.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2012 11:49 AM (kpCLl)

To understand history...you have to look at *all* of the ingredients that were present at the time.

For example...when the Draft was in place, being 'pro-military' was a more across-the-board thing.

Back then, it affected...everyone.

Everyone had a brother, a cousin, a son....someone in their family....who had served, or was serving.

The military....was 'us'.

So, there was a different attitude, in general, back then....towards our military.

Our military is still...'us'....but the fact that it is voluntary now, allows some to view it more as 'them', instead.

Posted by: wheatie at August 26, 2012 11:50 AM (5BAYg)

96 91 What the heck are you talking about?

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 11:50 AM (g7aoF)

97 Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 03:48 PM (p/Sn/) I didn't know they were related. Hopefully his brother will keep his yapper shut and not embarrass us further.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at August 26, 2012 11:50 AM (URbDj)

98
Here's a bit of history union workers are proud of:

During the forty-four months from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day, there were 14,471 strikes involving 6,774,000 strikers: more than during any period of comparable length in United States history. In 1944 alone, 369,000 steel and iron workers, 389,000 auto workers, 363,000 other transportation equipment workers, and 278,000 miners were involved in strikes. In many cases, the "quickie" tactics were extremely effective in improving working conditions and easing the burden of company discipline. Workers virtually made extra holidays for themselves around Christmas and New Year's, holding illicit plant parties and cutting production to a trickle. Workers often created free time for themselves on the job by other means. On one occasion, workers in an aircraft plant staged a necktie-cutting party in the middle of working hours, roaming through the plant snipping off ties of fellow workers, supervisors, and managers. The wildcat tradition and organization gave workers a direct counter-power over such management decisions as the speed of work, number of workers per task, assignment of foremen, and organization of work While the effects are impossible to measure, industry representatives claimed a decrease of "labor efficiency" of 20 to 50 percent during the war period.

The longshoremen struck in against the war effort in 1942 until Hitler invaded Communist Russia.

Unions have always been a bunch of anti-American Communist cocksuckers.

Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2012 11:51 AM (tOkJB)

After Katrina in 2005, there was quite a bit of work by the Army Corp of Engineers to fix the levees, etc in New Orleans. And none of that crank political interference. They put in the surge gates in the canals that the Enviros hated, to prevent Lake Ponchartrain from overflowing (which is what broke the levees in 2005) from a tidal storm surge.

My sister is in Naples and told me this morning they expect wind and rain this afternoon (well, about now actually). It's just a Cat 1 now, and they don't get worried until it gets to a Cat 3 or better.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch (fake Internet person) writes..... at August 26, 2012 11:51 AM (sJTmU)

100 Borax show as a product Walmart sells, but its out of stock.

http://tinyurl.com/7qrn69o

Might be supply problems. Borax is also used heavily as an insecticide and wood preservative due to its Boron content -- Boron kills ants, termites and other insects. A lot of the pressure treated wood is using Boron compounds now that the CCA stuff has become politically incorrect.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 11:51 AM (w78gy)

101 Everyone had a brother, a cousin, a son....someone in their family....who had served, or was serving.
The military....was 'us'.

Didn't work that way in the 60s with Vietnam. Lots of student deferments. That is what started everyone to college. Also, get married and pop out a kid early.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:52 AM (YdQQY)

102 Are you saying that if threatened by a strike, we can take over any industry we like? If only we were on good terms with some unions...

Posted by: Barakus Obamus I at August 26, 2012 11:54 AM (FcR7P)

103 I think Crist is thinking Cabinet position if Obama gets a second term. He's no Republican -- never has been, in my opinion.

Posted by: rabidfox at August 26, 2012 11:54 AM (K+m0g)

104 If they are making it hard to mine the stuff now I wonder what PWR plants are doing. They use a LOT of boron. We used to go through about 2000 pounds a year.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:55 AM (YdQQY)

105 Yeah, it kills roaches too.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:55 AM (YdQQY)

106 Tampa probably bought 2000 copies of his book...to use in place of sandbags.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 26, 2012 11:56 AM (SUKHu)

107 Cher just called for Akin to be anally raped by an HIV patient

Sounds like a ready made PAC ad.

"Obama Supporters"

"Cher called for a politician she doesn't like to be anally raped."
{insert other egregious examples here}

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 11:57 AM (w78gy)

108 Most excellent. Unsaid? McCarthy was right these unions were controlled by communist. Thurman called them out.

Barry, PERFECT!

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 26, 2012 11:57 AM (3ZjAP)

109

>>Yeah, it kills roaches too.

If you spread enough of it on a frozen pond, diver duckss will mistake it for open water.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 11:57 AM (OAbmF)

110 4 Just be grateful that it was Truman and not Henry Wallace, actual communist.

Posted by: toby928Â© at August 26, 2012 02:37 PM (QupBk)

TRUE DAT!

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 26, 2012 11:58 AM (3ZjAP)

111 That's right Vic, McCaskil is quiet cause shees scared of me! It's not like these planning a fulcourt press after Sept 25. The MSM is gonna be quiet cause theys know about the magic uterus. The DNC ain't gonna make an issue. Weel keep the magic womb a secret between us

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 11:58 AM (fP+1P)

112 If you spread it on a pond it will sink to the bottom and dissolve. It will help keep the pond from becoming too acidic though because it acts as a buffering agent.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 11:59 AM (YdQQY)

113 Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 03:49 PM (p/Sn/) Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 03:57 PM (w78gy) Cher has gone so over the top with her lunacy that I'm more amused than outraged by it.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at August 26, 2012 11:59 AM (URbDj)

114 #95 Wheati: I disagree, the attitude changed during the Vietnam War when the peace movement was taken over by the commies. Kerry's testimony before Congress on how horrible our troops were behaving had a lot to do with the shift.

Posted by: rabidfox at August 26, 2012 12:00 PM (K+m0g)

115 Cher don't like our Dicken's Cider.

Posted by: Dicken's Cider at August 26, 2012 12:00 PM (BAnPT)

116 The "shift" occurred because the Dem Party was taken over by the anti-war zealots in 1968.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 12:01 PM (YdQQY)

117 Unions have long had a problem with communist penetration (as evidenced by, e.g., George Meany purging communists from the AFL-CIO), with as a result some becomingcommunist front organizations, such as AFSCME and SEIU are now. Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 26, 2012 02:53 PM (oX7vY) So did my Mother, nine months before I was born...

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 26, 2012 12:01 PM (sZTYJ)

118 Hate to see it really, this demonization of forcible rape. Many, many wonderful people are the result of forcible rape. Ethel Waters for one. Amazing blues singer who in no way suffered any psychological trauma knowing that her existence was the result of the brutal rape and terrorization of her mother. Forcible Rape: You'll Never Have To Worry About Custody Battles.

Posted by: Mike Huckabee's Holy War at August 26, 2012 12:01 PM (AzwZn)

119 Man, that Cher is one looney bitch.

Posted by: Roseanne Barr at August 26, 2012 12:02 PM (IoNBC)

120 I don't think there's any reason to make Borates hard to mine. Its basically harmless to humans. It may just be that the existing mining operations are having trouble scaling operations due to massive demand increase in the insecticide and pressure treated wood business.

Then again, Borate mines tend to be open pit and the largest is in CA.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:03 PM (w78gy)

121 I don't always rape. But when I do, I rape forcibly.

Posted by: Most Interesting Man in the World at August 26, 2012 12:03 PM (OAbmF)

122 I still regret not getting pic of Ron and Nancy. I spend a half an hour in awe and chatting them up while they waited to give a speech. She was still great looking, but surprisingly short.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 26, 2012 12:04 PM (3ZjAP)

123 The mules died from being overworked. No more Borax transportation.

Posted by: Ronster at August 26, 2012 12:05 PM (d/8+y)

124 9 Global warming did not cause Hurricane Issac! Lizzie Warren did a rain dance.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 26, 2012 02:44 PM (04fgZ)

First time anything she did worked!

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 26, 2012 12:05 PM (3ZjAP)

125 I spend a half an hour in awe and chatting them up while they waited to give a speech.

--------

I am so jealous of you right now.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 12:06 PM (P6QsQ)

126 There's an interesting typo in the headline: "Harry S. Goddanged Truman, Union Buster" That's actually wrong. It should be, amazingly, "Harry S Goddanged Truman, Union Buster" Notice the difference? There's no period after the "S". That's because Harry S Truman was absolutely unique in having a single letter as his middle name. Almost every other "middle initial" in everyone else's name has a period after it because it is an abbreviation. But in Harry's case, the "S" did not stand for anything, so it was NOT an abbreviation. And since the only reason to have a period after middle initials is to indicate that they are abbreviations that stand for something, therefore in Harry's case there was no period. His middle name was, simply, S -- and nothing else. It is very often misspelled as "S." with a period, but technically that is wrong. Interestingly, Truman apparently early in his life signed his name with no period, but was told he should include a period to "regularize" his name, so many signatures include the period -- but after a while he just got sick of the issue and resorted to just signing "Harry Truman" with no initial at all. The Irregularity-phobes have since tried to enforce a period in the official versions of his name, but they are just being revisionists.

Posted by: zombie at August 26, 2012 12:06 PM (+cx5n)

127 Truman got slapped down by the courts in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer and had to back off. He and the Congress essentially wanted to nationalize steel and railroads for the duration of the emergency. (I wonder how long the "emergency" would have lasted under the Democrats?) Woodrow Wilson also nationalized the railroads during WWI, so Democrats have a long history of trying to take over essential private industries. No wonder they idealize Castro, Hugo Chavez and Hu Jintao.

Posted by: Socratease at August 26, 2012 12:07 PM (XbHIn)

128

Democrats have a long history of trying to take over essential private industries.

Reverend!

Posted by: Maxine Waters (D) at August 26, 2012 12:09 PM (OAbmF)

129 His penis has won Nobel Prizes in both Science and Literature, his ejaculate cures cervical cancer, when he forces himself on a women, she sends a thank you note. He is ... the most interesting man in the world.

Posted by: toby928© at August 26, 2012 12:09 PM (QupBk)

130 It's true. Jodi Foster didn't get pregnant after those boys gang-raped her on that pinball machine. And Ned Beatty didn't get pregnant neither after he got raped in them Georgia woods.

Posted by: Mike Huckabee at August 26, 2012 12:09 PM (URbDj)

131 118 Hate to see it really, this demonization of forcible rape. Many, many wonderful people are the result of forcible rape. Ethel Waters for one. Amazing blues singer who in no way suffered any psychological trauma knowing that her existence was the result of the brutal rape and terrorization of her mother. Forcible Rape: You'll Never Have To Worry About Custody Battles. Posted by: Mike Huckabee's Holy War at August 26, 2012 04:01 PM (AzwZn) Impossible. Her mother musta enjoyed it.

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 12:10 PM (fP+1P)

132 "Forcible Rape: You'll Never Have To Worry About Custody Battles." Actually, very few states have laws barring rapists from claiming custody.

Posted by: Socratease at August 26, 2012 12:12 PM (XbHIn)

133

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 03:52 PM (YdQQY)

Yeah, Vic...you're absolutely right about that.

I was commenting on the original thread topic [at #95]...about what it was like when Truman sent in troops to act as referees in a domestic situation.

It wasn't seen as a drastic, 'scary thing to do', back then...because people's general attitude towards our military was different.

Posted by: wheatie at August 26, 2012 12:12 PM (5BAYg)

134 Hookers never get pregnant because they only fake orgasms and their stressful lives block them eggs from ovulating

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 12:12 PM (fP+1P)

135 Dave in Texas, agreed that once upon a time when boomers were babies and school kids, the Democrat Party elected the likes of Truman (despite Dewey Wins!) and JFK, neither of whom illustrate the current lot of Marxists in power. But then, at the same time prior to Eisenhower, Republicans were SMALL GOVERNMENT, low budgets and low tax libertarians compared to the neoconservative Keynesian big spenders in power now.

Check it out: 1950 Labor union associations ousted membership constituencies for being Communist, and for being corrupt.

http://tinyurl.com/bn9eol3

"1952 President Truman seizes the steel industry when the steel companies reject the Wage Stabilization Board recommendations. Supreme Court rules the action unconstitutional."

Already 111 comments, too many to sift through to find what the Rail Road workers demands were that the industry refused to meet. I'll speculate, considering that during the 1940s given WWII subsequent to the Great 30's Depression, wages and required work hours (beyond the 40 hr. week) and whatever benefit compensations most likely had been frozen for nearly 20 years already in 1950, and then never kept up with the inflation post-1945. So by 1950, while other industries saw rising wages matching the rising cost of housing, etc., what were the steel and rail road employees to do given that their CEOs saw to their own management bonuses and raises in salaries?

Also, the Korean War was a UN War. What Truman did was to benefit the UN War, run by the UN, not by the US Military. The real threat to our national security was the propaganda /that dominoes would crush America, in theory at least/; not to mention the national threat to our sovereignty as the falling chips have exposed the UN aspirations to now be.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 26, 2012 12:14 PM (BAnPT)

136

>>his ejaculate cures cervical cancer, when he forces himself on a women, she sends a thank you note.

The seed is strong.

Posted by: Zombie Jon Arryn at August 26, 2012 12:14 PM (OAbmF)

137

Jodi Foster didn't get pregnant after those boys gang-raped her on that pinball machine

She did match numbers and win a free game though.

Posted by: Movie Trivia at August 26, 2012 12:15 PM (OAbmF)

138 Cher with all her wrinkles and makeup now looks more like the female impersonators of her from the 70s and 80s than the real Cher

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 12:15 PM (fP+1P)

139 Harry Truman, a corrupt politician nominated by the party bosses.

Let 10,000s of our soldiers die in Korea and fired MacArthur. Could have stopped the cold war.

Russia, get the fuck out of East Europe or we are going to make Moscow glow.

No one had the bomb but US. We had a VETO. Why didn't we USE IT.

A TOTAL ASSHOLE. His chicken shit cost this nation 100 of millions of dollars. I spit on his grave. Let dick shit hat salesman.

Stalin. You got two months get the fuck back to Russia or we are going to blow your shit up.

When you look up PUSSY. Truman. How the world would be different.

Have a nice day.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 26, 2012 12:15 PM (3ZjAP)

140 She did match numbers and win a free game though. It was negated by Tilt, because pin-game machines have a way of shutting that down.

Posted by: toby928© at August 26, 2012 12:16 PM (QupBk)

141 The forced is strong with this one....

Posted by: Darth Bugger at August 26, 2012 12:17 PM (BAnPT)

142 I can't get no satisfaction.

Posted by: Cher at August 26, 2012 12:17 PM (IoNBC)

143 142 I can't get no satisfaction.

Posted by: Cher at August 26, 2012 04:17 PM (IoNBC)

Your pussy is burnt up. Get over it. Buy some meth like all your friends.

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 26, 2012 12:19 PM (3ZjAP)

144

And Ned Beatty didn't get pregnant neither after he got raped in them Georgia woods.

Paddle faster!!!!

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 12:19 PM (g7aoF)

145

Posted by: toby928Â© at August 26, 2012 04:16 PM (QupBk)

When we get to hell we should get together for a drink.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 12:19 PM (OAbmF)

146 Is Chers daughter/son/whatever into men or women or whatever?

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 12:19 PM (fP+1P)

147 It's a date.

Posted by: toby928© at August 26, 2012 12:19 PM (QupBk)

148 There were a lot of things I liked about Truman. My favorite was that he decided to drop the A-bombs on Japan to stop the war. He never...not once...felt any regret about it. He knew he was saving American lives, and probably a lot of Japanese lives too.

He would not be a good fit in today's politically correct Democratic Party.

Posted by: Unemployed since February at August 26, 2012 12:20 PM (06qTP)

149 You want a good laugh, though, yell out 'multi-ball' the next time that scene's on.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 12:21 PM (OAbmF)

150 146 Chaz is her dudeter

Posted by: Beto at August 26, 2012 12:21 PM (BAnPT)

151 I hear banjo's.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 12:21 PM (g7aoF)

152 It wasn't seen as a drastic, 'scary thing to do', back then...because people's general attitude towards our military was different.
...

Hm. Whether it was "scary" depends on whether you recall what the US Military did to the US Military Veterans of WWI, the "bonus army" camped in D.C. and along the Potomac. Or whether your family was blue collar, miners for instance, when the police, sheriff, State/National Guard were called out, by the corporate CEO or by the respective governmental body's chief executive, to break-up strikes, whether beating up the picket line, or shooting into the crowd of strikers, killing women and children as well as the men.

...Steinbeck, for instance, didn't need to exaggerate.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 26, 2012 12:22 PM (BAnPT)

153 I see Billy Bob's been hitting the Sterno. Starting WWIII, Bomb or no Bomb, would have been an act of the uttermost lunacy. All Truman did was:

* Use the Bomb against Japan, and ended the war in the fastest way possible.

* Start NATO and set up the Marshall Plan, when the Left was getting its panties twisted out of shape.

* Save South Korea, and try to save the north.

OK, he didn't nuke China till it glowed. I guess that makes him a weak-kneed commiesymp.

Yeah, he was a machine hack. But for the most part he did the right thing. I'm certainly glad he was president in 1945, and not Henry "Uncle Joe's BFF" Wallace.

Posted by: Brown Line at August 26, 2012 12:24 PM (GnEjc)

154 Boy, reading the comments thread backwards is pretty fun. I highly recommend it.

Posted by: elizabethe at August 26, 2012 12:25 PM (9MyQd)

155 144 And Ned Beatty didn't get pregnant neither after he got raped in them Georgia woods. Paddle faster!!!! Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 04:19 PM (g7aoF) Ssshhh. He enjoyed it so he had a baby girl. He had me arrange an adoption ,so I gave her to some singing couple. Ize heard the husband became a congressman who didn't ski well.

Posted by: Akin's magical spermicidal jelly at August 26, 2012 12:26 PM (bmHOj)

156 This has no been amended to BYHNQ, or bless your heart, next question. Posted by: WalrusRex at August 26, 2012 02:46 PM (04fgZ) I will max out a donation to Romney if he or Ryan ever actually say this to a reporter.

Posted by: elizabethe at August 26, 2012 12:28 PM (9MyQd)

157 I love the sound of banjos in the morning. You know, one time I had a buggering for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked upright. I didn't fight one of 'em, not one stinkin' hillbilly. The smell, you know that sour mash smell, the whole hill smelled like...... buggery.

Posted by: Ned Beatty at August 26, 2012 12:28 PM (BAnPT)

158 Did anyone see the Chris Wallace interview with Romney and Ann? She was talking about loving Costco and that she gets Mitt's Kirkland shirts there. She then said something like, 'He's wearing one now....HE ironed it this morning."

She also talked about when she was very sick, during the same time that Romney was running the Olympics. She said he would do the grocery shopping on his way home from working on the Olympics and do the cooking when he got home.

It was a very good interview.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 12:28 PM (X6akg)

159 Are you sponge worthy?

Posted by: Huck's Magical Spermicidal Sponges at August 26, 2012 12:29 PM (bmHOj)

160 Harry Ess Truman was his real name.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2012 12:29 PM (Wp4rQ)

161 very few states have laws barring rapists from claiming custody.

Usually a pretty long statute of limitations on rapes though. You could claim custody, but its probably not worth going to prison over...cuz you kinda have to confess to the crime to make the claim.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:29 PM (w78gy)

162 144 And Ned Beatty didn't get pregnant neither after he got raped in them Georgia woods. Paddle faster!!!! Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 04:19 PM (g7aoF) I guess he won't get tripped up by the cost of milk or by a Bar code scanner

Posted by: Huck's Magical Spermicidal Sponges at August 26, 2012 12:31 PM (bmHOj)

163 A full-fledged Democrat from 60 years ago is roughly the equivalent of George Bush, H or W.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2012 12:31 PM (Wp4rQ)

164 I bet Obama doesn't wear off the rack from Costco...

...I see an ad here about thrift and setting examples.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:32 PM (w78gy)

165 1968
President Richard M. Nixon is elected

Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated while supporting a strike by Memphis Tennessee sanitation workers.

http://tinyurl.com/bn9eol3

Hm, beyond "civil rights protests" I didn't realize MLK was supporting a union strike when he was murdered.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 26, 2012 12:32 PM (BAnPT)

166 164 I bet Obama doesn't wear off the rack from Costco...

...I see an ad here about thrift and setting examples.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 04:32 PM (w78gy)

Not only was it Costco, it was a "3 pack of shirts". LOL!

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 12:34 PM (X6akg)

167 MLK was a commie through and through, but it was overshadowed by everything else

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:34 PM (w78gy)

168 Pawlwnty prefers SamsClub

Posted by: Huck's Magical Spermicidal Sponges at August 26, 2012 12:34 PM (bmHOj)

169

>>I bet Obama doesn't wear off the rack from Costco...

I'm pretty sure I've seen Michele in a Kirkland brand Slip-Cover

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 12:35 PM (OAbmF)

170 165 You'll note that all of MLK's inner circle, with him at the time and financially struggling, all became fantastically wealthy after that.

Posted by: Beto at August 26, 2012 12:35 PM (BAnPT)

171 That cracker that whacked him could easily have been whipped up by a false flag operation. Some of those guys aren't terribly deep thinkers.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:37 PM (w78gy)

172

I think that, in the interest of conveying the message of ...'Thrift'...that Paul Ryan needs to do some speeches in a Kilt.

Posted by: wheatie at August 26, 2012 12:37 PM (5BAYg)

173 169 >>I bet Obama doesn't wear off the rack from Costco... I'm pretty sure I've seen Michele in a Kirkland brand Slip-Cover Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2012 04:35 PM (OAbmF) Your confusing it with the Dog Snuggie. After Barry had lunch there was no need for it.

Posted by: Huck's Magical Spermicidal Sponges at August 26, 2012 12:38 PM (bmHOj)

174 Tami - I loved that part.
With five or six kids, you gotta cut wherever you can. I'm still so out of touch, I don't know what J Crew is. Is that how you spell it?

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 12:38 PM (g7aoF)

175 A kilt would nail the Scottish vote.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:39 PM (w78gy)

176 OT: I heard on the news that Tampa was chosen by Michael Steele, 2 years ago. That explains why the RNC is having a convention in Florida in the middle of hurricane season. Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 03:33 PM (X6akg) I'm still convinced that Steele was a Dem plant. Sounded really good as a Sunday talking head pundit until he took over the RNC, then he turned doofus. Like hitting a switch, *bam*, he's an idiot. As a side note, one of the things I really like about the new location for our shop is that we're just around the corner from the local SEIU hall. I get to flip the bird at those commie cocksuckers every morning. Starts the day off right.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 26, 2012 12:39 PM (Rhie+)

177 Any Wisconsin or Northern Illinois morons wanting to attend the Send-Off rally for Paul Ryan tomorrow morning in Janesville, here's the link. It's free but you have to register to get a ticket.

http://bit.ly/NqiPJR

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 12:39 PM (P6QsQ)

178 I think that, in the interest of conveying the message of...'Thrift'...that Paul Ryan needs to do some speeches in a Kilt.

Posted by: wheatie at August 26, 2012 04:37 PM (5BAYg)

Great idea! A Kirkland Kilt.....I have to go call Costco.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 12:39 PM (X6akg)

179 A garbage strike in the hot weather of Memphis could drive the most sane man crazy

Posted by: Huck's Magical Spermicidal Sponges at August 26, 2012 12:40 PM (bmHOj)

180 wheatie - I love that you are so consistant. Yes, a Kilt. booga booga.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 12:41 PM (g7aoF)

181 174 Tami - I loved that part.
With five or six kids, you gotta cut wherever you can. I'm still so out of touch, I don't know what J Crew is. Is that how you spell it?

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 04:38 PM (g7aoF)

It was a great segment. When she said, "I love Costco." Wallace said, "What do you love about Costco?" She responded, "Are you kidding....have you ever been to a Costco?"

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 12:41 PM (X6akg)

182 Well, I got one leak fixed. Another is due to water penetration in a gable end because of some cracks in the stucco.

The east wind is driving the water through the cracks and down the inner attic gable wall. I don't think I can do anything about that until the rain stops... unless its a crude hack like tacking a tarp on the outside to block the wind.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:42 PM (w78gy)

183 176 ITC,

Never forget he was essentially a New England Republican, and there is a place for his sort in the party but they simply do not generate enough success in their region to run the national in my humble opinion. When we moved to maryland for the 2.5 years we were there he and Ehrlic were interesting but you had to remind yourself the state was so over the top Donk you couldn't rely on them. Steele's ego is definitely Hucktastic when references to his pull with "his caucus".

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 12:42 PM (LRFds)

184 Tami. haha. wish we had a costco here. Alas, I still live in a burg.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 12:43 PM (g7aoF)

185 Chris Wallace beclowns himself as completely out of touch. The next president and his wife are demonstrably more in touch with the general public than the media elites.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 26, 2012 12:44 PM (w78gy)

186 Hm, beyond "civil rights protests" I didn't realize MLK was supporting a union strike when he was murdered.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 26, 2012 04:32 PM (BAnPT)

The last two or three years of his life were spent in pro-commie anti-war protests and pro-commie union support.

You NEVER hear about that from the MFM. They pay "I have a dream" over and over at the same time everything he advocated is trashed by the current gang of black commies in the CBC.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 12:44 PM (YdQQY)

187 lol. A diet plan and pizza slut advertising on the same page.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 12:50 PM (g7aoF)

188

Went over to the Miller Center site to check out the rest of the speech (questions for RR, Attorney General and SecTran).

Unsurprisingly, the reporters were just as fucking retarded as they are today.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at August 26, 2012 12:50 PM (c/CJd)

189 Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 04:42 PM (LRFds) I hear you, brother. Steele didn't really register on my personal radar until after he left the LtGov office. I found it interesting that in the period between then and taking over the RNC, he seemed to be a really effective speaker and conservative advocate. Yet from the very beginning of his RNC time, he seemed to step on his dick almost daily. Seemed out of character, given what I'd seen in the previous couple of years.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 26, 2012 12:51 PM (Rhie+)

190 Actually, very few states have laws barring rapists from claiming custody.

Posted by: Socratease at August 26, 2012 04:12 PM (XbHIn)

---------->>>

In Ohio, the mother automatically has custody of a child born out of wedlock unless otherwise determined by a Domestic Relations Court. The intent of the law is to deal the Baby Mama Drama (tm) of the welfare class but would certainly apply in a case of rape.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at August 26, 2012 12:53 PM (xFgmp)

191 where is the thread with the most sock puppets / contributors for the week?

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 12:56 PM (ovpNn)

192 Lord I'm sick of Eeyores. It's like a competition to dredge up another bizarre reason why our eyes are lying to us.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 26, 2012 12:57 PM (dX4hn)

193 191 where is the thread with the most sock puppets / contributors for the week?

kinda early for the ONT, buddy. on the plus side, you've still got about 5 hours to pump up your numbers!

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2012 12:59 PM (kpCLl)

194

You know, the names....Romney and Ryan....both have roots in Scottland.

In addition to being surnames, they are also names that were used as first names....for both boys and girls.

So really, both Romney and Ryan could use Kilt-wearing as a way to convey the message of...'Thrift'....and sensable spending.

Posted by: wheatie at August 26, 2012 12:59 PM (5BAYg)

195 Reminder from the RNC for those who use Twitter:

Official hashtag for the convention is #GOP2012.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 01:00 PM (P6QsQ)

196 But, but Eleventy!!! 11 Eleventy!! 11

Posted by: Joe,union boy, Biden at August 26, 2012 01:01 PM (CZrbJ)

197 193 191
where is the thread with the most sock puppets / contributors for the week?

kinda early for the ONT, buddy. on the plus side, you've still got about 5 hours to pump up your numbers!

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2012 04:59 PM (kpCLl)

haha...kind of burned out lighting my hair on fire over akin, and frankly, Charlie Crist endorsing Obama is like the Sauruman Endorsing Sauron...saw that one coming a mile away and can't really get worked up over it.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 01:01 PM (ovpNn)

198 and speaking of hair on fire, have the republican plannign committe finalized the changes to speakers now that we condensed down to three days?

Is Fatfuckabee Out?

Please tell me yes!

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 01:03 PM (ovpNn)

199 192 DiF,

I think it is a function of tunnel vision adherents to the purity wars wanting to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory to "win" as argument we shouldn't be having with communists marching our way...

in other news, water still wet

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 01:03 PM (LRFds)

200 Is Fatfuckabee Out?

Please tell me yes!

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 05:03 PM (ovpNn)

As far as I know, yes....he is out.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 01:05 PM (X6akg)

201 The intent of the law is to deal the Baby Mama Drama (tm) of the welfare class but would certainly apply in a case of rape.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at August 26, 2012 04:53 PM (xFgmp)

In California you can impregnate a married women, and the baby is still the responsibility of the husband, not sure how the changes for rape.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 26, 2012 01:05 PM (NzBQO)

202 187 JGDAW,

Yeah I have yet to mention the orange goblin coming out of the closet because it is a lot like Liberace....

"what NO! he's gay? I had no idea...."

//Things any non-willfully deluded person will never say

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 01:05 PM (LRFds)

203 201 ASIMPH,

In Ohio you are financially responsible for any blood child, a woman can petition the court for a blood sample rather easily. The onus of "proof" is on the male proving he is not biologically the child's parent. There have been cases where the judge will rule in a woman's favor even if the male is found to not be the blood parent.

Men have a shitty hand in life.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 01:07 PM (LRFds)

204 Codepink's Vagina protest in Tampa.....

http://tinyurl.com/bldhwlm

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 01:07 PM (X6akg)

205 Tampa Prostitute: "What can I do for ya Hon'?" GOP John: "Straight missionary and I'd like to pay for your child's college education to assuage my guilt and make sure you get SOMETHING out of this." Charlotte prostitute: "You frighten me, but I need the money. What can I do for you?" Democrat John: "Sniff my socks, shave my ass, and pay the mini-bar tab."

Posted by: A Tale Of Two Cities....... at August 26, 2012 01:07 PM (AzwZn)

206 OT they are doing a sorta bio on Walt Disney on H2. Another icon I miss!

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 01:09 PM (g7aoF)

207 Sissy says, earthquake in San Diego.

Posted by: Up with people! at August 26, 2012 01:10 PM (kzFo5)

208 Well, I'm yellin' and we're playin'
But I don't know what I'm sayin'
What's the message I'm conveyin'?
Can you tell me what I'm sayin'?
So have you got some idea?
Didn't think so
Well, I'll see ya

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 26, 2012 01:12 PM (e8kgV)

209
BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS

FIRST PICTURES OF MOOCHELLE AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION PREPARING FOR THE ONE!

http://tinyurl.com/7v8hvz

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 01:12 PM (ovpNn)

210 Full disclosure, my God Father retired from Disney Land after almost 50 yrs. I think 47.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 01:13 PM (g7aoF)

211 CNN reporting that the GOP is considering the possibility of extending the convention another day, thru Friday.

http://bit.ly/U4f1wR

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 01:14 PM (P6QsQ)

212 what a Mickey Mouse outfit

Posted by: USS Diversity at August 26, 2012 01:14 PM (0CiTm)

213 209 lol. omg!

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 01:15 PM (g7aoF)

214 But now Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul on reports of GOP convention extending until Friday says "Not true".

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 01:16 PM (P6QsQ)

215

How soon until Costco distances itself from Romney with some ridiculous Twitter statement? Because the at least one of the guys who founded it is a big time Democrat donor.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 26, 2012 01:16 PM (RZ8pf)

216 what a Mickey Mouse outfit Posted by: USS Diversity at August 26, 2012 05:14 PM (0CiTm) --------------------------------------------------------- Decidedly Daffy.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 26, 2012 01:16 PM (jucos)

217 200 Is Fatfuckabee Out?

Please tell me yes!

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 05:03 PM (ovpNn)

As far as I know, yes....he is out.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 05:05 PM (X6akg)

I was wrong....he's on FOX right now. He's speaking on Wednesday. Ugh.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 01:18 PM (X6akg)

218 158 Did anyone see the Chris Wallace interview with Romney and Ann? She was talking about loving Costco and that she gets Mitt's Kirkland shirts there. -- They're great shirts. $18/each for the long sleeved Oxford cloth ones. We picked up filets and lobster tails at Costco this morning. Grilled them up. Now digesting!

Posted by: Y-not at August 26, 2012 01:18 PM (5H6zj)

219

It would be idiotic for Costco to piss off Republican shoppers.

They spend more.

Posted by: wheatie at August 26, 2012 01:18 PM (5BAYg)

220 217 Tami,

Let's get this over with...

fuck it bemoaning it will do no good and we cannot justifiably split the party if need be 'til he shits in the bed.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 01:19 PM (LRFds)

221 Well, the latest tracking of Isaac shows us getting hit, but only with 35 mph winds.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 26, 2012 01:19 PM (SUKHu)

222 Can't Fuckabee just fade into the sunset?

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 01:19 PM (g7aoF)

223 217 200
Is Fatfuckabee Out?

Please tell me yes!

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 05:03 PM (ovpNn)

As far as I know, yes....he is out.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 05:05 PM (X6akg)

I was wrong....he's on FOX right now. He's speaking on Wednesday. Ugh.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 05:18 PM (X6akg)

OH FUCK A BEE

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 01:19 PM (ovpNn)

224 I was wrong....he's on FOX right now. He's speaking on Wednesday. Ugh. Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2012 05:18 PM (X6akg) ------------------------------------------------------- My father in law always used to say "what can't get up, can't get out".... wait, what?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 26, 2012 01:19 PM (jucos)

225 New thread up

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2012 01:19 PM (YdQQY)

226 Wonder if he will give a shout out to his buddy Todd Akin

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 26, 2012 01:20 PM (ovpNn)

227 Mama AJ. 35 is not bad. Good luck.

Posted by: Infidel at August 26, 2012 01:21 PM (g7aoF)

228 I don't understand why Huckabee is speaking at all. Even aside from this whole Akin thing. He is a TV host. He is not an elected official of the party or a former nominee of the party. He has a TV program on a news network. What qualifies him for a speaking position?

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 26, 2012 01:22 PM (P6QsQ)

229 >>222 Can't Fuckabee just fade into the sunset? After following the Ron Paul rally via twitter, I have to say the same about him. Frankly, I'm unimpressed by what I've heard of Rand's performance, too. There's supporting your dad and then there's being intentionally prickish.

Posted by: Y-not at August 26, 2012 01:23 PM (5H6zj)

230 228 MamaWinger,

Same reason DL Hughgley Steele is butthurt...they think they are "elder statesmen"...

when in reality they are "cut anchors"...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 01:23 PM (LRFds)

231

>>Mama AJ. 35 is not bad. Good luck.

Thanks! We'll be fine. Just wondering how many inches of rain we'll get...

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 26, 2012 01:25 PM (SUKHu)

232

I went to a dinner party last night chock full of professors. Interestingly, they don't love Obama like they used to, and one, whose husband was in retail and is now in deep shit and floundering, was forced to admit she was voting for "not Obama." Couldn't quite use the R word. I guess 'cause when it's her money, not yours, it matters.

Posted by: Gem at August 26, 2012 01:32 PM (zw+pb)

233 I fully expect the Dems to sacrifice a baby on the podium to their abortion god during their convention.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 26, 2012 01:34 PM (dX4hn)

234 Unions are not popular, you'd be amazed how many Democrats absolutely loathe them.

If Republicans can get control of both Congress and the White House, they should have "right to work" in all 50 states. you could pass it under the guise of a tax, and you would only need 50 + 1 to pass it.

Posted by: Jalopy at August 26, 2012 01:39 PM (XDRsa)

235 Newest union strong arm tactic: calling the cops on a drunk driver, when the "drunk driver" just happens to be a city councilman who voted against your pay raises.

http://tinyurl.com/8dnppte

Posted by: PJ at August 26, 2012 01:50 PM (DQHjw)

236 235 PJ,

yeah they're getting soft, but we need to do the same to the democrat lackies of the PEUs....

back in the day it was nailbombs and fire raids...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 26, 2012 01:51 PM (LRFds)

237 But now Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul on reports of GOP convention extending until Friday says "Not true". Well, which is it? We need to know for our totally spontaneous outbreaks of precisely placed anarchy.

Posted by: Occupy HQ at August 26, 2012 02:13 PM (FcR7P)

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

Posted by: steevy at August 26, 2012 04:08 PM (6o4Fb)

239

Amazingly, 75% of North Korean defectors living in the ROK, still believe the north's communist system is the best government system...it was just midlevel bureaucrats who kept fucking things up.

Think about this for a minute. These are the people who lived in an absolute shithole, starved their entire lives (while watching 10% or more of their neighbors actually starve to death), who literally risked their life (and basically forfeited the lives of their family members) in order to defect to the south. Yet 75% still believe they were living in the perfect society.

Call it what you want, but liberalism/communism/statism/progressivism is truly a mental disorder.

Posted by: Icedog at August 26, 2012 04:43 PM (PTS+l)

240 Union thugs going on strike while the nation is at war was not a new thing.

During WW2, there were various longshoreman strikes and strikes by merchant seaman crews who refused to unload their ships while Marines were in desperate need of supplies ashore.

Posted by: Grimmy at August 26, 2012 07:31 PM (uUsh9)

241 Union strikes during wartime: Just finished Arthur Herman's 'Freedom's Forge,' about industrial mobilization for WW2. I thought I was pretty familiar with that period of history but Herman listed some of the strikes the big industrial unions called during the war and the number surprised me! (Great book, by the way. Reads like 'Atlas Shrugged.' Herman does not like FDR, New Dealers, or unions and does not seem shy about saying so.)

Posted by: RNB at August 27, 2012 08:49 AM (fe/Mk)

242

IIRC, Truman threatened to draft the lot of them.

The strikers, that is.

Posted by: Mikey NTH wondering if the water in Missouri is being tested at August 27, 2012 09:30 AM (hLRSq)

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