August 19, 2012
— Maetenloch Less pain and blood in the urine = a pretty good Sunday.
Bad Idea Jeans - 2012 Edition
Hey Let's Have a National Maximum Wage
A modest proposal from Gawker's Hamilton Nolan:
Let's have a maximum annual income of, oh, $5 million, pegged to inflation. All income above that would be taxed at 99 percent. Our precious national sports stars, celebrities, and corporate executives could still be fabulously wealthy. The daydreaming poor could still have a nice big number about which to hopelessly dream. Five million dollars a year. Five million! Anyone with $5 million can invest it conservatively enough to earn 5 percent a year and still be making $250K per year without lifting a finger. In other words, $5 million provides you with the means to live as a member of the one percent without ever touching the principal. It's everything that any reasonable person could ask for, financially speaking.
Hey Let's Impose a 75% Tax on 'the Rich'
That's the plan of new French president, François Hollande, to make the rich pay their 'fair share'.
The call to Vincent Grandil's Paris law firm began like many others that have rolled in recently. On the line was the well-paid chief executive of one of France's most profitable companies, and he was feeling nervous.
President François Hollande is vowing to impose a 75 percent tax on the portion of anyone's income above a million euros ($1.24 million) a year. "Should I be preparing to leave the country?" the executive asked Mr. Grandil.
Unsurprisingly there's now an exodus of French companies and executives to London.
Hey Let's Nationalize Facebook
This time from Philip Howard of Slate:
Over the last several years, Facebook has become a public good and an important social resource. But as a company, it is behaving badly, and long term, that may cost it.
...By "nationalizing Facebook," I mean public ownership and at least a majority share at first. When nationalizing the company restores the public trust, that controlling interest could be reduced. There are three very good reasons for this drastic step: It could fix the company's woeful privacy practices, allow the social network to fulfill its true potential for providing social good, and force it to put its valuable data to work on significant social problems.
When You've Lost the $1 Newrag Demo....
And note that most of the claims Joe made during his infamous 'I have a higher IQ than you' rant weren't even true.
The 'Solyndra' as a Unit of Measurement for Wasted Government Money
Which really helps put everything in perspective:
What gave me the idea was something in a posting by Moe Lane on Romney's trip to Jerusalem, where he wrote: "President Obama did best, with his ever-so-sudden $70 million funding of Israeli missile defense (that's about .14 solyndras*)". So, how about the $535 million in Solyndra loan guarantees be rechristened as equaling one "solyndra"? This way, the bridge to nowhere would have cost three-quarters of a solyndra ($398 million), the direct Defense Department costs of the Iraq war were 1,416 solyndras, annual farm subsidies are 43 solyndras, the annual budget of the Commerce Department is 15 solyndras, and so on.
Unless someone else claims it Moe Lane deserves all the credit for this one.
British company BCB invented The Wall Breaker, a non-explosive, compressed air cannon which fires standard plastic water cooler drums to breach walls, gates and doors for rapid quick entry. It can be fired every 10 to 15 seconds. The water jugs can be filled with water, sand, or other materials.
The firm have already sold the system to security forces and the military in a number of countries including the USA and Thailand.
Okay but I'd like to see its effect on a real structural wall before I buy one.
"We didn't know what 90 percent of the switches did"
The US has long had an entire squadron dedicated to flying potential enemy aircraft including pretty much every model of the MiG.
"In 1985 we had 26 MiGs -- MiG-21s and MiG-23s. We had had MiG-17s originally but phased them out early, and by the end of the program we still had more MiG-21s than anything else."The pilots were Aggressors or Fighter Weapons School or Top Gun instructors. Most were majors, a few captains, with 2000-3000 hours. We didn't have to worry about the pilots. "They were all comfortable with themselves. They weren't proud of themselves for beating up on an F-4. The goal was not to beat them up, you'd beat them up on day one - that was a given."
For the students, it was "a Sunday-Friday course. By the end of a week, we wanted people to be able to kill a MiG the first time that you saw him."
On the MiG-21: "It had no gas - a point-defense fighter.
"We didn't know what 90 percent of the switches did. We changed the ASI and parts of the oxygen system. We had one switch that we just labeled BOMB EXPLODE."It was fun to fly. You could see out pretty well. The limitations included the throttle - there were two rpm gauges, and if you got them too far apart, and to 80 percent rpm, it would take you 17 seconds to get military power. When you flew it a long time you found a little notch that was there to remind you not to do that.
..."It was a great aircraft to fight if you wanted to fight slow - maybe not against an F-18. You're at 120 knots and still pointing at him and all he's looking at is your nose. you get down to 80 knots, dump the nose, go to 120 and from 30 deg nose low to 40 deg nose high and you didn't go up, but the other guy goes 'holy smokes, here he comes'." Evasive action against this deceptive maneuver often put the unwary student inside the MiG-21's weapon envelope.
Don't Click This If You Don't Want To Feel Old
A veritable time capsule of 80's cheesy goodness. Also includes an exclusive with teen heart-throb, Bryan Cranston.
Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings
Top 10 commenters:
1 [906 comments] 'sven10077' [127.17 posts/day]
2 [693 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)'
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5 [425 comments] 'nickless'
6 [413 comments] 'Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks'
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
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4 [76 names] 'The Political Hat'
5 [50 names] 'Dang'
6 [43 names] 'Cicero'
7 [39 names] '66chevelle'
8 [38 names] 'Dr Fish'
9 [38 names] 'the white board'
10 [36 names] '"Special" Joey Biden'
The group. Yeah.
Where it's at - the Twitter
Tonight's post brought to you by a very Maetenloch Christmas list:
My grandmother died a few months ago and so my mother has been going through her scrapbooks and found this. I'm guessing this was from when I was 12 or 13 years old - still very much a geek but starting to care about impressing girls. This was from the period when I discovered the family typewriter and began sending out funny memos and 'newsletters' to friends and family - kinda an early analog version of blogging. Apparently my grandmother thought my entirely reasonable and helpful list was funny enough that she saved it all these years.
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Posted by: Arbalest at August 19, 2012 06:12 PM (B35Ti)
Analog Bloggin'.
back when there was such a thing as tape-trading and 'forest porn'.
Before kidney stones even existed.
Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2012 06:13 PM (fhXAm)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 19, 2012 06:13 PM (sJTmU)
How long before the PANIC finds its way to the ont?
Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2012 06:14 PM (fhXAm)
Posted by: Pecos at August 19, 2012 06:17 PM (2Gb0y)
Posted by: Adam at August 19, 2012 06:18 PM (/YJYi)
holy crap.
seriously........
holy crap....
these people are seriously deranged......
Posted by: wiserbud at August 19, 2012 06:19 PM (gCa4h)
Ok, I apologize. I'm being a right bastard. I just turned 44 but I'm feeling 74.
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at August 19, 2012 06:19 PM (yJYwC)
Posted by: joncelli at August 19, 2012 06:19 PM (CWlPF)
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2012 06:20 PM (mjR67)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 19, 2012 06:21 PM (lo/S5)
The rich are already fleeing the US. I've seen estimates that 300,000 people a year are choosing to migrate to other countries and then just drop off the grid.
Rich is the new evil.
And for France: good luck with that!
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 19, 2012 06:21 PM (8UijS)
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2012 10:20 PM (mjR67)
Yeah, and how do you think I feel?
Posted by: The muskrat on The Donald's head at August 19, 2012 06:21 PM (CWlPF)
Where? Seriously, what conservative investment is paying out at 5% right now? CD rates are in the 2% range, you have to be high if you think munis are safe investments, what is paying out at 5%?
You know, my life seems to be going on really well without using Facebook at all. It's not oxygen or anything like that.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 06:22 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at August 19, 2012 06:22 PM (yJYwC)
There are three very good reasons for this drastic step: It could fix the company's woeful privacy practices, allow the social network to fulfill its true potential for providing social good, and force it to put its valuable data to work on significant social problems.
1. Don't want to be part of your "collective."
2. Screw your "providing social good." Make money instead.
3. Force? FORCE?? There's your clue.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2012 06:23 PM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 19, 2012 06:24 PM (8XHAK)
Ok, I apologize. I'm being a right bastard. I just turned 44 but I'm feeling 74.
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet
Empathy. My knees and ankles think I was a paratrooper, this evening. I don't even jump off of curbs, so I have no excuse.
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 06:24 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 06:24 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 19, 2012 06:24 PM (NzBQO)
Bet this program would have a better economic effect than 10 stimulus programs the size of Obama's.
Posted by: Splunge at August 19, 2012 06:24 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Alex at August 19, 2012 06:25 PM (KFBsH)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:25 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: John Meacham at August 19, 2012 06:25 PM (srIqv)
Those little guys at Slate, and the rest are all alike.
Hey little people, let us manage your life for you.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 19, 2012 06:25 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Adam at August 19, 2012 06:26 PM (/YJYi)
Both involve hobos.
And yet, you let them both live. What, did your hunting license expire?
Posted by: Splunge at August 19, 2012 06:26 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at August 19, 2012 06:26 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at August 19, 2012 06:26 PM (KCvsd)
Posted by: Jose at August 19, 2012 06:27 PM (srIqv)
I belong to a foundation. We have to give away 5% of our net market value every year. Our present return is 3.6%.
You are quite right - there's no "conservative" investment that will give you a 5% return. You have to dip into the BBB-rated bond market to get that kind of rate.
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 06:27 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Big Brother at August 19, 2012 06:27 PM (sZTYJ)
The Newsweek article is by Niall Ferguson. He was a closeted neo-con from the Bush years with a touch of reactionary (he supported the Right in Guatemala, in his excellent book “War of the World”). It should not surprise that he went against Obama. The article says he supported McCain / Palin in ’08 (and I admit I didn’t know that).
What’s a surprise is that Newsweek printed it and on the front cover, to boot. As Drudge Report put it – a [Brown] Bites”.
Perhaps ObamaÂ’s no longer cool in ManhattanÂ… he'll still win NY, but that's going to hurt him in Maine, NH, Florida and the upper Midwest.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 06:27 PM (QTHTd)
If Ace would let us use the damned Time Machine, I could get us into some good investments that pay a conservative 5%.
Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2012 06:27 PM (fhXAm)
Oh I went back to that "Internet criticism" seminar Ace posted about today. The woman who put it up thanked everyone for their feedback. Also from the looks of what others said, her other panelist is a bitch that sends her lawyer after people for criticizing her.
Posted by: buzzion at August 19, 2012 06:28 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:28 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 06:28 PM (QTHTd)
Glad to hear you're doing somewhat better.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 19, 2012 10:24 PM (ccXZP)
Well I was Alex Keaton before I was even aware of the show 'Family Ties'.
Posted by: Mætenloch at August 19, 2012 06:29 PM (xROTy)
What a coincidence, eh?
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 19, 2012 06:29 PM (ccXZP)
The Newsweek article is by Niall Ferguson. He was a closeted neo-con from the Bush years with a touch of reactionary (he supported the Right in Guatemala, in his excellent book “War of the World”). It should not surprise that he went against Obama. The article says he supported McCain / Palin in ’08 (and I admit I didn’t know that).
Whatever he may be politically, I recognize the name as someone whose articles I've clicked to many times, and who is nearly always worth reading. How such a man ended up in Newsweek, and on the cover to boot, is beyond me. I thought they'd decided to be a boutique magazine for leftists.
Posted by: Splunge at August 19, 2012 06:29 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Paladin at August 19, 2012 06:30 PM (U4qSg)
Posted by: MrCaniac at August 19, 2012 06:30 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 06:30 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:31 PM (Wp4rQ)
Second, apparently hobos have a trading network in place and some hobos are like trading posts for other hobos.
Do you not have 'The Hierarchy of Hobos', by AceofSpades?
I think it may have fallen out of print, but it is quite the handy little user reference guide for the avid Hunter of Hobo.
Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2012 06:31 PM (fhXAm)
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That is so sweet. That makes me cry.
Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 19, 2012 06:31 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 19, 2012 06:31 PM (STjp1)
Heh. I read this hilarious article once about ways you know you've hit the get off my lawn stage. One of them was remember when you used to drink all night, go to class, have a few to pregame and then go to the party and you'd be fine? Now it's go to someone's house on a Friday night for a nice leisurely dinner, have half a bottle of a decent red wine and need four days to recover. Sad but true.
My knees and ankles think I was a paratrooper, this evening
My ankles have been killing me for the last week because reasons is all I can figure. Seriously, this beta model needs to go.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 06:31 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at August 19, 2012 06:32 PM (JKNDp)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 06:33 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 19, 2012 06:33 PM (lo/S5)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012
Yep.
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 06:33 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:33 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 10:22 PM (Gk3SS)
Exactly my thoughts as well, and if you set a maximum wage I'm going to guess it gets even harder to find good investments. My entire income is the interest from investing John's life insurance proceeds so this stuff matters a lot to me.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbit who wants some R & R at August 19, 2012 06:33 PM (8sEhR)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 06:34 PM (sZTYJ)
Found the link. Here's a few people who have already fled the US
John “Ippy” Dorrance (Campbells Soup) - Ireland Kenneth Dart (Dart Container) - Belize Sir John Templeton (Templeton Fund) - Bahamas Mark Mobius (Templeton Emerging Markets Fund) - Germany Fred Freible (Locktite) - Turks & Caicos Michael Dingman (Abex & Ford) - Bahamas Joseph Bogdanovich (Star-Kist & H.J. Heinz) 4 of the J. Paul Getty grandsons, Richard Minns, Ted Arison and more…http://tinyurl.com/c8tjsd4
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 19, 2012 06:34 PM (8UijS)
Posted by: Arbalest at August 19, 2012 10:11 PM (B35Ti)
That's my thought--why jump at the chance to buy a plummeting stock?
If you're worried about Facebook selling your information, don't use it or put up little in the way of info about yourself.
Posted by: AD at August 19, 2012 06:34 PM (aDCeJ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 10:24 PM (sZTYJ)
Conservatives are a bunch of Chicken Littles. One gaffe and he needs to drop? Sheesh. If he drops, the Left will attack the next GOP candidate even more viciously b/c they'll know it WORKED. Stop playing the Left's games.
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at August 19, 2012 06:34 PM (KL49F)
They won't even be that for much longer. They're going online only after the election. Who will read online Newsweek? It's a doctor's office mag.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 19, 2012 06:34 PM (xSegX)
Posted by: Palandine at August 19, 2012 06:34 PM (g7D8V)
Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 19, 2012 06:35 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2012 10:23 PM (BAS5M)
I have a strong suspicion that "force it to put its valuable data to work on significant social problems." is going to end up looking amazingly like "spitting out propaganda" and there'll be no opting out.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbit who wants some R & R at August 19, 2012 06:35 PM (8sEhR)
Don't do it?
You're on the right side of the grass, and if we get rid of the SCoaMF, your businesses might be salvageable. Then, if it doesn't work out, you can retire without wondering if you should have held out and tried one more time.
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 06:35 PM (mKMj1)
Statement by the President on the Occasion of Eid-al-Fitr
Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world as they celebrate Eid-al-Fitr. For Muslims, Ramadan has been a time of fasting, prayer and spiritual renewal. These past four weeks have also been a time to serve the less fortunate -- a reminder of the obligations that people of all faiths have to each other.
In the United States, Eid-al-Fitr speaks to the truth that communities of faith -- including Muslim Americans -- enrich our national life, strengthen our democracy and uphold our freedoms, including the freedom of religion. That is why the we stand with people of all faiths, in the United States and around the world, in protecting and advancing this universal human right.
On behalf of the American people, we congratulate Muslim Americans and Muslims around the world on this joyous day. Eid Mubarak.
BRB - Enriching life by crushing homosexuals under a wall.
Posted by: Community of a Certain Faith
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 19, 2012 06:36 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 06:36 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: holygoat at August 19, 2012 06:36 PM (auGuV)
I think that there are already too many "boutique" leftist rags.
What is the circulation of "The Nation"? They've been a nasty and vitriolic leftist rag for decades. How's that business plan working out?
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 19, 2012 06:37 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at August 19, 2012 10:24 PM (r7Ddb)
Yeah, hard to wrap my head around the business climate being *so* bad that *England* is considered an improvement.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbit who wants some R & R at August 19, 2012 06:37 PM (8sEhR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2012 06:37 PM (1EJAv)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:38 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: Splunge at August 19, 2012 06:38 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at August 19, 2012 06:39 PM (xUI0P)
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/08/19/ unhappy-al-quds-day/#comment-1064612
(comment by Zimriel - Zimriel and I are very close)
I'll go check out the interview next.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 06:39 PM (QTHTd)
I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that Obama has f'ed our economy so bad that *Canada* is an improvement.
Posted by: Splunge at August 19, 2012 06:39 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 19, 2012 06:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 06:39 PM (g7aoF)
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Wonderful idea - let's let the government control all our provate information. I'm sure it would be as secure as Linda Tripp's FBI file!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 06:39 PM (AUeaU)
Do what I do and am for like 20th or so. That way you can annoy everyone without being publicly called out on it.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 06:40 PM (Gk3SS)
A conservative 5% investment with 30 year T-bonds yielding under 3%? Sure ...
But, why would they, anyhow? That $250,000 would just come out of the $5,000,000 they would make next year, anyway? No reason to invest in anything since it will just be taken away.
It's really impossible for me to convey my searing hate of lefties. Truly. I wish there were words ... but there just aren't.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 06:40 PM (X3lox)
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Here's an idea. Why don't they go take a flying leap. I already have a religion.
Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 19, 2012 06:40 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 19, 2012 06:40 PM (sJTmU)
Sounds a bit like going Galt........I see no problem with that. If SS is your only source of money though, prepare to adjust your standard of living big time.
And a slightly premature happy BD to you.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 19, 2012 06:40 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:40 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 06:40 PM (sZTYJ)
Stop right there buddy, your logic is already gone off the tracks.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 19, 2012 06:41 PM (NzBQO)
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Why not the Stimulus?
As in, "The WoT, which liberals decry as a horrendous expense of money, cost one Stimulus, but over the course of a decade.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 06:41 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 19, 2012 06:41 PM (lo/S5)
Posted by: The Dogs at August 19, 2012 10:35 PM (dZq0z)
The Smithsonian will get the software.
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 10:40 PM (Wp4rQ)
More like the Mutter Museum.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 06:41 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 06:41 PM (HWUv9)
Come on, at least admit this looks really, really bad. It's like the O'Donnell witchcraft admission. You can complain about the double standard, you can complain about whether issues should affect a campaign, but the fact something like this can be a wrecking ball towards your ability to win really isn't debatable.
If you don't believe, or think it's being wussy to say it, see "Clayton Williams," Texas, 1990 Governor's race.
Posted by: AD at August 19, 2012 06:41 PM (aDCeJ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 19, 2012 06:42 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at August 19, 2012 10:40 PM (sJTmU)
According to Aaron Sorkin he didn't.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 19, 2012 06:42 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 10:30 PM (QTHTd)
The irony is, I live in MO but because I don't watch local tv and have been out of the house all day I have no idea what the Gigantic Horror issue *is*.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbit who wants some R & R at August 19, 2012 06:42 PM (8sEhR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (1EJAv)
Working people work for wages.
Rich people have assets and equities, or, if they have a position, they have a salary, which is a very different thing than hourly wages.
The whole idea of "maximum wage" is idiotic.
Posted by: navybrat at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (xn8dF)
Posted by: holygoat at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (auGuV)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at August 19, 2012 10:32 PM (JKNDp)
Happy Birthday.
And I really wish I had some great answer or plan for you....
But Happy Birthday....!
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (8UijS)
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If you put wheels on it, got on top, and grabbed a whole bunch of water jugs, how fast do you think it would go?
Posted by: Hey hold my beer and watch this at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 10:40 PM (Gk3SS)
May I bring you a cocktail my Queen? Let's see, Sunday evening should call for a . . . .
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (g7aoF)
Posted by: Lenny at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (8XHAK)
It's an own goal, and keeping him in to show the left that we can't be intimidated is ludicrous. What idiot politician is going to stand up and defend him?
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 10:40 PM (sZTYJ)
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You might find the thread two floors down entertaining, as most of the discussion there was eaten up by this topic. It goes on for a bit. And then on for an even longer bit. And then we shot it.
Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 06:43 PM (sZTYJ)
I think he'll be a pretty run of the mill senator; he's a strict social con, not so strict on fiscal discipline. However, he'll be a Republican with a pulse who will help to actually vote for a budget for the first time in years.
No power in the 'verse could get me to vote for McCaskill, and unfortunately, NOT voting for Akin is equivalent to a vote for that hag.
Posted by: Palandine at August 19, 2012 06:44 PM (g7D8V)
Not true. His deep bow to the Saudi King was distinctly forward in direction.
Posted by: Splunge at August 19, 2012 06:44 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 19, 2012 06:44 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 06:45 PM (g7aoF)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 06:45 PM (rzSn3)
Posted by: Robert stirs the shit at August 19, 2012 06:45 PM (HWUv9)
Not because of the "legitimate rape" thing; everyone knows that false accusations happen. One part that really stinks is the part when Akin starts with his speculations about gynecology. This is something that even Ron Paul could school him on.
Even worse, IMO, is his comment at the end: that abortion in the case of rape affects an innocent party - the unborn child. Hey! Guess what! I don't give a shit about the unborn children of rapists. Castrate the rapist and let the unwilling "mother" free to end his ill-begotten spawn. Go Old Testament on his family line. Rapists do not have the right to propagate by rape.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 06:45 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: nickless at August 19, 2012 06:46 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Calvin at August 19, 2012 06:46 PM (toDK3)
I find interpretive dance to be cathartic. No, you can't see it.
May I bring you a cocktail my Queen? Let's see, Sunday evening should call for a . . . .
Sunday evenings are booze o'clock.
Oh hey there's a Cafe Press sale for every Moron's Paul Ryan Math shirt needs. The coupon code is ACORN. I find that utterly hilarious.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 06:47 PM (Gk3SS)
hell is a "legitimate rape" and how does it compare to an "illegitimate
rape"???
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Are we talking rape or rape rape?
Posted by: Whoppi Goldberg at August 19, 2012 06:47 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 19, 2012 06:47 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: Paladin at August 19, 2012 10:30 PM (U4qSg)
Jamaica did this back in the 70s when they went "socialist." Foreigners could take out money though. Every rich Jamaican who knew an American got a big suitcase and filled it with money. The American would come get it and carry it out of the country, then the Jamaicans would leave.
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at August 19, 2012 06:47 PM (xUI0P)
What a fucking idiot of immense proportions.
Remember when I just said that there were no words for my searing hate of lefties? It's worse - whatever the hell that might mean.
Brazen Bulls for the lot of them. Nationalize their clumps of cells and then put them to good use in something other than a human body.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 06:47 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: AD at August 19, 2012 10:41 PM (aDCeJ)
This is nothing like O'Donnell; she had never held office and thus had no record of success or sanity -- just a bunch of damaging soundbites from a cheesy show like Maher's. Akin has held elective office for years, has a solid conservative voting record, and has made one mistake. Get over it.
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at August 19, 2012 06:47 PM (KL49F)
http://hnsa.org/ships/hiddensee.htm
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 19, 2012 06:48 PM (STjp1)
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MUST HIT THE BUTTON!!!!
Yeah. My first impulse would be to push the button. A lot.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 06:49 PM (Gk3SS)
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Pregnancy is nothing to joke about man.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 19, 2012 06:49 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:49 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 19, 2012 06:50 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Adam at August 19, 2012 06:50 PM (/YJYi)
thank-ee kindly brothers and sisters
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 06:50 PM (l1ZyS)
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 06:50 PM (mKMj1)
Well, my online poker game is ending...
Last thing about taxes. I've already decided that if I ever become wealthy and am in a country that tries to take anything from me when I die, after giving some to my future children and grandchildren, I'm going to buy the most expensive, famous paintings I can find, preferably French, and torch them.
The government can take half of that.
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 19, 2012 06:50 PM (8UijS)
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we could stone them to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children.
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at August 19, 2012 06:50 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Fareed at August 19, 2012 06:51 PM (qaVK+)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 10:40 PM (sZTYJ)
He was talking about legitimate claims of rape versus fake claims that women would make to get the rape exception for abortions. It's not that difficult to figure out.
If you made abortion illegal but left in an exception in cases of rape then you'd have tons of women seeking abortions making false claims of rape to get through the exception. It ain't rocket science. Think of "medical marijuana" and how it's a joke that doctors just write up "presecriptions" for pot for anyone who pays them. Same idea, except that lots of innocent men will be fighting false accusations of rape because the women just want to get through the rape exception in abortion.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 06:51 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Robert stirs the shit at August 19, 2012 06:51 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Kalneva at August 19, 2012 06:51 PM (cQmXn)
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 06:52 PM (l1ZyS)
Ohio Dan
My sister turned 62 the other day. She is still keepin' on, but of course she is pretty much a lefty Democrat, and has warm feelings about a lot of what has happened. Her husband of 34 years, my brother in law, has become pretty much impossible for me to get along with anymore.
Don't quit and give those MFers what they want, which is to make us all knuckle under and crawl.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at August 19, 2012 06:52 PM (sJTmU)
This is nothing like O'Donnell; she had never held office and thus had no record of success or sanity -- just a bunch of damaging soundbites from a cheesy show like Maher's. Akin has held elective office for years, has a solid conservative voting record, and has made one mistake. Get over it.
You're assuming I have something against Akin. I'm talking strictly about ability to win here. Clayton Williams was a solid conservative. He was running in a more conservative state than Missouri. He was a much more substantial person than O'Donnell. He outspent Ann Richards by 2 to 1.
All that, combined with making the comment "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it," led to him losing.
Posted by: AD at August 19, 2012 06:53 PM (aDCeJ)
Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2012 06:53 PM (nq/Qz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2012 06:53 PM (1EJAv)
I find interpretive dance to be cathartic. -AtC
There simply MUST be pictures of this ... somewhere ...
Posted by: Bolt Upright, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at August 19, 2012 06:54 PM (B35Ti)
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The left's entire political philosophy is in complete violation of one of the Ten Commandments.
Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 19, 2012 06:54 PM (P6QsQ)
I bet you can't make it snow in July in Arizona by showing up to give a speech on global warming either.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 06:54 PM (Gk3SS)
President Barack Obama called for conversation after Colorado, though we haven't heard him having one. Mitt Romney said nothing really. We did receive some wisdom from David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer who butchered six people across New York City in the 1970s. "Society has to take the glory out of guns," he offered from his prison cell. A country has a problem when the only sane advice is coming from the insane.
That's right champ, you and the Son of Sam have the same position on gun control. And hell I'll Godwin your ass and point out Hitler did do. Congrats!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 06:55 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 06:56 PM (g7aoF)
Posted by: Martin at August 19, 2012 06:56 PM (iEea3)
Government running Failbook restores government trust? The government will respect privacy? Work on "social problems"? Will it make whiter teeth and fresher breath too? Jesus, these lefties really buy into that government knows best and only care about making our lives better bullshit, don't they
Posted by: kbdabear at August 19, 2012 06:56 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Truman North, iPhone reprobate at August 19, 2012 06:57 PM (I2LwF)
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Really? I count a violation of 10...give or take 1.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 06:57 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 06:57 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Roman Polanski at August 19, 2012 06:57 PM (sZTYJ)
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I'd get behind the president if he were to propose this. Or if he didn't.
Posted by: Kal Penn at August 19, 2012 06:57 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 06:57 PM (Wp4rQ)
whats it about?
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 06:57 PM (l1ZyS)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 19, 2012 06:58 PM (NzBQO)
I was talking to a lib friend the other day and he said, "I'd like to live in a world where everybody has a million dollars." I pointed out that, "if everybody is a millionaire nobody is a millionaire (i.e. money is a measure of relative value, and does not have intrinsic value in and of itself), not to mention, that within a few days, the entrepreneurs would have figured out a way to sell something to the takers and pretty soon the money would be distributed unequally among the population." He thought about that for a moment, then said, "Okay, then I want to live in a world where there's nobody else but me and I have a million dollars...and candy...and video games."
Okay- I fibbed a little bit- I wasn't talking to a libe, I was talking to my 9-year-old grandson, and unlike most libs I know, he actually got some cognitive dissonance and reconsidered his original opinion, a level of insight that many adults lack.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 06:58 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 10:57 PM (HWUv9)
Or Bill could have put a tarp over Monica like she was in the first three rows of a Gallagher performance....
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 19, 2012 06:59 PM (8UijS)
You seem to have a dim view of women... /pc
...ah, hell, you're right. This is human nature, unfortunately. "Vacationing in Sarasota Springs" with Dean Wormer's wife for a few months to have the kid and put it out for adoption would be the good Catholic answer but, sadly . . .
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 06:59 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 06:59 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Harry Reid at August 19, 2012 06:59 PM (sZTYJ)
Re the idea of nationalizing, well, anything, much less BookFace, GM ...
Can't seem to find anything in my pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution about this. Not even in the Good and Plenty Clause.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2012 06:59 PM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Roman Polanski at August 19, 2012 10:57 PM
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The ONT is all fun and games, and I respect the sock here...
But when you stop to think about it, the people in Hollywood endlessly lecturing us on morality think it is perfectly ok to drug and anally violate a 13 year old.
What a fucked up world we live in.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 07:00 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 07:00 PM (Gk3SS)
Or Bill could have put a tarp over Monica like she was in the first three rows of a Gallagher performance....
Those two images merged in ways that I will never be able to recover from...
Posted by: Alex at August 19, 2012 07:00 PM (KFBsH)
Give them awards. Lavish them with praise. Publish the names of the highest taxpayers in laudatory newspaper columns. Allow them to bask in civic pride. But take their money. They have plenty.
Yes, because like his fellow juiceboxers, a little trophy and a pat on the head is worth millions.
What a fucking tool
Posted by: kbdabear at August 19, 2012 07:01 PM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Donna V. at August 19, 2012 07:01 PM (EflcN)
Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 19, 2012 07:02 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 19, 2012 07:02 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 07:02 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Kalneva at August 19, 2012 07:02 PM (cQmXn)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 19, 2012 07:02 PM (8XHAK)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:03 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 07:03 PM (rzSn3)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:03 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Hal Burton at August 19, 2012 07:03 PM (kzFo5)
18-1 @ 175
That just about nails it. The Maximum Bullshit Media can make any point they want and a certain percentage of the population will believe it because they want to and it is easier than thinking and deciding for yourself.
Roman Polanski is a great artist. Akin is a bullshit hick from Missouri. So that right there is some Media moral calculus.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at August 19, 2012 07:05 PM (sJTmU)
Maetenloch: "Any money (preferably $10s and $20s)" was 7 on the list? Obviously you hadn't yet matured into a properly greedy conservative yet.
All the Polo and preppy stuff - you were quite the young Alex Keaton. My condolences on your grandma's passing.Posted by: Donna V. at August 19, 2012 07:05 PM (EflcN)
When my nephews were down, we played "Taxopoly".
For my bright 11 year old nephew, 50% of all income went to the government. Pass Go, collect $200 and give $100 to the government. Showed him federal and provincial tax rates tables before we started.
And $5 a roll (gas taxes), $10 if you get doubles and had to roll again (vehicle registration), $20 for a third roll (emissions testing). Just to let him know what it's like when a government nickles and dimes you to death.
It was hell. We lasted 5 times around the board. Government pot raked in $2000. He learned a lot.
Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 19, 2012 07:05 PM (8UijS)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 07:06 PM (rzSn3)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 07:06 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: USS Diversity at August 19, 2012 07:06 PM (2d71t)
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 07:06 PM (g7aoF)
LOL. Sometimes the Horde gets groupthinky. I don't know that this has happened today. Although maybe I missed a few threads.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:06 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Woody Allen at August 19, 2012 07:06 PM (/YJYi)
Let me tell you how it will be
there's one for you, nineteen for me
cause I'm the Taxman
They were protesting a 95% tax rate on incomes over a million pounds or so. They all fled GB as a result.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 19, 2012 07:07 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 19, 2012 07:07 PM (sZTYJ)
nd how is whining incessantly on a Sunday ONT going to change anything?
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BURN THE HERETIC!
Posted by: An Angry Moron Horde at August 19, 2012 11:04 PM (AUeaU)
Well that would achieve *something*....
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 11:06 PM (rzSn3)
Look, increasing carbon emissions will cause all of us to DIE!!!1!!!!!!eleventy
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2012 07:08 PM (BAS5M)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 19, 2012 07:08 PM (GEICT)
Good news everyone, fellows who whittle off their tallywackers now considered psychologically fit to pilot massive jumbo jets crammed full of passengers:
New procedures outlined by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will mean that trans-identifying pilots will no longer be subject to extra testing in order to qualify for a license.
It is standard practice for the FAA to require all prospective pilots to undergo rigorous physical and psychological examination to assess whether they are fit to fly. However, trans-identifying applicants have in recent years been required to undergo extra procedures, adding extensive and expensive behavioral and psychological testing barriers that have led to many trans pilots being grounded and others to lose their jobs, often for no other reason than their gender identity or expression.
Under new medical guidance issued in the past week, the FAA has now abandoned that threshold.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), who worked closely with Representatives Barney Frank and Mike Honda together with the FAA to bring about this change
care2.com
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 19, 2012 07:09 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 07:10 PM (Wp4rQ)
Insinuating that a person who cries rape is just making it up is not something any politician with more then 2 brain cells ought to do.
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So true, so true.
Posted by: Mike Nifong at August 19, 2012 07:10 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 07:10 PM (EPbpF)
Pretirement can be a boring useless mess if you don't have stuff lined up to do.
Posted by: DaveA at August 19, 2012 07:11 PM (DVJEd)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 07:11 PM (rzSn3)
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 07:12 PM (g7aoF)
I challenge each of you to stop emotionally abusing yourselves, drinking, doing drugs, and looking at pornography tonight.
Tomorrow, I want you all to wake up refreshed, and rededicate your lives to supporting our beloved President, Barack Obama. Only his multi-racial wisdom can bring about social justice, economic peace, the redistribution of our scarce resources, and make a better America.
Lay aside your hate, your right-wing bigotry, and your misogyny. Accept a correctly thinking future.
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 19, 2012 07:13 PM (WHCOZ)
Again, that's something I hope most women will understand was not his intent to insinuate. What he did say was bad enough.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:14 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 11:03 PM (QTHTd)
For the record, I'll say I don't think this is a complete death knell to his chances. The guy recanted (even though this is kind of a hard one to walk back), but there's not buying into the media spin and piling on your own side...and then there's looking at things through rose colored glasses--I think it's fair to say the optics are really, really bad and if you can't say that about this, I'm not sure what sort of comments would qualify.
And how is whining incessantly on a Sunday ONT going to change anything?
Is it really this difficult to criticize your own side?
Posted by: AD at August 19, 2012 07:14 PM (aDCeJ)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at August 19, 2012 07:14 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 07:15 PM (UxGCM)
Can I keep my hate, at least? Summer is drawing to a close and I need something to keep me warm at nights.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:15 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 07:16 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:16 PM (QTHTd)
@195-
You mean the dude with the bad Monty Python accent and mannerisms and the foam finger? I've been scratching my head over that one since last week! Can't quite figger it.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 07:16 PM (hgSh3)
Hey!
I don't take drugs.
Posted by: AD at August 19, 2012 07:16 PM (aDCeJ)
Posted by: John the Libertarian at August 19, 2012 07:17 PM (u2SdM)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 19, 2012 07:17 PM (dX4hn)
Posted by: Adam at August 19, 2012 07:17 PM (/YJYi)
Meh. I know a guy who's a pilot for a major airline, and he's batshit crazy and taking meds to keep him calm so he doesn't assault people.
The bar has been pretty fucking low for quite a while now.
I no longer fly on commercial airlines.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 07:17 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 07:18 PM (rzSn3)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:19 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 07:19 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Adam at August 19, 2012 07:19 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at August 19, 2012 07:19 PM (JKNDp)
Off to bed, I'll check in tomorrow to see if sanity has returned.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 19, 2012 07:19 PM (dX4hn)
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 07:20 PM (g7aoF)
Posted by: TJexcite at August 19, 2012 07:20 PM (PNDql)
Posted by: ChrisP at August 19, 2012 07:20 PM (T0+Lv)
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 11:10 PM (EPbpF)
You mean that the MEDIA will make it a "major fuck up"; there's a difference. It's up to US to fight against the Media's attack.
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at August 19, 2012 07:20 PM (KL49F)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 07:20 PM (UxGCM)
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), who worked closely with Representatives Barney Frank and Mike Honda together with the FAA to bring about this change
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 19, 2012 11:09 PM (kdS6q)
Utter madness made manifest. What could go wrong?
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 07:21 PM (lzvtR)
Posted by: The ONT at August 19, 2012 07:21 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 19, 2012 11:13 PM (WHCOZ)
Whoever socks this is frightening, disturbingly good. Jose Canseco good.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:21 PM (oX7vY)
Why they... but they...
OK, I got nothing.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 07:22 PM (r4Gmb)
Let me give your challenge the consideration it deserves. Hold on, hold on, have to snort this line off my copy of Briana Loves Jenna whilst drunk dialing my ex first.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 19, 2012 07:22 PM (Gk3SS)
I know! Thank God for the places on the internet that caterto a higher class of scumbag.
Posted by: The ONT at August 19, 2012 11:21 PM (HWUv9)
Yeah, where would we go otherwise?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:23 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 07:23 PM (UxGCM)
does anyone else think that Stephanie Cutter looks like some type of evil lovecraftian creature wearing an ill fitting human skin mask in this picture?
http://tinyurl.com/9v2w8l2
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 19, 2012 07:23 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 07:24 PM (HWUv9)
Um, provides easy to access evidence for divorce proceedings?
Posted by: AD at August 19, 2012 07:24 PM (aDCeJ)
247WTF is the "social good" that Facebook can/could produce?
Why they... but they...
OK, I got nothing.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 11:22 PM (r4Gmb)
Wait, I got something. Facebook could tell all libtards that we've set aside Wednesday for them to vote so they can avoid the crowds.
Now THAT would be a social good.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:24 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 07:24 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at August 19, 2012 11:19 PM (JKNDp)
I did the math on that once Ohio dan and even though you draw more money per month waiting until you are 65 if I remember correctly you have to reach 75 before you break even. I could be misremebering though check it . Starting at 62 as I remember was a better deal unless you are going to live forever.
Posted by: robtr at August 19, 2012 07:24 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 19, 2012 07:25 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Zombie Eleanor Roosevelt at August 19, 2012 07:25 PM (hgSh3)
The government already takes too much money and does idiotic crap with it. Why give them more?
And I posted way too much last week.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:25 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: robtr at August 19, 2012 07:26 PM (MtwBb)
Get to be friends with all the good looking wiminz and always have something to check out.
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 11:24 PM (HWUv9)
Just to settle a bet, how many of the good looking wiminz posting on Facebook are in fact actually female?
Oh, I forgot, you're not allowed to lie on the Internet.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:26 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 19, 2012 07:26 PM (8RNti)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:26 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 07:27 PM (UxGCM)
It keeps them distracted while the responsible adults get on with things. A 21st century version of the old Roman bread and circuses.
Posted by: Retread at August 19, 2012 07:28 PM (zxitI)
All the cretins who should never be employed in politics or as corporate officers are self disqualifying themselves with stupid shit on FB.
So FB does provide a valuable exclusionary service to HR departments and opposition research.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 07:28 PM (r4Gmb)
Yikes. That's the face that should have been the feature of this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSijFOT4Y4Q
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:28 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: DC in Towson at August 19, 2012 07:28 PM (N/WI2)
He could have won against FDR, too. Imagine how much damage he could have done as president.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:28 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 07:28 PM (Wp4rQ)
"Beware of the mustache of legitimacy! It covers the lip of the liar!"
In a rare moment of lucidness I am reminded of a line in a book I am currently reading and which I meant to somehow include in a comment here:
"Figures never lie but Liars ALWAYS figure."
Thank woo for the reminder.
Posted by: Uncle Joe at August 19, 2012 07:29 PM (mg8ch)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:29 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 07:29 PM (rzSn3)
Tonight I'd vote for a moron has annoyed Dave tax re. Akin.
And WTF does the water barrel cannon get you that a big ass bumper on an F350 doesn't.
Posted by: DaveA at August 19, 2012 07:29 PM (DVJEd)
Yeah, Facebook is really good at helping employers look over potential employees. It also gives cops a powerful tool as well.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:30 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Infidel voting for America's R & R at August 19, 2012 07:30 PM (g7aoF)
pre-season football does not just suck, it sucks the barbed c**k of satan
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 11:28 PM (l1ZyS)
Boring as hell, at least we know the real deal is oh so near, and college football , Go Sooners!!
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 07:30 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 07:30 PM (rzSn3)
"Jose Canseco good."
I dispute that.Nothing is better than Jose Canseco's gristle encased head. Oh, Jose, where are you? Speaking of gristle encased heads, I truly enjoyed the Biden vid.
Posted by: Donna V. at August 19, 2012 07:30 PM (EflcN)
The wealthy are the MOST mobile people on the planet -- the more you make them care about the tax jurisdiction in which they find themselves, the more they're gonna shift. It's just retarded* to not get this.
*Yes, I know I live in California. Let's just say that I don't regard our governmental overlords as paragons of intellect....
Posted by: cthulhu at August 19, 2012 07:31 PM (kaalw)
I just channel a couple of my high school teachers, a couple college classmates I couldn't handle, and sometimes my kid sister before she graduated college and started paying taxes. But it's good to generate the hatred for the statist Left. =)
Posted by: SGT Dan at August 19, 2012 07:31 PM (WHCOZ)
Posted by: Robert with the facepalm at August 19, 2012 07:31 PM (HWUv9)
I'm extremely annoyed with people who think they should have other people's stuff. Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 11:27 PM (UxGCM)
You're clearly not a Democrat then. Too bad about the theft. I hope the catch the scum.
Posted by: Donna V. at August 19, 2012 07:33 PM (EflcN)
Heroic, even.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:34 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 07:34 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Ernst Röhm at August 19, 2012 07:34 PM (sZTYJ)
267OK, I've figured out the FB social good.
All the cretins who should never be employed in politics or as corporate officers are self disqualifying themselves with stupid shit on FB.
What could you possibly post on Facebook that would disqualify you from being a Democrat politician?
"I got a blow job from an intern." No problem!
"I'm queer as a duck, and my boyfriend runs a fruit prostitution ring from my basement (and no, that's not euphemism)." No problem!
"My mom was a slut who banged married Africans back in the day, my pals are all Communists and terrorists, I hate America and Americans, and I'm a puppet of George Soros." No problem!
"One of the figures I find most inspiring is Mao Tse-tung, who killed I dunno how many millions, but who's counting? The only person I admire more is Pol Pot." No problem!
"I sent a shitload of weapons to the Mexican drug cartels to put stink on the Second Amendment, so we can impose communism on a disarmed citizenry." No problem!
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:35 PM (oX7vY)
"I've figured out the FB social good.
All the cretins who should never be employed in politics or as corporate officers are self disqualifying themselves with stupid shit on FB.
So FB does provide a valuable exclusionary service to HR departments and opposition research."
Ok ... THIS ---- just sawanother post by an idiot brother in law regarding "why I am voting for Obama"
What I would like to say "Duuudde - you have been unemployed for how many years in the past 15 years? Yah - way too many. As a white male working in publishing what has robotic democratic voting done for you?
And just a thought but maybe you shouldn't be posting all the political shit on facebook? with an account that appears to have minimal security settings? Just because we live in a blue state doesn't mean everyone votes the same way as you? just saying
Posted by: Uncle Joe at August 19, 2012 07:35 PM (mg8ch)
Posted by: SGT Dan at August 19, 2012 07:35 PM (WHCOZ)
Posted by: Jay at August 19, 2012 07:35 PM (8ElWy)
Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 19, 2012 11:13 PM (WHCOZ)
(WHCOZ) --> WHy beCOZ ...
Posted by: Bolt Upright, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at August 19, 2012 07:37 PM (B35Ti)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 11:29 PM (oX7vY)
Not a bad idea. The modern Democrat Party is the biggest criminal conspiracy in history, in financial terms.
Maybe regulating and taxing it at exorbitant rates would be viable solution, along with jailing its leaders.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 07:37 PM (lzvtR)
I'm making an unstated and natural assumption we all have real life female friends.
Yeah, but not on Facebook. If you're friends in real life, then you don't need Facebook, and it is superfluous. Conversely, if you're friends only on Facebook, well ... then my earlier comment applies.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:37 PM (oX7vY)
This. And I'm only 31. I've had several times over the last few weeks where my knees have ached so bad that I had to ice them.
My knees had sounded crunchy for a while every time I used stairs or did weight machines in the gym. They often hurt in the mornings. Luckily, I saw an on-line article that said you could rebuild cartilage by drinking Knox gelatin powder (cheaper via Osteo-Biflex powder) in a small amount of juice every day. I started in late Frebruary and was about to call the experiment a failure last week when I finished the most recent can of powder. Then it dawned on me that my knees don't crunch anymore and rarely hurt in the mornings like they used to.
The bad news: Osteo-Biflex quit making the powder, but you can still get their capsules. Some drug stores have it on clearance. Snatch it up. What really convinced me was that the Arthritis Foundation had the Knox gelatin powder on their homepage as a recommendation. I have a friend who swears by "Move Free Advance" capsules (in the red box). Give it time. Hope it helps. And HB - Ohio Dan!
'night, all.
Posted by: RushBabe at August 19, 2012 07:37 PM (tQHzJ)
Think of it as natural selection in action.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 07:37 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:37 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 19, 2012 07:38 PM (GEICT)
White Whore Coz Kid
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 07:38 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 07:38 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: DaveA
Distance?
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 07:39 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 07:40 PM (UxGCM)
The top marginal tax rate was reduced to 58% in 1922, to 25% in 1925, and finally to 24% in 1929. In 1932 the top marginal tax rate was increased to 63% during the Great Depression and steadily increased, reaching 94% (on all income over $200,000) in 1945. During World War II, Congress introduced payroll withholding and quarterly tax payments. Top marginal tax rates stayed near or above 90% until 1964 when the top marginal tax rate was lowered to 70%. The top marginal tax rate was lowered to 50% in 1982 and eventually to 28% in 1988. However, in the intervening years Congress subsequently increased the top marginal tax rate to 35% (the top marginal tax rate as of 2007).
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 19, 2012 07:40 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 19, 2012 07:40 PM (GEICT)
Well, the social good comes from making everybody use Facebook and making sure Zuckerberg is still worth.......Billions!
Data mining Facebook would allow the government to keep tabs on all of us. For our own good, of course.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at August 19, 2012 07:41 PM (sJTmU)
My knees had sounded crunchy for a while every time I used stairs or did weight machines in the gym. They often hurt in the mornings.
Do light squats, lotsa rep, low (or no) weight. Prepare to be amazed.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:41 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 07:42 PM (mKMj1)
Just off the top of my head I see a chart with very interesting results when you overlay government revenues and economic activity onto those tax rates. Low = more of both on average. Lower = even more.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:42 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at August 19, 2012 11:41 PM (sJTmU)
Never joined facebook. Everyone keeps telling me I should, dont think so.
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 07:43 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: Van Jones at August 19, 2012 07:44 PM (sZTYJ)
jeez dude, I didn't know you were cali like me ("where the monsters live": the new reality show)
if a tentacle faced monster cant un-f**k cali, who can?
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 07:44 PM (l1ZyS)
308Well, the social good comes from making everybody use Facebook and making sure Zuckerberg is still worth.......Billions!
Oooh, oooh, I got it! The social good is concentrating all of that money in Zuckerberg's hands, so the commies can just confiscate it from him, rather than having to chase the rest of us all over hell and gone.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:44 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 07:44 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2012 07:44 PM (BAS5M)
I cannot get over how some idiotic free program like that can make someone rich. How, exactly? Stupid people advertising has to be the only way. Like Google, how the hell are they worth so much offering a free search service? Yet they make millions.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 07:45 PM (r4wIV)
Data mining Facebook would allow the government to keep tabs on all of us. For our own good, of course.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at August 19, 2012 11:41 PM (sJTmU)
But it wouldn't be truly effective unless we were all on Facebook ... Aha!! A tax if you don't open an account on the American Socialist Superstate's Farcebook and a tax every year (collected by your friendly IRS) if you don't actively update your account at least x times a year. Benedick Roberts says it's all cool and legal and stuff ... Even the taxes for not friending the Dog-Eater, saying bad things about the America-hating left, saying bad things about the all-important ASSFarcebook ... taxes for everyone!!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 07:45 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: The Dude at August 19, 2012 07:46 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: The Dude at August 19, 2012 11:46 PM (tw6Ar)
Bald or not, he still looks ancient and feeble.
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Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at August 19, 2012 10:34 PM (8UijS)
Any time someone with more than $1B net worth gives up their citizenship, there should be a lottery among the 535 members of Congress for which one should be shot.....and this should be carried out within 48 hours.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 19, 2012 07:47 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 19, 2012 07:48 PM (SkyIE)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 19, 2012 07:49 PM (8XHAK)
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 07:49 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 07:49 PM (mKMj1)
That is all.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 19, 2012 11:49 PM (8XHAK)
Not sure I get your drift...what is "salad music"?
Posted by: model_1066 at August 19, 2012 07:49 PM (yYKoR)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 07:49 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 19, 2012 07:50 PM (8XHAK)
Posted by: Dianna at August 19, 2012 11:49 PM (mKMj1)
My wee bully-dog is of the same opinion.
Posted by: model_1066 at August 19, 2012 07:50 PM (yYKoR)
These fucking SoCons just can't help themselves.
I'm sure if Akin had a daughter that was raped, he'd be fine with her body biologically rejecting the pregnancy. If she was "legitimately" raped.
Conservatives need to drop the Santorum wing of the Party.
Posted by: Brad at August 19, 2012 07:51 PM (XDRsa)
Posted by: The Dude at August 19, 2012 11:46 PM (tw6Ar)
true but he is 70. Even Eastwood looks old as shit and feeble
Posted by: The Dude at August 19, 2012 07:51 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: John F'n Kerry at August 19, 2012 07:51 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: A Mindful Webworker at August 19, 2012 07:51 PM (lBpVP)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 07:51 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 19, 2012 07:51 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:52 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: SGT Dan at August 19, 2012 07:53 PM (WHCOZ)
If any one group doesn't pay their fair share it is poor people.
Yep. How is it fair that people who don't contribute to the kitty have a say in how the kitty is divvied up?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:53 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 11:43 PM (EPbpF)
I not only never joined facebook, I have no idea how it works.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 07:54 PM (lzvtR)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2012 07:54 PM (rzSn3)
Jay, I live a thousand miles from where I went to high school, and plenty of people I knew in college or the military are scattered worldwide. It's a commo tool, and not a bad one.
Sgt. Dan, fair enough, but remember the adage: if you aren't the customer, you're the product.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:55 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 07:55 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 19, 2012 07:56 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: model_1066 at August 19, 2012 07:57 PM (yYKoR)
Posted by: Brad at August 19, 2012 11:51 PM (XDRsa)
So, you talked to Rick and he said he was cool with Akins' statement?
Liberals need to drop the Obama wing of their party too, right?
Posted by: Craig Poe at August 19, 2012 07:58 PM (BVkEs)
Never joined facebook. Everyone keeps telling me I should,dont think so.
I have a question: is it possible to get a Facebook page through the agency of someone else? A friend I play ball with sent me a link on Facebook to a photo of me batting, and that seemed to generate a Facebook page for me. (I don't remember ever signing up for FB.)
Once I realized that I had a page, I nuked it.
Is it possible that something he did created a Facebook page for me?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 07:58 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 07:58 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: DC in Towson at August 19, 2012 07:59 PM (N/WI2)
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 11:43 PM (EPbpF)
I not only never joined facebook, I have no idea how it works.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 11:54 PM (lzvtR)
I guess I am a hypocrit(sic?), I do look at my hubbys to see pics of my grandbaby.
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 07:59 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: Infidel at August 19, 2012 08:00 PM (g7aoF)
Is it possible that something he did created a Facebook page for me?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 11:58 PM (oX7vY)
I have made it a point to everyone not to put my pic on fb, not even my hubby. But who knows. That is bullshit if it is that easy.
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 08:01 PM (EPbpF)
I was thinking about it and I belive i have a solution.
When Atkins says that In cases of Legitimate Rape Pregnancy almost never happens....here is how we should counter.
Atkins needs to go on tv in the morning and hold a press conference where he he can clarify that when he said Legitimate Rape he was referring to forced buttsex and therefore his premise of you can't never get pregnant that way is scientifically accurate. The way he can explain the "almost" part is to say that well sometimes in the heat of the moment you might pull out too far and when you rush to get back in you pop in the wrong door.
Now for the magic vagina thing...I dont know. What he could do at that point is just step out from behind the podium wearing nothing but dress shoes black socks and sock garters from the waist down and do a couple of michael jackson spins and then booty hump for a few minutes for the camera while singing Call Me Maybe until he runs out the clock on the press conference.
Go Full on Crazy.
It works for Biden.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 19, 2012 08:01 PM (ovpNn)
These fucking SoCons just can't help themselves.
I'm sure if Akin had a daughter that was raped, he'd be fine with her body biologically rejecting the pregnancy. If she was "legitimately" raped.
Conservatives need to drop the Santorum wing of the Party.
Posted by: Brad at August 19, 2012 11:51 PM (XDRsa)
Wow, it would be hard to count the ways this pathetic comment is stupid.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 08:02 PM (lzvtR)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 08:02 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 19, 2012 08:06 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 19, 2012 08:07 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 08:07 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Infidel at August 19, 2012 08:08 PM (g7aoF)
I don't know, man. $5 million doesn't go quite as far as it used to.
Can't I keep a little bit more?
Posted by: dissent555 at August 19, 2012 08:09 PM (yR6A1)
Posted by: The Dude at August 19, 2012 08:09 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 08:09 PM (UxGCM)
That is bullshit if it is that easy.
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 20, 2012 12:01 AM (EPbpF)
I'm not saying that they necessarily do this, just that I got a Facebook page, don't recall signing up, and my only recollection of any connection with Facebook was my buddy sending me a link to a Facebook page with a photo of me batting. It just made me wonder if that's what did it. (I may have just forgotten signing up, but I doubt it. I don't usually go in for stuff like Facebook, and usually keep screenshots of usernames/passwords for things I do sign up for, and I don't have one for FB.)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 08:10 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 08:11 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:11 PM (hgSh3)
Sad to see the summer wane, the girls start wearing way too many clothes.
But hunting season is around the corner for compensation.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 19, 2012 08:13 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:15 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 08:15 PM (l1ZyS)
You are welcome. Nothing worse that a liar or a thief. I tend to go balisstic on that stuff.
Posted by: Infidel at August 19, 2012 08:15 PM (g7aoF)
seamus, is that a companion corgi you are talking about, or a menu item?
oh wait, none of us is Barack Obama
sorry
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 08:18 PM (l1ZyS)
I just figured out who that picture is....bryan cranston from breaking bad?
omg aging is a bitch.
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 19, 2012 08:18 PM (ovpNn)
Posted by: DC in Towson at August 19, 2012 08:19 PM (N/WI2)
kinlaw- Corgi is apparently a new euphemism for something or other- I kind of got lost upthread, but somebody's corgi "popped up". Now I'm just sad and confused.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:20 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 19, 2012 08:21 PM (JMmQ9)
neighborÂ’s house. Do not desire and try to take your neighborÂ’s wife, or servants, or livestock or anything else that belongs to
your neighbor."
--------------------------------
The left's entire political philosophy is in complete violation of one of the Ten Commandments.
Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 19, 2012 10:54 PM (P6QsQ)
Which is why there is a big embrace between "alternative religious elements" and the left......despite the fact that they are in conflict on everything else.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 19, 2012 08:21 PM (kaalw)
Their problem is they want a political solution to something where 70% of the populace is in opposition to what they want, and they're trying to convince that 70% with religious/moral arguments rather than political ones.
This approach obviously hasn't worked.
Political arguments could work -- like pointing out to the leftists that they've been aborting a rock solid unassailable demographic majority that would bury the republicans forever and advance the socialist dependency state (which is true). IOW, infiltrate the left and offer irresistible bait from the inside. Get enough leftists thinking that they're destroying their own greater causes due to this one issue, and they'll start to think...do we want raw political power more than abortion? Everyone knows what the answer to that question will be. Power will win out over single issues every time.
The problem with the political argument that CAN work is it puts the SoCons in bed with the leftists, but when you're a true single issue voter, that really shouldn't be a problem.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 08:21 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:22 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 19, 2012 08:22 PM (W8YTr)
385Wow, I must be becoming a commie or something. I'd almost be willing to endorse that $5,000,000 income limit, just to see it applied to douchebags like George Clooney, Letterman, Will Ferrell, Spielberg, Madonna.
Me too. That would be delightful. OK, assholes, you want income redistribution? We'll start by redistributing yours.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 08:25 PM (oX7vY)
it also announces the arrival of that most hated on the left American tradition: the N F Fu***ng L
Football baby, is just around the corner
Posted by: kinlaw at August 19, 2012 08:26 PM (l1ZyS)
Posted by: zeera at August 19, 2012 08:26 PM (XtxRN)
2 Samuel 13 - 11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. 12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. 13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee. 14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. 16 And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her. 17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
I don't think I will ever understand the female of this species.
Posted by: Boulder Hobo, lord of the chartreuse longbow at August 19, 2012 08:27 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:27 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 20, 2012 12:22 AM (W8YTr)
well, at least you admit that you're retarded
Posted by: The Dude at August 19, 2012 08:28 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: zeera at August 20, 2012 12:26 AM (XtxRN)
oh hell no, if you live in nv, summers can kiss my ass 
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 08:28 PM (EPbpF)
When you think it it as a productivity limit, it starts to sound a lot stupider. Maybe not for hollywood, but for anyone else who actually does productive shit.
All the motivation for small businesses to expand evaporate (along with any jobs they'd have created). If people were bored by 9 months of vacation they'd just start taking smaller salaries to stay under the $5M, making fewer investments, etc...and tax revenue would collapse accordingly.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 08:29 PM (r4Gmb)
New is the first year for older granddaughter to go hunting with with us. Hard to believe she's that age already, but she is super excited about it.
And so am I.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 19, 2012 08:29 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Whoever this is, it's definitely not Michael at August 19, 2012 08:30 PM (qA5G4)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2012 11:28 PM (r4wIV)
When Long was shot in 1935 and the bulletin came over the radio, before Dr. Carl Weiss was identified, about half the people in the state of Louisiana were considered suspects. There was documentary done by Ken Burns about him and a very prim and proper elderly lady said that she was glad he was shot.
Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 19, 2012 08:30 PM (z5lk/)
Posted by: John the Libertarian at August 19, 2012 08:32 PM (u2SdM)
Oooh ooh ooh- I know, let's just do away with money, cause it's the root of all evil, right, and then everything would be free, and people would just like help each other and stuff, like, y'know? Like doctors, ummm, could just cure people, y'know? and like and stuff.
Except don't take my IPod.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:32 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 08:34 PM (r4Gmb)
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Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 08:35 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:36 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 20, 2012 12:28 AM (EPbpF)
A freakin' Bedouin would hop a freight to get out of southern Nevada in the summer.
Posted by: Cicero at August 19, 2012 08:36 PM (zMouK)
"who is, by definition, being paid a wage that far outstrips any measure of fairness or good sense"
Pray, tell me a measure of fairness or good sense that will let me determine whether someone is overpaid. I need help with this concept, because of course I'm a moron.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 08:36 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 19, 2012 08:37 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: steevy at August 19, 2012 08:37 PM (6o4Fb)
If you make more than me, you're overpaid.
Posted by: Lefty the coveter at August 19, 2012 08:38 PM (xKC/c)
But it helped put a love for that music in my heart that's never gone away. I can still hear "She's So Fine" in my head like it was yesterday.
I'm very sorry to hear what's happened, and I hope they find the scumbuckets who did this and lock them up for a long time.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 19, 2012 08:38 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Cicero at August 20, 2012 12:36 AM (zMouK)
But its a dry heat, tee hee.
Posted by: lou's a girl at August 19, 2012 08:39 PM (EPbpF)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 08:39 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 19, 2012 08:39 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 08:41 PM (UxGCM)
***
Meh, try again.
Most people, by a large margin in fact, oppose abortion on demand.
Hell, even Mittens gets it though who knows what his real stance on abortion may be...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 08:41 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 19, 2012 08:42 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 08:42 PM (UxGCM)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 19, 2012 08:43 PM (SAMxH)
It was discovered/revealed a few months ago that FB anticipates future members by mentions from existing members. So if enough people have referenced you by name, FB already has a little slot for you ready to go.
It's like being targeted by a cult.
Posted by: epobirs at August 19, 2012 08:44 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 19, 2012 08:44 PM (R+6Q+)
http://tinyurl.com/8l24hg5
What I want to know is why didn't anyone go to jail...and I don't mean Weaver.
Two innocent people killed - one undeniably murdered - and $3.1M in wrongful death damages and no one ever paid any price?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 08:44 PM (AUeaU)
420#351
It was discovered/revealed a few months ago that FB anticipates future members by mentions from existing members. So if enough people have referenced you by name, FB already has a little slot for you ready to go.
Wow. Brb, just checking for commies under the bed...
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 19, 2012 08:46 PM (oX7vY)
Posted by: . at August 19, 2012 08:47 PM (hyP1j)
Well, I never mentioned that, so it may or may not be true. What I said is that 70% are OK with the current legal structure in place. i.e. Roe v Wade.
If what you're saying is true, then getting a constitutional amendment passed to modify Roe/Wade is a slam dunk. Why isn't that avenue being pursued in earnest if you got the numbers to do it?
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 08:48 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 19, 2012 08:49 PM (a4CUi)
The money (after your family is fed, clothed, and sheltered) is just a way of keeping score of how good you are at the game of entrepreneurship and thus how much future influence (I.E. capitalization of a new business or control through stock ownership of an existing firm.) It actually works pretty well at putting people who are competent in control of enterprise while limiting the power one man or woman can have and making them responsible for the power they wield.
Posted by: DanInMN at August 19, 2012 08:50 PM (lDzzg)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 19, 2012 08:50 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 20, 2012 12:50 AM (NzBQO)
There but for the grace of God.....we'll have to see how it goes in November.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 19, 2012 08:53 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 08:54 PM (hgSh3)
People make investments looking for profit. Profit is evil. You whole argument is based on false assumptions.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 08:56 PM (r4Gmb)
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R v W = abortion on demand and the populace opposes it. The Supreme Legislature has, however, stopped the Inferior Legislature from doing anything about it.
And despite the pro-life position having an overwhelming advantage, you'd actually need more then your claimed 70% of the population to support a Constitutional amendment to get it to pass baring perfect regional distribution.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 08:57 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 08:59 PM (UxGCM)
************* Takes stones to suck it up and keep living.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 09:02 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: Zakn at August 19, 2012 09:03 PM (lH5al)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 12:48 AM (r4Gmb)
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Most people have no idea of the immense idiocy of the reasoning behind Roe and how it strains credulity and makes a mockery of the idea of law and a joke of the Constitution. People might be pro-abortion but I don't think anyone with a brain who knows anything is in favor of Roe. Only Benedickhead Roberts' fanciful "taxation from heaven on nothing and anything" scheme is worse, and not even the people who were on the "winning" side of that decision agree with anything about it.
And, to be technical, Roe is not a "legal structure" but a "jurisprudential fantasy cake". It's a term of Constitutional art.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 09:04 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 19, 2012 09:04 PM (a4CUi)
Bit more detail:
Tony Scott fatally jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Sunday afternoon, according to Los Angeles police sources.
His body was pulled out of the water by Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard officials.
Law enforcement sources said several witnesses saw Scott, the brother of director Ridley Scott, climb over a fence on the bridge and jump off.
A very un-Day of the Locust way to go. The Vincent Thomas is down in the working area of the port and about as HOLLYWOOD as a railway bridge.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 19, 2012 09:06 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 19, 2012 09:07 PM (sZTYJ)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 12:21 AM (r4Gmb)
So, Leftists would turn against abortion if they thought it was in their political interest? You have no understanding of the intrinsically evil nature of the Left.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 09:08 PM (lzvtR)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
http://tinyurl.com/8c3dmjs
Posted by: Hepcat at August 19, 2012 09:10 PM (frbyY)
I don't think Volstead act had anywhere near 70% and it passed.
Regional distribution don't mean shit, unless you want to contending a disproportionate percentage of supporters are in states like CA/NY and they're underrepresented in a one vote per state ratification vote. I don't believe that to be the case. In fact I believe the current red/blue map to actually FAVOR you position in terms of states ratification votes.
If you got the numbers you claim, changing the state legislatures is not a problem, just a matter of time.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 09:10 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 09:10 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 09:11 PM (UxGCM)
The Vincent Thomas is down in the working area of the port and about as HOLLYWOOD as a railway bridge.
***************
Inconsiderate bastard, could've jumped off an upscale bridge! I'm sure his family will never live down the scandal.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 09:12 PM (hgSh3)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 09:13 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 19, 2012 09:16 PM (hgSh3)
The bridge has been in a LOT of films and TV shows. I wouldn't be surprised if Scott had some shoots there in his career.
Posted by: epobirs at August 19, 2012 09:20 PM (kcfmt)
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She actually had a change of heart many years ago.
I was sitting in O.R.'s offices when I noticed a fetal development poster. The progression was so obvious, the eyes were so sweet. It hurt my heart, just looking at them. I ran outside and finally, it dawned on me. 'Norma', I said to myself, 'They're right'. I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth — that's a baby! I felt crushed under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about 'products of conception'. It wasn't about 'missed periods'. It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion — at any point — was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear.
It is easy to be a self centered fool at 21 - especially when the left is looking for just such a person to use. Fluke's defense is harder to articulate...so to speak.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 09:22 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 09:25 PM (Wp4rQ)
Holy shit, I just heard about Tony Scott!
Wow, that's fucked up.
Top Gun and Days of Thunder and Enemy of the State were oustanding. Okay, Unstoppable was a giant piece of shit, and it's too bad Tony went out with that as his last movie, but the dude could make some exciting films. Stuff that I was just nuts over when I was a kid.
Guess I'm gonna have to finally see True Romance and The Last Boyscout now, huh?
Wow, suicide...don't know where the man was at to do that. Just can't fathom it.
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 09:30 PM (4ixH5)
The Senate voted 76% in favor and the House 68%.
If you got the numbers you claim, changing the state legislatures is not a problem, just a matter of time.
Unfortunately that presumes an informed and interested electorate and a Republican party that doesn't go out of its way to screw over conservatives. Based on the declared political leanings of judges and presidents aince 1973, R v W should have been overturned by the Webster decision in 1989.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 09:32 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 19, 2012 09:33 PM (a4CUi)
Posted by: epobirs at August 19, 2012 09:34 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2012 01:22 AM (AUeaU)
And unlike Norma McCorvey, Mrs. Fluke will have no regrets. She will go on to be a richly rewarded Leftist media figure, if not a future member of Congress.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 09:36 PM (lzvtR)
oh, and classes start next Monday and I am so not ready
Posted by: chemjeff at August 19, 2012 09:38 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 19, 2012 09:40 PM (xSegX)
Evening....Horde...naw that sounds a bit raw....
"Evening Shipmates!" "How goes the back and forth this late night?"
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 09:41 PM (hUDh/)
Inconsiderate bastard, could've jumped off an upscale bridge!
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
Public suicides are typically a "look at me" way to go. In LA, failed actresses used to jump off the Hollywood Sign, until they fenced it off.
If you're going to go that route, picking that particular bridge seems odd. But then again, so is jumping off a bridge in general.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 19, 2012 09:41 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Truman North, iPhone reprobate at August 19, 2012 09:42 PM (I2LwF)
wish I lived in that district, I would so totally enjoy casting a vote for the gay mobster republican
Posted by: chemjeff at August 19, 2012 09:44 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: epobirs at August 20, 2012 01:34 AM (kcfmt)
He left a suicide note. We'll probably find out from his brother, Ridley. As for projects, he's probably got business partners that will end up handling the money. His brother, too. Damn, and they were working on a Top Gun 2.
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 09:44 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 09:44 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 19, 2012 09:44 PM (a4CUi)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 09:45 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: navycopjoe at August 19, 2012 09:45 PM (xoPDv)
Mindy,
I hated reading your story above. My condolences to all above. I'll keep my ears open.
Tell Timothy I said hi.
Posted by: Salty, from Breakaway at August 19, 2012 09:46 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 19, 2012 09:46 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 20, 2012 01:38 AM (d/5qf)
"Okay, class, your assignment is to read the whole book from cover to cover. See you at finals!"
*Take off for caribbean cruise*
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 09:46 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 19, 2012 09:47 PM (d/5qf)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 09:48 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 09:49 PM (Wp4rQ)
What was the popular support though? Politicians bandwagon for all sorts of reasons and frequently vote against popular sentiment (ex ObamaCare).
Unfortunately that presumes an informed and interested electorate
Well, you might want to work on your approach then if you're not able to interest the electorate. When people try confrontational tactics on me, I react poorly. Most people do. Something to consider...
R v W should have been overturned by the Webster decision in 1989.
My feeling is R v W should never have been granted cert in the first place.
The anti-abortion crowd claims to be "conservative" yet are pursuing an goal that would in a few generations had the levers of power over to the Pelosi's and Reids of the world permanently due to demographic shift. How do you square that circle? If you can convince me THAT is a sound course of action that enhances the survivability of the Republic, I'll change my opinion that your current approach is futile and a waste of resource.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 09:49 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 20, 2012 01:44 AM (a4CUi)
You would lose. Mrs. Fluke is a stone cold Leftist apparatchik, and will be till the day she dies.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 19, 2012 09:51 PM (lzvtR)
Yes, Mindy, known Tim for over 30 years. We were in "Every Which Way But Loose together." Tell him Salty, bass player from Breakaway says hi. I know some music dealers/buyers/traders around Denver, will inform them of the situation.
Very sorry to hear about this.
Posted by: Salty, from Breakaway at August 19, 2012 09:51 PM (1Y+hH)
Like when she wants job other than stuffing envelopes at some Code Pink office.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 09:52 PM (r4Gmb)
So, I'll just bottle in and state that my P.A tonight not only kicked ass on the "Greet,Treat and Street," modality of E.R medicine for those with "less than a doctor's visit type of presentation, she was a fine form of WOMENHOOD!!
THERE I SAID IT....shoot, and me being married an all....
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 09:53 PM (hUDh/)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 09:54 PM (UxGCM)
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Killing millions of people because they might have voted for the wrong person is wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2012 09:56 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: eman at August 19, 2012 09:57 PM (Wp4rQ)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 09:57 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Mindy at August 19, 2012 10:03 PM (UxGCM)
Posted by: Disgruntled Lurker at August 19, 2012 10:04 PM (UPoZk)
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2012 10:11 PM (sdi6R)
So you are in fact OK with the inevitable outcome of your endeavors then? Yes or no? There's no middle ground here. Its acceptable to you were it to happen or it isn't.
Right/wrong are questions for ethicists. I'm not an ethicist, I'm just a guy who Pelosi/Reid scare the shit out of who doesn't want to live in a communist state. If you get what you want, then that's what will probably happen.
Maybe now you can begin to understand why mainstream republicanism hasn't embraced you? Your single issue focus has brought you to the point where you're willing to assist in the destruction of the Republic to get what you want. From the POV of the average guy, that doesn't make you an ally.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 10:11 PM (r4Gmb)
Just going to say for the record,
WE! must cast out this FAKER!
This avowed MARXIST!
This patheticaly un-tried, under-schooled, over-matched, ego driven POS that some of our fellow Americans were so painfully blinded by (We will forgive you this time!)
THIS...must NEVER happen again. Unless Allen West throws his hat, then we will be most happy to throw a BBQ and FILL HIS COFFERS!!!!
You all get this......10-4?.....over...and...out!
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 10:12 PM (hUDh/)
I didn't originate it. The idea has been floating around for a while. In fact, it was the inevitable logical conclusion of Sanger's policies that the left would wind up destroy its own constituency. They're not particularly deep thinkers who were looking several moves and 50 years down the road.
Run the numbers, and it turned out to be true. The left would be in total control now were it not for abortion.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 10:16 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2012 10:17 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 19, 2012 10:23 PM (d/5qf)
There is for just this site only a "Flame/Contrast button that will calculate your impression of flame to a sliding scale of purple to omega red and can be posted along side your comment with font texting in Arabian.
Give it a try....
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 10:24 PM (hUDh/)
Posted by: epobirs at August 19, 2012 10:26 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 20, 2012 02:16 AM (r4Gmb)
Given the tatters the Constitution lies in a pile of, the official acceptance of empathy as a main legitimate factor in assessing judges or decisions, and the idea that now it's "legal" and "Constitutonal" for the feral government to charge anyone for anything (or nothing) and have it called a tax when it gets to the SCOTASS, and all the other insanity that is now accepted as "traditional Americanism" (like having American candidates campaing to foreigners in foreign nations ... the left is in total control of the new American Socialist Superstate.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 10:26 PM (X3lox)
“I guess, I’ve always believed that nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do. Most people think the opposite – that all things are withheld from them which they have conceived to do and they end up doing nothing.”
Food for thought!
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 10:27 PM (4ixH5)
Current dog plays dumb when we try to get him to drop the ball from the top of the stairs. But when we are out of sight of the stairs we hear:
Thump, thump, thump, thump, about a dozen times, then the sound of the dog rushing down the stairs to retrieve the ball.
So he likes the game but only in solo mode.
Posted by: epobirs at August 19, 2012 10:32 PM (kcfmt)
It won't last long though. Its bankrupt.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 10:34 PM (r4Gmb)
Or perhaps the welfare system would have collapsed decades ago under the weight uncontrolled population and created much more diversity of thought in the communities you speak of. Who can say? I will go back to lurking now.
Posted by: Disgruntled Lurker at August 19, 2012 10:35 PM (UPoZk)
That would only work if multi-generational welfare clients hadn't been trained to regard reproduction as being more profitable than not having children. We give the vote to anyone who has managed to draw breath for 18 years. The left actively breeds an underclass herd to exploit that.
Posted by: epobirs at August 19, 2012 10:42 PM (kcfmt)
I would add, this is why they're looking to import replacements with all the illegal alien pandering. The leftist strategists know full well their abortion policy is destroying their ability to breed a new constituency, so they're forced to go elsewhere to maintain numbers.
Before the hard left got control, this was never a partisan issue. In the 50's/60's and even into the early 70's, traditional democrats were never in favor of illegal immigration. Of course a lot of that had to do with stronger union membership of that era. Now with the union memberships on the decline, they feel they can shit on the unions with illegal immigration and get away with it.
Declining birth rates are what drove the Eurotards to embrace all the muslim immigrants. They needed a new low level ghettoised worker class to replace the one that was dying out.
The difference between them and us is we never forced ghettoisation of immigrants and have far better upward mobility than in europe.
This is where the left's immigrant strategy blows up in their faces in about 3-4 generations. Upwardly mobile immigrants stop being hard leftists once they start accumulating some of their own shit they don't want to have taken away.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 10:46 PM (r4Gmb)
511
Well,
Day by Day, and hoping the new day will soon be dawning.
How goes the war with you "Sir Robert?"
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 10:47 PM (hUDh/)
We'd have become Denmark...with 80% income tax rates, etc.
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 10:48 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Richard at August 20, 2012 02:47 AM (hUDh/)
The enemy is fought to a stalemate. Plan to retake upperhand in planning stages. Morale high.
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 10:54 PM (4ixH5)
You must resist the lies of Liberals.
They only want CONTROL, they only want to DEFINE what is just for YOU!
And with that, THEY WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU!!
And after WE give them that right....WE will HAVE NO RIGHTS!!
REMEMBER THAT, COME NOVEMBER!!!!
OBAMA MUST LEAVE.....NOW!!!
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 10:55 PM (hUDh/)
Posted by: and irresolute at August 19, 2012 11:05 PM (Q492A)
Posted by: Disgruntled Lurker at August 19, 2012 11:06 PM (UPoZk)
“I guess, I’ve always believed that nothing is withheld from us what
we have conceived to do. Most people think the opposite – that all
things are withheld from them which they have conceived to do and they
end up doing nothing.”
Food for thought!
Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2012 02:27 AM (4ixH5)
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Wow.. talk about luck. some old guy picks you out of a crowd. may we all have that fortune soon.
Posted by: jc at August 19, 2012 11:07 PM (ufJKx)
Zakn. I'm not a gamer but I just took a look at your gaming thread - nice job. I'd spent 10 minutes diddling with the Kerbal trial version I downloaded so I enjoyed/understood that clip. The Eve stuff, looks time consuming and oriented towards the hard-core gamers.
That cheerleader - Yowser. Very obvious on how to play THAT.
Again, nice job.
For a complete novice, what console would you recommend?
Posted by: zeera at August 19, 2012 11:08 PM (XtxRN)
NO STALEMATE!!!
Now is the time to push HARD agains't the LIB DOCTRINE. We should be ALL UP IN THE FACE OF THE LIE that is the demoncrates! WE should be punching their crap to the floor. WE should be calling them out when they piss their pants and try to divert the topic away from what the REAL issues are! WE should just be pounding them 24/7 on what REAL AMERICANS are most concerned about and WE should not let them out of our chokehold and WE should make them cower...YES, "WE" should MAKE THEM COWER
"WE SHOULD MAKE THEM COWER!!!"
2012...America Returns!
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 11:08 PM (hUDh/)
It took me 5 years to convince my dad that typing in ALL CAPS was yelling, and very impolite.
I do use caps sometimes myself, to emphasize a portion of a sentence.
It ought to be very interesting tomorrow dealing with the Akins fallout. Akins is an idiot. He knows less about biology than I know about magnetohydrodynamics, and I can at least spell that.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 19, 2012 11:12 PM (ccXZP)
I think its safe to say the welfare state would have grown more and faster though, and taxes would be substantially higher now.
Maybe one of the kids that wasn't aborted would have developed viable cold fusion though, or cured cancer, etc. and solved all the worlds problems...
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 11:15 PM (r4Gmb)
Posted by: Disgruntled Lurker at August 20, 2012 03:06 AM (UPoZk)
BB code. [ i ] [ / i ] but without spaces.
Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2012 11:16 PM (4ixH5)
Nor-valley union workers earn approx $12 an hour. Benefit package, veryyyyy slim.
Monopoly on county trash contracts, dirt cheap labor pool yoked to union contracts and leftist propaganda delivered in paycheck envelopes All nice and legal.
Posted by: 13times at August 19, 2012 11:16 PM (h6XiD)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 11:17 PM (r4Gmb)
Americans sitting in their homes tonight with OBVIOUS buyer's remorse but too chickenshit to admit their collective mistake. These are the folks we must connect with and assure that, "O.K" you fucked up, but WE don't hold it agains't ya, sure, you got blinded by his charm, but you now see he is just an empty suit....and WORSE!
"It's O.K, we will lead you out of the "O" and back into AMERICA!
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 11:19 PM (hUDh/)
Posted by: @PurpAv at August 19, 2012 11:20 PM (r4Gmb)
I know I pound up some HUGH political meat, But you must admit, THIS TIME BE FOR KEEPS!! WE all live in a most VERY singular time in this GREAT NATION....I just hope you understand how point blank pivitol this time is......NO DO OVERS AFTER THIS!!!!
NO...DO...OVERS!!!
night you fuckin Mand M's
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 11:32 PM (hUDh/)
Posted by: Zakn at August 19, 2012 11:33 PM (DcFUD)
Posted by: bigmike at August 19, 2012 11:33 PM (I4ADY)
Speak for yourself. I surely hold it against them. They should burn in hell for foisting the Indonesian Dog-Eating retard on us. They are the lowest of scum that has ever existed - the worst people in history. There is no forgiving them for what they did. They have to atone and make up for it, but that is it. What those idiots did will go down in history as one of the stupidest acts of any human population - EVER - and all to mollify their pathetic peersonality problems and illusory guilt.
Fuck them. They are total scum.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2012 11:33 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Zakn at August 19, 2012 11:34 PM (DcFUD)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 03:33 AM (X3lox)
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and yet --- their choice was mccain. would be easier for me to be all the way in your camp if I could forget that part.
Posted by: jc at August 19, 2012 11:43 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: The Dude at August 19, 2012 11:50 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: bigmike at August 19, 2012 11:52 PM (I4ADY)
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Yet, we are cleaning the house up, True AMERICANS now see the need to police up the RINOS and rid the party of those that would reach around the isle "so to speak."
Just watch the transformation...it happens as we type......
Posted by: Richard at August 19, 2012 11:52 PM (hUDh/)
1) reassure them about the Jackie Robinson question -- that is, if JR could not play ball for shit -- couldn't run. hit, field, or throw -- what would have happened? Some idiots think he was the big test, and if he had failed then Mays, Gibson, Stargell, Clemente, Bonds, Aaron, etc. never would have gotten a chance. So, maybe it is appropriate to just bring it up, and say something like:
"Look, I know you are worried that no other black guy is going to get a chance cuz Obama is a clusterfuck. Don't worry about it, we understand. If JR had been a flop at baseball, we know Mays and Aaron could still play. Some black guy will succeed as long as he is not a leftist idiot. Try a black conservative and see what happens."
2) guide them thru the sports fan issue -- (this is a tough one)
most people get their politics just like they get their sports team -- from mom, dad, grampa, etc. And, getting them to change is as hard as getting a Sox fan to cheer for the Yanks in Fenway, a Alabam fan to cheer for Auburn, etc. The only way any fan drops their team is when the team leaves town. Your challenge is to help the person stuck in the fan issue understand that their team left town. No one in Cleveland cheers for the Ravens. No one in Balt cheers for the Colts. Help them see that the Dems that their gramps loved are not these assholes, cuz their team left town.
Posted by: jc at August 19, 2012 11:55 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: bigmike at August 19, 2012 11:58 PM (I4ADY)
Haven't been to the Fair for ... 30 years? Probably not going to break that string this year. No county fairs either...
My DiL's family has a tradition of everyone meeting opening day at the Great MN Exposition. I like those traditions that the generations make an obligation to continue
Posted by: zeera at August 19, 2012 11:58 PM (XtxRN)
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Not just yet my friend, not just yet. 1st we have to throw the FAKER out. Then, we will clean house. Say....RYAN! He who hunts.....and the RINOS will go to ground...like the true pussy they be...and they will go away!!!!
Trust!
Posted by: Richard at August 20, 2012 12:00 AM (hUDh/)
Your analogy is off. The biggest problem with the America-hating Dog-Eating Retard is not that he is the most miserably stupid anti-American piece of shit to walk in the White House but that he has been held to NO LAW WHATSOEVER and NO STANDARD OF DECENT BEHAVIOR, thanks to PC, general stupidity and the idiots who voted for him in 2008.
Anyone who would even THINK about giving power to anyone who cannot be held responsible is about the biggest imbecile around. That is the fact of the situation and that is what people have to come to grips with. That's why I've been sayign that if Barky isn't arrested at some point and held liable for al the damage and crimes he's committed then you can just kiss any chance of America being restored good-bye. If people don't have the guts to enforce the Rule of Law on certain people that is a huge problem. If they have a strange proclivity to give power to those same people out of some warped problem with their personalites, that is certain death.
This isn't baseball. This is about the power of government and the nature of our nation.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 12:06 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: bigmike at August 20, 2012 12:09 AM (I4ADY)
549
Was going to step onto the last "Shore Boat" heading to the island when I got your post.
You have the proper"insight" and more than most I should add....
Posted by: Richard at August 20, 2012 12:12 AM (hUDh/)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 12:13 AM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: The Dude at August 20, 2012 12:20 AM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 20, 2012 04:06 AM (X3lox)
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unless you are planning to murder about 40-45% of all voters, you might want to start thinking of a way to actually change some minds. my guess is threats, insults, and the like will not get too many of them to see things your way.
I don't give a shit about thieves that want gov't to be their thug, and I am not asking you to either.
But, I want to win, not just pound my chest. So, why not start with the folks who hold down jobs, pay their taxes, and love their kids? In many ways they live their lives more conservatively than you or me. And yet, they vote for fuckheads. And, because they vote for fuckheads, our guys end up fuckheads cuz they think that is where the votes will be -- and you know what -- they aren't wrong about where the votes are. One thing professional pols can do well is count votes.
I am suggesting that there might be a way for us to understand people who live conservative lives and vote for fuckheads so that we might be able to reach them -- and hopefully change the way they vote. (Yes, I plan to get a Michigan fan to vote for an Ohio State guy. No, I don't think that will be easy, but I am damned sure that yelling at them won't help.)
Posted by: jc at August 20, 2012 12:22 AM (ufJKx)
Posted by: zeera at August 20, 2012 12:22 AM (XtxRN)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 20, 2012 12:25 AM (sZTYJ)
555
Dude,
I no think me hang to the demon mark, would like to be in MAUI though
at the TIKI BAR with mike the bartender...who made the BESTEST martini's
the double barrel olives served as DINNER!!!....SAIL AWAY!!!
Posted by: Richard at August 20, 2012 12:25 AM (hUDh/)
Howdy fellers,
I just saw the unbanned posting. I cant believe I was never banned here. I'm the first one to go on libtard sites for expressing unpopular , yet logically correct conservative ideals.
I'm guessing there was some mass banning of socks..and somehow the babies got thrown out with the bath water. Heck, stranger things have happenned.
Its kinda akin to "friendly fire" which aint all that friendly when you are ducking for cover. Just sayin!
Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at August 20, 2012 02:12 AM (z1QCR)
Heard from a friend the author was basically phoning in ways to kill people.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 20, 2012 02:43 AM (STjp1)
Posted by: Gerry at August 20, 2012 06:01 AM (pGFQJ)
Posted by: Landru at August 20, 2012 06:49 AM (yzRpf)
Posted by: Patrick at August 20, 2012 09:36 AM (LrlHu)
I just do NOT get it.
Posted by: Feynmangroupie at August 20, 2012 10:06 AM (hm4vU)
Do tell, where is this conservative investment that will provide a guaranteed return of 5% per year?
Posted by: LASue at August 20, 2012 10:22 AM (pWeX5)
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Posted by: Arbalest at August 19, 2012 06:11 PM (B35Ti)