Cool....Easy Rider.

"How Skewed Are the Polls?"

No more than usual....which is usually a lot.

Posted by: Tami at September 17, 2012 10:05 PM (X6akg)

Fucking dammit Mitt, stop worrying about making them like you.

Who cares how they throw a ball?

What's important is how they handle  the balls. 

 Mind the step-children, ladies.  Leave that throwing stuff to us. 

 15 Heh, the BIG headline at Drudge right now:


ROMNEY GETS REAL: Obama Supporters "Dependent on Government"


"Romney Gets Real," eh? That anything like, "Shit just got real?"

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Yeah.....wants to make you their Bitch.

Once they make you dependent...they own you.

Romney could easily shoot down the attempts to media torpedo him for what he said. 

He should bring up that thing at the DNC convention...the "We all belong to the Government" thing.

Government Slaves.

Government Enslavement.

That's what happens when the government makes you dependent on it.

Can You Top This? CBS/NYT Poll Weights Registered Voters Dems 35%, Republicans 22%

http://tinyurl.com/8ahllm2

>>Anybody have any opinions on Hankook tires?

I have had a set on my Galaxie for three years now.  Look good, wear good, no issues.

>>They live and breathe that stuff.

That and heavy metals.

Posted by: fluffy at September 17, 2012 10:14 PM (z9HTb)

And that Romney isn't doing anything in their state!!!eleventy11!!!

I teared over at the end of General Uhm's speech. I didn't expect that.

Posted by: Daybrother at September 17, 2012 10:30 PM (1FkrP)

  Well he didn't walk it back at tonight's inquisition by the lap dog media.Good for him... The media is disgusting...

Posted by: Maetenloch at September 17, 2012 10:30 PM (jMqh0)

you cannot become what you already are----Dylan said that...

OMG........What an awful first half! I do know that Denver has played horribly........but the officiating will make the game last until midnight.

I now understand what you morons were talking about the god awful officiating.

Peter van Uhm: "Why I Chose The Gun In A Country That Abhors Violence And Will Never Be At War With Anyone." 

Two words: Srebrenica massacre

This military did not cover themselves with glory on that day. 

next:  my older brother had that Easy Rider poster on his wall back in the day... I'll never forget it.  Peace... heh... good times

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at September 17, 2012 10:36 PM (CA2NO)

No.  The next 50 days will make '24' look like Miss Marple.

broken a key

I'm watching a rerun of Anderson Cooper and Romney's press conference explaining is Mother Jones remarks.

He's doing a great job. In the face of a rabidly hostile media, he's saying what needs to be said. He's confident and not apologizing. His comments are not nearly as jarring as Obama's "bitter, gun-clingers" remark.

CNN is calling it a "pivotal" moment in the campaign. The most piviotal since, two days ago.

Even if he loses, I respect him for how he handled this.

Posted by: Lee (in KY) at September 17, 2012 10:34 PM (jgXna)

the "polite company" are already in the tank for Bambi, the hoi polloi will nod their heads in agreement.

Posted by: Sir Sonny Spats Official AoSHQ Towne Crier at September 17, 2012 10:42 PM (Bm4aK)

Shit.  Sign my ass up.  Mohammed was a faggot.  And a pedophile.  Mostly a pedophile.  But still a faggot.

134, He did not walk it back...he made clear that is the fundamental difference between Obama and him....on people that do not pay taxes, to government dependency....he also made an interesting point about portions of that video missing parts of the whole speech.  He hoped whoever had the video would release the entire video....HMM...sounds like someone edited or doctored the video or did not show the other parts that balanced the comments...SOUNDS LIKE FOUL PLAY or Manipulation?  I hope someone has the whole thing and all the comments recorded....this seems fishy.

And THAT is the problem. The MSM will trot stuff like this out at the last minute in order to snooker the voters. For low information voters, stuff like t his works.

I'll say this...the CNN coverage was heavy on whether his stats about non-taxpayers was accurate, and how many are likely Dem vs. GOP voters, etc.  That's a great discussion to be having. I'll take that debate right through November.

CNN calling anything pivotal is a JOKE!!  I find that a funny thing...did not Wolf say that about Clinton's Speech over at CNN and David Gergen?

What CNN and others as usual forget is the number of people who feel too many in this country are LAZY and expect a HANDOUT!!  This will cause many to support Mitt even more!! Make no bones about it....and CNN can take that to the bank!

141 FOX reporting a FATW has been ordered to hunt down and kill nyone worldwide who blasphemes Mohomoed

Does this revise and replace, all previous fatwahs....to hunt down and kill anyone who blasphemes moohammed?

Or, should the other ones still be considered 'in effect'.

Yoshi,

The sad part is I could see TFG telling our troops to do the same.  After all, the serbs promised that they would be nice. 

Just like O's buddies in the muslim world are showing their respect for his Cairo speech in 2009 and support of Arab Spring. 

Posted by: Daybrother at September 17, 2012 10:30 PM (1FkrP)

Or you feel entitled to free stuff....which is about 47% of this country.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 17, 2012 10:35 PM (sZTYJ)

Sniff, sniff, that episode so speaks to me. In that episode, I am Eric Cartman. I went to high school that was 80% Deadhead, I feel that way on so many levels about hippies.

Posted by: garrett at September 17, 2012 10:14 PM (et+WB)

same with North Koreans, to some degree...gotta tell yourself how great you are when in reality you suck donkey dick at everything.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at September 17, 2012 10:52 PM (GEICT)

Critical thinking does not help you understand our wisdom.

Posted by: Yip at September 17, 2012 10:52 PM (Mrdk1)

I love reminding libs how ever so fond they are of religious fundamentalism.

I liked Romney's remark about...."slimming down the government". 

Heh.

He slipped it in, in his impromptu press conference in CA...a few hours ago, where he clarified what he meant in those "captured" remarks.

 He also asked that, whomever taped that and released it...would also release the full conversation that took place in that question-and-answer session.

Because then, he said...people would be able to see the context of his answer, in relation to the question he was asked.

Ha.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 17, 2012 10:51 PM (/OYU6)

I can't wait to see Chris Matthews do a Jerry Lawler on election night.

Posted by: Peaches is srsly pissed off at September 17, 2012 10:59 PM (kpCLl)

  I agree. At this point what does he have to lose?By the way when was this fundraiser that he said this? On another site they said it was awhile back and the media was sitting on it ...

47Anybody have any opinions on Hankook tires? Good,bad, holy shit the world is gonna end?

I have Hankook tires (made in Korea) on my Isuzu pickup in the Philippines.  Not much wear after one year, and the roads there are terrible (rain, floods, volcanos, earthquakes, overloaded trucks, end of the world stuff every month etc).  I would buy them again.

I think it is very important to remember that a very significant percentage of that 47% who pay no income taxes are seniors. And to assume they are all going to vote for the fucktard would be a huge mistake.

That was precisely the argument former liberal columnist-turned-CNN political guru Ron Brownstein made tonight. It's worth noting, and then dismissing. Romney's point was 'lower taxes' isn't going to be a winning message for people who don't pay them. Seniors who vote Republican will support Romney regardless.

Mitt's not "walking it back"....not from what I watched, of his press conference tonight.

It seemed more like he was...."throwing down a dare"....to the media, and anyone else who wants him to talk about this some more.

Mitt sounded very good!  He did not walk back his remarks!! COOL!  The AP: Romney DID NOT DISAVOW HIS REMARKS!!  AMEN!!

He sounded great when he talked about Freedom and Dependency on the Government....and sorry it is soooo true that majority do not pay TAXES!!  And do not give me this sales tax and property tax BS!  The 47 percent can move to where there is no sales tx...the Federal Taxes follow you everywhere!!

He showed backbone and you know he was smart to get out in front for himself...not let the press set the narrative in the morning.  He did....I like that!! Conservatives will increase their support for Mitt here!!  He will shore up some base...I like it...and many Independents know the 16 trillion in debt is from unsustainable entitlements and people living off the govt.

Mitt hit a good theme here....everything happens for a reason...the Mother Jones people have slingshot or boomerang!  This is going to smack back at them and Obama!!

One thing people who work hate is FREELOADERS we all know it and we talk about at work, home and play.  Yes there are lazy people but I think Mitt hit a nerve that gels with many people's personal feelings about those that work and those that leech!

Thank God.  Thought I lost my hash - the power went out for a few seconds

That mistaken foreclosure thing is terrible,someone should be criminally prosecuted.I bet the people who were supposed to be foreclosed on get a pass out of this somehow.

Wells Fargo doesn't actually care.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they had already factored this into the cost of doing business.  Want to make them hurt?  Punish the guys they hired to clean out the house.  Seize their possessions and destroy them and then make WF liable for reimbursement.  That way no contractor will dare take one of these jobs without being damn sure that they have the correct house.

Someone on a previous thread said we should send that POS Blind Sheikh back to Egypt, because he never directly did anything in the 1993 WTC bombing.  He is right, the blind guy did not make the bomb or deliver it.  He just provided the fatwa saying it was OK and helped put together the murderous crew.  But if it was not for him, the six people that died would have not died on that day.  Not to mention all those killed at Luxor. 

As an analogy, he is sort of like Charles Manson.  Old Charlie never killed Sharon Tate or any of the others, he just told his psycho bastards to go do it.  another one is (Godwin alert), AH never killed any of the jews directly.  He only ordered it done. 

And IF or when the blind sheikh gets back to Egypt, his hateful ass will be happy to issue fatwas for murder and mayhem against any one in western civilization. 

Seniors also had or have EXCELLENT WORKING HABITS....many seniors talk about people being lazy today and expecting everything for FREE...heck I hear it from my patients all the time.  How the young today do not work, they sit around and they expect to not work hard.  Seniors will like what Romney said.  Some seniors look to the gov't for dependency but many more build nest eggs and use Social Security as a supplement.  Many seniors still work and then THEY PAY TAXES on that Social Security.

No Seniors will agree with Mitt...I hear it all the time about how lazy and entitled Americans have become. 

236
Thank God. Thought I lost my hash - the power went out for a few seconds

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at September 17, 2012 11:06 PM (JDIKC)

---------

Nope. The mighty (JDIKC) is still there.

Be a shame to lose that one.

I get new hashes all the time...but then, I don't ever seem to get any cool ones, so it's no big loss.

By being a Christian, which by necessity denies Allah and Muhammed, does that make me a blasphemer? And if so, that makes any and all people who are not Mooslem blasphemers, correct?

Yes and yes.  So, what's the problem?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 17, 2012 10:49 PM (X3lox)

Anyone who spends money from future taxpayers should be removed and barred from holding office until the future taxpayers are old enough to vote him in.

Mætenloch,

Nice video of Peter van Uhm.

"....an audience who are able live their lives woefully ignorant of guns only because of men like him who sweat the details 24/7 to keep it that way. "

That mistaken foreclosure thing is terrible,someone should be criminally prosecuted.I bet the people who were supposed to be foreclosed on get a pass out of this somehow.

Wells Fargo doesn't actually care. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they had already factored this into the cost of doing business. Want to make them hurt? Punish the guys they hired to clean out the house. Seize their possessions and destroy them and then make WF liable for reimbursement. That way no contractor will dare take one of these jobs without being damn sure that they have the correct house.

Posted by: Alex at September 17, 2012 11:10 PM (ImcFy)

Someone signed off on that job order.  They should be under arrest for at a minimum burglary, and every one involved can be hauled in for conspiracy. 

But no one will, because the local cops and prosecutors do not want to rock the boat.  The bank will make life tough for them and the city or county elected officials.  Better to make consoling noises and wring their hands.  But like Alex said, one way to stop it is to make sure they know they are going to be hurt directly.  Even 30 days to one banker would be enough.  With a misdemeanor or felony on his record, he/she would be fired under the new banking rules. 

Posted by: IdowhatIwant at September 17, 2012 11:06 PM (a4CUi)

Lighten up Francis. What happened with Wells Fargo had nothing to do with repealing Glass Steagal. If GS was still law, this would have happened because it was a mortgage, and banks made mortgages before, during and after GS.

I watched the first episode of 'Revolution' last week...it was loaded into OnDemand.

It's like Life Without People...but with people.

And that thing about the electricity being...'turned off'...and 15 years later, they still can't turn it on again?

What could possibly do that?

A worldwide EMP would fry everything.

But you could still repair things, and eventually get electricity again.

It could take 2 to 3 years...but it would be doable.

In "Revolution", the villains have banned private ownership of guns. IRL, NBC's news dept. pushes gun control whenever the opportunity arises.

Cognitive Dissonance, your phone is ringing.

Give them time.  The "tyrant" will turn out to be misunderstood; a man trying to despirately save civilization from the crazy right wing fascists that would have taken over.  His methods were bad, but his motives will be seen, if not pure, then at least sympathetic.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at September 17, 2012 11:05 PM (nCvIC)

"usin' a lambskin condom.....at the source."

Someone's gotta to give a run down of the revolution, do they explain the non use of bicycles, guns, basic physics.

Guns are still around and used, they're just outlawed by the local ruler.

I'm curious why society has suddenly regressed to medieval levels, even though it would only take a couple of years to build up the basic infrastructure to take us to colonial levels or higher, IMHO.  A steam engine doesn't require electricity to run, for example.

283...Give them time. The "tyrant" will turn out to be misunderstood; a man trying to despirately save civilization from the crazy right wing fascists that would have taken over. His methods were bad, but his motives will be seen, if not pure, then at least sympathetic.

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They've sort of laid the groundwork for that, already.

There is this 'nice' lady, ex-school teacher....who has a computer hidden away in a secret room.

She has the same sort of 'magic medalion' thingy, that powers it.....just like the heroine's Dad had.

The Dad is dead now...but he seemed to know in advance, that everything was going to be "turned off".

212Yip: hear, hear!

I am in my mid-forties. My WHOLE FUCKING LIFE I have been hearing news stories about Muslims getting so fucking offended by some goddamned thing that they just have to go on some uncontrollable murder-rampage. A book, a film, a fucking cartoon. I am simply tired of Muslims.

I can go a month without hearing the word "Taoist" or "Confucian." I can go for weeks without hearing "Buddhist." If Romney wasn't a candidate right now I could probably go a year without hearing "Mormon." But I hear "Muslim" every fucking day. And it's never anything good. I never hear that Muslims pitched in to rebuild a church, or Muslims score well on tests, or Muslims report greater personal happiness in their lives. No, it's always Muslims seething with violent rage over some goddamned thing.

Here's a thought: how about Muslims try not killing anyone just for a change? Maybe try it for a month: spend a month doing something other than murdering people. That means no lobbing rockets at Israel, no gang-raping Coptic Christians, no burning animist villages, no sectarian violence against other Muslims, no shooting rampages through India, none of that.

Think they could manage it? For just a month? How about a week?

How about one fucking day?

I would be happy if just one fucking day in my life I didn't hear about some revolting atrocity committed by Muslims because somebody somewhere said something that hurts their fucking feelings.

Thread winner.  You sir will give this speech at the UN, as my Secretary of State.

In reference to Revolution and the lack of logical technological progress, I am guessing it is because the writers have no concept of how things really work?

Modern society is just FM to them anyhow.

Posted by: Corrine Brown at September 17, 2012 11:30 PM (V/U0X)

I've seen that before, and a definite beverage warning goes along with that video.

The Dad is dead now...but he seemed to know in advance, that everything was going to be "turned off".

It wouldn't surprise me if they go for the "mankind brought this upon ourselves with our polluting and dastardly science ways" angle.

302....So far, quick glimpse, villain appears to have been military, if not specfor.

Yeah.

But then so is the heroine's Uncle....he was a buddy in the military, with the villain who is now a 'general' of his own militia. 

So, there's good-guy ex-military.

And bad-guy ex-military.

I hate NBC.

So I don't watch it....but as long as it's getting loaded into OnDemand, I'll probably dial up the episodes.

I'm still a little bitter about Stargate Universe going off the air. -_- This country doesn't know what's good anymore, but that's not terribly surprising, I suppose...

Stargate Universe sucked harder than Barack Obama on a day five of a week-long cocaine bender.

326  uh RE: Revolution, is there an explanation for hairspray and makeup for the majority of the cast?

And all the new-looking clothes, boots and shoes.

Heh.

Also....some of the rural back roads have got freshly laid layers of white gravel.

Someone has got a road grader and a dump truck.

Any tips on how to not look like an idiot?

Go online.  Learn five basic figures.  Practice.

Seriously, in a social setting you won't need more than five or six figures for any dance.  Nothing fancy, but the basic, underarm turn, cross body lead, fifth position breaks, and one other should do it. 

You shouldn't be dancing with her all night, you should dance with lots of women and she should dance with lots of men throughout the night.  You get first dance, last dance and a couple in between.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 17, 2012 11:33 PM (AUeaU)

Liquor up first, so you're loose and uninhibited.

But not too much, or your balance'll be off and you'll look worse than you would sober.

I picture a climactic season finale depicting a bare-knuckles fight for survival between the heroine and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which will be played by Sean Patrick Flanery in a fire engine red full body unitard.

1.  This is why I love this site and

2.  I now have my Halloween costume for this year.

PISTOLS AT DAWN, SIR.

As the recipient of the challenge, I get to choose the time and method.  Midnight, in six foot deep water, with sledgehammers.

317 A worldwide EMP would fry everything.
But you could still repair things, and eventually get electricity again.
It could take 2 to 3 years...but it would be doable.

Posted by: wheatie at September 17, 2012 11:21 PM (Z7b/q)

 

It's the whole point. For some mysterious reason it's not "working" anymore.

Haven't seen it, but that's the hook.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at September 17, 2012 11:30 PM (MrM2k) 

Yep....definitely.

John Favreau is the one directing it.

So the action scenes are not too bad.

There is just such a void of any decent SciFi on tv anymore.

What's a scifi junky to do.

oh, man.  dancing. 

 I could not do that.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 17, 2012 11:45 PM (/OYU6)

Another tip for the trolls, when you get the razor out, remember to "go up the street, not across".

So for a week, the O admin has been running around telling us this was about a "movie", but now they're going to release the Blind Shiek because it was really about him... the American who was stupid enough to believe O/MSM that this was about a movie will feel blindsided by this turn of events and probably disagree with the decision that much more. 

Funny thing is, O would finally be telling the truth if he says this was in part due to the  Shiek. It's also about the #2 AQ guy O took out witha drone in June, but then it would be O's fault so we won't hear about that.

>>Beirut embassy destroying stuff. Wells Fargo destroying the wrong house. I won't ask what the third destroyed thing will be.

The plumbing in the Lincoln Bedroom.  Tomorrow is Tamale Tuesday.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at

  You know as much as the media is trying to cover Obama on the embassy attacks, I think the shit is going to hit the fan. Too many witnesses to the truth.. 

Democrats & journalists use polls like a drunk uses a lamp post. For SUPPORT instead of illumination.

Ines Sainz + Yoga Pants

http://tinyurl.com/8nvscp6

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at September 17, 2012 11:54 PM (a86zH)

Roanoke, VA has been out for a long time. They get em in, I go by the HQ and they are out. They even have run out of bumper stickers. Today, all I saw were Romney bumper stickers, and Romney yard signs. Not seeing any Obama stuff except at a couple of true blue Dems that I know. They are the only ones. The Romney stickers are "single" bumper sticker cars, and the Obama ones have been the typical lib 250 bumper stickers on their cars types.

There is no passion for the JEF here.

I got a sales letter, aka "junk mail", with the words "FINAL NOTICE" emblazoned on the envelope. Now, I had just cleaned up dog pee from both dogs and my house is beginning to smell like a kennel. I am not happy. I got out a Sharpy. They're more expressive. I wrote on the cover page, "What a crappy way to get business. "FINAL NOTICE" I hope so"! My response will be going out tomorrow in the postage paid envelope they provided.

If someone sends me a Final Notice I had better owe them money Damn It!

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2012 12:02 AM (et+WB)

Thank you for the link to that wonderful site. I have bookmarked that story for later perusal, and its contents seem to be very interesting. If you come across any more information pertaining to the subject matter of that website, please post it here.

Evenin' all!

Somebody in my apartment complex had their smoke alarm going off for what seemed like a long time, and finally it stopped.  I'm a little nervous about that shit, having just been through an apartment fire a few months ago and having to move. #ButEnoughAboutMeWhatDoYouThinkAboutMe? 

Oh, and I spend waaaaay too much damn time on Twitter! 

Posted by: Adam at September 18, 2012 12:11 AM (/YJYi)

I had no idea who she was until this picture was posted. That ass is definitely top shelf.

Dutch general:  spectacular.  The conceit and illiterary moral narcissism of Europeans - esp., say, Germans - leads directly to war, death, and the failure to stop evil.  It's amazing that a region capable of quite a bit historically is generally utterly idiotic as to what war is, and about, and why it happens.

Throwing: one of the great all-time riffs of PJ O'Rourke (and that's saying a lot) was in an essay about the 1987 Palestinian "intifada" (famous for its rock-throwing yutes).  Something about if this situation had taken place in, say, Panama, the IDF woulda been driven out in days.  But unlike Panamanians (baseball country), Palestinians threw like girls.  Brilliant observation, extra nice for the, uh .... "inside baseball" cultural references.

Beirut:  through personal connection heard about pre-crisis prep last week; but it was about personnel, and not until October.  Betcha things have been accelerated a bit.

China/Japan:  China is a pretty vile operation in many ways, here's to hoping Japan doesn't lose its nerve.  Chinese and NoKo bumbling bellicosity the last 15 years have helped move Japanese public understanding quickly back towards normal (generational change helps too - and of course the Japs had a US-approved heavy dose of official idiotic pacifism installed after 1945 - unlike many Euros, who arrived at their disastrously naive de facto support of evil and genocide all on their own, in cases like the Netherlands).

Poll samples and questions:  Ras' methodology has fared pretty well, though apparently 2010 threw him a bit.  For now I choose to interpret that as a very good sign.  Unless something changes, I can't shake the feeling that 2012 will make 2010 look like a day of big storm surf vs. a huge tsunami.  The (well-founded, thought-through) near panic and increasing disgust of so many different sorts of voters at the mind-boggling stylings of the incumbent and his toxic clown posse just cannot foreshadow a "normal" election cycle.

Anne Archer. I would.

Posted by: navycopjoe at September 18, 2012 12:27 AM (OApiq)

Is gap a new brand name for Google Fapping?

I should check to see if iFap is already taken.

>>T lurks here

I'll never understand women. 

She has access to the entire pantheon of the moron collective and  she insists on going home to you?

Inconceivable.

My college-age daughter and I went to see Karl Rove talk a few hours ago.

If that makes you jealous, it should. He was, at various times, funny, informative, sobering, and downright moving.  He was at all times very well-spoken. The tales of patiotism he had witnessed would bring you close to tears. His assessment of where we might be headed might keep you awake at night.  His insight about George W were inciteful.  His description of how it works in the White House did not take intentional digs at Obama, but made it glaringly obvious why the government is completely disfunctional right now.

There was only one audience member who was a problem - kept shouting out seemingly hostile questions.  That was not the format - questions were written - but he took a couple anyway, and then respectfully proclaimed that the person was "not more important than everybody else in the room", and that they also have questions.  There were a very few protesters outside; I coudn't even tell what the hell they were complaining about.

We didn't get there early enough to be in the main auditorium, but they had an overflow area that was OK.  Even in the People's Republic of WNY, ol' Karl packed them in.

Posted by: Optimizer at September 18, 2012 12:40 AM (As94z)

Jellis I be! I read "Courage and Consequences" and loved it.  I know some aren't big fans of his, but I greatly admire him.

Posted by: steevy at September 18, 2012 12:46 AM (6o4Fb)

I'm sure prez Urkel will be happy to do the interior design and hang the curtains.

One thing Rove mentioned that struck me was about the intelligence reports.  He described those as when "W" learned how many people that he had sent into harm's way had been killed that day.

Kind of puts a new spin on the stuff that Obama is having mailed in.

I had forgotten, if I had heard it, but "W" met with virtually every family of the military who died over there.  Rove said they made sure it wasn't ever before events, so they wouldn't ever have to cut it short due to time commitments.  He said he would take notes, and just try to keep his composure.  Sometimes the families were just mad at the world; sometimes they took it out on the President.  You can imagine how ugly it must have gotten, but he kept doing it anyway.

Posted by: rickl at September 18, 2012 12:51 AM (sdi6R)

Consider it a testament to the right that insects like this are still walking around without a care in the world, whereas the 'tolerant' left is intent on eliminating the powerful folks on the right.

Posted by: steevy at September 18, 2012 12:56 AM (6o4Fb)

Bioweapons would be useful. Unless internal metabolic processes halted too, in which case the earth would be sterile.

Rove's talk was meant to be educational, and they had asked him to keep it fairly apolitical.  His focus was on how things change when you're campaigning vs. being in office.  He said you like to think you're just going to throw yuor weight around, and try to get things the way you want, but that it just doesn't work that way.  The key thing is that compromise is critical, that compromise must start with the most powerful person in the room, and that's the President.

It was left to the student [my interpretation] to contrast that with "we won", and then ask yourself why - for the first time in my not-especially-short lifetime - we haven't seen a budget in over 3 years.

Optimizer, that bit about W meeting families of the fallen rings very true.  And word in the military about things like that spreads far, and fast.  Probably one of several reasons behind the reaction to W's presence I witnessed first-hand in one of our war zones back in 2006.  I have never seen a large room (ballroom) like that erupt with that much enthusiasm.  And of course W took the time to greet and shake hands with about 90% of those present - making the whole thing late. 

By chance I know that the current vastly inferior incumbent has met at least some of the families.  I ran into one last year, the mother, a few days after it happened.  The only decent thing I've seen from him since he was absurdly launched into an adult job without merit, preparation, or reason.

Posted by: navycopjoe at September 18, 2012 12:17 AM (OApiq)

we only like echo chambers around here concern troll

Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2012 01:04 AM (yYKoR)

Wow, Model, that kind of thing can really shake you up!  I was driving home from work one day and hit a kid on a bike who was riding across the street and had come up out of my driver's side blind spot.  I wasn't going very fast but the kid hit my car and rolled over the hood of my car.  I stop the car, jump out, and in my excitement and panic I'm yelling at the poor kid, "Are you okay?"  The kid pops up. grabs his bike and takes off.  I stayed to give a report to the traffic cop who showed up, and good thing I did.  Kid goes home, apparently Dad sees his bike all torn to shit and the kid gives him a story that it was a hit and run.  The cops called me later that evening to tell me that the dad had taken the kid to the emergency room, told them it was a hit and run so the ER called the police and they were able to tell them that a report had been filed.

Posted by: Berserker at September 18, 2012 01:06 AM (FMbng)

Well, that's really our problem, isn't it?  They benefit from the suicidally stunted values of the leftards.

Can I ask how the US media works?

What i mean is, here in Australia, the Canberra Press Gallery and public broadcasters are 110% in the tank for the Left. But really, apart from political and government junkies, not many people are exposed to them.

Joe Average the car mechanic from suburban Melbourne doesn't watch 24 hour public broadcast news or read left-wing broadsheets. He reads his NewsLtd tabloid daily, listens to right-leaning talkback radio, and grabs a minute of politics on commercial TV while waiting for the footy scores.  Conservative political junkies get worked up about the bias of the "serious" press, but the reality is that they wouldn't be moving a single vote.

Presumably it's the same over there? Joe Average from Cleveland or Kansas City is reading the local tabloid and watching his local TV network news? So is it like Australia, the bias of the "serious press"  is strong but irrelevant?

Posted by: the pink not panicking about one poll formerly known as the hobbit Donna at September 18, 2012 01:12 AM (W2Z3C)

yep, totally a hit piece and not a huge fucking gaffe. The way he ran it all back is the hallmark of all hit pieces

yep, totally a hit piece and not a huge fucking gaffe. The way he ran it all back is the hallmark of all hit pieces

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The way he ran what back? He stood by basically everything he said.

@488

Rove's most moving story was a small project he took on right at the end of his time there. (BTW, he described his departure as having made him "broke", and had "broken his wife"; another staffer, described as important for national security, had also stayed on until their financial resources were exhausted.)

One family had lost one son, and their other son was there in uniform, having signed up.  The father stayed silent the whole time, until the President asked if there was something he could do for them.  The father said that he was an orthopedic surgeon, and he wanted to serve, but that they would let him because he was 61. Could the president please waive the age limit for him?

Karl looked into it, and learned that he was not only an excellent surgeon, but it great physical shape.  To make a long story short, he made it through boot camp and was sent on two tours in Iraq.  He was unhappy there, because he was just treating sports injuries, and they sent him on to do two tours in Afghanistan as well.  They had boarded up their house and basically given up everything to serve.

I guess that story is in his book.

I could listen to that guy all day long.

On Bush, he mostly said that Rove would get all uptight and angry at the various writings in the media, and then Bush would laugh at him for it (in a sort of "life is too short to get worked up over those guys" way).  There was also the story of "8 reasons for not picking Chaney", and his reasons for sticking with Cheney were similar.  I think that story is pretty famous.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2012 01:23 AM (kaalw)

Shoulda turned the tables on him, and scolded him for being so judgmental about alternative lifestyles.

Posted by: Fox 2! at September 18, 2012 01:24 AM (RJOgX)

Yeah, that was pretty much what I told the caller from the police.  A few people who had witnessed the accident tried to stop the kid, but he lit out like his butt was on fire.  I found myself wondering if he thought the story he told his dad was because he had an expensive bike and he knew his dad was going to be mad as hell at him.

Catching up on the Romney thing, having been away for the last six or seven hours.

I'm not as cavalier about it as our esteemed host, but it's certainly not the silver bullet the Obama camp (and by that I mean the media) thinks it is.  I fault him for an oversimplification, and inaccurate (I think) numbers.  Probably the 47% number IS the non-taxpayers, and I wonder whether that's "hopuseholds" vs "voters", but I don't think that's the fraction of people who would never vote for him, which is probably in the 30s or low 40s.

Many of the people who will never vote for him are elitist a-holes and people who have simply been programmed by the educational system and the media for decades.  That sounds like some of the non-taxpayers might have been for him.

Also, it ignores the people who are not simply layabouts, and the people who are non-taxpayers because there aren't jobs for them out there, and it seems insensitive towards them.

So I don't think it's good, and not nothing, but he was bound to have a hiccup somewhere along the way.

Posted by: Robert at September 18, 2012 01:28 AM (4ixH5)

Only the first film is worth watching though, second I guess if you've never read Frank Miller's script.

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at September 18, 2012 01:35 AM (+/VIS)

remember to wear ice packs, police thermocams on their black helicopters can't see you then

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 01:30 AM (RLZvP)

the manga and anime bored the shit out of me though I have to admit that most light novels bore the shit out of me

Not everyone in these 47% beleive they are trapped in that state forever, nor want to be. That's the part Romney needs to clear up. On substance, this is a good thing to have brought up. The surrogates need to get their spines stiffened and fight this one all week. It's worth the argument. It basically is the argument. 

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This is why we need to play his Press Conference all day. He specifically said that what he wants to do is get those people who are poor and help them move up and join the middle-class and that a free market system is the best way to do that.

Yeah, basically, the problem is that many of the non-taxpayers are the guys that Romney is trying to appeal to, with the idea that unemployment will drop, and they will become taxpayers again.  Yeah, he needs to do a little explaining - that he regrets speaking so loosely, and realizes that not all those guys are just layabouts.

Geez, he IS human, after all...

Posted by: The Dude at September 18, 2012 01:38 AM (tw6Ar)

Oh I was never a big fan of the series myself.  I figured some folks might be interested in a cheap bluray deal.

"504  The essential flaw with leftism is that it sounds good at first, but has horrible ramifications, e.g. --  ..."

Dude!  One HUGE flaw in your story is that the lefty in it is giving the bum their own money!  You really don't get this "lefty" thing, do you?

Posted by: Robert at September 18, 2012 01:47 AM (4ixH5)

if you didn't like the series, it's definitively worth tracking down Frank Miller's script. Shit was good, his Robocop comics were also good (very Judge Dredd)

@524

OK, the military thing works for me, but it's kind of a put-down on the math thing, Mr. Adams.

Posted by: The Dude at September 18, 2012 01:52 AM (tw6Ar)

Cool, I'm down with Frank Miller.

Speaking of Judge Dredd, has anyone seen the new Dredd movie?

To be clear, in this house, we study engineering to make the world better for people (including us).  The next generation studies engineering to make it still better; it doesn't live of it's forefathers so that it can indulge in frivolities.

But, OK, it's definitely NOT for everyone.

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at September 18, 2012 01:35 AM (+/VIS

Posted by: buzzion at September 18, 2012 02:09 AM (GVhRz)

Karl Urban, under-rated actor

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I too am looking forward to another NaNoWriMo.  I'm torn between overhauling last year's VERY rough draft that holds some promise (ie the editing it so sorely needs to make it publishable as an eBook) or move onto the sequel.  Decisions decisions...

Posted by: Optimizer at September 18, 2012 01:49 AM (As94z)

It's proto-leftism....they're giving $20 of their own money in hopes of guilting you and others to give more. That it's stupid at this level provides  a big clue about when it becomes mandatory.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 02:13 AM (RLZvP)

I was like what the fuck are you talking about barack obama for in the same sentance as judge Dredd so i read it again, then I got to the part at the end where you said lives for his work...i guess i misread it the first time as Golf.

I would like to brag....just once....

My work as Sound Stage Manager for P.T Anderson's "The Master" camera/lens tests I think helped launch the shoot in the right trajectory, given my total focus on his needs production value wise and keeping things stable even with the last minute addition of a "Music Video" with Fiona Apple. He should mention me when he gets the Oscar....as if!

There, brag is done. 

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 02:48 AM

Mine is about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. I call it, "Billy and the Cloneasaurus".

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Isn't 47% for an incumbent less than 2 months out from an election kinda bad?

Especially when the challenger is a statistical tie?

PW; I'm jealous, that's a great title.  Does it fit the story?

I'm scuffling to come up with a title for mine.  Something pithy, that grabs your interest.  "Naked ..... something".   Nah.  " Boobehs....  something"  Kinda hard to inject sex into a father's search for a runaway son...  "Puberty Road",  "Chasing Hormones",     I got nuthin.

Naked Terror

Struggling actress Cathy Clairmont wrestles with a difficult decision: whether or not to begin doing nude scenes to improve her career outlook, at least in the short term. To help her decide, she tries working incognito at a strip club. When the other strippers begin turning up dead, only Cathy recognizes the inhuman nature of the killer. Will she be able to stop the murderer before she becomes the next victim?

“So, how do you feel about nudity, Catherine?”

So this is part of the Romney recording that was apparently cut out, and for good reason, it's a great, great line.

"There is a perception, “Oh, we were born with a silver spoon, he never had to earn anything and so forth.” Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you can have: which is to get born in America."

Posted by: zeera at September 18, 2012 02:58 AM

"Valley of the Penises"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 18, 2012 03:05 AM (CrfL3)

"This isn't about the color gray.  This is porn," Steve declared indignantly.

Mine opens with 'Two very bad things were hurtling towards Angus Butler as he stood on the highway shoulder.  Only one was visible.'

Followed by award winning, million selling piffle.  Assuming I get the title right

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 03:08 AM

It's the right idea. Needs something extra, though. A father's search for a runaway son?

"Paternity Test"

Blind Shiek Going Home Soon.

Count on It.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka muhammad hussein jihadi Peace Loving soetero blame bush wright at September 18, 2012 02:39 AM (ovpNn)

If it is before the election, TFG is doomed. 

But, If we want to stop it, call your democrat congress critters.  remind them that soft on terrorism means they will be voted out.  If they want to continue in office, they better make sure TFG does the right thing. 

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 03:01 AM

You really want an opener that pops? How about...

"Show us your jugs"

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 03:19 AM (RLZvP)

"After getting passed around for two hours like a part favor Sally finally begins to question the wisdom of attempting to take on the entire Texas Aggie football team.  Only her pride refuses to allow her to quit now."

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 03:28 AM (RLZvP)

"Her only course of action to end this ordeal speedily?  DVDA!"

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 03:32 AM (RLZvP)

So...anthology then?

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 03:27 AM

Excellent. I'm serious. The opener is important and very, very hard to get right. Unless you can do something that has a certain poetry to it, the less skillful, but just as effective route, is something that goes... bam!

Posted by: chemjeff at September 18, 2012 03:37 AM (d/5qf)

Boring.  No attractive women in sight.

How's the current crop of students so far?

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at September 18, 2012 03:38 AM

It's good, but, go for truly memorable. Use that, but don't end the sentence there. Continue it- "So, how do you feel about nudity, Clarice" he asked, while he (or) as the (etc) ... something, something.

It should be something that makes you go- "holy shit. Did I just read that?"

Posted by: chemjeff at September 18, 2012 03:45 AM (d/5qf)

It helps your impressions if you have a few props handy.

Posted by: zeera at September 18, 2012 03:56 AM (XtxRN)

Go on...

Posted by: zeera at September 18, 2012 04:01 AM (XtxRN)

"It was Election Night, 2012, and lefty douchenozzles across the land were dropping like flies."

Posted by: chemjeff at September 18, 2012 04:05 AM (d/5qf)

"And remember, my dear pupils, the energy from this chain reaction is still less than the total energy produced by the heat given off by an entire Womyn's Study's Department in menopause."

Posted by: chemjeff at September 18, 2012 03:45 AM (d/5qf)

In this economy, how many are just looking to learn how to make meth?

It's amazing how much studying you can do when you don't sleep all semester

Posted by: chemjeff at September 18, 2012 04:11 AM (d/5qf)

That would be an awful risk, wouldn't it? I think the risk of aerosolized Ebola right before touchdown might be worse -- in that it could infect all their buddies after they landed.

Posted by: jc at September 18, 2012 04:13 AM (ufJKx)

Right now we're coming up with catchy openings for stories.

Posted by: chemjeff at September 18, 2012 04:10 AM (d/5qf)

Speaking of which, should you discover the next element for the Periodic Table you are required to name it Valuritenium.

Posted by: Robert at September 18, 2012 04:23 AM (4ixH5)

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things got very interesting in those first couple seconds after the fuse was lit.

Posted by: zeera at September 18, 2012 04:27 AM (XtxRN)

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but the huge boar pig kept right on screwing him up the ass.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2012 04:43 AM (kaalw)

What's with all the weird packet looking things floating in it?

Posted by: jc at September 18, 2012 04:43 AM (ufJKx)

I like it!

Posted by: Robert at September 18, 2012 04:44 AM (4ixH5)

Sheesh, be that way! *hands Robert another beer, takes the original and drinks it*

Posted by: Robert at September 18, 2012 04:50 AM (4ixH5)

If you need to, you can always fan yourself.

Posted by: DAve at September 18, 2012 04:14 AM

Suspension of disbelief... lost.

Posted by: teej at September 18, 2012 06:44 AM (4+PCd)

If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?

Posted by: teej at September 18, 2012 07:08 AM

What's a sujecki? Some kind of shiv?