August 24, 2012

Point And Laugh At Their Stupidity
— LauraW

A tweet from CBS's White House reporter this morning.


I'll leave the logical smackdown to you in comments, darling Morons.

Can you imagine Clinton, or even Carter, coming out and making such an idiotic statement? No way.

But these are not your ordinary liberals. These are Obama Liberals, the most caring, supercharged liberals; the razor's edge, the smartest people in the room.

Obama Liberals have the cheek to come out, in public, and essentially proclaim "We have no idea where all the money or jobs come from!! WHEEE!!"

They are pandering to their base, which is dumb people.

The reason they think they can get away with saying this stupid thing, in public, is that they believe most Americans are too dim to spot the error of understanding in that statement.

Therefore the statement, as well as the expectation that no one will point out that it is in fact f*cktarded, is an implicit insult to the intelligence of all Americans.

And fortunately, that is where their main ignorance lies. They do not understand you, America.

UPDATE FROM EMAIL
John E. writes:

The other part that I take away from Obama's statement is that he believes the word "profits" is widely regarded as a "bad word", but of course it isn't. This a pretty obvious anti-capatilist view that is only held by his most collectivist supporters, and not by the American public. The mask slips yet again.

Yep.

Posted by: LauraW at 06:20 AM | Comments (556)
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1

So, like, is the Obama administration about creating jobs?

Posted by: Jai at August 24, 2012 06:41 AM (iocin)

2

Profit is bad.  Unless you are a democrat.

Then and only then is profit holy.

In any case,  all your  profits  belong to the Obama administration. Corruptocrats are not finished handing out your hard earned 

money to their cronies.

 

 

Posted by: Fresh at August 24, 2012 06:42 AM (O7ksG)

3 I have a co-worker that somehow seems to believe that businesses should exist to create jobs.

I gently explained to him that businesses exist to create products that they sell and make their owners/shareholders a profit from.  He was dumbfounded by this...

The people they're aiming this message at actually exist.

Posted by: GMan at August 24, 2012 06:42 AM (sxq57)

4 Also, not about creating eggs. Just chickens.

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2012 06:42 AM (ZG8Ti)

5 Do companies that operate in the black or red generally pay more in taxes?

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2012 06:44 AM (ZG8Ti)

6 Evil business owners should only be allowed to break even, or work for free. Then somehow this dynamic process will create jobs.

Posted by: lauraw at August 24, 2012 06:44 AM (DK7FM)

7

In Soviet Union they make jobs with no profit.

 

Both of them.

 

 

Posted by: Karl Marx at August 24, 2012 06:44 AM (1Rgee)

8 They are pandering to their base, which is are dumb people.


FIFY.

Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar Polesse at August 24, 2012 06:45 AM (3ZjAP)

9 Obamafolk HATE profits.  Even though the fed wants almost half of the shit.

Posted by: Pipe Holder at August 24, 2012 06:45 AM (VTeUD)

10 Now so many things make sense.  Voting for Obama wasn't about choosing a president, it was about casting a vote for a black guy.

Thank God for liberals to explain these hard problems to us riff raff.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2012 06:45 AM (dX4hn)

11

Obama's career as a politician was not about creating jobs but about creating a socialist society via government dependency and deficits.

 

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2012 06:45 AM (m2CN7)

12 I still refrain from calling Obama a Socialist, but this is something only a Socialist would say.

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2012 06:45 AM (ZG8Ti)

13 A job without pay is......volunteering.

Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 06:46 AM (GQ8sn)

14 Wages, profits, taxes.  What's the f*cking difference?

Posted by: Fritz at August 24, 2012 06:46 AM (/ZZCn)

15 Obama has never created a job, been a supervisor or a manager. Even as President he has been "taken care of" with the vast staff that is available to our President. He is as unprepared now as he was almost 4 years ago, Bless His Little Heart.

Posted by: Granny at August 24, 2012 06:46 AM (egHP5)

16 So the Obamaites are either manipulative or stupid. It's not a good way to go through life either way.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (RD7QR)

17 These are Obama liberals, the most caring, supercharged liberals; the razor's edge, the smartest people in the room.

Along that line, WZ has a post on the annual salaries of the heads of the big unions, including Trumka and SEIU.  Remarkably, they're all in the $300-500k range.  Apparently it requires a lot of money to be that caring about your members as the businesses that employ them circle the drain.

Posted by: pep at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (YXmuI)

18

It's not that they don't understand America, it's that they don't understand human nature.

 

I have a co-worker that somehow seems to believe that businesses should exist to create jobs.

 

Whenever I hear this I always want to ask the person why he or she is not working for no pay.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (JxMoP)

19 Well of course it makes sense to Obama and his minions.  Its about the private sector.  A nonprofitable company isn't going to hire very many people.  However the government can be incredibly nonprofitable and yet still continue to hire more and more people.  So they are really completely disconnected from the idea of how earning more profit can result in more jobs.

Posted by: buzzion at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (GULKT)

20 Obama Campaign says Romney's career at Bain Capital "was not about creating jobs, it was about creating profits."

While Obama is about spending the profits of others.

Posted by: kansas at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (mka2b)

21 no they are totally consistent...

Jobs are activities that have no need for utility and should just grant you standard of living for breathing....

does low information voter not have the reason to reverse engineer what Obama is selling?

seriously?

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (LRFds)

22 "A job without pay is......volunteering."

Or slavery

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (dX4hn)

23 Job creation.  How does it work?

Posted by: jewells45 at August 24, 2012 06:47 AM (l/N7H)

24 And if a Republican had made such a stupid comment the MFM would be ridiculing it for a week.


Just like now.

Posted by: Vic at August 24, 2012 06:48 AM (YdQQY)

25
Reminds me of certain city folk that have absolutely no earthly idea where the food they find in their grocery stores actually come from.

"You mean..... milk actually comes from a cow???... like on a farm???...  I thought it came from the milk factory...."

I generally refrain from telling them eggs shoot out a chickens ass.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2012 06:48 AM (C8hzL)

26 "Bob is a Racist"  Posted earlier, it is pretty good.  I sent it to 100 people, including some liberals.  Pass it on.



http://tinyurl.com/d47cmd2

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 24, 2012 06:48 AM (3ZjAP)

27 ... I just... why?

Posted by: Matt S. at August 24, 2012 06:48 AM (moRRg)

28 Laura W. I think they believe that the media will cover down and join in in smacking down people that make the rational argument....

and I think the media is about to turn on Obama if they grasp ANYTHING about what happens next

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 06:48 AM (LRFds)

29 Whenever I hear this I always want to ask the person why he or she is not working for no pay.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 24, 2012 06:48 AM (JxMoP)

30

of course it was about creating a profit. thats the sole entire purpose of a business. if someone opens a business w/ the goal of creating jobs you can bet they wont.

Posted by: chas at August 24, 2012 06:48 AM (TKF1Y)

31

Can you imagine Clinton, or even Carter, coming out and making such an idiotic statement? No way.

 

Has ANY president made attacking capitalism such an important part of his political platform? Really, I don't know. Teddy or FDR?

 

That's the thing about his "You didn't build that" line. It's one of those lines that doesn't get better with more context, it gets worse when you read the rest of the statement.

Posted by: CJ at August 24, 2012 06:49 AM (9KqcB)

32 * wonders if lauraw is a ginger *

Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 06:49 AM (GQ8sn)

33 24 And if a Republican had made such a stupid comment the MFM would be ridiculing it for a week.


Just like now.


Give me time.

Posted by: Todd Akin at August 24, 2012 06:49 AM (YXmuI)

34 I thought jobs came from the Magic Unicorns. Wait, they don't???

Posted by: GuyfromNH at August 24, 2012 06:49 AM (kbOju)

35 None dare call them communists?  Not trying to be hyperbolic - I mean, if profit is evil, where do you go?

Posted by: longerthoughts at August 24, 2012 06:49 AM (CVVLU)

36 And people have jobs so they will have somewhere to go during the day.

Posted by: huerfano at August 24, 2012 06:50 AM (bAGA/)

37 Are you suggesting, Laura, that there's no difference between profit creation and job creation? Really? Wow: I think we've shown America these last three years that extreme rhetoric like that has no place in our economy.

Posted by: President for Life Obama at August 24, 2012 06:50 AM (Db6BC)

38

This is the essence of liberal thinking.  Entrepreneuars exist to serve the state and society.  Businesses are to give people jobs, pay for their healtchare, pay for their retirement, and to just make their life better.  This  is  just  along line of great quotes from this administration:

 

"I think we all do better when we spread the wealth around."

 

"At some point, I think you have made enough money."

 

"The private sector is doing just fine."

 

"You didn't build that."

 

"Businesses care more about making profits than creating jobs."

 

This is what they believe.  If you start a business, you are now a servent of the state. 

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 06:50 AM (gmeXX)

39 Obama never had a career, but what he has spent his time doing since The Choom Gang has not been about creating jobs. It's been about creating moochers (and working out Daddy issues).

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2012 06:50 AM (ZG8Ti)

40 I mean, if profit is evil, where do you go?

-----


To the gulags.... if they get their way.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2012 06:50 AM (C8hzL)

41 The left's favorite workplace motivator didn't say anything about making profit.

It was  - "Arbeit macht frei."

Posted by: Dang at August 24, 2012 06:51 AM (R18D0)

42 Yes.  You see, all liberals work for free, because making a profit is wrong.

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 06:51 AM (+xmn4)

43 34 I thought jobs came from the Magic Unicorns.

Wait, they don't???


Skittles, they come from skittle babies. After the skittles hatch after they EBT card runs out.

What? 

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 24, 2012 06:51 AM (3ZjAP)

44 Isn't the NY Times currently following the Obama Business Model?  Tell us how that's working out.

Posted by: Fritz at August 24, 2012 06:51 AM (/ZZCn)

45 I'm a little concerned about all this talk about "jobs." Communists want everyone to have a "job." Capitalists want everyone to be able to create wealth. I don't want everyone in America just to have a job, I want everyone in America to have the opportunity to build wealth - individual, personal, transferrable wealth. Sadly, I think the country has drunk too much soft-tyranical socialist kool-aid for any elected official to be able to talk this way.

Posted by: spikeefix at August 24, 2012 06:51 AM (r6tXC)

46

Imagine no profits

It's easy if you try

No earnings below us

Above us only pie (in the sky)

Imagine all the people

Working all day for free

You may say I'm a looter

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And you'll re-elect The One

Posted by: Barack Obama Lennon at August 24, 2012 06:51 AM (RFeQD)

47 There are many ways to pitch to teh stupid. This is just one.

Posted by: The littl shyning man at August 24, 2012 06:52 AM (uhW+R)

48

OT

 

http://tinyurl.com/cya7xtm

 

Linked image (above) good for some Friday Funnies. From linked website (below).

 

http://tinyurl.com/449qpcn

Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at August 24, 2012 06:52 AM (73P68)

49 They have a perfect understanding of the intelligence level of the average american as they have been in control of public schools for over a generation.

Posted by: Mr Pink at August 24, 2012 06:52 AM (EsPqI)

50 Last night at Sam's Club in the produce section I saw higher IQs than what passes for intelligence in this White House.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 06:52 AM (nNd0o)

51 42 Dang,

when the airline I worked for was trying to Union up I used to put that on my rampvest.....


Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 06:52 AM (LRFds)

52 OK, I submitted this to TwulitzerPrize for dumbest tweet of the day consideration, no offense to Mark Knoller.

Posted by: Protectingmyselffromthebogeyman at August 24, 2012 06:52 AM (CVVLU)

53 50 AP,

well we are fast approaching the choice between "beautiful people" and "dutiful people"....

I know where I stand

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 06:54 AM (LRFds)

54

We shouldn't want success or profit. All glory goes to the democrat party.

Costco exists to generate money for the democrat party. That one is OK.

 

Democrats are so stupid, they have no idea where paychecks are born.

 

Posted by: Fresh at August 24, 2012 06:54 AM (O7ksG)

55 Team Obama are Economic Creationists? They should denounce themselves at once. Science!

Posted by: ChampionCapua at August 24, 2012 06:54 AM (KZi9D)

56 Wait.....Who is John Galt??

Posted by: bogz at August 24, 2012 06:54 AM (uJK1E)

57 With each passing day, I  grow more and more confident that this is going to be a landslide. 

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 06:54 AM (gmeXX)

58

Oh the humanity!  Profits!!!! Hide the women and children!!!

Posted by: Natasha at August 24, 2012 06:55 AM (jU5uf)

59 Last night at Sam's Club in the produce section I saw higher IQs than what passes for intelligence in this White House.Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 10:52 AM (nNd0o)

You're being too hard on him, bless his little heart.

I would place his intelligence as somewhere between a cauliflower and an onion.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 24, 2012 06:55 AM (sbV1u)

60 Similarly, Obama's career in government has not been about creating jobs.  It has been about creating deficits.


Posted by: Kasper Hauser at August 24, 2012 06:55 AM (HqpV0)

61

Therefore the statement, as well as the expectation that no one will point out that it is in fact f*cktarded...

 

  Hey   now!      Even we're not THAT dumb.   Show a little respect.

 

*goes back to trying to eat butter with a popsicle*

Posted by: The United Federation of Fucktards at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (4df7R)

62 Obama Campaign says Romneys' love life was about creating sexual pleasure, not about creating babies.

Posted by: edj at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (+QKfp)

63
That aint workin
Thats the way we do it.

Money for nothin' and the chicks for free.

Posted by: Mark Knoller at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (C8hzL)

64 HMM, Fire, sorry, Money Bad!

Posted by: Franken-Lib at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (136wp)

65 If I didn't live here it would be an interesting exercise to see how long they can deny reality, and how far past the peak of the Laffer Curve they will go.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (SDkq3)

66 I would have to say this Mark Knoller yoyo is one of the duller tools in the shed.

Posted by: Killerdog at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (byHYG)

67

This  is one case where I want Romney to accept the premise that yes Bain Capital cared more about profits than creating jobs. 

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (gmeXX)

68 They really think the only legit form of business entity is the Non-Profit. It's because it's the only type they ever form when they make their fraud wridden NGO's.

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2012 06:56 AM (ZG8Ti)

69 Obama is running against success and prosperity. This is an insane campaign strategy but it might work. It's obvious to us that Obama's rhetoric is identical to the Occupy rhetoric, but it's polished and packaged well enough to be disguised as legitimate and sound policy.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 06:57 AM (Y4TdB)

70 Hard to believe that we have sunk so low that we have a president who actually believes shit like this. Kind of scary.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 06:57 AM (TMB3S)

71 "America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." ~Ayn Rand

Shhhhhh.

(I disagree with Rand's sense that public sacrifices are a bad thing - but I'm surely not doing to ignore all the positives of profit.)

Posted by: longerthoughts at August 24, 2012 06:57 AM (CVVLU)

72

You may want to point and laugh at them but they are also pointing and laughing at us and they currently hold office:

.

Treasury Department officials want contractors to make a “good-faith effort” to have women and minorities in their workforce, a clause that may be in future Treasury contracts, according to a Federal Register notice published Aug. 21. Officials are proposing an amendment to the ...as required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill became law in July 2010.

.

Link in sig

Posted by: BidenloidTheHappy at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (0udxW)

73 Romney's running the Olympic Games wasn't about sports but selling cheap t-shirts....

Posted by: Obama Campaign at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (136wp)

74 Like all proggers, Teddy wasn't above a bit of paranoia. MALEFACTORS OF GREAT WEALTH" AND THE PANIC OF 1907. It may well be that the determination of the government (in which, gentlemen, it will not waver) to punish certain malefactors of great wealth, has been responsible for something of the trouble; at least to the extent of having caused these men to combine to bring about as much financial stress as possible, in order to discredit the policy of the government and thereby secure a reversal of that policy, so that they may enjoy unmolested the fruits of their own evil-doing. . . . I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this free country—the people through their governmental agents, or a few ruthless and domineering men whose wealth makes them peculiarly formidable because they hide behind the breastworks of corporate organization. (At Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Provincetown, Mass., August 20, 1907.) Mem. Ed. XVIII, 99; Nat. Ed. XVI, 84.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (QupBk)

75 Communists want everyone to have a "job." Capitalists want everyone to be able to create wealth.

I'd really much prefer having wealth instead of a job.


Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (/kI1Q)

76

The only part of this I don't understand is why a guy who works for CBS news is going on the Twits website and posting this.  If it's news, doesn't it belong on, you know, the news?  And if it's not news, then what is it, gossip?  Did Barack Obama say this to the newsguy personally?  Where were they, if not at a public event where plenty of people heard it?  In the men's room? 

 

I swear, the whole world is becoming populated with virtual teenage girls. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (TOk1P)

77 >>Obama Campaign says Romney's career at Bain Capital "was not about creating jobs, it was about creating profits."

Well then if you want to look at it that way...Obama's career as the goling preezy is about destroying jobs and creating massive deficits.

Profits lead to surplus and

I will take surplus'  over deficits any day.


Posted by: sTevo's work around at work. at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (t5oSK)

78 25
Reminds me of certain city folk that have absolutely no earthly idea where the food they find in their grocery stores actually come from.

"You mean..... milk actually comes from a cow???... like on a farm???... I thought it came from the milk factory...."

I generally refrain from telling them eggs shoot out a chickens ass.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2012 10:48 AM (C8hzL)


Oh snap, don't let "jimi ray" read this. It is all about the cities being what makes America great.

Posted by: MrCaniac at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (1grxW)

79 The media is starting to turn, but only out of a sense of self-preservation.  Between Tapper, Halperin, WaPo's admission that we aren't better off now than four years ago, and others, I think they've concluded that O is a goner, so they might as well try to reestablish some credibility. 

Posted by: pep at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (YXmuI)

80 Obama has invested our money in  creating   bankruptcies. So he can't even do either.

Posted by: Roy at August 24, 2012 06:58 AM (VndSC)

81 57 With each passing day, I grow more and more confident that this is going to be a landslide. Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 10:54 AM (gmeXX) It has to be, because if it isn't we are in for some serious shit. Obama is not going to go away if he loses. After getting the boot he is going to become a full time agitator.

Posted by: cajun carrot at August 24, 2012 06:59 AM (UZQM8)

82 Clueless. I think his attempt to criticize Romney for saying people should shop around for colleges is similarly stupid. Most people do shop around for universities.

Posted by: Y-not at August 24, 2012 06:59 AM (5H6zj)

83 This tweet just shows how much trouble the Obama cabal is in. Their internals must be God awful. If this is as good as they've got two months out from the election then they're sunk. His base should already be revved up and this sentiment won't get him many indy's.

Posted by: volfan at August 24, 2012 06:59 AM (RTb48)

84

What you all are missing... is that this is NOT an error... this is both a true statement, and HOW they think.

 

They believe that somehow, it IS industrys and business's main mission, to create Jobs, not Goods... not wealth....

 

Its like how they measure success... ie the GDP, which is all about the movement of money, not the creation of things....

 

The truely do not understand the very BASIS of why capitalism works. (which is why they've let the banks go from a needed framework, to the too big to fail monstrers they now are... and why they changed the commodities market from a lubricant of supply demand, to an online betting pool where the vast majority of commodity contracts are never delivered)

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 24, 2012 06:59 AM (lZBBB)

85 Never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people...

Posted by: navybrat at August 24, 2012 06:59 AM (PIgwN)

86 Not that teenage girls tend to be found in men's rooms, but hopefully that's understood, that's where the "virtual" part comes in. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2012 06:59 AM (TOk1P)

87 I think Knoller is part of the turn.  He didn't say he agreed with O's statement, but he had to know it wouldn't help the O campaign.

I look for Romney to make a big deal of this.

Posted by: pep at August 24, 2012 06:59 AM (YXmuI)

88 I would have to say this Mark Knoller yoyo is one of the duller tools in the shed.

Posted by: Killerdog at August 24, 2012 10:56 AM (byHYG)

 

Knoller's just    quoting what the     Obama campaign has said.   If you want to look for dull tools, look ye to the OfA.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 07:00 AM (4df7R)

89 Romney's term as Governor of Massachusetts wasn't about leading the state but selling electronic toll tags...

Posted by: Obama Campaign at August 24, 2012 07:00 AM (136wp)

90

Soothsayer,  I think the only way this can work for Obama is if Romney gets to wound up in whether Bain focused on creating jobs or not.  Romney should fully accept that the premise that profits come first.  People build their own businesess to help themselves and their familly.  But all of society benefits when businesses become profitable.  Unprofitable businesses don't create jobs.  Its a simple concept that can  be explained succinctly, but he must start by accepting the premise.  Obama thinks its a bad thing.  A majority of the voters do not.  Own it.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:00 AM (gmeXX)

91

This is why Romney and Ryan should forget about blowing hundreds of millions on traditional 30 second ads.

 

They should produce 15 minute mini-tutorials on business, the economy, healthcare, government waste, etc.  Purchase half hour blocks and run two segments back to back.

Posted by: jwest at August 24, 2012 07:00 AM (ZDsRL)

92 I guess Obama campaign employees aren't offered 401k's. Sounds like a horrible boss.

Posted by: i like anchors 2012 at August 24, 2012 07:00 AM (nBE5A)

93 After getting the boot he is going to become a full time agitator commentator for ESPN's College Hoops series.

FIFY.


Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 24, 2012 07:00 AM (sbV1u)

94 85 Never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people... Posted by: navybrat at August 24, 2012 10:59 AM (PIgwN) Hey, you stole our family motto! Give it back!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 24, 2012 07:01 AM (136wp)

95 I would place his intelligence as somewhere between a cauliflower and an onion.

pffft.  Well, yeah!  Who isn't smarter than those guys. 

Posted by: potatoes at August 24, 2012 07:01 AM (YXmuI)

96 1) Start a business
2) ???
3) Jobs!

Posted by: Andy at August 24, 2012 07:01 AM (5Rurq)

97 FAIL, teabaggers. Jobs are created by people who go to work, contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their families. A company cannot exist with employees. There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money.

Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 07:01 AM (bN5ZU)

98 Oh course, this is a guy who's wife got 300K in a made up job to do exactly nothing. This is how he thinks capitalism works. What a dolt.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 07:02 AM (TMB3S)

99 Liberals should actually be mad that they are calling these commie socialistic bastards, liberals. Unless liberals have morphed into commie socialistic bastards, then forget what I said. Anyway I hate them all.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 24, 2012 07:02 AM (05RcU)

100 97 FAIL, teabaggers. Jobs are created by people who go to work, contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their families. A company cannot exist with employees. There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money. Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU) Got your degree in Economics from the Keith Olberman School of Idiocy, I see.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 24, 2012 07:03 AM (136wp)

101 69 Obama is running against success and prosperity. This is an insane campaign strategy but it might work. It's obvious to us that Obama's rhetoric is identical to the Occupy rhetoric, but it's polished and packaged well enough to be disguised as legitimate and sound policy. ---------------------------------------------- If you're right and Obama wins with that message then we are truly doomed with a capital D.

Posted by: volfan at August 24, 2012 07:03 AM (RTb48)

102 Barry's comments me of the old SNL commercial for First Citiwide Change BankÂ… http://www.hulu.com/watch/4258 If you come to us with a twenty-dollar bill, we can give you two tens. We can give you four fives. We can give you a ten and two fives. We will work with you. and http://www.hulu.com/watch/4253 All the time our customers ask us, "How do you make money doing this?" The answer is simple. Volume. That's what we do. Barry probably wouldn't laugh. It's over his head.

Posted by: elprez at August 24, 2012 07:03 AM (4QO27)

103

Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)

 

Average Joe sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: buzzion at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (GULKT)

104 Yeah, I have to say Mark Knoller is one of the straightest of the MSMers that I follow. He basically just reports on Twitter. Occasionally he'll tweet something clever/humorous (non-political) and he even occasionally seems to frame things in a way that is not favorable to Obama. Whatever his political leanings are, he's more honest than most of them imho.

Posted by: Y-not at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (5H6zj)

105 My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks,"

Posted by: I, Barry, Wizard of Oz at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (PcoXF)

106 So drudge is reporting the "shooting" in NYC was by a fired employee denied entrance to his job.  He then shot his boss when the boss showed up.

If Bush was president? 

Headlines, "unemployment drives people to kill  for a job".

Obama?  No connection at all.



Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (3ZjAP)

107 don't you ever get sick of dojng your fake moonbat shtick?

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (ODeHV)

108

97 -

 

You aren't real.  You're a virtual troll. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (TOk1P)

109

Reminds me of certain city folk that have absolutely no earthly idea
where the food they find in their grocery stores actually come from.

 

It reminds me of the little rich girl on   Punky Brewster    who     couldn't believe that carrots are grown and harvested out of the ground, and didn't just magically appear at the grocery store.  

 

These days it would be the reverse:  Punky would be a leftist flower-child twit who thought that food comes from    unicorn farts, and the little rich girl would be the one who knows carrots come from farms because her daddy got rich from agribusiness.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (4df7R)

110 FAIL, teabaggers. Jobs are created by people who go to work, contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their families. A company cannot exist with employees. Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)


lib·er·al adj \li-b(ə-)rəl\  - A person unfamiliar with basic concepts of economics

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (sbV1u)

111 A company cannot exist with employees.

You've got an MBA, don't you?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (/kI1Q)

112 Obama campaign says Romney will make people work for their income. That motherfuc**r.

Posted by: Peggy Joseph at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (fWAjv)

113 97 Frederic Marx,

Hey numbnuts you need capital to generate business 'tard.  Without a profit motive you will face pressure from the sheep to never improve your methodology or physical plant.  You are either a sock, or a retarded communard.

"a company cannot exist with employees"?

Yeah you're right if they think like you.....

Employees are involved in the same profit seeking as the investor class asshammer they rent their skillset and effort to the investor.

God I hate you people.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (LRFds)

114 I disagree. Obamanots are dumb and think all Americans are lke them.

Posted by: jukin at August 24, 2012 07:04 AM (5oKRH)

115 President Choom: But once you reach your profits and earnings ratio you can create jobs

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2012 07:05 AM (1Jaio)

116 104 Yeah, I have to say Mark Knoller is one of the straightest of the MSMers that I follow. He basically just reports on Twitter. Occasionally he'll tweet something clever/humorous (non-political) and he even occasionally seems to frame things in a way that is not favorable to Obama. Whatever his political leanings are, he's more honest than most of them imho. Posted by: Y-not at August 24, 2012 11:04 AM (5H6zj) Yep, he attributes without editorial commenting...

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 24, 2012 07:05 AM (136wp)

117 111 HR,

From the Obama Chair at Choom university

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:05 AM (LRFds)

118
Got your degree in Economics from the Keith Olberman School of Idiocy, I see.

------


You sir..... WILL be hearing from our attorneys.

Posted by: Cornell - (not THAT one... the one spelled E I E I O ) at August 24, 2012 07:05 AM (C8hzL)

119 You know who created jobs? Jon Corzine. How many people do you think you could employ to find 1 billion dollars?

Posted by: typo dynamofof at August 24, 2012 07:05 AM (23Rnf)

120 114 I disagree. Obamanots are dumb and think all Americans are lke them. Posted by: jukin at August 24, 2012 11:04 AM (5oKRH) What you talking about Willis?

Posted by: Zombie Gary at August 24, 2012 07:06 AM (136wp)

121

If businesses only exist to provide jobs then why are so many people unemployed? It should be a trivial matter to start a company, hire a few million people, and put them to work.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 24, 2012 07:06 AM (JxMoP)

122 Oh course, this is a guy who's wife got 300K in a made up job to do exactly nothing. This is how he thinks capitalism works.

Not *exactly* nothing, she did throw out patients without insurance.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 24, 2012 07:06 AM (/kI1Q)

123 Hi, Average Joe!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 07:06 AM (4df7R)

124 ha

Posted by: typo dynamofo at August 24, 2012 07:07 AM (23Rnf)

125 119 You know who created jobs? Jon Corzine. How many people do you think you could employ to find 1 billion dollars? Posted by: typo dynamofof at August 24, 2012 11:05 AM (23Rnf) It was two billion...

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 24, 2012 07:07 AM (136wp)

126

Obama voters are hop-scotching along the event horizon of unfathomable stupidity.

 

 

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 07:07 AM (+xmn4)

127

Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)

 

My business is staffed by its OWNERS.... if there is no profit? We don't get paid...

 

this level of stupidity MUST be a sock.... LOL

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 24, 2012 07:08 AM (lZBBB)

128 (bN5ZU) is a longtime commenter. Is it Average Joe?

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2012 07:08 AM (FcR7P)

129 President Obama! Mr President! Do you support Senator Franken's stand against homosexuals? (recorded this morning in an alternate universe)

Posted by: The littl shyning man at August 24, 2012 07:08 AM (uhW+R)

130

A few years back I had an epiphany about stupid people. First, they are ever with us. This is why old men get so cranky - they expect the populace to get more intelligent as time goes by and it never happens.

 

Second, what triggered this was watching some woman driver do something so terribly stupid at sixty miles an hour on the freeway that I was actually stunned by it. As I passed her car I looked over and it dawned on me that she looked just like this stupid girl I knew in high school. At that point the light flashed on - people you knew in school that were stupid don't get smarter, they just get older. TA DA!

 

The 52%. I rest my case.

Posted by: chuck in st paul at August 24, 2012 07:08 AM (EhYdw)

131

It does seem that some of the more "credible" media is shifting just a bit.  Obviously, I don't expect true believers like MSNBC to shift, but some of the more longer tenured reporters at the more traditional newsrooms and print media will shift - if only slightly.  Partly out of self-preservation and partly out of not tieing Obama's coming defeat to the defeat of liberalism in general.  But I think it is partly out of just wanting to be on the winning side, or at least perceived to be smart enough  to have seen this coming.   I suspect that a few conservative commentators knew what we knew about Obama, but also knew he would win.  So they cozied up to him to look pretty smart.  Really it is just being gutless.  Anyway, I doubt the news media will be as full in the tank for Obama as they were in 2008.  Probably starting in October, when it becomes clear that he is going to lose and he is going to lose big.  By then there will be no way to save the ship, so you might as well jump.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:08 AM (gmeXX)

132 Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)





This is either a sock or it's someone in academics

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2012 07:08 AM (1Jaio)

133 Not that teenage girls tend to be found in men's rooms I know better than to read comments from bottom to top. That whole oh noes profit is ebil! thing drives me bonkers. There's nothing wrong with making money. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money. The entire freaking point of a company is to make money. I worked for a firm where the retirement contribution was based on a year end profit share. Management was very very paranoid about the employees knowing anything about the finances of the firm. I tried, in vain sadly, to get through to management that the employees needed to know if the firm was making a profit because that impacted the employees' compensation. I also tried, in vain sadly, to get the employees to realize that the more money the firm made, the better it was for them. tl;dr, people are freaking idiots

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (VtjlW)

134 126 Obama voters arehop-scotchingalongthe event horizon of unfathomable stupidity. Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 11:07 AM (+xmn4) Laugh, now, but who's getting her mortgage and gasoline paid for... but I have been waiting a while

Posted by: Peggy Joseph at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (136wp)

135 Well, at least we can sleep well at night knowing these are the people running our foreign, economic, health care, educational, defense and energy policies.

Posted by: mare at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (A98Xu)

136 Obama voters are hop-scotching along the event horizon of unfathomable stupidity.  Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 11:07 AM (+xmn4)


That's the bad news.  They'll take us with them.

The good news is that if everything goes pear-shaped, they'll be the first to starve to death.

So we got that goin' for us....which is nice.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (sbV1u)

137 Oh bless their hearts...

Posted by: Mjim at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (QUF7g)

138 It should be a trivial matter to start a company, hire a few million people, and put them to work. And yet, even spending trillions of dollars, Obama can't do it.

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (FcR7P)

139 128 (bN5ZU) is a longtime commenter. Is it Average Joe?

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2012 11:08 AM (FcR7P)


Or ParisParamus is Average Joe or Average Joe is ParisParamus/


I dunno.....it's tedious though.

Posted by: Tami at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (X6akg)

140 The jobs not profits model was recently tested by Solyndra, and would still be working if not for those Greedy Repugs who stopped providing OPP (Other People's Profits) to keep the charade going.

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2012 07:09 AM (ZG8Ti)

141 There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money.

Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)

So no business should turn a profit?  Do tell me more ...

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 07:10 AM (+xmn4)

142 >>>It was two billion...

Twice as nice! More employees.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at August 24, 2012 07:10 AM (23Rnf)

143 Obama - I measure success by the number of people on food stamps the number of people on unemployment the number of people on disability the number of people receiving any form of government assistance the number of illegal aliens getting amnesty

Posted by: thunderb at August 24, 2012 07:10 AM (Dnbau)

144 131 SH,

I opined back when See BS spiked Mitt and Ryan's interview with Schieffer that that was an "oh shit" moment....

Mitt is running a campaign against the very essence of the Pelosi wing's economic offer and enough Americans remember what real proseprity looks like to know this ain't it....

I fgure we'll know after the conventions whether the majority of the news donks are all in for Choom or are gonna Carter his ass and go back to the long con...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:11 AM (LRFds)

145 people you knew in school that were stupid don't get smarter, they just get older. TA DA! The 52%. I rest my case. Posted by: chuck in st paul at August 24, 2012 11:08 AM (EhYdw) We like you style, can for a grant of $50 million to do a study. You will however have to hire women and minorities.

Posted by: Keith Olberman School of Idiocy at August 24, 2012 07:11 AM (136wp)

146

128 -

 

It switches names all the time, including using the names of some of our more famous trolls, but I think this one is mostly known as Paris Paramus, and this is his/her schtick.  Fake trolling.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2012 07:12 AM (TOk1P)

147 The problem is Romney will probably protest and say he did create jobs.

Posted by: Baldy at August 24, 2012 07:12 AM (opS9C)

148

Is it unfair to say     that a large chunk of Obama's base is also a large chunk of the target audience of South Park?    Which means that a large chunk of Obama's base is familiar with the Underpants Gnomes and their quest for profit?   So these idiot people actually know what profit IS, and that it's desirable?       So is it unfair to say that Obama's campaign is staffed by clusterfuckingly stupid people?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 07:12 AM (4df7R)

149 136 Sean Bannion,

I figure we'll split.

I'm serious you have states who will rebel if it ghets too much more off the hookand Choom magic pens less energy.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:12 AM (LRFds)

150 JohnE is right.  We (and I mean Mitt)  should not be afraid of the word.  Own it, accept it,  say of course we cared about profits. 

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:12 AM (gmeXX)

151 The jobs not profits model was recently tested by Solyndra, and would still be working if not for those Greedy Repugs who stopped providing OPP (Other People's Profits) to keep the charade going.

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2012 11:09 AM (ZG8Ti)




The "green economy" is the perfect example of jobs without profits. Another Barry success story

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2012 07:12 AM (1Jaio)

152

Obama's financial prowess is based on the Steve Martin Plan To Become A Millionare.

Step 1:  Get yourself a million dollars.

 

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2012 07:13 AM (m2CN7)

153 So no business should turn a profit? Do tell me more ...Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 11:10 AM (+xmn4)

He can't.  His logic train breaks down after that.

Once you point out the idiocy of their remarks the next thing that heads your way are cries of "racist,"  "hater,"  "homophobe"!!!!

It's way beyond old at this point.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 24, 2012 07:13 AM (sbV1u)

154 Hey SCOAMF, jobs are a byproduct, not the main goal of a business. Without a profit/earnings ratio (your term) you can't keep the doors open to even hire anyone.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at August 24, 2012 07:13 AM (UU0OF)

155 148 Is it unfair to say that a large chunk of Obama's base is also a large chunk of the target audience of South Park? Which means that a large chunk of Obama's base is familiar with the Underpants Gnomes and their quest for profit? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at August 24, 2012 11:12 AM (4df7R) I don't think Obama supporters watch "South Park", I'd suggest going the the nearest Walmart at the beginning of the month when the EBC cards are issued...

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 24, 2012 07:14 AM (136wp)

156 147 Baldy,

He did that is part of the whole point....

Mitt has enough ammunition to make a two pronged attack on the sanctity of faith as a private matter guiiding secular principle and the economic engine and destroy Barack with a lecture a 4th grader can grasp on both points....

ie Low Information Voter friendly....


the speech will take about 20 minutes tops.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:14 AM (LRFds)

157 Instapundit linked to this pretty awesome video this morning, called "I want to grow up to be a Crony!" http://tinyurl.com/9uxg2qm

Posted by: Obama loves EXC at August 24, 2012 07:15 AM (Db6BC)

158 Cauliflower?  Onions?  Potatoes?  I was thinking more of a rutabaga.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 07:15 AM (nNd0o)

159 There are a few in the MSM with a clue. 

Knoller's reporting what the Obama campaign said.  Nothing wrong with that. 

We've seen a couple miracles on CNN recently, with Wolf and now AC - it almost looks like a couple of their shows decided to do a little market research - 'hey, if we do credible journalism over here now and then, will it help our ratings?'  

Ashley (wasn't it once 'Ashleigh' back in the first Gulf War days?) Banfield's producer apparently didn't get the memo, they were still in full-Dem-oil-massage mode the last time we looked.

There really is room in the middle for an outfit prepared to dole out hotfoots equally to both sides, but it's got to be relevant.

Posted by: JEM at August 24, 2012 07:15 AM (o+SC1)

160 LMAO - President Obama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers -- but more than half of them really don't exist, according to reports. A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes "fake followers," The New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.

Posted by: RWC at August 24, 2012 07:15 AM (fWAjv)

161 (bN5ZU) is a longtime commenter. Is it Average Joe? Is the Pope Catholic? Does Average Joe suck cock by choice?

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 07:15 AM (QupBk)

162

Yeah, I have to say Mark Knoller is one of the straightest of the MSMers that I follow.

 

And he's the semi-official keeper of the How Many Times has the President Golfed/Vacationed? List

 

Posted by: CJ at August 24, 2012 07:16 AM (9KqcB)

163 Yeah, but keep in mind that they don't need the entire country to be retarded.  51% will do.

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at August 24, 2012 07:16 AM (+inic)

164

No-one should make more money than me!

It's unkind, it's selfish,  and i think a porter should make as much as a doctor because it's all work!

i mean you have to get out of bed and everything, you know?

and everyone should have a house if they want to. houses should be the price a person can afford. all this would be more fair if i knew i was working if i could buy everything i want , because well i want stuff too.

Posted by: willow channeling left voters at August 24, 2012 07:16 AM (TomZ9)

165 We've seen a couple miracles on CNN recently, with Wolf and now AC Posted by: JEM at August 24, 2012 11:15 AM (o+SC1) rats... sinking ships... blah, blah

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 24, 2012 07:16 AM (136wp)

166 I don't listen to Rush that much, but I heard him talk about Obama going after the moron vote yesterday.  That's exactly what this is.  Only a flippin' moron doesn't understand that you have to make a profit in order to stay in business and produce jobs.


Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 07:16 AM (/YJYi)

167

"I have a co-worker that somehow seems to believe that businesses should exist to create jobs."

 

This was the (misguided)  point that a lot of the Occupoopers  were all about.

 

A business  in business of making money is evil.  Businesses  should exist to give me a place to go for eight hours a day and do as much or as little as I desire, and then give me a paycheck at the end of each week.  What, you don't have any positions  where my Bachelor's in Post-Modernist  Canadian  Literature  makes me  a  perfect fit?  Well, then, I guess you'll just need to have a few words with My President about that.

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 07:16 AM (kZVsz)

168

Expect this to try to tie into "big banks" and "Wall Street regulation" as we go farther into the cycle.

The democrats are trying to seperate "profit" from "job creation" using banks and the finacial system as a wedge to do it.  Mostly because the average american doesn't understand private equity or banking.

So their plan is to convince the public that Bain was no better than a big bank (like BofA) which people already hate, connect the two in their mind and BAM! Profit.

I don't think it'll work, but americans have been stupider before.

Posted by: tsrblke at August 24, 2012 07:16 AM (GaqMa)

169 @155 - yeah, Obama's got an interesting 'base' - it's really a doughnut.

He's got the gated mansions and ivy-covered professors, and he's got the Walmart welfare-scammers, and not much in between.

Posted by: JEM at August 24, 2012 07:17 AM (o+SC1)

170 >>Does Average Joe suck cock by choice? Wait, Average Joe is Kerry Gauthier?! It's all crystal clear now!

Posted by: Y-not at August 24, 2012 07:17 AM (5H6zj)

171 Sven -  I'd say that is about right.  Sometime in September or October, they are going to realize it is over.  They  will tell us it is close because they need that for ratings.  Hey, that's fine, that's just good business.  I'm   really not going to be surprised if Mitt gets close or over 400 EV.   Obama will get more and more desperate.   As he does more and more  votes will slip away.  At that point, we will start hearing from the media that this isn't the hope and change we voted for.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:17 AM (gmeXX)

172

"the speech will take about 20 minutes tops."

 

Dealbreaker!  Will there be a commercial, so I can get up and get a snack?

Posted by: average American attention span at August 24, 2012 07:18 AM (kZVsz)

173 OT:

Drudge has a killer, excuse me, juxtaposition:

CHICAGOLAND:  13 shot in30-minute span

FLASHBACK:  Obama -- 'Chicago is example of what makes this country great'...


Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (GQ8sn)

174 I guess its all my safety training.  But setting up the new printer.  The idiot set-up sheet says plug printer in and turn on.  Then install ink cartridges.  How about I install them and then power it up, that way I avoid moving parts and energized circuits.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (nNd0o)

175 >>So their plan is to convince the public that Bain was no better than a big bank (like BofA) which people already hate, connect the two in their mind and BAM! Profit. In typical Obama fashion, they are going to pounce all over their dicks when Obama delivers his keynote address from Bank of America stadium.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (TMB3S)

176 Yeah, but keep in mind that they don't need the entire country to be retarded. 51% will do.

Not even that many...just more than half of the votes cast in a certain number of states need to be retarded.  If there's 40% turnout of those over 18...the percentage of assholes and brainwashed and brain-deads can be less than 20% of the total population and still fuck the rest of us over.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (/kI1Q)

177

133 -

 

Sometimes I read up, just because it's more fun to misunderstand context. 

 

I may be in the minority here, but I really don't think you'd find too many people in the higher levels of the O administration (possibly excepting O himself) who believe this tripe.  But they know it's good for the campaign, or they hope it is.  Every time I think "there's no way voters are going to fall for this us vs. them approach again," they do. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (TOk1P)

178 >>>So no business should turn a profit? Do tell me more .

Yeah the first principals of business. I was struck today because Kodak is calling it quits with film and photographic paper and selling that part of their business. Reason being of course that they can no longer turn a profit in that business. This hits me personally because I still shoot with film for a variety of reasons. Now I think amongst the arteests there is still a place for film photography, the problem is Kodak didn't anticipate their product transitioning from main stream to a specialty niche product.

I just hope that whomever buys Kodak's film business recognizes the going forward value (though vastly reduced) of buggy whips for that niche market and actually serves our needs for quality products.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (0q2P7)

179 82 Clueless.

I think his attempt to criticize Romney for saying people should shop around for colleges is similarly stupid. Most people do shop around for universities.

Posted by: Y-not at August 24, 2012 10:59 AM (5H6zj)


The world needs ditch diggers too.

Posted by: Judge Elihu Smails at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (1grxW)

180

He can't. His logic train breaks down after that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 24, 2012 11:13 AM (sbV1u)

You're a very generous individual.  I thought it was a handcar.

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (+xmn4)

181 @165 - yeah, it may be too late for CNN. 

Posted by: JEM at August 24, 2012 07:19 AM (o+SC1)

182 The Church is not about the business of saving souls, it is about getting as many fannies in the pews as possible.

Posted by: Fr. Obama at August 24, 2012 07:20 AM (R4WsQ)

183 Related: check out Insty's link to the expose on Gawker. Turns out they use a maze of Cayman and Hungarian shell corporations to avoid paying US taxes.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 07:20 AM (B/VB5)

184 This is what happens when your focus group buzzwords defeat common sense, escape their cages, and bite you on the ass.


We've seen a great many stupid things out of these guys, but that one takes the cake.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2012 07:20 AM (B9nls)

185 http://tinyurl.com/bqby7po


FOXNEWS CALLS IT BY NAME!

The Great Depression that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims to have averted has been part of the background radiation of our economy since at least 2008.

It's just that, like radiation, it's invisible.

We've called it the recovery, the jobless recovery, the slogging recovery and more recently the fading recovery. We've measured modest growth in our nation's gross domestic product to record that our so-called Great Recession ended in June 2009. And now we are saying that if this disappointing growth suddenly disappears, as currently feared, we will be in a new recession.


They admit that the stock market is because the rest of the world is more scared of their home than here and we are the hedge....


Helicopter Ben your time is UP!


Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:20 AM (LRFds)

186 How about I install them and then power it up, that way I avoid moving parts and energized circuits. If it's an HP, the cartridge carriers will be parked with the power off. You power it up to make them accessible. Or you just force them. Either or.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 07:21 AM (QupBk)

187 Comrade Jugears was taught by his professors that businesses should exist as a public service to employ people.  If they turn a profit then it's because they're not "spreading the wealth" among their employees enough.

The depth of Il Douche's ignorance of basic economics is frightening.  Fucker should put down Das Kapital and read some Adam Smith.

Posted by: Cicero at August 24, 2012 07:21 AM (Jl3/t)

188 Now we know why Government Motors is all about losing taxpayer money.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 24, 2012 07:21 AM (yxz7s)

189 Cake?  Who's got cake?!

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 24, 2012 07:21 AM (/kI1Q)

190

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 11:19 AM (TMB3S)

 

Well, yes.  But that's just an unintended side effect of stupidity.  It doesn't change their line of attack.

(I also suspect they'll be in full spin mode, and a willing MSM will just ignore that.)

Posted by: tsrblke at August 24, 2012 07:21 AM (GaqMa)

191

"The idiot set-up sheet says plug printer in and turn on. Then install ink cartridges."

 

The default position for the print head on  my Epson is tucked  far off into a corner.  It has to be powered up so that the printer will "sense" you open the hatch, and then move the print head into position so that you can load the cartridges.

 

Yours may  be the same.

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 07:21 AM (kZVsz)

192 No profit for jobs! No Profit for jobs! Rabble Rabble Rabble!

Posted by: entropy at August 24, 2012 07:21 AM (TULs6)

193 How about I install them and then power it up, that way I avoid moving parts and energized circuits.>>

I've had some printers where the resting point of the cartridge carrier is not accessible when the printer is not powered up.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 24, 2012 07:22 AM (tf9Ne)

194

Posted by: chuck in st paul at August 24, 2012 11:08 AM (EhYdw)

 

The real issue is that we have made society too safe, through laws and technology... in olden times, the stupid would kill themselves off before getting old... now they linger forever... doing ever more stupid stuff.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 24, 2012 07:22 AM (lZBBB)

195 Toby I had to manually move the carrier to remove all the helpful HP installed packing material.  So put the cartridges in.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 07:22 AM (nNd0o)

196 Helicopter Ben your time is UP!



As God as my witness, I thought bags of money could fly!

Posted by: Ben "Money Drop" Bernanke at August 24, 2012 07:23 AM (GQ8sn)

197 CBS's White House reporter is reporting about the "Obama Campaign" from the White House.

Have they repealed the Hatch Act or what ?

Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords Schultz at August 24, 2012 07:23 AM (e8kgV)

198 Every employee is a business owner and the product he sells is himself (skills/knowledge/labor). If businesses should not exist to make a profit then employees should not be paid, and from here it's not a big leap into communal ownership, abolition of private property, and the eventual murder of millions of people.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 24, 2012 07:23 AM (JxMoP)

199 The moron vote is just going to do what the moron vote typically does --  not vote.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:23 AM (gmeXX)

200

A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes "fake followers," The New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.

 

So that's where the stimulus money went.

Posted by: entropy at August 24, 2012 07:23 AM (TULs6)

201 187 Cicero,

That is why we are not allowed to see his transcripts and curricula vitae....

reverse engineering his exposure to economic theory will kill him

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:23 AM (LRFds)

202 Since I was replaced with 'Humanities of the Aboriginal Womyn's Movement in late 20th Century of Transplanted Cross-Cultural LBGT Persons,' this country has become a bit stupid.

Posted by: Econ 101 at August 24, 2012 07:24 AM (TR60b)

203 CBS's White House reporter is reporting about the "Obama Campaign" from the White House.

Have they repealed the Hatch Act or what ?

Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords Schultz at August 24, 2012 11:23 AM (e8kgV)



Only racism would make you think that the laws apply to Barry

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2012 07:24 AM (1Jaio)

204 How about I install them and then power it up, that way I avoid moving parts and energized circuits. Consumer printers are now set up so that the area where you put the cartridges moves into position only when the printer is powered up. This always strikes me as idiotic. Story time! At my old firm I was the de facto IT person and general tech stuff fixit girl. One of the big copiers broke down and I got dragged over to fix it. I open it up and there's a binder clip wedged into the innards. How someone managed to get a binder clip to run through the feeder still escapes me. I get the office runner guys to pull the thing out from the wall so I had more room to try to pry it out. I am up to my shoulder in the copier when I say "You did unplug it, right?" Looooong pause, then "Oh. We were supposed to unplug it?" Oh the profanity that ensued.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 07:24 AM (VtjlW)

205

"Cake? Who's got cake?!"

 

You know what the worst part  is  about working on a team that spans multiple sites in two  states?

 

Getting emails from my boss' secretary, sent to full team distribution, about food goodies in such-and-such breakroom  to celebrate so-and-so's birthday / new kid / marriage.  Yeah.  That food's in another time zone.  Thanks for making me hungry, though,  Rachel.

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 07:24 AM (kZVsz)

206
Yeah the first principals of business. I was struck today because Kodak is calling it quits with film and photographic paper and selling that part of their business. Reason being of course that they can no longer turn a profit in that business. This hits me personally because I still shoot with film for a variety of reasons. Now I think amongst the arteests there is still a place for film photography, the problem is Kodak didn't anticipate their product transitioning from main stream to a specialty niche product.

I just hope that whomever buys Kodak's film business recognizes the going forward value (though vastly reduced) of buggy whips for that niche market and actually serves our needs for quality products.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 11:19 AM (0q2P7)


Yeah, Kodak really screwed up about 20 years ago when digital photography came along and didn't  get on the bus, now they are under it.

Posted by: MrCaniac at August 24, 2012 07:24 AM (1grxW)

207 197 Ben Bukkake,

Heh, now watch this.....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:25 AM (LRFds)

208

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 11:20 AM (LRFds)

 

Has Fox finally woken up and realized that you cannot measure success by how much debt you incur?

 

If you factor out Deficit spending, and the creation of money by the Fed, we never came out of the Recision.  The GDP has been prop'd up artificialy....

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 24, 2012 07:25 AM (lZBBB)

209 Second look? I kind of create the jobs, you know.

Posted by: Profit at August 24, 2012 07:26 AM (TR60b)

210 Obama still thinks GM is a "success story."

Two years ago: $38/share
Today: $21/share 

Posted by: Cicero at August 24, 2012 07:26 AM (Jl3/t)

211 Hey Sven! Good to see ya still got yer old Matrix Smack-down working!

Posted by: fred zeppelin at August 24, 2012 07:26 AM (zL/eJ)

212 I just hope that whomever buys Kodak's film business recognizes the going forward value (though vastly reduced) of buggy whips for that niche market and actually serves our needs for quality products.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 11:19 AM (0q2P7)

Fuji has created a beautiful little camera based on the old polaroid tech already, small format.  They may pick up more of Kodak.

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 07:26 AM (+xmn4)

213

"....it was about creating profits"

 

Not sure about the rest of you people, but in my industry, software engineering, we have a technical phrase we would use to reply to a statement like that....  "No shit you dumb fucking retard"

Posted by: AndrewsDad at August 24, 2012 07:26 AM (C2//T)

214 In typical Obama fashion, they are going to pounce all over their dicks when Obama delivers his keynote address from Bank of America stadium. Have you noticed that it's being presented as Obama will present his keynote address at a Charlotte football stadium? The whole name of the stadium is left out for some mysterious reason. I want cake.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 07:26 AM (VtjlW)

215 but I really don't think you'd find too many people in the higher levels of the O administration (possibly excepting O himself) who believe this tripe. But they know it's good for the campaign, or they hope it is.

What's their alternative?  "Hey guys, you know that socialist policy we've been pushing down your throats for the last 4 years?   Never mind, it was all a big joke.  Pretty funny, huh?"

Posted by: potatoes at August 24, 2012 07:27 AM (YXmuI)

216 >>>Yeah, Kodak really screwed up about 20 years ago when digital photography came along and didn't get on the bus, now they are under it.

Best part of that little story. Kodak invented the first digital camera

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 07:27 AM (0q2P7)

217 208 Romeo13,

Fox business but yup....

Look I can wargame roughly based on size and application plans how much QE3 will drive up Wall Street and gas prices....

How?

Because it is just volume increase not desnity increase, and until that funny money is used to generate wealth it is a number....

that's it....

Choom nuked 11-15% of everyone's purchasing power but his crony class....

end of story anyone who passed econ 101 knows it....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:27 AM (LRFds)

218 Arghhh.  Potatoes = pep

Posted by: pep at August 24, 2012 07:28 AM (YXmuI)

219 Yeah the tingle one feels from brushing against an energized circuit is something you never forget.

Did you turn the walls brown with your description of their mental acuity and ancestry?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 07:28 AM (nNd0o)

220 Anyone on Wall Street who votes for this assclown should be lined up and shot in the head. I mean, anyone who votes for him again is an idle rich idiot or a parasite, but there's a special place in hell for anyone who works in finance and is still blind to who he is.

Posted by: Abe Froman at August 24, 2012 07:28 AM (E55AK)

221 Have you noticed that it's being presented as Obama will present his keynote address at a Charlotte football stadium? The whole name of the stadium is left out for some mysterious reason.

Gonna be pretty hard to find a tarp that big to cover up the sign.

Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 07:28 AM (GQ8sn)

222 Let me think about this, as I plan the day for my small business...Should I create some profits, or should I aim to create some jobs? Seriously, these people are fucking academic, pedantic, no-nothings.

Posted by: jakeman at August 24, 2012 07:28 AM (96M6e)

223

 >>>Yeah, Kodak really screwed up about 20 years ago when digital
photography came along and didn't get on the bus, now they are under it.



Best part of that little story. Kodak invented the first digital camera

 

Also, right around the same time, the government began fining them for having a monopolistic position on buggy whips photo film.

Posted by: entropy at August 24, 2012 07:28 AM (TULs6)

224

"I open it up and there's a binder clip wedged into the innards. How someone managed to get a binder clip to run through the feeder still escapes me"

 

Well, I did have to mash on the "auto advance" button like seven or eight times...

Posted by: goombah who has no business touching anything that uses electricity at August 24, 2012 07:29 AM (kZVsz)

225

Posted by: MrCaniac at August 24, 2012 11:24 AM (1grxW)

 

We, in the Obama administration would like to announce the bailout of the Film industry here in America.  We have given orders to the Treasury Dept to help Kodak transition to new Green Film, which will both help the Environment, and the American Worker.

Posted by: Whitehouse SpokesWeasel at August 24, 2012 07:29 AM (lZBBB)

226 @213.  +1

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:29 AM (gmeXX)

227 Focused like a laser on creating jobs by stomping out the profit motive. Commie in Chief '12! WooHoo!

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 24, 2012 07:29 AM (tUM1T)

228 FAIL, teabaggers. Jobs are created by people who go to work, contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their families. A company cannot exist with employees.
There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money.

Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)

 

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

There is so much stupid packed in those few sentences that it must be a sock without a funny nic.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at August 24, 2012 07:29 AM (xFgmp)

229 Obama's SAT test, circa 1980: Oranges are to orange juice as profit is to _____? A) Evil B) Tax Revenue C) Job Creation D) Both A and B E) Dog Eating He chose D.

Posted by: MJ at August 24, 2012 07:30 AM (TR60b)

230 211 Fred Zepplin,

Oh my God, Fred what was your handle in the old days?

Good to see another Grognard....

Remember Pinky Jim and I from art of wrargaming?


Barack Obama IS Pinky Jim

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:30 AM (LRFds)

231
>>>Fuji has created a beautiful little camera based on the old polaroid tech already, small format. They may pick up more of Kodak.

Well I'd like to see Fuji pick up Kodak and do some sort of unification of the Superia and Kodachrome formulations; It's the only way I think color slides are going to survive the decade.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 07:31 AM (0q2P7)

232 >>Have you noticed that it's being presented as Obama will present his keynote address at a Charlotte football stadium? The whole name of the stadium is left out for some mysterious reason. Yep. And I bet they are going to cover every BofA sign at the stadium lest the cameras blow their cover. It must be exhausting to have to lie and cheat about everything you do. It's impossible for them to have an honest debate about anything and everything they do is cover in a facade of lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 07:31 AM (TMB3S)

233 Was in Omaha last week with two colleagues driving to a customer.

Following my Garmin Nuvi, I was shocked when it said..

"Turn left on John Galt Blvd."

I said, Cool, John Galt Blvd. and my colleges were clueless.

Oh well.

Posted by: TexBob at August 24, 2012 07:31 AM (pUOpM)

234

215 -

 

Oh, I'm sure they have to keep selling it, but I  believe they all thought this economy  stuff was supposed to take care of itself.  They thought they were going to preside over the great recovery, and that their silly rhetoric wouldn't have anything to do with it.  So now they're stuck.  And I feel really really really sorry for them.  Really. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2012 07:32 AM (TOk1P)

235 The peeple of Brattleboro are proud of the peeple of Missouri for switching to Senater McLaskill instead of the racist Neil Aiken. We are proud of you, so proud of you that Vermont and Missouri could be come sister states. Aiken is dumber then dirt and maybe you can become more progressive and also support Presadent Obama. I know he has done a great job in helping Missouri create jobs. Keep up the good work Missouri Republi-Clowns !!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at August 24, 2012 07:32 AM (48wze)

236 Obama may have to hire ILM to digitally remove all the Bank of America signs.  And add people for good measure.  Hopefully ILM wont use the crowd datafiles for when Anakin won his pod race.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 07:33 AM (nNd0o)

237 Sven,

APG - remember?

U should have my old addy - drop me a note - how's the Sarge and boy?

Posted by: fred zeppelin at August 24, 2012 07:33 AM (zL/eJ)

238 Profits? We don't need no stinkin' profits!

Posted by: the mexican dude in that 60's western at August 24, 2012 07:33 AM (YQHqe)

239 "But these are not your ordinary liberals. These are Obama Liberals, the most caring, supercharged liberals; the razor's edge, the smartest people in the room."

Jeez, Lauraw.  Obama hires Van Jones for his Green Machine.  Anita Dunn goes to the Communications Office.  And the relentless push for single-payer healthcare. 

Add the lies and propaganda.  At some point, you've made enough money, etc.

Call them what they are:  Marxists.

Posted by: mrp at August 24, 2012 07:33 AM (HjPtV)

240 MO flips to Obama in polling.

Thanks to Legitimate Rape Magic Vagina Akin and his enabler Mike the Man who taught Mehgan McLame the art of twinkie snorting FatFuckabee.

Who are the idiots contributing to this guy again?

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:33 AM (ovpNn)

241 probably already said, but the obama squad, people who learned to ape the mannerisms of intellectuals without being intellectuals, seem to think in terms of the pie as being a constant size, a feudal viewpoint in which the only way to make profits is to squeeze the juice out of everyone else's slice. Again, Obama's economic theories are now centered around a Lakoff talking point, not actual economics. Oh yeah, let's road, bridge, teacher* and firefight** our way to prosperity. *we mean unionized administrators who will never ever teach, get fired, and will retire with tax payer guaranteed six figure pensions. **sure sure, some firefighters, but also a ton of unionized administrators who will never ever touch a hose, get fired, and will retire with tax payer guaranteed six figure pensions.

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at August 24, 2012 07:34 AM (QxSug)

242 FAIL, teabaggers. Jobs are created by people who go to work, contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their families. A company cannot exist with employees.
There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money.Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)
---------->>>



Those fat cats who started the business by investing all of their time and assets into it and if the business had failed would have lost everything?  Those people?  Yeah, no reason those people should actually enjoy success if their business is, you know, successful.

Profits can also be used to expand a business, which means more production, which means more money, which also means more jobs.  I really hope that was someone just screwing around and not a serious statement.

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 07:35 AM (/YJYi)

243 237 FZ,

Well and well.  How's the boardwalk, Goof said you had moved.  I hope you and yours are doing fine.

I have not been back to Herr Kanine's in some time....am pondering hopping on a rig and laying contingency plans in case she loses her career.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:35 AM (LRFds)

244
If businesses only exist to provide jobs then why are so many people unemployed?

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 24, 2012 11:06 AM (JxMoP)





Because those evil, profit-obsessed businesses are REFUSING to hire people, because they know that it would help the black man in the Oval Office. Yep, it's racism, straight up.




I'm being flip of course, but I've seen some leftist cocksucker arguments out there that touch mighty close to this insanity.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2012 07:35 AM (TIIx5)

245

As they used to say in the USSR- "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us"

 

There is always full employment in commie countries.  Everyone has a "job".

 

But there is no wealth.  There is no middle class.  There is nothing but equality of misery.

 

Posted by: Boots at August 24, 2012 07:35 AM (neKzn)

246 @234.  I honestly don't know if that is true.  I could just as easily argue that they wanted things to be this way or get worse under the assumption that more people would then turn to government  like in FDR's days.  Frankly, I have no idea, and I don't really care.  And I'm quite confident the voters are waking up to the fact that this guy is not good.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:35 AM (gmeXX)

247 Gonna be pretty hard to find a tarp that big to cover up the sign. Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 11:28 AM (GQ8sn) Anything is possible in the digital age.

Posted by: MSM at August 24, 2012 07:35 AM (fWAjv)

248 >>>FAIL, teabaggers. Jobs....

Oh my God....I'm speechless. Average Joe, I knew you were stupid. I had no idea stupid came in such a pure form. Your mind is the mother lode of stupid. More stupid in higher concentrations than any other noted strike. Thar's stupid between them thar ears!! I tell ya!

Wow, just, wow.


Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 07:35 AM (0q2P7)

249

"Fuji has created a beautiful little camera based on the old polaroid tech already, small format. They may pick up more of Kodak."

 

OT - my smartphone's camera app has a "polaroid" feature.  Basically, you take a picture with it, then the screen goes dark brown.  You have to shake the phone for 10-15 seconds as the screen slowly fades into the picture.

 

Then you have a "pen" feature  with your finger where you can write over  the photo.

 

Thank you, Android, for reminding just how lame things were  25 years ago.  Maybe in ICS, the Polaroid Camera App can also require me to take the phone apart and put in a new flash after every couple pictures, too!

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 07:36 AM (+hPIb)

250
There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money.
Posted by: Frederic




Smithers, release the hounds....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 24, 2012 07:36 AM (kdS6q)

251 242 Adam,

It goes even beyond that, it is the judgement of the investor class and the skill at analyzing profit motive and knowing when to cut and run that leads to the creative destruction phase of the cycle which keeps resources from being misallocated....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:36 AM (LRFds)

252 >>>There is always full employment in commie countries. Everyone has a "job".

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 07:36 AM (0q2P7)

253 Huh.  Bloomberg just held a press conference and said that some of the victims of the shooting were probably shot by police officers inadvertently.  Isn't that the reason liberals say us stupid civilians shouldn't be allowed to carry?

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 07:37 AM (/YJYi)

254 I have this feeling that Obama wants to really let his inner lefty out,  in full force.  He is Col.  Jessup waiting to explode. 

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:37 AM (gmeXX)

255 In my second term, we'll have an all volunteer, paid workforce.

Posted by: Obama, Smartest President Evah at August 24, 2012 07:37 AM (TR60b)

256 Did you turn the walls brown with your description of their mental acuity and ancestry? I started with "unplug it, now, right now" and then proceeded to the profanity. Apparently it was news to them that shoving your arm up something with energized parts was Not A Good Idea.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 07:38 AM (VtjlW)

257 **242 FAIL, teabaggers. Jobs are created by people who go to work, contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their families. A company cannot exist with employees. There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money.Posted by: Frederic at August 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bN5ZU)---------->>> Those fat cats who started the business by investing all of their time and assets into it and if the business had failed would have lost everything? Those people? Yeah, no reason those people should actually enjoy success if their business is, you know, successful. Profits can also be used to expand a business, which means more production, which means more money, which also means more jobs. I really hope that was someone just screwing around and not a serious statement. Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 11:35 AM (/YJYi)** You've got to assume the *fail* troll is pulling your leg. It's like the job and profit relationship is a chick and egg thing, which came first. The job or the egg. Look, the whole you didn't build it idiocy from the reader of the teleprompter of the free world is so stupid. Someone does something that he can get some money out of and does it until he needs to hire other people. The SCOAMF idea of roads, bridges, firefighters, teachers, etc. is the idea that gee we make jobs and then profits follow.

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at August 24, 2012 07:38 AM (QxSug)

258

Obama Liberals have the cheek to come out, in public, and essentially proclaim "We have no idea where all the money or jobs come from!! WHEEE!!"<<<<

 

I don't think you can  improve on that summary.  They really are that stupid, and explaining it wouldn't help, because they don't have the mental acuity  to from the explanation.

 

Mark  Rippetoe has a great quote  about arguing with idiots who are convinced  of their brilliance:

 

"Just because some jackass asserts a thing does not mean that it is worthy of refutation. If the same guy tells you that every space shuttle launch perturbs the Earth's orbit, and that the cumulative effects are just about to start the process of the loss of the atmosphere into space, thus creating a vacuum that will destroy all life on the planet in approximately 36 hours, would you deem this necessary to refute? How much time would you spend explaining to him why this cannot happen? Would not your time be spent better doing other things? And if you devise a concise explanation, why would you assume he would understand?"

 

Mockery is the correct course.

 

 

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 24, 2012 07:38 AM (pJKHZ)

259 >Points at Mark Knoller< hahahahahah. Like that?

Posted by: Bosk at August 24, 2012 07:38 AM (n2K+4)

260 >>>all trolls are Average Joe.

This one does actually happen to be Average Joe.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 07:39 AM (0q2P7)

261 Profits are evil.

If you look at every evil thing done in history it is the result of lots of money being spent to do it.

Obama spent the most money of any presidential campaign ever to secure the whitehouse.

Therefore,

Barack Obama is evil.

Anyone who claims that liberals never have facts on their side clearly hasn't thought this through for our advantage.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:39 AM (ovpNn)

262 When he's down by 5, I think we'll see a meltdown in the Jimmy Carter style. He'll blame America, and retreat to the safety of his echo chamber. It's what he does.

Posted by: MJ at August 24, 2012 07:39 AM (TR60b)

263 Obama campaign, you just made the blooper reel!

Posted by: Astrid Braunschmidt at August 24, 2012 07:39 AM (FcR7P)

264 The goal of business is neither profits nor jobs. It's the common quest to mass- produce a viable six-assed monkey.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 24, 2012 07:40 AM (HethX)

265 Apparently Obama believes that there can be jobs in the absence of profit.

This says all anyone needs to know about his economic illiteracy.

It also explains why he think he can run huge deficits essentially forever with no consequences.

Posted by: Voluble at August 24, 2012 07:40 AM (qYvEa)

266 254 Adam,

Well thepolice needing 17 misses for a hit shows only the can use a gun properly, adnt 70 year old with the Kel-Tec ,380 not hitting anything but perp...

"luck" or something

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:40 AM (LRFds)

267 Either we have a gifted sock or that troll has a few Econ 101 assignments left to complete.

Companies should maximize payrolls.  OK, then.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2012 07:40 AM (B9nls)

268 Alexthechick, more proof a SMOD is needed.  It seems people in the US have been so bubble wrapped from consequences, the concept of something being dangerous is foreign.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 07:41 AM (nNd0o)

269 @249 - He who controls the Stupid,  controls the  power!

Posted by: Moron'Dib at August 24, 2012 07:41 AM (+hPIb)

270 A company cannot exist with employees. Now that's a Freudian typo.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 07:41 AM (B/VB5)

271 221 Have you noticed that it's being presented as Obama will present his
keynote address at a Charlotte football stadium? The whole name of the
stadium is left out for some mysterious reason.


Gonna be pretty hard to find a tarp that big to cover up the sign.

Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 11:28 AM (GQ8sn)

=================================================

Not as hard as finding the tarp to cover the stadium should Joyce or some other seasonal rain hit the area.

Would serve JEF right for confusing a convention for an effin' arena concert, again.

Posted by: sistrum at August 24, 2012 07:41 AM (AyryN)

272 We need a thread postulating on what barack obama will say in his concession/abdication speech.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:41 AM (ovpNn)

273

I guess the Empire State shooter has never heard of   "Funemployment."

 

He is also unaware that New York has some of the most stringent gun laws.

 

And I'm not sure, it is just a rumor, but he was also carrying a 20oz bottle of formula milk that had way too much salt in it.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:41 AM (gmeXX)

274 Gonna be pretty hard to find a tarp that big to cover up the sign.
Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 11:28 AM (GQ8sn)

Anything is possible in the digital age.

Posted by: MSM at August 24, 2012 11:35 AM (fWAjv)



That reminds me, I forget what game it was but Barry threw out the first pitch in his totally femme way and the camera swung wildly away so we couldn't see what an awful throw it was.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2012 07:41 AM (1Jaio)

275 So...if the business loses money...HIRE EVEN MORE PEOPLE.

Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2012 07:42 AM (B9nls)

276 Wow, USB 3.0 is fast.  It's cranking through files at almost twice the speed of the Firewire drive.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2012 07:42 AM (dX4hn)

277 242 Adam,

It goes even beyond that, it is the judgement of the investor class and the skill at analyzing profit motive and knowing when to cut and run that leads to the creative destruction phase of the cycle which keeps resources from being misallocated....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 11:36 AM (LRFds)


True, but if the person who left that comment doesn't understand the most basic principles of business, what you wrote will probably be like reading Cyrillic.

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 07:42 AM (/YJYi)

278 Where is that Elmer Fudd cobbler's fairy to explain profits to Bugs Bunny?

Posted by: John the Libertarian at August 24, 2012 07:42 AM (u2SdM)

279 Would serve JEF right for confusing a convention for an effin' arena concert, again. HELLO RICHMOND! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?

Posted by: Joe Biden opening the DNC arena concert at August 24, 2012 07:43 AM (B/VB5)

280 @markknoller Note to O Campaign from small biz owner: Creating jobs isn't a goal. I *can* create profits that enable me to hire. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough characters left to add "You fucking idiot jackasses."

Posted by: jakeman at August 24, 2012 07:43 AM (96M6e)

281 The goal of business is neither profits nor jobs. It's the common quest tomass- produce a viablesix-assed monkey.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 24, 2012 11:40 AM (HethX)

 

And crunchy figs.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 07:44 AM (4df7R)

282 >>Mockery is the correct course. Yep. Only bad things can come from arguing with idiots. http://tinyurl.com/nrm5go

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 07:44 AM (TMB3S)

283 OT - Bloomberg is a verbose tool. I am at breakfast at a hotel stuck watching CNN. The "news" anchor is pathetic and it is so sad how the news has devolved into a constant interjection of opinion and political messaging. And back to Bloomberg, he had nothing to say but his ego couldn't resist and then naturally for Bloomberg had to mention "there are a lot o guns out there" and bow CNN is running with it. We are a nation of 300M so naturally there would be a lot of guns out there.

Posted by: Journolist at August 24, 2012 07:44 AM (svdpV)

284 279 Adam,

oh I know but goddamnit our way IS MORE moral....

hell our way is a better tool to end racism, sexism, and poverty.

I am sick and tired of apologizing for the engine that dragged mankind from the agrarian age to the electronic one....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 07:44 AM (LRFds)

285 Obama Campaign says Romney's career at Bain Capital "was not about creating jobs, it was about creating profits."

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 24, 2012


Brought to you by Un-Americanism, International in association with Stupidity, Inc.

Even if someone had no recollection of the last 4 years, at all, what more would someone need to hear not to want this entire administration excised from power at this very moment?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 07:44 AM (X3lox)

286 So, money can be exchanged for goods and services?

Posted by: grit at August 24, 2012 07:44 AM (MP/bH)

287 So...if the business loses money...HIRE EVEN MORE PEOPLE.

Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2012 11:42 AM (B9nls)




Barry: The same principal applies to debt

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2012 07:45 AM (1Jaio)

288 Not as hard as finding the tarp to cover the stadium should Joyce or some other seasonal rain hit the area.Would serve JEF right for confusing a convention for an effin' arena concert, again.

Posted by: sistrum at August 24, 2012 11:41 AM (AyryN)

Well there s a big plus to having Obama accept at a large outdoor venue...

...If GOD decides to make good on that if you lie you will get struck by lightning thing, it should put all of this years Forth of July Fireworks shows combined to shame.


Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:45 AM (ovpNn)

289 >>>but if the person who left that comment

Yeah. I traced the hash. Got returns for ParisParamus and Average Joe

My thoughts are they couldn't understand human industry in any form at any level.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 07:45 AM (0q2P7)

290 244 - Sven

Still local, but changed jobs - just work across the river, inside the beast - gotta do what ya gotta do

Best to Goof and clan - and, always good to have a Plan B and the A-bag ready...

Good to see you here

Posted by: fred zeppelin at August 24, 2012 07:45 AM (zL/eJ)

291 You know you're getting old when you remember when "The Flash Cube" was an amazing innovation in photography.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 07:45 AM (QupBk)

292 We need a thread postulating on what barack obama will say in his concession/abdication speech. Uhh, uhm. There are some racist irregularities with the voting. While Eric Holder investigates, we will send all teabaggers and Governor Romney to our new luxury FEMA camps. Their houses and property will be divided up amongst the less fortunate to create a more equitable America.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 07:45 AM (B/VB5)

293

250:  That sounds like a fun app.  Next they'll have a rotary phone app where you have to pull the dial around to each number. 

 

It's an odd thing where tech starts to mimic lack of tech.

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 07:45 AM (+xmn4)

294 A quick Google Search shows that Frederic is also known as Average Joe, Greg, palin steele, and Skyler.

Posted by: johnd01 at August 24, 2012 07:46 AM (ukNFU)

295 It's an odd thing where tech starts to mimic lack of tech.

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 11:45 AM (+xmn4)

 

Hipster chic.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 07:47 AM (4df7R)

296 If profit is so bad, why do lefties want to make more money than they need for rent and groceries?

Posted by: Robin Banks at August 24, 2012 07:47 AM (3Pb0y)

297 Ok, can someone tell me why this hasn't been edited out of the comments: "Bad Betty on Aug 24, 10:59 AM said: NO WAY the shooter can be an OWS member. That is just FOX propaganda! I don't accept that. The shooter was no doubt a Republican, and this is just part of their war on women. Republicans hate women, and they don't mind gunning them down outside the Empire State Building or anywhere else." http://tinyurl.com/9xefllp

Posted by: cynder ella at August 24, 2012 07:48 AM (oZfic)

298 294 You know you're getting old when you remember when "The Flash Cube" was an amazing innovation in photography.

I'm sure the guy photographing light propagation would be impressed.

Posted by: pep at August 24, 2012 07:48 AM (YXmuI)

299 This is about that whole profits to earnings ratio thingy, right?

Posted by: Unclefacts, now with even more summoning power. at August 24, 2012 07:48 AM (6IReR)

300

"Jobs are created by people who go to work,
contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their
families. A company cannot exist with employees.
There is no need
for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who
sit around all day counting their money."

 

Sweet.  Fancy.  Moses.  Your lack of grasp that "Profits" are what are used to pay the employees, rent or buy the office space, and keep the lights on would have gotten you summarily  LAUGHED OUT OF THE ROOM, BY THE TEACHER HIMSELF, in my high school economics class.

 

He would have shamed you  from ever showing your face to any of the other students in the classroom ever again.  And then he would have spread the story of you far and wide, so that every student he had from that point onward would know to laugh and ridicule you.  You would have been LEGEND.

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 07:48 AM (+hPIb)

301 You know you're getting old when you remember when "The Flash Cube" was an amazing innovation in photography. Ahhh, throwing flash cubes at people to watch them blow up around them and then getting yelled at by the parental units for wasting money. Good times. Good times.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 07:48 AM (VtjlW)

302 Huh. Another mass shooting. You people must be loving all the attention. Gun nuts and pro-rapist GOP members will be spending lots of time explaining their positions this week. Don't you guys have a military funeral to protest or innocent women to rape? And then force them to give birth under penalty of law? Go fuck yourselves!

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 07:49 AM (948Kp)

303 Elf-mouse, "What was that name?"

Yankee Dood It

http://youtu.be/EgzJFVoj0EY

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 07:49 AM (nNd0o)

304 I drink erg's tears, I drink them up.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 07:50 AM (QupBk)

305 299 If profit is so bad, why do lefties want to make more money than they need for rent and groceries?

Posted by: Robin Banks at August 24, 2012 11:47 AM (3Pb0y)


What a typical teabagger.

How else are they going to pay for the chartered 747's to get them to global warming and greenpeace events?  Ride a bike?


Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:50 AM (ovpNn)

306 We need a thread postulating on what barack obama will say in his concession/abdication speech.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 11:41 AM (ovpNn)



"Our numbers show that I won and I'm not leaving.  I've just signed 387 new Executive orders and I'm having the military, DHS, the Social Security administration and NOAA arrest all Tea Party GOPers for treason and anyone else who is unpatritotic enough to claim that I lost a race that I obviously won.  Try and get me out, you nation of cowards.  I won this election 64% to 57%, fair and spare." -- King Emperor Admiral Barky

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 07:51 AM (X3lox)

307 Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 11:49 AM (948Kp)

Remember when you tried to make coherent posts in a vain attempt to be clever?

Yeah, no one else does either.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 24, 2012 07:51 AM (oACpK)

308 305 Huh. Another mass shooting. You people must be loving all the attention. Gun nuts and pro-rapist GOP members will be spending lots of time explaining their positions this week.

Don't you guys have a military funeral to protest or innocent women to rape? And then force them to give birth under penalty of law?

Go fuck yourselves!

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 11:49 AM (948Kp)



I figured a site like this would have a higher quality of trolls.  Have they always been so pathetic?

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 07:51 AM (/YJYi)

309 304: As a kid, apparently it took even LESS to keep me enthralled, like peeling all the white coverings off of a whole box of bandaids because it created a tiny glow along the crease when you did it in the dark.

Not long after, I think I remmeber getting gum stuck in my hair.  Yeah, I know, I'm not sure how I made it to adulthood either.

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 07:52 AM (+xmn4)

310 He's not even wearing a mask anymore. There's no slippage possible.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 24, 2012 07:52 AM (MrM2k)

311 "We, in the Obama administration would like to announce the bailout of the Film industry here in America. " What about us!?

Posted by: United Buggy Whip Workers at August 24, 2012 07:52 AM (tUM1T)

312

1. Outlaw profits!

 

2. Create Jobs!

 

3. Profit!

 

Wait...

Posted by: Akin Butt at August 24, 2012 07:52 AM (1Y+hH)

313 everyone with a 401(k) relies on a smart business owner who is interested in seeking profit.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at August 24, 2012 07:52 AM (XrGnJ)

314 We need a thread postulating on what barack obama will say in his concession/abdication speech. Steiner's force will attack from the North and unite with the Ninth army.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 07:53 AM (QupBk)

315 "Jobs are created by people who go to work, contribute their time and labor to an enterprise, and feed their families. A company cannot exist with employees. There is no need for profits, which is just the cream skimmed off the top by fat cats who sit around all day counting their money."

Thats like saying gas is created by people who drive their cars into these station things and wait for habbib in his hassan chop hat to fill their tank

Posted by: Berserker at August 24, 2012 07:53 AM (FMbng)

316 New York City obviously needs some gun control laws of some sort.  Those fix everything.

I mean just look at the peaceful secure wonder that is Chicago.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (w6xK8)

317 "Turn left on John Galt Blvd."

I said, Cool, John Galt Blvd. and my colleges were clueless.

Oh well.

Posted by: TexBob at August 24, 2012 11:31 AM (pUOpM)


The street was named by Ron Abboud, a real estate developer:

1975

"Reams agreed to testify against petitioner and Hochstein under a grant of immunity. The facts, according to his testimony, are summarized as follows. Petitioner was extremely hostile toward Abboud because of Abboud's unfair business practices, a matter which petitioner, Hochstein, and Reams discussed. At some point, Hochstein fixed Reams's .22 caliber Ruger pistol and offered to murder Abboud for money. Petitioner agreed to pay Hochstein $1,500 to kill Abboud. It was agreed that Hochstein would pose as a prospective purchaser of a remote piece of rural land which Abboud's real estate company was selling, request that Abboud drive him to the site, kill Abboud once there, and then telephone Reams who was to telephone petitioner and pick up Hochstein. Their first attempt failed because Abboud was not alone when he showed Hochstein the property. Hochstein then scheduled another visit to the site and, when Abboud alone drove Hochstein there, Hochstein murdered Abboud and dumped Abboud's body in a creek bed. The body was discovered three days later."


The libs got him.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (PcoXF)

318 "There is so much stupid packed in those few sentences that it must be a sock without a funny nic. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop" My suggestion for funny nic: United Auto Workers

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (tUM1T)

319

I think most people understand the nature of profits to employment, even Barack and many of the voters who voted for him.

 

"He cares more about profits than jobs"  is just  a way many rationalize to themselves why someone else was able  to get ahead of them.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (gmeXX)

320 I figured a site like this would have a higher quality of trolls. Have they always been so pathetic?

Posted by: Adam

 

 

The fancy HTML formatting scares them off.

Posted by: Roy at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (VndSC)

321 317 We need a thread postulating on what barack obama will say in his concession/abdication speech.

Steiner's force will attack from the North and unite with the Ninth army. Posted by: toby928©

ahaha

I cant wait for the hitler speaks videos for the election results.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (ovpNn)

322 If profit is so bad, why do lefties want to make more money than they need for rent and groceries?

----

Because we feel the need to be compensated for our superior intellect and positive moral standings.... and.... to be honest.....  it just take a shit pile of cash to be an elite.

Mansions and Gulfstreams just dont build themselves ya know.

Posted by: The Ruling Elite Local Union#661 at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (C8hzL)

323 In Marxy-speak, "profit" is the excess the Capitalist squeezes from his workers, thus exploiting them.

This shit is straight, naked Commie talk.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (mg08E)

324 Kos is leaking again

Posted by: Highsmith at August 24, 2012 07:54 AM (uwaMU)

325

"Gonna be pretty hard to find a tarp that big to cover up the sign.

Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 11:28 AM (GQ8sn) "

 

Barry??!!?!  BAAAA-RRYYYYY!!?!?!  HAVE YOU SEEN MY BLUE VERA WANG LATELY????

Posted by: Michelle, yelling from the closet at August 24, 2012 07:55 AM (+hPIb)

326 When Obama says "jobs", he means "legitimate jobs". Right, Akin?

Posted by: Boston12GS at August 24, 2012 07:55 AM (2KAud)

327 This is about that whole profits to earnings ratio thingy, right?

Posted by: Unclefacts, now with even more summoning power. at August 24, 2012 11:48 AM (6IReR)



Don't give Barky free points.  He actually said, "profits AND earnings ratios".  Yep.  He used "and" to signify a ratio.  That's when it was clear that the retard would have been very, very lucky to break 400 on the math section of his SATs.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 07:55 AM (X3lox)

328

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 11:49 AM (948Kp)

 

Either a   deliberately over-the-top sock, or an incredibly delusional troll.  Thoughts?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 07:56 AM (4df7R)

329 In Marxy-speak, "profit" is the excess the Capitalist squeezes from his workers, thus exploiting them.

This shit is straight, naked Commie talk.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 24, 2012 11:54 AM (mg08E)



Barry "spread the wealth around" Marx: How dare you call me a commie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2012 07:56 AM (1Jaio)

330

My suggestion for Mitt when he meets the queen of England is to give her an iPod with Obama's concession speech on it.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 07:56 AM (gmeXX)

331 Don't give Barky free points. He actually said, "profits AND earnings ratios". Yep. He used "and" to signify a ratio. That's when it was clear that the retard would have been very, very lucky to break 400 on the math section of his SATs.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 11:55 AM (X3lox)


Affirmative Action says Scores don't Matter....

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:56 AM (ovpNn)

332 305Huh. Another mass shooting. You people must be loving all the attention. 
Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 11:49 AM (948Kp)


I can definitely see how you're tying upstanding legal firearm owners to a disgruntled employee who shot his boss and bystanders with an illegally owned firearm.

Keep up the brilliant commentary.  You know what? You should write a book!

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 07:56 AM (+xmn4)

333 I just posited on twitter that profits, to democrats, aren't really a bad thing, just not that important, because hey, look at solyndra and obama's $5T in deficits. Money's free, we can print/borrow more whenever we want, so why focus on that when we can just create a bunch of high paid, no-show union gigs for our supporters? Profts? meh. Cronyism, yes please!

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at August 24, 2012 07:57 AM (QxSug)

334 Brawndo!  The Thirst Mutilator!  It's got what plants crave!

Posted by: Mark Knoller at August 24, 2012 07:57 AM (5iuEW)

335 Either a deliberately over-the-top sock, or an incredibly delusional troll. Thoughts? It's erg. He's one of our oldest site pests. He's a fake commie poseur who used to at least try to put some effort into his posts. Now he just pounds his little fists on the keyboard in fury for our amusement.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 07:58 AM (QupBk)

336 Keep up the brilliant commentary. You know what? You should write a book!

Posted by: Heralder

 

But,   remember to  use monster stickers and pink paper.

Posted by: Roy at August 24, 2012 07:59 AM (VndSC)

337 How much you want to bet Obama gets the coveted guest judge spot on american idol within a year of being forcibly removed from office by the voters?

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 07:59 AM (ovpNn)

338 I'm bored while these file copies are going on so I decided to play with my Official DIF Senate 2012 Statistical Model (tm).

Since I'm being generous to the Eeyores, I went and calculated in an Akin Factor of DOOM, depressing the odds on every race by 20%.  Akin fever sweeps the nation, and a legion of bloodthirsty baby killers shows up at the polls, 20% higher than historical results.

In this DOOM scenario, the odds of the GOP taking the Senate drop dramatically.

To 70.2%

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2012 07:59 AM (dX4hn)

339 We should have camps.

Camps to force lefties to complete Econ 101.  Based on Friedman. 

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2012 08:00 AM (w6xK8)

340 """Either a deliberately over-the-top sock, or an incredibly delusional troll. Thoughts?""



I'm thinking tank tread grease for civil war 2.0

Posted by: Berserker at August 24, 2012 08:00 AM (FMbng)

341 It's erg. He's one of our oldest site pests. He's a fake commie poseur who used to at least try to put some effort into his posts. Now he just pounds his little fists on the keyboard in fury for our amusement.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 11:58 AM (QupBk)

 

Awww, how cute!   Do you think if we dangle a string in front of him he'll bat away at it with his little anger fists?

 

Do you think he knows that the Westboro Baptist Church is comprised of registered democrats?

 

Speaking of longtime trolls,    whatever happened to "some dead nuns in el salvador," or whatever teh hell it called itself.   That one was fun.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:00 AM (4df7R)

342

I can't wait to start and run a business that provides jobs while I get nothing.

 

Wait, we have those. They are called foundations. Tax avoidance schemes mostly. No profits, no taxes, fat salaries.

 

 

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2012 08:01 AM (1Y+hH)

343 343 Circa,

We'll leave pipecleaners, towels, and shiny rocks.....


see if they can develop a working economy....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:01 AM (LRFds)

344 Yosemite Sam is a Democrat

http://youtu.be/G1SNCHWL2fg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 08:01 AM (nNd0o)

345

Flash Cube from my childhood - a thing that went on dad's  perceived-expensive Polariod camera, and to be handled gingerly if at all.

 

Flash Cube to my children - a square USB memory stick.

 

*sigh*

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 08:01 AM (+hPIb)

346 I'm bored while these file copies are going on so I decided to play with my Official DIF Senate 2012 Statistical Model (tm). Jeez. Took me a minute to tie that to your handle. You do know that DIF (Data Interchange Format) was a portable spreadsheet specification from the early '80s?

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 24, 2012 08:01 AM (ogdab)

347 Now CNN is running a promo for "Revealing Romney".

Posted by: Journolist at August 24, 2012 08:02 AM (R6s86)

348 Still fuming over the Bielat ball washing from last night.

Posted by: Truman North at August 24, 2012 08:02 AM (I2LwF)

349 True or False? If I go there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double (So come on and let me knowww...)

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:03 AM (G/zuv)

350 I'm not the one who hopped into bed with bible humpers, racists, gun nuts and the gleefully pro-rape crowd. I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Enjoy the company.

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 08:03 AM (948Kp)

351 >>Do you think he knows that the Westboro Baptist Church is comprised of registered democrats? erg isn't a Democrat, he is a self-avowed communist. It used to be fun to play with his stupidity but its gotten tedious. To use a Bidenism, he is literally an idiot.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 08:03 AM (TMB3S)

352 That reminds me, I forget what game it was but Barry threw out the first pitch in his totally femme way and the camera swung wildly away so we couldn't see what an awful throw it was. >>

When a 16 yr old girl throws better than you that's got to be embarrassing.

<<US Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas is seen celebating after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before the start of the Rockies vs Mets game at Citi Field.>>
http://tinyurl.com/8cldd9t

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 24, 2012 08:03 AM (tf9Ne)

353 My suggestion for Mitt when he meets the queen of England is to give her an iPod with Obama's concession speech on it.

I had forgotten that one.

"Here's me being awesome, Liz."  Nah, nothing that comedians could make fun of there....

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2012 08:03 AM (ojRbN)

354 351 Journolist,

Yeah we get it....they will try for about another three weeks then cut bait....

in this week's episode of eye on America watch as Mitt Romney engages in an act of arcane trickery known as cost/benefit risk/reward integration analysis.....

"cue horror music".....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:03 AM (LRFds)

355 "We have no idea where all the money or jobs come from!! WHEEE!!" Awesome! :-)

Posted by: Brian at August 24, 2012 08:03 AM (wTSvK)

356 Speaking of stupid...

I hit up Jimmy Johns for lunch, and they were giving out "Vote For Jimmy" buttons. Was wondering how many "wouldn't be caught dead for voting for a Republican"-but-disgruntled-with-Obama idiots might be persuaded to cast their real ballot for Jimmy John.  He's created a lot of jobs over the last four years.

Posted by: HeatherRadish is slurpin' onna 32oz fountain drink at August 24, 2012 08:04 AM (/kI1Q)

357 355 JackStraw,

and he knows it is slipping away which is why he is less and less coherent...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:04 AM (LRFds)

358

Well it's a good thing that B+rry's people are on patrol against profits. We certainly wouldn't want any taxes paid to the Federal Gubberment when people like Greg and disHonest Cloud get paid their sick, lame, and crazy pay out of money borrowed from the Chicoms.

Heaven's forbid we would actually pay for anything with chocolate Jesus in the White House.

Posted by: torabora at August 24, 2012 08:04 AM (D24gB)

359 Yep. He used "and" to signify a ratio.

All he's ever needed to know about math is that it's racist.

Posted by: HeatherRadish is slurpin' onna 32oz fountain drink at August 24, 2012 08:05 AM (/kI1Q)

360 Jobs are  a  symptom of profits.

Posted by: garrett at August 24, 2012 08:05 AM (qX/jA)

361 Speaking of longtime trolls, whatever happened to "some dead nuns in el salvador," or whatever teh hell it called itself. That one was fun. Same dweeb. Also "Andrew Breitbart". He used "Hegel" once, on a topic where Hegel held the exact opposite view than the one erg was misunderstanding. That was a fun thread.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 08:05 AM (QupBk)

362 the gleefully pro-rape crowd

Dems who respect Clinton and Hollywood Polanski supporters?  Okay ... they're both the same dems ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 08:05 AM (X3lox)

363 I really hope Romney drops a nuclear ad bomb on Obama after the convention.  He certainly has plenty of juicy soundbites to work with.

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 08:05 AM (/YJYi)

364

"My suggestion for Mitt when he meets the queen of England is to give her an iPod with Obama's concession speech on it."

 

And the PM's kids get an ACTUAL helicopter.

 

You know.  Because we're gonna be all President Warbucks and stuff again, so we'll have the dough to blow.

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 08:05 AM (+hPIb)

365 Go fuck yourselves! Sweetie, I'll be needing more batteries first.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 08:06 AM (VtjlW)

366 354 HAM,

Yeah we're not the factory worker who hopped on the granola munchers' baloney pony either, or the minority member who ceded their freedom to gain for a pat on the head either......

see you in November cupcake

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:06 AM (LRFds)

367 I think I found myself on the WaPo comments or something. Yes. Libs totally have no understanding what the purpose of business is. Then again some business / accounting types don't either. So much so a certain Israeli ex-physicist made a lot of cash writing books about it. "The purpose of business is to make more money now and in the future" -- Eliyahu Goldratt:

Posted by: David C. at August 24, 2012 08:06 AM (ZtMso)

368

I wonder how we replace the taxes paid at 34% by corporations after we outlaw corporate profits?

 

Maybe it's time to unionize business owners! I mean, it's worked well for govt workers.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2012 08:06 AM (1Y+hH)

369 370 AtC,

schwing.....


Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:06 AM (LRFds)

370 So this is fun, I went back to the original model, without the DOOM factor.

The true 50/50 point is us winning 7 of the 13 contested seats.  The odds of winning 7 are 48.8%.  At that point, things drop quickly, with 8 seats being 28%.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2012 08:06 AM (dX4hn)

371 He meant "creating prophets."  It's a thinly veiled swipe at Romney's Mormonism.

Posted by: kathysaysso at August 24, 2012 08:06 AM (ZtwUX)

372 I'm not the one who hopped into bed with bible humpers, racists, gun nuts and the gleefully pro-rape crowd. I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Enjoy the company.

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 12:03 PM (948Kp)

 

Ah, I see.  

 

You do realize that regressives are most well-known for being kings and queens of projection, right?   You racist pro-rapist.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:07 AM (4df7R)

373 I figured a site like this would have a higher quality of trolls. Have they always been so pathetic?

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 11:51 AM (/YJYi)



yeah, pretty much. it's amazing to me that they can get anything posted through the drug fueled haze they see through.

Posted by: Unclefacts, now with even more summoning power. at August 24, 2012 08:07 AM (6IReR)

374

@357, And how did we skip over this great quote from this week:

 

"Its rare when I am the 5th most interesting person in a room."

 

 

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 08:07 AM (gmeXX)

375

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 12:03 PM (G/zuv)

 

You should cool it.  You should blow.

Posted by: Barney Frank loves the Clash at August 24, 2012 08:07 AM (qX/jA)

376 Go fuck yourselves!
Sweetie, I'll be needing more batteries first.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 12:06 PM (VtjlW)


And Sandra Fluke's cooch...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 08:07 AM (nNd0o)

377 Dems who respect Clinton and Hollywood Polanski supporters? Okay ... they're both the same dems ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 12:05 PM (X3lox)

 

And let's not forget     which side is happy to turn a blind eye to the systemic abuse of women in Islamic societies.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:07 AM (4df7R)

378 Wait, now there's cupcakes too? How about punch and pie?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 08:08 AM (VtjlW)

379 Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 11:49 AM (948Kp) --You do know that the Westboro Baptist Church is led by a Democrat, right?

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2012 08:08 AM (mARqz)

380 383 AtC,

Punch and pie.....

A very kennedy Date Night....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:08 AM (LRFds)

381 354I'm not the one who hopped into bed with bible humpers, racists, gun nuts and the gleefully pro-rape crowd. I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Enjoy the company.

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 12:03 PM (948Kp)

Are you sure?  The high pitch whine that continues to eminate from your virtual face leads me to believe you've had more than a few different groups up your ass at once.

Have a lovely weekend.  Whatever you do, definitely avoid being impotent, whiny little bitch.  It would be a shame if that were to happen to such a normally nice and adjusted fellow.

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 08:08 AM (+xmn4)

382

>>He used "Hegel" once, on a topic where Hegel held the exact opposite view than the one erg was misunderstanding. That was a fun thread.

 

Dialectics  be  hard.

Posted by: garrett at August 24, 2012 08:09 AM (qX/jA)

383 I love profit.  Earning my own money is wonderful. I want to keep my own money. I will give to my own charities on my own.

Posted by: A.Men at August 24, 2012 08:09 AM (8oOiX)

384 **367 the gleefully pro-rape crowd Dems who respect Clinton and Hollywood Polanski supporters? Okay ... they're both the same dems ...** The best part about the liberal pathology is that you can say this thing to them and it's like water off a duck's back, it makes no imprint. The beauty of not being able to accept a counter point.

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at August 24, 2012 08:09 AM (QxSug)

385 Tru, I was surprised to read your low opinion of Sean Bielat. I was even more surprised, but shouldn't have been, at the kneejerk response to your criticism of Bielat. As far as I'm concerned, Truman North had a chance to get to know Sean Bielat the man well enough to make an informed judgment on him. I'm disappointed in the revelation, but I've known Tru long enough here at AoS to trust his judgment instead of dismiss it because I wish it weren't so.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:09 AM (G/zuv)

386 How much you want to bet Obama gets the coveted guest judge spot on american idol within a year of being forcibly removed from office by the voters? It's not like he'd be worse than Randy Jackson.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 08:10 AM (B/VB5)

387 ""Sweetie, I'll be needing more batteries first"



Yeah hi, my real name is Rayovac Eveready Duracell. lol

Posted by: Berserker at August 24, 2012 08:10 AM (FMbng)

388
Sweet. Fancy. Moses. Your lack of grasp that "Profits" are what are used to pay the employees, rent or buy the office space, and keep the lights on

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 11:48 AM (+hPIb)


Wait . . . what?



Not to give the troll cover or anything, but profits do not keep the lights on, revenue does.  Profits are what's left after the lights are on.  The only real justification for corporate profits are dividends to teh shareholders, which can be viewed only through the prism of whether the company needs operating capital from teh stock issuance.  The stockholders demand profits from the board or the board gets replaced (in theory)

Non-profit companies employ a lot of people, and are a perfectly viable way of running any business.  Problem is, they cannot raise capital, and they cannot attract initial investors with the lure of profits.  A "break even" company is perfectly viable, though.


Posted by: imp at August 24, 2012 08:11 AM (UaxA0)

389 Randy Jackson, Barack Obama, and Nikki Minaj the judges of American Idol.

Yuck.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 08:11 AM (nNd0o)

390 And how did we skip over this great quote from this week:

"Its rare when I am the 5th most interesting person in a room."

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 12:07 PM (gmeXX)



I found that amazing, myself.  So juicy in its repulsively stupid pop-culture incidence and its general appeal to sheer insanity.

But ... beating up on a GOPer took precedence.  Priorities.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 08:12 AM (X3lox)

391

354I'm not the one who hopped into bed with bible humpers,

 

So that's what you call your president. Interesting...

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2012 08:12 AM (1Y+hH)

392 "f*cktarded?"

F*CKTARDED??????

Since when have we gone all PC and stopped being the foulest mouthed conservative blog and started being all nice and stuff.

Posted by: Ronzoni at August 24, 2012 08:12 AM (k+hyc)

393 Who's up for a "buy AtC some batteries" fund?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2012 08:12 AM (dX4hn)

394 Randy Jackson, Barack Obama, and Nikki Minaj the judges of American Idol.

Yuck.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 12:11 PM (nNd0o)

 

You could catch a serious amount of stupid (and, in Nikki Minaj's case, a variety of colorful STDs) watching that bunch.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:13 AM (4df7R)

395 You meanies scared erg away. Now who will dance for us?

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 08:13 AM (QupBk)

396 The shooter in New York was a guy who designed women's purses.  I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.  IYKWIM.

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 08:13 AM (/YJYi)

397 Not about profits: Solyndra

Posted by: RPF at August 24, 2012 08:13 AM (lGgVf)

398 Yeah, I have to say Mark Knoller is one of the straightest of the MSMers that I follow. He basically just reports on Twitter.

Yes, do not bash Mark Knoller.  If you are on Twitter, he is a must-follow.  Straight news all the way.  He just reports the way it is.  I don't know how he is on the air, but he's 100% professional on Twitter.

Really refreshing, he's a genuine reporter.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 24, 2012 08:14 AM (T0NGe)

399 I'm putting 20:1 odds Obama doesn't know how magnets work.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 24, 2012 08:14 AM (MrM2k)

400 How much you want to bet Obama gets the coveted guest judge spot on american idol within a year of being forcibly removed from office by the voters?

Obama as an American Idol judge.

Now that performance, I think it had some serious issues. The advice I gave last week about how I work the audience when I sing remains good advice for this performance as well. I see a little of my style though which I do like. Overall though I think this performance just wasn't enough like me to be good.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 08:14 AM (0q2P7)

401

According to the weather channel, Issac is getting stronger.

 

Ladies, that means the drinks will be even more rummy.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 08:14 AM (gmeXX)

402 You meanies scared erg away. Now who will dance for us?

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 12:13 PM (QupBk)

 

We could talk about Israel?   I'm sure ergie is an avowed anti-semite, as all Commies are.   That oughta bring him running back.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:14 AM (4df7R)

403 >>>Now who will dance for us?

There supposed to survive at least one stomping.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 08:15 AM (0q2P7)

404 I'm putting 20:1 odds Obama doesn't know how magnets work.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 24, 2012 12:14 PM (MrM2k)


Thanks I now have in my mind Barack Obama and Joe Biden channeling ICP singing about how magnets are magic.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 08:15 AM (nNd0o)

405 btw, I don't know if it's national news yet, but up here in MA the "news" is reporting "another Romney gaffe." They don't go into detail, (of course), but it seems Mitt was addressing some "big GOP business donors" and said corporations have access to loans and they are able to invest money in offshore accounts for tax shelters. Yeah, I'm not able to spot the "gaffe" here, either. No context provided, sooo, it's just an Obama-directed smear being dutifully disseminated by Obama's media.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:15 AM (G/zuv)

406

Not about profits: Solyndra

 

General Motors

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2012 08:16 AM (1Y+hH)

407 btw, Akin is obviously not hurting anyone: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/24/rasmussen-romney-loses-mo-lead-after-akin-controversy/ Oops.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 24, 2012 08:16 AM (MrM2k)

408

Some victims were accidentally shot by police?

 

That isn't quite the "strike"  mayor bloomberg was calling  for from the police.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 08:16 AM (gmeXX)

409 Jobs are a device by which wealth is extracted from people in the form of labor and given to the Democrats in the form of union dues. If a job does not have a union dues exctraction process attendant to it, then it is not a real job.

Posted by: Truman North at August 24, 2012 08:16 AM (I2LwF)

410 Any PC hardware geeks floating around?

Should I pay more for the i7, or stick with the i5?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 24, 2012 08:17 AM (2b4yb)

411 A "break even" company is perfectly viable, though.

Posted by: imp at August 24, 2012 12:11 PM (UaxA0)



LOL.

As I always say, leftism is based on staticism.  They revel in the ideological paradise of stagnation.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 08:17 AM (X3lox)

412 Barry thinks vacuum.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 08:17 AM (QupBk)

413 Since when have we gone all PC and stopped being the foulest mouthed conservative blog and started being all nice and stuff. There are those here who don't actually use the swears. I do my part to use up their quota.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 08:18 AM (VtjlW)

414 bN5ZU bN5ZU bN5ZU bN5ZU bN5ZU All trolls are...?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 08:18 AM (GBXon)

415

What are you using your computer for, primarily CBD?

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 08:18 AM (+xmn4)

416 401 The shooter in New York was a guy who designed women's purses. I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin. IYKWIM. Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 12:13 PM (/YJYi) ahhhhhh....so that's the market for the 'Hello Kitty' AR.

Posted by: MSM at August 24, 2012 08:18 AM (fWAjv)

417 As opposed to good businesses which pay their employees with magical gold delivered by leprechauns.

Posted by: Paul at August 24, 2012 08:19 AM (LdrHc)

418 Mitt should explain to Obama the relationship between "profit" and "GDP" and the concept of "economic expansion."

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:19 AM (G/zuv)

419

A "break even" company is perfectly viable, though.

Why aren't you running one?

 

Don't you have any prior profits available for startup?

 

oops.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2012 08:19 AM (1Y+hH)

420 416 TPOP,

the necessary impact of a zero sum mentality

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:19 AM (LRFds)

421

SQUIRREL!

 

*throws confused squirrel into the midst of the Horde*

 

....

 

Yeah, I dunno.   We're over 400 comments, so I'm getting punchy.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:19 AM (4df7R)

422 Should I pay more for the i7, or stick with the i5? What are your performance requirements? Unless they're pretty heavy, i5 should be fine for now.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 08:19 AM (GBXon)

423

Sweetie, I'll be needing more batteries first.

 

Did the nuclear power plant discover your extension cord and unplug it?

 

And damn, I missed Gerg? That's what I get for having a Dr's   appt. I love  the smell of eviscerated troll in the morning...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 24, 2012 08:20 AM (d0Tfm)

424 For something different -

http://www.ufunk.net/photoblog/pin-up-honey-lemonade-girl/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 08:20 AM (nNd0o)

425 >>>A "break even" company is perfectly viable, though.

If all you are doing is "breaking even" you are wasting the time value of your investment capital. If you are merely breaking even in the long run, you need to shut down sell your assets and put the investment capital into a more profitable enterprise.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 08:21 AM (0q2P7)

426 Awwwww, when did ergy turn drive-by?  He didn't even stick around long enough for anyone to edit his posts.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 24, 2012 08:21 AM (aHR5E)

427 Should I pay more for the i7, or stick with the i5? What's your workload? If it's just joking around with the Morons and using Word/Excel, the i5 is more than sufficient. For gaming (especially retrogaming with emulators), audio production, video/photo processing, or engineering/CAD, the i7's a good idea.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 08:21 AM (B/VB5)

428 And how did we skip over this great quote from this week: "Its rare when I am the 5th most interesting person in a room." Well, how often is it that there are exactly five people in a room?

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2012 08:22 AM (FcR7P)

429 1. You don't have a job. 2. Jobs usually come from businesses. 3. People who run businesses get paid a lot. Therefore 4. People who run businesses stole your money.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at August 24, 2012 08:22 AM (HJsDx)

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

Posted by: steevy at August 24, 2012 08:23 AM (6o4Fb)

431 Profit to earnings ratio!!

Posted by: steevy at August 24, 2012 08:23 AM (6o4Fb)

432 Should I pay more for the i7, or stick with the i5?

You surf net look at pretty pictures, occasionally print a document, You *need* an i3. You play EVE Online, You *need* an i146 but can scrape by with an i7.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 08:23 AM (0q2P7)

433 Its rare when I am the 5th most interesting person in a room. It's not just the narcissism, it's the implied "NBA players are more interesting than the President of the United States" that's insulting.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 08:24 AM (B/VB5)

434 I'm putting 20:1 odds Obama doesn't know how magnets work.

I would love to see the VP debate start with the following question:

"Mr. Vice President, you have repeatedly expressed your support for high-speed rail.  A train leaves Philadelphia at 6am headed for Chicago at a velocity of 60 miles per hour...you may want a pencil and some paper..."

Posted by: AmishDude at August 24, 2012 08:24 AM (T0NGe)

435 Plastic Bag Bans Lead to E-coli Deaths
http://is.gd/UiSVlO

Is comment #17 one of you guys? Because it's brilliant.

Posted by: HeatherRadish is slurpin' onna 32oz fountain drink at August 24, 2012 08:24 AM (/kI1Q)

436 Question: So how many jobs did you create at General Motors Mr. President? My Good Ole standby Answer: First, we should blame George W Bush

Posted by: William Barky Shakespeare at August 24, 2012 08:25 AM (4eNxd)

437 The rationalizing continues, as it always does. You cocksucks deserve every ounce of liberal bias heaped upon you. It's gotta piss you off something awful. I have to get back to my cushy, well-paying, do-nothing government job. Thanks for helping to pay my salary, all you rapist-loving, gay-hating dicks!

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 08:25 AM (948Kp)

438 Did the nuclear power plant discover your extension cord and unplug it? Bastards.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 08:25 AM (VtjlW)

439
the necessary impact of a zero sum mentality

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 12:19 PM (LRFds)



Yes.  Leftist theories are always stagnant because of the limitations of weak minds that can only conceive of a static world that never really changes, since they can't imagine what changes would happen, which then leads them to centralize power and build committees that force that stagnation on everything around them, as they force reality to stick to the static detailed rules of the centralized power and committees to rule over it.

On top of that, there is the lure of forcing stagnation - and thus death - on humanity in order to carry out their more nihilistic motivations.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2012 08:26 AM (X3lox)

440 Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 12:18 PM (+xmn4)

Spreadsheets, e-mail, financial programs, word processing, some low-level graphics, lots of internet (pron of course).

Thanks!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 24, 2012 08:26 AM (2b4yb)

441 I don't like when the TB edits erg. res ipsa loquitur. Let his idiocy stand though the heavens fall. They should just change his nic to back to ergastularius, which you could google to see back when he wasn't just phoning his trolling in.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 08:27 AM (QupBk)

442

296 Next they'll have a rotary phone app where you have to pull the dial around to each number.

 

------------

 

I have seen someone selling Bluetooth rotary dial phones; they took an old rotary dial phone and filled it up with Bluetooth guts so you can use it to run your smartphone.

Cost about $250. I don't recall who was selling it.



 

Posted by: Anachronda at August 24, 2012 08:27 AM (NmR1a)

443

A "break even" company is perfectly viable, though.


Why aren't yourunning one?

Don't you have any prior profits available for startup?

oops.


Economically, dipshits.  I said I'm not defending the idiots.  By the same token, it's just as ignorant to say that a business must turn profits to continue.  Practically speaking from an investor standpoint that is absolutely true, but it is also an incomplete picture of the economics of the thing.  Profits are what's left over after paying expenses, and if expenses are covered, then the business can continue. 

In fact, there are many small businesses that operate without profits, because they are getting started or going through lean times.  When its you who has to make those choices to keep people on staff, come talk to me about how anyone not running a profit is a commie. 

But that's the problem with the foundations: all the leftists go into them because that's how they view the world.  That's also why conservatives need to establish expressly conservative foundations as a counterweight.  Getting non-profits doing conservative work in society is fundamental to getting this country back on track.



Posted by: imp at August 24, 2012 08:27 AM (UaxA0)

444 It's funny we don't hear about "saving" or creating jobs anymore. Bless his heart, the dumb f***.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 24, 2012 08:27 AM (MrM2k)

445 it's the implied "NBA players are more interesting than the President of the United States" that's insulting. Or he could be more interested in NBA players than being President of the United States. Wonder where golf fits in.

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2012 08:27 AM (FcR7P)

446 I have to get back to my cushy, well-paying, do-nothing government job. Thanks for helping to pay my salary, all you rapist-loving, gay-hating dicks!

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 12:25 PM (948Kp)


I give you points for being honest and admitting you contribute nothing to society.  Good for you.

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 08:27 AM (/YJYi)

447 Adam, he could be one of those idiots recently given a stern letter at the BMDA for surfing for pr0n.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 08:28 AM (nNd0o)

448 Hi friends in a box. I see the Ametrolls are at it again.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 24, 2012 08:29 AM (9TTOe)

449 When are they going to report that the two Jeff Johnsons in NY donated to Obama and American Coming Together. hmmmmmm... (who knows if one of these is the shooter, but that never mattered before.)

Posted by: RWC at August 24, 2012 08:29 AM (fWAjv)

450

@442 - I'll be sure to think of you the next time Governor Demmy is threatening to  decimate the police and fire unless  taxes are raised.

 

You know, you and your do-nothing government job...

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 08:29 AM (V40IZ)

451

"Profits and corporations" - leftwing busswords to make their drooling idiot supporters freak out and fall in line.

 

Posted by: Fresh at August 24, 2012 08:29 AM (O7ksG)

452

Thanks for helping to pay my salary, all you
rapist-loving, gay-hating dicks!

 

You're welcome.

 

Posted by: All the morons named Richard at August 24, 2012 08:29 AM (VndSC)

453 Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 12:19 PM (GBXon)

No big engineering programs, but I hate having to wait for anything.

Is the i7 optimized for things that the i5 isn't?

Or am I worrying needlessly, because my current machine is a Pentium 4 2.40GHz?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 24, 2012 08:29 AM (2b4yb)

454 @445: An i5 will cover all that fine.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 08:29 AM (B/VB5)

455 Profit being evil goes hand in hand with big government. I have had so many discussions with liberals who talk about the "profit motive" and how this makes all businesses more interested in the bottom line than the poor people. Government, on the other hand is "non-profit" so it must be good In reality, as Milton Friedman said, people in government are no more angelic than people in business. But without the profit motive they are far less efficient, and there is far more scope for corruption if they are so inclined. The idea that two people can exchange money for services and both of them come away better off is totally beyond the comprehension of the liberal mind.

Posted by: Greg at August 24, 2012 08:30 AM (8Aziu)

456 I have to get back... Heh. Phase III of the pwned: Declare victory and run away.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 08:30 AM (QupBk)

457

Where did all that stimulus money go?

 

 

Posted by: Fresh at August 24, 2012 08:30 AM (O7ksG)

458 Along that line, WZ has a post on the annual salaries of the heads of the big unions, including Trumka and SEIU. Remarkably, they're all in the $300-500k range. Apparently it requires a lot of money to be that caring about your members as the businesses that employ them circle the drain. Posted by: pep at August 24, 2012 10:47 AM (YXmuI) They are, of course, NOT part of the 1%.

Posted by: Michael Moore - Caring and compassionate Multi-Millionaire at August 24, 2012 08:30 AM (4eNxd)

459

About the topic (it's late, I know), if I've got some company's stock in my retirement portfolio,  you'd better believe I want them to show a good profit. Strange that you never, ever hear this from a leftard.

 

Ever.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 24, 2012 08:31 AM (d0Tfm)

460 Time for the Ewok Signal?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 24, 2012 08:31 AM (f9c2L)

461 @458: No special optimizations, the i7 just has more raw grunt, like a V8 vs. a V6. And coming from a Pentium 4 either processor will feel like the future

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 08:31 AM (B/VB5)

462

The rationalizing continues, as it always does. You cocksucks deserve every ounce of liberal bias heaped upon you. It's gotta piss you off something awful.

 

I have to get back to my cushy, well-paying, do-nothing government job. Thanks for helping to pay my salary, all you rapist-loving, gay-hating dicks!

 

Posted by: He's a mooslin!!!1!! at August 24, 2012 12:25 PM (948Kp)

 

And the meaningless word salad continues.   I'm glad that you're willing to admit that you're worthless and that you're paid to be worthless,     and that you know you're not worth what you're being paid because (as mentioned) you're worthless.       This     is why you feel the need to       project your pro-rape, anti-gay dickitude onto your betters.       

 

Just remember:  YOU'RE the racist.  YOU'RE pro-rape.  YOU'RE homophobic.   YOU'RE uneducated.   YOU'RE the laughingstock.

 

Once you've come to accept your shortcomings, you'll begin to understand why your mother hates you   as much as everyone else.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:31 AM (4df7R)

463 I have to get back... Yep, those Court house shitters won't clean themselves.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 24, 2012 08:31 AM (9TTOe)

464 I have seen someone selling Bluetooth rotary dial phones; they took an old rotary dial phone and filled it up with Bluetooth guts so you can use it to run your smartphone. Seen it done with non-smartphone cell phones, too. The whole thing, base, cradle, handset...always wanted one, just for the theater of an honest-to-God phone ringing, pulling it out and putting it on the desk, and picking up the handset to answer.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 08:31 AM (GBXon)

465 O/T from deep in the heart of the land of Lurk.  Wanted to share a conversation that I had with my 18yo this morning.  Please excuse grammar and sentence structure as Texan is my native language but I do try to give a passing nod to English.

Daughter was channel surfing and talking with me while I was getting ready for work.  Out of the blue she says, "He is just so gay."

"Who's gay?"

"President Obama." Sadly, first thoughts were of the AoS blog comment section with Reggie Love commentary.  I obviously spend way too much time here.

"What makes you think he's gay?"

"Not gay gay. He's just ... gay." I'm not for sure, but I'm pretty sure that I felt an eye roll accompanying her answer. 

"Have you ever watched him give a speech?  He smiles just like he expects everything he says to get up twinkles."

Knowledge of up twinkles courtesy of teacher in her Intro to Macroeconomics class.  Yep.  Idiots teach even here in the Dallas area.  Same school taught Swahili during Black History month  because Swahili is culturally relevant to the achievement of blacks in the US.  Whatever.  I digress.

"Well, Baby Girl, there are a lot of people out there that think he has done a great job as president and believe that he deserves a second term.  Those are the people he speaks to, so yeah, he expects to get up twinkles."

"Mom.  Ya know what?  I don't think he's all that great.  I'm old enough to vote this year and you know what I'll be thinkin when I vote?  Twinkle this asshole 'cause I'm voting for Mitt Romney."

Gawd I love that kid.




Posted by: Wait let me explain at August 24, 2012 08:31 AM (GustN)

466 Profit? Hell, it was about creating cancer.

Posted by: "Biff" Romney at August 24, 2012 08:32 AM (yxz7s)

467 Go fuck yourselves!


Sweetie, I'll be needing more batteries first.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 24, 2012 12:06 PM (VtjlW)


This right here is why I love AoSHQ. And AtC.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 08:32 AM (da5Wo)

468 Wow.  NSFW.  

"Got Milk???"

http://tinyurl.com/9vj9x32

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 08:32 AM (nNd0o)

469 all you rapist-loving, gay-hating dicks!

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We don't hate you, erg, we pity you.  And we don't love rapists either.  Personally I can't stand Bill Clinton.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 24, 2012 08:33 AM (aHR5E)

470 One of Girl928's funky friends has a rotary phone converted to cell that she carries around in her over-sized purse.

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 08:33 AM (QupBk)

471 412 btw, Akin is obviously not hurting anyone:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/24/rasmussen-romney-loses-mo-lead-after-akin-controversy/

Oops.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 24, 2012 12:16 PM (MrM2k)


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And yet the @dloesch's (and her house husband) continue to offer "moral" support ("he won the primary y'all").   You see, it's the "conservative" and "anti-establishment" thing to do.  We can't let the "establishment" decide our local elections.


I'm totally convinced that Akin didn't drop out earlier this week because he at least still had local conservative media support at the time.  This issue could go down as the biggest fucking catastrophe of the entire election. 

Posted by: Not and Artist at August 24, 2012 08:33 AM (uRumV)

472 "Should I pay more for the i7, or stick with the i5?"

As we speak I'm transferring my crap to a new computer with an i7 in it.  I have an i7 in my macbook air too, and am very happy with it.

If a few hundred bucks isn't a long term big deal, I suggest getting it.  You will be glad you did.  But if your computing needs are light and money is a real object, the i5 will be good enough.

Even the 1.8 Ghz i7 in my macbook out performs the 3.8 Ghz quad core pentium in my old computer.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2012 08:33 AM (dX4hn)

473

>>>"Twinkle this asshole 'cause I'm voting for Mitt Romney."

I want the t-shirt.

Posted by: Roy at August 24, 2012 08:34 AM (VndSC)

474 Formatting.     how the fuck does it work?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:34 AM (4df7R)

475 >>I have to get back to my cushy, well-paying, do-nothing government job. Thanks for helping to pay my salary, all you rapist-loving, gay-hating dicks! Explains a lot. Too stupid and lazy to hold a private sector job so he joins he other collectivists on the government dole and then shows his disdain for the very people who make his lifestyle possible. Typical government worker.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 08:34 AM (TMB3S)

476

Obama Campaign says Romney's career at Bain Capital "was not about creating jobs, it was about creating profits."

 

------------------

 

Oh, you mean those things that are taxable and from which the federal government derives its money?

 

I'm waiting for the demonization of those awful people who refuse to be employed by any organization except nonprofits.  That's pretty anti-government, when you stop to think about it.

Posted by: disa at August 24, 2012 08:34 AM (Zfbfs)

477 473 AP,

wetnurse

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:34 AM (LRFds)

478
They are pandering to their base, which is are dumb people.

FIFY


For god's sake.  Correct your grammar.  People be being  plural.  You can update your but not correct yours grammar ?

This is your LAST warning!

Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar Polesse at August 24, 2012 08:35 AM (3ZjAP)

479 Typical government worker.

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Now there's an oxymoron for ya.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 24, 2012 08:35 AM (aHR5E)

480 Oh for crap sake . I just checked back in and there is a tweet about solyndra, and there are comments that Bush approved the loan to solyndra. what the hell do we have to do to get people to listen. Bush did not approve the loan he rejected it !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: cicero skip at August 24, 2012 08:35 AM (3m9Uc)

481 And what is it with crazy women and cats? Lady got pulled over. She had 53 cats in her car.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:35 AM (G/zuv)

482 Plastic Bag Bans Lead to E-coli Deaths
http://is.gd/UiSVlO

Is comment #17 one of you guys? Because it's brilliant.


The sarcasm is strong with that one. Well done.

Posted by: Retread at August 24, 2012 08:35 AM (zxitI)

483 Once you've come to accept your shortcomings, you'll begin to understand why your mother hates you as much as everyone else.



Would you like me to remove the soapbox for now ma'am? Or will you be requiring it further? I will say, the crowds are so disappointed when you get down...

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 08:36 AM (da5Wo)

484 You can update your but not correct yours grammar ?

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Skwisgaar?  Is that you?

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 24, 2012 08:36 AM (aHR5E)

485 458: No real optimization issues, i5 should be fine. One thing--the current line of Intel chips have graphics on the chip, rather than having it build into the MoBo. It's actually capable of handling older games solo without a dedicated card, if that's an issue, but unless you have heavy duty needs it's not an issue.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 08:36 AM (GBXon)

486 >>jaketapper Romney at Michigan rally: “No ones ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know where I was born and raised.” heh

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 08:37 AM (TMB3S)

487 Lady got pulled over. She had 53 cats in her car. She must have bled to death. It's hard enough taking one cat somewhere when it's in a crate.

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2012 08:37 AM (FcR7P)

488 Tell me again how companies that don't have a profit pay for employees who have the jobs?  Oh that's right. Your taxes. 

Posted by: kansas at August 24, 2012 08:37 AM (mka2b)

489

Gawd I love that kid.

 

I see the Valu-Rite injections are working. Whilst not required, they do tend to accelerate the Moron-development process.

 

OK.  I had just enough  time for  the old in-out. Now I gotta take B'Gal for some bloodwork, then lunch. Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 24, 2012 08:38 AM (d0Tfm)

490 492 Lady got pulled over. She had 53 cats in her car.

She must have bled to death. It's hard enough taking one cat somewhere when it's in a crate.




Didn't say the cats were alive

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 08:38 AM (da5Wo)

491

Bush did not approve the loan he rejected it !!!!!!!!!!

 

Details are hard for those in the "reality-based community." 

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 08:38 AM (V40IZ)

492 @489

No.  Just a early afternoon drunk poster.

Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar Polesse at August 24, 2012 08:39 AM (3ZjAP)

493 The idea that two people can exchange money for services and both of them come away better off is totally beyond the comprehension of the liberal mind.

You can see faint glimpses of understanding this concept if you listen to them talking about "sex workers"...

And now that pimps are required by Obamacare to provide insurance that covers abortions or pay a fine, more jobs can be created in this industry, right?

Posted by: HeatherRadish is slurpin' onna 32oz fountain drink at August 24, 2012 08:39 AM (/kI1Q)

494 Would you like me to remove the soapbox for now ma'am? Or will you be requiring it further? I will say, the crowds are so disappointed when you get down...

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 12:36 PM (da5Wo)

 

'tis the Horde's soapbox, BCochran.  I simply occupy it now and then.   And not the nasty kind of occupy with the scabies and raping. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:39 AM (4df7R)

495 485 CS,

Thank Jackhole Tapper who is more interested in Romney's saying he was never asked for a birth certificate because people know where he was born....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:39 AM (LRFds)

496 Didn't say the cats were alive

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Where's Ozfic from again?

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 24, 2012 08:39 AM (aHR5E)

497 @491: Wow. Toure will call that racist in 5...4...3...

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 08:40 AM (B/VB5)

498 Obama Campaign says Romney's career at Bain Capital "was not about creating jobs, it was about creating profits." Are they saying Romney was all about paying taxes?

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2012 08:40 AM (FcR7P)

499 Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Two New York women and a Vermont country inn have settled a lawsuit that accused the business of refusing to host the couple's wedding reception. The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday the Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville agreed to pay a $10,000 civil penalty to the Vermont Human Rights Commission and to place $20,000 in a charitable trust. Under the settlement, the inn also agreed it would no longer host weddings and their receptions. The innkeepers' lawyer, Jim Campbell, said they had decided previously to end that part of their business. "We're glad that the Wildflower Inn has recognized that the way we were treated was wrong and that no other family will have to experience what we did," said Ming Linsley in a statement released by the ACLU. "Although we found a different location and had a beautiful day, all families should feel welcome at any resort that's open to the public." The ACLU said Ming Linsley and Kate Linsley contacted the civil rights organization after Ming's mother was told by the inn's events manager that the inn didn't host "gay receptions" because of the innkeepers' "personal feelings."

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:40 AM (G/zuv)

500 'tis the Horde's soapbox, BCochran. I simply occupy it now and then. And not the nasty kind of occupy with the scabies and raping.



You forgot the defecating, the garbage, the drugs....

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 08:41 AM (da5Wo)

501 I'm waiting for the demonization of those awful people who refuse to be employed by any organization except nonprofits.

What? That's Mooch's stock speech to college-age people: don't go work for an evil company with a profit-sharing plan, go work for a non-profit.  Or the government.

Posted by: HeatherRadish is slurpin' onna 32oz fountain drink at August 24, 2012 08:41 AM (/kI1Q)

502 not the nasty kind of occupy with the scabies and raping. I totally read that as 'rabies and scaping' just now.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 08:41 AM (GBXon)

503 469 Seen it done with non-smartphone cell phones, too. The whole thing, base, cradle, handset...always wanted one, just for the theater of an honest-to-God phone ringing, pulling it out and putting it on the desk, and picking up the handset to answer.   ----------   It strikes me that it should be possible to build a Get Smart shoe phone these days...

Posted by: Anachronda at August 24, 2012 08:41 AM (IrbU4)

504 @412 That same Hot Air story notes that Rasmussen over-weights females in the poll by 6% vs. actual voter turnout and vs his previous MO polls.  Not surprising that the results are what they are, given that "adjustment."

Not a defense of Akin, BTW, just noticing what the story itself says. 

Posted by: trumpetdaddy at August 24, 2012 08:42 AM (dcoFe)

505 Ian s, Heralder, Brother Cavil, Mike The Moose, Dave in Fla....

Thanks for the input.

I'll be agonizing over this for another week, then I will frantically order a machine at 3:00am when my current machine pisses me off so much that I start screaming.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 24, 2012 08:42 AM (2b4yb)

506 Any PC hardware geeks floating around?

Should I pay more for the i7, or stick with the i5?


I went with the i5 2500k and overclocked it from stock 3.3GHz to 4.3GHz using a $30 cpu cooler. 

The newer Intel chips take to overclocking pretty well, and modern motherboards make it reasonably easy.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 24, 2012 08:42 AM (SY2Kh)

507 Romney Lead Vanishes in MO.  Rasmussen - Obama now leads in the Legitimate Rape State.


Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 08:42 AM (ovpNn)

508 502. Good. Team Obama has called Romney a murderer and a felon. Obama joked four times about Romney putting his dog on his car roof last week. He's about to get hit with the biggest attack barrage in his pampered little life and if past is prologue he will whine like a little bitch and become extremely petulant, neither of which works well for him.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2012 08:43 AM (TMB3S)

509 502 @491: Wow. Toure will call that racist in 5...4...3...

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 12:40 PM (B/VB5)

 

Other things Toure(ttes) will call racist:

 

SQL syntax

jelly beans

books over 300 pages in length

pewter

mechanical pencils

phonebooks published between 1984 and 1993

Mount Everest

water

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:43 AM (4df7R)

510 I have a construction company. I employ folks to do all of the things that I cannot do myself. They earn the money it costs me to employ them. As a sub chapter S corporation all of my "profit" is treated as income and I pay taxes on it. Profit = income.

Posted by: iamahaiangttiam at August 24, 2012 08:43 AM (cIYFL)

511 someone needs to punch Akin and Fatfuckabee in their magic vaginas.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 08:43 AM (ovpNn)

512 From the smartest and not the 5th or 6th most interesting person in the room... "‘I'd advise that you talk to General McRaven, who's in charge of our Special Ops." Under Barry's leadership, Generals serve in the Navy. Fucking idiot.

Posted by: RWC at August 24, 2012 08:43 AM (fWAjv)

513 It strikes me that it should be possible to build a Get Smart shoe phone these days... http://realshoephone.com/

Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 08:44 AM (GBXon)

514 Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 12:36 PM (GBXon)

I was planning on putting in a good video board, assuming that the integrated graphics won't be as fast as an aftermarket board.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 24, 2012 08:45 AM (2b4yb)

515

"Is comment #17 one of you guys? Because it's brilliant."

 

If he ain't  one of us, we need to recruit him.

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 08:45 AM (V40IZ)

516 517 From the smartest and not the 5th or 6th most interesting person in the room...

"‘I'd advise that you talk to General McRaven, who's in charge of our Special Ops."

Under Barry's leadership, Generals serve in the Navy.

Fucking idiot. Posted by: RWC

Commander in CHief directing terrorist kill operations himself step by step my ass.

This cocksucking mother fucker doesnt know shit about the military or military strategy.

The closest he has come to making a big military decision was when he was playing checkers in his childhood madrasa

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 08:45 AM (ovpNn)

517 445: CBD - Definitely as others have said i5.  You wouldn't be utilizing enough of the i7 to make it worth the price, the i5 should be more than what you need!

Posted by: Heralder at August 24, 2012 08:46 AM (+xmn4)

518 @511: 4.7 GHz rock-solid on air ($30 huge-ass Corsair cooler) here with a i7 2600K.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 24, 2012 08:46 AM (B/VB5)

519 Nice, the ESB shooter was carrying a Colt 1911....8 shots, 1 clip....

he shot his manager 3 times, himself 1....

7 other people got hit....


Let's do some math....

nice work NYPD....God bless you wouldn't want civillians to have guns would we?

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:46 AM (LRFds)

520 Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 24, 2012 12:42 PM (SY2Kh)

Oh, gee, thanks for adding another layer of complexity to the decision!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 24, 2012 08:47 AM (2b4yb)

521 I was planning on putting in a good video board, assuming that the integrated graphics won't be as fast as an aftermarket board.

Depends on what you're going to be using it for.  Just regular web shit:  stick with integrated.  Gaming and multimedia stuff:  go buy a good vid card.

nVidia and AMD are the two big players.  Both have really nice cards that will handle whatever you throw at them.  Some of the next to new ones are really well priced in the couple hundred dollar range.

Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 08:47 AM (GQ8sn)

522 524 Nice, the ESB shooter was carrying a Colt 1911....8 shots, 1 clip....

he shot his manager 3 times, himself 1....

7 other people got hit....


Let's do some math....

nice work NYPD....God bless you wouldn't want civillians to have guns would we?
Posted by: sven10077

Those were conservative teabagger hate bullets.   they have a tendency to penetrate multiple targets...

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 08:48 AM (ovpNn)

523 >>>Generals serve in the Navy.

Doesn't surprise me he has no concept of the difference between a General and an Admiral. That would require you knew some history about Western Civilization.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 08:48 AM (0q2P7)

524 524 Nice, the ESB shooter was carrying a Colt 1911....8 shots, 1 clip.... --------- A clip for a 1911? This I gotta see!

Posted by: Pedantic Gun Owner at August 24, 2012 08:48 AM (fWAjv)

525 . . . and then shows his disdain for the very people who make his lifestyle possible. Look on the bright side. He's showing his petulant disdain in the comments instead of in the den with the Mossberg like his brothers-in-spirit, Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 24, 2012 08:48 AM (ogdab)

526 527 >>>Generals serve in the Navy.

Doesn't surprise me he has no concept of the difference between a General and an Admiral. That would require you knew some history about Western Civilization.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power!

I bet he never has a problem identifying czars commrades and progressives

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 08:49 AM (ovpNn)

527 My re-elect Obama in 2012 bumper sticker: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. I always seem to know how to assign the appropriate quote, to the situation. I have a very high IQ you know.

Posted by: J Biden VP & very smart individual at August 24, 2012 08:49 AM (4eNxd)

528 I was planning on putting in a good video board, assuming that the integrated graphics won't be as fast as an aftermarket board. Depends on the card. Oh, and make sure the card matches the MoBo, it would be embarrassing to get a PCIE 3 card for a PCIE 2 board. And make sure the power supply can handle it.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, covering his bases at August 24, 2012 08:49 AM (GBXon)

529 Nice, the ESB shooter was carrying a Colt 1911....8 shots, 1 clip....

he shot his manager 3 times, himself 1....

7 other people got hit....


Let's do some math....

nice work NYPD....God bless you wouldn't want civillians to have guns would we?




Drudge is saying some victims were hit accidentally by police.  After reading that, I am not surprised. 

Posted by: EC at August 24, 2012 08:50 AM (GQ8sn)

530 New (open) thread up!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 24, 2012 08:50 AM (4df7R)

531 529 PGO,

yeah yeah I just got kicked in the K pot...

you have no idea how in awe I am trying to visualize that clsuterfuck

Posted by: sven10077 at August 24, 2012 08:50 AM (LRFds)

532 Admiral schmadmiral.

Posted by: Barry (Lover of Seaman) at August 24, 2012 08:50 AM (fWAjv)

533 Doesn't surprise me he has no concept of the difference between a General and an Admiral. That would require you knew some history about Western Civilization.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 24, 2012 12:48



Now, the difference between a Tirbodh and a Paygan Salarapoo? That he's got

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 08:51 AM (da5Wo)

534 from Fairbanks (Alaska, for those of you Rio Linde) Daily News: KETCHIKAN, Alaska - A woman who had 53 cats in her car when stopped by Ketchikan police is facing thousands of dollars in citations. The Ketchikan Daily News (http://is.gd/2124RY) says animal protection has filed a complaint against the Metlakatla woman for inhumane treatment of an animal and failure to provide rabies immunizations. The situation came to the attention of authorities on Aug. 10. Ketchikan officials met the woman when the ferry arrived from Annette Island and found she had 53 cats, including a dead newborn kitten. The woman continued on to Prince Rupert, Canada. Authorities say if she returns, she could have to pay $13,150 in citations. Many of the cats were feral and determined to be unfit for adoption.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:51 AM (G/zuv)

535 Rasmussen over-weights females

He forgets to remove their feed bags.

Posted by: John the Libertarian at August 24, 2012 08:52 AM (u2SdM)

536 Question: how does one keep 53 cats in a car? Every time you open the door, the cats make a break for it, no?

Posted by: soothsayer at August 24, 2012 08:53 AM (G/zuv)

537 water Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at August 24, 2012 12:43 PM (4df7R) correction, salt water - for reasons that will be obvious to non-racists

Posted by: The Real Toure - All rights reserved at August 24, 2012 08:55 AM (4eNxd)

538 Ha ha. Generals in the navy. That is funny. Someone should ask him to name all the ranks in order for the 4 main branches. Strikes me as something a CIC should know. Hell most intelligent Americans would know it. I doubt he could.

Posted by: SH at August 24, 2012 08:55 AM (bxpf3)

539 I'm totally convinced that Akin didn't drop out earlier this week because he at least still had local conservative media support at the time.

I don't really think so.  He cocooned himself right away. 

The fault is with Akin, not with people who didn't jump to get him out of the race.  He's the one who is mentally ill.  I think it is entirely appropriate (although I disagreed) to argue that he should have been able to apologize and try to dig his way out of it.  He since failed miserably, but a skilled politician or one with a stellar record on womens' issues would have been able to do so.

The window was narrow but, let's face it, he can drop out now and he isn't.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 24, 2012 08:56 AM (T0NGe)

540 I was planning on putting in a good video board, assuming that the integrated graphics won't be as fast as an aftermarket board.

Anything but a really cheap video card is going to be better than the integrated graphics chipset.

No need to spend a lot of money unless you're a hardcore gamer (there are a lot of decent cards in the $125 range), though I'd get one thats DX11 compatible.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 24, 2012 08:57 AM (SY2Kh)

541 It was worth coming back here to read 514.  Thank  you MWR.  That should almost become  it's own Open Thread topic.

Posted by: reason at August 24, 2012 09:00 AM (CGjum)

542 397 "f*cktarded?" F*CKTARDED?????? Since when have we gone all PC and stopped being the foulest mouthed conservative blog and started being all nice and stuff. Posted by: Ronzoni at August 24, 2012 12:12 PM (k+hyc) No sh*t, that's weak

Posted by: Ed Gibbon at August 24, 2012 09:03 AM (4eNxd)

543 So in other words, Obama just sees business as some kind of WPA project.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 24, 2012 09:03 AM (P6QsQ)

544 And what is it with crazy women and cats?

Lady got pulled over. She had 53 cats in her car.

That's dedication to herding cats there.  The mental images that produces are priceless.

Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at August 24, 2012 09:12 AM (bj+Nc)

545 Perhaps a posting of Bastiat's Candlemaker's Guild is in order.

Posted by: Jason at August 24, 2012 09:21 AM (6VB4r)

546 Uh, Knoller, aren't you net-net better off finanically by virtue of your labor? Newsflash: that's called "profit."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 24, 2012 09:28 AM (oX7vY)

547 They're trying to drive the the R-R ticket to go on record to state support of something the Democrats can say that's a old idea that doesn't work: Trickle Down Economics.  Everyone knows TDE works (just look at the rebound of the United States' boat manufacturing industry), but the Dems have a long history of mocking it and applying rhetroric to it.

Posted by: Manolo at August 24, 2012 09:41 AM (osx1V)

548

"So in other words, Obama just sees business as some kind of WPA project."

 

Uhhh...what's WPA?

 

But don't mess with  us!  We don't need all your fancy history-stuff to know what's best for our generation!

Posted by: #Occupooper at August 24, 2012 09:50 AM (CGjum)

549 Incredible.  If the voting populous can't see the absurdity of that statement we as a nation are doomed.

Posted by: TheOtherJay at August 24, 2012 09:58 AM (nojhZ)

550 I'll be agonizing over this for another week, then I will frantically order a machine at 3:00am when my current machine pisses me off so much that I start screaming. I'm with you, brother. I've been vacillating for a week about ordering this laptop for Mrs928, who really only uses hers to surf the web and play solitaire. I figure it will be the last laptop we buy so I'm going with the I7. http://is.gd/0YqAhA

Posted by: toby928© at August 24, 2012 10:03 AM (QupBk)

551 The Zipster profitted from writing his autobiography(twice), right?

Posted by: boned to the bone at August 24, 2012 10:22 AM (BHM5V)

552 In Soviet Russia job create you.

Posted by: Mr Clean at August 24, 2012 11:24 AM (zyNdo)

553 I (heart) Laura W!!!...great post!

Posted by: billygoat on microbrew tour in Jonesborough, TN at August 24, 2012 12:08 PM (2rAhg)

554 "Obama Campaign says Romney's career at Bain Capital "was not about creating jobs, it was about creating profits."" Profits, or Rapes? Leftists are going soft. Time to go for the jugular.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at August 24, 2012 01:51 PM (5e6JG)

555 Maybe we could explain it to them in terms they'd understand. "You see, by pursuing profit the company creates an invisibile crony and bestows jobs and income on some people. It's as if there were a Deputy Secretary to the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Planning and Swag with a big budget that was handing out grants."

Posted by: Ernst Blofeld at August 24, 2012 09:02 PM (V7mkK)

556 A new business opens up. They have to hire workers to run the business, therefore, jobs come before profits. To KEEP the workers, the business must make a profit. Profits keep jobs. Sounds simple to me, and I ain't good at math.

Posted by: Smorgasbord at August 25, 2012 06:16 AM (/++CA)

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