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August 31, 2012

Remember That Time Barack Obama Stopped The Oceans From Rising?
— andy

Politifact: TRUE, WINGNUTS!!11!

Oh, my. Mitt really stirred the hornets' nest with his joke about Obama's promise to rein in those pesky sea levels.

Like they did with Paul Ryan's Janesville GM plant reference, the "fact checkers" are wetting themselves as they completely miss the point (and get the facts wrong at the same time).

They can't accept that every rational person outside their little Progressive/Media (BIRM) bubble views their Messiah's grandiose promises of environmental healing and a magically restored economy where every job is a green job as the punchline to a joke. A very bad joke.

The death throes of their fairytale are going to be ugly, but lucky for us they will be televised. Enjoy.

*(h/t Damn Dirty RINO for adding the Obama quote to the graph)

Posted by: andy at 10:01 AM | Comments (286)
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1 They are being hilariously literal, aren't they?

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at August 31, 2012 10:02 AM (RD7QR)

2 Yeah we use downfall jokes but the Moonbat Media are the Japanese Trooper in 1972 wearing rags and holding a rusted rifle on the tourist who is just there to get coconuts...

"put the boom stick down Tetsuo....."

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:03 AM (LRFds)

OMG NEW THREAD!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:03 AM (4df7R)

4 1 Joncelli,

they are the fish in the water asking doctor doolittle what the fuck water is....

You stare into the moonbat too long and eventually the moonbat has stared into you past your horizon

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:04 AM (LRFds)

The Empty Chair is sinking...in the rising tide.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:04 AM (5BAYg)

6 Oh good Lord, they really can't take a joke, can they? They honestly don't realize that Obama's greek columns and grandiose rhetoric and "Office of the President Elect" seals are viewed as nothing but a huge joke by 75% of the country. It's amazing. They think that people take this shit SERIOUSLY.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:05 AM (4df7R)

7 6 wheatie,

"You want pontoons for the chair?"

//Bronco Billy to M.T. Chair

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:05 AM (LRFds)

8 Racist Graphs are Racist.

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 10:06 AM (7eD7C)

9 7 MWR,

Maybe not or Secret Service needs to shut the hell up....that statue of him getting his Mao on would've ended the race

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:06 AM (LRFds)

10 The MFM is experiencing a collective psychotic break over the Clint appearance - now this. All that energy could have been spent going after real threats, such as the rising GOP stars, namely Marco Rubio. But they're losing it over an empty chair and sea levels.

Posted by: kallisto at August 31, 2012 10:07 AM (jm/9g)

11 they are nuts, stuck in a time capsule, believing they own the narrative. heh

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 10:07 AM (Dnbau)

12 Romney's joke about the ocean is a thinly veiled reference to Aquaman. That is a homophobic dog whistle!

Posted by: Chris Matthews at August 31, 2012 10:07 AM (vjyZP)

13 11 Kallisto,

Barry Choom never could take a punch.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:07 AM (LRFds)

14 This chart is going up twinkles.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (lTVJy)

15 Well, it's not like CNN would fact check a SNL skit on Obama's accomplishments/ Oh wait, they did!

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (TJ8HB)

16 The only thing obama kept from rising is the stock market.

Posted by: nate_bob_c at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (gsy5B)

17 generations from now, we will able to tell our children... Tell me, Captain Time Chair, how is that even possible?

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (FcR7P)

18 by the way, thats our chair, not his chair. Get out of my chair.

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (Dnbau)

Here's an image for a campaign poster:

An empty chair, complete with mini-teleprompter, floating away on a rising sea. And underneath it the words: "What happened?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (4df7R)

20 OT From last thread:
Obama Empty Chair. Anyone know where to get one? I'd like to own a piece of history. (Is that racist?) And it's better than the stupid Obama plates that they sold, and incidentally, more useful than Obama, the plate, and the DNC combined.

I'm actually serious.

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (Kkt/i)

21 One heaping scoop of ridicule coming right up.

Posted by: Roy at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (VndSC)

22 I wish Mitt had mentioned that energy production carbon output has dropped to the lowest level in 20 years. Barky's own energy department announced this last week.

The reason? Cheap natural gas is being used to generate electricity.. that cheap natural gas his administration is trying to block from being drilled.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 31, 2012 10:08 AM (f9c2L)

23 ThatÂ’s because MSNBC offers counterprogramming, not coverage. All that arch sarcasm and partisan brio may rev up the cable channelÂ’s fans, but it constrains Â— and stains Â— NBC News, its corporate sibling, which is still the countryÂ’s No. 1 source in the evening.

NBC and the other broadcast networks cut their live convention coverage to an hour during prime time this year, which leaves barely time to show the main speeches, let alone analyze them. Yet NBCÂ’s chief anchor, Brian Williams, has conspicuously avoided the most fractious MSNBC discussion panels. Those anchors who do make dutiful appearances, like David Gregory and Tom Brokaw, are badly needed but donÂ’t stay long or join the fray Â— like piano players in a brothel, they donÂ’t go upstairs.

Wow! that's gonna leave a mark.

Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords Schultz at August 31, 2012 10:09 AM (e8kgV)

24 Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?

Posted by: Carl at August 31, 2012 10:09 AM (z+EmN)

25 Now if Preazy had made good on a promise to stop the rise in Chris Matthews' BAC, that would be something.

Posted by: kallisto at August 31, 2012 10:09 AM (jm/9g)

Sooo.... Sea level is rising, even though there has been no global warming in the last 12 years... but its due to Global Warming?

Do they even try to understand the basic precepts of Cause, and Effect?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 10:10 AM (lZBBB)

27 Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today? Yes. Carry on.

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2012 10:10 AM (FcR7P)

28 Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?

Posted by: Carl

Yes.

Posted by: Roy at August 31, 2012 10:11 AM (VndSC)

29 Rush is saying Reid and Pelosi are going to be at the convention. What a cast of characters. It's going to be happy fun ball next week.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2012 10:11 AM (lTVJy)

30 Sooo.... Sea level is rising, even though there has been no global warming in the last 12 years... but its due to Global Warming?

Do they even try to understand the basic precepts of Cause, and Effect?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 02:10 PM (lZBBB)

Sure they do.

The cause is SHUT.

The effect is UP!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:11 AM (4df7R)

31 Yea, Just laugh LOSERS!!! Presadant Obama cares about the earth and the people. Romney wants dirty wator, dirty air, dirty food and dirty land only to make a quick profit. All about $$$$$$. Presadant Obama does not care about money, only for preople...That is the difference in this electron...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 31, 2012 10:11 AM (48wze)

32 1. Romney pokes fun at Obama's claim to have the power to lower sea levels
2. African slaves were transported to the New World by sea
3. Romney thinks black people should all be working in a sugar plantations in the Caribbean

Posted by: Cicero at August 31, 2012 10:11 AM (QKKT0)

33 If you actually look at the trendline curve, you'll see that the rise of the oceans (derivative of the trendline of the curve) was slowing in 1992. More Obama taking credit for others work.

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 10:11 AM (Kkt/i)

34 OT - but does anyone else think Clint missed a really good opportunity last night by not using one of his other famous phrases? he should have looked at the empty chair with a snear and said "A man's got to know his limitations."

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 31, 2012 10:11 AM (f9c2L)

35 31 Rush is saying Reid and Pelosi are going to be at the convention. What a cast of characters. It's going to be happy fun ball next week.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2012 02:11 PM (lTVJy)

Yeah, saw some articles this morning that said the DNC is scrambling to add women and minorities to their convention lineup.

Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2012 10:12 AM (X6akg)

36 Leftists do not lose with grace. They don't do anything with grace. When R&R have a solid 10 point lead 3 weeks from the Election, shit will get real.

Posted by: eman at August 31, 2012 10:12 AM (Wp4rQ)

37 'I've been to... Alaska. I've seen the Global Warming.'

Posted by: Chris Matthews at August 31, 2012 10:12 AM (7eD7C)

38 @37 Well he cares for voters at least. If you are in another country he will blow you to pieces...literally.

Posted by: nate_bob_c at August 31, 2012 10:13 AM (gsy5B)

39 This ranks right up there with that fucking goddamned lie about Obama's "styrofoam" greek columns. Those columns were made from a polyethylene closed cell foam as any idiot would know after a few hours of simple research. Romney is totally blowing this election with these careless mistakes.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 31, 2012 10:13 AM (+lsX1)

40 Yes.... I decided to stop all the rampant jokes about the Emporers New Clothes... just as I do with everything else I do, like the debt... by doubling Down!

Posted by: Emporer Empty Chair.. ha ha can't see me! at August 31, 2012 10:13 AM (lZBBB)

41 Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today? Posted by: Carl at August 31, 2012 02:09 PM (z+EmN) No, other trolls are also concerned.

Posted by: eman at August 31, 2012 10:13 AM (Wp4rQ)

@8, Sven

The 'Empty Chair' thing is just brilliant, I think.

It can be used in so many ways....

An Empty Chair sitting on the beach...with the tide coming in, waves lapping at its legs.

An Empty Chair...sitting in front of a boarded up factory.

An Empty Chair...in front of a foreclosed home.

It would make a great video.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:13 AM (5BAYg)

>>ah, saw some articles this morning that said the DNC is scrambling to add women and minorities

Pederasts are considered a minority, now?

...or is Harry Reid going to troll for unattended boys?

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 10:15 AM (7eD7C)

44 It's SEA-man **** it!

Posted by: America United (not a communist front) at August 31, 2012 10:15 AM (Kxz3Y)

45 http://tinyurl.com/8ts48cw

Posted by: 44QuickPassOn2 at August 31, 2012 10:15 AM (EuW9O)

46 That's fucking awesome, Andy! On the ride in to work, I thought about looking the sea level data up.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 31, 2012 10:15 AM (OMx3O)

47 If you actually look at the trendline curve, you'll see that the rise of the oceans (derivative of the trendline of the curve) was slowing in 1992. Yes, the second derivative is negative throughout. I'll bet the levels are on an eighty-year minor cycle, anyways, and sea levels were higher in the 1930'.

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2012 10:16 AM (FcR7P)

48 empty chair negotiating with Iran, empty chair t the G8 summit, empty chair picking up nobel peace prize, empty chair addressing Congress, mixed with images of Obama golfing

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 10:16 AM (Dnbau)

49 bambi follows Mitt to Louisiana ... a follower will always be a follower ...

Posted by: Honey Badger at August 31, 2012 10:16 AM (KC7lm)

50 Slublog or whoever: Can we get a flaming America with an empty chair superimposed over it?

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 10:16 AM (Kkt/i)

51 I think Clint was providing the repukes with a devastating meme. An empty chair. I would love to see the empty chair at campaign appearances across the country. You know Cling was over the target because he sure did catch a lot of flak.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 31, 2012 10:17 AM (jucos)

52 slublog, pick up the courtesy phone

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 10:17 AM (Dnbau)

53 "Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?"

No, no, NO YOU ARE NOT!!!

Posted by: Calvin the concernedest concerner in dah WORLD!!! at August 31, 2012 10:17 AM (ksERZ)

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2012 02:16 PM (FcR7P)

Yeah... funny how its only a VERY small historical chart...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 10:17 AM (lZBBB)

55 The only thing missing from the empty chair image is an empty suit sitting in it.

Posted by: LGoPs at August 31, 2012 10:18 AM (BJVEF)

56 That HBO series "Game of Empty Chairs" is pretty good.

Posted by: eman at August 31, 2012 10:18 AM (Wp4rQ)

57 44 wheatie,

He gets back in I am gonna possibly use my bankroll to do Alinsky Insurgent journalism....

"trust me"....

Look up Rollback operations, it was discovered that the best way to undermine a target regime was simply reminding people and reinforcing the perception of the meaningless and inefficiency of the seat of power.

Sidney Reilley was running a private cold war against the Soviet union using such tactics.

We'll have a LOT of work to do win or lose, just different sets of circumstances.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:18 AM (LRFds)

58 Looks like someone laid a "Hot Carl" on this thread.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 31, 2012 10:18 AM (OMx3O)

59 Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?

You're preaching to the choir buddy. I have refreshed Intrade several hundred times today and can only conclude that this election is lost.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 31, 2012 10:19 AM (+lsX1)

60 Romney should agree to go on a debate hosted by FOXNews. Obama will never show up, so he will have the empty chair to debate with.

Posted by: Erich Honecker at August 31, 2012 10:19 AM (e8kgV)

61 Cher being scripted for "surprise speaker" bit at DNC next week, in which Sonny occupies the chair. He represents the entire Right Wing Consiracy to Take Down HisEminence, and Cher bestows a boatload of hipster snark upon his dead head while the crowd roars in approval. Mo Dowd and Bill Maher to co-write script. Tom Hanks, executive producer. Music by the Dixie Chicks. Jason Biggs to carry the water.

Posted by: The littl shyning man at August 31, 2012 10:19 AM (PH+2B)

62 An Empty Chair...sitting in front of a boarded up factory. Serves them right if Clint got the idea from Doonesbury. It's going to be a powerful image this fall.

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2012 10:19 AM (FcR7P)

63 empty chair talking math with Paul Ryan, empty chair pouring over the details of Obama care, empty chair puzzling over a budget and Obama golfing

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 10:19 AM (Dnbau)

OT, but have y'all read about the fatal shooting at that NJ shopping center this morning? Here's the description of the gunman from an article at ABC Local in NJ (linked at Drudge):

The gunman was identified as a 23-year-old ex-Marine who worked at the supermarket for the last two weeks.

Authorities say the suspect left the store around 3:30 a.m. and returned a half hour later dressed in camouflage, armed with an AK-47 and an automatic handgun. He shot the two victims, both young adults, in separate parts of the store before turning the gun on himself.

First off, prayers for the victims. May they RIP.

Second, you know what this will be, according to the media? Another crazy military vet who decided to kill people. The fact that the guy served his entire two year stint in the military in California and never deployed overseas will mean nothing.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:19 AM (4df7R)

65 bambi follows Mitt to Louisiana ... a follower will always be a follower ... Posted by: Honey Badger
.........
Shows what you know! He's leading from behind! Na na na na na...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 31, 2012 10:20 AM (f9c2L)

66 51 Honey Badger,

Mitt needs to cut a personal check for 3 million dollars for the American red Cross and the GOP should get aid there by our hand.

Damn it Rush is telling the story of Mitt and the dying 14 year old's will and hus burial in his Boy Scout uniform...

it must be raining in here

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:20 AM (LRFds)

67 Alan Colmes is a one of a kind human being and I do not mean that in a good way.

Posted by: Adam at August 31, 2012 10:20 AM (/YJYi)

68 " Jason Biggs to carry the water...."

Hey....don't forget the bleach!

Posted by: arseholes united, local #347 at August 31, 2012 10:20 AM (ksERZ)

69 @7 I can't Photoshop, but I wish someone would make him a new one for after the election: "Office of the President Unelected". Instead of an eagle, have a duck with a bandaged leg and a crutch.

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:20 AM (fCXCT)

70 Upon meeting Greek men today: Â“IÂ’m Joe Bidenopoulos.Â”

What would be the reaction inside the MSNBC kiddie klown kar if Sarah Palin went to Greece and said "I'm Sarah Palinopoulos".

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 31, 2012 10:21 AM (xm1A1)

71 That notorious Chinese dictator Empty Chairman Mao killed millions of people.

Posted by: eman at August 31, 2012 10:21 AM (Wp4rQ)

72 You're preaching to the choir buddy. I have refreshed Intrade several hundred times today and can only conclude that this election is lost. Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 31, 2012 02:19 PM (+lsX1) ! srsly?

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 10:21 AM (Dnbau)

73 Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?"

No, no, NO YOU ARE NOT!!!

Posted by: Calvin the concernedest concerner in dah WORLD!!! at August 31, 2012 02:17 PM (ksERZ)

The tortoise and the hare... you know who wins

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:21 AM (nTgAI)

The 'Empty Chair' thing is just brilliant, I think.
It can be used in so many ways....

An empty chair wearing mom jeans and a stupid helmet...

An empty chair struggling to get an umbrella through a gate...

An empty chair on the golf course...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:21 AM (4df7R)

75 The ocean of bullshit alone has risen 75%

Posted by: Cricket at August 31, 2012 10:22 AM (DrC22)

76 and Obama golfing

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 02:19 PM (Dnbau)

I like that. An empty chair and a set of golf clubs. What a prop that would be.

Posted by: LGoPs at August 31, 2012 10:22 AM (BJVEF)

77 OT but i found the women bit in Mitt's speech a bit eyerolling (because i am a disgruntled white man) but i guess they figured they had to try and narrow the gender gap.

i would've loved it if they just laid out how idiotic the whole Democratic vision of forced contraception coverage as "health"/abortion funding is since that's the whole basis of their "anti-woman" attack...but a little hot-button i suppose, particularly after the Akin thing. maybe in the debates.

Posted by: JParker at August 31, 2012 02:21 PM (60GaT)

The dems will show how stupid this is themselves

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:22 AM (nTgAI)

78 Yeah, saw some articles this morning that said the DNC is scrambling to add women and minorities to their convention lineup.
Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2012 02:12 PM

Moar ~~pro-choice~~ baby killin'!!!

Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2012 10:22 AM (bAGA/)

79 67 MWR,

They cannot stand the skills we learn to serve the country.

You remember the euthanasia scene in "Soylent Green"?

yeah "retirement counseling"...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:22 AM (LRFds)

80 Bull Dinkey peeple!!!!! Romnet really stunk last nite and all he did was repeat Bush's liyes. Why are all of you so stooped ?????

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 31, 2012 10:22 AM (48wze)

81 Alan Colmes is a one of a kind human being and I do not mean that in a good way.

Alan Colmes is the love child of Sarah Jessica Parker and Jar-Jar Binks.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 31, 2012 10:23 AM (xm1A1)

82 Obama endorses infanticide. No joke.

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:23 AM (7nwJ6)

83 OT: My liberal contact in New York says that Clint Eastwood is a laughing stock from sea to shining sea.

Posted by: shibumi at August 31, 2012 10:23 AM (z63Tr)

Serves them right if Clint got the idea from Doonesbury. It's going to be a powerful image this fall.

I love anything that slams Doonesbury. Hate that strip.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 31, 2012 10:24 AM (DoZD+)

85 I have yet to hear from Mitt what his comprehensive plan to lower the sea levels is. I can't vote for that kind of indecisiveness.

Posted by: Biden2018 at August 31, 2012 10:24 AM (JOiCz)

86 81 Jackhole,

we're sold bud....

you and I are signing the damn auto note already...

heh no offense meant....but evidently we need to get Julia in the car...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:24 AM (LRFds)

87 That is the difference in this electron...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 31, 2012 02:11 PM (48wze)

What electron are you on?

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 10:24 AM (Kkt/i)

53..... You know Clint was over the target because he sure did catch a lot of flak.

Exactly, Truck Monkey.

They're yelping like scalded dogs.

Clint's performance hit them on several levels....and he dared to mock their Messiah.

Not only that....he gave us a visual prop.

In politics, this is a valuable thing.

Clint Eastwood has always been one of the cerebral types in Hollywood.

Hollywood shunned him, early in his career.

So, he went to Europe and made all those spaghetti Westerns.....and made a name for himself, on his own...without them.

They had to start giving him movie roles after that.

Clint is no dummy.

He knew exactly what he was doing.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:24 AM (5BAYg)

89 srsly?

Posted by: thunderb at August 31, 2012 02:21 PM (Dnbau)

GEH was exercising some dry wit, thunderdb.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:24 AM (4df7R)

90 Obama endorses infanticide.

Obamacare includes funding for the upgrading of hospital linen closets so each child is assured of a clean, safe place to die.

Posted by: Cicero at August 31, 2012 10:25 AM (QKKT0)

Obama endorses infanticide.

No joke.

He's very passionate about dead babies.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 31, 2012 10:25 AM (DoZD+)

92 "An empty chair on the golf course..."

An empty chair in a bowling alley.

An empty chair in front of a cigarette machine.

An empty chair with a flat screen tuned to Sportscenter in front of it.

This could go on and on....

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 31, 2012 10:25 AM (ksERZ)

93 83

"They cannot stand the skills we learn to serve the country.

You remember the euthanasia scene in "Soylent Green"?

yeah "retirement counseling"..."

Yep. That's going to be our future.

But first they'll harvest our usable organs. And I doubt they'll give us a pretty multi media presentation in the death room.

Posted by: shibumi at August 31, 2012 10:25 AM (z63Tr)

94 Ramesh Ponnuru cares more about me than my very own brother. No joke

Posted by: George Obama at August 31, 2012 10:25 AM (jucos)

95 The problem seems to be that conservatives don't understand the nuanced meaning of "the moment". We just aren't smart enough to understand that 10,000 years is "a moment" when speaking in evolutionary terms. So, we won't really know for many centuries whether the godman was wrong for the first time in his life, if it's even possible for a post racial person to be wrong about anything, seeing as how they have suffered and all that.

Posted by: proreason at August 31, 2012 10:26 AM (9JrlY)

96 Damnit, Rush replayed the two personal stories about Mitt from last night....and my monitor is all blurry....again.

Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2012 10:26 AM (X6akg)

97 Heard a clip of Choom king....

"Romney has said between the inauguration and the uh ball he will sign a repeal of medical coverage for 7 million kids on their parents insurance...I guess we can call it uh "Romney doesn't care....well *I* do care!"...

Yup Barry Choom enough to bankrupt medicare quicker...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:26 AM (LRFds)

98 26Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?

Posted by: Carl at August 31, 2012 02:09 PM (z+EmN)

I assume that there wasn't much time to poll after Romney's speech. Aren't they rolling average polls they use anyway? Are they doing LV yet. I should know this.

Posted by: dirks Strewn at August 31, 2012 10:26 AM (9PDty)

99 It's going to get ugly when the choomer in chief loses. R&R better figure out fast how to govern while having the media fully attack them from every angle. I think that part of the economic problems that started late in Bush's term was caused by the left and media talking the economy down just to pave the way for a dem president. R&R are going to have it worse than Bush ever had it!

Posted by: Havedash at August 31, 2012 10:26 AM (F0WNa)

100 Barky O'Kirby sucks like thousands of vacuums. what a twrip he is.

Posted by: Killerdog at August 31, 2012 10:26 AM (+RCdH)

101 53..... You know Clint was over the target because he sure did catch a lot of flak.

Exactly, Truck Monkey.

They're yelping like scalded dogs.

Clint's performance hit them on several levels....and he dared to mock their Messiah.
Not only that....he gave us a visual prop.
In politics, this is a valuable thing.

Clint Eastwood has always been one of the cerebral types in Hollywood.
Hollywood shunned him, early in his career.
So, he went to Europe and made all those spaghetti Westerns.....and made a name for himself, on his own...without them.
They had to start giving him movie roles after that.

Clint is no dummy.
He knew exactly what he was doing.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 02:24 PM (5BAYg)

You know it had an effect when Obama tweeted a response

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:27 AM (nTgAI)

102

An empty chair bowing to the Emperor of Japan...

An empty chair bowing to the Sultan of Brunei...

An empty chair bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:27 AM (4df7R)

103 Yes, the second derivative is negative throughout.

I'll bet the levels are on an eighty-year minor cycle, anyways, and sea levels were higher in the 1930'.

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2012 02:16 PM (FcR7P)

Burn the mathwitches!

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 10:27 AM (Kkt/i)

104

The media are idiots that are so in the tank for Obama, that they cannot see it.

Dear MFM, If you do not get the punchline, it may be because you are the joke.

humorless ass covering drones...

Posted by: rd at August 31, 2012 10:27 AM (9sUlj)

105 @89 Weird thing is, when it started it was actually really funny. Lo, how the mighty, etc.

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:27 AM (fCXCT)

106 An empty chair in front of a cigarette machine. -------------------------------------------------------- These are all but verboten in this day and age.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 31, 2012 10:27 AM (jucos)

107

"Well, guess what? Carville and Greenberg have just released a new poll, and it's devastating for Obama. Among independents -- the precious, eagerly sought, oh-God-everybody-loves-them independents -- Romney leads Obama (this is a poll this week) by 15 points, 53 to 38 in independents. This is remarkable. This is a Stan Greenberg and James Carville poll. "Independents disapprove of Obama's job performance 56 to 40%. And when looking at intensity, disapproval is greater than two to one, 47 to 20%." It is devastating. This is James Carville's own poll."

From Limbaugh today.

Posted by: MWTexas at August 31, 2012 10:28 AM (N05oL)

108 Alan Colmes is the love child of Sarah Jessica Parker and Jar-Jar Binks.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 31, 2012 02:23 PM (xm1A1)

Meesa ride a horse!

Posted by: Jar-Jar "Horndog" Binks at August 31, 2012 10:28 AM (RD7QR)

109 70 Alan Colmes is a one of a kind human being and I do not mean that in a good way.
Do you mean it in a 'THANK GOD!' kind of way?

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at August 31, 2012 10:28 AM (TJ8HB)

110 I didn't express my concern about the polling to troll anyone. It's a legitimate concern. Shouldn't we have seen an small uptick in the gallup 7 day poll? Or should we expect to see something on Monday instead?

Posted by: Carl at August 31, 2012 10:28 AM (z+EmN)

111 88 shibmui,

yeah...?

Ok I went and paid my car insurance and the 71 year old multi-millionaire agent was laughing his ass off about Clint and "the silly rabbit"..

so I'd say "he got it"

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:28 AM (LRFds)

112 I really liked watching the reaction to that too. Chris Hayes was particularly smug about it. After all, there are studies about what this coulf do to coastal urban transportation grids! This is serious shit guys. Meanwhile, people that can't find work doesn't even register.

Posted by: Dave S. at August 31, 2012 10:29 AM (/tk/V)

113 Clint's performance hit them on several levels....and he dared to mock their Messiah.
Not only that....he gave us a visual prop.
In politics, this is a valuable thing.

Clint Eastwood has always been one of the cerebral types in Hollywood.
Hollywood shunned him, early in his career.
So, he went to Europe and made all those spaghetti Westerns.....and made a name for himself, on his own...without them.
They had to start giving him movie roles after that.

Clint is no dummy.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 02:24 PM (5BAYg)

He did a phenomenal job. I just watched the video again and it gets better every time. My favorite part was when Clint told InvisibleObama, almost as an aside, "Your'e absolutely crazy." I laughed my ass off. And then launching into the rips on Biden. Too much.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 31, 2012 10:29 AM (X3lox)

114 Empty chair puffing on a joint...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:29 AM (4df7R)

115 @111 "These are all but verboten in this day and age."

Agreed, but a vintage one with a big Kool logo on it in front of an empty chair would be choice, as apparently that's what preezy stankbreath chainsmokes.

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 31, 2012 10:29 AM (ksERZ)

116 I heard an excellent commentary yesterday: The main reason Obama supposedly wants the mandate in Obamacare is to "prevent others from having to pay those getting healthcare and gaming the system." Yet, this is the same president who Actively promotes welfare and takes taxpayer money and wastes it a la Solyndra and the stimulus. This is all about control. But you already know this of course.

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:29 AM (5g2Fy)

117 An empty chair in front of some NCAA brackets...

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:29 AM (fCXCT)

118

Romney should agree to go on a debate hosted by FOXNews. Obama will never show up, so he will have the empty chair to debate with.

Looks like it behooves Sissy Pants to show up at the debates.

Posted by: fluffy at August 31, 2012 10:29 AM (O6q63)

119 The chair.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/8urr5cc

Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2012 10:30 AM (bAGA/)

120 The float control on my gigantic hot tub still doesn't work right. I swear these damn republicans will do anything to keep this president down. Curse their black hearts!

Posted by: Limo Libtard at August 31, 2012 10:30 AM (mxnUd)

121 @122- "...in front of some NCAA brackets..."

HAH! Nice one. Well played.

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 31, 2012 10:30 AM (ksERZ)

122 An empty chair in front of a teleprompter.

Posted by: LGoPs at August 31, 2012 10:30 AM (BJVEF)

123 Quoting Lady In Black: "This chart is going up twinkles."

You know, what ever happened to those Occupy Insert Location Here protesters? I guess they didn't feel the need to protest the last few days because the RACISM!!! and INTOLERANCE!!! of the Rethuglicans were self-evident.

Or, maybe they had to go to class.

Posted by: Mr_Write at August 31, 2012 10:31 AM (VJUQK)

124 Ace - how about an Aoshq empty chair graphic ?

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:31 AM (5g2Fy)

125 Perfect, huerfano!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:31 AM (4df7R)

126 An empty chair with a portuguese water dog taking a leak on it....

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 31, 2012 10:31 AM (ksERZ)

127 Breaking: MSNBC reporting 'mystery' DNC speaker to be holographic Fidel Castro.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 31, 2012 10:31 AM (+lsX1)

128 81 Jackhole,

we're sold bud....

you and I are signing the damn auto note already...

heh no offense meant....but evidently we need to get Julia in the car...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 02:24 PM (LRFds)

Ryan should be mocking the Julia thing. It's utter tripe and goes against everything american

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:31 AM (nTgAI)

129

I think that another 'theme' emerged last night....about Romney:

"He rushes towards problems....instead of running from them."

All those personal stories....the stories about Bain...the Olympics story....the stories of what he did as Governor....

Those were all stories of how Romney is a "go-to guy".

A guy who tackles problems.

He doesn't kick the can down the road.

He puts his shoulder into it.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:32 AM (5BAYg)

130 ♫ and no one heard at all
not even the chair ♪

Posted by: Neil Diamond at August 31, 2012 10:32 AM (uN+M3)

131

Empty Chair with a Basketball on it.

Empty Chair with a pair of Golf Shoes on it.

Empty Chair outside with Reggie at a Ball Game.

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 10:32 AM (7eD7C)

132 Pair of boots, rifle driven in the ground, helmet, dogtags... Facing an empty chair. Too far, perhaps

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:32 AM (fCXCT)

133 An empty chair with a portuguese water dog [with bite marks] taking a leak on it....

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 31, 2012 02:31 PM (ksERZ

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 31, 2012 10:32 AM (X3lox)

134 Fluffy - that is genius.

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:32 AM (5g2Fy)

135 Clint Eastwood has always been one of the cerebral types in Hollywood. _______________ Let's not get crazy here.

Posted by: Cricket at August 31, 2012 10:32 AM (DrC22)

136

And in between all these empty chair still shots, pepper in photos of people in the unemployment line, homes with foreclosure notices on the door, pictures of the rubble in Detroit and the slums of Chicago...

All of it presided over by an empty chair.

And the viewer can draw their own conclusion: "Where did he go?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:33 AM (4df7R)

137 Empty Chair's latest executive order today:

http://scoamf.us/yZ

"The order is the administration's latest effort to deploy cleaner and more efficient energy production in the country by working around political resistance to climate change and "green" energy legislation on Capitol Hill."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2012 10:33 AM (lTVJy)

138 #129 Don't hold your breath.

Posted by: Stripper Poll Graphic Liberation Front at August 31, 2012 10:33 AM (mxnUd)

139 Who. Been puttin' they Kools out. On the Flo?

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at August 31, 2012 10:33 AM (jucos)

140

Pair of boots, rifle driven in the ground, helmet, dogtags... Facing an empty chair.

Not facing the empty chair, Secundus. The empty chair would have it's back to the grave.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:33 AM (4df7R)

141 Empty Chair on a Gulf Coast Beach

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 10:33 AM (7eD7C)

142 And the viewer can draw their own conclusion: "Where did he go?"

... or perhaps, "Was he ever there?"

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 31, 2012 10:34 AM (ksERZ)

143 Seems like Barack doesn't like Alinsky ridicule tactics when they are used on him. If you can't take it, you best stop dishing it out.

Posted by: kansas at August 31, 2012 10:34 AM (mka2b)

144 33 Jackhole,

Everything's free....but us."

//Ryan

trust me they're on it

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:34 AM (LRFds)

145 I think that another 'theme' emerged last night....about Romney:

"He rushes towards problems....instead of running from them."

All those personal stories....the stories about Bain...the Olympics story....the stories of what he did as Governor....
Those were all stories of how Romney is a "go-to guy".
A guy who tackles problems.
He doesn't kick the can down the road.
He puts his shoulder into it.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 02:32 PM (5BAYg)

This. I like that.

Romney leads from in front, not from behind

Posted by: LGoPs at August 31, 2012 10:34 AM (BJVEF)

146 I'm going to have to put my folding camp chairs in the trunk so I will have them handy at all times.

Posted by: fluffy at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (O6q63)

147 Last night after Clint's appearance, I had a mental image of manchild obama curled in the fetal position and weeping uncontrollably and saying over and over again in a tiny, whiny voice, "I want my woobie, get me my Reggie, no, not you, Michelle, I want my Reggie, please, can I haz my Reggie? Please, my Reggie, I want my Reggieeeeeee".

Posted by: Will Be Taking Applications and Assimilating The Love-slaves at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (kXoT0)

148

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 02:27 PM (Kkt/i)

Actualy.... going back to 1850, the sea level rise has been pretty consistant... problem is... that the chart blows a hole in the 'sea level tied to Global Warming' theory.... so it get no attention.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (lZBBB)

149 One of those "hope"posters (the ones that got parodied to "math"). Only it's the chair. EMPTY

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (fCXCT)

150 "The order is the administration's latest effort
to deploy cleaner and more efficient energy production in the country by
working around political resistance to climate change and "green"
energy legislation on Capitol Hill."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2012 02:33 PM (lTVJy)

*SEETHING SEETHING SEETHING*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (4df7R)

151

@emptychair posts:

If you're going to do a video, Alice n Chains has already written the perfect song. "angry chair" just change it to "empty chair" the rest of the lyrics pretty much fit in pretty well as it is pessimistic devoid drivle. link to lyrics if anyone actually cares: http://tinyurl.com/8zp8dpo

Serenity is far away
Saw my reflection and cried, hey
So little hope that I died, oh
Feed me your lies, open wide, hey
Weight of my heart, not the size, oh

the lead singer is no longer with us, so can't complain that conservatives are using the song.

Posted by: ef hutton at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (5LbPH)

152 Heh - how about a nice Italian Peg Perego High Chair with tray and drop cloth.

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (5g2Fy)

153 Trollin' Trollin' Trollin'
Get them trolls a rollin'

AXELHIDE!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (xrX4n)

154 146 MWR,

.........yup......

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:35 AM (LRFds)

155 it cracks me up that the 24 month Gaussian average curve (whatever that is) was leveling off at the time of O'B's quote then the slope shoots up again right after it.

Posted by: jd at August 31, 2012 10:36 AM (lduvP)

156 The gunman was identified as a 23-year-old ex-Marine

Was he dead then, or court-martialed?
There's only two ways to be an ex-Marine.

Posted by: comatus at August 31, 2012 10:36 AM (qaVK+)

157 One of those "hope"posters (the ones that got parodied to "math"). Only it's the chair. EMPTY

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 02:35 PM (fCXCT)

THIS.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:36 AM (4df7R)

158 The problem with ocean level raising is that it depends where you measure. Some places it appears to be, some places it does not, some it even appears to be lowering.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 31, 2012 10:36 AM (r4wIV)

159

Posted by: LGoPs at August 31, 2012 02:34 PM (BJVEF)

Yup.... running TOWARDS trouble is a very American attribute... I've heard our own allies say that Americans are the only ones who run TOWARDS the sound of gunfire...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 10:36 AM (lZBBB)

160 @emptychair posts:
If you're going to do a video, Alice n Chains has already written the perfect song. "angry chair" just change it to "empty chair" the rest of the lyrics pretty much fit in pretty well as it is pessimistic devoid drivle. link to lyricsif anyone actually cares: http://tinyurl.com/8zp8dpo
Serenity is far away Saw my reflection and cried, hey So little hope that I died, oh Feed me your lies, open wide, hey Weight of my heart, not the size, oh
the lead singer is no longer with us, so can't complain that conservatives are using the song.

Posted by: ef hutton at August 31, 2012 02:35 PM (5LbPH)

Excellent comparison and excellent album DIRT

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:37 AM (nTgAI)

161 More possible disturbing news in the Voter Fraud Category:

http://scoamf.us/za

Politico - "A federal judge in Ohio is giving all voters in the swing state the option of casting their ballot in person during the three days before Election Day.

Judge Peter Economus on Friday issued a preliminary injunction granting the request from President Barack Obama's campaign that targets a state law that cuts off early voting for most residents on the Friday evening before a Tuesday election."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2012 10:37 AM (lTVJy)

162 Still Life of Empty Chair, Umbrella and Garden Gate

Posted by: Obama Portrait at August 31, 2012 10:37 AM (7eD7C)

163 143 LiB,

I hope he lives to be 120 years old and I Live an hour longer so I can piss on his deathbed....

I will grind his legacy to dust any way I can....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 31, 2012 10:37 AM (LRFds)

164 Was he dead then, or court-martialed?
There's only two ways to be an ex-Marine.

Posted by: comatus at August 31, 2012 02:36 PM (qaVK+)

That was my first thought. And the answer is neither. He killed himself in the shopping center.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:37 AM (4df7R)

165 I've heard our own allies say that Americans are the only ones who run TOWARDS the sound of gunfire...

---

Yeah, but our "allies" include the French, so...

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 31, 2012 10:38 AM (aHR5E)

166 President Barack Obama was today forced to announce he will fly to storm-hit Louisiana on Monday Â– hours after Mitt Romney beat him to the punch by deciding to head there this afternoon.

After it emerged that Obama was still taking time to fit in a campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio before checking out how clean-up operations are proceeding in the Bayou state, the Obama campaign abruptly cancelled that event.

'In light of the PresidentÂ’s travel to Louisiana to meet with local officials and view ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Isaac, President Obama will no longer travel to Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, September 3,' the campaign said in a terse statement.

Romney had changed his schedule to head to an affected town outside New Orleans while Obama, who has yet to visit the Tropical Storm Isaac zone, headed off to Texas to campaign.

Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords Schultz at August 31, 2012 10:38 AM (e8kgV)

167 >> Ryan should be mocking the Julia thing.

"None of us -- none of us have to settle for the best this administration offers, a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us."

Posted by: Andy at August 31, 2012 10:38 AM (5Rurq)

168 "10% of the worldÂ’s population lives at elevations of 10 meters or less above sea level"

Two words for those folks. Scoot back.

Posted by: Dang at August 31, 2012 10:39 AM (R18D0)

169 The problem with ocean level raising is that it depends where you measure. Some places it appears to be, some places it does not, some it even appears to be lowering.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 31, 2012 02:36 PM (r4wIV)

And its the OCEAN ..1.4 inches in 20 years... Statistical variation perhaps ?

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:39 AM (nTgAI)

170

146 Pair of boots, rifle driven in the ground, helmet, dogtags... Facing an empty chair.

Not facing the empty chair, Secundus. The empty chair would have it's back to the grave.

------------

I agree.

Not "too far", Secundus....

Empty chair...in front of a line of Boots, with rifles and helmets.

And, as MWR said....with the Empty Chair facing away from them.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:39 AM (5BAYg)

171 Hey, I just noticed something. There's no Friday News Dump from Ben in the sidebar.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:40 AM (4df7R)

172 @78
An empty chair on pitcher's mound, with the ball half way to the plate

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at August 31, 2012 10:40 AM (BYSrJ)

173 An empty chair with a line of cocaine on it.

Posted by: torabora at August 31, 2012 10:40 AM (9P5Xz)

174 >> Ryan should be mocking the Julia thing.

"None of us -- none of us have to settle for the best this

administration offers, a dull, adventureless journey from one

entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country

where everything is free but us."

Posted by: Andy at August 31, 2012 02:38 PM (5Rurq)

Rinse / Repeat

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (nTgAI)

175 Romney leads from in front, not from behind Barack goes in front sometimes!

Posted by: Reggie Love at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (B/VB5)

176 Iconic Obama Hope graphic that has been changed to "Math/Ryan," "it's a tax!/ackbar," needs a "dope/chair" update.

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (Kkt/i)

177

"Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?"

Posted by: Carl at August 31, 2012 02:09 PM (z+EmN)

Yep. Now gimme that wah wah, Carl.

Posted by: Johnny Stash at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (QjSgY)

178 >>>Am I the only one who's a little concerned that there was no bounce in the Gallup poll today?

I too am a concerned lifelong christian conservative who is concerned about concerning things concerning the concerning Republican convention, among which are concerning things like the concern I have for the fact that Gallup cannot get his concerning poll numbers compiled for a concerning post election poll for at least two concerning days after the concerning convention thanks to the concerning late hour that Romney's concerning speech was made.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular With Full Stomping Power! at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (0q2P7)

179 It takes a village to raise a chair.

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (5g2Fy)

180

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 02:36 PM (lZBBB)

Hooah!!!

Posted by: LGoPs at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (BJVEF)

181 An empty chair throwing out the first pitch like a girl

Posted by: bknsty14 at August 31, 2012 10:41 AM (ATZsv)

182

An empty chair on pitcher's mound, with the ball half way to the plate

Hahahahahahaha!!!!

Posted by: fluffy at August 31, 2012 10:42 AM (O6q63)

183 a countrywhere everything is free but us.

Rayciss!

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at August 31, 2012 10:42 AM (/kI1Q)

184 I agree.

Not "too far", Secundus....

Empty chair...in front of a line of Boots, with rifles and helmets.
And, as MWR said....with the Empty Chair facing away from them.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 02:39 PM (5BAYg)

Exactly.

I think the only way that image would go "too far" would be to have the empty chair pointing a gun at an American soldier. And that's only because the average idiot voter wouldn't understand that, if it could get him re-elected, Bammy would sell our soldiers' souls to Satan.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:42 AM (4df7R)

185

OCEAN SIZE

http://tinyurl.com/9ot3yda

Posted by: Jane's Addiction at August 31, 2012 10:42 AM (7eD7C)

186 146Pair of boots, rifle driven in the ground, helmet, dogtags... Facing an empty chair. Not facing the empty chair, Secundus. The empty chair would have it's back to the grave. ------------ I agree. Not "too far", Secundus.... Empty chair...in front of a line of Boots, with rifles and helmets. And, as MWR said....with the Empty Chair facing away from them. Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 02:39 PM (5BAYg) ----------------------------------------------------- Empty chair next to a stack of form letters and a robo-signer. I think we are on to something. The ad must be made.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 31, 2012 10:42 AM (jucos)

187 Empty Chair, with a golf bag leaning agianst it?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 10:42 AM (lZBBB)

188 An empty chair at the UN beer summit.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 31, 2012 10:42 AM (PcoXF)

189 An empty chair.

A 5 iron.

And a whole lotta grass.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 31, 2012 10:43 AM (xrX4n)

190 @178 Heh. Still Life With Chair, Mom Jeans and Girl's Bike

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:43 AM (fCXCT)

191 178 @78
An empty chair on pitcher's mound, with the ball half way to the plate

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at August 31, 2012 02:40 PM (BYSrJ)

With a pair of mom jeans slung over the chair.

Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2012 10:43 AM (X6akg)

192 Quoting Hevedash: " think that part of the economic problems that started late in Bush's term was caused by the left and media talking the economy down just to pave the way for a dem president. RR are going to have it worse than Bush ever had it!"

Yes, but yet, the Shrill Stream Media's influence is slipping away. The Kraken is caught by its own tentacles.

Posted by: Mr_Write at August 31, 2012 10:43 AM (VJUQK)

193 An empty chair standing on the Israeli flag while proudly facing the "Palestinian" flag.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:43 AM (4df7R)

194 Help me out here...

Daily Caller has a pic of the RNC protesters and there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says? I can make out "responsibility" but I'm at a loss for the rest.

Posted by: EC at August 31, 2012 10:43 AM (GQ8sn)

195 An empty chair facing the defecit clock... oh man

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:43 AM (nTgAI)

196 How about a coat of arms for obama

On a smooth caramel field:

One Quarter: Empty Chair Rampant

2nd Quarter: Totus Regnant

3rd Quarter: Golf Clubs Argent

4th Quarter: Wrist Limp

Some of you with the right "art" software, feel free to use the suggestion as you see fit.

Posted by: Will Be Taking Applications and Assimilating The Love-slaves at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (kXoT0)

197 "Steve Franken dies at 80" RIP, comrade.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (hS0jF)

198 Obama's image-wranglers should have expected trouble with the sea-level thing much earlier (and in fact, many of us have been laughing right along), because it's so richly derivative of classical allusion. So to speak.

Oh yes, you can beat him with Humanities, too, if you're good at it.

Cnut the Great commanded the tides not to rise -- but that was his example to courtiers that there are some things even a king should not decree.

Xerxes had the Hellespont whipped for having the temerity to rise and wash away his invasion bridge. And we all know what became of that.

Dem strategists are supposed to be well-educated -- smart'n'shit.
How did they manage to stumble over this one? Bad classics profs.

Posted by: comatus at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (qaVK+)

199

"The order is the administration's latest effort
to deploy cleaner and more efficient energy production in the country by
working around political resistance to climate change and "green"
energy legislation on Capitol Hill."

Not too busy campaigning and golfing to continue dismanteling our country.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (DoZD+)

200 Empty chair with an open umbrella just outside an open gate.

Posted by: Dang at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (R18D0)

201 An empty chair with the seat up.

Posted by: Roy at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (VndSC)

202

I'm loving all these uses of the...'Empty Chair'.

Well done, fellow Morons!

We need to send this thread to the RNC and the Romney Campaign people.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (5BAYg)

203 Breaking: MSNBC issuing corrected report that 'mystery' DNC speaker to be noted bon vivant and raconteur Perez Hilton.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 31, 2012 10:44 AM (+lsX1)

204 Help me out here...

Daily Caller has a pic of the RNC protesters and there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says? I can make out "responsibility" but I'm at a loss for the rest.

Posted by: EC at August 31, 2012 02:43 PM (GQ8sn

"Your Responsibility is nutting here"

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 10:45 AM (nTgAI)

205 Remember That Time Barack Obama Stopped The Oceans From Rising?

Remind the residents along the Gulf of Mexico. You listening, NO?

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 10:45 AM (BAnPT)

206 174 "10% of the worldÂ’s population lives at elevations of 10 meters or less above sea level"

Two words for those folks. Scoot back.

Posted by: Dang at August 31, 2012 02:39 PM (R18D0)

Many of them in Bangladesh: Population ~160 million, about 2677/square mile. And most of them near or below sea level.

Posted by: Jar-Jar at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (RD7QR)

207 And its the OCEAN ..1.4 inches in 20 years... Statistical variation perhaps ? Posted by: The Jackhole at August 31, 2012 02:39 PM (nTgAI) If you assign the average ocean depth to be 10000 feet, or 120000 inches (one Cheney), then an ocean rise of 1.4 inches is a rise of 10 to the minus 3 percent. One one thousandths of a percent. May Ryan bless my quick calculation and assure it is right.

Posted by: eman at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (Wp4rQ)

208 Annoying Star Wars sock off.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (RD7QR)

209 Always like an Alice in Chains reference. Those are appropriate lyrics.

Posted by: Dave S. at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (PNi9V)

210 and there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says?

Well she's a fymynyst, so probably "Stop looking at my tits."

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (/kI1Q)

211

>>there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says?

'Employees Must Wash Hands'

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (7eD7C)

212 Empty chair in front of a Chevy Volt with the hood up and smoke coming out.

Posted by: Dang at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (R18D0)

213 "Your Responsibility is nutting here"

Did you see that pic? Yeah, that's a good possibility!

Posted by: EC at August 31, 2012 10:46 AM (GQ8sn)

214 147 collapsible beach chair floating away

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 10:47 AM (BAnPT)

215 Still Life of Empty Chair, Umbrella and Garden Gate

Posted by: Obama Portrait at August 31, 2012 02:37 PM (7eD7C)

------------------------

empty stool, except for the dunce cap, in the corner.

Posted by: 66chevelle at August 31, 2012 10:47 AM (QjSgY)

216 Someone want to show me where the remains of Carthage now sit? How about the seaside city of Troy?

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at August 31, 2012 10:47 AM (tYaDf)

217 Many of them in Bangladesh: Population ~160 million, about 2677/square mile. And most of them near or below sea level.

Posted by: Jar-Jar at August 31, 2012 02:46 PM (RD7QR)

Yes, what is New Orleans population these days? I remember a couple of decades ago when a smallish tidal wave simply devastated Bangladesh, thus giving us the Concert for Bangladesh, etc.

Posted by: Will Be Taking Applications and Assimilating The Love-slaves at August 31, 2012 10:47 AM (kXoT0)

218 Empty Chair, next to a gas pump with $4.00 a gallon as the price...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (lZBBB)

219 It takes a hashtag to choom.

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (3ryAQ)

220 >>there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says? ----------------------------------------------------------- You must be this tall _____ to go on this ride.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (jucos)

221

>>there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says?

"Keep abreast of things"

Posted by: LGoPs at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (BJVEF)

222 ~~Ramesh Ponnuru~~ Dinesh D'Souza cares more about me than my very own brother.

Vetted for accuracy.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (xm1A1)

223 How about the seaside city of Troy?

Weren't there 8 or 9 Troys, each built on the ruins of the last one?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (/kI1Q)

224 So can I assume that the planet's healing is going the same as the oceans not rising?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (a+pI7)

225 @165 That's right, except for the Georgians.

They ride.

Posted by: comatus at August 31, 2012 10:48 AM (qaVK+)

226

>>Someone want to show me where the remains of Carthage now sit? How about the seaside city of Troy?

...or that sandcastle I built when I was 11 and we stayed in the Hamptons for a long weekend!?

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 10:49 AM (7eD7C)

227 From the can't make this up files:
Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From [Canadian] Strategic Reserve

Link in Sock

Posted by: Flounder at August 31, 2012 10:49 AM (Kkt/i)

228 We need a Constitutional Amendment that limits Executive Orders to responding to natural disasters or to military emergency. One that, at the same time, directs Congress to go back and put every EO written since the end of WWII to a up or down vote.

Posted by: rabidfox at August 31, 2012 10:49 AM (qmK0e)

229 "10% of the worldÂ’s population lives at elevations of 10 meters or less above sea level"

Two words for those folks. Scoot back.

Posted by: Dang at August 31, 2012 02:39 PM (R18D0)

Many of them in Bangladesh: Population ~160 million, about 2677/square mile. And most of them near or below sea level.
Posted by: Jar-Jar

So how do you say "scoot back" in Bengali?

Posted by: Dang at August 31, 2012 10:49 AM (R18D0)

230 Empty Chair in the Examining Room with some dude and his Doctor.

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 10:50 AM (7eD7C)

231 How about two empty chairs, but one with a really wide seat?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 31, 2012 10:50 AM (xm1A1)

232 An empty chair with Larry Sinclair kneeling in front of it. Perhaps wiping his mouth.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at August 31, 2012 10:50 AM (BYSrJ)

233 Ramesh Ponnuru Dinesh D'Souza cares more about me than my very own brother. Vetted for accuracy. Posted by: OregonMuse at August 31, 2012 02:48 PM (xm1A1) ---------------------------------------------------- Ramesh Dinesh.... they're all the same. It's getting to the point now where you have to have a slight Indian accent to be a conservative journalist.

Posted by: Joey Biden at August 31, 2012 10:51 AM (jucos)

234 An empty chair with two guns leaning on it: on the left, an AK with a few rounds on the ground next to the stock; on the other, a shotgun with beanbag rounds next to it. Or better yet: empty chair sitting on a pile of AKs.

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:51 AM (fCXCT)

235 Remember That Time Barack Obama Stopped The Oceans From Rising?

Might have looked that way from above the clouds flying Air Force One.

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 10:51 AM (BAnPT)

236 Empty Chair in the Examining Room with some dude and his Doctor.

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2012 02:50 PM (7eD7C)

With a clipboard on it with two checkboxes that read:

[ ] LIVE

[X] DIE

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:51 AM (4df7R)

237 That chart about the rise of the oceans reminds me of Bill.

Posted by: Hillary at August 31, 2012 10:51 AM (DrC22)

238 Right on Rush.

Posted by: Journolist From an undisclosed location off of Frank Sinatra Drive at August 31, 2012 10:51 AM (nhIFl)

239 How about two empty chairs, but one with a really wide seat?

I denounce myself.
Posted by: OregonMuse

The strap-on goes on the wide chair, right?

Posted by: The photographer's assistant at August 31, 2012 10:51 AM (R18D0)

240 My favorite Clint line eas when he said "Maybe hes not such a nice guy- if youve seen his commercials" Priceless

Posted by: avi at August 31, 2012 10:52 AM (Fw/tK)

241 Someone want to show me where the remains of Carthage now sit? How about the seaside city of Troy? Posted by: MCPO Airdale at August 31, 2012 02:47 PM (tYaDf) Carthage is located on the Southern shore of the the Med. Sea in what is now Tunisia, I think. head way West from the Nile. Troy is in Turkey.

Posted by: eman at August 31, 2012 10:52 AM (Wp4rQ)

242 @233: a global strategic maple syrup reserve? Is that so Barry can always finish his waffles?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2012 10:52 AM (B/VB5)

243 The comments over at that Forbes article are high-potency 'you hate science' apocalypse psychosis.

Posted by: nickless at August 31, 2012 10:52 AM (MMC8r)

244 As a lifetime Republican and concerned Christian who voted for Ronald Reagan 27 times ,I am concerned about the non-inclusive tone of the convention ,the various styles and models of dog-whistles and the in-need-of-fact-check speeches and senile actor-speakers as well as today's various polls.

Is anyone else concerned about this?
I'm concerned as shit.

Posted by: Concerney McCern at August 31, 2012 10:52 AM (jfWE9)

245

there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says?

I can't make it out because of her bandana, but what I see seems to read:

"I thought (can't read) -ibility

ran sha- (can't read) (illegible)"

So... not very helpful, I'm afraid.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:53 AM (4df7R)

246 You insensitive pricks!

Posted by: Zombie Residents of Atlantis at August 31, 2012 10:53 AM (Kkt/i)

247 Empty chair linked in handle.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at August 31, 2012 10:54 AM (mxnUd)

248 Obama can out and out lie and they will with a straight face defend them to the death, he didn't mean that or he misspoke or was quoted incorrectly or you just don't have the mental capacity to understand his brilliance.

Yet for Republicans they go over every word of every sentence with a fine tooth comb.

Aggravating.

Posted by: General Woundwort at August 31, 2012 10:54 AM (06lNq)

249 >>there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits.

"Lovely young blonde" and "words tattooed over her tits" are a disjoint set.

Posted by: JEM at August 31, 2012 10:55 AM (o+SC1)

250 And somewhere Mr. Obama's economics dream team is now in private enterprise having failed publicly less than two years into it.

Posted by: Journolist at August 31, 2012 10:55 AM (WqqJb)

251

In reading around the net...the Dems are in full attack mode at Clint Eastwood.

Let them.

This will backfire on them, bigtime.

They're mocking his Age?

Yeah, do that.

That will play well with the aging Boomer Voters.

Eastwood is a beloved Icon....America's 'Tough Guy'.

And he endorsed Mitt Romney, the guy that the Left has been trying to portray as a 'wimp'.

Heh.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:55 AM (5BAYg)

252 If we could get a big island out of the pool, say something like Guam, that would've dropped the sea level.

Posted by: Hank 'Yank' Johnson at August 31, 2012 10:56 AM (27KAF)

253 Troy is in Turkey, as is the seaside city of Ephasus. Ephasus now sits miles from the Mediterranian.

Posted by: Joey Biden at August 31, 2012 10:56 AM (jucos)

254 18 generations from now, we will able to tell our children...

Tell me, Captain Time Chair, how is that even possible?

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Singularity! Singularity!

Posted by: Ray Kurzweil at August 31, 2012 10:56 AM (1c58W)

255 Panther piss.

Posted by: Clint, re: lefty criticism at August 31, 2012 10:56 AM (RD7QR)

256 New ace post!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 31, 2012 10:56 AM (4df7R)

257

246My favorite Clint line eas when he said
"Maybe hes not such a nice guy- if youve seen his commercials"
Priceless

Posted by: avi at August 31, 2012 02:52 PM (Fw/tK)

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I know! ...I loved that part too.

There were lots of little subtle zingers like that.

Posted by: wheatie at August 31, 2012 10:56 AM (5BAYg)

258 @245 Actually it's duct-taped standing straight up on the... I'd better just stop right there.

Posted by: Secundus at August 31, 2012 10:57 AM (fCXCT)

259 242 MWR
http://tinyurl.com/995ly39

The Secret Service is investigating a sign in Victoria, Texas that reads, "Pray for Obama. Psalms 109:8"

(Psalms 109:8 "Let his days be few, and let another take his office.")

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 10:57 AM (BAnPT)

260 More 'Fast and Furious' shit?? http://tinyurl.com/9se9v77 Three U.S. Marines were injured in a shooting south of Mexico City on Friday morning, a Mexican military official told CNN Mexico.

Posted by: RWC at August 31, 2012 10:58 AM (fWAjv)

261 Sea level rise = greater surface area of earth as ocean So what's the change in albedo as a result? Does it then result in a balancing effect to any rise in global temp? The 'OMG--I'M PRO-SCIENCE AND YOU'RE NOT!!!!!!!' people always bring up questions that don't even occur to them-- as if they're not really as understanding of science as they like to think they are.

Posted by: nickless at August 31, 2012 10:58 AM (MMC8r)

262 I can't make it out because of her bandana, but what I see seems to read:

"I thought (can't read) -ibility
ran sha- (can't read) (illegible)"

So... not very helpful, I'm afraid.

It's gotta be some stupid hipster quote from a John Mayer song or worse. Probably nothing.

Posted by: EC at August 31, 2012 10:58 AM (GQ8sn)

263 Some places it appears to be, some places it does not, some it even appears to be lowering.

I'm sure earthquakes, plate movement, lava domes, and sedimentary compression have nothing to do with it.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 31, 2012 10:59 AM (B7tZ7)

264 246

"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is." Josie Wales

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 11:02 AM (BAnPT)

265 200> Daily Caller has a pic of the RNC protesters and there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says? I can make out "responsibility" but I'm at a loss for the rest.

"I thought it was your responsibility
to pay for my next boob job"

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at August 31, 2012 11:02 AM (BYSrJ)

266 there's a pic of a lovely young blonde with some words tattooed over her tits. Can anyone tell what it says? Fucking Nietzsche: "A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us." I hate hippies. Aside from that bandanna, do you know what else is red and looks good on hippies? Fire.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 31, 2012 11:05 AM (ogdab)

267 "A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."

What's it gonna say when she's 50?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ knows gravity's a bitch at August 31, 2012 11:07 AM (/kI1Q)

268 "I am absolutely certain that generations from now ..." the prophet/profit Obama.

Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride.

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 11:08 AM (BAnPT)

269 Boyfriend ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8asJMw_T61Q

Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords Schultz at August 31, 2012 11:11 AM (e8kgV)

270 "A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."

Sure, if your that brittle, fragile and already broken.

"Politicians are employees of ours. They're just going to come around begging for votes every few years. That's just how it is." Clint Eastwood

The thought, even the possibility shatters Obama and transforms the electoral results.

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 11:11 AM (BAnPT)

271

I went to the first link, and it's pretty hilarious:

"...This 2010 paper published by Science magazine (paywalled), notes that over the past 20 years, global sea level has risen an average of 3.3 millimeters a year.

This is becoming a severe social and political problem because so many people around the world, and millions of them in the United States (including RomneyÂ’s Boston headquarters) are located along coastlines. Approximately 10% of the worldÂ’s population lives at elevations of 10 meters or less above sea level, the Science paper notes, and many of these places suffer from subsidence, erosion, and other problems that hasten their exposure and possible demise."

In engineering, we call an average rise of 3.3mm/yr over 20 years "66mm", which we also call 6.6cm, which we also call 2.6 inches. And it's baloney that it started around 1950, it's been going on for centuries. To do another conversion, we're talking about roughly one FOOT per CENTURY.

These clowns describe this, which has been going on for centuries, as a "Serious problem". Yeah, Romney's guys better hurry up and deal with the fact that their HQ will be 1 FOOT closer to being underwater when his great-grandkids might want to use the place to run for President.

PLUS, it looks like "10% of the world's population" has LESS THAN 3000 YEARS to pack up and move (and that's using THEIR numbers)!! Science!! Oh my!!

File that under "You just can't make this stuff up." What the hell is this doing on Forbes?

Posted by: Optimizer at August 31, 2012 11:12 AM (As94z)

272 "Feds fail to catch 117,000 collecting both disability, unemployment."

There's a thought, a possibility, to shatter and transform.

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 11:13 AM (BAnPT)

273 "Low information voters need the short sentence version." NBC News

Posted by: panzernashorn at August 31, 2012 11:16 AM (BAnPT)

274

absolutely f'ing hillarious empty chair references....LMAO

Alice N Chains is one of ef hutton's favorite bands, pink floyd and led zeppelin as well. See even a conservative can be open minded....i just never really smoked dope for days on end like chris matthews or smoked tons of crack like most of the MFM...

@ those commenting about Paul Ryan's "freedom" lines. Its a sad state of the nation i must report...my children, my cousin's children, my nieces and nephews....never say, "It's a free country..." has anyone noticed this childhood comment absent in the current vocabulary of our youth. I've only recently been noticing it, and Ryan's speech brought it home. We used to say that several times a day as children...whenever anyone said we couldn't do something, "yeah i can! its a free country..." i remember my sister even saying that to my parents in her teenage years. Yeah...ef hutton has a sister you SCOAMF. Did i mention ef hutton is dead....hence my affinity to alice n chains...zombie music.

Posted by: ef hutton at August 31, 2012 11:16 AM (5LbPH)

275 File that under "You just can't make this stuff up." What the hell is this doing on Forbes? Forbes is the print equivalent of concern trolls. My very conservative father-in-law has been a Forbes reader for decades, and they slip lefty ideals into their content with such matter-of-fact subtlety that he had no idea how badly he was being propagandized.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 31, 2012 11:21 AM (ogdab)

276 So have they fact checked Obama's claim that it would in fact be teh moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow? Looks like it didn't slow. I give that 2 Pinocchios.

Posted by: Law Dog at August 31, 2012 11:31 AM (TVyLG)

277 281 "[Forbes slips] lefty ideals into their content with such matter-of-fact subtlety that he had no idea how badly he was being propagandized."

Or not so subtly, as in the case of their bogus Fast and Furious hit piece.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at August 31, 2012 11:34 AM (+XVQe)

278

The Empty Chair and TOTUS argue over who is more relevant...

Posted by: Tony253 at August 31, 2012 11:40 AM (3yMFT)

279 Seriously, what kind of a-hole says that electing him is key to stopping the effing oceans from rising? How many people on this earth are so lacking in perspective and self-awareness that they could say something so cringeworthy?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 31, 2012 11:44 AM (oX7vY)

280 Or not so subtly, as in the case of their bogus Fast and Furious hit piece. Very true.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 31, 2012 11:45 AM (ogdab)

281 The Empty Chair is making The Empty Suit awfully mad.

Posted by: Empty Enema Bag at August 31, 2012 12:05 PM (8Yw7K)

282 Fact checking "Obama Stopped The Oceans From Rising" is like fact checking if Elmo is real. They just don't get it.

Posted by: MrX at August 31, 2012 12:57 PM (ZsAO3)

283

For the record, the above link does not adequately address the Janeville plant issue. Breitbart does it better. They say that most of the employees were laid off on the DEC2008 date, but that the plant was not completely closed until APR2009.

They add that Obama specifically said (later) that he "will lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville". Although the careful reader will note the weasel-word "like", meaning that he could say this and make Janeville think he would help, when he could live up to his promise by helping some other plant instead.

As far as accusations of lying, Ryan - if you read the actual text - only speaks of a prediction by CANDIDATE Obama in 2008 that "if our government is there to support you". So he was actually saying was that Obama had spoken in glowing terms about the government coming in and making everything wonderful for a century. He never actually claimed that Obama even made a promise - only a fantastical feel-good almost prediction ("almost", because he DID say "if") that (like so many others) didn't come true.

At the same time, Obama never lifted a finger to do anything, once he had the chance. The plant is officially on standby, and could be re-opened.

His point was that Obama threw around a lot of flowery language that suggested that things would improve, and they never did. The quote was accurate, and the point was valid.

Posted by: Optimizer at August 31, 2012 01:12 PM (As94z)

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

Posted by: steevy at August 31, 2012 04:17 PM (6o4Fb)

285

It is using this logic that George Bush was blamed for Katrina.

But since the levies held, Obama kept his promise.

The article that goes with the picture clearly says in it's headline hte ocean is rising higher faster than expected.

By whom? And what did Obama have with lower the expectations of the rising?

Everything is unexpected when you are a liberal. It's sort of like they wake up every morning and are surprised the sun came up again... must be Obama who made that happen.

I just help there are enough selfish people left who will vote for Romney to save themselves and let the idealistic ocean watchers drown.

Posted by: petunia at August 31, 2012 11:18 PM (hgrmi)

286 It is a rather funny to see the anti-agw train crash into the Obama-bashing crowd.

To wit: The graph posted above not only notes in its title the lack of acceleration but is directly preceded by

"If anything it looks like the trend is slightly decelerating:"

Obama promised that his election would mark the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow. Meaning exactly a decelerating trend.

While he is truly full of sh!t you guys have to work on consistencies.

Posted by: troglodyt at September 03, 2012 06:15 AM (6UvIG)

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