June 22, 2012
— LauraW Forbes published a nifty interactive map that grades the business climates of the various states on a number of different criteria.
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Hmmm.... lets see.... Running a small IT support business, in CALIFORNIA....
Either I really like a challenge? or I'm a masochist.... not sure which...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 22, 2012 08:01 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 08:02 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:02 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:03 AM (9TTOe)
Either I really like a challenge? or I'm a masochist.... not sure which...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 22, 2012 12:01 PM (lZBBB)
Wow. You must be one of those guys that likes to get tied to a wheel and whipped mercilessly by some crafty Asian woman.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 08:03 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 08:04 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:04 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: blaster at June 22, 2012 08:04 AM (7vSU0)
Posted by: Barky O' Dogbreath at June 22, 2012 08:04 AM (HaUJF)
Posted by: Joe Fuckhead Williams at June 22, 2012 08:05 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at June 22, 2012 08:05 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 22, 2012 08:05 AM (QKKT0)
I have an idea - if I run a 25% discount on fees for any conservative selling his house and fleeing the state, we could corner the market, make a lot of money in two years, then close it up and move. To Texas or Idaho. Amirite?
Posted by: Keith Arnold at June 22, 2012 08:07 AM (Jdtsu)
Posted by: Uncledave at June 22, 2012 08:07 AM (1qgTs)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:07 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 12:04 PM (QKKT0)
No no no.....that just means that Mitt Romney is comfortable talking there.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 08:07 AM (UK9cE)
Its almost as if you can predict what political party controls the state by how easy it is to start a business. Who knew?
Washington state scored poorly, Seattle got a solid D+
The graders were being kind.
Posted by: AndrewsDad at June 22, 2012 08:07 AM (C2//T)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 22, 2012 08:07 AM (famk3)
Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 08:08 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 22, 2012 08:08 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Joe Fuckhead Williams at June 22, 2012 08:08 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 08:08 AM (C8mVl)
Posted by: GuyinLondon at June 22, 2012 08:09 AM (dniUc)
Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 08:09 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at June 22, 2012 12:05 PM (GBXon)
Best guess is that most new hires will be from out of state and the company picks up the moving tab.
Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit at June 22, 2012 08:09 AM (Qe7jo)
Posted by: Clemenza at June 22, 2012 08:10 AM (fCSfn)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:10 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: california red at June 22, 2012 08:11 AM (xC7pk)
Isn't New Hampshire the only northeast state that's even remotely conservative? It would be interesting to compare this map with a red/blue map...
Posted by: Norcross at June 22, 2012 08:11 AM (RM0br)
Posted by: Keith Arnold at June 22, 2012 12:07 PM (Jdtsu)
I'm stuck here until my 83 year old Mom passes on... we tried but couldn't blast her out of her home.... soooo....
Off to work... putting in Computers for a Medical Clinics Electronic Medical Record System...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 22, 2012 08:11 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2012 08:11 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Beckster at June 22, 2012 08:12 AM (VjJAc)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 22, 2012 08:12 AM (136wp)
California gets a lot of F's.....but Hawaii gets straight F's in the top four categories.
Why is it that liberal infestations are the worst in the places with the beaches and nice climate?
Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 08:12 AM (M2JTb)
Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 08:13 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:13 AM (5H6zj)
Why is it that liberal infestations are the worst in the places with the beaches and nice climate?
We don't have the evolutionary pressure for intelligence that the cold states do. Our stupid people don't die off every winter.
Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 08:13 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:14 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:14 AM (9TTOe)
¿Que?
Posted by: las personas que no han salido aún at June 22, 2012 08:15 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 08:15 AM (C8mVl)
Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 12:12 PM (M2JTb)
Beaches and a nice climate draw those inclined not to work?
Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit at June 22, 2012 08:15 AM (Qe7jo)
(
What Happens When You Let Gay Philly Activists Into the White House They pose for pics giving Ronald ReaganÂ’s portait the finger.
Posted by: Dustoff at June 22, 2012 08:16 AM (H9eC4)
Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit at June 22, 2012 08:16 AM (Qe7jo)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:16 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 08:18 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 12:14 PM (5H6zj)
Eh....didn't think of that. Good point.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 08:18 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:18 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 12:14 PM (5H6zj)
It'd be a good place to start a free-range Carny ranch...lots of people with little hands over there.
Teeny, tiny little hands.
Posted by: garrett at June 22, 2012 08:18 AM (M8oFW)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:19 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at June 22, 2012 08:19 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:19 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:19 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: West Virginia at June 22, 2012 08:19 AM (C8mVl)
No it's because we caught that govt data takin guy and changed his job to squealin.
Posted by: Banjo Pickers at June 22, 2012 08:20 AM (tf9Ne)
On the other hand the scoring may be a bit quirky since Tennesseee which I know is very business-friendly only gets an overall B- despite its lowest score in any category only being a B and the rest A's.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 22, 2012 08:20 AM (VDusq)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:20 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:20 AM (5H6zj)
Actually, your theory IS politically correct.
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2006/05/taxpayersubsidi.html
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 22, 2012 08:20 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:21 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: AndrewsDad at June 22, 2012 08:22 AM (C2//T)
Yeah, Polliwogette.....I think Cicero's explanation is probably a good one.
Although I'd like to hear Old Sailor's Poet's, too.....come on OSP, we don't care if it's non-pc.
Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 08:22 AM (M2JTb)
Obama invites gays to the WH and flip off the portrait of Reagan.
Classy.
From one of the gays:
“Yeah, fuck Reagan,” reiterates Hart one week after the reception. “Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands. The man was in the WhiteHouse as AIDS exploded, and he was happy to see plenty of gay men and queer people die. He was a murderous fool, and I have no problem saying so. Don’t invite me back. I don’t care.”
Posted by: EC at June 22, 2012 08:22 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: cajun carrot at June 22, 2012 08:22 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 22, 2012 08:23 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:23 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:25 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:25 AM (8y9MW)
Ace mentioned the Democrats' Time Machine the other day.
Pelosi thinks the Republicans have a time machine, too.
Issa went back to 18 months ago and began investigating Obama's Fast 'n Furious scandal because Issa knew that Holder would try to stop Florida from purging the ineligible from its voter roll.
Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:25 AM (G/zuv)
in case you were not aware... its legal to move.
For now.
Although that sounds as though it might affect Interstate Commerce.
Posted by: Barakhenaten I at June 22, 2012 08:25 AM (M8oFW)
Posted by: AndrewsDad at June 22, 2012 12:22 PM (C2//T)
We'll take care of that.
Posted by: California Democrats at June 22, 2012 08:25 AM (PE7OR)
Gowdy calling Pelosi..."mind numbingly stupid"...was excellent.
Though, it would've been cool if he called it "weapons grade stupid".
Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 08:25 AM (M2JTb)
Posted by: exit tax at June 22, 2012 08:26 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: garrett at June 22, 2012 12:18 PM (M8oFW)
One Carney is enough. I couldn't imagine an entire ranch full of that asshole.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 08:26 AM (UK9cE)
Chick-Fil-A. It'll piss off Obama's gay kindlergentlerwad friends.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 22, 2012 08:26 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:26 AM (Dnbau)
Regarding the gays in the White House hating Reagan. Read the David Horowitz autobiography. One of the main reasons he went from hard, hard core lefty to conservative was aids. He saw the spread of aids in S.F. and the liberal gay loving political establishment refusing to do anything to shut down the gay bath houses for fear of branding aids a gay disease.
The majority of deaths due to aids is from liberal politicians refusing to admit and deal with the cause of aids for fear of assigning blame.
Posted by: AndrewsDad at June 22, 2012 08:27 AM (C2//T)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:27 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: nancy pelosi gets her ass to Mars at June 22, 2012 08:27 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work team dagny at June 22, 2012 08:27 AM (d9PlV)
Posted by: cajun carrot at June 22, 2012 08:27 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:27 AM (9TTOe)
I simply remind you that everything a liberal says is projection. If they accuse you of wanting to do something, they already have it in operation.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 22, 2012 08:28 AM (tqwMN)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 12:25 PM (8y9MW)
I'm heading over to Big Racks in Grapevine for some Bbq and beer.
Long drive for you, though.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 08:28 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:28 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:29 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: toby928© at June 22, 2012 08:29 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:29 AM (r2PLg)
I'd recommend that place with food, they have windows, and there are cars outside.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 22, 2012 08:29 AM (famk3)
Posted by: toby928© at June 22, 2012 08:30 AM (QupBk)
...Anyone else see it?
I saw that, tasker.
Pelosi is sounding even more unhinged than ever before.
It's like....I dunno....watching a cross between Bagdad Bob and the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz, combined.
Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 08:30 AM (M2JTb)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:30 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:31 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at June 22, 2012 12:29 PM (msdmg)
I'd take humping her bust, but....that's just me.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 08:31 AM (UK9cE)
"It is no accident, it is no coincidence, that the attorney general of the United States is the person responsible for making sure that voter suppression does not happen in our country. These very same people who are holding him in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote. They're closely allied with those who are suffocating the system: unlimited special interest secret money."
-- Nazi Pelosi, now with 25% more syphilis in the brain
Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:31 AM (G/zuv)
Well, I'm working in Plano, TX (the DFW Morons know where that is).
I like the idea of ticking of Lib-tards by eating at Chick-fil-A. Bonus: I'd be eating at Chick-fil-A.
I'm heading over to Big Racks in Grapevine for some Bbq and beer.
BBQ Sounds good, too... Wouldn't want to drive that far, though...
Less scenic views, I'm sure, but there's a Dickies not too far from me.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:31 AM (8y9MW)
102 Where do I want to go for lunch?
The Liquor store. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet
DINGDINGDINGDINGDING
Posted by: imp at June 22, 2012 08:32 AM (UaxA0)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:32 AM (r2PLg)
A friend of mine is a cop in Plano.
You could always go down to the Lays plant and eat the potato chip rejects out of the dumpster. Betcha can't eat just one!!!!!!
Posted by: EC at June 22, 2012 08:32 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Ian S. at June 22, 2012 08:33 AM (tqwMN)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:33 AM (5H6zj)
Where do I want to go for lunch?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 12:25 PM (8y9MW)
Any buffet place that has spherical shaped people wobbling into and out of it. Steak Kountry, Golden Corral, Sizzler ...
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 22, 2012 08:33 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Gordon undead Ramsay at June 22, 2012 08:33 AM (dBvlk)
In short, Reagan was the father figure when these backwards idiots got their bad news, so it's his fault.
Posted by: nickless at June 22, 2012 08:34 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: alexthechick at June 22, 2012 08:35 AM (7Ipu/)
Posted by: cajun carrot at June 22, 2012 08:35 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:35 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Deval Patrick at June 22, 2012 08:35 AM (5Rurq)
Posted by: cajun carrot at June 22, 2012 08:35 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:36 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 08:36 AM (GvYeG)
but the Pentagon (and all its leakers) has its priorities in order...
tomorrow they celebrate Gay Pentagon Pride
yay!
Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:36 AM (G/zuv)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:36 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: nancy pelosi at June 22, 2012 08:36 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Ian S. at June 22, 2012 08:37 AM (tqwMN)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:37 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Adm. Ackbar at June 22, 2012 08:37 AM (UZQM8)
Pelosi......what you get when you cross a Barking Moonbat with an evil Flying Monkey.
On the bright side....it will be entertaining when she starts flying around the ceiling of the House, and they have to call in Animal Control with their nets to get her down.
Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 08:37 AM (M2JTb)
Posted by: alexthechick at June 22, 2012 12:35 PM (7Ipu/)
The Power of Sweet Potato Fries Compels You!
Posted by: garrett at June 22, 2012 08:37 AM (l9tSY)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:37 AM (r2PLg)
Somebody get the stick!
Posted by: EC at June 22, 2012 08:38 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:38 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 12:08 PM (C8mVl)
Because of me.
*MWR, being extremely humble if she does say so herself*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 08:38 AM (4df7R)
just so we're all aware and clear here at AoS: this whole Fast 'n Furious scandal broke about 18 months ago
Long before Florida's thing with their voter rolls began.
Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:38 AM (G/zuv)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:39 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: alexthechick at June 22, 2012 08:39 AM (7Ipu/)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:40 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Adm. Ackbar at June 22, 2012 08:41 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: cajun carrot at June 22, 2012 08:41 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 08:41 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: tasker at June 22, 2012 08:42 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: nickless at June 22, 2012 08:42 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 22, 2012 08:42 AM (QVMU9)
Chick-fil-A is the early leader, I think.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:42 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Ian S. at June 22, 2012 08:43 AM (tqwMN)
Posted by: sherlock at June 22, 2012 08:43 AM (6rLSO)
Posted by: cajun carrot at June 22, 2012 08:43 AM (UZQM8)
Long before Florida's thing with their voter rolls began.
Trayvon was just walking to the store to buy some Voter Rolls and Iced Tea for his sick grandmother.
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at June 22, 2012 08:44 AM (RdEue)
I'm glad Pelosi is ramping up her syphilitic ranting and ravings.
And I'm glad Obama wants to keep riding this "gay" train for political gain.
Because I have a bad feeling that the UE rate is about to go up again and GDP for Q2 is gonna be flat. Obama's in for a rude awakening.
Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:45 AM (G/zuv)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:45 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 22, 2012 08:46 AM (136wp)
Posted by: West Virginia at June 22, 2012 08:46 AM (C8mVl)
“Yeah, fuck Reagan ... Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands. The man was in the WhiteHouse as AIDS exploded, and he was happy to see plenty of gay men and queer people die. He was a murderous fool, and I have no problem saying so. Don’t invite me back. I don’t care.”
-Matthew "Matty" Hart, national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress, after posting a picture of himself flipping the bird at Ronald Reagan's official portrait at the White House.
Yeah, it sure sounds like this guy wants to find "Solutions for Progress," amiright? His desire to extend an olive branch to opposing viewpoints is heartwarming.
I do enjoy how he apparently blames Reagan for AIDS, as if Reagan had anything to do with it. Reagan did not force your forebears to have sex with other men, sir.
Should we go back in time to the first case of cancer that ever killed someone and start blaming whoever was ruler at the time in the affected area? Because fuck that guy.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 08:46 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:47 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Retired Geezer at June 22, 2012 08:47 AM (nyY4I)
That Bacon Sundae at Burger King is actually good.....well, I thought it was.
Bacon goes good with other sweet things, like, you know...pancakes, waffles, cream of wheat.
It's kind of like that.
Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 08:48 AM (M2JTb)
Elizabeth Warren's gay family lore says President Reagan sold blankets with teh hivs on them to homos in the '80's.
Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:49 AM (G/zuv)
Posted by: maddogg at June 22, 2012 08:49 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:50 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Y-not at June 22, 2012 08:51 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: maddogg at June 22, 2012 12:49 PM (OlN4e)
Just look at Texas and assume its map color is good, then look for the color most opposite from it and know it's bad. *nod*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 08:51 AM (4df7R)
Guy just found out about the HIVs blankets
http://media.nbcchicago.com/ images/wrigleyville+sketch+new.jpg
Posted by: imp at June 22, 2012 08:51 AM (UaxA0)
Posted by: I have the President's back at June 22, 2012 08:52 AM (4eNxd)
"37 32 Texas also has the highest number of racist rocks per capita.
Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 12:09 PM (QKKT0)
I'm not sure if you mean that to be a negative or a positive.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 12:10 PM (9TTOe)"
BAN THE IP ADDRESS!!!
Posted by: Smug Libtard RINOs at AoSHQ at June 22, 2012 08:52 AM (JW/aG)
“Yeah, fuck Reagan,” reiterates Hart one week after the reception. “Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands...
Whereas my hands are crusted up with KY and bloody feces..
have you seen my Aquaracer?
Posted by: Matthew Hart at June 22, 2012 08:53 AM (zOMLu)
Unless AtC is reading... then I'm definitely not going to CfA and I'm definitely not having yummy, yummy chicken nuggets with Polynesian sauce and waffle fries. Nope, I wouldn't do that to AtC when she can't go.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:54 AM (8y9MW)
“Yeah, fuck Reagan,” reiterates Hart one week after the reception. “Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands. Posted by: EC at June 22, 2012 12:22 PM (GQ8sn)
What a hysterical priss. This is just one more of their multitudinous ways of screaming "Pay attention to how f**king special I am! Pay attention to me now and tell me how cool I am! And then give me money!"
Blah blah blah. These imbeciles have nothing of any value to say. They're nothing but exhibitionists looking to shock the plebs with their "transgressiveness."
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 08:54 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 22, 2012 08:54 AM (tKFT6)
Posted by: George Takei at June 22, 2012 08:55 AM (ZKzrr)
I'm sure that Barry and his ilk couldn't agree any more with that perverted POS
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2012 08:56 AM (1Jaio)
You know, as much as I know that everything Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father was a lie, I'm still amazed at how BRAZEN some of the lies are. This one is new to me, though I'm sure not to others. From Ron Radosh's latest over at PJM, "ObamaÂ’s Life and the Truth: David Maraniss Almost Regrets Telling the Real Story"
Other fabrications found by Maraniss include that Hussein Onyango, Obama’s paternal grandfather, was not whipped and tortured by the British. Nor was his Indonesian stepfather killed by Dutch soldiers in the fight for independence. Maraniss calls it a “concocted myth in almost all respects.” The truth was far more simple and hardly one to call up reverence: he “fell off a chair at his home with (sic) trying to hang drapes, presumably suffering a heart attack.”
I never like to laugh at anyone's death, but... COME ON. Barry goes through all teh trouble of trying to make his stepfather sound like Teh Roxerz, all badass and killed by eeeeeeevil Europeans, and the truth is that the guy keeled over while hanging drapes. It's kind of like having someone tell you you're descended from royalty, only to find out your actually descended from a chambermaid who worked in the general vicinity of the palace, but never actually went inside.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 08:56 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: George Takei at June 22, 2012 12:55 PM (ZKzrr)
Indeed. All the more ironic since that is the ONLY strategy that had ANY positive impact.
They don't care about AIDS. They care about other people paying attention to them. Otherwise the whole "barebacking" thing would never have come to pass.
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 08:57 AM (xUM1Q)
Huh. I was sure the mortician would have washed that off...
Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan at June 22, 2012 08:57 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: nickless at June 22, 2012 08:57 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 22, 2012 08:57 AM (HethX)
>>and AIDS was going to "explode" in the hetero population. Never happened.
It's killing a lot of women and children in Africa. But I think they fall under "poor brown people who have to die off to Save Teh Planet."
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 22, 2012 08:58 AM (ZKzrr)
“Best chance to get it is to have butt sex or share needles. Period.”
ThatÂ’s guy on guy butt sex for AIDS heÂ’s talking about ladies. Guy on girl butt sex is just fineÂ… and actually quite healthy.
Posted by: jwest at June 22, 2012 08:59 AM (ZDsRL)
At least most of the (admittedly conservative) gay reaction I've seen to this skid-mark has been "Dude, stop helping," and a general level of embarrassment because of him. So that counts for something.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 08:59 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 12:56 PM (4df7R)
And if the Prez himself is any guide, I'll bet his grandad thought those drapes were FABULOUS...
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 08:59 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Lothar of the Hill People at June 22, 2012 08:59 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Gordon undead Ramsay at June 22, 2012 09:01 AM (dBvlk)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 22, 2012 12:58 PM (ZKzrr)
True. But it should also be noted that Africa is a place where it is widely believed that sex with a prepubscent virgin cures AIDS. The place is rife with absurd superstition of every kind, intermingled with the sexual morals of chimps.
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 09:02 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 22, 2012 09:02 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at June 22, 2012 09:03 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Shequr of the bleeding Rectum at June 22, 2012 09:03 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 12:59 PM (xUM1Q)
And he probably had trouble getting them through the front door, like a certain Preezy with umbrellas through a gate.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 09:04 AM (4df7R)
True. But it should also be noted that Africa is a place where it is widely believed that sex with a prepubscent virgin cures AIDS. The place is rife with absurd superstition of every kind, intermingled with the sexual morals of chimps.
Well, I can tell that when I was there working for the Gov't their Penises were spotless!
Posted by: Matthew Hart - Washer of African Penis at June 22, 2012 09:04 AM (M8oFW)
Posted by: Gordon undead Ramsay at June 22, 2012 01:01 PM (dBvlk)
Well, in fairness, the population of people most likely to get AIDS overlap pretty significantly with the moonbat population. Drug use? Check. Promiscuous sex? Check. Etc. Thus, it didn't really seem like there was a need to have a separate moonbat-specific strain. Sorta redundant...
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 09:04 AM (xUM1Q)
I'll tell you something. Something I've never told anyone. When I was fifteen, I went to Macedonia on a school trip, to the site of Alexander The Great's palace. And for the first time in my whole life, I felt ... I felt I was home. This place was where I belonged. Years later, I got friendly with a hypnotherapist - Donald - and told him about the Alexander the Great thing, and he said that he'd regress me back through my past lives. I was dubious, but I let him put me under. It turned out my instincts were absolutely correct. I had lived a past life in Macedonia. That palace was my home. Because, believe it or not, Lister, he told me that, in a past incarnation, I was Alexander the Great's chief eunuch.
Posted by: Arnold J Rimmer at June 22, 2012 09:04 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 22, 2012 09:04 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Shequr of the bleeding Rectum at June 22, 2012 09:05 AM (136wp)
This is the cream of the crop of theLGBTQ community
The fuck it is. Seriously, the fuck it is. I am so completely and utterly sick and tired of having the self-appointed rulers of the Gay Left act as if they speak for me.
Look, bitches, if anyone is going to be Queen of the Queers, it's me. You don't speak for me, you don't represent what I believe, you are the ones who are demanding that sexuality = political belief. My views are as equally valid as yours. No, wait, mine are more valid since my beliefs are based on reason and thought and principal and not emotion. Sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up and let the grown ups talk, m'kay?
Not that. I have Opinions about this. Or anything.
Related: I really should have stopped trying to be a better person and gone to Chick Fil A for a milkshake. Crappity.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 22, 2012 09:05 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: the morning coffee crew at June 22, 2012 09:05 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Verizon Witless at June 22, 2012 09:06 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 09:06 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Chief Penis Washer Brody at June 22, 2012 09:06 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work team dagny at June 22, 2012 09:08 AM (d9PlV)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 09:08 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Croc-of-sh*t Dundee at June 22, 2012 09:08 AM (136wp)
::: sigh :::
I love you alex, will you marry me?
Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 22, 2012 09:08 AM (sbV1u)
Federal regulations can be maddening, but none more so than a current one that demands oil refiners use millions of gallons of a substance, cellulosic ethanol, that does not exist.
"As ludicrous as that sounds, it's fact," says Charles Drevna, who represents refiners. "If it weren't so frustrating and infuriating, it would be comical."
http://tinyurl.com/7zx7hjq (Fox News link)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 22, 2012 09:08 AM (cHZB7)
What's the over/under on the number of Obama sex tapes and/or nude pictures he had on it before he was "mugged"?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 22, 2012 09:09 AM (tqwMN)
Posted by: the morning coffee crew at June 22, 2012 01:05 PM (oZfic)
You talking about that thing with the bus driver?
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 09:09 AM (xUM1Q)
****
BTW, how's that AIDS thing working out for you?
Posted by: West African Chimp at June 22, 2012 09:09 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at June 22, 2012 09:09 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Jon Stewart at June 22, 2012 09:11 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 09:11 AM (Dnbau)
I love you alex, will you marry me?
I shall take your application under advisement. Oh, please note that the application has recently been updated to require more complete disclosure of all off shore assets.
AllenG, I hope you have a lovely lunch. In completely, totally and utterly unconnected news, I have a new crop. However shall I break it in? *taps chin* Whatever shall I do?
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 22, 2012 09:12 AM (VtjlW)
It's a little known fact that Reagan hosted the first 'Bug Party' in the Castro District way back in 1977.
It was a bicentennial themed affair.
Posted by: garrett at June 22, 2012 09:13 AM (M8oFW)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 01:11 PM (Dnbau)
How is this not in the courts? I mean, surely there is some recourse here...?
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 09:13 AM (xUM1Q)
****
Yes. But help is on the way!
The EPA is going to reduce their usage requirements by 98% because, you know, 2% of something that doesn't exist will be an easier standard to meet.
Posted by: West African Chimp at June 22, 2012 09:13 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 22, 2012 01:12 PM (VtjlW)
A new crop? How odd... The corn and beans are nowhere near ready for harvest yet. What comes into season this early in the year?
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 09:14 AM (xUM1Q)
The thing is that we (conservatives, moderates, the sane) will never satisfy the Lib LGBTQ-ers because they simply can't be satisfied. Their cause is political and eternal. Their pathetic whining and hijacking of the Civil Rights movement got gays into the military and convinced a half dozen States to allow gay marriage, but they don't dial back the hatred one bit. They will invent yet another narrative of oppression to justify their hatred and stupidity, and a certain percentage of people will fall for it over and over again.
Screw 'em.
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 22, 2012 09:16 AM (HethX)
Peas.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 22, 2012 09:16 AM (tf9Ne)
I harvested my first tomato last night. I think I spent more time photographing it than tending to the plant. Lol.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 22, 2012 09:16 AM (ZKzrr)
even though it does not exist. One refiner said you may as well as told
them they had to start using unicorns. They are FINING people for this.
If I were a refiner, I would slap a label that says "Cellulosic ethanol" on an empty barrel and then say "Of course I'm adding it" and then dump it into the mix.
Posted by: alexthechick - sending SMOD to Chick Fil A for no reason at all nothing to see here at June 22, 2012 09:17 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: alexthechick - sending SMOD to Chick Fil A for no reason at all nothing to see here at June 22, 2012 01:17 PM (VtjlW)
Ahh, but then the bureaucrat would say "GOTCHA - it doesn't exist you liar!" and double or triple the fine, and try to get you thrown in jail.
It's a game to those bastards.
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 09:22 AM (xUM1Q)
No data from Alaska, Wyoming, the Dakotas and West Virginia?
All filthy snowbilly, cowboy, scandi, cousin-marryin' reprobates who've never heard of math.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at June 22, 2012 09:39 AM (FcKXR)
What is this LEGAL of which you speak?
Posted by: Californiaaaaaa at June 22, 2012 09:41 AM (0hDIC)
Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2012 09:45 AM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 22, 2012 09:53 AM (QVMU9)
In 2007, the last time there was a real effort to pass bipartisan immigration reform, he supported a change requiring illegal immigrants to return to their home countries to apply for legal U.S. status that basically torpedoed the fragile compromise.
As president, he ignored his promise to Hispanic and immigrant supporters to shepherd through immigration reform in his first year and went on to deport immigrants at a record pace.
Posted by: Jared Loughner at June 22, 2012 10:00 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 22, 2012 10:51 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: Reactionary at June 22, 2012 01:09 PM (xUM1Q)
yes. Sorry am inundated today.....with work...
Posted by: the morning coffee crew at June 22, 2012 11:05 AM (oZfic)
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