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Good Morning Morons. Its Tuesday January 10^th and I guess the Tide rolled in last night.  “These are the times that try menÂ’s souls”.  I quote that because on this day in 1776 Thomas Pain started the news pamphlet Common Sense. So Jossen, take heart, we may no longer have a Thomas Jefferson but we have hundreds of Thomas Paines out there penning todayÂ’s version of “Common Sense”.   The trick will be getting the general public to see those modern day pamphlets.  The news pamphlet of 1776 has become the MFM today and it is no longer balanced and no longer cares about freedom.  We have to push conservative blogs.  Get the readership of these up and the public will swing our way. When the public swings our way, the politicians will follow. Because no matter what there is one thing they are ALWAYS concerned with and that is getting elected. Now on the news.

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For those that missed it last night Alabama won the BCS game in a really crappy contest. First shutout in BCS history

3 Hi Vic hope you are ok

4 Opps missed pat of rthat

The GA-Michigan State game was better. MI squeaked by in the 3^rd overtime by a field goal. Now thatÂ’s some damn nail biter football.

5

Fox wants you to vote on whether there is time for aomeone else to enter the Republican contest

Stirring the pot is all this is. Not a chance of doing anything but muddying the water even more.

6

The federal Judge overseeing the VA ballot case has ordered a halt in printing VA ballots

That tends to make me think Perry has a chance there.

7

These are the tries that time soul men.

Can ya' dig it?

8

If Fast and Furious was a program for gun running, what do you call the DOJ program for laundering money?

How about a “criminal enterprise”? It is long past time to name a special prosecutor and start throwing some of these assholes in jail. I have been around this planet earth for quite a while now and this is the most lawless administration I have ever seen. Think about this folks, what if the MFM was actively engaged in hiding shit? How much more would come to the surface?  Yes, THESE ARE the time that try menÂ’s souls.

9

Haley Barbour pardons a convicted murderer for unknown reasons

Of course the Democrats in MS jump all over it. I hope he knew WTF he was doing.

10

Racist Organization Color of Change brags about getting Pat Buchannan "suspended" from NBC

11

Glenn Beck gets a little too wound up on his show

Throws his back out jumping on a coffee table and has to be taken out on a stretcher.

12

Watermelons not sorry to see Daley go

13 I know one man whose soul should be tried many times in a court of law: Eric Holder. 

14 Only thing is, "These are the times that try men's soul's," albeit a quote from Thomas Paine, is NOT from "Common Sense." Paine wrote those in late 1776, after Washington had his ass handed to him by the British generals Howe and Cornwalis, wo occupied New York City and chased him across New Jersey... The most tenuous days of the Revolution.

15

Paul Ryan weighs in against SOPOA now

This bill is a POS and is eat up with “unintended consequences”.  I put skuare quotes there because it is not clear to me that the bad shit is really unintended.

 

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DHS to now monitor news organizations and journalists

I swear, it is the most lawless aspects of FDR all over again. Standby all you MFM slugs who have been masticating his nether regions. If you deviate too far from the commie party line you will get shutdown.  Maybe they use some new BS instead of the FCC and “fairness”. How about this, an anonymous claimant accused you of plagiarism. We are shutting you down until a full investigation is made. It will be a short time; possibly we can get it done in a couple of years. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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For those of you who thought Huntsman was OK and should be the next "anointed".

Maybe is he had said he hoped the GOP would become the GOP again it would have been better.  But as long as we have liberals like him in office with an R after his name the GOP is being polluted.

18

Books and MP3s not the only thing going all electronic

19 Which is the biggest clusterfuck:  The RNC or BCS?

20

And speaking of the BCS game, here are some bold predictions about the future of the BCS that everyone hates

No matter what happens folks, donÂ’t look for any meaningful changes.  There is too much money for the colleges at stake here. As long as the colleges control the outcome we will still have the stupid bowl system that starts with a bowl in Podunk, Hickstate between two teams with a 6-6 record and ends in a game between what are perceived as the two best teams.

 

They will NEVER go to a playoff system. It is insane.

21

An aspirin a day keeps the heart attack away? Not so fast says this article in The Telegraph

When I saw this I jumped on it right away because my cardiologist has me taking a 300 mg aspirin a day along with Plavix. In this article they maintain that for healthy people the risks associated with bleeding may outweigh the benefits. For those like me who have had previous heart attacks they say the benefits are far greater so no changes.

22

Watermelon commies in lawless administration strike again and declare moratorium on Uranium mining "near" Grand Canyon.

Note that is “near”. We are not talking about digging mine shafts in the face of the canyon. They are placing over 1 million acres off limits and killing 40% of the nation’s supply of Uranium. There is no logical or scientific reason for doing this.

23

Rasmussen weighs in on Romney and the Primary process

24

WOW, a pictorial essay for the Morons to drool over

No it is not women with bigunsÂ’. It is a CA junkyard that has a classic car collection worth millions. Yes, a junkyard.

25 @17: judging by the recent rhetoric of the "conservative" GOP candidates, Vic, I'd say that the OWS hippies are now more influential in the GOP than the Tea Partiers.

26

And that is it for this morning. I will be in and out this morning, mostly out. Am hitting the rocking chair.

27

It's a beautiful morning here in Casa Backwardio after the stunning defeat and humiliation of the nation's former #1 ranked team at the hands of my Crimson Tide.

Nice kitty, sit here on Bear's lap and be still...

28 Is it wrong for me to hope that MessNBC and Pat Buchanan both destroy each other?

29

This bill is a POS and is eat up with “unintended consequences”. I put skuare quotes there because it is not clear to me that the bad shit is really unintended.

Have you ever noticed how “unintended consequences” in legislation always gives democrats the justification in their mind to expand their powers? 

They are like destructive cockroaches on two legs, spreading pestilence and profiting from the results. 

30 The only difference between the JEF and Huntsman is the former governor of Utah provides financial support for his foreign family members.

31

on the BCS game I posted the following on facebook, please don't take this as a diss Bama fans, its more of my continous pissed off attitude w/ the BCS:

So the BCS National Champion is a team that lost to the same team they beat for the title in their home turf earlier this year who just happens to be in the same conference but somehow ecen though they're tied 1-1 they earn the title?

and meanwhile the team that had a stronger schedule then the "National Champion" and had more wins VS winning teams then said "Champion" doesn't get in the title g...ame that said "Champion" got to go to even though they lost to the undefeated team they got to play earlier in the season. and even after all that the team that had the stronger schedule and more wins VS winning teams still gets only a #3 ranking? huh?

the BCS is so full of crap.

oh well, at least the good news is that since Bama backed into a championship once again that means who I root for in the Super Bowl will win. Every time the team im rooting for in the National title game loses the team i'm rooting for in the Super Bowl wins...so if your a Cheatriots fan hope your team doesnt make it to the Super Bowl

32

too early to make NH predictions:

1. Romney

2. Paul

3. Hunstman

4. Santorum

5. Gingrich

6. Perry

 

and don't forget I got Iowa 7/7 correct

33 28 Is it wrong for me to hope that MessNBC and Pat Buchanan both destroy each other? Posted by: Captain Hate at January 10, 2012 07:03 AM (9AVhU) Why, NO. Is it wrong of me to hope that NBC televises a sumo wrestling match featuring Christine Hendricks and Jennifer Aniston?

34 We're all occupying Limbo as Gingrich and Perry anxiously await word on who will get the coveted endorsement from "Ketchup". (If Huntsman wants to make a move, today is the day to shit on a NH trooper's car. )

35 Washington Whispers has a poll in which Americans FEAR the re-election of Obama 2:1.  So there is hope that the electorate has learned a lesson.

Also,  on YouTube there is a video of Frank Luntz mocking Perry and Bachman until he sees there is a camera on him.  Search on "Frank Luntz Unplugged."

36 When are they going to fill in the Knoxville Ditch?

37 OK folks going out to the chair, bbl

38 Also, on YouTube there is a video of Frank Luntz mocking Perry and Bachman until he sees there is a camera on him. Search on "Frank Luntz Unplugged."

Posted by: Miss Marple at January 10, 2012 07:11 AM (GoIUi)

I saw that, why Hannity puts so much stock in a guy that has been proven to have focus groups that have been found to be easy to sneak into and lie about is beyond me

39 One point in Huntsman's favor:  His wife is a very attractive, fit blonde who is very articulate and has quite a presence, plus dresses well. She looks much younger than her years and not like someone who has had 7 children.

40 I never could understand the appeal of The Huntsman. If you want a liberal nominee, you have a perfectly good candidate in Romney. What does The Huntsman offer except he can speak a little Chinese? Is it the lack of Mormonism? The hot daughters? What?

41 Perry was caught in a gaff yesterday - tried impressing a New Hampshire country store full of farmers by delivering his stump speech in Mandarin. The farmers walked away laughing, because he was really speaking in ancient Sanskrit.

42 I never could understand the appeal of The Huntsman Well, neither you nor any voter in the country.

43 I never could understand the appeal of The Huntsman. If you want a liberal nominee, you have a perfectly good candidate in Romney. What does The Huntsman offer except he can speak a little Chinese? Is it the lack of Mormonism? The hot daughters? What?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2012 07:15 AM (Gc/Qi)

actually when you look at his record on paper Hunstman would be a much better conservative alternative to Romney then all the other none-Romneys seem like but that being said Hunstman is the political equivalent of my brother. He gets off on flipping off the base and being mr. high and mighty and then wonders why folks dont like him. when folks rather have Romney then you and would back Santorum before they consider you a none-Mitt you're in pretty bad shape.

44 42 - By all indications, some 10% or so of NH voters do.

45

Agreed that the BCS needs a serious overhaul. IIRC, the crawler on ESPN said that their committee would be meeting soon and that "all kinds of things" would be discussed.

With some 35 total bowl games, it seems as though they could devise some sort of playoff system within that framework. But we all know better than that.

And, just a refute, Bama didn't "back in" to the game: they had the best defense in the country all season long and losing to the (now formerly) #1 ranked team in the toughest conference in the country is not a disqualifier.

They would have done the same thing, only worse, to any other team. Also, if you aren't brought up watching SEC football, you just don't appreciate defense, especially Bama's. If that had been offense, the score would've been 70-0.

In the first half.

46 Just got a text from an old friend reminding me that 24 years ago today we skipped school and drove to Manchester to "watch" the Primary. We met Dan Rather, Jesse Jackson and Jack Kemp before heading back. Good times.

47 44 42 - By all indications, some 10% or so of NH voters do. Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2012 07:18 AM (Gc/Qi) there is a large group of Massachusetts tax refugees that live across the NH border in towns like Nashua.

48 43 - Yeah, I have listened to the guy speak (admittedly, I can't listen for long). I know he was Gov of Utah, but I can't help but think the biggest difference between him and Mitt is that Utah isn't Massachusetts.

49 Vic, be careful of the kitteh's tail under the rocker, it might belong to Les Miles...

50 Only thing is, "These are the times that try men's soul's," albeit a quote from Thomas Paine, is NOT from "Common Sense."

Yes, I knew that, it was a literary quote.

51 in other words - Huntsman is the JeffB/War of the Undead states of this primary

52 Speaking of Huntsman, he's on Morning Joe just now, looking awfully comfortable...

53 I just got off the phone with James Darren, who played Officer Jim Corrigan in 66 episodes of T. J. Hooker, and he has endorsed me for president of the United States.

54

And, just a refute, Bama didn't "back in" to the game: they had the best defense in the country all season long and losing to the (now formerly) #1 ranked team in the toughest conference in the country is not a disqualifier.

and here lies the problem w/ the BCS, we can go tit for tat, as I said Bama got LSU at home and lost earlier in the season, meanwhile OK State had a tougher schedule and more wins VS winning teams

I mean w/ the BCS format, I dont see why LSU fans can't argue they deserve the National title every bit as Bamaor OK State does

55 I am the only employee in my company that gets a live check. They keep making not to subtle hints I should go paperless, fuck that shit. Give me a live check and I will go deposit it myself.

56 Vic, be careful of the kitteh's tail under the rocker, it might belong to Les Miles...

OK going into the kitchen and cranking up music . bbl

57 Well, neither you nor any voter in the country.

Welllll-I'm still undecided.

58 38 I saw that, why Hannity puts so much stock in a guy that has been proven to have focus groups that have been found to be easy to sneak into and lie about is beyond me.
Posted by: AuthorLMendez, Doesn't Hide Behind Socks To Make A Point at January 10, 2012 07:13 AM (3XDPM)

They purport to be the "wise undecided", people who calmly weigh the arguments "fer" and "agin" and then choose vote their consciences for the "best" candidate. In reality, they're American Idol, Jersey Shore and The Kardashians watchers who can't be bothered to pay attention to anything but those triumphs of American culture.

IOW, the Fredo Corleones of the electorate: I can handle things! IÂ’m smart! Not like everybody saysÂ… like dumbÂ… IÂ’m smart and I want respect!

59 and btw as a Gators fan im not gonna be hypocritical here, in the 2008-2009 season when we beat Oklahoma for the title some folks thought Texas and Texas A&M got screwed, and it did bother me in the back of my mind. This is why the BCS needs a playoff. You can start simple w/ 4 teams and do a "Final Four" like thing while the other BCS bowls stick around for other good teams that couldnt make the top 4.

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I mean w/ the BCS format, I dont see why LSU fans can't argue they deserve the National title every bit as Bamaor OK State does

IIRC, the title got split a few years back. And yeah, the BCS is hoplessly screwed, kinda like we are with teh Pubbie candidates. If it weren't for two little numbers (one of them is a 21 and the other one is a zero) LSU might have an argument for the title.

The idea of the Number One versus the Number Two team sounds good, and is how it should be, but the execution is seriously flawed with the BCS.

61 The New Authoritarianism

Good read.

62 "Voting took place in Dixville Notch..."

So I guess that means the presidency is decided then. Four more years of Obama with Romney the top failure from the GOP.

Whew! Our work here is done.

63 Frank Lutz is a weasel. .....I am glad that he is finally being exposed. .....Fox should fire him now, or what's left of their diminishing credibility will be gone.

64 Frank Lutz is a weasel. .....I am glad that he is finally being exposed. .....Fox should fire him now, or what's left of their diminishing credibility will be gone.

Posted by: wheatie at January 10, 2012 07:32 AM (oPkw3)

+1

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23  Rasmussen weighs in on Romney and the Primary process

It's heartening to hear him talk about what a fucked up primary process we have.....and that he thinks it won't survive this way much longer.

66 and btw everyone who's followed me as a commenter on this blog or at the facebook group knows im the biggest poll whore around (well maybe CAC is more) but Luntz has always struck me a wrong way. I find him as credible as "Kerry landslide", "Scott Brown loses by 1" Zogby.

67

The federal Judge overseeing the VA ballot case has ordered a halt in printing VA ballots

That tends to make me think Perry has a chance there.

Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2012 06:55 AM (YdQQY) 

Good morning, Vic, and thanks for the links.

I might agree except that I know how my luck usually runs (seems Perry has similar luck, like that old song they used to sing on Hee Haw), so there's no chance in hell I'll end up getting to vote for him. But it's nice to hope, I suppose. (shrug)

68 OK y'all, time to mine the salt once more. Have fun and try not to trash the place.

69

It's heartening to hear him talk about what a fucked up primary process we have.....and that he thinks it won't survive this way much longer.

Posted by: wheatie at January 10, 2012 07:37 AM (oPkw3)

time for my dream of a National 1 day primary?

70 re: BCS title game...good, I'm glad it was crappy and boring. That's how the title game for a corrupt, screwed up system like that should be. Nope, I didn't bother watching, and I hope the TV ratings for it sucked.

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Marshalling all the strategic intellect and tactical experience he and his crack team of advisors have, Rick Perry has jumped on the Bain Capital is evil/”I like to fire people” meme.

The flow of stupid creates a vortex that sucks the air out of the room.

It is inexplicable how Perry can still be polling at half of Buddy RoemerÂ’s total.  Who are these 1%?

72 Which is the biggest clusterfuck:  The RNC or BCS?

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 10, 2012 06:59 AM (9AVhU)

Yes.

73

69....time for my dream of a National 1 day primary?

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I have the same dream, Author.

It's the only fair way to do it. .....The media, and this small handful of early states, are using our primary system for monetary gain, and to unfairly exert power over the election. It is an outrage.

74

@2.  ".....Alabama won the BCS game in a really crappy contest.  First shutout in BCS history."

Some folks just don't apprciate defense.

Perhapse the Alamo Bowl was more to their liking.  Baylor-67, Washington-56.  The highest-scoring regulation bowl game in history.  Without defense you have a basketball score.  Congrats Baylor btw. and Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, QB, Baylor.

Without defense you go to the Alamo Bowl.  With defense you play for the National Championship.  That's the difference.  Alabama-21, LSU-0.

75 I'm glad it was crappy and boring. That's how the title game for a corrupt, screwed up system like that should be.

You mad, bro?

76

I have the same dream, Author.

It's the only fair way to do it. .....The media, and this small handful of early states, are using our primary system for monetary gain, and to unfairly exert power over the election. It is an outrage.

Posted by: wheatie at January 10, 2012 07:44 AM (oPkw3)

yep and it creates the 50 state on the ground strategy that will help for the General w/o wishing for a close primary that goes until June and into the convention

77

time for my dream of a National 1 day primary?

Posted by: AuthorLMendez, Doesn't Hide Behind Socks To Make A Point at January 10, 2012 07:41 AM (3XDPM)

Wouldn't that just benefit the guys with the most money and largest campaign organizations?

78 ...Fox should fire him now, or what's left of their diminishing credibility will be gone.

Posted by: wheatie at January 10, 2012 07:32 AM (oPkw3)

Credibility went out the window at FNC a long, long time ago.

79 You mad, bro?

Posted by: toby928© at January 10, 2012 07:45 AM (GTbGH)

Not especially. I generally try to make it a point not to support corrupt systems when it's possible. Which is why I don't bother following college football anymore, at least not the professional division.

80

78....Wouldn't that just benefit the guys with the most money and largest campaign organizations?
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How so? ......Seems to me that it would help all of the campaigns, small and large. They wouldn't have to start so early, if all the primaries were held on one day, in the Spring of the election year.

81 74 Without defense you go to the Alamo Bowl.  With defense you play for the National Championship.  That's the difference.  Alabama-21, LSU-0.
Posted by: Case at January 10, 2012 07:45 AM (DYR2Q)

Five field goals... an effin' Garabed Sarkis "Garo" Yepremian Bowl, called by Brent Mushmouthberger. Watched nearly all of second quarter before moving on at halftime to watch paint dry.

82 Good to know that Dickville Notch is selecting our next president.

83 Well, with DHS hassling you before you get on the ground, then you have http://tinyurl.com/86gct9k in the air.

Hope the Boeing plant in SC works out!

84 #81 Having a one day national primary would result in the folling:

1.  Candidates would need more staff because they couldn't move them from state to state as they do now.

2. Candidates without money for private planes would be hampered by the airline schedules.

3. Large delegate states would get all of the appearances.  Small states would be expected to decide based on cable and network TV appearances.

4. More money would be needed for TV ads.

5. A candidate with a large following but a murky record could win,  only to have dirty laundry aired after the nomination was decided.

85 Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2012 07:03 AM (YdQQY)

Don't forget me........

86 Good morning all, Vic-bless your heart. Literally-a heart attack too? Please take care, and if your doc wants you to take meds, take em all. I thought the Bama game was okay, especially if you liked their field goal kicker. Huntsman is not my choice, even if his mandarin is pretty good-just means he's a China Hand, and if Mittens chooses Christie as a running mate, I might breathe a little easier when I pull the lever. Not completely, but easier.

87 Having a one day national primary would result in the folling:
1.  Candidates would need more staff because they couldn't move them from state to state as they do now.
2. Candidates without money for private planes would be hampered by the airline schedules.
3. Large delegate states would get all of the appearances.  Small states would be expected to decide based on cable and network TV appearances.
4. More money would be needed for TV ads.
5. A candidate with a large following but a murky record could win,  only to have dirty laundry aired after the nomination was decided.

Posted by: Miss Marple at January 10, 2012 08:06 AM (GoIUi)

I agree. We surely need a different setup than now, but a national one-day primary is not the way to go. You'd  just get the current MSM/Beltway GOP shoving-the-chosen-guy-down-our-throats system pumped up on steroids with that. 

Maybe have multi-state regionals on a rotating basis...or just have 4-5 primaries in states from different regions on the same day, and make sure they're balanced between faux-Republican states and real ones unlike now. Most anything that would get rid of this "first in the nation" BS would help. And no damn open primaries or caucuses unless you want your state to be last in line to vote.

88 Thank you miki

Just checking in

89 LOL I see that the poll is up

90 #88  I like the rotating primaries in different areas,  for exactly the reasons you said.

I have come to loathe Iowa and New Hampshire,  and not just for this year.  New Hampshire's demanding and arrogant voters who think they are the smartest,  and the Iowa caucus-goers who vote based on what their pastor says have completely disgusted me.  I will not visit either state, ever. If I have to drive the Interstate through Iowa I will fill my tank and eat a meal and then drive straight through,  so they won't get a nickle from me.

91 Gabe, check the AoSHQ Style Guide but I believe that should always be referred to as " tiny Dixville Notch".

92 I like the rotating primaries in different areas,  for exactly the reasons you said.

I have come to loathe Iowa and New Hampshire,  and not just for this year.  New Hampshire's demanding and arrogant voters who think they are the smartest,  and the Iowa caucus-goers who vote based on what their pastor says have completely disgusted me.  I will not visit either state, ever. If I have to drive the Interstate through Iowa I will fill my tank and eat a meal and then drive straight through,  so they won't get a nickle from me.

Posted by: Miss Marple at January 10, 2012 08:21 AM (GoIUi)

I mostly enjoyed the 6 years that I lived in New Hampshire, but a state with the demographics of NH has no business having this much influence in picking a presidential nominee. No one state should. And it was way more conservative back then than it is now, after the flood of refugees from the surrounding socialist enclaves moved there.

93
Huntsman failed to qualify for Arizona's February 28 presidential preference election after his filing paperwork -- which was turned in only two hours before Monday's 5 p.m. deadline -- was rejected due to a "notary issue," according to Secretary of State spokesman Matt Roberts. Huntsman's nomination forms were ruled "incomplete" because they were "missing the candidate's original notarized signature,"

When the qualifying period closed, 29 candidates -- six Green Party contenders, and 23 Republicans -- had filed the necessary paperwork for the February 28 ballot. Among them were Huntsman's five major opponents for the Republican presidential nomination, all of whom will appear on the Arizona ballot after their paperwork was approved.

Making the rejection all the more embarrassing for Huntsman is the fact that Arizona has some of the easiest ballot requirements in the country: Candidates needed only to submit a notarized statement of application to qualify -- no voter signatures, no petitions, nothing.




D'oh!

94 there is a large group of Massachusetts tax refugees that live across the NH border in towns like Nashua.

Posted by: CoolCzech at January 10, 2012 07:20 AM (niZvt)

Yeah, don't remind me.  We don't like them and want them to go back where they were spawned.

I really would not be surprised to see Nor Luap receive a strong showing here in the Granite State today.  Drive around the state a while and you will see a lot of Romney signs, heavy pockets of Gingrich or Perry signs, but Nor Luap posters, signs, bumper stickers, handmade banners, etc, etc, all over the place.  Tacked up on overpasses, strung between trees along the highway, everywhere.

I think I'm going to go ahead and vote for Perry.  If Romney is "destined" to win my state, my family and I have agreed that the least we can do is show him that the best he's going to get is a plurality not a majority, to remind him that he's not the anointed one, he's just a mildly palatable Not Obama.  It's between Perry and Gingrich for me, and I'm just more inclined to Perry's conservative record of recent years. 

So, y'all know how I'm gonna vote.  Let's see who else among my New Hampshirite lads and lassies agree with me!

95 Seems the school that used slave beatings for multiplication also had an incident last year where they presented a story sympathetic to sharia & wearing the veil & having multiple wives.

http://bit.ly/A27EnF

And surprise of surprises, the NAACP seems to be trying to spin the story that using slavery in math class was some sort of anti-black plot instead of the usual jam the multi-culti agenda down the kiddies' throats. Despite the fact the school is 60% Hispanic, 28% Black, 5% Asian & 4% White.

96

Posted by: Miss Marple at January 10, 2012 08:21 AM (GoIUi)

Miss Marple, I must politely disagree.  As a NH voter, I can say most of us DON'T think we're the "smartest" voters out there.  Only the snobby ones who seem to end up on television believe that, and I imagine that's the same in every state. 

97 Ok all you BCS busters here`s your playoff with the top 8 teams: AL vs Boise ST., OK ST. vs WI in one brackett, LSU vs AR and Stanford vs OR in the other. Barring any huge upsets it would have been the same 2 teams in the championship game.

98
Star Wars: Underworld

Producer and longtime George Lucas collaborator Rick McCallum dropped some key hints about the long-planned live-action Star Wars TV show. McCallum revealed the show's working title is Star Wars: Underworld, it is indeed set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, that "it's about that period when the Empire is trying to take things [over]", and that the show's primary focus will be on the criminal underbelly of the Star Wars universe.

McCallum elaborates:

"It's underneath what's going on. It's the criminals and the gangs. The guys who are running Wall Street, basically. The guys who are running the United States."

IO9


Occupy Coruscant

99 From the Chicago Scum Times:


WASHINGTON-- When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley's City Hall in the early 1990s, she was "distressed" by how a small group of "white Irish Catholic" families -- the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans -- "locked up" power in Illinois.


But a picture of her as Marie Antoinette is racist

100 I really would not be surprised to see Nor Luap receive a strong showing here in the Granite State today.  Drive around the state a while and you will see a lot of Romney signs, heavy pockets of Gingrich or Perry signs, but Nor Luap posters, signs, bumper stickers, handmade banners, etc, etc, all over the place.  Tacked up on overpasses, strung between trees along the highway, everywhere.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 10, 2012 08:50 AM (4df7R)

This is especially true up north in The White Mountain/North Conway area.
Ron Paul somehow strikes a chord up here.
NH is not a easily classified. The built up areas just north of MA where you get the TV coverage are far different than the more rural areas further North.

Voting for Perry but under no illusions that this will help at all.

The Dixville Notch BS is way, way overdone and really is a media novelty only.

101 Damn you, AoS, and your attractive nuisance linkies. I've been ear-wormed by the "All He Does is Win" Tim Tebow mash-up. It's so...so...catchy.

102 Is it wrong of me to hope that NBC televises a sumo wrestling match featuring Christine Hendricks and Jennifer Aniston?

With hope in one hand and MrWinkieCzech in the other?

103 #97  I am sorry.  I fell prey to the mistake too many have made before me; I assumed things on TV were actually as portrayed!

I should have known NORMAL people wouldn't be interviewed by the TV crews.  They do the same thing here in Indiana,  only they look for fat, toothless people.

I apologize sincerely.  I must need more coffee!

104 Haley Barbour is dead to me: http://goo.gl/7l54I The fucker pardoned, and I mean walk out the door pardon, 4 murderers: They were also working as trustees at the gov. mansion. What the fuck is that about????

105 Pretty hard to have a "landing" in the middle of the White Mountains. Hart's LOCATION.

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While Barbour's office hasn't responded to messages about the pardons, he told the AP in 2008 that releasing the trusties who live and work at the mansion is a tradition in Mississippi that goes back decades. Work by trusties would typically include kitchen duty, waiting tables, cleaning and washing vehicles, officials said.

Barbour created a similar stir by releasing convicted killer Michael Graham in 2008. Barbour later defended "the custom" of governors reducing the sentences of the mansion's inmate workers if they behave.

Barbour's three predecessors, dating back to 1988, gave some type of early release or pardon to a total of 12 Governor's Mansion trusties. All but two of them had been convicted of murder. One was serving time for forgery and another for armed robbery and aggravated assault.

Epps, the corrections commissioner, told the AP in 2008 that the inmates who end up working at the Governor's Mansion are often convicted murderers because they are the ones who serve long enough sentences to build the trust needed for such a task.



Da heck?

107 #107  Proof that we really do have major differences in various parts of the country.

Thankfully,  this comes out early enough to preclude Barbour being put on a VP candidate list.

108 I believe they served 17 to 10 years in prison. Hardly punishment for what they did. In 1993, one shot his ex wife in the head while she was holding her baby and also shot another person with her. For that he gets a few years in prison, a comfee job in the gov mansion, and a full pardon after he was just denied parole? What bullshit! What if that was your daughter or sister who had her head blown off?

109 That pardoning thing is fucked up. It makes no sense. It's not like that guy accidentally killed someone in a drunk-driving crash or something like that.

110 Good morning, Vic.

In this article they maintain that for healthy people the risks associated with bleeding may outweigh the benefits. For those like me who have had previous heart attacks they say the benefits are far greater so no changes.

Yeah, that's the way a lot of these things go -- recommendations for people with issues get inappropriately extended to healthy people.  My feeling is that if you are a healthy person and you have to down a handful of pills each morning, you're doing it wrong.  I'm always amused that at those "health food" grocery stores about a quarter of the space is allotted to pills/supplements. 

111 I haven't read the comments yet, but yesterday the conservo-sphere was lit up with posts touting Mia Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs here in Utah.  She's running for the new congressional district, which I believe means she'd be challenging incumbent Matheson (D pretending to be conservative), whose district lines were redrawn. 

Here's an article about her.

I don't know anything about her yet -- and I think I'm still in Chaffetz's district with the new lines drawn -- but I'll see if I learn anything.  It would be nice to get rid of Matheson. 

112 For some reason I have a strange urge to vote for carbon steel pipe fittings.

113 Pretty important EPA case in the Supreme Court yesterday.  From the questioning it looks like EPA is going to get its ass kicked.  I'll bet most people didn't know that if the EPA tells you your land contains a wetland and orders you to return it to natural state, that order is not appealable to any court, nor is the finding of the existence of a wetland on your property appealable.  I think 95% of Americans would find this outrageous.  The other 5% work in the Obama administration.

114 The New Jersey State Assembly's GOP Leader dropped dead in the men's room of the Capitol last night.  Very sad.  He was a mentor to Chris Christie, and Christie has cancelled today's scheduled State of the State address. 

115 Speaking of NJ politicians dropping dead, Christie had better start taking some daily aspirins.....

116

:Christie's getting larrrrrrrrrrger:

 

117 No aspirin study has shown a heart benefit for a dosage over 81 mg. If you have any asprin issue, one 325 mg a day will trigger it. The bad news is, those little-bitty coated ones cost more. Won't bleed you though.

Solution for the BCS? Limit state-supported schools to recruiting only from their own and contiguous states, reimplement core curriculum, require a 2.5 grade average. Bookies will starve. Why, it will ruin the game forever. The military academies will start looking like the big time.

Anybody watch the NCAA non-bowl playoffs? Pretty good games, mostly.

118 So, you take a cheap 325 mg aspirin and quarter it.

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