January 16, 2012
— andy Lots of people have the day off, including Gabe.
The HQ's open for business, though. Monty will bring teh DOOM! shortly, and there's a debate tonight that I'm sure we'll liveblog.
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Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 02:50 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 02:51 AM (d0Tfm)
Good Morning Morons. Today is January 16th, 2012 and so lets be PC and worship MLK today. On todayÂ’s date in 1547 Ivan the Terrible was crown Czar of Russia.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:51 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 02:52 AM (d0Tfm)
The Hill thinks that sme crony tax breaks that expired in 2011 should be "extended".
Mostly this is “green” shit so I say piss on them.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:52 AM (YdQQY)
This is what we should be doing for corporate taxes.
Lower the rate for ALL of them and eliminate all the crony corruption breaks. It would probably give a net increase in funds. Its just that connected companies like GE would no longer get the lionÂ’s share of the breaks.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:52 AM (YdQQY)
Andrew Sullivan goes off the deep end again today
And the $1 Dem PR rags sees gold in them tharÂ’ lunatic ravings
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)
Washington Times thinks a do-nothing Congress is a bad thing.
Unless they are repealing laws it is damn fine.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)
AGW cultists want to expand their propaganda war in the classrooms of America
Hell, I thought they already owned the classrooms.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)
Stuart Varney on F&F talking about the Range Fuels cellulose plant in Soperton, GA that has gone belly-up and being sold for pennies on the dollar after getting millions in government money. LOL, when they built this plant I said then it was another “subsidy engine”. Like all “green projects” it wasn’t built to make a profit. It was built to mine subsidies. When the subsidies ran out it went belly-up. But at least it don’t make the price of groceries go up like the corn boondoggle.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)
The cover of Time has to be a misprint. It should read "How can Obama's supporters still be so dumb?"
That's almost enough to make me start carrying a pack of Sticky Notes and a pen again to put on the covers of that fine, upstanding publication.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 02:57 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 02:59 AM (d0Tfm)
Time, Newsweak, all those lefty rags with the SCOAMF's mug on them look the same to me.
And I denounce myself.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:00 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:02 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 03:02 AM (7+pP9)
Well it turns out the prime reason for this accident wasn't a nav aid flaw. It seems that cruise ship captains had a habit of trying to skirt this island as close as they can for thrills for the passengers and the islanders. This is literally insane.
He played chicken a little close and is now under arrest and being charged with manslaughter.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:03 AM (YdQQY)
LOL, football is over this year for me. Gave up on pro football after the last strike. No sports left until the Spring when baseball kicks off. And even that I don't watch much of.
Yeah I know, college basketball will soon start their playoffs which will run until the Summer of 2012, but who cares?
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:06 AM (YdQQY)
I remember the same 'tards standing up for Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Hopefully, history will repeat itself again. I just don't see how anyone with two funtioning neurons to rub together could vote for him again. Of course, there weren't too many of those folk four years ago either.
Talk about willful ignorance. We on the right cannot be living in such a bubble, we at least get to hear both sides, if only to point out how truly brain-damaged the left is.
And to laugh at them, don't forget that.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:08 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 03:08 AM (ZJCDy)
Casey Anthony Says She Became Pregnant After Passing Out At Party
Stupid minds are easily captivated.
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 03:10 AM (7+pP9)
Gave up on pro football after the last strike. No sports left until the Spring when baseball kicks off. And even that I don't watch much of.
At least the last couple of Super Bowls haven't been blowouts. And the commercials are always a hoot.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:10 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at January 16, 2012 03:11 AM (bMLFV)
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 07:08 AM (ZJCDy)
Damn, looks like the low here will be 25.6° but my State has the term "South" in it.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:13 AM (YdQQY)
Yeah, wifey and I usually put the Superbowl on just to watch the ads.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:15 AM (YdQQY)
Four years ago today, my in-laws were killed in an auto accident. They were wonderful people. It was a terrible year.
That's so sad, katya. Condolences to you and your family.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:17 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: dogfish at January 16, 2012 03:19 AM (N2yhW)
Yeah, wifey and I usually put the Superbowl on just to watch the ads.
The thing about B'Gal, she's been nice enough to let me teach her about all kinds of sports since we've been together these years. She's now a bigger NASCAR fan than I am, and she actually watches football games with me. You should have heard her commenting on the Giants game yesterday.
I predict next season, she'll be able to spot a wildcat formation. Then, her transformation will be complete. Of course, having a DIL and two sons who are fans doesn't hurt either.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:21 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:23 AM (YdQQY)
I miss the days of Fireball Roberts. What was good about those days was it put some damn fine machines on the show room floors.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:26 AM (YdQQY)
...the only sport my wife watches on TV is Wheel of Fortune.
I am so stealing that. B'Gal's also a big Magic fan. She likes Jameer Nelson and Dwight, although he wanst to get traded after his contract is up this season. Should've seen the sports writers kissing his ass in yesterday's birdcage liner, puppy training device, newspaper. They ran Shaq out of town, so they'd better back off DH.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:28 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: We don't nobody dat nobody sent at January 16, 2012 03:32 AM (Sipdy)
As for NASCAR, I gave up on that wayback when they moved out of "stock" cars and into the current mode where the only thing "stock" is the shape of the fiberglass hull they put over the tubular frame.
Well, in their defense, they pretty much had to make some major safety changes as the speeds went up. Even that didn't save Dale Sr. And the bodies are still sheet metal, even if they're all the same shape now.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:32 AM (d0Tfm)
Lets put 'em to work.
We get first dibs. You can have them after the next election.
Sincerely,
Democrat Members of Cook County Board of Elections.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:35 AM (d0Tfm)
Markets are closed today, so I'm officially "off" but since I don't sleep anymore, here I am anyway. Argh.
Poor old Huntsman...he'll be sorely missed by friends, family and all 15 or 20 avid supporters. You know, considering how this thing has turned out, if he had not worked for Obama in China and had just run as the former governor of Utah, he might have gotten some traction and been a real contender...nahhhhhhh.
Posted by: davidinvirginia at January 16, 2012 03:35 AM (cPJUK)
Posted by: We don't nobody dat nobody sent at January 16, 2012 07:32 AM (Sipdy)
They're waiting to vote.
Posted by: davidinvirginia at January 16, 2012 03:36 AM (cPJUK)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at January 16, 2012 03:37 AM (fuw6p)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 03:37 AM (d0Tfm)
Coffee elevated to near sacramental level.
>>After seeing the damn BS mesothelioma ads for the millionth time I am having second thoughts.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 06:55 AM (YdQQY)
Attny's urinating on the Constitution for a living on multiple levels. Where's my Shakespeare Rifle?
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 03:38 AM (ZJCDy)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at January 16, 2012 03:38 AM (fuw6p)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:38 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: dogfish at January 16, 2012 07:19 AM (N2yhW)
Which is a bit ironic considering they are just fine with the scum of the earth being eligible to play in the NFL. I don't watch the games, and even the Stupor Bowl ads are boring and/or stupid to me. That Sunday is "find something to do other than watch TV" day at our house.
Posted by: davidinvirginia at January 16, 2012 03:39 AM (cPJUK)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at January 16, 2012 07:38 AM (fuw6p)
LOL...well, I should be ready to leap tall buildings in a single bound then.
Posted by: davidinvirginia at January 16, 2012 03:41 AM (cPJUK)
Ok, when I have to salt a TV Dinner--I who never salt anything after it's cooked--there are shenanigans afoot.
Posted by: Laura Castellano at January 16, 2012 07:37 AM (fuw6p)
I love salt. If I didn't eat so much I'd have low blood pressure. But they've taken the salt out of almost everything, making it taste bland. The only thing I don't have to salt is Campbell's chicken noodle soup.Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 03:44 AM (7+pP9)
The Weather Channel here consistently predicts highs 5° higher than what it winds up being. They also use a weather monitor at a podunk airport that sits out in the raw sun near the runways so it reads high.
That is how they support the AGW fraud. Right now they are saying that it is 32° here when my thermometers are running 27°
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:44 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: President Chet Roosevelt at January 16, 2012 03:46 AM (gJma6)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 07:39 AM (YdQQY)
I'm Galting about 15 miles from Mt Washington. It's the Valley that's cold in the AM.
Temps will rise 40 degrees between just before dawn and 9-10 AM most mornings in Jan.
Luckily, very little wind the last 2 days.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 03:46 AM (ZJCDy)
Posted by: dogfish at January 16, 2012 03:47 AM (N2yhW)
There is a whole lot of debate on that "salt" thingy with blood pressure. The current consensus is that it is only a problem for people with congestive heart failure and people who are "salt sensitive".
I did an experiment a few years ago where I ate a massive amount of salt all day long while taking hourly BP readings. No effect what-so-ever on BP.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:47 AM (YdQQY)
Southern Company???i.e. GA Power? In any case, if you don't mind shift work, apply for the STA position in operations. Advancement is faster and the pay is higher.
Regular engineering slots will also involve a lot of shift work and also a lot of unpaid overtime as you will be Category II exempt. (salaried)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:51 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: USA at January 16, 2012 03:51 AM (6Cjut)
I'm Galting about 15 miles from Mt Washington. It's the Valley that's cold in the AM.
Temps will rise 40 degrees between just before dawn and 9-10 AM most mornings in Jan.
Luckily, very little wind the last 2 days.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 07:46 AM (ZJCDy)
Mt. Washington holds the nation's record for temperature variation over a 24 hr. period.Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 03:53 AM (7+pP9)
I'd salt a salt lick.
Posted by: dogfish at January 16, 2012 07:50 AM (N2yhW)
LOL! That's me, too!Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 03:55 AM (7+pP9)
Hatch is in the absolute middle of desolation and is a BWR.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 03:55 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: toby928© goes cold turkey yet again at January 16, 2012 03:55 AM (GTbGH)
Interesting book review about the creation of the Volkswagen at Wall Street Journal.
If the link doesn't get the entire article for you, you can get it from Google news.
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 03:59 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 07:53 AM (7+pP9)
Quite regularly -100 something wind chill up there. Had highest ever record for wind gusts @ 250+ for a while, don't know if it still does.
As I said there has been very little wind here last couple of days but you can see the snow blowing around on the top of it.
It's in a freakish spot because it's only 6200+ feet.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 03:59 AM (ZJCDy)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 04:01 AM (YdQQY)
Sorry to hear that. I don't know how all this fate works. So many "What Ifs"
Thirty something years ago I was trying to catch a ride back to Austin from a UT football game. This guy who was always a jerk pushed in between me and the car and got in yelling "Shotgun!" So I wound up hitching. I got a ride with a trucker and as we drove down IH35 we passed a bad wreck. It was my friends and they were all killed.
Posted by: Panzer Trout at January 16, 2012 04:02 AM (j5CHE)
Posted by: We don't want nobody dat nobody sent at January 16, 2012 04:03 AM (Sipdy)
katya, if you're still there, sorry to hear about your in laws. Sorry also if I've ever made a stupid joke about your nic.
Just slap me, believe me I'm used to it.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 04:04 AM (ZJCDy)
I'm somewhat famous for being awful. They recruited me.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 04:06 AM (ZJCDy)
It also takes a long time to get good fingerprints from corpses (or is that corps) to have on hand to be ready if they ever get voter ID.
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 16, 2012 04:06 AM (i3+c5)
I never expected to be standing here under the inquisitive gaze of George Washington, and equally inquisitive gaze of my wife. Nor did I expect, as national co-chair of Senator McCain's presidential campaign, to be called into action by the person who beat us.
Mr. President, I humbly accept your call to service, and I understand that doing so will carry with it some unique challenges.
I'm reminded of my favorite Chinese aphorism. It goes something like this: (Speaks in Mandarin Chinese.) "Together we work, together we progress." This, more than anything else, I think captures the spirit of our journey going forward.
Jon Huntsman May 16, 2009
Romney 2012!
Jon Huntsman January 16, 2012
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 16, 2012 04:09 AM (3wBRE)
Posted by: President Chet Roosevelt at January 16, 2012 04:10 AM (gJma6)
Quite regularly -100 something wind chill up there. Had highest ever record for wind gusts @ 250+ for a while, don't know if it still does.
They must have some new instruments up there now. It held the record for years at 212 mph. IIRC, but they couldn't measure anything higher because it broke the anemometer.
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at January 16, 2012 04:12 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 04:15 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at January 16, 2012 04:17 AM (1uuIJ)
Posted by: President Chet Roosevelt at January 16, 2012 04:17 AM (gJma6)
Well both DeMint and Scott are saying that now. I still hope not. I intend on voting for Perry.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 04:18 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at January 16, 2012 04:20 AM (E7yM+)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) says 'No' to RINO Romney at January 16, 2012 04:20 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 16, 2012 04:23 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at January 16, 2012 04:24 AM (1uuIJ)
Oddly enough, in an article about two new books covering the VW story, it's one of the commenters who brings up Hans Ledwinka, designer of the Czech Tatra, a streamlined car with, among many other Beetle-like features, an air-cooled engine (a V8, no less) in the tail. Ledwinka's designs for Tatra inspired Dr Porsche's people, as the post-WWII settlement of a patent infringement case in Ledwinka's favor shows.
Posted by: MrScribbler at January 16, 2012 04:25 AM (tkd/a)
Not only did he get Staples up and running, he stayed around on the board for another 15 years. Staples now employs 95k people.
Further, he said that Romney was the best director they ever had.
Newt, Newt, Newt.....know your opponent.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 16, 2012 04:27 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at January 16, 2012 08:20 AM (E7yM+)
Accuracy doesn't matter, just look at the new flick about the Tuskegee Airmen.
As long as everything is in place for November.
Besides we have plenty of money to fix inscriptions set in stone. That doesn't faze the marxists any.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 04:28 AM (ZJCDy)
I'm getting there, too.
I just cannot fathom that people have decided it's okay to settle for Mitt Romney. Vs. McCain? Fine- at least he wasn't openly against tax-cuts and free-speech (as McCain was), and we didn't know how big a disaster MassCare was at that point.
Vs the current field? On his record, he's the weakest of "serious" (as opposed to "resume enhancing") candidates.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) says 'No' to RINO Romney at January 16, 2012 04:29 AM (8y9MW)
...all the people with the power to send me home for wearing a semi-obscene T-shirt.
I've never minded working on gov't holidays before, but my company is closed today and I got pulled in to cover other people's fuck-ups.
League is scared of the ex-player lawsuits.
You're blaming the league for the behavior of the courts?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 16, 2012 04:29 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) says 'No' to RINO Romney at January 16, 2012 04:30 AM (8y9MW)
Artist is Chinese. If he's not real good with English...
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 16, 2012 04:31 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 16, 2012 04:32 AM (niZvt)
In any case, the MLK memorial looks like it should have a quotation from Chairman Mao on it. That's what the people in charge get for hiring some Red sculptor to do the work. Guess they couldn't afford a real sculptor after paying a huge bribe to the King family to let them memorialize MLK.
I'm sure Former Presidential Candidate Wally Huntsman could give them a good Chinese quote or two.
Posted by: MrScribbler at January 16, 2012 04:33 AM (tkd/a)
There are prolly plenty of good FBI wiretaps with material that Mao would approve. They should have sourced there first.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 04:37 AM (ZJCDy)
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at January 16, 2012 04:40 AM (1uuIJ)
Posted by: SurferDoc at January 16, 2012 04:43 AM (6H6FZ)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 16, 2012 04:53 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: Cast Iron at January 16, 2012 04:54 AM (EL+OC)
Folks, there is nothing going on.
Vic, congrats for finding any links for today.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 04:55 AM (ZJCDy)
It seems to be one of the few growth industries in our economy, and one of the few things still manufactured here.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 04:59 AM (ZJCDy)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 16, 2012 05:05 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 16, 2012 09:05 AM (niZvt)
I think all happy talk is Dooming on the next thread.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 05:11 AM (ZJCDy)
It seems to be one of the few growth industries in our economy, and one of the few things still manufactured here.
Posted by: ontherocks at January 16, 2012 08:59 AM (ZJCDy)
There was a government official, Bush's head of the national Health service I think, who said that all new mesothelioma cases were fraud. He said all the real cases had already been adjudicated and settled. New cases were not possible because of the elapsed time in removal of the sources of asbestos.
Yet no judge will ever stop a filing for this BS and they saturate the TV with ads.
Posted by: Vic at January 16, 2012 05:20 AM (YdQQY)
The Democrat controlled Senate failed to produce a budget by April15, 2010 and April 15, 2011 as required by the Budget Act. The House, under the outstanding leadership of Nancy Pelosi, "deemed" a budget pass on July 2, 2010, ten weeks late.
This isn't obstruction, this is procrastination.
Posted by: Al Gore at January 16, 2012 06:02 AM (e8kgV)
"Huntsman should have been a contender.
He was an extremely popular two-term governor, who won re-election
with almost 80 percent of the vote. He could check off every position on
a default Republican's wishlist. He signed more pro-life legislation
than his competitors. He expanded gun-rights. He lowered taxes in his state historically."
Posted by: Free Market Capitalism is the Best Path to Prosperity at January 16, 2012 06:05 AM (oZfic)
Well yes, it's a communist slogan all right, but it's "Gung Ho."
Please pop down to Tun's and call the Marines a bunch of commies.
If it makes you feel better, tell them I sent you.
Posted by: comatus at January 16, 2012 06:12 AM (ySTXt)
"'I just want to thank my agent and God — Harvey Weinstein," Streep said, prompting a burst of laughter and raised eyebrows from the audience.
"The punisher. Old Testament I guess," the actress continued, giggling." link
It wasn't the least bit funny.
Posted by: Free Market Capitalism is the Best Path to Prosperity at January 16, 2012 06:18 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Free Market Capitalism is the Best Path to Prosperity at January 16, 2012 06:22 AM (oZfic)
The bad quotes and Chinese sculptor are icing on the cake: the supreme irony -- and somebody chuckled when they spec'd it -- is that finally we had a national figure who could realistically and naturally be cast in bronze, yet chose lily-white marble. Saint-Gaudens knew that. But let's not judge sculpture by the color of its skin...
Bob Taft stands on his crutches in the very shadow of the Capitol dome. MLK belongs -- like him or not -- where the actual million actually marched (on his right in the front row? That's Charlton Heston). The placement of "his" parklet, in the 'hood, is a liberal pat on the head. About time somebody called them out on these things.
Posted by: comatus at January 16, 2012 06:35 AM (ySTXt)
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Posted by: BackwardsBoy, CEO Curmudgeons INC. at January 16, 2012 02:50 AM (d0Tfm)