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Good Morning Morons. Its Tuesday, January 17^th, 2012. On this day in 1706 Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in Boston, MA. Not much news out there today. Another debate, but at this point, who cares?

2 Foist!

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English version of Wiki to go down for 24 hours tonight to protest SOPA

One wonders if they still plan on this since the bill has been effectively killed.

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Valerie Jarret uses MLK church for political speech and voter registration

These black activist churches get away with this shit all the time. It is an outright violation of IRS 501-3(c) rules and should result in removal of tax free status. But, like Obama, they are protected by blackdemocratium and will never see any action.

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House GOP trying to call back $100B in IMF loan guarantees that Dems made in 2009.

Yes, lets give the Europeans $100B to throw in the Greek socialist shithole. It may keep them up another day or two. And make no mistake, any loan for those idiots we guarantee is an outright gift. But good luck in getting it rescinded.

6 Carp! Beaten by Vic's fleet fingers.

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Watched Gretchen interview a Democrat on remarks about Obama and States rights from the “debate”. He kept giving BS answers to “job creation” and never answered the question at all. Of course Gretchen never called him on it because she really is in the tank for Mutt.

8 Ans that's it for now. Just not much out there today.

9 Nice beatdown by Neut on Juan Williams at the debate last night.

10 Gabe, a lot of posts up yesterday about PIPA. Just exactly what is PIPA? That one hasn't got much press.

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I've seen pics of PIPA. She's pretty hot.

12 Gabe, a lot of posts up yesterday about PIPA. Just exactly what is PIPA? That one hasn't got much press.

It's the Senate version of SOPA. Slightly, but not significantly, different than SOPA. It also needs to die.

13 It's the Senate version of SOPA. Slightly, but not significantly, different than SOPA. It also needs to die.

OK thanks. Probably will not die in the Senate since that is controlled by the commies and they want this. They will have to send it back to the House though and it can die there.

14 As usual, this thread came up right after I posted this comment in the ONT this morn: 551 Am I the only one tired of Saint Martin's Day, and of being constantly told by the Media what a Holy Day it is? As I recall, some states didn't even want to mark it. You just know the little kiddies are being worked over by their Re-educators in the public schools to worship him. What if the little boy offended by Christmas and the Pledge of Allegiance is ALSO offended by the "I've Got a Dream" speech? What ABOUT that poor child?? How come no one worries about him?

15 what do ewe mean ewe don't care about icanhascheezburger.com?  what about teh kittehs??!!???

16 Since Gabe is here, how would an individual go about bringing a lawsuit against VJ or the church for a blatant and easily provable violation of federal law?

17 Predictions. Fox News drops the Newt is Anti-Capitalist schtick, in favor of a new Newt is Racist Schtick.

18 Professional douchebag Peggy Noonan on MS-Luna-Cee yet again, milking her connection to Reagan even as she golden showers his legacy. Bitch. There, I said it!

19  Am I the only one tired of Saint Martin's Day, and of being constantly told by the Media what a Holy Day it is?

We know. But you're the only one making a fetish out of it. Move on.

20 Since Gabe is here, how would an individual go about bringing a lawsuit against VJ or the church for a blatant and easily provable violation of federal law?

Probably will never be able to get standing. Maybe a slim chance if filed a writ of mandamus to enforce the law, but even that is doubtful.

21 Heh. Scarborough is concerned Romney is just another Big Government Republican. Think about that. SCARBOROUGH is worried Romney is a RINO. Earth to Scarborough...

22 I think that Seattle should use solar panels to melt the snow off the road. Or electric blankets powered by windmills. Those would work too.
 
Get with the program Seattle. You seem very  ecologically unsound. Hide your heads in shame.

23 We all have our fetsh's, Gabe.

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Probably will never be able to get standing. Maybe a slim chance if filed a writ of mandamus to enforce the law, but even that is doubtful.

What if that individual was the head of a church that had been denied it's tax-exempt status under the law? I'll look up the "writ of mandamus" when I get home from work later.

25 I didn't watch the debate last night, but I did see the clip of Noot picking on Juan like a green coffee bean. Juan went down like the Valdez, leaking crap all over the place.

26 Making things sacrosanct and off-limits to discussion is PRECISELY how the Left has cowed Conservatives for 50 years now. It's why, in the end, they will win.

27 14 - Everyone picks their battles, I assume for some particular reason. I can't imagine this one being on my list of battlefields. It's a federal holiday. Big whoop. Celebrate or don't, but to me it just doesn't seem worth making a fuss about.

28 From Wiki:

A writ of mandamus or mandamus (which means "we command" in Latin; pronounced /manˈdeɪməs/, man-day-məs), or sometimes mandate, is the name of one of the prerogative writs in the common law, and is "issued by a superior court to compel a lower court or a government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly".

29 BTW, a writ of mandamus is the scam that gave us the Supreme Court being the primary "interpreter" of the Constitution.

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Thanks Vic, and to those fleet fingers of yours.

One would think that an enterprising young legal professional looking to make a name for him or herself could do so if he or she could successfully prosecute a case like that against the head of a government agency.

This administration seems rife with its refusal to enforce so many laws (like immigration), and the SCOAMF bragging about not enforcing laws he doesn't like.

We are well and truly boned. And we've done it to ourselves by electing the exact wrong people.

31 OT: Our missing cat came home last night. Someone had turned him in to the pound, his microchip was scanned and we were called. Happy ending. He was starving, though, which got me thinking. This is a 48 hour kill shelter. Why would they put out money for food? Either the animal will be rescued and fed at home, or the food will be eaten by a soon-to-be-dead animal. It's a business model I hope I never have to experience again.

32 All righty then, 'rons 'n 'ettes, I'm off to the salt mine once more. Have fun and try not to trash the place.

33 Facebook selling users private political opinions to Politico.

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Here's something we talked about yesterday on ace's Kindle thread

Note the difference in price between the Kindle and paperback. I ran across this this morning trying to find something new to read. I refuse to be sucked into this kind of shit.

35 Morning folks...thanks for the links, Vic.
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Professional douchebag Peggy Noonan on MS-Luna-Cee yet again, milking her connection to Reagan even as she golden showers his legacy. Bitch. There, I said it!

Posted by: CoolCzech at January 17, 2012 07:08 AM (niZvt)

Been calling her that for years...welcome aboard.

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Willard:  The Last Republican President?

"This is not only the most important election for the nation in over a century but also one that will determine the fate of a political party founded in 1854 in opposition to slavery and the corruption in the Democratic Party."

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"This is not only the most important election for the nation in over a century but also one that will determine the fate of a political party founded in 1854 in opposition to slavery and the corruption in the Democratic Party."

Posted by: Doctor Fish at January 17, 2012 07:45 AM (TkGkA)

Depending on how you define "Republican," we may well have had our last one over 2 decades ago and getting further from the possibility of another with each passing day.

38 34 - I seriously considered buying one of the B&N readers, but there were a couple basic problems I don't foresee them being able to fix: if the "print" is large enough for an old fart like me (I'm not that old) to read, it requires too much flipping of "pages" to make it useful during a workout. I need a book that sits there open when I'm on my stationary bike, and only requires my eyeballs every few minutes or so. The nice, pretty lady I talked to at B&N, whose job it was to sell these things, essentially told me the thing was not for me. And if books costs more than print versions? Yeesh!

39 38 - Hands. Only requires my HANDS every few minutes...

40 And if books costs more than print versions? Yeesh!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2012 07:52 AM (Gc/Qi)

Not all of them are like that. Baen has very good pricing and a lot of free ones.

41 Posted by: BurtTC
.............
Wait.. if you can't read an e-reader then you can't read a book either.  Being able to adjust the type size is nice.

42 Speaking of record snows, Seattleites, Portlanders, and the folks in between are bracing for a mega-storm that could dump up to 12 inches in the next 48 hours.

12 inches in 2 days?  Seriously, that's a "mega-storm?"

Hell, in the NE, we can get 12 inches overnight and still open the schools on time.

43 BTW, for those who did not see it, please run down a clip of the Newt/Juan Williams exchange from last night's debate and watch it. Even if you would never dream of voting for Newt, you will enjoy it. Short version: Juan Williams - "aren't you a racist for saying black people need to work?"; Newt - "Hell no, and let me explain to you how stupid your whole premise is." It was Newt at his finest. Instapundit has a link up to the clip on the Legal Insurrection site.

44 I thought that all the Arctic ice was melting?  How is it that we have record ice pack to plow through?

Buncha liars.

45 Hell, in the NE, we can get 12 inches overnight and still open the schools on time.

LOL, in the Winter of '71 I saw 2 feet overnight in Saratoga Springs, NY. Had to go to work that morning too.

46 Is Ron Paul still up on the stage? BTW, no video or pic of Kelly? This place is fading away.

47 Let me finish my drink, get this broad's phone number, and then I'll steer Top Headline Comments for awhile.

48 It's got to where it doesn't matter how many entries we have in a post, or whether we have an open thread still active. If a new post goes up 5 min after the open thread the new post automatically becomes an open thread.

Come on folks, we didn't use to be that bad at getting off topic so early in a post.

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what's crackalackin', y'all?  Another day in paradise.  Rainy and breezy here in bucolic Northern Virginia.

Newt's takedown of Williams was epic.  Honestly, I needed my smelling salts after.

50 Recall the absolute cluster a few years ago after the City of Seattle banned the use of snow salt for environmental reasons. They're not putting up with that BS again.



Enviro-wacko: Who cares about people's safety. We need to save Gaia!!!!!!!

51 Recall the absolute cluster a few years ago after the City of Seattle banned the use of snow salt for environmental reasons. They're not putting up with that BS again. Enviro-wacko: Who cares about people's safety. We need to save Gaia!!!!!!! Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2012 08:29 AM (1Jaio) Isn't Massachusetts supposed to be covered with mango plantations by now?

52 Mark Amodei (NV-2) is a cosponsor of SOPA. Good thing we kept that kook Sharron Angle out.

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Morning all! 

My friend out in Seattle sent me the projected snow accumulation map for the next few days out her way.  Her words: "You all in New England are used to this stuff.  Here in Washington we panic!" 

54 Doesn't salt come out of the earth to begin with?

And yes, I can see people in that area not being used to snow. I spent a Winter there and it rained every damn day, but no snow.

55 Here's the link to LI's vid of Newt's debate smackdown for those like myself that didn't watch live.
I am no fan of Newt's but I love watching professional grievance chroniclers get debunked and abused.
Juan doubles down and advances to the slaughter with his eyes and mouth wide open.

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This is just a local story here in NH, but it's just so cruel I have to share it to vent my spleen.

1 Dog Dies, 1 Hurt After Eating Food Laced With Hooks

SOMERSWORTH, N.H. -- A dog owner in Somersworth is devastated after one of her Doberman pinschers was killed and the other hurt after they ate food laced with fish hooks that someone threw in their yard...

I don't care how much you dislike a neighbor's dog, or how much you dislike dogs in general.  If you have a problem with someone's pet, you take it up with the owner.  If you don't want to go to the owner, you call the police.  You do NOT throw sausages laced with fish hooks into the fenced-in backyard of the house where the dogs live.  That's despicable, and the sign of a diseased mind. 

I hope they find whoever did it and shove a few fish hooks down his throat.

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>>Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 17, 2012 08:41 AM (4df7R)

Snow I can shovel, it's the ice storms with wind that concern me. Any storm near 32 degrees usually mean trouble.

58 RINO Joke of the Day:

A bigfoot, a moose and Willard Romney walk into a bar, and the bartender says, "Hey buddy, we don't serve hoaxes in this bar."


So the moose says, "F*ck you, bartender. I'm an elk."

59 Gack. Another record snowfall in the Great North Wet. If we would just build a wall on the border with Canada, all that cold stuff would stay where it belongs. I am just sick and tired of Canada shipping all their undocumented storm fronts to this country.

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BTW, for those who did not see it, please run down a clip of the Newt/Juan Williams exchange from last night's debate and watch it. Even if you would never dream of voting for Newt, you will enjoy it. Short version: Juan Williams - "aren't you a racist for saying black people need to work?"; Newt - "Hell no, and let me explain to you how stupid your whole premise is." It was Newt at his finest. Instapundit has a link up to the clip on the Legal Insurrection site.

Wow. Very nice.

My first job was working in my school. Third grade, selling milk and cookies during lunch time.

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Been calling her that for years...welcome aboard.

Posted by: davidinvirginia at January 17, 2012 07:44 AM (cPJUK)

It's become pretty fucking obvious that when Nooner put together the speeches for Reagan that she didn't believe a word in them, she just liked the way he read them.  Likewise with El JEFe she just squirted whenever he read his 'prompter; no telling what she thought about the content because she's too far gone on her "arthritis medication" by the time she hears it to make any fucking sense of it.

62 F&F analysis from law enforcement perspective. It is a good read.

63 Re: Juan v. Newt. Best  thing I've ever heard Newt say!

64 Where's the Puppeh and Kitteh video dump??

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I probably didn't say that well.  What I meant to say is, if I need to adjust the font to be large enough to read, there are so few words per "page" that I would be scrolling so frequently as to interfere with my workout.  Right now the only problem I have with paper books is that I need to put something heavy on the page to keep it from flipping on its own.  Not a big deal, I just thought an e-reader would solve that small problem, but it won't. 

The convenience of zapping a book onto the reader?  Nah, I like going to bookstores... the ones that still exist, that is. 

66 Teacher gets fired by red solo cup: http://tinyurl.com/732yjd7

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Like I said when this happened, The doors should never open until the prop has stopped moving. Pilot was at fault.

68 Re: discussion on Cruise ship yesterday, looks like our questions about the ship leveling itself are valid.   This from the NY Slime today.

Questions also loomed about why the Costa Concordia listed so badly after the crash, as the captain tried to bring it closer to the island. Modern ships are built to sink levelly, Mr. Menzies said, by the use of bulkhead doors and pumps that are supposed to be able to be operated remotely.

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Juan vs. Newt was a thing of beauty.

I still don't think Newt belongs in the White House.  But he'd be totally kickass as Sec. Labor.

70 AOSHQ comments on the Costa Concordia disaster and suddenly I see ad banners for tall ship sail cruises. I think the ad placement software may need some AI tweaking....

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As of Monday morning, Puget Sound cities failed when it comes to road conditions; with a new storm coming, I would imagine the fail continues.

72 I for one am glad wikipedobear will be going off air. The average IQ online will go up about 5 points during that period. I wonder if we can get them to do that on election day. It would help.