December 11, 2012

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— Gabriel Malor

Happy Tuesday.

Andy sent some old posts from back in the 2011 debt ceiling debate. Here's one from me, one from Drew, and one from me again. I'd honestly forgotten that we've been having this "Let it Burn" debate for quite a bit longer than just the past month:

Purists insist that the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan that passed the House (thank you, Speaker Boehner) is still viable, though Reid shot it down in the Senate, but there is no reason to believe that is the case. The Senate won't vote for it and the President won't sign it. And leveraging the threat of economic calamity isn't changing that.

What might change that particular stalemate would be to push past the August 2 (or is it August 10?) deadline, let our AAA rating be lost, let federal disbursements be disrupted, and use the actual economic calamity as leverage for CCB and the Balanced Budget Amendment. That is the strategy that the purists are suggesting now. Of course, there's no reason to believe that Republicans will not be blamed in whole or in part for this "Let it Burn" plan and it has the smell of desperation about it. While it may be fun to imagine using economic Armageddon to get everything we want without having to compromise on anything, they're playing with people's lives and livelihoods in a particularly cynical and unprincipled manner.

And here's RD saying the final debt ceiling deal wasn't a capitulation crossed with Ace, who said it was a capitulation.

In other words, doesn't seem like much has changed, except this time the GOP is having to negotiate against both itself and President Obama rather than itself and Senator Reid. You will recall that back then Obama was taking a much more hands-off role.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:53 AM | Comments (249)
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1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Tuesday, December 11, 2012.   On this day in 19836 King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry American divorce Wallace Simpson.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

2 Stand by to get hit with yet another hidden Obamacare fee at the first of the year for “pre-existing conditions”.  Yes, insurance is no longer insurance. It is now a “health plan”.

http://is.gd/8Yd7Pm

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

3 Obama is not happy that MI is becoming a right to work State.  Tough shit asshole.

http://is.gd/RdU2bV

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

4 CA electricity users are finding out that solar power comes at a high cost.  Another shit sandwich they signed up for.

http://is.gd/dP3Kjb

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

5 Stupid Democrat wants to ban non-existent gun.

http://is.gd/3rcdKw

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

6 This is the kind of people we are supporting with weapons in Syria.

http://is.gd/OmTyjm

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

7 PPP says Santa is a Democrat.  This is another illustration of why polls are shit.

http://is.gd/Q9YWgQ

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

8 CNN is still the worst network on TV pushing racism.

http://is.gd/yssHPn

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

9 MI Teachers union to shut down schools in protest of right to work law. I say the governor should pull a Reagan and fire every one of them.

http://is.gd/2cCqNP

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

10 Piss Wallace says Obamacare passed with 51 votes under reconciliation.  No, the “fix” passed with 51.  The act itself passed with 60 on Dec 24th after Boner sold us out.

http://is.gd/DKhbUe

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

11 Kindle Daily Deal:


The Shadow Hunter


In this adrenaline-pumping thrill ride, Los Angeles investigator Abby Sinclair goes undercover to figure out whether her clientÂ’s stalker is a fan or a psychopath. In Raymond HickleÂ’s case, Abby has no doubts. Wily and unhinged, He's progressed from creepy to murderous in his pursuit of news anchor Kris Barwood.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:56 AM (YdQQY)

12 TodayÂ’s Christmas Kitteh

http://is.gd/qdTkoL



And thatÂ’s it for Tuesday, December 11, 2012.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:56 AM (YdQQY)

13 The debt limit deal got is a $30M decrease in the rate of increase Obama wanted.  There was no actual cut.  We have run > $1.1T deficits since Obama took office.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 02:58 AM (YdQQY)

14 I am still in the shut it down camp instead of the LIB camp.  The Republicans will get blamed no matter what they do.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 03:00 AM (YdQQY)

15 1 Good Morning Morons. Today is Tuesday, December 11, 2012. On this day in 19836 King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry American divorce Wallace Simpson.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 06:53 AM (YdQQY)



19836??

WOW!!!


lol

Posted by: Killerdog at December 11, 2012 03:00 AM (Oi60j)

16 Also note that we were supposed to be getting cuts "down the road" from that plan.  We are down the road now.  Where are the cuts?

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 03:02 AM (YdQQY)

17 1936 typo

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 03:02 AM (YdQQY)

18 The Queen Mother never forgave the Duke of Windsor for abdicating.  She felt that her husband's death from lung cancer was caused by the stress of being King (he ended up being a chain smoker) and she was the one who resolutely pushed for them to never be allowed to return to England.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 03:02 AM (GoIUi)

19 DAY 35 1,425 to go Mayans, Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, miscreants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:02 AM (XkWWK)

20 Wonder if my child's teacher will be teaching today, or civil disobediencing at the capital against Gov. Snyder signing right to work. Numerous school districts had to close today because the teachers (who care so much about the children) will go scream in Lansing instead.

Posted by: PlymouthMom at December 11, 2012 03:03 AM (uoHSR)

21 Those teachers should have their pay docked for not showing up.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 03:05 AM (GoIUi)

22 Those teachers should BE FIRED have their pay docked for not showing up.


ftfy

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 03:07 AM (YdQQY)

23 21 Those teachers should have their pay docked for not showing up. Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 07:05 AM (GoIUi) In a sane world, they would all be shit-canned, their union dissolved and replaced with people who actually want to teach and not just get tenure. In New York we have (had?) a law called the Taylor Law which docked striking public employees 2 days pay for every day they struck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:08 AM (XkWWK)

24 18 -

Sorry, that strikes me as rather petty.  Like the beauty pageant runner-up who suddenly finds herself thrust in the spotlight because the winner could not fulfill her obligations: 

Oh no!   It sure is warm here under this spotlight, I better eat more chocolate, even though it's going straight to my thighs. 

Posted by: BurtTC at December 11, 2012 03:12 AM (BeSEI)

25 Drew's post from yesterday defining Let It Burn is over at Tepid Air. I guess they advocate for let it smolder just enough to make smokes. (LISJUTMS)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:13 AM (XkWWK)

26 25 SMORES not smokes. LISJETMS Sheesh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:14 AM (XkWWK)

27 @16

It's the GOP strategy of lose now to win later.

AKA, the "No Hills" strategy

Posted by: General Woundwort at December 11, 2012 03:14 AM (RrD4h)

28 I love how lefties like this are all for personal freedom unless it's freedoms they disagree with. Still happily ensconced with the Let It Burn faction. If Republicans are going to get blamed no matter what, let's give them everything they want first.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2012 03:16 AM (1ml8s)

29 22 Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 07:07 AM (YdQQY) Sadly, most teachers should be fired because they show up. That's how a majority of Americans elected then re-elected SCOAMF.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:16 AM (XkWWK)

30 Regarding the "Let it Burn" approach mentioned yesterday. If I recall correctly, that means no compromise, go over the fiscal cliff and let all tax cuts expire and automatic cuts happen, right? Does it also mean that once that has happened, any attempts to re-instate the middle class tax cuts would be opposed? From what I understand, that's what Democrats are planning, so they can claim those tax cuts as their own.

Posted by: zippy at December 11, 2012 03:16 AM (n422X)

31 Just read that Ty Zimmerman will not play in the Fiesta bowl due to injury. Very good d-back who helped "quarterback" the defense. His absence, along with Tyler Lockett trying to play hobbled, hurt us against Baylor and surely won't help against a passing team like Oregon. On the plus side, the one game the Ducks played against a team with a stout defensive front, Stanford, they lost. Here's hoping Lockett and defensive end Meshak Williams are at full go go for this game.

Posted by: teej still says go K-State at December 11, 2012 03:16 AM (tF9LY)

32 Kicking it in China and listening to AC/DC! I miss my rifle's. Who is with me?

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at December 11, 2012 03:19 AM (lGsIm)

33 @30

See at least that represents 3 dimensional long range thinking on the Democrats part.

Let the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone then re-instate them and claim them as the Obama tax cuts.

See while the Democrats are implementing Shermans march to the Sea on everything in sight, the Republicans are purging conservatives from committees.


The party of stupid is as the party of the stupid does.



Posted by: General Woundwort at December 11, 2012 03:21 AM (RrD4h)

34 30 Posted by: zippy at December 11, 2012 07:16 AM (n422X) Exactly. That's why Boehner should have just written a bill cutting taxes (or keeping the current rates) for those in the middle tax brackets, passed it in the House and sent it to SCOAMF. Then, if he refused to sign it, he would look like the bad guy. But no. Boehner just wants to destroy the GOP as well as give the left the meme that cutting taxes and limiting the size of government has hurt the economy. Essentially, the Reagan/conservative legacy will be taught as evil and wrong going forward - assuming that it's not taught that way now. Evil.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:21 AM (XkWWK)

35 Yale scientists name an extinct Cretaceous (dinosaur era) lizard after Obama.


http://tinyurl.com/abffxtd


Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 03:21 AM (GoIUi)

36 I remember the debt ceilings votes and I was really pissed off that my new senator Scott Brown is the only one that voted for Reid's bill that wasn't yet a bill and Reid himself did not vote for it. I know Brown is better than Warren will be but he lost a lost of support with that one vote, he was the lone vote to support something that did not exist! I sent many emails telling him to get away from that MA delegation and go seek Senator DeMint for help. Instead he voted for the Dodd-Frank Bill and other huge mistakes. I hope he learned that MA is not made of 100% liberals, we have conservatives with principles here.

Posted by: CarolT at December 11, 2012 03:21 AM (z4WKX)

37 Speaking of worthless teachers, an oldster commenting on American Thinker recently commented on how he used to feel relieved that he had escaped the dumbing down of America.  Then he read "Underground History of American Education," by John Taylor Gatto.  It describes the systematic plan ADOPTED IN THE EARLY 1900s (!) to wreck what was a superior education.  He said the book is a free download.  Alas, I don't have a spiffy reading device.

Posted by: RushBabe at December 11, 2012 03:22 AM (tQHzJ)

38 First unions, then schools first two steps on the long march to bring sanity back to the country till then, let DC and the economy burn.

Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at December 11, 2012 03:23 AM (zZJJp)

39 35 Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 07:21 AM (GoIUi) The Anitadunnosaurus is better than the Scoamfatops, IMHO.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:23 AM (XkWWK)

40 @30
Good question. 

Posted by: pep at December 11, 2012 03:23 AM (USJNU)

41 Then, if he refused to sign it, he would look like the bad guy.


Fox said that polls showed the public blaming Republicans regardless of what happened.


When you own the MFM yo get no blame.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 03:23 AM (YdQQY)

42

Lets go back to Clinton era tax hikes for all!

 

Posted by: Fresh at December 11, 2012 03:23 AM (O7ksG)

43

CLINTON ERA ...

 

TAX HIKES...

for all.

Posted by: Fresh at December 11, 2012 03:24 AM (O7ksG)

44 37 Posted by: RushBabe at December 11, 2012 07:22 AM (tQHzJ) Can't you download straight to your computer?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:24 AM (XkWWK)

45 @42

Only if we go back to Clinton/GOP Congress levels of spending.

Posted by: General Woundwort at December 11, 2012 03:24 AM (RrD4h)

46 Stand by to get hit with yet another hidden Obamacare fee

Tsk, tsk. Don't you know that "health care" is "affordable" now under Ear Leader?


Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at December 11, 2012 03:25 AM (hO8IJ)

47 Let the teachers stay on strike. Idiot teenagers are better than brainwashed idiot teenagers.

Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 03:25 AM (9ScGj)

48 By the way,  in the picture illustrating the Obamadon lizard, a guest appearance appears of an earlier SMOD.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 03:25 AM (GoIUi)

49 He said the book is a free download. Alas, I don't have a spiffy reading device.

Google "Kindle for PC", it's free.  But if the book is a text file or PDF, you don't need it.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at December 11, 2012 03:26 AM (hO8IJ)

50 If they're going to give into higher taxes on the rich, do as someone here suggested: pass two bills, one with tax cuts for the middle class and one for tax cuts for the upper class. Get credit for the middle class tax cuts and let Obama own the economic consequences of the upper class tax cut veto.

Posted by: zippy at December 11, 2012 03:29 AM (n422X)

51

Clinton era tax hikes.

no spending cuts

Deficits that turn us into Greece.

Socialist/democrat orgasms.

+corruption.

SMOD. praying for it.

Posted by: Fresh at December 11, 2012 03:29 AM (O7ksG)

52 41 Fox said that polls showed the public blaming Republicans regardless of what happened. When you own the MFM yo get no blame. Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 07:23 AM (YdQQY) This is true to an extent, Vic. Reagan was such a great communicator even before the internet and talk radio, when the MFM was even more of a force to be contended with. Our problem was we've had no one on our side like that for at least the last 15 years. Dubya never fought back against the attacks against him and was a lousy speaker (despite being a pretty sharp guy in private). And ever since, the lies and distortions about conservatism and the classic GOP have gone unanswered and are now truths, to the extent that even the current GOP does not dispute them. Trouble in River City.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:29 AM (XkWWK)

53 @46

Healthcare has always been affordable.

You can get a policy for as little as $150.00 dollars a month for a single person or $450.00 for a family.

Now these are not the Cadillac plans that our Senators and Congressmen have but it's healthcare.


Some people pay more than $150.00 for cable television and Dunkin Doghnuts coffee.


Another thing I never ever hear anyone talk about is this, if healtcare is so expensive then how much should it cost?

How much should a routine checkup cost and what should it cover?

How much should a knee replacement surgery cost?

etc.

Posted by: General Woundwort at December 11, 2012 03:30 AM (RrD4h)

54 He said the book is a free download. Alas, I don't have a spiffy reading device.

Posted by: RushBabe at December 11, 2012 07:22 AM (tQHzJ)


Did he say where it was free?  Its not on Gutenberg and Amazon wants $80 for a used one. One is not available on the Kindle.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 03:30 AM (YdQQY)

55 47 Let the teachers stay on strike. Idiot teenagers are better than brainwashed idiot teenagers. Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 07:25 AM (9ScGj) YES.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:30 AM (XkWWK)

56 Santa only works one day per year, enters countries illegally, spies on people, is overweight, doesn't allow his own employees to unionize, gives away crap other people built, and breaks into houses. Yep, democrat.

Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 03:31 AM (9ScGj)

57 Answering critics at a solar ribbon-cutting earlier this year, Gov. Jerry Brown laid down the gauntlet, affirming his commitment to solar energy and saying he would "crush" opponents of solar. "There are going to be screw-ups. There are going to be bankruptcies. There'll be indictments and there'll be deaths. But we're going to keep going - and nothing's going to stop me," Brown said. Brown sounds like a bad stage villain.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at December 11, 2012 03:34 AM (QupBk)

58 56 Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 07:31 AM (9ScGj) Never trust your parents. They snitch to him about you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:34 AM (XkWWK)

59 You can get a policy for as little as $150.00 dollars a month for a single person or $450.00 for a family.

Not anymore. Now it's gotta cover all things uterine--even if you're a man--which will run you several hundred bucks a month before you cover the rest of your body.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at December 11, 2012 03:35 AM (hO8IJ)

60 ".....there will be deaths." ?!

Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 03:35 AM (9ScGj)

61

Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.  Thanks for the news, Vic.

 

 

Here are a couple of quick stories to get your day off – I hope – to a good start:

 

 

In 1936, when director Michael Curtiz was casting The Charge of the Light Brigade, David Niven was among a number of actors testing for the role of leading actor Errol FlynnÂ’s friend.  When he arrived at the casting call, Niven found a dozen other actors also ready to go and settled down to wait.  By the time six of the hopefuls had been heard and dismissed, everything Niven had hoped to do had already been done and his mind was a blank when Curtiz called out, “Next man!”

 

 

Niven was led out by an assistant and introduced to Curtiz and an understandably tired Olivia de Havilland.

 

 

“Where’s your script?” Curtiz barked.

 

 

“You mean those four pages I was given for the scene, Mr. Curtiz?  IÂ’ve learned it.  I donÂ’t have the script with me.  ItÂ’s in my dressing room.”

 

 

“I asked you where it is!” Curtiz cried.  “Now run and get it!”

 

 

Niven hesitated.  His dressing room was at the other end of the studio.  It was 100 degrees in the shade.  The soundstage wasnÂ’t air-conditioned.  And after witnessing six other actors, Niven figured he had no chance.  “Fuck you,” he snapped.  “You run and get it!”

 

 

Curtiz threw his script to the ground.  “Dismiss the others,” he cried.  “This man gets the part!”

 

 

Now, letÂ’s go back to 1934, when Paramount was releasing a B-picture called Search for Beauty.  The studio publicity department decided to invite theater owners across the country to advertise for the most beautiful girl in their town.  A committee of judges would select the most beautiful of the local winners and the lucky girl would get a Paramount contract.

 

 

Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, George Burns and Gracie Allen were named as judges, but their names were strictly for publicity; choreographer LeRoy Prinz would actually make the choice.  As it turned out, thousands of pictures of local lovelies poured in from across the country.  Stunned by the numbers, Prinz told his assistant, “Just throw the pictures up in the air and throw out the ones that land face down.  When you get to the last ten, call me.”

 

 

LePrinzÂ’s assistant did as he was told.  When the choreographer finally sat down to select from the final ten, he looked over the pictures and read a bit of information on each one, but simply grew confused.  “Well, hell, IÂ’m not going to bother with all this,” he thought, and began throwing those ten pictures in the air until finally only one landed face up.  She was a cowgirl from Texas named Clara Lou.  Paramount signed her and changed her name to Ann Sheridan.

 

 

Years later, Sheridan and LePrinz were at a cocktail party.  “Annie,” the choreographer asked, “do you know how you got into this business?”  Sheridan, a funny woman with a marvelous sense of humor, said, “I figured it was because you had the hots for me, since I started out as one of your chorus girls.”

 

 

Prinz laughed and told her the story of the pictures.  “Yours was the last one to land on its back,” he finished.

 

 

“Of course it was, you S.O.B.,” she giggled.  “And IÂ’ve been on my back ever since!”

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 03:36 AM (zF6Iw)

62 "Underground History of American Education," by John Taylor Gatto

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm


I'm amazing, I know.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at December 11, 2012 03:36 AM (hO8IJ)

63 If they're going to give into higher taxes on the rich, do as someone here suggested: pass two bills, one with tax cuts for the middle class and one for tax cuts for the upper class. Get credit for the middle class tax cuts and let Obama own the economic consequences of the upper class tax cut veto. Posted by: zippy

Dude, stop making sense so early in the morning. 

Look, a hill!

Posted by: pep at December 11, 2012 03:36 AM (USJNU)

64 Democrats don't think the fiscal cliff is much of a problem. These are the same people who thought the mortgage industry should be forced to finance houses for people who couldn't pay the mortgages and the very same people who thought the resulting meltdown of our economy was "an opportunity". You can't negotiate with these folks. Let it burn.

Posted by: MTF at December 11, 2012 03:36 AM (gbD0f)

65 I do this every goddamn morning.  I'm not even going to bother formatting any more.  I'll get in the barrel when I've finished my morning paperwork.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 03:37 AM (zF6Iw)

66

; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal">"You will recall that back then Obama was taking a much more hands-off role."

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; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal">This time Obama thinks he will win, so he wants the victory, therefore, looking involved.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at December 11, 2012 03:37 AM (VLifP)

67 Santa's gonna need a bailout when the north pole melts. he's way too big to fail.

Posted by: errhead at December 11, 2012 03:37 AM (9fSuj)

68 @57 In other words, I don't care how much money I have to steal from the proles, daddy wants him some skittles shitting unicorns and daddy will get some skittle shitting.

Posted by: General Woundwort at December 11, 2012 03:37 AM (RrD4h)

69 Posted by: zippy at December 11, 2012 07:29 AM (n422X)


I think I heard that approach this weekend from Art Laffer on Fox.  At the time, I thought that was just too intelligent an approach.  I was right.

It is easy to forget that Boehner has been instrumental over the years in helping the Republican Party earn the soubriquet of the Stupid Party.

Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at December 11, 2012 03:37 AM (Cnqmv)

Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at December 11, 2012 03:38 AM (Cnqmv)

71 Wait, so Drew didn't invent LiB on election night like he's been crowing?


Huh.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 03:38 AM (da5Wo)

72 Start!  Barrel time!


 Morning my lovelies.   I have a very bad case of I Don't Wanna in re:  work today.   This should be fun.



Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Helping it burn. at December 11, 2012 03:38 AM (Gk3SS)

73 In other news today, Ace has been outed in the media and his identity has been established.

From ESPN: 

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – In the full deck that is the NFL, Bill Belichick is the Joker and Tom Brady is the Ace of Spades.

...

C'mon, who knew Brady was an Ewok?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 03:40 AM (sbV1u)

74 Good morning.

If you're still looking for some stocking stuffers or cheap shit for yourself and giving Ace free money at no extra cost to your Amazon is running some lightning deals over the next couple of days (there was one Monday).

http://tinyurl.com/b68y3hf

Highlights for today's deals include a Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movie colectionincluding Tarzan And His Mate, , A Bette Davis movie collection, a Gary Cooper movie collection, Harry Potter Complete Collection bluray set, Looney Tunes Golden Collection volume 1, Back To The Future Trilogy on bluray, War Horse bluray and a seven movie Marylin Monroe collection on bluray.

Other deals, which you can see here http://www.blu-ray.com/ include Lord Of The Rings extended editions on bluray for $40 bucks, the four movie Alien Anthology for $30, the X-Men Trilogy for $20, Planet Of The Apes saga for $20 (though it's part of a lightning deal tomorrow so will be a couple of bucks cheaper) and Doctor Who seasons five and six for $24 each among many others.

Also worth noting is Downton Abbey for $32 and let me tell you the price on this one keeps bouncing up and down.  Yesterday it was $30, then it shot up to $38 and now it's back down (usually Amazon sells it for $45 or $50) so if you know anyone who would love to have it better get it now.

Posted by: Robert at December 11, 2012 03:40 AM (4ixH5)

75 Morning my lovelies. I have a very bad case of I Don't Wanna in re: work today. This should be fun. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Helping it burn. at December 11, 2012 07:38 AM (Gk3SS)

Governing Alextopia is not work.

Condescension maybe, but not work.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 03:41 AM (sbV1u)

76 You can get a policy for as little as $150.00 dollars a month for a single person or $450.00 for a family.


I am currently retired and on my employers retirement insurance. No complaints, even though it is a PITA HMO. Looking at what is covered, I wish there was a way now, and even when I was working, to eliminate what I do not want or need to be insured. Chiropractor, don't want it. Delivery room, that ship sailed a long time ago. Psych treatments, I'm goofy, not crazy. Drug rehab, I made it this long without it. 
But all of that stuff is covered. Just pay for and let me pay for what I want and need.

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2012 03:42 AM (Q6u7O)

77 "There are going to be screw-ups. There are going to be bankruptcies. There'll be indictments and there'll be deaths. But we're going to keep going - and nothing's going to stop me," Brown said.

Now imagine if Mitt Romney had said this.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 03:44 AM (sbV1u)

78 Only Democrats care about skin color

Posted by: K-Bob at December 11, 2012 03:44 AM (rqdgP)

79 Never surrender to emotional manipulation.  Never back down in the face of nonexistent arguments and appeals to sensitivity and feelings.  Embrace the cruelty. Meet each demand for submission by amping up the ridicule, jacking up the humiliation, and increasing the pressure of intellectual precision.  Drive the Rabbit People out mercilessly whenever they show themselves; rest assured they are actively seeking to do the same to everyone who doesn't submit to their never-ending demands.  Force them to expose their total inability to accept contradiction and criticism to everyone. Pull their triggers with all the angst-filled remorse of an ice-cold hitman.

I understand the intrinsically dictatorial nature of the Rabbit People.  As I noted at AG, that is precisely why I give sensitivity-driven discourse no respect whatsoever. I don't care if you were raped every day of the year and twice on Mondays by the family cat, after which your father killed you with a knife and danced on your grave. Your personal victimization grants you neither moral authority nor intellectual credibility, much less any form of veto on what others are permitted to think, say, or feel.  XXXXXXXXX  will always be a bastion of heterotopic discourse; it would not be unreasonable to think of it and Alpha Game as the Wild Hunt for Rabbit People.

Posted by: Embrace the Cruelty at December 11, 2012 03:45 AM (ufLRj)

80 61 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 07:36 AM (zF6Iw) Mary, I still have the hots for Ann Sheridan. Also Veronica Lake and Paulette Goddard.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:45 AM (XkWWK)

81 @76

The simple act of allowing insurance providers to compete across state lines would dramatically lower the cost of healthcare, but the twat waffles won't even allow that common sense to enter what is a heavily regulated industry.



Posted by: General Woundwort at December 11, 2012 03:46 AM (RrD4h)

82 Okay I am still on a WWII kick from the ONT.  Battle 360 Battle of Santa Cruz.  They could have done more if they had gotten rid of that Marine color commentator.  He was about as useful as a screen door on a sub.  Never talked about how Hornet or Enterprise deployed their fighters for defense.  Just mentioned them after the attack has started on each ship.

And now for pendantic rant re: USS Smith.  USS Smith is properly called an 'destroyer' you idiots, a destroyer escort is a 'class' of ships.  IF you want to describe what the ship doing, how about calling it an escorting destroyer.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 03:46 AM (Fhaif)

83 Okay I am still on a WWII kick from the ONT.




Dammit! WTF did I miss???????

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 03:47 AM (da5Wo)

84 MPPP, thanks as always! I made a request a week or so ago, but I think you missed it. Any stories on Julie Newmar? Please!

Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 03:49 AM (9ScGj)

85 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 07:36 AM (zF6Iw)

I absolutely love reading the Hollywood tales you post.  Bless you, dear.

Posted by: Robert at December 11, 2012 03:49 AM (4ixH5)

86 "Also worth noting is Downton Abbey for $32 and let me tell you the price on this one keeps bouncing up and down. Yesterday it was $30, then it shot up to $38 and now it's back down"

Amazon has some strange formula that determines what price you see out of all the sellers they are promoting.  I've had it happen many times that I'd look up an item, go away and do some research to see how badly I want it, only to come right back in an hour and see a wildly different price.  Like the first time it will be $32.50 and the second time $21.99.

Then when you click on whatever takes you to the expanded list for that item on all sellers, the price you are looking at is gone, and you get to select the seller with the best price.  Even Amazon shows up with different prices from the first one you'll see.  Bugs the hell out of me.

Posted by: K-Bob at December 11, 2012 03:50 AM (rqdgP)

87 Mary, I still have the hots for Ann Sheridan. Also Veronica Lake and Paulette Goddard.

And Myrna Loy from the Thin Man series.

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2012 03:50 AM (Q6u7O)

88 BCochran, we discussed, again, Battle of Midway.  Death of the IJN due to things like bad damage control.   Look up loss of the carrier Taiho.  Hit by American torpedo.  Taiho survived that until a damage control officer released gasoline vapors into ship spaces - Boom.  Throwing experienced pilots away without thinking of the future.    Also USS Wasp and its missions to Malta.  U-boats and Hitler was an idiot.  Etc.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 03:51 AM (Fhaif)

89 Veronica Lake in 'I Married a Witch' was smoking.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 03:52 AM (Fhaif)

90 Taiho survived that until a damage control officer released gasoline vapors into ship spaces - Boom.




Released gas vapo....??? The fuck?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 03:54 AM (da5Wo)

91 I used to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" just to see Donna Reed. I haven't watched it since NBC picked up the rights to it and turned it into a four movie.

Posted by: zippy at December 11, 2012 03:55 AM (n422X)

92 2 Stand by to get hit with yet another hidden Obamacare fee at the first of the year for “pre-existing conditions”. Yes, insurance is no longer insurance. It is now a “health plan”.

http://is.gd/8Yd7Pm

 

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 06:53 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

A year is a long time to stand by; it doesn't kick in until 2014.  Oh, why do we have to wait so long?  They say it will actually lower medical costs and premiums for all!!! 

Posted by: Nash Rambler at December 11, 2012 03:56 AM (yW4lI)

93 Re: Amazon, they just sent me an e-mail 10% off next purchase of 100.00 or more. So the Ewok is gonna get some more spare change between now and the cruelty-free historical infant holiday.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 03:56 AM (feFL6)

94 Posted by: K-Bob at December 11, 2012 07:50 AM (rqdgP)

Oh I'm aware but I'm talking about Amazon's sale price specifically and not any of the third party "Amazon Fullfillment" sellers.  I use blu-ray.com to track Amazon's prices and they only list Amazon's selling price.

Posted by: Robert at December 11, 2012 03:56 AM (4ixH5)

95 Reason why Mogami survived the Battle of Midway and Mikuma did not.  Mogami's DC officer made the hard calls to jettison torpedoes and seal off an entire area of the ship that was aflame.  Mikuma did not and her torpedoes exploded from the heat.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 03:56 AM (Fhaif)

96 Morning fellow morons

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 03:56 AM (uFY4s)

97 I've read a lot of books about screenplay writing and acting and a Bogey quote has always stuck with me: (paraphrasing) "If I'm going to be giving out a lot of expository dialogue, the director better have two camels behind me fucking so the audience has something interesting to look at." Words to live (and write) by.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:56 AM (XkWWK)

98 There are still a number of FSA voters who think Obamacare meant free health care.  I look forward to their discovery of the truth.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 03:57 AM (GoIUi)

99 Ah, yes. The debt ceiling debate. Where today's Let It Burn cob-loggers were yesterday's This Is Not The Hill To Die On RINO pussies. Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 11, 2012 03:57 AM (JDIKC)

100 At the risk of beating dead elephants further to death this whole conflict between the rational and the irrational wings of the GOP goes all the way back to the John Birch Society madness. It's nothing new. And if we really want to dig into constituent elements and factors, in large part it's a WASP thing. It's not really a coincidence that there are so many white Protestant denominations. Hell, in various places around the country you can see two separate churches from the same denomination within a couple of blocks of each other. And not because both have too many parishioners, if you catch my drift. When WASPs come to loggerheads they tend nearly instinctively to split apart and to form smaller groups. In any case, don't overestimate the extreme irrational political right. For decades they've been destroying the country by staying home to "send their messages" and to "prove their points." It won't end. A few more Angles, O'Donnells, Bucks, Akins and Mourdocks and the Dems after the '14 cycle will be back to 60 votes in the Senate. And if the '15-'16 primary cycle degenerates into another pissing match about abortion, deportations, vaccines, contraception and evolution, and let's not be naive, that's where we're headed, then say hello to President Cuomo or to President Clinton. Or maybe even to President Deval Patrick.

Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at December 11, 2012 03:57 AM (r2PLg)

101 Of course, there's no reason to believe that Republicans will not be blamed in whole or in part for this "Let it Burn" plan. They are going to be blamed regardless. Let. It. Burn.

Posted by: rickb223 Let. It. Burn. at December 11, 2012 03:57 AM (OByUq)

102 Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at December 11, 2012 07:56 AM (feFL6)

I want 10% off!  How the hell did you get 10% off?

Posted by: Robert at December 11, 2012 03:57 AM (4ixH5)

103 Mary, I still have the hots for Ann Sheridan. Also Veronica Lake and Paulette Goddard.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 07:45 AM (XkWWK)

 

You've got good taste, J.J.  Myself, I was always more of a Claudette Colbert and Myrna Loy man.  I will say, though, I was watching Grand Hotel on TCM last night.  Joan Crawford was totally bunk-worthy as Flaemmchen, but I've never been able to understand the whole breathless Garbo cult.  She doesn't do a thing for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 03:58 AM (zF6Iw)

104 So I'm 52. I think I'll have a kidney transplant and chemotherapy NOW just as a precaution before it becomes unaffordable/unavailable next year.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 03:58 AM (XkWWK)

105 Empire of Jeff at December 11, 2012 07:57 AM (JDIKC) Since I only seem to notice you in the AM and the thread in mention was yesterday afternoon did you see Ace's shout-out to you?

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 03:58 AM (feFL6)

106 MPPP did you see they showed My Fair Lady after that movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 03:59 AM (Fhaif)

107
99 Ah, yes. The debt ceiling debate. Where today's Let It Burn cob-loggers were yesterday's This Is Not The Hill To Die On RINO pussies.

Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 11, 2012 07:57 AM (JDIKC)



I'm disappointed in you EoJ. I was so hoping for you to jump in on Drew's post yesterday.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 04:00 AM (da5Wo)

108 Icedog, I've been trying to find some Newmar, but no luck.  I'm trying to find a free copy of Burt Ward's memoir of his Batman days to see if I can pull anything from there, but I can't get it through Google books or Gutenberg.  Don't worry, I didn't forget you!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 04:00 AM (zF6Iw)

109 Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at December 11, 2012 07:57 AM (r2PLg) Those John Birch folks don't seem so extreme nowadays...we all should have listened to them.

Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 04:01 AM (9ScGj)

110 OT In a few minutes, my family will leave to watch our son take his oath and be sworn in as Marine. We are all proud of him! See y'all later!

Posted by: EC at December 11, 2012 04:01 AM (doBIb)

111 BCochran, are you now checking out the ONT?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:01 AM (Fhaif)

112 :::105 Empire of Jeff at December 11, 2012 07:57 AM (JDIKC) Since I only seem to notice you in the AM and the thread in mention was yesterday afternoon did you see Ace's shout-out to you? Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at December 11, 2012 07:58 AM (feFL6)::: No. I was too busy at work to fuck off. I gotta get a new job.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 11, 2012 04:01 AM (JDIKC)

113 I want 10% off! How the hell did you get 10% off? Not sure, but I did spend a couple hundred there recently. I also shop alot without buying. I have to 'run the math' in my head for a couple days before I can decide whether to buy local, with sales tax, internet, on a charge card with 5% off, etc. I think they're trying to kick me into making a decision.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 04:02 AM (feFL6)

114 Cya l8tr EC!   Semper Fi!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:02 AM (Fhaif)

115 God Bless you, your son & your family EC!!!!!!!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at December 11, 2012 04:02 AM (GVxQo)

116 P.J. O'Rourke on why God is a Republican and Santa Claus us a Democrat

"I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club.

Santa Claus is another matter. He's cute. He's nonthreatening. He's always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without the thought of quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he's famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus."

Posted by: Scanner Dan at December 11, 2012 04:02 AM (h5CN9)

117 Anna, I did see MFL listed, but I was too tired to stay up.  Anyway, I've got that on Blu-Ray.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 04:02 AM (zF6Iw)

118 100 Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at December 11, 2012 07:57 AM (r2PLg) Why the focus on Akin and Mourdock? You forget that every other moderate/non-gaffe prone R candidate LOST. The only pick up was Ted Cruz. Surprise, surprise. A conservative. Akin and Mourdock went down because of the gaffes. Not because they were conservative. Yet we let the establishment and the MFM define conservatism as crazy. Let's jettison the gaffe-meisters AND the moderates. Both are losers. Let's get intelligent, clear speaking CONSERVATIVE candidates. Okay?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 04:03 AM (XkWWK)

119 EOJ: Here's the quote: But let's face it, who are we kidding? Empire of Jeff, for example, uses the same sort of Lowbrow guise as I do but, you know, he's smart. He's read a book. His idea of fun is to go online and read arguments and respond to arguments. So, you know, dick jokes and all that but I'll call him out as an intellectual.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 04:03 AM (feFL6)

120 BCochran, are you now checking out the ONT?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 08:01 AM (Fhaif)



About to.




EC! Give him a big ass bear hug from a proud Moron Horde!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 04:03 AM (da5Wo)

121 111 Posted by: EC at December 11, 2012 08:01 AM (doBIb) G-d bless and protect him. Congrats!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 04:04 AM (XkWWK)

122 MPPP, thanks brother! ...you may have to resort to a little burglary action...I believe she lives in the LA area.

Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 04:05 AM (9ScGj)

123 God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow,
patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and
regulations. He holds men accountable for their actions. He has little
apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged. He is
politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on
literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is
unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club.




I'm pretty sure I just had a stroke. He just described virtually the exact opposite of Christianity. The exact opposite of the nature of God as described in the Bible.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 04:05 AM (da5Wo)

124 Thanks for the kitties vic

Posted by: alex the cat lover at December 11, 2012 04:06 AM (uFY4s)

125 And the news

Posted by: alex the cat lover at December 11, 2012 04:06 AM (uFY4s)

126 103 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 07:58 AM (zF6Iw) As a youth in the 60's it was Raquel Welch and Ann Margret. UGH!!!! Later, I had the hots for obscure European actress Cleo Goldsmith and pron-kitteh Desiree Cousteau. I think I need a cold shower... and a cigarette.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 04:08 AM (XkWWK)

127

BTW, since we're mentioning throwing some cash Ace's way through Amazon, if anybody cares to support the head Ewok and their fellow morons at the same time, consider buying one of our books.  I'll go first with mine:

 

The Director's Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery:  This is set in New York in 1914, with the soon-to-be-famous silent star Theda Bara caught up in a murder mystery that threatens to derail her career before it starts.  It's available in both paperback and Kindle.

 

Now back to your regularly scheduled headline comments. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 04:08 AM (zF6Iw)

128 Here are two my kittens.  Husky fellow in the back is Roo.  The smoke grey is Isis.  Both 8 months old.

http://tinyurl.com/am6c67u

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:08 AM (Fhaif)

129 117 I feed o. The tears of the stupid

Posted by: alex the cat lover at December 11, 2012 04:08 AM (uFY4s)

130 BCochran, they projected their idea of god onto an external source.  That which they describe is the god of socialism.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:09 AM (Fhaif)

131 125. I'm pretty sure I just had a stroke. He just described virtually the exact opposite of Christianity. The exact opposite of the nature of God as described in the Bible. Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 08:05 AM (da5Wo)

Or at a minimum, he stopped reading at the end og the Old Testament. But to be hones, I was more focused on the Santa Claus remarks. As I heard Jonah Goldberg say once, socialism would be great if it worked. It just doesn't.

Posted by: Scanner Dan at December 11, 2012 04:10 AM (h5CN9)

132 I'm so sick of reading "Angle, Akin, ODonnell, Mourdock, etc." everyday. 1. You all made your stupid point. 2. It's a sign that you're powerless. Instead of aiming your ire on our political enemies, you shoot instead for easier targets: people on your side. Instead of facing your fear of Democrats, and you are scarded to death of them, you lash out on Republican candidates. Has it ever occurred to any of you "Akin, Angle, Mourdock" spammers that you have no real control over who ends up being GOP candidates and the best course is to just support them or else you add to their unelectibilty? The Democrats understand this. Do you think they like Heath Shuler or Joe Manchin? Democrats hate them. But you never hear about it, though. That's why they're in power and we're sitting here waiting for imaginary flames to appear.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 11, 2012 04:10 AM (6Qi0I)

133 130 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 08:08 AM (Fhaif) Awww... I have my little guy in my lap. 6 1/2 years old already.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2012 04:11 AM (XkWWK)

134 Riots. We need riots

Posted by: alex the cat lover at December 11, 2012 04:12 AM (uFY4s)

135 Posted by: soothsayer at December 11, 2012 08:10 AM (6Qi0I) Bravo! If I ever run into you, your drinks are on me!

Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 04:12 AM (9ScGj)

136 Instead of facing your fear of Democrats, and you are scarded to death of them, you lash out on Republican candidates. Posted by: soothsayer at December 11, 2012 08:10 AM (6Qi0I)

Can I have an irony check on 134?!?!  Irony check on 134!!

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 04:14 AM (sbV1u)

137 135 mine is 2 years older than I am.

Posted by: alex the cat lover at December 11, 2012 04:14 AM (uFY4s)

138 Dammit Anna! PonyGirl??????

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 04:15 AM (da5Wo)

139 138 liberal check

Posted by: alex the cat lover at December 11, 2012 04:15 AM (uFY4s)

140 >> yes. The debt ceiling debate. Where today's Let It Burn cob-loggers were yesterday's This Is Not The Hill To Die On RINO pussies. I went back to my own posts from last time 'round and I've been consistently in the LIB camp, FYVM. The only hill the spineless cocksuckers in DC ever believe in dying on is the next one down the road.

Posted by: Andy at December 11, 2012 04:16 AM (OZPoa)

141 Had forgotten about that.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:16 AM (Fhaif)

142 Tip O'Neil would bitch slap Boehner for disgracing the office. The Speaker can be the most powerful man in DC, if he isn't a pussy.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:17 AM (OIJP7)

143 Tip O'Neil would bitch slap Boehner for disgracing the office. The Speaker can be the most powerful man in DC, if he isn't a pussy. Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 08:17 AM (OIJP7)

I'm pretty sure Eric Cantor wouldn't be getting run over right now.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 04:18 AM (sbV1u)

144 In other words, I don't care how much money I have to steal from the proles, daddy wants him some skittles shitting unicorns and daddy will get some skittle shitting. I want a skittle shitting unicorn hide adorning my man cave wall.

Posted by: rickb223 Let. It. Burn. at December 11, 2012 04:19 AM (GFM2b)

145 The only hill the spineless cocksuckers in DC ever believe in dying on is the next one down the road. Fox News Insider has a good article for them to read: Doctors Weigh In: How to Boost Your Testosterone Level http://tinyurl.com/d7v84cz

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 04:21 AM (feFL6)

146 146 ummmmmm. Okay

Posted by: alex the cat lover at December 11, 2012 04:22 AM (uFY4s)

147 I was thinking the best metaphor for this election was the episode of 'The Simpsons' where Homer runs for garbage commissioner under the slogan "Can't someone else do it?" and wins in a landslide after making outrageous promises and smearing his perfectly decent and competent opponent as an alcoholic who "lures children to his gingerbread house." Naturally, the town is bankrupt within days of him taking office.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 11, 2012 04:22 AM (QXlbZ)

148 jean arthur

Posted by: jean arthur at December 11, 2012 04:23 AM (E16uG)

149 147 how sexist

Posted by: alex the liberal dimwit at December 11, 2012 04:24 AM (uFY4s)

150 >> Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at December 11, 2012 07:57 AM (r2PLg) You are SO right. Next time, we should nominate a New England moderate and see how we do.

Posted by: Andy at December 11, 2012 04:24 AM (OZPoa)

151 149 you racist

Posted by: alex the liberal dimwit at December 11, 2012 04:26 AM (uFY4s)

152 we're sending 20 F-16s to the emerging islamic dictatorship in Egypt

http://is.gd/2O29Bb

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 11, 2012 04:26 AM (8sCoq)

153

Jean Arthur.

 

Oh, man.  I had such a crush on her in Only Angels Have Wings.  A very underrated Cary Grant movie.  Also notable for Rita Hayworth's first time on screen.

 

Speaking of Rita, did you know her real name was Margarita Carmen Cancino?  Her dad was Spanish and mom Irish.  She was a dancer in Tijuana for a while; I know I've got a couple of non-racy stories about those days somewhere.  I'll see if I can find one for tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 04:28 AM (zF6Iw)

154 152 So Right man. If only we didn't run non progreesives man

Posted by: alex the liberal dimwit at December 11, 2012 04:28 AM (uFY4s)

155 we're sending 20 F-16s to the emerging islamic dictatorship in Egypt Hopefully, with little black boxes hooked up to a GPS that causes them to drop from the sky like a rock if they venture outside of Egyptian airspace. I'd volunteer to write the computer code for that. Might take an afternoon, if I really milk the job.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 04:29 AM (feFL6)

156 Al Franken is outraged by a tax in ObamaCare, which he voted for and now says will cost jobs http://is.gd/Wuvm9z

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 11, 2012 04:30 AM (8sCoq)

157 re: Egypt.  Rock the Casbah.
http://youtu.be/bJ9r8LMU9bQ

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:31 AM (Fhaif)

158 Hopefully, with little black boxes hooked up to a GPS that causes them to drop from the sky like a rock if they venture outside of Egyptian airspace. I'd volunteer to write the computer code for that. Might take an afternoon, if I really milk the job. Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at December 11, 2012 08:29 AM (feFL6)

Could you get "Allahu Akhbar" to flash on the HUD as the plane plummets from the sky?

'Cause I'd pay cash money for videos of that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 04:31 AM (sbV1u)

159 If Boehner doesn't seize the narrative, then somebody like the tea party will do it for him. There are so many elegant solutions sets, just man up and keep it simple. Howabout this: One bill, extend the Bush rates forever, give Obama his Rich guy tax in the form of an AMT fix. Let the argument be over the definition of "rich". Refuse to raise the debt ceiling without a budget. America can understand that.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:32 AM (OIJP7)

160 Obama is le scoamf

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:33 AM (uFY4s)

161 Speaking of non-existent guns - here is what happens when Esquire does a report on guns. http://tinyurl.com/5wuxnss "This is a Glock & Wesson 45mm FPO designed in 1789 by Colt Koch"

Posted by: RWC at December 11, 2012 04:34 AM (fWAjv)

162 Or write some extra code.  Soon as the planes cross over the Suez Canal, the computers are commanded to shutdown.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:34 AM (Fhaif)

163 Sooth is right, but the O'Donnel/Angle crap will continue until morale improves. And @138, the irony meter doesn't move for moral equivalence arguments.

Posted by: K~Bob at December 11, 2012 04:34 AM (aDffD)

164 158 how unexpected

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:35 AM (uFY4s)

165

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 08:28 AM (zF6Iw)

___

Rita had to get electrolysis on her forehead because her hairline was so low. Her before and after pics are strikingly different, almost don't look like the same woman.

Posted by: kallisto at December 11, 2012 04:35 AM (jm/9g)

166 Having been to Egypt several times on issues related to maintenance of defense items, I can say that those falcons will be grounded within three years.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:36 AM (OIJP7)

167 I'm pretty sure I just had a stroke. He just described virtually the exact opposite of Christianity. The exact opposite of the nature of God as described in the Bible. Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 08:05 AM (da5Wo) Oh yaaaaaaay. We get to fight about abortion, Akin, the nature of God and who is and is not a RINO pussy. This morning is getting better and better and better! At this point I am actively rooting for the Egyptians to start trying to blow up the Pyramids so we'll have something soothing to fight about, such as whether or not there are aliens under there (protip: there are) and critiques of the manner in which they're trying to accomplish the demolition.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 04:37 AM (VtjlW)

168 Egypt already has 200 F-16s.  They can cannibalize for awhile.  Plus Morocco just got F-16s last year.  We have sold F-16s all over the world, there is a robust supply chain of spare parts.  Unlike Iran and the 79 F-14s.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:37 AM (Fhaif)

169 Could you get "Allahu Akhbar" to flash on the HUD as the plane plummets from the sky? Sure: Do while Flash Allahu Akhbar Puncture parachute Begin plummet If seat .not. wet Continue plummet Endif Deploy eject Enddo

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 04:38 AM (feFL6)

170 164 Egypt controls the Sinai

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:38 AM (uFY4s)

171

Just a thought, but has anyone done any research/polling into the political alignment of those who voted in these wins? Were there more independents voting republican? More libertarian? What about republican voters, themselves? What were their major concerns in these
elections? What state and local issues gave them the passion to vote? Was it TEA Party influences?

Has anyone looked into any of it with any discipline, who was not just spouting an unsupported opinion?

Something to investigate and mebbe apply to the lessons to the national level?

 Alla this hand wringing, sackcloth and ashes stuff isn't helping. You' be better off setting up neighborhood tactical teams and doing some training and prepping.

Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at December 11, 2012 04:38 AM (WwR1j)

172 Sean, I don't think Cantor is the right guy either. In the leadership, McCarthy or Rooney.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:39 AM (OIJP7)

173 Alex.  Suez is a lot better.  Means a chance of lawn darts hitting water. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:40 AM (Fhaif)

174 Having been to Egypt several times on issues related to maintenance of defense items, I can say that those falcons will be grounded within three years. Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 08:36 AM (OIJP7)

Having had to work with the Saudis on the maintenance of armored equipment, I would echo that.  There is just something about Arab culture that seems to rule out the development of a work ethic.  Things like maintenance, testing, trouble-shooting are things that hey have the "slaves" do.  

In reality, it's that they're not quite smart enough to grasp the concept of "no fixy, no workee". 

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 04:41 AM (sbV1u)

175 Al Franken is outraged by a tax in ObamaCare, which he voted for and now says will cost jobs

I read a little of the article and found this to be amusing.

But politically that would be virtually impossible before Jan. 1, said Norman Ornstein, a congressional expert with the American Enterprise Institute. "Because of the fiscal cliff, everybody has to sacrifice,"

It's too bad that the Washington knob polishers didn't see that damn fiscal cliff thing sooner. They could have been working on it. Someone (let's form a committee) should have put up a sign.

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2012 04:41 AM (Q6u7O)

176 Abortion is evil. Simple as thatchers

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:41 AM (uFY4s)

177 whether or not there are aliens under there (protip: there are) Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 08:37 AM (VtjlW) Oh bullshit. Perhaps under the Mayan pyramids but the desert environment wouldn't sustain alien life. Get a fuckin; clue!

Posted by: RWC at December 11, 2012 04:41 AM (fWAjv)

178 Anna, there are parts. But, you gotta put them in. In Egypt, they buy the part - then the parts time out on the shelf. We had to take a sign at the Saudi National Guard contractor shack: PM is haram

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:42 AM (OIJP7)

179 Plonk

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:43 AM (uFY4s)

180 http://minx.cc/?post=335562 this is the EOJ shoutout post

Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at December 11, 2012 04:43 AM (zZJJp)

181 Things like maintenance, testing, trouble-shooting are things that hey have the "slaves" do. In reality, it's that they're not quite smart enough to grasp the concept of "no fixy, no workee". Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 08:41 AM (sbV1u) There was a show on over the weekend, for get what it was though. But it had a blurb that Arabs believe maintaining their equipment is below their 'warrior' status.

Posted by: RWC at December 11, 2012 04:43 AM (fWAjv)

182 Could you get "Allahu Akhbar" to flash on the HUD as the plane plummets from the sky?

'Cause I'd pay cash money for videos of that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 08:31 AM (sbV1u)



How bout it flashes a little cartoon of Mohammed fucking a goat?





Oh yaaaaaaay. We get to fight about abortion, Akin, the nature of God and who is and is not a RINO pussy. This morning is getting better and better and better!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 08:37 AM (VtjlW)



Huh? Who's arguing? It was a quoted article and the author was a fucking idiot. And pretty much everyone here agrees that he's an idiot. Where's the problem?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 04:44 AM (da5Wo)

183 from the sky like a rock if they venture outside of Egyptian airspace.

The Yarmulke Missing Missile, brought to you by the fine folks at Mossad.

Posted by: DaveA at December 11, 2012 04:45 AM (Xefrb)

184 BCochran, so you survived the ONT?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:45 AM (Fhaif)

185 Somebody needs to refloat the engineering study of an airstrike on the Aswan Dam to remind the Egyptians of their situation.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:45 AM (OIJP7)

186 Where is benk

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:46 AM (uFY4s)

187 There was a show on over the weekend, for get what it was though. But it had a blurb that Arabs believe maintaining their equipment is below their 'warrior' status. Posted by: RWC at December 11, 2012 08:43 AM (fWAjv)

Exactly right.

I highly commend to the Moron Horde an article from the Middle East Quarterly, "Why Arabs Lose Wars" by Tex De Atkine.

Link in nic

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 04:47 AM (sbV1u)

188 BCochran, so you survived the ONT?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 08:45 AM (Fhaif)




Haven't made it all the way through. Anne Hathaway/PonyGirl threw me off my stride.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 04:47 AM (da5Wo)

189 i read somewhere that the muzzies are the ones that looted all the tombs and took the cladding off the pyramids. Not sure if it is true, but sounds like they already got a jump on destroying them, this would just be phase 2

Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at December 11, 2012 04:48 AM (zZJJp)

190 "Just a thought, but has anyone done any research/polling into the political alignment of those who voted in these wins?"

Check out the third map down the page at
this site --> http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2012/

Posted by: K-Bob at December 11, 2012 04:48 AM (rqdgP)

191 soothsayer,  I SO agree with you.

Like you said,  the dems hate some of their own members,  but they DON'T  TRASH THEM IN PUBLIC.

I have thought about this for several years.  Dems support the officeholder in public.  No lib pundits go on TV and criticize officeholders.  They all might despise Reid or Pelosi in private,  but in public they are given respect. I am pretty sure a lot of them are frustrated with Obama,  but nary a word in the press,  on TV,  on Twitter,  or in the blogs.

OUR side always has people more than willing to tell us what Boehner,  or Romney,  or McConnell,  or anyone else did wrong.  Over and over,  on TV,  in every portion of the internet, on talk radio.

Well,  one might say, this is because our party has a free exchange of ideas.  Well,  guess what?  The low-info voters look at this public fighting and come to the conclusion we are not unified.  We have candidates who have to fight off members of their own party. 

And most importantly,  this type of stuff gives democrats a good idea of what issues will divide us. It's like Eisenhower planning D-DAY on Movietone News.

None of this does any good for long-term electoral success.  I don't know the answer,  but it does seem like we are engaged in a perpetual internicine fight,  which helps the left tremendously.


Posted by: Miss Marple at December 11, 2012 04:49 AM (GoIUi)

192 I honestly love some of the suggestions here as to things the House Repubs should do. Unfortunately it seems that they're either too dumb to actually take this advice, or they really suck at playing "the game" or they just don't give a shit. Pretty much why I've given up on them as a whole.

Posted by: DangerGirl - feeling empty at December 11, 2012 04:49 AM (RNijH)

193 I highly commend to the Moron Horde an article from the Middle East Quarterly, "Why Arabs Lose Wars" by Tex De Atkine. Link in nic Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 08:47 AM (sbV1u) This doesn't help...(yeah, it's old. But still gets me grinning.) http://tinyurl.com/d4cavbc

Posted by: RWC at December 11, 2012 04:51 AM (fWAjv)

194 187 add sarin gas and you haveyourself a deal

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:52 AM (uFY4s)

195 " She was a dancer in Tijuana for a while; I know I've got a couple of non-racy stories about those days somewhere."

That many?

Posted by: mrp at December 11, 2012 04:53 AM (HjPtV)

196

What if everything you knew about dinosaurs was a complete lie?

 

 

 

 

That is just some evil lie perpetrated by evil SoCons.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 11, 2012 04:54 AM (DoZD+)

197 The pic on the pony girl search are going to require some pc maintenance, buffer purging etc

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:55 AM (OIJP7)

198 Chem Weapons are fun

Posted by: alex at December 11, 2012 04:55 AM (uFY4s)

199 I think we are talking across each other re: Egypt.  Jean says three years.  It might be that.  But with effort Iran has kept a few F-14s still flying.  And there are far more Arab F-16s out there so they might pool the men and material to keep effective combat numbers up. 

So I guess I am being pessimistic and thinking it will take longer for those F-16s to degrade to being like those MiGs buried in the sand in Iraq. 

Starting in 2013 Iraq will start to get the first of its 18 F-16QI Block 52s.  What is worrisome is Iraq has ordered 20 sets of the conformal tanks and Sniper targeting pods.  Along with 24 engines and Paveway smart-bombs.  AIM-9 and AIM-7 but no AMRAAMs.  And they are placing an order for an additional 18 planes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:56 AM (Fhaif)

200 Yeah Jeff , Ace called you an intellectual . You aint gonna' take that , are you ? Bear in mind you have the reputation of the entire south riding on your response to that slur . Pistols at dawn ? Swords ?

Posted by: awkward davies at December 11, 2012 04:56 AM (USjX1)

201 Al Franken is outraged by a tax in ObamaCare, which he voted for and now says will cost jobs http://is.gd/Wuvm9z

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 11, 2012 08:30 AM (8sCoq)



Wait there are taxes in Obozo care to pay for it? But but but...I thought it was going to be free!!! I know a few people who are just coming to the realization that free health care is going to cost them a lot of money. Surprise, surprise surprise

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 11, 2012 04:57 AM (1Jaio)

202 I guess I am not going to live down that comment.... 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:57 AM (Fhaif)

203 Huh? Who's arguing? It was a quoted article and the author was a fucking idiot. And pretty much everyone here agrees that he's an idiot. Where's the problem? Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 08:44 AM (da5Wo) Did you just call PJ O'Rourke a fucking idiot? Because I most vehemently do not agree that PJ O'Rourke is a fucking idiot. If you want to think that statement is idiotic, fine, whatever. But if it is your opinion that PJ O'Rourke is, on whole, a fucking idiot, then, yeah, you and I have an enormous problem.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 04:58 AM (VtjlW)

204 And when it comes to Iraq I seem to have dyslexia.  F-16IQ Block 52.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:58 AM (Fhaif)

205

Unfortunately it seems that they're either too dumb to actually take this advice, or they really suck at playing "the game" or they just don't give a shit. Pretty much why I've given up on them as a whole.

 

 

 

I've decided most of them are out for themselves.  And the few who care and take their jobs seriously have lost their backbone or never had one.  I honestly believe Boehner is one of the spineless ones.

 

 

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 11, 2012 04:58 AM (DoZD+)

206 Alex, dirty little secret about gas - it doesn't really work that well. Egypt is incredibly vulnerable to a flood, because everything is concentrated in the flood plain. In the decades without the annual flooding they have built up the infrastructure in places they shouldn't - one well placed ADM and it all goes.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 04:59 AM (OIJP7)

207 Her Imperial War Majesty AlextheChick is about to deploy the Stompy Boots V. Sompy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 04:59 AM (Fhaif)

208

I know a few people who are just coming to the realization that free health care is going to cost them a lot of money.

 

 

 

It's as though they have no idea how things work.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 11, 2012 05:00 AM (DoZD+)

209 Dry hot climates do not allow chemical weapons to persist and kill more.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 05:00 AM (Fhaif)

210 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 11, 2012 05:00 AM (79ueO)

211 stop kidding yourselves. soon the ME will be buying all their weapons from China. They are working very hard on developing their own export industry and they know that there is a lot of money in it, and a lot of leverage with the oil tyrants. China emulates the US and really envies our ability to use weapons sales to keep things in check. Like in Taiwan. They want that market and they will get it in time.

Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at December 11, 2012 05:00 AM (zZJJp)

212 Did you just call PJ O'Rourke a fucking idiot? Because I most vehemently do not agree that PJ O'Rourke is a fucking idiot. If you want to think that statement is idiotic, fine, whatever. But if it is your opinion that PJ O'Rourke is, on whole, a fucking idiot, then, yeah, you and I have an enormous problem.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 08:58 AM (VtjlW)



Don't know the guy. Don't know anything about him. But yes, that comment was weapons grade fucking stupid. It doesn't even come close to the penumbra of the emanations of the nature of God as understood by Christians. It. Was. Fucking. Stupid.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 05:01 AM (da5Wo)

213 Anna, the Iranians are not Arabs. They try. Which is why we need to kind the nutjob turks out of there.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 05:02 AM (OIJP7)

214 Moron-style, lo-carb, redneck "pizza" recipie:

* Plate.
* Buncha cubes of KoJack or whatever cheeze.
* About ten pepperoni slices.
* Some of them big-ass olives stuffed with garlic or jalopeno.
* handful of those tiny "grape" tomatoes.
* whatever peppers you like.

Dump on plate. Add toothpick, walaa!

Tip: Use them pre-cut, bagged versions of everything.

Posted by: K-Bob at December 11, 2012 05:03 AM (2xW2d)

215 Kick not kind. This spellchecker sucks

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 05:04 AM (OIJP7)

216 Maybe we should both poison the water and flood the country. what is a water soluable poison that could be mass produced for this purpose

Posted by: Alex le Conservative twit is going to french class now at December 11, 2012 05:06 AM (uFY4s)

217

The US can sell all the advanced aircraft to whoever they want, it's a good deal.

 

Fighter jets are a thin aluminum skin covering miles of fiber optics, wiring and epoxy entombed circuits.  I would hope there are a half dozen ways to either ground, disarm or destruct one that has been built and sold to a foreign government.

 

 

Posted by: jwest at December 11, 2012 05:07 AM (ZDsRL)

218 The Dump is up btw

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 05:08 AM (da5Wo)

219 So, now that that evil thing is out of my system, guess I'll say high

Posted by: Alex takes off his socks at December 11, 2012 05:08 AM (uFY4s)

220 Dear Jean, well duh.  The Iranians are Persians and don't you ever forget it.  Now shall we actually discuss?  Your experience has weight, but when was the last time you were in the Kingdom or Egypt?  You are being a bit cavalier in how fast you dismiss the Arabs especially the Egyptians.  The Egyptians in 73 were winning until their allies screamed at them to do more.

Before Pearl Harbor many in the United States thought all Japanese were buck-toothed and wore coke-bottle glasses.  Hence were not a real threat.  Were they wrong or what?

I am looking at what is on paper.  It looks impressive and you plan on that impressive force actually fighting at 100% strength.  Once you assume your enemy is always a notch below you, you are cruising for a bruising. 

Better to pessimistic than not.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 11, 2012 05:10 AM (Fhaif)

221 Don't know the guy. Don't know anything about him. Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 09:01 AM (da5Wo) I. You. It. You don't know who PJ O'Rourke is? I don't even know what to say to that though that does explain your failure to recognize the God v. Santa thing that's been floating around on the Right since, idefk, 1986, something like that. It's one of the classic snark responses to Democrats. Seriously, now I really feel old. Get thee to the library and read Parliament of Whores, Holidays in Hell, Give War A Chance and Driving Like Crazy asap. You are totally unfamiliar with How To Drive Fast On Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed And Not Spill Your Drink? Really? I mean, really? It is, or should be, foundational reading for the Moron Way. Here. Read. http://bit.ly/U2Nqes For fuck's sake, PJ O'Rourke may be Moron Prime. Don't know who PJ O'Rourke is. GET OFF MY LAWN! AND TAKE THAT HIPPITY HOPPITY MUSIC WITH YOU!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 05:12 AM (VtjlW)

222 Don't know who PJ O'Rourke is. GET OFF MY LAWN! AND TAKE THAT HIPPITY HOPPITY MUSIC WITH YOU!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 09:12 AM (VtjlW)



Woah woah woah ma'am. That's a lot of caps. Careful.



I know the name, but no, I don't have any specific knowledge of PJ O'Rourke's work. And I stand by what I said, that statement re: God is weapons grade stupid. It doesn't even bear a slight resemblance to God of the NT, and not really even to the God of OT.


But because you suggested it, and not because of the stompy boots and corset, I will endeavor to read some of his stuff.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 05:16 AM (da5Wo)

223 Don't know who PJ O'Rourke is. GET OFF MY LAWN! AND TAKE THAT HIPPITY HOPPITY MUSIC WITH YOU! Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 11, 2012 09:12 AM (VtjlW) He will be sent to remedial classes, Empress, and will trouble Your Greatness no longer.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2012 05:17 AM (9gcmf)

224 To add one more thing on the Mourdock dust up, he certainly wasn't helped by Dick Cocksucker Lugar acting like a whiny vag after he got his senile ass rolled in the primary, mainly for being a RINO puke who gargled the JEF's jizz, and not doing a fucking thing to help the party in the general election.  The Repuke party seems to be top loaded in worthless fucks like Lugar, Crist, Murkowski and the biggest shithead of all, Mike Castle, who only care about themselves and not a fucking thing for the party.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at December 11, 2012 05:17 AM (IQ4hJ)

225 The US can sell all the advanced aircraft to whoever they want, it's a good deal. Fighter jets are a thin aluminum skin covering miles of fiber optics, wiring and epoxy entombed circuits. I would hope there are a half dozen ways to either ground, disarm or destruct one that has been built and sold to a foreign government. Posted by: jwest at December 11, 2012 09:07 AM (ZDsRL) Well MAYBE, BUT selling advanced war machines to an organization such as the Muslim Brotherhood who have sworn to kill you and every principal you hold dear is still rather stupid.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 11, 2012 05:18 AM (79ueO)

226 Yeah Jeff , Ace called you an intellectual . You aint gonna' take that , are you ? He's gone. Now that he's an intellectual and stuff, why would he want to hang out with our type?

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 11, 2012 05:20 AM (feFL6)

227 The GOP is perfectly content to be a permanent minority party that feeds on the scraps thrown to them by their Democrat masters. The elections of 1994 were an aberration and they won't go there again.

Posted by: eman at December 11, 2012 05:21 AM (9gcmf)

228

Don't know the guy. Don't know anything about him. But yes, that comment was weapons grade fucking stupid. It doesn't even come close to the penumbra of the emanations of the nature of God as understood by Christians. It. Was. Fucking. Stupid.

 

And yet, O'Rourke is a cradle Catholic (yes, yes, like Pelosi, but that's neither here nor there).  BCochran, you really need to read Parliament of Whores to see the context for PJ's remark, I'll leave it at that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2012 05:21 AM (zF6Iw)

229 Well MAYBE, BUT selling advanced war machines to an organization such as the Muslim Brotherhood who have sworn to kill you and every principal you hold dear is still rather stupid.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 11, 2012 09:18 AM (79ueO)

 

On the surface, sure.  But better us selling weapons for which we know every weakness (and also have the ability to add more weaknesses!) than the Russians selling them weapons we have absolutely no control over.

Posted by: tsrblke at December 11, 2012 05:21 AM (GaqMa)

230

the sequester is the fairest, most democratic solution to the problem of government debt  that is practically available to the republic.

every program will be reduced initially

every (former) income tax bracket will be restored to pre-reduction levels

everyone will participate in the spending reductions and the revenue increases (not entirely, of course, because  not all spending was for everyone, nor were all participants paying taxes).  but it's as close as the republic can get at this time

this is not a defeat or an acceptance of failure- this is a modest step in the right direction because as nearly as is possible now everyone participates in solving the problem.

the predictions of economic doom are only predicitions- the democrats don't think tax increases will hurt- the republicans don't think spending restrictions will hurt (except defense) perhaps they are both correct, and the economy won't be hurt.  if wrong, then fix by negotiating new spending and new tax reductions when, and  if the problems appear to arise following the sequester.

 

Posted by: wm flip at December 11, 2012 05:24 AM (lB/5N)

231 Free PDF of An Underground History of American Education.

http://tinyurl.com/y4jskof

Posted by: Warden at December 11, 2012 05:24 AM (0DlnM)

232 Well MAYBE, BUT selling advanced war machines to an organization such as the Muslim Brotherhood who have sworn to kill you and every principal you hold dear is still rather stupid.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 11, 2012 09:18 AM (79ueO)


Our Smart diplomacy seems to based on interpreting the words and public statements of assholes like the MB and Achmadinjad as being those of reasonable men that are playing to their base but don't really mean what they say.  In other words, just like US liberals do.  Unfortunately, this ignores two points: one that the muz base the ME rulers are playing to requires this level of bellicosity they are de facto very dangerous; and two these rulers may actually believe this crap having been steeped in the murderous brew of islam for years.

Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at December 11, 2012 05:24 AM (Cnqmv)

233 Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 11, 2012 09:16 AM (da5Wo)

Wow.  I am old.  P.J. O'Rourke was Moron before Moron was cool.

He used to be a hippie, but as he will admit, it was to get laid.  Based on that statement alone, you should read him.

Start with "Give War a Chance"  I loved that one...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 05:25 AM (sbV1u)

234 Posted by: wm flip at December 11, 2012 09:24 AM (lB/5N)

There's a lot of stupid to unpack here, so let's get started class.

the sequester is the fairest, most democratic solution to the problem of government debt that is practically available to the republic.

Define "fair."  It's a rather nebulous concept as you will soon find when you try to define it.  The sequester is a meat axe approach to a surgical problem.  It is not "fair" and it is anything but "democratic."  My definition of "fair" is "everything is on the table."  Your mileage may vary.  Sequester is not fair because....

every program will be reduced initially

Wrong again.  Entitlements are off the table.  Nice deal Boehner and McConnell made, huh?

everyone will participate in the spending reductions and the revenue increases

Wrong again, and you know this becuase you then follow that up with...

(not entirely, of course, because not all spending was for everyone, nor were all participants paying taxes). but it's as close as the republic can get at this time

So which is it?  "Everyone will participate?"  or "not entirely"?

this is not a defeat or an acceptance of failure- this is a modest step in the right direction

It is not even a modest step because the driver of Federal debt is entitlements, and they are off the table.  Sequester does nothing to solve the problem except ignore the problem.  It is a token nod in the direction of maybe getting a solution.  It is not a solution, it is not even a "modest" solution.  Why?  Because it is no solution at all.

because as nearly as is possible now everyone participates in solving the problem.

Incorrect yet again ::: sigh ::::  as noted above.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 11, 2012 05:33 AM (sbV1u)

235 Saw the C BS news, didn't listen. C. Rose looks like he aged 12 years since I saw him last, hopefully because of Michigan

Posted by: Bill at December 11, 2012 05:38 AM (ilOB5)

236 Parliament of Whores was awesome too. And, yeah, the guy who said, "giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenage boy" is Moron material all the way.

Posted by: Andy at December 11, 2012 05:41 AM (BNuW6)

237 MPPP, thanks as always! I made a request a week or so ago, but I think you missed it. Any stories on Julie Newmar? Please! Posted by: Icedog at December 11, 2012 07:49 AM (9ScGj) I gots one.... In 1989 (or maybe 1990) my friend, former English professor and SciFi/Fantasy writer, Brad Strickland, was appearing on a writer's panel at then then-small and somewhat obscure DragonCon convention in Atlanta. Figuring (correctly, as it turned out), that there would only be a small turnout for this, I decided to drop in to provide moral support. I got there a bit early, and wandered into the room where his panel would be, only to find another program already underway. A really small crowd was sitting entranced while a rather rough looking older lady reminisced about the good old days of dancing and television. It took a few minutes, but based entirely upon the stories she was telling, it finally dawned on me that this was Julie Newmar. She looked like she had been ill for a while, mostly talked about some stage roles dating from the 1950s, which didn't seem to register with the audience, and mentioned that this was the first time that she had appeared at a fanfest like DragonCon. What really struck me about the short Q&A session she was engaged in was the response of the small audience - I barely remembered her, mostly from the Catwoman role on the TV Batman, but some of the folks there were literally staring at her with unrestrained, jaw dropped ecstasy. Brad had slipped in and sat down next to me, we discussed the interesting cultural subtext in this aging star enjoying the limelight once again, however briefly, as well as the reaction of her small but obviously deeply engaged group of fans, then he said, "just watch, someone is going to ask her to do the Catwoman purr." Almost as soon as the words came off his lips, someone did. Newmar was delighted, she spent the next fifteen or twenty minutes (cutting into Brad's time) detailing the work she had put into creating the perfect purr, while writhing around on the stage rubbing herself in a most undignified way. It was really something to see, though not necessarily in a good way. I guess it is difficult to give up the "sex kitten" image, all evidence to its expiration to the contrary.

Posted by: John the Baptist at December 11, 2012 05:43 AM (7CNP1)

238 Anna, last time I was in Egypt it was getting worse, not better. The recent de facto expulsion of the foreign techs has not improved things. Regardless, even perfectly maintained, those F16s are old tech and their training hours do not inspire confidence in their pilotage. Those planes are not a threat to us or Israel, any trouble from Egypt will be asymmetrical. I'm sure the guys in Warrenton enjoy big buys like this, as it reduces their workload significantly.

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2012 05:46 AM (tmzN0)

239

the fairest solution practically available at this time- the sequestor comes closest to affecting all participants-  because it affects all spending that is on the table, and it affects all taxes that are on the table because it restores pre-tax cut rates.  that is as close to fair as anything that has been proposed.  the more nearly everyone participates in the solution, the more nearly fair the result can be said to be.  it may also prove to be the only way to raise the subject of entitlements. the direction of current negotiations is one in whch rates are raised for a very few (the democrat's proposal), and the entitlements are restricted or reduced for a few 

Posted by: wm flip at December 11, 2012 05:48 AM (lB/5N)

240 On the surface, sure. But better us selling weapons for which we know every weakness (and also have the ability to add more weaknesses!) than the Russians selling them weapons we have absolutely no control over. Posted by: tsrblke at December 11, 2012 09:21 AM (GaqMa) Not so sure about that. But anyway, they are getting them. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 11, 2012 05:49 AM (79ueO)

241 (CNSNews.com) – The wave of Islamist terrorism is receding and “could end by 2030,” according to a new long-term assessment by the U.S. intelligence community. In support of that projection, the study released on Monday said the view of America as the “great enemy” was becoming less appealing, resulting in part from the departure of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. It also cited political upheavals in the Arab world, and said that a new generation of young Muslims may be less interested in the narrative of a “conflict between fundamental values.” “Several circumstances are ending the current Islamist phase of terrorism, which suggest that as with other terrorist waves – the Anarchists in the 1880s and 90s, the postwar anti-colonial terrorist movements, the New Left in 1970s – the recent religious wave is receding and could end by 2030,” said the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 report. ?????? AbsoluteTotalBullshit which just goes to show the assholes in charge of this intelligence report do not know whatTheFuck they are talking about about or anything about islam and it's history. My G-D are we fucked

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 11, 2012 05:54 AM (79ueO)

242 It also cited political upheavals in the Arab world, and said that a new generation of young Muslims may be less interested in the narrative of a “conflict between fundamental values.” Wishcasting at it's finest.

Posted by: dick cheese at December 11, 2012 06:10 AM (QupBk)

243 Did he say where it was free? Its not on Gutenberg and Amazon wants $80 for a used one. One is not available on the Kindle.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 07:30 AM (YdQQY)

 

Just got back, Vic.  Sorry for the delay.  No, he just wrote that it was a free download.  Dang.

Posted by: RushBabe at December 11, 2012 06:11 AM (tQHzJ)

244 Just got back, Vic. Sorry for the delay. No, he just wrote that it was a free download. Dang.

Posted by: RushBabe at December 11, 2012 10:11 AM (tQHzJ)''



Warren gave a link to a free copy earlier.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 06:17 AM (YdQQY)

245 Excuse me, not warren, Warden at 233.

Posted by: Vic at December 11, 2012 06:18 AM (YdQQY)

246

"Underground History of American Education," by John Taylor Gatto

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm


I'm amazing, I know.

 

Thanks, Heather!

Posted by: RushBabe at December 11, 2012 06:25 AM (tQHzJ)

247 213, Endeavor to Persevere.  First the Chinese have to start building good stuff.  They've sold locomotives in Africa, which were reliability nightmares.  Namibia simply scrapped the first batch they were so bad. The African roads built by China are nothing great either.  In time, the quality may improve.  And perhaps their military stuff is a notch or two above their civilian standards.  But I wouldn't bet on it.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at December 11, 2012 06:34 AM (0Db2g)

248 230: O'Rourke as cradle Catholic-- He's actually a convert, was born and raised Protestant (I don't recall what denomination). Married a Catholic and converted at that time.

Posted by: Leftcoast on a iPhone at December 11, 2012 06:44 AM (+uLCQ)

249 BCochran1981, seriously? This isn't a theological dissertation. (Though a Deist, for example, would find nothing to disagree with here.) O'Rourke's description of God is a caricature of a Republican from the standpoint of a Democrat. His point being that the universe is, in fact, often a cold, cruel and uncaring place. And yet people who won't believe in a merciful God somehow still have faith that Santa - the personification of government as seen by Democrats - will save their souls.

Posted by: GalosGann at December 11, 2012 07:14 AM (T3KlW)

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