Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at December 12, 2012 07:19 AM (r2PLg)

This. 

And as a result they've pushed past the threshold where the political process is a viable remedy for our ills.  LIB (maybe with a little bit of legal MIB) is the only legal solution we have.  The administration is litterally evil - they endorse evil men and evil practices.  They are shameless lawbreakers, and are never called to account.  Let it fall down and die.  America deserves it for abandoning that which is good.

The Democrats really have done a number on us. Not only have have Democrats seized the mantle of tax cutting, but Obama is demanding that Republicans, not himself and not Democrats, take the lead on picking what are sure to be portrayed as "unpopular" spending cuts.

WhoÂ’s “us,” white man?  If the goddamn GOP is too stupid to keep out of the way of its own dick in dealing with the SCOAMF, they deserve the pounding they get.  I remember in one of the endless post-mortem threads, someone asserting (in view of some commentersÂ’ insistence that Romney should have really pimp-slapped Barky) that people like me wouldnÂ’t be happy unless Romney had called the Kenyan dog-eater a “lying asshole” on national TV.  Obama is a lying asshole.  Perhaps instead of wondering “when the President is going to get serious,” as Bitch McConnell was reported on the morning news, the leadership should call him a lying, lazy, shiftless, worthless asshole and let the chips fall where they may.  So we get blamed for harsh language – so what?  Time to punch back twice as hard.  So we get called out for demeaning the office of the presidency – so what?  We canÂ’t demean it more than PreezyÂ’s own presence has done.

Oh, whatÂ’s the use?  Just roll over, Boehner, and get it over with.  We know you donÂ’t really give a shit about the fiscal cliff, the country or the base.  You only want to make sure your access to a carton of Camels and a case of Man-Tan is unimpeded.  Jackass.

*deep breath*

Thanks (I guess) for the news, Gabe and Vic.  Today is the birthday of Edward G. Robinson (“whereÂ’s your Messiah now, nyeahh?”).  Like Roger Moore, he didnÂ’t like to handle guns and would squeeze his eyes shut whenever he had to fire one, forcing makeup men to tape his eyelids open for scenes that called for gun-slinging.

One day, as Robinson was coming out of a movie theater, and elderly woman holding a little boy by the hand came up to him and asked if he was the actor “who played Little Caesar and all those other bad men,” and when he said he was, exclaimed, “Well, IÂ’m glad I have this opportunity of telling you to your face what a bad influence your pictures have had on our young people.”  “What makes you think so?” Robinson asked.  “I ought to know,” she said firmly, shaking the little boyÂ’s arm.  “IÂ’ve taken my grandson to see Little Caesar eight times.”

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 12, 2012 07:25 AM (GoIUi)

This is all true, but is not likely to be inflation in the sense that the change in the money supply is a factor.  We just got through the 5th worst drought in recorded American history.  This isn't the only country that had problems this year, either.  Demand is stable or increasing, and the supply is constrained. 

Much as I hate, and I really do mean HATE, the current administration, this is one area there is damn little anyone can do to help.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 12, 2012 07:44 AM (GoIUi)

The clean toga Repukes don't want to get in the trenches with those icky Tea Party types.  Crist and Lugar are the rule rather than the exception.

Liberals started bleating about "free loaders" as soon as it looked like Michigan's right-to-work law would pass

Ooooohhh...
You idiots went full retard. Everyone knows you never go full retard.

MPPPP, your rants are awe inspiring. If I were to read them in public I'd end up choking the shit of the first OWS-looking fucktard who walked by.

If you ever get tired of the writing gig, head coach may be a successful occupation for your skills.

You're very kind, Icedog, but my talents are a fart in the wind compared to EoJ or AtC - they're the true masters of rage.  I'm just pissy.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 12, 2012 07:38 AM (GoIUi)

I don't know much about Chilean grapes, but I do know that the cost to get them here is not going down.  And I know that in addition to the US drought which actually IS a big deal (Michigan grows apples, corn, and almost everything else that can live in our climate and we're hit HARD this year by drought and late frosts).   

Here's the thing about the inflation number - it's meant to reflect how monetary policy is affecting prices by inducing money-supply inflation.  Fuel and food have wild price swings that are not money-supply-induced.  We have a global market for food and energy that suffers constant supply shocks and a demand level that is continually growing and doing so at a very irregular rate.  China is converting rice paddies into pastures, and the same thing in places like the Phillipines where standards of living are rising.  The rich get their meat, and the poor get the shaft.  The reduction in supply of basic grains pushes up the price.  Swings up, or down, in food and energy are affected far less by money supply than by exogenous factors.  If we are to measure the impact of increased money supply, we need something that has a more stable supply and demand profile, or else we induce a bunch of noise to the calculation.  Thus, any inflation figure that includes those two factors is fairly useless for making money-supply related decisions. 

Food and energy "inflation" should be its own separate reportable figure.  Then we could use it to drive policy changes that would be specific to those items without trying to use the broad brush of monetary policy to affect change - which is ineffective.

Posted by: Icedog at December 12, 2012 08:01 AM (9ScGj)

Food and Gas are not included in the inflation numbers that the gov releases for the news media.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 08:03 AM (sbV1u)

Alexandria.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at December 12, 2012 07:29 AM (53riN)

My former brother-in-law had a union job with a company that makes aluminum Coke cans.  Part of their contract said that, if they threatened to go on strike, workers could work as much overtime as they wanted in advance.  If they didn't go on strike, everything went back to normal and the workers kept all the extra money.  The only one hurt by a strike was the company.

 >>Non-snarky question: how long until they start killing people who disagree with them?

I'm keeping an eye on both MI and the Pensions case in RI. States are going to find it a lot easier to renege on their Union Pensions than to pay them out. MI is one solution: Dilute the Union. RI is another: Erase the obligation.

What does that have to do with the question? I dunno.

Posted by: uterus cannon at December 12, 2012 08:07 AM (3ZtZW)

I actually wouldn't be surprised if the shooting started in Michigan in the next few days. 

I've read a lot of 'tree of liberty' stuff, and 'when the shooting starts,' but I never took it too seriously until the past four or five months. 

Now I think it might actually be serious.  Deadly serious.  I never thought I'd actually believe that about my country.

It's a good thing that the rocket surgeons who calculate inflation don't use food prices in their calculations or the President might have something to answer for.

If you buy your food with EBT cards inflation is a non-issue.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 08:10 AM (sbV1u)

I always thought the Bishop (from HA) types were over-reaching with the bunker mentality.  I understood the logic, but I never saw it actually playing out that way. 

Now I'm glad I bought a rifle to go along with my sidearm.  More glad than I should be about something like that, because of everything it implies.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 12, 2012 08:12 AM (LRFds)

Don't know.  Haven't lived in the NE for over 40 years and don't know who that is.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at December 12, 2012 08:11 AM (hO8IJ)

Oh, so now we're going to get all Cal vs Stanford, are we?

Stanford saxophonists make the best free safeties...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 08:17 AM (sbV1u)

I need to get my CCW.  I'm glad to hear the Alexandria PD weren't total douches about it.  I've not been looking forward to the fight.

I tried to register my weapon (not CCW, just register, per the law) in Ithaca, NY three times, at $182.50 (cash only) each time.  In all three cases, my application was rejected without cause. 

I stopped paying the fee to apply and just lived without.  Good thing I never had to use it.  If I had caught the hippy fucks who burned the colors on my front porch, I may have been in some serious trouble up there.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 12, 2012 08:18 AM

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Sumter County ain't too bad as far as it goes...if you find a place near/north of Shaw AFB, there are the public schools inside the gates.  There's also a pretty good Catholic school (or at least good 3 years ago) that lots of the AF send their kids to.  Not to bad a drive, if you time it right for AM traffic

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 08:26 AM (sbV1u)

I live in an apartment.  "Retreat" only gets me so far.

I wouldn't kill to defend my stuff - it's just stuff, but I would ABSOLUTELY kill to defend my people. 

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 08:30 AM (sbV1u)

Same.  Minus the daughter part. 

Somewhat related - I need to find a range.  Do you have anywhere you shoot?

Posted by: washington nearsider at December 12, 2012 08:28 AM (fwARV)

I think the magic words are:

I would ABSOLUTELY kill to defend my people.

Posted by: washington nearsider at December 12, 2012 08:28 AM (fwARV)


Officer, I was afraid for my life and he refused to stop moving toward me.

Sven -

don't know the tuition rates now, but St Anne's in Sumter was pretty cheap (about $3800 for upper school).  not heavy on religion except in religion class, and that was just basic catechism.  the priest was a cool older irishman - ripped blue jeans, sweatshirt, and cigarettes while mowing the lawns. 

from downtown sumter to the gardner's ferry target was a straight drive of about 25 minutes in the middle of the day.  there are some housing developments near the base that had rentals - decent price 3 years ago for good size with yard...if you don't mind the sound of freedom overhead.

 >>>They bused in women and children every day to frolic and dance in the Potemkin village

See, this is how you know of a certainty that Communism is fuctup. If America was a Communist country [ahem] we would have a Potemkin Village filled only with Cheerleaders, bacon, and beer.

Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at December 12, 2012 08:33 AM (Cnqmv)

Yup.  You want the tv?  Go for it.  I'll have it replaced.

You want me or mine?  Go for it.  I'll have my 5.56 rounds meet you in the middle. 

>>>Heh. Wait for the backlash when distillers downsaize valu-rite vodka from 750 ml to 600...

Pfft. I'll make my own in the basement, using those weird mushrooms I find behind the oil tank.

This is what our resident fuckup, noodle dick     trolls have been demanding for weeks.  Which just goes to prove that     Obumfuck and his dipshit army are the world's most high profile trolls.

Oh, and good morning, all!

Check out americandigest.org this morning for a cold, hard dose of what's coming our way:

And just in case you don't think they're making lists.

They've already had the GooHooBingBook hipsters set them up with a data mining operation. Once it's up and running, it doesn't take much to re-purpose. They have lots of money left over. Now they are trying to get their supporters to call up other targeted people and put pressure on the Republican Congresscritters. And so it begins.

Which means they have a list of their reliable people, their potential supporters, and a list of Others. Data mining merges their own data, with anything found on the Web. Now that they aren't running a campaign, but they still have a war chest, they can grab or buy surreptitiously anything out there, and "there's no controlling legal authority". And Google will be glad to help, Eric Schmidt will personally see to it, he'll sell them the rope.

And when these unemployed hipsters with massive college debt call you up, and you start cussing at the mention of the Usurper and being "uncooperative", well, then you go on the "Other" list. And they data mine you and find out everything about you, and how you can be hurt.

They'll keep track of how often you help them. The compliant ones, who respond to their pleas, will soon start getting bennies. And who the heck is paying for all this? Shoot, no one had the courage to sue them when they were laundering millions in illegal foreign money during both elections. The Courts and the constitutional lawyers mewled that "nobody has standing to sue". Now that they are beyond the reach of election law, the money just magically appears. None dare call it treason.

Like a pusher or a pimp, they'll next try to get you to graduate to the "hard stuff": direct action. Please, they'll say, we really need your help, show up at this time and place to help the Usurper. They'll loan you a t-shirt to wear (and ask you to buy it). The leaders will have special shirts, and campaign-style buttons, and perhaps cute little hats. And you'll go where you're told, and do what you're asked to, and they'll bus you there and give you a stipend. You're One of Them now.

And if you keep answering their call, you go higher on the "One of Us" list, and qualify for more bennies. Free phones, debt forgiveness, extra ration cards. Chevy Volts at an unheard of discount.

Watch for it. The turning point is when the purple T-shirts disappear, and it becomes button-down shirts with epaulets. Uniforms. Insignia. The hats aren't so cute anymore. You'll be part of the team now, the core of the Usurper's civilian national security force. And you'll go where you're told, and you'll do what you're told, because the bennies keep coming, and you're in for a penny, in for a pound. And the people you're contesting against, well, they're the Other, they're just wrong, they're the 1% that's keeping you down and pissing on you all the time. And now it's your turn, your time to rise. Time for revenge, to punch back twice as hard. And when some of your folks start feeling queasy about the hurt you're putting on all those Others, somebody with hard dead eyes will say "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."

You won't have to worry about the police. They'll be on your side. They're loyalty is to their union and police brothers, not our Constitution. They'll look the other way, and slow-walk complaints. Unless you're on the "Other" list, in which case they'll come on like a ton of bricks. They'll be told who's on which list, and they'll do what they're told. LAPD has shown us the truth of it.
When a sitting President encourages people to vote for revenge, that is a declaration of civil war! Statements like that should not be made, because they take on a life of their own. We the People granted limited powers to our governments to secure some of our Rights, and the Blessings of Liberty for everyone. The Usurper intends to use those powers for revenge of one faction upon another. No rational, moral, civilized, peaceful person would say such a thing. Ever.

The Usurper and his minions have told you all this. He decides how much money you're allowed to make, you don't own what you create, if need be they'll send you to re-education camps, we need a personally-loyal civilian army. Why don't you believe him? Do you believe that he can't possibly want civil war? Of course he doesn't, he wants to so demoralize you, and make you think you are alone, that you won't stand your ground, but give up and give in to the inevitable. But he will not shy from a civil war. He intends to push you to the limit, that you will start it, and he will then crush you before you have time to organize an effective opposition.

Right now the Usurper doesn't give a crap about fiscal cliffs. He doesn't care what any of that will do to the country. His three objectives are to demoralize and destroy the conservative opposition, co-opt and corrupt the Republicans (so easy!), and then break free of the Constitution.

It seems like a dream, a mirage of unbreakable normality. Like the spring of 1914 or 1939, like the crisp fall morning eleven years ago. Like our exceptional, beautiful country, the rarest gem in all of history, is so big and strong, nothing can happen to it, everything will go on peacefully as before, we are still the shining city on the hill, and our best days are before us. Every day we make plans for next year and the years after, and can't possibly imagine or consider that any set of events will break our idyll of peace and turn all our plans to dust. I fly across the country, and see the vast strength of it and Our People, and think my fears are childish and foolish vapors. And then I remember that all civilizations crumble.

We must make new plans. We must be prepared. We must resist the Usurper and his minions. Now and every day. They have lost their faith in God, and seek to secure their lives by taking ours. We must remain true to the faiths of our fathers and mothers. The United States of America, the new nation that put its Trust in God, that brought the Blessings of Liberty to the world, must not perish. Today is not that day. Tolkein is my guide. Frodo: "I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Lincoln is my guide: “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right”

Posted by: John A. Fleming at December 10, 2012 11:05 PM

Meanwhile North Korea successfully launched a satellite.

No fear, everyone!    I heard this morning on the news that this successful   satellite launch will bring about another heavy wave of sanctions against the NoKo's.    THAT'LL teach    'em!       I hope you all have bought all the North Korean     goods and services you'll need for a while, because you're not going to have a chance pretty soon!

What's that?  Oh, we don't buy NoKo products?  Oh.

Well, hey, at least we'll be able to stop sending them food and money!  That'll starve 'em out!

You know, until we're guilted into giving them more food again,     which they'll immediately give to their political and military classes while continuing to fuck the general population.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 08:41 AM (sbV1u)

I'll give them a run.  Thanks.

199 Last night Crowder challenged the guy that sucker punched him to an MMA battle for Charity. I thought Crowder might be a pussy, I may have     been wrong.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 12, 2012 08:39 AM (3Y7RV)

Crowder regularly puts his face and name out there tearing down some of the militant left's most sacred cows    with humor and smarts.      Without even going into strength, he's clearly not a pussy.   

I'd put my    money on him in a fight.  

>>Stanford saxophonists make the best free safeties...

Heh, heh, heh.

Last year, I really started paying attention to food prices...

...and now I shop at different stores. There is a huge difference in prices between some of them.

Posted by: EC at December 12, 2012 08:49 AM (GQ8sn)

If not the sole AB, he's certainly    one of the lieutenants of his army.   

I thought the AoSHQ Style Guide refers to them as "pus guts"?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 12, 2012 08:54 AM (VtjlW)

I see someone else has drawn the ire of The Chick.

*wipes brows in relief*

Colorado or Washington state? Cuz you sure are smokin' something...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 09:02 AM (sbV1u)

I'm in Alexandria as well.  The NRA range is about 20 minutes out, Rockville is damn near an hour... So is Clark's down in Warrenton. 

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 09:02 AM (sbV1u)

Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with bacon cheddar fries. at December 12, 2012 09:04 AM (VtjlW)

Shit.

*starts sweating again*

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at December 12, 2012 09:00 AM (Jcd0S)

------

Nah. It's way too early to cascade into a Rocky Mtn high. Just some satire.

>>>Yeah, like you're going to get any of those lardballs and their moobs in a button-down. Maybe if they leave the top two buttons open. Maybe.

In Soviet America, Fridays dress down on YOU

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

I would just go with the default position. Stompy them.

>>corn syrup

Found that crap in several brands of sausages I was buying.

My husband thinks I'm a conspiracy theorist when I start in on the subject.

>> I don't know whether to be offend or flattered.

Then you should shout "What's that supposed to mean?!" while stomping.

>>SUKHu? That's nice.

Yeh, I've had that one for a while. Got lots of responses from "Mr. Hu" at first, for some reason...

>>A lot of sausage recipes call for a smmmmallll amount of sugar

Saw that it was at 1 gram or less on some.

Just really hate having to check the label on MEAT to avoid that crap.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 12, 2012 09:17 AM (sbV1u)

The guest buys? Huh.

*shrugs*

AoSHQ Rules I guess. I'm easy btw. You set a bottle of Jack Daniels and a 2 liter of Diet Coke in front of me and I'm a happy man.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2012 09:19 AM (eEfYn)

Electable AND Inevitable!

I would like to point out that I have always been on Team Max.

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

AtC/Max 2016?