South Carolina state legislators are proposing to nullify ObamaCare by enacting criminal penalties for any state or federal official caught implementing it. This is a stupid, unconstitutional idea...

Right.  Because everything tfg does isn't.

This is the most encouraging news I've seen in a while. 

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2012 06:57 AM (XkWWK)

Are any of them megilla?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2012 07:02 AM (XkWWK)

LOL, hey I provided a definition for my use of the Yiddish word.  You have to give us one for those others.  Especially since they are not as widespread as chutzpah.

Behold, ‘rons and ‘ronettes, some weapons-grade stupid.  This is from the “sound off” section of my local paper:

I am heartbroken for all the families suffering from our countryÂ’s lack of gun control.  I have never heard when gun ownership saved a life.  When are we going to start banging down our congressmenÂ’s doors demanding justice for gun-related senseless murders?  The Second Amendment is outdated, like many laws that suited our ancestors at the time.  The NRA needs to rethink its moral obligations for the safety of all our loved ones.  I can hear the hunters crying foul, but they can indulge their primitive need by sharpening sticks.  The right to be safe at schools, malls, movie theaters and especially our homes needs protection, not the right to bear arms.

IÂ’d like to respond to this outright lunacy, but right now I canÂ’t get beyond a “never heard when guns save a life?  Are you that fucking stupid?”

Anyway. . .

A while back, someone asked if I knew any Lee Marvin stories.  I didnÂ’t at the time, but I dug up a couple recently, so here they are:

Marvin was, as you know, an Olympic-class drinker.  During the filming of The Dirty Dozen, he was at a cocktail reception in London, rather the worse for wear.  As he careened around the room, Marvin saw a little old lady sitting by herself in the corner; staggering over, he propositioned her in the crudest, vilest, most vulgar manner possible.  As it turned out, Marvin was slurring his words so much – and the little old lady was so deaf – that she asked him to repeat what heÂ’d said, which Marvin did, to everyoneÂ’s horror.  It was at that point that someone whispered to Marvin that the little old lady happened to be Sean ConneryÂ’s aunt, and that 007 himself was on his way over, loaded for bear.

Dirty DozenÂ’s producer Kenneth Hyman saw the fire in ConneryÂ’s eyes.  Desperately jumping between the two men, he begged, “DonÂ’t hit him in the face, Sean, heÂ’s got close-ups tomorrow!”  Luckily, Connery saw the funny side of it just in time and roared, “You fucking producers.”

Another one:  John Boorman directed Marvin in 1967Â’s Point Blank.  One evening, he and some friends went to dinner with Marvin at an LA restaurant.  When it was time to leave, Boorman saw that Marvin was in no shape to drive and told him so.  “Fuck you,” Marvin snarled, throwing a wild punch at the directorÂ’s head.  Boorman managed to grab the keys to MarvinÂ’s Chrysler and hopped in, just before the soused actor could get behind the wheel.  Marvin prowled around the station wagon, pounding on the hood, kicking at the doors and finally crawling up on to the roof rack.

Boorman drove slowly along the harbor front, hoping the sea air would sober Marvin up, but it didnÂ’t.  The director thought for a while, then finally decided to take a chance and drive down the Pacific Coast Highway towards MarvinÂ’s home in Malibu.  Only a few minutes later, he saw flashing lights in the rearview mirror and pulled over. 

The policeman strolled up to the car.  He looked at the roof rack, then at Boorman, finally asking, “Do you know you have Lee Marvin on your roof?”

And thatÂ’s it for me.  ItÂ’s year-end QA paperwork day, so I probably wonÂ’t be back until tomorrow.  If any of you have some snappy retorts to that idiotic rant I posted above, let me know; IÂ’d love to use them.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2012 07:09 AM (XkWWK)

Are you volunteering?

Posted by: Damn .... at December 19, 2012 07:13 AM (bS6uW)

Diagnosed by Reporting for Doody MD.  I guess if George Clooney could play a doctor than somebody as brilliant as Lurch could although Yeeeaarrrgh must not have been available for a house call.

Posted by: Truman North (D) at December 19, 2012 07:17 AM (I2LwF)

Lol. Two funny things about that. 1) Bannion actually proved my point for me when he talked about his missus; 2) somebody actually thought Bannion and I were gonna engage in a flame war over the intelligence of cheerleaders.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2012 07:20 AM (XkWWK)

There is, supposedly, an adult version of facebook out there called "fuckbook".

Posted by: Truman North (D) at December 19, 2012 07:23 AM (I2LwF)

I have not seen anything on that.  Do you have a link?

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at December 19, 2012 07:11 AM (+ksWj)

Now that's funny!  Now I have to clean the coffee from the monitor. 

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2012 07:26 AM (XkWWK)

She also displayed some unusual, for the MFM, curiosity on Benghazi.  She must kick Bob Schieffer in the nads at least once a day.

RushBabae: The Magilla is the biblical story of Esther. Interesting bit of trivia, it is the only part of the Old Testament where G-d is not mentioned; it is purely an historical tract.

I'm not of the Tribe.  I just saw it in a hilarious comment on Babs Streisand's new movie and how awful it was.  The commenter used tons of Yiddish and it sounded pretty credible.

5OK all you “Ettes, some good news. If you let hubby (or other) squeeze’em it may prevent cancer!

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When I read that I thought maybe I could finally put the question of whether or not my dr is a pervert to rest. I went in many years ago after finding a lump in my breast. The first thing my dr said to me was "did your husband discover it?" I found that very odd. Does it really matter how it was found? I thought maybe this was an article on how many spouses/significant others discovered lumps. After reading the article I see it's about a squeeze a day keeps the doctor away or something like that. I'm still leaning on the side of my dr is a pervert.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Helping it burn. at December 19, 2012 07:37 AM (Gk3SS)

A cryptid. I should've known.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 19, 2012 07:41 AM (GoIUi)

What is depressing is I bought a box of Little Debbie Honey buns for breakfast snacks this morning while on my 4 am jaunt to grocery store.

Each bun is 280 calories and after one you are still hungry.

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 19, 2012 07:46 AM (GoIUi)

I like grits as a side with eggs, ham, and other stuff.  But I have to limit the number of eggs and sometimes is just not worth the effort to cook up all that stuff.

Re the South Carolina move, I applaud them.  They have figured out what so many conservatives fail to see - the law is nothing but a tool, useful only as a way to impute guilt.  It has no force, except to the extent that men with guns will be sent to act to coerce those subject to it.  Obama's administration breaks many laws every day of the year without shame and without consequence OF ANY KIND.  So, fuck the law.  It's now the rule of the strongest - first in terms of will and second in terms of guns.  Obama and the leftards in general have the stronger will to power, and are trampling us to death without any regard for the law of God or Man.  We have the strength of guns, so if one day we grow a pair and match or exceed their strength of will, we will triumph. Until then, we receive the ass raping that we allow them to give us.

115 -

You know, the difference between a pervert and an absolute gentleman is a millisecond delay between brain and mouth.

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You are probably right.

Posted by: Thorvald at December 19, 2012 07:59 AM (1V6Pv)

I believe you are right, and that is only in the best case scenario.

Alas - I fear that their most potent work - that of destroying our culture - has already eliminated any hope of restoration.  The work needed to fix our nation's horrific problems would take the kind of ugly work that our kind generally cannot stomach, and lots of it.  I think now it's just a count down to the eschaton, and the more time that passes the happier we will be to see this present age pass away.  Thus, my allegiance to the LIB faction. 

My advice to all is to forego having kids, strip as much wealth off of the rotting caracass of the America as you can, and give no aid or comfort to the enemy.  If you're able to find greener pastures, go. 

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2012 08:03 AM (XkWWK)

Well said.  I hope that some progress can be made in this fashion, even if only to forestall the inevitable.

Posted by: Tonawanda at December 19, 2012 08:05 AM (GeFHE)

Great points.  I've been saying since I was a teen ager that our side has the worst political propaganda branch in history.  We suck at it, in part because we over estimate the intelligence of the mob.  We, of all people, should know better than to do that. 

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2012 08:07 AM (XkWWK)

Thank you for that.  Finally - something positive.  May he soon depart this mortal coil, the wretched monster.  Let us hope that his replacement is less of a problem (not holding my breath).

The full court press is still on for gun control.

We need conservatives to speak up.  Liberals are using the line that no one is trying to take guns away from hunters or target shooters, only the "assault rifles".

Hell, the president can ban hunting and target shooting.  I wouldn't care.  There are no constitutional protections for hunting or target shooting, so he could take an executive action or the congress can pass a law.  But one thing he can't do is ban weapons built for the purpose of allowing civilians to protect themselves against a tyranical government.

Posted by: Retread at December 19, 2012 08:10 AM (zxitI)

Well, let's hope.  It would not surprise me if the leftards started working on eliminating the 22nd Amendment.  But rest assured - even if they can't run Barky again, they are even now working on his clone.  They will have another Obama set up for the next cycle.  Another smooth talking, hard-left minority will suddenly take the stage and make all the news media fucks cum in their pants.  Then we'll have another petty tyrant in the white house.

Posted by: Walkers! at December 19, 2012 08:13 AM (jWwDJ)

Well, in the US we don't need to recruit muz scum.  There are plenty of libtarded teachers to do that job without help.

But yeah - the UK is totally destroyed.  It's a full on leftist hell hole now, with through-the-lookinglass level craziness.  Rapists set free with a slap on the wrist and nothing more.  Citizens who defend themselves in their homes are sent to prison and made to pay the criminals.  All coming here - thanks to the Left.  

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 19, 2012 08:18 AM (JDIKC)

Actually doing what SC and the other 5 States are doing is better. Make it illegal to enforce it and jail some federal assholes. 

I go with the Thomas Jefferson interpretation of the Constitution and the courts.  The courts are not the sole authority and not even the top authority. 

The Constitution is a contract between the States and the States are the ultimate authority.

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 19, 2012 08:19 AM (8sCoq)

Agreed.  I further predict that no white male will ever be president again.  The population of single women and non-whites has reached critical mass, and ever day is blame-the-white-male day. 

LIB

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 19, 2012 07:30 AM (da5Wo)

national healthcare saved for those that deserve it.

Posted by: Vic at December 19, 2012 08:23 AM (53z96)

Agreed. 

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 19, 2012 08:26 AM (8sCoq)

With your tongue?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 19, 2012 08:28 AM (da5Wo)

oh man I posted something beautiful and sweet and you made it tawdry

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Burn you all to ashes, SMOD at December 19, 2012 08:28 AM (VtjlW)

*muffled and echoey*

Does that mean I can get out of here? It smells. And is wet. And I'm not entirely sure I'm alone in here.....

COVER-UP

No man they're right.

One time I was playing a violent video game and I realized that about two hours earlier I'd missed doing a thing that it wasn't possible to go back and do now that I'd done some other things, and I'd saved the game after I did all those things, so I'd have to start over to go back and do the thing I missed and it would take like all day to get back to where I was stuck.

In FURY!, I twisted the controller until it made a terrible crunchy sound. It still worked...but I was literally this close to executing a calmly rationalized plot to cut a ditch through a field of babies with an Uzi.

Not many people have enough self-control to stop short like that, when they're under the influence of violent video games.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 19, 2012 08:30 AM (JDIKC)

This is hardly the same thing as "tax scofflaws".  This is the State taking action against a blatantly unconstitutional law. 

But yes, it will be interesting to see what happens in the State that arrests and charges the first federal official. 

Perhaps we will re-litigate the ultimate authority with respect to the Constitution in a more "aggressive" manner once again.

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 19, 2012 08:29 AM (8sCoq)

*shrugs*

It's what I do.

Does this mean you are one of those evil IRS guys?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2012 08:33 AM (piMMO)

EoJ? Naw, he's Canadian.

*whispers*

And a theater major.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 19, 2012 08:38 AM (sbV1u)

Or we could end up with a Nerf gun ban. I like my Nerf guns.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 19, 2012 08:38 AM (sbV1u)

Why mess with the "gravy train" by blowing up the tracks ?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 19, 2012 08:40 AM (sbV1u)

Don't start that shit again! VPOTUS was once asked to judge a pie eating contest at a county fair. He loved it. But got a little confused. He started walking up to women all over the fair asking if he "could get a taste of their pie."

What a fucking nightmare.

Morning, all!

So, given my coppery hair, am I allowed to claim Tourette's the next time    I'm at a    company function and shout, "Fuck you!" when someone invariably starts cooing about Obammy?

Video – Golden Eagle tries to snatch toddler in Montreal park. It was sheer luck that the eagle did not do what a lot of raptors do and hit the kid hard enough to break his neck. (I see someone posted this last night but I will leave it here) I have seen a huge hawk come in and snatch a squirrel in my front yard myself.

My father watched one    spiral around a tree in pursuit of a squirrel, which it promptly      picked off before it got to its hole.

Posted by: Truman North (D) at December 19, 2012 08:48 AM (I2LwF)

You gotta problem with that, cracka?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at December 19, 2012 08:48 AM (/kI1Q)

You know, as much as I'd like to NOT believe the media would be so ghoulish as to avoid    discussing the father because of his ties to an Obammy moneypot,   I nonetheless know it to be true.   I know it in my bones.

State nullification of 0Care is unconstitutional, huh?

That's fucking hysterical - a real knee slapper.  We're so far of the Constitutional reservation these days that, well, it's meaningless anymore.   Interpretation is completely arbitrary and totally in the hands of people who have tortured the language to make it mean whatever the fuck they want it to mean.

If we want it back, we're going to have to take it back.  Hell, I'm okay with stealing it back if necessary.  Limiting ourselves to Queensbury Rules in the face of an enemy (yes, they are now my enemy) who has always brought a nuclear warhead to a fistfight is utter madness.  It has taken 100 years of increasingly unconstitutional actions to get to the shithole where we no find ourselves.  It's logical to assume it may take a few unconstitutional tactics to crawl out of it.  State nullification would be the least of it.    There will have to be some very "ungentlemanly" tactics taken.  Or we can just continue our slide into oblivion.  Whatever.  It's cool, right?

If you think it makes us no better than the other guys,  I  think you underestimate the depths of the  totalitarian socialist mind and doubt the goodness of your own cause.  Fuck them because they sure as hell can't wait to fuck you.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 19, 2012 08:53 AM (piMMO)

One of these days I'd like to grab one of those stigma crybabies and say, "You    know what?    Sometimes the stigma is justified.    And    I'd say a    Tiny Dick Babykiller like this asshole deserved a little bit of stigma."

Posted by: Miss Marple at December 19, 2012 08:56 AM (GoIUi)

So sad.   Godspeed and God bless, sir. 

South Carolina state legislators are proposing to nullify Obamacare by enacting criminal penalties for any state or federal official caught implementing it. This is a stupid, unconstitutional idea, as I wrote almost two years ago when nullification first came up in the context of Obamacare, but I bet you a beer these legislators think they're real smart.

Here's what Thomas Jefferson had to say on the subject:

in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the general government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non fÂœderis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them: that nevertheless, this commonwealth, from motives of regard and respect for its co-States, has wished to communicate with them on the subject: that with them alone it is proper to communicate, they alone being parties to the compact, and solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it

Translation: Nullification is Constitutional, bitches.

Posted by: Vic at December 19, 2012 06:59 AM (53z96)

Vic, I bet you a beer that Gabe thinks he's real smart.  After all, he's a lawyer.  And you and I are not.

"284  At some point the states will have to stand up and assert their pre-Constitutional role as equal partners and protectors of their citizens."

True,  the  States  must  assert  themselves,  but  as  the  pre-existing  and  pre-emminent  entity  holding  sovereignty.

The  Federal  Government  is  not  an  equal  partner  to  the  States.   It  is  a  creation  constituted  by  the  States  to  act  as  an  agent  of  the  the  States  for  issues  common  to  all  of  the  States. 

Thomas Jefferson also owned human beings and raped them.

I do believe the jury is out on the second half of that statement.