1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Monday, March 12, 2012.  On this day in 1912 Juliette Low founded the Gril Scouts in Savannah, GA, home of the famous D'Oh clan.  Once the first pack was formed they immediately set out to baking cookies.

2 Rumors abound that Noot is talking to Perry as a VP source.  Perry would have to be crazy to sign on to that. As for Noot, he needs to drop out so the !Mutt can coalesce around one man.

http://is.gd/oSy0Qx

3 GA Charter School Bill to set national precedent for State covering costs?  I have some news for you idiots at Fox, SC has been doing that for years.

http://is.gd/3QL4iV

4 NC Republican submits "sense of Congress" impeachment bill for Obama if he uses military w/o authorization from congress.  I have some news for yah guy, he has already done that in Libya.

http://is.gd/zuSNCc

5 GE doubles down on AGW scam decries Republicans

Quote:

General Electric has brushed aside the doubts leading Republican presidential contenders have raised about climate science.

End quote

If this wasn't such a serious matter it would be laughable.  I suppose General Foods should double down on food science now.  Fuck these assholes.  We have no "doubts" either, AGW is a fraudulent scam and GE executives and all the politicians pushing it should be in jail.

http://is.gd/7EnxYl

6 Bwarny Fwank wants to fire the current head of F&F because he hasn't been giving taxpayer money to deadbeats fast enough.

http://is.gd/EQ3M9p

7 Head of NRC is pushing Fujika "reforms".  Of course it is all bull shit.  This guy is a rabid anti nuke and the stuff that happened inJapan is already regulated here in the US.  Keep in mind that this Obamamanite is a rabid anti-nuke and has no business being on the board of the NRC. 

His aim here is the same as the anti-nukes for decades, jack up the cost of nuke power with useless modification requirements and regulations to make it unprofitable to operate. He wants all this accelerated because he nows his days are numbered.

http://is.gd/rLChDA

8 Stimulus money being used to lobby State and Local government to raise taxes on soft drinks and snacks containing sugar.   And here we all though this was illegal.  Not so says Obamanite scrunt.  Only illegal to lobby the federal government.   This needs to be fixed ASAP.

http://is.gd/Ethmq9

9 Obama appointed Kagan because she supported Bell's Critical race bullshit regarding the Constitution.  IOW, he appointed a Supreme Court Judge who doesn't support the Constitution.   Well, at least this one is out in the open.  She should be impeached.

http://is.gd/dYt45S

10 You know that you are getting old and isolated when your State is legislating against drugs you  didn't now existed.   Now its 'fake pot".

http://is.gd/xTaVPY

11 Amazing.  About two dozen of the original Japanese cherry trees in Washington are still alive and blooming after 100 years. Normal lifespan is only 50 years.

http://is.gd/j5yb0S

12 John Carter is dieing at the U.S. box office.  Doing better overseas but looks like it will be a huge loss.  I am rte-reading the book now.

http://is.gd/CIgort

13 That's it for news this morning.

14 Thanks Vic
Everybody else must be sleeping in

15 Zip it Vic (people who listen to Carollas show will get it)

16 This new hash rules. If our favorite slut stays relevant it will be awesome. But not if she goes back to serving half the population of DC

17 Gawker is probably right. Most of the comments I have seen at sites other than AoS are crap.  In fact, I left Townhall because the comment sections was literally hijacked by trolls.

You had to sift through 8 or 10 long stupid diatribes by the trolls and the responses to them to get to one decent comment that was on topic.  It became a chore.

Keep that in mind Morons next time you respond to a troll. Trolls come on and leave their shit balls because they want attention, and responding to them gives them that attention.

18 The comments section at NRO is terrible. They should just ditch it and give you an email link if you want to bitch at the author

19 Played Mass Effect 3 and I don't want to spoil. For those who have beaten it, I hope you know what I'm feeling.

20 Please don't use the word "literally" when you mean figuratively. Also, please don't use the word "literally" for emphasis. Oh, whatever. People that don't understand this never will I suppose. Nevermind. Carry on.

21 So Prez Obama thinks higher gas prices are a good idea? Could someone tell the presumptive R nominee for Prez to have his people stop promoting higher gas taxes? Then maybe talk about, I don't know, lowering them? Thanks.

22 21 - Haha, I literally laughed when I read that (no I didn't).

23 The trick is to call it a thingy.

Works for my wife; everything that isn't a whoojiggy is a thingy to her. And God help me, I'm at the point where I usually know what she's talking about.

24 11 Amazing. About two dozen of the original Japanese cherry trees in Washington are still alive and blooming after 100 years. Normal lifespan is only 50 years.

http://is.gd/j5yb0S

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2012 06:55 AM (YdQQY)

Much, much more fertilizer in DC.

25 WSJ has an opinion piece up today mocking the JEF, Commissar Sebelius, and their poster girl Sandy Fuck, saying coffee, gym memberships, and other things should be paid for by Uncle Sugar too, all under the ObamaCare umbrella.

26 Much, much more fertilizer in DC.

Posted by: joncelli at March 12, 2012 07:19 AM (+MbqG)

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Yes, DC is literally and figuratively awash in fertilizer.

27 26 When I was a kid my dad would warn us when we were crossing the river into DC. Alexandria and Georgetown waterfronts were slums because, yes, the whole place smelled like shit.

28 Everybody else must be sleeping in

Posted by: MarkC at March 12, 2012 06:57 AM (D9INj)

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The ones at home will not be here until 8 or 9.  The ones posting from work will be here at 8. (except for the West coast)

29 Alexandria and Georgetown waterfronts were slums because, yes, the whole place smelled like shit.
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That's a shame because Alexandria didn't use to be that way.  My Grandmother lived there but later moved to Falls Church.

30 Since Gawker is run by fucking retards, it pretty much follows that their comments would have all the intelligence of a hot steaming pile of dogshit.  I think those turds were the same crew of fuckheads that bought out Deadspin after which it became unfunny garbage and with shit software to boot.

31 29 Did she live on the waterfront?

32 Santorum came out with a very cogent statement over the weekend that the "math" is not settled.  State conventions are still being held, and the final delegate counts, even for states having already held primaries and cauci, are still unknown.

My take is that the math may favor Romney, but he still may not win enough delegates prior to the national convention.

33 Did she live on the waterfront?
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No it was some residential neighborhood.  We visited her in 1958 and I was still fairly young so don't remember exactly how we got there road-wise.

34 My take is that the math may favor Romney, but he still may not win enough delegates prior to the national convention.
Posted by: Great Reagan's Ghost at March 12, 2012 07:31 AM (dHdwB
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A lot of pundits have been trying to remind people that all these delegate totals they keep seeing are not actually assigned yet, but "some" people do not want to listen to that.

35 Went to Gawker from Breitbart on Louie CK story about boycotting Greta VS because she objected to Bill Maher. Got that? Well, at the beginning of the comments these enlightened hip 20 somethings thought that C*unt was the best dirty word ever! So sharp, so useful. And Louie Ck is a genius because it's hilarious when he uses C*unt and Down's Syndrome together. Genius!! Well this went on for 50 odd comments: C*unt is great! Why are these wingnut puritans so offended by it? What's the big deal? Then this dude saunters in and comments that Michelle Obama is a c*unt. HA! They instantly came unglued. I mean total mental meltdown. Refuting everything anyone had said just 2 lines above for all to see. Then they scrubbed the whole comment section. The intellectual horsepower of the lefties could not, when tethered in an array, power a musical birthday card.

36 Denton is pretty much right about internet comment boards.  Most of them suck.

Very very few good commenting communities.  Problem is most of them are basically hit and run.  Shoot off a comment and that's that.

The big money I imagine is in quickie data collection.  Twitter is great for that.  World's biggest focus group.  Make a comment, drop a hashtag at the end, no one cares what you actually have to say but the data ia collected and utilized.  #hoorayforbrandX or #fookbrandX it's all put to the same use.  You would think people would be on to this.  One can't say anything of value in 140 characters but that hashtag can be worth a pretty penny.

(Facebook is kind of the same but I think it offers more value for the user.  At least I can keep up with people.)

37 33 Only the waterfront smelled like shit (this is only relevant because the Cherry Trees are planted on the water). Alexandria and Georgetown's waterfronts were purely industrial until the 80s when the river didn't smell like feces. Currently, the libturd City Council wants to turn the entire waterfront in a city known for its historical appeal into a disney world of hotels and restaurants. The restaurant owners and the washington post are paying for an axelturf campaign to ruin the waterfront. They really want more taxes and they've learned that if they get them from corporations they don't have to listen to anyone. It's all pay to play.

38 Show us your "science" GE!  You won't because you can't.  What you would call "science" is nothing but unicorn farts.  Damn, congress should start putting some of these people under oath.

39

How far is it from DC to the nearest point of rational logic, using the Isoceles Triangle shown below instead of a map? Please express your answer in Hectares.

 

Sorry, I'm still working on that problem from the ONT...

40 Currently, the libturd City Council wants to turn the entire waterfront in a city known for its historical appeal into a disney world of hotels and restaurants
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Question is, will they use imminent domain and Kelo to do it?  And from what I have seen in other cities that have done that, when the city tries to force it it simply reverts to slums, porno shops, liquor stores, and other crap after a few years anyway.

As great thinker Jack Napier said, decent people shouldn't live here.

41 The answer? Denton said his sites are planning to post some stories that allow only a hand-picked, pre-approved group of people to comment on them.

No comment necessary, so to speak.

42 The AoS comment section is sort of inoculated from heavy duty trolling by poor user interface.

43 John Carter is dieing at the U.S. box office. Doing better overseas but looks like it will be a huge loss. I am rte-reading the book now.

http://is.gd/CIgort

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2012 06:56 AM (YdQQY)

It's a shame.  It's really good.  Georgeous to look at.  Fun story, too.  The lead actress is HOT!  I posted a brief review on the Friday ONT (it's among the first dozen or so comments) and highly recommended it.

I'm going to see it again this weekend.

44 Isn't GE the number 1 producer of windmills in the U.S.? Libtard logic says we can't listen to organizations with vested interests right?

45 It's a shame. It's really good.
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Someone else posted that it was a real yawner this week-end.

46 If you're enjoying ME3, you must not have reached the ending yet. Your opinion will change, I guarantee it.

47 46

Know that all too well.

Sigh.  But for the last five minutes...

48 So when does the "New Comments Thingy" become just the "Comments Thingy" anyway? Seems like the statute of limitations for the "New" moniker should've run out about 3 years ago, no? Just sayin'...

49 Someone else posted that it was a real yawner this week-end.

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2012 07:50 AM (YdQQY)

Whoever said that is a communist.  Listen to your ole pal Robert, I won't steer ya wrong.

50 Cleavland Democrap goes full retard.  Question here is whether or not she is simply going for "shock value" or she wants to keep this stupid "contraceptive" story in the news so Obama depression is ignored.

http://is.gd/xdzTyC

51 Maher is innocent, because he's a 'comedian.'  Limbaugh isn't.

But hasn't the Left been dismissing Rush as an 'entertainer' for years?

52 But hasn't the Left been dismissing Rush as an 'entertainer' for years?

Posted by: nickless at March 12, 2012 08:05 AM (MMC8r)

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The latest meme is he is the "de facto head" of the Republican Party.

53 Rush is either head of the GOP or an entertainer, depending on the left's immediate need.

54 Lefties do the Jon Sterwart shtick in the MBM falls right in line

Clown nose on- I'm just a Comedian!
Clown nose off- I'm fucking serious.

55 The intellectual horsepower of the lefties could not, when tethered in an array, power a musical birthday card.

Posted by: Lars Groteballen at March 12, 2012 07:34 AM (py6As)

 

 

Yep.  Stealing this.

56 Bought Mass Effect, I did. People said great game, it was. Mass Effect won't run on old machine(s) Zaathraas has. Zaathraas very sad.

57

Regarding ME3 and your disappointment in the ending, I was initially annoyed at the spoiler, but at least you're bothering to play the campaign.

 

I never play multiplayer. I play these games, like Battlefield and Modern Warfare for the escape and the immersion in a pretty realistic environment. Although I wish that when I was a wee grunt I could change magazines that quickly, or loot bodies for ammo just by running past them.

 

In the campaign, at least your AI buddies are trying to help you, more or less.  You might have an overwatch mission, covering medics evacing the wounded. These are all realistic tasks you can both understand and sink your attention into.

 

In multiplayer, everyone is running around like fucking retards, snapping off 500-meter headshots from the standing unsupported. Because that's what snipers do, obviously.  Fuck concealment, Imma do a gainer off this 60-foot crane and kill you with a tomahawk.

 

And if you do kill one of these Mexican jumping tards, he'll just magically come back to life. Behind you. With his fucking tomahawk.

 

Lawn. Off. NOW.

58 I quit buying games because I could not afford the constant upgrade of computers.  Civilization was good about this for the first three versions then it went special effects and forgot about strategy and game play too. Civ IV would barely run on my machine with graphics and effects scaled back. So I just said screw it.

59 CNN? Really?

60 >>Stimulus money being used to lobby State and Local government to raise taxes on soft drinks and snacks containing sugar.

And except for gourmet sodas, Coke imported from Mexico, Dr Pepper from ONE plant in Texas, and kosher-for-Passover, sodas don't even contain sugar.

61 They probably include sucrose corn syrup as sugar.

62 I liked the DragonAge ending, ONT material last night

63 35 - And the truth is, there are some people like me (and you, apparently) who can't bring ourselves to use such words, on the internet or elsewhere. The left seems to have come to believe that means they are stronger than we are. In other words, they thought they were safe behind certain lines, and then when Rush (and that commenter) cross those lines, they can't handle it.

64 Louis Vuitton Outlet design team in the Louvre Gong Tingyuan ( Cour Carr e e ) mounted on the carousel, is actually Marc Jacobs himself. Designer by means of art, to fashion to a 180 degree turn.

65 http://www.louisvuittonhandbagsoutlet-us2012.com

66 >>John Carter is dieing at the U.S. box office.

I got the original book from the library after reading about how it was one of Reagan's favorites as a child.  Haven't gotten to it yet. Still fighting my way through a Günter Grass novel about the reunification of Germany...the translation reads easy enough, but I have to stop every other paragraph to look up a geographical or historical or literary reference. 

Only having a fourth-grade education sucks.

67
Only having a fourth-grade education sucks.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 12, 2012 08:29 AM (ZKzrr)

That's why I stopped at third.

68 Have not reached the end of ME3 and keep dodging spoilers like incoming fire. Currently have a Love/Love/Disappointed Hate of the game. Story is great so far and the combat gameplay is great but somebody needs to hire the scooby doo gang to find the RPG parts of the game.
Also multiplayer is great ad long as you are not a random in a pickup group. When I am playing with people I know RL or online it is peachy keen.

69 From that linked article at post 8 we have this:

Since March 2010, 30 states and Washington, D.C. have received $230 million in obesity prevention grants under the Communities Putting Prevention to Work Initiative (CPPW), a program established in the massive 2009 stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.------------------------------

If you ever wondered why the stimulus bill did NOTHING to help the economy you need look no further than this.  Paying lobbyists to push for higher taxes benefits no part of the economy other than lawyers in DC who needed no stimulus to begin with.

And this type of shit is where most of the money went to.

70 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

71 And the truth is, there are some people like me (and you, apparently) who can't bring ourselves to use such words, on the internet or elsewhere.
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ace had asked that we not use the "c" word here.  He asked for us to use scrunt instead.

72 The trick is to call it a thingy.

The trick is to bash, relentlessly, any trolls who show up in the comments, and to be merciless calling each other out when you're being stupid.

Also: lots of booze helps.

73 I got the original book from the library after reading about how it was one of Reagan's favorites as a child. Haven't gotten to it yet.
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You can download an "e" copy from Gutenberg for free.

74 People don't like high gas prices.  And this constitutes cause to give our little Communist bad poll numbers.

Knock me over with a Rules for Radicals pamphlet. 

Just curious why you write, Gabe.  It's not entirely for the biting insight, I'm guessing.

75 If you ever wondered why the stimulus bill did NOTHING to help the economy you need look no further than this. Paying lobbyists to push for higher taxes benefits no part of the economy other than lawyers in DC who needed no stimulus to begin with.

And this type of shit is where most of the money went to.

We borrow money from the Chinese to fuel the Democrat Machine.  This is why they fight reducing the size of government-- it's funding the Left.

If the GOP gets the reins this fall, it could end the Left for decades by ending their revenue stream.  But they won't, because the etablishment GOP is dedicated to the same things as the Democrats-- the political game and the power.

76 Repeat:

Keep that in mind Morons next time you respond to a troll. Trolls come on and leave their shit balls because they want attention, and responding to them gives them that attention.

77 Throwback Pepsi?

78 If the GOP gets the reins this fall, it could end the Left for decades by ending their revenue stream.
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Our problem is that we can never seem to get a "conservative" congress at the same time we have a conservative President.

Reagan has a Democrap congress.  Newt had a Democrap President. The only time we have had a Republican congress and a Republican President we had bare minimums in the Senate along with 8 or 10 RINOs and a neo-con semi-liberal as President.

79 >>You can download an "e" copy from Gutenberg for free.

I know. I'm a troglodyte who like real books, though.

Library lent me a 1925 copy of _Ben Hur_ that had photo plates from the silent film. Gutenberg can't do that; film is still under copyright. [Insert kvetch about Disney buying Congress here.]

80 Gutenberg can't do that; film is still under copyright. [Insert kvetch about Disney buying Congress here.]
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Gutenberg Australia doesn't have the Disney bribed congress and they have a lot more stuff.

81 New post up.

82 Oh, and soda taxes are just 21st century sumptuary laws.  You know how much sugar/corn syrup is in a venti mochafrappaccino even before you drop another two-fiddy for a cake pop to go with it?  But you don't see a lot of po' folks in coffeehouses.

83 Good morning, 'rons.  I spent much of the weekend off the grid, enjoying the new car.  Quite an aggressive little thing.

One of the many cute features is the ability to follow twitter while driving (yeah, no distracted driving danger there).  I programmed in a standard "Obama is an unelectable SCOAMF" tweet that I can send while driving

I was going to put a twitpic link in my sig, but Pixy banned twitter.com?  WTF?

84 Well fine, I will just use tinyurl, since I'm finally back on my computer.

http://tinyurl.com/7t8lluu

I've never understood the link ban here, I don't think I ever will.

85 We have many of the 100 year old cherry trees here in West Chester and environs - the ones in DC came from here, in fact: Five days after Mrs. Taft's request, the Superintendent of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, Colonel Spencer Cosby, U.S. Army, initiated the purchase of ninety Fugenzo Cherry Trees (Prunus serrulata "Fugenzo") from Hoopes Brothers and Thomas Co., West Chester, PA. The trees were planted along the Potomac River from the site of the Lincoln Memorial southward toward East Potomac Park. After planting, it was discovered that the trees were not named correctly. The trees were determined to be the cultivar Shirofugen (Prunus serrulata "Shirofugen") and have since disappeared.

86 new post is boring - want to talk about Walking Dead? also Denton is an ass You have to read thru the trolls, but there are many interesting things in comments sections. He's just ticked b/c his are so awful. full of idiots.

87 I've never understood the link ban here, I don't think I ever will.
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Not really a ban. Troll broke the blog and the fix killed links. Supposedly a new  version is in the works which will fix everything.

88 It's the part about having to use tinyurl, Vic.  Makes it hard to post a link from my phone.  iPad is a little easier, but still a pain.

89 Still fighting my way through a Günter Grass novel about the reunification of Germany...the translation reads easy enough, but I have to stop every other paragraph to look up a geographical or historical or literary reference.

Only having a fourth-grade education sucks.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 12, 2012 08:29 AM (ZKzrr)

Grass went full retard on the reunification, no?  Although in his case it wasn't a far journey because he was a Nazi.  And a commie.  And a cocksucker.

90 The tinyurl thing is a guideline.  I posted a link to Mark Steyn's NRO article on Saturday just fine.  Long URLs are blocked, but not all.  I don't know that the max. no. of chars is.

91

Then this dude saunters in and comments that Michelle Obama is a c*unt.

HA! They instantly came unglued. I mean total mental meltdown. Refuting everything anyone had said just 2 lines above for all to see. Then they scrubbed the whole comment section.

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Isn't it great how well the public school systems have served our 20-somethings?

92 DiT, Have you had a red car before?  You will get tickets.  That car is the bomb!

93 Public forums just become shouting matches without some moderation.

http://www.newsdemon.com /blog/ top-10-golden- rules-of-usenet/

Everything UUCP is HTTP again.

I'm sure the Greeks had "students" to run other "students" off when they interrupted a favorite speaker in the amphitheater.  And Clan Leader Ooog had some trustee with a club boyz.

Here the Morons run off amateurs a few times a week and keep some as pets.  Except for one that bothers the ette's like a persistent bad smell.  And the real hard cases which pick amusing fights with Ace.

94

From a previous thread:

okay, so a few thoughts about what should go into the criteria to evaluate if a company is "conservative" or not:

1. donations to conservative PACs
2. donations to members of Congress, beyond just the ones on the particular committees that regulate their company
3. if they've been the target of left-wing smears
4. if they've made public statements supporting conservative causes

any others?

Posted by: chemjeff at March 11, 2012 03:20 PM (7FadD)

I like these criteria, and I think the info needed to find out which companies fit them is out there

but

if it's out there, it's really hard to find in a useful form.  Bits and pieces of info like this exist in lots of places - campaign donor records, for example - but to compile it would take some serious effort. Maybe a think tank (Heritage, Cato ...) or a publication (NR, Weekly Standard ...) or an advocacy group (Focus on the Family, Americans for Tax Reform ...) has compiled good info. I'll poke around some more.

Discover The Networks has some good info on corporate foundations that fund leftist causes - i.e., companies we would do well to avoid where possible. http://tinyurl.com/d43b7r Some usual suspects on that list (NYTimes, Ben&Jerry's, Ms Magazine), some I was surprised to see there (Target, SaraLee, Chevron, Allstate), and some I found infuriating because our tax dollars end up funding the foundations (Fannie/Freddie, PBS). They also show that leftist foundations are waaaay bigger and more numerous than their conservative counterparts.

And just fyi, leftists don't have much in the way of buy-your-politics resources like what we're looking for either. (I had thought to find a buy-leftist list and invert it, kind of like what Discover The Networks did for foundations.) The progs are much more into Alinsky-ite, personal destruction tactics - see Limbaugh, R. and Beck, G., for example - than they are into persistent wallet-based pressure.

I think this is an important task for us on the right to do. I think quite a few of us would like to vote with our wallets daily but don't know how to.  Gotta start starving the leftist beast.

95 Shoot, I swear that post had blank lines in it when I wrote it ... sorry ...

96 Q:  How do you tell the federal snitch at the militia meeting? 
A:  He's the only one talking about blowing shit up.

97 I'm starting to get chub for the skins picking up RG3. Read about some of his background, dad in the military deployed when I was to iraq in 03, In the unit Brokaw was embedded with, who I saw in Kuwait.

98 Thanks Jimbo

I've always had red cars.  One of the reasons I have a top of the line radar detector

99

me 3 fukkin delivers on the geth/quarian story alone. everything else is just candy.

i don't know how the renegade sheps act like in me 3, but my nearly pure paragon shep looks like the weight of the universe is on him. i really feel sorry for the poor guy...

100 We have no "doubts" either, AGW is a fraudulent scam and GE executives and all the politicians pushing it should be in jail.

http://is.gd/7EnxYl

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2012 06:53 AM (YdQQY)

Another hole in the liberal lie that corporations are all right wing. I will not buy another GE product as long as I live or until their entire commie management team is replaced.

101 "Since Gawker is run by fucking retards, it pretty much follows that their comments would have all the intelligence of a hot steaming pile of dogshit. I think those turds were the same crew of fuckheads that bought out Deadspin after which it became unfunny garbage and with shit software to boot."

If you keep posting  like that, Mr. Captain Hate, you'll never get your pre-approved Denton Comment Card.

102 #57 - LOL that is so true!!! It has been fun to see my son evolve from nerdy 12 year old killing everyone (friend or foe) to now in his twenties and getting pissed that "these little shiiites" "don't understand the concept of teamwork"! Still love Stubs the Zombie though.

103

More than half of Americans for the first time expect Barack Obama to be re-elected - but that won't make it easy: Even as expectations have moved his way, rising gas prices have dented the president's rating on handling the economy, his overall job approval has slipped back under 50 percent and he's reverted to a dead heat in public preferences against Mitt Romney.

The results of the latest ABC/Washington Post mark two political realities: One, the sharp division of public attitudes for and against Obama, with continued greater intensity of sentiment among his critics. And two, the damaging political effects of rising gasoline prices, which have surpassed the federal budget deficit as Obama's single weakest issue.



More hand wringing from the non-biased MFM over their hero's chances of re-election

104

That was why Dr Vince Cable decided that taxation should be shifted from income to assets. The idea was that, instead of putting off those actually delivering prosperity for the nation, the state would pounce upon the fruits of their labours. Hence the ‘mansion tax’ on their houses.

Yet, with the ‘tycoon tax’, Mr Clegg has suddenly reverted to a tax on income.

Such eleventh-hour incoherence has horrified his own party colleagues, with his proposal being deemed an ‘unworkable’ idea that ‘falls apart on close analysis’.

105

The Lib Dems have never been thought of as particularly grown-up politicians.

Indeed, since theirs is the party of permanent protest (whose accidental presence in government suggests that someone up above has a penchant for satire) they are identified with one infantile idea after another.

But once upon a time, at least their policy demands were clear. Now they appear to have descended into a state of feverish incoherence.

106 The British government is currently tearing itself apart over its proposal to cut Child Benefit for households where the wage-earner brings in more than £42,745 ($66,850) per year.

107 "A record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews on the 2012 presidential campaignÂ’s most important issue: the economy.  Much of that is related to high gas prices, which the President stupidly thinks should be higher."

Oh no, citizen!  Nonononononono!  You are terribly misinformed (probably because you're a racist).  The truth is that President Obama has repeatedly said he's working as hard as possible to keep gas prices *down.*  D..O..W..N.  So your statement that he thinks gas prices should be higher is...racist!

You can't show us a single clip where he says gas prices should be higher.  Okay, maybe his Energy Secretary made some remark that the right-wing media twisted into "I think gas prices should be more like they are in Europe" or something.  But that's just the right-wing corporate media (FOX!!!) for you.

We strongly urge you to get your thinking right on this, or else you may find your internet access cut off. 

In the interest of fairness, of course.

108 - "And a Mass Effect 3 review. I'm loving this game. "

@Gabe - Haven't touched this series, but have been thinking about it for XBox 360.

Do you recommend starting with the first one, or is 3 pretty standalone?

109 ME 3 is great except for the ending which throws away the choices you made.

110 Wow, he's REALLY gonna love the last 10 minutes of Mass Effect 3. EPIC. FAIL.

111 Goy, Before the ending of ME3, I would definitely recommend a full play through from 1-3, as all the choices made in the first 2 effect the third. Choices in ME 1 affect ME2, etc. But now that I know what happens, I will never waste my time with the ME universe again. I am serious when I say it is not only the worst ending in video game history, it is the worst ending of any fictional narrative known to man. I almost threw my controller through the TV. Best way to describe the ending: imagine if the star wars trilogy had the end of 2001 grafted on to it. And everything from the first 2.9 movies became completely irrelevant. And there you go.....

112

I TOLD YOU NOT TO TWEET ME ANYMORE!

113 Thanks Ranger. So what I hear you saying is that it's not nearly as satisfying as, say, the ending of Halo:ODST or CoD:MW (still re-playing those from time to time, and enjoying them).

114 Re: Mass Effect 3: There was a poll on whether the ending needed a rewrite on one of the Bioware sites. It was running 5635 to 107 in favor of changing the ending. There's a facecrook page about adding a new ending option, over 10,000 siggies in two days. Basically, in the end, you have no really different choices, and you do what you're told, and it makes no sense, and you don't really find out what happened other than a very short, vague cutscene. Basically just peed the entire series down their leg. Still not as bad as the story in FarCry 2, but I'd say ME3 is the second-worst ending in a game after that. Bioware has implied that they intend to end the series here, and they would have to seriously retcon everything to do another game.

115 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

116 As far as comment sections go, the Saturday three-word experiment was the funniest thing I've read in a very very long time.  My stomach hurt from laughing so much.