25....brilliant job by the SEC fuckheads on botching the anonymity of a whistleblower in their investigation

Sending the message...."And let this be a lesson to all you other potential whistle-blowers out there".

31 Prissy little pooping parasites piss me off

The ones parading their pathetic little priapisms in public parks?

Posted by: Dagny at April 25, 2012 07:29 AM (4yXmp)

I don't know what the whole chain of events was here but what ultimately happened was the SEC's shyster ambulance chaser presented a witness with a notebook from the whistleblower and the witness recognized the handwriting.  I'm sure the lazy fucks could've typed it out in transcript form to protect the identity.

Whistleblowing is a dangerous game.  I once had the opportunity to fuck over a former employer because of chicanery they pulled with the company's savings plan which cost the participants.  I ultimately didn't pursue it for a variety of reasons, the main one being that I was afraid that the fall guys for this wouldn't be the ones that benefited from it.  But I also was concerned about how it would impact my future.

Schrodinger's cat.  Who can be thought of as alive or dead?

They'll be pretending this because pundits have to pundit about something and their pulpy little parietal lobes don't have a lot of punditry primed for a primary with only pro forma polls pending. <<<<<

Knock it off.

48....I think most people want to dump Obama; they just need a good enough excuse. As if the disaster of the past 3.5 years isn't enough of one!

I think the best way to offer them a good face-saving excuse...is with the narrative:

"The media kept the Truth from you."

The way that the media even intentionally doctored the 911 tapes of Zimmerman is one good example. ....There are others. ....And the continued vetting of Barky, is an ongoing imperative.

Posted by: we, who disappoint him at April 25, 2012 07:20 AM (Gx2QR)

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I like this.

Let's be disappointing, shall we? .....I aim to disappoint.  .....Disappoint the dog-eater.

"Gimme just a little more time

And yourloveforme will surely grow"

Did you see how low voter turn out was? I'm shocked and horrified.

56 Obama slow jams the news on the Fallon show. ....
 

http://tinyurl.com/6mxxthg

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I like the rest of that headline....."President Obama 'slow jams the news' on Jimmy Fallon, treads thin line between cool and cringe".

Mmm....I'm thinking 'cringe'. .....President Cooleo Cringeworthy.

We don't need our President to be Mr. Cool. ....We need him to be Mr. HeatUpTheEconomy. ....Mr. Cool has brought us into an Economic Ice Age.

I've been watching a tv show that's just not very good. Like it's trying to be the next CSI Miami.

Every week they have a shoot out with guys who are perfectly willing to step out in the the open, plant both feet next to each other to make a nice big target, and slowly fire their weapons. Strangely enough, the good guys are able to mow them down without any injuries to themselves.

It made me realize how much I've missed having a leader who believes in America and Americans.

Most of the nation misses having a leader, period. That's what's going to sink the one. As the election campaign proceeds, he will sound even less competent and more shrill.

@67: I was surprised Newt didn't even pick up DE delegates. He had practically moved in with Pete DuPont over the past month or so.

75 Good Morning Morons. Today is hurt day.

Sorry to hear that, Vic. Hope you get to feeling better real soon.

I can't stand candidate Romney. 

LONG LIVE PRESIDENT ROMNEY! 

Sounds like Ron White's bit about a police captain questioning his officer about a shootout with the Kehoe brothers, where they emptied their weapons and didn't even hit the fucking SUBURBAN the suspects were hiding behind.

Cop:  "At that point, my partner and I opened fire with our nine millimeter automatics."

Captain:  "And then what happened?"

Cop:  "They left."

Just One Minute, about Woolrich chinos:

...are not for commandos, but rather, the company says, for the fashion-aware gun owner. And Woolrich has competition. Several clothing companies are following suit, building businesses around the sharp rise in people with permits to carry concealed weapons....

The company has added a second pocket behind the traditional front pocket for a weapon. Or, for those who prefer to pack their gun in a holster, it can be tucked inside the stretchable waistband. The back pockets are also designed to help hide accessories, like a knife and a flashlight.

87.....The company has added a second pocket behind the traditional front pocket for a weapon.

That's actually kinda cool. ....If we finally get Open Carry here, I am looking forward to wearing thigh holsters and stompy boots. ....I predict a fashion trend.

What Iowahawk is swearing about on Twitter:

>>A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now itÂ’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

Article at the Daily Caller.

Holy shit. The DRAMA.

One of my 5 year old girls is having a nuclear meltdown. Crying and screaming her outrage at no one in particular at how unfair everyone is.

It's like having a tiny Occupier in my house.

Already spanked her, because she was kicking her bedroom door, but nothing can make her shut up, it seems.

And she doesn't have school today. Sucks for mom.  I'm going to work!

>>There's another kind?

We wouldn't know.

We'd rather be doing farm work than hearing the ones that woman comes up with.

Morning, all!    I didn't get to watch Romney's speech    from last night, but I did get to read it.  Very nice.  I'd like him to keep it up and keep throwing the dem/prog talking points right back at them.  No mercy. 

While Romney was sweeping five states,     our vaunted Traitor in Chief was getting his gab on at Jimmy Fallon's show.  The man-thing has no respect for the     dignity     of his office.

Link to Big Hollywood: http://tinyurl.com/7paa8vv

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once thought to be solidly behind President Barack Obama, younger voters burdened by a bleak employment picture, high gas prices and student loan debt are being aggressively wooed by the Democrat and his likely Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.

In 2008, Obama had a 34-point advantage over Republican Sen. John McCain among voters under age 30. He won about two-thirds of the vote in that age group.

But a new Harvard poll suggests the president may face a harder sales job with younger voters this time around. Obama led Romney by 12 points among those ages 18-24, according to the survey. Among those in the 25-29 age group, Obama held a 23-point advantage.

It's an opening Republicans hope to exploit by focusing on young people's disillusionment with the candidate who promised "hope" and "change."

It's obvious that these younger voters are racists. How could anyone but a racist still not blindly believe in Barry's hope and change?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 25, 2012 08:37 AM (JDIKC)

Shortness of breath will prevail albeit too slowly for you perhaps, but prevail it shall.

To: NYPD

RE: Shooting

Whoa whoa whoa.....nice shootin', Tex!

Truck Monkey, my youngest believes he needs to schedule a tantrum with me.

That alone takes some of the edge off it. "No, I have you down for 2:30 and it's only 2:25. Let's snuggle until then."

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at April 25, 2012 08:44 AM (gPDxp)

Hmm... Not sure.   Don't inmates usually have to do a LITTLE work?  Like working in the library or the canteen or the laundry?   Maybe that's just crooks in the tanty for lesser offenses...

But      I think it has promise. 

Posted by: Jean at April 25, 2012 08:49 AM (elbGQ)

MSNBC is not on the list....

Dwayne Johnson. ....Is that 'the Rock'?

Posted by: Mama AJ

No, Mama AJ.....was there something? 

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district member of Congress. But now itÂ’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

Next up - you can't tell your kid to clean his/her room

When my little     great-niece    came up to visit a few years ago -- she was five at the time -- she had a raging tantrum     her first day here.    Apparently this was pretty common    for her    back home in Florida.  

But hooooboy, did she pick the WRONG RELATIVES to     do that with.    My mother is British, so that right there tells you what she thinks of emotional outbursts    and noisy children.       And my father is my father, and he BOOMS when he yells.  

They let her have her little screaming match while we chatted with my half-sis for a while.  Until the niece started kicking the wall of    the guest bedroom.   That did it.

My dad gets up from the couch, marches down the hall, and HAMMERS on the bedroom door.      "YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!"

He opens the door and there's the niece staring at him all wide-eyed.

"That's MY wall," he barks at her.     "You do NOT kick my wall!   Are you going to pay for my wall?   Should I get paint and make you paint my wall?        If you want to kick something, you go get a job, you go buy a house, and you kick YOUR OWN wall, you understand me?      You scream if you want to, but    don't you make me come back here again!"

My dad's bark is way worse than his bite, but when you're five and aren't used to people calling you on your     behavior, it can be a bit of a shock to the system.  

Needless to say, she was much better behaved the rest of her    visit.

So Dwayne Johnson is a Republican? ....Cool. ...I remember him saying something last year, about getting into politics.

The Dems will try to give him shit about that Tooth Fairy movie that he did, I'll bet. .....But I thought he was kinda cute in that tutu.

Oy.

Let's try this one more time.

In my name is a link to Twitchy. People seem to be pleased with Bret Baier's interview/grilling of Debbie W-S. Link to the video of the interview is in the second Tweet.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 25, 2012 09:09 AM (XdlcF)

Okay,    THAT is cool.   When Baier brings the hurt, he brings it HARD.  

Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2012 09:07 AM (O4AQQ)

DJ's been good in every role I've seen him in, even The Scorpion King,   which was otherwise laughably AWFUL.   I've got to say I have a soft spot for Doom,  if only because it pitted DJ against one of my other favorites, Karl Urban. 

Heh.   The idiot FOX News mole is apparently     facing potential charges of       grand larceny.      There's only one word I have for that:  MARVELOUS.

twitchy.com/2012/04/25/gawkers-fox-news-mole-served-with-search-warrant/

I love this.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 09:17 AM (8y9MW)

"The Rundown" is great!   DJ and Christopher Walken in one movie?   Comedy gold.

So, did the crook fire MORE than one shot?    Because 84 shots is, well, a little bit of overkill, don't you think?  

I'm glad he survived, though.   Now he can be tried and rot in prison for killing his sister and trying to kill their mother.   Fourteen bullets and a trip to the hospital are just the start of this guy's punishment.    Let's hope it's not the worst of it.

>>The fact that Muto provided proprietary videos from his employer to another company for his own monetary benefit is not good for his resume and may not be good for his rap sheet.

I guess he really believed they wouldn't figure out it was him.

I'm trying to think of my favorite movie of his... I think Walking Tall may take it, at the moment.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 09:22 AM (8y9MW)

Would you believe I've never seen "Walking Tall?"   It's one of those movies I always MEAN to watch, and then it gets pushed    back.      I feel like I   should hand over my Moronette card.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 25, 2012 09:22 AM (mJMH5)

Yeah, if they had race guns tricked out with $2000 worth of glass.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at April 25, 2012 09:20 AM (/kI1Q)

Waivers for Amish and Mennonites pending....

My experience with my private student loan company, Sallie Mae, has been utterly awful, and I have been very faithful about paying: never missed a payment until they decided to restart my loans right after grad school after sending me a letter telling my that the loans would not come due again until a year after my projected graduation and after this had been confirmed by a representative. It is very difficult to get a customer service rep from the US (I have to ask to be transferred) and the ones from the Philippines,while I am sure they are nice people and speak English nicely, understand very little and are poorly trained. I have come to the conclusion that I can trust neither their official correspondence nor the people who are supposed to help me.

Posted by: maddogg at April 25, 2012 09:24 AM (OlN4e)

Stay with us maddogg, I have it on good authority that the fix is just around the corner.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 25, 2012 09:29 AM (mFxQX)

Yeah, kick me again, I'm stoopid.

Okay, only a Moron/ette could have invented this:   a   new sport that combines boxing... and CHESS.

www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/24/New-Sport-Combines-Chess-Boxing

Two things you can count on as much as the sunrise:

1. Pixie is an unmitigated piece of shit that progresses toward intolerable piece of shit.

2. Curious will be back with a new nic for her daily beating about the head and shoulders.

Posted by: toby928© at April 25, 2012 09:41 AM (NG097)

How about you go fuck your sorry self with a chainsaw fuckstick?

I voted - for Romney - last night because I'm sick of hearing all the crap that anybody says suggesting that the Republican race is somehow NOT over, and to try to some some support for our only realistic hope for ending this Obamamare. I was the only person there, at about 7pm.

And, yes, making anything out of the voter turnout for an election that been essentially over for weeks or months would be ridiculous.

Snort.

>>Starting this year, PJ Media, in conjunction with our good friends at The New Criterion, will be awarding the first annual Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity.

Heh.

@Black Orchid re: Babette losing  -

That's remarkable. She's the one who called GOP female legislators "men with breasts". Evidently she lost her primary because she is not progressive enough. What's lost in all the attention given the marquee race at the top of the ticket, is the downballot races that could have serious consequences. For instance, some PA legislators faced TEA party challenges but AFAIK, none were unseated.

Posted by: angela at April 25, 2012 09:45 AM (oZfic

I just looked up the word "stupid" in the dictionary and this immediately popped up.

Good work, curious.

Yeah, if they had race guns tricked out with $2000 worth of glass.<<<

Er, no.  What most cops need is extra range time and practice at stress-shooting scenarios.  But like most employees in any job, they won't do any training or self-improvements that isn't required of them by their employer.

@205

Yeah, I was kind of surprised how there was only one office to vote on - just 4 names on the entire ballot. I joked about it, but the volunteers there were oddly humorless. I realize they need to be non-partisan, but remarking about the number of people on the ballot didn't seem remotely political to me.

Oh, and I forgot to say that it makes me crazy to think that Romney & his backers still would have to spend a dime campaigning against anybody but Obama. His Republican opposition is just playing into Obama's hands at this point - an act I consider to me not only self-destructive, but downright unpatriotic.

Posted by: toby928© at April 25, 2012 09:48 AM (NG097)

Thats right little snatch, and your worth every penny.

Pa Primary

R votes for Senator: 751,661

D votes for Senator: 691,649

R votes for President 800,661

D votes for president 608,988

So in both races there were more Republican voters which is nice. But the only really contested race was for R Senate (plus house and local stuff). But MORE R people voted for the Pres candidates than for the Senate candidates and that wasn't really contested.

At the same time 12% of the democrats who were willing to push a button for Casey/Vodvarka couldn't bring themselves to move their hand 4 inches to vote for Obama.

And that is a comforting thought.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2012 09:46 AM (OpijJ)

HAH!   Mix this with Mama AJ's method of   actually scheduling a time to have a tantrum and you've got GOLD.

"Okay, Johnny, you can pitch a fit   an hour from now.   I want to set up the camera and make sure you have a nice big, empty space     in which to scream.   I can't wait to play   the tape of it      at      your high school graduation!"

49 why doesn't he take his ****overseas and run

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My first mission (of many) is to fix the worst nation on earth. Since no one else can.

MAD dog and toby928,

If I have to come back there you are going to be VERY sorry.

We're getting a nice little bump in the stock market today ... I've noticed a correlation between Romney primary victories followed the next day by stock boosts. 

This post sponsored by Purina Fido Gras. 

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 25, 2012 09:52 AM (mJMH5)

If you're saying that cops who do ONLY the bare minimum to qualify with their weapons every training cycle, then they shouldn't be engaging shooters at that distance anyhow.  Each officer shot 3 magazines worth and managed to hit with about 16% accuracy.  That's a shit load of bullets flying around and missing their mark, which IMO is dangerous to the public.

Posted by: Tami at April 25, 2012 10:00 AM (X6akg)

Awww, that sounds sweet!    I wish I could, but unfortunately I'm allergic to cats.        

I     believe    tsrlbke (shoot, I'm sure I'm spelling that wrong)    is   in NH, too, though!   And I think there are one or two others lurking around here.   

Whereabouts are they located?

Say, if Romney can turn the War on Women around on Obama, and then the War on Dogs (!), and even the appeal to "fairness", what about the ULTIMATE thing to turn around on him - play the race card!

C'mon! - The only thing Obama has in common with black people in this country - quite literally - is the color of his skin. As a guy who's half white and half Kenyon, he's not even in the same ethnic group as the overwhelming majority of blacks in the country (who trace their roots to very different parts of Africa), he doesn't have American slavery as part of his heritage, didn't grow up in an American black ghetto, and he's not even black (but, rather, biracial). Take away the "First Black President" bit, and what has President Empty Suit got?

Obama's pushing the "I didn't grow up with a silver spoon" crap, so where's Romney saying, "I didn't grow up in Indonesia after being abandoned by my parents, but I know (fill in blank with real problems of real people) anyway!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at April 25, 2012 10:05 AM (4df7R)

She's in West Lebanon.  And if she could find a home for him, I'm sure she'd drive to wherever to deliver the kitteh.

They laughed at me for not buying puts.  They chided me for my calls.....

Sent them all a note today...."who is crying now?"

Take away the "First Black President" bit, and what has President Empty Suit got?

W

ell, those columns were kind of awesome.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 25, 2012 10:05 AM (pLTLS

I think they are.  They're more or less comfort-type foods, and the photography is gorgeous.  Her cowboy husband and kids are beautiful.

Posted by: momma at April 25, 2012 10:07 AM (oKsWl)

Sounds like something my mother would   do!    If she'd been there, she would have been one of the older folks giving you the thumbs up.   I can't tell you how many times she's had to play the adult in the room when some idiot parents let their hellspawn little heathens go screaming around, say, a restaurant's dining room.   "Sit down    right now!   And you, learn to control your children.  Don't let them control you!"

That's a shit load of bullets flying around and missing their mark, which IMO is dangerous to the public.<<<

I completely agree.  I've known lots of cops, and I've known very few who were interested in improving their shooting skills. Most of those who did uncompensated extra training were mostly concerned with weightlifting.

That's important, but i believe that you should have expert-class proficiency with ALL your tools, especially the ones used in life or death situations.

True story, we have had one bank robbery in our little town and in that one, the getaway driver spooked and left the inside guys on his own. He was forced to flee on foot through a giant ravine where our, then pretty unprofessional, policemen cornered him. In a one hour gun battle, they discharged 700 rounds at the guy and hit him once, on the thumb, with a single buck shot. Whereupon he fell over dead.

Posted by: toby928© at April 25, 2012 10:11 AM (NG097)

Dude.

Did that exhaust the town's supply of bullets?       Did they have anything left to shoot bucks?  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at April 25, 2012 10:10 AM (4df7R)

My hubby always tells me to back away because I will always say something.  Kids NEED discipline.  If you don't give it, then you lose their trust IMHO.

But, then again, my kid called me a dictator when he was three.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at April 25, 2012 10:10 AM (4df7R)

my spouse and i were out with another couple and their cute little 3 year old, that was throwing a hissy over the 'fries' (cottage fry with parsley sprinkles) anyway, the mother got up turned the high chair to the neighboring table with some unknown older folks, older folks raised their eyebrows went on chatting and eating!

you could hear a pin drop,  the child stopped everyone went back to chatting and eating, crazy but it worked.

whew.

276

curious pretending she's a daytrader

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2012 10:15 AM (jm/9g)

anyone can be a daytrader

it's nothing special.  But I'm not, just play around with my own funds.

Posted by: momma at April 25, 2012 10:14 AM (oKsWl)

Heh.  I'd say the fact that your kid    even KNEW the word "dictator" at three proves that you were doing something right.

Kids absolutely need discipline.  It drives me nuts that there are so many people who equate "discipline" with "abuse."   There is absolutely    no   comparison.     

@AllenG,

Somwhere over on the Volokh Conspiricy, there's an article on one's "constitutional right" to spank their child.  I applaud it! (Just before someone jumps down my throat, the obvious limits of reckless harm and serious injury apply.)

Posted by: angela at April 25, 2012 10:17 AM (oZfic)

**

we're so impressed

Posted by: Bernie at April 25, 2012 10:19 AM (lkdo/)"

Many of the younger generation argue that the baby boomers failed to predict the college costs and didn't save enough, ergo, not only do the boomers have loans but their children also have loans.  I know, it smacks of the entitlement mentality and mostly comes from the offspring of teachers and union members.  It's too funny when you say to them "I took very little from my parents, I've paid my own way and have a lot of loans"....it doesn't compute in their minds, they don't understand why I'm not angry with my parents and why I don't despise them.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2012 10:16 AM (UOM4

AWESOME.  

290 I have a special upper arm death grip which proceeds to the "spock" if attention isn't paid immediately. You don't have to hit them in public because the "spock" works so well.

Posted by: Dagny at April 25, 2012 10:17 AM (4yXmp)

"The Spock."     EXCELLENT.

I could always tell    when my mother was getting ready to smack me when she'd press her lips together so hard they'd virtually disappear.   By then it was usually too late and I'd have earned myself a good swat or three for whatever I'd done.  

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2012 10:22 AM (jm/9g)

nothing to be impressed about.  anyone can do it, some do it from home online.

@AllenG,

It's been a while since TARP, but I believe (even if it wasn't reported) that there was some strong pressure to take the TARP funds.  Strong as in "Take them or we'll FDIC your ass out of existance." Even for banks that weren't struggling by typical measures of struggling (they may not have been doing as well as in the past, but they shouldn't have been anywhere near the hostile takeover stage.)

Similarly the large banks (and some so-called "super-regional" banks) were forced into Shotgun Weddings rather than have the banks they were taking on collapse (See: BofA/CountryWide among several others.)  It allowed the FDIC to claim "See no one big has collapsed" while putting banks in dangerous situations, then waiving TARP money at them to bail them out.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 25, 2012 10:19 AM (pLTLS)

Wow, you guys must all be medicated?  Another moronette on meds?  Do you guys not realize that that stuff isn't good for your body, or your well being?  

The very term "Life Coach" is one that should evoke nothing but fits of derisive laughter and jerk off motions   behind their back.

I'd bet the details are about as accurate as the initial Trayvon martyrdom stories.

Nope.  I have NYPD friends.  That is how it went down.  Ron White has a great comedy bit about police marksmanship.

Posted by: phoenixgirl laundress at April 25, 2012 10:24 AM (Ho2rs)

***

ahh...no sense of humor?

Dead giveaway of its true dem mole nature

here's your ::tea:: g'morning

Morning! I have come to the conclusion that there is a direct correlation between how nicely I am dressed for work and the odds that I will have to go down to the Scary Basement Of Doom and muck about with the dust and spiderwebs covered (rocks in corner) servers to fix something. I just had to vacuum cobwebs out of my hair. Oh I am a happy camperette, let me tell you.

As far as the kids in restaurants thing, I am notorious for my dislike of children.  However, if I'm in a family type restaurant, hey, as long as the kid isn't actually kicking me, well, I went there voluntarily and I knew it would be loud with a high likelihood of kids running around.  I can't bitch about it when it happens.   A nice place?  That's different.   Last Friday I took myself out for dinner at the one snootier places in town and there was a kid who was pitching a fit.  I finally politely asked the server if I could be moved to the other side of the restaurant.  The mother heard me and started up the huffy I can't believe you're making a scene and you obviously have no idea how hard it is to go out with a child.  I arched a brow, smiled very very very sweetly and said "Ma'am, I am not the one who is pitching a fit.  But that can change.  Quickly."  The server miraculously found me a new seat right after that.  

anyone can be a daytrader
it's nothing special. But I'm not, just play around with my own funds.<<<

The Great Retardo is bragging that she bought "call" options to buy Apple stock sometime in the past at a predetermined price, betting that the price would go up. 

Of course, she's lying.  She waited until Apple's earnings report has already been splashed all over the news so she could say, "Guess how smart I was?!"

Notice she doesn't say how many contracts she bought, whether she wrote them or bought them, when they were written and/or bought, what the strike price was or when the contract expiration date was.

DETAILS, twat.  It's the DETAILS that make a successful lie.  Saying "Aw, shucks, it was nothing" does not function as a substitute for DETAILS.

And in other news... on this day in 2012, People Magazine Officialy Jumped the Shark, when they named Michele Obama one of the most Beautiful Women in the World.

If beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, I really suggest they need a new Optometrist.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 25, 2012 10:29 AM (pLTLS)

*facepalm*

Just...

*FACEPALM*

 "Schrodinger's cat. Who can be thought of as alive or dead?"

Derrr Brain eating zombies , of course

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2012 10:15 AM (jm/9g)

Exchanging stanky poontang for McNuggets is trading, right?

not a day trader....a day tripper........

You beat me to it, dammit.

Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom has a new son.  Use one of the few non-fucked-up links on the right to go over and wish him well.

How did they hit the guy 14x w/o killing him?

The Dixie mafia shot Buford Pusser 56 times.  And he lived.  If you shoot someone 56 times and they live, it's time to get the hell out of Dodge.

shit just hit the fan

The preferred AOSHQ phrase is "shit just got real."  It's right there in the style manual.

Funny, stories about R turnout, no stories about the disappointing # for Philly for Obama. 144k vs 175k expected (as "low" turnout)

I noticed that in your election results post, CAC. Seems like those that did turn out were determined for Babette Josephs to GTFO. 

the markets won't take kindly to hearing recession in Europe

Posted by: AuthorLMendez, Liberterian For Romney at April 25, 2012 10:37 AM (yAor6)

No no no, AuthorLMendez.    It's not "Shit just hit the fan."   It's "Shit just got real."

Love the meme.  Live the meme.

Posted by: Jean at April 25, 2012 10:33 AM (WkuV6)

Ha! I've actually sent that letter to my kids kinderg. teacher and was told 'NO'.  I responded, 'Well, sorry you feel that way.  Since you are the teacher, I will learn from you, and NOT discipline my kid for anything that happens in your class.'

She quickly changed her reply to yes.

I had her send me a letter home (my kid has read since he was 4) confirming she would do it, and miracles, of miracles, my kid has been fairly good all year

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 10:31 AM (8y9MW)

Dear Sir;

Based upon your internet Admission of Guilt of Child Abuse, we are sending the Child Protective Service SWAT Team to ensure your childs saftey.  When they appear they will take your child into protective Custody, and you house will get a 'saftey inspection'.   If any guns, knives, or other weapons are found, they will be confiscated in the interest of your childs saftey.

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Oh right, Student loans.  Tricky proposition on those.  Obviously the Market should just be determining this shit.  (my guess is, given current interest rate levels if the market were making these decisions, we'd see rates closer to 4.5-5%).

Previously the Market did determine this IIRC.  I was unfortunate enough to have to refinance (you only get one shot at refinancing student loans usually and it's a narrow window.) right as the rates peaked in 2007 because they weren't allowed to free float anymore (they were pegged at 6.5 for about 6 months before the drop I believe.)  My wife got in at the low point, so I suppose it all balances out in the end.

The problem is that we've already created this mess, I'm not quite sure how to back out of it safely.  Granted since I'm paying 6.5% on my loans, I really don't think that's such an aweful rate, so I'd just let them double anyway.  This doesn't solve the problem of slowing down the loan/tuition growth problem.

FWIW, I'll disclose a few things.  I graduated Undergrad with about 27k in loans.  10k of those was from a botched attempt to "get the college experience" by living on campus the first year  (even though school was in town.)  There was some pressure from my parents for this (me being the oldest and first to go to college).  So they're quitely paying those down as sort of a "ooops, we got that wrong" apology as well as a downpayment for their future "we're old" care.  The other 17K was in those stafford loans, I was paying those down ahead of schedule (choosing to live at home between graduation and my engagement/wedding) until I went to grad school.  I took out another 10k for that, but mostly because it was interest free (subsidized) and I got to keep my savings intact. (There was a 12K loan in there as well, but I didn't need it.  It paid out before I could decline it, so I took it, put it in a 1 year CD, collected the interest differental between the APR of the loan and the APY on the CD then repaid it off in one lump sum.  I don't count that.)

Even all of this, I've only taken out $37k across the entire span of my schooling career, 20K of that (the 10K undergrad and the 10K grad) was either a mistake or gaming the broken system (respectively).  I'm totally confused as to how people manage to get anywhere near $80k in loans, much less $200k and why I should feel bad for them.  (Even if I had lived on campus my entire 4 years I'd have less than $60k in loans.)  The outliers are like doctors (who will make it back) or Lawyers (who should have considered the state of the profession.)

HeatherRadish, this is apropos of nothing, but how's your cat doing?   And your teeth?

Ooohhh...

So instead of making the killing you strongly implied, you made a conservative play.  Again, with no details.

Fuck off, lying twat.

Just how many layers of victim status must one have to serve as insulation from the progressive attack machine for daring to mildly agree with a Republican?

There are none. If you wander off the plantation, you are a. not a woman, b. not queer and c. not disabled. A and B have been said to my face by those who actually meant it. My general response of falling down laughing tends to get the intended awesome red faced, hands flailing, foot stomp "that's not funny!"  Good times, good times.

Posted by: Jimbo at April 25, 2012 10:47 AM (O3R/2)

That was a favorite of my mom too.  Also, a playful smack followed by, "That's for nothing....wait til you do something!"

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 25, 2012 10:46 AM (mJMH5)

It none of your business.  How's that for you?  But I'm making money and you are sitting there criticizing me so who really is the fool?  YOU

Isn't it amazing how effective outright laughter is at taking the steam out of the   typical progressive whiner?   It's like magic!   They get all red in the face and whiny and, "You don't take me seriously!"

"Of course I don't,     you idiot!  You say the most ridiculous things!"

I am not above telling parents to make their kids behave in a nice restaurant.

@AllenG,

I think this is another case of "Texas is better."  My understanding is that the banks around here that got all uppity about taking the TARP funds saw many many more regulators than normal.  It was hard to say at the time (without hindsight) what would have happened.  They shut down a ton of smaller banks in my state (my dad unrolled the list once, it was slightly distrubing.  At it's peak I think there might have been 4/week).  So I could see why people were afraid (there is an element of state regulation to would account for this variation.)

I don't remember if the bank my dad works at took TARP or not.  If he did, I remember him saying something about sitting on the "useless pile" until they took it back.  Too many strings.

Was in an Outback one night where a small girl was screaming at the top of her lungs incessantly. Her mother never tried to calm her down or discipline her, just let her scream. I was just about to find the manager when she got up to leave, screaming child in tow.

As soon as she  got to  the door, the entire restaurant erupted in applause.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 25, 2012 10:51 AM (Pi5Sz)

I didn't post it to "brag about my financial prowess" I posted it to show my belief in apple, that I was willing to bet on my intuition and research.  Sheesh, do you guys post stuff just to brag?

Posted by: Methos at April 25, 2012 10:51 AM (6LvlL)

That presupposes that the loans are the primary (if not sole) driver of the problem.  I'm not sure they are.  There's enough other stupidly issued federal monies floating around to artificially inflate tution rates.

I think a better option would be to get rid of the FASFA calcuation method.  Colleges are on record as saying they tweak tutition each year to make sure that it's some % higher than their average (or median, I forget which) EFC (number on a FASFA form that's the rough amount you/your family can afford.)  By doing so they effectively generate a rate that's guaranteed to grant them stunning amounts of federal aid.  When asked "why" these colleges said they felt keeping tutition low and forgoing the aid would make them less competetive (since no family actually uses the EFC numbers when making this choice.  They're a load of crap.)

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at April 25, 2012 10:52 AM (/kI1Q)

Glad to hear the cat's doing well.   I can empathize (sympathize?  Shoot, I can never remember the correct one) on the temp crown, though.  Ugh.  I had to go through one of those last year.  The    temp    itself was fine, but it was just noticeable enough that chewing was a nightmare.

Posted by: angela at April 25, 2012 10:54 AM (oZfic)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2012 10:54 AM (UOM4

I was a full time single parent with Twins... My Daughter pulled the "I'll go live with Mom" line one time.... I stopped, and silently went into the basement, and came back with a suitcase...

The shock on her face was priceless, and I NEVER heard that "line" again...

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 25, 2012 10:58 AM (Pi5Sz)

no, fictional implies that it didn't occur and it did, so it would be wrong to lie about it.

"(mJMH5)
It none of your business. How's that for you? But I'm making money and you are sitting there criticizing me so who really is the fool? YOU"

HAHAHAHAHA!

You only have yourself to blame for getting painted into a corner, dummy.  And you're only partially correct.  I'm sitting here criticizing you while the people around me make money FOR me.

There's a couple of reasons nobody in here brags about their income:  it's unverifiable if you want to remain anonymous and NOBODY CARES.

Grow up, you immature little bitch. Or better yet, just fuck off.

Posted by: Child Protective Services at April 25, 2012 10:59 AM (lZBBB)

Wow.... SERIOUS Sock Fail... LOL

Posted by: angela at April 25, 2012 11:00 AM (oZfic)

So if it's not bragging, why bother to send a "who is crying now" note to your "friends"? (BTW.....cats can't read.)

I would never tell you my income and what I do for a living, it would make you feel very bad and I wouldn't want to discourage you.
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Oh, no! Please do!  I want to know what a banger you are because I'm always looking for mentors. I promise I won't be discouraged.  I'll be impressed and motivated to emulate your success.

Posted by: angela at April 25, 2012 11:02 AM (oZfic)

OMG!  It's Bitchelle Obama! I KNEW it!

Hey, I gotta ask - how many times a week does Obama request dog for dinner?

Posted by: eman at April 25, 2012 10:55 AM (YrBvI)

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Posted by: tsrblke at April 25, 2012 10:56 AM (22rSN)

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Yes, any amount of reduction in the distortion caused by government intervention will help the problem. Bankruptcy acknowledges/resolves the past misallocation of resources while ending federal 'aid' reduces the misallocation going forward.

Posted by: toby928© at April 25, 2012 10:00 AM (NG097)

On the web nobody knows you are a steaming pile of rat shit. Oh wait, I guess they do. I can smell the stench from here.

Amd in other news...

Leon Panetta announced today a new Pentagon Unit, dealing with Clandestine Intelligence Operations. 

This puts Uniformed US Military Officers, directly in the spy buisness... and CLANDESTINE denotes OUT of Uniform, which places them OUTSIDE of the Geneva Convention Protections.

It also blurs the Legal Line of the UCMJ, and destroys the idea of the seperation of Missions between the CIA and US Military.

Are they activly attempting to destroy our Military?

This is what "debating" curious looks like:

http://tinyurl.com/6tws3db

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2012 11:21 AM (piMMO)

I'll tell you how. My Son is a cop, and many cops fire their weapon only to requalify once or twice a year. The standards are pretty lenient, and it still takes some 2 or 3 tries. They are simply not proficient with their weapons because they don't ever practice. My kid always gets maximum points, because it isn't difficult and he shoots a lot.

472

Nice.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2012 11:37 AM (Y8+fT)

I wondered about that too. It smells. We don't need yet another intelligence agency.

Posted by: Eternally Hopeful ABR Republican Voter at April 25, 2012 02:24 PM (+XVQe)

funny, a lot of the paul people think he's getting it by having a coupe at the convention.  This guy named weed has a post about the paul/romney debacle: http://dougwead.wordpress.com/

then I still have my black conservative friend who remains in the conservative/republican closet, who thinks that his favorite Rick Santorum will come through.

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